Books and resources for artists of all levels

[nightshade259]

Hogarth and his Dynamic series.

[zimniy]

Bump.

Question; what are books anyone would recommend for someone interested in animation? I'm sure there was a thread with posts about it a while ago, but I never bothered to make notes on that because I wasn't interested at the time.

[Syrella]

For anyone interested in animation or cartooning, I recommend The Animator's Survival Kit and Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair.

[zimniy]

Syrella

For anyone interested in animation or cartooning, I recommend The Animator's Survival Kit and Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair.

Thank you. c:

[rane the insane]

All Burne Hogarth books are fantastic.

[rane the insane]

For animators: Force: Dynamic Figure Drawing

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Force-Dynamic-Life-Drawing-Animators/dp/0240808452

[ninitan]

Ooops sorry guys I've been neglecting this thread. I will edit the OP this weekend, thanks all for the links!

[A Dose Of Bad Medicine]

I found and bought one book the other day that I thought it might be helpful. It's called

Vanishing Point-Perspective for Comics From the Ground Up Example pages on Amazon.

Book description: " Master perspective like the pros! Vanishing Point shows you how to conquer the fundamentals of perspective drawing and then equips you with technical tricks and tools that make dynamic and complex scenes a snap. This complete guide helps you build your understanding of perspective to an intuitive level so you can draw anything you can imagine. Inside you'll find:

Complete instruction on drawing in one-, two- and three-point perspective and four- and five-point curvilinear perspective (where "straight" lines are drawn as curves). Curvilinear perspective has not been taught in any other perspective book - until now!
Full-color, step-by-step demonstrations move you beyond the theories and let you practice the techniques in real scenes.
A special chapter on drawing curves helps you break out of the box and draw cylinders, ellipses, cars and, most importantly, people in perfect perspective.
Shortcuts and tips show you how to create believable perspective in no time flat.

No matter what your skill level, Vanishing Point offers you a new way of looking at perspective and lets you draw as though you have decades of drawing experience - even if you don't. You'll learn everything you need to know to pour your imagination on the page with power and confidence."

My Opinion: I believe anyone can use this as it basically teaches and explains everything about perspective and at the end of each chapter, they give you homework where you find a room and practice what you learned and draw what you see-drawing from life and then later on find other stuff and draw what you see anywhere (once you mastered the basics and can draw more complex things). I know it has been helping me to understand perspective. Makes the basics easier to understand and starts with the easy-One point perspective and build from there. I personally recommend it for people that need help with perspective and want to learn about curvilinear. Everything in one book.

[Mental Sedative]

Arvehz

ctrlpaint.com is a site I keep suggesting to everyone.

crying This.. is amazing. I will be going through this site forever. Along with many other resources on the front page!

[Uronoro]

I bought the Color and Light book a few days ago. It is so awweeeesommmmmee. 4laugh

[Errol McGillivray]

rane the insane

For animators: Force: Dynamic Figure Drawing

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Force-Dynamic-Life-Drawing-Animators/dp/0240808452

Consider subscribing to his site. He does videos and subscriber critiques.

[Ulterior_Motives]

How about some books ABOUT art? and not practice/instructional?


Art And Fear:
I'd consider this required reading for anyone wanting to take art seriously, who's stuck in a rut. It's a good kick in the pants motivational read, while still sobering to reality an how ******** hard it is. Lots of good quotes and examples, and it's short, too.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking/dp/0961454733

The Art Question
A book that's main goal is to find the answer to "What is art?" but does so by analyzing and critiquing well known, popular ideas/theories. It's a good introduction to art theory/criticism without being too heavy of a read. It is written by a logician, so some of the arguments rely more on science and logic than on understanding of art.

[rane the insane]

Errol McGillivray

rane the insane

For animators: Force: Dynamic Figure Drawing

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Force-Dynamic-Life-Drawing-Animators/dp/0240808452

Consider subscribing to his site. He does videos and subscriber critiques.

Oh sweet! Thanks!

[spoonyliger]

Ohh, this is pretty useful!

I'll let you know if I find any good books or websites!

[Cream Puffnut]

There's an interesting tutorial here by a deviantartist about how they do colour theory (and some stuff about digital art). I don't know how valid it is since I haven't actually properly studied that but it makes logical sense to me.
Anyway it'd be appealing to the younger generations who are looking to learn a little bit since the person does a lot of Pokemon and the tutorial is quite easy to read. XD