/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1596415

i remember that image! it's been like a year hasn't it?

>>1596416
it's locus memoria for H! who hasn't been around for ever, and used to make the threads :- it's certainly from a while ago

H died, he is now pro LOL player.

>>1596448
lel, funny since i went from pro gaming now trying to become a pro artist.

>>1596448
I thought it was Doto, considering all those Ohayou! images.

broccoli here, with another study. Like the last time, it seems that 500px wouldn't alow me to download the ref and 4chin is not letting me post the link. Stil, you can look up the ref by searching for "Alabaster by Marcin Wuu".
Anyway, I didn't stay close to the ref much, exceptfor her facial feature, the light was dull, and cold, appear to be tampered with a lot, also things like contrast, saturation,.... so I try to fix them up, change the color temperature, add a little bit of tone. there's no point with photo copying study anyway.
I think I did improve from the last time. let me know what you think and I'll keep that in mind to improve next time.
oh but of course, no body wouldn't know who I was, last time I did a monk .
>>1596446
stop using the hair brushes you find on the internet, use a texture brush, and block in big strokes first, then add little details using whatever brush suit you. Think of hair like ribbons

>>1596454
thanks for the advice, I actually blocked it in with a solid color and used a rake type brush on a mask, It didn't come out very good, I know, I'll try a more traditional way next time.

I have no shame.

>>1596497
This is the exact reason why I'm ashamed to have an expansion fetish

I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

>>1596498
Congratulations then, I don't have an expansion fetish, I have a vore fetish,

>>1596499
I really like this, looks like the dudes from the colbert report on the 14th of november

>>1596505
FACK

What should this beasts name be?

>>1596506
Voracidous the Invincible

With a little reference.

>>1596511
Stronk reference.

How do I learn to paint fast, these take me like 4-5 hours to do when I know they should take like 1.

>>1596512
Forgot picture.

>>1596513
don't worry about speed.

that being said i've noticed with a lot of slow people they sort of mentally treat large areas the same as small ones. hard to explain..you know how on a wacom, there's that thing precision mode where the whole pad becomes a little area? well it's kind of like their brains are stuck in precision mode.

Is this drow ranger from DOTA2

>>1596524

sure looks like it

Any tips or tricks to doing foreshortened signage?

>>1596511
>>1596513
Me again, I just started this like 30-40 mins ago.
I see like concept artists pull something out of their ass done and colored. Do they not do a sketch? or have they pre-planned it?

>>1596536
actually don't worry, I shouldn't be sketching for half an hour.

feedback please

>>1596560
This looks great. Good use of shadow.

>>1596454
Nice stuff, man. Got a dA/tumblr/pixiv?

Alt poster of a pic in the previous thread

What do you guys think?

How's this study going so far?

>>1596622
check yo angles

>>1596622
I would put more emphasis on the light/reflections. I mean thats what makes that scene special.

>>1596625
Oh geez, just noticed it was the siding around the window area. Any other obscure angles you notice? I only found that area.

>>1596628
the main thing is this study is the line work because this is what the image is mainly structured around.
make a perspective grid and find the vanishing point in the reference to aid your study.

>>1596622
it's worth noting that with verticals or near verticals in side by side pictures there is an optical illusion which makes one of them look less vertical than it is.

>>1596633
>trace/10

>>1596446
>>1596452
>>1596454
>>1596497
>>1596499
>>1596506
>>1596511

I was bored

I'm only getting started with color.
Kaiju without any reference...

>>1596701

.. and winter scenery with a photo reference.

What do you guys think?

>>1596446
Looks like you've done a correction on the chin but forgotten to fill in the thin gap/crack you created...

>>1596702
it feels very bright, which i like
but i can't figure out if that's an avalanche or fog
from the thumbnail it looks like the margins of a lake, full size I have no idea what it is

>>1596702
If this is like in the scale of 100 feet by 220 feet, that shit will be awesome.

>>1596673
superb

>>1596701
the comp is really lacking right now. The kaju head seems ok but the body and neck don't also the kaju doesn't seem firece enough.

right now it feels more like a stale portrait than a keyframe try adding some more aggesiveness and dynamicness.

Maybe move him away from being directly in the middle of the page as well..

>>1596726
thanks faggot, now draw something and post it.

ughh

Another commissioned portrait. Glad I have friends willing to help me out

>>1596772
fuck

hey guys I have a question. Often dave rapoza uses a rim light, to make the form pop out of the darkness. However i read that painters usually have a soft or lost edge where the figure fades in the background, to make the subject look like its coming to the viewer.

What is better ? Im guessing none is better and each applies to a different situation but its confusing.

Thanks !

