Well, I was reading the post on drawing and smudging. You guys got a little side-tracked in a discussion on nudes there, but back to drawing. I personally like to draw without blending or smudging. That is not to say without half-tones; but I do it all with direct application with the pencil lead, using hatching, crosshatching and line. Sometimes I follow the form or work across it. Sometimes I use the point, other times the side of the lead. But I try to never lose the white of the paper. (That's to say if the paper is white to begin with.) Also, in drawings that are to be finished illustrations I love how the line reproduces without the gray smudges. Now this is just personal style. I like a very direct style in both drawing and in paint. I prefer to see line work in drawing and to see brush strokes in paintings. Attached is a quick sketch very similar to what I show clients when I am still working on a composition or the early stages of an illustration. But this is the same way I draw in more finished drawings I just work more carefully.
My drawing style is very influenced by the work of Illustrator Mitchell Hooks
http://www.societyillustrators.org/p...ion/hooks.html. Some of his drawings here:
http://www.graphiccollectibles.com/s...g/iaindex.php3
I won't even get into the side discussion of figure drawing and the nude.
