/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6739149
How come they give her these prostitute hips but keep her chest rounded like a sausage?
Should be at least slightly triangular to suggest the sloping chest, this looks like a man's torso, not a flat chest.

>>6739686
Nice Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

I know that feel, OP.
I wish I could at least use custom brushes sometimes to add some variety, but every copy of SAI I've tried through the years, from protable to cracked, doesn't seem compatible with it.

I might just buy this lil feller one day, the problem is I don't know if it's going to work either.

I've spent hours upon hours studying brush-making and pen adjustments in order to make Photoshop or Clipstudio Paint more similar to SAI's fluidity.
With PS it's impossible. Even with Lazy Nezumi, you can only simulate heavily-stablized strokes from SAI, not the more free-flowing ones.

With CSP I got a bit closer. I would definitely be able to draw on CSP if I were forced to migrate.
But it's still garbage compared to SAI, this fucking 3mb program is a blessing and a curse.

If only I could use custom brushes, that'd make my SAI life more bearable, but I've used several different versions, some portable, some installed, and none support custom brushes.

I do wonder if it's even worth it, though, cause from what I understand SAI's textures are "fixed", no matter how many times you run your brush against the canvas, the same pixels will contain the same parts of the texture, making for a very cringe texture in the long run.

I do enjoy working with a Hard Round Brush, it's just sometimes I wish I could experiment a bit without having to deal with CSP bullshittery (like that retarded selection tool that keeps grabbing whatever is underneath it when you release your click).

What exactly are you looking for?
Even MS Paint has a bucket tool, so your question sounds like "does anyone have a tutorial on how to write the letter B?"

If you're trying to do something other than fill an area, then explain it. Otherwise, kill yourself.

>>4592138
Funny you'd call Twitter's crop "abysmal" when Instagram will crop your FULL-SIZE PICTURE, not only your thumbnails.
I fucking hate the zoomer era of the Internet.

>>3337470
>>3337482
That was a random example. I do like the abstract concepts and grasp them better than fundamentals, because they're where I escape to to kill boredom.

To put in perspective, and demonstrate I'm not simply looking for instant gratification, I've been studying Japanese by myself for 2 years and 50% of my time is spent reviewing vocabulary flashcards.
For the first 10 months or so, this mindless grinding comprised nearly 100% of all the study I did.

Yet, despite not exactly having fun and knowing I should just "push harder", I had no trouble keeping a consistent routine and going through hundreds of words every day.
It didn't take any toll on me, and I'm still going, as energized as ever.

Now, when it comes to drawing, I fail to see the big picture, the "end goal".
There is of course the blurry notion that "I just gotta stick to it", but it's infinitely harder to measure if what I'm doing daily is actually going to take me in the right direction.
You can't just make a hundred flashcards that says "make a curve", then another hundred with "make a cube" or something like that, since there doesn't seem to be any way to measure how many is enough.
And that's why it always spiral back into "just draw more!", because if 100 didn't do the trick, 10.000 will probably do. But maybe you just need 200, and you're doing 8.800 purely out of following the bruteforce philosophy.

I guess I need a mentor. So I guess I need money. Or experienced friends. Or a noose to hang myself.

>i'm sick and my head hurts
>will probably upload less than usual
>inb4 low effort