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General Drawing
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The Natural Way to Draw
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (also available sans illustrations via Project Gutenburg E-Texts)
Figure Drawing
Bridgman's Complete Guide To Drawing From Life
Drawings Lessons From the Great Masters
Anatomy Lessons From the Great Masters
Master Class in Figure Drawing
Figure Drawing For All Its Worth
Dynamic Anatomy
Dynamic Figure Drawing
Just paint straight onto the block, then use an Xacto blade to separate the used page from the rest.
It's tricky, and you'll probably kill a page or two before you get the hang of it, but it prevents the pages from wrinkling during use.
What I try to do right now is to only draw lines that I can definatley visualise in my head (gesturing?), even if they don't connect to anything, but they have to be definate, final lines. If I start guessing where things go and not knowing what certian lines 'do what' on a page the picture just gets confusing. When I'v got a good 'base' down, usually a lot of confident outlines (think something like Sonic's work, but less detailed http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v185/Sonicc/Daily%20Scribbles/02-07-05.jpg) I'll then go in and start filling the drawing out with form, connecting everything up, etc.
Sorry if I can't explain it well but I just want some opinions or suggestions or something on this way of working. That inital effort of 'gesturing' the drawing requires an immense amount of concenration from me but from theron in it gets a lot easier. The problem is I can rarley get a solid gesture base down seeing as most of the time I need a 100% concentration on what I want to draw and most of the time I'm not really sure.
Can anyone give me some tips or suggestions on what I could use as something that could get me started a lot easier on a drawing? In most cases, drawing from a live reference would solve most of my problems about trying to visualise a strong outline and working in/outwards from it but when I'm trying to draw more abstract things it can get very tough to start.
I have been trying to find this on google w/ no luck. Does anyone know how to make an outline in Illustrator CS? Not a stroke, an outline.
FF
what exactly are you trying to make an outline of?
Just figured it out.... Offset path.
Man I wasted a lot of time on that. Thanks anyways man.
FF
A Google search for "chewie coloring tutorial" provides the cached tutorial thread. If I were less lazy I'd copy all the other old links in here.
http://evilbeaver.homestead.com/HowTo.html
or anything else that has a ...umm... latiny look to it
Im a poor student and i need an aternative income to feed my photography habit.
my question is this: Could it pay for itself? I have found a place local to me that sells local themed pictures of which i have plenty, i may yet persue this but could I try selling my prints on ebay? do you think there would be any demand for them? and how should i go about selling them if this is a plausable means of income?
Thanks guys
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(p.s If you have seen any of my stuff that would make a nice print (or you'd like one yourself) please tell me)
Check out my art! Buy some prints!
That last green one is pretty nifty.
Don't know too much about the whole photo thing. If you're desperate for money you may see about selling some of it to some stock photography companies. Not sure how much they pay or what they expect but they charge out the ass for high res. photos. I bet they pay decently enough.
Image->Adjust->
Levels, Curves, Contrast, Variations
take your pick
Sure. Here are a few tips.
1. Only try to make money if you have access to a high-quality photoprinter and can produce high-quality prints. That means at least 300 DPI, on premium glossy paper, with waterproof pigmented inks. You can get that for a couple-hundred bucks, peruse the latest digital photo magazines for reviews and recommendations. Once you get started and have some money in reserve, find a printer with high-end iris printers who can do insanely high-quality prints, because those go for a hell of a lot more than inkjet prints.
2. Find a good place to sell them. You aren't going to make a meaningful amount of money selling prints on the internet, so you'll have to find an art gallery, or at least a good local restaurant/coffee shop to sell them in. Print up some really nice examples, put them in a nice print portfolio, set up a nice introductory letter and business card that points to your online gallery, and hit the pavement. If you don't live near any galleries, look them up online or in magazines and mail them a nice letter with a card and your web site. If you go on vacations, do it in places with lots of big galleries, like New York, LA, San Francisco, and Scottsdale. While you're there hit up every gallery in town. Try to get representation on each coast. Donating prints to charity auctions is also a great way to get your work out there, get free booze and food, and schmooze with wealthy art collectors and gallery owners.
