Free Art Instruction: A Few Good Links
Posted by: RC in Art Instruction, Oh the places I've been..., tags: Andrew Loomis, Famous Artists Course, George Bridgeman, Kent WilliamsComiCrazys Archive for the Famous Artists Cartoon Course Category — 18 free lessons and counting; available in both PDF and JPEG formats.
Comic Tools: Tutorials — learn about basic anatomy, balloon shapes, Kirby energy dots, perfect white-out consistency, ruling pens, cutting techniques, art corrections, scanning, and lots more.
Download Here: “Constructive Anatomy” by George B. Bridgman
Making a Canvas Board! by Larry Seiler
Save Loomis! — download PDFs of Fun with a Pencil, Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth, Drawing the Head & Hands, Successful Drawing, Creative Illustration, and Eye of the Painter, all for free.
Tom Richmond’s MAD Blog Cartooning/Caricature Tutorials — noses, hands, crowd scenes, cross hatching, and more.
The Tools Artists Use — find out what tools your fellow artists keep in their toolboxes that you might add to yours.
BONUS LINKS:
Agent 44: Fixing It Old School — learn how cartoonists make art corrections in the real world.
Felipe’s Art Tutorials — Felipe’s detailed explanation of Burton Silverman’s watercolour technique alone makes this site a keeper.
From Idea Sketch to Final Painting: Kent Williams, Mother and Daughter (2009), oil on linen, 42 x 50 in. — not art instruction per se, but much can be gleaned from step-by-step process photos, and the finished work is a knockout!
