Hey there, friend!
The best way to learn about deer anatomy is to study them! Ooh, their skeletons, too, yeah. I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly in a deer-friendly area, so the most I can go by is pictures, which is why I made this tumblr which is full of deer (well.. more like ungulates in general, but mostly deer) pictures, as well as other things I think other TEF players might enjoy.
What helped me when I was just starting to learn deer anatomy (not to say I've stopped learning) is to look at a deer and simplify its body into basic shapes. For example, I usually draw the chest and stomach area as 2 circles joined by 2 lines to make a sort of jellybean shape. Start your deer very simply like that and modify your sketch until you get it how you want it to look c:
If you have any more questions, feel free to let us know! And I hope to see your artwork soon!
here's some advice from myself
The key to draw in a realistic way is to observe very very well and draw exactly and only what you are seeing, not what you think you see.
when kids draw a doodle and say it is a dog or whatever, they are not actually seeing dogs that way, but they're making an abstraction of what dogs look like and make an expressive draw that represents dogs for them.
you just have to watch and reproduce carefuly what you're actually watching
Find some high reolution images (to being able to see the face details and stuff) and try to copy them. Start by sketching the general morphology, leaving the details to the end, I recommend not to trace because it doesn't give you the understanding that copying can. Make some references for yourself in every draw, some guide lines of the parts that compose the image, for example, the position and size of the ears according to the eyes, nose, antlers; I don't know if I explained myself correctly, english isn't my first languaje hehe.
Also, dont erase the lines that went wrong untill it's finished, that way you can observe your errors and don't repeat them.
You just have to practice a lot, drawing in a realistic way is just a technique. You'll see that soon you would be able to create your own draws without even need a reference image.
But realistic art is just an option, a style. Remember that you can draw however you like, abstract and expressionist art are as valid forms of art as naturalism is.
Hello~ Maybe you can use this
Maybe you can use this pic?
Hey there, friend! The best
The best way to learn about deer anatomy is to study them! Ooh, their skeletons, too, yeah. I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly in a deer-friendly area, so the most I can go by is pictures, which is why I made this tumblr which is full of deer (well.. more like ungulates in general, but mostly deer) pictures, as well as other things I think other TEF players might enjoy.
What helped me when I was just starting to learn deer anatomy (not to say I've stopped learning) is to look at a deer and simplify its body into basic shapes. For example, I usually draw the chest and stomach area as 2 circles joined by 2 lines to make a sort of jellybean shape. Start your deer very simply like that and modify your sketch until you get it how you want it to look c:
If you have any more questions, feel free to let us know! And I hope to see your artwork soon!
This may help
http://endlessforest.org/community/link-collection-art-design-amp-coding?page=2
look under the art section
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here's some advice from myself
The key to draw in a realistic way is to observe very very well and draw exactly and only what you are seeing, not what you think you see.
when kids draw a doodle and say it is a dog or whatever, they are not actually seeing dogs that way, but they're making an abstraction of what dogs look like and make an expressive draw that represents dogs for them.
you just have to watch and reproduce carefuly what you're actually watching
Find some high reolution images (to being able to see the face details and stuff) and try to copy them. Start by sketching the general morphology, leaving the details to the end, I recommend not to trace because it doesn't give you the understanding that copying can. Make some references for yourself in every draw, some guide lines of the parts that compose the image, for example, the position and size of the ears according to the eyes, nose, antlers; I don't know if I explained myself correctly, english isn't my first languaje hehe.
Also, dont erase the lines that went wrong untill it's finished, that way you can observe your errors and don't repeat them.
You just have to practice a lot, drawing in a realistic way is just a technique. You'll see that soon you would be able to create your own draws without even need a reference image.
But realistic art is just an option, a style. Remember that you can draw however you like, abstract and expressionist art are as valid forms of art as naturalism is.
have fun!
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