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How to study anatomy as an artist?
An oldie question. But I hope new resources.
It is fundamental to understand some basic anatomy, not only muscles but skeleton first of all.
My aproach for this question is:
1) Understanding the basic ...
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How to capture likeness in a portrait?
Some portraiture artists skip over any attempts to contain the face inside the more dominant geometric structures of the skull too early on. Instead they concentrate on five or six points of reference ...
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How strong lighting should I have in a studio where I work with only paper and pen?
I'd say 1000 is enough, it's very bright actually. It's similar to normal daylight and that's what is usually recommended for graphic design on computers as well.
You can go a bit lower for your own ...
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How to study anatomy as an artist?
I've found out that to properly learn anatomy slightly depends on what you want to do. For example, anyone can figure out (eventually) how to draw a model from a photograph in full detail with the ...
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Logo redesign suggestions
It's funny that i found the "same" logo on google images with the search "pear from letters logo"....
In my opinion, a logo that is made from the words that your client want in a shape of a pear will ...
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Logo redesign suggestions
Definitely do not use real imagery. What dimshik found is cool, but because it seems like a pretty serious company I would explore having a pear as an icon and the wordmark separate.
In terms of fonts,...
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Rotring 0.6 ArtPen alternative?
Manuscript sells entry-level pens, as does Speedball in the U.S.
Lamy does nice pens, incl. a line of calligraphy pens like to the Rotring Artpens: http://www.lamyusa.com/lamy_fountain_L15_joy.php
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What does an artist who wants to learn graphic design need to know?
Good graphic design is GOOD INFORMATION DESIGN. It involves guiding the eye and attention of the reader/consumer in the path that you want them to follow. Good graphic design allows the consumer to ...
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How to study anatomy as an artist?
There is only one resource that has ever made sense to me- the old Art Students League videos by Robert Beverly Hale. There is a balance between abstracting the figure in order to understand it, and ...
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How to study anatomy as an artist?
This tutorial I found works wonders. I used a lot more actual, real life anatomy references though because a lot of the ones provided on this to help you are drawings from artists and i feel the real ...
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How to study anatomy as an artist?
To add to what's above:
check your drawings in a mirror. You can catch a surprising amount of simple mistakes this way.
Focus on gesture, basic shape relationships and proportions and balance before ...
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How to study anatomy as an artist?
I dont have the ability to fiy figure sessions in right now, so I use instagram pretty heavily to practice drawing people. Specifically I follow some strippers and pole dancers, as theyre about as ...
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How to improve angle and proportion perception?
Here are some major differences I noticed between the drawing and the original picture:
The distance between the bottom lip and the tip of the chin in the drawing is smaller than the original picture, ...
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