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Published: 2005-01-01 02:02:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 779; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 21
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Eric Schwartz's Sabrina, sitting at a computer (not seen).It's scary... i'm pretty good at his style of cartooning... better than I am at my own...
Well, that's premature. This is only sketch ten or so of a few characters. I'll try drawing a strip, perhaps... see how it comes out...
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yessssssss, Eric is the man, and this is sooo amazingly close!! damn it i wish i could draw like that!!
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Want the Ian Bradley guide to learning to draw someone else's style?
Step one- Trace a few pictures. This builds the basic neurolocigal connections in the brain to familiarize your motor functions with the construction of the basic elements of the drawing.
Step two- Do a look-and-draw trace. Once you've made a few tracings, prop up the picture in question. Start drawing. I like to start with the nose and work my way outward. Look at the drawing, then look down to your paper and draw. Repeat until you've got the picture somewhat similar. This will build up the style in the memory part of your brain. Each element of the image is now in both your memory and motor skills.
Step three- Once you feel comfortable, begin re-creating scenes with the characters you've practiced with. Work on how the original artist moves the characters, poses them, etc. Use the first two techniques to accomplish this. This will familiarize you with the body language of the style
Step four- Begin drawing characters without references. Compare the completed sketches to acutal references. (This is the toughest part. It's very frustrating to find your own work that you put your heart into coming out to be a poor comparision to the original).
Step five- Begin drawing scenes without references. Compare the completed scenes to actual references and continue re-drawing until you get them close. (This isn't so tough, as by now you've got a good grasp of the style)
Step six- Create original scenes/characters.
Step seven- THE ULTIMATE TEST-- Get someone unfamilar with the original artist's work to compare yours to his/hers without knowing whose is whose, and have them attempt to guess which one is yours. If they can't do it easily, mission accomplished. You've learned the style.
Natrually, it'll take some time to be able to pass off your work as someone else's to a trained eye, but, for the most part, if you make it past step five, you're on your way.
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