>>1596792
A soft edge ties the subject to the background and keeps the focus on areas that are contrasting and sharp, and makes them appear even moreso and more interesting. The rimlight separates the subject from the background and helps define some planes or silhouettes that may have been lost in the shadows, as well as add visual interest. Your decision on which to use is very much on a case by case scenario and what you want to show. Typically soft edges and a melding of background and subject lends itself to mroe atmospheric and subtle paintings, whereas a rimlight is more in your face and has a punch/pop to it, so is often used in promotional artwork that is meant to grab your attention, or in the entertainment industry where everything is about flash and excitement. You don't often see rimlights in fine arts since their focus is different.

>>1596796
that makes a lot of sense. Thanks a lot

some vehicle sketch

>>1596701
>>1596702
>>1596708
>>1596711
>>1596728

Thanks for the answer. The Kaiju started as just a sketch and I drew the underwater cave in 2 minutes at the end to have a foreground. I totally get you critque.

More work I just finished.

>>1596497
>>>/d/

>>1596800
work on dem edges brah

>>1596800

And a final one for today

>>1596847

Forgot the pic...

Can a lit surface be brighter than the light source by witch it is lit ?
pic related

>>1596857
>it's not actually brighter than the sun

>>1596857

sure it can appear brighter.

>>1596866
yes it is

>>1596857
IRL no, in paintings yes.

>>1596614
Nice! I like how her face is the only soft part in the whole piece. Just out of curiosity, is there a rational explanation for why her mp3 player is floating or was that just a style thing?

>>1596771
This is worth finishing! Render up that armor! Finish the hands and be careful with the shading there, stuff like that always messes me up.. I love the globe in the hilt, my only complaint would be that the hilt is way short for the thickness of the blade

>>1596857
I guess if the object in question absorbed light at a frequency outside of the visible spectrum and then irradiated more light inside the visible spectrum.

>>1596876
was not planning on, but now yes thanks for the motivation :)

Some thumbnails I did recently. Any advice how to approach painting these kind of study would be appreciated. Should i start with just value, or colour? How do i recognize if the object is blue, but it looks like green (trees far away for example).

Nic cage staring at your mook ass.
WIP

>>1596946
it's beautiful

Figured I'd get off in the right direction before I go further. How's my thumbnail so far /ic/?

I've never really done landscapes before, this is totally new to me. Did I do okay?

>>1596622
Update. Took a break from this for a few hours it seems to work on other pieces. Also thanks to whoever noticed what was wrong with the lighting and angles, I greatly appreciate it.

>>1596950
start defining your silhouettes in the thumbnail

>>1596951
Looks pretty fucking awesome Anon, keep it up

>>1596950
>can't do a dynamic figure pose
>tilt the camera angle

I have this two and the further i try to improve the further it become unrecognizable.

>>1596969
Try learning with pencil and paper first. Use links in the OP too.

>>1596960
I'd like to see the canvas size expanded horizontally a bit so it doesn't cut off the dragons as much.

>>1596969
Start doing studies where you use as few lines to describe a form as possible. This helps you with speed and line control. Also your drawings will never suffer from spaghetti lines or chicken scratch.

Read the stick, do everything etc.

Been doodling on this piece on and off for 2-3 weeks whenever I was bored, still far from finished. I don't really consider myself a visual artist so nobody knows I do this but I would love to hear atleast some opinions or feedback from you folks.

please critic my drawing

>>1596969
the absolute MOST BASIC fundamental skill in drawing is describing form. i personally dont think it matters whether you draw from life or from reference, as long as you're analyzing the form of the object and learning from it.

40 hours a week of BS leaves very little time for practice =.=

>>1597095
This is probably the 1st time I read a reply like yours. The general opinio makes me think that something almost magical happens while drawing from life that makes it so much better than other means.

I do think about shapes and textures while doing studies from photos. Heck, ever since I got acquainted with Vilppu I try to feel the surface of anything I paint, I think that helped me tremendously in regards of rendering and achieving likeness.

>>1597014
I like the shape of the hair and the rudimentary metallic feel, especially in the upper frontal area. However the zone above the eyebrows is uneven, I also think you need to bump the contrast a bit more (more key highlights and darker values) This would do wonders to its sense of solidness.

I would recommend taking a time to look at some references.

Plz r8 my art! :3

>>1597124
I thot I should draw another 1. :D

>>1597127
HOW MANY EDGES

>>1597128
I no the gun has too many strate edges but wat do i do to fix it?

I posted this in a thread and minutes later the thread was deleted.

Owl, constructed using the /ic/-approved method.

Landscape from imagination

Just wondering: Do most of you study from photos? Or are there some who are doing those studies from life?

>>1597141
Loife.

>>1597143
Woife.

>>1597141
If it's digi it is almost guaranteed to be from photo. Most people are too lazy to bother bringing a laptop outside, or even to set up a still life on their desk. If it is traditional it can be either, usually you can tell pretty easily whether they used a photo as reference or not though.

