/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

naked lady

Updated an older series of funny lookin' animal portraits. Finished this one last night.

Guys, come up with a focal point while i try to make the composition work

>>1783885
Looks great!

Realizing I suck at drawing and been slacking off traditionally, so I am trying to get back into the groove of graphite again.

>>1783898

Oh yeah you suck so bad.

You're just awful.

What. Were you fishing for complements?

>>1783925
That kinda was a compliment, because the sarcasm is so obvious

>>1783925
Actually I was hoping for crits. Maybe advice on better techniques for drawing. Right now I am using a combination of hatching and veiling.

>>1783898

I don't even have to look at that Bargue reference to know how completely awfully wrong it is

Throw it away and start over. This time spend the recommended 8 hours on your Bargue so you actually learn something.

Protip: A kneaded eraser will make or break your drawing. Learn how to use it, and use it a lot.

>>1783941
>This time spend the recommended 8 hours on your Bargue so you actually learn something.
Not this shit again

>>1783947

>not this shit again
>this shit again
>learning how to draw
>/ic/

There's a reason you won't ever escape mediocrity

>>1783898
Draw bigger

>>1783941
Thanks anon. I drew it simply to get myself drawing (I figured it was better than drawing a a bad nude reference). I'll give the 8 hour suggestion a try.

>>1783885
Head's a bit round and flat. Looks too much like a bat.

>>1783954

Listen, eight hours seems like a lot of work for one drawing, and it is. And for that arm in particular, I wouldn't spend nearly that long. But choose a harder Bargue plate and really, really study it and focus on it. Then copy it as best you can. Pay attention to the vertical and horizontal points that line up. Pay attention to the angles and measurements. This is called learning to see, and nearly every great artist in history learned this way of copying as a foundation. When you learn to "see", constructing proportionate 3D forms becomes ten times easier. 90% of anons skip this crucial step, and as a result, 100% of their work is mediocre garbage. Do yourself a favor and build the foundation before you build the house. These people are like musicians who don't study scales or theory and complain when they can't play two notes of a song correctly. They don't know the language of music, like artists without this foundation don't know the language of visual art.

>>1783871
shitty

>>1783950

>implying

captcha: >implying >implying

>>1783960
Thanks for the advice anon, really appreciate it!

Posted in previous draw thread without realizing there was a new one. Advice/critiques?

>>1783987
>see thumbnail
>hey this is good
>open thumbnail
>fucking gross

Every. Fucking. Time.

>>1783990

I never said it was finished, but thanks that was really constructive

>>1783987
What's the focal point? Right now, there is nothing interesting going on in this image. There is no sense of scale, no interesting shape variety, no design whatsoever, no interesting value statement, nothing.

You really need to think about designing a good composition and intersting shapes if you want the "rocky wasteland" landscape to work, because without that, it is inherently boring.

>>1783987
You should change the size of your brush. Doin the entire painting with 1 brush size make it looks really uninteresting.

>>1783990
you could probably give a reason why you dumb cunt
>>1783987
add harder edges to the mountains and focal point and shit

>>1783897
>Guys, come up with a focal point while i try to make the composition work
just out a tiny red hood in there, like everyone does

>>1783897
>coming up with a focal point

The focal point should be the entire reason you started the painting to begin with, not just some afterthought.

i installed krita dunno how to change eyedropper shortcut oops

i dont think it would be lighted this way in this scenery but i kinda like it..
values may have gotten a bit lost after gradient adjustments, im trying different ways to colour from greyscale and this was def a fun one

A charcoal drawing from a reflective dome.

>>1783925
Stop being a faggot. Not everyone has to start each post with "MY ART IS FUCKING AWFUL" like you do.

>>1784098
toooo lazy, just because it's charcoal doesn't mean you don't need to be precise

okay. Would you do him ? Your friends wouldn't find out.

>>1784052
Interesting composition. I like where this is heading, post updates.

such fun brushs

>>1783960
people like you are the reason i even stick around here.

>>1784023

hi nerds what am i doing wrong

>>1784238
Attempting to draw.

You've got no uniformity on lighting all around
>Light sources don't match up or aren't intense enough.
>Shading on neck doesn't fit with head
>Nose tip is lit from front, nose middle dark from sides somewhat lighter in the middle, doesn't fit rest of the lighting.
>skin below eye, eye socket should be slightly darker since it sinks in
>skin below lip, chin area needs clearer definition, it's flat

I get you're trying to do two light sources here, but you need to define the face more

>>1784244
thanks anon that's super helpful
i really just think i need to study lighting more. i can never really get the hang of it.

>>1784249
Try doing some grayscale paintings or even draw a simplified face with a reduced number of planes so that you can clearly place the values where they are needed. If you are having trouble with more realistic faces, then you first need to get the Vilppu feel for where things should be on a simpler one.

