/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4962760
Ok, now I see what you meant. I agree with that of course, the way you phrased it before made it seem like a different argument.

That said, you're still going about it the wrong way. Sketching your drawings in pencil beforehand is not a crutch, and doesn't ease out the harshness of drawing in ink.
Sketching out what you're going to draw is a normal step in inking, like you also sketch out what you're going to paint before painting in oil.

You can see it in the video, the dude is painting digitally in a way that imitates oil, so he doesn't use layers, effects or undo, but he still sketched out where he was going to paint.
Pic also related

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>>2336750
At least he's giving constructive criticism.

>>2336736
Having the bridge going straight away from us is a bad idea, makes things look flatter. With environment pieces a key aspect is depth. Have multiple objects in front of or behind each other, use atmospheric fog to push the depth of far away things like mountains, and use value to show the different levels. Try thinking of it like a pantomime stage, where you have the cardboard cutout backgrounds, but arranged at different depths on the stage to improve the illusion.

>>2336883
Riley method is just a more stylized way of working with the shadow shapes first. Try thinking of it as painting rather than drawing maybe? Pic vaguely related, with painting it tends to be a basic lay in for measurements and such, then a nice base tone, and then the shadow shapes. Once you have those in you can model out the rest of the face in comparison to that. Paint with your pencil anon.