>>1597114
Use more than one brush in your whole painting. The markmaking is so uniform and shit.

>>1597144

Blegh I suck at enviros and I've never painted architecture before. I guess I just gotta grab some ref and really push myself forward on this even though it is a bit poopy.

lots of people doing enviros and enviro thumbs lately. streaming as every day on mine still
http://livestream.com/kietland

>>1597245
dat influence.

>>1597245
Hey Tehmeh, how come your streams aren't saved to your livestream video library?

>>1597228
Thumb looks real gud.
You just have to be more carefull with your brushstrokes, this is real important for man made stuff. Otherwise it might look organic which really isn't what you want.

>>1597121
Thank you very much! I will do that. :)

currently working on this, sorry that the image is a bit bad, no idea how to crop images on the ipad

>>1597135
I don't know if anyone remembers my thread about this from a few days ago, but I got that cover finished for my friend (sort of, used placeholders made of blocks of colour for the two duelling characters which he then turned into 8-bit pixel art for the title screen).

I've opened it up again and decided to finish off the two characters properly so he can use this in the future.

Yes, I know it's terrible. Suggestions on how to improve, this is the first real attempt I've made at painting something, digital or otherwise, and I'm completely lost.

>>1597116
Hey FiRez, when you started out, what was the first thing you did? Did Right Side if the Brain help?

>>1596966
I see what you mean, its not that I was trying to go for a high intensity car chase camera tilt, I just pulled out what I saw from how the values were ont he canvas, but yeah I think I could make the pose a bit more interesting.
>>1596960
That looks really great, thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'm using a new program so I'm still figuring out the brushes.

>>1597285
I too make incomplete heads when I am bored and dry of soul.

doodling random bullshit rather than being productive as per usual

>>1597339
Reminds me of that fish from South Park.

>>1597298

>>1597353
I don't get it.

Could you maybe write something more constructive than 'lel' or 'kek' to accompany this image?

>>1597356
looks like he just overlaid a few textures, just ignore him he isn't helping

>>1597313

I couldn't stand that book, back then its exercises and content seemed to interfere with things that I took for granted but that somehow worked for me. Like she was trying to aim her message only to those who had a really...really hard time with very basic stuff (ex: observing).

On the other hand, Vilppu's message matched really well the pre-conceived idea/workflow I had about drawing.

So I formally started with the Language of Drawing series, then I took Portrait Drawing by Wendon Blake.

>>1597382
Ah, I'd been wondering. Semi-total noob, wanting to get into portrait drawing (trying to get over being intimidated by it all, and made petrified by fear of total frustration and hating the results), and liked the progress you seemed to make in a year's time. Thanks!

Still doing a character per day, expanding ideas behind tiny (<50px) sprites. Also, I think an average level of a post here has risen.

>>1597416
Messed up captcha, here's the pic.

Spent most of the day on his face, not sure how to make him look more 1920s ish looking. Only need to add his right arm with flashlight and fix some stuff in the bg and it should be finally finished.

>>1597452
Why would you bring the rest of the picture to a semi finished level without having even drawn one part of it?

>>1597452
looks like mj

>>1597452
Nothing makes a man look he's from the 1920's like a clean shave and smooth hair that looks drenched in oil.

>>1597452
it looks good mate

>>1597452
Excuse the shitty paintover...but anyways, I tried to address a few issues.

The image is very warm feeling for a night scene, so I tried to bring in more of the cool moonlight and just cooler colours over all. I felt that the entire image was pretty monotonous in terms of value too, so I extended the value range both in the lights and darks (you seemed to stop at about 80 or 90% black, presumably because of your monitor).

Basically the image has two focuses-- the wolf and the guy. So you want to push those two aspects. I simplified the clouds and sky so the wold silhouette reads nicely against it and made the wold darker and with brighter eyes. The guy I brought more of that cool light onto and really emphasized the whiteness of his shirt/collar so you have a few crisp lighter shapes near his head.

I also added some stronger mist/fog to push the mood and creepiness factor.

You can probably simplify a lot of areas more than you have. Besides the fact that detailing every area is a bad idea, it is also a dark image and a night scene. If you ever observe things at night you will notice they tend to group into large masses, often with soft edges. Detail is nearly impossible to see, so there shouldn't be that level of texturework and detail.

>>1597466
>>1597466
well shit, that works great.
I was definitelly going to add more mist, but the rest is all grat stuff i'll look into for sure. Got any more tips what to look for when the flashlight is in?

Would like some critique on the pose and proportions and all that.
Dont worry about the line quality or armor design, i'll work on it later.

Do you guys ever have a piece of art you had just created and you love, but a day later you lose that buzz and it's just a drawing again.

