/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4488093

Sorry I don't wanna fuck aliens like some fucking weirdo

Let's post some secret art tech and GREAT tips only, I'll start:

To draw anime looking at human references is useless, you should grind Aliens, specifically Grays, I recommend drawing between 20 to 50 Grays a day until you master their head which is the most important part in anime and manga.

>>2792213
ayyyyy

>>2794909
I would recommend photoshop as your basic drawing program. It's the industry standard in illustration and most forms of digital art, so it's easy to find resources for (guides, tutorials, etc.). That said, there are several useful programs, and they're all easy to use if you just want to draw/paint.

All versions of photoshop are basically the same for everything related to drawing and painting. It's the bigger special features and effects that got introduced over time.

>>2795229
>my old drawing teacher used to say that drawing from reference is only for people without talent.

You must have had the absolute worst teacher imaginable. Who was this "drawing teacher"? You mean a high school art teacher? As in, some guy with an AA in teaching, making just above minimum wage? Not an actual professional artist who actually knows what he's talking about?

Even if you only want to learn how to draw manga, you're going to have to study the human form to get decent looking proportions and everything. All of the decent manga artists have a pretty decent understanding of actual human anatomy, and you can see it in their work. To rephrase: anatomical studies, i.e., drawing from reference, is a requirement to drawing the human form, even if you're going to stylize it heavily.

No matter what form of art you're interested in, you're going to have to do studies if you want to be decent. Tracing can be a useful learning tool (used sparingly), but if you just want to screw around with tracing photos for its own sake and nothing else, that's not /ic/ appropriate subject matter.

>>2524195