#spectalk

Personally, one of the biggest things for me is that I rarely ever do the sketch -> lineart process. Of course for bigger and more well thought pieces it is different, but even still I tend to do well-done sketches.

I feel like that helps me with being as much loosen up as I want, and I don't really care about the cleanliness of the lineart, I actually love when it's quite messy and you can tell they were supposed to be just doodles for fun!

Also boring part but practing things such as line confidence + studies is inevitable. But it does help you, trust me. The latter is specially very useful if you wanna start stylizing things, such as poses, otherwise you might always come with stiff ones. After that, you will be able to just ball it without even thinking much!

And personally brushes help me a lot too, so it's nice to find the right one you feel comfortable the most... been using mine for a long while now. If you'd like it feel free to look through my ask tag bc I shared it a while ago.

Here's a quick speedpaint to show my proccess of drawing. I don't tend to think much while doing it, I just do what I think looks best lol... which is what personally helps me with the stiffness... also I like to add fun details suuch as tiny scribbles on the character + "movement scribbles" to add more of that feeling of movement.

The finished thing! + another one that I did originally but forgot to hit record aughhhh