/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4247117
help

>>4247510
>my backstory is that an elf slighted me once

>>4244908
I like her she's pretty. This would look better as a real painting like a water colour or inks.

>>4244913
You have the internet validating character design as creative/talented to thank for this kind of shit.
Character designers is what happens when kids born in the 90s grow up playing video games with shit character customisation and watching badly drawn cartoons and the only way they had to connect to something or some one was to pretend like their shit imagined OC would have a place in some else's recognised universe. Some of these kids actually learnt to draw because they were introduced to the prospect and motivated to actually make something unique once they realised colouring in traced drawings wasn't actually talented or creative, but people with the major autism or people who completely lack capability or willingness to practice never grow out of that phase of finding childish OC shit a good way to hope someone pays attention to your insignificant imagination.

>>4247686
'Just draw' Isn't bad advice one you take this into consideration; once you understand that many of these people don't actually 'draw' from anything worth while, but actually just try to copy some one else or imitate or slightly edit an existing person's art.
'Just draw' should be look at a real life object, or in desperate times, a photograph, and actually learn how to use your eyes to observe the visuals of a place or object and interpret that by using creative mediums. If you looked at a vase and drew that same vase everyday, you would get better at drawing that same vase. But never looking at something or observing something and trying to use your autist left brain to imagine something your brain isn't even equipped to imagine to begin with, you end up with shit like this, you will never improve.

So maybe the saying shouldn't just be 'just draw' but in fact, 'just look, then just draw'.

>>4244811
I've spent an entire month grinding Preston Blair a few months back, participated inktober 2019 and never finished it because of the uninteresting prompts and feeling a bit burned out and since god knows when I have drawn four to seven or eight doodles per day to the point of being at least decent-ish. Here are my best drawings. Let me know what you think and give me some tips and advices.

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>>4247375
The ear is in the wrong place and that circle on the side of the head isn't going to do your proportions any favours. The ear shouldn't be further back than where the jaw ends. Put your finger on your ear, now move down. Feel the end of your jaw bone? that's not what the drawing looks like.

You've got big circle going on here with the head, but the relation to the circle and the jaw mimics to dimensions of a face from the side, this guy is forwards titled off. You need to remagine the dimensions of the head and neck and ear to actually fit a human head that is facing that direction.

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>>4247717

Is Dynamic sketching any good for a beginner

>>4247582
Nice niggalo Now finish the arms in detail

>>4247629
Lots of people are good at art but don't practice like an artist. You will get better by simply drawing and painting more, but shifting up the process to match that more of a creative worker can help to make the process faster and more productive.
If you only work from your phone, you may lack a visual portfolio or collection of art to ponder on. You may glare at your individual images on your phone for a long time, seeking to find what could be improved or inspire the next thing. But really, on a holistic level, reflecting on your art works a whole lot better if you can make use of space and organise your images in a creative way that re-introduces you to what you're seeing in different ways. This is what you may be lacking by doing all your art on your phone. You can try:
-creating an online portfolio or sketch book
-actually making physical copies of work and arranging them on a pinboard/A1 pieces of paper.

This is where you can start to change up your process a bit. You don't always have to paint something new to make 'new work'. Change sizes of your other drawings. Try painting over them, editing them, get the scalpel out and collage shit,blow stuff up, make it huge and see how that effects your feelings and impulses towards the images.

Take notes, have a diary, tell yourself in your own way the thoughts that you have while your trying to process your work. A lot of creative thoughts that have huge potential will get lost forever if you don't record them, you can't rely on yourself to remember them long enough to take them to a finished painting.
This is the shit that they will teach you in some art classes. Having a tutor can seriously help, but you can possibly learn to do a lot of this stuff on your own. The only downfall is not having the commentary of other artists and the inspiration and reflection that comes from sharing your art with others and seeing what others are doing. That alone can make a huge difference in your process.

>>4247717
Three of my example drawings (Chuck Breakdown, Doug Walker Mole interpretation and also my Dog and Bird drawing from a slylock fox and comics for kids strip) were from November, the other four are just recent ones

>>4247731
Also, contextualise your artistic process. Find other art work that inspires you or find relatable. Or, find art that is historical relevant or modernly relevant. Reflect on why those artists made that art or how they made that art and see if you can relate your thoughts about their process to your own process. Adapt your process based on what other successful artists are doing or have done. 'reinvent' where the successful have even failed, or recontextualize what others have done to fit a new purpose or audience. Like how vivienne westwood took a renaissance painting and turned it into a corset.
Try to develop an iconography. When you've made massive amounts of work, try to observe identifying factors through out your work. What makes what you do recognisable as you? This will help you stay grounded when the art you make starts to feel foreign for you and become creative blocked about certain pieces.

