I marked this as NSFW as I draw nude models.
I started essentially from zero. I tried DrawABox last year, but I gave up in lesson 2 as I couldn’t quite understand what I was supposed to do with the texturing and it was difficult to get help in the Discord community.
Now I just got myself a private teacher and found working with pencil much easier than working with ink. I started doing 1 hour per day, but eventually ramped it up to 2-3 hours per day once I found a nice podcast to listen while practising.
Nice! For graphite, split a soft pencil, take a strip of lead and spread it around so there’s no white showing. It helps with blending and it’ll force you to use more contrast.
That does sound easier than trying to sharpen the pencil and using the side to draw. I sort of prefer charcoal as it makes it easier to get more contrast and automagically creates texture.
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