/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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Constructive crit.
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w/ic/i:
http://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/

Figure Drawing directory (US/Canada):
http://www.artmodelbook.com/figure-drawing-directory.htm

For those of us who can't attend a live session:
http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

Online Art Stores:
http://www.utrechtart.com
http://www.jetpens.com
http://www.dickblick.com
http://www.artsupplies.co.uk

Specialty Items:
Skulls: http://www.skullsunlimited.com/
Head: http://www.planesofthehead.com/

Remember to use Acid Free paper

>>2021226
thanks

Just testing out my new tablet that came in yesterday.

>>2021226
Has anyone here actually bought a skull? Seems kinda useless, with the massive amount of free images on google

>>2024988
it didnt cost but a few bucks, i did buy one.

>>2021215
why should i use acid free paper?

what's the best size for a sketchbook, if you want to draw while standing?

>>2025594
its hard to draw while youre tripping balls

>>2021215
practicing horse movement etc...

couple of doodles + I need a scanner

>>2025620
tighten up those lines.
muh style not an excuse

>>2025620
what if it's not an excuse? Now I'm not saying I am grandmaster for my marks but I'm saying how exactly is this emphasis on outline supposed to do anything other than kill the movement of your gesture? As you travel around versus inside of it I can't help but feel you are losing something.
Like, these are sketches, so if I were to make a finished piece I would be cleaning up using that medium, or tone or something. I suppose my question is why sketches in particular would require this outline method?

>>2025662
this was a question posed to >>2025621

>>2025606
Just buy a portable stool instead

People at the station can't stay put a minute

>>2025662
Not that anon, but i agree with him.
If you worked on your line economy and confidence, your work would accel.

I don't care about your style, but realize that every line should have a purpose. Don't just put lines down and say "ill figure it out later".

>b-but it's just a sketch!
Yeah, thats what it is, a quick, sketchy representation of an idea. And if your wasting time trying to figure out the form and the shapes but just putting lines down, then the moment has already passed. Your sketch will look nothing like your original idea at the end.

It seems like you have a good grasp on anatomy and a little bit of drapery, so why do you need all of those excess lines? You should have some idea where everything should go.

Now guidelines and building up basic forms is a whole different conversation. But it looks like you are already past this stage, so i don't understand your un-confidence.

Maybe try working on rendering things, using dark shadows to help emphasize parts as well as hide details. That would help because it qould get rid of the
scribbly lines and flatness that your "style" has at the moment.

tl;dr
Improve line quality by being more confident and efficient... and try to introduce rendering if your drawings are still flat.

some stuff I did at work, lurking reference thread

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>>2027931

Just inked this. Thinking of colours now. Considering white hair with pink highlights but I haven't the slightest clue what to do for the rest. Critique?

>>2027930
Really nice!

>>2027918
that anon from a couple of days ago. Thank you for a real answer, I'm not fully willing to agree with leaving scratch behind, but I will work on cleaning up a bit

right side studies + left side stoned quick doodles.

The side profile on the right I was using a front facing person as a reference and trying to rotate it, shit hurts my brain.

>>2022835
ihavenoideawhatsgoingon.jpeg

>>2023049
brush sizes + layers, use it

scribble gestures on bottom layer, then make new layer and clean it up.. then hide/delete older layer

>>2025613
This is really nice start, what kind of paper is that?

>>2025620
I'm agreeing with other posters about focusing on line confidence/economy.
trying to convey more with less so it doesn't get all muddled

>>2026039
some of these I like, grid paper makes me cry though

>>2027930
I dig it

>>2027933
have you tried having your hatching go with the contours of the form?

critique on this study?

Spent about 3 hours on it, and realized I was wasting a ton of time rendering the lower left guy without focusing on structure/whole picture so about 2 hours of it was kind of bunk...

original is Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_by_Caravaggio.jpg

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>>2021215
My latest

>>2029209
nice lines, keep goin!

Excuse the crappy picture

Excuse the crappy picture

>>2029255
Careful that you aren't falling into lazy symbol drawing. I can see you starting to venture into that territory especially on places like the nose where you draw it from the same angle each time with the same shadow behind the bridge of the nose. Maybe try drawing a bit larger, with a sharper pencil, and just trying to get the structure as clear as you can. Probably would be good to draw the head form different angles too.

