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Using Daz 3D poses to draw on different angles. Should I invest my money to buy animal figures?

gabsimoesgabsimoes Posts: 13
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Hello everyone. I love drawing. I want to start my own comic book/manga very soon. I am just practicing a lot right now, and now that I found Daz 3d I think I'll get much better.
Here is what I do:

I use Daz Studio to set up a pose for a character:

Then I pick up the image and draw over it using Photoshop:

I know I still have a lot to evolve.

So, I've been doing this with a lot of different poses and angles. It's absolutelly great for training!

Another pose I did on Daz 3D:

But my question is: Being an absolute newbie on using 3D softwares, should I buy other models/figures? 
I really want to try and practice drawing horses, people mounted on horses (such as knights, etc) and even other animals (like wolves, cattle, pigs, etc). I'll use that a lot in my manga/comic book.

What do you guys think? Should I invest my time, patience and money on it? Or maybe there is a better alternative?

Thanks a lot in advance :)

Comments

  • KhoryKhory Posts: 3,854

    Nice work gabsmoes. You should already have a dragon to practice with as part of the included contents in studio. There are also quite a few older DAZ O animals that go on sale pretty regularly if you want to build up a stock of those to practice on. I wouldn't really suggest many of them for 3d work but they should be more than fine for drawing practice.

  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,694

    I think that you can use 3D models to practice with as long as you understand that alongside those models, you should have scads and scads of photo reference as well.  Many of the models are very good, some even excellent, but some may not be perfect, depending on the model, the way it's rigged and whatever limitations it may have.  Some may not have been modeled just right or the rigging could be improved (if you look at the early genesis models with their arms raised toward their head, you'll see how much more improved the newest models are, and yet even with these I would caution and say always look at reference).  This goes for human and animals.  Fantasy creatures, though you want some basis in something familiar, can have much more latitude in interpretation.  Make sure you study the anatomy of both humans and animals.  Use the models to set up scenes and lighting, but strengthen your work with reference of the real things (among which is clothing and how wrinkles work, fur and how it bunches and what direction fur goes on an animal - it doesn't all go in the same direction even on one part of the body).

  • gabsimoesgabsimoes Posts: 13
    Khory said:

    Nice work gabsmoes. You should already have a dragon to practice with as part of the included contents in studio. There are also quite a few older DAZ O animals that go on sale pretty regularly if you want to build up a stock of those to practice on. I wouldn't really suggest many of them for 3d work but they should be more than fine for drawing practice.

     

    Khory said:

    Nice work gabsmoes. You should already have a dragon to practice with as part of the included contents in studio. There are also quite a few older DAZ O animals that go on sale pretty regularly if you want to build up a stock of those to practice on. I wouldn't really suggest many of them for 3d work but they should be more than fine for drawing practice.

    Thank you very much Khory :) your opinion is very important to me.

    Do you mean animals such as this? http://www.daz3d.com/millennium-horse-le 

    I was looking for something cheap and affordable since the dollar in my country is very expensive right now. It can be low resolution too, since I will basically use it to simply outline my drawings.

     

  • gabsimoesgabsimoes Posts: 13
    Cris Palomino said:

    I think that you can use 3D models to practice with as long as you understand that alongside those models, you should have scads and scads of photo reference as well.  Many of the models are very good, some even excellent, but some may not be perfect, depending on the model, the way it's rigged and whatever limitations it may have.  Some may not have been modeled just right or the rigging could be improved (if you look at the early genesis models with their arms raised toward their head, you'll see how much more improved the newest models are, and yet even with these I would caution and say always look at reference).  This goes for human and animals.  Fantasy creatures, though you want some basis in something familiar, can have much more latitude in interpretation.  Make sure you study the anatomy of both humans and animals.  Use the models to set up scenes and lighting, but strengthen your work with reference of the real things (among which is clothing and how wrinkles work, fur and how it bunches and what direction fur goes on an animal - it doesn't all go in the same direction even on one part of the body).

    Thank you friend, I'll keep that in mind! :)

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