yoshi-ringo asked: I see you're wanting to learn more. I have a few PDF copies of some great books, one of them is "animators survival kit", which is about $40. Would you like me to send you the PDF of it? I've read a few chapters to the fullest and is highly recommended for those wanting to learn animation, heck I'd love to see cute animations from you in your style one day ^^
Aww gosh, hehe, far too sweet, Yoshi! Thank you so much for that offer! But, I actually already own that book! (Quite a few animation/art books, even!)
I haven’t had the chance to start reading more of that just yet, but I hear constantly great things about it! Definitely lets me know I’ll enjoy it when I can start giving it a more thorough read!
(AH, wow, I meant to save this as a private reply. Haha, but again, thank you Yoshi! Very flattered to think folks would like to see my art/style animated. Pushing me to learn it even more!
latexkaktus asked: I think its sad, that all this stupid people who caused you so much stress,are the reason that you cant feel good about posting art anymore, thats really really sad, I hope you still enjoy to draw
Aww, haha, no worries! It can happen to anyone, I just like to think of this as a bit of safety precaution.
And I definitely do still enjoy drawing, let alone draw daily/often! It’s Five Nights at Freddy’s art and anything fairly based off of it that I’ve stopped posting, folks, not all art in general. :)
So this just happened.
This guy has been taking the music from a ton of talented artists, posting it on his youtube, and monetizing the videos.
Believe me, he’s made a lot of money off of this.
How can someone think this is ok to do? How can someone think I wouldn’t mind? How disrespectful is that to EVERYONE involved?
When I found out he was monetizing my music, I was annoyed.
When I found out he was monetizing everyone else’s music, I was LIVID.
So yeah. If you’re against stealing an artist’s work and making money off of it, I’d suggest leaving this guy a message.
dimmydimmers-deactivated2019060 asked: You drew Rocket, so why not try Groot?
Gaah, hehe, I tried to give him my best shot, especially for a first ever attempt! <:’D Hope I did okay!
Anonymous asked: Hey, I have zero experience in drawing or any kind of manual art like that. But I've decided I want to try and learn even just the basics, but the resources online are sketchy and I have no knowledge to be able to decipher what's good and what's not. I really love your art, I know you probably get this a lot but where do you think I should start?
ALRIGHT alright alright I’m going to make this some sort of ”beginner artist” masterpost and include as many resources as I possibly can. I am going to assume you want to focus on the ”drawing” aspects of art since it can take many forms. Here are some pointers and resources I consider vital when learning how to draw, things I’ve learned from multiple art oriented courses. This is going to be a very quick and general thing and I’ll make some serious and properly drawn tutorials in the future (the drawings in this one are going to be embarrassing, try to only take the general idea from them) but to start off:
- Before you jump into drawing in any particular style, learn your realism.
This is probably mistake #1 in many young art enthusiasts: they go straight into wanting to draw either anime, or a particular cartoon’s style because a stylized form of art is much more appealing to them than realistic things. Which is valid, but I’ll have you know in order to get any of those styles right, you have to learn the basics AND ONLY THEN proceed to use that knowledge to ”deform” said realism into any style you want. Be it learning from life drawing and observing, pictures online of real people or animals. When you look at a big household name in the artist world’s work, as flashy as their stuff might be, a trained eye is able to tell immediately if the person has proper anatomical knowledge or not, no matter how much they try to mask it with ”this is just my style.” Let me show you an example:
(excuse the 5 minute sketches pls, note these are actually highly inaccurate (the knees should be placed lower on the second drawing and calves shouldn’t be as big as the thighs) but I wanted to demonstrate ”realistic proportions” in contrast to more of a stylized drawing in a really quick way, a google search for ”human anatomy” will bring up much more accurate visual representations of all this so I highly recommend doing that)
But basically in order to play around with anatomy you first need to learn realistic proportions (you don’t need to absolutely master them or anything, but you need to know things like the distance between the forehead, eyes + nose and chin correlate, places where fat stores in comparison to where muscle stores, the size of the forearm until in reaches the wrist/arm are practically the same, arms + hands reach below the hipbone and halfway to the the upper thigh) and only then proceed to bend those rules to create your own stylized version of things, which means you get to play around with a lot of shapes like so:
- USE GUIDELINES
For the love of all that is holy make use of guidelines, whether with a light colored blue or red pencil if you’re drawing by hand or a sketch layer in Photoshop/SAI etc. They will help out so much when it comes to knowing where you should place each feature. Many people attempt to draw directly without them and while after a lot of practice it might work, to start off you really need to understand basic figure building.
(I’m literally drawing all these one drawing a minute excuse the shittiness I’m just trying to get the point across ahah gOD THESE ARE PISSPOOR)
- Carry a little sketchbook with you if you can and draw strangers while riding the train, bus, etc. Just draw whatever you see.
It’s not only entertaining when you might be bored out of your mind but extremely productive to draw people, animals, scenery, anything you can see that you might want to sketch out for practice, you can. No better way to learn than real life.
- Take time to draw. And draw. And draw.
You will not learn or improve overnight, bettering yourself when it comes to art is an endless and ongoing lifelong process. But it won’t be due to osmosis, you gotta sit your ass down and draw as frequently as you can afford to (although excesses can be bad for you, learn to also take breaks and find comfortable positions because drawing CAN REALLY MESS UP YOUR BACK like badly and you don’t wanna end up hunched over because of it or with tendonitis) But believe me: practice makes perfect and if you learn to observe and understand why you’re drawing what you’re drawing, why are you placing that line where you’re placing it and start thinking in 3D, you will surely improve.
