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[charaxinae]

i've never really taken to sketching, in the same way that i hate practicing a musical instrument...i don't like to do anything for practical reasons even if it makes you better in the long run. i also find sketching things in the real world to be less fun for me than going directly to colorful paints and imaginary landscapes

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My favorite part is the shadow

[gatheringmoss]

I hate sketching with pencil, I prefer a very fine tip pen. The paper cones are an enigma to me too! Please show more of your drawings!

I always use my Neil icon when you do!

[charaxinae]

I love fine pens too but I mess up a lot! I never really learned how to shade properly with a pen. I don't really know how to do anything properly though, when I think about it! ;)

I will post drawings as I do them, it's a good motivating thingie!

Re: I always use my Neil icon when you do!

[gatheringmoss]

Yeah, I'm trying to post more of my 2-D art in my other journal so it's not a total advertisement for my etsy shop all of the time :)

[el_jefe59]

You could do a shadow of yourself sitting on a bench sketching a UFO that's hovering overhead. Just a thought.....

[charaxinae]

everything is better with the addition of a UFO, bat wings, or antennae i think.

[el_jefe59]

I agree! Even Bush looks better with the alien -- because that way there is one intelligent being in the photo.

[zovietsquid]

I'm convinced ball point pens of the legendary Bic cheap variety were made for sketching in a clandestine way of supporting the arts, honestly. They're fabulous - handle like pencils, but without the smudge, and a wonderfully rich yet varied line like spider legs and webs.

If I learned anything in art school, it's that using whatever's available to sketch with is what's ultimately right. Stolen silver testing pencils and Bic pens are biblical to me now.

[charaxinae]

you're so right! i really can't get comfortable with anything else. on the one hand i'm intimidated by 'real' pens but scanners seem to pick up Bic just fine so i might as well stick with them!

[hoarymarmot]

I like it! I like your hands. I actually like to draw, but I don't sketch much. Like, for the basis of a painting, I don't sketch it, I do a complete drawing, then the painting over the top of it. If I want to map out the composition of a painting without any detail, then I'll sketch, and my sketches are basically very vague blobs and that's about it. But I think I'm actually better at drawing than painting in some ways.

[charaxinae]

that's how i paint too -- directly onto the canvas, very rough, and then i fill it in. sometimes it's just a few general vague lines. i'm generally happy when i draw, but i find i need something to draw FROM, and unless the cats will sit still i just don't know what to draw. my usual fantasy subject matter doesn't need models!