Arts Guild

[Poo Fly]

got one for ye!
http://www.bakaneko.com/howto

this seems quite good!

EDIT: now that i think about it, this isn't the greatest, i'll keep looking for others

and i need some good anime galleries for inspiration :S

[Teh EkwEE]

Thanks PooFly, I'm reading it as I type..... .


As for anime galleries, I have no idea, you could try Deviantart, I don't go there often but I have before...........

[Judgment]

Ohhh Bakaneko. Thats where i learned how to draw. I lost that site years ago

[Poo Fly]

i need a good site for poses and stuff, i can never do poses well myself and i'm running out of ideas.

[whiterabbit1985]

jus buy a maniquin its really useful it helped me draw this:



And it just fits right on my desk

Also the best thing i found is a series of books called how to draw manga i'll scan some pages 4 ya when i get a chance well peace out.

White rabbit

[Poo Fly]

Thanks, it'll help a lot

[Mirinee]

You must have an awesome mannequin, because the one I got, for £6, is so restricted in its poses I can hardly make it do anything >_< . Where did you get yours?

...
I recently found some drawing tutorial resources too, so I thought I'd share:

How To Draw Manga
http://rapidshare.de/files/2885479/How_t...1.rar.html (Part 1)
http://rapidshare.de/files/2889777/How_t...2.rar.html (Part 2)
http://rapidshare.de/files/2882187/How_t...niques.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/2883363/How_t...e.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/2883963/How_t...r.rar.html

They are books in .pdf format (needs viewer, e.g. Acrobat Reader)
They are compressed .rar (need to be extracted, e.g. using Winrar).
The password to extract them is:
www.AvaxHome.ru
(Shouldn't be underlined ¬_¬)

It might take a long time to download (took me 5 hours), but I found them useful. Now go draw FOmar. *Runs off to draw FOmar* ^_^

[whiterabbit1985]

My manneqin was actually a very simple one but then i chopped it a little bit. And after that its just a simple case of applying physics to the body

Whiterabbit will produce some more stuff soon when i gwt my broadband back!!

till then peace out.

[Poo Fly]

i got a new one for ya...
BACKGROUNDS! i cant do backgrounds too well :S

[Emrys]

You wanna know the secret to backgrounds?
Work from the ground up. Litterally.

Start with simple hills and mountain sillouhetts, and then move up the ladder of complexity from there.
I started with flat horizons, moved to hills, then mountains.
After that, try plant life.
Try drawing ferns, trees, and shrubs in the foreground first, and after you get a feel for them, include them in the background.
Buildings are by far the hardest.
I still haven't gotten the knack for drawing cityscapes and even suburban backgrounds. If nothing else works, draw a brick wall!
I've done this several times in my comics, just for filler.

And for a final tip: if you can't do modern stuff, give the thing a fantasy setting.