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The Lip Tutorial~~~
The final part is on my Livestream the first minute is me trying to remember how to use it.
I also answered some asks:
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I had a really hard time thinking about how to make a tutorial for this bc pretty much everything I do isn’t learned by theory ( ; ;) It’s from years of practice and observation that I’ve come to better perceive the human body so I find it hard to pass on my (woeful) knowledge about it, but I’ll do my best!! I hope a written guide - with pictures - is ok!
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Side Burn Deluxe is an INCREDIBLE resource for hairstyles of all shapes and sizes and colors! Each one is amazing and unique and this site is brilliant and awesome serIOUSLY take heed and make good use of this!
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If you cant attend life drawing sessions. This is the best thing for you
Let me show you something I recently found : Croquis Cafe!
You get to see models of different colors and shapes in a life drawing setting. They move and breath while posing (breathing like in real life :O) ambient music is playing in the background and you have 1, 2 and 5 minute sessions. I find it very helpful , you should try it.
Dear Endling, I've been a huge fan since I saw your comics on Snafu. I'm struggling, and have been for awhile. Art is my passion, but I don't have the right education to pursue a career in it. I've been unable to find my style, and have been stuck for a year. Do you have any advice on where I can read/study to improve my skills to eventually, find my own style?
This is a question I’ve been asked a lot, but to be honest it never really gets that much easier to answer. Every artist being an individual, it’s tough to find catch-alls that work for everyone, you know what I mean? And hell, truth be told, I’m still trying to figure this stuff out for myself. :]
Let me get this first bit out of the way, the bit nobody wants to hear: “Practice, practice, practice.” It’s the biggest, stinkiest old chestnut in the book, the one you’ve probably heard a million times before, but unfortunately, it is the most rock solid, time-tested advice any artist can swear by. Even when you feel down and out, even when things don’t look like they should. You keep on drawing, because art has a funny way of growing with you, even if you’re not aware of it.
But try different things. Some personal suggestions:
- Draw from life. Do figure studies. Your art will only go as far as the strong foundation you’ve built on. It can be arduous, but it is worth it. There is no way around this, much as many folks find this the token ‘boring’ advice.
- Look up light and color theory online. Nowadays there is a ridiculous amount of information on this subject on the internet. You could probably cobble together a near full education on the subject just from all the different people who have guides, examples, even youtube videos on the matter. It’s really amazing. There are tons of people out there trying to help young artists get on their feet, and they aren’t charging a thin dime. Take advantage of it. :]
- Warm up before you draw! Draw scribbles, cubes, shapes with some zing to them. Drawing can be a workout! So like any workout, warm up! Don’t dive right in and injure yourself. :] It’s a good way to stave off feeling discouraged because things didn’t turn out looking brilliant right off the bat.
- Try emulating a variety of other artists’ work. (With their consent if you’re posting it somewhere of course.) Sometimes when drawing in someone else’s style your own little mannerisms and stylistic influences tend to pop up in the result. This is more a fun exercise though, certainly not something to fall back on as a means to improve. You don’t want to end up relying on the same artistic ‘shortcuts’ your chosen artists employ in their own work without a firm understanding of the basics yourself.
- Draw quickly, loosely, even carelessly. Less thought, more winging it. Fly by the seat of them pants. Have fun letting go! At least, for a practice run at first. While ‘style’ is at best a nebulous concept, I’ve always found that if you draw speedily, you tend to put emphasis in certain areas, sort of feel your hand moving a particular way? If you don’t let too much thought get in the way, you can sometimes see the raw tendencies you have underneath the art.
- Animation! Regarding stuff to read to improve your skills, there is no shortage of books available in places like Barnes & Noble. Entire sections on art. I recommend, personally, books on animation techniques. I was originally an animation major in college, and I think any artist can benefit greatly by studying it thoroughly.
- Draw for yourself, not for the internet. This is a more fairly recent issue I’ve been seeing with some people, but there are folks out there who get a little too attached to the reception (or lack thereof) they receive for posting their work online, or worse still, seem to only draw with the specific intent of putting things online. While it’s all well and good to share your work with other people, please please please do not forget that you are drawing for yourself. You don’t have to post everything you make. Allow yourself plenty of time to make plenty of terrible drawings. Fall flat on your face. You can share the stuff you’d like, but you don’t have to feel compelled to share everything you do.
- Art blocks and burn out will happen. Don’t sweat ‘being stuck’ so much. Don’t rush getting OUT of it either. Art blocks are kind of a way of telling you you’re running on empty in one way or another. I’ve gotten asked quite often what I do to get over an art block. The answer is really simple: wait. Haha. But you find things to do that get you feeling charged up again. I like listening to music and playing games. Games are what got me into art in the first place, so it’s kind of a back-and-forth process for me. But what I’m trying to say here is, art and your life are pretty much connected in every way. If your art just doesn’t want to come out easily on the page, maybe you should find something else to do that you enjoy. Refill, recharge, re-energize, but NOT just to get over an art block. Your daily life might be more attached to your work than you realize. Which brings me to my next point..
