/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

ADD meds

I enjoy painting a lot more when I smoke weed, maybe that helps

>>1743337
That depends on what is stopping you.

Maybe you just lack music, movies. Rendering becomes really boring and many can't do it without music.

Now, in art class my teacher used to grab a brush with white paint and do strokes over the very refined paintings of the students.
At first they went really mad but then they took the opportunity to improve what was down bellow. So they don't feel oppressed by the initial design and keep inventing things.

I think that many artists want to keep on designing instead of just making a thumbnail in 3 minutes and then spend 10 hours refining.

Pic related, taking more design decisions despite having spent hours rendering something.

Also, many artists work on 2 different paintings at the same time to keep their interest.

if possible, i just drop it for a day or two and come back to it. Easier to spot mistakes that way to

>>1743369

what that pic said, don't be afraid to completely change something even if it already looks finished

>>1743337
Why not just keep all your unfinished work aside and finish it later? Is this a bad habit? I mean if you are working on something for a client I understand rushing but not the tedium. Letting your work agitate you seems to me like it's not worth it.

>>1743372
Honestly feel like the sky loses something in the second version.

>>1743523
I see what you mean but I prefer the second version. In the first the bottom third of the canvas is fairly plain while everything else is busy. In the second, now both the top third and bottom third are plain, making it feel a lot more balanced.

>>1743527
True, and I really don't like anything about the first one other than the sky. Particularly the first one's trees, bleh.
It still bums me out about the sky, though; I think a better choice would've been to change the composition to get rid of the boring lower third than to work on the (admittedly realistic and better looking) reflection, keeping the focus on the sun and clouds.

I think my point more might be something along the lines of don't put realism above having an engrossing image. The first one's problem is that the lower half is boring, not that it's unrealistic, and having a ref isn't really the main solution to "fixing" it.

>>1743527
They're two different kinds of paintings. The bottom one looks like a sterile, unfinished concept art scribble. Sure, it's more naturalistic, but it's bland.
The top picture is more of an abstraction, and while not naturalistic, the weird clouds add to something to the whole.
The funny thing is that the idiot uses ref that doesn't show the same thing as the original picture, given that there aren't any clouds in the reference photo.

>>1743372
hey I painted that
im more than a little surprised someone saved then posted it later, makes it all seem more real

still haven't fixed original though because im a lazy piece of shitgarbage

>>1743337
Did that really take you five hours?

How much would I have to send you via Paypal for you to draw me a naked one?

You only really get bored like that because you don't really know what you are doing, unless you have a history of ADD.

Still lifes are like pulling teeth, I spend triple the time staring into spacing than painting.

>>1743806
coz your doing it w w w wrong

>>1743806
do you have more paintings, or portfolio links?

>>1743806
nice fingernails

>>1743953
travesty fingernails

>>1743806
Maybe you should try your try your hand at abstract art rather than learning how to draw. That way you can do whatever you want and if you get bored you can start on a new one and no one can tell that you have this issue.

>>1743536
Pretty sure that paintover was just trying to show how quickly and easily you can create a vastly superior sense of color and believability by simply using a reference instead of trying to guess how something should look without actually knowing how it looks.

If you really believe the first painting having a somewhat more interesting cloud pattern makes the lesson that paintover is trying to teach redundant, then you are the idiot here.

yes. I'm an animator so a 30 minute drawing is a long one for me. Which is a little strange because a single scene might take me weeks

am i the only one here that likes the bottom one immensely better? The clouds in the top one loook bad and it is generally distracting. i looks like something i would paint, and my painting is god awful. I am a draw fag and id like to keep it that way, but seriously, good work random painter, looks a lot better in two

>>1744354
The second one is better. Though we do get some shitty paintovers, some people like to shit on all paintovers for the most asinine reasons and ignoring the main point being conveyed.

>>1743372
Reminds me of that snow spec-ops mission in mw2.

>nostalgia
>gee thanks

>>1743957
five cokenails on one hand

>>1743337

>>1744418
That game is like 4 years old, how the fuck is that nostalgic?

>>1744509
Thats like a third of my whole life tho :s
lOl

>>1743337
that style looks familiar, pic yours OP?

>>1743827
Can you tell me why?
You'll have to trust me that the perspective was more accurate than it looks, couldn't photograph both things together in line, but please do tear me a new one about anything else please, I really need to learn somehow.

>>1743830
Sorry I don't share these things, but here's it before I gave up. Four hours or less I think.

>>1744451
Aww yiss

>>1743337
Sometimes things get boring. I have patience in spades, my problem is that rendering things out doesn't make things any better. I've spent a couple of days working on a painting and then just deleted those layers because the messy but confident lay in still looks better. So I need to work on getting things down very well at the start.

>>1745234
That's pretty nice anon, wish you'd put something in the background though. Next time have a stronger, darker piece of cloth in the background to make things more interesting, set it up like you would a model at life drawing.

I get what you mean on the perspective, it's obviously from a different angle, don't worry about explaining that.

My advice for you drifting off too much while painting would be to do some shorter still lifes. Maybe do a bunch of smaller, faster studies, and it'd give you the chance to try interesting lighting set ups too.

>>1745549
>I've spent a couple of days working on a painting
>deleted those layers

>>1745549
Thanks anon, I'll definitely try the darker fabric next time, and hopefully do more quick things.
I'm not sure whether still life paintings should go in the daily drawing thread or the sketchbook thread, though.

I really like the strong colours you've used, as well as the general atmosphere. It's pretty epic.
Is there a way you can avoid the gradient tool without losing your strong blocks of colour? I'm just curious how that would change the picture.

>>1745577
As the file name implies it's a drawing by Trevor Claxton
http://trevorclaxton.blogspot.se/

>>1744716
underage plz leave

>>1744007
Or you're just a complete retard for not understanding that you can't teach a person something by taking his somewhat abstract painting and changing the actual content of the picture and turning it into generic concept art.

>>1744509
last decent cod

also my clanmates went to play LoL :/

>>1745698
Report and move on.