drawing
i have just started drawing and was wandering how everyone learned to draw anthomorphic characters. are there any tutorials?
These are great! These can help my 3D work to.
Thanks Greenwolfeyes.
thanks for the links this really helps me out
youre welcome! and sorry again for how all the links came out as a jumbley mess 
Other than the handy tutorials posted, the best thing is practice, practice, practice. You won't be professional overnight. Doodle all the time. Study human anatomy as well.
This book is also very helpgul (suggested to me by 2 professional artists): 
aww im sure you do 
if you practice practice 
*sighs*
I hate it when folks assume that the only legitimate kind of art is figurative artwork, and you're either born to it or you're incapable. I hate it even more when schools unwittingly reinforce that idea through their teaching methods.
Did you know?--According to some psychological studies, if you compare the drawings of an otherwise capable adult who says they can't do art which the drawings of children, you can determine, with pretty good accuracy, when some mean-spirited grownup first told them they should give up drawing. For most people, their drawing style freezes at that developmental stage. It breaks my heart.
...huh. i never thought of that before. when i think about it i always thought i couldn't draw (and i wasn't kidding what i said earlier) because i currently can't do anything worth looking at. but on the other paw, it has been years since i even bothered trying. actually, i don't think i have ever tried to draw something i thought of. i can visualize when i write, but i've never tried to draw and do that. i might start to try, who knows, i might surprise myself and actually do decent
If you are inclined to make real what you imagine, then listen to your own heart and head. You know all the secrets already! Sometimes you have to dig deep and uncover some uncomfortable findings, but keep digging. The real treasure is there! It maybe buried in mud, but it you will find it. When I started, I broke a lot of shovels. No teacher could provide the right tools (I was often discouraged from making animal cartoon art and graded very low), but that didn't stop my vision of making those characters. Never stop trying! That's my advice.
Sorry to sound all metaphorical, but it's the easiest way to express my point.
If you plan to scan your drawings to the computer to ink/color, remember that the Pen Tool is your friend for pristinely smooth lines! The pen tool seems confusing, but watch this. It will make the Pen Tool easy to understand!
Like anything, it take practice. Chuck Jones, the great animator said that a professor of his said that every artist has 1,000 bad drawings in them and the more you draw, the sooner you'll get them out of your system and get down to doing something good.
As a great example, most of your know my wife, Diana Harlan Stein's art. When I met her, she couldn't draw a stick figure but was determined to be an artist. So she start drawing and drew and drew and studied they artist she appreciated. Today, she's a working artist and has a pretty good following.
On her web site (( http://www.naiadstudios.com )), she did a fun thing. She scanned drawings of one of her favorite elf boy characters and posted them. So go follow the following link and see the progression of her art of the years: http://www.naiadstudios.com/jandari.htm
I have a natural skill for drawing (although it may not always be very good.) I could never really draw a living thing though. Just recently, meaning within a few minutes ago, I drew an anthropomorphic character I named Cecil and it was better than I thought it would come out. It is just the head because I can't draw bodies very well yet.
I started with being frustrated. I tried tutorials, but since they are the way someone else may do art, it is not the way I can do art. Tutorials only made me able to do a drawing of only ONE thing in ONE style of art.
I eventually gave up on tutorials. I began just trying repeatedly. Improving slightly with every drawing. I eventually came with the drawing of Cecil. My advice is simply to try and try. Everyone is different and art is as unique as the artist, this is where the beauty of art comes from.
Telling you to try and try may not sound too helpful, but this is really the only way. I myself am a beginner and have made only made but one drawing that I actually like. I started with weird faces, some were creepy, others just did not seem appealing at all. Eventually, if you keep trying, you will create a wonderful piece of art.
One last thing, although tutorials are not too great, using them can help by picking up different techniques. Parts of my art resemble cartoons, other artwork, and tutorials in some small ways. It is a mixture of many things. After this post, I am going to attempt to make more. Also, find a place to put my drawings that is not in the open since nobody knows of my furryness yet. I don't want someone seeing it and thinking "WTF?"
I forgot to mention, don't be discouraged that I said I had a natural skill for drawing. You can be horrible at drawing a curved line and still practice until you are drawing great anthropomorphic, or other kinds of art.
im just learning to draw anthro too!
ive looked at a ton of tutorials on deviantart.com
ive also looked at other pictures for references, and even studied some human anatomy
here, try some of these:
Legs: http://luthiennightwolf.deviantart.com/art/Anthro-Leg-Paw-Tutorial-138236304?q=boost:popular+anthro+tutorial&qo=9
This one helped me with Ears: http://wings-of-shadow.deviantart.com/art/Beginner-Anthro-Tutorial-101509561?q=boost:popular+anthro+tutorial&qo=13
http://octanbearcat.deviantart.com/art/Furry-Tutorial-24799701?q=boost:popular+furry+tutorial&qo=21
Hands: http://lucheek.deviantart.com/art/Let-s-Draw-Anthro-Hands-145740526?q=boost:popular+how+to+draw+anthro&qo=40
http://blue-seattle.deviantart.com/art/Male-Anthro-Framework-151517845?q=favby:TheBlueRoanFilly/5904164&qo=135
hope these help
and sorry for spamming you with links 