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Your art is so SHAPED!!!!

I love it <3

Any tips on how you got it so shaped?

Thank you so much!!! Haha ive been getting this comment alot and i THINK i have a grasp on what it means! Ill try my best to explain- using some one piece sketches since thats what Ive got on hand.

My first piece of advice is, dont be afraid to go ugly first! When sketching, youre sketching, and every sketch doesnt need to be finished eventually. This is kinda hard sometimes but i believe if you over work a sketch trying to get the first one perfect, things can come out really stiff!

these are the sketches I was playing with when learning to draw sanji. The 3 in bold I used, but the other ones got tossed - either too stiff or too exaggerated or just didnt match his vibe!

Thats the first step. But when it comes to the literal *shapes* picking the right shape has to do with not only their personality, but how they move as a character. And I think this should be applied *after* getting flow down first. I feel sometimes when an artist tries to stick hard to drawing nothing but x character in x shape things come out sort of stiff. (NOT pleased with the way i drew Zoro in the bottom right.)

But the actual shapes… thats up to what you think works on a character! I went with triangles with rounded corners on Sanji. I felt it would flatter his hair nicely, as well as his slim build and pointy ass shoes. Usopp felt more round and oblong to better suit his nose and the curves in his outfit- and zoro is all squares baby! Sturdy and built like a brick shithouse. But these are just my interpretations!

Anywayssss,,,,,,, hope this was somewhat helpful and not just a huge wall of text, lol! Thanks for your support! :]

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Hi! I'm super curious, do you have any tips/tricks for drawing hair? Or any archived, since making tutorials can be tedious. I got the shape down and flow, but detailing and shading hair is a struggle- it keeps looking like Polly pocket plastic hair lol

Here I was typing up a whole 4000 word post only to check your blog and realize YOU DON'T EVEN DRAW POLLY POCKET HAIR. Lies!!

As far as highlights go, I try to put them where the hair bends and if I can help it, I try to make them form a larger shape on the top of the head. (Even if they cut out in-between)

Admittedly, I haven't drawn a lot of non-straight hair (not in a very detailed way/recently anyway) and I look up tons of pictures of hair textures/styles I'm not familiar with drawing, so I'm probably not a good spokesperson on how to do that.

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