Learning to Draw

[Keava]

While starting with pencil and paper is generally favoured, if you already have a Wacom keep to it. Even if you would master the skills of art by traditional means, you will have to re learn half of it for the tablet because it acts so differently. Not to mention colour work and rendering in photo shop is much more fun.

There wont be any tutorial that will turn into an artist in 48 hours and it's mostly practice that will improve your skills, however some basics like proportions and lightning/shading is something you need to be familiar with.

Never hurts to watch a professional artist at work either so i hereby present one of my favourite tutorials i ever seen. It's made by Steve Argyle, he made art for Magic: The Gathering, Legend of Five Rings and Dungeon and Dragons among many.

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[SimuLord]

1987, Greenwood Elementary:

I'm in fourth grade, in art class, and I draw some pictures. Some time later, my mother gets a letter from the art teacher, who suggested that she get me tested for cognitive ability because "your son shows signs consistent with mental retardation."

My mom flipped her shit. The art teacher found himself out of a job. And my tard-tastic lack of art talent continued apace---I still cannot even draw stick figures well enough to rip off XKCD.

Wow, whether that is true or not that is one cool story bro. Did you end up going for the test?

I NEVER bullshit with my life stories. One of my ironclad rules.

That said, my mom told the teacher where he could shove his cognitive ability test---I took the standard battery of tests pre-kindergarten (and scored the highest on the IQ test that the proctor, in twenty-five years of giving the Stanford-Binet, had ever seen.)

 

[ScarletRider]

So... Any art updates? I'm curious as to whether or not you've put any of this into practice yet.