Comment 132732

It's kind of embarrassing. I can't draw in SAI to save my backside. It's just easier to do it in ink and scan it. I just don't have time to practice. Can also do pencil and re-draw the lines in SAI and color it.
Here's and easy practice, learned this trick in art school. Take a picture of something and make a "graphic" drawing of it. What that is, is make the shadows black and leave the rest white. What this does is the white suggests something is there without it being there. It's kind of an optical illusion. The next drawing do the same, but then add half tones (medium grey), those places that are between the shadow and the white. This will teach you not only how to shade, but how contrast works. All simple black and white graphic art is "contrasts". The last step it take that same image and using what you learned from the other two steps is do a realistic drawing of it. It takes practice, but will help you draw better.
Looks really cool with wet or shiny things, like a frog.