Meet the Staff - WingedZephyr

[Leogon7 Coleo]

I think it's clear you are in a higher league then most drawer's, it's artists of yurr caliber that I will continue to aspire to, What would you say are good things to draw in real life, wat helped you improve the most?

[WingedZephyr]

Draw anything and everything you see. Draw the stuff on your desk, it will help with perspective and (probably) angular shapes. Draw your pets or animals at a zoo and it will help you with animal anatomy. Sit outside and draw a landscape, it will help you with drawing nature and backgrounds. Sit somewhere where people are sitting and/or walking around, and draw the people you see, it will help you with human anatomy.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

Well, if thats wat you think, I wouldn't question a supiror, QQ wat do i do when things move?

[WingedZephyr]

You stop working on that drawing and move onto something else. A drawing doesn't have to be finished or very detailed to benefit you. I've done hundreds of 15- or 30-second drawings in my art classes that help you focus on nailing the essence of a pose and movement, along with proportions, and that's plenty of time to catch something in the middle of movement. They end up looking something like this or this. Although they obviously don't look like anything you'd hang on your wall, from just those figures you can see the pose, balance, and proportions.

You can try timing yourself to see how much you can draw in a short amount of time. Starting with basic shapes and working your way up as you draw.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

Ok, thnakyou for helping my learning, I will make a habit of doing this, it seems like a good idea and couldn't hurt to try, Again thanks furr the advice
Oh and also Im gonna have all the stuff to make my scalie costume by the end of the week, I dont like patterned frabrics so im going to make the scales individually and sow each of them into place, I have the week to reserch logical net desighns to follow, obvioulsy having to taylor them to my sise, I decided not to go with wings, they wouldn't be of any use and i am practical, although im goin to have a tail, it's gonna take some time to make but im gonna have all summer!

[WingedZephyr]

Good luck.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

If you wouldn't mind, can i ask what you did to make the animation in your siggy, was it a programme by hand both and how did you make it so smooth?

[WingedZephyr]

I used Photoshop and drew each frame by hand. The more "inbetweens" an animation has the smoother it is. That is, rather than drawing the wings in just an up, down, and middle position, I drew one or two frames between each of those where the wings were slightly up and slightly down.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

It's possible to draw in photo shop?

[WingedZephyr]

Yes. That's what tablets are for.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

What are tablet's again, if i already asked then whoops but i don't remember

[WingedZephyr]

They are drawing surfaces you write on with a "pen" (it's not a real pen, just simulates one) and whatever you write/draw on the surface of the tablet goes directly into the computer. So it's like drawing by hand, except it's completely digital.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

How hard are they to get used to, or are they as easy as they sound?

[WingedZephyr]

They take some getting used to, but it's 1000 times better than using a mouse to draw anything.

[Leogon7 Coleo]

How much is it for a good one, quality mattering as much as price of coarse, and are there any makes that are better then others?