/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Today's /beg/ challenge: Draw a raft spider

If you are a /beg/inner or /int/ermediate in art, please use this thread to post pieces for critique or ask for advice.
Use this thread instead of making new threads or post in the drawthread with fundamental exercises.

RESIZE YOUR IMAGES TO ~1000 PIXELS using one of the following methods:
1. screenshot the image and post that instead
2. change camera capture settings to something smaller
3. send to computer and resize in MSPaint

READ THE STICKY:

New collaborative sticky (anyone can edit): https://hackmd.io/UMnZVhNITW-T2wZpHw6d0Q
Old: http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-draw-learn

RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS:
- Keys to drawing
- The Art and Science of Drawing
- Perspective Drawing Handbook
- Vilppu Drawing Manual (and literally any other book made by Glenn Vilppu)
- Figure - Design and invention
- Pen and Ink
- The Natural Way To Draw

RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR INTERMEDIATES:
- How to Draw by Scott Robertson
- How to Render by Scott Robertson
- Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists (and Literally any other book made by Michel Lauricella)
- Anatomy for Sculptors

TRY TO BE ACTIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME FEEDBACK.
When giving feedback, avoid vague "advice" - point what's wrong and try to give the anon you're quoting a clear direction to improve their art (study heads < watch THIS VIDEO about head structure, read THIS SECTION of THIS ARTIST'S BOOK, etc).
You, feedback seeking anon, should also try to be clear and concise when asking for critique/help. When posting your artwork, say what you want help with, and what's your goal with the study/artwork.

Previous thread >>6201001

Older artists lurking /ic/, what compelled you to learn drawing?

Rate my Mona Lisa study.

i've been really working on my art now that i'm laid off for a while. my problem is that i've been doing a lot of watching/studying and i feel like i'm just never going to be good enough in the way i want.

my anatomy sometimes could use work and do i just draw a bunch of torsos in different positions? i do gesture drawing for my art but when I do ANYTHING above a fucking waist high, i feel it fuckin' sucks and i'm unimpressed.

ive been trying to do this 1 drawing that was a wip 3 yrs ago and i hated it then. i tried using so many references but i couldn't get that cute style i like to have. sometimes my style looks so weird and ugly and i'm like why am i even doing this?

like drawing the head from the tilted up slightly away angle was impossible. i can show you how bad the artwork i worked on has looked in the whole process, if you wanna see it but it's just trash.

>artist is on 9 different websites
>not a single one allows you to message them

You know what to do.

This is his neko character, thoughts?

Why are art schools so goddamn expensive? I'm talking up to HUNDREDS of thousands for a degree. Also are there art schools for absolute beginners?

>Push my skills to the limit and create the best image I can which takes multiple hours
>never get any attention
>Decide to just have fun and quickly draw something in 45 minutes
>Highest engagement I've ever gotten by far
I now believe soul exists, how do I make my work more soulful?

ITT we prevent stagnation
>post your favorite piece
>post your most recent piece
>try to figure out why your favorite piece is better so you remember for next time

this are some of my observations, (I usually do commissions so I based this on it)
you can't make
>porn
>use real faces
and this filter out 50+% of the market of illustrators and photo editors
>anime
it sucks a bit since the works are not clean and being trained over the /beg/ drawings of deviant art it doesn't help. Basically its just a fancy search engine for it, you can have better results looking in a booru if you want something generic.
For the rest is an ok tool and is fun to mess around with queries qut you get a lot of trash before getting something good. The only way that it might be useful for now is for some photoshop tasks and concept art of already done art (like you make a drawing, erase a part of it and tell the ai to show some other options). So yeah it looks good in the surface, but it has a lot to go to be really useful.

If you have some requests let me know and I'll run them for you

Any wisdom on getting art friends? I was thinking about just sending dm's to smaller artist on youtube or something, since there really isn't an art community where I live.
But what the fuck do I even say? I'm new to this whole friend thing

Is there such thing as a site where I can download a file, or a free offline app, with thousands of images of paintings and lithographies in HD?
I want to download many gbs of modern paintings to look while I'm on the bus or waiting something.

Thread to remind you everything starts from zero

this nigga booth is insane

How much would it cost to pay someone to make some pictures in this style/quality?

what are /ic thoughts on this tweet?

>make thread about Joaquin Sorolla
>stated goal is explicit
>offer up legit critiques of his society and culture
>boys are robbed of dignity so as to become cannon fodder
>girls are sexualized via insinuation
>whole thread is an elegiac disquisition amidst constant assertion from perverts, dickheads & cunts
>thread's up for a week
>actual lolicon shows up
>argues w/ terrifying rando
>get banned for 'pedo'
The whole thread was me posting naked, adult women at the beach (at first sleeping outside, before the greco-roman renaissance) Women, nude, at the beach, as it fucking should be. As it is now, the crest of this age, as low tide creeps up on us.
Banned for 'pedo'
Art is for queers. There's your fucking critique.
faggots

I want to be a mentor for artists (like adults just starting to learn art) or someone who does studio sessions for a career. I have been told I either need to be famous or get a master's degree in art. I can't afford that jew amount of money to get that type of degree so I am left with getting famous. I feel so fucked. Why the fuck do I want this? I don't want to work for riot or some other shitty company. I just want to help people. It sucks to watch people go through art alone in modern times. I am not pro-level by all means but I am decent enough that in my college I am the best in all my art classes.

It kind of hits me that maybe this goal is stupid, the number of people who mock and say you can't mentor in art or teach it has been many. I don't want to teach minors because their fucking actually retarded. What I want to do, no one knows how I am supposed to get there other than I teach at college or be famous. My work doesn't get attention online which also rubs this idea further. I don't even want to be popular online I just am told it's only way or go into life crippling debt.

Specifically overweight people. Is there a way to draw a fatty without drawing fat rolls or something?