>>2025610
Iveneverdoneacid.jpg

>>2029480
drawing on psychs is the beess fuckin druggo

>>2029034
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Good study. Women's faces are botched a bit. Holofernes' is on point. The dark shades are present and are the most positive aspect of the drawing, although they could use a bit of work specifically in top and lower right corners.

>>2029034
Well its pretty fucking good, but the difference between left and right is really noticeable. next time waste your time on it and achieve even better results

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>>2028886
are the pecs right? shouldn't they move togheter with the deltoid? rest seems pretty good tho

>>2028884
look up other anatomy sources and instead of copying the lines, compare this teachers arms with other teachers arms to gain a better sense of what you are looking at. copying these forms will help you, but not very quickly

>>2029514
Yeah that was part of the going from accurate/rendering attempts to just blocking in a representation of dark after my wrist starting screaming WHY DID YOU PICK THIS

I actually thought I was losing likeness on Holofernes' too much and hence swapped up approaches, weird hearing otherwise!

>>2029514
I actually thought I was losing likeness on Holofernes' too much and hence swapped up approaches, weird hearing otherwise!

Here are some doodles from the past week or 2

i have a few things scanned il post

>>2029862
Another

>>2029864
sorry about the sizes

>>2029856
keep studying/working on anatomy

>>2029868
this one's pretty dope!

>>2029889
will do

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>>2029868
god man, noice, reminds me of aeon flux and early '90s nicktoons

>taping scrap drawings into your sketchbook

Is this frowned upon?

>>2029856
Love it.

>>2030068

me again, sorry if this is considerd spam

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>>2030085
what the fuck is this?

>>2029856
That Knight armor is sexy

>>2030028
It's your sketchbook. Who gives a fuck?

dog :)

First post. Please rate

farmers and worker, sorry for shit quality mobile phone camera.

>>2030085

you really suck

>>2030068

bruv that flamingo microwave is the shit

>>2030631
That feel when years of soulless attempts at pretty girls and random human poses made you completely unable to draw what you originally loved aka stuff like that

>>2030001
>aeon flux
Oh thanks for reminding me. now I know what I'm gonna draw next

>>2029255
Fuck what that other anon said, where is your tumblr?! Deviant art!?

>>2030743
sup stoner.

>>2030901

I know thanks

>>2030259

whatever I feel like drawing

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>>2031265
>quality control is for nerds

>>2025662
that was a large and upset response. I never told you what "outline method" to use, just clean up your lines so that you can clearly emphasize gesture and form instead of relying on frivolous linework. the intermediate-artist equivalent of using motion lines to indicate motion

pencil sketch in a 5x8 flimsy sketchbook

>>2031306
ten out ten /ic/s.

>>2031306
Damn, person. I'm pretty impressed.

I've been carrying around a 5x7 and doing pen sketches. I like the small format.

Here my hard work for the week.
I really need to put my shit togheter...

>>2025620
this is not quality critic, but

holy shit that's cool.

Batman themed sketches. Batman himself I did on a bus, the rest I did at lunch.

h-here

I'll be dumping my shitastic art now. Looking for some serious critique on why I suck so badly.

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>>2036352
And that's it for now. Those are some of the slightly recent ones anyway.

heehee
okay

Sorry. I can't take gud pictures(but I can try)

>>2036380
anover

>>2036383
mmk

>>2036385
these are crazy

>>2029034
anon just a suggestion but the way you rendered this scene adds a lot of tension/action to it. If you where trying to get as close to the ref as possible, slow down on your rendering.

>>2021215
life drawing, 2,5 hours
crits pls

>>2036471
forgot to resize sry

>>2036445
I think it'd be alright that way if he at least took his time making the background a flat tone. It would tone it down and stop taking all the attention away from the figures

its my first time drawing, i just copied something off from a pic i had saved, is it good enough for a first drawing?
also i have a plan to fill my sketchbook everyday with shit like that, like one day = one drawing, will that make me a better artist?

>>2036475
You're scribbling. Don't do that.

>>2028925

Senpai, what is the best grip when sketching ?

>>2021215
Just started doing everyday drawings yesterday. Still a beginner though.

