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Hello Forums!
I have found Cubebrush on Youtube awhile ago but now I have decided it was time to join the forums! I hope I can get along with the rest of you and get great CC. :smile:

My goals are to be great at character design and have a fun appealing style!
I have been working on my art bit by bit but honestly I'm not 100% sure how to improve myself as I have just found out I love drawing not too long ago!

Once again thank you and thanks for helping me with my journey!

I have never fully participated in a forum before in my life. However, I do feel just by doing so I get into the mindset on how to get better.
Right now I have been working on my fundamentals and line control. I scribble way too much. I hope by next week I will be better at textures and forms!

This picture is a result of studying some silouette designs with shapes. I was focusing on trying to replicate the dress. :smile:

Yeah this week I have been trying to be involved in forums. It's a bit intimidating to me.

you want to work at line control and line confidence......

just use pen...don't even touch a pencil or eraser
I use a hi-tec c pilot 3mm and .25mm plus a brush pen....it's a ball point and a very thin one at that.....I used to use micron pens but the nibs would bust if you accidentally hit them somewhere

at first it's very frustrating but it pays off sooner then you think


This is my instagram...99% of the pen drawings are purely done with pen (there pretty crappy) but it definitely helped me with confidence

so I highly recommend people to try because it forces people to think differently when they draw

this is all based on the fact that I can't really tell if you used pencil or not

   - minimize failure maximize results

the instagram is purely example based, rather send a link then take new pictures sorry.
you have a pretty dope face and drawing by the way I really like it!!

Thanks I will try using just pen more, I am used to doing a sketch under and then inking it. :smile:

To counterpoint this, personally I've found if I jump straight to pen without having worked out each line pretty close with under-sketches, the end result suffers because my first attempt usually isn't very good. I like to build up form with a coloured pencil, which helps me work out the silhouette and understand where everything is going to go. Then I work out approximate lines with a B pencil and look to make sure I got all the proportions/anatomy right, and finally make my final lines in pen.

However!

I can see the value of being able to go straight to pen, as I guess all your working out would be done in your head which would be a lot more efficient. I just prefer to do my thinking on paper haha. Try find what's best for you, there's no right answer, and even then your answer may change.

Say to start with you need the extra steps of working things out, but then you start to be confident enough to skip out then before you know if you're banging out whole rooms full of people in one pass like Kim Jung Gi. Alternatively maybe you struggle through going straight to pen and you get really good at doing that, but then you need to start doing really complicated scenes or costumes that absolutely require some planning.

Not to say that either off those are specifically your goals, just different strokes for different folks and to do whatever you wanna do gosh

I've been doing both with the focus being different whether I use pen or pencil.

Like you said planning things out with a pencil underlay is good but I've noticed that practicing my pen helps my confidence, which in turn helps my underlay greatly :smile: