
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 960 x 1280px
File Size 101.4 kB
Yes MA'AM I'm buying my bullet train ticket to your location. Once I'm 1/4 mile from where you're at, I'll leap out of the doorway and plummet into that cleavage that reminds me powerfully of Jupiter and Saturn in conjunction.
I may need some Kleen-Ex soon after.
But seriously: Here's the book list I used to learn how to draw body parts:
Drawing the Head and Figure by [deceased Baptist religious cartoonist] Jack Hamm.
How to Draw Animals by Jack Hamm. Includes skeletal studies and everything.
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World by Gregory S. Paul (1988).
The Book of a Hundred Hands by some dude a hundred years ago. Recommended to me by King Cheetah, also a member of FA.
For backgrounds, I recommend:
Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting by some Chinese guy, originally published in 1688. Very good for drawing foliage and landscapes.
Anything Leonardo Da Vinci wrote about painting. His principles are 100% up to date, although written 500 years ago.
More than anything, I recommend life drawing. There is no substitute for life drawing. You can take life drawing classes at college, or at a private studio. If there’s no life drawing sessions in your area, you can try to start a group—everybody throws in $10 or so per session, and you hire a professional model—or just strip down and draw each other. I suppose that’s a possibility…but paying the model usually works better.
Before I took life drawing, my art showed promise, but seemed stiff and formal. After life drawing, people started saying “how do you make the poses seem so natural?” The answer is: from drawing the nude—even drawing scrawny guys and old women will give you the quantum boost you seek.
I may need some Kleen-Ex soon after.
But seriously: Here's the book list I used to learn how to draw body parts:
Drawing the Head and Figure by [deceased Baptist religious cartoonist] Jack Hamm.
How to Draw Animals by Jack Hamm. Includes skeletal studies and everything.
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World by Gregory S. Paul (1988).
The Book of a Hundred Hands by some dude a hundred years ago. Recommended to me by King Cheetah, also a member of FA.
For backgrounds, I recommend:
Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting by some Chinese guy, originally published in 1688. Very good for drawing foliage and landscapes.
Anything Leonardo Da Vinci wrote about painting. His principles are 100% up to date, although written 500 years ago.
More than anything, I recommend life drawing. There is no substitute for life drawing. You can take life drawing classes at college, or at a private studio. If there’s no life drawing sessions in your area, you can try to start a group—everybody throws in $10 or so per session, and you hire a professional model—or just strip down and draw each other. I suppose that’s a possibility…but paying the model usually works better.
Before I took life drawing, my art showed promise, but seemed stiff and formal. After life drawing, people started saying “how do you make the poses seem so natural?” The answer is: from drawing the nude—even drawing scrawny guys and old women will give you the quantum boost you seek.
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