>>13177794I am no professional, but you need to ditch the "right methods" line of thinking. You'll find a lot of incredibly skilled and talented artists championing certain principles or workflows or tools. While there is some truth to what they say, different approaches work for different people. I'm rubbish at tablet drawing, but pretty decent with traditional pencil/paper drawing. Rather than trying to improve my tablet skills because everyone else is doing that, I prefer to work with what's comfortable. While there is some merit to branching out of your comfort zone, it's not essential to becoming better, despite what some would have you believe. Everyone is wired differently. Figure out what feels natural for you and improve on that.
I guess I'll address each of your points:
>line controlI don't really have an answer here. This is going to come with practice. There are general tricks you can use to improve your outcome, but you just have to be persistent.
>construction, flatnessHonestly, rather than looking at line weight, I think you should be investigating shading further, which you address in your next point.
>shadingIf you feel you need to plan in advance, then do that. But only if it feels natural. When I do shading, it's almost always after the lines are done. There is some degree of planning ahead, but I mostly do all shading on the fly after the lines and base colors are set. Again, this goes back to my main point of doing what's comfortable for you.
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