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Gesture Drawing Tutorial - One Minute -...

How weirdly bad of me, I tried drafting initial posing/gesture on SAI using its pen tool...

I'm just going to write here, I used to love to draw anime/manga in school. I hit a wall in my art and didn't know why. It took another artist who I worked with to tell me I was doing it wrong. You don't learn a Style first. You learn fundamentals first. Then when you are good at those you add the style.

The best way to build up your muscle memory on the fundamentals is by doing 30 second and 1 minute gesture poses. Do those for an hour in the morning and use that in combination with life drawing classes and you will slowly start to learn new things and apply them to your drawing style.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/thirtysecond
Really good site for doing gesture poses at home.

You can keep going with your art now, and do it as a hobby. But if your truly want to succeed and become a better artist faster, you need to take life drawing seriously.

The llama drama with me right now is, I don't have a tablet, and I rely often on my scanner, and my mouse, my two mechanical pencils 0.5, and 0.7 respectively.

Note: Apps I have are SAI, GIMP and Photoshop. Hmmm...

not having a tablet is no big deal. there's always pencil or paper. if your tablet is not big enough it can be more of a hindrance than a tool...

I've used a tablet for years and I still draw better on pen and paper (I'm a freak in that I despise pencil)
Anyway many many many many digital artists do their block out, and rough detail via traditional and then use digital to clean things up in the inking and colouring stage.

If you do want to look into getting a tablet perhaps for the sake of it, and you don't have the money for higher end tablets, I'm using a trust flexi tablet that only cost me £20 including postage.
It'd probably make a good first tablet, cheap portable and the pen is a nice shape.

Though be warned, if you decide to go with tablet, it can take a while to get used to the tablet. a few years ago me and a collage teacher vs'd each other in drawing a person, my teacher only ever using traditional I beat her hands down.

You are being too worried with the end result: A full color design.
I´ve read a couple times about the 1000 or maybe 10000 hours theory: You only will learn after having practicing this amount of time.
My suggestion is draw in pencil 10 drawings. Then get the best ones and post. Get some feedback and do it again.
Don´t waste your time trying to paint them now.
Maybe do one month just drawing and ask feedback of them, then after that do one month painting your best drawings (get feedback of your painting). After that start over again...you will see progress. Don´t start from the end.
You already got more feedback than most people get. Use it! Good luck

Gotcha guys, and... to add some challenge or design variety, do you know some guys here who drew jRPG characters in other style, or as realist as possible?

I'd like to draw my first teen character in both jRPG anime style and with some realist.

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[A 2009 Rider Kick figure drawing attempt]