More heads, i think i should practice some expressions too

More heads, i think i should practice more expressions too

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>>2036385

I think I'm in love

Trying to develop an energetic/ restless kind of style..

>>2037467

big sketch dump inc

>>2023049

Tablets are pretty awkward from the start. Its hard to make good lines, not as much drag as paper.

You should do warmup shapes with it to get used too movement on it, and also use layers, since the upside of a tablet is ease of laziness. You can be super sketchy and then clean it up with another layer really quickly.

last one. c/c are appreciated.

>>2037829

Not a critique, but trunk man looks badass friend. Keep it up.

>>2037830
draw looser, try to understand the forms better

dont shy away from drawing hands feet and faces

>>2037839
There are actually quite a few hands/feet in the upper posts and like 50% of the stuff is faces so I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but I definitely agree about getting more gesture and form into my drawing. Thanks.

>>2037835
Thanks, I appreciate it.

Hands suck.

>>2037333
>nice trips
You need some loomis in your life m8

>>2037954
I like it, reminds me of early posts in CA sketchbooks of artists who ended up being good.

>>2037954
pretty.

Old picture when my mum was in the hospital

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>>2038008
Thanks.
>reminds me of early posts in CA sketchbooks of artists who ended up being good
Those sketchbook inspire me so much.

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>>2036471
>drawing naked old women from life
I don't really envy you. if it was at least some 50 milf...

I need to go to sleep.

>>2038605
take this, its the last drawing I put effort into last year. too bad I got depressed and unfinished it.
bats are cool.

>>2021215
wwhy not

>>2031306
more please

>>2036385
Mirin.

Do you have a site where you upload your drawings outside of /ic/? If so, I would love to see it.

Did this recently, it's ok but the eye is a bit too far back in her head.

>>2039811
here's just a regular picture of it

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>>2036485
Well I mean its a study and I was just blocking in dark values since they weren't really a focus

>>2021215
I have a sketchbook I draw in from time to time when it's slow at work. So most of these pics im gonna be posting are done in like, three-four minutes if that. But I still think they come out pretty good. Medium - Pen and ink (usually ballpoint, but sometimes I break out my brush pen/microns if I have the time) paper - moleskin notebook paper.

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>>2030912
I know that feel too well.

But at least I'm bretty gud at drawing lewd girls

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Guesstimated the mirroring, i just now see the problem with it.
I like it overall but im kinda running out of random panels and cut lines to add.

Sorry for the shitty lighting.

>>2040256
Nice perspective work, look up Scott Robertson on Yotube. He has good advice on how to this type of stuff.

>>2040256
threw some marker on there

>>2039970
This is lovely.

>>2029255
Oh shit its you again
Stop samefacing

Just got a nice scanner recently. Then I realized it's a bit too small to scan my entire sketchbook pages.

Oh well, here are some of my recent sketches.

>>2042079
it's mostly gibberish

>>2042080
shit, spoilers don't work here

also I didn't realize how quickly I could post images. I need more time to scan!

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>>2042086
Okay that's it for now I'm beginning to feel embarrassed.

Should I downsize them next time, or is the high resolution appreciated?

>>2042096
>Resize images larger than 1500x1500

>>2042098
Oh yeah, second post. I'm sorry.

>>2042101
Better late than never. Do deleted images count towards the thread's cap?

>>2042125
I mean, I don't see why they would but what do In know.

>>2042126
Another example of something I don't know is the fact that posting an image actually reduces the post cooldown on this board.

>>2042129
Seems kinda counter-intuitive but it is an art board after all.

>>2042130
But why have the cooldown be longer without an image? Okay I'm done again.

>>2039601
I do.
http://necrosmos.tumblr.com/

There's a lot of NSFW, but I do post sketches like that from time to time.

>>2039889
>Caravaggio
>dark values not really a focus
You motherfucker.

Went to my first figure drawing class. It was MADNESS!!

Dumping sketches. 1-5 were like 1-2 minute poses. I don't really know cause I showed up a bit late

>>2042866
6-8 were 5 minute poses. These were much more manageable. I was going to use charcoal vine, but It was my first time with charcoal, and the class was moving too fast for me to start trying new media.

>>2042870
9-11 were 10 minute poses. These were the most comfortable for me.

