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Anatomy tips and starting of featuresSo lately I've been being hit with my anatomy Nazi senses going off lately. I am going to be going on about characters being created and attempts to apply anatomy to it.
Before getting into creating your own style with these anatomical traits, study the bone structure, and the skeleton. http://web.jc-schools.net/herndona/files/2010/09/05_06Figurea-L.jpg once you tried your hand at drawing bones and skeletons none stop, start then by looking at the muscle structure http://homepage.smc.edu/wissmann_paul/anatomy1/1musclesatside.jpg http://www.baileybio.com/plogger/thumbs/lrg-1058-musclefigure_front.jpg once you got that down, you shouldn't have and trouble drawing the skin over it.
One style I have a giant pet peeve about is the thin, long, and anorexic look with the usual preppy looking clothing. (no offense and I apologize to people who actually like this style or draw in this style)
This style is painful attempting anatomy right and cause us anatomy freaks to cringe (talked to other an

Comic TipsI'm going to be going on about comic making. Since I was asked about them in my poll.
A good thing to think about when making a comic, is the storyline. Never rush and draw as you go. It won't make sense. Trust me, I did that in my Splatter arena comic, and now look back to see how bad it was. Best thing to do is write a plot, think through it, create possible character designs, and take your time. Never rush but still work at the comic constantly. Start writing the story down before making the pages. What I did was write on MS word, and each paragraph I made a page.
Example:
My latest page:
Here is a paragraph from my story. In writing first.
Above in a ship, the vortian guard sits across from a shorter vortian. The guard brought up a holographic map, "So my Irken seems to be dropped off near the same sector, of your Irken." The Smaller vortian moved on top of the table, growling, "I doubt that your Irken…hmmm what's his name." The guard corrected, "Rheu, against your Irken Del.

Some free programs you may find helpfulHere are some free programs that you guys might find useful

-For drawings/illustrations I recommend Painttool SAI, Adobe illustrator, CorelDRAW, Sketchbook Pro.
But InkScape is free http://inkscape.downloadasaurus.com/
-For painting, and Photo manipulation which can also be used for drawing, I suggest Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter.
GIMP is free http://www.gimp.org/
-Some 3D programs are Autodesk Maya (can get free for 3 years if you're in school), 3D max, Z-brush.
Blender is free http://www.blender.org/
-Animation programs are Adobe flash pro, Toonboom.
Pencil is free http://www.pencil-animation.org/
Doink is free and online flash animation http://www.doink.com/
-Music and sound producing programs are Magix, Pro Tools, Audacity (free but very limited) or Reason.
Fl Studio is free for only the demo which isn't a trial but you can't open a file to edit or work on it so you'll have to leave your computer on and make music without saving and export as mp3. http://www.image-line.com/dow

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Edit: It's not really professional, but it's okay I guess. Not really something for pro work but it's just a start

Hope that helps the splatter arena contestants, and other people interested in making comics faster, and good looking at the same time.

Also I forgot to place I do not draw on a huge canvas. Keep it somewhere around 900 to 1000 pixels wide. Drawing on a small canvas is much more faster.
I also make the speech bubbles transparent, so it doesn't hide too much of everything. Usually a transparency of 55% to 72%.

Coloring tutorial is here.
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=Khomaa Apr 2, 2012

Aw man if only there was a tut like this for Sai.
I'm too dumb for photoshop LOL
I could never, with any program, figure out how to color without just filling it in with a brush ;_;

=RoboticMasterMind Apr 2, 2012 Student General Artist

I think you can use this on SAI as well. I have SAI and it pretty much can do most of the instructions I placed on here for Photoshop. It just would have to be reworded to fit SAI.

=Khomaa Apr 2, 2012

Oooh well then I'll have to dick around and see how to do this

*serenadefox Apr 2, 2012

For randomness sake. Your style of coloring is a lot like how I color lineart and cell-shading. Especially taking advantage of the multiply application. Now back into my little hole I go.

=RoboticMasterMind Apr 2, 2012 Student General Artist

Yes, using the layer effects I take advantage of a lot. Just as much as I use the image adjustments to change or make sure the colors don't clash. I don't know all of the layer effects by heart but a few, otherwise I guess the rest when using them for backgrounds. Usually just picking the one that looks the best. I pretty much take as much advantage of every filter, effect, and edit tool that I can before using brushes, unless I'm lazier than usual

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I don't get how lots of people don't know about the multiply trick for shading. I even told several people to use it before but they won't listen, and keep using that burn tool. It makes the shading all equal in hue, and looks less awful than using the burn tool, or selecting colors blindly when shading.

*serenadefox Apr 2, 2012

XD Same here honestly. Even when I shade, I use multiply and screen for the brush effect to get the effect that I want. Either way it's always good to utilize whatever you can.

I've noticed that too. And my goodness pictures that raep the burn and dodge too look so horrid.

Some ending up so warped in brightness and blinding colors that I am surprised their eyes haven't melted!

=RoboticMasterMind Apr 2, 2012 Student General Artist

They blotch up the pictures, and make the coloring look just rushed. I think most look like the picture just came out of a volcano or chimney, then added some super bright highlights onto it. Some of the drawings are actually really good, and have nice line art but the burn and dodge tool just ruin it.

*serenadefox Apr 2, 2012

I agree with you very much. They have the means to make a really nice picture yet somehow they manage to butcher it. Even once someone asked to color a couple of my sketches... but I ended up being unable to see much because the color scheme was pretty bad, the effects looked like they raped the burn and dodge tool on bright colors, and they didn't color the lines cleanly(rather than the select/fill option).

=RoboticMasterMind Apr 3, 2012 Student General Artist

They're too lazy to try out something new, I've told friends I've talked to on skype to stop using that thing, and only a couple out of all of them listened, the rest kept saying they'll try it soon, but right now they were lazy. I admit I was like that with using different programs though

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Seriously that's gotta be awful seeing someone murder one of your pictures. Especially if they didn't use layers, or used the paint bucket.

*serenadefox Apr 3, 2012

Understandable XD; Same here with some people I've tried to help. I can understand the laziness, given I can be lazy as well. That and few I've met can't seem to get the suggestion into their mind, or feel they need to figure it out themselves in their own way.
It was, and you're right. They did not use layers or use paint bucket.

So it was pretty bad to see.

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