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@anatomicalart / anatomicalart.tumblr.com

Great news everyone, AnatomicalArt now has a Discord serve! Our server is a creative environment where artists can challenge themselves and improve. Here, users can share their work, request feedback and advice from the community or take part in art improvement challenges. We also share tutorials and art inspiration regularly on a range of different subjects. Click to join:Ā https://discord.gg/UbYwqxJ Weather you’re experienced or new to art, weather you work digitally or traditionally, as an animator, illustrator or painter there’s something for everyone and we can all learn something from each other. Please reblog to help word of our art improvement server. Thanks for reading!

AnatomicalArt will continue existing on Discord after Tumblr’s purge. Link:Ā https://discord.gg/Rx273Kq If you would like to continue your artistic Journey with us, please come join our server. It’s a community of artists, for artists, helping artists improve. We share tutorials, have a communal feedback room, have a general chat space, a space for promoting job listings, and we post optional weekly art improvement exercises. Artists of all skill levels are welcome. Thanks for reading. For the time we have left, reblogs are greatly appreciated. (backup link) https://discord.gg/tU8Zcdr

You know what’s up.

Tumblr is in a bit of a panic lately regarding policy changes. Due to the "family friendly atmosphereā€ Tumblr has expressed the desire to push, I predict our blog will be greatly affected. AnatomicalArt has always worked hard to be a source of educational anatomical reference material for artists (as well as providing artistic references for various other subjects). I predict that, ifĀ  Tumblr’s changes go through our blog will be greatly limited in the kind of material we will be able to share in future, including reference material for life drawing and basic anatomy reference.

Our team only exists in one other place outside of Tumblr, our Discord server.

If you would like to continue your artistic Journey with us, please come join our server. It’s a community of artists, for artists, helping artists improve. We share tutorials, have a communal feedback room, have a general chat space, a space for promoting job listings, and we post optional weekly art improvement exercises. Artists of all skill levels are welcome. Thanks for reading.Ā Reblogs are greatly appreciated. (backup link)Ā https://discord.gg/tU8Zcdr Yours sincerely, Admin @bonzlydoo

31 Days of AnatomicalArt Practice

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  1. Sphere (lighting study)
  2. Skull (skeletal structure)
  3. Eyes (types or expression study)
  4. Ears (multiple angles)
  5. Noses (types or expression study)
  6. Teeth/Lips (types or expression study)
  7. Face (types or Expression study)
  8. Hats (multiple angles)
  9. Neck (muscle structure)
  10. Ribs (skeletal structure)
  11. Chest (muscle structure)
  12. Breasts (muscle structure or form)
  13. Arms (muscle structure)
  14. Shirt (drapery)
  15. Hands/Wrist (skeletal structure)
  16. Hands/Wrist (muscle structure)
  17. Hands (body language study)
  18. Hips (skeletal structure)
  19. Butt (form or muscle structure)
  20. Undergarments (drapery)
  21. Legs (skeletal structure)
  22. Legs (muscle structure)
  23. Pants (drapery)
  24. Dress/Skirt (drapery)
  25. Feet (skeletal structure)
  26. Shoes (Multiple types or angles)
  27. Spine (skeletal structure)
  28. Back (muscle structure)
  29. Full human male form (posed in perspective)
  30. Full human female form (posed in perspective)
  31. Full human child or elderly form (body language/poses)

[BONUS EXERCISES] which can be done on any day if you are feeling extra motivated.

  • Skin tone colour study.Ā (experiment with warm and cool light on a variety of different skin tones)
  • Different body types
  • Hair type studies (focus on the way hair parts, forms and shapes)
  • Action poses. (Focus on weigh distribution and centre of gravity when leaning or in motion. Draw from various poses.
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Anonymous asked:

I'm not on Discord. Is there a way to follow this Anatomical Art challenge without going on Discord? Is it possible you post it on your tumblr?

If users really want me to share the full prompt list I will, but really it will be head on the Discord, specifically because it’s a environment where users can share art, motivate each other and get feedback quicklyLink to join:Ā https://discord.gg/Tu3JFdB

In the spirit of Inktober,Ā Anatomical Art will be hosting a 31 day anatomy improvement challenge.Ā We will be posting a quick specific anatomy study prompt every day of October, which can either be inked or sketched since it's all in the spirit of study. This list will be specifically focusing on improving your in depth understanding of the human form, and will cover every major aspect of the human figure from head to toe. We’ll be hosting this challenge exclusively on our Discord server, where users can share studies, and knowledge with the rest of the community, so If you are not yet part of our art improvement/tutorial sharing community please do come join.Ā https://discord.gg/tU8Zcdr Do help spread the word before our art improvement challenge starts this October 1st. If you happen to see this post mid way through the month of October it’s worth adding, you can join at any stage.

