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u/bettysmachetes · 10 pointsr/learnart

Well first off ya got an ace attitude wanting people to be brutal and critique, that'll get you far! But from what I can see, you seem to draw the outlines of the characters rather than the shapes that a body is and this limited me personally for years. This book did me absolute wonders, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Force-Dynamic-Life-Drawing-Animators/dp/0240808452 (Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators), it was the only one my tutor at animation school recommended to me as 100% worth it and I just kept going over it again and again until I got better and I actually did, it got me thinking about body shapes and how they merge into each other and made it really fun!:) For me in this particular sketch you've done it's the fact that the arms are quite straight, straight lines on a drawing of a body always look odd, cause we're curvy squidgy creatures even when we're skinny! But yeah this book gets you swirling the pencil more and not worrying about being neat to begin with, you can always go over it afterwards. Don't be precious of your work, just keep creating!:))) Looking promising though!:))) Best of luck!

u/mesosorry · 9 pointsr/anime

I agree. It's far more beneficial to learn "proper" techniques and real anatomy, and then bend the rules to create anime styled work than to just try to do anime stuff.
By learning traditional techniques whatever style you choose for yourself will end up looking far stronger because you have those important basics mastered - real anatomy (which you can warp as you choose), how to light, how to make your character look like they have real weight, etc.

There are probably a very select few who can get by just drawing anime, but they'll also always be limited to drawing that style.

If you want a career in art and are in that position where you think "this other stuff is dumb, I just want to draw what I want to draw", you really ought to do yourself a solid early on and get over that way of thinking. If you're really serious about it, then eventually you will realize that you have to really learn the basics before anything else.

On a side note, I also urge you to find books on life drawing done by artists you admire. I feel like there are quite a few below average teachers who may not give you the best instruction, which results in frustration and drawings that look lifeless or poorly designed. Even though you're drawing from life, or from a photo, your goal should still be to design the image and not do a lifeless carbon copy.
Andrew Loomis' books really helped me when I first,started and Mike Mattesi's Force is one I always like to reference.

u/sareteni · 3 pointsr/homestuck

In the meantime, draw everything. Everything. EVERYTHING.

Keep a sketch book with you always! Draw people waiting for the bus, cars parked outside, city blocks, landscapes, trees, ideas, concepts, doodles, nonsense.

Take pictures of things and use them for reference. Constantly! Can't figure out how an arm looks like in a certain pose, get someone to pose the same way and take a shot with your phone. Its not "cheating" and most artists worth their salt will stare at you like you're insane if you told them to do a large scale project with no live or photo references.

Go to figure drawing meetups. There's usually some at art schools or in any big city. You will be terrible at first but drawing people is a good way to train your eye.

Copy your favorite artist. Not just draw from, but try to copy a whole piece of art, from start to finish, line for line, as closely as possible. Do this a lot! It will help you understand why they put this thing there, and put that thing here, and drew that thing like this.

Its the same reason musicians practice other people's work before they start composing their own!

Figure out who their influence are, and do the same thing with them.

If you're looking for books to get you started, here are some good ones.

u/tiaphoto · 3 pointsr/animation

Amazing list! All of these are essential. These are also my favorites for animation:

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)

Timing for Animation


Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

Bridgman's was a must for me when it came to learning anatomy.

u/Zoogdier · 3 pointsr/ArtBuddy

Besides drawing naked figures as much as possible, id recommend books aswell. You didnt put it in your post but i find them to be a lot more helpful than quick youtube guides.
This book is great along with a more constructive method like Loomis/Hampton.

Good luck!

u/CallerNumber4 · 3 pointsr/MLPdrawingschool

Her spine and legs are pretty ramrod stiff. I'd recommend dedicating time into gesture drawing and really trying to capture the force and weight of living subjects.

I recommend these 2 books on the topic. 1 2 They will provide a lot of good info but paid books route isn't the most practicla option for most. Draw with Jazza, Sycra and Sinix are some youtube channels I recommend watching for tutorials.

u/broken_point · 3 pointsr/ipad

Apple Notes is great for sketching, if you want to go further then yes definitely Procreate, best bang for your buck and my personal favourite.

I can't recommend any apps for learning how to draw, but I can recommend these books to get you started, that is if you'll be interested in designing characters or drawing people etc;

Bridgmans Complete Guide Drawing From Life

Force by Mike Mattesi

The Silver Way by Stephen Silver

u/BeachNWhale · 2 pointsr/comicbookart

Not bad at all. Check out this.

u/nanimeli · 2 pointsr/artistspeakeasy

Are you just learning to art or do you have goals?

