That's something that I really like in your workflow!! Honestly I always felt so pressured to make perfect lines and it's so refreshing knowing I don't really need to do that!!
@@chiptume I think this might be the reason why it always feels so refreshing when I draw something traditional when I take a break from my digital art.
me too!!! it was when i learned that you can just use your sketch that i realized.. you can literally do whatever you want! a lot of the time now i just draw on one layer and mess around with colors
Yeah the sketch thing is so true. I started implementing that a while ago and it just makes everything look idk... nicer? More natural? No bothering about perfect clean inking, when you can just keep editing the sketch until you like it
I think the best way to explain why that kind of workflow makes things look nicer is that is keeps the original energy and life of the drawing! Your sketch usually is the most raw depiction of the idea you had in your head, so if you use that, and don’t bother with lines to make everything look clean, then you end up with something that embodies your original idea more, cause there was less “translation” into the lineart involved Hope I explained that well-
I also implemented that even if I clean it quite a bit. I don't hate doing lineart instead I genuinely like it but I'm a perfectionist and that really tanks my process as I feel like I take way to long to get a perfect line I like. So I just use the sketch and clean it up. It has also made me soo much comfortable to just adjust the proportion with liquify even if I'm in my coloring phase cause I can just change and adjust without being scared or lazy cause I was gonna ruin my lineart that I painstakingly worked for to look good. It's a very freeing process for me.
Sketch lines without clean lines should be considered a proper artstyle by more people. I genuinely love it more, and will forever stay loving it. Subbed.
This makes me feel so validated, hearing this come from an artist I deem as "successful". I hate making clean lines, but I'm afraid to just leave my sketch there because my perfectionist brain says it's unfinished even though I don't want to work on it anymore.
I'm not sure if she has a video, so I can't help you there. But I believe blocking out the shapes of the hair definitely helps, and there are videos for that.
Omg yes Im glad to see someone else who does similarly, especially glad it’s someone who is in the industry. I tend to incorporate the sketch into the final process/render instead of doing clean lines since it helps keep the energy of the original sketch in the final piece and helps me be faster!
It's nice to see a someone effectively use sketchy lines. I really dislike trying to do clean lineart with lineweight because I don't Have a good stylus and manually takes forever, plus the looseness is really fun too
Also a whole lot less stressful. Clean lines stress me out with the line weight like you said. It always looks bumpy, and the lines are always competing with each other. I work a lot better with sketchy line work.
All of mine I considered digital paintings instead of clean line work. I don't mind clean line work (and I think it presents itself well in other styles, such as anime) but I often build up upon my sketch so I end up painting over it
I was telling a friend the other day how I feel like something that is turning me off from my own work is the line work. Cause I feel like I’m trying to have such clean lines that I almost dread the process. When my favorite part is the sketching. So really appreciate your video 🤟
I have always been in love in sketchy art styles, not chicken scratching, but something like this art style. Where you use few to none singular lines for line art. It adds depth, and as you said a story to your art. ✨
love that you talk about customizing your workflow to fit your strengths and preferences! Don’t wanna draw clean lines because you can’t stop yourself from getting overly meticulous? Just don’t! Like… There’s another artist I love who had to change up their art style (and essentially their workflow) to get rid of clean lines because they had a wrist injury and their art is even more expressive than it was! So many books on how to make digital art have one specific workflow but it’s really important for people to remember that’s just the workflow of the person who wrote that book- ultimately you need to customize it so it’s working for you!
Sketch art is so fun to make. I wish I could upload those as my final drawings but sadly my sketches are too rough and I like to polish lines 😔😔 I really wanna make more rough art Great video!!!
YES AND I LOVE THIS STYLE!!! I usually keep my sketch in too and something about it is just so satisfying to me. i love clean art as well but messy scratchy sketchy art makes me want to sink my teeth into it
this is good for your style! for me, my goal is communicating my idea as effectively as possible, regardless of time, but if it’s speed over detail this works great
As someone who's developing a graphic novel, this really helps! If I have any shot of ever finishing this thing, I need to accept that I just CAN'T make sure every drawing is perfect
Thanks for sharing this!! This gives me hope. I have tourettes and dysgraphia, but LOVE creating. I worried my lineart was too choppy, but I found recently that utilizing a very choppy style throughout actually looks interesting visually?! I am glad to know Im not alone! :)) Your workflow probably will also help me with mine!
i love your approach so much! one of my professors noticed that my sketches are loads better than my inks and told me to just own my sketchy style. at the time, i thought she was just shading me, but now i get it.... i see the vision
I’ve been doing this for so long and it’s helped so much! Drawing goes by much faster if you ditch the lineart. And in most cases the sketch looks better….
