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Super Summer Character Art Boot Camp!
I got accepted into this and I’m really excited to start! So many awesome artists that we get to work with!
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Getting a little bit more into concepting with themes in mind. Flavors from this week consist of tech/robots, post apocalyptic/cyber punk and a bit of fantasy, I’m hoping to flesh some of these out further and maybe make a few models based off of them.
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Trying something a little different
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I think I’m finished with the female study for now, special thanks to Daphz for giving me a few pointers on the face
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“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
-Chuck Close
Image from Wisdom
Absolutely true.
(Source: wearethedigitalkids)
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Working on a female study, going to pose it eventually
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I’ve been wanting to paint a self portrait, finally got around to it for the past couple of days
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Hand studies, trying to destroy my artistic weaknesses. As an added challenge I didn’t pick colors from the photos in order to train my eye more for anatomy and color
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Unless someone thinks something is really off, I’m calling this done
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A) I love how drawing women to him means “drawing women who wear make up in a style I like” and that superheroines apparently spend a lot of their off-time applying mascara and eyeliner.
B) Men can’t wear earrings? Women must?
C) Again, the intense fear of making women “masculine.” Apparently nose bridges are only for men now. We must inform our DNA of this!
D) I wish he would stop using “woman” to mean just one really really thin narrow standard of beauty. Supposedly, he’s teaching people how to draw WOMEN, right? Not “this particular woman, complete with make up and pouty lips.”
He’s not teaching us how to draw women as much as his (and society’s) artificial idea of what women should look like, complete with eyeliner, mascara and earrings.
I need to rebloob this because all, ALL of these ‘how to draw comics women’ and ‘how to draw manga’ books need to go away. They’re extremely harmful to the development of beginning artists. They’re completely counterproductive in teaching formulaic ways of drawing people and advocate doing things in a specific style straight off the bat, as opposed to learning the basics through realism and THEN stylizing with a complete understanding of *what* you’re breaking apart and reassembling and how it’s constructed.
There’s SO much more to human faces than predefined ratios and proportions and ‘ideal’ shapes, and by telling young artists to remove the exact most defining traits of human facial features (and anatomy as a whole) is like breaking their kneecaps and then telling them to learn to run. The emphasis absolutely needs to be centered on drawing and painting varied and interesting faces with personality in them, not some strictly predefined hyper-idealized features that leave out everything that actually enables us to tell one face from another.
I’m saying this because this kind of thinking really crippled my learning for years and I had to unlearn all this shit and start over from scratch. I wish someone had told me early on that I was doing it wrong and needed to do it THIS way to get any good at it.
I’m reblogging this comment because it’s absolutely correct and needs to be spread around. This is exactly the problems with these kinds of “how to draw comics” guide because it’s really “how to draw a very very specific style” and the how to draw women stuff is really “how to draw women as I specifically like them down to wearing eyeliner” and it doesn’t teach you any basics to draw people and THEN you can add in your own preferences and styles, instead it’s really rigid and fixed.
Compare that to Lady Nilstria’s “how to draw women” guide:
http://ladynilstria.deviantart.com/#/d4rjhcs
which is way more general and teaches you the basics rather than how to draw women the specific way she thinks you should down to how long their eyebrows should be, or how thick their lips should be.
