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Learning to See - A Tutorial
Published: 2011-02-05 21:00:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 231743; Favourites: 6013; Downloads: 5181
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I can't even remember when I started this. It was a long time ago, at least three years. Originally I wanted to include it with the Best of SenshiStock book but I never developed it as much as I wanted to for the book. Instead of keeping it unfinished forever on my harddrive where no one would see it, I finally just decided to upload it here. It's really incomplete but I hope the basic stuff I talk about will be helpful.The initial pose used is
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards can be found at DrawRight.com . (It's a great book, really amazing.)
I really hope that some of you get a lot of use from this!
Huge image is huge.You can use other techniques in combination with this one (like using balls and boxes for different parts of the body). Use all the tools available to you to make the best art you can make!
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Hey there Sakky! I have found this tutorial to be one of the most helpful tools to share with people over the years, but I realized today that all of these references are human references!
Obviously that's because this particular tutorial is focused on the human form, but I was wondering if you would be alright if I made an animal version!
I'm not quite sure what kind of animal(s) I'd feature, and I would definitely give credit for the original idea/general formatting and procedure of things (since I'm new to the whole tutorial thing but also wanting to improve my game there) but I feel like due to the fundamental differences between humans and animals, having an animal edition might be really helpful for artists as well \o/
If you'd rather I didn't that's totally fine, I just figured that it would be a good idea to ask instead of just going on and doing my own thing regardless of how you might feel about it!
And regardless of your answer, thank you so much for sharing your resources for free for all this time! I love your pose refs so much >u<
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Yes, all of these apply to everything! Even objects in a still life have gesture. These ideas are not my own - I've sourced them from many teachers over the years! Looking forward to see what you come up with
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I never knew I needed this. Thank you so much! <3
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This is a really great tutorial. I'm already drawing for a while but I'm kind of new to draw from real life humans so those poses were great for practise. ^^
Thank you very much.
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so happy you find it useful! Have fun
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I really do. ^^
Thank you. I will ~β₯
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This has been most helpful! Thanks for this nice tutorial!
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This is verry hepfull. I don't usually have problems drawing the human anatomy (at least female bodyes, I still lack experience on general male body) but sometimes the poses look very stiff and/or plain. I'll use this tutorial along with your stocks in oreder to improve! Thanks
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yay! Happy drawing!
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This is a really cool tutorial, learned a lot of this the hardway via life drawing.
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yesss life drawing is the best way to learn this :'D
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Yes it is. I love it, so glad I'm sorta back in the habit of going regularly again.
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I really should make time for that
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Indeed. IT is great fun, and a great way to meet other awesome artists.
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THIS was the one. 
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I have a book on using reference for fantasy art that will probably say much the same, but I do wanna go over this again. If I recall it's like drawing stick figures over or from the reference? Maybe I'm mis-remembering. Actually in my drawing Gunny The Dollar Man 1:
I partially drew over reference. The gun. That's probably why it looks so real. It probably doesn't HAVE to look that real, given the style, but I only know how to do one or two things: heave to the side of realism or not at all lol. I'm not sure I could draw a "cartoon gun" that would resemble a Colt Navy 1851 or whatever it is. The rest is heavily reference reliant. It's basically Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...lol. If you look at even my earlier Civil War drawings of the character the uniforms are pretty precise. I remember part of a Rocky and Bullwinkle story arc where Rocky and Bullwinkle--including the football team they were on--all dressed in Confederate garb, and the style was very simple. I don't seem to be able to do that. I look at it and it looks incomplete, raw. I guess it could be called semi-realism.
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This tutorial is more about gesture which is the overarching movement of the pose and limbs, but it can be used in combination with other techniques like draw over skeletons/basic shapes to build up the form.
I have a hard time reconciling realistic references into a style sometimes - it's taken me a few years to kind of work out how much of the 'real' I need to use to make it make sense. Still a WIP for me, but anything technical like guns can be especially tricky to stylize. Like the human body, you have to be sort of familiar with the parts and what they do before you can exaggerate or manipulate them into something less realistic.
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I would totally agree lol.
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This is so incredibly helpful! I am a fine arts major and feel like i'm having a lot of issues trying to reconcile my style, and also how to see. I think that this is a wonderful exercise, thank you! β₯
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Yay glad to hear it!
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I've seen right side of the brain been mentioned in so many places. It must be really good. Which version is best? I see a lot of arguments on amazon about the new one. Thank you for the tutorial.
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Sorry I'm so late to reply to this! D:
I am actually not sure which version I have, I'd have to dig it out. I think I bought it sometime around 2003 though. So I'm sure it's an older one.
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No problem I ended up getting "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" since the newest version had bad reviews.Β I've already learned quite a bit about construction before even looking at it though through youtube vids. The best thing my art teacher never told me in highschool o_o. (or did and I totally missed it) Guess it excites me since it makes me think of 3d models>game dev stuff. Following this tutorial plus using construction I drew a figure drawing of the first picture on the tutorial pretty easily in pen 
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Thank you so much for this!! 
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Happy drawing
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WOW thank you so much it's really helpful!
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Okay I think I got.. draw draw draw draw.. Oh noes they turned into chibi's again! Dx
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haha story of my life right now
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Why must art be so terribly difficult yet satisfying all the same >w< On another note, your bases are amazingly helpful and have tought me to be able to draw bodies with much ease. Not once had I thought of searching for human body poses for refference for drawing human bodies =w= All Iever looked for was skeliton refferences or wooden doll ones. None of which were easy to find.
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I'm glad you found it! I started originally doing this because I couldn't find the refs I needed
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Β Ah I see, well thank you so very much ^^ This is going to make my life 100% easier fo sure! (well at least for art reasons x3)
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Thank you so much for this tutorial, it helped cleared up some things in gestures ;v;
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sweet I hope it helps!
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