Anthony's Dad by Becky

I finally drew Anthony's Dad. I was pretty intimidated at first since I don't draw people much, especially people with any anatomy. I used my new brush pen for this, I still want to practice my inking more with it.

Anthony's Dad 1





I was surprised at how easy it was to break him down into shapes, I thought that it was going to be impossible. After I did it though I noticed how a lot of lines wrapped around his form and how the details really worked. For example, after I broke him down into shapes I had put an oval for his abdomen and noticed that the outline of the oval matched up with those two curved lines. His fingers together form one shape, so I drew a rectangle for them and then broke down each finger.

There is almost a seam going down his center that follows the shapes of his body. I noticed that his head isn't completely separate from his body like most cartoon characters, the chin line doesn't close and it forms part of his neck. His hair is the same way, it isn't just on his head, it goes onto his neck as well.


I drew his head too big and too far to the left, his right arm is way too foreshortened and his chest isn't far up enough.

Anthony's Dad 2




His finger is in perspective so it is larger at the tip. There are no straight lines on him, even the vertical lines on the left arm aren't perfectly straight. There aren't too many wrinkles, they are only put in places where they would be most prominent such as his elbow and around the knee.


I didn't draw the left hand large enough, the left leg is too far right and he should be hunched over a bit more.

Anthony's Dad 3



The veins on his neck aren't staight, they form around the contours of his neck. Lines that aren't needed are left out. His trapezius muscle is made up of three small lines that curve around his body, most would have put a horizontal line underneath them. Because those three lines indicate the shape of the muscle without the typical horizontal line and it show the strain and anger in the subject.


I drew his neck too far down and made his stomach too fat. His hand should be down a bit lower as well.

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That arm vein is so frightening.


I made the line of action too up and down, it should instead be more angled and his neck should be more stretched out. For once I drew a head too small! And his hand should be more to the right.