Any artists in here know what the best way to get into it his? I feel kind of intimidated by the whole thing but I feel like I can do it.

NoxCL said:
Any artists in here know what the best way to get into it his? I feel kind of intimidated by the whole thing but I feel like I can do it.

Take a pen and have at it.

DelurC said:
Take a pen and have at it.

I feel like it's deeper than that, isn't it?

currently working on it myself. I have a decent knowledge of human and animal anatomy already, so it's a challenge of mixing the two in a good-looking way. Make sure to study other anthro drawings quite a bit [without tracing and all that bad stuff] to get a hang of it. As far as anthro faces go, I personally like to draw them more realistically but studying facial expressions in cartoons might help if you're going for a less realistic look.

NoxCL said:
I feel like it's deeper than that, isn't it?

It's not, don't think about it and just do it.

Start from life.

The biggest mistake you can make as an aspiring artist is practicing through attempting to replicate another artist's style.

Here's a tutorial from an actual artist

Take pencil, apply to paper, draw animal person.

It isn't really any deeper than that unless you want it to be.

DelurC said:
It's not, don't think about it and just do it.

Ratte said:
Take pencil, apply to paper, draw animal person.

It isn't really any deeper than that unless you want it to be.

Yeah you guys are right. This is why I wasn't progressing much. Was scared of doing something wrong so I didn't try at all. I'll just grab a smoke and draw whatever I think of. Thanks.

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Maxpizzle said:
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Very true lol.

NoxCL said:
Yeah you guys are right. This is why I wasn't progressing much. Was scared of doing something wrong so I didn't try at all. I'll just grab a smoke and draw whatever I think of. Thanks.

You learn more from being wrong than from being right, you learn nothing from nothing.

DelurC said:
You learn more from being wrong than from being right, you learn nothing from nothing.

So wise. That is truth.

I was like: "What if I draw a human...with an animal head??" And that's how it all started

It -is- slightly deeper than that. Cultivating your ability to just draw without worrying about it is great IME. But, some drawing skills are more fundamental than others, so it's helpful to also have a study plan to follow (eg. Vilppu is good. Nicolaïdes is GREAT. Loomis will teach you the principles but isn't so great at ordering them for best learning, so, mediocre.). Having a study plan helps you to learn the things that are most valuable and universally applicable (eg. gesture) first, and avoid getting hung up on completing one specific study or solving one specific problem exactly right.

The anthro side is really just, doing studies of animals as well as humans; the 'putting them together' part comes fairly easily if you've studied both to a good extent.

You can probably find a pdf file of these two books.

It is a bit deeper but just going at it is how you get started. Im not good enough to post yet, but I'very been drawing animals in general since I could hold a crayon, started giving them more human personalities slowly and then boom, anthros.

Give it a try, it's fun!