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[helpfulharrie]

How to make quick sketches from real life models?

The less time you have to draw something, the less detail you can put down.

So, instead you want to put down as much information about the pose as you can with as few lines as possible!

This is called finding the gesture - the essence of the pose. Forget about form, forget about contour, gesture is about the feeling and the motion!

It’s the first stage to any drawing, it helps to have a general idea of what you want to draw down on the page before you jump into the details.

When working from life, the image of what you want to draw is already in front of you. So before you draw anything, take some time to look at what you are going to draw.

Look for the motion, the lines that travel through the body.

Once you’ve found the motion, you can then draw it.

This is the gesture - it does not yet look like a person because there is no form or contour, but it should still give you a sense of the pose and its motion!

You can then build the forms on top of the gesture.

It’s essentially like drawing stick-men, as you’re drawing lines rather than contours.

Those are gestures I spent a couple minutes on to make them look nicer lmao, but this stage is really quick - this one took about thirty seconds

Also a lil tip: When drawing the gesture, you want to use long continuous strokes.

You’re trying to convey as much as you can in one line, because you’re only spending a couple seconds on it! The more you can draw with one stroke, the quicker it’ll be done.

In a life drawing session, you’ll generally be given a minute to two minutes to spend drawing before the model changes pose.

Most of this time you should spend looking for that motion rather than drawing. If you have a minute to draw the pose, spend thirty seconds studying the model!

If you jump right into the drawing, you’ll actually take longer because you don’t know what you’re drawing.

You can practice this at home using pixelovely’s figure drawing tool - set the timer to 1 minute, and try finding the gesture.

If you struggle to finish the pose before the image changes, set it to 2 minutes and spend more time looking at the photo!

If you find it hard to actually find the motion and the gesture in the pose, I recommend practicing on cats instead.

Cats are a lot simpler than humans, and as they’re so flexible the motion is more obvious. They’re a good way to start if you’re having trouble.

And lastly, Proko has a few good videos on gesture and quick poses!

[st-pam]

[drawingden]

Clean Line Art! Digital Inking Tips by BaM Animation

[fury176]

You’ve waited for the how-do-I-eyes post since 1954 but it’s finally here YAY! I hope it helps and stuff! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

[kingcholera]

Learning how to construct simplified heads in the October lesson! Drawing the skull is really helping me understand the jaw shape, and that is something I’ve struggled with for years.

[boomeyer]

Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

[mementoluceat-blog]

I’d also like to add some more specialized resources!

Video games:

Easy game engines (virtually no coding): 

Game Maker Studio (2D; free and paid versions)

GameSalad (2D)

RPG Maker (2D; numerous versions ranging from free to $69.99)

Stencyl (2D; free and paid subscription versions)

Scratch (good for kids and is more general; 2D; free)

More difficult game engines: 

Unity (lots and lots of platforms; C# and JavaScript script; 2D, 3D, VR; free and paid versions)

Unreal (specializes in graphics; C++ and visual script; 2D, 3D, VR; free with a royalty on successful products)

CryEngine (Lua script; 3D; paid subscription and full license versions)

Mobile game development: 

Corona (free and paid subscription versions)

SpriteKit (2D) and SceneKit (3D) which are built into the official compiler to create iOS apps (see iOS apps for more resources)

also all of the above game engines (cross-platform)

Game console development: 

Game Maker Studio (with a paid subscription)

Unity

Unreal

CryEngine

Note that games can also be created on more general platforms like iOS and Android apps, but the resources listed above are specialized for game development.

iOS apps:

In order to develop iOS apps, you’ll need to purchase an iOS developer program membership for $99 a year, which requires an Apple account. Here are some general resources:

Xcode (the official IDE for iOS apps; can be installed on OS X)

Start Developing iOS Apps Today (Objective-C)

Ray Wenderlich iOS tutorials (Objective-C and Swift)

Code School: Try iOS (Objective-C)

Developing iOS 8 Apps (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Swift)

TutorialsPoint: iOS Tutorial (Objective-C)

How to Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience (Swift)

Swift Tutorial: Building an iOS Application (2, 3)

iOS apps are developed in the 2 official languages of Apple: Objective-C and Swift, the latter of which is newer and generally much easier to learn.

