#should i start learning 3d drawing ? i dont even know 2d drawing

[genderhoax]

I used to want to be an artist but then i stopped drawing for like 7 years. I want to go back but i'm scared and dont know where to start. So yes, i am interested in those drawing videos can you post them if you dont mind? ^_^

Of course!! I am in the same situation as you actually. I used to draw a lot in middle school (2010-2012) but my depression worsened during high school and in college, I’d only draw as a distraction, never seeking to study or improve. I decided to get back this year, since I decided drawing was the only thing I could see myself doing professionally. I felt very lost, because how do you get back? How do you know what’s your actual, current, art skill? What are your weaknesses? Your strong points?

That’s how I learned to study the fundmentals of art. Because visual art is not a skill. It is a set of skills, if you are very good at anatomy but not really when coming to painting your art is going to look differently than someone who learned anatomy in how to draw manga books but paint like a pro. I am going to divide this post in categories, Also, all the videos I link I also recommend all the channels they are from! My favorites are The Drawing Database, Sycra and Ganev, Sycra and The Drawing Databse have a little of everything and are great at explaining. Ganev is a bit sarcastic but I like the way he teaches. I took some parts of the text of this post from here.

How do I begin? How do you even get back at art? What tips should you use? These are general tips videos, usually nice to draw along. /the fundmentals and how to get started/ /5 tips for better drawing/ /perfect pratice/  /beginner’s guide/ /5 tips for digital art/ /10 tips to improve/ /why your drawings are stiff/ /what level is your art/ /improve your art fast/ /drawing basics/ /how to hold and control your pencil/ /intuitive drawing method/ /iterative drawing/

The Fundamentals: Proportion & Placement Proportion is relationship between one element and another. In the visual arts proportion relates most importantly to the abstract quality of scale and placement. You know how stereotypically an artists puts a pencil to their eye when looking at an object? They’re mesuring the proportion of the object in question and how to represent it corectly in the drawing. /principles of proportion/ /ways to create illusion of space/ /drawing the human figure/ /how to draw proportions playlist/ /how to use proportion in character design/ /basic anatomy and proportions part one/ /part two/ /part three/ /part four/ /proportion basics/

Form & Construction The idea of form is how we see the 3D objects in or world and transform them into 2D in the paper/canvas. It’s understading that eveyrthing is made up of basic forms. /dynamic sketching part one/ /part two/ /how to draw forms/ /structure/ /building form/ /another how to draw forms/ /how to visualize 3D forms/ /form study process/

Perspective & Depth Perspective is knowing that as things move away from the viewer’s eye, things seem to get smaller. Get familiarized with terms like horizon line and vanishing point. This is the basic that must be understood to learn perspective. Here’s a good article about this. /an intro video on the subject/ /step by step tutorial/ /perspective basics part one/ /part two/ /part three/ /part four/ part five /part six/  /another basics video/ /20 perspective lessons/ /eye level tip/  /linear perspective/  /simple form perspective/ /drawing the figure in perspective/

Anatomy Anatomy is something I think it’s one the most crucials things to learn in order to make your drawing look good. Once you understand how joints work you’ll be able to see how bones and muscles move. And this goes for anything with a skeleton. It’s one of those things of you learn the rules before breaking them. I am linking different playlists, since linking different videos on various parts of anatomy would take forever. Just study a body part at time: head, eyes, nose, lips, ears, shoulders, neck, hairline, breats, torso, hands, feet etc. /how to do an anatomy tracing/  /playlist 1 /  /draw the head from any angle/  /anatomy for artists/ /draw facial features/ /how to draw and paint/ /playlist 2/ /draw 3/4 head with loomis method/ /playlist 3/ /drawing a head in 3 hours (this one is great to draw along with the artist)/ /how to draw a body/ draw a head with loomis method part 1/  /part 2/ /part 3/ /decipgering bridgman’s anatomy/ /anatomy quick tips/

Gesture Gesture drawing is a method of capturing figures in exaggerated poses, usually drawn quickly. It is important to undersand that the goal of all gesture is to study the figure and see how it moves. I like looking at poses and copying them. Here’s a good article. /how to draw gesture/  /how to draw any pose/ /draw interesting poses/ /a guide on gesture drawing/  /tips for expressive dynamic poses/  /figure drawing tips/

