Tips and Techniques 2.0

[Fallenangel]

Hey,
like the name suggests i"ll start another thread where i"ll try to revive the Tips and Tech link section with the hope that some day it will become a new helpful sticky when i'm done.

If you guys have any tutorials/tips/links or any other useful stuff or any suggestions feel free to pm me.

It will take some time so be patient.

Alex.

General Tips:
How to Copyright Your Work by Symson


1 Storytelling and Page Building
Story telling 101
ImagineFX story telling- search for more in the workshop
Mase's sequential process
Symson: A Guide to Putting Together Your Sequential Portfolio
Camera angle definitions and examples
Basic camera angle terms and Amadarwin's script writing layout
Page Layouts and Pacing
Eddie Ching's Storytelling 101 thread






1.5 Writing
Steve Lieber - Writing for an artist/ PJ Discussion here
John Freeman: Writing Comics - a guide
Suite 101: Writing and Publishing (Site has many articles)
Peter David: How I Write a Story
John Ostrander: Plotting 101
Kurt Busiek: On Writing for Comics

2 Penciling and Drawing: tips, tools and techniques.
2.1Tips and tricks:
Wally wood's 22 panels.
Tangent City - Don't Go There - by Symson
Tangents issues - relevant also for painting
Drawing clothing folds and drapery
Producing clean line work - discussion
Smoothing out shaky lines - discussion
Drawing Fundamentals by Paul Richards - relevant also for painting
Tips on how to become professional artist
Drawing the figure and the head - videos
Dave Sim's tips and advice on self publishing comics
Different drawing tools-pencil-discussion
Drawing similar faces - discussion
Drawing the Circle in Perspective - Baloodo Bill
Line-weights & Halos - discussion
The Gnomon Workshop - penciling, inking, coloring
Important Basics from Jim Lee
Human proportions
Drawing the head and other head features
Planes of the Head
Drawing the head
how to draw the mouth
How to draw feet
How to draw ears
Skull anatomy tips
How to draw abdominal muscles
Drawing Hands - PJ discussion and tutorials
Drawing Hands - PJ discussion and tutorials 2
Drawing the Hands - Tom Richmond
Photomatters - Light Direction
How to use the Ellipse Template -PJ discussion

50%grey Folder of Drawing Tips and Tricks

The Etiquette of Drawing in Public by Rob Rey

Mark Kennedy blog on drawing
10-minute Art School: Composition 101
Things They Don't Teach in Art School #1
Design and Drawing
D&D2: Straights Against Curves
D&D3: Offset Curves
D&D4: Small, Medium and Large
D&D5: Variety of Shape
D&D6: Proportion
D&D7: Rhythm (part one)
"Working for Page Impact"



3 Inking:tips, tools and techniques.
Inking Devices -discussion
Rotring Rapidograph pen care and maintenance
Video tutorial -Doug Tennapel
Video tutorial- Francis Vallejo
Anton Emdin traditional inking tutorial
Tom Richmond inking tutorial part 1
Tom Richmond inking tutorial part 2
Brush Care
PJ Inkers Share Their Tools & Techniques
Tech Pen tips - specifically for Rapidographs
Brush Shootout - Mik Crowell (compares popular inking brushes)


3.1Digital inking
Itchy animation digital ink tut
Flash inking -discussion
Painter inking Tutorial
Inking digitally - by scruffyronin
Photoshop digital inking tutorial- video




4 Lettering: fonts, logos, tips and techniques.
Blambot lettering and fonts
Best font for dialogues - discussion
DaFont.com
Ninja Lettering
Jim Campbell: Lettering in Adobe Illustrator part 1
Jim Campbell: Lettering in Adobe Illustrator part 2
Jim Campbell: Lettering in Adobe Illustrator part 3
Jim Campbell: Lettering in Adobe Illustrator part 4
Jim Campbell: Lettering in Adobe Illustrator part 5
Jim Campbell: Lettering in Adobe Illustrator part 6
Types of Balloons and Captions by Symson


5 Anatomy: references .
Figure and gesture refs
Pose maniacs
Referencereference.com
Body Types references
Figure and gesture refs 2
Figure and gesture refs 3
Bodies in motion references
The view of the head from every position
Animal Anatomy
Comparing Human and Animal Anatomy
Anatomy for Sculptors
Figure & Head drawing reference
Expression References - DA
Muscles References - body building site


5.1 Miscellaneous: references - clothes, characters, buildings, cars, etc. .
Character design references
Buildings, industrial scenes references 1
Buildings, industrial scenes references 2
Various Habitat references
Armor, weapons references