Objective-C resources:

the official documentation

TutorialsPoint: Objective-C Tutorial

Ry’s Objective-C Tutorial

Swift resources:

the official documentation

The Swift Programming Language (free official e-book)

Swift: A Quick Reference Guide

Xcode also has SpriteKit, SceneKit, and Metal built in, all of which are incredibly useful for creating apps that require elaborate graphics, particularly games.

SpriteKit resources:

How to Make a Game Like Candy Crush With Swift (2)

Sprite Kit Swift Tutorial

Create Space Invaders with Swift and Sprite Kit

iOS SpriteKit Physics Tutorial in Swift

Build the Game of Life (Swift)

SceneKit resources:

Scene Kit Tutorial: Getting Started (Swift)

An Introduction to SceneKit (2; Swift)

Metal resources:

the official documentation + other resources (Obj-C)

iOS 8 Metal Tutorial with Swift (2, 3)

Getting Started With Metal (Obj-C)

An introduction to 3D graphics with Metal in Swift

Also, in order to publish iOS apps, you’ll have to juggle certificates, app ids, and provisioning profiles. This process can be convoluted at times so here are some resources:

How to Submit Your App to Apple: From No Account to App Store (2)

Beginner Tutorial: iOS Certificates & Provisioning Profiles

Android apps:

In order to develop Android apps, you’ll need to register as a developer for a one-time fee of $25. Here are some general resources:

Android Studio (the official IDE for Android app development; free; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux)

the official documentation

Getting Started

Android Tutorial For Beginners (2, 3)

Learn Android SDK From Scratch

Introduction to Android Development With Android Studio

Android apps are developed in Java and the layout is coded with XML.

Java resources:

W3schools: Java Tutorial series

TutorialsPoint: Java Tutorial

Core Java Tutorial

XML resources:

W3schools: XML Tutorial series

TutorialsPoint: XML Tutorial

For publishing (which is somewhat easier than publishing iOS apps):

How to Publish to the Android Market

3D modeling/animation:

Blender (can also be used to create games; Python script; free and open-source; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux)

Maya (specialized script; free trial, free 3-year student subscription, and paid subscription versions; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux to an extent)

3ds Max (Python script; free trial, free 3-year student subscription, and paid subscription versions; can be installed on Windows and OS X)

RenderMan (specialized script; free for non-commercial/educational use and pay-per-license for commercial use; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux)

Misc. resources:

Stack Overflow is an ask-and-answer community for programmers. It’s amazing and will save your life. Sign up and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Github offers a student pack (here) if you create an account and prove you’re a student. This gives you free access to a bunch of great programming resources for free for a certain period of time, such as Unreal Engine. Also, Github in general is a site that you can host your code on. Other users can see it, and “fork” it to make a copy of your code and modify it.

Parse is a backend service that allows you to store data in databases it hosts on its own servers. It lets you use push notifications, create users, store and retrieve data, etc. It’s compatible with iOS apps, Android apps, Windows apps, Xamarin, React, Unity, OS X, Windows, JavaScript, PHP, .net, Arduino, and Embedded C. It’s free up to a certain limit that depends on the services you use.

Cloud9, Codebox, and Squad are online IDEs that allow for real-time collaboration and support a variety of languages, so they’re useful for team projects.

And some general advice:

Your program will not work right away, 99% of the time. That’s okay. Do your best to figure out where the error is. Here is some advice on debugging (written for PHP but the methods can be generalized).

If you’re stuck, Google. Google like there’s no tomorrow.

Ask questions on a community like Stack Overflow.

For that matter, browse relevant Stack Overflow questions. You can probably find some solutions there.

Don’t be afraid to copy and paste.

