Lighting Color Keys with Marco Bucci
nebbie91 asked: Do you have any tips on how to draw anthropomorphic female animal characters so that their body shape stays faithful to that of their species aside from being bipedal? Many female animal characters in cartoons and video games, like Minerva Mink (Animaiacs), Krystal (Star Fox), and Kitty Katswell (TUFF Puppy), are drawn with completely humanoid body shapes to make them look feminine.
Unfortunately, I’m completely inexperienced when it comes to things like this, however, I know a lot of people praise Nico Marlet’s character design work because of his portrayal of female animal characters? Perhaps take a look at some of his sketches for Kung Fu Panda?
Followers!! Can you help me out on this one?
FEETS
Hey guys!! someone asked for feet, so here ya go.
To be honest though, I think the best advice for stuff like feet/hands is to literally just sit down and draw your own any chance you get. Seeing it move in space was super helpful for me.
hey guys!! sorry I’ve been so swamped lately.
queuing stuff right now……have you been practicing? :> hope so!!
Some Charles Bargue plates I found here.
Heads constructing
Duc Truong Huyen
Some Tutorials
Sooo!
I’ve been getting some art questions lately, and I’m bad with words so here is a hand full of tutorials that I really like. You can also pretty easily Google around yourself if there is something specific. The internet is quite vast.
Mini Painting Tutorial by Jdillion82
Paper Texture Tutorial by El-grimlock
Textured Brushes Tutorial by Selene231
Creative First Aid Kit by Yasahime
Looong Coloring Tutorial by TastesLikeAnya
How I See Color by Purplekecleon
Various Element Tutorials by ShadowUmbre
http://www.drawfurry.com/ (don’t be fooled by the name if you’re quick to judge; It’s got good info, especially if you’re into webcomics)
Various conceptart.com Forum Tutorials (look around!)
these are just a few, because god knows there a whole bunch out there. So yeah, just search around a bit and practice practice PRACTICE. No one else is going to do it for you! u:
Hope it helps somewhat!
Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artists Joseph Sheppard
Buy it for $10, honestly worth it.
Ah! I actually have this book! It’s nice and really really cheap.. I think I actually got mine used for about $5? Only thing I’d say is that DEFINITELY do not use this as your sole anatomy book and make sure you pick up bridgeman or hampton.. the latter helped me see muscle grouping much better and the former helped me a lot when I began to stylize muscles.
But, ya! Maybe peruse through a pdf and see if you like it? I mostly just use pdf’s but I find it handy to have at least one or two non-digital anatomy books to reference every now and again
I got a few people asking about the little “exercises” I give myself to do when I need to warm up, break out of art block, or just have fun doodling… so here’s one for you guys to try! It’s basically like that color scheme meme that was floating around, except you make your own color schemes.
Drawing the head with planes/Reilly method, and how to draw fabric. Made by Erik M. Gist who is an instructor at Watts Atelier.
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