SciFi & Fantasy Artwork by Eric A. Hollister

Hey I draw lots of angel animals...look in my gallery!

One more tip I had for you is to work on your sense of proportion; whether you are drawing buildings, or spaceships, or people or animals or whatever, the better your sense of the relationships between parts of the picture, the better and more realistic it will look. For inanimate objects, try drawing carefully the shapes that make it up before you add in details; like for a building, you might start with a box and add windows, doors, etc. afterwards. For people or animals, I would suggest both looking into some books on proportion (a lot of them have really good formulas for bodies, such as "The hands come down to about halfway down the thighs", or "On a human, the eyes are placed halfways between the chin and the top of the head, about one eye-width apart, and one eye-width from the sides of the face.") And also apply the 'shapes' idea to humans/animals when you draw them - pay careful attention to how the shapes like the head, and neck connect together on a real person, and try to draw that. Anyway, if you want more concrete tips on drawing humans, let me know and I can e-mail you some, but these were a few that Ithought would be good to get you started, and no matter what, keep drawing!

Well, I came by and looked at all your artwork, and I do have some tips for you. Firstly, I would recommend to you to draw lightly - a lot of people make the mistake of drawing with very ehavy, dark lines. This is good if you are sure of what you are doing, but most people (myself included!) end up erasing a lot of lines and moving them a bit, and drawing lightly helps make the finished picture look much more clear and defined. When you have got a drawing you like in light lines, THEN you can go back and darken them. Also, you might consider leaving out the names at the top of the pictures - if you are serious about your art, you will find that it looks much more sophisticated without the words at the top in most cases (especially at a site where the title is right there above the picture anyway). {Continued}

I'll e-mail you a short guide to drawing wings based on what I've learned from experience. It will have pictures so that's why I can't just post it here.

Hi there!

You have some great ideas with your art, but it could use better perportions. Looking at a good anatomy book will reveal soem little secrets. Like heads are about as long as a forearm is...ect. Another good thing to think of is structure...that was a hard one to learn for me. A creature with a pencil neck and large head wouldn't have survived evolution, as it's neck would be too fragile. Or that certain angles on buildings and such just don't work....they'd fall apart at a certain point. Unless of course you tried drawing something from "The Call of Cthulhu"

Eric A. Hollister replies: "thanks alot.. I love to get criticism and pointers if u have any more i'll gladly listen. Thanks again!! "

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