Take breaks sometimes if you’re getting burned out. But don’t stay away from your projects for too long or you’ll lose track of its status.

Backup your code. On the cloud, on a USB drive, wherever. If your IDE has a backing up feature like snapshots, use it whenever you hit a milestone.

If your project is big, split it up into milestones and set goals. Don’t tackle everything at once.

Like the OP said, coding isn’t just for professionals and “geeks” anymore. Anyone can learn it if you really try, and with the rapidly expanding tech industry, learning coding can really broaden your opportunities.

If any of the links are broken, or you have a question or some information/resources to add, you can contact me through the askbox or the OP through his Twitter (as mentioned in his post).

If you’re interested, try some of these out and best of luck!

[boomeyer]

Great work expanding on my humble list to include a much fuller collection of resources for learning how to code! Cheers!

[yukamina-plushies]

Sitting Vaporeon plush I made  a while back. I’m going to try to post more on here >_<

My shop: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/YukaminaCrafts

My DA: https://yukamina-plushies.deviantart.com/

[anatoref]

Cartoon Eyes Top & 2 (Left, Middle) Row 2 Right, by Sandro Cleuzo Row 3: Left, Right Row 4 Row 5: Left, Right Row 6

[wb-retired-deactivated20170407]

So you want to learn 3D art - pt. 1

Disclaimer: It’s almost impossible to give an exhaustive list of all the possible learning resources for the different tools, techniques and modeling terms in here so you’ll need to use Google-Fu yourself for your specific interest. Most of the links I’m supplying are for understanding general concepts of model creation and texturing rather than specific workflows for specific software, which you’ll need to study yourself. Usually art software developers have their own exhaustive learning pages or videos. Any advice I can give is also specifically geared towards making real-time 3D models. Ultimately one of the most important skills for a 3D artist is being able to do their own research and trial and error, and aid will rarely come in a spoonfed form. Modelers are usually split into a few major categories: Character Art / Organics, Environment and Prop art, Hard Surface, Vehicles. Having an idea of where your interests fall will help in figuring out your learning path and the best resources.

Most commonly used industry software

Autodesk 3DS Max - The industry standard essential. Polygon modeling, animation, lighting, rigging, morphs, effects, rendering Autodesk Maya - same but more geared towards animation, high end hair tools Modo - Popular alternative to 3DS Max but lacks many dev tools & exporters Blender - famously free, does most things Max and Maya do, love or hate Zbrush - digital sculpting and high poly modeling software, an absolute must for today’s 3D artist Mudbox - Autodesk’s Zbrush alternative, not used much in studios 3Dcoat - Texture UV mapping and topology tools, texture painting, PBR tools, voxel highpoly modeling Substance Painter - Material and texture creation tool for models for Physically Based Rendering engines, powerful map baker Marvelous Designer - Cloth simulation and clothing design software xNormal - Free texture map baker TopoGun - Topology creation tool Handplane - Texture UV mapping tool Marmoset Toolbag - realtime renderer for creating presentation shots of your models Adobe Photoshop - For texture editing and render compositing nDO/DDO - Photoshop toolkit for creating PBR textures Keyshot - Rendering toolkit for high resolution models and product illustrations

Major 3D art learning & resource hubs Polycount - artists post WIP threads of their model projects, awesome for learning and inspiration Digital Tutors VERTEX, free online game art tutorial magazine The Gnomon Workshop (paid classes, books and videos but 100% worth it) Zbrush Classroom Zbrush Central Gumroad ArtStation is a gallery site, but it’s great for checking out pro work and putting yours out there CGsociety is also a gallery 3D-coat learning General modeling concepts - basic stuff, topology http://blog.digitaltutors.com/basic-3d-modeling-terminology/ https://flippednormals.com/introduction-3d/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_modeling http://topology-guides.tumblr.com/ http://blog.digitaltutors.com/understanding-uvs-love-them-or-hate-them-theyre-essential-to-know/ Texturing http://blog.digitaltutors.com/cover-bases-common-3d-texturing-terminology/ http://blog.digitaltutors.com/understanding-difference-texture-maps/ http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/cgsfeatures/cgsfeaturespecial/the_top_ten_tips_of_texturing Tyson Murphy texture painting demonstration in 3Dcoat Demon Chaser Tutorial by FirstKeeper Baking, Normal Maps http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping http://blog.digitaltutors.com/bump-normal-and-displacement-maps/ Specifics Polycount Wiki - a lot of assorted guides What is Physically Based Rendering Character modeling breakdowns and tutorials Polycount archive of environment modeling tutorials Polycount: generalities on character modeling

