Tips on drawing cracks

[Boke]

As in cracked cement, I have a heavy object falling from the sky and I wanted to draw cracks under it to show its "heaviness". I tried doing little squiggly lines but just doesn't look right.

[ornery]

Show us what you have first.

It depends on the style you are going for, in some cases simple squiggly lines would work and read as cracks, in others they wont.

[TurkeyOnAStick]

At 5/12/08 11:39 AM, Boke wrote: As in cracked cement, I have a heavy object falling from the sky and I wanted to draw cracks under it to show its "heaviness". I tried doing little squiggly lines but just doesn't look right.

It's not a crime to sketch from an existing photo, or simply photoshop/trace bitmap a highly contrasted picture.

[UMREE]

shadow, light, shadow, light theres nothing to it pal.

[Ynek]

Cracks are like snowflakes... No two are the same.

If you're trying to draw something like a crack, your best bet would be to look on google for photographs of cracks, and using these as a reference. That way, you can see all the different sorts of cracks, and decide which one looks best for your project.

However, in my experience, concrete doesn't really "crack" when excessive weight is put on it. It's more likely to just cave in and let the heavy object sink into the ground.....

But that's just my thoughts...