6 Perspective and Composition:
Baloodoo Bill-Drawing the circle in perspective
French curve and Vanishing point - discussion
Composition and Perspective tutorial
Digital perspective grids - video
Framed Ink, Drawing and Composition for Storytellers
How Draw Dynamic Comic Books
How Draw Noir Comics - Storytelling
Composing pictures Donald W. Graham
Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels - blog on composition storytelling and much more
Scott Mcdaniel - perspective tutorials
Crispy's perspective basics and tips


7 Wacom: using the tablet.
Wacom - discussion
Choosing the right tablet - discussion
Recycling a scratched Intuos surface sheet + Protecting the Intous surface

8 Painting with or without Painter & Photoshop: tutorials, tips, tricks and techniques, brushes.
8.1 Painting:
Edges Tips and Tricks
ImagineFX - dozens of workshops and tutorials
Lighting tutorial
Andrew Loomis books on painting
PSG painting and drawing art tutorial
Blog by James Gurney on painting education, color, light, composition and etc.

8.2 Refs for studies:
ScreenShots
Atmosphere Generator

8.3 Painter:
Painter Brushes
Painter brushes 2



8.4 Photoshop:
Learning digital painting video tutorials
Comic style painting with Photoshop -video
Detailed Photoshop coloring by Brian Bolland




9 Art supplies: scanners, printers, boards, different tools.
ImagineFX workshop about traditional tools of art
Board discussion I
Board discussion II
Scanning double page spreads- discussion
Portfolio for Storing and Preserving art pages
Scanner recommendations- discussion
Buying a wide format Printer -discussion



10 Live stream channels: learn and from the best in live streams
Katie De Sousa
SamC
Jace Wallace
Crimson Daggers
Hannes aka Algenpfleger

11 Sites to post your work and get crits: learn and communicate with fellow artists
Conceptart
Deviantart
DigitalWebbing
ArtOrder
Tumblr
Outcast Studious
10 Ton Studious
CgHub
CgSociety


12 Miscellaneous Links: Learn different useful stuff....
Basic Flash animation tutorial
Manga Studio Q&A - discussion
Screentone Effects
Packaging your work for shipping
Making your own lightbox
Drawing Superman's "S" - Loston
French Curves & Vanishing points - Discussion
Designing costumes for characters
Manga Studio questions and discussion
Misc YouTube channel videos on drawing and painting

[Fallenangel]

Oh, I think we can sticky it now. Keep adding to it though, it's not like you can have too much here.



remember as well to look for existing threads within Tips & Tech that you can link to. Those will have both links to offsite content as well as the reactions, additions and notations of various forum members. One of the reasons our old thread went out-of-date was that various forum updates and upheavals over the years rendered many links null.

Thanks, feel free to suggest adding threads if i"ll miss something that you think is worth putting here.
The same goes to all of you guys if you know about some thread or link to useful tutorials feel free to PM me.

Added links to a tremendous source of workshops and tutorials, both on painting and on comicbook making.

[amadarwin]

Thread is already stickied, no need to bump it, since it doesn't do anything except make everyone aware there's a new post...of course, nevermind me if that was your intention.

also I added a pretty good lettering link (ninja lettering) since I was here. I'll clean up this thread too.

[Ace Corona]

Scott McCloud's name is misspelled, there should be two "T's" in Scott, you have it spelled as "Scot"

[Fallenangel]

Thread is already stickied, no need to bump it, since it doesn't do anything except make everyone aware there's a new post...of course, nevermind me if that was your intention.

also I added a pretty good lettering link (ninja lettering) since I was here. I'll clean up this thread too.

Thanks, and yeah i just wanted to keep people aware of this thread... thus the "bumps"...
btw. fixed Scott's name

[amadarwin]

In that case, just bump it with a note of what's added. In this instance, I added a writing section (cleaned up the stickies on the T&T board) and added writing links. Added a few more lettering links as well.

[Fallenangel]

Thanks .

[smygba]

This thread is pretty out of order, linking to purchasable books/dvds that creators like Scott McCloud and David Finch make to earn a living and people like me worked hard to buy.

If you can't afford something: Get a job, failing that - Go to the library.

[Fallenangel]

This thread is pretty out of order, linking to purchasable books/dvds that creators like Scott McCloud and David Finch make to earn a living and people like me worked hard to buy.

If you can't afford something: Get a job, failing that - Go to the library.

A. Get a life! failing that - &*#$ off!

B. Being a bit more mature, if you have a problem with me/this thread or anything else for that matter, feel free to contact the mods, and if needed i'm sure they would be glad to remove/edit this thread.

Fallen.

[amadarwin]

Actually, he has a point, though worded perhaps a bit harshly. There shouldn't be links in here to download copyrighted material, especially material than can be readily purchased. When I get a chance (or when you do) just go ahead and remove the material in question.

It's my fault though. In helping with this thread, I neglected to keep an eye out for that stuff.