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ESSENTIALS:

>https://warosu.org/ic/thread/3023643
Links to many art books including as Keys to Drawing (Dodson), Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Edwards), Perspective Made Easy (Norling), Color and Light (Gurney), The Vilppu Drawing Manual (Vilppu) and How to Draw (Robertson).

>http://ctrlpaint.com
A website dedicated to understanding the basics and process of digital painting, based in Adobe Photoshop. Library of over 200 free videos.

>http://quickposes.com
Free pose library to practice drawing the human figure (as well as a portrait library). Draw at your own pace or set a timer for quick gesture drawings.

>https://www.youtube.com/user/onairvideo
Croquis Cafe - Timed model poses.

>http://drawabox.com
Controversial yet helpful introductory course on the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on understanding the concept of form and thinking in a 3-dimensional mindset while you draw.

>Your local life drawing class
Life drawing is an indispensable tool in your art career. Do not be intimidated based on your skill level - there will always be someone worse than you and someone better than you. Use this opportunity to meet new artists for learning, critique, and growth.

>>3098540
Sorry to hijack the thread anon.

I urge beginner anons to stick to Keys to Drawing and/or Betty's book until one or both are absolutely completed.

The "essential" thing is to be confident at drawing things in front of you and to develop the ability to assess if what you drew is "correct", which is what these books will do to a large degree and teach you how to do it.

Developing your eye, your visual memory and the ease of drawing things in front of you both analytically as well as gesturally should take a lot more precedence than anything else.

You'll have to resist the urge of getting all these books and getting overwhelmed with information from sometimes conflicting viewpoints.

Most of the shit in "Beginner's essential books" isn't beginner at all. You'll struggle to get the most out of these books because they have a lot of wisdom that isn't apparent (or applicable to any real degree) to beginners.

Loomis is advanced beginner. Hogarth is intermediate. Scott Robertson is intermediate. Vilppu is advanced. James Gurney is very advanced. Alla Prima and Problem Solving for Oil Painters shouldn't even be on here.

(PS. Don't use drawabox, seriously. Keys to Drawing is miles and above better.)

>>3098562
I'll edit up the followup post, thanks for your input. Was wondering when someone would comment on it.

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>>3097241

Assuming you are reading a book

1.- Read the lecture while watching the drawings
2.- Understand what the author is telling you read more than once if necessary
3.- Copy the drawing from the book
4.- Do your own attempts
5.- If you don't get it go look references
6.- After you can reasonably do your own, flip the page

>>3096861
when it comes to reading books:
1. do the exercises
2. do it again
3. read on why the exercise is important, what is it trying to demonstrate? what can be achieved using this method over another?
4. do the exercise again.

learning from books is more about understanding why this author uses one method over another, the actual drawing ability of a person doesn't really factor into it.

for streams/videos:
1. follow along, pause the video if necessary
2. draw it again
3. do the same exercise/technique again, but on a different subject, angle, or pose (ie. when learning crosshatching, dont just do trees and arms, diversify your learning)

other than that, just dont listen to music while you do any of these, and just have fun with it. music diverts attention away from your work, depriving you of focus and ruining your learning experience. mood is also important, you become more receptive to information if you are in a good mood as opposed to a bad one.

>>3097853
>>3098027

I like how you broke these down, do you think you can do something similar for

- reviewing and critiquing your own work.

- taking a critique (whether yours or or someone else's) understanding it learning from it and applying it.

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here is another copy try using the brushes to draw shapes

>>3101065
neat, i think 'wannabe try-hard moronic blowhard retards' while funny, didn't quite fit with the tone of the rest of the piece. i think visually you've got it going on, really folds my ironing.

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I've made this in about a month, most movements are rotoscoped so it took a lot of frame-by-frame drawings. The idea for this video came when I started experiencing mild hallucinations

>>3101016
Very smooth and cool, anon.

>>3101023
thank you!

>>3100873
you could have shit fundies, if you have that other 50% of what art is then youll create works that have value and meaning
meditate, die to your old self, thats the key
let the universe at large tell you what to paint

>>3100873

i have the opposite problem. I am very creative and if I had just one area of talent to use as an outlet I would be golden. Creativity is mostly the ability to systemize in new ways. Think about a whole world to set your art in or base your art around some unique method (for instance something like turning random squiggles into representative pictures). Think in a multimedia context.

>>3100876
I find that definition of creativity really interesting!
I've always thought of creativity as the ability to let go of systems. I'll definitely going to have a go at new methods and workflows.

99designs.com, they have illustration section

>>3100697
i dunno how about asking AndyTantowiBelzark

Because fundies are more important for a beginner

Can't create if you're unhappy. Even if you do dark stuff. Lynch said it himself. This board is anti art as fuck. No on here is ever going to make it. Take the resources and leave.

>>3100526
are there actual angry people here, i had always taken it as schoolyard style shit-talk. if people were serious this would be a terrible place.

>>3099347
You can mix the dry pigment with a medium to make paint. You've got linseed oil there, so you can use that if you want to make oil paint, but you'll need a glass muller and slab, and you'll probably want a mask or respirator because you don't want to be breathing that shit.

Look through naturalpigments articles for information about pigments and media.

Those yellow and white pigments seem like they could be toxic. Possibly lead white, naples yellow (lead antimonate) and lead tin yellow. The earth colors, green earths, and blues should be alright unless there's emerald green in there. The red is likely to be just some type of red earth, but it could be vermillion (mercury sulfide).

I can't identify the lime green pigment, but the other ones seem to be some sort of green earths and maybe a chrome oxide green. Doesn't seem to be verdigris.

Lavender/spike oil is a solvent used similarly as turpentine. Non toxic.

Artists who are serious enough to mull their own paints are just the kind to keep toxic pigments, although they don't seem to have been used much.

You should list what the labels say where available.

>>3099440
I should further add spike oil is quite expensive and should not be used like turpentine for cleaning brushes during and after painting, but can be used for thinning down paint, making a couch, or making a painting medium with linseed oil and maybe a resin.

do you want more options?

>>3101002
Have you noticed any exclusive releases on GFX?

>>3101008
do you lose anything by signing up?

obvious bait but if you are serious you may wanna tone down the edge .

>>3100586
Might wanna change up the line thickness in some areas.

>>3100586
i he rigth hand sword ?

yes? did someone call me? I'm here!!

>>3100369
Are you the artist in OPs pic? Post link to blog.

Is that lolibro?

>>3100131
Is OP your work? git gud first, jesus.

>>3100133
I'm better than you, though.

Whenever you think your work deserves to be finished

Really it's up to you. I don't finish every garbage idea I start but I just make new ones, and sometimes I feel like I'm close to striking gold so I make something bigger out of it.

Others may have different approaches to this.

>>3100118
http://www.mega.nz/8de5548-nmasteveshuston.html

you're welcome. :)

>>3100130
Maybe if you spend less time shitposting you could actually use that time to get better at art and/or getting a gf instead of complaining about your lack of sexual life on discord.

el bumpo