>>1596771
earth is to big now, gotta make it smaller

>>1597490
Rider is too small.

>>1597492
I think you should do the face over

>>1597485
Just be careful not to make it too bright I guess. Right now it is grabbing the most attention. Is the main focus of the painting the flashlight? No? Then don't make it so heavyhanded.

Current work in progress, I had some issues with the weight of the character

>>1597490
I like it. Clean up your lines.

Pic is my horses :3

>>1597490
sloppy as fuck redline because I can't be arsed to do a better job...basically just think of perspective more, and fix your proportions...the horse needs to be longer and the rider bigger etc.

grab some ref of horses (actually I should have done that too, I like never draw horses, ah well)

>>1597504
Look up contrapposto. Also the hammer is not in the same perspective as the grid you laid out.

>>1597521
The whole figure is not in the same perspective.

>>1597496
i think you are right it does not look quite right

>>1597504
I tried to show how the perspective is off. Just from the looks of it, the rest of the figure is drawn in a perspective that rests around mid torso, but I can't draw the lines to show it.

>>1597545
The whole figure isn't in any perspective. You've tried to render on top of a turd.

>>1597560
I'm not the guy who painted this, that's what I was saying, the whole figure is not in perspective with the ground plane...

inb4 faggot such wow much technique

because I have no technique

I'm a meme spouting daggert, please rate my face.

>>1597573
>>1597560

I suggest let it die, he knows to fix perspective now. Unless he fixes and repost the image then keep helping.

>>1597589
wow/10

>>1597124
>>1597127
Y isnt no 1 givin fedback on my art?

>>1597517
Your rider might be a tad small too, he's only about 6.5-7 heads tall.

>>1597491
Every time, but those "I dun it!" highs were winderful. Except last time, I completely lost that "feeling", and haven't really drawn in weeks... Ever since I started coming here. Dunno. I'm depressed as fuck and feel lost.

>>1597504
Ah, you're the guy that drew that warrior. I can tell by dat... dem perspectives.

>>1597413
Thank anon! I appreciate it :)

Portraiture isn't that hard as long as you keep in mind the rule of thirds, key alignments and try to use values instead of lines you will get very decent results.

The book I mentioned is very easy to digest and a good starting point imho. After that one you could get The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head, which goes even further in terms of realism through the in-deep explanation of chiaroscuro.

>>1597491
Yes. That's why you should wait a couple of days then look back on it again, so you can find flaws you hadn't noticed before.

hey if you guys care to tell me, I could use some advice on moveing from observational drawing, to drawing people with no referance. do you mix the two?

>>1597628
The natural way to draw by Nicolaides, just be wary that you have to seriously commit to it and spend 6 months to a year doing the exercises.

>>1597632
I don't think I've ever seen a single person do this and get good results.

Update, blocking in armour, tweaking colours.

i'm clueless about this. It just happened.

a study in 1 point perspective i did a few weeks ago.

>>1597728
>armour
>colours

a study in visual measuring i did a few more weeks ago

>>1597748
Yeah yeah britbong land.

>>1597728
awesomo, colors have a bit o' the old el greco vibe

bit of a nit-pick and a subjective one at that but if it were i, i would make sure some of the girl on the grounds skin is touching the dudes. you did it with all the other girls, but not with her. it makes her sit apart in the image a little, you can see it if you look at the thumb, she short of looks super-imposed onto the picture of the other people. i think the skin touch thing would help, but probably when the armour is shinier later it will tie her in anyway.

some warmup sketches. really want to work on something more portfolio-ish today since I just keep scribbling

>>1597728
I really like your rendering. do you have any videos of your workflow?

trying clip paint studio out

kind of a really easy to love program

I'm going to delete the weird shading behind her and color it with markers once I figured out how to fix the incubator so that it actually looks like one.

>>1596560
Love it.

>>1597780
how is it, the results don't look much different from anything else

>>1597928
foreshortenings pretty bad, she needs a redraw tbh

Sorry if it's blurry, i didn't realize i was painting on a really small canvas size.

bishop design for a series of elf chess pieces.

>>1597938
tbh I should probably really be studying perspective right now, but whenever I've read something I just want to draw it afterwards

I think I'll redraw it after I'm a bit more secure about depth and perspective

>>1597928
line is abit inconsistent as well as the foreshortening

>>1597941
that outward sticking hand will be a bitch on a chess board.
apart from that, got anymore?
i like the idea

>>1597945
i dont think this is the actual pose i will put him in. this is just to get the design for his robes figured out.
... and here is the pawn. i made this one a while ago... i plan on continuing up the ranks. so ima design the knight next.

>>1597946
heres a more developed version of the image...

>>1597946
what are you planning on crafting them from?
like marble..
or another stone?

