/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>inb4 waaah, it's not a naked white chick
>inb4 too low-res
>inb4 too high-res
>inb4 hurr durr only anatomy/portrait counts as study

>inb4 stop complaining and draw

>>1609430
You realize a study is supposed to teach you something concrete and specific, that you can later apply to your own work, right? It's dumb to "study" things with no practical application just because you feel like copying a random photograph.

Sorry, fell asleep looking at this boring photo.

>>1609326

op the way we usually do this kinda thang is by the op posting his own study, or atleast a wip of it, first.

faggot.

>>1609468
Materials
Light
Forms
Values

Not everything's gotta be boobs and butts

>>1609485
this doesn't really teach any of that.

You dumbass nigger.

>>1609497
Are...are you blind or retarded?

>>1609518
probably both

congratz for winning the boring as fuck award

also

>not setting up own still life instead
>paint from shitty photo

small wonder why most /ic/ are tards

Is this a good WIP? Because sometimes I have no idea what am I doing while painting digitally.

>>1609541
Is that Winmugen I see on the background?

>>1609497
Uh.. What image are you seeing? It may not be the most fun, but all of those things are definitely relevant to this photo, and knowledge of each is required to pull off the study.

>>1609485
If you want to study those sort of things, set up a simple still life from life, you'd learn a million times more than from a shitty photo.

>Not everything's gotta be boobs and butts

The reason people like to do figure studies here is because it teaches you all of those things you listed plus gesture, construction, perspective and anatomy.

>>1609543
No, I'm re-learning 3rd strike, because I'm garbage at it.

it looks like a challenge to get the surfaces right, but the sbject seems boring.

Well' I've tried.

why don't we have more hair or fur studies? you pussies scared or something? faggots.

>>1609607
You must be pretty new to art if you believe the surface texture of an object makes something more easy or difficult to paint.

>>1609607

you can always show us your awesome hair and fur studies in the study thread mister sir dudebroman

>>1609630

Is that a challenge bro? lets go man! me and you 50 fur studies in 5 hours, You think you can take me?

>>1609597
this is a good block in, you should keep working on it for a bit more, put more values in it, and textures, down.

>>1609653

50 in 5 hours?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_XuOBnUAg

anyone else doing this?

>>1609703
I might give it a try

Start

>>1609719
see, now I feel like I've taken this way to seriously and wasted a good few hours of my life

>>1609724
>>1609719
holy mother of god, is that the level of your observation skills?
i think the betty edwards book might be useful for you right now

>>1609731

>>1609719
>>1609724
are not the same person

any tips on making things sharper, or shinier I guess? things I paint have a blurry look

>>1609731
Just started bert dodson, so yeah I have a lot to work on.

>>1609736
Just paint with a hard brush with high opacity. Try unchecking the Transfer box in the brush panel. You can also at the very end go to Filter>Sharpen>Unsharpen Mask, and that will let you sharpen your image a fair bit and pull out some more texture. Most pros use it at the end of an image, especially for speedpaints and stuff since it makes it more crisp and finished looking.

op here

feel free to post other surfaces for other to try

and process gif

what should I have done differently and is it worth finishing?

>>1609774
Same size canvas might've helped

Done it, now what.

You dildos are aware that you should use a reference photo as a reference, and not just try to become human Xerox machines, right?

Use OP's photo as a general reference and change the colors, angle, lighting etcetera to make it your own and show you understand what you are drawing.

Otherwise, you may as well just vectorize this bitch and call it good.

>>1609798

now you post it

>>1609824
I rather not, I feel like I've wasted a shit tonne of my life and not learned anything to be honest

>>1609719
Trying again, restart.

>>1609835
>I feel like I'm missing the point..
Kinda proud of this bit here though

>>1609839
And i've finished up, how is it?

>>1609820
You are a fucking idiot. The point of a study is to _study_ the reference. If you are changing everything about it, that just means there was nothing worthwhile to learn from it.

I'm all for thinking about what you are studying and making intelligent changes to it when you see fit to improve the overall image, but what you are saying is completely idiotic. Not that this ref is any good int he first place.