Composition The overall layout of a piece is very important. Artists often consider things like the rule of thirds or the infamous golden ratio. Neither truly defines a composition, but they can both go into your decision making. /composition in art/  /understanding composition/ /10 composition tips/ /beginner’s guide to composition/ /art fundamental: composition/

Value Studying value is very much the study of light and shadow. But there is a technical side of light that you’ll want to pay attention to if you’re going for technical rendering. /guide on rendering/  /seeing light and shadows in daily life/  /10 minutes to a better painting/ /understaing colors and values/ /shading basics/ /ambient occlusion/ /shadow colors/ /tips on how to shade/ /draw shadows on objects and people/ /lighting tutorial/

Color Theory Color theory is understanding which colors go good with eachother, and knowing the pyschology behind it. (what are cool colors? what colors make someone feel comfortable?) It is fundamental in art for you to understand the relationship between colors and what makes them look good. Best color theory books. A comprehensive guide to color theory. /hue value saturation in photoshop/ /color theory for noobs/ /understanding color/ /what you should know about colors/  /warm and cool colors/  /the basic elements/ /choose colors that work/

Traditional Media If you draw in traditional media, all videos above can be used easily. These are just videos for general tips in traditional media, there isn’t many since my focus is digtal ^^’ /watercolor tips/ /draw with colored pencils/ /blending colored pencils/ /4 how to draw lessons/ /Block in colors/ /holding the brush/ /

Digital Media Digital art is how everyone’s been doing art these days. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing with your phone or your computer. I don’t do art on my phone, I know the most used app is mediabang for android and procreate for apple, and I think anyone who is able to do art with their finger is very skilled. If you are like me and prefer doing art on your computer, you probably have your tablet. If not, well you should have. Not having a tablet is not an option if you want to get better at art ^^’ Best tablet for beginners in 2020. Or you can just buy an old used one, if it still works, and you are a beginner, a small intuos is all you need. When talking about softwares, the three big ones I see people using are: Photoshop, Clip Paint Studio and Paint Tool Sai. The best one is CPS, but I find Sai easier to navigate, but CPS is extremely complete and I hope to be able to master it someday. CPS Tutorials. I don’t have much to say about photoshop, people use it mostly because they’ve been using it forever lol I divide my digital painting process in steps: Sketch/Lineart/Color Blocking/Shading/Blending/Color correction. Sketch is the basics, draw your idea. Lineart is to clean your sketch. Color Blocking is to color your drawing one color, so it’s easier to work in it. Shading is to understand where the lighting sources are coming from and apply them. Blending is to blend the colors of your drawing with brushes. Color correction is when I use filters of hue/saturation and others to make the drawing more appealing. These require understadings of the software of your choice which I am not very good at the moment so I can’t give you more tips than that ^^’ Hopefully these videos can help. /perspective grid/ /clean line art/  /coloring process/ /make lineart interesting/ /best brushes for digital painting/ /skin shading tutorial/  /lineart vs painting/ /art in clip studio paint/ /hair tutorial/ /3 tips for improving/ /10 digital art mistakes/ /color block tutorial/ /shading skin/ /from lineart to painting/ /cleaner lineart/ /add texture to your art/ /improve your art with better shadows/ /the importance of brushes/ /use layer modes/ /improve your lines/ /how to blend colors/ /another blending tutorial/  /color blocking/

Exercises It’s no secret that to improve on art, you must pratice. Everyday, even if it’s just a little! A great way to pratice is make use of youtube picture in picture function to draw along in your software of choice. /pratice drawing forms/ /proportion exercises/ /perspective exercises/ /value studies/ /creative drawing exercises/  /simple drawing esercises/

Resources Senshi stocks, a deviantart page full of poses photos. Quick poses,  pictures of models, contains nudes. Character design references DesignDoll, create a personalized sketch doll and make it pose.