>>1597937

it's pretty great, the color picker is better than photoshop, but more importantly the brush feel is really nice

Also has some cool ruler tools

more importantly it's virtually photoshop with tweaks, so its super easy to play around in if you already know your shortcuts

>>1597947
Very nice. Ground plane needs to be checkered :)

>>1597948
actually i plan on making them out of paper...
pic related is my prototype design for the base figure.
>>1597950
thanks!

what do you think about this as sketch?

>>1597955
aww, paper craft is still cool, but marble would have been epic.

>>1597960
Dude, just rework the entire thing. That's not how shoulders look, especially if they're crossing them. Left shoulder shouldn't be like that. Feet are really weird too. Learn more anatomy, then come back.

>>1597967
i honestly have no idea how i could reasonably make these out of marble...

>>1597972
the right tools + time

>>1597972
marble is actually not very hard to work, part of the reason it's such a popular substrate

>>1597971
wow such a helpfull comment
i wont redo my whole work why should i,
but yes i see the shoulder looks a bit broken
i'll change that
for the dota players what do you think?

Hey guys, i would apreciate some pointers on how to draw booties.
This here is my first try. Feel free to be brutal but constructive

>>1598009
the first step is to accept that there is no booty, just the top of the legs, and the top of the legs are fat, you have to draw the booty just like you would draw a beer belly, the grotesque translates into the sexual when it comes to booty fat.

>>1598021
Thats oddly spiritual, ill see what i can do

>>1598021
Is this any better booty guru?

I like hats. Perhaps I should become a hat designer.

shit? "it's okay"? good?
need a crit before the paint
do your worse

>>1598047
looks okay not a fan of fan art though. Maybe the hand of the assassin dude on the victims head like pulling it back a bit.

The victims head looks a bit big. as well

>>1598054
thanks

very happy with the brushwork in the face,

not so happy with the *everything* below the face

also struggling so hard with the eyes

>>1598009
ニードズ・モア・ルーミス

>>1598047
pfft, you're not supposed to kill people, where's the challenge?


..plus i didn't get 0 kills because those rats ate a guy, how is that my fault dishonored?!

Final rendition (for now).
Feedback?

>>1598058
Shadow has colour.

It looks like the shadows on her hoodie are a blue, not a grey.

Also pay more attention to the creases, they don't line up with the reference.

Why not try opening your ref over the top of the painting in a new layer then dropping the opacity to give you a clue where it's off? From eyeballing it I'd say the shape of the face and lines of the hoodie need more work.

>>1598060
i did the same. i had 4 total kills on both game and DLC. killed only people who been total assholes in my opinion. but this game puts you as a bloodthirsty serial killer dude who went buttmad and it's marketed like this as well.

but
who im shitting, i just wanted to draw a sword and be edgy

>>1598067
Y'all niggas need Loomis.

In all seriousness though, look up some artistic reference on anatomy because the forms here are way off. I'd say go with Gottfried Bammes' book. Should give you a good idea of where you're going wrong.

>>1598068

thanks bruh

>>1598068
you're right but it's better to think of it in terms of temperature, warm light cool shadow -- warm shadow, cool light.

otherwise you can get yourself in quandary trying to match up compliments, and wondering about how best to mix the local and stuff, and then on top of that there's normally a shift or some transparency or something which means using the true compliment makes the thing look weird.

best to imply KISS, or just don't think about the rule at all and use the real colour although that's not as effective with a photo reference.

>>1598110
imply = employ*

>>1597766
>>1597771
Thanks, I'll see what I can do about the pose but having everything rendered should tie it all together. Might move his hand over her shoulder.

I don't have any vids of my workflow, my pc is dreadfully old so recording videos while working on photoshop is out of the question. What you see is generally how I work, just block things out and keep refining with various brushes. I tend to lean on hard edge brushes a lot, default hard round, chalk brushes with sharp edges.

Practicing painting.

>>1597228
looks pretty fucking awesome, just has to be tightened up. nice colors and i like the design of the buildings

>>1597947
>>1597946
the spike thing sticking out from his chest looks retarded, is it like a neck guard or something? make it protrude less and make it thicker so it still balances the helmet part

>>1598058

mfw this deserves more praise

>>1598195
>mfw samefag

I drew a turkey hand but the thread 404'd.

captcha: sent gedynig

>>1598209
>6 heads tall

R u avin a giggle m8?

>>1598211

hue

Looking into storyboard work, trying to develop an attractive, simple style that I can knock out fast.

Feedback, critique, blind hatred and tits all appreciated.

>>1597124
>>1597127
this is bait

>>1598240
line confidence needs working on.
draw the fucking hands, cropping out hands makes the work look tacky.

>>1598249
Every time I try to draw something on photoshop it looks like this.

How can I draw lines like the ones in this image?

>>1597492
brap

Be gentle. It's my first time.

