#I'm just a junior artist but I think I'm still allowed to answer this

[milaisa]

Teach me how to speed draw I mean I'm unable to finish even a simple sketch in 2 hours...

The secret of being able to draw "fast" comes down to routine and experience. I've worked in a professional environment where I learned fundamentals of efficient work. However, no matter what your skill level is, you can always start practicing.

In my opinion, the most important thing to remember is that sketches are supposed to be just quick scribbles of your ideas. In a professional environment, artists are encouraged to spend as little time in the early development phase. When you start designing characters for example, your first job is to create as many illustrated ideas in a very short time as possible. You shouldn't focus on details but shape language, silhouette and the general "story" you want your character to be able to tell visually.

To me it sounds like your general problem is that you spend too much time thinking how something "should look" or if your sketch is clean enough. Instead of that, try to focus on sketching the outer shape of the character. Here are some of my sketches I've made under a few minutes.

See? My sketches aren't the cleanest but they convey the message I want to bring. Instead of focusing too much on detail, I make sure the shape language and facial expressions are clear and easy to read. I personally suggest checking out the work of storyboard artists. I think learning about their working habits could help you learn how to spend less time on detail and rather put that effort into conveying the message you want your sketch to tell.

When you gain more experience, build your confidence and grow more familiar with your own style, your sketching habits start to become automatic and you don't need to put much thought process into it anymore. It all really comes down to experience. I've not always been fast at drawing. It took me years of practice to get where I am now and believe me or not, I'm STILL learning. It never stops. I'm still aiming to be even faster.

As a general note, being fast doesn't mean you're a good artist but it's a useful skill while working in a professional field. However, I personally admire artists who are able to pour hundreds of hours in a single painting. I could never be able to do that.

[thebarefootking]

hiromu or despe for the wrestler ask?

My first impulse is to call this a cruel choice to force on me, nonny, but there can really only ever be one I pick. I was -- not exactly slow to warm up on El Desperado; it isn't like with Taichi, where it took a stunningly long time (years!) for me to appreciate him for what he is, but I was still relatively engaged by Taichi's presence. No, for the first few months I spent watching, as far as my interest was concerned, Desperado may as well have been invisible. (As you might imagine, I never had this issue with Hiromu. He had my heart in his hands from the first match I saw him in.)

I don't know what clicked or when, but it was like being slapped in the face. It was like this famous video. Honestly, if Hiromu hadn't been there to point out the guy in the damn gorilla suit, I might still be in the pitiable state of not appreciating the one who has come to be one of my favorite wrestlers ever.

I'm not sure I really consider the tempered and unobtrusive quality of his presentation to be a flaw. There's a subtlety (almost, but not quite, a delicacy) to the way Despe conveys himself that allows the characterisation to operate on several levels at once without being overwhelming or tacky. He can turn up the intensity or dial things back with a seeming effortlessness I have witnessed from few wrestlers, and this is vital to what I think might be his most valuable skill set. New Japan's junior heavyweight scene as it currently exists and as it is likely to exist in the near future would be completely intractable without the work of El Desperado. I have never seen a wrestler with a greater skill for helping others tell their stories -- not just generically 'putting them over', though he is certainly good at that, but giving them a solid place from which to spin new story threads, beyond the reach of what plain old booking would typically account for. He does nearly all the narrative legwork of an ace, and he does it with a fraction of the attention. And (with one very obvious exception I have already thoroughly bitched about in answering these asks) he's booked to milk this skill for all it's worth. It's Desperado's other skills that make him exceptional. There simply isn't, to my knowledge, a masked wrestler as capable of expressing emotion to the same degree with the same precision as Despe. His attention to character portrayal and development at every possible moment (again, with some unfortunate exceptions) has, over the years, created a powerhouse of narrative potential. His in-ring skill is substantial, though I feel as if we rarely get to see him in situations that show his best. But as for his functional value as a wrestler in the grand scheme of the promotion? None of these are as valuable as what he can put them together to do, and what he does is, in my opinion, of the highest artistic merit.

Even if it's half-invisible by design.