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Sketch and Lineart Practice #1

Arnox

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This is my third attempt at duplicating a portrait. The first two I tried were real life models, and maybe that was a mistake, because in real life, humans don't exactly have clean lines so my attempts to draw them were pretty bad. With the third attempt, I decided to try duplicating someone in an anime style, hoping it would be easier. And it was! But it still took a long time to finish everything up. Anyway, first one is the reference image, second is the sketch, third is the the final lineart.





 

Arnox

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not bad. What software are you using?
Rando sketching program called InkPaint that uses the amazing Windows Ink subsystem (pretty much the only meaningfully good thing about Windows 10). There's another much better one I found too, but I don't need half of what it offers, so I'm just sticking with InkPaint out of laziness.

The most important part for me by far is to get a good damn sketch down. After that, I can manipulate it six ways to Sunday at a leisurely pace with a mouse in Paint.NET and/or GIMP.
 
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