>>1784249
I was taught in charcoal with shapes in strong lighting, and that worked rather well for me at least.

So my recommendation is to start with some simple shapes like boxes and shit, and them move up to spheres, and then irregular things. A face is nothing more than a large amount of intermingled shapes, the better you can render the simple stuff the better you'll take to the complex stuff.

my first attempt to sketchpaint some values from my mind.

>>1784267
oops

but yeah I could use some direction of what to practice.

sorta new to environments. what do you guys think? i could really use a helpful critique here. is there any way i can salvage this into a portfolio piece?

>>1784272
Im assuming nobody lives there since the whole building thing is tilted.

>>1784277
i'll play around with it. i might like the concept of it being a bit tilted.

>>1784280
you can make parts of it tilted but that roof shouldn't be unless it is dilapidated.

>>1784134
that's a good muscle elf, but not the best

I dunno... Hampton does help with thinking three dimensional.

No scan, I like the white in it but everyone keeps saying to remove the white
Critique? It's a still life

>>1784413
White is bad. You should at least make it a very bright yellow. And rotate your images correctly

>>1784413
>It's a still life

I thought it was that female cowboy ghoul from Fallout NV.

>>1784425
Would a wash over it with yellow change the parts I've already done? Or I'll just use a smaller brush on the cracks

I'm on my phone, the photo is correct on here

>>1784429
Don't know what that is

more practice on edges.. thanks to everyone who critiqued my last one!

>>1784436
I don't know, sorry mate. I'm not a traditional painter.

life draw

cutting legs cause i failed

>>1784481
This one is pretty nice. Her ribcage is maybe a bit too long

>>1784464
Looks nice , the ankle & shoes could be more defined though. and the halo of dark around them doesn't look right to me

Idk I really like it though

>>1784482
Her face looks kinda flat, I'd bring out the lips and nose
Just looks boring overall probably because of the face in profile

>>1784489
>>1784492
thx guys, I always see so many mistakes when i look at it at home. tfw no flip canvas

I've been throwing colors at this piece of shit for hours now and nothing seems to work. How do I acheive that whimsical forest palette /ic/?

>>1784590
>whimsical forest palette
what the hell are you talking about

find a photo or painting with the colours you like, copy it

>>1784491
aye thanks! noted

>>1784590
You can find a bunch of user created color palettes tagged with forest here:
http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?query=forest
They may not all be the best but it's a good start

why drawing video games characters so hard?

captcha - rldoorl illustrated

>>1784654
you drew something entirely different

>>1784666
I don't know how make them look alike.

>>1784667
Go study how to draw what's in front of you. Learn visual measuring. Check out something like the Bargue Drawing Course, or Drawing Made Easy by Lutz. You need to learn how to measure and place your landmarks accurately. If you don't have this basal skill under your belt, you'll struggle with literally everything you draw.

Video related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakaoQ9L1RM

>>1784654
You drew a face and hoped for it to look like the ref. You gotta actually draw what you see, try turngin it upside down. Then you don't try to draw a face but what you actually see (which is a face)

>>1784654
Eyes and eyebrows are totally different.
Brow and cheekbone are totally different.
Nose is totally different.
Chin is totally different.
Jaw is totally different.

You're not drawing what's in front of you. Did you even read the sticky? Seems like you need to start from the very beginning

I have trouble with foreshortening things..
Is there a way, or perhaps multiple ways, to measure how big things should be relative to another?

I'm new to painting and going over some tutorials
How do I blend the colors like the guy on the right?

>>1784695
perspective grids are what you are looking for.
Also, sycra did a cool video showcasing a method to help foreshorten limbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWLaDSNBAI

>>1784711
also will i intuitively get better if i keep copying stuff like this for a while?

>>1784711
with opacity.

>>1784716
copy the entire face so that your facial features will be in the same perspective.

>>1784717
>>1784718
thx dude
back 2 studying

>>1784695
>>1784715
similar to what loomis describes

>>1784093
todays one, im so tired i dont think im gonna render it

About to finally finish this one.

Just wondering if the current crop looks weird and/or if it has something else that needs to be changed.

>>1784093
That's really fucking cool.

Hey, anons... What face should I use? :)

>>1784788
Hair still looks bad and too stringy, especially the hair further in the background. Remember, you're paitning locks of hair like ribbons, not individual strings.

Proportions need work. She looks too thin, body is too long, hands are too big. I recall you used a reference, but I don't remember it exactly. Remember that that is a magazine model, and she's likely been stretched and thinned in photoshop. In addition to rampant airbrushing that hides imperfections and overly softens plane changes, magazine photos typically make terrible references for painting. If you're skeptical of this assertion, try constructing the skeleton on it's own layer on top of everything. You'll find that it grossly differs from what's normal.

>>1784776
>>1784093
Please tell me theres a place where you conglomerate your work

>>1784788
Boring comp, your brushwork looks very muddy, and you don't seem to be approaching the hair with much thought to it's forms.

