/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

well, it's a work in progress.
comment/critique would be appreciated. I feel like I've been stuck in a rut for a while. I just don't see any appeal in my art.

>>1912293
Neck is way too long
Shoulders are weird. Watch your anatomy, i like it tho

>>1912266
I'm fresh outta highschool and looking for a job as a concept artist. Should I try for a job now or do I need to get better?

>>1912305

get a day job, work on art on the side.

you'll get there with time, but you still have a ways to go.

>>1912305
You need work but you have potential. Also eyes are weird. Remember that eyeballs are found and the eyelids are too flat.

>>1912305
you definitely have a ways to go.

>>1912309
*round

>>1912305
Wait and keep drawing !

~30 minute study

forgot the image

>>1912332
What kind of brush did you use?

any tips for skin or how to use the blur tool? been fooling around with it and have no clue how it really works.

>>1912341
A gouache, a vertical flat and a rough ink brush

i played with texture a bit

>>1912338
>1912338
that's beautiful man

not the coolest doodle

Greatest work of my life. Don't judge, elitist assholes, for this is my style.

still dabling in 3D and texture bashing

I'm really, really struggling with the face. I think I need to up the contrast in values and make the planes more apparent because it looks very flat to me right now but I don't know how to do that without making it look even worse. I would really really appreciate any and all help.

>>1912467

I agree that though upping the values could help you'd have to wrestle with highly contrasting values in a female face - which would making it harder on yourself.

So first and foremost, don't stress that you didn't get it on the first go - portraiture has enough material to warrant a lifetime of study in and of itself. I think your biggest problem with it right now is that you've over-rendered the face and lost the clear-cut modelling that a single light source would provide. Try simplifying it back again into maybe 3 distinct values - a sparing bright value for the top of her head, maybe a hint of it on the top of the screen-right cheekbone and nose; a nice skin tone for the front and screen-right side of her face; and a shadow tone for the rest. No variation, just simple tones. Then work on edges, all nice and soft and ladylike, which will do a huge amount of the work for you. Lastly, if you need to, add further definition where it's needed.

Just keep it simple, you'll get a stronger statement of the forms that way. Also, be sure you establish what the temperature of the light is, and what colors your shadows will be. Is the light warm, making the shadows cooler? Is it cool, making the shadows warmer? Don't worry about sub-surface scattering until you get to edges, either - yes, it's very important in painting a face, but deal with it after you've defined your planes. Use a loaded brush with a saturated tone to help create the edges you need, for example.

I did a small paintover which may or may not be helpful, but I hope something in here helps you along.

>>1912494

Thank you so much! This helps tremendously. You're absolutely right in that it's overrendered, in fact, I've returned to an earlier iteration of the file several times but ended up with the same problem everytime. At one point, I apparently just go nuts with piling on layer after layer. It's a problem I feel I keep running in to when trying to paint digitally. You really put your finger on the sore spot and the main issue I keep having.

Again, thanks so much. You're my hero. Your post and paintover really boosts my morale to retry.

>>1912439

>this is the best work i've ever done, whoever judges it or critiques it can go suck a dick because it's my style and nothing is wrong with it.

stay at that level then plebian, you'll never improve with that attitude.

fuckwit

From imagination. Any areas i need to improve at accept everything?

trying to get an action "energy rich" pose in the composition

>>1912516
everything is a bad start, since there is so much! Tackle one at a time, like composition first then values, anatomy hands and so on

>>1912516
Fat guy wizard choo choo

>>1912505

>Being this irredeemably dense

r8 me pl0x

Trying to do a little Ramsay portrait. How's the likeness? Can I continue?

Hi guys, i really need help for a project that i working on with a few friends. We are creating a tabletop game and i'm doing the character designs and also the artwork. We are established a site already and i'm doing atm one of the artwork for the site. I would highly appreciate suggestion about composition, design or any other technical critique.

So this pic will be placed on top the first page, like a banner. Its just a loose lineart so i can easily modify it anyway u suggest. Thanks in advance

Holy fuck this is due tommorrow and her eyes are boring a hole into the back of my head and I hate this now

>>1912574
her eyes are the least of you problem. the ugly mouth area and bold head are what bothers me the most.

>>1912565

Well... that armour on the paladin (?) is totally senseless. Really, look up some 15th century plate and base your design around that. At least use the base 'functionality' of real suits from that period. At that time, the stuff was near its peak after hundreds of years in development, and nothing like what you drew shows up in history anywhere.

I could say the same thing about the chick, but it doesn't really look like it's meant to be armour, anyway, so I don't really have anything to add there.

