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deDIKnight said:Word
Excelsior - thanks for giving the kid a gee up too
ABC You keep at it son - dont give up and if someone gives you flack and abuse - seriously try to ignore them
God knows I find it hard to do that - but you just get plain sarcastic people
A really good artist - will at least try and help you out
I'm learning to redraw after being blind and its a very tough struggle
Try and use Action figures from The MArvel Legends line for their poseability and try and draw from them to begin with
Use photos as reference - get a few good drawing guides like the "How to draw the marvel way" or the wizard edition
Both can really help you - a few young artists here have Pmed me asking advice and such and i help them out when i can
I'm glad to really say that Spiderfan08 is one of my best students - his manip work is superb these days
Makes me look crap LOL
Keep your chin up kid and remember for every guy that wants to knock you down theres also guys like Excelsior the moderator....
And me a Humble deadeye knight
Djsupes
I know it would be hard to draw after being blind for a decade, but I'm curious, what's the hard part, no practice? And did you draw for DarkHorse? Valorman said so. Anyways, do you have any pieces of art before you got blind that we could see?
ABC said:
I will say that we probably don't need an Anatomy for Beginners thread of any kind--it would get cluttered, and there really are so many good books on the subject. If you hit your local bookshop, you can find many a book on anatomy for the artist, at which point it's just a question of skimming them quickly to see which one speaks to you most. I find it most helpful to use anatomy books that illustrate in line art without a lot of shading--comic art is quite stripped down, and studying anotomy reduced to linework was more helpful to me than some full-on greyscale/color rendering by a medical artist.
I agree with deadEYE about using action figures for reference---I like spider-man figures--for some reason, Spidey figures seem to get the most articulation (I have one with 48 points of articulation, including each freaking finger) so are the most poseable, and spidey's got such a clean look as a character that he's easy to use as a reference to build other clothing or costumes on.
ABC, keep working at it---what I would try to give as constructive criticism it to look at some art books and concentrate on lessons of visualizing 3d forms, first--to me, right now it looks like you're making the classic error of thinking in terms of contour and line, instead of form and volume.
And don't worry about that, because every artist on this board made that mistake at some point. I did, I'm sure deadEYE did, Bane did--all of us... Thinking in terms of line instead of form is the single most common beginner error---and if you look at art thru the ages, you'll see that pretty much every artist ever thought in terms of line up until the Renaissance--so it took us as a species a few thousand years to devolop perspective, lighting and form in paintings and drawings--so there's no shame in thinking that way at the tender age of 13.
And, *Ahem* there are artists making a carreer---dare I say it, who were considered to be a "Hot" artist who have terrible anatomy issues--I will cite Rob Liefield and Todd McFarlane as examples.
(I suppose one day I'll scan in some of the stuff I did at 12 to 16 or so and post it in my thread sometime--I still have a few folders of them lying around.)
Keep it up and ignore the sarcastic--they won't help you, so why let them hurt you?
djsupes said:Do you do commissions? I'd love to have some of your work for my personal collection, I think that Nightwing would look GREAT next to Jim Lee's Nightwing drawing. Thanks!
Kyle