I give it a polished turd/10, try again.

>>1784794
7 or 10

>>1784794
7 is the only one that doesn't look boring.

>>1784794
7.

Also, your figure is unbalanced, and imo that head needs to be repositioned so that his neck isn't broke. Pic related.

>>1784810
>>1784820


I think I can still do something about the hair, the figure seems a bit elongated in the reference but I added a bit of width, the hands thing I guess is due to the perspective.

Thanks for the input

trying out sketchbook pro, linework feels so gud

>>1784826

Hmmm.. I don't know, the others aren't boring, they just don't have as much expressiveness I think.

>>1784829
Thanks, I spotted the problem with the neck already, but didn't notice the pose. But I don't know man, I changed it here and it made the pose less dynamic. I'll try to figure it out.

>>1784829
Oh... nevermind. Flipped the canvas, now I see how unbalanced it looks! I really need to get the habit of flipping the canvas. :)

>>1784849
same fucking face

Pony commission, wasn't even going to post it, but then these eyes happened, for no reason.

Help. Her eyes are gone. My computer program betrayed me.

>>1784860
Bros, seriously.

500 bucks depend on this.

500 fucking bucks.

>>1784856
Not him, but you might have braindamage if those faces look the same to you.

>>1784868
The fuck nigga just draw the motherfuckers again

>>1784868
Someone's paying you 500 bucks for that?

>>1784875
Ponies.

>>1784876
Damn, that's enough to make a living off of.

>>1784875
I got myself 770 bucks for a 3 hour Fluttershy last month, bro.

I swear they have all of the money.

>>1784868
>$500

whelp
looks like I'm gonna throw out the last little bit of dignity I have

>>1784860
start again. it was ruined when you started.

and why are you taking peoples money when you dont even know the program you are using...

>>1784880
Man, think they'ed like some oil paintings? Cause I am tempted to try and get into selling my soul, but I cannot digital.

>>1784849

very cool. i see some zedig in there. but you repeat patterns/shapes alot. make an effort to do something your mind/hand/eye isn't so used to.

>browsing this thread looking for artists to commission

>>1784902
>Looking for commissions.
>On /ic/.

You do know this is HALP CAN'T DRAW central, right?

>>1784905

I dont know, this guy posting paintings is pretty damn good

>>1784905
it might be hard for you to understand being a selfish faggot. but /ic/ is the best place in the world.

>>1784791
wow thanks
>>1784813
thanks man, I have a blogspot i sometimes update, im making a tumblr atm but cant come up with a nickname
this is the blog.. wonkyy.blogspot

>>1784922
>Tumblr.

>>1784922
>>1784093
what method did u use to make those lost edges?
looks rly gud!

>>1784925
thanks, it's the smudge tool used with a soft round brush
>>1784923
yeah?

>>1784923
>>>/b/

>>1784923
Do you know where you are right now?

landscape study

>>1784935
were gonna need the ref for a proper study critique

>>1784939
woops, here it is

>>1784939
What if he told you he did it with no ref?

>>1784788
Why spend so much time on studies, you've been working on this for a few weeks haven't you? And no offense, but with all that time spent it doesn't look that good.

>>1784945
...its a study...of course he needs a ref

>>1784943
>sky is to saturated, and not a smooth enough gradient
>most of the foliage going up the cliff are absent in your painting
>the paths on the left side of your painting don't match at all to those of the ref
>a lot of the edges of the left side of the cliff face are hard where they need to be soft
>It looks like you're still working on it, but avoid using greys like you're starting to on the left cliff face. Instead try some desaturated blues.
Other than that it's mostly fine details. Other than the left side, which needs some work on the path area, you did a pretty good job of establishing major shapes.

>>1784482
>>1784481
fantastic!!

random doodle

clipping masks are so powerful mane

Well, I'm tired of drawing animuh, so I've decided to take a stab at photoshop.

This is a 30 min speed paint I did, (used ref) and for the fucking life of me, I cannot into colors. You guys have any advice for me?

This is my first serious attempt at backgrounds and I have no idea what I'm doing. Any tips? How do I make it look less messy?

First time trying to "paint" digitally. Pretty sloppy, but I like it.

comments?

>>1784968
Don't measure the time, when you are doing a study try to replicate the study ref as accurately as possible no matter how long it takes you.
Resist using the eye dropper tool, eyeball the colours.

I just crited a student of mine on this artwork he really, really liked, told him to get his finger off his ass as polite as I could.

He responded by drawing the most beautiful erect penis I have ever seen in all my life in 30 minutes. It's perfect.

I don't know what to say.

New as shit.

Feel free to rip this apart.

Been drawing off and on for about a year. I don't really want to draw professionally,just for fun. I'd like to draw what's acsthetically pleasing more than realistic.

