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How to pointy: Trying to make a pointy bit on the line art removes volume and makes things flat. Make pointy more round.

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Rodent tails I see so often drawn the first way, and while it's in keeping with certain line art styles, in general the latter makes them feel so much more like an integral part of their body rather than an accessory flourish.

(BTW this is how it's turning out. I have a couple hard spikes in there but most I purposefully softened and it actually DID work! Might be the best digital drawing I've made yet. Gotta fix a few of his patterns still but otherwise he's looking like how I want.)

This is one of those art tips that flies completely in the face of how your brain THINKS it should work, but damn is that not absolutely pointier when round...

.......sometimes you want less volume spent on a mouth. And there is nothing wrong with a piece being flat. "Just like God made me" -Veronica Mars, when asked if she had a flat