Ofan
my lines are clean enough yes, but yours look almost vector like, and you play with the line-thickness perfectly. I just tend to do them uni size, which makes the lineart not look good enough when stand alone. how long does it take you making lines for a full body?
I usually do a small page of sketches. first time I try to copy what I see with curves and all paying notice to muscles and proportion, then I slowly break it down and make a skeleton of sorts from which I take the force lines. by then I don't need the reference anymore, and take the points that are the main focus of the pose and pull them some more (in this case the twist of the body, the lift of the leg, and the shoulders, all which are lined up on a tilted line that stretches from shoulder to the foot. all in all from study to color it should take around 2 hours, but you can take more effort on the study side if you want and do a few more pages of pose study. that's what I should have done but was lazy...
Wow. Thank you so much for your help. It's nice seeing how you lay out your sketches. I should probably just get myself a little sketch book to doodle in. I would love to rummage through your pages.
emotion_dowant
And my lines, vector like? Nah I wouldn't go that far. lol. I would say that my favorite brush to use for lining is the "ink pen" in Sai. I tend to keep the stabilizer at around 7 or 8. I raise it on rare occasions when I tackle particular parts of the drawing where my hand can't produce the most desirable outcome.