>>1609846
Hey, this is very convincing!

>>1609820
you know that there is a difference between referencing and doing a photo study, right?

>>1609861
>>1609876
To be fair, he's partially right, it's good to do photo studies to the T sometimes but it's also good to use it in an applied way, that way rather than just mimicking what you see, you use it in a way you'll remember.
I think?

>>1609846
Nice.

>>1609860

you aren't even trying.

>>1609875
>>1609883
Ty ty
welp, I'm done, might work into the details a bit more but pretty sure this is exact as I'ma get short of gridding

>>1609909
Dat marshmallow

>>1609881
When doing a study, you aren't supposed to mimick what you see, you are supposed to understand what you see. If you change something as fundamental as the lighting, like that guy suggested, in an image that has pretty much nothing else going for it but the lighting, then you are no longer trying to understand and learn from the reference, you are just doodling something loosely based on a photograph.

With that said, studying that particular photo seems like a waste of time in general.

>>1609925

why is it a waste of time?

your post sounds like a waste of time since ypu cant even post something worth studying

>>1609930
I'm not the guy you're replying to, but what is the purpose of copying this?

So what is OP's picture even supposed to be? The top of perfume bottles with foam or something?

>study something before you know why and when you need it

first draw, then study the things you need for it. /ic/ always does it the other way

>>1609546
A figure study isn't gonna teach you how to represent metal on a canvas.

>>1609943
gold/ivory toilet urinal cakes

>not using precious metals/rare bone to piss on
Pleb.

>>1609990
The thing is that I for one, can't stop drawing anime cancer, so I hardly ever study things that don't have to do with the human figure. So I've decided to do this kind of studies, they sure will come in handy when doing eviroments or some shit not strictly related with human figures.

>>1609846
what the fug
post the whole thing man

>>1609860
Like it better now?

>>1609992
I'm drawing a metal figure, you faggot.

I liked trying to do something new for me.
In the other hand, I feel like I just mindessly copied without understanding where the lights come from.

>>1610146
Top left, this pic is actually quite easy to decipher tbh.

>>1610147
Yep, I mean reflected lights, translucency and stuff.

>>1609846
Sheeit, that's good.

I've noticed that one hexagon seems to be the one everyone's focusing on.

>>1609909
That's really good. Nice one!

>>1610147
Top, not top left. Not so easy.

>>1609820
Well said anon.

Here's my interpretation of OP's picture. I decided not to be slavishly tied to the constraints of the subject matter. I used my judgment as an artist to change the angle, lighting, composition and subject to something I felt a deeper emotional connection with.

Pic related. Before any bigot criticises it, remember it's my style, so I'm objectively a great artist.

>>1609326
I started this one using graphite. Pretty good fun as an exercise.

>>1610354
Describe what you did. I am intrigued by this.

>>1610395
>closed web browser
>picked up pencil
>drew

>>1610398
So weird! Never thought there's so much planning and thinking involved!
The math part was really interesting, because I never knew you could move the vanishing points closer by moving the construction lines from diagonal to making a line to the next square's farther corner.
Thanks for the insight!

>>1610395
>Describe what you did. I am intrigued by this.

Err.. sketched it out, eyeballing the proportions, then used a range of pencils from 4H to 4B to shade.

>>1610398
This clown isn't me.

>>1610402
If that's sarcasm, t-thanks... I was focusing on rendering, not the exact measurements.

>>1610412
And thank you, anon :D

>>1610415
Shy, why do you have a name?
Do you need it for some reason?

Not done yet but I've spent a few hours on this already. I'll try to finish it tomorrow.

>>1610090
I did post the whole thing..
>>1609909
Here it is worked into even damn more

jebus this took like 4 hours, my hand hurts

>>1610628
1. Are those pinks by design or mistake (I remember that Corel Painter did that shit).
2. You miss some golden light on the white stuff.
3. Your rendering is amazing, you have inspired me to try it. Could you share your approach?

>>1610745
Blocked in the basic colours and shapes then worked into each one individually looking at the reference photo every other glance, maybe not the best way to do it though idk
As for think pink, might be my dodgy eyesight..