hope you dont mind the rough drawings XD i hope this explains it more than writing it out:
Things to keep in mind to create depth:
-Perspective, staging, and scale.
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Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…
Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.
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A step by step mini tutorial on how I worked on a this exercise
Image used for making cutout: here
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I know a ton of you have been waiting for this one. Teaching you to make your own plastic keychains!
To start off, I think the biggest question everyone has is what I use to make them. I work with shrink film. You might be familiar with Shinky Dink brand shrink film as a kid. I use Grafix brand…
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- What Will Your Character Do When Disaster Strikes?
by Carolyn Kaufman, PsyD- Characterization and Conflict: Using Psychological Tests to Improve Your Writing
by Carolyn Kaufman, PsyD- Gathering Information from Characters: Types of Questions
by JJ Cooper- Using Body Language in…
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"Artist Protip: when backed into a corner with a huge problem to solve, always tell yourself: “I’M A FUCKING GENIUS. I CAN WORK MY WAY OUTTA THIS.” - me"
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This is an attitude I’ve developed in my many years of freelancing in comics, commercials and recently games. Sometimes you’ll have to solve problems all by yourself, and sometimes you’ll be lucky to have people to help solve them with you.
Say you have 8-11 days to colour, letter, composite, animate, add vfx, edit, render, encode and upload a 6 min interactive motion comic before its corresponding TV show airs.
What you don’t do is say “I CAN’T DO THIS!!”
Surgeons don’t say that, nor should you.
“But art isn’t a real life emergency!”
YES IT IS. WHEN THERE IS A DEADLINE. CAREERS AND LIVELIHOODS ARE AT STAKE DANGNAMMIT.
When shit hits the fan at the last minute and you’re stuck with a figurative impending nuclear explosion, you first need bravado. Anger helps too so long as you can channel it into productivity.
Anything to keep panic the hell away from you so you keep your hands busy working away at a solution.
Once you figured out how you’re going to approach a problem, have a mental list of priorities handy to help break down tasks in smaller chunks. Gauge how much time you have on hand make as much room as you can for error, because things can get worse.
I’m pragmatic and cynical that way.
Don’t be afraid to improvise solutions. Emergencies are the best scenarios for those. If something doesn’t work one way, try another and another until there’s nothing else you can think of off hand. If you have 5 minutes free, ping a friend in the biz for extra advice while you google.
And when the storm clears you might end up with a brand new production pipeline when you’re done :).
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^ What she said. Your mind believes what you tell it. If you constantly feed yourself with self-deprecation, you will never get anywhere.
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I want to share my opinion and experiences with art college, coming from someone who is self-taught. I got into both of my schools of choice only a year ago but I couldn’t come up with the money to attend. I would consider myself lower class, both my parents live paycheck to paycheck and the household I live in depends on food stamps, etc. just to give an idea of my financial situation, there’s no “money in the banana stand.”
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I’ve been thinking lately.. While it is important to an artist’s growth to learn from others and listen to critique and try new things, not everything everyone tells you is gospel. Even if a critique is coming from a teacher or industry professional. Not everything they tell you is written in…
I, rather oddly and epically, came to this conclusion YEARS ago while on an art forum, getting critiques on a piece that was still in early stages. Someone who was regarded very highly as a professional took me to task for the way I sketched. Other pros (whose opinion I regarded much higher than the first), chimed in on either side of the issue, most of them defending me. Everything then devolved into bickering and arguing over who was right and who was wrong while I sat there thinking “But I just wanted an opinion on the composition!”
And it suddenly hit me that for at least a year, I’d been crippling myself. That I was so paralyzed with the fear that what I was doing wouldn’t meet someone else’s standards that I’d forgotten that the only standards that really mattered we’re my own, and they were already set pretty high. All the arguing did was highlight for me that there IS no one way to do anything, and that what works for one artist will never work for all.
So that’s the story of why I stopped using art forums for critiques and started trusting my own gut. And I’ll tell you, my work suddenly got a hundred times better the minute I stopped caving to other people’s opinions.
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How to Draw the Head from Any Angle (via ProkoTV)
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this is how i learned to drawing heads from different angles i promise you it can help
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holy shit
IMPORTANT ART STUFF
You know, you can read about these techniques all day long, but knowing the exact whys, and being taken through it step by step helps it stick with you a lot better.
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So my power went out 4 times from last night to this morning OTL So i couldn’t re-answer this. Sorry! I also apologize again because I actually really suck at colours.. It’s not something I can say I do with confidence (unlike anatomy, where at least I have a ok base;;)
Anyway here we go: Tips…
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Dóra Maurer,
Reversible & changeable phases of movement, 1972
Contact sheet
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Character development thing.
Plot points on this chart to represent how important these different aspects of a character’s life are to them. By doing that you can help determine what type of things your character deems to be most meaningful in their life, especially compared to others aspects.
A brief explanation of each aspect is below in case you’re confused about the meaning of any.
Physical Aspects
- Strength: to have physical power and strength
- Sex: to have sexual gratification and satisfaction
- Possessions: to have objects and tangible things
- Health: to have physical health and stability
- Appearance: to have a good external appearance
Emotional Aspects
- Love: to love and be loved, romantically or otherwise
- Appreciation: to be appreciated by others
- Attention: to be paid attention to
- Security: to feel secure emotionally
- Approval: to be approved by others
Social Aspects
- Respect: to be respected
- Friendship: to have friends
- Intimacy: to be intimate with a partner or partners
- Belongingness: to feel needed and belonged
- Family: to be on good terms with/have a family
Spiritual Aspects
- Inner peace: to be content with themselves
- Purpose: to feel as though they are fulfilling a purpose
- Self-sufficiency: to feel that they are able to provide for themselves
- Growth: to feel as though they are growing and changing
- Acceptance: to be able to accept themselves without consequence
So, I’m officially assigning myself as a reference enforcer for my new friend, yay! Here you go!!! I decided hands were a good place to start. I think I found pretty much all of these on deviantART. None of these are mine because, obviously, I’m not that artistically informed, or in any way, awesome. I WILL BE POSTING SIMILAR REFERENCE STUFF PERIODICALLY FOR A WHILE SO IT WOULD BE COOL IF YOU COULD FOLLOW ME, YEAH?
