Braid Tutorial Thingy
Oct. 8th, 2019 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellerThis is for aliax_alexandre! (Of course I'll be happy if it's also useful for someone else.) So, uh, this is a step-by-step tutorial how I draw braids, using only black and white ink on brown paper. Basically, this is how it goes:
1) Draw a zigzag line
2) Elongate the ends of that line
3) Draw the general shape of the braid
4) Add some shading
5) Add some general untidiness
6) Add highlights
aliax_alexandre! (Of course I'll be happy if it's also useful for someone else.) So, uh, this is a step-by-step tutorial how I draw braids, using only black and white ink on brown paper. Basically, this is how it goes:1) Draw a zigzag line
2) Elongate the ends of that line
3) Draw the general shape of the braid
4) Add some shading
5) Add some general untidiness
6) Add highlights
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Date: 2019-10-08 08:45 pm (UTC)*starts drawing*
... OMG, I have a braid O.O !
Two things:
1) I understand better which geometrical shapes I'm supposed to start with when explained this way. I knew about the zigzag line, but then it got... confusing. Now it's clear.
2) The shadows and highlights! I wasn't putting them in the right places. Well, I wasn't putting the shadows in the right places anyway, because I never used highlights before :P
Yay! Archeth, you're getting your braids tomorrow, hopefully.
And thank you so much, Eller, for taking the time to draw this! It's silly, but it was frustrating how not-braidy my braids looked :D
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