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>Lee is great. Not a fan of Capullo's style, but that's personal preference and not a remark on his ability. I'm not sure why you're asking about them, though.

Jim Lee is especially the artist I've followed most of my life.

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>The goal is only to be as realistic as possible if you are actually creating a realistic image. However that does not mean that there aren't "rules" or guidelines to follow to make cartoonish art look better. Look at artists like Patrick Brown or animator John K, where their work is definitely stylized, but perspectives and anatomical structures, etc still work correctly.

And yes that's the philosophy I share. Art to me is how the brain perceives reality and how it's transcribed onto a canvas.

You can see how distorted reality is to a person who can't draw well.

Clearly, even I have a distorted world view, otherwise there'd be nothing to pick at and say "that's wrong.

I mentioned Jim Lee and Greg Capullo because if you were comparing my work to something like the greatest artist who ever live Leonardo DaVinci... or the best artbook author of all time, Burne Hogarth... yeah my work doesn't compare.

But I mentioned Jim Lee, Greg Capullo, Beauty and the Beast, and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood to say... it's more these styles I'm after. I find it easier to do realistic life drawings with a pencil and paper at this stage.

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>Don't use the warp tool as a crutch. It's fine to use to clean up small things, but it's really not going to fix major problems and it won't teach you to draw better.

Oh I know. Best to get it right the first time. I feel the same with moving things like the legs and the hair with the transform tool. But it's easy to put a sketch under another sheet of paper on a light table and shift the onion skin around to do a similar thing in that regard.

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>I'm confused by your remarks concerning curvilinear perspective. It's a well known technique and is widely used (especially in 2D animation).

Not any good books in English. Meaning, it's not widely known or taught.

And the 2D work I've seen it used is mainly in Japan. There's TWO Disney artist that have worked for Disney that I know use it.

Bob Simons, who I've personally worked with when he left Disney. He painted murals for a project I worked on.

And... his name escapes me... but he's the guy that pitched Lilo and Stitch to Disney.

>I studied it in school way back when and there are plenty of western books on the subject, including videos and tutorials online, so I'm not sure why you appear to think it's unknown or underrepresented in the west;

Where? I've searched all over the place online.

I can't make heads or tails of anything David Chelsea teaches in "Extreme Perspective for artists" because of his damned stupid comic book format.

So I had to go on obscure websites and found "New Perspective Systems" which teaches an elementary degree of it.

It's BARELY on youtube.

>but if you found a particular book that allows it to make sense to you, then more power to ya.

I'm all for a book in english. The only other book I found was this https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0520059794/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495393240&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=Curvilinear+perspective&dpPl=1&dpID=515jy-NJRmL&ref=plSrch

It had no sample pages, and reviews saying there's too much "history"... so I don't know what that means, but I saved my $50 on this foreign book.

If there are books they're not on Amazon with the key words "fisheye perspective" or "curvilinear perspective". They're on obscure websites, hard to find.

And if they are on Amazon... then they've been given some cute name... so no one looking for them can find them.

Oh man I love it! It reminds me of this book where they catalog different dragons from around the world. Very cool I would love to see a series of dragons from different biomes :)