How To Draw Monster Hunter Monsters
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How to learn cartoon MH monsters
Hey Anon! First of all I'm very honored, cheers a lot!!
Yous're asking a very interesting question in my opinion, and then I hope you will find a long response interesting too c:
When I want to learn how to draw a new Monster, I base myself on the Monster'southward design (ofc) but also on general knowledge, specially anatomy. Anatomy is crucially of import even when cartoon creatures that do not exist, just in society to make them believable!
So if yous struggle to draw MH Monsters, that are famous for their 'realism' and believability, first ask yourself what level you take in basic beefcake: if you know how skeleton works, muscles piece of work, transcribing it into proportions and joints, things similar that.
(Art I made for fun for my RP weblog)
I sadly can't offer you much advice on how to learn it, because anatomy is partly intuitive to me; and lots of my artistic anatomy studies were more centered around human anatomy (yet, a lot of musculus groups are similar to animals, and so even my knowledge of humans is useful when drawing monsters). I also have to mention I'grand a vet educatee, and we had medical anatomy classes in the showtime yr, which helped a lot as well; but I'm sure you tin find online resources that will teach you the nuts for art!
To learn drawing in general, you besides demand to take a skillful sense of ascertainment. That's also something I get mostly from intuition so I'1000 not sure how to teach it; but basically, a sentence I often hear is learn to draw what you lot encounter (from a photo, for example) and not what you Retrieve you see. The difference lies in the fact that people may tend to depict an eye similar what they imagine an eye looks similar (stylized, ellipsoidal, with a round pupil), instead of studying the reference film that will force them to think in shapes, strokes, and proportions, and not in terms of objects they're trying to represent. That's when you realize that depending on the angle, an eye can prove extremely varying shapes, isn't symmetrical, and even the pupil doesn't always expect round on a picture. I promise it makes sense, if not let me know. XD
Now practical to monster cartoon: get some reliable references from dissimilar angles, HD screenshots are the best (unless y'all tin admission a ripped-off 3D model). If possible avert not-official art of monsters because they may take mistakes.
(Pocket-size part of a reference lath in my reference software, VizRef for iPad)
When studying a reference, y'all must be able to judge where the skeleton is, and that knowledge volition aid y'all ready the proportions of the brute (relative sizes of the body parts, distance between dissimilar points on the body, articulation placements…). When you draw the monster from different angles, the legs shouldn't get weirdly far from the head, the shoulders shouldn't be as well caudal, the eyes shouldn't get too far or also close from the tip of the olfactory organ, etc.
Most of the fourth dimension when learning to depict a new monster, I observe/study lots of screenshots, copy from screenshots (I'k not a fan of tracing only some people say it tin can help learning), using simple shapes at first then more and more circuitous; and then after a chip of practice, I try to draw without a reference a couple times. If it looks wrong, I go back to screenshots to search where my mistake is, and unremarkably that's enough to detect it and fix it for the next times. Do non fixate on details at first, especially if you can't become the proportions of the monster right! Endeavour to effigy out what makes a monster's design so recognizable, and insist on that.
Let me show you an example of how I learnt to draw Rathian on newspaper back in the days (2015):
1. My first sketches of Rathian, from memory and without reference.
2. Studies of Rathian references (screenshots, renders…).
three. New drawings of Rathian without reference, using the knowledge I learnt from the references.
(Link to higher resolution)
Too, link to more Rathian sketches I made with references back then.
Even now, I rarely draw monsters without references, but having learnt to draw them like this helps a lot to understand how they work; and usually this knowledge is visible in your final art.
In conclusion, what you demand in society to acquire cartoon MH monsters is: anatomy nuts, sense of observation, decent references, and patience! If y'all think you lot take all that, persevere!
I hope this post will assistance you lot effigy out what'south belongings you back from improving your monster art. If not, I don't heed discussing it farther based on what you can draw, even by individual messaging if yous desire. :three
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