I'd also look at revising the warhammer. The perspective seems off, and again, the design doesn't really make much sense. Assuming magic and whatnot, strength might not be as much of a problem, but the shape isn't really sensible. Look to history to see what worked when those kind of weapons were used.

>>1912577
still got a lot of work to do on that mouth but you're right, I should probably smooth out those wrinkles.
so uhh
what do you think I should maybe do about the baldness?
like make it gradiate more into the puke tornado??

>>1912565

It's boring... they're just standing there like deer caught in headlights. It doesn't tempt me into thinking "EXCITEMENT! YES! I WANT TO JOIN" A banner can be interesting, use the dimension you have for something action-y.

whatcha think?

>>1912562
i fucking love this

>>1912562
Cool ! I reconize him and like your style. Succes.

I feel like some things aren't quite right, don't know what exactly though.
Some critique would be wonderful.

>>1912565
Try to make the warhammer more symmetrical, looks sort of messy like that.
Love the skulls on the left guy, though his neck and shoulders seem a bit off.

>>1912578
not that anon but where can i get more resources on armor?
just wikipedia?

>>1912630
Try pinterest too.

>>1912630
Armourer websites, like sharukhanmarket, steel mastery etc. tend to be good for reference, as they'll include several angles of the same thing.

>>1912565

i made a quick value pass and some adjustment on the poses

>>1912662

forgot the pic

>>1912624
Some details:
Eyes are little big. But only a little.
Jaw's too pointy and connects with the ear awkwardly.
Other than that, I think its great! Were you working from reference or just using The Unlimited Power Of Your Imagination™?

>>1912305
I say give some more school a shot. You're definitely good, but at your age I wouldn't rush to do anything right out of high school. In college, you get a nice introduction into the art world along with a lot of help on getting into it. Learn new skills, polish old ones, and get some good practical experience like internships and grants to help fund your work. Plus, art school kicks ass.

>>1912667
I was trying to get it to match a skull I drew earlier. Going to work on the ear jaw thing thanks a lot

>>1912597
I used to chew on those too, retarded habit

>>1912665
Armour lacks functionality and, honestly, looks a bit too modern. Take a look at some lorica segmentata, articulated tassets and general fantasy vambraces to see how they go together.

>>1912685
The main idea behind it.

>>1912523
Yeah, focusing on on thing sounds resonable. That also goes in to planning a piece better, begning with comp tumbnails, value sketches esc. Thanks alot!

>>1912656
>>1912641
Thanks a lot based anons
Pinterest has a lot of movie/larp armor though, but i guess that doesnt matter much as long as i understand how they work
Also
>etc
Would be awesome if you could name more

>>1912578
blah, quick study. very messy.

.

Progress with paint!
I love paint.

Progress with paint!
I love paint.

>>1912742
dat size

>>1912747
:P

>>1912752
Good but it's a little bit messy, clean it up !

I'd post more, but I feel so ill right now.

Doodle of the day

>>1912697
Looks great for a quick study, I dig it!

welp!

its rdy

heres the last piece of that project i was working on. i changed the shadows under the table on the middle piece but its a very minor change so im not going to post it.

the company hasnt gotten back to me yet so im just sittin waitin onem

sup, 1st time posting

>>1912516
try doing some colour/value thumbs beforehand! i'm not the greatest when it comes to colour, but you seem to be treating it very literally-- just because something's red doesn't mean you have to paint it red! or something like that. your values are also kinda scattered. you've got the darkest tones on his shoulder, inside his sleeve, on the shadow below him and on the background behind him. meanwhile, the orb and the pants are roughly the same value, tonally, so while the bright colour definitely pops out nicely it makes it look really out of place.

and remember that you want to reserve the greatest contrasts for the focal point of the image!

>>1912630

>>1912578 here, and I got a bunch of refs off GIS, I'm not ashamed to admit. You just need to know what to search, so I suppose technical terms are lacking among those less-interested. I am rather an enthusiast on medieval armour, so naturally I sorta know the names for stuff I want examples of. You might want to look at stores. Just look up like 'medieval armour store' or something, and the store itself should share both names and reference pics.

Another anon mentioned Steel Mastery, and I'd add Armstreet to that list.

>>1912574
>>1912581
I think that the eyes are good compared to the rest.
You should add more tones to her mouth,just because she is wearing lipstick doesn't mean her lips are only one tone of red.
Also her nose is really bottering me , her left nostril is a little bit higher and smaller than the other.
Is this acrylic ?

