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 Last month we studied the human figure, and this moth we're tackling animal anatomy! Here's a video that gives the gist of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5cWMA6kbw And here's some resources to get you started! Bears!   Cats!   Bigger Cats!  Horsies!  More horsies!  Fur! (posting the whole tutorial because it's something a lot of people, myself included, have difficulty with)         And here's some wildlife\animal art that I just like, feel free to post animal artworks, artists or photos of animals that you like too for inspiration  Shawn Smith  Adam S. Doyle  Eloisedraws.tumblr.com  Robert Bateman  Henri Rousseau  Franz Marc  Pablo Picasso 
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Trying out some new techniques from the Painting With Confidence video Anthony Jones put out. 
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Jun 1, 2014 18:05
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No animals here, but decided to spend the day sketching dead Romans at the museum
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Jun 1, 2014 23:41
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I GOTS COLAHS! Some work prints I intend to submit:   (I'll outline the whales a little better if it gets approved.) And the color model for class. Animal-ish...? 
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Jun 2, 2014 02:33
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My first drawing outside of Loomis studies in two weeks. Plutonica, based on a photograph by Eric Curtis. Black & white charcoal with some pastel touches on construction paper. Incidentally, I could use some advice… Where do you start when you do portraits? I can't decide between making my basic unit the width of the head or the distance between chin and nose. With the former, I feel like I have to correct a lot of my underdrawing. With the latter, I don't like that I'm placing facial features before I even have the head that'll contain them. I'm following Loomis' method as closely as I can understand it. Any advice?
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Jun 2, 2014 03:43
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A spotted bat for this month's theme:
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 Is this Barnacle Jim? Stroszek fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 04:24
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sorry, not an animal. its just my apartment. I got to use 3 point perspective.
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Jun 2, 2014 04:24
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We're off to a great start it looks like CloseFriend posted:My first drawing outside of Loomis studies in two weeks. Plutonica, based on a photograph by Eric Curtis. Black & white charcoal with some pastel touches on construction paper. If I use a basis for measurement for faces I generally use eye widths as my basis for measurement, but really most of the time I construct the face more with guide lines, since I find it easier and faster, like this (stolen from GIS)   There's a couple more lines that you can use too, like if the person is looking straight on like this, with a neutral mouth expression the corners of the mouth will like up with the pupils of the eye, and you can draw a line straight down from the eye to find the width of the nose (generally), and a diagonal line through the corner of the eye to the center of the nose to find the far ends of the eyebrows.
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Jun 2, 2014 04:29
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Jun 2, 2014 06:30
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I just got out of the shower and I'm getting back in. Have you posted that in the Awful Webcomic thread yet?
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Jun 2, 2014 11:27
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I feel like I'm beginning to crack photoshop colouring in a way that's going in a direction I like.
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Jun 2, 2014 14:17
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Finally got around to watching Proko's video on gesture and I think I'm starting to understand the concept. Thanks for recommending it, Billy! Here are some work doodles from yesterday: 
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Jun 2, 2014 20:56
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The girl was fun to draw! That gryphon though.. was surprisingly difficult. 
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Jun 2, 2014 21:58
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That's pretty loving cool. Feedback: I'm not sure about the angle of the gryphon's right wing. Doesn't seem too natural, and I don't like the flow it makes with the neck... I guess it's the additional shoulders sliding into the neck, and they appear small for the creature's size, but not like that's the only problem with the concept of gryphons.  (Although I can see how that part could have given you a lot of trouble.)Whenever I see a drawing of a fantastical creature that I think lacks verisimilitude, I'm tempted to try myself. Expect lovely gryphon art in the near future! I noticed that the girls eyebrows are green, in keepin with the hair color, but not the eyelashes! 
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Jun 3, 2014 05:01
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The problem is that the wing on the far side of the griffon is bigger than it should be. The griffon is facing to the left and angled slightly toward us. The wing does not reflect that. If you drew a line between the leftmost points of the wings, and a line between the rightmost points of the wings, the lines should converge toward the upper left of the frame.
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Jun 3, 2014 05:11
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Parts of a failed 30 Day challenge: 
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Jun 3, 2014 08:03
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Bad art! Possibly good observation: When things fly under their own power their wings tend to be attached near the center of mass. I noticed it's how it is with planes, and birds generally have compact bodies and even though the wings are attached at the front, the front isn't that far from the back. It probably helps flight, because if the hind parts were much heavier that the front, they would hang down and create a broader silhouette, if that makes sense. So I think if a fantasy creature with three pairs of limbs had wings as the second pair, it would be more realistic than otherwise. I think I know this guy...
