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art tutorials / books i like masterpost

ppl ask me for advice and while i always have a lot of Thoughts about art that i like to share. maybe being told "just have fun and be yourself" can be frustrating when you want actionable advice so:

these are books i love that have taught me a lot, i own physical copies and still reference them all the time. (these arent expensive or hard to find but i'll include pdfs anyway)

Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burn Hogarthe (pdf)

The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren (pdf)

Exploring Color by Nita Leland (pdf)

and i am being completely dead serious when i say you should try the tutorials from ed emberley's books. yes even if you're a whole adult who has gone to art school. (everybody who tells me "your art is so shaped" this is where i get that shit from !!! he knew what he was talking about!!) this one is my favorite

also these books that i've learned a lot from that aren't literally "how to draw" books:

and i say this all the time but imo just doing a lot of observational drawing / drawing from life is the thing that will level you up the fastest. it's an awesome thing to be inspired by the art you love but if that's all you do you will never get out of the trap of comparing yourself to others. most importantly be gay and never give up

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tryin' something out

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Some of this week's doodles. Featuring the king's mage trio and some dragons. red dragon not mine

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everyone has to look at my dragon it was an incredible pain in the ass to draw

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Drawing mirelurk kings never gets old for me :)

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More experiments with the golden shrike style for practicing my cheater lineart method. Tis for deer game. Leftmost deer is mine, the other two belong to pals.

If you don't know golden shrike, it's a very cool deer comic by @doe-prince ! And you SHOULD check it out!

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Dwagon (character not mine)

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what is a cheater lineart method?

akdlfjkalfj basically I find lineart kind of annoying and time consuming to do so I'm always looking for ways to not do it. This is one of my "cheat" methods:

draw out the shape of whatever it if you're looking to line (in this case, deer)

2. Add outline tool. I use photoshop so it's the "stroke" tool

3. Apply clipping mask, and draw the interior lineart (haven't found a way to nix that yet. booo)

4. New clipping mask layer, do flat colors

5. for deer specifically this works great for antlers too!

Then there's shading and color adjustments and whatnot but that's the gist. While I don't think it looks as nice as proper lineart it does the job and it's much faster for me. So, not a method I plan to use often but one I like to have in my toolbox.

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My friend was sad so i made them a horse. now the rest of you must also look at the horse

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Deer stuff

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In which Mel shows off, Kanin is impressed, and Sabuno is less impressed.

Mel (rightmost) belongs to me, the other two belong to a friend.

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Duality of man

Extra that I thought looked nice.

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Some adoptables I made for DA. Because I love drawing funny little dragons. And if I can monetize drawing funny little dragons then I will draw more funny little dragons. Dunno if there's much of an adoptables scene here, folks wanna let me know if there is? Then I'll make sure to post em here too.

Both critters are already sold. Sorrrrrryyyyyy

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Gift for a pal

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Don’t let them tell you that dragons don’t frolic in springtime meadows. They frolic alright. They frolic.

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I've been really wanting to make a game about exploring a Weird Basement. Here's some concept art for it.

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speed painting! tried a new method of rendering the stag and i really like the effect