I return to you /ic/ a sadder, wiser man, having spent way too much time polishing this turd, in the hope that I might get some crits that might actually help me escape from call centre hell. If the crits are about not drawing animals in compromising positions, I'm way ahead of you bro.

>>1912944
Their torsos are very elongated, I think it's the main problem with the drawing.
Kid's face is pretty weird, the chin, cheek bones, nose and eyebrows give him an old man's face. Make him bald and he will be one of Loomis caricatures. His thumb on the left hand is too low.
But I don't recommend you waste your life tweaking these flaws in this illustration, though. Go get it right on something new.

I can't criticize the painting, as I don't know shit about the subject. I have to say tough it isn't helping to bring up volumes.

But I guess I was wrong about the torso being the main problem really, scrap that. We can all agree the problem we come back to is that bulging goat asshole.
8/10 would maybe fap again

>>1912944

This is great! It really tells a story. There are a few problems but overall it's a really funny picture so don't beat yourself up if it's not up to your expectations.

A few things you could improve: the orc guys body is FLAT below the pecs. You need to show some of the side plane. It doesn't look like he is facing us directly. Adding to that point, the water should hug the form of his torso, it would never be a simple curved line unless his body was a cylinder. And finally the childs face is just not up to the quality of the rest of the image.

Overall super cool though.

I think it's the first time I am kinda steping off of my confort zone to try and render some scenarios. I don't know much about values and composition, did I mess up anything badly?

A cookie if you guess my reference for this.

Guy in another thread wanted to see this once it was done. A mess but one I learned from. Hopefully color will help it and not make it even harder to read.

>>1912995

i dig it. has potential

>>1912978
>>1912995

These are awesome. They really show a knowledge of form, value and composition.

>>1912995
I love it. Reminds me of Moebius' stuff. Not hard to read at all

>>1912995
Top of the mount behind the rider is barely noticeable as the material and value are the same. Colors probably will help with the readability.

>>1913035
Agree with that.

figure drawings from today

>>1913049
one more

>>1912996
I hope so!
>>1913042
>>1913028
That's quite flattering. Line art wise Sergio Toppi is who I'm attempting to mime the hardest at the moment but my shading/hatching skill is a farcry from even his quickest sketches.
>>1913037
I totally know what you mean, I really should have hit the bottom left corner of the piece a lot harder with the hatching and gradually went softer from there. I'll probably color the caterpillar a pale blue/pink so it should stand out in the end.

>>1913051
second comment meant to reply to this >>1913035

Just look at this shit.

>>1913067
I am and he's looking back at me!

How do i colors and also into value?

>>1913067
wow that is really creepy.

>>1913067
Good god... that's just unsettling...

heres some from a previous week

>>1913101
i havent touched a boob in almost two years :(

i thought this drawing stuff would mean id be swimming in boobs

>>1912342
>or how to use the blur tool?
You don't.

How bad will I get shit on for posting furry crap?

>>1913119
Chances are you'll get shit on regardless of what you post. You might want to keep it to the "Alternative Art" draw thread to slightly reduce the odds of shat on.

First steps.

Never got advice last thread, so repostin
Studyin colors. Tips pls

>>1913127
and ref

>Don't know how to draw eyes and other facial features
I know this shit, /ic/. So would you give me some critiques

>>1913153
*this is *
reference

>>1913125
Thumbnail looks great!

Here's somethign I made to work on perspective, masks & layers and colors.

>>1913153
jumped a few steps ahead now didnt we

look at the reference, now look at your work, placement of certain object are incorrect, no point polishing the turd until your line work is correct, look at the way you did that hand, break it up into smaller shapes . . . . .

>>1912960
>>1912969

Thanks anons

Meh

not my usual stuff, but i want to get into it for dem moneys

>>1912978
I really like it but my attention is divided between owl and mask and there is big nothing in between them.

>>1913172
Thanks anon. I think I am to work more on the fundamentals more/.

>>1912944
goat anus

>>1913180
This time with more patience...
... and a reference

>>1913194
ooh i like this. it looks super beefy

not sure if im gonna get this done on time

Maybe best thing I've ever done

>>1913221
and in 5 years you gonna say "holy shit what a giant turd."

>>1913127
lasso tool, fucking use it

>>1912665

i made changes on the characters

>>1913028
Thanks, man.

>>1913184
Hmmm, thanks... Back to seach for Arthur L Guptill's books I go.

My take on ponies

>>1913221
why would u do this to my waifu

Any good?

>>1913309
no, wrong approach. either go full mass, with no lines, or all line with no mass. drawing lines and colouring them in like that is plebcore.

