THE GREAT ARTBOOK POST!

My Big Uber-collection of the best art e-books I’ve found so far for you to download and to study!

As promised, and as long put-off, here are my favourite pdf art books, these are the best of the best I’ve found in my travels! They’re all great but each author has a specific area he’s great at:

• Bridgman: really sketchy, like sometimes almost too much. Good for proportions though and seeing how things fit together.

• Burne Hogarth: really stylized and so not quite 100% realistic, but he protrayed the 3D shapes really well, and if you study this and keep his drawings in mind when you draw people, your figures will have a much more realistic weight distrobution.

• Jack Hamm: an old fashioned guy, good for drawing faces in a realistic, old comic-book-y way. Covers lots of hard-to-draw angles of the face that others forget, too!

• Eliot Goldfinger: this is really really technical almost medical anatomy-level complexness. But it breaks things down into muscle masses which are good to keep in mind if you have a difficult character to draw.

MY FAVOURITES:

• Michael Hampton: THIS IS THE BEST. This one has everything, everything is colour coded, it’s fucking amazing in every way. This is like the be-all end-all of anatomy books, GET THIS.

• Force, Life Drawing for animators: this one is amazing. This one teaches you how to DRAW the ENTIRE FIGURE, but not in little chunks- you need to know how to capture the flow of the body to make it not look like shit. This book teaches what seperates the good artists from the MASTER artists. GET THIS.

• Vilppu Drawing Manual: This is also a great book that combines some of these two big elements of drawing. Sort of retro but everything is really amazing, this is a big one.

• Victor Perard: if you’re like me you revolve around line art, not painting. This book is awesome for us people. Lots of great poses to study and learn from, teaches you how to take masses and make line art of them. Very good.

so, Go forth! Share and reblog this post for others, if needbe, it is full of win. Or just the URL, that’s cool too. Thanks everybody who waited for me to upload it all!

This was collected by a very awesome individual on Tumblr. I've already downloaded some of the books and they've been all sorts of ridonkulously helpful ♥ GO AND DOWNLOAD AND READ AND LEARN!

Ashel:// This is A Public Announcement

Look!

A cereal advert!
For my fake, imaginary company, Rustee's. This is part of my Malay Lang. project where we had to design an ad and write a blurb about it. I'm sure I will fail the Blurb-Writing part so hopefully the visuals can make up for it.

The Mechanic - by Benben

One of eight characters that Ben's going to use in Side Dishes. Yes, this is not Ben talking but Ashel. HE'S A TERRIBLE OLD MAN, asking the young uppity kid to do all the technological-shmological for him. Sooner or later I'm going to make him MODERN AND HIP.

But yes, went off into a tangent here. Work is still going on for Obscurus; sorry for the lack of updates!

Oh boy

There's this weird thing on Blogger that keeps making the posts appear as 'Published by Reimena Ashel Yee' (who is me, by the way) when the post is done by someone else who is definitely not me. I'll see what can be done to fix this.

Dolling Up the Mannequin

Eris

She'll be starring with Cupid in Lonely Hearts Cafe ;D

Ich Liebe Dich

I don't normally do horror themed stuff, but a friend of mine had been a terrible influence lately and I soon found myself drawing horror pictures in one night (oh boy).

The characters featured are Delilah and Ruth, who run around in my crazy comic Anfänge ♥