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>>341443
>I believe Seal draws with the same method I do
>I believe
That's the problem. You shouldn't believe, you should know. Seal may draw that way, yes; but is it necessarily more efficient for him? Not necessarily as in "can he draw better that way now" but "is it ideally better to draw this way?" You'll probably never become the ideal artist, but if you don't try, you won't get any nearer.
>I could practice long flowing lines and (in theory) become Lucid...or I could hone my current style and become Seal. I think I would be happy with either outcome.
The problem with that is that you're not going to "become" either; you never will, even if you can manage to copy their styles exactly. So don't restrict yourself.
I realize this might sound somewhat hypocritical when I say you shouldn't bother using small strokes, since that is a "way" of drawing, however disagreeable I find it. But in my past five years of drawing, I've found using long, full strokes a much more accurate and efficient manner of rendering. Sure, in a sketch I may go over the same line a few times before I settle on a position that looks right, but at least when I'm drawing one line I don't have to worry about whether or not a dozen-odd different line segments actually look like a coherent line that's pointing in the direction I want it to. And that's a problem, because it's difficult to get all those line segments to actually look like a truly coherent line, isn't it? When I look at any long line in Venji, besides the ones you used the line tool for, it often looks more like a bunch of well-arranged burnt twigs.
And I know it is more difficult to draw lines the way you want them to go on a tablet; that's what SAI's smoothing function is for, to iron out the kinks in your lines. Of course, as you know, SAI assumes you are already decent at making long, accurate strokes. But don't let that discourage you. Use >>341444 's practice thread, or just put the pencil to paper. Even if you like the way you draw now, learning another method can only help.
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