/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4433034
Dunno who painted the image you posted, but I guarantee it wasn't RJ.

>>4432737
God, no. Not the Coleslaw, please no. Piotr Jablonski maybe. Not Coleslaw.

The man devotes precious time towards rendering out thumbnail pencil sketch composition ideas with the most generic low effort technique imaginable. He plays to none of the strengths of painterly technique.

I'm fine with the RJ crit. Fair enough. I get it. But Sergey Kolesov is pure garbage. End of story.

>>4432443
Here's the soul version for all you weirdos who're into that kind of thing and are emotionally opposed to anything that's not the hard round. Got you guys covered.

Ruan Jia for me.

Mullins' paintings tend to be really noisy and overly loose. RJ can paint loose too, but his overall value structure reads much clearer because he doesn't overlay pure uncontrolled grunge texture over his entire painting.

If you want a minimalist, less-is-more artist, Jaime Jones is your guy.

If you want a full range artist who laboriously delivers maximum ka-pow with every painting, RJ is your guy.

If you want an artist that's so chaotic and careless that their work only exists to showcase the ways you can neglect all the many attributes of a painting and still have it be a successful painting, then I suppose Mullins is for you. And that's a fair thing to be interested in, I suppose.

>>4430896
Thanks. This is a helpful critique.

>>4430889
As for you, I think you just don't understand the language of art. Which means you're either a beginner or a mediocre amateur who can't be bothered to study art seriously.

Either way, it's clear that you're not quite ready for critiquing art yet. Learn a bit about the fundamentals and think a bit about the goals of the artists you're trying to critique. You can't do this unless you're knowledgeable.

Well, best of luck to you then. Chop chop.

>>4430870
Anybody can say "something looks off about it, but I don't really know what". Non-artists that can't draw stick figures give vague, unhelpful critiques like that.

As an aspiring artist, you should be knowledgeable enough to articulate what does and doesn't work in your own art and the art you view. Art isn't about making marks on a surface. It's about using your brain to decide where to make the marks and exactly for what reason in exactly the way you envision.

If you don't problem-solve whilst drawing, then you'll remain an npc artist.

>>4430854
Not helpful.

>>4426265
I believe it. Not everyone here is as bad as you think. That painting is deceptively simple, albeit well-executed.

>>4425597

>>4423654
Wow, thank you so much.

Yeah, I totally winged it. I just wanted to focus on an interesting comp, draw things I wanted without stressing over how bad I am at it, and I also just wanted more than a few figures in the comp.

Everything was from imagination. I'm not saying that to brag, you've already noticed how the castle design suffered for it. As for the dragons, I just got lucky. I spent a day grinding dragons about a month ago, and I guess some of it stuck.

The girl that seems to be in a hole was not intended to be standing because I didn't want to cover the soldiers behind her. But I think I could have conveyed that she's not supposed to be standing better.

Again, thank you. I'll try to amend some of the weaknesses this sketch poses in my next drawing. I'll pay closer attention to the perspective from now on.

Not being overly concerned with end result is a good way to stay productive and try things you rarely would.

Critique away.

>>4422193
Drawing will teach you how to draw. Scribbling unintelligible doodles will teach you to scribble unintelligible doodles.

Your "turd polish" dilemma has nothing to do with warming up. It has everything to do with mindless repetition and complacency, which scribbling circles, arcs and lines for the purpose of warming up lends itself to, sadly.

Warm-ups are silly. You'll warm up by drawing either way, and you'll stay warmed up as long as you draw daily.

>>4419195
What's wrong with my values?

>>4415745
So what was uninteresting about this? I highly doubt nobody could find a flaw to critique.

>>4418951
Citation needed.

Practicing is tons of fun for me. I dunno what your issue is.

>>4415758
Krita is immensely overrated.

Krita is slower, is less stable, and its UI is an unintuitive, unexplainable, unjustifiable mess because the devs are more focused on bloating the software with niche features that are fun to play with for 5 minutes but don't actually speed up any workflow in any meaningful way than they are on optimizing the software to work as efficiently as possible.


You'll notice that the only artists who endorse Krita are hobbyist amateurs or niche illustrators that nobody's ever heard of. Krita is just a toy. Photoshop is a tool.

>>4413521
Wait, what'd I do this time?