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Originally Posted by Moonblaze
Get used to draw bigger, Lab. Small images are hard to detail and work through. They're specially hard to mess around with because your eraser will most likely remove half of the character and they look bad when you size them up, like you did with that image.
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The drawing size is completely dependant on the pencil and eraser size. A well sharpened pencil and sharpened typewriter eraser could probably draw successfully on the face of a coin. A boulder of graphite and rubber tire might need the wall of a building.
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Originally Posted by Moonblaze
Shading is really hard with a normal school pencil
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I disagree here completely. All pencils are about the same. Personally, I prefer regular mechanical ones because it breaks the endless "draw, draw, sharpen" loop.
Anyway, the Fooruman picture... Moonblaze is right; work on the shading. Sloppy shading isn't as much of a problem as not having a light source, or direction that the light rays come from. Also, make his hands bigger. The general rule with hands is that they should be able to cover the face when open (the secret rule is that drawing the hands too big is hardly noticable). Don't forget the facial proportions, either. The eyes go halfway down the head, the nose goes halfway between the eyes and chin, and the mouth goes halfway between the chin and nose. Oh, and check that perspective on the block at the bottom - it gets bigger as it goes away.
-Rad
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