>>1912266
Getting back into the game after a 5 month hiatus

>>1913183
For the love of god, use a reference you pussy.

>>1913293
Because she cheated on my husbando

Posting WIP.
How do I into lighting

>>1913285
Haha ! Great ! Nice volume and design.

>>1913198
update

>>1913350

looking sweet. careful with the weapon and foot merging tho.

>>1913361
side of his face looks biiiig

>>1913384


yyy face is still very much in progress

>>1913342
>Dat Karasawa

You need to think out where the light is coming from, and it helps a ton if you can break your image down into simple 3D shapes.

For example the head is like a wedge coming out while the arm might be a pair of cylinders with a joint, yet one has shadow on its left side while the other on its right.

Think of how each part is shaped and light it accordingly and consistently.

>>1913399
All right, thanks man. Do you think the KARASAWA is too small?

>>1913285
very nice

>posting wip

>>1913410
feet are very very small

Still in progress.

First time doing pen and ink in god knows how long. Head looks too big, and I got kinda sloppy with the breast feathers.

>>1913415
>feet are very very small
My curse. Thanks, changing it.
>>1913285
Bwahahaha

>>1913285
sweet

>>1913399
Maybe.

I think the AC2 era Karasawa was a lil' more handheld, but usually it's pretty fuck-huge.

>>1913408
Maybe.

I think the AC2 era Karasawa was a lil' more handheld, but usually it's pretty fuck-huge.

>>1913447
face is out of perspective

>>1913460

i don't think i understand :O

It looks so easy when Feng does it...

>>1913461

>>1913466
Probably because he only shows the sped-up process and doesn't explain anything he's doing.

sketch

>>1912517

first try to do art, rather than photobash.

>>1912455
I'm really digging this dude, although not sure why the perspective is a little bit uncanny.

any help with color? i think my values are okay
>>1913361
thanks!
>>1913410
is she the one from the portrait you did?
looking good but i think her left arm is tad short too

>>1913410
Would draw and fuck/10

>>1913535
Watch Scott Robertson's practical color and lightning or whatever the name was. It will explain a lot to you trust me. Now theres not enough cold/warm contrast, hue doesnt change a lot etc. Just watch the thing i recommended to you.

>>1913468

how about now

>>1913549
i found one but it is by jeremy vickery (pic related)
is it the one you meant?

>>1913558
Ah yeah, i was talking about Jeremy. Sorz. Rly cool lecture

How does /ic/ do straight lines in a fast and efficient way?

The "click somewhere, hold SHIFT, click somewhere else, straight line appears"-method is getting my nerves

>>1913586
Pen tool, masking etc.

>>1913586
>click somewhere, hold SHIFT, click somewhere else

are you kidding? it doesn't get any easier than that.

>>1913586
>>1913593
>>1913613
>shift
Talk about "clutch", jeez

>>1913154
Where is this in Japan?

>>1913630
Looks like a train to me

found a moose skull when i was walking in the woods, so of course the perfect opportunity to paint a classic still life. i'm still looking for things to put in it though, was thinking something bronze or gold, like a small statue or something. maybe something organic like fruit?
suggestions?

>>1913646

flowers!

>>1913412
like the composition, but creature pops up from enviroment to much. Try something like some parts (like tentacles thing on top) blending into darkness like tentacle third from left and then maybe arise again from it. Also - dont be mechanic. Your mind tells you that eye sockets should be dark but they cant in this lighting situation

keep up
>>1913343
>>1913421
>>1913424
Thank you, friends, doing strange stuff that i dig and getting joy from you drills me up

ink painting of adam and eve expelled from paradise

I posted this in the last thread just as it was dying, wondering if I could get a critique

Just finished it

>>1913674
Sorry guys forgot to resize

>>1913663
Looks early japanese-ish

interesting

>>1913237
How so?

>>1913674
Looks like a bad 70's album color. I like the style, but I don't care too much for this image in particular

Alright this is as finished as it's going to get.
tumblr for the guy who asked in beginner's thread (two days ago, sorry) http://devinhoyt.tumblr.com/
>>1913674
That's pretty interesting, a bit sporadic but I can mostly figure out what I am looking at. Took a while to notice the guy at the bottom as his hat looks like a sponge and without the hands it wouldn't give any indication that it's a living thing, none the less a human being.
The text looks killer but I can't read what it's supposed to say for the life of me. Whole thing feels like it's going in a Roger Dean direction which is a good thing. Keep it up.
>>1913663
I'm not familiar enough with ink painting to give a proper critique on your technique but it has good atmosphere. I would have absolutely no clue who the characters were without you explaining the premise. I also feel that us (the viewer) looking into the garden makes one assume that we (us+the figures near the viewer) are entering instead of exiting the scene. I see the figures at the bottom and my brain just assumes they're moving upwards and inwards towards the other focal point. If you reversed the perspective, things may make more sense but that obviously would be a whole new piece. If you could manage to very lightly put in some more mountain tops towards the height of the illustration it could add a lot of depth and grandeur.
>>1913646
Pomegranate, because deep saturated glossy red, and best fruit.
>>1913550
I think, don't quote me on this, but I think the shadows and lines on the face look a bit muddy. Give your reference a closer look and see if you're missing some of the saturation within the shadows. Otherwise it looks like it's headed to a good place.

