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Anonymous User

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What you say with regards to 'fill the voids' is right, and many artists who earn money for a living trace their subject, it is quicker and of a more pleasing effect for the customer, I see nothing wrong with that, however, your own true style doesn't come through with your own free pencil work, but there's a time and place for everything. Enjoy the way you produce your art, life's too short to worry about it, happy days.
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Michael Edwards

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As I said above: print it off the computer, scribble all over the back with a 6B and then draw around the image - even quicker and easier than tracing.

Adele Elgood

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For me it has always been about the filling in so I am pleased to do the drawing in the quickest time possible by whichever means and then get down to the "knitty-gritty".

Adele Elgood

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Oh Mia, you make it sound so easy!
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Mia Ketels

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Thank you Adele, but I am probably not the only one to go straight in with pen and ink. Some of our members also make drawings immediately in ink I suppose. It all comes to practise, practise and practise. :) Mia

Lucy Gilmore

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I was just sketching a piece where I am using a grid and I just thought I'd bung it up here. I am not sure if this is a lot of detail for a pre-painting sketch, or not much? But it's about right for me and means everything ends up in broadly the right place, which is important for portraits, even animal ones :D I think the harness on the donkey on the left adds to describing the form, I'm still debating whether to include it too on the one on the right.

Adele Elgood

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You heard the man Lucy! Looks good to me too - don't forget to put on the finished painting.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Story in the Observer today about the discovery of some Gainsborough drawings in an album previously considered to contain the work of Landseer (in the royal collection at Windsor). Among the drawings are one or two that are very carefully gridded up, so that they can be transferred from the sketch to a full canvas painting. So AG - you're in excellent company. And I've since recollected that I DID use a grid once, to ensure a drawing would fit on the cover of a pack of information cards - so I'll do it if I have to!
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