Phew!!! This took forever to make and is way more than you asked for, but I decided to go all in so I can have a masterpost for me too and for anyone else interested in art. As soon you can understand the fundamentals, you can do your own research and study, youtube is really great for this. I hope this helps, let’s get better at drawing together!!! Ganbarimashou (ง •̀_•́)ง

#anon #askbox #I feel there's a lot more to add but I'm tired I've been working on this sicne yesterday ^^' #Like there's more softwares and resources I could link you I know of that #So when I think of something else I may add to this psot #post #if you feel overwhelmed because this is a lot of info you can start with the beginner section of this psot #and sycra's channel

[tangerinegod]

Hello! I am sorry to bother you but I am a senior getting ready for college this year. I am in the US and I wanted to major in the same thing you did, do you have any possible tips for me? I still haven't even looked for colleges that would be best for animation majors so I figured if you were up to giving out any tips/saying any basic ideas if you wanted to/if you had the time to then maybe I'll have a better idea! I apologise for if I sound weird! I'm tried to word it correctly but I can't 😿

hi!! i’m totally down to share my experiences! someone else also had some questions so i’m going to put them all together in this post haha, hopefully this helps! it’ll get pretty long so apologies ahead of time but art school is a lot to think about so i wanna be as helpful as i can around it, its a lot of time and money. I’m gonna put it all under a read more cus it is really really long!

i wanna start off with the fact that I had the privilege of attending school in a financially stable environment, my parents were/are really supportive so w merit scholarship i only came out with around 20-30k in debt and i also had housing support my entire time in school. they were ok with me focusing on academics so i didn’t hold a retail job unless i was out of school like summer/winter break. Ofc though i regularly take commissions/do merch/cons to try and pay for all bills that arent rent cus i did want to be financially independent where it was possible. I also did try and work during the semester but everytime i did my body would deff start to breakdown from the fact that i didnt wanna compromise schoolwork with jobs.. so just read ahead know this experience is from a student who was able to attend focusing only on school work for most of the time!

the biggest thing is knowing art school is not required to become a professional in either freelancing or industry! there are a huuuge amount of online tools and classes these days that provide the exact same education and for cheaper too. i think it depends on what experience you prefer/can handle/want but it’s definitely possible to make art/animation art your living without higher education. the thing that college will for sure give you though is the ability to meet deadlines, work even when you dont want to, and connections with peers+teachers. i think the connections part is invaluable because you’re basically coming out with a network of people you already know and who know you! 

also its good to know if you want to attend/can handle art school! it’s a lot of time and energy and students get burned out really fast. the best piece of advice i got before going was ‘if you draw every single day, even if its for only like 5-10 minutes or a doodle for a whole year you should be fine’ consistency is super key because you’re attending school to draw, and you’ll have to create work for stuff you aren’t excited for at some point or another. burnout is extremely real and the only reason i didn’t experience it was probably because i got super into drawing naruto fanart again inbetween sophomore and junior year! it helped give me something to draw seperated from school which is the only thing i was drawing for since i had entered rip. a heads up id also consider myself a workaholic so i fit in ok with the ‘art school’ environment but it is suuper unhealthy. if you are fantastic at managing your schedule then it’s definitely possible to take care of yourself! freshman year i got 8 hours a sleep a night and only pulled all nighters for some second semester finals at the end. sophomore year + up though i ended up prioritizing hw over sleep and like for sure, definitely shortened my life span. there’s another q down below where i’ll go more into detail but ya, be careful w ur work balance!

another tip especially for animation is knowing for a fact what type of animation you’re looking to go into, and what the school is offering. I didn’t think i’d get into art school at the time so i only applied to two places + decided if i didnt get into either id attend community to get credits out of the way while building portfolio. honestly? i did not do a lot of research LOL but like i did end up having the chance to tour and stuff! just know that each school will have a very different curriculum. The main differences are schools that prioritize 3D (cg animation, cg modeling, ect) and 2D/traditional (hand drawn, ‘oldschool’, digital or traditional based) this is a huge difference so make sure you do research for it! in most cases a 2D/traditional program will also offer 3D since it’s at the forefront of the industry animation wise rn. My school taught 2D but like hand drawn on physical paper 2D, frame by frame. while it was a good experience it’s super outdated because digital tools make it way faster + easier! i’d recommend looking for a program that is digital 2D over traditional 2D. 

