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**birdsatemyface** · March 2nd, 2012, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by bouroune

yo, just discovered your thread, really interesting work, i like the text work in your images,
it really add something to the drawings which are already very nice. Also like
the way you paint only with hard brush, keep sharing

Thanks! I just want to add text to everything, haha - it's gonna become (already is) a bad habit.

Speaking of too much text...

**birdsatemyface** · September 22nd, 2012, 11:17 PM

**aargh!** · September 23rd, 2012, 12:48 AM

Oh my god your work is so alive.
I wish I could think of more but I am just enjoying this stuff lotsa lotsa muchos!

**birdsatemyface** · November 19th, 2012, 11:23 PM

Aw, thanks!

Metric's Synthetica was on repeat all summer.

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**birdsatemyface** · December 3rd, 2012, 10:28 PM

I kind of just want to draw everyone on Faces of Meth.

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**IsaacEs** · December 3rd, 2012, 10:44 PM

holy crap i love this sb! got some awesome stuff here its very fun, very graphicy im really liking it!

**birdsatemyface** · January 20th, 2013, 01:04 AM

Thanks!

Here are some things. Trying to draw more in the new year.

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**birdsatemyface** · February 9th, 2013, 04:08 PM

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**birdsatemyface** · February 18th, 2013, 12:28 AM

Hedwig WIP.

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**Manuel Baum** · February 18th, 2013, 06:24 AM

Hehe, that idea with faces of meth is brilliant. I love your sketchbook overall and specifically your linework. Do you have any tips on how to improve linework. Or maybe you want to share what your thoughts are, when you lay out your lines? That would be awesome.
Great stuff!

**birdsatemyface** · February 20th, 2013, 02:45 AM

embee: Thanks! I'm not sure I can offer much in the way of advice re: linework, but I can try to explain how I work with lines? Digitally as I'm sure y'all can tell from the sketches in here it's a pretty messy free-for-all when I'm laying out the initial lines. When it comes time to refine I just try to lay the strokes down confidently (there's a lot of undoing and trying again multiple (too many) times) until the line looks right. Sometimes it helps to zoom in pretty close and go slow if I'm trying to outline something and I'm having trouble getting the line uniform in weight. With the traditional penwork I just try to be as confident and fluid as I can, but I'm still trying to improve my confidence with it.

Hedwig's all done. (Yikes @ those sequins.) For reference here is the song I lifted the text from:

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**birdsatemyface** · March 30th, 2013, 10:56 PM

Trying to rework an old image I never finished.

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**chevy28360** · March 31st, 2013, 12:32 AM

Very interesting linework. Tons of character and very expressive. I like it! Keep it up.

**birdsatemyface** · April 7th, 2013, 02:04 AM

Thanks!

I have a small obsession with ampersands.

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**Manuel Baum** · April 10th, 2013, 07:41 PM

Thanks for the advices on line-quality. They seem somehow contradictory though

I try going for the fluid approach currently, as i am working solely tradional. For this i do quick sketches (ForScience wrote me an advice on this into my sketchbook). Seems to work well, but i have to force myself to keep fluid also when i have a lot of time...

Anyways: I really like your whole style. Especially your lines and choice of colors!

Btw: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a great movie, i liked it, altough it was a liiittle strange. And i also wonder, what your profession is. Do you do something graphics-related?

Manu