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« on: January 29, 2007, 17:32 » |
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drawing.simps.net.ruNot really a site - more a collection of books and tutorials on general "How to draw" subject. Created and maintained by Fulbert from ISFF (thanks!). I didn't download much from the place yet, because well, local traffic limitations  but I hope it will be useful for the others. The filenames say for themselves. Use wisely  P.S. Most of the books are in PDF format while some are in DejaVu one. There is a reader installer for the latter one. P.P.S. "Cartooning with the Simpsons" is also there. 
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2007, 18:22 » |
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That's a very precious resource thumbs up! |
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2007, 21:56 » |
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Thanks for the link, Dag! I'm sure those will be useful  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 21:57 » |
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Yeah, and I'd like to mention that some of the books there are in Russian. Those are:
- the "50_*.pdf" serie. Not that there's much text... But all the text they have is in Russian.
- Christopher_Hart_-_Aliens_Halloween.pdf - not too much text either.
- Francisco_Server_-_Risunok_Dlya_Nachinayushikh.djvu - I don't think it's worth downloading unless you can read Russian.
- Osnovy_risovaniya.pdf - translated as "Basics of Drawing". I don't know how it really is called in English, but it's written by Greg Albert and Rachel Wolfe (or Wolf, maybe?) Anyway, it's got a decent amount of text, so you'd better find the English version if you don't know Russian.
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2007, 19:32 » |
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Sweet. Bookmarked. That head and hands tutorial looks like it could definately come in very handy for me right now.
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2007, 18:08 » |
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Incredible Serge! THANKS!  gustavo download the books gustavo says: is hour of the study…. D'OH! …  3 hours later: oh my good… exists a guide of drawings for guys a bit less professionals ? (more single) 6 hours later: I will try to study again  … and my pencil? hey Lisa ! caution with my pencil! Lisa says: Sorry .. try study this guide! 9 hours later… AW AW AW! no can!  lisa says: is only parctice …. 12 hour later… ZZZZZ! (sleep) |
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« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2007, 03:22 » |
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An update!
Added a couple of "How to Draw Manga" books and Christopher Hart's "Cutting Edge Anatomy" guide.
Enjoy!:-)
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2007, 03:47 » |
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GustavoFulbert is maintaining this useful project, not me. FulbertThanks! Nice update. We'll try to
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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2007, 18:58 » |
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Great stuff Fulbert! That's an absolute gold mine of information.
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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2007, 20:14 » |
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Just downloaded and looked carefully at the "50 Birds" book. Pros: like Fulbert said, you don't have to know Russian to understand it, all the important information is in the illustrations. It can be really useful as a guide. The drawings are good and obviously were made by professional, which is also good. Cons: it's not an educational book actually. It's pure guide... you won't find basics of birds anatomy there, or how to draw a wing correctly.  It has many examples, but all of them are finished or half-finished. I'm not sure I can use it to draw a bird from scratch, or to draw a scene from my imagination instead of copying one from the book. I'd like to hear an opinion of someone who knows more about drawing though, I can be very wrong. : Ugh... can we also have similar books about cats, or horses? (I'm only partially joking here btw ) |
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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2007, 03:02 » |
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DagdamorMaybe this book can help in drawing animals - http://www.maxiol.com/books/index.htm?&t=view1&id=7&p=1 (1 page=1 picture, it is not comfortable). Horses and cats included. Also sketch-by-sketch method, but more detailed and useful, I think. There is a pdf-version in e2k, but it's 127 Mbytes. Books "50 horses" and "50 cats" written(drawn) by the same author, but hard to found e-versions. Yes, these books more for copying, not for learning
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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2007, 17:39 » |
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brakusaetsyaThanks for the link! Will try to download it on the first possibility.
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« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2007, 18:08 » |
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ahh so much Russian writing. I CAN'T READ IT hehe oh well I will just have to read the ones that are not in russian |
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« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2007, 21:15 » |
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Hey hey hey, kids! That's Fulbert the Klown, bwa-ha-ha-ha!;-)
Today we all thank our dear friend Suusje for the large e-books archive he helped me to find. In fact, it's so large I'm still sorting it out. But I've already uploaded some of the books to our ftp, and these are as follows:
1. Burne Hogarth - Drawing Dynamic Hands - 14M. A kinda complicated book about drawing dynamic hands and arms. It's definitely not for newbies. Why did I upload it here? I dunno... What if we have a pro here?
2. Burne Hogarth - Drawing the Human head - 28Mb. Another pro book, the title speaks for itself.
3. Ken Hultgren - The Art of Animal Drawing - 25Mб. That's a good one. This book shows us how to draw beautiful, free, strong and dangerous animals. Panthers, bears, horses - you name it.
4. "Manga Mania" series. A series of simpe albums that show how to draw different kinds of anime and manga characters. The books are in Russian, but the text there is fairly meningless, and the bookmarks are translated into Englisgh so the English-speaking readers could navigate through the books.
- Manga-Mania_-_Devochki_i_Devushki.pdf - 16.7Mб. Translated into English as "Girls and Young Women":-)
- Manga-Mania_-_Roboty_i_Mechanzmy.pdf - 21Мб. This one is translated as "Robots and Mechanisms"
- Manga-Mania_-_Yunoshi_i_Muzhchiny.pdf - 16Mб. This one is "Boys and Men".
5. J.D._Harding_-_On_Drawing_Trees_and_Nature.pdf - 48Мб. This useful books is all about nature. The sticks and stones, the trees and grass, clouds and blue sky... Anything to make a perfect countryside landscape.
6. Jack_Hamm_-_Drawing_Scenery_Seascapes_And_Landscapes.pdf - 27 Мб. This one is one of my favourites. It shows how to draws stones and trees, and especially - seashores. And even I managed to draw a realistic rock using this book:-)
7. Gary_Faigin_-_The Artist's_Complete_Guide_To_Facial_Expression.pdf - 48 Мб. A rather serious book on facial expressions.
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2007, 12:34 » |
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Hello again. There's a little something I want to ask you.
Rather often the books I run into in the Net are very big. Sometimes as big as 200 Mb. So I edit them so that they take a little less space - resize the pages, reduce the quality a bit and so on. As the result, they take not more than 50 Mb. What I want to ask is this: do I really have to do this, or it is okay with you to download such volumes of information? Or maybe I should upload two versions of the books - "Full" and "Lite"? Or don't mind it and upload them as they are?
Please tell me.
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