#drawing methods

Ahh thank you, that's so nice to hear!! My older works are all traditional. I normally do a pencil sketch, then ink over that with a 0.3 fineliner, then colour with promarkers and copics. More recent things have been digital, using Procreate. I never thought I'd make the change but I've absolutely loved it. There's a lot I still have to learn though!

I use Clip Studio Paint ^^

I used to go with SAI, but then my computer got the update for Win10 and SAI stopped working properly. I didn’t know how to fix it so I looked for an alternative. And booooy I’m glad I did!! 

You mean like the circles and lines and stuff I use as a guide to draw on? 

Aside from the basic “circle with a cross in the middle of it with maybe some smaller circles where the eyes should go”, I don’t typically use guides. I mostly just draw by feel. It’s not the best or fastest way to do it. I’m trying to use shapes and guides more often, but usually I just start at the head and work my way down. I’ve generally got an idea of what I want and I just let my hand do the rest. I draw the guides very lightly, so they may not show up in my scans. Also, I do sometimes erase them if they get in the way.

If you haven’t already checked out my rough sketches tag, you can see some of those guides at work (and also see what my untouched art looks like, yikes).

Another thing is I use a .05 or a .07 mechanical pencil instead of, you know, an actual artist’s pencil that has nice dark graphite and actually responds to pressure senitivity instead of just snapping like mechanical lead. I have no less than 10 of these nice sketch pencils and they’ve lasted me 15 years so far because I haven’t used them.

MS Paint: I just choose the color black and use the brush tool creating the lines and then use different colors on the fill tool to add color

The Tell-Tale Drawing Interview with Marco Frascari