Don't be afraid to use digital transform or liquify to adjust the proportions. It's not a crutch, but actually helps to level you up faster and trains your eye. It's the equivalent of using a USB light box to redraw and fix the proportion of your initial sketch.
Solid tip. I agree it helps point out observation mistakes much quicker.. Just trying to reduce my over reliance on it because digital has (and continues) to spoil me a lot. It's become more evident recently after starting to sketch on paper again. Now that you mention it, I do have a USB light box that's been gathering dust, I'd forgotten all about it, and bought it for purposes of traditional animation (another thing I haven't been able to spend much time on). I should use start using it to spot mistakes faster when doing traditional sketches! Thank you!
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Don't be afraid to use digital transform or liquify to adjust the proportions. It's not a crutch, but actually helps to level you up faster and trains your eye. It's the equivalent of using a USB light box to redraw and fix the proportion of your initial sketch.
Solid tip. I agree it helps point out observation mistakes much quicker.. Just trying to reduce my over reliance on it because digital has (and continues) to spoil me a lot. It's become more evident recently after starting to sketch on paper again.
Now that you mention it, I do have a USB light box that's been gathering dust, I'd forgotten all about it, and bought it for purposes of traditional animation (another thing I haven't been able to spend much time on). I should use start using it to spot mistakes faster when doing traditional sketches! Thank you!