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Who's excited for summer break? I am!

You draw dude? That's cool, for a while it felt like only Feiy and I drew for fun.

I hope you can get your computer to work to get those on the net. Do you have any examples or finished pieces I could see?

Hakama's are surprisingly easy but when I first started to draw them I was overwhelmed because there where so many fold! *eye twitch*

It's easy because normally all you need to do is draw lines, the pletes are so small that they don't make much of a shadow, not to mention the folds are gradual more towards the feet of the trousers, but practice will make perfect.

Am I the only one that does concept art of single object that will be worn by a character? I like to draw the costume worn by the character with out the character actually in it yet. Do you guys do that too?

I read an Anime book that said that drawing the clothes separate first (an object study) will actually make it much easier when putting it on the character.

OH! I also draw all my character nekid before I dress them up. I don't put in details, but to get the shape down I draw them nude first. It's particularly hard to draw EPIC_AMI's character and her lesbian partner... it makes my male happy...

I tend to do the nekkid-ness. If I ever draw the clothes first... I forget to draw the person in them XD
My photobucket album. ^^
http://s406.photobucket.com/albums/pp146/u_key7/

Some are old some are just random pictures I added, some are from others, and some are... D: 100 TC which are.. ugh... I like insanity. ^-^
In the 100 TC album

Thanks, also I have recently started trying to draw women, only four good tries, would like some advice about drawing women, and I have also bought like 16 prismacolor markers((Cost $66)0so some of my newer drawing are actually more colored with a wide ranged of colors. I started with Brown,peach, and sand colors now I have like greens, blues, reds, and other colors at my finger tips.

Ooh!

Awesome.

Jan, if I wasn't stuck in a fight in which nobody is posting, I would totally fight you.

Wow, Prismacolors ROCK! I have all Prismacolor colored pencils, I think 24 colors? All water colors of course, but that was a pretty penny too!

I think you're one of the few that can pull off a marker drawing without filling the pictures in completely. Your style is amazing dude.

For tips on the female body:


Though her face is a little messed up, her body has plenty of curve and if you look close enough she is put into a rather uncomfortable position, but because of the flow of the drawing it look natural.

It's important to remember that there is no square shapes within the female body, even a girls hips are just a large circle. If you can imagine drawing a bunch of balls balancing on each other stacked within the the female form you'll be able to go far.

What's really amazing is that the female form (females in generally amazing) is that it's actually typically harder to draw the female form, so don't be surprised that it's taken you this long to do it, or why it's so frustrating.

Use shapes at first, the hips are larger than the torso, the head/jaw is curved, there should be no point (if there is it should be at the tip of the chin) what also help is to have no defined jaw line. Just a basic "U" shape will make your character look more feminine. A square jaw will make your character look like a dude with a females body.

Breasts, though it's a sensitive topic to many it is important to know a few facts when drawing an adult (possibly busty) female.

When a woman stands with no bra, her breasts will have "sag" (such an ugly word...) but think of a water balloon being held onto by the mouth, cup your hand around it and lift it up and the "sag" will go away, that's how a bra works. It cups the breast up to make them look "fuller" and of course, support.

If you are drawing a character without a bra, her breasts should not be touching, only in really tight bra's or chest pieces will their breasts look like the classic: "really-nice-cleavage"



The picture above is an example of "really-nice-cleavage" drawn by myself...

My male figure (this is an older picture) is done with all squares, can you see the shape difference from the male and female?



If you have any more question feel free to ask. I tried spewing everything I know about drawing and all the hints I learned from other artists.

ARTISTS RULE!!!

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs41/f/2009/053/5/2/Hand_holding_a_Sword_by_Mysticsm.jpg

http://11thdimension.com/seraphim/Flames 02_files/hand_reference-1.jpg





References my man, that's what I do, when I'm at a loss for anything I use references. Right now I'm kinda in a slump so I'm using models for whole body references.