Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Links to EVERY SINGLE #LEARNUARY tutorial! #LEARNUARY day THIRTY-ONE!

Well, #LEARNUARY has been an incredible ride, thank you to the THOUSANDS of you who got involved! We will of course be back with Learnuary on January 1st 2019, but this has all been WAAAAAAAY to much FUN for me to wait 11 months to do it again, so if you enjoyed Learnuary,  stay tuned to the blog for some VERY EXCITING announcements coming up over the next couple of days...!

In the meantime, scroll down for ALL 60 of our tutorials from #LEARNUARY 2018, enjoy, link, pin, share!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)

Cheers!

Lorenzo and Robin

Day 1: How to draw VINTAGE SPACE BIKES
Day 2: How to draw DRAPING FABRIC
Day 3: How to draw 1940s HAIR
Day 4: How to draw WATER and WAVES
Day 5: How to draw TIKI STATUES
Day 6: How to draw VEHICLE STANCE
Day 7: How to draw INTERIORS
Day 8: How to draw ANGRY EXPRESSIONS
Day 9: How to draw GAME BUILDINGS
Day 10: How to draw ROCK FORMATIONS
Day 11: How to draw INTEGRATED LOGOS
Day 12: How to WRITE SIZE MATTERS
Day 13: How to draw VINTAGE PLANES
Day 14: How to draw 3-SHAPE CHARACTERS
Day 15: How to draw SMOKE EFFECTS
Day 16: How to draw CAR CHASES
Day 17: How to draw FEET and SHOES
Day 18: How to draw SEAWEED
Day 19: How to WRITE SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Day 20: How to draw WOODEN BUILDINGS
Day 21: How to draw NEGATIVE SPACE
Day 22: How to draw BIRD HEADS
Day 23: How to draw HORNS
Day 24: How to draw STRANSKI GIRL'S HANDS
Day 25: How to draw GEMS and CRYSTALS
Day 26: How to draw STRANSKI IMPACT DEBRIS
Day 27: How to WRITE USING MIRRORS
Day 28: How to draw STRANSKI COMPOSITION
Day 29: How to draw NEWSPAPERS
Day 30: How to draw STRANSKI GIRL'S HAIR



Final day of #LEARNUARY - THANK YOU!

It's the final day of #LEARNUARY, and I just wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you to you all for getting involved - it has blown my mind all the incredible FREE LEARNING that you've posted up this month, you are all so AMAZING!! Here's just a tiny selection of the HUNDREDS of  posts you guys made...!

Lorenzo!



Tuesday, 30 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw STRANSKI GIRL'S HAIR tutorial #LEARNUARY day THIRTY!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw STRANSKI GIRL'S HAIR, featuring lots of line art from The Art of Stranski, which is finally being REPRINTED as part of our Kickstarter in March!

And we posted up LOADS MORE on our TWITTER yesterday, including THESE AMAAAAZING TREES by Sarah Webb, and This TIP on how to get TRICKY DEEP PERSPECTIVE by Maurice Noble! More to come on our twitter HERE TODAY!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Monday, 29 January 2018

Check out this RIDICULOUSLY MASSIVE set of FREE tutorials by PIXAR for the KHAN ACADEMY! #LEARNUARY

A great #LEARNUARY resource today! Just wanted to tell you guys about an incredible, TOTALLY FREE, and MASSIVE series of tutorials by DISNEY PIXAR for the wonderful KHAN ACADEMY.

If you don't know what the Khan Academy is, it's basically an EPIC resource of VERY HIGH QUALITY and COMPLETELY FREE learning and tutorials on a huge range of subjects.

As part of their site, there's an entire section called "Pixar in a Box" which features a staggering amount of very deep lessons all around ANIMATION, STORYTELLING, and TECHNIQUE. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Check out the FULL Pixar in a Box series HERE!

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw NEWSPAPERS tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-NINE!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw NEWSPAPERS!

PLUS MORE FREE TUTORIALS and REFERENCE SETS on our TWITTER, yesterday, including THIS SET  of wonderful PROPS by Cory Loftis, and THIS great set of HAND DRAWING notes by Tom Bancroft! More to come on our twitter HERE TODAY!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!





Sunday, 28 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw COMPOSITION tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-EIGHT!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw COMPOSITION, featuring lots of line art from The Art of Stranski, which is finally being REPRINTED as part of our Kickstarter in March!

And if you want MORE drawing inspiration... Over on our TWITTER we JUST posted up THESE BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS by Tadahiro Uesugi, and THIS AMAZING TUTORIAL on drawing TEETH by Griz and Norm! TONS more to come on our twitter HERE TODAY!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Saturday, 27 January 2018

How to think when you WRITE USING MIRRORS tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-SEVEN!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is the next instalment in Robin's how to WRITE series, explaining why you have to be CAREFUL about letting your characters see their own REFLECTION! 

And there's MASSES more going up on our Twitter, we just posted up THIS BEAUTIFUL CANINE FOREPAW reference by CobrVenom, and THIS WONDERFUL SET OF DRAWING TIPS by Cory Loftis! More going up on our Twitter all through the day!

Lorenzo!




Friday, 26 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw IMPACT DEBRIS tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-SIX!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw IMPACT DEBRIS, featuring lots of line art from The Art of Stranski, which is finally being REPRINTED as part of our Kickstarter in March!

