I came to your page from Thought Faucet. I work with most of the other people there. From what I can tell, you are open and non-defensive about art critique and that is probably the one thing that will allow you to learn and grow more than anything else. I've seen really, good artists in beginning art classes, AMAZING artists that everyone looks up to. But the "rockstar" doesn't work as hard or listen as closely because a part of him feels like he doesn't have to. Meanwhile, the newer artists are pulling long nights focusing like lasers on their homework and (I swear, I've seen this happen over and over), 2 semesters down the line all these so-so artists are suddenly kicking ass and have long surpassed the rockstar who wasn't working as hard. Have no ego. Don't get defensive. Don't hoard you're knowledge. Ask lots of questions. Be a freakin' art SPONGE.
P.S. If you want, I could give you a list of the best art books to study....there's a lot of bad ones out there.
Thanks man, and don't worry -- I won't become a defensive brat! I like receiving crits, considering them, and keeping them in mind for the next time. And sure give me that list please, I've been meaning to find some good art books before summer ends. Thanks again, Anonymous!
The most important book, which will change the way you draw forever, no matter how experienced you are is "Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain" by: Betty Edwards.
"Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" by Adrew Loomis. Anything by Andrew Loomis.
Anything by Glenn Vilppu
"Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" by Stephen Peck
After you know you're anatomy and you're able to recognize bone and muscle groups, try studying Bridgeman's "Constructive Anatomy".
"Rapid Viz" by Kurt Hanks
"Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner
You will find tons of "How to draw for comics/video games" in the bookstore, most of them are a rip off. Whatever those people are teaching in their book is a watered-down version of what _they_ learned from the original masters.
Study your anatomy, study perspective, learn how to draw from life...and then you can move on to drawing characters and monsteres and environments and robots and all the things that the hacks are trying to learn by imitating newer/popular artists.
Hey, man. I like that you're trying to push and do some more cartoony and caricatured things. It's nice to see more variety from you. I'm also glad to see you're drawing and posting more, so that's good.
I like a lot of what you're going for here. Just remember that straights vs. curves stuff I was telling you about. It works great on feet, to keep them from feeling floaty. Straight on bottom, curved on top. Makes it feel like they're pushed down against the floor, which helps show the weight of the body.
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I came to your page from Thought Faucet. I work with most of the other people there. From what I can tell, you are open and non-defensive about art critique and that is probably the one thing that will allow you to learn and grow more than anything else. I've seen really, good artists in beginning art classes, AMAZING artists that everyone looks up to. But the "rockstar" doesn't work as hard or listen as closely because a part of him feels like he doesn't have to. Meanwhile, the newer artists are pulling long nights focusing like lasers on their homework and (I swear, I've seen this happen over and over), 2 semesters down the line all these so-so artists are suddenly kicking ass and have long surpassed the rockstar who wasn't working as hard.
Have no ego. Don't get defensive. Don't hoard you're knowledge. Ask lots of questions. Be a freakin' art SPONGE.
P.S. If you want, I could give you a list of the best art books to study....there's a lot of bad ones out there.
Thanks man, and don't worry -- I won't become a defensive brat! I like receiving crits, considering them, and keeping them in mind for the next time. And sure give me that list please, I've been meaning to find some good art books before summer ends. Thanks again, Anonymous!
The most important book, which will change the way you draw forever, no matter how experienced you are is "Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain" by: Betty Edwards.
"Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" by Adrew Loomis. Anything by Andrew Loomis.
Anything by Glenn Vilppu
"Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" by Stephen Peck
After you know you're anatomy and you're able to recognize bone and muscle groups, try studying Bridgeman's "Constructive Anatomy".
"Rapid Viz" by Kurt Hanks
"Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner
You will find tons of "How to draw for comics/video games" in the bookstore, most of them are a rip off. Whatever those people are teaching in their book is a watered-down version of what _they_ learned from the original masters.
Study your anatomy, study perspective, learn how to draw from life...and then you can move on to drawing characters and monsteres and environments and robots and all the things that the hacks are trying to learn by imitating newer/popular artists.
Thanks!
Hey, man. I like that you're trying to push and do some more cartoony and caricatured things. It's nice to see more variety from you. I'm also glad to see you're drawing and posting more, so that's good.
I like a lot of what you're going for here. Just remember that straights vs. curves stuff I was telling you about. It works great on feet, to keep them from feeling floaty. Straight on bottom, curved on top. Makes it feel like they're pushed down against the floor, which helps show the weight of the body.
Keep up the hard work!
~R
Thanks Randy!
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