/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3944798
Ah here it is....I knew I had it saved somewhere on one of my drives.

>>3692469
This just looks like a variation of this post I saved about a year? 2 years? ago from another chan site. Ever since you people keep iterating what this guy said.

/ic/ will believe anything so as long as it's well written and with anime anime girl pic.

>>3302928
Good post. I'll share pic related too for anyone struggling. Don't get discouraged.

>>3297249

>>3267063

>>3253025
Faces are rounder than last thread. Placement is still off. Try copying some completed Loomis heads verbatim line by line. That is, find a finished head in the book, copy a line of it, and then copy another line, and keep going until the drawing has been copied completely.

>>3253041
>what the fuck does this accomplish besides drawing ugly ass derp faces. I don't get it to be honest.
Gives you the means to draw people. Drawings will mostly be fucked, but you'll have something to build from. If you want more realistic heads, hands, anime tiddies, etc. you can just do studies of those and build your knowledge on top of shitty Fun With a Pencil construction. Pic related.

from spinoff /jp/

>>3123934
>falling for the grinding meme

there is a reason why those deviant art kids draw without being paralyzed by loomis and yet are still better than 80% of this board

>>2829931
>because I've done nothing but studies and my only drawing from imagination looks like utter shit, so i keep doing these pointless fucking studies
Well of course it looks like shit, you either haven't studied properly, or you haven't applied what you studied properly. it sounds like you bought into the /ic/ idea of grinding, which doesn't work at all. Studying without proper application, or rather stress testing of your studying, will not yield positive results.

>too scared to spend 10 hours on yet another failure
You shouldn't be studying for 10 hours. Find a single thing you want to get better at, study it for 2 or three hours, and then spend just as much time applying it to original works. You cannot and will not get better be doing x amount of hours of studying until you magically can do it with no problems; That isn't how it works

This pic is from another chan not /ic/ I saved a while ago. The thing that perplexes me is that there are dozens of teenage girls who can render anime really really good and I can bet your ass the never cracked open a James Gurney book let alone heard of the guy. What they did was they kept drawing and sponging off community tutorial and applying the application to their work instead of lying to themselves they're working on FDFAIW claiming they're doing "studies". If they get stuck I see them on youtube pull up refs and fill in the details they don't know. The result turns out to be far better than anything this board could produce in terms of anime style.

This board is the only place on the internet that claims an unproven regime to get good is the way to get better while elsewhere on the internet we have kids who are dropping left punches and decking the floor because they actually >draw more< and apply what they are doing rather than "study".

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Now the problem with your image is it
- it moves into figure drawing too soon
-without studying form and moving into hampton you will be fucked because of the overlapping ideas. So Drawabox/dynamic sketching should come before this.
-you'd be lying to yourself that loomis, the meme book, actually is helping you all through the way
-force is for animation so unless you want to do animation it's a fine book but unnecessary for anime illustration in the sense of kawaii desu
-h2 render is good
-color and light is good but everything useful is already on his free blog
-the skillful huntsman? for me I'd just replace it for X artist artbook

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tl;dr just draw and find resources on what you want to draw and don't take advice from somebody who didn't post work