Trust me, I'm a professional designer :)
Artist, please feel free to add your favorite details that I missed. I'm working on an illustrated/art tutorial version.
PART 2 UP NOW!!
References is the artist best friend!!!
so here it is some resources for you to use! Please share, so you can help more artist uwu.
i can update this post if i find new things.
LAY FIGURE:
JustSketchMe
Magic Poser Web
Design Doll (this one isn't online, and you have to download)
Easy Pose on Steam (this one isn't a free app, and is more focused on "anime art style")
3D MODEL:
Female body - Sketchfab
Male body - Sketchfab
a lot of poses - POSEMANIACS
Reference Angle
Head Construction - guidelines - by Marc Brunet.
BACKGROUND:
Room Sketcher
SketchUp
BLOGS THAT HELP A LOT:
this amazing post made by starrify-everything
Pose Reference
BONUS:
this amazing hands brushes made by poxamarquinhos
a lot of pinterest bases
Okay guys, here's the best drawing advice I can possibly give to someone struggling to find their "style" or is just a beginner in general. Now when I say this you'll probably think it sounds overly simple and stupid as shit, but please trust me on this.
Take your paper, take your pencil, a vague idea of what you want to draw, and just go fucking ham. Do not sit there forever slowly sketching and erasing every 30 seconds. Do not waste time second-guessing yourself. Draw something, and if you think it looks like shit, draw it again, slightly differently. Again, I repeat, don't take your time with this. Just go for it and don't stop. Now, that second drawing might still look like shit, but I bet you it's slightly better. Keep doing this. Whatever you liked about the last drawing, stick with it. Separate the aspects you like from the aspects you don't.
Now, every artist learns differently, but for me and many others, this simple trick works wonders, 'cause guess what guys, focusing too much on your little mistakes is what's holding you back. So stop it. I'll reword it one last time just to make sure you get it through your head. When you're just starting out, trying to find your groove,
Holt shit your art is amazing, whered you learn to do backgrounds? Any tips?
Thanks! I just love how Kaye_bin and Vasili Zorin draw backgrounds. Wish one day I'll do something like them and will understand colors as they do. In almost all artworks recently posted, I just tried to draw as many details as I can in a sketch or line work stages. Then prayed to all Gods it will work in a color stage and used a lot adjustment layers :D Right now I am trying to change this workflow and do a little color sketch before start to work with lines. I think all next artwork will be done this way, I'll try to save some steps or timelapse. These are some quick studies I did from games, artists, photos, just to make myself used to draw color sketch first.
Then I tried to use this pipeline on some fast doodles, like this one:
And right now I wanna try to draw something bigger and detailed with this method. Will see how it goes :3
If life is a never ending loop of dirty dishes and laundry then that means life is a never ending loop of home cooked meals and comfy clean clothes
i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled