dude....glass bending? is that it?
thats sooo badass XDD

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Tyberius "the Godfather"

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Ah crap...Jan is gonna kill Shi....for sure.... RUN SHI!! He's gonna glass bend your ass!

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Glass isn't the only thing that translucent >8D

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bwahaha >.<

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I know that we are worlds apart
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honest ones, words from my heart
to close the gap between our worlds

So he's a crystal bender then?

Hmm... interesting. Harder to do, but the possibilities are there, for example things like quartz fracture really evenly, so if he smashes a lump of it, he can get many little shards to use as blades.

(Just so you know, I did a bit of amateur geology and metal-craft, something that came of that is being able to make both metal and stone tools, it's fun!)

Anyway, moving on... yeah, you don't need to learn any more than you have, you just need to practice every day.

Just go over a few key concepts again and again. Learn the absolute basics so thoroughly that nothing you create is actually complicated. I mean, something that could help you is practicing drawing how cloth hangs.

Stiff cloth over a single point, hanging between two points, flat over a rail, folded... Thin cloth, denim, silk. They all behave differently, and they all have slightly different outlines when you sketch them too. For example his sash/belt there: look at the right hand side at the top, you've made the cloth look thick because the lines are separate where they go around the back. Or in other words, the further apart the lines are when cloth turns a corner, whether they join at all or not, dictates to the eye how thick it is. You can also keep the amount of fold-lines in check by seeing how thick you're trying to draw the cloth (more for thin, less for thick)

Other than that... Draw stick-men. Circles, or balls, for the joints, and simple lines to join them up. When you can make a stickman look more realistic than one of your real drawings (shading, dynamic posing etc), then start to bulk them out by putting in more detail, like fingers and thumbs, maybe add in the shape of the ribcage and hips. As you go over the posing again and again, you'll get a feel for where will be fore-shortened and where won't. And as you add the bulk you'll be seeing how your proportioning is improving.

Meh, like I say, you don't need to learn anything. You just need to repeat the basics until your fingers bleed.

How do you think I've managed to get where I am in only two years? I practice again and again... when I can. I used to practice every day, but I've slacked off recently...

Any questions about what to look at, just ask. I've got a hundred and one different ideas for you to practice. If you can master all of them, you'll be better than me XD (No... really, I don't take my own advice, so if you master them all, you really will be better than me.)

And finally I'll add one thing:
When you say Avatar is copyright to 'the dudes from Nick'....
My mind saw my name, and at the exact same time linked back to the old show 'The Man from Uncle' (a spy show, if you didn't see it) because of the similarity in the phrasing.
Now if you notice, I'm an Agony Uncle.

This leads me to only one conclusion: The copyright belongs to me! Those men are from my secret organisation, sent to provide the world with shows that people will watch for years, or until the merchandise is exhausted. They are The Dudes from Uncle Nick!

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"So he... wait, what the heck are you doing?"
"Spog."
"S-wha?"
"New word for belly-button fluff; Spog"
"Wow... raping the English language again I see. Genius. I knew I kept you around for a reason."

My portfolio: [link]

dude! i wanna knowwww! XD;;

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Close enough. Normal earth benders have a pretty straight forward, blunt style. Metal benders are stronger, but still not that much further. It's not "bend or break", but "if it doesn't break at the first time, break it next time" Jan's fighting style influenced from waterbending, plus his knowledge he gained from breaking in Wan Shi Tong's library about earth and its components allows him to do a set of fun things 8D

heh, that's what I'm doing with the abuse of dA stock ^^ Practice and practice and practice again and again and again. It helps immensely.... although I'm sort of *proud* that I managed to do this without reference, although one can see that... he came out far bulkier that I actually wanted XD
I only noticed it when I was done and looking at it from a bit afar... quite the WTF O.o-experience XD
anyways, I still want to learn a whole lot more about the anatomy and proportions, especially posing before I try myself on clothing, designs and details like folds and any other stuff (I still dread at drawing houses or other buildings... that I haven't improved since 2nd grade XD), besides drawing nekkid people is fun.
That's an awesome excuse to watch porn, by the way. Anatomy studies, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight XD
(No... really, I don't take my own advice, so if you master them all, you really will be better than me.)
oh lord, I know that XD I never take my own advice.

And now that you mention it, it all makes sense now, O:
All copyrightz belongs to thee XD

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I know that we are worlds apart
so all I can offer to you are words
honest ones, words from my heart
to close the gap between our worlds

Bwahaha, poke *RogueRider The faster she does the Earth Rumble, the faster we can reveal our POWAHS XD

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honest ones, words from my heart
to close the gap between our worlds

jahsguhaerg

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