Now for the part you truly want to look out for -
RESOURCES
USEFUL BOOKS/AUTHORS
- Andrew Loomis
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Michaelangelo
- Force: Dynamic Life Drawing For Animators
- If you want to learn how to draw animals
- Basically any artbooks from any games/shows anything that interests you and might inspire you, because inspiration is a big part of this whole matter.
MATERIALS
- Prismacolors for sketching (I recommend blue/red ones)
- A drawing tablet for digital art if you wish to pursue it (a cheap one will do if you are a beginner, no need to go all fancy just yet - I recommend a medium sized one)
- Adobe Photoshop (you can either get a student version of it legitimately, although many people torrent it because of the ridiculous pricetag) OR ALTERNATIVELY PenTool Sai (Free!)
BLOGS WITH AN INFINITY OF TUTORIALS
HELPFUL WEBSITES
- http://www.posemaniacs.com/thirtysecond (for pose practice)
- http://www.quickposes.com/pages/timed (for pose practice)
- http://robynrose.deviantart.com/ (stock photo resources)
- http://senshistock.deviantart.com/ (stock photo resources)
- http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/charactergens.htm (for character prompts)
- http://conceptartworld.com/
Last but not least, some artists that inspire me beyond words and that might also inspire you.
- mattrhodesart
- phobso
- shoomlah
- skoptsy
- makanidotdot
- keaneart
- grimchild
- roggles
- theminttu
- leah-smith (one of the people who I grew up with learning from, endlessly thankful)
I hope this helps!
This is making me realize how much I desperately need to work on my anatomy, much less start life drawing on a more daily/regular basis starting, like, today.
Thank you so much for this! Your own visual examples, links, and all! <3
obsessed-fanatic asked: Are you excited for FNAFs 3? Right now the teasers look great and hypening. And would you make art of that once the game is released possibly this February? :-)
For sure! I just recently saw the latest teaser pic on Scott’s website myself, and wow I’m looking forward to it! I just hope Scott will take as much time as he intends to with this, rather than get it out quicker because of excited fans. I personally found the first two to be pretty creative and great in gameplay, especially with capturing your attention, I’m more than willing to wait to see what else he manages to come up with. :)
But I’m not sure I’d want to post any art I’d make of the third game, if even make any at all. <:)
I wouldn’t at all be surprised if I got to drawing something inspired from it the moment more teasers (possibly?) come out, but given how things seemed to go half the time with my FNAF work, ah… it’s been nice to just draw and not ‘deal with’ some things again! At least not as much. <3
jillips-ent asked: You're able to use Flash yet you don't know how to use Photoshop? What is this sorcery?
Haha, I actually wouldn’t say I know all that much about Flash!
Again, I wasn’t able to work with Photoshop for a long enough period of time to try and adjust to it, and it’s been years since I last tried. The newer versions of any Adobe product seem to be so much for me, as well.
Flash, I’ve actually constantly found trials of before and tried to look through. After some experience with messing with the tools myself, watching others stream their animation methods with it, some tutorials, and generally watching other Flash animations, I was kinda confident to just jump into it. :)
I’m sure if I eventually try to learn an earlier version of PS (like CS4 that a friend happened to give to me about several days ago), I could possibly get it! But even then, I’ve never really had any purpose for Photoshop. Everything I’ve needed art-wise I’ve always been able to do in Paint Tool SAI. Even recently after using Manga Studio 5 more and more, I’ve had another method for adding words on various font types! <:’D
(… Also, I just realized I’ve never made mention of it here; yes, I’ve been trying to make animations and stuff with Flash fairly recently. I’ve been switching back and forth between two very small things right now, one of which is a GG Animated that’s almost done with being roughly sketched out! It’s been very lovely practice in trying to practice storyboards/key poses, though Storyboard Pro from ToonBoom seems like more of my program for that sort of thing. But I’ve just been learning as I go with it! It’s been fun! <3)
mindythepiratekitty asked: Hiya! Your my favorite fnaf artist! But could you teach me to draw like you, your amazing!! ♥
Heya! Hehe, thank you! I don’t consider myself to be just an FNAF artist (especially right now), but greatly flattered!
And I’m not really much of a teacher. I sill have a few ask replies in my blog under the tag ‘orlandoasks’ (and sometimes even 'orlandofoxart’) that go onto how I personally do things, but overall I just say to keep drawing! Good quality comes with constant practice!
2alexx2 asked: I hope you don't mind, but I reported the pictures.
(Continuation from previous ask) Ah, yes, here they are.
I also can’t say I know where these other images in their gallery may have come from, but I think it’s safe to assume that they didn’t draw whatever else is in their gallery. ^^;
And I don’t mind at all, by all means!! If anything, I greatly appreciate you letting me know, thank you so much! <3 (If folks also happen to know where the other pictures in their galleries may have come from, assuming this deviant is likely not the original artist, I’m sure it would be appreciated to inform staff!) :)
It is that time again. I was actually planning on waiting a little bit on taking commissions again. Mostly because I’m in between working on revamping some of my blogs. But then dead car happened so yeah.
No limit on takers here ‘cause I’m gonna try to make as much money as I can. That being said I still reserve the right to decline any commission. In which case I’ll provide a full refund.
Donations are also an option if you are like a really nice person or something. But come on. Not even I would donate to myself.
(via kindahernyart)
