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I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner.....Warm-ups to start the day and then warm-downs to end the day. Genius I tells ya! GENIUS! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*Ahem* Right. But yeah, this is warm-down 1, and Imma be doing these and warm-ups more often. It's a good way to draw from life and photos to replenish the ol' mental library. In this case to put in the ol' noggin what's not there yet, which is how to draw women!
When I was in high school, my art teacher Linda L. told me not to look at things when I drew because it was cheating. So for years I would draw from my head, and it took me a little longer to know what I was drawing. I'm telling you this in case someone gives you the same bogus advice, or gives you a hard time about it. Drawing from life and photos is a legit way to build your mental library, so you can draw what you know from your head, when you're ready.
Hope y'all digs!
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Hello!
I wanted to ask you,
so I getting a new program for my computer drawing tablet and was wondering....~
What would you recomend for a fourteen year old anime artist?
I also do short animations so I don't know if a program you know would ALREADY have both art and animation
but it would help me out BUNCHES!~
Thank you SO MUCH BRO!!
keep up your awesome work~
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Hey,
I was wondering if I could use this image as 'daily image' on the website [link] ?
Please send me a note or a reply
Thank you
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Really cool drawing, I'm diggin' it (the whole warm miniseries btw). Nice little description on this one too, warming up is great, especially if it's girlies. I'm sure cold colours would not work. Wonder what photo you used for the girl on the couch; cool pose.
Keep this series up man!
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What kind of art teacher told you to draw without a resource?! That's crazy. How are you supposed to learn how to draw otherwise. I'm sorry but that's madness.
My art teacher's motto is the exact opposite: "You're only as good as your resources."
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Im glad I always disregarded advice that didnt make sense to me even if, supposedly, the person giving it knew more than me. Cause if someone had said to me what your teacher said to you, I wouldve been like "...uh huh...right" and then just gone and done whatever I wanted to.
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I digs very much, love and I know what you mean, I was told using a ruler was cheating, I still avoid it a lot...
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Sean, you are absolutely correct in your assertion here. Not only has it obviously worked for you anecdotally, but I would say this is scientifically sound advice. You wouldn't learn to do math, or much of anything by "drawing from your head". It is terrible advice to give anybody that is learning anything. I wish art teachers wouldn't propagate such terrible advice for learning.
ergh....on another note, the sketch is awesome. I hope to develop myself into an artist as awesome as you are. You inspire bro!!
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I've heard drawing with your reference upside down helps, but would really only work with a picture or photograph I guess. I haven't actually tried it yet though.
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Thank you for the drawing advice. I think a number of young artists out there are struggling with bad advice from well-meaning but misguided art teachers. Thanks for standing up for photo-reference and drawing from life. The "mental library", as you put it, has to have something in it first.
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thats some great advice and wow amazing job with the red head i mean all that coming all out of ur head^_^ is pretty cool
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studying references is the quickest way to get better! Finding the reference photos that you want to draw from is sometimes much harder...
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"put in the ol noggin what aint there yet huh?" surprising looking at this man..looks friggin awesome and the chick looks hot...
kudos
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They look so cute, their after-glow is so adorable. Redheads are SWEEEET!!!
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"When I was in high school, my art teacher Linda L. told me not to look at things when I drew because it was cheating." - Cheating? That woman needs to get smacked up! That's why I cut art class in HS.
Ryan Benjamin taught me "your only as good as your reference." Of course it refers to the inexperienced such as myself, still my art has improved drastically by using references.
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I love the expression on the girl on the right it's like "Aaaah, in this super awkward body crunching , blood rushing position - I'm Perfectly comfortable" 
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Wow in the thumbnail the figure on the left totally looks like Wolverine sitting slumped over with his back turned. When I clicked full size, I was like, whoa wait...
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I also can't believe you didn't think of this sooner....
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damn right!
let s go look up for your art teacher, we ll make her have a hard time, mjjejje
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Wooo hooo love this!! man, I have a lot of art to look at I have been gone from DA too long!
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yo! waddup, Scotty! good to see ya making rounds. hope all's well!
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busy and good my friend I hope you and your wife are doing fantastic
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is interesting. I love long legs and colors of stockings girls
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I like the one on the left, the pose is...... CRAZYYY !!!
how do you come up with those ?
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gotta love those redheads!
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DRAW WHAT YOU SEE, NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU SEE.
That's like, the first rule of drawing... Wtf is up with that teacher?
Aside from that, I like the pose on the left muchly.
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Dude what kinda of lame ass art teacher says that sort of thing? So were all of the great artists of history cheating? Most of them painted what they saw or were looking at!!! The only way to cheat at art is to trace...and great piece as usual Cheeks ^_^
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Starting and ending the day with drawing ladies sounds like my kind of life! And I funny enough, I just had a conversation about warm-ups with a buddy earlier today and how heaps of great artists do them (which includes you now).
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Helloooo ladies. :-P
I agree with you -- I don't think it's cheating to look at stuff. Somewhere down the road, I think I got similar advice somewhere. I feel like it's only recently that I'm starting to look at stuff when I draw AND I am learning (imagine that!).
Maybe art teachers really mean to warn against tracing? Or maybe they think that we shouldn't look at pictures cause we were at a point that we didn't understand underlying structure?
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Strange. My art teachers (in high school and college) taught us to the exact opposite- try not to look at the paper- always look at your subject; otherwise how would you understand how things are shaped and so on? Made sense to me.
How on Earth could she describe it as cheating?
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My Art Teacher's the opposite. XD
He wants reference for EVERYTHING!
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yeah, that was really messed up advice. My college art teacher always said to look at what you are drawing. In fact we look at our subjects WHILE drawing, and only glanced at our paper. Pushed my skills much faster.
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Dude that's crazy. That advice is the exact opposite of what my high school art teacher says.
"Drawing is 90% observation" is what he always says. Observation for the win.
Love your art by the way
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Dude that's crazy. That advice is the exact opposite of what my high school art teacher says.
"Drawing is 90% observation" is what he always says. Observation for the win.
Love your art by the way!
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