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Threeboy
11-24-2004, 12:06 AM
QUESTION
Submitted by Raider81
"I am never able to draw the same person twice"

Tip:

Try drawing from the "general to the specific" - rough out characters with general shapes, and structure lines, and plumb lines. Fill in the specific details after.

Example:
http://design.threeboy.com/palehorse/reshogs.gif

You can see that I used shapes to get a rough outline and block in the size of the hogs (also very handy for planning placement), and from the underlying structure I began to add details.

Not sure if that helped, but that's all I gots. I don't think my characters come out very consitiant either. It can also just take practise.

Take the characters in the early TrueNuff comis for exampe, they were warpy and changed shape frequently:
http://www.truenuff.com/comic.php?day=20010228

However the later comics showed a bit more constiency:
http://www.truenuff.com/comic.php?day=20040608

So yeah, "General to Specific" and "Practise" - never stop drawing.

Devil
11-24-2004, 04:00 AM
good tip, thanks !

Pepi
11-24-2004, 07:11 AM
yeah, that is a good tip, i've had the same problem