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u/opopopopop12 · 14 pointsr/ffxiv

If you're serious about learning and this isn't a shitpost I would suggest reading through
https://www.amazon.com.au/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/dp/0857680978
and
https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Invention-Michael-Hampton/dp/0615272819

You could probably find them online if you can't afford to buy them. Working through those books and practicing what they teach will help you see massive improvements. As much as people will say to just keep practicing, it's important that you practice correctly lest you get into bad habits.

u/artistwithquestions · 7 pointsr/learnart

Last time I tried to give advice on drawings the person got upset and quit reddit, soooo, please don't do that. My suggestion if you're absolutely serious about drawing is to absolutely learn the fundamentals.

Fun With A Pencil: How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857687603/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ijZZDbCWDFEAQ

Drawing the Head and Hands https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857680978/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AjZZDb0B3RBPF

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857680986/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_OjZZDbW37G79H

Successful Drawing https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857687611/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4jZZDb95Z0W96

Creative Illustration https://www.amazon.com/dp/1845769287/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ikZZDbFRJYAJD

And after the basics


Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0740785508/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_alZZDbZW0Y1P4


Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0740797719/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DlZZDb676AWT6



It doesn't matter what medium you use, learning how to draw and understanding what you're doing will help out the most.

u/MarmaladeChainsaw · 4 pointsr/ArtCrit

First of all I would say you need to study how light falls on forms and how to make them look 3d. Like iamnikolatesla said, a good way to learn this is by doing still life paintings of simple objects.

Some tips for stuff to look out for when painting an apple:

  • try and get the values as close as possible to what you actually see.
  • pay attention to where the darkest part of the shadow is. (it will not be at the very bottom of the apple because light will reflect off the surface the apple is sitting on)
  • Look at the edges of the apple and the shadow it creates. Some edges should appear softer and some should be sharper.

    To critique your actual painting I would say your proportions are off, I recommend this book, Drawing The Head And Hands by Andrew Loomis. Also when you want to make something darker don't just add black, it makes the painting look muddy. Skin tends to be more saturated in colour in the shadows. Try not to make the whites of the eyes so bright, if you look in a mirror your eyes will not be so bright that they stand out. Lastly, try and think of hair as bigger shapes and don't render it so much, if you keep it simpler it ends up looking much more realistic. Good luck and have fun, faces really are a very difficult subject to paint.
u/50_imoutos · 3 pointsr/manga

Both of these books are excellent.

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If you can't aford them, here are the PDFs.

u/PXB_art · 2 pointsr/comicbooks

Great work. As others mentioned, the next step is getting her some anatomy art books Andrew Loomis' Drawing the Head and Hands and Figure Drawing for All It's Worth are great ones I've used myself and found very valuable. The best thing a budding comics illustrator can do is draw from life and not just from other comics/cartoons, that way their own style develops organically. Thanks for sharing!

u/Pisodeuorrior · 2 pointsr/Art

Still a bit awkward to me if you don't mind me saying that. Especially her right hand.
I recommend this book. Old but still one of the best around for this kind of things.
Plus, it's a must have for anyone into drawing. Every artist friend spotting it on your bookshelf would go "aah, good old Loomis", and they'll like you a little bit more. Owning that book just makes you a better person.

u/Kishq · 2 pointsr/wow

Really nice work. Just a little tip tho. Try to pick up the Loomis anatomy books. This will help you with sculpting faces. You are really missing some major planes in there. Which makes it a less bit realistic then what i think you were going for.

Loomis really helped me learning to sculpt faces and build proper anatomy. It's a subject we artist will probably never master but it is something that helps us improve our work for the audience.

Proof: http://imgur.com/fjPU3oc

Book recommendation:

Figure Drawing For All It's Worth

Drawing The Head And Hands

Sorry if this was unwanted advice!

u/ragred · 2 pointsr/drawing

I'm no pro by any means but I have a lot of fun drawing after work and certainly I'd love my SO surprised me with something like:

u/argonzark · 2 pointsr/learntodraw
u/captainfuckmyanus · 2 pointsr/learnart

ok. I don't what style you want to go for, and I'm going to assume that you want to get into the comic book style. That doesn't matter though, where you need to begin is with Andrew Loomis' Creative illustration, Figure Drawing for all its worth(the free pdf, but I would recommend getting the book, because why not), Drawing on the right side of the brain, and Drawing the hands and face. All of these resources are what you need to start out. It doesn't look like you are out of the gate "I draw stick figures" level. But you have to keep in mind, that the ultimate tutor, is time. If you really want to get better quickly, then you have to devote a lot of time to studies and just drawing in general. Good luck, I hope I helped you at least a little bit.

u/ZombieButch · 2 pointsr/learnart

The Loomis books aren't in the public domain, and they're back in print for a reasonable price. We really ought not to be linking to pirated copies of them. http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/dp/0857680978

u/SolidSquid · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Check if you can do it at other schools. Otherwise there's a lot of tutorials around, check youtube and conceptart.org

edit: Oh, and the Andrew Loomis books have been getting re-released, well worth a look along with Bridgeman's stuff (think both are still available online too, they were out of print for years and there was a whole movement to try and get them re-printed, or at least preserve them)

http://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-All-Its-Worth/dp/0857680986/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319139330&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/dp/0857680978/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1319139330&sr=8-2

