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ok, i know we all love to chat to one another, but this is an art guild and i at least want something on helping others out with their "problem areas."
You know what i mean, problem areas are where there are places in your drawing that is lacking in a way, or its just different from what you expected it to be.
I will place some tutorials or some images, maybe tips that helped you out, anything that will help with the drawing process. So post some of your "problem areas" and maybe we can get a help guide or something going for others who just improve on their work.

(and don't post, "everything" at least break it down)

Also i find that placing artwork up for what my school calls "sweat box" session. where you place artwork up and people give constructive criticism on what you should try or strong points in your art. This is optional of course.
Post what you got or just add some tips of your own. you can post artwork your done applying the tips and guides to let people see how well it works. if you have any suggestions or even some add-ons to what i have put up feel free to voice them.

Coming Soon
tips on muscles[x]
face practice sheet[x]
power of shallow S and C curves
flour sack aka the bending box

Helping Guides and tips
*= recommend you print it out

Tips
foreshortening tips by mimice(links will be fixed soon)
http://i39.tinypic.com/2jcaoh4.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/whcfbp.jpg

Flour sack *aka bending box (will update soon)
Flour sack study
applying the study

The next step: Shallow S & C curves (will update soon)

Helpful Links
Muscule Tips By coelasquid

Practice Sheets
Facial expressions By napalmnacey*

1. Backgrounds lol
2. Angles/body perspective
3. Extremely dynamic poses
4. Patience *often just rushes just to finish and be done with it *

it depends on what your doing most people get bored when they take a long time on a peice of work, but i have seen many different people work fast to get the gesture down then go slow for the details. Then i have seen some people who just start off slow.

I think for foreshortening goes hand in hand with the extreme poses because you want to place the focus on the thing that is in the foreground then slowly pull back.

I can do faces pretty well, but I NEEEEVVVEEERRR do bodies. Anything below the chest is just...disproportioned and looks weird. And poses. I fail the fail at poses. Unless I'm looking at a picture with a pose, but other than that I can't do squat.

Also when it comes to coloring. Never really tried to color anything because I don't have any programs to do it, and in art class we weren't taught how to color things correctly by hand. It was mostly just painting ><

yeah hands and feets are hard for everyone

you r not suppose too, i just babble on and on, but somewhere in all that babble is somthing important or somthing not so important... im like a wonder ball. I lure you in with a creamy hollow chocolate ball then pour out many surpises from inside that tickle your fancies in weird ways.

this is awkward. we're all talking about problems and no one is coming in to help? we should have tutorial links in the first post for easy referencing 83

i'd have to look at tutorials too to better explain the methods lolol x'D ~ since i just basically eye most of what i sketch and hope it looks ok once i outline it lolz x'D...