Quicktime video of Adam Hughs drawing a character....if you don't know who Adam Hughs is, then shame on you. http://comicartfans.com/SubNewsDetails.asp?NID=43 Adrew Loomis tutorials on figure drawing from imagination and otherwise.... http://acidkick.noobgrinder.com/Loomis%20Books.zip
http://dccomics.com/features/jimlee/video.html Here's a video of how Jim Lee draws. What's weird is I draw similiar to this, but slower.....what he did in 30 minutes would probably take me 4 hours.
That Adam Hughes video was really cool. I've never had the chance to see him draw in person before. And of course, the Loomis books should be read by every aspiring character artist. I actually have an old 1949 edition of "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" I got off Ebay a while ago. Great stuff!
amazing. i love watching a good artist sketch. almost as if they can see the image on the paper before they draw it, and all they have to do is trace. thanks for the link.
"almost as if they can see the image on the paper before they draw it, and all they have to do is trace." I think its less a matter of "seeing" it on the paper and more of "feeling" I was watching the video and what stuck me, especially when he was re-drawing the hand in the first video, was the obvious certainty with…
This kind of knowlegde is a boone and a bane. With it you can draw with authority, banging out perfectly constructed hands, heads, boobs, whatever...however there is always the danger of artistic stagnation. When you learn something to the point of being able to recite/play/draw it without much effort, variation begins to…
[ QUOTE ] To me this says that he KNOWS those forms, and not just in a quantitative way, like X finger is blah inches long and so forth...but that he has drawn and studied those forms so many times that it's like instinct, or muscle memory. [/ QUOTE ] That hand is clearly a study of how Gil Kane drew hands, I can also see…
Scott: I absolutly agree that the main aim of most art, visual or otherwise, is communication. Even when done as a sort of cathartic release or therapy it's still about perhaps finding a way to communicate with yourself ( i know that sounds alittle touchy feely, but I'm of the opinion that theraputic stuff like diaries and…