Tip of The Week: Coloring doesn't fix a bad sketch!

Bad Sketch on the left - Decent on the right

I don't know about you, but many people tend to throw a sketch together and then think they'll fix everything when they color. That "could" work, but it's not the best idea, at least when you're not at a masterful level yet. The reason is you can get lines confused or if you have a tight sketch you can end up with a stiff drawing. And making a well colored drawing isn't necessarily what makes a drawing good. The reason I say that is because if you have a stiff drawing even if its colored really well, there's just something unappealing about it. If you color from a drawing (notice I don't talk about painting, that's another subject all together!) it's the drawing that needs to look good before you touch it with color. This doesn't mean coloring good is of null-effect, it's a very good thing to be able to color masterfully and color does bring life in to an image, but if you have a stiff looking drawing, no color in this world will make it appealing. (Not referring to style, maybe you like a stiff-looking style, this is in general)

Both colored. See how the detail makes the one on the right look better?

I hope this was helpful!


~ God Bless ~


~ Firefly