>>1913751
ink painting guy here, thank you for a proper critique. I knew the characters are a little fuzzy, especially since they are silhouettes and there is not detail. I agree with the addition of more background scenery, I was just afraid of fucking it up, but I will do more studies and hopefully adding something that makes the piece better instead of worse

>>1913751
i like the lines, especially of the rock format in the bg
overall not bad, decent finished piece

>>1912266
practicing repetition of forms.

>>1913751
the distant areas need to be more saturated and done with varying line weight. as it is everything looks like it's right on top of us. very flat/10

>>1913766
Good point
thankyuh

>>1913751

hm rly? it looks a little muddy on my secondary monitor, but ok on primary. saturated some parts a little higher anyway.

now mostly concerned with

- eyes derpy?
- mouth too monkyish?
- face lacks character/interest?

>>1913787
frgt pic

ugh... i dont know how to attach files with the new captcha... the field covers the file upload :S

>>1913807
Verify it first...

>>1913808
I did. The stupid long code still covers it. I feel like an old man now.

>>1913810
Then you're doing something wrong, because the captcha should disappear after you've verified it.

That, or there's something with your browser.

I'm trying to get right the body structure of this character I'm making, and was wondering if I could get some second opinions on the anatomy/appeal/whatever of it.

>>1913630
>>1913633
According to where I sourced the image, this is taken in Osaka. But I am not so sure

>>1913789
Yeah that's looking alright, Top lip feels strange, sort of like it's just darker color instead of being on the underside. If you're working from reference and aren't too bothered by sharing it I would have a much easier time figuring out why it looks strange to me.

>>1912266

>>1913848
1. keep more work on underdrawing/underpaiting, bottle seems like it would fall down
2. make fun with colors. The rule is: sometimes colors that you make up from head will do more realistic feel than colors that you think will work. Ad a little green to shadow of bottle, ad a little green on side of book, dont make cloth only white or wall only red

remember: Every object creates a color on other near objects, its hard to visible it with your eyes but your brains feel it and still life master painters uses this with full potential

remind: dont use white to light objects, dont use black to darken them. It looks unrealistic. There is no ultimate white and ultimate black in our eye spectrum of seeing. For example - lightbulb would probably create light with yellow tone in it or blue, so keep this in mind

3. white strokes dont make glass. Glass have own color and creates distorsion (in your case, the book and wall) like you did with bottle. Even if you think its perfectly transparent glass

And im not hating by any means, just want to give good feedback. Its not bad. I actually like it. Color spectrum is solid, brushwork is uncharacteristic (but it will develop) but clean, and composition is fine for me. Just keep going and you will learn a lot of stuff doing it

Huh, thought I posted this already... anyway, practice from reference.

>>1913535
Yeah, I think about making a graphic novel in the future, she being one of the characters. Cheers
>>1913548
heh, thanks I guess.

Adding paint and fixing proportions

Got a love hate thing going on with this one

>>1913085
Always imagine what you are drawing as a real life object or the closest geometrical shape then try render it with that in mind.

>>1913868

This looks great so far.

>>1913266

Rap group/10. That bearded guy bout to drop a sick beat.

>>1913586
A fair warning on using the Shift click, it will end up looking to digital if you overuse it. Real life has flaws so try drawing the lines free hand. Use a new layer and draw it on then merge down if you are unsure. Ctrl-z is nice but should be used to a minimum. Best way to train outside of digital is by sketching with an pen.

>>1913865

Another... spent way less time on this though.

>>1913871
Looks cool but its really hard to tell what's going on initially. Had to stare at the piece for a good bit to see there was a kid and cat there. There needs to be a greater variation in tone (although you might already know that), and in your next piece more care should be paid towards negative space. There should be a better balance of positive/negative space to help the eye identify important (positive) forms.