if after your senior year covid is still affecting campuses in the US to keep them shut down i’d recommend attending a community college to get credits and then transferring into school. one of the negatives is paying money for gened classes when ur not there for them; if you can get them out of the way sooner and cheaper there is absolutely no negative + you could graduate earlier or use the extra time for better work or to work a job! 

these are all the general tips i think i’d give on like a broad basis of attending or not to think about? let me know if u have more q’s! someone asked q’s im answering below that go more into personal experiences + work culture so heres those:

- how many hours a week do u spend studying, in class, otherwise making art? like how much of ur life does it consume?

I was basically working on art.... 24/7! since i wasnt working a job at the same time i crammed as many credits as possible into my schedule so on avg i did 18 credit semesters (around 6 classes) art classes go for 6 hours and non art go for 3, so i’d spent around 30-35 hours in class a week! hw wise it varied on the class but combined it would be around 35-50 hours a week... im guessing? on average studio classes would have 8-10 hours of hw, maybe 5 for a light week, and gened classes 5 hours w them all combined. or this was probably how things were before junior year? junior+senior year i had thesis + everything else ontop.. i’d spend around 30-40 hours on thesis a week with other classes ontop of that bc my film was super long cus im a dummy! 

- is it hard going to art school n realising that altho u were probably quite talented… so is everyone else? Like. all of a sudden. ur not special and everyone seems as good as u, you know? More generally, how do u deal with comparison?

kinda?? i think instead of the idea of like you vs others it feels more of like a competition at first to be the best. this varies hugely on school culture though; my animation year was really friendly with each other and get along extremely well, so my answer to this is v different than some others who attended different schools. i think that the idea of ‘comparison’ only lasts a portion of the first year because at some point you realize that it’s not a who’s better as much as its a ‘these are my coworkers’ type thing? like healthy competition 100% because we’re all working to improve but i think most of us learned pretty early on that viewing each other as peers going into the same workforce helped a lot. also at some point everyone develops their own style/starts to develop their artistic preferences so there isn’t a way to compare whos 'better’ anymore? i dont think there ever is tbh because style is appealing based off of an individuals preferences. If anything realizing everyone else is also amazing makes you wanna work harder ig? or thats how i felt! it’s inspiring to be surrounded by so many people who create such amazing work. 

- is there a lot of workaholic culture? all nighter culture?

100000% there can be a workaholic and all nighter culture. i know people who avoided it and thats honestly fantastic because i fall super easily into that pit. sometimes i’ll pull all nighters on a personal project just because i really want to finish it... i am definitely considered a workaholic all the way through and its not healthy rip... i’d estimate at the worst i was pulling 2-3 all nighters a week and only 4-5 hours of sleep on the nights i didn’t? that was only for one year tho, after that i was like yeah ok this is really bad for my health in the long run LOL so i tried to cut it down to one all nighter a week and around 5-6 hours of sleep the rest of the week! by senior year my decision to cram in full semesters paid off and i was able to consistently get around 7 hours of sleep a night + no all nighters minus finals since my schedule was lighter despite thesis 😭 while there is that culture i don’t think people view it as like a badge of honor or something to be proud of anymore which is good, we mostly view it as a flaw of the art school system and something that needs to be fixed!!

- are you glad u did it? how did u know it was what u wanted?

i am glad i did it! i’m definitely in a limbo right now of if it was worth both my time, money, and my parents money rip but i think with what i got out of it i definitely wouldn’t be as far skill wise or knowledge wise when it comes to the art industry. i would say it was only worth it for be because i had so much support going in though so i was able to focus so much on improving. if i had only been able to put in part of the effort and not make full use of the resources provided i would honestly have a different answer.. 

i knew it was what i wanted when i realized i really couldn’t see myself pursuing a different profession happily! despite all the bumps and stuff im fully in love with drawing still and feel honored that it’s a field that can provide a living. my second profession choice was to go into culinary school? and third option i think going was into music cus i was also a band kid hehe.  