A person requested I draw a physically fot woman pushing her breasts together. This is as a far as I got before I figured I should ask whats wrong with it already.

>>1785002
There's no point in saying anything. Just practice.

Try focusing on drawing lines and curves and waves first, try to make your lines as confident and long as possible. Practice with your hands before you get to drawing shit first.

>>1785002
Practice, anon

Practice and practice again

Never stop drawing, you should feel guilty when you have free time an you aren't drawing

>>1785002
you should read the sticky, you're drawing symbols

>>1784987
Yea man, I dont use the eye dropper tool, cause I dont want it to cause a crutch.

Thanks for the advice though man! Really appreciate it

>>1785048
>>1785007
Thanks for the advice. I'll take that into consideration.

I pushed on trough my frustration because I made a personal oathe not to ever scrap a drawing I've invested time in. Here's the result. At my current level, I'm satisfied with the results. (Even though everyone in here could probably do better)

>>1785043
No anon, don't do this, don't EVER do this. It's beyond miserable, the only reason I'm on 4chan right now is because my drawing arm is too sore to comfortably move the pen, and that took 5 hours to actually get me to stop.
do
no
do this.

>>1785124
Right now I'm trying to get in 2-3 hours of practice in per day. Probably fulfilling requests in /b/

>>1785123
>not to ever scrap a drawing I've invested time in
A very common means of teaching people how to paint is to take their painting once it reaches near completion, and run a brush loaded with white across it. And I know few painters who have never sanded down a dud to reuse a canvas.

The point I'm trying to make, is your oath is retarded.

>>1785124

I bet you also dropped out of college/highschool?

>>1785130
Well still it's mine, no matter how mentally challenged it apparently is.

I could care less about it once it's finished, but if I start a drawing, I will finish it (sans coloring, proper shading) because I feel it helps me when I work through the mental blocks. It's also satifying completing a drawing when it takes a long time and effort. I'm still just a beginner after all.

>>1785135
Just keep in mind, that at a certain point, polishing turds will hurt you considerably, people don't don't start out drawing with the "muh style" mindset, that develops from people putting their heart into doing something wrong and getting to "good" at it.

>>1785137
I'm not talented enough, nor experiences enough to have developed a style.

Currently, I'm at the stage where I look at 20 different references while drawing shit. And again, not learning to draw professionally. Mostly just to fuck around on /b/ and maybe DA.

Digital painting I just did in maybe an hour? Struggling majorly with colors, and the eyes. Any advice would be appreciated especially those that have especially to do with digital paintings.

>>1785145
What ever makes you happy. But you're learning how to write without learning the alphabet at this point.

Just finished this recently. Trying to pay more attention to the read of the scene, but I'm not sure if it works or not.

>>1784794
tumblr?

what do you guys think?

>>1785210

colors are pretty wack

>>1784776
checked your blog. your stuffs pretty nice. howd you learn?

>>1784953
Not him, but man, you have no clue what you're talking about, do you? Avoid using greys? Use desaturated blues instead? Do you know anything whatsoever about color theory?

>>1785210
i really like the mood and colors! would like to see some progress.

first try on graphic tablet, it's an old one i found lying around not being used, it doesn't even have pen pressure - but i guess it's ok to practice.

i am really struggeling with coloring though, let alone the shadowing, i wanna make it look super smooth but have no idea how to achieve a nice shadow.

>>1785218
dont listen to this fucker

>>1784093
that weapon is tiny as fuck

>>1785204
Your values are crap. Read from post #6 and onward:
http://www.portraitartistforum.com/showthread.php?t=2238

how'd I do?

>>1785237
Good stuff, thanks anon

>>1785224
It's the truth you fucking noob. Colors can't exist without relation to each other. A cool accent of color on a reddish, yellowish mountain would not be blue but a desaturated grey version of the local color, SLIGHTLY shifted towards the spectrum of the sky color. If you don't believe me, just open that reference image, go over those areas with the color picker and see for yourself. They will be a green or yellowish grey, never even coming close to blue.

This is color theory 101 and the very basics of achieving a harmonized color scheme. Learn your fucking fundamentals before you try to correct others on things you have absolutely no clue about. Also, grey is used all the fucking time to enhance the richness of the colors next to it. Masters have used this since forever but I guess you have never heard of the term "grey is the mother of all colors".

