Some tips about lay-ins · Drawing & Painting Accelerator

Some tips about lay-ins

I made a short, quick, and dirty explanation about how I approach lay-ins for a different forum. I'll post it here in case someone here will find it useful (or will be able to point to problems with this approach).

Here are the pointers:

Use light, thin lines
A good lay-in already has the sense of 3d without any tone
Avoid continuous contours, always look for overlaps
Draw through the form
Think in 3d (study the skull, the Loomis method, whatever else helps)
Make sure the outline has the same feeling as the original (I failed at this step here)
Center lines are your friends
Always check and re-check alignments and basic proportions