>>1598242
Didn't even realize I'd done that, good catch.

u liek ?

>>1598256
cool but I'm gonna nitpick and say eyes too close. it really detracts the image looking derpy.

>>1597947
Felt like the perspective is weird.

>>1598250
Higher dpi

>>1598258
thanks didnt see that

>tfw draw threads quality skyrockets every year
its like left a few years and we're going to compete cghub's title of a "cool place to hang out for an artist" or become an alternative place at least
not like i want this to be, just saying, i visit this board for 4 years
every year people grow huge, that's some real progress i see on this board
i never seen a normalfag place with such skill progression

>>1598276
Really? The quality here is pretty low imo. Nothing in here is pro level, or even approaches anything that is frontpage cghub. And 4chan will never be a cool place to hangout. Not for pros.

>>1598252
Much nicer.

>>1598256
is it meant to look like Altaiir?

advice please

>>1598290
no.. but shit the red belt makes it look like it.. damn

>>1598284
I agree with that guy, actually I wanted to post roughly the same thing yesterday. It may be low, but it is higher than before.

>>1598211
>Implying the hat isn't the seventh

>>1598276
I haven't been here long but I do see some occasional imo really nice work. I would just like to improve some before my b-day.

anyway pic related Do the value and eyes look alright? If not what can I work on? I think I placed the eyebrows a bit strangely and will change them.

>>1598284
there's only front page at cghub that is cool
everything beyond it - lower that these threads content or on par at best
cghub sure scares off deviants, but not that much

its just cghub doesnt let pass retards to the front page so it seems that cghub is packed only with Mullins, Dociu and Antonovs

>>1598318

I like your brushwork, how do you do it?

>>1598336
that's what works look like when they're not rendered fully and are used with a slanting brush

so basically just paint and don't render it completely and it will look like that

anyways looks like the rake brush, with the stroke direction set to adjust and follow to the direction of where the pen is directed

>>1598331
Well it still has those big name people (although funnily enough not Mullins like you say). And recently a TON of random unknown asian artists who are incredibly skilled.

What does /ic/ have? We have tehmeh and very rarely one vox and even more rarely Long. Any other pros posting here are very low level. And even those three big names are not that big in the industry.

>>1598336
thanks, I sketch and block in colors with a basic hard round and then I blend with this one brush. I don't know where I got it, I'll try to remember but yeah I really like the results of it too.

just finished this. Colored pencil and ink on paper.

A preparatory thumbnail sketch for a larger painting.

Critiques very welcome. Still finding my way around landscapes and digital painting techniques

>>1597997
drow's new cosmetic is shit

>>1598240
you need to get way stronger fundamentals before you can quickly shit out semi-decent things consistently

>>1598453
looks good. i'd say maybe either make the saturation of the colours of the plains/castle larger or desaturate the blue

Random study, what do you think guys?

>>1598505
Work on your edges.

>>1598507
>>1598507
How do i learn edge control man? I've tried seperating some part into another layers and stuff. But i'm still suck at it.

>>1598513
you look at the edge and draw the edge how it is, it's not rocket science

>>1596946

>>1598514
One thing i gotta ask, when you're drawing, do you work on the edges while you're blocking or do you block all the values and colors freely and THEN start working on the edges?

Sorry for the bad english, not a native speaker here.

>>1598520
updat

can someone draw me pic related with his coat open with his fingers sliding down his sweaty abs

>>1598521
you should be considering the edges all along, but you can refine them later if you like. it really depends on the artist, and the type of edge obviously.

>>1598527
for some more info
>http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Noctis_Lucis_Caelum
can you please do this for me, there are no good pictures of my husbando

>>1598527
Yes, I can.

£160 for black-and-white, £400 for colour. 25% deposit in advance.

Sketching ~ Trying to work on my brush economy while doing so

Really bringing everything ive learned into play is one serious bitch I guess its one of those over time deals

>>1596958
the angles are still off.
the seat needs to be abit higher, the window a bit smaller. That square on the wall or whatever you call it isn't big enough.

>>1598543
Interesting process you got there. How do you get to that point? Do you sketch the character at all with lines or do you just start mashing in colors and shapes? How long does it take for you to do something like this?

>>1598561

The day I have a process is the day when pigs fly motorcycles

I start with a low saturation background usually pretty light and make some bigass stokes until I get some sorta mood going (image related I guess) From there I start sketching various silhouettes while trying to convey an image inside my head // .
(cont.)
Erm its usually either lineart or a silhouette it depends on how I want to approach an image. In this case a silhouette/lineart .

From there I usually start blocking in the light sources and gradually add in colors. I pump up the shadows saturation...usually //.

