Drawing tips to live by!

The personality of your drawing comes a lot from the quality of your lines. If you want to add personality and energy to your drawing, weight the bottom of your shapes with a thicker tapered line. Try not to be hesitant or inconsistent when you're drawing your lines. It's okay to draw with a consistent thin stroke line, but it might be better to use a different pen to do that rather than a tapered pen, something like a calligraphy pen. There are no set rules to this, and some of this is just my personal preference, but I think consistency, thought, and control in your line gives your drawings personality. Personality and cohesiveness. If you're like me and you hate being told how to draw and want to break every rule that you ever hear about drawing, I get it. But try having conviction when you draw your lines. Some people do it on purpose, but when I see lines that are jaggedy, jittery, incomplete, and don't fill out a shape, the drawing doesn't work for me as much as a line that's bold and has conviction and attitude behind it. Practice and repetition improves line quality.