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This is NOT a tutorial---in fact, it's likely the wrong way to make them; this is simply how MY dumb butt makes MY cards.\n\nOk, so from top left to right:\n\n1. I search my desk for my favorite pencil: the Wallace Zephyr. The Zephyr is a hard pencil that makes a very light line. The lines are difficult to see, but this makes it easy to erase guidelines and mistakes.\n\n2. I get a sheet of cheap typing paper and a Pokemon card. I trace around the edge of the Pokemon card (thus explaining the rounded edges of my cards). My challenge is to draw everything inside the borders I created. :3\n\n3. Next ...I just draw. :P There would be plenty of questions here, mostly of the 'how-do-you-draw' variety. I get it, but I'll not be answering any of that here. ^^\nI will say I use tools other than pencils to draw, such as this table mirror. The mirror is useful when I need a reference for hands at odd angles, as seen in the photo. ...And, yes, mine is an Aristocats mirror. :p\n\n4. After I've drawn my subject, I'll need to erase the guide lines and so forth. I do this with a sharp, arrowhead eraser (I call these erasers 'caps').\nThis can be very tedious and creates a lot of dust. :P\n\n5. Once the drawing is clean, I draw over the light Zephyr lines with a softer pencil (that is, one that makes darker lines).\nIn this case, I decided to use a vintage 'Onward' pencil, because I thought its name compliments this drawing (yes, I know 'Onward' is a movie, but I haven't seen it, as of writing).\n\nI have many vintage pencils to choose from---this image doesn't even represent half my hoardings: https://sta.sh/011qj4o8lt9v\n\n6. I use scissors to cut the finished drawing from the paper, thus creating a card.\n\n7. Because I like to feature pencils alongside my ACOs, I place both the card and the pencil side-by-side on my scanner.\nI do not use PhotoShop (I wouldn't know how to); my drawings and my pencils are tangible and exist together in space. ^^\n\nOn a side note, I was kinda intrigued by one of my watchers who commented that they didn't know what a scanner was. :P\nA scanner is big box with a glass top used for making digital images of paper documents (by way of photography). It's the means by which my traditional drawings find their way onto the internet. ^^\n\n8. The drawing is complete. :3 The last step is to upload it to my gallery, to remind the world that I can't draw and my art tools are outdated.\n\nI hope you all enjoyed this. ^^", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Some watchers ask questions and/or make statements about the technical aspects of my ACO cards.
For example, one watcher asked where I find round-edge ACO canvases; another made a presumption about my pencils: that I PhotoShop them.

Because of this, I've decided to make this little step-by-step of how I make ACO cards. This is NOT a tutorial---in fact, it's likely the wrong way to make them; this is simply how MY dumb butt makes MY cards.

Ok, so from top left to right:

1. I search my desk for my favorite pencil: the Wallace Zephyr. The Zephyr is a hard pencil that makes a very light line. The lines are difficult to see, but this makes it easy to erase guidelines and mistakes.

2. I get a sheet of cheap typing paper and a Pokemon card. I trace around the edge of the Pokemon card (thus explaining the rounded edges of my cards). My challenge is to draw everything inside the borders I created. :3

3. Next ...I just draw. :P There would be plenty of questions here, mostly of the 'how-do-you-draw' variety. I get it, but I'll not be answering any of that here. ^^
I will say I use tools other than pencils to draw, such as this table mirror. The mirror is useful when I need a reference for hands at odd angles, as seen in the photo. ...And, yes, mine is an Aristocats mirror. :p

4. After I've drawn my subject, I'll need to erase the guide lines and so forth. I do this with a sharp, arrowhead eraser (I call these erasers 'caps').
This can be very tedious and creates a lot of dust. :P

5. Once the drawing is clean, I draw over the light Zephyr lines with a softer pencil (that is, one that makes darker lines).
In this case, I decided to use a vintage 'Onward' pencil, because I thought its name compliments this drawing (yes, I know 'Onward' is a movie, but I haven't seen it, as of writing).

I have many vintage pencils to choose from---this image doesn't even represent half my hoardings: https://sta.sh/011qj4o8lt9v

6. I use scissors to cut the finished drawing from the paper, thus creating a card.

7. Because I like to feature pencils alongside my ACOs, I place both the card and the pencil side-by-side on my scanner.
I do not use PhotoShop (I wouldn't know how to); my drawings and my pencils are tangible and exist together in space. ^^

On a side note, I was kinda intrigued by one of my watchers who commented that they didn't know what a scanner was. :P
A scanner is big box with a glass top used for making digital images of paper documents (by way of photography). It's the means by which my traditional drawings find their way onto the internet. ^^

8. The drawing is complete. :3 The last step is to upload it to my gallery, to remind the world that I can't draw and my art tools are outdated.

I hope you all enjoyed this. ^^", "writing": "", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "", "pools_count": 1, "title": "How I Make ACOs", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/png", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "0", "rating_name": "General", "ratings": [], "submission_type_id": "1", "type_name": "Picture/Pinup", "guest_block": "f", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "13", "views": "113" }