That's the word.

Took me awhile to finally be able to explain it, although the explanation SHOULD have been obvious.

When I was younger, say below 17, my trouble with drawing was context. I would draw, put alot of detail work into a small section of a character or composition, and then come out with a distorted final product.

Like zooming in on a small section, like a shirt, face, limbs, torso, whatever, making it very detailed only to have it not fit with the rest of the picture when I finally add detail to everything other part in the same manner.

When gesturing, make sure you draw out the WHOLE basic shape, and slowly work on everything quickly(as a precursor to detail) then when everything seems to fit and there's a fair amount of detail everywhere on say, a character, THEN zoom in and concentrate on the details (such as fabric, hair, markings, accessories, face detail, etc...)


Literally, stand back and hold the drawing in front of you or view it from a distance to analyze whether the character looks balanced as a whole. Step back from the picture and look periodically whilst drawing.


You'll come out with a nicely balanced drawing. I've been browsing some artists on other sites who are good, but seem to make this error and come out with good but grossly disproportioned characters.

It's a shame when a character has one exceptionally good, detailed, and very fluidly drawn part, only to have the rest completely discombobulated.

This is like a note to myself, and if I made myself clear at all (which I probably didn't; articulating is hard for me), maybe it can help people or whatever. Or just confuse them more. Yeah that's probably what it'd end up doing.

Well, Much Luv~<3