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A word of encouragement about drawing: I think most illustrators are far too hard on themselves. They expect to sit down with one piece of paper and draw exactly what they have in their mind the very first time around. In my opinion this is nearly impossible. Drawing is a process that takes a long time. I like to make an analogy between a good batter in baseball and a good illustrator. A great batting average for the major leagues is .300. This batting average means that they get 3 hits out of ten, or get a hit 30 percent of the time. I think that this is a reasonable expectation for an artist to have as well. If I can get 3 decent drawings out of ten attempts I feel fairly good about myself.
So, relax while youre in your pencil drawing phase of this process. Get yourself a big stack of paper and get loose, draw lots and dont be concerned about bad sketches just toss them aside and start over.
Browsing the net and thought i'd share this with you. If your lucky enough to own the software you may want to give it ago. http://www.gomediazine.com/12/11/2006/comic_book_style/
Also says this on the page, which is cool
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A word of encouragement about drawing: I think most illustrators are far too hard on themselves. They expect to sit down with one piece of paper and draw exactly what they have in their mind the very first time around. In my opinion this is nearly impossible. Drawing is a process that takes a long time. I like to make an analogy between a good batter in baseball and a good illustrator. A great batting average for the major leagues is .300. This batting average means that they get 3 hits out of ten, or get a hit 30 percent of the time. I think that this is a reasonable expectation for an artist to have as well. If I can get 3 decent drawings out of ten attempts I feel fairly good about myself.
So, relax while youre in your pencil drawing phase of this process. Get yourself a big stack of paper and get loose, draw lots and dont be concerned about bad sketches just toss them aside and start over.
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