No Rulers
Added 2021-03-25 19:01:01 +0000 UTCSome lessons carve a groove in your brain. For whatever reason, this is one of those for me. In animation school, one of our teachers taught us that you might use a ruler to draw straight lines in your roughs, but never use one for your final, clean lines. That is what I have done ever since. Even for the finest, cleanest, most precise lines, it's valuable to take the time to draw them freehand.
The reason is simple: a ruled line robs life from your drawing. That was the theory, and that's what I started to notice in my own work and others.'
Take it or leave it.
Comments
Yes indeed! See here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15656285 And here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/11277942 And my virtual Pinterest board: https://twirlytumblfluff.tumblr.com/tagged/print
Tealin
2021-03-28 09:11:13 +0000 UTCWait, what “fake woodblock style?”
Tony Cliff
2021-03-28 02:03:31 +0000 UTCI held to this for many years, but I realised doing studies for my fake-o woodblock print style that I couldn't get that ~flavour~ without ruled lines where warranted. Not sure it actually sped up the process any, but Ilike what it's given me. Your drawing look much better though.
Tealin
2021-03-27 16:08:38 +0000 UTCThis is exactly how I feel, and I'm always shocked that no matter how janky an unruled line might look immediately after I pull it, that it looks perfectly at home next to all my other lines and adds life!
Cat Farris
2021-03-25 20:18:56 +0000 UTC
