/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7155774
zased... so fucking based

>>7155719
friar tuck I kneel

>>7155693
Fortunately AI killed digital art. As soon as I got wind of what the techfags were up to I transitioned to traditional. Bought some pencils, cheap paper, ink, nibs, etc. It feels fucking good to actually draw; the tactile sensations simply can't be reproduced. My wacom tablet lies in the corner now, collecting dust. I might use it again for cheap commissions and shit, but otherwise my workflow is always going to be trad from here on out.

>>7156580
I saw some guy on twitter do anime oil paintings and selling them. I'd love to do that but I'm paranoid of shipping fucking up and losing the only copy or idiots claiming they never got it or that it's damaged

>>7156582
sell prints of them and keep the original.

>>7155644
You can't, he was literally force to make the cover art this way because the Japanese Otaku are just a bunch of infanticide manchildren that only care about cute there anime girlslop are. Hopefully mass migration will slap these losers back to reality by assiging them a struggle once more.

>>7155723
he's more interested in storytelling now? once the page gets his point across, he's done with it. vs BLAME! where the point was the picture

>>7155644
Style evolution? Just stay being a /beg/ forever I guess.

>>7155644
Try working in an industry where sales aren't king. It's not a secret at all why Nihei changed his art style and subject matter, it's a very deliberated and well communicated change.

>>7155664
You can't. He's in japan, his manga is made for the japanese, and the japanese will simply buy what the japanese like, which is overwhelmingly cuter things (not a modern phenomenon btw). Besides, the damage has been done, I doubt he could draw like Blame! anymore, he's not a young man and he's likely lost the flame that he stoked while drawing Blame/Biomega/Aposimz anyway.

>>7156057
>Aposimz
oops, I meant Abara.

>>7157988
the tweet is terribly written, even you had to prefix with that's what I got from it, meaning even a pseud retard like you is unsure about what it means

>>7157988
>>7155952
So what's "please spare me" for then?

>>7158221
Probably a single comment from a typical Twitter schizofaggot criticizing boobs

>>7158234
If a single schizofaggot makes you apologize for liking tits then you're a schizofaggot as well

>>7155635
you must be 18 or older to post here

>>7155575
Paint literally has layers now so it's an actual alternative

libresprite, piskel, or graphics gale
try them out

>>7155558
I use photoshop to draw, but I prefer aseprite for pixelart.

>>7155558
I haven't really tried it for this purpose, but Drawpile seems pretty good for pixel art. It can do animation too.

>>7155558
Aseprite is the pixel software I'm familiar with, but you can also use Photoshop's Pencil tool for a pixellated binary brush. Use the Nearest Neighbor scaling setting to upscale your pixel art once you're done with it to keep it crisp. If you zoom in far enough on Photoshop, a pixel grid shows up, which can be handy but also distracting.

>>7155445
his sir is this true that I need to study right to learn to draw like you? Good evening from gadha kind sir

>>7156884
good evening sir. yes, I studied the skeleton, the muscles, and the flesh. I copied Goku at least twice too.

>>7155414
fun shape though
keep going
try to have fun with it

>>7155445
>>7158126
kek, i love this board.

>>7155445
HOT!
>>7155414
So whatever happened with Proko and that other guy Jeff Watts? It's all over out there?

After 3 years of drawing the only thing i'm capable of is filling my canvas with black and white doodles for hours but never actually making "finished" work.

>>7155963
>>7156256
>>7156354
But you still need to make artwork that aren't studies in order to apply what you learned. You have to fail in order to succeed.

>>7157735
I don't think a work is necessarily only a study or only the application of study, but regardless you can apply your studies in unoriginal art (say a portrait from a reference photo).

>>7157726
Well, it looks pretty nice actually.

I've never even tried to draw anything I want to draw, because I don't know how to structure an attempt at it and can't imagine a process that would lead to the result I want. I can't really even picture the result I want, for that matter, as while I have a subject in mind, I can't extrapolate from it what a drawing of the subject might look like. Even as a kid, all I ever managed to do is copying other people's stick figures and square+triangle houses and such. My best effort at producing something of my own was mindlessly scribbling and being disappointed that this didn't magically create my desired drawing.

>>7156403
I wish I could learn how to doodle. My starting point was using a series of mental measurements to produce copies of other people's work, and I haven't managed to expand from there. It seems like most resources aimed at beginners expect a starting point of silly doodles and try to teach how to copy, but I'm trying to go in the opposite direction and haven't had any luck.

