One of my professors changed my viewpoint on my sketching style during a crit. I'm a huge fan of a lot of the work out of /r/Imsorryjon You can also use sketchiness to really convey a sense of unease. It's funny because you wouldn't guess he would sketch that manically considering how refined his finished pieces are. Then you have to grab some tracing paper to find the drawing again. If you're like I was, you probably have lost the plot a few times with too many excited lines. There's nothing wrong with hairy lines, as long as you arrive roughly where you intend to arrive at. The difference is the level of deliberateness. I always felt a little self-conscious about them too. I would have erratic lines when I was trying to find my drawing. That was common complaint a lot of my art teachers lobbed against me. Honestly I'm pretty open to changing my mind so if you have a point to argue I'll try to keep it civil but as of now, I don't see the problem with sketching in chicken scratches. Yet I see a lot of people stating that it's an artist mistake when to me it looks like just a different way of drawing. Honestly I'm completely fine if it's a pet peeve since that's personal stuff and that's not for me to judge.
CHICKEN SCRATCH PROFESSIONAL
Maybe it's just me not being a professional artist or maybe it's cause I've been sketching like this for so long I'm seeing through rose-colored glasses.
Really the only reasons to actually care about drawing smoother lines is if you're a professional storyboard or comic artist cause having smoother lines does save time, you're going to share your sketch for someone else to see in which the cleanness will make it easier to read, or it gets so messy that it hampers your ability to move on to the next stage of your drawing (which actually might also be a composition clutter problem or drawing over a line so much you confuse an unnecessary line for a necessary detail honestly I just thought all my problems revolved around my chicken scratches so I'm just putting it out there to not do what I did). Many don't show the sketch to others no one is going to know if you chicken scratched it or not and that's completely fine cause if it doesn't hamper your ability to draw an amazing piece then there's no shame in how you draw your flipping lines. All I hear is that it shows a lack of confidence but then again I don't think I've ever found chicken scratch sketching on anything but a sketch, not a finalized piece. I feel like a lot of people assume that the solution is to just "stop doing it" when in reality it's a result of not enough practice on a certain portion of the art.Īnd even then, if you're intermediate or a professional finding yourself doing this, I still don't understand what's to fuss about it. Personally I've been noticing my chicken scratches are starting to turn into more flowey lines now that I'm drawing more and more of what I'm practicing and that a lot of the more chicken scratchy parts seem to be in the places I suck at the most, and the opposite is true as well. Maybe it's just me being a slow learner but honestly, it gets pretty demotivating if I'm constantly conscious of how I'm sketching when there's other things I need to fix like anatomy or stuff like that.Īnd I know that we shouldn't ignore any art mistakes but I feel like pointing it out won't make it better per say simply because to me it seems more like a symptom of lack of practice rather than an actual mistake. They're still learning the fundamentals and to pile on the fact that they have to pay attention to making clean lines, which is probably the least important thing in a sketch, on top of teaching themselves the fundamentals feels overwhelming. They always say a bunch of stuff about confidence but I'm going to be honest here, if you're telling a beginner this, of course they aren't going to have confidence that they're doing it right. I'm even more confused as to why they tell beginner artists this and never artists who are more skilled. To be honest as someone who's still in the beginner stage, maybe heading to intermediate depending on who you ask, I never really understood why so many people in the art community are against chicken scratch sketching completely. I see a lot of comments on how you should always avoid chicken scratches and, at least the ones I've seen, imply that it should be avoided like the plague. (For people who like to look at other people's histories for some reason I'm using an alt so if any of you are curious on how I'm doing I'm doing fine)
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