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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.
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Sorry if I sound kinda harsh at the beginning. I'm usually very harsh when trying to teach people things, especially towards my friends *gives friends some helpful but super harsh criticism that sounds insulting but is really just to help them improve and shows I care*
Anyway here is the line tutorial that got um secondish in the poll ^^;
Oh and I used that one picture of Rayne as a example cause I was lazy.
I also spotted a typo :(
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=ZontarZon Dec 13, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I use thick outlines for the main attractions in artwork, such as major characters. I use the 1-pixel width for small details, and I make other lines just the same for even smaller details. However, I change the color to a darker shade of the color on which the line is situated if it is that minor.

Thick lines are 2-pixels thick. I rarely use anything thicker; it's too much for most of my art.

I still like viewing tutorials, even if they aren't of my program. The basic artistic elements are what I'm really looking for.
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=SupremacyRain Sep 21, 2012  Student General Artist
Aww D: this makes my lines look TERRIBLE! *tries to fix--fails*
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=RoboticMasterMind Sep 21, 2012  Student General Artist
This lineart tutorial has a bad example at the bottom. But it's not that hard one you get a hang of it. Mainly perspective the thicker lines are for when the object is close up. :)
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~hypershadow34 Jan 20, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
..I've been doing lines all WROOONG! *explodes*..Nah, I always assumed there was something wrong with my lines, I just didn't know what it was until now.^^; Heh heh. *Goes to practice lineart*
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~Reality-Blows Oct 30, 2011  Student Digital Artist
I've been doing it wrong the whole time! Good thing you did this before I unleashed a stampede of crap with legs.
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~StarlightComet Oct 23, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
huh. Well, that might help me a bit...but again, I'm not very good at drawing. Just doodling... :)
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~Ma-Junior Oct 23, 2011   General Artist
Oh dear line art! XD I agree though, variety is good. Course I'm guilty of just drawing line art with none sometmes.

Oh yeah is that Crome giving the tutorial? Looks like him, cept if so ya forgot his scar. O.o XD
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=RoboticMasterMind Oct 23, 2011  Student General Artist
Nah it's Xon giving the tutorial. Crome would shoot the tutorial example Irken or stab it :lmao:
I admit I forget sometimes too with giving lines variety and drawing a background behind the character could become chaotic even if I turn the character layer off ^^;
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~Ma-Junior Oct 23, 2011   General Artist
Really? See the outfit was throwing me off but the head shape was saying another thing. XD Meh oh well, silly me.

Ugh backgrounds, my greatest enemy. I try to do variety but it does get crazy and sometimes the pen tool just hates my guts. XD That and I am terrible with the whole pressure thing...see when I talk to you I feel like such a noob XD
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=RoboticMasterMind Oct 23, 2011  Student General Artist
I think I made the tutorial Irken's head too big so it made Xon's eyes look super small like crome's ^^;
I use SAI for my pressure, it's very easy in that program. The PS pen tool I'm still fairly new at, but it's very sensitive to what you have you're brush set to. 2 months ago I was still pen tool retarded and didn't get the thing at all. My bg were also super ugly as well then O_o
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