so confused

#1

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

#2

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/showpost.php?p=2897666&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, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#3

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

#4

Do you have a link to the tutorial? I’m sure it had some images that should make it easier to undesttand.

#5

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

#6

:argh:… 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

#7

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/search?q=vanishing%20point

#8

Steven and Lady Medusa than you so much…

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

#9

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