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Becoming A Better Artist: Learning to Not Copy
Well it's been a while since i have done a journal. In fact usually, I disappear from DA during the year because of my work and how much time that it takes away. So I finally decided after years of not watching my work go anywhere because I wasn't spending much time getting better because I was never getting the chance to practice that I had to make time if I really enjoyed this as a hobby.
I began with the idea of well maybe if I only get on here once a week that I would be doing better than I normal did in the past and I could use this time to look on here and to also do a little bit of artwork myself while doing so. This quickly turned
Learning To Color Can Be A Real .........HHhmm...!
So it has been a lengthy long drawn out process that throughout the year I have been studying. Due to my work and how extensive it can be I can not get the practice for drawing or learning to color in. So throughout the year I have just been compiling, reading , learning (I don't have a full Photoshop, just elements). So whatever I would learn about through Photoshop I would then have to go and learn about it on my own on Elements. Finally I started finding places online that would explain Elements which made my life so much easier.
I swear it felt like learning a anew language all over again and learning how things work. Sometimes it w
SKETCHING CLEANER LINES HELP!!!!
So it's been a while since I was on here because I had some problems with my right hand and have been wearing an arm brace to see if that would help to fix things for me. Luckily it has worked and since then I was suppose to ease back into using my right hand again so that I don't put too much stress on it.
I have found that a little break really has helped out a lot. I have recently started sketching again and believe it or not my sketches have turned out better than my previous ones. I have had to take it slower with the pics so that means I could spend more time making sure that I clean up a lot of the things that I usually never clean
LEARNING TO COLOR HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
Well so I have finally lost my mind and for some reason decided to learn how to ink color. Because I am broke as a joke I downloaded Paint.net ::w00t:: and have been trying to learn of of that.
First I want to say that this is some hard crap and really am confused. In most of the tutorials that I find here and on youtube people tend to think that others can read at the speed of light and they take off doing rather than explaining. I guess everyone wasn't meant to be teachers. Anywho, I bought a Bamboo Pen and Touch Tablet hoping that that would make things a bit easier but so far not seeing the advantages of it yet.
Coloring is the hard
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To really get an understanding on anatomy and I think Steven mentions this on his videos you need to get some artists books on anatomy. My top pics would be Burne Hogarth Dynamic Anatony, George Bridgman Drawing from life and sara simblet anatomy for the artist. You can also check andrew loomis, you can download his books for free since they are out of circulation.
Another thing you really need is you are able is to take a life drawing class or workshop. You can get a lot of knowledge from books and stuff but to really get a grasp as how everything actually is you need to draw real from real models. It will help you a lot also on how color and light work for shading. And this doesn't just limits to classes and people. You can draw any object thats on your house or you can go to the beach, or a park or even the mall and draw people there, poses might not be as rich and long as with a model but you'll learn a lot anyways. The zoo is another great place to go and draw animals and environments.
I'll also stay away from attempting cartooning or going for any other style right now. Cartoons are a highly simplified form of the human anatomy and to really understand whats going on in there and also to really understand how to simplify you need to know how everything really looks and works. Having that knowledge behind you is what is going to infuse your cartoons with life otherwise they will be just a 2nd or 3rd generation copy of someone else's style.
check out also conceptart.org, its full of amazing artists and has tons ans tons of resources and links that can help you out a lot.
Last thing I can say is practice a lot, that's the only true behind any artist and also learn anatomy and draw from life as much as you possibly can.
hope it helped a bit.
peace
Another thing you really need is you are able is to take a life drawing class or workshop. You can get a lot of knowledge from books and stuff but to really get a grasp as how everything actually is you need to draw real from real models. It will help you a lot also on how color and light work for shading. And this doesn't just limits to classes and people. You can draw any object thats on your house or you can go to the beach, or a park or even the mall and draw people there, poses might not be as rich and long as with a model but you'll learn a lot anyways. The zoo is another great place to go and draw animals and environments.
I'll also stay away from attempting cartooning or going for any other style right now. Cartoons are a highly simplified form of the human anatomy and to really understand whats going on in there and also to really understand how to simplify you need to know how everything really looks and works. Having that knowledge behind you is what is going to infuse your cartoons with life otherwise they will be just a 2nd or 3rd generation copy of someone else's style.
check out also conceptart.org, its full of amazing artists and has tons ans tons of resources and links that can help you out a lot.
Last thing I can say is practice a lot, that's the only true behind any artist and also learn anatomy and draw from life as much as you possibly can.
hope it helped a bit.
peace