The I draw stuff because I can place NSFW lots of stuffz on OP

D-Robe

I agree- I found it quite helpful.
Thanks cakemikz!

rts

Your welcome, was made by my buddy/teacher/guywhodrewmyavatar. Also Loomdun's new teacher in a few weeks.

Loomdun

hurf

Mustang

cakemikz wrote: »

Your welcome, was made by my buddy/teacher/guywhodrewmyavatar. Also Loomdun's new teacher in a few weeks.

Ha! I was looking at the cover thinking; "Man, his style is really similar to cakes avatar"

I read the whole thing from cover to cover last night, I think it's the best, most concise thing on the figure I've ever read. It's like a hundred page book with all the fluffy art rubbish removed and condensed into 30 pages.
Though Tam would not approve of the typos and spelling mistakes found within.

rts

Well if you liked that here are some more tutorials/information by him:

The Head Part 1.

The Head Part 1.5.

The Head Part 2.

Forms and Edges.

Abstractions and Rhythms.

Form and Lighting.

Drapery Part 1.

Drapery Part 2.

Drapery Part 3.

Anatomy from Bridgman.

Materials.

Perspective

Erik also has a ton of other great information on his blog including interviews with art directors, interviews with students, information on shows that are coming up and step by steps of his illustrations.


Here are a bunch more tutorials by another instructor at the school....(this guy is only 22 years old and an amazing painter).

Sorry to have hijacked the thread for a little bit.

Kendeathwalker

awesome collection . I just book marked all of it.

lyrium

Thanks, Cake!

deadlydorito

Loomdun wrote: »

thanks mister kendeath walker

so uh, I magically learned finally how to use that squiggly line thats suppose to represent the movement of the figure.



But the torsos are very sloppy, I need to rework that i'll be drawing alllllll night long

dont see anythign wrong this torso atm to be honest, i thought it was styled a little bit like Dysneys Hercules which is smooth lines connect it with curvier smoother lines.

Loomdun

Anyways, yes. My tablet is alive again. But I was curious how drawing a made up portrait goes on sketchbook. I'm pretty happy with the fact I only had to fix the noses position. Although the hair is uneven and I forgot to add half of the right eye. woops



oh and I tried adding some form to the gesture thingy like the tutorial was talking about (the one on the left has form I just kind of doodled after that)

Loomdun

coloring skin is HARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I've spent like 2 hours on this drawing, its basically my reaction towards breaking my tablet (before it magically fixed itself somehow)

although I still need to do the back part of the hair... I'm going to play around with the skin once I finish eating this delicious chocolate cupcake

oops

yay I've never colored with photoshop before

edit: ( I watched mully using some crazy brownish pink thing for skin before coloring it so i'm trying to do that)

Loomdun

zzzz after editing this a bajillion times I can also count this face as being expressed when I see the thousands of horrendous errors whenever I finally decide to post a stupid drawing here then look it over

yogurt

needs more neck definition. really though you should try messing around with multiply and overlay brushes for the different shades and highlights on the face

Loomdun

I will randomly click multiply and see what it does as soon as I start working on it again

edit: oh and heres the little 3 step process I use to making hair if anyones interested, blob, color, then line depending on what type of hair it is



edit: i'm sure i'll figure out the skin eventually

Loomdun

Hum, after playing around with this for another hour, the face began to take shape. But I realized the only reason why doing hair fast and doing the face took longer is because once again I dont 100% understand the shape. And therefore I spend more time correcting then I do actually making the drawing. So I suppose i'll just scrap this, and keep studying in my sketchbook/doodling in photoshop

Loomdun

Well today I found out something very interesting that will greatly help me learning in the future. I never really thought about it until I went back to looking at the nose/eye. What seems to happen is people who first start approaching it and singling out the eye/nose trying to get the shape down are already creating a symbolic shape. Mainly because the slope of what its being placed on isn't occuring. And what happens is when practiced alone then applied back to the face, you create a object thats 50% symbols and 50% actual shape.

After re-looking at the eye/nose/lips and reapplying it but thinking with the entire face, I then noticed that the sides of the nose and the edges of the eyes were made into symbols because of this.

anywho I don't know why I type so much but I suppose I feel its a bit helpful to jot down these thoughts on something I can read over.



The noses I circled where the first attempts, The edges where actually symbols. Then by applying shape (where the arrow points, I created a entire nose by mere shape rather then symbols that felt like shape

Loomdun

look, a drawing gasp.



I just can't pull out as much as I did before, not until I move out being interrupted and having your name called every five minutes? It's just not possible. I'm going to seriously snap, I cant wait till I move this is driving me insane

Loomdun

anyways after drawing that portrait I looked over the head portrait things finally and thought "what the hell why didn't I look at this sooner"



sooo I doodled a bunch of heads to get use to all the new information and heres something I did without mistake, i'm really happy where i'm coming along with everything. The eyes are finally proper sizeee and all that good stuff

Godfather

Once you learn to structure the head like that, drawing faces becomes 200% easier.

Loomdun

this is me doing a victory dance