>>1913880
nigga what
thanks for the reply but like what about color schemes and value atm

>>1913865
the lines between the breasts seem really harsh. I would soften up their values a bit so they blend more and look less abrupt

Self portrait for painting classssss

>>1913912
Not enough flames in the background

planning on coloring it flat. I usually get stupidly carried away with trying to paint stuff instead of sticking to a simpler style..

>>1913827
I'm going to assume that you intentionally stretched him out to be unrealistically slender and tall. But I would still move down his pecs so they "flow out of" the armpit region. Technically speaking, of course. I'd also lengthen his arms a bit because they're stubby compared to his abnormally long legs.

I think the jawline should come up more and the nose is not at the right angle, but, wtf is up with the left eye. Its obviously too big, but I kind of fucked myself over with the right eye and the values are too dark to erase it now.

>>1912560
Is hard to see face clearly

>>1913931
Not completely irredeemable but you need more proportion and structure studies before moving on to longer or more finished pieces. There's not much that can be said, you just need to do more studies (like 5-10 min each) to see how to fix these issues in the future. You can already see what's wrong for the most part

>>1913847

yeah he looks super monkeylike. not using ref here

wipp

done a quick enviroment and leave it out

>>1913995

the bird shaped clouds kill it man. you already have those value clusters with the scarf-bird-things, you really want the sky to be flat and empty. so the bird-scarf-thing-shapes have room. imo.

>>1913125
Up

Used
>>1913154
Today, thank you.

And other things

>>1914097
Oops

Cover for a graphic Novel Kickstarter I am part of. I am leaving it as it is, because I need the discipline of letting go, and the writer likes it, but I would like a critique, please.

Charcoal and graphite drawing. The page is 150cmx70cm aproximately

>>1914188

>>1914127
The most obvious to me would be his left arm, the one in shadow. One, it's kinda making a tangent with his leg, two, it looks like it's not going to his shoulder, if that makes sense.

Eveything else is pretty good actually, let go and do better on your next work anon.

>>1914191
Dang dem tangents! Oh well, thanks anon!

>>1913535
is it starting to look better now?

>>1913973
I really like this dude, water needs more contrasted highlights and the woman needs to be defined a bit better, learn to paint skin.
Other than that love the scenery. Sword is nice too, could do with more contrasting highlights aswell don't be afraid to use black'n'whites.

>>1914213

learn about character mass, and weighting your character. I dont think he's weighted very well and try to understand anatomy a little better, do it by studying anatomy books such as 'anatomy for sculptors'

>>1914213
hey man,
You are starting to get a few concepts into your head and that's great.
But right now you still have a ways to go before you can apply the fundamentals correctly.

Using this painting as your guide you can now tell a lot about what you need to study next.

Human anatomy
Light / Shadow (Your forms completely lack terminators and cast shadows).
Color theory (You are lightening and darkening your local color using black and white).
Gestures.
Linework.
Design (Fist weapon illidan goblin rogue with a dranei torso), Read a book or watch a documentary instead.
You seem to like scars and stitches, Read Frankenstein and do a series of images from that as you study.

>>1914231
>>1914213
Oh shit sorry, didn't see it was for a blizzard contest. You are still recycleing their designs tho.

Come up with something original but fitting instead.

>>1914213

here's a quick resketch, nothing too fancy took me 3 mins. You gotta apply the fundamentals before you begin rendering because if you are fundamentally flawed, i am too but im trying to get better, then you will be polishing turds constantly.

>>1912562
Got a bit further and I think I'm done

>>1912293
Shoulders are fucked up, neck too long.

>>1912455
Hmm, I'm usually not a fan of excessive photo bashing, but you're pulling it off rather nicely. I like it!

>>1912562
Looking good, really like your style!

>>1912574
Agree with what others have said, the eyes are the least of your problem, fix that mouth instead!

>>1912697
That's pretty awesome actually!

>>1912752
Love the horns, but face could use a bit smoothing here and there.

>>1914240

I would add more negative space but it looks much better then left one.

may i ask which books you use for studying?

>>1913183
I like it! Only a couple of things... Her torso seems a bit short, mainly her chest area. Also the nipple closest to us seems to be migrating east.

>>1913416
Nice! Somehow his hat seems a bit big for his head, tho. Perhaps try narrowing the top part a bit?

>>1913646
A bouquet of flowers and some over-ripe fruit of sorts.

>>1914068
Flip your canvas, man! Then you'll see that one of her eyes is higher then the other.

>>1913751
It says "Hermit - The Faunus" thank you for the
critique, it came out from a bigger page i did, it's portion of a comic strip.
Roger Dean is always inspirational,
like the other guy said >>1913746
it is supposed to have a 70's feeling.
Anyways another one i'm working on today.

