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I'm in need of programs and tutorials to start drawing anime styled characters for a project that i'm helping in. If anyone here could point me to some free places I'd much appreciate it.

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There are a lot of excellent drawing tutorials by markcrilley on YouTube. Here's a link to his channel.

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Also, you can watch artists draw in real time on https://picarto.tv/. I personally found it really helpful to watch someone more skilled draw from beginning to end.

What kind of project is it?

Thanks for the resources!

its a small little team that I joined in the renpy forums with 2 other guys who are splashing around ideas. Want to start learning art though for now and any future projects.

Drago Art helped me. I'm still a beginner but it's a good website. There's someone on there who call themselves Dawn, I definitely recommend them as their tutorials helped me a lot.

I'd still recommend picarto, but here's another place where you can watch people do their stuff. As for actually drawing, I'd recommend just practising different body bits before drawing a full blown human. Do some body part studies

Do any of you know some app on the iPad or tablet you can draw(with stylus)on?

I have a lot on basic form, shape, foreshortening, and other general tutorials that might help you with some more complex drawings.

Sycra on youtube has a lot of amazing tutorials like this one on foreshortening and this one on how to make plain poses look less static and more fluid and interesting. Not to mention hands and feet which are my personal hell so they've been really helpful.

There's also this cool video I found on the basics of light and shadow and this for if you want something a little more complex. If you're tired of all my videos, theres this article on how different techniques for shading can affect how your image looks.

For coloring, there's this little article on how to create a color palette and this explanation of basic color theory.

This has both videos on explanations on patterns and textures.

And if you need to practice, here's a cool list of exercises to try.

Something that also really helps me is just watching speed paints, I try to pay attention to how they shade, what colors they use to accentuate other colors for light/dark, how they draw their faces and proportion the spacing of their eyes/etc. Things like that. If you want, here's three different cool speed paints that I like.

1 (This one is good for an example of someone coloring, you can see on the side that when they're shading they're not just going up and down but how they move the color wheel itself left to right in order to use different colors to shade.)

2 (The expressions here are really good and also you can see how they layer the hair and make it look fluid when drawing.)

3 (The style here is stunning, and it actually shows the artist's process beginning to end which is cool.)

Good luck! I hope at least some of these help!

It really will, espically the hands, I'm going for a torso plus head portrait for my end goal. Also goin to try the tip of speed vids, usually don watch because I would think of them as to expert, but yea I could lean from the beginning sketches, thanks for the resources.