3. Only sell prints in limited editions. Keep editions small - less than 250-300 for small, cheap prints, 50 for bigger, expensive ones. Sign every single print, and include it's number in the series. Keep track of every single print you sell, and never, EVER reprint after you max out a series (Unless you get famous and do posters or something like that). This is what makes art collectors buy your work, as opposed to those guys with mall kisoks who sell endless runs of their crappy prints for $25.
4. Like everything else in the art world, getting your stuff out there and making money takes a whole lot of persistence. People will blow you off 99% of the time, but eventually you might find someone who gives a shit and wants to sell your work. But hey, there are a lot more art galleries than there are comic-book publishers, so be glad your thing isn't drawing.
Thanx
Lately I have been killing myself trying to draw the head, dunno why, so I wanted to go back and get it perfect.
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Go to the Hue/Saturation window (Command + U on Macs, so probably Control + U on PCs) and click the little box that says "colorize." Then just mess with the hue and saturation until you find what you want.
There are probably a million more ways to do it, though.
Is it on a seperate layer? If it is...right click on that layer and select 'Blending Options' ...then in Blending Options click on 'Color Overlay' and you can change it to any color you want.
I'm using version 6 by the way.
edit: Also, on an unrelated-but-still-related note, does anyone know of any books that teach you to draw in perspective? I'm great drawing things head-on, or side on, but ask me to draw things on an angle, and I fail so hard it's not even funny.
Buildings I can do, by the way. I'm totally adept at two point and three point perspective for buildings. It's people, cars and everything else I have trouble with.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
I have that. It's pretty good.
You might also consider looking at some loomis stuff.
i'm considering looking into getting a tablet but the problem i hav eis I know nothing about them. could anyone makes suggestion or even give me a rundown on whats good, the terminology and what sort of work thye are good for.
Oh and another question has anyone here done the international baccularetee (and no i can't spell it), specifically art
er, yes, I did it, but no, not art, however some of my friends did art. I might be able to answer questions.
well just finished my preliminary year and it has come time for me to start thinking about by major work. I Was just wondering what sort of conecpt people have done and what sort of marks they got. i'm just having a hard time coming up with an idea, i just need to see what sort of thing people have done.
I've been lurking this board for a few months now, and I guess I really want to start drawing. The problem is.. I have no experience with drawing of any kind, and don't have a single clue on where to start. I've been reading the responses to threads here for a long time, and I understand that a person needs to draw from life to become a better artist and that it takes a very long time. But, as I mentioned, I don't really know where to start. I'd appreciate any help.
oh, ok. Well, one guy I know did a big sculpture - he had very distinct family features, so he sculpted his face, his fathers' and his grandfathers' all onto the same 'head'. It was pretty cool, he got a good mark. I don't remember anything particularly outstanding out of the others in term of originality - a series of paintings was one, and another was a kind of mobile/sculpture thing with painted origami birds.
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I'm in the same boat. I too just draw for fun and progress very slowly, but I always enjoy it
I've seen it thrown around here quite a while ago.
Thanks in advance.
Question.... has anyone else had to humble themselves and scrap everything they've learned? I started art courses at college, but then left college early for a multitude of reasons... now..several years down the line, i've carried on drawing etc, but ended up with a (dum dum dummmm) "style"... and i'm not liking it. whilst i can acomplish my "style" quickly..and efficiently...and to good effect... it's been at the cost of other talents like drawing from life etc. My style is underpinned with basically good anatomy so that's not a problem (already done life drawing classes etc at college, just didn't progress into my illustration/life classes in the second year and beyond) it's just...the looseness etc is lacking, being able to add realism to pictures.
So atm i'm having to go back to square one with a sketchbook, pencil and just draw whatever the hell is infront of me... which is pretty frustrating
sorry if that's all rather confusing :?