This one page flowchart sums up my life
It’s possible to do an entire drawing using nothing but 45 degree angles.
I really need to learn how to shade properly with a pen.
It’s okay to give up on trying to draw every branch…just get the general flow and feeling of the branches and no one will complain.
Trying to follow the hair pattern on a moving cat is a crazy-making exercise. No wondering there are so many drawings of sleeping cats.
You can take a simple doodle (see previous post), scan it into Photoshop, duplicate some bits and add color. Instant border thingy!
Calligraphy pens make doodles more awesome
If you draw someone and their hair all swooshes to one side, consider it ‘wind-blown’ and add a source of wind…like a window.
Or a fan.
Lesson Learned: If you screw up the neck, put the person in a turtleneck.