And if you want MORE drawing inspiration... Over on our TWITTER we posted up THIS frankly ASTOUNDING set of CHARACTER POSES by Grace Liu! TONS more to come on our twitter HERE TODAY!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Thursday, 25 January 2018

Introducing the MIND-BLOWING fully ANIMATED pixel art tutorials of Pedro Medeiros #LEARNUARY!

Right, if you've never heard of Pedro Medeiros, you're in for an ABSOLUTE TREAT, I wanted to save this beauty for the last week of #LEARNUARY! :)

Pedro creates wonderful, FULLY ANIMATED tutorials on every element of making pixel-art based games and animation, and they're STUNNING! Full of humour, colour, beautiful animation, and MASSES of learning, these tutorials are simply in a league all of their own.

Pedro funds his work on these via a Patreon account, but rather than keeping these jewels locked away behind the paywall, he then posts them up FOR FREE every week for everyone to enjoy and learn from - a true Learnuary hero!

You can follow Pedro on Twitter HERE, but what I REALLY recommend you do first is head on over to THIS MASSIVE PAGE WITH EVERY ONE OF HIS TUTORIALS ON IT! Get your eyeballs ready...!

Lorenzo!




How to THINK when you draw GEMS and CRYSTALS tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-FIVE!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw GEMS and CRYSTALS!

PLUS EXTRA STUFF! Over on our TWITTER we just posted up this INCREDIBLE set of SHIRT CREASE REFERENCES by Miyuliart, and THIS FANTASTIC GOGGLE-DRAWING TUTORIAL by Meg Wittwer! TONS more to come on our twitter HERE TODAY!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Wednesday, 24 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw STRANSKI GIRL'S HANDS part ONE tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-FOUR!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw STRANSKI GIRL'S HANDS part ONE! And don't forget - we're REPRINTING the Art of Stranski BOOK for THIS MULTI-BOOK KICKSTARTER coming in March!

ANNNNND! Over on our TWITTER learnuary is really HAPPENING! We just posted up THIS set of WONDERFUL character designs by the great Eric Canete, and THIS brilliant tutorial on STAGING  by Carson Von Osten! LOADS MORE going up on our twitter HERE TODAY!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Tuesday, 23 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw HORNS tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-THREE!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw HORNS!

PLUS! More BIG tutes and reference going up on our TWITTER ALL THE TIME every day through Learnuary - we just posted up THIS absolutely BEAUTIFUL set of LONG SKIRT poses by Senbon Umishima, and a wonderful set of FOUR of the BEST TRICKS to character POSE PERSONALITY by Lomonte! TONS more coming to our Twitter today!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Monday, 22 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw BIRD HEADS #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-TWO!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw BIRD HEADS!

And LEARNUARY is really happening over on our TWITTER, where we just posted up this SUPERB example of why using FORM VARIATION provides you with ENDLESS DESIGN IDEAS, and this BRILLIANT tutorial (starring Spongebob!) on CHARACTER POSE SILHOUETTES!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Sunday, 21 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw NEGATIVE SPACE tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY-ONE!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw NEGATIVE SPACE!

PLUS! EXTRA tutorials and refs just went up on our TWITTER, including THIS MASSIVE SET of HEELS and THIS invaluable little set of tips on VARIATION WITHIN DESIGN! LOADS more coming to our Twitter all throughout today!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Saturday, 20 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw WOODEN BUILDINGS tutorial #LEARNUARY day TWENTY!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw WOODEN BUILDINGS!

And over on our TWITTER we just dropped THIS fantastic set of GOEMETRIC COSTUME DESIGNS by Anna Cattish, and this WONDERFUL set of tips on DRAWING CLOTHING by Griz and Norm! More to come on our twitter all day today!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!




Friday, 19 January 2018

How to think when you WRITE using SILENCE #LEARNUARY day NINETEEN!

Here's the next of Robin's WRITING tutorials for #LEARNUARY, this one looking at how to use SILENCE in your wrtiting!

And there's MASSES more going up on our Twitter, we just posted up THIS wonderful set of ENVIRONMENT PAINTINGS by Vasili Zorin, and THIS beautifully simple explanation of the power of OVERLAPPING ACTION by the great Richard Williams. More going up on our Twitter all through the day!

Lorenzo!


Thursday, 18 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw SEAWEED tutorial #LEARNUARY day EIGHTEEN!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw SEAWEED!

And we put some REEEEALLY useful EXTRAS up on OUR TWITTER yesterday, including this MASSIVE set of HAIRSTYLE REFERENCES, and this VERY USEFUL tutorial on how to draw THE IRIS and PUPIL by Meg Wittwer! LOADS more additional tutorials and references going up on our Twitter throughout the day today!

Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!





Wednesday, 17 January 2018

How to THINK when you draw FEET and SHOES tutorial #LEARNUARY day SEVENTEEN!

Today's tutorial for #LEARNUARY is How to THINK When You Draw FEET and SHOES!

And there's EVEN MORE awesome drawing lessons and resources going up on OUR TWITTER every DAY! Yesterday we posted up THIS MIND-BENDING set of DESIGNS by one of my FAVOURITE environment artists, and TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TRICKS for making your stories FLOW on the page!
 
Tutorials BOOK coming to KICKSTARTER March 2018, just mail "Add me, Lorenzo!" to misterlorenzoboy@yahoo.co.uk to be on the launch day mailing list - best chance to get ORIGINAL ART with your books :)


And if you want MORE, here's my first 100 ONE HUNDED tutorials for FREE!

Lorenzo!