-Burne Hogarth’s Dynamic Anatomy
-Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
-Jack Hamm’s Drawing the Head and Figure
-James Gurney’s Color and Light
-Betty Edwards’ Color
These are pretty much the best for the basics.
Type them into Amazon and I guarantee you’ll find something.
Also: I can now say from experience that The Animator’s Survival Kit is very good.
And, um. Steer clear of “how to draw” books like the Chris Hart series, because frankly it just seems to teach young artists lazy cliches rather than having very much useful information in it. The books above have all of the few handy tidbits Hart drops and then some. Not trying to diss him as a person or anything but I’ve flipped through his books before and they’re less helpful than, say, “Neondragon” Pfeffer’s stuff, which I have a habit of buying for my sister because she likes to trace the pictures and color them. Good luck!
-SA
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鎖のめんどくさくない描き方
I use a different method but this works too.
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agapinbetween asked: Hey! :) Well yes, everytime I do make something, I do feel like it has a masterpiece. I was in the dean's list but then two semester ago I had a pretty bad class, because my grades ranged from C to C+ there and always got bad critiques. I got discouraged and left the remaining projects unfinished, which ultimately pulled down my grade point average (since it was a really, really major class). I think I know my problem now, I'm afraid of underperforming and not finishing.
Alright, so it’s exactly what I thought it is… Your confidence in your own capabilities has been shot down by other people. Now, I’m not 100% positive, but I doubt that a magazine would ask your to work for them if your art were substandard.
The problem with fearing that you’re going to mess up is that it’s often a self-fulfilling prophecy— Which isn’t to say that this is your fault. There’s a lot of pressure to be “good” these days, and what constitutes good varies subjectively. The thing about art is that your most important commodity is your individuality. You have your own methods, and that’s what you’re selling. (Flexibility helps.) The only time I will honestly say that insecurity has a place and a purpose in your brain is when your art is not polished enough, and you need to push it to the point where you’ve grown into your style and your media, and everything works together. Strive for harmony here, everything else will fall in place.
What I’m trying to say is, stop worrying about whether your best is good enough and just do your best. If you aren’t satisfied with where your work is, then the answer isn’t to stop working altogether, it’s to re-evaluate your work and keep working. Nothing can substitute for practice.
Best of luck,
-SA
agapinbetween asked: Hey! :) I was wondering if you or your followers could give me some advice? The last few months I tend to be very tense, stressed or pressured when I work on my art. I quickly loose interest in a project and it becomes a tedious chore, including my personal work. The funny thing is that I'm on vacation right now! It's quite bad; was commissioned by a magazine to make 2 illustrations every 1-2 weeks but I'm always late, even if it's the only thing I'm working on.
It sounds like you’re becoming stressed outbecause of the art… Is there some feeling that you aren’t “good enough” to be working on the magazine? Or am I completely off base?
At any rate, it sounds like what you need is to stop feeling pressured to male “good work”… You need a project that you don’t have to invest in.
I need a little more information before I can really help you.
Is this artist’s block, or the result of some feeling?
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I gave your pencil back anon, now go draw with it!
(Thank you, by the way)
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Dear people of Tumblr,
Please read this.
Not even 48 hours ago my school found out that there is a good possibility of our school closing; this information was kept from us, and was never meant to be told. We have less than a month to raise the money that we need and to find more people interested in our college so that we can keep it alive.
Chester College is an absolutely fantastic place. Though small, it offers a great education for creative writers, fine artists, photographers and designers, and people that want to blend those things. This place is home to many of us that go here; I call it home, more so than the place I grew up. The staff and professors are kind and know your name; you arent just another number here. These professors are our friends.
I, and everyone else, dont want to lose my home.
We cant afford to have this school shut down. We need more creative people in this world, and I know for a fact this college has saved a lot of people and has helped them do better in their lives. It just cant go away.
As students, we’d be losing our education if this school was to close. The professors and fantastic staff would be losing their jobs.
If you wish to help us, please spread the word! The more people that know about this and are willing to listen, the better.
If you would like to donate to our cause and keep Chester College around, please visit chestercollege.edu and click on the donate button at the bottom of the page. We would greatly appreciate any and all donations, because they just mean a little bit closer to or goal.
And if you dont have money to spare, please go and sign this petition to hopefully get rid of the current president. If Chester is able to stay around for another year, we dont want to be ruled by the guy who kept this a secret and might have screwed us over. Even now, he has thrown in the towel while the rest of us, staff and students alike, are working to keep this place going.
Please reblog this and help us save our school.
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