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ART/VIDEOS  – Studying and Drawing Eyes

Studying eyes as a self taught artist can be tricky.  On the one hand you know there’s a lot to drawing the eyes.  On the other hand we often underestimate the amount of work that goes into drawing a good eye.

Eye’s can be deceptive.  They seem easier than they really are.

In this video, I go over:

• Some ways to think about drawing eyes so that you can know how to draw them without using reference.
• Know what how to study them.
• Understand how to draw the thickness of the eyelids without them looking bulky,
• and understanding how to draw crazy exaggerated eyes.

Links and Books Mentioned In The Video

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How To Use Bridgman To Improve Your Drawing:
https://youtu.be/Yf5UTGm5q5A

Eye Drawing Formulas

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Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

Heads, Features and Faces By George Bridgman

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ART/VIDEOS – Copyright and Intellectual Property

In the new world of the internet, copyright has become something important to know about. Many of us in the U.S. don’t know exactly what we create is copyrighted and what isn’t.

In this video I talk about copyright. I talk about putting your work online.

What is protected, what isn’t. What you can do to protect it.  What it takes to do so, and if it’s safe to put your work online.

Links Mentioned In The Video

Copyright Basics Video:

https://youtu.be/Uiq42O6rhW4

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ART/VIDEOS – Originality Avoiding What Other’s Are Already Doing

Being original is something many people struggle with.  You may be a person who seems to create things that you’ve noticed have already been done.  Perhaps you create things best when you get ideas from other stories or movies you’ve seen or read.

Maybe you abandon these ideas because you think that they’re not original.  After all, if it’s been done it must mean you aren’t original enough.

I see it a different way.  I don’t think it really matters where you got your idea.  I don’t think it matters if there’s something similar out there.

In this video I explain why:

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ART/VIDEOS – Books on Creating Environments Part 1: Picture This by Molly Bang

I’m often asked how to start designing and creating environments.  Well, besides looking at a lot of reference of the type of environment you want to create, you have to know a bit about picture making.

To this end, I decided I’d start sharing some books that have a lot to do with approaching composition and design so that your environments can look as good as they possibly could.  The first book of three that I’m sharing here is Picture This by Molly Bang.

Why is this book worth owning?  Watch the video below:

Book Mentioned In This Video

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Picture This by Molly Bang

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ART/VIDEOS – Draw To Win Book Review

The benefits of drawing.  What are they.  Besides just being a fun hobby that helps you relax and express yourself.  Besides the helping with depression an other psychological problems.  What else does it help you with?

What if you don’t want to have it as a hobby?  What if you don’t suffer from an illness?   Is there any practical reason to learn drawing besides drawing pretty pictures?

This book is awesome. It answer these very questions.  Check out my review to find out why this very short easy to read book is worth checking out:

Book Mentioned In This Video

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Draw To Win by Dan Roam

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Do Comic and Manga Artists Reuse Art?

This week I’ll be answering a question put forth by a Drawing Website reader.  It’s about reusing art.  Is it done by professionals?

The question went something like this:

“Luis you’ve given a good read here, it’s a lot more fun to read your lessons then some of the “vanilla” stuff elsewhere. what I’d want from learning is a style quite familiar to anime/manga, so I imagine that’s a bit less then a true master (which would of course be level Da Vinci) my question is more of a statement, to the trained eye, how often does an anime/manga artist reuse lines and features for all their characters? just curious, it may affect my outlook when I’m at the stage to create my own”

This video is gives you my answer.

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ART/VIDEOS – How to Draw Free Hand Boxes and Cubes

One of the most important things you should be able to do when drawing is drawing cubes or boxes free hand.  In what ever position you want, at will.

Seeing the direction in space that boxes fall into is easy because they have sides.  You can see when you’re looking directly at them, or underneath them.  Pretty much any direction they’re in can clearly be seen.  This is not always the case with other 3d shapes.

The advantage is that if you need to figure out what other shapes may be doing spatially, you can make them a bit “boxy” by adding corners to them, like a box.  This is just for you to check to see what a shape is doing.

However, if you don’t know how to draw boxes in the first place, this is not going to be helpful at all.  For this reason, drawing boxes is something you need to know how to do. Especially free hand.

In this video I go over the basic of drawing free hand boxes by going over someone else’s box drawing.  That way if you’re making the same mistakes he is, you can fix them yourself. And if you haven’t learned to draw them yet, this video is full of tips and tricks on how to make them work.

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ART/VIDEOS – The reason Drawing Can Be Frustrating and How to Get Past It

More than any other reason, I think that people give up on drawing because the results of their drawing is not what they had in mind.  Drawing can be extremely frustrating for this reason.

As someone who deals with this kind of frustration to this day, I can tell you where that frustration is coming from and what it actually is.  Once you understand it, it’s not only easier to deal with but you can work with it to help you improve.

In this video, I talk about what this frustration is.  Why it will never go away.  How to live with it and get better at drawing in spite of the feeling being there.

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ART/VIDEO – Copying and Studying Cartoon Characters

What’s the different between studying a figure from a photo and studying a drawing for cartoon character?  Nothing.

When studying both you do exactly the same thing with both:

1. Look at the overall shape the character makes
2. Look at the gesture
3. Look at the negative spaces
4. Measure everything (space and place)
5. Find the volume of the forms LAST.  Don’t worry about it until 1- 4 are worked out.

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