Chiyuri the beginer.

• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-13 21:20
  Oh my god, those aren't circles, they're heads.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-13 22:10
  >.<
  I hate circles with a passion now.
  
  

  [Image: http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/Chiyuriyami/IMG167.jpg]

  
  
  gah.. doing a back is so much harder.. I can't even image the proportions right.. And the hands.. why you so hard to draw.
• Lan wrote on 2013-01-14 05:47
  The difference time makes.
  
  

  [Image: http://nerf-this.com/comics/2009-03-23.jpg]

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  [Image: http://nerf-this.com/comics/2013-01-04-To-The-Death.jpg]

  
  
  If you have time on your hands start a webcomic for fun :D "They're like crack for artists."
• SUNFLARE wrote on 2013-01-14 10:58

  Quote from teneshi;1013193:

  Get some graph paper and make circles inside some squares

  
  Looks more like pars still good faces just need work on shape youll eventually get used to it though
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-14 16:00
  this time I drew a full body without head... Bodies are*.. difficult to do.. I can't seem to understand the correct shape of elbow, knees, feet and hands...
  
  
  Edit: Chiyuri has level up. In which skill will you use her level up Bonus Point.
  ->Hands
  ->Elbows
  ->Knees (Click)
  ->Feet
• Enoshima Smoothie wrote on 2013-01-14 20:10
  Since you're pretty much self-teaching yourself and are doing this as more of a hobbyist thing there are plenty of resources on the internet that can help you.
  From looking at your work right now you definitely need to work on just some basic anatomy and learn how to use guidelines. I'm not gonna tell you to go out and take a figure study class or fork over some cash for drawing classes, but just look up some online references or pick up a book or two.
  
  Personally I find the Orange References blog pretty useful for basic references and some nice tutorials.
  (Since it IS an art reference blog there will be anatomy studies and figure studies which means drawings of nude folk so just a little warning)
  
  Also, by looking at your lines it seems you're a little rigid with your pencil. Loosen up man, gotta let your hand just flow~
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-14 20:35

  Quote from Enoshima Smoothie;1014194:

  Since you're pretty much self-teaching yourself and are doing this as more of a hobbyist thing there are plenty of resources on the internet that can help you.
  From looking at your work right now you definitely need to work on just some basic anatomy and learn how to use guidelines. I'm not gonna tell you to go out and take a figure study class or fork over some cash for drawing classes, but just look up some online references or pick up a book or two.
  
  Personally I find the Orange References blog pretty useful for basic references and some nice tutorials.
  (Since it IS an art reference blog there will be anatomy studies and figure studies which means drawings of nude folk so just a little warning)
  
  Also, by looking at your lines it seems you're a little rigid with your pencil. Loosen up man, gotta let your hand just flow~

  
  
  Thanks, I'll look up that orange thingy. As for my hand, In my younger days I put too much strain on my hands while doing martial art and other form of training and my hands control kind of got weaker because of it. I can't use my hand without button some pressre into my control. If I loosen it up more than I am right now, it will just stop moving.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-14 22:26

  Quote from Enoshima Smoothie;1014194:

  Since you're pretty much self-teaching yourself and are doing this as more of a hobbyist thing there are plenty of resources on the internet that can help you.
  From looking at your work right now you definitely need to work on just some basic anatomy and learn how to use guidelines. I'm not gonna tell you to go out and take a figure study class or fork over some cash for drawing classes, but just look up some online references or pick up a book or two.
  
  Personally I find the Orange References blog pretty useful for basic references and some nice tutorials.
  (Since it IS an art reference blog there will be anatomy studies and figure studies which means drawings of nude folk so just a little warning)
  
  Also, by looking at your lines it seems you're a little rigid with your pencil. Loosen up man, gotta let your hand just flow~

  
  
  Thanks, I'll look up that orange thingy. As for my hand, In my younger days I put too much strain on my hands while doing martial art and other form of training and my hands control kind of got weaker because of it. I can't use my hand without button some pressre into my control. If I loosen it up more than I am right now, it will just stop moving.
  
  
  Edit: anyway, I finished drawing 5 bodies. sadly because theyere is like nothing on them.. It might fall into the "nudity" category so I can't post them here..
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-16 01:40
  And you know what.. too bad for the younger audiance on Mabination. If ya too young to be looking at woman, don't click on the spoiler.
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]
  So here is it, another Half body after 2 days of trying to draw bodies. Critique please.
  

  [Image: http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/015/0/1/oc_chiyu__by_chiyuriyami-d5rmm5x.jpg]

  
  [/SPOILER]
  
  Hopefully the use of spoiler tag will save me from a possible ban <.<
• December wrote on 2013-01-16 03:43
  The whole circle thing isn't as much to teach you to draw perfect geometric shapes but more to develop your own mechanical control over the curves, understanding the natural joints in your wrist and using those to your advantage. For an artist it's important to be able to produce the lines and images you visual in your head.
  
  I still have a picture of the lemon shaped circles I drew when studying design in highschool, man, the practice was worth it
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-16 21:26
  A new try following someone's advice. Hopefully it came out well.
  
  

  [Image: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/016/7/5/oc_chiyu__with_first_layer_by_chiyuriyami-d5rp8x2.jpg]
• otto wrote on 2013-01-17 04:21
  You seem to be grasping basic anatomy pretty well! And those hands are fucking A+ *A*
  Keep at it~ I wanna see more :D
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-17 13:27

  Quote from otto;1015584:

  You seem to be grasping basic anatomy pretty well! And those hands are fucking A+ *A*
  Keep at it~ I wanna see more :D

  
  
  Thanks, I think those hands was a fluke I just kind of imaged myself in that position and tried to draw the hands modeled after mine. Sadly I have to becareful cause my hands are a bit larger than your average female (;_;)
  This time someone told me my lines looked fuzzy cause I repeadetly drew small stoke after stroke. So for that one I tried to make longuer lines. Took me so much longuer to draw through.. so much erracing.
• otto wrote on 2013-01-17 19:24
  Using yourself as a model is always great, though sometimes it makes you feel ridiculous when you end up staring at your hands in the air for hours xD
  
  Getting used to using longer, smoother strokes is frustrating at the beginning. I learned by inking my pictures in ballpoint pen after i drew them in pencil. When I got used to that, I moved on to ink pens. It helps you get a feel for the way you hand moves, and gets you used to making longer, fluid strokes. Also helps your attention to detail. Trying to get the little things in pen on a small picture is hell lol
• Murasaki wrote on 2013-01-17 20:05
  Some tips that really helped me:
  

  
  
  • Don't be afraid of messing up, because it's going to happen a lot. I mess up all the time. The thing is, if I'm too afraid of messing up, I won't draw, and if I don't draw, I won't get better. Which brings me to my next point.
    
  • Draw. Draw a lot. Draw whatever. The important thing is to learn to move your hand on the page in a way that makes you comfortable.
    
  • Have inspiration around you. Those things that made you want to learn how to draw in the first place? Have them somewhere you can see and remember that they started somewhere too. Some artists have started putting up some of their old work and comparing it to their new work to show others that they didn't always draw like they do now.
    
  • Draw realistic human bodies. I know that you want to work with an anime style, and I understand why delving into realism isn't exactly ideal, but as someone who prefers the anime style, I can say that drawing more realistic anatomy helped my anime style very much. Since anime draws more from life than something like...say...Adventure Time, knowing exactly how parts of the body connect and move and relate to each-other is more important.