>>1914253

I've studied 'Antomy for sculptors', not the entirety but core regions in which i lack understanding, for example the leg and back/torso were my weak zones. However, I've strengthened them.

Constantly doing gesture studies 30 a day/4-5 times a week got my in the habit of using gesture. I suggest doing this.

Ofcourse andrew loomis straight up easiest methods to employ when creating a figure.

http://www.alexhays.com/loomis/

Heres some other stuff i've done.

www.a-hart-kindled.tumblr.com

>>1914223
it doesnt seem unbalanced to me
and i think the anatomy is ok, i fixed a bit the obliques though
>>1914231
>Human anatomy
i think the anatomy is ok, its obviously exagerated but maybe im a missing something you could tell me
>Light / Shadow
really? i dont know maybe im doing the terminators too big and there is little bounced light
there are cast shadows, underneath his head
as for the rest well its still a wip but yea the dynamite, arm and the figure itself will cast a shadow
>Color theory (You are lightening and darkening your local color using black and white).
nope i knew even before watching that gnomon dvd that color gets more saturated in the shadows and less in the light as well as shift hue because of the fill light/reflected light
but again maybe im missing something or im being too subtle
>Gestures.
yea its not really the most dynamic pose i have done
>Linework
if you mean the rough drawing, well it was just that, i knew i was gonna paint on top so i didnt bother with lineweight or anything
>Design
i have never played the game but the idea was basically just a goblin with his experiment( a frankenstein goblin)
but im always open to book recommendations
>>1914232
i may change a few thiings as im painting
>>1914240
besides the pose i dont really see what you mean with fundamentals?

How do I into Landscape painting?

>>1913550
just continue and follow ref now :), should go well, also watch out with your brsushes and colors bc its getting muddy

>>1913309
go relaxed, see the big shape of it. what is the big shape? does the biggest shape have shapes attached? What direction is perspective does everything go? do they have more shapes attached and on it? are there smaller important shapes in the shapes( big details)? Where does the light come from? So where is the shadow?

That's my approach if you want to try

>>1913646
wow.. where u live anon? mooses.. moose skulls +_+ I've never even seen a moose in real life and woods +_+.
btw this is going well and maybe adding grapes?

>>1913651
>>1913751
>>1914258
>>1914330
i live in oslo, norway. only seen a live one once and it caused my dog to go chasing it for 20 minutes, really dangerous he could have died.

thanks for the suggestions, going with the pomegranate. will try to find some not to expensive flowers. i wish it were summer so i could just go out and pick some.

>>1914220
thx ! yeah skin feels unnatural

Study in progress! We're all gonna make it, right bro's?

guess the movie

>>1914379

dat zedig brush. also i don't think studying mullins is worthwhile. he is too good. too far out there. you can reproduce his pieces to some degree of visual appeal but you won't learn anything from it.

>>1914393
There's plenty to learn from Mullins. He's good on so many levels that no matter where you are in your development there is something you can pick up from him.

>>1914389

Man I really love Heat. Might have to give it a rewatch - it's been a few years.

Nice work.

>>1914393
What can I say, I like the brush.
I suck at environments so my goal was just to just try and re-create one that has been done so I can try my own.

>>1914399

you'd think so, but imo you'd be wrong. see if you picture art skills as divided in 10 principles (composition, anatomy, drawing, values, color/temp, brushwork, whatever), mullins is just so insanely, excessively good, that he is at 11/10 in every discipline.

now we only observe the end result, his image. in which these disciplines interact to create a whole. but the finesse of how mullins arranges these individual disciplines to achieve the end result is completely invisible to us mortals. there is too much going on that is relevant below the surface in his work. i think time spent studying mullins is time spent very superficially studying, inefficiently learning. he's too good.

started digital painting about a week ago, doing tutorials and just messing around to get a feel for it

>>1914379
We are going to totally make it. You dont seem to suck at enviroments at all, bro.


Also a quick study of a picture i saw in the ref thred

>>1914444
Her posture is a bit weird, her spine is kinda breaking.
Love the legs tho. keep it up

>>1914242
love it, you've got a good balance when it comes to realism and stylization

>>1914404
thanks. yeah me too

>>1912342
lower the opacity/flow and start blending, make the eyedropper tool your best friend

>>1912266

postlimit check

so i cant draw a good straight line in photoshop, is that just my tiny wacom or is it photoshop?

