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Re: Learning To Draw
« Reply #150 on: July 18, 2015, 05:28:35 AM »
Did someone say art book recommendations?
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Ok. Let's do this.

Like mithrysc mentioned, Andrew Loomis has one of the most comprehensive and universal books on drawing, and yes, they are avaible for public domain right here.
If you guys are just starting to draw (even though everyone should read) a good place to start are with his two books "Succesful Drawing" and "Fun With a Pencil"

I hear the "Famous Artist's Course" is very, VERY helpful. I don't know about buying a hard copy but there are high res scans of various pages on google images.

Anything by Goerge B. Bridgeman if you want to go learn anatomy hardcore.

I've found Micheal Hampton's "Figure Drawing Design and Invention" extremely helpful in the simplification of anatomy.

Ken Hultgren's  "The Art of Animal Drawing", explains really well how animals are constructed.

Hermann Baum, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Dittrich are all names you want to look up if you're interested in animal anatomy.

James Gurney's "Imagintive Realism" and "Color and Light" They're quite advanced books but they are a life saver when you level up a bit higher.

There's also the highly regarded "Drawn to Life Vol.1 & 2" by Walt Stanchfield. Even though it's primarly directed to animator's it still serves as a very good guide to gesture drawing, at least that's what they say.

The "Charles Bargue Drawing Course" (by Charles Bargue). Apparently after googling his name already a pdf of this shows up, it's safe but whether it's ''technically legal'' or not you decide, no one seems to mind though, he's been dead for more than 70 years. Available here. There are also high res plates that are supposed to be studied, I quickly compiled them in a .zip file for convienience, but if you don't trust me (who would) you can download manually all of them one by one here.

Also any good perspective book will do, it's by far one of the most important and straight forward subjects to learn.

(I'm sorry I might've gone a little overboard with this but I got more back in my réservoir)
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #151 on: July 24, 2015, 02:23:46 AM »
OK I guess this is a little bit of thread necromancy, but I made a dragon-drawing tutorial
also called "how to make yourself redraw everything 6 times because you won't use guide-shapes"
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xiB2xE27X-kgbdykngqzyfAV15lIQ_tt5oNrWu_x_CM/edit
er. You guys can theoretically edit that, so be nice to it, OK? I don't know how to make it not-editable. :P

Edit: I made an oops and that link doesn't work. Try this one instead: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xiB2xE27X-kgbdykngqzyfAV15lIQ_tt5oNrWu_x_CM/edit?usp=sharing
« Last Edit: July 24, 2015, 12:23:38 PM by Noodly Appendage »
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #152 on: July 24, 2015, 11:50:34 AM »
Quote from: Noodly Appendage on July 24, 2015, 02:23:46 AM
OK I guess this is a little bit of thread necromancy, but I made a dragon-drawing tutorial
also called "how to make yourself redraw everything 6 times because you won't use guide-shapes"
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xiB2xE27X-kgbdykngqzyfAV15lIQ_tt5oNrWu_x_CM/edit
er. You guys can theoretically edit that, so be nice to it, OK? I don't know how to make it not-editable. :P

As of right now, I can't seem to get onto it, and I really want to see your dragons! :(. Try going into share settings and select "everyone with link can view" (you may have to click on "get shareable link" in the upper right corner of the popup), which will make it so we all can follow the link, and will also fix it so we can't edit anything.
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #153 on: July 24, 2015, 12:22:33 PM »
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #154 on: July 24, 2015, 12:31:34 PM »
Quote from: Noodly Appendage on July 24, 2015, 12:22:33 PM
Ah, I just figured out how to do that.
This link should work: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xiB2xE27X-kgbdykngqzyfAV15lIQ_tt5oNrWu_x_CM/edit?usp=sharing