I’ll try to expand on the general technical workflow shared across disciplines and software preferences in a part 2.

[ryanlangdraws-deactivated202204]

Just finished my first Gumroad tutorial, a 2hr video on Character Rendering for Animation Production. I cover my process for taking a line drawing and painting it to look like a 3d render, or a “Look of Picture” image. Included with the video are the brushes I used and layered PSDs. Hope you guys enjoy!

you can check it out here:

https://gumroad.com/l/fvON

[mellifexfarm]

tiddy

[tenoni-references]

Library books art hack by @danarune on Twitter

[ghostlyapivorous]

:eyes:

[miyuliart]

Some drawing tips previously posted on twitter. More drawing tips on my patreon. Hope some of these can be helpful.

[makkon]

Layers, yall.

[mewtripled-deactivated20230508]

Plz tell me that I was not the only one who watched “The Land Before Time” and thought that eating vegetables hanging off the corners of my mouth like they did in the film made me a “long neck.” 🦕🍃

[artistsaurio]

Heads up PayPal is changing ToS again

And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.

Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.

Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up. 

And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection. 

Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.

I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue. 

just

start

using

invoices

for your own sake. 

Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues. 

Just protect yourself. 

Step 1. You login and click here

Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name. 

Step 3 You follow this steps

1. Invoice for amount only

2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field

3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.

Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned. 

4. Click send. 

Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time. 

More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good. 

Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers. 

Stay safe. 

[awkwardtimezone]

Heads up, all commissioning artists

[bloriblomi]

I’ll be doing this from now on!

[bloriblomi]

ADDING THIS BC I HATE PAYPALLLL OK so when you send/make invoices…it doesnt let you choose ‘digital good’ or differentiate between “goods (as in physical)” and “services” (as in doesnt need address) which is what you could do with micropayments…. SO WHEN U SEND INVOICE the buyer will be asked for their shipping address.  ( I even had the options turned off for shipping?? I was pretty sure there USED TO be an option that you turned off and then it wouldn’t ask for shipping, but that doesnt seem to work anymore? I went to where the setting was and still had the boxes unchecked, and yet my buyer was still getting asked to put in shipping address, and when invoice was paid, i was being asked to provide shipping label by X date or Consequences.) SO APPARENTLY YOU HAVE TO DO THIS as the SELLER

SO go to the invoice (i think this can be done BEFORE the buyer pays?? Didnt try myself tho, i did it after it was paid), and click on VIEW DETAILS in that first box 

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ADD TRACKING INFO  (YES COUNTER-INTUITIVE AS BALLLLLS.)

of course HERE IS WHERE YOU'RE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS ON PROCESSING DIGITAL GOODS. HIDDEN BEHIND A BUTTON YOU WOULDNT PRESS IF YOU WERE, SAY, TRYING TO SELL DIGITAL GOODS. Select Order Processed/Service Rendered

YAY this stuff fills itself out and you can save and not have to worry about shipping your Digital Intangible Product to a very confused seller. I am so salt about this. excuse me while i go cry angrily.

[shia-art]

Think I’ll reblog this for my own use…

[eymbeeart]

Guess I gotta get used to sending invoices for all transactions soon then

[sarspax]

NO EXCUSES GUYS. PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHER ARTISTS.

[etheringtonbrothers]

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