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Jun 3, 2014 08:13
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In tonight's adventures with insomnia... 
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Jun 3, 2014 09:51
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fuzzybelly posted:The girl was fun to draw! That gryphon though.. was surprisingly difficult. Looks real nice, especially the coloring. And most of the gryphon looks solid, but I think you should have gone more all-in with a round rabbit-butt. Also I think the area where the wings attach to the body looks a bit weird because the tiny bit of chest we see in between the wings is angled towards the wing in the back as if the two were connected there, when the lines instead should imply huge chest muscles (which you need for flying!). On the top of its left wing you didn't wrap the feathers around the outline, leaving the area a bit flat.  (Never mind how awkwardly I placed its right foot, I just think it should be more decisively planted on the ground, didn't see a reason for it to be off the ground.)
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Jun 3, 2014 13:45
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The animation thread is relatively low traffic and I've started doing some animations for the biweekly illustration challenge I've been trying to do regularly, so I shall count these as sketches! Don't usually have much time to get them done but you get to do some fun stuff when you're trying to get them finished on time.  
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Jun 3, 2014 15:51
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These are all awesome, and with impressively different styles. (Also, any of them would make an amazing avatar!)
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Jun 3, 2014 16:09
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unfinished
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Jun 3, 2014 22:35
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Triangle posted:unfinished Oh nice, it reminds me of driving up the Andes!  A firedrake for @Sketch_Dailies.
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Jun 4, 2014 08:14
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Something about that flame looks phoney. I know! Welcome to the science corner: Flame requires a) a source of fuel, b) an oxidant, c) high temperature or catalyst. Let's say the firedrake produces fuel internally, and the oxidant in the form of oxygen is in the air. The fuel is a gas or a volatile fluid and would come in contact with the oxidant near the throat of the drake, or maybe achieve required ratio somewhere later. In the former case, the flame should begin in the throat. In the latter, the fuel would diffuse around, and start in a much broader (and probably dimmer) burst. And I haven't even said anything about the catalyst... Although, for temperature, the drake also would be the generator of it, therefore temperature would decrease starting at the throat, which, again, would be the most reasonable place for the base of the flame.  Er. I guess the fuel could be liquid, containing the catalyst within. It wouldn't look like that anyway, because the difference in color indicates temperature, the temperature difference would go around the drop, therefore the color would be about the same around it. (Not to mention, the flame would be in a different shape.)
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Jun 4, 2014 08:35
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How do you know he's not eating a fireball that was hurled at him? I'm adding more giant scans into my doodles I do at work imgur folder. Here's what boredom at a call center looks like: Todd Barry?  Killer penguin and space tribal people  Random things like a poo poo monster.  poo poo monsters are this month's theme correct?
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Jun 4, 2014 20:57
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supermikhail posted:Something about that flame looks phoney. I know! Welcome to the science corner: Actually you will find that the flame is generated by D̢̓͏̦̠̮̀ų̫̫̣̘̘̣̪̈́͌ͥͧ͛͛̄͟c͉͖̠͑ͥ̎ͮ̄k̷̫̮̝̰̥̝̖ͮ̽ͤ͆̈́̍͘ ̸͖͍͓̥̭̭̅̚͞Mͥ͆҉̣̩̮̼̦̖͞a̷̔ͧͨ̇ͬ̃͐҉̹͕̥͖̲̤̲͈̕g̵̟̣̟͙̩͈̬͚ͣͤ̉ͭ̎͜i̶̘̝̱ͬͯ̊̊ͭ͋̔c͊̆̾̈́ͩ͒͗̅̅҉̹̜̫͈̮͔̥̻.
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Jun 5, 2014 03:49
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Oh, god! My eyes! I take everything back, please! Please! Just... no more!
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Jun 5, 2014 04:54
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lol I don't fuckin know how to draw animals
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e: Couldn't resist 
petrol blue fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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scarycave fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 18:06
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Jun 7, 2014 07:55
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First thing I colored on a paper in years  I probably need a better scanner, though.
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Jun 7, 2014 09:37
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Today's effort.  dunk_hunt_2014_large by friendbeard, on Flickr
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Jun 7, 2014 10:31
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A really anatomically superior fox: Or I guess my attachment doesn't work whatever. V brings new life to the Luigi death stare. meataidstheft fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Jun 8, 2014 02:04
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That goat tree is superb. As for this I have no idea
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 First time throwing in. May paint it later.
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