Yay! Dragons! Have I mentioned yet that I really love dragons? I draw the outline using a pretty similar method, but the coloring method was new to me, and I really like how it turned out! *scrabbles for her old crayola pencils* Thanks for sharing  ;D
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #155 on: July 24, 2015, 01:04:03 PM »
Quote from: Ana Nymus on July 24, 2015, 12:31:34 PM
Yay! Dragons! Have I mentioned yet that I really love dragons? I draw the outline using a pretty similar method, but the coloring method was new to me, and I really like how it turned out! *scrabbles for her old crayola pencils* Thanks for sharing  ;D
Yay! I'm glad you liked it.
I'm working on one for figures, but it'll be a little bit before it's up. :P
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Re: Art Supply Discussion Thread
« Reply #156 on: July 24, 2015, 11:45:15 PM »
I get a 30% employee discount at the art store. Anyone who's been to art school... what supplies should I get for the next three years?
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Re: Art Supply Discussion Thread
« Reply #157 on: July 25, 2015, 03:30:33 AM »
Quote from: RandomTexanReader on July 24, 2015, 11:45:15 PM
I get a 30% employee discount at the art store. Anyone who's been to art school... what supplies should I get for the next three years?

((oops, I meant to answer this before I said goodnight; yes I'm still awake))

-Lots of pencils
-Colored pencils (Prismacolor is the best)
-Pens/brush pens - a personal preference
-Lots and lots of sketchbooks, because you may as well stock up
-Also probably drawing paper if you're going to art school yourself; I've had to use a lot of it

...okay, going to sleep for real now. I'll be able to think of more things in the morning, I'm sure.
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Re: Art Supply Discussion Thread
« Reply #158 on: July 25, 2015, 05:53:27 PM »
Quote from: Piney on July 25, 2015, 03:30:33 AM
((oops, I meant to answer this before I said goodnight; yes I'm still awake))

-Lots of pencils
-Colored pencils (Prismacolor is the best)
-Pens/brush pens - a personal preference
-Lots and lots of sketchbooks, because you may as well stock up
-Also probably drawing paper if you're going to art school yourself; I've had to use a lot of it

...okay, going to sleep for real now. I'll be able to think of more things in the morning, I'm sure.
Thank you! Now I'm 12 pencils, one brush, two pens, two notebooks (250+ sheets) richer aaaand $70 poorer.
I understand why art supplies cost what they do, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. At least I'm not choosing between art supplies and food...
yet.
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #159 on: July 25, 2015, 08:56:18 PM »
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Re: Art Supply Discussion Thread
« Reply #160 on: July 25, 2015, 09:06:23 PM »
I haven't read through this thread yet, but I've taken various pictures of art supplies previous to this, so I'm sharing them!

Current-ish sketch books (actually the large one is my previous one) and old sketch books.


Travel Everywhere Pencil Case. Often seen with current sketchbook. Pen case (seen when there might be a chance of inking something)


Some color pencils. And art area, with some of my watercolors and brushes
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #161 on: July 25, 2015, 09:44:17 PM »
Quote from: bread on July 25, 2015, 08:56:18 PM
I also got a whole bunch of tutorials that I found on the internetz. I don't know if these are helpful or not, but I hope they are.

(all that good stuff)


Ooh, I'm going to have to take a closer look at a lot of these, especially the hand/cloth ones. Seriously, I cannot for the life of me figure out hands. Thanks for the suggestions!

Also, welcome to the forum! Head over to the Introduction thread: I hear they have cookies  ;D
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Re: Art tutorials!
« Reply #162 on: July 26, 2015, 06:05:31 AM »
Quote from: Ana Nymus on July 25, 2015, 09:44:17 PM
Ooh, I'm going to have to take a closer look at a lot of these, especially the hand/cloth ones. Seriously, I cannot for the life of me figure out hands. Thanks for the suggestions!

Also, welcome to the forum! Head over to the Introduction thread: I hear they have cookies  ;D

 
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Re: Art Supply Discussion Thread
« Reply #163 on: July 29, 2015, 11:33:19 PM »
Ok so I don't know if anyone's still posting things here, but I am finally home and able to take pictures of my random art stuff if anyone's interested. My art supplies are mostly kinda like leftover dinners. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. I think the only paint I don't have is oil paint.