So, summer is upon us all. Are you feeling the urge to improve your art? Your speed? Love drawing people’s characters? Love getting your character’s drawn too? Well lucky for you ArtFight is up and running again! It’s a great, friendly, creative environment to challenge your art skills.

For anyone who doesn't know what Artfight it is please watch the video above. In short, ArtFight is basically one big global art trade event. Here’s the breakdown. Users are encouraged to upload references of their characters, and draw other people's characters in order to gain points for your team. Users can only gain point for their team by drawing a character from the opposing team, and whichever team gains the most points by the end (has done the most trades), wins! In this way, if someone draws your character, there's incentive for you to also draw theirs and vice versa. Aswell as being good character practice it also practices speed, since, you're encouraged to try and gain as many points in as short a time as possible. It's all about the fun, the sharing art, and drawing OCs, (fan OCs are also welcome just FYI). It's super welcoming to all skill levels, come join! There are only 2 teams, with this years theme being Tea vs Coffee, and the event has officially started. Ā https://artfight.net/info/about

Great news everyone, AnatomicalArt now has a Discord serve! Our server is a creative environment where artists can challenge themselves and improve. Here, users can share their work, request feedback and advice from the community or take part in art improvement challenges. We also share tutorials and art inspiration regularly on a range of different subjects. Click to join:Ā https://discord.gg/UbYwqxJ Weather you’re experienced or new to art, weather you work digitally or traditionally, as an animator, illustrator or painter there’s something for everyone and we can all learn something from each other. Please reblog to help word of our art improvement server. Thanks for reading!

Notes for an Anon who asks, ā€œ Hey Justin, thanks for your reply earlier. Just wanted to expand on my previous ask - do you have any tips for achieving colour harmony across an entire painting? I often feel like the objects in my paintings look disjointed, like I haven’t chosen the ā€˜right’ brown for trees or the ā€˜right’ green for grass when I use opaque brushes, this isn’t so much of an issue when I’m painting a single object or character but when painting an entire scene I find it very difficult to tie everything together. ā€œ btw, this is COMPLETELY UNACADEMIC- I mean, parts may be ā€œacademicā€ but this is not meant to be a textbook. Terms are used VERY CASUALLY and the information is not at all comprehensive. This is an extremely brief superficial look at the term ā€œColor Harmonyā€. If you want ACTUAL color education, either take Sam Nielsen’s Schoolism class, or get James Gurney’s Color and Light book, or do both!!!!! That said, I hope it helps some folks!

This tutorial is about acting for comics! It’s not a subject people talk about a lot, at least compared to art and writing, but I’d argue that great character acting is one of the reasons we fall in love with fictional characters… and horrible character acting is why we stop believing in the characters, the story, and possibly the creator?? Fortunately, learning to spot bad acting is an easy way to correct it in your own work.

I was maybe a little snarkier in this tut than I needed to, but we’re friends here, I don’t need to pretend with you that I love every work equally. What I really do love tho, is when people learn to turn their criticism into corrections, which is the whole point of making and sharing these tuts! I hope you enjoy it :] You can also check out a bunch of human, monster, and alien crab acting in my own comics The Meek and Mare Internum.

My recent tutorials on Tumblr:

All of my tutorials are released in lower-res format to the public 6 months after publication at the Shingworks Patreon. You can access the full tutorial archive, as well as nearly 1.5 years worth of bonus content, by becoming a Patron :] The recent tutorial is about Worldbuilding, so feel free to stop by~

and! thanks a ton in advance for not removing my text <3

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This is great!!

One of the big tells for me that a cartoonist is a novice is when they rely too heavily on manga/anime exaggerated expressions - we see this A LOT with first-time webcomics. Even if you love manga and want to create works with that visual language, notice how those exaggerated expressions are most effectively used to enhance a moment. They aren’t there to handle the bulk of the acting or to carry a scene. If you use them constantly for every expression, it becomes visually exhausting (and reads disingenuous), and also you have nowhere left to go if you want to use a goofy expression as a visual punch.

Anywho, I back Der-shing on patreon and she always has good and insightful tips from a valid perspective with lots of experience!

(Eventually I want to back all the women in webcomics on patreon, but… that is a story for another day.)Ā 

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art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

clipping groupĀ (lines)

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

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frostje

guys stop reblogging this these are cheats the CIA will come for you