Pilot's Art Tips and Tricks
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Contents
Hold Ctrl + F to find one of these contents.
Brief Introduction and how to use this guide
Proportion
Being Colorful

Misc
-Tools for drawing
-Setting up for drawing on a paper (Not on the computer)
-Tips
-Extras
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Brief Introduction and how to use this guide.
Drawing is not easy so this is why I made this tips and trick guide, to help you people. This tutorial mainly contains sources of other websites and is a bit of a link archive.

Also to navigate around a bit easier, I added Legends/Keys, what every good guide needs.
Legend/Key:
Bold words = Child Topics
Italic and Bold words = Parent Topic
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Proportion
Proportion is really important to make a picture looking goood! So it's important to have good stance.
I don't like to follow other people's "Have to do art rules" because it's your art, you can do whatever you think that will make your art better, you don't even have to follow this, I just made this so you can be inspired by ideas. Before making an image it's a good idea to sketch what you are going to do, now don't put too much detail in the sketch just in the final image.

Added by KAZECoyote

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Being Colorful
Well before I link you to another place let me tell you what a good picture needs, it needs color but even with color your picture might look boring. That is probably because it doesn't have Shading or light. Okay here are two links to a site which will help you, one is Here or a one which is a interactive flash one that I recommend for beginners is here here

Also, Smudge, it's really cool, when use it at on the right spot in a picture it makes the picture look deep, it's also good for shading and make things look more realistic!


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Misc
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Tools for drawing
Here are some tools for drawing, some are quite obvious and some will be a discovery!
Wacom Tablets (Not Medicine Tablets):They can be brought on http://www.wacom.com or on http://ebay.com
Pencil/ Grey led (A Trusty artist's side kick for drawing!)
Rubber/Eraser (A Trusty's artist's side kick for erasing!)
Sharpener (A good sharpener will be one of those they have a container so you don't have to sharpen at the bin)
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Setting up for drawing on a paper (Not on the computer)
Okay, here goes! It will be good to draw in a well lit place and have 3 sharpened pencils at your side, also some color pencils if you're planning on coloring. Okay this kinda looks bad so far, because (most) people like lists because lists are smexy and they don't really like a chunky whole lot of text, so I'll put this into a list and in the list I might repeat some stuffs already said.
To have at your side and to do:
*3 Sharpened pencils (So you don't have to sharpen much)
*An Eraser (Good for rubbing out mistakes)
*A Sharpener
*Optional* Color pencils (If you are planing on coloring)
*A Well lit area

Okay, so we have our to do's and now our not to do's.

Avoid...

*Resting your arm on drawn parts (The led might get on your arm and you might blur the picture)
*Using a pen (Use a pencil first so you can rub out any mistakes)
Okay that's about it, next you can color in, draw, or something...But draw is what you're doing...right?
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Tips
Use a pencil first, use a pen later. A Pencil is better because you can rub it out, you can white-out the pen too but it won't look that good.

If you are using a pencil press lightly, and draw a sketch on that paper, after you are done rub out unwanted bits to save trees!

It's a good idea to think of what type of image you are going to draw is it going to be have a destruction theme? A Peaceful, relaxing? A Sorrow image? Think of your theme before drawing.
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I will add more later this is all I got. Thank you for viewing this thread! BTW By proportion I mean like the way somebody is moving, I'm not sure if it's the right thing to call it but I call it proportion
P.S
Post what I can improve about this or just post comments!
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Extra
Added by Blue

Well, first of all, try to improve the proportion and pose for your example pic. It looks terrible and has an impossible stance. No one will believe you or take you seriously if you can't pull it off, yourself.

Sorry ^^" They are just ideas to inspire people, I might suck but I don't care.
Besides I don't fine anything impossible there, can you circle the impossible parts for me? Thanks!

He's leaning much to far to his left and his arms are warped to the point where it looks utterly painful. Now, if you straighten out his left leg, you'd find that it's much longer than his right one. Try to fix these issues.

*Updated! Please visit, I put some time in this tutorial.

That's much, much better. I'm sure people will find this very helpful, now.

If you find this helpful, please post a comment

How 'bout I just sticky it for you?

Sure, why not? It's one of the few attempts we have at actually trying to teach people stuff. Be sure to update it if you have any other good ideas, Enternal.

Thanks both you!
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Added Contents
Updated Tips

to add to proportions/anatomy
http://gotham-1.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured
Look through this gallery,.If you don't learn anything, drawing isn't for you. Also, don't use Anime proportions as a base. It tends to be off, start with realism and edit to your liking when your comfortable with it. Realism is the foundation that every style is built off of.

Here's a great addition to the tutorials, courtesy of a friend of mine from a site I can't mention.







"Don't consider drawing the figure as a whole entity, but start with swift, impulsive strokes after the initial gesture line (fig A) to just give the idea of the pose. At this point, nothing is concrete about the drawing. You'll notice I drew in Z's for the feet, but I think of them as two flat squares (thus the instep is established already) and this lets me taper the character to any perspective plain I have going. It's also worth noting that the oval I use to position the head is forward of the neck, and is only a guide, not the actual head shape.

At the second step (fig B), you're establishing proportion at the major joints and giving the character some three dimensionality. This, at least in my mind, is the chief sin I see artists doing over and over again. Skipping over this step will always have a negative impact on the end result, short of close ups, where there isn't enough to see for it to really matter.

When you get to the third part, the main thing to do is give life to the form. S-bending is always awesome and while your first few experiments will probably be messy, the results, once you fall into your groove, make it completely worthwhile."



"What you need to do is sit down and practice stick figures or mannequins like the ones in figures a) and b). Drawing these very quickly is actually a good way to improve (doing them slowly will actually make them look worse) and it's certainly a great way to fiddle with a new trick you might have picked up (for example, the line of weight through the neck, or drawing figures onto short perspective plains).

And before you tell me no, keep in mind that the best artists always practice this, no matter how ridiculously good they may get.

Once you do move onto the detail phase (figure c) try to avoid any unnecessary lines. I get a lot of people telling me I'm good with the folds in clothing but if you actually look, I draw very few of them and instead tend to do a puff at any point where the weight would sit. Otherwise, it just sits on or hangs from the character. Speaking of clothing, try to remember that it wraps around the character, as opposed to being decal, one of the best ways to give the sense of space is to keep any pattern on fabric in at least a partially rounded curve."



"These are strange things to get used to when you first start using them, but after a while they're just second nature. To be entirely honest, I actually had to stop and think about quite a few as I don't even think about them any more."

~Tutorial by Sparkster~

Thanks Blue and KAZE.

BTW Blue, you're images are broken D:

But thanks!

I don't know if I should spend my time on this anymore...No one bothers to read except for you guys, Kiki, Blue and KAZE.

But no one else D:

But thanks, again.

I updated it.

No-one posts in it, but that doesn't mean it isn't used.
For all you know heaps of people are using this to help them with their art, and just aren't saying anything.

Like me...

Somewhat.