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Drawing animals/furry starting out?
16 years ago
*A newbie artists call for help/suggestions*
Well as I have posted in my info I am not much of an artist. I have a very large appreciation for art, particularly drawings just not the ability to take the ideas in my head and put draw them out on paper. I have done a little of the basic stuff, played with some textures and shading (charcoal and graphite) but not actually drawing anything yet. At the suggestion of a few people I looked in to books on the subject and scoured the local library and didn't find much. Checked out Barnes & Nobles and could have spent $100's on the books they had. That place is my version of a grown-ups candy store! I settled on Walter Fosters "The Art of Drawing Animals" because of the detail and variety of animals it covered. I sorta figured on starting with the real animals first to get the anatomy down before moving to anthro animals. Not sure if that is a good idea or if it doesn't matter. I was just sitting here thinking about how to go about this and had a revelation. (well as close as you get when you are me anyway) I'm on a website full of artists, why not ask around? So please, if you would be so kind and gracious as to allow me a few minutes of your time in the form of your own personal suggestions and or experiances with this. Any books that you found particularly helpful? Practice techniques? Etc. Thanks everyone, hopefully I can pay you back with some worthy art one day.
Well as I have posted in my info I am not much of an artist. I have a very large appreciation for art, particularly drawings just not the ability to take the ideas in my head and put draw them out on paper. I have done a little of the basic stuff, played with some textures and shading (charcoal and graphite) but not actually drawing anything yet. At the suggestion of a few people I looked in to books on the subject and scoured the local library and didn't find much. Checked out Barnes & Nobles and could have spent $100's on the books they had. That place is my version of a grown-ups candy store! I settled on Walter Fosters "The Art of Drawing Animals" because of the detail and variety of animals it covered. I sorta figured on starting with the real animals first to get the anatomy down before moving to anthro animals. Not sure if that is a good idea or if it doesn't matter. I was just sitting here thinking about how to go about this and had a revelation. (well as close as you get when you are me anyway) I'm on a website full of artists, why not ask around? So please, if you would be so kind and gracious as to allow me a few minutes of your time in the form of your own personal suggestions and or experiances with this. Any books that you found particularly helpful? Practice techniques? Etc. Thanks everyone, hopefully I can pay you back with some worthy art one day.
Even in art school we still look to the master works of painters to learn better technique.
o Decide the style you like and find some of it. Copy it or learn from it.
o If you want to do humans or humanoids,
o Find a good book on human anatomy drawing. Learn to draw them first before going to anime/cartoon/chibi style, which are but variations of the real thing to begin with.
o get magazines with pictures of nekkid/seminekkid girls in nice poses. Using what you learned from the book, try to draw them. Do *not* care to make it perfect. It is more important to get the pose, the general shape right.
o THe most important here is to get the proportions (or good enough) and perspective right.
o Drawing hands suck really bad IMHO.
o AFAIK, the idea for drawing animals is the same.
o Practice practice practice!
For the moment I'm mostly interested in basic animals and would like to move on to anthro animals and possibly humans after that. One of my biggest challenges is that I like to do everything right the first time if possible. And you simply can't do that when learning to draw, so its partly a fight with my brains logic and partly lack of experiance. I'll keep practicing and see what happens