How do I stop chicken scratching?
Get a huge fucking canvas (or tablet)
>>7903412By drawing longer continuous lines? How else would you stop?
You lose your soul if you stop
>>7903412Draw using your shoulder and arm
>>7903416No that's if you sign a deal with the devil, we're talking about drawing.
>>7903416chicken scratch doesn't mean you have soul
the actual real correct answer is to fill up a sketchbook using nothing but a ball-point pen. no erasing allowed.
>>7903412Draw a lot of lines on a piece of paper until it turns black. Long continuous smooth lines. Engage your elbow. Engage your shoulder. Look while making the lines.Drawing = hand-eye coordination
>>7903440>ball-point penBallpoint is similar to pencil, you can build value with it. As someone who spent last year using nothing but pen and ink for traditional art (usually on a lunch break for work) when I didn't feel confident or was learning something new I'd default to ballpoint because it's the most forgiving. In fact I kind of had to chicken scratch more because the ink didn't flow as well.If you want to stop chicken scratching get a couple of micron pigmas (or felt tip pens) or a fude brush pen and the fear of fucking up will make you think before putting down a stroke.
>>7903447that's a man
>>7903448maybe, I don't remember the ref I used, it was a year ago. I do know really rushed the proportions (I was bad at them at that time, little less awful now) because of my short 45 min lunch break. When I went back to pencil and could actually use some construction drawing was way easier.
>>7903412chicken scratching is fine. not developing your lines is not fine. you need to intentionally interpret your chicken scratching, leaving it up to the observer is why it's a crutch/shitjob in the first place.
>>7903436True, but no chicken scratch unquestinably means you don't have one
>>7903412simple;stop being a chicken and fucking DRAW.
>>7903412You need to draw more and develop hand eye coordination. Copy from reference, contour draw without looking at the paper around 80% of the time, when you do look at the paper look where you want your line to go and make the motion towards that point. You have to figure it out on your own and hammer in instinct unfortunately.also how did they teach that frog to do that? is that photo real? i hope there was no animal abuse involved...
>>7903697good advice, and also, its literally a miniature state. no harm involved.
'ghost' your lines a bit, make the motion you think you need to make the full longer line, but don't press down, then when you think you have it, commit to the line.
>>7903739do anons really?
>>7903705except to the original frog that was cast...
>>7903756..its not a statue?
>>7903755anons? maybe. it's advice wesley burt gave
>>7903412post your frog
>>7904043
>>7904043i drew a different frog but he's playing the banjo
>>7904684why did you draw lines over the froge?
>>7904691because he deserved it
>>7904111>no (You)sThis board is dead. Great work anon, get the fuck out of here
>>7904684I like this frog the best
>>7904111Good job
>>7903421Oh, my bad
Forg
this looked like crap until I slapped a bunch of filters and messed with the color curves.
Not a drawing but meme.
>>7907639The fonts look uncanny. Try the white ones with a thin black outline. Meme staple
>>7907417This is actually good
>>7907659Thanks blud frogs are the best. Sometimes I wish I was a frog and could spray my sperm into a female frog while sitting on her
>>7903412BIIG PAPER. Paper is superior to digital art when it comes to practicing things like this. And think before placing down a line
>>7904043I was roughing this one out right when my old ass tablet finally gave out on me. I can't get a new one for a while so I'll just post it.
>>7903412>>7904043God I wish I was a talking woodland creature.
>>7904111Wait is that back NOT chicken scratching? I thought that meant any breaks in lines at all.
>>7911930Never has, ya silly goose. Breaks in linework are common, if not everpresent. Chicken scratching is when you form masses of hairy looking little lines to build up the impression of a longer individual stroke. Some manage to make chicken scratching look passable due to excelling in other areas of drawing, and somewhat minimizing the scratchiness. It still tends to hamstring them when working on more delicate or precise subjects, though. Then there are other artists who do compound lines, often mistaken for checken scratch, but it's only several strokes used to form one line, more precisely and intentionally.Precision and intentionality are the keys, here, in any case.
>>7911932>Never has, ya silly goose. Breaks in linework are common, if not everpresent.OH MY FUCKING GOD I'VE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE EVERY LINE HAVE NO BREAKS TO NOT CHICKEN SCRATCH AT ALL AND MESSING UP SO OFTEN, NO WONDER I'VE HATED DRAWING
>>7907480>this looked like crap until I slapped a bunch of filters and messed with the color curves.Real. Nice frog btw.>>7911932Good to know
The reason why chicken scratching is bad is not because that it looks bad or ugly, it is because you don't commit to lines, and if you don't commit to lines then how are you supposed to learn? it is like going into a car and just randomly smahing every button, raping the gear stick and face palming into the steering wheels, sure, you might be lucky and the car might randomly drive and reach the location, but most likely, shit's gonna happen.
Roughs are an important tool for the artist. Sometimes you want to get an idea on paper so you can redraw it with planning and intent. This is from the 30 strip outline I planned on doing as a newspaper sized weekly, with only six completed. The outburst is explainable if you knew the characters and history, but I wanted to capture her raw emotions for the summation of their lives entwined. Storyboard your stories, then do it for Realsies.
>>7903412draw from your shoulders
>>7903614I have to agree with this.
>>7903412> j00 h4b 2 \/1$u4l1Z3 b4 j00 dR4\/\/ D|_||\/|M3h>>7903440
>>7903412If you are drawing digitally, use a bigger brush. If you are drawing traditionally, use charcoal.
>>7903412Actually understand the anatomy and form of what you're drawing.
>>7904043Kay
>>7911899blog?
>>7918788Update
>>7918856Final update
>>7919406Very nice
>>7903448If you look at the rounded skull and lack of an adam's apple, that's clearly a female with a negative canthal tilt
