/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1604690
I have a question: why are we not including studies of contemporary masters in our studies?

I mean, would that not easily increase our spectrum and exploration of personal skill and aptitude?

>>1604683
>because it's digital hard mode
>because your mistakes should be avoided by skill not by undo
>because digital is easy, REAL painting is hard

Pick any one of these, have other people think you're an idiot because of reasons and opinions.

Most likely it's still a "whatever works for you".

>>1604205
/ic/'s worst is happy to have been of help :D
Good night everyone.

>>1604190
I don't know. Is its head okay? Is it symmetrical? Is it a head-on view of the dog because the nose doesn't seem to be in the middle between its eyes?

>>1604179
Yes sir, thank you, ma'am, will do.

>>1604168
I'll keep in mind that there is no hoodoo involved when it comes to using tablets.
Thanks, dude or dudette.
I guess I'll start practicing with my wacom sometime next year, because after Edwards I will add Keys to Drawing to my work list.. after that I will spend months with perspective so that (I hope) I will have some basics down before I tackle Loomis.
I haven't rushed drawing until now, so I think I will study at my own snail's pace.
If you're shit, the only way to go is up, nahmeen?

But I am actually awed that I can transfer traditional practices and exercises to digital.
In my head, these just don't go together. Yet.

>>1604149
Hey, you too :)

I for instance don't find /ic/ to be a toxic environment for someone like me because there are going to be months of hard work in store for me before I will in any way benefit from this board's feedback.
I firmly believe that I first have to understand what I am doing and why I am doing it before I can grasp what is wrong and why.
Other than that, I just lurk this board from time to time and try to give back as much as I can with whatever random information I have accumulated over the YEARS of lurking /ic/.

ps: I tried drawing with my tablet because of your post just a few minutes ago and realized that I have no idea how to use it :D

>>1604137
Might as well.
Working with Drawing on the.. by Edwards, staying away from digital art because I can't even hold a pencil properly so no screenshot.

>>1604077
Anon seems to allude to real art schools only having interested, motivated and dedicated teachers and students ideally, but in reality don't.

You know, the simplicity of anal in porn..

>>1604047
Let's have two people talk about the two theories Einstein formulated. Let both claim (truthfully or not) that they understand special and general relativity and both will feel good about themselves and their intellect and knowledge on the topic without noticing or even knowing the names of the thousands of physicists who not only work off of Einstein's work but whose understanding of the "genre" of science is that much vaster than theirs.

Why?
Because only people like Einstein and only his work are known to them; because other works by other physicists would require them to dig deeper and learn the names of people whose last name is not immediately associated with "really hard to understand science for smart people".

Same thing applies to the vast amount of contemporary artists being active at the present while at the same time being ignored by most people, if only because their names don't automatically ring a bell (and in algenpfleger's case, the response is truly pavlovian).

>>1604030
Yes. She is ok.

Sure, there are people like Allison Sommers, Michael Hussar, Chet Zar, Marko Djurdjevic, Andrew Jones, Jonas Burgert and so on, but I like the whole partially ignored group of aspiring artists a bit more.

It's the social Einstein effect of sorts, where people ignore the fact that they understand a lot less about physics than their teachers or professors do, yet still compare themselves to Einstein.. maybe due to a variant of the Dunning-Kruger effect (which the youtube-account TheraminTrees taught me about).

Annie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hSHcknK_ZA

>>1603758
There is also the DuIK plugin for AfterEffects, for completeness' sake

http://duduf.net/?page_id=97

>>1603884
I'd argue that it is a painting.

I'd say that it is something drawn by someone who wanted to recreate a photograph in the most stupid and hard way there is and by achieving this creating the only thing which can be said about it: it looks like a photograph, not a painting.

>>1603826
Bass player used to play in a Porcupine Tree tribute band.

>>1603570
I'll give the idea a try after tea, using TortoiseSVN instead of using some of the "specifically for artists" solutions out there.

Imagine that, having pencil grades for everyone else and the same grades but "for artists".. huh, mad world.

Anyone else?

>>1602178
No, you don't need the workbook or the DVD but both can help you, depending on whether or not you can work from the book alone.

Time for drawing things upside down!
Stoked for this! (I have no idea if stoked is the proper word, I learned English from the telly)

>>1602127
Ha! I remember this from fine arts back in school.

>>1602125
Nice. Will put this in my digital notebook, it might help me sometime later in my life :)

>>1602118
Is there something akin to The Teaching Company but about artists, focused content-wise on their works and their lives?

>>1601766
I am with this anon.
Can we move on now?

I have found the following thread on CA where the information exchanged on the topic of two-point-perspective seemingly can be extrapolated to three-point-perspective:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202706

If this helps you, cool. If not, cool.

"Yeah, it's the same difference. In fact one way of getting around having ludicrously distant VPs is to make a smaller drawing with VPs on the paper, construct a simplified scene in the small central area, and use it as reference for creating an enlarged drawing without redoing the perspective work."

I just did the workbook exercise #5 (the two faces/vase) and as I started to complete the vase on the right side (drawing the left half first, righty here) I've felt very confused and stopped moving the pencil because I wanted to draw the same forehead I just drew on the left side, but couldn't, because the right side mirrors the left side and isn't congruent.
That was very odd to feel that I couldn't go on and only then could continue when I told myself to see the vase, not the faces.

Huh. Bit of a "drug" experience right there.