[visio]

Hi All

I just got a Wacom Graphire2 given to me, i cant really afford to lash out on an Intuous2 or a Cintiq at the moment, im just a student, so im coming here for help.

Im not too handy at art at the moment, i just want to learn, become good at it and then start digitally painting my work

Any tutorials and pointers would be very much appreciated, just for the basics of art and digital painting, i can never find the right ones.

Thanks a bunch guys

AIM - smvisio
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Cheers

[asdfghjkl]

find them your self . im sure ppl are quite sick of "pointing out the right tutorials" for ppl over and over again.

[Max]

http://www.sumaleth.com/links

[Drew]

Forget tutorials. Head to the library and read all about art techiques.

[dfacto]

don't listen to asdfghjkl, People like him are assholes. But he is right in his message. Go to google and search for art tutorials, and you will find all sorts of stuff. You decide what you like or not.
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[AndyT]

It's good that you understand that you have to learn about art in general.

I think Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis has a lot of great information.
I think the link works again. But that might change soon ...
http://www.fineart.sk/loomis/page_01.htm

You can download the pdf version of Figure Drawing For All It's Worth @
http://www.saveloomis.org/

To learn different approaches you can look at tutorials. But Drew is right.
Try to get everything you can get about art in general.
People who think they need an eye tutorial if they want to draw eyes and a nose tutorial to draw a nose ...
are on the wrong track IMO.

Read a lot! You can't remember everything but hopefully you'll at least be able to remember where to look.
You'll read the most important things again and again anyways.
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[bearsclover]

You'll also probably find that you'll need an old-fashioned pencil and paper.

The Wacom digital tablets are great, but I think that it is assumed that the user of such a tablet already knows how to draw traditionally. I think you will make things much easier for yourself if you do some "traditional" sketching and drawing. You can always scan in your artwork and diddle with it using the tablet and Photoshop. That's a really fun way to get used to the tablet.

The Loomis books are fabulous, but a basic drawing book ("Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" or "Keys to Drawing" by Bert Dodson) will also serve you well.

Good luck and have fun!
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[visio]

Thanks for all your replys, positive and not so positive

asdfghjkl - to be very honest your attitude stinks towards other members, i was looking for guidance from people with skill and experience in this specific area, its too easy for me to go to google.com and search, whenever i search i find the crappiest and wrong links anyway, all i was asking was for help that was good.....

BearsClover / AndyT - Thanks for the great advice, i'll head over to my local city library and borrow some books, I may consider spending on "Drawing in the right side of the brain", ive heard the name mentioned about a bit and that must say something good about it.

Max - Thankyou very much for the link, very much appreciated

[Xyster21]

I have the new drawing on the right side of the brain by edwards and it is great... just don't skip over the exercises... those help plenty
Good things. Sometimes frustrating but in the end it is worth it... then do it all over again
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