- Don’t look so hard for ‘your style’. You need to grow as much as your artwork. As I said before, style is kind of a strange subject. To most people style is simply ‘how your art looks’, what sets it apart from other folks. But if you ask me, style is whatever ignites your passion to create in the first place. Style can be influenced by other art, sure, but it can also be influenced by music, games, sports, books, your background, the things you enjoy, just the person you are from the ground up. Style comes from pouring yourself into your work. And you know what? You need to grow just as much as your artwork. If you put a piece of yourself into your art, it will undoubtedly be unique, because you’re a unique person yourself. Find something you want to say and let it come out through your art.
And yes, that’s about the floweriest answer I’ve ever given on the subject of style. I guess when it comes to the subject of art I can be a sappy sap. But DAMMIT I BELIEVE IN YOU. And anyone else reading this that might have been feeling the same way! And I really appreciate the question! Hell, I’m honored, and hope in any way at all I can help, because art is a beautiful thing to have in your life, and I wish you the absolute best of luck with it.
Now DRAW. DRAAAAAAAAAW, I SAY!
CalArts Lecture via Robertryan Cory
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diamandis at conceptart.org has put together a list of noob -> pro sketchbooks from members that started out with little skill in drawing/painting/illustration, but have progressed in their time at ca.org to become excellent artists.
Links to the sketchbook threads of the three artists in the photoset:
Miles Johnston
Tugelbend | [SB 1] [SB 2]
Raphael Luebke
A few years ago, some Chinese cultural organizations took a "family portrait" of each of the 56 Chinese ethnic groups and collected them into an album; each of the photographs has a group of individuals dressed in traditional costume posing with cultural items. It's a great set of images for both reference and inspiration!
I've uploaded the full album of 56 photos here for easy viewing; you can also download the entire album as a .zip file here. All the images are 945 x 945 px; unfortunately, I couldn't find anything higher-res. Enjoy!
(also, if you can read chinese, the source website for these images has old black-and-white photographs for each ethnic group as well!)
Although by no means a comprehensive colour tutorial, this guide from the indie game studio Dinofarm Games breaks down some misconceptions about colour and light and takes a look at the concepts of Hue Variation and Reflected Light; all with the aim of making illustrations look more realistic.
A dead simple tutorial by Matt Bernier of the highly useful blog Comic Tools on how to draw forearms that make anatomical sense. He breaks it down into a few defining features that affect the surface appearance; useful for anyone looking to draw/stylize some arms!
Small tips and useful things
Hi, all 5 of you who follow this blog! Sorry for the lack of content lately; my exams are next week, so I haven't really had time to organize a major post. Instead, I will share some things that have shown up on my dash/that I've found recently; consider this a glorified reblog in summary form:
1. Review of an unexpectedly high-quality, low-price contender (that isn't Wacom!) in the Graphics Tablet market: Monoprice.
drawnblog:
Ray Frenden reviews the too-cheap-to-be-true Monoprice graphics tablets. How do they stack up to industry standard Wacoms?
After spending a week with the 6.25“x10” Monoprice, my Yiynova and Cintiq remain unplugged and I gave my Intuos away to a friend. The Monoprice tracks subtle pressure variances and small movements with less lag and more crisp fidelity than any of the others. It is, put crudely, fucking awesome, in both OSX Lion and Windows 7 x64.
2. Go follow Eyecager on tumblr if you're not doing so already! She's a professional artist, and regularly posts art related-tutorials and resources, including, very recently, a slew of excellent figure drawings!
3. Reddit has an excellent community called SketchDaily that posts daily themes for you to draw. If you have a reddit account (if you don't, it takes seconds to set one up), you can post your drawings in each daily thread for feedback from others. It's a great way to stay inspired and to keep in practice!
Stay tuned until next week, folks!
I found these nice breakdowns of various aspects of the head on my computer; they're from a book called The Human Figure, published by Pepin Press.
(The publishers are pretty generous with their image rights, these images are low-res, and the book came with a CD full of images, so I think sharing these should be okay.)
Anyways, enjoy!
Google Art Project is a huge online collection of artwork (over 30 000!) from museum collections all over the world. It offers high-resolution, zoomable images for many of the works in the gallery, right down to individual brush strokes. You can browse by museum collections, by individual artists, or search for a specific work.
There's not only paintings in there, but also sculpture, sketches, and photography, making it very useful for doing your own studies or for reference. If you have a Google account, you can log in and save works that you like into your own gallery for later viewing.
There's a lot of art to explore; just browsing through, I found a collection of Felice Beato's photographs - amazing black-and-white photos of landscapes, architecture, and people from Japan, India, and more! Also check out the Fyeahgoogleartproject tumblr for more interesting snippets from the galleries.
Huge tutorial on colour and light in painting by Lin Ran, a pretty amazing Chinese artist (self-taught, too!). Has a useful section on working with colour in photoshop.
His blog showcases his sketches and paintings (it's in chinese, though).
(Translated by paperX over at conceptart.org!)
Zygote Body Browser is a free tool that lets you navigate around a 3D model of the human body; it allows you to vary the transparency of body layers, so you can expose muscle, bone, organs, nerves, etc. for easy viewing. Each body part displays a label when you click on it; you can also search for certain parts, like that nice happy sternocleidomastoid above.
(Basically, awesome tool for anatomy reference.)
Some images from a great tutorial on drawing ears from the artist Stan Prokopenko. Full tutorial on his site!