Dynamic Figure Drawing The early bits of learning to draw focus on correct proportions, but just knowing the facts doesn't mean you understand what you're looking at. Learning about weight and line of action can make figure drawings a lot more interesting.

If you're interested in comics Understanding Comics helps you understand how they work, but not how to draw them.

Do you have access to art classes? Have you done any art history? Art history is pretty great for knowing about the masters and the people that paved the way for today's artists. The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern This book tries to give a short and succinct summary of most of the art movements, but it's worthwhile to get deeper into parts that interest you. The Ninja Turtles (Michaelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael) are icons of the Renaissance, and I imagine the 11 pages for that time period fail to cover quite a lot of the Renaissance. Art is more than the paintings, it's the culture that is responsible for patronizing their work, it's the lessons they learned in pursuit of grander and grander works (The Monalisa represents a lighting choice - twilight hours with indirect lighting; On either side of her is two-point perspective and atmospheric perspective), the men and women that created these works, how these ideas traveled through the regions, and what their work meant to the artists in the time period they lived in.

u/CaptainFiddlebottom · 1 pointr/Illustration

A book that has helped me loads with visualizing the human figure is the Force series. It teaches you how to see the forces of the body and be able to push that to it's extremes.. and it's helped me loads with creating dynamic poses without reference.

Torrent it and see if you like it. Thats what I do with all my books.. the good ones end up on my shelf. lol

u/Dralenaxe · 1 pointr/learnart

The human body is made up of the phi ratio. http://www.goldennumber.net/human-body/

Knowing the actual relations isn't as important as knowing that all of the parts of the body are proportionally related to one another. Keeping that in mind, practice building the figure from related measurements. As basic as it is, I found this video extremely helpful once I realized this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBAPGBlnls

Of course, practice, being able to visualize the body in your head, and knowing underlying anatomy are all required to make good use of this. You need to take figure drawing or at the very least practice online. https://www.youtube.com/user/onairvideo these are videos of models posing which is better than stills but not as good as a live model in front of you that you can walk around and see in 3d space.

I used to scoff at using stick figures to build the body because I felt it robotized the pose, but if you build gesturally around the lines, they really help give your work a feeling of life and realness that it can be extremely hard to replicate intuitively.

This book helped me loosen up a lot and taught me some ways of breathing life into sketches. http://www.amazon.com/Force-Dynamic-Life-Drawing-Animators/dp/0240808452 Some very useful tips in here, a lot to do with line confidence, that you don't find copy/pasted everywhere. Not as much to do with anatomy, but all the anatomical knowledge in the world won't necessarily help you draw something that looks alive and natural.

Hope this helps!

u/mwwansing · 1 pointr/learnart

It didn't occur to me to post them here, I guess that come with being up at 2 in the mornin.

Force

Glen Vilppu

Glen Video

The two books have brought me extremely far in my art, they've allowed me to rethink the way I draw. Glen Is more of a classical approach to art, which in todays world has been forgotten about. The video leads to pirate bay download because the actual videos cost 500$. I sure as hell am not gonna pay that. They are old videos from the 70's but by god those were some of the most informative videos Ive ever seen. I HIGHLY recommend watching all of them. i think in total its 15 hours.

u/LieselMeminger · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I'm sure you've heard this before, but life drawing classes are invaluable.

Not truly an anatomy book per se, but I've found this book to be very useful.

u/BruteForceMonteCarlo · 1 pointr/animation

I only realised what I wanted to do when I was 24 (Which was 3D Animation). I was rejected from 3 masters programs in 3D Animation, and then took up IAnimate last January. Since then I have worked on several paid projects, and am hoping to land my first full time industry gig soon. I did exactly what the other comments here recommended before joining IAnimate. Did some gesture drawing classes, and bought these books (1 2 3)

If you really want to do it, you will make it work. You absolutely will find a way.

u/a-dash · 1 pointr/animation

This is also a great book for gestural/figure drawing. It wants you to exaggerate the form but base your caricature in a full knowledge of the form. Whenever I feel as though I'm not pushing my perspectives or shapes far enough I pull this book out.

Force

About your portfolio, I have nothing to add that has been mentioned already, just that, from looking at what you have posted on your site, you seem to be developing toward a really defined style. It's just a matter of practice til you get there. Keep it up! I started studying animation in an MFA program when I was 27.

u/cheyras · 1 pointr/ArtistLounge

Check out the book "Force: Dynamic Drawing For Animators." It's been a great resource for me and helped me make drawings that feel more lively and not flat and stiff.