for anyone who was curious about my work. i figured i'd do a post with a little info for wanting minds. for those uninterested; please disregard this post. X3 and please keep in mind i'm no proffessional...it's just a passion.

i found that gesture drawing for my sketches helps me build a nicer looking shape rather than contour drawing (drawing outline of body) don't get me wrong i have friends that strictly draw by contour and their stuff's amazing. it just works for me better. almost all of my poses come from images i've found in books, pictures or online. one of my favorite sites for body poses is called
https://www.posemaniacs.com it's an awesome website with tons of different poses from all angles. for those of you who prefer a book for a reference i loved dynamic figure drawing by burne hogarth. since i generally stink big time at drawing the male figure. this book helped tons. it also helped with shading muscles. all the men in this book are built like spartans. *drool* so for anyone wanting a book on more action figure drawing i definately reccomend that book.
all my characters start as stick figures. XD

linework...i've used a good variety of lining pens before. my current set is a nice set of copic liners. i've used zig liners and steadler, faber-castell, and prismacolor liners. some pen liners when you erase you sketch underneath the image looks faded. i either redo it or trace a new sheet on tracing paper. i've used kneaded erasers before but my heart still sits with staedler's mars plastic (vinyl erasers) they don't leave as many smudges with mechanical pencil marks) my more detailed lines are done with a .3 liner, standard lines are done with a .5, and after i'm done i go over the outside lines with a .8 or 1.0 a friend of mine showed me how to double up some of my lines, i normally do this in shaded spots, i.e. under breast lines, darker crevices of hair.

coloring....i'm swearing by prismacolor pencils as far as color pencils go. i've yet to use a better brand, that can blend that well. markers, i'm using prismacolor pencils, i'd prefer to be using copic markers but they're too expensive for my wallet. they blend a little better than prismacolor markers, don't leave bleed lines and are refillable. but at about $5 a marker way out of my price range. prismacolors are great to work with they have an extensive variety of colors and are double tipped with a fine tip for smaller details and a wide tip with different angle sizes which is awsome for med to thick marks. the downside, they bleed like crazy and tend to go over lines you don't want them to, they get you light headed if you're too close to them. (i draw close to the paper...not sure why O.o) and they take a while to learn how to use them. T-T but the plus unlike the color pencils they don't mess up your line work.

digital...currently i can't do anything seriously digital...best buy deleted my only copy of photoshop...but if you can get your hands on a wacom...thats the way to go...tablets make coloring your art on the computer ten times easier. you don't necesarily need a huge tablet since it's more likely you're only going to be working on small parts at a time. for what brief time i had my hands on a wacom the small tablet worked just fine. i liked photoshop cs2, but if i ever am able to get another art program for the desktop it'd probably be open canvas. i'm not sure though...digitally i'm not the best person to be chatting with. ;3; just that tablets rock.

so if i haven't bored you all by now, and you've actually read this whole thing...big props to you... *two thumbs up*
i'm hoping it was helpfuls. thankies for reading.

love peace and chicken grease

neo-ragdolls