[FitToD]

Hey there

I am sketching this doctor who is posing in front of a corpse. Everytime i am sketching i get this sloppy piece and i get stuck.
How can i prevent this sloppysketch-syndrome?
If u know something please post it...
tnx


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[stacy]

Firstly, I'd find more interesting and inspiring subject matter.

Secondly, if this is a photo or a print of an Old Master's
work, like Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp",
I'd do a number of tracings on velum until my eye-hand has memorized the scale, structure and relationships of the figures...
...and then go back and draw it again by rote.

[jinnseng]

If this is what interests you and inspires you, I would stick with it. Sketching takes time to perfect. You said "everytime" you get a sloppy sketch. Does that mean you've re-sketched this particular piece a number of times already, or do you mean sketching anything in general?

I think it just takes more practice. Not everyone can come out and land a clean sketch right away. Keep working on it. If it still looks messy to you. Go and refine your lines, clean up the mess. Erase and redo areas.

[stacy]

Also FitToD, try doing some gesture drawings.
Instead of making a lines out of a bunch of
tight little lines, try more fluid longer lines,

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.3/3.3pages/3.3vilppudrawing.html

[dhood]

Study anatomy some more.
http://www.saveloomis.org/

[makototaramoto]

as already suggested with anatomy i think that you are simply creating a uber huge pile of information. to build a piece some ways of doing is to start simple...work big and broad and then finalize with details but that is one of MILLIONS of ways to approach things. But def. stick to the subject i think if it motivated you to not only draw it but learn you were unsatisfied with what you came up with is inspirational in itself. Keep it up and keep us updates.
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[stacy]

Andrew Loomis is still a wonderful resource
after all these years. Do some of his exercises.

[FitToD]

BIG thanks for the support !

Cheers!
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progression is underrated

[Mikko K]

I suggest that you draw with pencils first. Whether you're using a mouse or a Wacom, it's like pulling ropes compared to the accuracy you get with pencil and paper. You also don't get so easily stuck with unneccessary lines.