>>7155943
>Not blaming females and globomo
Kill yourself jewish nigger

>>7155890

JUST PUT OUT SOME TPBS OR GRAPHIC NOVELS. JUST HAVE ORGANIZED COLLECTIONS. JUST BUNDLE NEW STORIES IN A MAGAZINE! JUST DO WHAT THE JAPANESE DO. THE BUSINESS MODEL IS RIGHT THERE!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO INVENT ANYTHING NEW. JUST RIP OFF THE JAPANESE! WHY IS THIS SO COMPLICATED!?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

>>7156267
>JUST RIP OFF THE JAPANESE!
Shonen Jump puts out a new magazine every week, which costs $1 at most, is available at nearly every convenience store in the country (unlike our specialized, expensive comic shops), and are each 150+ pages. You get access to the newest chapter of your favorite stories, and you also discover new series that you would've never heard of. In America, each series is published in an individual leaflet. If you want to discover a new series, you need to risk $5 on something totally unknown, and may be of questionable quality. It's very very hard to discover new things in the way the current American comic model is set up. This is probably why Webtoons is so popular. It's not because it's on your phone, or because it costs less (it doesn't. their paywall is very steep) It's because it's very very easy to find new series.

Finding new creators and stories is the surest path towards the health of the comic book industry. We need to make that easier.

>>7156276
>Shonen Jump puts out a new magazine every week, which costs $1 at most
No need to even do that, just make the current floppies $1 and distribute them to more places than fucking speciality stores.
And for god's sakes, make the comics for kids! Why they thought catering only to adults and leaving kids by the wayside was a smart idea is far beyond me. Who was supposed to grow up as a comic fan if they didn't have comics to read as child because they were all violent and 'mature'.
Do you know what currently the most popular, and financially successful, western comics currently are? Kids comics.

Hell, just do ANYTHING other than what they're currently doing. The leaders of these comic companies are genuinely the most incompetent business leaders there have ever been. There is likely never been a case of a business fumbling a golden opportunity (the movie fad) so hard and for so long. How they didn't capitalise on that situation in the slightest is genuinely astounding.
Business students will be taught this in the future and say out loud 'what the fuck were those retards doing!?', like I am right now!.

>>7156298
I agree with what you're saying, but I just feel like the change needed is too big. We're talking about remodelling the entire infrastructure of the comics industry.

Faster to just learn Japanese and publish my manga that way, desu

why do people keep bumping these threads

>>7156731
not like anyone draws on this board anyways. but everyone has an opinion on art adjacent topics like this so its fun to discuss topics you cant talk much anywhere else in other circles.

>>7156736
>not like anyone draws on this board anyways.
I draw

>>7155343
I only draw stuff that’s relatively niche, like, characters who barely get any fanart. That way, even if I don’t get huge numbers on my art, I know there’ll be some autists out there who’ll find it and appreciate it.

>>7157773
Pyw

It's not allowed... Because it just isn't, ok?

>>7155244
Op image it's very lsgish

>>7155234
>/mmg/ ngmi
>/wmg/ gmi

>>7155234
>NGMI
>/mmg/
>he doesn't know

>>7155234
where's /lsg/

/lsg/bros...

>>7155234
>/mmg/
>/sex/
>/cfsg/
>NGMI
cringe
Putting the resource threads in NGMI is also dumb unless you're specifically referring to hoarders, but even then those threads are valuable.

>no mention of /lsg/
kek

>>7155139
do you have nightmares?

>>7155192

I used to have hardcore nightmares and hallucinations in my bed, but for the last year or so i've been chilling

>>7155199
It’s important to avoid attracting demons into your home and mind. You should try praying to Jehovah through his son Jesus Christ to help you find the truth. Take care

>>7155232
you clown

>>7155139
you're gay

>>7155213
The diaper succubus

>>7155116
I saw this happen to one nip i was following for a long time. His case was that he freaked the f out when some other nip copied his artstyle. Idk why he freaked out that much about it that he deleted his entire gallery.. youd think the guy got raped or something.

>>7155116
It's what some people think they have to do when they "go legit". Got to look clean cut professional and pretend the NSFW art never ever happened. The thing is anything posted on the internet in the first place will get copied and archived somewhere.

It's usually that they became too popular and they don't know how to handle people "stealing" from them by reposting and sharing images or it's because people, usually gaijin, asking them for free requests and shit. In the case of the latter you might see them pop up on more japanese oriented sites like nijie or their own blog under a new name

>>7155116
>doesnt know that 日本人 moved on cause twitter harrasement

>>7156067
this desu

>>7156070
i concede. you win

>>7156052
Fun With A Pencil by Andrew Loomis

>>7155106
Ok, I'll dig it out again
>>7155329
>Trap
No, but shilling it on here like some kind of religion is.

I drew this pic when I first started drawing. I got sick of the crabs pushing their favorite book instead of actually answering questions. Ironically, copying that hand was a good exercise, so whatever

>>7155161
This, however you don't have to copy other artists (master copies.) It does save time however. No need to figure out shit through trial and error when you can just copy some shit here and there in a tiny fraction of the time and effort.
>>7155274
Instruction books are good for artist block. If you can't do anything at all, come back to it. Hell, use it as negative motivation.
>If I don't draw something original or copy something on my own, I have to do chapter 5.
Honestly, just draw whatever is in front of you as accurately as you can. You can always learn from it and you can always do a better job.