>>1785215
thanks,my learning process has got serious only around the end of last year,i used to slack a lot before that, i was also a bit negative coz of the many younger than me skilled artists.
Around december 2013 or january 2014 i casually visited /ic/ and hopped into one of ollys/tehmeh) livestreams. Thanks to him i realized that it's pointless to whine and to say things like " if only i started before i would be this good blabla" and just practice/study right the fuck now or else you may as well quit.
About me i just do what everyone else here does, read books, do still lives, self portraits,try to apply things you study etc. anyway dont take me too seriously,my semidecent art you see are results of comfort zone dwelling . Im totally shit at rendering,enviros,perspective etc..
sorry for being a prolix cunt
>>1785229
thanks youre right, gonna try make the blade part bigger, if you meant the shaft too i dont feel like making it longer because it's already extending to much horizontally imo. in origin the image wasnt even supposed to go past the rectangular frame, but it would have looked too stiff without this change.

my first digital value study

>>1785307
Hmmm.. It's bad. All over the place. You need to do some hard edges and learn how to blend. But I guess you don't know how to do that with a pencil either, as my first value study in digital media was way better than this.
You could keep trying in digital, but it would be good if you did some pencil stuff too.

>>1785311
thanks - I see what you mean. Here's a second go:

Did a tiny bit of rendering, added to the composition..

Thinking of putting some desolate ruins of settlements in the foreground on the sides of the cliff, between the waterfalls. Considering cropping the sky...

Thoughts, advice?

>>1785386
Well, it's better, but still not good.
Everything is the same colour. try adding some variation into it. Especially faraway mountains would be much lighter and bluer. Even deserts are not completely empty. Add some plants, rocks, people, houses, something.
Shadows are not just darker tones of light colours, go analyze some professional landscape work.

>>1785355
Hope I helped. Try to use some more different values, more darks (not blacks)

>no motivation to draw
>force self to draw
>product is shit
>don't feel like drawing anymore

Thanks for the help /ic/.
First painting. What do you think?
Any tips on how to nail the skin texture correctly?

>>1785409
Show your construction step

>>1785409

Why don't you have black on your palette? Your study is really missing some dark areas.

>>1785409
Could really use some dark and light accents, but not half bad considering how bad your first attempts were.

>>1785415
My lines? They were kind of rough and inaccurate so I didn't follow them much beyond a simple lay in. I painted it all on one layer.

>>1785418
>>1785421
I assumed that the black I had was dark enough. Guess I'll go darker next time.

>>1785424
You don't have a theoretical base of drawing real muscles, you just copying them. Usually geometric inanimate objects are enough for value studying.

In the early stages of getting my cyberpunk on.

Thoughts?

Hey drawers,

I need a cartoon to be done. I had this picture in mind when my buddy and I were smoking weed and I felt like a chilli doin' its siesta somewhere in Mexico, leaning against a wall and getting some shadow in the face from the sombrero.

pic related, it's the sketch.

I tried drawing my D&D character. Just the line art for now. Let me know what you guys think.

I don't have my tablet on me, but I'm pretty happy with this sketch. Sorry in advance for the shit photo quality.

>>1785513
The torso is very long, the pose is not interesting and it's not balanced (the main put off is it's right arm) .

>>1785561
although I'm not so much no that I can flip it and see the errors.
>off balance
>back leg is even more so/ too far away from and behind the body
>angles on forward facing shin guard are off

>>1785561
Looks too much like halo

>>1785566
The main thing is that the perspective breaks in the hips area.

>>1785570
Really? I would admit a good amount of my inspiration comes from that game, as I learned to draw by drawing halo characters, but I thought that this one was one of my more original.

What specifically says "Halo" to you? I want to avoid this more in the future.

lol, captcha is 117

>>1785573
I see it now, thanks. I definitely need more practice with the lower body, I'm relatively new to full figures

>>1785561
gun too. Look at uh.... try and stray away from the sci fi modern ironclad super soldiers.

>>1785580
I realized the gun, but I totally forgot that that helmet even existed. I was one of the DLC extras right?

>>1785575
It's literally the infantry uniform and battle rifle from Halo with a closed helmet.

>>1785584
I wouldn't go that far. The only real similarity between this and the halo 2 marine is the general area of armour plating: head, shoulders, chest, and shins. However, this is an appearance that I wanted for a more infantry focused character, and the Halo 2 marine doesn't have forearm armour.
The armour configuration is similar, but it still has it's own unique (at least compared to the Halo marine) qualities

>>1785588
wait, why did I think you said halo 2? disregard the part on the forearm armour and what I said still holds

>>1785399
take a little break... if you come back to it's in your blood.

>>1784948

I'm working on other 3 pieces at the moment (1 digital + 2 traditional) so I've not been working on this as much as it seems, also, I'm not even taking into account the very limited available time I have for drawing.

No offense taken, either way.

>>1785204
It seems a bit too dark

I was one of those who prayed
Prayed every day
That God would set me free
Free from this awful disease.
I WAS one of those prayed
when after years this affliction
would not go away.

>>1785643
this artwork style got boring real fast

>>1785644
I disagree, I like the Quentin Blake look and bagabosse is always creating new narratives and subjects. Inb4 bagabosse go home/ samefag/ etc.

>>1785711
We all know it's you, one trick pony.

>>1785729
mama said if you can do one thing do it well breh.

Doing that 30 day challenge thing. How am I doing?

