/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4198706
it has to do with dynamism of your pose, relevance of your design and can also affect the composition of your illustration if youre going for a finished artwork. nobody has to fill anything with black, its just that the first thing we perceive when we look at a drawing are shapes. its better to create a solid expressive shape and build design around that than to produce a stiff character and add accessories and clothes to it to create a design. look at this example from "skillful huntsman", you can easily tell what type of characters these slhouettes might be. its very easy to come up with clothing and other elements of design for these silhouettes.

this is not exactly /beg/ tier and it also applies to work from imagination, you dont really have to focus on that when youre doing a reference study.