A comic book creator who just needs to learn to art and write betterhttps://www.instagram.com/evanebon/
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Latest Posts by evanebon - Page 13
- 1/22/2018 If any in the middle look a little weird it's probably cause I was half asleep listening to Michel Buble music, but after that I was able to wake back up when I switched to my Feel Good inc. pandora station. Don't sleep and draw kids
- 1/21/2018 Soooo there that whole thing which says steal from your favorite artists, whelp I do that (like just redraw with the way I draw, idk if it's a style) but now that I'm posting them even as just doodles should probably source or something. @hushabyevalley ocs are awesome and I probably ruined at least two in my doodle
- 1/16/2018 Soooo wyvern frog, one of the coolest fantasy pet I've made up
- 1/15/2018 Ughhhhh.... at this point I feel like I'm just putting off doing color... not only do I have to learn to draw digitally with color it's a different app
- 1/13/2018 Watching Bob Ross videos is amazing. I decided to watch a little of the stream (old reruns) before I took a shower before bed and 3 hours later I'm having an intense discussion in the chat about whether there will be a cabin or a path in this one
- 1/12/2018 ...yeah I didn't get much done, but I did agonize about starting trying to digitally color... maybe (hopefully) next week...
- 1/11/2018 So apparently watching critical role while drawing makes me pretty productive. (Also violet evergarden was awesome)
- 1/08/2018 Ughhhh I'm almost embarrassed to post this. First off I fell asleep when I thought I'd do more but mostly there's just a few doodles in there I wish never existed. Like I can draw humans bodies it's just I was half asleep and didn't try (at all). Objectively speaking I actually really like the majority but all I see at first are the bad ones. Well one post per day.
- 1/07/2018 I got a good amount done on this one. Like normal most are redraws or drawings of people I saw on Tumblr (no tracing ever and I mainly use them as references for facial features and expressions) but yesterday I also used dungeon meshi as a reference (I bumped into one of the books and after a quick full reread I drew from it)
- 1/06/2018
I didn’t do much on this one either but I’ll have more time on the next
- 1/04/2018
After I accidentally deleted my first attempt at doodles (I guess I had done about half this much already) I decided to do start over so I wouldn’t have failed on day four of posting
Soooooo today’s doodles (it's only day 4) so far have just been deleted at 11pm… who ever thought it was a good idea to put the redo button next to erase all needs to stay very far from me at the moment for there own good
- 1/03/2018 So after a while of drawing these I got tired of it and thought the only thing that improved was the eye brow placement. But after staring at it vs some older doodles it turns out I've really improved the stableness of all facial features
- 1/02/2018
… day 2 and I’ve watched a tutorial that was really helpful… but to actually improve I must change the practically automatic way I draw faces (it all takes longer now)
- 1/01/2018
So to make sure I will actually keep doing them I’ve decided to post my daily doodles. My goal is to do one per day (Aka have started one on the official day and finished when I go to sleep not exactly 12 am) and post them the next day or soon after if I forget
goombella123 asked: how 2 force myself to study so i can get better at anatomy and posing
pearbuddy asked: developing a steady practice? i know the best advice to getting better is to just draw, but i know a lot of people (myself included) struggle with actually making ourselves do it.
cuccosneverdie asked: what kind of practice you did to get good at anatomy? i’m really struggling getting anatomy to look even slightly correct
whereislaurita asked about: Anatomy; ;
elinmeat asked about: FACES. .…. FACES. … .
With regards to anatomy, my favourite book is Figure Drawing: Design & Invention by michael hampton, and lots of tutorials and references in my anatomy tag: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/tagged/anatomy !
Which is all well and good… but how do you actually practice these things?
“Just draw a whole bunch” is only about 15% of the story. In order to self study, you need to:
Identify what you are struggling with. Reflect on what it is about your art you do not like so you can improve upon it!
Figure out what direction it is you want to take your art in. How do you want your art to look? You can find a post I wrote about art direction a couple years ago here: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/120523296471/alrighty-then-friends-lets-talk-about-art-styles
Once you identify what you are unsatisfied with, you can figure out what knowledge you are lacking and study it. Read tutorials, books, ask other artists and friends for guidance and critique, etc.!
