TUTORIAL : Improving Old Artwork

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Step one: Get your old artwork that you want to redraw...
Find a piece that you were once proud of! Or maybe something you never really finished completely...

Find a piece that you were once proud of! Or maybe something you never really finished completely

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Step two: Roughly sketch out a new drawing.
Keep ideas you liked, but change the overall picture. You can do this by simply drawing in a new pose, new perspective, or a new body shape. Do not redraw the exact picture, the goal today is to improve an old piece you made!

Step three: Go back and clean up the sketch by drawing over with darker, cleaner lines

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Step three: Go back and clean up the sketch by drawing over with darker, cleaner lines.
Finalize the drawing in this stage, and then we will move onto coloring!

Step four: Shade!Take your time, give all your effort and patience into shading!

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Step four: Shade!
Take your time, give all your effort and patience into shading!

Keep in mind which direction you want the light to be coming from, and shade accordingly

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Keep in mind which direction you want the light to be coming from, and shade accordingly...

Keep in mind which direction you want the light to be coming from, and shade accordingly

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Step four: Great work! Now, let's color

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Step four: Great work! Now, let's color.
I like to only color a few points, to create contrast and make it pop more...

I like to only color a few points, to create contrast and make it pop more

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Done!

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