Batgirl: A Step-by-step Drawing

[tekno]

great wow! very helpful

[Bruce Lee]

I'm glad it is helpful, tekno.

[LymanFunk]

This is very cool. Thanks! (and thanks dfbovey for leading me to it!)

[HunterGreen]

That's truly mindboggling, how you start with squiggles and
end up with that beautiful woman.

thank you for taking the time to do this
tutorial, again, it is absolutely amazing.

-HG

[Bruce Lee]

That's truly mindboggling, how you start with squiggles and
end up with that beautiful woman.

My question is, how you
you keep the paper from being destroyed by erasing all the
original lines? Do you just draw lightly, do you work with
large paper (> 8.5x11), Do you use the non-photoblue
first?

This particular Batgirl piece was drawn on a 4" X 6" piece of 2-ply Strathmore Bristol board, which is fairly sturdy stuff. I used to do non-repo blue before hand, but I honestly don't like that too much. Some blue pencils are waxy and/or are prone to smudging, and you can never keep those bad boys sharpened, so you're constantly sharpening them down. I went thru them very quickly. To me, they weren't worth it, so I stick to using regular graphite pencils for underdrawing. Flops my boat.

I initially pencilled the gesture on a piece of scrap copy paper to get down the layout I wanted. Then I reworked things on the bristol board, pencilling lightly so I could erase what later. As I built up to the final pencils. I removed the lighter lines of the underdrawing by using a combination of mars plastic eraser, and a kneaded eraser primarily, with some electric eraser batting clean-up. The kneaded eraser is best used to get rid of smears, smudges and thinner lines. Kneaded erasers are also great because you can sculpt them into a point, pull them apart to just use a small section of them, etc. The mars eraser is best for cleaning up large areas of pencil, and an electric eraser is good for getting into and erasing tight areas without destroying a lot of the lines in the same area that you want to keep. You could use an eraser shield though, if you don't have an electric eraser.

Thanks for any input and thank you for taking the time to do this
tutorial, again, it is absolutely amazing.

-HG[/QUOTE]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, HG. I hope to do a few more of these in the future, including a sequential page step-by-step.

Loston

[thee_dug]

Bravo! Excellent tutorial with a great emphasis on the female form.

[Bruce Lee]

Bravo! Excellent tutorial with a great emphasis on the female form.

Thanks, thee_dug! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[thee_dug]

Thanks, thee_dug! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I hope to enjoy more threads like this in the future. Thank you for taking your time to share it with us all.

[Bruce Lee]

I hope to enjoy more threads like this in the future. Thank you for taking your time to share it with us all.

I'll see what I can do. I have some step by steps I've been meaning to post.