Drawing Tips for Advanced Artists
How's everybody doing? These following tips are for those of us who have been drawing (or painting, sketching, coloring etc.) for a while. Many talented self-taught artists may have missed these little tricks, but no worries! They are easy to incorporate yet make a world of difference. You may have heard of the uncanny valley; it refers to the unsettling feeling of something that is almost identical to humankind, yet not. In character design personification tends to make a nonhuman character more likable, but that charming effect suddenly reverses when it becomes similar enough to a real human. People may be unable to tell what is off about the character, but there is an uneasiness to the situation. When you draw a person out in the far distance, their facial features are blurrier than somebody close up. This means that if you keep sharp details in the background, your person can become uncanny. Being slightly off when measuring proportions or rendering realis...