- how do u cope with ur hobby becoming ur job? how do u deal with art going from something u do for fun to something u do on command constantly?

i think seperating work art from personal art is important! in my case im doubling naruto into being personal work so i have something to fall back onto that isn’t work related. its been a hyperfixation for 12+ years? so drawing it at this point is just like personal art imo. some people have hobbies outside of art and only draw for their job! i think after attending classes for so long the idea of hobby turning into job feels extremely natural? also i enjoy doing it so thats a huge plus! 

sorry this is SO long but i hope i answered your guys’ questions! if you have more just lmk!

#anon #ask #long post #im so so sorry this is like long as shit #ill literally tell you guys everything though art school should not feel like a mystery esp if ur planning to go into it! #Anonymous

[tamisdava-blog]

Ok, guys its good and bad for me that i’ll have to make something soon about SVTFOE, RWBY if they’ll finally make translation of it, Camila Cuevas made new video; “origins... black beast” i didn’t watched it, because my sister threw me off PC. But today we are going to talk about ANIME! Ok, ok i know what you say: that all animes are garbage and same. But i disagree! Now we have some good anime like: My hero academia, i watched only 1th season and it was cool. One punch man that people like but i haven’t watched it and never going to watch it because i am kind of not into anime now... AND RWBY WITH 3D graphic, RWBY is for people that are already tired of anime drawings, so they can watch something special that dont looks like anime, eyes are resting from 2D and getting attached to 3D. 

The first anime that i’ll going to talk about is Soul eater! I watched it when i was 5 years old and i watched it with my old sister that was 9?! of course there is some blood there... But i never paid attention to it as 5 old little girl. Because... THERE WAS A GREAT HUMOR, if you started laughting on the one moment of soul eater you’ll never stop it. THERE WAS GREAT PLOT! And soul eater has a good character development. And of course my fav shipshipshipship and characters. I guess we will start from characters and plot, i’ll try to not spoil everything. Maka and Soul are main characters, Soul can turn into a dam weapon, Maka uses him as weapon, they killing evil people, collecting their souls... Hm, wait what? i said collecting? Nonononono Soul just eats them. Yea, eats. So soul needs to eat 100 souls and 1 witchy soul. In the beginning we can see that Maka and Soul collected 100 souls and they are fighting with witch cat... Yea, witches here have animals theme. They defeat her, Soul eats her soul, But, Always but, but that witchy soul doesn’t count, witch cat is alive and They have to recollect 100 souls. Dont ask me why it happend, last time i rewatched soul eater i was 10 years old, so i cant remember everything. Heck ya i need to rewatch it. So the witch’s name is blair and she is one of my fav characters. So no, Soul isn’t the only one that can turn into weapon, there are two sisters: Elithabeth and patricia that can turn into pistols?.. Also Tsubaki that turns in different weapons. They are too my fav characters. So Black Star uses Tsubaki as weapon. And death kid uses sisters as weapons. No, seriously its his dam name! Death kid is a son of death himself, yea, Black Star is energetic shit that still makes me laught. Maka is a serious girl, Soul is... Soul is just soul. I’ll say nothing about Elithabeth, but patricia acts like a little, cute kiiiiiiiiiid! she is my fav character too. Tsubaki is little bit shy, very patient and gentle. So after we see Maka’s dad, the weapon of death himself? Yea, he also womanizer. The character that is still mystery for me crona,Crona is a boy or girl? I didn’t understood if Crona was male or female and i still cant understand it. And i’ll now jump on the main villain of 1th season, my fav evil character of all times, witch, MEDUSA SNAKE WITCH! Ok, i want to not spol everything so i wont say anything important. i just say that i ship her with Franken Stein. Dam i shipped as 5 old girl when i didn’t know meaning of “ship”. So Medusa wants to free Asura. I dont remember is succeed. But she died :( So i as the 1th season fan didn’t liked 2th season of it. But now, as i remember everything that happend in i think its great continue of 1th season. The main evil withc character is Medusa’s sister Arachne, I as a kid didn’t liked her as a villain, i just liked her eyes. 5 old me: SHE HAS WEBS IN HER EYES SIIIIIISTER! I still like her eyes. Nu, the only thing that i can tell without spoilering that she was great villain. BOOM! Not so ago i heared that there is a continue of Soul Eater, Soul Eater NOT! Of course i haven’t watched it :D And the villain there is Shaula? When i first saw her i thought: OH GOD WTF MEDUSA AND FRANKEN STEiN FINALLY HAVE KID? Nope, it turns out she is her sister -_-

