Going Past Stiffness

The bulldog I drew in the previous post was drawn by analysis.
I was thinking hard about it.
Whenever you think hard about a drawing, your drawing can come out stiff.

BUT! Once you UNDERSTAND what makes something work, you can stop thinking about it and then draw more freely. That's the goal.

To assign something to memory through will power, stiffness and thought. THEN to let your subconscious take over and get into the zone where what you know just comes out naturally.

But if you haven't really understood the new concept you were trying to study, then drawing freely will do no good, because you will just be making the same mistake over and over again.

1) So read the lessons,
2) try to understand the concepts in your brain,
3) then practice them on paper until they sink in.
4) That will lead to more loose creative and appealing drawings - that actually work.


Here's a stiffer attempt to be loose. And another...


Here I'm finally loosening up.Does anybody have the cartoon "Birdy and The Beast" on DVD? If so, can you take some frame grabs of the bulldog and upload them?

Then we can compare them to the Tom and Jerry bulldog and you'll see a big difference in caricature.