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I own this book, it is not the right book for learning how to illustrate. Don't get me wrong, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" is a decent book. If you
by aleyan 14y ago
I own this book, it is not the right book for learning how to illustrate.
Don't get me wrong, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" is a decent book. If you follow it, in a few short drawing sessions it will lift you from a person who can't draw at all to a person who is a novice at life drawing with some impressive looking portraiture. You will be amazed at your own progress at life drawing. You however will not progress much further than a novice.
For drawing game assets and other types of illustrations, you need to learn to draw from your imagination. This is a very different skill from drawing from life and a skill that "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" will not teach you. I can't make recommendations of books myself, but I can suggest looking at this [1] thread over at cgsociety.
[1] http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=844409 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=844409
- pcwalton 14y agoWell, from what I've seen the ability to draw from imagination mostly results from drawing from life a lot and remembering how things look.
- loso 14y agoI just went through this process myself. Drawing from your imagination takes taking the rules that a book like "Drawing from the right side of your brain" shows you and basically practicing. For example, once you learn how to draw the basic human face you can take the memory you have of drawing that face and tweak it a bit. You tweak it until you have something more monstrous, like an ogre for example. That is why most of the stuff that we see drawn from a persons imagination still has very recognizable human components to it. It takes a lot of practice but books these and other lessons you will find are meant to be a building block so that you can draw from your imagination.