so confused

Don't know where to start from learning art techuiqes...And get more familiar with traditional art...

By the way i work 3d in Maya and would love to get more into traditional art...

Any advices to start are apreciated

Stefan,

Start here:

Art Tutorials, Theories, and Book Recommendations
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=226083

Also, we have an entire Forum here on CGTalk dedicated to the learning / improvement of 2D Traditional Art Skills:

Artistic Anatomy and Figurative Art
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=177

Within the Artistic Anatomy and Figurative Art Forum, there is this useful link, which contains links to threads within the Forum that are useful for beginners like yourself:

Resources for Beginners
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpos...666&postcount=2

The Artistic Anatomy and Figurative Art Forum is a sub~forum of:

WIP/Critique: 2D, Illustrations and Concept Art
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=31

As you can see, there are plenty of resources here on CGTalk for beginners like yourself. Feel free to join in on any of these Forums / threads, and to post your work in the appropriate places.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

Could someone please explain these sentences from Craig Mullins Macross tutorial?


1. He said "Here is a way you can find the vanishing points of something- just paste a lower rez version in a big grayscale file and line up points until you have convergence. Then trace the left and right with a horizontal line and you have the eye level (if they match). They usually don't match exactly and this is due to distortion or bad construction. As you can see I fudged the eye level up in the final for design reasons. I don't like doing this, as it really hurts the image, but sometimes you have no choice"

I don't get this...

What are vanishing points?
How to trace?
What he means by eye level?

Please guys help me get in 2d

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7840

I read other tutorials in mean time and now i know what is EYE LEVEL...

Hope you can help me about these other 2 things...

I apreciate you tryin to help...thanks

.. ok that greyscale over the other part didn't make much sense for me eiter...

Vanishing point - This should help a little

Tracing-
1.Open the picture to trace*.
2.I'd suggest you to Duplicate it just so you wont save something that you wouldnt whant to.
3. Make a new layer
4. Draw the same picture

*Trace = Copying

just type "dictionary" in Google, you'll find this site:
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Then type 'tracing', you get a page full of explanations. The ones you're looking for are probably these:


A reproduction made by superimposing a transparent sheet and copying the lines of the original on it.

n 1: the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline 2: drawing created by tracing [syn: trace]

Vanishing point is there too:
http://dictionary.reference.com/sea...nishing%20point

Steven and Lady Medusa than you so much...

By the way Steven Stahlberg you are my idol...hehe...really

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