I don't know either. That's why I rarely do pics that require lineart... When I do, though, it's a lot easier to use full brush strokes for one area. What I mean is, like for one of the legs, you could connect the stomach[?] to the bottom of the picture using one line. Not really line, but using one stroke. Make sense?
hmmm, well usually. For me, I just sketch the actuall drawing on the bottom layer with the blue like you choose, and then refine it on an upper layer. So i suggest, maybe not worring about the wire frame so much and perhaps just sketching the full drawing, and refine it later.
Marienkind Posted: 11/11/2003 12:17PM
in lascaux, check the antialias button. in shipainter, it's the pen tool.
Marcello Posted: 11/11/2003 12:23PM
that's not the way hakkai does it, though. not on paintbbs.
basically you set flow (on lascaux) to 20-40% and use a 1x1 brush and draw over the edges to get the smooth edges. takes practice to get it very clean.
I think he's asking about the form more than the technical aspect of smooth lineart...
I would say for starters your blue-base figure drawing is completely the wrong way to go about doing it. Although I'm no anatomy expert myself, I can tell off the bat there that how you did the arms and how the head connects to the neck on the blue sketch doesn't look right. I would suggest, in addition to looking at animations on this site, looking at books/websites on the subject, to work with more of a stick figure style drawing with circles/ellipses (handdrawn, that is) to build form. Think about how everything connects to eachother, and what relative lengths should be, and that will get you off on a better start.
Once you have a good base form, getting a good flowing lineart that you're satisfied with simply takes practice. I highly recommend practicing on paper, though, since you can whip out 30 or 40 different designs until you like something without all the "overhead" of drawing online.
I can do better with lieart on Oekaki Shi-Painter. Seems to be easier for me.... but thats just me and I'm not a lineart specialist LOL
So... I'll be taking Marcello's advice as well =-)
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I would say for starters your blue-base figure drawing is completely the wrong way to go about doing it. Although I'm no anatomy expert myself, I can tell off the bat there that how you did the arms and how the head connects to the neck on the blue sketch doesn't look right. I would suggest, in addition to looking at animations on this site, looking at books/websites on the subject, to work with more of a stick figure style drawing with circles/ellipses (handdrawn, that is) to build form. Think about how everything connects to eachother, and what relative lengths should be, and that will get you off on a better start.
Once you have a good base form, getting a good flowing lineart that you're satisfied with simply takes practice. I highly recommend practicing on paper, though, since you can whip out 30 or 40 different designs until you like something without all the "overhead" of drawing online.
So... I'll be taking Marcello's advice as well =-)
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