misscaustic: Hi! I did a little

misscaustic submitted:

Hi! I did a little redrawing and tutorialing of this image when I was looking through the archives. I hope the ladies don’t mind my using their awesome photo as reference. ~Mina

Great tutorial!  And yes, drawing from real life is a great tool.  Also practice.  Lots of practice.  Sometimes, I think the reason that “how-to” books frame drawing everything as being this really really specific style is because that allows them to publish books for drawing every little thing and forces you to buy them, whereas if they talked about drawing the way you just did, there wouldn’t be much need for them.