Drawing Tips : Dave Pimentel
Disney Story Artist Dave Pimentel discusses tapering body shapes in your drawings (or CG poses for that matter). Full article here:
http://drawingsfromamexican.blogspot.ca/2010/04/tapering-body-shapes.html
Old style guide I did for Tangled back in the day.. Some great quotes from Bill Moore, famous design teacher at Chouinard, establishing a great way of approaching and studying shapes*
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Thank you! And happy holidays to you and everybody who’s following this blog!
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I don't know how to draw people, I can only draw animals and random things. How can I start drawing humans?
Just start drawing them. Look at photos, focus on them in real life, and basically just study them. Drawing anything always begins with practice.
Super quick guide to how I draw breasts!
I’m naturally still learning but this is the gist of how I currently draw them. It’s honestly a lot of trial-and-error. If it looks wonky, I just move things around until I think it looks okay.A good tip is to sketch out the rib cage before you draw the breasts. If you draw them at the same time there’s a chance you accidentally make the rib cage a lot longer than it should be.
Hi, I'm a complete beginner at drawing and art as a whole. To a new enthusiast, what basic items do I need to buy and how do I learn the basic skills required? Thanks so much!
Hello! All you really need is a pencil and paper. The best way to master your skills is to draw objects/people/animals from life either through photos or in real life.
Even though this has probably been asked before: What would be an inexpensive yet good drawing tablet (brands, models)?
Hi! Some good ones that I heard about that were inexpensive (but good) are
- Turcom/Huion
- Monoprice
- PenMouse
- g-pen (dunno if still available)
- Wacom Bamboos (if you ebay older models, otherwise it’s a little more pricey)
I can’t vouch for the other brands since I never used them (except for wacom) but the users who follow this blog recommended them!
(1) Ahhh thank you! :D I tend to approach drawing faces and eyes in terms of who the character is that I am drawing, meaning that their personality or character will drive their expression. I like to start with the eyes first when drawing a face or expression since our eyes are prone to look at the eyes first when we see a face. Depending on the emotion or squash and stretch in the eyes and eyebrows will affect the mouth’s shape. (ex: a surprised face where the eyes and eyebrows are pulled up and widened will cause the mouth to “stretch” or open wide.) An expression uses the entire face to emote, even if it is a slight smile or raising an eyebrow.
(2) My internship at Disney was a blast! I loved every minute of it and I learned a ton. For me I boarded for the intern short film and also was mentored by one of the Disney story artists, doing different story exercises to sharpen my skills. I highly recommend the internship program! :D
(3) For young artists, I would give the advice to draw what you love and keep on practicing everyday. Most of my own artistic growth came about from fanart before I moved onto drawing my own personal work, because I love drawing fanart and I am more willing to experiment with different styles and techniques drawing fanart. Keep drawing, stay passionate creating art, and have fun with what you draw :D Thank you for your question :)
If you’re an artist looking to diversify your faces:
- click this link
- draw whomever you get
- don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun
- the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!
- feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!
Natural Black Hair Tutorial!
Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
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