/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>>3702020
Been wondering about him as well lately.

Anyone remember Redjuiceguy?

>>3205093
It's mostly a meme, but I've found quick figure drawings to be pretty helpful practice for getting use to odd angles and various poses, which is what I think he was getting at. But that's the thing that most people fail to grasp, realism is a coat of paint, its just details.
Drawing realism does help some people get better at drawing anime, but most of them don't understand why. It's not even the realism that helps them, its just learning the basic fundamentals of drawing. Those same fundemtals also apply to drawing anime, and you can learn them while drawing anime and from other anime drawings. Form, construction, basic human anatomy, these are the things you need to learn to improve at drawing, and they are what cross over. Most people start out drawing anime as cringey middle schoolers, and their drawings suck. Not because they are drawing anime, but because they have zero grasp on basic fundamentals. Their drawing teacher makes them stop drawing anime and they learn the fundamentals by drawing basic realism. Then they go back and realize how much better they are at drawing anime, and falsely assume its realism that caused this improvement. But it's not, it's the fundamentals. So if your end goal is to draw anime, you can grind fundamentals and develop your anime skills at the same time. As long as you're learning from good artists with a strong grasp of them. The key to getting good a drawing anime, is simply to draw anime.
Anther piece of meme advice they regurgitate, is the copying other artists is bad meme. This is actually detrimental if you want to get good at anime. Anime is a highly derivative style, the only way to get good at it, and do it properly, is to do a lot of copying. This is how the japs do it. Remember that scene in bakuman, the manga about making manga, where the kid just copies hundreds of manga pages to get good?

Anything you liked from /ic/ that you saved for inspiration? Post rare gems.

Where is redjuice guy?

>ITT we post work of forgotten Anons.

I'm not going to bother finishing this turd because I'm bored of it, but I figured I should at least make a list of fuckups. So far I have: shitty composition (it was supposed to be a portrait but it turned out really dull), perspective is off, placement and shading of some of the hair makes no sense, the shading on the body could use some work, the mouth is at an angle it's not supposed to be at, the left shoulder is fucked (I think it's too high?), and everything is just too messy in general. Also, protip: do not paint over your lineart like a tard.

Anything I missed?