When I feel that my lineart looks boring, i just start again as if I was just making a sketch. It makes me spend less time trying to make everything perfectly clean.
i do the same! i started doing it because of how much i hate doing lineart and i never felt good about it. i always preferred my sketches, so i began rendering over my sketches and its extremely therapeutic for me and i actually like the end result. so its a win win all around!
Hey... scratchy artist here. What you said was honestly super affirming, because I don't like drawing clean lines either. Lacks some humanity in a world that lacks some humanity. Thank you so much
This is how I draw because I hate lining my sketches! Good to know there's a professional doing this kind of technique, I kinda thought it only worked for me because I draw as a hobby and am an amateur.
It’s good to find your own workflow, sadly I have to find a way to do clean lines due to them being close to a requirement in most parts of the animation industry…but I will say, messy lineart that is still very readable in animation looks amazing sometimes
My older sister told me that drawings usually look better with sketchy line art. Then when I started to try that I actually realized I prefer drawing that way.
I actually do the same thing lol. It was a thing I was always critized for but like you I was never comfortable with clean line art so I did the process I enjoyed
your sketches are so clean, though! it’s like a stylized lineart. how do you get better at making sketches that can work as lines, rather than really messy ones with loads of internal stuff?
i so agree with this, i have a capstone and im forced to have clean lines when im efficient in my workflow in sketch like outlines than clean outlines, i just hope i make it and finish it
wow, this is awesome! how the hell do you get such crazy line weight variation? no matter how hard or light i press it doesn't get much variation on procreate :/
"I also hate drawing clean lines so i export that from my workflow" SO REALL girly that is exactly why I also don't go over my sketches because ITS SO NOT FUN Thing is i've always never separated between sketching and doing final render lines bc i started out traditionally to just doodle in school So its probably more that im too used to it I even developed my own lineart style thats somehow rlly distinct to people because of my consistent workflow of, literally what u were explaining in the video. Just doing art to efficiently put my idea on paper! Without the colors cuz i have never not lost coloring tools long enough for me to use them in art hats what I do best because I used to imagine animation memes in school and, cuz i couldnt bring a phone, i'd draw what I imagined each scene to be like so i dont forget, and that was mainly the only kind of artwork i did lol people are always "how to make your art look better" but not enough people go "how to make ur art process be funner"
I do the same. I’ve never liked line art, so my sketches are the line art. I like a good clean line art with line weight & all that, on other people’s art..I can’t stand doing it myself. (Tho I am trying to add line weight more to my sketchy lines). I tend to just sketch, clean it up a little (like any guidelines), & color. The only time I don’t use just my sketch is if I’m on paper, coloring with marker. I have to ink the sketch then, I just do NOT trust myself when it comes to marker…or even watercolors 😭
Same haha, I suck at clean lines and the sketch sometimes looks more like how I imagined smth to look than clean lines. Like I like rough styles, a style you would use in a shonen anime when they start fighting and clean lines just don't convey the rawness that I wanted. So I somehow found my workflow by just giving up on clean lines xd
I do this but I make the sketch with less opacity and then in the final process make the sketch more strong in points I want to be focused on, like hair. It also makes it look more alive
i recently started doing the lineart in one single layer too. i do it in samsung notes (lol) and also don't erase blatantly misplaced lines, but instead sketch over them with white color. it's way less frustrating
I’ve been thinking about doing this. Because honestly it’s so frustrating having to go over it all over again with ‘cleaner’ lines and it takes forever. Half the time the piece looked better as a sketch than a perfect lined piece. Plus my hands are shaky so having to do perfect lines takes so long cause it’s me having to do and undo until I think it looks right
my issue is that... i LOVE adding tiny details to my work so regardless of how much i try to optimize my workflow it's still gonna take me DAYS of work to finish a piece :// i also ditched line art, so my sketch is what i render over. and it still takes me so damn long because i LOVEEEE adding details and shadows and making each piece have it's own hidden easter eggs. like a "where's waldo" but for references (since i mostly do fanart)
using my sketch as a final (on digital as on traditional its just better for my supplies) cut my time by like 35% at least its crazy, and made it way easier
I’m closing on my first home this week and the only thing we’re waiting for is the seller to finish closing the two permits. I refuse to close with the house still having open permits, and so do most savvy homebuyers. Closing permits can be incredibly difficult and expensive, and it sometimes requires the work that was done to be completely removed. Her ability to ever sell that house for any kind of profit is incredibly reduced.
That's something that I really like in your workflow!! Honestly I always felt so pressured to make perfect lines and it's so refreshing knowing I don't really need to do that!!
