Weird/peculiar things you do when drawing

[bingus_baby]

Idk if this is normal, but I break down my drawings by color, and chunks of lineart. Before I even hit shading and background, I'll already have 30 layers. This is to make clipping and adjusting colors easier, but man... I hate myself sometimes for it!! At this point, idk why I do it. But it sometimes makes it easier to get my art printed, like on keychains or stickers. Only sometimes.

[Julikins]

Habits list in no particular order:
- would make facial expressions as I try to draw them
- distracted by background noise/mental thoughts
- "this looked better in my head" (completely normal)
- concentrate on visualizing the pose of character/hand(s)
- sketches being called chicken scratches (hehe)
- ideas for other pieces (aka NOT the one I'm currently working on; also normal)
- "did I remember to do this?" and various other tasks
- stuff that happened years ago that still haunt me
- save it save it save it - SAVE IT SAVE IT (mostly for digital art)
- that doesn't look right for that character!

I could be missing some bits here and there. Notes of them being "normal" are due to how common other artists feel that way when creating.

[atari]

Using mspaint as a main program of mine is already pretty peculiar to some but my main distinct feature in programs like clip studio is feeling the need to go through every layer setting when I add shading or highlights "just to make sure I use the best filter." It's a little silly when I type it out and definitely makes my drawing process longer, yet I find myself doing it almost every time
Old habits die hard i suppose
Kind regards, Atari @982.24

[tesseractcube]

other than ctrl + z, we don't use ANY hotkeys when we draw, we manually go to every button with our pen 

also, i don't know if this is common or not, but we tend to draw on one massive file, which we will only abandon once our computer is incapable of opening it in less than a few seconds (usually around 300 layers)

my main distinct feature in programs like clip studio is feeling the need to go through every layer setting when I add shading or highlights "just to make sure I use the best filter."

we do the same thing!

there's too much potential to not go through them all... 

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[⋆Spicy_vinta⋆]

some of my habits aren't too weird but here they are:

-I save different versions and phases of my drawing, for example prior to adding certain features like hair or other stuff.
-deciding to change brush for line-art halfway through or even after i finish
-i typically only use 3 or four layers (i should probably aim for ten depending on what im doing)
-Have a habit of doodling a tiny version of the character on a random layer or doing graffiti lettering as my signature before i even finish the drawing
-giving characters i draw the most unusual hair cuts (this probaly happens because i suck at drawing hair)
- during breaks i try doodling with my write hand just for the fun of it!!

[Fish]

Lately, I've been practicing how to draw faces and I find myself mimicking the expression I'm trying to draw. I no longer have a resting angry face because I keep making all sorts of faces now when I'm focused on drawing lol

Another thing I do is whenever I get stuck with a piece I take my pencil or stylus and just start table drumming without even thinking about it. "Drumming" is a nice word for me just repeatedly hitting my table as I think 

i draw every one of my works in one single layer... i call this the mspaint disease

This....this is true bravery

[musicobsessed107]

not a fist, but i had a very weird Pencil Stance as a child that my teachers at school forced me out of. i would put all four of my fingers on one side of the pencil, and my thumb on the other, like a little crab claw. i was pretty good at drawing and writing that way, too 

I too have a "weird" pencil grip. It's the lateral quadrupod grip (I'm right handed, by the way) and I've had to deal with my fair share of elementary school teachers trying to "correct" this, though unfortunately for them, it absolutely didn't work no matter how hard they'd try. I would just go along with what they told me to do and then I'd shift the pencil back into the more comfortable and stable position they were trying to force me out of as soon as they stopped looking. Pencil grips, triangular pencils, you name it, nothing worked on me (but then again, what did they expect from the "bad" girl who kept on breaking the same petty rules over and over again and got herself into some level of trouble almost every day?).  XD

To this day, I still hold my pencils and dining utensils in the lateral quadrupod style. I even draw using my odd grip.

[egbert]

This....this is true bravery

I'm not going to lie, man. I call it the mspaint disease because i exclusively only have done digital art on mspaint for like 8 years. With a mouse. Freehanded too. Like i'm a kid in 2010. nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
anyone wanna see my works ? the culmination of doing everything 'wrong' makes for some banger art

[Scootarooni]

I've seen some of these mentioned already so it's probably not that weird at all:
- I'll involuntarily emote whatever expression I'm trying to draw

- It's hard to draw without tucking my feet under me when I sit
- I never delete my sketch layer. I like to keep it to compare to the final product or I just like how the sketch looks :^)
- I like keeping and archiving all my sketches and doodles in general! Even if they're not particularly good! I think it's because I lost a bunch of art a few years ago when the hardrive of my old laptop got corrupted :^( I realized how much I liked having a little archive showcasing my improvement over the years.

[fuwaka]

I'm autistic so this probably helps / matters way more to me than it may for others but-

swapping / rotating between my Apple Pencil (with or without case) + another digital pen that's compatible with my iPad

it changes the sensory for me which makes sketching + linework a lot less boring since i typically use one for sketching and another for linework heh... ( ´_ゝ`)