[FearMe]

Hello everyone

I've been around the community for about a year and a half now, always brandishing my digital skills more and more. They seem to get better and better with every peice created, and they seem almost adaquet enough now. Really, its a rather short amount of time.

Thanks for all your help in advance,
-FearMe www.3dpalette.com/nevication

Lately though, I have been bothered by my traditional art skills (or lack thereof). When I was about ten I was finally starting to get *ok* at comic style illustration, but it came from tracing or image copying, never origional peices. Now when i find myself attemtping to create what my mind sees, it comes looking like shite, quite frankly.

I'm wondering what kind of skills and excersises go well in sharpening both color understanding, anatomy, shading, etc. Also, I have horrible knowledge of the way clothing wrinkles.

Unfortunatly, I dont really have the cash to take an art class, or set up any kind of 'studio' to study anything, and all art books are to damn expensive. Is there any advice all you experts can offer that might apply to my dillema?

a few examples would be as follows
www.3dpalette.com/nevication/crap/concept1.jpg www.3dpalette.com/nevication/crap/goodguy.jpg www.3dpalette.com/nevication/crap/concept2.jpg www.3dpalette.com/nevication/crap/dead.jpg

Thanks for all your help in advance,
-FearMe www.3dpalette.com/nevication

[jasonN]

Well, everyone knows about the practice all the time thing. So do that.

If you want to get good a drawing things similar to the examples you've shown. Try working on each element of drawing. Once you've doen them, put all those skills together and it should all fall into place.

Colour understanding: That should be something that is natural, unless you have really bad colour sense. But through just observing designs and the which colours go together you should achieve this.

Anatomy: Just observer people, observe your own body and look at books and comics etc.. Studying other ppls art is a great way of learning more.

Shading: Well, just try shading simple shapes like cylinders and spheres and things. Once you do that, try to make your shading look like different textures (wood, metal etc..)

Clothing wrinkles: Just look at your own clothes and you'll soon learn and understand how wrinkles fall. There's no real trick, observation is the key.

I hope those things helped you out. I don't know everything about drawing, these things are just what helped me learn from my experience.
Check out my website, it has a few sketches I've done: http://jasonart.cjb.net

Well, hope it helps


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-Jason :)

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[Trance-R]

I have to say that you need a book on human body anatomy and portraits... they usually have great guides for strengthening your traditional art. Mind you, traditional art is still very "very" important in the digital industry. Employers DO look for your skills in traditional field, not just the digital part.
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[n8]

ooh....welcome to the club...ive never been to any art skools or nything either...only experience with art ive had is the stuff i see...my art class at skool...comics...and the stuff i make for enjoyment

[FearMe]

Ok, thanks for some of your input guys