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So when doing line art. How do you learn when to apply the really thick lines on curved areas? How do you figure out how big you make it and not have it look silly?

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her left shoulder

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>> No.3106339

>>3106306
/r/ing the artist of the OP pic. A-asking for a friend.

>> No.3106359

>>3106339
le google

https://twitter.com/namonnamon14/media?lang=en

>> No.3106361

>>3106306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zl5NnEAyU
all you need.

>> No.3106374

>>3106306
>>3106307
>>3106310
>>3106315
None of those artists follow the same set of rules, they all handle it differently. The commonly known rules would be to have the ink be thicker on the shadow side, wherever lines are intersecting, at bony/hard parts or where something is pinched and compressed. Sometimes artists also ink the outlines of an object/figure to be thicker altogether to make something pop out as a silhouette.

There is no sensible explanation why the anime chick has a thick outline on her left shoulder for example, so don't overthink it.

>> No.3106387

understand depth

understand pushing and pulling

understand how eyes read pictures

thatll help you figure it out.

>> No.3106422

>>3106359
What the fuck, thank you so much for this rec, amazing artist + draws my fave qt korean boy group

>> No.3106824

>>3106306
>>3106374
don't think about the line, think about the spaces inside and outside the lines, aka the shapes. at some point you'll realize the line is a shape too.

>> No.3106865

>>3106315
Who's the artist?

>> No.3107023

>>3106865
https://www.artstation.com/nbekkaliev

>> No.3107078

>>3106361
Thanks, this was helpful

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>> No.3107123

>>3107023
Thanks.

>> No.3107256

Jim Lee's work on Batman: Hush is a perfect demonstration of where to have heavy and light lines

>> No.3107279 [DELETED] 

https://youtu.be/x0zl5NnEAyU

>> No.3107381

>>3107256

That's not Jim Lee's work, that's Scott Williams' work.

>> No.3107386

>>3106315
>>3107023
>absolutely love that one sketch/wip
>absolutely hate all of his other art

ayy

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>>3106306

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>>3107412
>>3106306

Based on that picture I would say op just needs to practice figure drawing more with actual people. I hadn't thought about the line weight but you end up getting close to these weights.

>> No.3108548

>>3106387
any good books on this stuff?

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i posted in the stylization thread and i need help with this as well, im too comfortable doing giant thick lines and im trying to figure out a way to reduce them since i go way too hard

im slowly figuring it out as i work on the face and hair but some advice or opinions would be nice to speed up my process

>> No.3108622

>>3106306
Have you tried ligne claire?

>> No.3108635

There are so many ways you can go about doing line weight that the best way for you to figure it out is to analyze artists whose line work you enjoy and hope that it sticks.