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Drawing... at 1 Jul 2007: 00:15

Fchan being the only online furry 'community' I care to be apart of (I'm not a big fan of those more serious FAs and such) I've decided to ask: How the hell do you become a good Anthropomorphic artist?!

I like to think that I have some artistic potential and I would love the ability to put all of my dirty, dirty ideas onto paper for mine, and others, viewing pleasures. But the last time I checked I cant enroll at a community college for "Yiff art 101" and I 'really' do not want to go through all that formal schooling only to use certain techniques for my certain artistic interest.

Basically I want to get to heaven with out going through hell, can any one help me with some pointers or good books/guides?

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Hammer at 1 Jul 2007: 00:17

Whoopsies... I put my name for the topic name and the topic name for my name, can a mod help me out or am I stuck with my stupidity?

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at 1 Jul 2007: 02:10

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FoxStar at 1 Jul 2007: 02:14

The only way to get good is to draw the basics first. If you can not get good at drawing anthro animals in a clean fashion then you will forever cripple and pigeonhole yourself trying to do smut. There is no easy way out and folks trying to do so is one reason there's so many hacks in the fandom now. Learning to draw depends on the person and years of practice to get good. If you want to be yet one more hack, then start with porn and see where you end up.

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at 1 Jul 2007: 02:19

The best thing you can do to become an accomplished artist is to practice.

A lot of people are going to read that and ignore it, but it's true. Ultimately books and advice can only take you so far; you need to get a pencil and some paper and work at it, and keep working at it. Not fun to hear if you're looking for that silver bullet of skill, but it's just the way of it.

The accomplished artists are the ones that have the patience to weather their mistakes and their shortfalls, and the passion to keep doing it for weeks, months, years.

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Sage Freehaven#yw6CUBo.Jc at 1 Jul 2007: 03:24

Two useful bits of advice handed down to me:

- Practice, practice, practice.
- Don't even think about trying to draw porn until you have the basics down pat first.

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Humus at 1 Jul 2007: 10:31

What's wrong with drawing porn first? o.o Some of my earliest works were porn, and I drew clean and adult artwork at the same frequency then as I do now. And my practice is drawing. My drawing is practice. I've never drawn for the sole purpose of practicing. I always drew for the sake of drawing my ideas.

I'm only two and half years into the game, and lookit me. :3 Sure, I'm not as good as some of the artists out there, but I'm way better than I was before. >.>

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stevefarfan at 1 Jul 2007: 12:12

I'm a professional comic book artist.  In order to become a good artist, you need to learn 3d perspective at the very least.  Then you can learn human and or animal anatomy. The more you know the better.  It's best to start by learning from books, a teacher, or apprenticeship (this option is kinda old-school though).  In this way you learn how other people do it. 

Afterwards, you can gain a much deeper understanding by re-learn everything by drawing what you see.  Look at people walking down the street, talking, and the like.  Keep in mind of how you're doing things, like moving boxes, writing, having sex, among other things.  Mirrors help.

Animators like to use mirrors for seeing how how their emotional action affects their face and facial muscles... in order to be able to create this emotion on a character who looks either similar or entirely different.

I don't think subject matter is particularly important.  Draw what you want, because it's fun, and because it'll keep you interested in art.  When learning, try drawing from life as realistically as possible, without any use of style, and it'll be easier to exaggerate everything in art.

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at 1 Jul 2007: 20:28

>>8 up there - and everyone else - are pretty much right.  When I was in art school I took like 4 courses of figure drawing.  You know the classic "model stands up there in some weird pose and you draw him or her".  Because of those classes, these days I don't need to remember the many "tricks" like "a hand should be more or less large enough to cover the face" (indeed, I recall few of them), because something that's drawn wrong just LOOKS WRONG intuitively to me, it stands out. 

So: practice practice practice.  And yeah, go ahead and draw porn - it may end up being crappy porn, but you'll at least be motivated to draw.  :)

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Drakkon at 2 Jul 2007: 12:00

Yep

Art is one thing you definitely learn by doing.  Natural talent doesn't hurt, but there's nothing wrong with being a fine mechanical* artist.  The important things it to just do it.

ART AND MUSIC ARE NOT OPTIONS FOR A SCHOOL!  THEY ARE CORE CURRICULUM!

*-means you do it by the numbers, with no real talent, but a good eye for detail.

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at 2 Jul 2007: 18:02

>>1

If I might make a request. When you do get the point where your artwork is superb,

stay humble.

Please.

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