Reddit reviews Art Fundamentals: Color, Light, Composition, Anatomy, Perspective, and Depth

Amazon link to Art Fundamentals book- I loved this book, it was very easy to read and very informative.

Check out Feng Zhu, David Rapoza, Shaddy Saffadi on Youtube. Check out Daily Spitpaint and Level Up! groups on Facebook. Both have great communities and are super helpful for beginners.

Now to practice...

• Anatomy Drawing Practice - Great resource, I make a point of doing this as often as possible. Even just twenty minutes a day can bring you leaps and bounds!
  
• Anatomy Drawing Tips
  
• DeviantArt has a wide variety of stock images you can use for studies. Studies are pieces that aim to help the artist practice a certain element. For example colour, lighting, texture, values... etc. This study was something I did to practice hair.
  
• Do these EVERY DAY.
  
• This is an interesting article by MTG artist Noah Bradley that discusses why you shouldn't go to art school but I'm putting it here because there are a lot of resources he provides in it if you scroll down.
  
  
  I'll update this post if I think of anything else. These are just off the top of my head.
  

Hm, you might be looking at more general books then, so you could also ask /r/computergraphics or /r/3dmodeling.

Also this might be of your interest, and you should look trough this this list too.


There's also the C4D Beginners Guide - from this list.

I used to be exactly like you back in high school. You have the raw talent, now you need to pair that with an education on art fundamentals. These fundamentals exist irregardless of medium, so you can practice with just your doodles. The main fundamentals are anatomy, color and light, perspective, and composition. In your case, I recommend buying a book on proper figure drawing. You have really cool ideas, so you just need to nail the proportions. This was the first book I read on the subject, and I fount it really helpful. If you want more after that, Andrew Loomis and Bridgeman are the some of the other classic figure drawing educators. As for the other fundamentals, ctrlpaint.com is a probably one of the best free resources, and as for books, here's one I would recommend that covers all the essentials. Again, if you want to take your art to the next level, whether it be just doodles or digital art, it's all about dem fundamentals. Best of luck!