/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3317348
You absolutely have to learn the realistic style for everything, whether you want to draw anime or this. The absolute minimum is linework figure drawing (vilppu or loomis I rec vilppu) + heavy gesture drawing linework (basis of anything western or fluid looking) + clothing linework studies + masterstudy this artist and everyone like them. You can skip still life and shapes unless you really suck.

>>3313103
As long as you've got the lateral and central sulcus in place and vaguely the proportions on the lobes, anything goes. The pattern of the gyri and sulci varied between individuals. The brain stem is always the same structure but you can just google that.

>>3309550
They are all the same, get the cheapest model and pirate the software since all the bundled soft is shit

>>3305091
>realize its just because there's a stabilizer now
And thank fuck

>>3303506
Sounds to me like a referrer issue, use a referrer faking addon or open something like fiddler with the HTTPS decryption enabled to save videos easily. (Fiddler will kind of save vids as your playing them so you can download the already dl'd bodies)

>>3285729
>I feel like I'm drawing too much fanart lately. Drawing fanart for a small audience really does help encourage me to draw everyday but I feel like it's causing me to neglect drawing from life and photo studies.
If you're in a fandom with real life actors, draw those actual people as people studies and reap the rewards (my regular life studies from /ic/ which I spend many hours slaving away on struggle to hit 20 notes or 0 notes, lazy fanart people studies for me can blow up to 100). There was at least one person in one of my fandoms who was a loomisfag and regularly slapped heads and occasionally clothes onto their lined and coloured gestures to turn then into 'fanart'.

Fanart otherwise can have a relatively lower yield compared to studies, but you can do stuff like that. Also if you want to be a renderfag, there's nothing stopping you from using 9 million Ruan Jia references to incorporate into your fanart rather than doing a 1:1 straight master copy. It also has the added benefit of forcing you to think about composition.

>>3267840
Good artists spend more time actually improving than patting themselves on the back about how superior they are compared to others.

The empty kettle always rattles louder than the full one which is silent.

>>3260619
It's always hard the first few tries. Yours isn't that bad.

I recommend using sai 2 beta because this shit is easy as hell to paint in and blend, my stabiliser was set to 6.

1. Know your rotate and flip keys. In ps you must manually assign flip horizontal shortcut in keyboard shortcuts/rotate is R. In SAI they are on the toolbar next to the stabiliser on CSP they can be added to the top of the toolbar. My first study I rotated AND flipped it almost every minute because the symbol drawing kept fucking me up
2. Fill in grey. First, only use ONE shade of grey pipetted from the image your first few attempts the one covering the biggest proportion of the figure and get the shape right. Every few minutes, flip and rotate the canvas to follow the shape precisely, you are guaranteed to fuck up so fix it before the problems start snowballing.
3. Then add dark grey as pipetted. If values confuse you, run the cutout filter on PS, it will show you where you are fucking up in terms of grey placement.
4. Now some light grey in CONTROLLED AMOUNTS

Protip, people are usually less shiny than you expect them to be. Eg krenz's https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/002/286/132/smaller_square/krenz-cushart-160403-4.jpg?1459784828
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/78/73/7e/78737ed65237a433c0ee9a5a07132a46--character-concept-character-design.jpg
Your image has too many broad rings of grey within rings of grey, giving it a shiny look, this kind of cancer plagued my art for months, so kill the habit asap (starting with dark grey and trying to think of what the image would look like without light grey can help, but you'll still need to add light grey obv)
5. After a few practices with this you are not going to need to pipette anymore and should be able to tell what greys to use without picking. There is no shame in opening up good black and white studies and having a look at how they do it eg krenz. If you are still struggling, start with just a head or a plaster bust.