/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3532585
he's probably referring to the fact that each line was made by a series of short lines that overlap each other in order to form the correct curve. chicken scratch is basically just multiple scratchy lines when a single line would do just fine. it's normally the sign of a beginner, since beginners don't have good control of their pencil and can't draw a curve in one stroke. the only "reason its bad" is that it looks bad and messy, and that it's important to be able to draw lines with curves without having to rely on the chicken scratch technique.

here's a very basic example of a very messy, chicken-scratchy drawing i found on google. even the finished product has scratchy, messy lines despite the artist "cleaning up"

the point isn't that you should be able to have perfect lines for your entire sketch without a single mistake, but your entire drawing definitely shouldn't look scratchy and messy.