Swords and Sorcery

Overall Review (in brief)

I’m not really sure why this one falls under the ‘How to Draw’ heading. Yes, there are a handful of ’step-by-steps’, but the vast majority of the book seems to be a collection (and analysis) of concept art. The art is what saves this one - not the ‘how to’-ness.
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The Idea:
I realized that there’s about a million and one tutorials out there for the visual arts. Enough that I’m not going to link to anything here - a simple Google search will handle that nicely for anyone who cares to look.

The problem is the fact that it seems like 75% of those tutorials are on How to Color Using Cell Techniques or How to Draw Anime Eyes. Now don’t get me wrong - it’s perfectly delightful that folks are creating tutorials on these subjects, but it got me thinking: there’s got to be stuff that people want to know, but can’t find online.

The Question:
Is there something that you would like to see in a tutorial that you haven’t seen already? Is there some aspect of drawing or painting? Composition? Perspective? or something that I haven’t even thought of that you would like to know more about by way of tutorial?

If so, just reply here and I’ll see what I can do about that.

I did another image with my halloween oriented theme in my sketchbook, and just thought that I would share.

I did a little art with the idea of Halloween knocking around in the back of my brain.

This first one actually started me thinking about a ‘theme’ to have overlapping a series of eCards I am planning on doing. I want to juxtapose two ends of a spectrum with each image. Nothing terribly outlandish about that concept, I admit, but I’ve always been such a huge fan of duality that I figure it fits.

More to come!

So anyone who knows anything about my web browsing habits has heard me talk about the ConceptArt.org forums. It’s an amazing place chock full with some of the very best artists alive today. Thing is, that’s not really what makes it amazing to me. What really makes it rawk is the willingness of a large number of those artists to be helpful and give constructive critiques to… well… to guys like me. They do this free of charge (so long as you show genuine effort) and are doing an amazing job of building a community of artists who bolster one another.

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