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Somedays, as part of my usual warm up regiment, I take a look at art by some of my favourite illustrators and comic artists. These are usually creators who I think have a distinctive style that I like, or people who just have it all together when it comes to drawing. What I do is do some really quick sketches looking at their art, much like I would do sketches looking at a model or an object. Though I'm not exactly tracing (and we all know how I feel about that!), by attempting to, in a way draw the way they do, I feel I'm learning a bit of what makes their art so tight. Much in a way drawing from life, whether it be objects, environments or people, you get a better sense of how things and people are constructed, I'm sort of getting a sense of how my fave artists build an image in their style.

Fortunately, either out of my own resilience as an artist, my personal skill or lack thereof, my work rarely looks like any of the artists I really like. I'm going to take that as a good thing!

Here's a page of my doodles based on other artists work:



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