simple tutorial : bust-up sketch!

a very simple step by step tutorial on how i draw a bust-up :3

links :

step 1 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st1.PNG

step 2 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st2.PNG

step 3 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st3.PNG

step 4 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st4.PNG

step 5 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st5.PNG

step 6 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st6.PNG

step 7 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st7.PNG

step 8 : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/158057323/st8.PNG

explanation :

step 1 : draw a circle and a +, make sure the center of the + is lower than the center of the circle!

step 2 : draw an 'U' like so, and it shall become a head :3, afterwards, draw a stick man featuring her hands and body XD

step 3 : fill in the body following the stickman :3

step 4 : draw her breast and erase a bit on her head (a bit, not all, must have some traces remaining as a helpful sketch for her hair later

step 5 : draw her face!! i'll make a follow-up tutorial on how to draw a face and hair soon :3

step 6 : hair!

step 7 : draw her clothes... you don't think i'll leave her naked don't you XD

step 8 : add some shading, and done~!!

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some people thinks drawing is better if you DON'T draw the sketch, well i'm not one of them XD

even until now, i still draw sketches like above (stickman, circle, naked first...) before finishing the drawings

slower? not really, with practice, drawing a sketch will help your drawing so much that it actually increase your drawing speed!!

why? well simple, with sketches like this, you can focus on the bigger picture first, most people is failing at drawing a face because one eye is bigger than the other, or because the jaw looks weird, or because when you step back and see the drawing, the proportion is extremely off, that is because you're TOO FOCUSED on what you're drawing, to the point you DIDN'T SEE the drawings!! what you see is a LINE, not the drawing in overall, that's why the proportion is off and the drawing appear weird.

sketch will help a lot more if you're drawing an extremely complicated drawing pose, not only a boring usual standing pose, but attacking an enemy! or when a girl is about to kiss her girlfriend!! or when you're trying to draw a dynamic pose like girls jumping!

this is only a 'hello world' tutorial, next time we'll go a bit in depth~! one part at time :3