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Published: 2018-10-17 18:00:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 331; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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A sketch of a scene from HTTYD I wanted to draw next on a bigger paper. I normally don’t do these study/concept/whatever sketches because I’m afraid it could end up good and I would have troubles to draw it again, but I planned to maybe use watercolour pencils again and I wanted to make clear for myself the poses and so on so I wouldn’t need to erase that much on the other paper.
I obviously can’t draw just simple sketchy rough sketches. (Yesterday) I tried to just doodle the pose and placement and then I needed to think out and try Hiccup’s expression and then this happen and I’m doomed because I’ll never gonna be able to transfer it on another. So I had to take a picture and post it for the case nothing else would ever happen because I like a lot how does it look. Except of the background of course. Just in case you don’t know the story (because if you do you would know exactly the scene), that’s lava and I have no idea how to draw it. (because when you struggle with drawing fire the best you can do is obviously choose to draw lava next time right? %)) )
Btw I had no reference picture for Hiccup, I just made it up from my head, like… how??? (which is great but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to draw it like this again) What now? What now? What now??? *sigh*
(just in case - tumblr post: ilwinsgarden.tumblr.com/post/1… )
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Yes, that's the scene.
And yes, I've seen it.
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This is so cool! I love the pose and the movement in this! 
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Thank you! I'm pleased you mentioned movement because I doubted if it looks they're moving (because of my hopelessness with drawing lava perhaps. Or maybe just in general lol).
I certainly want to make it a proper finished drawing but I'm a bit afraid - as I said - from "moving" the sketch to proper paper and then of drawing lava because... well... lava... %))
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This is a fun drawing of that scene. I hope you take the idea to a finished drawing, and I'm offering this to get you going.
You can trace and transfer the drawing. You may have been told in school that it is wrong to trace, but professionals do it all the time. I do it to transfer my master drawing to the canvas or the panel for a painting.
Use DRAFTING TAPE (this is important because it will not damage the paper surfaces) to attach a piece of tracing paper then trace this drawing with a pencil. When finished, turn the tracing paper over then rub on a light tone Conte or pastel on the back of the tracing paper to cover the drawing. When you turn the tracing paper right side up you will still see the traced drawing. Carefully tape the tracing paper - right side up - to the sheet for the finished drawing. Use a hard color pencil or a pen to trace over the traced drawing. (Using a different color lets you see where you have not traced yet.) Carefully remove the tracing paper then you will have the starting point for the finished drawing.
If you have a scanner and a printer, you can put the conte or pastel on the back of a printed copy of this drawing then trace it to the other sheet. It is your drawing, so there is nothing wrong with tracing it to work with it.
A thought on the lava. For Hiccup and Windwalker to surf in it, it had to be in liquid form which means it was bright and smooth in color texture. Blend your strokes and get it as smooth looking as you can. Hiccup, Windwalker, and the ground beyond the edge of the lava will be dark in contrast to the lava. Add to that contrast by playing with, and having fun with, the texture in Hiccup, Windwalker and the ground.
I just went back and re-read your comment and noted that you want the finished drawing to be bigger. That is a bit more complicated,, but you can do it. Look on line for instructions on how to use grids to enlarge or reduce an image. In this case, you will have the enlarged grid on tracing paper then use the above method to reansfer the enlarged drawing to the paper. Again, it's something I do all the time. Two of the paintings I'm currently working on, "Something Is Coming" and "Forbidden Friendship" (The full 3 by 4 foot size painting) were enlarged this way to fit the canvas.
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Thank you! Well I really want to make it a finished drawing too since I like a lot how the sketch turned out. (too much for the sketch as I said lol)
Thank you for your advice! I did tracing before - when doing my fancomics when I needed the same or almost the same scene but it was only just through the paper on the "light box" (actually monitor of my notebook laid flat lol), it never ended up quite the same but that was also because of the makeshift solution and paper not fixed so it could slip. Of course I couldn't use it here because intention to draw it on thicker paper and didn't think of other possibility, so thank you!
And thank you for your advice on drawing lava! I'm not sure what I could do with it (I mean I know what you mean but not sure if I would be able to do it the way to make it look right. If you know what I mean). I was actually looking at googled pictures of lava when doing the sketch but it didn't help and I was totally hopeless and desperate about it.
As for the size of the - hopefully one day - finished piece I said bigger and meant bigger than the drawings I made so far and for more space in the background. And actually the sketch (the characters on the sketch) ended up bigger than I meant on the sketch so they might be quite the size for the finished drawing.
I know how to transfer pictures in bigger (or smaller) size with grids, we did it at school or in some... leisure activity groups? hobby clubs? (don't know how do you call it abroad), but I wouldn't dare to try it on such sketch, that wouldn't end up well for sure. For the case I would need to make it bigger after all, I'd rather try to just redraw it there.
Thanks a lot for your comment and help! <3
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