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altuixde:
Thanks, Yui! :D

My hand does shake a little sometimes but when I rest it against the paper, it's steady. I think that my darkening of her dress could've been done a little better. With true line art I believe that the angle of the lines is chosen purposefully to match the angle of the surface. When I chose the angles for the lines in this drawing, I was just making sure that the lines in one area are at least slightly different from those in adjacent areas.

altuixde:
Behold! Ritsuko sitting on a floating board!
(see Master Special 02)


This is actually a work in progress. I didn't finish darkening her hair, dress, sleeves or slippers because I may be getting a drawing tablet and I could use the tablet for that. Also you may notice that I simplified the part of her dress that goes around her neck. That's because I don't think I made her neck long enough for those frills to look right.

The whole process of drawing folds in clothing is very complicated. I looked for relevant information on Pixiv, on the rest of the web and also in print books. I found one book entirely dedicated to this subject. Obviously I've only scratched the surface, but this would be a great skill to have so I'll keep working on it.

Amazing_Grace:
That looks amazing.

Clothes and shading are my biggest problems. ;-; I just can't ever seem to get it right. What book are you using? Maybe I can find one for myself.

altuixde:
Ah, arigatou! :D I'm glad you like it!

I actually didn't end up buying any new books. Instead, I used mostly this image as a reference (for folds in a dress):



The books I was considering getting are these two:

Drawing the Clothed Figure
by Michael Massen

and

Drawing People
by Barbara Bradley

On the cover of the book by Michael Massen is a drawing very similar to the one I did of Ritsuko but, on my honor, by the time I found that book I had already completed the drawing of Ritsuko except for the folds in her dress.

If you find a book or stuff on the web with good instructions on how to do shading could you let me know? I'm gonna need to do some shading in the next drawing I'm working on. ^^

Amazing_Grace:
Ah, thanks! :D I'll let you know if I find anything. So far I've just been totally ignoring any and all shading because I just can't. XD

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