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(cont'd) Besides just "goto 1", try to fit in there something new to learn about drawing each time. Study other artist's techniques to see what they know that you don't. Learning composition, anatomy, weight distribution, physics, size relationships of body parts, perspective, forced perspective, wide angle distortion. It's important to notice things like how long and thin a teenagers legs are to body and head, vs. an older person or young child or baby. Babies have amazingly short arms and legs relative to their diameter. Teens have long sweeping curves for arms and legs that seem sometimes spindly, almost too thin relative to their length. Bones protrude in certain places when the body is twisted certain ways; these are important to learn. Skin folds in certain ways when arms bend, clothes wrinkle and stretch in certain ways during walking, or when at rest. Different fabrics stretch and fold in different ways due to fabric thickness, and due to size differences, wrinkle differently on children vs adults. Children's clothes have less wrinkles that are often larger, vs tall people that have long lengths of cloth that wrinkle differently. Weight distribution in poses can make the difference between someone well posed, and someone about to fall over. Hair; how it falls, curls, separates, ears/eyes/mouths, how they're shaped, and how to draw the lines that delineate them to give hints as to lighting. The line in a mouth might be broken to give the sense of a highlight, the varying thickness of the creases of skin between the fingers when making a fist can symbolize shadow; a small twist of the pencil while stroking these lines can have a big effect on the resulting image. Mastering these little things a little at a time over years, and you can get really good, as long as you improve on each before moving on.
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