Ikr like, when i started doing digital art, i was so obsessed making the most precise lines and curves.
@@chiptume I think this might be the reason why it always feels so refreshing when I draw something traditional when I take a break from my digital art.
me too!!! it was when i learned that you can just use your sketch that i realized.. you can literally do whatever you want! a lot of the time now i just draw on one layer and mess around with colors
I always refer back to this short to help me. I'm glad we are all in the same boat when it comes down to lines.
"i don't like doing it so im not gonna do it" is so real
Yeah the sketch thing is so true. I started implementing that a while ago and it just makes everything look idk... nicer? More natural? No bothering about perfect clean inking, when you can just keep editing the sketch until you like it
I think the best way to explain why that kind of workflow makes things look nicer is that is keeps the original energy and life of the drawing!
Your sketch usually is the most raw depiction of the idea you had in your head, so if you use that, and don’t bother with lines to make everything look clean, then you end up with something that embodies your original idea more, cause there was less “translation” into the lineart involved
Hope I explained that well-
@@derpiedoxie couldn't have said it better myself
I also implemented that even if I clean it quite a bit. I don't hate doing lineart instead I genuinely like it but I'm a perfectionist and that really tanks my process as I feel like I take way to long to get a perfect line I like. So I just use the sketch and clean it up. It has also made me soo much comfortable to just adjust the proportion with liquify even if I'm in my coloring phase cause I can just change and adjust without being scared or lazy cause I was gonna ruin my lineart that I painstakingly worked for to look good. It's a very freeing process for me.
Sketch lines without clean lines should be considered a proper artstyle by more people. I genuinely love it more, and will forever stay loving it. Subbed.
THE LIP SMUG IS SO COOL 😭
It makes the character look trashy ( compliment ) if I’m even using that aesthetic correctly.
This makes me feel so validated, hearing this come from an artist I deem as "successful". I hate making clean lines, but I'm afraid to just leave my sketch there because my perfectionist brain says it's unfinished even though I don't want to work on it anymore.
ill def try implementing this:) thank u for the short !! they’re so fun to watch
The way you did the hair towards the end was actually pretty cool and made a lot of sense to me, do you have a video further explaining?
I'm not sure if she has a video, so I can't help you there. But I believe blocking out the shapes of the hair definitely helps, and there are videos for that.
Omg yes Im glad to see someone else who does similarly, especially glad it’s someone who is in the industry. I tend to incorporate the sketch into the final process/render instead of doing clean lines since it helps keep the energy of the original sketch in the final piece and helps me be faster!
that’s so cool i love itt! i love taking my time on drawings cause it’s relaxing and gets my mind off things
It's nice to see a someone effectively use sketchy lines. I really dislike trying to do clean lineart with lineweight because I don't Have a good stylus and manually takes forever, plus the looseness is really fun too
Honestly real
Also a whole lot less stressful. Clean lines stress me out with the line weight like you said. It always looks bumpy, and the lines are always competing with each other. I work a lot better with sketchy line work.
Plus, you can use thin it out with the eraser tool
All of mine I considered digital paintings instead of clean line work. I don't mind clean line work (and I think it presents itself well in other styles, such as anime) but I often build up upon my sketch so I end up painting over it
Ironically for me it's more pleasing to the eye XD I even purposely chicken scratch my sketches
my workflow is just using the lasso fill tool, deciding wether or not to do a sketch that day, and listening to as many folk punk playlists as i can.
I love sketch appreciation
As a young artist, this helps very much. Thanks Jackie!
I was telling a friend the other day how I feel like something that is turning me off from my own work is the line work. Cause I feel like I’m trying to have such clean lines that I almost dread the process. When my favorite part is the sketching. So really appreciate your video 🤟
Sketchy drawings are so fun!! I like how they make it look fast
Ur artstyle is so spiffy
I have always been in love in sketchy art styles, not chicken scratching, but something like this art style. Where you use few to none singular lines for line art. It adds depth, and as you said a story to your art. ✨
WOW girl! Freaking blown away by your talent. You're such a wonderful artist, and especially teacher!
I did this for the longest time and then I started doing line work because it felt better to me 😭
This is exactly what people mean when they say do what you are comfortable with✨
love that you talk about customizing your workflow to fit your strengths and preferences! Don’t wanna draw clean lines because you can’t stop yourself from getting overly meticulous? Just don’t! Like… There’s another artist I love who had to change up their art style (and essentially their workflow) to get rid of clean lines because they had a wrist injury and their art is even more expressive than it was! So many books on how to make digital art have one specific workflow but it’s really important for people to remember that’s just the workflow of the person who wrote that book- ultimately you need to customize it so it’s working for you!