>>1914606
jesus christ that face is awful and the boobs should hang on the other side dude, gravity matters
also shift and drag for a perfect straight line. or just practice your pulse

>>1914607
hehe i know, i started drawing like a week ago since 10 years or something, i do 3d art so thought it would be funny to try and draw a little

>>1914611
Damn thats a lot of time without drawing but its never too late. Keep drawing

>>1914607
unnecessary rude

>>1914607
anyway my wrist doesnt seem to be the problem, i have no problem with good lines in zbrush. its just that in ps a normal black line seems to jitter so much

>>1914616
/ic/ - unnecessary rude

>>1914616
>that face is awful
>some advice

woah that was some srs rudeness such a meanie :(

>>1914621
Dude that looks amazing. Did you tried to make thicker likes or use other brushes? Maybe you are using a shitty brush and that often doesnt help
I would suggest to check your tablet settings but if you have good lines on zbrush...

Wip of a night scene.

>>1914628
thank you :) like i said, I'm a 3d artist. Just a side hobby to try and polish my 2d skills. I'll try some different brushes.

Haven't screwed around with pencils much, and I know I need to study hands, feet, faces and drapery badly, but any glaringly obvious fuck ups?

>>1914231
This is really cool

Charging ahead

help me figure out why the legs looks so stiff and wonky /ic/

>>1914634

hnnnggg imagine how satisfying it must feel to paint ontop of that with a bright pink or purple.

>>1914661
Great, now I have to fap to a videogame character again.

>>1914661
face looks a little big.

>>1913765
heres one more

>>1914661
head too big, hands are cute

>>1914665
The body as a whole feels stiff. Do you have a ref?

>>1914672
Whoa, this is cool. I love how geometric it looks.

>>1914681

lol no. it's just loosely inspired by this, but not referenced at all.

>>1914685
I saw grab a large mirror and try striking poses yourself. Or grab a camera, set it up on a desk, and photograph yourself in natural poses. If the character is holding something with a bit of weight (like a sword), then hold something similar as a proxy.

>>1914676
>>1914670
I tried to make the body more matching, how's this?
>>1914666
sorry anon

>>1914683
was practicing repetion of forms, and seeing the visual effects of copying you're own drawings.

iterations on previous drawings really brings into view the importance of doing practice sketches before you start a painting. Really defines a great artist is knowing which iteration will be the one worth painting because you have to get the end results organically to make a great painting. I find paintings done as exact copies of a drawing are lackluster. Kind of the same as the lifeless results you get when you copy a photograph exactly.

Finding out ways to make sure I'm never making copies of my own work.

>>1914699
Much better man

Attempted some studies, lower left is original. I've had trouble drawing hands and making poses seem more dynamic.

Critique would be nice.

>>1914693

hey that seemed like a great idea. then i realized i've lost my charger. fffuck my life.

>>1914699
Much better. I would make the torso a bit longer and the hips a bit wider but thats just me. Very nice, looking foward to see it finished

Herp Derping Around with brush peens.

>>1914735
His eye is far too large for the otherwise realistic style. The wing's really fucked up (feathers all facing one direction, no secondaries, etc) but I'm also not sure if it's actually a wing or just an amalgamation of feathers, in which case it'd be okay.

a concept thing

Any concept art critique?

>>1914634

Love it! Do you have a blog or something?

Just some sketches of faces. All referenced. How am I doing?

>>1914773
http://marsillustrated.tumblr.com/

>>1914715
for poses just try to think of different angles to view the pose. what would be interesting. think of the mood of the figure, how can you enhance it. You may not even need to change the pose, but make the depth more convincing, or design a more suitable costume or silhouette.

Some critique for your original one, the arm with the hand on the book. You could enhance the sense of depth, maybe add a crease or cross contours, since the forearm is coming forward in space.

I do like it though, the expression on the face is nice, and the hair is really nice. The handling of the lines in the clothing is not too shabby either.

For the studies, not too much to say about em. The goose one is quite nice, nice expression and pose. I may have pushed the sense of weight underneath the bottom hand more, but that's really the only thing I feel worth commenting on.

>>1914797
Sweet, thank you. I'll keep what you said in mind.

>>1914766
What is its function?
The robot?

>>1914715
>going for confident lines
Respect, son.

>>1914634
>>1914792
This second version seems far inferior to the first in every conceivable way. What happened?

>>1914743
Thnx bro, letting eyes get too big is a problem i have pretty consistently. Gotta watchout for that.

made hands bigger/arms longer

>>1914934
It's a wip. I'll get to where I'm trying to go eventually.

get in drawers
>>1915066
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>>1914256
Thanks dude !
Yeah, you're right I'll reduce it a little bit.