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8 WAYS TO SKETCH FOR ANIMATION

Quite often as artists, we fall into the trap of copying our subjects line for line, shape for shape, and render everything out exactly the way we see them based on our knowledge of light, form, composition and so on. When we’re done, we stand back for a much-awaited “ah-ha” moment… only to realise the piece we’d worked so hard on looks perhaps accurate, but also rather stale and lifeless.

How do we imbue life into these pieces that almost suck the life out of us to get them done in the first place? Even more importantly, how

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