For Olga Part 3

The reason for pencils instead of pens is that A) you can shape your line as you go and B) if you mess up on something, you can always go back and erase. Also, with the clean-up drawing being on its own sheet of paper, even if you completely screw it up, you always have your last step (rough drawing) to fall back on. Here's step two using the .7 pencil. Here's I've added in the bone shapes and a bit more definition. Notice how I left the inside line that joins the fingers of the open hand for the .7 line? It's secondary to the fingers so I decided to not use the .9 line on it.
Next is the .5 pencil which does the bulk of my work. Notice some of these lines in the example below are also thick. Thinner pencil line doesn't mean you have to use it on only thinner lines. I often use them to do thicker lines that I want to take care with and build the line up.

Last step is the .3 pencil. I use this mostly on the most delicate details of the composition and also for thicker lines that still dictate a certain amount of care. It sounds like a lot of work for a drawing, but in habit, it really takes no more time than differnt pens do and the advantage is that you can't mess up nearly as badly with pencil. When scanning, you often can't tell the difference in darknes either. Hope this helps you all with any problems you may have with line work. Give mechanical pencils and light-tables a try - I couldn't do my work, professional or otherwise, without them.

If any of you have other questions, be sure to write me directly at: aaron@squirrelworks.com I'll always get back to you and if it's a really fun question, I may do another tutorial like this one!