Shanley

It should go without saying, but one of the obvious *tricks* is having patience. Taking a couple of days or maybe more before submitting a drawing, even if you're absolutely convinced you're done. Take some time to detach and check for minor flaws, things you can do better, details to add. And most importantely....take the time to get a more objective mind. If you still happy with the result 3 days later, that's a good sign.
I, for one, still need to practice with this one...I'm usually a spontaneous person and with little patience for the submit button.

Shanley

Just pushing the thread up. Hope to see more interesting thoughts on this.
One of my 'tips' is reading this kind of discussions to fresh up my perspective once in a while.

clorophilla

I paste here the explanation I did for La Casa, so every new TDer could read this interesting topic. I suggest to save this topic in the favourites for reaching it quickly.

TOP 5 and favourites

You can have vore than one TOP5; as you joyned in november, this month you could also achieve a top 5 "new artists" (only one pic in this cathegory). More, every year there is the TOP10, ten best pictures of the year from ten different artists. You could reach top10 at
ttp://www.thinkdraw.com/topTen2012.php (or 2011, 2010 and so on)

the TOP5 scoring is based on votes and favourites of each pic. You can vote all the pics you want but can chose 5 favourite pics/month only for each palette.

clorophilla

Just for pushing up this interesting topic!

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How's this for clever use of shading already present in the background. It's by a fairly new member of the community, Lizzi:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=109019