I have lots of inspiration, and practice my coding as much as I can. The one primary thing that is really holding me back is my lack of any drawing skill whatsoever :~(
Can anyone recommend a good online/book course that would help a complete noob like me get some structured exercises which may help?
Thanks
That depends a bit on what you want to learn? Just some basic perspective? Anatomy? Cartoon style? I have a great deal of bookmarks that I'll happily share, just give me a short heads-up on what you're looking for (nod)
Two books that I can recommend without fail:
Understanding Comics and Making Comics, both by Scott McCloud. The first is about sequential art in general and the tools employed to create a story out of images, the second is a more hands-on approach on image composition, story flow, characterization et al. They are very good- and they are essays written as comics, so you get a lot out of them too (nod)
I recommend Andrew Loomis' Fun With a Pencil, which is available as a PDF (http://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Andrew%20Loomis%20-%20Fun%20WIth%20a%20Pencil.pdf) (but is now BACK in print!). Following that, the other Loomis books are great too.
Wow - thanks for the amazing feedback.
Yeah- I'm just looking for enough foundation tutorial work to get me to a level where I can passably draw characters and backgrounds for games, basically. I think cartoon style is fine. Pixel art style (ala GK1) would also be ideal :)
Thanks in advance for the help :)
For characters I strongly recommend Tom Bancroft's Creating Characters with Personality (http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Characters-Personality-Animation-Graphic/dp/0823023494)