I stumbled on squidoo about six months ago but to be honest never really took to much notice of it. Squidoo is a platform where you share your experience of subjects you feel you have a good knowledge of and like I say I hadn’t really thought any more about it until I stumbled across a lens (post) by Gannon Beck – an illustrator called Learn to be an Illustrator. This post is fairly indepth and while the illustrator does not provide his own tutorials he splits his lens/post into sections which work you through the stages of improving your drawing skills via:
- the first books you should read
- Youtube videos explaining perspective
- Drawing supplies
- The next books to read
- More drawing instruction – sketching and figure drawing
He then moves on to his recommendations for learning to paint and draw cartoons.
If you are looking at improving your drawing skills as a designer or illustrator, or a student just starting out this site may be worth a look.
While you are on the Squidoo try a few more graphic design related searches, I am surprised at the amount of information on there and think I may have dismissed the site too quickly.
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I’m trying to draw some nice characters for my new website and I kinda suck at it. I was searching for some drawing tutorials. This one will help me a lot.
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Hi Tara,
I’m glad you liked the lens. I acually made some improvements to it last night and I have a few more planned to clarify the information a little more.
At the bottom of the lens I do link to a tutorial on coloring illustratioins in photoshop. Also check out the “Learn to be a Character Animator” lens by Bryan Engram, which is great.
I also finally got around to writing a review of the perspective DVDs that I talk about in the lens. You can view this here if you like:
http://gannonbeck.com/2008/01/01/putting-things-in-perspective
Thanks for the shout-out!
Gannon
ur wrks are coool.i want to be good as well and need help on how i can improve my skills.i will appreciate it if anyone can take the pain to put me tru
This is a pretty decent resource guide for the novice. Great post
Thank you
This is a great post!!!
My drawing skills are horrible, and I mean horrible! But I have always wanted to improve.
Although practise does help, not knowing where to start was my biggest problem. This is a great step by step guide that has put a smile on my face.
Thanks
Holly
I have been sketching and drawing since I was 15 and I may say that I am not not good in it. I am so grateful in this article. IT has enhance my knowledge and skills so much. Right after I read this the article, I already practice it.
Good reference. Thanks. I’m not very good at illustration but I hope to improve.
Just read that book and I must say it really did help me improve on my web design skills. Thanks again! Squidoo has been ok, but smashingmagazine is the best to learn.
I recently upgraded the lens at the request of a friend who wanted to learn to draw. It’s not the syllabus for an open class. Join in if you want; it’s free. We’re creating actual lessons as we go. I would encourage you to join the Facebook group and community pages too if you’re interested. Post your work to your blog and then leave a link on the community page in the comments to the lesson you are doing so you can get feedback from me as well as the others working on the lessons.
Gannon
Hi Gannon, That sound interesting, what’s your facebook page?
Cheers
Tara
Hi Tara,
There are a couple of pages: The first is the Facebook community page. We post lessons here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Schoolless-Art-Instruction/157740107583755?v=wall
Here is the Facebook group page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_152474501455231
The main advantage of the group page is it allows us to do group chats.
Please join in if you’re interested. It’s all completely open.
Gannon
Thanks Gannon