/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4973115
Symbol drawing is the term for what your brain does naturally, which is replace real things with simplified representations of them. It means instead of breaking down forms and shapes and trying to understand the subject, let's say for example a hand, into it's actual component parts and laying it out properly on your page with structure, contour, perspective, etc., you just draw a blob with some thin blobs coming off of it and call it good because your brain will read it as a hand even in it's hyper simplified state because our brains are designed to simplify things and see patterns, not to see detail.

It doesn't matter whether you're cartooning, doing anime, or doing hyper realistic portraits, the same underlying steps still apply.

Even anime artists need to learn this stuff in order to up their game.