Mechanical pencils saves you the time of having to resharpen the pencil whenever you need something to work on for a fine lineart, but IMO when the pencil's blunt they are better suited for shading. Sharper and pointer pencils make shading quite slow and messy, and you'll have to apply the "finger smudging and blurring" technique quite often.

Anyhow.

My latest pencil work... damn it feels like I've abandoned drawing on paper for quite some time now. Need to do this more often, I feel like my skills dying when I don't

Hey!. Good stuff. I just can't do that with a mechanical.

True, pencil require sharpening, but it was a great excuse to go out the lecture hall to smoke. Bwahaha....

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Added on October 25, 2010, 1:13 pmI dunno about you, but usually I sharpen my pencils with a slight flat point, like a chisel, by tilting it, can get varying thickness. As for getting blunt quickly, there is a reason why 'hard' pencils exist, isn't it?
I like the way you draw the swirling effect.

It just doesn't come naturally to me. So is smoke.

More practice required until I can freely draw without referencing pictures.

As for help your or my skill level, I think it'll be the same thing all art students get. Draw from reference till you get it right, or bore to death drawing the same thing till you get it right.

This post has been edited by sadako-chan: Oct 25 2010, 01:24 PM

triple dead xD

sadako want to draw yukutan? =P

I want to TRY... lol.. sucessful or not.. dunno yet.

From the sketch earlier, trying new things out.

... Also left out stuff from the earlier sketch, too lazy to paint them in >_>

Repost my old drawings

Ash of Year 2003


Ash of YEAR 2009

woot nice colouring. I prefer dark contrasting colours, but havent been able to do it right.

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Added on October 26, 2010, 12:56 am
Woah.. I like the 2003 one, the pose and flame rocks.

This 2009 one looks simpler.. and wow, she has a very flexible waist. Your shading style very good for making comics.

This post has been edited by sadako-chan: Oct 26 2010, 12:57 AM

the 2009 one...look at the ankle oouch

Imma no good at the articulation.

Thx for highlighting. Will take note and concerntrate on the articulation

hmmm Brain, i wonder if you make the hair more fine would it will be nicer?

otherwise i couldn't complain anymore, you already sifu standard

This post has been edited by Agito666: Oct 26 2010, 09:16 AM

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Ya, hair oso need to be fixed. And I'm not sifu standard.

no la, i mean your hair line is okay already, i mean try add more "silkyness" and "softness" touch/feel on hair try see can make whole things better or not.

Example what i mean, something like this. See you can make it nice or not



This post has been edited by Agito666: Oct 26 2010, 09:40 AM

I think brian's hair is quite similar to manga already. Not all manga has silky hair. I do agree that the way he highlights the hair can be improved though.

I already finished some variants I based on yukutan, including one I did in my earlier style I posted here, the anon army style.

I wonder what all of you think of the legs of sadako musume, the one I posted way back?

O.o. Actually my skills on drawing the character's hair is more influence by the 80s-90s manga such as Shiina Takahashi and Akira Toriyama . But will take uyr advice. Its time to change style and improve more.

ya I agree on that. i tend to simplified the hair but too simple can coz our drawing looked like lazy mangaka's product. Remember Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter)? He's the type of the one who lazy to ink and colour his manga judging by the quality. I missed his Yuyu Hakusho quality.

because if wan simplify i will simplify like pokemon style haha. not just hair, also eyes, cloth, body proportion will distorted a bit to make stylish

thats not laziness yo, that his style.