[jhao]

Hey guys,

I noticed that most of you are freehand artists as well as digital. I was hoping some of you could give me some pointers on freehand drawing. I personally CANNOT draw freehand. hehe. I was hopinh to change that. Any suggestions?

[IO_Error]

practice practice PRACTICE!
Did I mention practice?

Seriously, buy some cheap newsprint sketchbooks and draw everything you see, and everything that interest you. Don't tear any pages out, and don't erase anything your first several sketches. you will learn from your mistakes and get your own feel for proportion and spatial relationships.

Recommended Reading: Drawing on the right side of the Brain, and Drawing on the artist Within, both by the same artist, but I forget her name. You should be able to find it at amazon.com or bn.com.

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Ryan Malm

[Oscar Alexander]

Hm... personally, I don't recommend buying books. There's so much to find on the Internet, if only you know where to look

Unfortunatly, there's no way to become an instant-artist. So I guess the only thing to do is: watch the forum, get inspired, get a pen and paper... well, you get the point, right? PRACTICE

[micke]

Yeah, buy tourself a sketchbook and and
try to draw portraits of yourself and your hand(probably the most complex part on your body). Another thing is to attend figure- drawing classes. Theee are usually cheap
and you'll learn much.

Hope this can help in any way.

-Micke

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[jhao]

Thanks guys,

I actually have a few sketch books. What do you recommend for drawing the human figure, other than attending classes?


Thanks again.

[proximo]

What you might look for if you dont want to take any classes is a book that has tons of picture of people in motion . The name of the book has sliped my mind at the moment but maybe someone else knows the name , it was by some guy in the 20's i think who got a camera and had it hooked to a trip wire .. he shot tons of pictures of people walking sitting shit like that, it is a really good book to start with but the best thing for me is the quick scetch class that i took in school, classes really are the best place to learn i think, as long as you have a good instructor who can give you some good tips, and like was said b4 you have to practice all the time .. take a sketch book every were to the doctors office or to the park , school everyware ,, no one should be safe from you drawing them hope this helps

[Blind]

Burne Hogarth has a series of books out that you can find in any Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc. I forget all the titles, but they usuallybegin with "dynamic..." something. Figure drawing, lighting & shade, wrinkles & drapery, etc. Very interesting reading, IMO...

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[jhao]

Thanks again,

I will definately take these suggestions into consideration.

[Darkmoon]

Hehehe sorry i have to add this...

DO NOT i repeat DO NOT LEARN THE FEMALE FIGURE FROM PLAYBOY MAGAZINES! us gurrrls arent all perfect hehehe ! dont just draw perfect body's, draw all kinds! get reference everywhere and anywhere, short fat balding men, little kids! everything... hehe im telling you this cause i made the mistake of learning to draw women from smut mags and i had a hard time getting over drawing HUGE breasts ! draw your friends family, got a gf/bf? get them to pose for you... also, there aer some correspondance art courses that you can get a free trial and some have anatomy reference... definitly buy a good anatomy book, or fine some stuff on the web (i havent found anything as good as my books...) and dont get fed up, i STILL suck at anatomy, it takes time

oh yeah, staying up till 7 am in the morning sketching in a coffee shop seems to have helped me too... or maybe it was the master teachings of sc00p



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[TurboYVR]

ooh, Darkmoon's right. Learning to draw the female form from any sort of idealistic example is BIG trouble. It took me a long time to stop drawing like J. Scott Campbell... you have to get used to drawing all sorts of people... fat people, short people, children, elderly people, even midgets I personally choose one person a day on the public bus to sketch... I bring my sketch book with me EVERYWHERE. It's attached by a cord to my canadian flag-sporting backpack, which travels where ever I do...

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Vancouver, Canada

[jhao]

I haven't even considered drawing from adult magazines or anything hehe. I looked to see if there were any good tutorials on websites, unfortunately I had not luck. I guess I'm going to get some books and draw sketches before I consider taking any classes.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.