ppower's Q&A.

[Glasia🌳]

How do you draw so quickly like 100 figures? My rate is a 0.5 figures / h.
Imagine Redigit suddendly appears in front of you in his dev armor set. What is the first thing you would say to him?

 

[ppowersteef]

How do you draw so quickly like 100 figures? My rate is a 0.5 figures / h.

I don't draw that quick.
I just have a large storage of previously drawn drawings that I can re-use when it fits.

Depending on the effort I put in it, the time drawing characters vary a lot. But it's usually around 1 character in 45 mins.

This probably still is still fast, but I've also practised it a lot.
The way I improved was through "good night doodles", a quick doodle of a character or something that was in mind before I went to sleep, it was a pretty frequent habit, though it doesn't need to be daily. It is pretty engaging with the community too.
Maybe for motivation, I should pick it up again, now it's a new year

WIth doodling, it helps you to sketch the parts you find important first, I usually start with the shape of the head, then draw the rest of the body afterwards. The simplelistic clothing design in Steef and other OCs, and the half-body cut, helps to trim it down too.

There are also other tools that help, like a stability percentage on an art program, that helps to keep your lines smooth and a color filler tool on a different layer, so I can fill up fairly quick.
Shading is something last year that I either do or don't. It helps to add depth, but sometimes it already looks fine as is. I usually prefer to shade with a thick black brush on a different layer with some transparency, which helps to add shading quick.

PS: I'm a self-taught artist, I just use what works for me. So take it with a grain of salt.

Imagine Redigit suddendly appears in front of you in his dev armor set. What is the first thing you would say to him?

Hi

 

[Glasia🌳]

WIth doodling, it helps you to sketch the parts you find important first, I usually start with the shape of the head, then draw the rest of the body afterwards. The simplelistic clothing design in Steef and other OCs, and the half-body cut, helps to trim it down too.

What comes when I doodle is only letters and numbers come, so technically also characters. What appears if you doodle? Full characters?

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How did you deal with teachers and similar who just said indirectly bad words to your art? How did you deal with negative experience in art generally?

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How do you handle drawing blocks? Do you think drawing block that is longer than a quarter of a year means one shall give it up fully? I do not think so! (IIRC I asked that in your art thresd but I saw it fits for the ama better)