>>2042873
12 was a 20minute pose, but I didn't have my markers to lay down values. I started to just ink it, and I fugged it up. Oh well. Now I know to bring markers next time.

The class was $4 for outsiders, $2 for students. I was probably in the bottom 10% of the class, but I'd go again. Also, the average age in the class was like 60...

>>2042878

That's actually pretty damn cheap. Where did you find out about it?

caricature from someone from /soc/

>>2042886
I have some friends in uni. They aren't art people, but they found out that the uni has art classes open to the public and for non art uni students.

We left early because my friends arm was getting tired drawing (so lame - i missed the last two 20min poses), but the class was 3 hours.

How much are figure classes usually?

Mirror and Giant sketch

Was semi proud of my Semon of Dong sketch thingy????
First time posting btw

Fritz!

>>2042878
Bottom 10%? That's some high skill peers you got there.

>>2045631
>some high skill peers
Man those old people were good at drawing, it's like they had been spamming that figure class every week for years.

>Bottom 10%
Only people worse than me were my friends that brought me (I don't have any art friends). It was a pretty humbling experience, even more so than my first time on /ic/. It was nice to finally baseline with the real world.

When you guys go to figure classes is it bad taste to look at other anons drawings? I wanted to sneak some more peeks, but I felt like I was invading their privacy.

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>>2025621

I like the way he did the lines. Sometimes it seems excessive but on the knees and feet it looks like a contour map of the lighting intensity, which looks interesting.

>>2040256

you're like a cooler version of me!

Doodling dragon/monster heads

Something about actual sketch books that kills my ability to draw

Made a sketchbook into a video recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0gXD2E-muk

I have more like this.

>>2045813
Middle left is neat. You should really work on your line weight though.

>>2046129
show me more of your underwear wearing hands on head spiderleg men

>>2021215
Ok, lets just open a random page here and see...

1/1

>>2046194
1/4*

2/4

3/4

4/4

these are thumbnails for a drawing ii project

>>2046137
K

>>2024988
I got a baseball sized one 3D printed. Shits helpful as shit imo

I know it's garbage.

>>2029868
Get outta here moebius, /ic/ isn't for dead people.

>>2024988
photo reference != life

>>2045813
maybe draw something other than anime little girls. That's pretty weird

>>2046148
Its kinda okay, but a bit rigid
try doing some gesture drawings or whatever its called

I need to start doing more human anatomy shit and perspective exercises. Right now my sketchbook's filled with bullshit.

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>>2039811
ah!! this is a well known japanese jazz musician, no? Whats' her naaame ???

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>>2047629
The koala.... So cute :3

>>2047395
Keep practicing do not be sad

last time I checked the thread was ready to 404, glad it blew up all of a sudden.
started that snake for fun, don't think I have enough willpower to finish it.

>>2028773
Dope!

>>2029255
These are very good. You're great at hair!

>>2029864
Love this guy. you have a great style. Do you have a page I can visit?

>>2030068
I love how the microwave has antennae

>>2031306
You are my new hero. Please post more.

>>2036380
Your work is amazing. You have such nice flow and expressions. very cool. Tumblr? DA?

I'd love to see your take on realistic people.

>>2036575
Yeah keep it up dude!

Dammit. Not only I cannot into characters, I also cannot post apparently. Was talkin bout that sick Design Cinema Ep where Feng's kickin that Knight Zombies stuff.

>>2037798
That top arm is amazing. You are very talented and I like your style.

>>2040457
This is awesome! I want to play with it. Copic markers? Never understood em.

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are those the same fucking person ? appeared all of a sudden and seem so fucking childish. wtf.

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if you're somehow the same person and new here, you can write everything in a same post by using this format for example --> >>2028925

>>2047825
You're pretty easily impressed eh.

>>2047823
resize thanks for crashing my browser.

Thread is dead, posting anyway.

anyone remember when these threads used to be inhabited by people who could actually draw?

>>2050073
No shit. Its been on a steady decline for a while, but this is by far the lowest it's been since I've been coming here.

>>2029224
is it made of leaves?

>>2050052
U got a blog?

Here's some faces. Reading loomis heads. Yeah I know most are stylized.

http://i.imgur.com/dp9MeB8.jpg?1

>>2053513

not bad, almost got a boner

mouth looks retarded

Practicing drawing figures in perspective

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>>2053715
work on line confidence or erase more m8

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>>2053715
When sketching you should try to assemble the gestural core. I see a lot of lines but very little expression and gesture. You can make a posed image look like it's in motion if you work more on gesture drawings.

