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the second part ofit gets into the method a little more and includes some of my process. Don't take these drawings as anatomically perfect. I am not telling you how to draw a certain figure, rather, how to teach yourself how to draw figures.
Edit: Sorry dudes; I see a few wee spelling and grammatical errors but it's soooo late and I'm in bed. I'll fix them in the morning.
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Make ALL the BAD ART!!! :allthethingsplz:
No, seriously, you motivated me a lot 
Thanks for this one a whole lot. Cheers!
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Yay for part 2! Very informative indeed, and I got a smile from the naked Voldemort bit. You definitely wrote out doubts I've had before, as well. I'll try hard not to let stress get to me too much, because it happens quite often!
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And you STILL manage to make it look easy.
Dick.
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You found me out. 
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Remind me not to use your keyboard...
Really interesting, thoughtful stuff there, Hib. I don't draw, but I do woodworking, and a lot of the same things apply.
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Hey I scrub behind my foreskin.
Woodworking is a great skill! I've always admired woodwork.
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I really like your advice in step two about the lines in the contours of the form you're creating. My question to you is, if you were to go and paint up either of the contour line pieces you did as examples, would you leave those lines in there as guidance for shading?
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I could do either. There's no wrong way to make art so long as it's compelling and interesting in the end.
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Thank you so much for posting these. Between the 2 you've really not just helped me get a grasp on how to work on my anatomical structure but you have inspired me as well to work again. To pick up a pencil and try to improve my work again.
Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing this! I'm definitely going to try what you've said here. I tend to keep drawing the same, static side view and it's boring me.
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Wow! This was incredibly useful
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"Sometimes you have to have faith that you're moving forward, even if it seems like you're at a standstill." - I'm adding that to my mental list of art-tips-that-I-repeat-to-others-and-have-the-bonus-of-being-applicable-to-other-areas. Which makes it the third (the first two being "practice, practice, practice" and "good artists come from bad artists who don't give up").
A nice little tutorial, some stuff I already try to do but other stuff I hadn't thought of (e.g. the extra lines on sketches to "describe the surface"). Good job!
And I can totally relate on the car thing. 
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Excellent pointers! I find this very encouraging towards my learning process!
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So, I'm an author, not an actual artist, but I still found this very helpful. Or rather, I found the pep talk at the end extremely helpful. It applies surprisingly well to my field as well as artists. Thanks for this
PS. I like your alien-voldemort
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I love you!!!!! You have no idea how much this has helped me!!!!!!!!
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thank you so much for sharing this. I'm going to re-read it over and over. Love the poses. Now i'm off to check out your gallery! Awesome! Thanks again!
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Thank you so much! I can't tell you how helpful and inspiring this was. It made me feel somewhat happy and encourages me to draw more.
(You're great at drawing creatures, by the way! )
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Thank you so much for putting both these pose tips they're really helpful. :>
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Such a great help what you have made here. Definitely god stuff to keep in mind for anyone who likes to draw
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it helps very much! thank you for both parts!
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These advice boards are incredibly useful. It's heartwarming to hear somebody who is very good at art say "I'm not perfect though I've spent a long time practising, it's that effort that you see in what I do."
Thank you for taking the time to make these for our use
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loved all of it but he speech at the end was epic :3
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! The little tips and everything are so true, and everyone knows it, but sometimes it just helps to have someone else tell you it XD
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As I said in part one, this is very helpful and inspirational (the wee spelling and gramatical errors I've noticed but can forgive ^_^) so thanks!
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I wish I would have had this around when I was getting my BFA. People tell you all the time "practice makes perfect" but its always so hard to believe when you've not seen it happen with your own work. It's easy to think "everyone else is just born amazing and I'm the only one failing miserably." I didn't believe the practice thing until an artist I admired in school told me "draw every day, even if its just a crappy gesture, do it EVERYDAY" when I finally decided to take the plunge I was amazed at how my art changed and improved (probably also helped I was taking anatomy at the time). I would give myself excuses before saying "well I don't really have time..." and the artist told me "well draw for 5 minutes, time it...everyone has at least 5 minutes" It took a lot of pressure off of me to just draw for the 5 minutes because I didn't have to create a final piece or an interesting composition, I just had to drawn SOMETHING. I'm glad you wrote/drew this, I'm probably going to put your suggestions in my sketchbook to look at from time to time. Even if I learned all these the hard way, its still nice to look at and be reminded that improvement is a journey not a destination.
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Thanks for taking the time to make this, I'm sure it'll be a life-saver!
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Thank you for this! I've been struggling with drawing lately and I think it's because the forms of my drawings have been off. I will definitely take these words of advice and try to apply them.
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It looks quite useful, thanks for sharing ! I'll try to apply this the next time I doodle.
Although I doubt it will be answered - it's not against you, there are just too many comments here for this to be realistic - I have a question : where do you find you references ? Do you look at a website in particular, or do you just browse Google image and type whatever you're looking for ? I usually use the second method, but I've trouble coming up with really useful pictures ...
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I try to read all of my comments and answer the ones looking for help. :3
I do browse Google. You'll never find just the image you're looking for (and that's for the best, really, because you don't want to borrow too much from a photo that you don't have permission to use) but there are SO many photos that you can kind of take a little bit from here, a bit from there.
For human poses, posemaniacs.com is great. It's made as a resource for artists.
If you're looking for direct reference you can use legally, the stock here is good (provided you use it according to the owner's rules) and also morguefile.com.
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WOW! These are so good! I am actually taking Anatomy and Physiology right now (because I aspire to become a nurse) and these really shed some light on how I shouldn't "get it right" right away! heh! THANKS! =]
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I love that these are actual solid advice on how to get better at drawing, rather than a step-by-step "you draw a circle, add some eyes..." DA needs more tutorials like this! Thanks for taking the time to put these together, there's some really good food for thought in here.
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Thank you for putting all this time and effort to share this information. you have shead light onto a subject that no one really thinks about , and that is no matter how may tutorials you read you wont get better without practice and working on yoru mistakes. Thank you !
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Very nice c: you took up many issues I've experienced myself, but never found the answer to. I have just one question, do you know how I could print this out on a couple of A4 papers? So that I can read it whenever the distress appears and for motivation perhaps, I've never found a way to print out these kind of long images D:
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You'll need a printer that prints these sizes. If you've got one that supposedly prints at A4 but you've never been able to make it do so, find the owner's manual. If you don't, you can take it to a printing place that does it.
Otherwise you could just do it the simple way and print it out on two or three sheets of paper and tape them together.
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Yeah, thing is I can't get it to spread the image to 2-3 sheets, it just shrinks everything to one D:
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you might have to use a program to break up the file, yourself.
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