So second anime is Naruto, Of course you watched a little bit of it as a kid right? RIGHT?! Ok i wont blame you if you wont decide to watch it. BECAUSE DAM ITS TOO LONG TO WATCH. Even me and my sister haven’t finished watching it. And we will never watch it fully. So about what is anime? Its about little boy’s life called NARUTOOOOOOOOOOOO! Naruto is shinobi, dont ask me what it means. So he is ninja, everyone in this anime is ninja, we have ninja fights, ninja attacks, and many ninja thiiiiiiings! So he is in team with his friend Sasuke and Sakura. And kakashi sensei teacher. So they are still kids and they are making very dangerous missions, so dangerous thet they can die. But they aren’t dying heck knows why. Maybe because of ninja powers? maybe... So Naruto loves Sakura, Sakura loves Sasuke, Sasuke loves himself. So we have lovely triangle of love. The main villain of this is Orochimaru (Spoiler, he will die in the end). Orochimaru says to Sasuke to join him, and guess what? (spoiler he joins Orochimaru). So they after growed up and turned into a dam teenagers. They met growed Sasuke, He almost kills Sakura (actually my sister was sad that Sakura didn’t died). So TRALALALA. (spoiler Sasuke kills his old brother) (spoiler Orochimaru dies and he is replaced by his assistant kabuto(not the pokemon one). Naruto has a beast with ninetales, from his mother because she had that beast too from her parents, i think. (hm pokemon is everywhere) So he learns how to control him TRALALALA. He finally understands that he doesn’t loves Sakura and marries Hinata. Hinata liked Naruto from childhood but she was too shy to tell him about it *face palm* -_-  So they now have son and daughter. Anime is now about Naruto’s son Boruto. Naruto seriously? You couldn’t give to you kid normal name?! AAAAAAnd i wont watch boruto.

The 3th anime is POKEMOOOOOOOON! GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL! Nu guys you should knew it that its will always be in lists :D I still singing the first opening of pokemon. Other openings are shity sorry people who like other ops :/ I want to talk less about it so lets start... The main character is Ash Ketchum. me and my sister thought that its was ketchup. So he is already 10-11 years old and he needs to take his first poke, it turns out that there is no starters left, only Pikachu. He takes pikachu and gets the first thunderbolt attack on himself. Pikachu acts like a goat, yea, A DAM goat with ash. So they will turn into a dam friends when Ash will save Pikachu’s life. So after he will meet with Misty and Brock and will travel with them around Kanto and Jonhto. After Misty goes back to gym, ash continues traveling around other regions with Brock, then Brock goes back to Kanto, eh my one of fav characters of my childhood. So ash continues traveling Unova TRALALA after to the Kalos TRALALAL and finally he is in alola and looks like kid again. Eh it was fun. Thanks to gen 4 appearing on Jetix i think.

Fairy TAIL! GREAT HUMOR AGAIN! HERE IS NIGHT SO I WILL FINISH AS FAST AS I CAN! SO MAIN CHARACTER NATSU! HE WAS LIVING WITH A DAM DRAGON! BUT AFTER THAT DRAGON DISSAPEARED! HE WAS ACCEPTED IN FAIRY TAIL! THERE HE FOUND EGG THAT CONTAINED HAPPY! HIS FUTURE PARTNER AND FRIEND IN EVERYTHING! A DAM TALKING FLYING CAT WITH WINGS! Also Lucy that no body likes, but i am neutral to her. Elsa that everyone likes, and others. 

I’ll stop here right now, i tried to write that dam post but sometimes my sister doesn’t let me to sit normal or others, i am tired, its night! I AM GOING TO SLEEP SORRY FOR MY DAM ENGLISH!

#soul eater #naruto #boruto #rwby #pokemon #fairy tail