When you draw people and/or characters...

Yeah, I kind'a go along with that way of drawing as well.. Head and downwards

Thank you for responding!

Wow, you got to sell a lot of coloring books with enlarged illustrations you made with reference with text cards (I'm assuming that there are those trading card games, though actually being "gambled" since there are bets and all that..)

I also do what you enumerated in process... though I don't end up coloring most of my work with actual coloring materials. I just lately got introduced with Photoshop and I have a illustrations colored - flats and shades.. couldn't go ahead with highlights... I often squint at those cards..

not the trading cards game. those little text cards that children play with. y'know, the "teks" game.^__^;; i used to make my niece buy some for me because its really embarrassing for me to buy them myself.

That's why I mentioned that I always "squint" at those cards. They should be a trading card game but, they are a child's way of gambling, bets of cards being stacked while the count of each bet would need two cards for one count and a single card would count as a "cha" or something that sounds similar.

I could also remember the local text cards that we use to have. Those that have scene by scene illustration of local movies on them. Collecting a particular set would yield one as similar as watching that particular film..

some kids even earn money from it. especially those who are good with the game! their teks piles up and then they sell it to other kids. actually i think i was once like that when i was in elementary.

I did often play that game and come back home with too much than I what I brought out. If it were real money at that time, I could've bought too much and my parents would've banned me from it.

After playing and getting such spoils back at home, I look at the cards and see new ones that I might get intersted in drawing.