Learning is hard, especially if you have ADHD, which makes learning new things a bit of a challenge. YouTube tutorials can turn into hours-long adventures, and online classes require multiple attempts to retain information. The only way to effectively learn something is through hands-on experience.
As I've developed a career in art and illustration, I've learned the importance of doing more with less. There are deadlines to meet, hours to bill, priorities to make. A good cartoonist is quick.
All of us develop our own style, one that involves our own ways of simplifying the world - whether it's through playful abstraction of the human body, whimsical linework, or whatever. So what are some ways to simplify?
Simplifying Your Drawing Process
Here are some tips to simplify your drawing process:
- Don't just copy. Or don't ONLY copy from other people's work.
- Set time limits! When I drew my comic MANTA-DAD, I limited myself to 2 hours a page. Give yourself deadlines!
- Doodle when you're tired and don't care!
- If you're working digitally, don't let yourself zoom in past a certain point.
- Use the biggest, thickest line you can. Don't get hung up on fine lines, hatching, all that small stuff.
- Insert some chaos into your process.
Finding Negative Space
For me, the key to beginning drawing any subject matter is to find easily-drawn areas of negative space. Begin by drawing the spaces between your fingers. Don't look at the fingers! Between the first two fingers is a line.
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Angle-Abstraction Game drawing process
Briefly, my Angle-Abstraction Game drawing process begins with a simple shape, in this case an oval. You’re already used to seeing lines and angles. For the buttons, look at them as pure ovals. What is the shape and tilt of each oval? Each is different from the others because each button is at a different place in the folds of Don’s shirt. We’re seeing each button from a different perspective.
If all this reads like a jumble of geometry, it’s because right-brain processes are always very difficult to describe in words (left-brain). I promise you that what may be tough to read here is a lot more fun in the doing.
It’s important to me because, while sketching, even very quickly, I am more present in the moment than when I snap a photo and move on. Sketching teaches you to see better and remember more.
Drawing Skeletons
“I love skeletons; there is something deeply beautiful about the human skeleton. Drawing skeletons gives you a greater understanding for drawing the human figure. “In one class I had to copy drawings of the skeletal-muscular system as homework for a semester. It gave me a good basic understanding of how the body works.
Another teacher taught us to understand proportion and gesture by drawing the contour of a costumed model with brush and ink. No details, only the edge between the form and the space around it. The process really required right-brain thinking. However, understanding how the body counterbalances weight in any given pose helps an artist express the gesture when the architecture of the body isn’t seen.
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draw the figure as if it were covered in a network of perpendicular lines… that described the expansion and contraction of limbs. The process demanded that we look very carefully at the forms.
Another approach is to draw with the non-dominant hand. …This exercise is particularly beneficial to anyone who has developed facility and consequently has stopped REALLY looking at their subject. Our dominant hand seems to develop its calligraphy for expressing familiar forms. It’s not only artists who’ve been drawing a long time who have trouble allowing themselves to really see.
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