/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3419181
Nothin personnel, kiddo

If you look at someones advice and can't figure out if it's worth following without knowing the skill level of the person giving that advice, the problem isn't with /ic/; the problem is with you.

>>3099296
Classic American style illustration: 40s and 50s.

Learn from the meme man himself

First you'll need to gather your materials.
You'll need something to draw with so get a pencil or pen.
And also something to draw on so get some paper or a sketchbook or some shit.

The trickiest part though is the people. You can find people in the wild around buildings and roads. There are also people inside buildings but people are very territorial and will get angry if you go into the wrong building without permission.

Now the observational sketching itself has two key components, observing and sketching.
Observing involves facing your eyes towards your subject (the person) and looking at them (make sure to have your eyes open when you do this)
Sketching involves making marks with your drawing implement to make a picture on the paper that looks like your subject.

To make marks, hold the pen(cil) in your hand with the pointy end towards the paper. Press the pointy end against the paper and move it along the paper to make a mark (a line in this case). The tricky part of this is using the right amount of pressure when applying your mark. If you press too lightly then you won't make a mark at all and if you press too strongly you'll just tear your fucking page in half or snap your pencil so be careful. There's a specific range of pressures you can use that will be able to make effective marks, if you press toward the lighter end of the range your mark will be lighter and thinner and if you press harder it will be darker and thicker. This is important to remember.

The trick to observational sketching is that you need to almost simultaneously observe and make marks on the page that resemble your observations.
A useful technique for this in the early stages of your sketch is drawing lines. You should draw lines where you see the edges of objects, creases and sharp changes in value (I'll explain value in a second).
cont.

>>3017164
It's him

>>2966793
I have the same problem bud. Our entire generation is fucked. Whether it's chemicals in the water and household objects, cir-cumcision or psychological desensitization via porn. Enjoy your lifetime of involuntary celibacy, fellow millenial numale.

Most noteworthy artists I can think of are either of an average or a somewhat above average build like Frazetta or Steve Huston. There are a few outliers though. Eric Goldberg is a pleasantly plump old Jew and Will Terrell is a chubster as well. Art is a discipline so most well-disciplined artists will probably have somewhat disciplined eating habits. Obesity itself is a strong indicator of an undisciplined, hedonistic person so it doesn't surprise me that most artists worth a damn are relatively normal looking people (and I mean real normal as opposed to the whole it's [sic] 2015 and there are so many obese people that we should normalize it instead of encouraging people to be healthy for the good of themselves and society).

I will not fall fo...thanks much mural man

>>2848644
I really don't want to discourage you in saying all this either, even though it might feel kind of shitty to hear. Rather I'd like it to be uplifting. So many young adults that have only just begun to draw are pressured into going to expensive schools by their well-meaning friends and relatives who don't know any better. Because they had developed their ability before they'd first entered the school these people leave these places not much better off artistically than the Beginner Thread users on /ic/, but unlike them they're saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in debt that will potentially burden them for decades.

Can you imagine it being 15 years from now and you're still paying $500 a month or more for your student debt, while working at a warehouse or something like that?.

You can avoid all that, you can study and draw hard for at least four years on your own volition and you will get to a decent level-or maybe you won't, but in either case at least you will be a free man who stood on his own two feet and fell on his shield.

>>2848665
>>Wait until someone sees your stuff online and offers you his money

It really does happen. I've offered to hire an artist on this very board myself at a competitive rate and I have no idea if they went to school or anything like that, why would I care? Their work is phenomenal. The deal fell through in the end for various reasons, but I was sincere and I haven't lost respect for them or their abilities. I may try contacting them again some day even, but the last thing I care about as someone looking to hire an artist is where they've been when it's only about what they can do for my project.

>>2837594
>Why are there no artists anymore that exude masculine energy like Frazetta does?

https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/fsgrowth.htm

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-disappearing-male/

http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2005/03/11/217505/UScircrate.gif

Water fluoridation became a thing in the mid 40s and progressed in severity as decades past. Also, beginning in the 1980s not only was exposure to feminizing industrial plastics in the form of drinking cups and toys at its zenith, but over 80% of boys had their foreskins sliced off leaving them with dry, shriveled jew dicks and robbed of the potential to experience sexual pleasure.

The resulting millenial 'men' are mental females. Nihilists with recessed jawlines masked by pathetic numale beards and soft, tiny hands whom either spend their entire lives fruitlessly seeking out a female "life partner" whose pussy doesn't feel like a dusty leather baseball catcher's mitt that was left in the garage for 30 years on their weak little baby dicks or they straight up go gay.

This is why artists in particular these days are susceptible to being such effeminate, passive aggressive leftist queers whereas if you look at men whom were born and lived far earlier like Frazetta, Loomis and Huston you see examples of what a real pussy slaying vanilla gorilla looks like. People in their early 30s and below are a generation of literal and figurative poisoning victims....AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO STAND FOR IT ANYMORE, GLOBALISTS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZE5peUfWQ

Is this the a photo of Loomis?