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sorry if this has been asked before, but i wanted to ask about your lineart! the weight and line economy are just so nice, i get stars in my eyes looking at your lineart and doodles. could i ask what your approach to lineart is and what tips you might offer?

Wow I love these questions - Line is so interesting!!! It's a really big topic so I feel like any tips I give will be just barely scratching the surface. It's like deceptively simple...any given line drawing is essentially taking all the information we glean from seeing something irl ie light, shadow, dimension, texture, perspective, etc and boiling it down to the simplest possible visual information.

I think most commonly my line is informed by light source so like. thicker more continuous lines face away from the light and thinner more broken lines towards. and a lot of my spot blacks r simply cast shadows.

here's a more extreme example

BUT like everything to do with art there's no hard and fast rules. I use blacks when I think it'll be effective or interesting and I leave them out when I don't need em. umm couple things I find myself doing a lot... using spot blacks to make the separation between characters clearer. I like casting shadow in between characters so its easy to separate and read their silhouettes even when they're mashed together.

u can go even further to purposely create a silhouette like

to draw attention to a finger or tongue LOL. There's some comic book artists who are absolute masters at this type of stylization. Alex toth and his spiritual successor Chris samnee come to mind for me right away.

(toth)

(samnee)

I feel like I'm also often using line weight to separate planes receding in space

im naturally a really heavy handed and scribbly drawer(...?) draftsman. and im nearsighted so when i see things i percieve and break it down into big shapes over thin contours. so stuff like spot blacks and shadows came easy to me, the tricky part was making the rest of the lines lighter when they needed to be so the blacks could actually have impact LOLL. a lot of effective visual communication is about balancing contrasts. like I had to really train myself to press less hard on the pen. I think this is actually really evident if u go back in my archive to older sketches LOL

I actually feel like a lot of how I trained my hand to tackle line weights was thru stuff like hand lettering where you rly have to focus on being sensitive to that kind of thing.. contrasting strokes etc.

also exercises like figure drawing will have you flexing those muscles constantly

I'm starting to just regurgitate lessons from freshman year of art school so I'll stop here with the demos but yeah...I hope this was helpful!? I love line!!! I want to get even better at line work so I can feel confident posting work that's only line no color or value... I'll leave you with a bunch of artists who I think have particularly expressive and beautiful linework (not including toth and samnee who I already mentioned and who's work I love so much). You can probably learn much more from them than you can from me...!

Charles dana gibson LOL

Matias bergara

tonci zonjic

naoki urasawa

Daniel warren johnson

shiyoon kim

michel breton

also yoji shinkawa, tomer hanuka, leo romero, I feel like I'm gonna post this and think of so many more. there's so many good artists...!

touch his demon and aziraphale will make sure you’ll never touch anything again

a protective angel full of righteous fury, inspired by a few different fics i’ve read

Good Omens, Adam Young the Antichrist and Dog, Hellhound.

i saw michael wearing a turtleneck and my brain just

sleepy bros

Life cycle of Pamela

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Good omens and the Forbidden book chap 23: To mirror the angsts mood I’m having on these rainy days in Vietnam. True story, it’s the rainy month in summer and I thank God for the cool air that allows me to breathe easier 😂😂😂 , I’m also addicted to that unidentifiable sadness and I don’t know why.

Also, at this point blood night is coming soon and I suspect the main event will come down really really soon. I’m excited because that part is where I shine, sorta. I like drawing those dramatic fights and...I should stop before I eventually spoil the plot somewhere along the line XD

Chap 24

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Good omens and the Forbidden book chap 24: a melancholy Christmas It took me quite a while to draw this chapter since there were so many ch

Chap 22

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Good omens and the Forbidden book chap 22 The prophecies drove them apart, and when anger and fear seized them, they lost temper. Mean while

Remember that photo behind the scenes?

SLAMS DOOR OPEN ur honor theyre in luv……………………