Drawing Tutorials

Drawing Tutorials:

Portrait Drawing - Learn to Draw Faces

Portrait Drawing - Learn to Draw Faces

Hair

How To Draw Hair on About.com

Elfwood Tutorials—the F.A.R.P. Drawing Hair In Pencil

Portrait Art Tutorial How To Draw Hair

Creating Tangible, Touchable Hair

Hair is a tricky thing to draw. This is a start. I've gone for the portraiture, rather than the anime style. Anime would be an entirely different matter, lol. Right now, I am more concerned with straight portraiture. I'm SnapesAngel on DeviantART. I don't know if you've ever lurked there; but with what I'm working on, things like these links I post here are good things to work on, when outlining a story concept in graphic form. Some of the pictures I have up there now are character concepts that I'm working on for my story. Having a basic idea of what the characters look like, and then drawing pictures of them, can help me get to know the characters a little better. A lot of fantasy is in an unknown world, and being able to visualize some of that strange world, very alien inits right, helps when it's time to write everything. This also works for SF, too: if you don't know how an alien—your alien~—might differ from an accepted norm, well, that could hinder your writing. Even if they're only stick figures, drawing can help you block out a scene (what they call storyboarding). Not everybody works in this way, but it hlps some people.

Link(s)

Fantasy Art School
Draw A Portrait

The Map of the Face

Drawing Children— Face Proportions

Drawing The Human Head From Life

How To Draw The Face — Portrait

Portrait Drawing

Fantasy Art Resource Drawing: Drawing The Face And Head

Drawing the Nose

Noses

How To Draw Horses And Ponies

Since I decided that storyboards would be a good way to go, for at least sketching out some scenes in order ot visualize them better, sketching is a good way to go. In my story at this point, I also have Death Portraits that must be painted, quickly and efficiently. The social norm for that particular society is cremation, and having a Death Portrait for viewing, and to palce in a gallery (or in storage) of one's ancestors is also the norm. The higher caste of the society, of course, gets the social status of the superior artists, those who choose to become Court Portraitists. All who choose that particular occupation need some form of skill.

Ah, society building is fun, isn't it?


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The yellowed "Going Out of Business" sign, frayed and crackled, seemed as if it would crumble into dust if you breathed on it. Most of the storefronts shared the same dilapidation.
- Elizabeth Anne Ensley
Shadow Play
THE PARASITORIUM II:
PARASITIC SANDS
/http://www.lulu.com/content/643131


It is rare for a moose to kidnap a bank president.
- Janet Elaine Smith
BANK ROLL: A MAX STRYKER MYSTERY
http://2url.org?43174

Sketching (plus the obligatory catch-all that is dA)

          I joined DeviantArt a while ago. Artists of all levels (even pathetic lil' ol' me!) are on the boards.
          Anyway, I started gradual work on a portrait from Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's slow going, and I started the initial lines on paper and scanned it, but the image is now being worked on in stages, and updates are posted every time I get a visit from Mister A. Round Tuit.
          The links below are the ones that talk about portraits, mainly, parts of the face, for this first post. I had to do this, since I'll be changing computers soon. The original LinksAPlenty has been rededicated for writing links, I have a Pagan version for if I run across anything of interest there: and this one shall be for creative endeavors of a graphic or a visual nature.
          Yes, my bookmarks page. I share it because I hope that folks will also guide me to some links that might be good, that I have not yet seen.
          We all want to improve, so maybe we can do it together. ;-)

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Art

DeviantART

Ears

Eyes

Faces, Hands, Legs

Portrait