Thanks to Charles, April, Dee and AiLing for coming today.
So it's called the Scribble Method, not the "Doodle Method." Here it is demonstrated by John Buscema and Stan Lee in the indispensable and inexhaustible resource How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Click on these to enlarge.
And here is my own attempt at showing the same idea to a student of mine:
Again from How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, lively and lovely illustrations of the idea of Line of Action, herein referred to by a different name:
Finally, examples of playing straights against curves in the outline.
Note: Now in reality, these outlines are probably entirely made of curves, but if you were to draw these figures, your drawings would look cooler and stronger if you made the "S" segments straight and the "C" segments decisively curved. I believe that if the "underdrawing" is successful, you can simplify, elaborate, stylize--whatever--the outlines and end up with a solid drawing.
Hey, out of respect for your fellow students and me, please try to arrive on time so I don't have to keep starting over.
Assignment for this week:
Doodle for half an hour WITH NO ERASING!
See you Saturday!
JH
P.S.: Since I'm already exploring the educational power of near-naked pictures, here's some exaggerated runway contrapposto to make the idea crystal clear. Ba-BOOM.
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