Destroyer of Hope

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

How did you learn perspective? I have seen in one of your tutorials that you used some type of perspective for a background/room for one (or few) of your comic panel(s) and for the tutorial "How-To-Draw".

Also what do you recommend? Should I learn perspective or anatomy first?

Thank you!!!

I think I must've learned the basics in grade school art class and from tutorial books I had as a kid. Some I picked up from observing how other artists do things. I spent a lot of time as a 3d modeler, and that certainly helped my understanding of how to apply 3d concepts to 2d art too.

Perspective drawing and anatomy aren't wholly separate things, really. Characters and other living subject matter exist in 3d space - in perspective - just like everything else. Any figure, character, creature, or other living subject you design or draw from observation and the breakdown of shapes comprising its anatomy are things you will want to learn to apply perspective to in order to avoid it looking completely flat. Everything from how the feet are planted on a ground plane, to foreshortened limbs, to the dimension of a flexed muscle, to how turning a head from front-facing to 3/4 view affects the angles of the face are matters of perspective. It will also help you to draw that anatomical subject/character convincingly into a background where the rules of perspective apply on the whole.

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773

Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788