Drawing Process Strategy

So just today, as in just recently, I've realized I should probably start incorporating strategy and strategic elements into my drawing process. For pencilling and inking if nothing else. And your pencilling process starts with the art and drawing supplies you use. I've realized my pencil methods up till today had been primative and ass backwards. I used a mechanical pencil for pencilling my pages. No wonder I kept messing up the lines. Until today, I didn't actually wrap my mind around the fact that good pencilling often happens in stages and revisions, not all at once. For my pencilling first draft, I've begun using a light blue Prismacolor pencil for pencilling first attempts.

Sure, it has its drawbacks (you can barely see the image your pencilling at first, the line is so delicate and light, no matter how hard you pencil.)

But once I went over the blue line first draft pencil sketch with a cleaned up darker pencil, I made noticeably fewer mistakes with my line textures, and my pencilling line was more clean and less shakey.

Worked like a charm! I can't believe I never tried to incorporate strategy into the drawing process itself before. Drawing supplies need strategy too, if you want to take art seriously.

And this is after only 2 to 3 attempts and very simple sketches WITH the light blue Prismacolor erasable pencil. It really did make that much of a difference in my art. Just thought I felt the need to write about it, to help other artists who might be heavy handed and have problems with line weight.