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Guys! Why am I not improving?

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logosmonkey:
No doubt, but you have to buy that. :P
I do suggest all of Burne Hogarth's books. These are wonderfully helpful.

logosmonkey:
Oh also as an addendum to my first post, Study.. you have to study a lot as well.

Coonstar:
Awesome guys! I shall be taking yer advice.

I used to do the whole "draw people from porn" sites deal and it did help me improve a lot during that time (which I think I somehow lost!) but drawing from the computer screen can get painful in the eyes, and I hated how I had to be wary of sleazy viruses and the fact that I can't draw while my parents were around! Anybody know some drawing reference books of NORMAL nude people?

(The nudity was alright but some of the poses of those porn ladies creeped me out! And the fact that I couldn't find any pictures of porn males!)

Coonstar:
Guys! Today is a victorious day in Cienoland! I learned that my dying scanner has all sorts of options I can tweak and stuff!

Oh! And I think I drew three pictures this month today! Alright they're all sketches. But that's a world record in my little universe.

Anyway! Tuesday/Today'd drawing preview:


Fullsized. You know you want to click on it: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/coonstar/illustrations/modelsketch01big.jpg

Reference:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/coonstar/illustrations/modelsketch01ref.jpg

Anyway! About my scanner. I've had it for four years now, and I'm not sure if it's dying, because on default no-tweaking scanning, it scans stupidly light! So all this time I would have scanned an original
Like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/coonstar/illustrations/modelsketch01orig.jpg

Then basically set the contrast to max on photoshop!
Like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/coonstar/illustrations/modelsketch01.jpg

And the picture would have looked a lot worse! Yes. So, it is a glorious day in Cienoland. Anyway, this sketch took me and hour and forty five minutes, maybe minus five minutes with me headbanging to Therion, but anyway. What is your honest opinion? Is drawing pretty models from pretty magazines with bad articles going to help me with my drawing skills, or should I just ditch it and just stick to basics for now and draw nudes and get a better sense of anatomy? It's because when I sketch models, I try to sketch out the skeleton, then impose the silhouette of the clothes over it, then I begin this rather tedious work of erasing the skeleton then arbitrarily putting in folds by instinct! Erasing takes the most time.

Lines:
if you want books, i guess go to the main branch of your library, and go to the art section (i guess?) and see if there are any artists reference books.

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