Hey, it's that guy!

Also: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, I read that ages ago.

the image you mean? Yeah they keep trying to trick me into drawing pictures by breaking them into lines. It doesn't really help me though. It's especially bad without a second monitor, it's hard to find room to work on the sketch and reference the image at the same time.

Also I suck, and my computer hates me. :x

Cat pajamas.

Maybe you could get a copy of the book from the library? Or print the relevant pages that you're working on, then you don't have to worry about the screen.

Alternatively, maybe breaking it into lines isn't your way. Maybe try Walt Stanchfield's gestural stuff here:
http://punchandbrodie.com/leo/stanchfield/

Or maybe Andrew Loomis' figure drawing methods, downloadable book here:
http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com.....its-worth.html

Both really good resources. You might also look at Glenn Vilppu's book on drawing for animation, he starts with shapes rather than lines, which you might like better. Try here for download:
http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com.....ng-manual.html


Hopefully that'll help a bit. Also, if you can't afford a good mannequin for figuring out poses, a Stikfas figure is way cheaper and proportioned about right. I've used them before and they're pretty handy.

Oooh.. wow that's alot of advice. I'm gonna be reading this all of tomorrow Kels, thank you.

Happy to help. I've flipped through most of that material, and it all looks good. Possibly of more use than the upside-down drawing stuff.

Also also: first!

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Baconader! D:

-licks-

Hey, I did that lesson awhile ago, only it was a picture of Igor Stravinsky. Similar pose though.

It'd probably be a hell of a lot easier if you did it on paper ... on a good, solid desk or table with the reference printed out and propped up in front of you so you can scrunch over with your face an inch away from the paper and be ABSORBED by the lines as your right brain beats your left into submission.

I suppose but honestly I have tried to teach myself to drawn outside of the internet before and it never really worked for me.. I was hoping the computer would make it easier.. I usually do techy stuff so much better..