>>1785643
>>1785751
why isn't this in the beginner thread?

>>1785788
cuz it "mah style"

>>1785788
BECAUSE ITS TOO ADVANCE YAH BISH

>>1785791
If you pick up a flower; you kill it.

It's a still life, supposed to be transparent

I'm feeling pretty confident on my figure drawings as of late, can i have a critique? Thanks in advanced!

>>1785799
At least your stuff is nicer than that of that shittywatercolour faggot

>>1785799
>>1785751
>>1785643
>>1785570
I love your work, do you have somewhere you post it ?

>>1785824
Nice strokes, what media you using?

I'm dandy doodlin'.

Portrait from imagination

>>1785824

surely you mean gestures? i don't see any figures there anon.

I would appreciate any help, I've stared myself blind. It's trying to be a classical pinup shot. Did not give the legs any attention yet, focused on waist up. There is no ref

First time poster, long time lurker. I would really, really appreciate some advice on what I'm working on right now.

>>1785904

Impressive stuff for no ref. My personal preference would be to enlarge the head and facial features very slightly, however. They look a bit small next to her forearm and highs, even when accounting for the perspective.

>>1785903
Sorry I ment gesture

>>1785901
I'm using a newsprint sketchbook with a violet blue prismacolor pencil.

Love space dandy btw nice doodle!

what am I doing wrong

How do I improve my values /ic/ senpai?

>>1785930
haa, that's nice even thou there are some mistakes in drawing. polish it, check perspective on horse and shit

>>1785967
Push your values more and try to have a better understanding of the forms you are rendering. It also helps to understand how light acts.

For another tip, the value difference between light and shadow is very strong in most cases. If you know light is hitting the area, you better make it a lot more brighter than the areas in shadow.

>>1785751
then why arent you doing it well?

>>1784794
Number 6

>>1785967
I was about to post this but apparently someone already did.

>>1784842

>>1783845

>>1785967
>>1786001
Here's an adjustment with a lot of lassoing and brightness filters. I wasn't exactly sure what your lighting scheme or forms were so I took some liberties. There are many mistakes but I hope the idea is conveyed properly. Push those values and understand how all light sources come together to properly give the illusion of form.

pronz

>>1785967
>>1786001
Here's an adjustment with a lot of lassoing and brightness filters. I wasn't exactly sure what your lighting scheme or forms were so I took some liberties. There are many mistakes but I hope the idea is conveyed properly. Push those values and understand how all light sources come together to properly give the illusion of form.

>>1785709
Fucking cool, way out of my league to critique

I know the owls are shitty..

>>1786020
Can't seem to post pic from iPhone

>>1785251
See how her stomach fits in nice and evenly but yours is ugly and too big, think about the form don't just copy the lighting on it

>>1784882
>looks like I'm gonna throw out the last little bit of dignity I have
This. FUCKING THIS.

>>1784980
Learn to use brush opacity. Use large brushes as much as possible.

>>1784984
Kinda ok for first try. Practice a lot more. Btw that's Tagore, right?

>>1785146
Understand values nigga. Right now it looks complete shit coz thre's no value arrangement. Also don't use overexposed photos as ref. Stop using fancy brushes until you know what you're doing. Learn to blend properly.

>>1785251
Get a good drawing & understand form before painting. Stop photo rendering.

>>1785513
Cool design

>>1785538
do Loomis.

>>1785709
Kinda nice. Get proper construction & gesture. Also learn to do hands. I see some Marko's imprint and in your design & painitng style. Btw the designwise you can make some improvents, although it's pretty cool but the guns & pouches with that hammer kills it all.

>>1785763
Draw/construct before doing shit.

>>1785902
Pretty cool

>>1785904
quite good, man I think the right hand will be a bit larger.

>>1785918
Lip/mouth area is pretty fucked. Looks like Abe from Hellboy.

critique my pencil skills :(

cant seem to get life into my strokes merely just trying to copy what i see.

>>1785709
You seem to know your stuff. Here's some pretty minor (probably nitpick) things I've noted. The 'V' on the breastplate doesn't match perspective. The facial mark across the nose looks dented into the face and should follow the form of the nose bridge more. The volume of the torso and lower is slightly unclear behind all the gear. Some of the pants seem fused with the hips, though skintight I guess. That aside, the image reads well overall. Good job.

Why no seerino my pictorino?

I did above tyrian and heisenberg.

critiques please ;D

>>1786030

>>1786030
>>1786032
Stop photocopying without construction

>>1786030
His nose looks kinda weird?

construction? i'm just starting to read "how to draw " stuff by Andrew loomis. Hopefully I can get away from the whole photocopy thing :)

>>1785709
Jesus fuck her belly button is way too low, also her left hand looks terrible.

