Random Tips From Experience

dont start to draw a face by making and finishing a single eye. it will fuck up your facial structure and your second eye. just don't do it.

Compress your values. When you paint a full range of values, shift the levels so your pitch blacks are greys. Then paint your blacks again.

Then learn to paint lots of in-between values the first time around.

zoom out often and look at the navigator to check overall look

>>3038606
How to do that without affecting light values?

The tip about the thumb really helped me a lot with drawing hands.

>>3038739
You do the same with the light values. Shrink your values, compress them then repaint your lights and darks.

Save and date everything! Make copies!

Draw in pen

Prepare for anything and everything to go wrong, especially if you're involving people other than yourself.

Be honest and humble if you fuck up. Admit you're wrong and apologize. Audiences will appreciate that even if they hate what you did.

When drawing the face from front view by freehand and correcting problems, instead of moving the facial features around, I redraw the contours of the face and head. This gives me a chance to fix angles as well as placement.

Look at your own body if you don't know how body works

>>3039748
This is true for all aspects of life.

>>3040195 I guess this doesn't apply if i am a man drawing women, right?