Art Tutorials/Books/etc.

[morbent]

-=ART TUTORIALS/BOOKS/ETC.=-

This is a list of great tutorials/youtube channels/books/interview that will most likely help you in your quest of becoming a better artist. This list we'll be updated from time to time. Stay put! More are to come!

-=Art tutorials=-

Free Video Library
Sycra
markcrilley
Chris Oatley
Draw a Box: An exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing
Kienan Lafferty
Will Terrell
Noah Bradley

-=Animation=-

Draw with Jazza
AlanBeckerTutorials

-=Anatomy=-

Proko
Gesture Drawing Tools for Artists

-=Youtube channels=-

Avatar	Link	Avatar	Link
	Bobby Chiu		Sycra
FZDSchool of Design (Feng Zhu)

-=Artistic forums/communities=-

Sycra Forum
CAS - A place for artists to improve!

-=Reading mather to consider=-

Bames' Anatomy
Masters of Anatomy
Color and Light by James Gurney
ImagineFX magazine | Creative Bloq

A few notes about the 3 books, since these cost a lot of cash here - it's not totally worth it for the so far listed books. For example, with Bames' anatomy there are many great things in it that you just HAVE to know like skeletal structure, muscles, etc. but most of the pages are useless and filled with unimportant to art text. Masters of Anatomy? Probably not worth the price but exploring many styles can really help in understanding anatomy and establishing your own style. Hopefully I'll get my hands on it someday. Color and Light is probably the best pick out of these but don't go for it unless you're quite good at fundamentals. It's for artists who know more about color and just want to further explore stuff (I got it too soon I suppose).

-=Interviews=-

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-=This thread is still under construction.=-

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Very nice of you!
All these are helpful for many of us!

 

[Heinvers]

This will be very useful indeed

 

[Mad]

Hey nice list
I got some links you could add;

Daarken's tutorial page:
http://enliighten.com/

Pixelovely for some good references for practice:
http://artists.pixelovely.com/

Will Terrell is another good artist on youtube (he draws in a more cartoony style, but there is still much you can learn even if you're into more realistic art):
https://www.youtube.com/user/willterrell2001

lastly, I'd like to mention ImagineFX which is a superb, monthly magazine. It is mainly sold in UK, but I found it in bookstores / newsagents in USA and Sweden. It comes quite pricey outside UK, but it is definitely worth the money in my opinion:
http://beta.imaginefx.com/

 

[morbent]

Very good Mad! Thanks for those. If anyone else has more, just write a message here and I'll quote it in the main post.

 

[Gnoll Overlord]

Very nice. Hope there will be added more to tis list, will be useful. Also I got two links for the list

https://www.youtube.com/user/DrawWithJazza Good drawing tutorials, also some tutorials for animating in Flash and Art in Photoshop

http://ctrlpaint.com/ Excellent tutorials and tips for Photoshop and general drawing.

 

[morbent]

http://ctrlpaint.com/library Omg, I forgot Matt Kohr, awesome tutorials, a bit slow though.

I''m going to add it to the list.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Stickied cuz of usefulness.

 

[Mad]

Stickied cuz of usefulness.

Cheers :>

 

[Idaero Ace]

No one say anything about Crilley?
Check out his channels on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Updated.

 

[morbent]

O. Yea, true. Sorry I wasn't home for more than a week, with no Internet :X I guess I forgot to put that in...

 

[Hemske]

Another artist I'd like to recommend is Chris Oatley. He does not have a lot of videos, he have some though.

He is mainly doing podcasts/artcasts and they are more about how to approach art, interviews with other artists in the business, the industry of visual development/illustration/freelancing/concept art, time management etc. So maybe not as much as can help you skill-wise (still a lot of great tips every now and then that DO help a lot) but he is really fun and super-interesting to listen to. And you do get a lot of insight into the industry about how it works.

(Seeing as Matt Kohr is already mentioned here Chris actually interviews him in some episode)

Now, that's probably the most interesting to anyone looking to get into the professional side of art, but for any artist I can not recommend him enough.

The podcasts range from anywhere between like 40 min-2 hours, most are around 40-60 minutes though.

Link to one of his casts, with Noah Bradley, really interesting

Link to his podcasts

Andrew Loomis' books are absolutely great, I think you can find them anywhere basically. Anyone interested in art should go through those books.

ImagineFX also has like a lot of different like, tutorialbooks, and they are all great, especially the anatomy ones. http://beta.imaginefx.com/shop
If you go there and just scroll down you'll find some of their special issues, there are more though, but you'll have to google for them yourself, I don't know their exact name. One for manga, one for fantasy art, one for monster/sci-fi I think.

 

[morbent]

http://conceptartsessions.com/ CAS is pretty cool. The themes are very weird at times, but you can reroll . Still growing. I've gotten the chance to talk to some pro working-in-the-industry artists there, in the Google Hangouts they host every day

 

[Idaero Ace]

The best episodes I've ever come across in YouTube are FZD School of Design, Feng Zhu's tutorials:
Here's a link to the first episode he created in 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1McYZX6KS

link not work

 

[Mad]

link not work

I think it is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1McYZX6KScg&

 

[Hemske]

http://conceptartsessions.com/ CAS is pretty cool. The themes are very weird at times, but you can reroll . Still growing. I've gotten the chance to talk to some pro working-in-the-industry artists there, in the Google Hangouts they host every day

I've never heard about that one, awesome!

 

[morbent]

Thanks Mad, I replaced the link. Should be working now.

 

[morbent]

Hey, nobody found any good tutorials ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haa7n3UGyDc I'd like to add Alan Becker's tutorials on the Principles of Animation. Understanding 2d animation is important for static images as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjxPOyTaS0Q Carbot. While his tutorials aren't the best and aren't even on a separate channel I find him to explain things simply and make them easy to memorize.

edit: I wasn't sure if this counts as Necro posting? Does it? Eh, I don't care. Worth the infraciton

 

[GunSlinger]

Necroposting cause I have stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/user/prokotv
Short and straight-to-the-point tutorials.

http://www.drawabox.com
A full exercise-based drawing course.

 

[morbent]

Added to first post.

I'll have a look at these, thanks!

 

[Deleted member 238226]

really can't wait to graduate from school and get work to earn some money so i can buy myself a drawing pen tablet. totally gonna go crazy with it :3

 

[TheKurt009]

I'll be leaving this here then! it's a collection of all the art tutorials i've collected overtime.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B66S5auB2zLRbk1GS3lCYWdnMUk

 

[Lordlycan]

Animation theory:
line of action - Preston Blair
12 principles of animation -> Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation.

 

[8512590215848]

Time Lapse video from our lovely CRAZY_RUSSIAN where he makes icons and UI for some game. Incredible stuff.

 

[deepstrasz]

Accidentally found some interesting stuff
How to draw manga. vol. 0. getting started
How to draw manga vol. 1 compiling characters
How to draw manga vol 2 compiling techniques
How to draw manga vol. 5 dveloping shoujo manga techniques.r
How to draw manga vol. 7 amazing effects.r
How to draw manga. vol. 23. illustrating battles

how to draw manga - giant robots

More how to draw manga vol.1.the basics of character drawing
How to draw manga. vol. iv. dressing your characters in casual wear

 

[deepstrasz]

Maybe this might interest you

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCulNwD1dr5laT5A4Uw-pnng/videos

courtesy of @StormKnight

 

[Descendant of the Sun]

Nice and very useful. Thank you very much for sharing.