Erase everything from the bottom of the breast plate down re evaluate your anatomy and start over, because my first impression was she was some fucked up cyber experiment with a huge schlong

>>1786038
Apply Loomis to the photo you're studying. Understand why something is happening in the photo. Reproduce it.Skipping that it's not that bad. Also >>1786037

The road to coloring digital seems so far

>>1786032
More leik Eyezen berg cuz his eyes are all FUCKED up

Seriously quit symbol drawing

>>1785709
IMO Mjollnir should definitly stand out more ! Lighter and more reflective maybe ?
Your character as it is gives more of a LoL champion vibe than the Thor look.
Also her lower body looks off as an other anon said.

>>1786042
Why far? It's not something you're forced to get through after years of traditional, you can just go ahead and train that skillset right now.

>>1786066
seconded this. sketch seems okayish for trying to color it ot at least applying values. it's not like there will be "ability unlocked" above your head after numerious traditional drawings.

trying new super loose start method, here's the first part, about 1 min, character study of odysseus, although it looks like johny bravo or something atm :p

>>1786181
>1 min
wow looking good so far
anxious for your next update in 2 mins

>>1786184
i wouldn't hold your breath for something great ,i'm okay at the quick part and terrible at everything else

Nothing comfier than browsing the drawthread while shitting. Question, If i painted my penis would it be considered a still life?

>>1783845

A 1h quicke in Krita for familiarising with it

>>1786181
just messing around with the ol' tri-values, wanting to capture his bestial nature, now ill probably spend a billion years re-painting it as not scribbles and giving him a face and such lol.

Look at my concept art I just did in half an hour. No refs, 100 % painting.
But seriously though, I might finish this and try to make it look more natural.

>>1786262

it's shit, even if you paint over it for 2 days straight

thank god photobashing cant replace skill yet

I've not got anything to show, but I'm an absolute beginner and really struggle with distances. I tried the wiki and had a couple of goes at that upside-down igor sketch and every time the relative lengths of the lines were wrong.

I get that it's a massive practice thing but I was just wondering if there's a common mistake everyone makes or something like that.

>>1785513
>MFW Pyrex

>>1786286
your buttmad is showing.

>>1786310
pretty much. don't worry too much about those first exercises, they're just introductory stuff, bit of fun, gets you drawing and thinking about the elements and principals. if you get yourself all worked up at the start, the easy bit, the years long middle will f you up.

>>1785904

It looks like she's stopped rotating her torso at the waist, and her entire upper body is just stagnant and not turning. Just my 2cents

>>1786039
no shit her left hand looks terrible you faggot, it hasn't even been rendered.

>>1786331
yes, i don't know really how to fix it. Might ignore it to keep it pinuppity

>>1785299
i disagree i like the small size of the weapon i think it makes it more interesting

>>1786286
look tripfag

your kind isnt welcome here
if you're going to namefag, at least have some good critique

the nigga's painting is good, it has fine values, a nice composition, and good brushwork as far as i see, so gtfo faggot and go back to gaia

i wish you guys would say more than: "lol x is sooo bad :DDDDDD"
trying to get better at understanding what makes a better artwork, but you often dont state your reasons so its hard for a beginner to see why

>>1786374
Just try to filter those people out. It's 4chan, so of course there's going to be a lot of assholes.
Which one is yours?

>>1786366
You gotta feel the twist brah.

>>1786378
i havent posted anything ITT yet
im reading all the critques though trying to get an understanding of where people went wrong ect

Just kill me guys i wont even feel it D;

>>1786412
The face is wonky, the skirt is attached to one side and floats off the other, the hand has 3 fingers and a thumb the size of my fist.

And it's all really blurry.

>>1786324
If this is the easy bit then I'm not looking forward the rest, I've got to say. But thanks.

I gave birth to a retarded son today, if i had time id put more time in making he edges balanced but i don't think thats the only reason why hes fucked?

>>1786473
if anyone's got a better art program for the Mac rather than this one, will they let me know?

>>1786461
I suggest going to a psychologist, and making him an edgy teen is not a good idea

>>1786461
I'm only now getting into mechs, but shouldn't that dude be way more covered? Looks like whatever the cockpit should've been shattered around him leaving only that set up.

>>1786369
It's obviously textured brushes painted over a photo college.

And the comp and values aren't good, you can barely tell what it is from thumbnail and it awkwardly crops what i assume to be the subject of the image, turban man and his photo camel.

>>1786499
Um, I was being sarcastic by saying 100 % painting, because it's very obvious that it's just a bunch of photos. I just tried it for fun and it's really very timesaving, so I might do it more often, but in a more subtle way. I intend on adjusting stuff and painting some too.
Also, do you realize that all pros do it? Pic related, Craig Mullins.

>>1785513
>fuccboi robot
rad concept man

Sketch of Bjork. Any advice welcome.

>>1784711
Like somebody else said by lowering the opacity.
You can also do it by lowering the flow. Or by messing around with both.

