"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:48:40 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>
> > Jim Henderson wrote:
> >
> >> That's a hell of a lot better than I could do.
> >
> > Heh. Thanks.
> >
> > Looking at the comic, you think "hey, they're really simply drawn. Just
> > a bunch of lines really. There's hardly any detail at all. It must be
> > really easy to draw them."
>
> Well, I didn't think that - but that's because I know that without
> drafting tools, I suck at drawing.  I was an engineering student in
> college, and took a couple of drafting classes, so if I need to do an
> orthographic view on paper, I have the equipment to draw it on paper.

At drafting I always figured out the difficult parts that were supposed to
catch you out - it the proccess sometimes making silly mistakes on the basic
stuff...  :-P

> But if I need to draw a face, forget it - I just can't manage that.
>

My art teacher in school forced me to do lots of faces. The result: I find
doing faces boring, but I'm very good at it - especially getting a good
resemblance.

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- Nekar X -

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