Sketch art is so fun to make. I wish I could upload those as my final drawings but sadly my sketches are too rough and I like to polish lines 😔😔
I really wanna make more rough art
Great video!!!
i do this all of the time!!! it makes it look good usually
I like doing clean lines so Imma keep doing it ☺️
Nobody asked
ok?
You do you, boo
this is my workflow as well, that's wassup 👏🏼🤟🏼🖤
this drawing is actually so cool? like? 🔥
In love with these brushes tho-
That genuinely looks so nice. I have a very similar process. As someone who loves to paint over my sketches, i think ill try this next time!
This is GENIUS!!! I hate line art with a PASSION. So I will be using this
Wow, very underrated video, i really like this piece, amazing
Okay but that art style is sick
I feel so seen. Thank you, Jackie!!! 😭💗💗💗
YES AND I LOVE THIS STYLE!!! I usually keep my sketch in too and something about it is just so satisfying to me. i love clean art as well but messy scratchy sketchy art makes me want to sink my teeth into it
As someone else who also uses very fast and unclean lines, Im glad to see you doing it as well and still making it look good. Your art is fantastic!
Your art is so pretty
Oh, I always keep my sketch too! It’s nice seeing another artist do this.
I love your work omg
Wow I love this!! I was told that leaving messy lines was annoying and ugly but this was very inspiring and I might try this technique sometimw
this is good for your style! for me, my goal is communicating my idea as effectively as possible, regardless of time, but if it’s speed over detail this works great
Love the idea of them sending in a professional to close a door
You are confident and self assured in the best way; your work justifies such security
This is a really cool mindset that I think I'm gonna pick up also your drawing is so pretty!!
Me too!! Using my sketch layer for rendering or lineart saves me sooo much time while drawing. I also just like how it looks tbh
Now I feel confident about doing this with my drawings
i also use my sketch as an outline! happy to see someoen who also does it
I wanna try this it looks so freeing
As someone who's developing a graphic novel, this really helps! If I have any shot of ever finishing this thing, I need to accept that I just CAN'T make sure every drawing is perfect
Thanks for sharing this!!
This gives me hope. I have tourettes and dysgraphia, but LOVE creating.
I worried my lineart was too choppy, but I found recently that utilizing a very choppy style throughout actually looks interesting visually?!
I am glad to know Im not alone! :)) Your workflow probably will also help me with mine!
OHHHHH SHIT turning the sketch lines into the same color as the background and then just painting on top is GENIUS...
i love your approach so much! one of my professors noticed that my sketches are loads better than my inks and told me to just own my sketchy style. at the time, i thought she was just shading me, but now i get it.... i see the vision
I’ve been doing this for so long and it’s helped so much! Drawing goes by much faster if you ditch the lineart. And in most cases the sketch looks better….
Getting an animated advertisement right after this video hit different ( ´-｀)( ´_ゝ`)
“She’s using that to distract and rob him”
Good for her!!!
Amazing nice strategy
When I feel that my lineart looks boring, i just start again as if I was just making a sketch. It makes me spend less time trying to make everything perfectly clean.
i do the same! i started doing it because of how much i hate doing lineart and i never felt good about it. i always preferred my sketches, so i began rendering over my sketches and its extremely therapeutic for me and i actually like the end result. so its a win win all around!
i LOVE your colors so much, do you have any tips/tutorials on how to make colors more funky and whimsical like that?
Hey... scratchy artist here. What you said was honestly super affirming, because I don't like drawing clean lines either. Lacks some humanity in a world that lacks some humanity. Thank you so much
See I am such a perfectionist that I think perfect lines are so important, I’m trying to let that go and just enjoy the sketch lines as is
This is how I draw because I hate lining my sketches! Good to know there's a professional doing this kind of technique, I kinda thought it only worked for me because I draw as a hobby and am an amateur.
This is why I prefer to draw lineless art it's a lot easier when you don't have as many lines to work with.
Same. Ever since I started "sculpting" my lineart from my sketches, I've had a lot better time with my art process
I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO DO COLORED LINE ART RAHHH
It’s good to find your own workflow, sadly I have to find a way to do clean lines due to them being close to a requirement in most parts of the animation industry…but I will say, messy lineart that is still very readable in animation looks amazing sometimes
this is so real
My older sister told me that drawings usually look better with sketchy line art. Then when I started to try that I actually realized I prefer drawing that way.
"My secret is I'm just better like that sorry"
God this will be hard, but itll look so satisfying 😊
I always prefered my sketches over the guide lignes , idk it feel more alive and beter to me , so i clean the sketch and thats it😊
i also do something similar! I also usually but more effort into the head or hair or anything thats mostly the main part of the drawing!
