Welcome back to café mew mew! This time will be a very useful post.
Lately I’ve seen a lot of my peers talk about how they struggled with coloring in Photoshop and anatomy (even though I think they improved a LOT). But none the less both of this issues is something that a lot of artists struggle with (I always want my bodies to look like the ones in the anatomy for doctors book and fail). So I thought that this will be good time to update café mew mew!
Here are great links to anatomy, stock photos, people, poses and hugely helpful coloring tutorials!
To really bone up on anatomy just to take 15-30 minutes or however long you want a day and just sketch what you see. It doesn’t have to be perfect at all; I wouldn’t even try to shoot for a half ass good looking picture. Just getting into the flow of everything and getting use to drawing what you see is all you need and day by day things well get much easier.
Another thing is to is draw similar stock pictures or a part of a body you can’t draw well then later in a day try to draw it without looking a reference if you can, or just practice it A LOT though out your drawings. That works a lot for me.
So without farther ado here are the sites that I use and is super helpful!
http://www.posemaniacs.com/?p=623 < This one is really great for practicing a pose at all angles!
http://senshistock.deviantart.com/ < A great place to get sailor moon/magical girl poses
http://blacksockstock.deviantart.com/
http://homnoct-stock.deviantart.com/
Now for all of us coloring can be a big pain between the lighting and shadows and just where to start. The biggest thing about getting better with Photoshop is finding as many tutorials as possible and trying and experimenting. That’s what I had to do when I first got Photoshop look, learn, try out and experiment! Don’t be afraid that the picture won’t come out as you want, just practice and learn. If you go back a few pages in my gallery I wasn’t great in Photoshop at all it was like learning a new medium, which it is!
Here are the tutorials that I tried out when I first got Photoshop (and a tablet later on) that really helped me in the long run.
http://kuitsuku.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-Lineart-Coloring-Tut-56907784 < Used this tutorial to make the coloring in this picture > http://www.theotaku.com/fanart/view/277901/have_a_rave%2527n_new_year%2521
http://zambi.deviantart.com/art/How-to-color-like-zammies-40199116
http://news.deviantart.com/article/31800/
http://photoshop-tutorials.deviantart.com/
There’s plenty of good tutorials out there so always do searches on art sites and Google!
That will be all for now, I hope this post helps everyone!