Then you want to start applying what you have learnt to your art! You can only get so far by reading something, to truly understand it you have to put it into practice and get a feel for what you have learnt.
So lets say, for example, you want to study faces.
You’ll want to seek out some resources that will help you understand the subject, a good place to start would be my faces tag: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/tagged/faces
But I’ll get you started with two resources that helped me the most!
One: Stan Prokopenko’s series on drawing the head at any angle:
It’s a great breakdown of the Loomis Method, a series of guidelines for the face and head created by andrew loomis.
Two: The book I mentioned earlier! It covers the whole figure and I recommend getting it if you can, I do believe there are pdfs out there if you can’t get the book.
But! You can see two of the pages on drawing the head here: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/105040269221/from-figure-drawing-design-and-invention
Now you’ve learnt some New Stuff, and you need to put it into practice so you can process what you’ve been told.
So start finding some references! For faces/hands/feet/the human figure, I recommend visiting https://line-of-action.com/, it’s full of photos you can use.
With your references in and, start by tracing the guidelines over the image. This will help you understand what they represent, and why they’re there.
This is a good exercise for understanding anatomy in general, let’s say you instead wanted to study giraffes and have no idea how to draw them.
Look for the large, consistent shapes, and those will become your construction guidelines!
Once you’ve gotten a feel for your guidelines, try them out! Do a bunch of sketches from imagination.
And when you’re confident with them, try them out by drawing from references.
And finally, go back to your art from before you started these studies, I’m going to use something I drew in 2013
And redraw it using what you’ve learnt!
While you’re doing this, pay attention to the areas you got wrong. Make a note of this, so you don’t repeat it in the future.
Ah, much better!
Now repeat the process of: Identify problem, research problem, study problem, apply what you learnt, and you’ll improve for sure. It’ll take time, but the more you learn the closer your art will get to the image you want it to be!
In this post I focused on anatomy studies, but you can do the same thing with anything.
Like for example: colour studies, in that case you would:
read about colour theory
find some references full of colours you like, and colour pick out the palette
analyse the relationships btwn the colours based on what you read. What kind of colour scheme is this? how are these colours influencing the mood? etc.
then take an old piece and redo the colour scheme, making note of why you were dissatisfied with the old colours.
The most important part of this is that you experiment with what you’re reading about and being taught, and then going back and seeing where it was lacking in your work before so you can apply it to your work in the future!
Best of luck everyone! I hope that helps nwn
You can always ask me for pointers if you need, and remember! Take pride in what you create, everything you do is a work of art.
It’s easy to get caught up in the cycle of improve, improve, improve - but don’t forget to appreciate how far you’ve come.
Lastly, if this was helpful to you, you can support me on Patreon, Liberapay, or Ko-Fi so I can keep writing these posts! Thank you 💕
Idk why but I feel the screaming somehow made it even more relaxing
listening to phil collins
Captain America was literally based off the idea of a golem so if you are confused about what a good human representation of a golem is its captain America and in no way trump
your periodic reminder that “golem” is not a word you can throw around without context. i know golems are pretty ingrained as earth/elemental spirits in a lot of fantasy settings now, but i wish more people understood that golems are extremely important to jewish people in an extremely specific way.
the legend of the golem is a direct response to antisemitism in europe–specifically the blood libel; it was the golem’s job to expose asshole christians who tried to frame jews for child murder. the golem was a uniquely jewish response to a uniquely jewish problem: a sort of proto-superman who could come to our aid when all else failed. the golem is for the most part a benign protector (though there are legends of them rampaging after their rabbis lost control of them, but really, that one’s on the rabbi for not being specific enough). it is a positive and much beloved figure in jewish folklore.
so i want you to understand the full extent of jewish revulsion when we see people throwing around the word “golem” in regards to trump.
trump is not a golem. you do not get to use that word. it does not mean “vaguely human-shaped unfeeling lump of excrement trying to pass as a person.” If that’s what you’re trying to convey with the word “golem”, please just use those words instead.
I think I may have cried when I saw this... I definitely wiped my eyes
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