From there its usually just polishing or just mindlessly working on one part of the image. If I was going to finish this probably 5-8 hours of drawing probably depending on how polished I wanted it. Don't over render as it takes away from the substance of the image at least im starting to figure that out.

For this sketch I dunno exacts but around 30-50 mins


Also I encourage experimenting with how you approach an image finding something that fits you. There's alot of ways to approach images but its more or less left to you on how you want to do that. In my case I'm just figuring it out as I go along. Also known as staying away from other artists workflows.

>>1598543
Wait, are you the same Conmana who used to post this shitty goblin character design some months back? That's some incredible improvement in such a short period of time.

>>1598570
>Also I encourage experimenting with how you approach an image finding something that fits you
I've been trying to figure this out for at least 6 months and I'm none the wiser. I still get drawn back to doing outlines and overly detailing my sketches as if I was trying to finish a traditional pencil drawing. I really have no process and I have never had one. I can't find a way I like, everything takes way too much time. The thing you spent 30-50 minutes would probably take me a closer to like 8-12 hours

I just have no idea how to paint and I can't seem to find any place to learn how to do so either. I've read a few books about it but I'm still none the wiser how to actually go about it in a way that focuses on the important stuff and doesn't take a hundred hours for a sketch

Oh, and thanks for the reply, very informative

>>1598571

:-: he was beautiful in his own fucked up flip canvas type of way

But yes its the same guy

>>1598573

Well as I've progressed i've sorta picked up ideas by simply glancing over other peoples images. In my case rendering/painting is pretty much the bulk of what I do.

So alot of the time if I find something I like ill do what you do spend a shit ton of time endlessly spending hours working on it. Eventually Ill get to a point where im simply repeating what I was doing an hour ago and I immediately stop working on it.

So in your situation that doesn't apply to myself since im more of an observational thinker

Honestly I would do some life studies if I were you. Fruits and fruits and I dunno fruits anything with strong color is nice to work off of.

O and thats another thing taking an image to finished especially when dealing with studies in my personal opinion I feel it merits no point. If you can render and observe half an apple and leave the other half completely empty its gtg in my book. Thats just me though.

Lastly toss what you think you know and walk blind. Every other image I change how I start working off it. If you dont experiment with what you're doing nothing will ever come of it. (dont take anything anyone says as fact either, what im saying can be observed as shit by many others)

And that image wouldve taken me 8-10 hours a year ago as well probably longer. Don't worry about time just paint ^-^.

Sorry about engrish I know I suck

Self portrait sketch from mirror via pencil

>>1598577
>Honestly I would do some life studies if I were you
Life studies as in from life or will photos online do the trick?
>anything with strong color is nice to work off of
I don't think I know enough about colors to do anything with colors as of yet. And painting from reference seems only to subtract from my ability to draw from imagination which has gotten me kinda worried about doing more of that stuff. Sure my observational skills have gone up but my ability to come up with stuff from my head has had a massive decline. That was one of the reasons why I asked about your process

>>1597417
Loving that stuff, anon. How many have you done so far? I think I've only seen the first two and now those.

>>1598581


O okay

Imagination and technical skills are two sides of a coin

Umm for me its just been trial and error
If I find something I like I go with it.I put in my brain vault of sorts and save it for later. There's like two things I can tell you about imagination and that is... It developes over time and , If you want to jumpstart it because its lacking or just not there gather reference - If I were to draw an alien and come up with nothing I would probably google "deep sea life" Find interesting creatures and pick and choose off them. Dont copy them just take interesting parts- from there.Perhaps mash them together.

When It comes to armor ive drawn much of it that I can just sorta shit it out. Second nature at this point - back to the point of over time.

Life studies or photos are fine. If you really think you suck at color and or anything I would do some observational life studies. And then some observational photo studies. A study is a study so you really cant lose just try to intake as much information rather than zombie mode

Hey /ic/

I have a request for anyone really.

My anniversary is coming up and I'm broke as fuck. I'd like someone to take a picture of me and my girlfriend and then draw it.

I'd like to look over any art you've done as to choice if I like your style or not.

I doubt I could pay you or anything.. it would just be out of the good of your heart.

Anyone willing to help?

>>1598604
Beggars can't be choosers

>>1598610
That's true, but if the art style is bad, I wouldn't really want to give it as a gift.

I'd do it myself, but I'm such a beginner it wouldn't turn out well at all.

>>1598613
Why would you want someone else to make her a present anyways, I'm sure your gf would be happy if you made it yourself.

