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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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Drawing the Magnus Archives day 16. I spent way too long on that chair and it still looks like that haha.

The extra TV is awkward. I’ve always left the random test drawings on there but for this one I wish I did it on a different page.

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It’s been a very long time but I’m just going to still call it day 15.

The body is very long. I also pulled up a picture of someone wearing caving gear but I struggle to draw bodies let alone draw clothes on them.

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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I’m new to social media and I wanted to save this post but I don’t know what I’m doing. I think this is the closest I’m going to get.

@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

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Day 14 of drawing the Magnus Archives. Haven’t watched anymore videos lately to improve from but I’ve been pretty busy. I’ll jump back on that soon. The shading in the box is supposed to be like a cloth or wrapping paper but it didn’t turn out super well.

Maybe I should’ve done darker marks for the border of the finger. Would make it a bit easier to see. I thought about drawing the actual guy with bits of him coming off, but that seemed a daunting task, and I’m tired.

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Day 13 of drawing the Magnus Archives. Not a whole lot to say about this one. Couldn’t figure out how to make the brickwork look quite right and I’m going back to college so I’m tired and gave up. The fog and chain look kind of better than I expected? Like they’re not great by any means but when I scanned it in it does look better than I thought they would so that’s nice.

I also couldn’t figure out how to make the fog and grass field look right using only my graphite pencils. Guess I may actually have to try using color soon. I think app I use to scan documents only does black and white so that may be a problem.

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Day 12 of drawing the Magnus Archives. I was teaching a class this past weekend so I was really tired and didn’t end up drawing anything. I considered drawing a bunch of these to make up for lost time. In the end though I decided that it wouldn’t be conducive to habit building if I got tired drawing like 4 in a day.

I traced my hand onto the page for this one. I wonder if adding some wrinkles around the joints would make it look better.

Just passed episode 124 before drawing this. That season three finale was wild.

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Magnus Archives drawing day 11. I feel like the person’s proportions aren’t too bad in this one. When they’re just kind of standing I can do it pretty well but any other position and that goes out the window.

The middle feels conspicuously empty but I didn’t really know what to put.

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Drawing the Magnus Archives day 10. I haven’t re listened to any of the episodes I’ve drawn this far except sometimes skipping through to find a description. It’s very evident in this one that I didn’t try to make them look like the in story characters at all.

This one feels unsettling to me in none of the ways intended lol. The vampire looking like a baby probably has a large part to do with it.

Someone said on my last one that using reference photos isn’t going to hurt me so for now I’m just going to keep doing it.

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Drawing the Magnus Archives day 9. I took photos of myself to use as references for this one which is why Robert has a pony tail lol. I don’t know if using references like this is going to stunt my learning curve? I’ll have to look that up.

As usual the proportions are a little off. Everyone has clothes though! Which is unusual for the guys I’ve been drawing (because they’ve been blank silhouettes not because they’re naked, except for MAG 6 in which case he is naked).

Kind of happy with how the magic circle turned out. It’s supposed to be an “intricate chalk pattern” but I thought for this drawing without using any color that would get muddled really quick.

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Day 8 of drawing the Magnus Archives. I worked 11.5 hours today and I am tired so I decided to just keep it nice and simple.

I don’t know what happened to the pattern on the front. I wanted to mix it up from the pattern I did on the side or on the table from MAG 3 but it just ended up real awkward. The lid is also a wee bit wonky but I think it’s fine.

For my practice I haven’t continued watching the how to videos (mostly because of the aforementioned tiredness) but I have been doing other drawing as practice. Mostly just spending time drawing random stuff around the house.

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Magnus Archives drawing day 7. I used a reference for the one in the middle. The little guy is supposed to be showing all his arms that he’s supposed to have. Not pictured are all the wounds he’s supposed to have.

I thought about giving him a neck but I was scared of… I don’t know, ruining it? I kind of prefer the idea that the heads face in all directions rather than like a Cerberus situation.

Also the heads, especial the ones on the end, look like eggs.

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Drawing the Magnus Archives day 6. I added a lot of text to the page compared to previous ones. If I’m going to keep posting these on here I should probably write less on the page and just write those comments on here.

I’m kind of proud of myself for how patient I’m being with my drawing progress. I know it’s VERY early in my learning, but I have a pattern of getting very frustrated when I don’t get things very quickly and that hasn’t happened so far.

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Day five of drawing the Magnus Archives. I’m really tired today and I didn’t feel like drawing a whole lot.

The only other thing I could think to draw was more trash bags or maybe the garbage truck or garbage men but that sounded a bit boring and I didn’t feel up to it.

The video I watched today taught me about lines so that was exciting haha. Gotta start somewhere though.

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Magnus Archives day 4. I started watching some basic tutorials and did some practice not related to this piece at all. I figured that I should probably start learning from the very beginning since the last time I took an art class was elementary school. Which means I drew a bunch of triangles and squares and then made this haha.

I looked up Sanskrit for reference but that language was definitely not meant to be drawn with something as fine a tip as a pencil. It’s almost certainly illegible but if it’s not I hope I didn’t write anything offensive on her.

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Magnus Archives drawing day 3. This episode is honestly a lot of fun to look back on. As with many of the first episodes, it doesn’t pay off for a while. Oh but when it does, it really does.

I think each of the three renditions of the hand on the sill has something I like better than in the others. The actual figure I think is best in the top left (ignore the disproportionate hands), the hand in the top right is my favorite looking one, and the shadows outside of the window in the bottom left look a little better than I was expecting.