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24 minutes ago, kav said:

wow great freehand job.  I find drawing so much more enjoyable using lightbox.  I can get everything in the right place and focus on the fun part-making the image mine and tweaking/refining it.

Thanks for the kind words! When I'm doing larger portraits, I use a different method, of printing the person out and putting it under a plastic grid. I draw the grid lines on the larger piece of paper that I'm working on, and start from there. Helps me get very accurate proportions. But yes, using a light box would be much easier than this. On smaller portraits like the Jim Lee, I just do it by freehand instead of using that time consuming method.

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On 8/15/2018 at 5:55 PM, Canadiancomics said:

Thanks for the kind words! When I'm doing larger portraits, I use a different method, of printing the person out and putting it under a plastic grid. I draw the grid lines on the larger piece of paper that I'm working on, and start from there. Helps me get very accurate proportions. But yes, using a light box would be much easier than this. On smaller portraits like the Jim Lee, I just do it by freehand instead of using that time consuming method.

I used to use the grid method it takes forever.  I can lightbox a portrait in about 60 seconds.   Of course any artist knows merely tracing is just a minor part of drawing.  Any non artist who doubts this, just try to lightbox a face then complete the drawing and see how it turns out.

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On 8/27/2018 at 5:56 AM, kav said:

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For a second there I thought she was on the toilet and Batman and Robin were looking through the window.

Do all your cover stars have massive arses Kav?

Nice touch with the cat.

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