Don't get caught up in the details

Name: Don't get caught up in the details
Uploaded: 2024-05-21T15:45:03+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: Artist Ryan Maloney explains how obsessing over small details ruins drawings. He reduces a character's spikes from many to three, and warns against…

21 May 2024 · 0 min

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Artist Ryan Maloney explains how obsessing over small details ruins drawings. He reduces a character's spikes from many to three, and warns against spending time on a leg shadow while neglecting the rest of the piece. Keep the overall structure strong first.

Drawing in the lines that I like here and eliminating the ones that I don't. Narrow the spikes down to 3 on his head. Sometimes I'll do too many details that you just don't need and you get caught up in the details and then all of a sudden your drawing is just all details and no macro structure of the whole thing and you look at it later on and you're like, oh, I can tell how I focused on that shadow on the legs too long and then the rest of the drawing got neglected so it's not that amazing.