Before and after revisions: Drawing in pencil and colored pencil of man swimming

Revisions after Inktober: Swimming man

By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 1 Nov 2020


I spent some time this morning looking over the drawings I did for Inktober this year, and in a few cases I saw things I could fix without starting over, things that I thought might make a real difference, so I went back in with the eraser and pencils to make some adjustments.

before-and-after drawing of man swimming - pencil and colored pencil

In this revision, I moved his armpit into its correct position, and added some details on the torso to make his torso look more like a chest and abs and less like a tan porpoise menacing a disembodied head. Just adding a half a nipple and a contour line where his pectoral muscle belongs made a bunch of difference. 

 

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Current projects: writing a literary history book about Victorian and Edwardian fiction as successor to the medieval dream vision genre. Learning to draw. Slooooowly learning the fancier ins and outs of the roll20 VTT.


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