Also make sure you're not just color picking the colors off the noses to the right.
Try to look at the colors and get them yourself through the color wheel/box.
In fact once you sort of get the jist of what the guy is doing with his rendering just do it yourself with real noses. And of course move on to the rest of the face, and so on.
Just copying without excreting any brain effort won't get you anywhere.
You have to really think about what you're doing and why you're doing it the way you are.
Have to consider things like what direction the light is coming from, how the form is going to be affected by this light and rendering it to show that form. And you really have to internalize all of this learned knowledge to eventually be able to do it without reference and from your imagination.
It obviously goes without saying that your fundamentals have to be strong too.
It's a really long road to get good at this, like any craft. So I wish you luck.

Hey guys what do you think of my concept so far, its fate with a bunch of birds falling to their death. Harsh crit welcome. I will paint it with acrylic when I'm done sketching the outlines

>>1786570
Where's the original, does she have visible eyelids? Her left eye bothers me a lot, looks like it could use some shrinking by adding some eyelid features. Her lips could use some shine and more defined nostrils would be good. Not a bad start.

>>1786592
This is the original.
Thanks for the feedback, I agree that the left eye is a bit weird. Was struggling to make the lips look good.

>>1786597
Yea you are missing some shadows on the nose. She also could use some definition of her brow bone just above her nose bridge. Be soft with those shadows though.

>>1786570
where is you construction? features all over the place. Check nose length, mouth position and left eye size.

>>1786602
Thanks for the advice.

>>1786606
Wow, all that stuff seems pretty obvious now that you've pointed it out. Haven't drawn for a while so kind of forgot about construction, which probably explains those things. Guess I'll give it another shot tomorrow and report back.

Ya know that moment when you feel like you did a pretty decent eye/horn/whatever then you move on to draw the other one and it turns out like shit..

What I'm working on/doodling. Feel free to critique/suggest/comment. Still need ideas for mouth, hair, body, etc. I will try to post progress

>>1786615
yea, just check you angles, negative space, and construct features from basic shapes in order to feel them in space. only after decent construction start shading. You can try to keep open some pdf or books on face anatomy while doing studies, it may help learning process.

>>1786632
Didn't turn out as good as I had hoped; scrapping this one. But here's how it looks now

>>1786510
Who cares if pros do it. That's probably the weakest painting I've seen by Mullins, too.

Yours doesn't even look good enough to accept.

>>1786663
damn thats a gargantuan head

Should I make the ribbon spiral in the same direction as the tail or the opposite?

This is just a sketch btw I'm gonna fix the ribbon a lot but I'm just trying to get the composition done right now.

>>1786682
Sorry forgot pic.

Sfakian attire

>>1786697
Why does this adult male have fetus hands?

>>1786719
I'm guessing your referring to the failed attempt at drawing a thumb grip, but I am now noticing that both his hands are tiny...

Thanks for the comment

quickness

>>1786731
it's a very common mistake for some reason. i've oft wondered if to those people hands really look that size.

lel

having trouble trying to fix this banner on my drawing, anyone got any ideas on to fix it?

>>1786832
tried this but not sure how i feel about it. (will tidy up lines and proportions once iv decided on the design.

A commission. Too bad the guy seems to have decided to not pay the second half and ignore my messages.

>>1786286
get out

>>1786877
Hope you didn't send over any kind of full-res version of that. Is it a cover? Looks like there's room left for some text there, composition-wise

>>1786947
It's supposed to be a homage on a old James Bond cover (Living Daylight). The dude didn't really mention any text, he just asked me if I was planning something.. Though I sent him a version with some typo on it. But I don't have any good idea what to write since I don't know anthing about the characters I had to draw. So I'd rather leave it blank or let that guy write something on it.

No, I didn't send him the high res yet, luckily. But still, makes me angry.

>>1786262
What concept?
No ref? why would you not use ref? xD

>>1786670
Yes, because I'm not a professional and because I've only just started it.

>>1786670
Yes, because I'm not a professional and because I've only just started it.

>>1786957
It was a joke, sorry, I did not know that everyone's autistic here.

practising some rock textures, any thoughts?

>>1787244
Surface of the bricks looks too smooth.

Tried cardboard for better surface, works quite okay for watercolors. Hard to get any good contrasts, so tried to use markers too.

posten

>>1786877
This shit happens to me while submitting just sketches. Luckily didn't do the full color illustration.

>>1786367
chicken scratch/10
git confident
study gesture
study anatomy

no idea how to color.
any tips?

>>1788045
would help if i attached pic
hair is shit lol

>>1787386
alright, i'll get on that

>>1784413
Sparklemanbearpig.jpg

>>1787386
>smooth bricks dont exist

>>1789270
At least im trying to help him/her, might not be much but it's more than you.

>>1787244
>>1787386
better? worse? what do I need to work on?

>>1789606
Maybe add texture?