Lines Oh My!

Beast: Kabagal mo na man kasi magdrawing...

I have just started tightening the pencils on my second submission to Marvel and I do feel a bit guilty for myself because it feels like I'm taking my time on this way too much.

But I think that is what I need to do right now.

There are a lot of things that I know I need to fix with my art and majority of those came from a lack of applying the basics that I know. I guess I got carried away with the excitement of drawing my first set of samples that I focused too much on making my work look like it was a comic book instead of focusing on the basics. This time around, I'm going to take their advice and focus on my fundamentals. This means making my art more stripped down, no flashy shading, just lineart.

This might look like it's a step backward but really, it isn't. I believe my weaknesses came from the fact that I lacked a thorough understanding of the basics: form, anatomy and storytelling. Doing lineart for now will help expose the areas that I need to work on, plus without the help of blacks I will be forced to make sure that all the elements that I draw are in their proper places.

So yeah... for my friends who've known me for since college they'll know that I'm happy with this approach and that's because I love doing lineart! If given a choice I'd stay away from shading for now because that's something I'm still working on plus as it turned out, my basics still need improving.

Time to study them animation books hehe!