Drawing tips

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I love to but sometimes I not very good at drawing things like People's body. Do you great arties got any drawing tips for me and for other people?

[Reply #1 on:]

I don't consider myself a very good artist but the best way to learn how to draw something is usually by observing things in the real world. I mena I'm trying to learn how to draw hands properly and I am doing it by looking at my own hand and seeing how it is made up.
I suppose I could tell you how i colour my art as well but for the moment I have said my piece.

[Reply #2 on:]

Polykarbon have some good tutorials and techniques as do How to draw manga sure these don't teach you much other than manga, but they tell you how to draw bodies correctly and how to get the proportions correct. I do a lot of life drawing at college so I get plenty of practice drawing people. As crap as this might sound, practice helps to, and something that I've begun to find out recently is that some people can draw and some can't, for some it comes naturally. All I can say is practice a lot, using different media! not just pencils,
if you put enough effort into it you'll get something out of it. Don't be afraid to spend a couple of hours on something. wu_konguk had some ace advice as well, understanding how some things work will help it look more realistic

Also, you need to look like an artist! Drink lots of coffee, and always act depressed, this way people will think your deep in thought all the time... maybe   

[Reply #3 on:]

*Takes notes* Coffee...... depressed.......

[Reply #4 on:]

Thanks guys I give it my best shot.

[Reply #5 on:]

And above all else you need to be poor! All artists are poor.

If that's a problem you can send all your money to:

Teral
P.O Box 7427
Denmark

[Reply #6 on:]

I can't say it much better than TheVoices or Wu have already put it, only difference is that I don't drink Coffee (although the depressed bit is spot on)

[Reply #7 on:]

Wallowing in self pity helps as well.

[Reply #8 on:]

That's a great character trait for anyone, not just artists!

[Reply #9 on:]

As TheVoices said, Practice! I think Practice is most important. and again as TheVoices said, don't be afraid to spend hours on a drawing. I've spend 4 hours drawing a skeleten sitting on a pile os skulls once, turned out pretty nice actualy! 

[Reply #10 on:]

Well while I'm waiting for an AMV to download, which is going to take forever stupid 56k modem, I whought I might tell you how I colour in on Photoshop. If it helps good if it don't meh I'm just killing time here.
First get your picture loaded in Photoshop 7 (im not sure if all these techniques work in earlier versions). Since i use a mouse I make sure the picture is sealed (i'e when you fill an area of skin it doesn't turn the whole page that colour). Then I take these line and make them the first layer leveing the background layer blanck for now. Then I create a second layer and add the base colour onto that layer using the wnad tool and fill bucket. This is probably standard at this point of course sometime imake different layers for colours depending on how complex the picture is.

Next Shadows another layer set to multipy in the layer settings. The with the poligon laso tool I select an area that I think the shadows should be in. Next with the paint bucket tool I set the oppacity to 30%. For the colour of the shadows I use a dark blue since this is the colur of most shadows. Then I used the fill bucket on the area and do this process for the whole picture. The reason i set the buckets opacity and not the layers is becase I can reapply the bucket to areas to create darker shadows. Finnally I go to filter options and apply a gaussian blur to the shadow layer with a radius of about 4.8.

Next highlights yes you guessed it another layer set to overlay. FOr this I use an air brush with a white color. I apply the high lights and then decied on opcity as the picture dictates then i apply the gaussian blur to that layer.

For guns and other metal objects I use the dodge and burn tools.

The rest is all dependent on the picture it's self. I usually make the background last but that's my preferences. Then i save the file as a jpeg and mess around with the levels and hues and saturations on that version. Then i might add some effects then i save it and then I go to  http://www.ranchoweb.com/  and upload it so I can remote link it here

And that as they say is that.

Damn that file is still downloading 

[Reply #11 on:]

I really do suck at drawing I was drawing today and it looks nasty

I can only do scan grabs.

[Reply #12 on:]

Try more Juli! You can't give up yet! Giving up early is for cowards.

[Reply #13 on:]

Right, Hawk. ;-)

[Reply #14 on:]

I got some news to tell you I thinking of joining a arts class (today maybe) to improve my drawings

[Reply #15 on:]

What Drawing programme do you used?

[Reply #16 on:]

Paint 

[Reply #17 on:]

Hands are by far the most difficult things to draw due to the complexity of it's many different poses.  Facial expressions are one of the easier things to learn as I'm sure many people have spent most of their time perfecting the face.  Headshots are easy, it's the rest of the figure that kills me.

[Reply #18 on:]

I usually print out a full body shot of the characters and observe the way their bodies are shaped.  Then I experiment with poses until it looks good.  I keep it up until it gets better and better.

--Missy

[Reply #19 on:]

My drawing this sucks I'm trying to draw a picture of me behind Bender hugging him.

[Reply #20 on:]

 I think that drawing yourself is really hard. I learned how to draw by doodling in class. I dont think that is very good advice but o well it worked for me.

[Reply #21 on:]

 

Originally posted by Hawk:
Try more Juli! You can't give up yet! Giving up early is for cowards.

no giving up is for losers!! Do you wanna be a loser? I dont think so!!!

[Reply #22 on:]

I also doodle in class! I've drawn Leela with a gun! And also Fry, Amy!   

[Reply #23 on:]

Best thing to do is to practice as often as possible. I just got a WACOM (mouse pen) and it's like learning how to draw all over again. All I can do now is practice and practice more.

[Reply #24 on:]

im good with paint shop pro :P

[Reply #25 on:]

my drawings are improving

[Reply #26 on:]

Drawing from life is always a good way to go. For my art A Level our teacher brought in someone to model for us so we could get the hang of drawing the human body. We definitely improved, although mainly to avoid having to see that ugly model again...   

[Reply #27 on:]

I've been doing scans now. I a bit worried because I need to have a look at speicail stuff to give the scan a bit more character. That's why I've been doing more scenes with the scans

[Reply #28 on:]

I've been doing scanarts, since I first saw the artwork on CGEF and FSAC.  I did 4 or 5 (First entry Sean's Stuff thread)then took a gamble and contacted Paul who seems to have his fair share of the market, and asked if he'd help a budding artist.  He did, and look where it got me to.

I cannot draw by hand, looking at a pencil and a blank piece of paper still makes me shudder from when I was in art class and showing extreme ineptitude at drawing.

[Reply #29 on:]

well scince i SUCK BIG TIME at drawing i cant really tell you tips but maybe i could help by telling you when you star try doing less complex thing, as you get bette you can do more difficult possitions hope that helps 

[Reply #30 on:]

I'm quite a good drawer! My favorite subject is Art!The drawing tip I use is Paint!

[Reply #31 on:]

Art is my favorite subject too. I have always liked it, i am preety good at it

[Reply #32 on:]

Dumb question, I know, but how do I post pictures without uploading them somewhere and linking to it?

[Reply #33 on:]

maybe some thing that made me be so bad in art is that all my art teachers dont help me and they just suck, they have all been such bad abd teachers

[Reply #34 on:]

 

Originally posted by zoidyzoid:
Dumb question, I know, but how do I post pictures without uploading them somewhere and linking to it?

You don't.