Also, look into gesture drawing and do it in places like cafes and pubs, just drawing the people around you. Free life drawing classes :p

u/KaJashey · 2 pointsr/Cubers

Yep remember when PC geeks and most IT didn't know about virtualization? It holds my ligit copy of windows XP pro. I don't know how ligit as it was OEM and the "hardware" it was bundled with is a piece of software that's been replaced by newer software. That whole section of the shelf has some old software. Final Cut Pro 3 -just 3 not studio 3- is really old. It was an educational copy and when I wanted to sell it to some other student Apple totally blocked me from doing so on Ebay. So I don't really use that version but couldn't sell it when it was worth anything because of "anti-piracy" bots. I don't even want to talk about the Adobe box sitting next to it.

Crammed in behind the old software is a good older book. Drawing the head and hands with Andrew Loomis is a re-issue of an antique. Wife wanted to buy a "how to draw" book for my daughter, I wanted to show her someone with talent. Unfortunately sneaking in with the incredible dedication and stunning talent are some antique gender and race notions. Not so bad in this book.

u/Firez_hn · 2 pointsr/learnart

I misread this thread title but paradoxically now I think that my misreading was still relevant: Get through an art book.

I've been slowly going through "Drawing the Head and Hands" by Loomis and "Figure Drawing - Design and Invention" by Hampton.

No matter how "blocked" you may be, with a book you only need to pick your pen and tablet/paper and start replicating its drawings and doing its exercises.

Not everything you draw has to be a final/perfectly rendered piece. In my case I would say that I only upload to my dA and Pixiv page a tenth of what I actually draw.

u/JimDraws · 2 pointsr/drawing

Well to actually construct the head shape I used the Loomis Method, then I implemented my style by making the outlines solid and adding more line weight to lines near more heavily shaded areas. To shade the piece I used cross hatching, but in this case, I put the lines so close together to create the smoothness that you might see here.

u/eatingdinosaurs · 1 pointr/ArtCrit

I love Jeno Barcsay's Anatomy for the Artist as a general anatomy resource. I just got Andrew Loomis' Drawing the Head and Hands and love it so far!

Again, this is something that will improve with practice. You have to train yourself to see and interpret the underlying structure rather than the symbols of body parts, if that makes sense.

u/szlekjacob · 1 pointr/learnart
u/Artist_Ji-Li · 1 pointr/learnart
u/Varo · 1 pointr/learntodraw

Copying the works Kentaro Miura is an excellent way to get better at technique and mark making. If you want to get better at making faces I suggest drawing from life or picking up a book like this. Understanding anatomy is key. I am not one to say don't draw anime or copy others' works. There is benefit to that. But if you want to understand faces, you have to draw faces.

u/GenocidalArachnid · 1 pointr/ArtistLounge

The best way (I've found) is to start big then work your way down to the minutiae.

Proportions and gesture are the two most important fundamentals of figure drawing. Start with those. Even if you don't want to draw realistic people, say if you prefer cartoons or comics, learning proportions will still help you to exaggerate features in an appealing way. When you've gotten a good feel for creating dynamic poses with gesture and figures with proper proportions, then you can move to anatomy to learn how the muscles interact; where they lock and fold into each other. Although anatomy is a very complex science, once you have it - you have it. Everyone have the same muscle structure.

The head and hands are something completely different. I've found that the head and facial features are as hard and as valuable to get right as the figure is. In some cases it's even harder. Don't worry about the head at the beginning, get the figure right first. The face should be it's own study.

I wouldn't suggest mastering each body part individually. If you learn to draw all the body parts one at a time then piece them together, you won't get a feel for how they all play and work with each other.

Things like rendering, color, composition; they are all different fundamentals completely. Should you learn them separately? Maybe. Or maybe not. It depends on you. I'd say to slowly start adding more and more fundamentals to your figure drawings as you improve. Add a bit of shading to the muscles, play with some colors in the skin, see how the pose will affect the composition of an art piece. Just don't lose sight of what it is that you want to improve on and don't fall back to your comfort zone when things are getting difficult.

If you want an in-depth, comprehensive look, I recommend both "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" and "Drawing the Head and Hands" by Andrew Loomis. Those are the books that helped me. They really go in depth on not just proportions, but rendering and clothing as well. Here they are if your interested:

https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-All-Its-Worth/dp/0857680986/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3UIR07P1BNGJT&keywords=figure+drawing+for+all+its+worth&qid=1567575739&s=gateway&sprefix=figure+dra%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/dp/0857680978/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3UIR07P1BNGJT&keywords=figure+drawing+for+all+its+worth&qid=1567575739&s=gateway&sprefix=figure+dra%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-2

tl;dr

Gesture -> proportions -> bone structure (manikin) -> anatomy -> face & hands

u/webnrrd2k · 1 pointr/learnart

Just to let the Loomis fans know, there is going to be a re-issue of
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
and
Drawing the Head and Hands.