>>7155028
Lighten if the line is not an edge or the line would make am edge wider than the brush width

>>7155028
Some people use auto action to color lineart, others use another layer and clip to the lineart layer and paint over with multiply or whatever blending modes they prefer. Dont get too stuck up on this shit lol. This effect is absolutely miniscule for the whole artwork.

>>7155028
cute child gf

Wake up babe /lsg/ is back

Is this the new loli artists thread???

>>7154987
>God's gift

The Copium of the Normie. I sacrificed all my savings, years of my life, my former work. Went through the rough phase were I was garbage and people giggling behind my back wtf am I even doing with my life in my 30ies. Even people who know this about me call it a gift or talent
.
This is why you will never be skilled in a craft and berate others what to create instead. They made the sacrifices and you didn't, face the truth.

>>7154987
Only slop and degeneracy will make it in this world.
Beautiful Art won't ever make money because it can't be understood, in fact, it offensive to the slop crowd.

every time i check this place it somehow degrades worse but now leaning harder into a protestant shithole.

>>7154987
The box. You drew it, we came.

>>7156117
Make it trend and maybe they will.

>>7155269
i dont think you understand what i meant
people dont believe in my genuine self and call it a fake persona or a troll and yes they use those words irl and said it to my face
im not afraid of being sensitive im just old and tired so im just mean to people by default

>>7154964
Authenticity implies some amount of vulnerability involved. It's hard enough to be vulnerable publically, let alone in the cultural zeitgeist you've pointed out, where being 'cringe' is to be avoided at all costs, and self deprecation acts as a good defense mechanism for any possible criticism. There is also a well documented downward trend of literacy, and long posts almost guarantee a tl;dr sort of dismissive response, and it's harder to get people to engage in good faith or with some sort of sincerity. Also, people try really hard to be funny online, but don't understand it doesn't work when you try to make every second sentence a zinger. A combination of all of these is my guess, I think younger artists specifically really care about their projected image and 'branding', maybe that plays a part.

In my opinion, is that it would just sound pretentious. We like people thinking that we are simply spontaneous genius, that it didn't took that much of effort for doing it, so having a more complexity concept behind that painting that's sometimes just mid is just unacceptable for us. Even Michelangelo talked about it.

In my opinion, is that it would just sound pretentious. We like people thinking that we are spontaneously genius, that it didn't took that much of effort for doing it, so having a more complex concept behind that painting that's sometimes just mid is just unacceptable for us. Even Michelangelo talked about it.

>>7154964
its just the internet. new generations wont understand this and its fucked you likely never will know the difference

>>7155355
>>7155045
samefag nodraw lul

not readin that reply btw

>>7155034
Can't argue with Wrightson. I'll throw this out as well.

>>7158181
detailslop

>>7155034
yes wrightson
also watterson

>>7158301
text replyslop

>>7155463
He already did. Did you reply to the wrong post?

>>7154957 #
I like light novels for this reason but it sucks illustrations are seen as kiddie. Probably because publishing houses want to save money just like when Tor got caught using AI art for a cover.

>>7154809
My problem is I don't feel like spending 9 hours for 3k likes and 200 retweets. Or 100k likes and 3k retweets. Because either way you're just a moment on a timeline, and there's always another You below you waiting for their 3 seconds. Even if it touched someone, it's not a moment that endures.
>Oh wow this is amazing
2 weeks later you aren't even in the rear view mirror of their deepest thoughts. You happened, and for what? It's rewarding to look at art like this, it's just not as rewarding to make it

>>7154957
>It's because art is "content" now instead of something with depth and value.
Oh, come on. As if pinups and portraits haven't existed for hundreds of years

There are Portraits, a pose looking at the camera, and there is Illustration, portraying a scene from some story,defining the world through details.

stop fucking spamming you kissless incel

>>7154709
When the American Elf guy posts about his sex life, everyone is cool with it. A woman posts about her sex life, annoying faggots won't shut up about it.

>>7154720
why do I need to explain myself to? shut the fuck up faggot

>>7154720
He's very very horny but also scared of women

>>7154722
>American Elf guy
who?

>spend all life loving goths
>too shy to approach one, completely overwhelmed by emotion but can approach other women fine
>fast forward current age, finally jaded enough to go for it
>very quickly realize 99% modern day goths are literal just fucking whores with a black and white paint coat
>"real" goths are now almost extinct and relegated mostly to 'just a phase' teens and fat 35 years olds that can't grow up
I found myself a wife that's the reverse of a goth eventually, but man this was one of the biggest regrets of my life. I wish I had the balls to try back then, I was so enamored with this shit I literally blushed just by having one of these gals cross me on the sidewalk

>>7154701
>>7154836
I like these manical looking ones, very haunting and expressive

Read about this Goya painting. "Witches Sabbath" Goya 1798

>>7154701
A bit pornographic, bit I think this image is appropriate.