I am new to this art thing and...

[Delsaber]

I am new to this art thing and I need a few(hundred) pointers. I started to draw a HUmar, but only got the torso drawn:
http://www.freewebs.com/davidv0/HUmar_torso.jpg
(I realized that the pad is on the wrong side, he is left handed I guess. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif)

Anyhow, just give me pointers on how to drawn faces and legs.. and hands. Maybe a diagram(I know that there was one on here, but I don't know where and under what topic and no I didn't use forum search, obviously.)

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I did it on a lined medium, it was all that I had at the time. It looks a little different on the paper, I tried to eliminate the blue lines on the outside of the body.

EDIT SOME MORE: And pointers on shading.

EDIT: I meant to change the shoulder strap things but never erased them.

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[KaFKa]

what a great red x man...

[Delsaber]

Hmm.. It is freewebs and they usually work. Copy and paste the url into the address bar. You know that.

Or try, http://www.freewebs.com/davidv0/

It is the second image, so click next.

EDIT: Is my sig a red X?

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[navci]

Here is a LINK that will help! (http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=70877&forum=12)

On body structures in general and stuff. Hm. One thing about muscles in general is that, don't make them look like they are one single ... box.. so to speak. Remember muscles are millions (exaggeration) of little muscles pulling and crossing on top of each other. So... ya, not a stright line. His Batouness are excellent on muscles, you might wanna look his stuff up for reference. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

NAVi is horrible in muscles so I can only point you to stuff that will help. Keep working! It will come to you.

[Delsaber]

You don't see a lot of muscle in the arms because there isn't much. His arms are smooth.

[badbitz]

when i draw i always make the head first then make the way down.
in fact, i am quite good with drawing heads -_-

[ladyjaderiver]

Not bad... All you need to do is find some good anatomy books (sorry people, but I didn't find Batou's tutorial all that helpful... Somewhat, though, because I can sort of draw males that look masculine now...), and practice a lot. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Delsaber]

I suck at the shading as you can see. Just practice? Look at the works of others and adjust my style?

[ladyjaderiver]

Pretty much... That's what I did, anyway.

[Sharkyland]

It's nice to find your own style of artwork, but that will take some time to get use to. As for shading, I have problems with that including perspective.

[Relam]

I feel the arms are too small in proportion to the amount of muscle present in the body.

Anyhow, a great and cheap anatomy book you can pick up is "How to Draw Manga: Bodies & Anatomy" For about $20 it teaches you the basics of anatomy and has various images on how different parts of the human body move. Don't let the anime cover decieve you, it's actually a very decent book on learning how to draw normal anatomies. If you goto your library you'll end up with long winded books and images of overly buff men, or just with how to draw comic book hero type books (which again, are only on overly buff men). Although I'd reccomend that you go get those too, I'd also suggesting looking up that How to Draw Manga book. It doesn't really teach you a thing about drawing in the anime style, but I feel that isn't really important anyhow as people should really just develop their own style and stick with it rather than constantly emulate the styles presented in a "How to" book.

At the same time you could do searches on google on anatomy and fanart and that should produce some proper results in helping you out. Unless you want to search for anatomy and comics, where you'll probably end up with horribly simplistic proportions or over grotesquely muscled proportions.

Also, it helps to just go look at fitness and glamour magazines. People may look at yu weird but it's a small price to pay http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif Lol, you should've seen the face of the librarian when I was checking out several copies of Cosmopolitan. Hehe.

[ladyjaderiver]

The How to Draw Manga books are my best friends... *g*

[badbitz]

ive never looked at one of those once

[Shake]

Try practicing everything yourself, find your own style. That'll be your pathway to becoming better.