Planetfurry BBS Forum Index Planetfurry BBS
Forums for Planetfurry Site Members and more
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   DonateDonate   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

Don't know if it would be useful to have me start tutorials?

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Planetfurry BBS Forum Index -> Drawing Corner
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
ironbadger
Registered User


Joined: 21 Jul 2002
Posts: 45
Location: anaheim, CA

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:44 am    Post subject: Don't know if it would be useful to have me start tutorials? Reply with quote

I may be able to help out here- but I need to know if theres any interest in my doing so before I start making a fool of myself. Very Happy

I'll need to see if I can post images here- may need some help in doing that.

If I can make it work, I may try to post some of my roughs, in stages, as a guide to how I build figures from the ground up.

That might be helpful to others here, it might not- Need to see how it develops.

Since I started out not being able to draw at all, and taught myself how to do it-
I may be able to offer insight many other artists doing tutorials have not been able to help with because they rely on instinct and inate ability.
And because of that, can't articulate in a useful way to the less experienced because its so natural to them.
Just a thought.
And this will be subject to time constraints on my end.

Input encouraged.

-Badger-

_________________
World of warcraft.
Ironbadger on Thorium brotherhood server.
60 tauren warrior of Bad Moon Rising guild.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
Fishburne
Administrator


Joined: 23 Jul 2002
Posts: 596
Location: Plano, Texas

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 8:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sure!

Maxx has given us some great insight and gotten us started in MANY ways

Come on down and open up shop!!!

Fish

_________________
"Do not Taunt Happy Fun God" -Cthulhu
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
elMaxx
Administrator


Joined: 01 Dec 2000
Posts: 1127
Location: Land of Mud

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the iniciative IB, and it'll be great to learn from you man!

I'll also throw in a bit of what i know.

_________________
[Citation Needed]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
ironbadger
Registered User


Joined: 21 Jul 2002
Posts: 45
Location: anaheim, CA

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All right- lets test this out.

-Badger-

_________________
World of warcraft.
Ironbadger on Thorium brotherhood server.
60 tauren warrior of Bad Moon Rising guild.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
ironbadger
Registered User


Joined: 21 Jul 2002
Posts: 45
Location: anaheim, CA

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That didn't work- I'll try again.
_________________
World of warcraft.
Ironbadger on Thorium brotherhood server.
60 tauren warrior of Bad Moon Rising guild.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
ironbadger
Registered User


Joined: 21 Jul 2002
Posts: 45
Location: anaheim, CA

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay- now I know how to attach files.

I'll try to put in some of my ball point pen roughs in stages over the next week or so with accompanying text for instruction.

-Badger-

_________________
World of warcraft.
Ironbadger on Thorium brotherhood server.
60 tauren warrior of Bad Moon Rising guild.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
Tygon
Site Owner
Site Owner


Joined: 03 Apr 2001
Posts: 2497
Location: Isernhagen, Lowersaxony, Germany

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ooooooh! Sexy cheetah Very Happy
_________________
Tygon Panthera - name and species
www.planetfurry.com/~tygon/
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
elMaxx
Administrator


Joined: 01 Dec 2000
Posts: 1127
Location: Land of Mud

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yay! thanks for contributing IB!! Very Happy
_________________
[Citation Needed]
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
ironbadger
Registered User


Joined: 21 Jul 2002
Posts: 45
Location: anaheim, CA

PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All right then.

I should have some relevant stuff to post sometime soon.

For now-

The first two things I'll talk about here are motion lines, and balance lines.

Anyone here NOT know what these are?

If the answer is that you do not know, first thing you need is how to animate by Preston Blair.
(I don't recall the actual title- but its available in nearly every art store on earth, so its not hard to find.)



Motion lines are a single line you draw through the center of the pic to determine which direction the whole flow of the figure will follow.

The Blair book describes it with words and pics better than I ever could- so look for a copy.
It has lots of other tips, so its a good investment.

Balance lines or line, are a single line you draw top to bottom through the center of a standing character pic to determine if the figure appears balanced or not.

Its really simple, and its important- I learned this one form Christine "smudge" Hanson many years ago as a simple shorthand to determine of a character looked "right" in standing, or if the figure seemed off somehow.

Its really simple, but I don't recall ever seeing this little trick in any books.

(If further elaboration is needed, please ask and I will make up a simple sketch model to use for example, and post it here.)

I don't want to talk down to anyone- I genuinely don't know if everyone looking here already knows and understands these or not- and I figured its as good a place to start as any.


If everyone is good with me so far, I'll move along tomorrow.
(I hope.)


-Badger-

_________________
World of warcraft.
Ironbadger on Thorium brotherhood server.
60 tauren warrior of Bad Moon Rising guild.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
ChrisFoxx
Site Owner
Site Owner


Joined: 19 Mar 2001
Posts: 1056
Location: Eau Claire, PA USA

PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Don't know if it would be useful to have me start tutori Reply with quote

ironbadger wrote:
I may be able to help out here- but I need to know if theres any interest


You kidding?? Between you and Maxx, anyone could learn to draw!

Heck, even me! Smile

FTR: if anyone here has never seen IB's art, I heartily recommend you do so. He's on VCL and a couple of other places, and well worth the effort to find!

Chris
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
Jbird
Forum Hatchetman


Joined: 12 Aug 2002
Posts: 554
Location: Reloading.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tutorials sound like a great idea, provided that they could be done at the leisure of the user/recipient. My time is not exactly my own, so...

...at least to the point where I can dump Sabrina into a Marauder cockpit.

_________________
(00:40:05) nbz: you win at the motherf***ing internet O_O
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Fishburne
Administrator


Joined: 23 Jul 2002
Posts: 596
Location: Plano, Texas

PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, I took some lessons from Maxx:

First Pic: Maxx...I dunno, some flying ace thing...

Second Pic: SkunkFox...well, waiting for the Con...

Now total elapsed time for Maxx to teach me that? 4 hours over a two week period.

Good Teachers Make ALL the Difference!

_________________
"Do not Taunt Happy Fun God" -Cthulhu
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
NovaFox
Registered User


Joined: 16 Oct 2002
Posts: 59
Location: Weiden i.d. Oberpfalz, Germany

PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I know IB's art from BondoFox's Homepage *grin*
_________________
E = mc˛ + 2d6
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger Skype Name
ironbadger
Registered User


Joined: 21 Jul 2002
Posts: 45
Location: anaheim, CA

PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well.

I apologise for being away an extended period of time, folks.

I've been up to my eyeballs in commission and other time-valued work, and since I make my living at this, fun things have to come last in my task list.

I will see if I can manage to figure out a step by step guide next, as a beginning point to work from.

I will have to see about attachments too-
As I don't remember at this point whether I can upload them directly through here, or if I need to do them as a link from some other source.


I also need to see if I still have the webspace here that Ricky set up for me however long ago- and leanr how to put things into it.
(I am such a computer gimp...)

-Badger-

_________________
World of warcraft.
Ironbadger on Thorium brotherhood server.
60 tauren warrior of Bad Moon Rising guild.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
The Red Racer
Registered User


Joined: 15 Jan 2004
Posts: 42

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey, i got an idea:

How about we start a giant tururial thread, were all the different furs can post the steps that can help the other...er..."artistically inclined" furs Wink (no offense to anyfur i might offend with that comment Laughing )

btw, ironbadger, I can't see any of the pix at all...wish i could!

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Planetfurry BBS Forum Index -> Drawing Corner All times are GMT - 4 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group