Thanks for the reply!
For the sausage, would you recommend drawing a faint rough line to indicate the direction of the leg segment before drawing the leg sausage? Or would it be better to just start practicing drawing the whole sausage at once?
For the line weight, do you have any tips on how to better control pen pressure? I'm still working on that since I can't seem to add just a subtle amount of line weight, it always ends up rather thick and bold.
No problem!
Try ghosting a guiding line a few times then commit to a sausage segment in one go. The ghosting will really help you visualise the path the sausage will flow along.
In terms of line weight, practise quick, straight lines that taper from thin to thick line weight and vise versa. Fill up pages of A4 pages with line after line after line. Very quickly, you'll start to gain control over your pen pressure skills. Then after that, try practising line weight with curved lines instead! These types of exercises are great to warm up with before you start drawing.
Good luck!
Alright I'll try that. Thanks for the tips!
No worries, good luck!
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