To start out, my different fountain pens and inks. I don't usually use the really fancy one, but the rest are pretty regular. The black one with the cap and the wide tip is a calligraphy pen and that's what I've used to do the writing you've seen on here


Inks, stamps, embossing ink, embossing powder


Wax, those things you press into the wax what are they called... seals, glitter, tape with music notes and words on it, two bottles of gouache


More paint! Alcohol paint, acrylic paint, stains, crackle dry paint, and markers that look kinda neat and have a fwooshy tip and a writing tip


Alllll the pencil-crayons!!! I think I have 60 different colours. I've had them for years, my oldest method of colouring


Origami paper! And some random parchment paper


Two really old boxes of chalk pastels and a really old bag of oil pastels. I have no idea where they came from. I rescued them from the family art cabinet because no one else was using them


I have this little box full of found items: keys, love note, chocolate bar wrappers, can wrappers, lace, a bag of soot, etc. and other random scraps of paper and some brads and butterflies


More paper! I currently have two stacks of scrapbook paper and a ton of random scraps because I don't like to throw them out. There's also some photos I took and some stuff I'm working on right now


My scrapbooks: the one on the left is Vinstri (ha it matches it's name) and the one on the right is not finished yet so has no name. They're full of photos, sketches, poems, collages, and other random art from the last 2 1/2 years of my life


Uhhhhhhhhhhh this one is really embarassing.... ummmmmm these are my watercolours. Why I need three sets of watercolours I have no idea. It just sorta happened. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh.... And to think I wanted to buy more in Iceland.... I think I might have a small watercolour buying problem. Someone help me.

(Laufey, the blue paper block is the paper I used for the drawing I gave you, if you were wondering what brand it was. I think I got it at wallmart or something) Also also Laufey can vouch for my incredible self control at the art store in Iceland when I didn't buy more sets of watercolours.  ::)

And everything fits nicely into these little boxes so I can take it all with me when I move :D


And that's basically all the art supplies I own. At the moment. It's always growing. Exponentially. Also sorry this is so long. I'm all done now.
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Re: Art Supply Discussion Thread
« Reply #164 on: July 29, 2015, 11:39:49 PM »
Quote from: Feartheviolas on July 29, 2015, 11:33:19 PM
Ok so I don't know if anyone's still posting things here, but I am finally home and able to take pictures of my random art stuff if anyone's interested. My art supplies are mostly kinda like leftover dinners. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. I think the only paint I don't have is oil paint.

To start out, my different fountain pens and inks. I don't usually use the really fancy one, but the rest are pretty regular. The black one with the cap and the wide tip is a calligraphy pen and that's what I've used to do the writing you've seen on here


Inks, stamps, embossing ink, embossing powder


Wax, those things you press into the wax what are they called... seals, glitter, tape with music notes and words on it, two bottles of gouache


More paint! Alcohol paint, acrylic paint, stains, crackle dry paint, and markers that look kinda neat and have a fwooshy tip and a writing tip


Alllll the pencil-crayons!!! I think I have 60 different colours. I've had them for years, my oldest method of colouring


Origami paper! And some random parchment paper


Two really old boxes of chalk pastels and a really old bag of oil pastels. I have no idea where they came from. I rescued them from the family art cabinet because no one else was using them


I have this little box full of found items: keys, love note, chocolate bar wrappers, can wrappers, lace, a bag of soot, etc. and other random scraps of paper and some brads and butterflies


More paper! I currently have two stacks of scrapbook paper and a ton of random scraps because I don't like to throw them out. There's also some photos I took and some stuff I'm working on right now


My scrapbooks: the one on the left is Vinstri (ha it matches it's name) and the one on the right is not finished yet so has no name. They're full of photos, sketches, poems, collages, and other random art from the last 2 1/2 years of my life


Uhhhhhhhhhhh this one is really embarassing.... ummmmmm these are my watercolours. Why I need three sets of watercolours I have no idea. It just sorta happened. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh.... And to think I wanted to buy more in Iceland.... I think I might have a small watercolour buying problem. Someone help me.

(Laufey, the blue paper block is the paper I used for the drawing I gave you, if you were wondering what brand it was. I think I got it at wallmart or something) Also also Laufey can vouch for my incredible self control at the art store in Iceland when I didn't buy more sets of watercolours.  ::)

And everything fits nicely into these little boxes so I can take it all with me when I move :D


And that's basically all the art supplies I own. At the moment. It's always growing. Exponentially. Also sorry this is so long. I'm all done now.

Wow! I love your writing pens!!!! You have so much cool awesome things!
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