>>1598587
I don't really know how to do life studies. It's not like I can drag my PC outside to draw and my room isn't very inspiring and I don't trust my eyes one bit when it comes to colors. And when drawing from imagination I have no idea what colors to use and how so I've been just sticking with greyscale

I mostly want to draw characters from video games and such so there's a lot of things I can take reference from but I definitely don't want to copy the crappy in-game models 1:1 so I have to use my imagination, which is suffering from doing photo studies. I can't approach a drawing from imagination the same way I approach a photo study. There are no angles or values in my mind that I can just try to emulate on the canvas and I can't fabricate a scene that accurately in my mind

Your way seems a bit more natural, trying to find the feel of the piece and such, that might help a bit so thank you. Still gotta figure out the painting part though, and the colors

>>1598250
turn down the brush spacing.

I'm so bad at character design, will start working on this stuff from now on.

This is a thumbnail for a drawing of Alice Cooper (in his 80s sleazeball incarnation).

I like it so far but it divides the page in half diagonally and makes a huge dead area. What should I put in it? His music in this time was mostly about sex, so whatever I put in there I'd like to fit that theme.

Or should I just alter the composition so the figure and syringe all fill the page?

>>1598195
we're not here to give praise, we're here to give critique

>tfw good at copying put lack the imagination to create anything myself
Is there anything I can do?

>>1598760
Close your eyes

>>1598760

copying... god. there's always SOME degree of "creation". just stick to a reference but turn the knob a little further towards "creative" than you usually would. stylize. inject a bit more personality.

a fun exercise that gets my creative juices flowing, is a choose a ref image at random, and try to paint it like zedig would. or like rob ruphelz would. etc etc.

>>1598762
all I see is darkness anon

Hows my colour and composition?

>>1598763
yeah real fucking creative there, you'll be the next salvador dali!

>>1598195
You don't even know what 'mfw' is. and that shit (your drawing) is garbage

>>1598769

>>1598058
OK.... some of these critiques I wouldn't normally make because I'm all for straying from a reference pic, but since you included it I assume you are trying to stay close to it.

-The nose/mouth are too far to her left (our right).
-The neck/jawline is off as well, and you have reflected light form her hair hitting her jaw when I don't think there should be any light there.
- Then it just isn't even close to done. The hoodie looks like an amorphous blob, not a cotton hoodie. One of her eyes is covered by hair and you haven't even done the one remaining eye yet. The hair is in it's first stage (I hope), and you haven't yet included any of the leaves/ferns.

Not a bad start you've got, but get on this anon!

>>1598760
>tfw losing imagination when growing up

>>1596506
Headcunt from the Spiky Caves

>>1596506
Reminds me of Aleister Crowley at the end of Nightmare Creatures. Looks cool.

>>1596966
I hate that so much...

>>1597508
Awesome, horses are bitchin'. Give the legs a little bit more attention and you're golden.

Here's something I just finished. What do you guys think about the 'nuanced highlights' in the colors? Nice or cheap looking?

Personally, I think the whole thing is gay as fuck.

This started out as just a quick sketch to practice some perspective (namely the gun).

Spent an hour working it up into a little thing, but somehow the perspective on the gun got completely fucked taking it from a sketch.

How can I avoid this happening in the future?

>>1597940
Nice reference choice.
I think the head in the original is more bent forward. His right shoulder is also more tilted backwards.

>>1598768
blurry colours, dull composition

>>1598249

>>1597014
>>1597121
Took your advice and worked on it today a little more. Do you think it's an improvement?

After drawing the head and hands, and a few other books, where do i go now? Do i just draw faces? and if so, how will i know im not making mistakes/how focused should the drawings be?

How to I make the transition from sketches and lines to actual drawings?
I feel like I'm just never completing a drawing, instead I just got lot's of sketches of lines and circles lying around.
How do I ascend from concept to actual art folks?

>>1598829
Use the sketches you've already established as the blueprint for a finished drawing. It's not unlike progressing from thumbnails to a final painting. Check out these links on thumbnailing - the workflows shown might give you some insight:
http://pastebin.com/fZM8NdBr

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>>1598832
that's really helpful anon, thank you
am I a pleb because I don't draw digital?

>>1598522
y-you can work on it more if you like.

>>1598797

Get your foreshortening right before you take it further. The handle and arm are all wonky because your proportions are off.

>>1598864
The entire subject (guy's hand/gun) is wonky. I'm on my phone, but if'n you can imagine a perspective grid around that, you'll see what I mean. Namely the cylinder and barrel, they don't match.

>>1598864
>>1598900

It all lined up perfectly on the rough, I measured it all out very carefully.

Not entirely sure what went wrong. Any tips for making sure it doesn't happen again?

>>1598824
well what the hell do you wanna draw

>>1597114
The grass really needs work, especially the grass that's being lit.
Overall well done though

>>1598295
your face is too long, and her hair is different.
Just look nigga!

>>1598796
you could've put more detail in the right one's structure, which would make the art look a whole lot sexier (assuming fapitude is what you're shooting for)

>>1597127
>>1597124
You can start by killing yourself , it may help because this "art" is shit. I took the bait.