In The Pursuit Of Knowledge

you draw eyes so pretty :0 !! they're so mesmerizing..

Awwwh thank you anonnn!!! I'm flattered to be held at such high esteem 🥹🤍

Your question isn’t silly at all! The thing about my art is that I don’t actually do real lineart. I start off with, for lack of better words, a refined sketch. Just like most art processes, my basic coloring and shading go under the sketch. I think it's really just my rendering that makes my lines appear as such. Here are a few general steps I follow when focusing on the lines and edges:

1. On a separate layer, go over the refined sketch with a hard round brush. The color I choose to use depends on the shadow that line surrounds. For instance, if I’m going around the face, I’d use the color I used for the shadow of the face.

2. Using a brush of choice at low opacity, color the lines just made with the base color of whatever the object is. Typically, I color just the inside of the lines, leaving a sort of outline. But sometimes I’ll color the whole line if I feel that the it's too harsh. I also layer the brush strokes, kind of like painting.

3. Experiment with whatever works, color, texture, anything! My whole lining process is really just up to the lighting and vibes of the piece, but those two listed above are the base steps.

UWAAAHHSGDHS TYSM ANON!! I’m honored to have become one of your favorites 😭🥺🤍