I was today years old when I was told that the way I hold pencil is good for writing letters but bad for drawing smoothly flowing precise lines. I changed my grip from tripod to violin bow OR pen and voila...
Thanks helpyoudraw tumblr for a helpful illustration
@nina_kali_nina It's the first time I've ever seen it, and after trying it for a few minutes... Why did no one teach me that? Turns out, that my drawing doesn't seem to suck nearly as much as it did beforehand.
@foxes here are a few more:
- "your page ought to be same size as the rectangle you made with your fingers when you use them as viewfinder, or the proportions will be very off",
- "drawing an outline of an object first will result in accumulating the errors",
- "if your sketchbook is lying on the table, the image will be stretched and perspective will be all funny because the angle you're looking at it from constantly changes"
Lots of know-hows %)