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[Fubb]

Hey I remember that lil' robot guy, he's from Invader Zim!

[Akira]

Aww I love GIR!

AWESOME artwork, I'm so jealous! I'm especially envious of your eye for musculatures and clothing--that's something I struggle with. I've been trying to get better, but I don't seem to be going anywhere with it...
Are you self-taught?

[zafo999]

I started drawing in high school on my own, and right now I'm in an art college(as opposed to a real college). I guess I'm sort of self-taught. I think most artists have to be, just because you've really gotta bust your ass practicing and developing on your own. Nobody else can really make you draw better or paint better or whatever, it's all you! I know dozens of people who have spent tons of cash in art school, attended all the classes, and did all their schoolwork, but just didn't train at all, and they still suck.

I have taken classes and met a lot of brilliant artists, both of which have helped me out and given me great advice. But it really comes down to practicing and opening your mind to art that you may not find interesting... particularly life drawing and anatomy studies. If you want to draw muscle groups and the human body better, find pictures of people or anatomy books (both can be found cheap as free on the internet!) and just try and copy the pictures. Or if you can, find a life drawing class to draw live models. I know it sounds boring to just draw muscle groups out of anatomy books or drawing the wrinkles on someone clothing. But that's what it takes to really learn! And after you get over the first frustrating hump, you'll come to like boring life drawing and you'll be good enough at it to incorporate aspects of it into cartooning or whatever other more fun art stuff you might want to do!

Damn, now I feel like doing some tutorials...

I'd like to check out some of your work, if you'd like some help!

[zafo999]

Just a doodle I did at work

[Halindir]

now thats a nice doodle
Her arms though seems too be too huge compared to her head, or is it because shes packed in all the fur and leathergloves and stuff?
Its really awesome, and nice shadows too.

but seriously i demand more cleavage :3

[zafo999]

Just started work on a custom arcade-style stick controller that will eventually be compatible with PS1,2,3. Still waiting on some parts to get in.

[arete]

Wow, Zafo, i wouldn't call that a doodle... It's beautiful.

[red_avatar]

Yeah that looks great.

I did a LOT of sketching in highschool but never got that good. Only when I'm basing my drawings on existing designs I can get to that level of quality. Then again my father never really tried to develop my talent - I wanted to go to art school (which was every wednesday afternoon and saturdays) since I was 10 but I wasn't allowed to. I'm good at drawing Belgian style comics but it's the really detailed designs I'd love to be good at.

[zafo999]

Interesting, could you give me some examples of Belgian-style comics? I'm not familiar with any Belgian comics I don't think.

[red_avatar]

Originally Posted by zafo999

Interesting, could you give me some examples of Belgian-style comics? I'm not familiar with any Belgian comics I don't think.

There's tons:

The Smurfs
Suske & Wiske (also known as Bob & Bobbette and a million other names)
Tin Tin (or Kuifje in Dutch)
Robbedoes (or Spirou)
Lucky Luke
Bravo
Guuist Flater (Gaston Lagaffe)
Buck Danny
Biebel
Kiekeboe
Bakelandt (which is one of the few popular comics which goes beyond rather simplistic drawings)
Rode Ridder (another exception)