>>4247731
I agree to what anon said.

>>4247164
ngtmi is a meme while fundies are not. As I said, you need to work a lot on perspective and anatomy. Start with filling pages with boxes in 1point and 2point perspective. This might seem redundant but you cannot expect from yourself to draw something as complex as human body if you cannot draw a crate. Not going to lie to you, fundies are boring as fuck but the sooner you grind them the sooner you dont have to put up with that shit. Look up moderndayjames on youtube for tutorials on basics. For quick gains carry around sketchbook and draw from life whenever possible.
You need talent to become better than average concept artist but if you stop focusing on that you realise drawing is just a craft like any other and start having fun while becoming better at it.

>>4247624
i think you should break down your images and work on individual parts. im impressed that you are putting so much into each picture but your skill level is kind of low. so my advise is to make some sketches where you ust draw people but dont worry about shading. or just work on perspective, making basic shapes look believable in 3d. and also do pages of just different shading and hatching techniques. try all kinds of different patterns. work on gradients, on materials without putting them onto buildings or onto clothes. try to just draw fire, smoke, clouds, a waving flag, and nothing else. do studies of these things to improve your components and then put them together into a new drawing. think of it like a baseball player, rather than playing baseball to get good at baseball, he might consider running to improve his cardio, or weight lifting to balance out his muscles that he isnt using during a game. and he might go to a batting cage and just hit 100 balls a day instead of always playing a whole game. but again i find your ambition and creativity great.

is lineart necessary? i was going to wait to start rendering fully until i'm more secure in drawing cell shaded/stark lined figures, but it's so tedious on digital and looks like shit anyway.

also i've only had a tablet for a week, does it get easier?

>>4247058
Spit on them and draw more.

finally drew an anime face that I dont completely hate, eyes are relatively the same size, hair is (kind of) natural, chin doesn't look like the crimson chins chin. I'm genuinely chuffed with myself

I'm working through Dynamic Sketching 1, I've only just begun week 2. Is the only function of the center line to show me what direction to work in? Am I misplacing them? Otherwise, any advice?

>>4247825
>is lineart necessary?
no
>but it's so tedious on digital and looks like shit anyway.
You can always try it on paper first. It does carry over minus some digital kinks. Check your pressure settings and if you use the brush that can get thicker/thinner depending on them. Also check the stabilisation settings - they help to make less jiggly lines especially at first.
>does it get easier?
yes.

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>>4247739

Thank you so much
Ur an actual god
I'll take everything u say to heart cuz ur right and I m glad ur responded

Artists please respond

>>4244877
Looks like Greyworm

Tried creating a freehand perspective grid but my lines are still too sloppy so it got less and less accurate as I went on.
Back to grinding, I guess.

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>>4243984
reminder to plan out big projects in sketchbooks with precision before wasting a lot of time and erasing

What to do after Dynamic Sketching?
Loomis? Hampton figure drawing?
I'm sick of drawing insects and plants

My first piece of "art" without using anything but imagination, is it good bros? It's also my first time drawing without thicc cartoon outlines or chicken scratch. Pls r8 :[

>>4248091
This is one of those things where it's hard to say if it's "Good" it's certainly its own thing but if you look for any semblance of basic humanoid anatomy for example there isn't much there. so I rate it a goodonyoufordoingyourownthinganon/10.

>>4247725
lmao, might do so thanks

new

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>>4247760
Thank you very much. I agree that I shouldn’t be labouring over finished pieces this early, but due to the circumstances of inktober I felt obliged.
I’ve moved on to the things you’ve suggested already, so thank you very much

>>4244811
Can I use rulers, triangles, and circle cutouts if I can't draw lines or circles? I have minor experience in drafting from high school and I'm thinking using tools would help a lot.

>>4248214
No.

>>4248225
Why not? I've been stuck there for a while and I'm not improving or learning anything, with tools I can skip it and go to anatomy and maybe learn something.

>>4248232
I used to be really bad at them too, now I can draw pretty good circles, etc. Just draw them more, try the Dynamics sketching excercises

>>4248232
post work

>>4244811
Do I really need to learn fundamentals?

>>4248242
Last time I posted work I apparently put it in 4k×whatever resolution and crashed someone's computer, but all you need to know is I filled half a sheet with shitty lines before getting frustrated and coming here again

Old art, nothing really special

>>4245148
Those are nice anon.
Have you been posting in here before?

>>4244815
You left some of her

That part of her is gonna suffer even more

if you gonna end someoens suffering , go all the way , dont do a sloppy half finished job

>>4244913
Work smarter not harder

But you still need to work , at some point you will still need to "just draw lol"