I actually do the same thing lol. It was a thing I was always critized for but like you I was never comfortable with clean line art so I did the process I enjoyed
I WILL STEAL IT THANK YOU I LOVE THIS VERY MUCH
I do the same thing! I’m much less skilled as an artist, hahah, so I’m glad to hear this isn’t necessarily a “flaw” so much as a difference.
your sketches are so clean, though! it’s like a stylized lineart. how do you get better at making sketches that can work as lines, rather than really messy ones with loads of internal stuff?
HOLYSHIT YES
I love you D'Angelo
i so agree with this, i have a capstone and im forced to have clean lines when im efficient in my workflow in sketch like outlines than clean outlines, i just hope i make it and finish it
I try so hard to make my lines perfect but it's nice to know I don't need to do all that anymore
Same about hating drawing clean lines
I use the sketch too, I stopped doing lineart like a looongg time ago lol
wow, this is awesome! how the hell do you get such crazy line weight variation? no matter how hard or light i press it doesn't get much variation on procreate :/
Damn, I hope to be as good as you one day.
"I also hate drawing clean lines so i export that from my workflow" SO REALL girly that is exactly why I also don't go over my sketches because ITS SO NOT FUN
Thing is i've always never separated between sketching and doing final render lines bc i started out traditionally to just doodle in school
So its probably more that im too used to it
I even developed my own lineart style thats somehow rlly distinct to people because of my consistent workflow of, literally what u were explaining in the video. Just doing art to efficiently put my idea on paper!
Without the colors cuz i have never not lost coloring tools long enough for me to use them in art
hats what I do best because I used to imagine animation memes in school and, cuz i couldnt bring a phone, i'd draw what I imagined each scene to be like so i dont forget, and that was mainly the only kind of artwork i did lol
people are always "how to make your art look better" but not enough people go "how to make ur art process be funner"
That's actually really smart. I'm stealing your technique. 😈
I would need to do 2-3 sketches if i was working like that-
Imma try stealing this
I do the same. I’ve never liked line art, so my sketches are the line art. I like a good clean line art with line weight & all that, on other people’s art..I can’t stand doing it myself. (Tho I am trying to add line weight more to my sketchy lines). I tend to just sketch, clean it up a little (like any guidelines), & color.
The only time I don’t use just my sketch is if I’m on paper, coloring with marker. I have to ink the sketch then, I just do NOT trust myself when it comes to marker…or even watercolors 😭
Finally an artist who isn’t a pick me and is confident in their art and style
Same haha, I suck at clean lines and the sketch sometimes looks more like how I imagined smth to look than clean lines. Like I like rough styles, a style you would use in a shonen anime when they start fighting and clean lines just don't convey the rawness that I wanted. So I somehow found my workflow by just giving up on clean lines xd
That’s what I do!
I do this but I make the sketch with less opacity and then in the final process make the sketch more strong in points I want to be focused on, like hair. It also makes it look more alive
i recently started doing the lineart in one single layer too. i do it in samsung notes (lol) and also don't erase blatantly misplaced lines, but instead sketch over them with white color. it's way less frustrating
I’ve been thinking about doing this. Because honestly it’s so frustrating having to go over it all over again with ‘cleaner’ lines and it takes forever. Half the time the piece looked better as a sketch than a perfect lined piece. Plus my hands are shaky so having to do perfect lines takes so long cause it’s me having to do and undo until I think it looks right
my issue is that... i LOVE adding tiny details to my work so regardless of how much i try to optimize my workflow it's still gonna take me DAYS of work to finish a piece ://
i also ditched line art, so my sketch is what i render over. and it still takes me so damn long because i LOVEEEE adding details and shadows and making each piece have it's own hidden easter eggs. like a "where's waldo" but for references (since i mostly do fanart)
i also keep my sketch! tho i still trim the lines a bit so its not too messy bcz i like cleaner lines for my stuff :3
As an unhealthy perfectionist, this is truly helpful. ❤
using my sketch as a final (on digital as on traditional its just better for my supplies) cut my time by like 35% at least its crazy, and made it way easier
Lmao I started doing this because I always felt like my sketches looked better anyway
i use my sketch as line art but i clean it up first, i do even better when i dont clean it up as much.
I’m closing on my first home this week and the only thing we’re waiting for is the seller to finish closing the two permits. I refuse to close with the house still having open permits, and so do most savvy homebuyers. Closing permits can be incredibly difficult and expensive, and it sometimes requires the work that was done to be completely removed. Her ability to ever sell that house for any kind of profit is incredibly reduced.