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!


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~ Firefly

{Digital Art} Rather Upset Troll

Okay before I say anything I'mma say this: I don't like the expression but I wouldn't have been able to change it without painting the whole thing over so...Yep.

This is kind of a "redraw" like when a person draws something and then draws it again a long time later to show how their skills have improved...I think if I had planed it to be that from the start I would have done a similar expression but oh well!

Original Drawing (VIDEO)




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{Digital Art} Horses' Head

I colored the horse head I drew following Mark Crilley's Tutorials.

I used MyPaint to start, then did the rest in GIMP.

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