>>2047629
can you draw my doge?
He dead. and I want drawing.

>>2045784
cute

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>>2053730
I also had some posts earlier over here.

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I seem to notice my looser sketches get instant replies. While I understand the lack of line confidence, I don't see what you mean by saying they lack expression.

Been trying to learn figures n shit

>>2052398
Yeah. a bad one though, well not worth sharing yet anyway.

>>2046133
Yeah I agree, they were they first stuff I drew with sharpies and the paper absorbed it heaps so it was hard to control it.
>>2047582
I am not sexually attracted to them so it's fine.

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>>2053749
Expression to me means that you can feel the intended movement. Each contour of the body should be aimed at conveying the movement and emotion that would be happening in 3d space mid movement. In a way your sketches look compressed into 2d and so the movement and emotion doesnt come through. I will look for an example of how subtle posing can alter feeling.

>>2053945
Good form and control of value, Anon

Latest shit from my sketchbook. Playing around with some color pencils.

>>2030631
I'm afraid that's not a dog. You're mentally ill but in a good way I guess. Nice work!

>>2043102
Looking at the thumbnail, I first thought it was Fox Mulder holding up his FBI license.

>>2053945
Breddy good!

>>2054276
haha thats awesome

Colonel Chestbridge. Because I can. Also, I hate drawing words and speed bubbles. I totally understand why it is done mainly via the computer.

>>2038704
Wow, nice work anon!

>>2021215

Some pencil sketches

>>2057511
Im sorry but thats pretty bad. Perspective
is wobbly as fuck, the details are flat and dont seem to follow any perspective rules, the ellipsies are very bad. Learn how to mirror and stick to guidelines!

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>>2057524
Is it supposed to have zero depth?
Study perspective!

>>2058240
..and some study of Michalengelo

>>2058240
..and some study of Michalengelo

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>>2058251
wow, great study! thought it was the real thing from thumbnail

I'm doing a series of muscle and anatomy drawings so i always have some kind of reference near me

Sketched some Korean girls I'm staying with.

>>2036475
try to draw the whole thing in basic forms before you start to add detail like as in finish the whole drawing in basic forms.

>>2046787
Love the way you did the foreground trees and leaves.

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just finished these, too. tried to draw quickly and didnt focus too much on the details.

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>>2058240
legit

>>2058251
very nice. only the foot is missing;)
>>2058240
this one is great, too. i like your style. keep it up man

i fully rendered one of my exercises from the mythological creature thread

>>2027930
anuu chiki briki

>>2058232
>Im sorry but thats pretty bad.
No problem, it's way out of my comfort zone & I've been avoiding perspective/buildings/mechanical stuff for over a year.

I hope that in a few months (is weeks too optimistic?) I can post something decent.

>stick to guidelines
More like, I should draw guidelines first. Will do. :)
Not sure how to practice ellipses, maybe I'll figure it out over time.

some abstract doodles i made in my sketchbook because i dont know how to draw anything else.

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>>2060202

Don't sell yourself short, man. An interesting background is as hard to make as an interesting character. I like ur stuff.

>>2060206

A few more from this weekend

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>>2058259
cool!

>>2038704
This is awesome

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>>2061130
bit swibbly

>>2036355
break out of the same one style. try something new and experiment

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>>2036475
i actually like the way this looks, but i guess the point of a life drawing is to be realistic
>proportions

>>2061350
no it isn't. lol

>>2053736
If you give me ded doge money, yeh.

Portrait of my Murican buddy.

Any thoughts on this?

>>2062886
Copying peoples cartoon styles how you are will only grow to you using symbol drawing. Try working in pencil or just lightly in pen and actually draw the shapes they consist of. You're pictures look good but essentially you won't learn much unless all you want to know how to draw are specific characters from that gem show.

>>2063396
I can draw. I just wanted to learn the basic anatomy from that show and try to implement one of my characters that I am working on in that style. I like experimenting. I typically draw in pencil and draw the shapes first. This was just a whim that happened. Thanks for the feedback Anon

H-hi

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