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Drawin' them fancy pictures yew kids'er always gittin' on about.; Seriously, drawing advice.
Topic Started: Aug 26 2012, 03:42 AM (287 Views)
Sanjo9
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I've been practicing drawing for a while now, and for the sake of a commitment I've made to myself, I don't want to show off anything I've done until my work reaches a consistent level of quality that I deem acceptable. Long story short, I need some recommendations for getting better. People have told me to copy other pictures, particularly those in a style I want to emulate (Nomura, Amano, Ayami Kojima [Castlevania] are my biggest inspirations for wanting to pursue this), draw for an hour each day (something I try to do), but I feel like progress is coming at a disgustingly slow pace. What should I do? Do you have any links for sites on learning to draw well? It's not necessarily manga that I want to draw, but my own characters. Admittedly, most of them are furries, so I'll pursue a course of action for them later on once I understand human forms.
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MexiMike
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Drawing well takes a lot of time and practice. I would recommend that you look into anything that can help you get the right proportions of the body and the facial expressions and all of that come after you know where to place everything. After just add your personal touch. All that I was told by a friend who is awesome at drawing so you may find it useful.
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Sanjo9
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You see, I hate general advice. I need specifics. Telling me to "look into X or Y" in general doesn't help. I need specifics, such as sites or books, even drawing teachers or aids.
Edited by Sanjo9, Aug 26 2012, 02:00 PM.
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ronninhunter
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15 years of experience and a BA in art education means I'm qualified to evaluate your work and either give you constructive criticism or rip you a new one. Not like I'm doing much else with what I know.
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Sanjo9
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I'm not showing my work to anyone until I'm satisfied with the quality to some degree.
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ronninhunter
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Without knowledge of your current skills, you're gonna have to accept general 'x and y' advice. I was at where you are now and didn't like to show my work. But until you get over and are able to outside opinions you'll never really advance.
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Sanjo9
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I've heard the "you'll never get better" bullshit too.
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ronninhunter
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I'm only saying what I know from experience. If you're set on self teaching with no outside help websites are easy to find, you just need to look and try what works for you. If you more personal teachings I can offer tips, techniques, and advice I'll just need to know what particular areas you're looking for, like color shaded/tints etc.

I can give you some basic advice now. And that would be to start by replicating pictures from the artists you want to learn from and work constantly from them. Eventually you'll pick up certain techs from each one, for exampl nomura and Amano are good at line work. You can then mix characteristics from each artist with your own techniques to create your own style that will allow you to stand out from your influences and not be seen as a carbon copier of their work.

Sorry for the length of that but it's just something to get you started
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Caliburnus
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Ronnin's right on this one. Anything that can be learned needs to be applied - this went for my artwork as well as music mixing and guitar playing. I hated the unfinished product being evaluated, but it remained unfinished because I couldn't make it what I wanted. Without that outside input, you are precluding everyone from giving you SPECIFIC advice. Any teaching material we refer you to would do no good unless we can get you to where you need to be.
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MexiMike
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I been trying a little bit of drawing myself and I can completely agree with Butterfly here, even though I'm still noobish at this, practicing with other authors makes a big difference. Can't still do OC's but so far I'm liking how some things turn out (about the OC's I know it'll take lots of time before those XD)
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