/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2036545
Oh look another useless study of a portrait that has been done hundreds of thousands of times!

>Let's copy something mindlessly and become a human xerox machine!

Why won't you offer a full figure with an interesting perspective that shows hands and feet or something to exercise foreshortening?

>>2036545
I am not studying cucumberfaggotpatch.

Maybe with a different ref

>>2036605
how's this instead? clothing ref

>>2036545
I'll be doing this now

>>2036609
Terrible lighting

>>2036545
ayy lmao

>>2036545
Is there a time limit, op? I need to make myself do more studies, but I'm supposed to work on commissions and a lot of times I can't stop if I start a study. People on here have said they can do a good one in an hour or less, I want to attain that.
Also I can't lie, I've been wishing there'd be celeb studies from time to time.

>>2036609
Cute brows

>>2038319
nigger you need to educate yourself a bit and learn some lighting situations other than strong directional light.

Contre Jour is a great way to light a character depending on the mood you are going for. It's also used very often in fashion illustration where the focus is to present a design and not distract from it with strong cast shadows etc.

Also not every study has to be a fucking color and value study. How about you try to think like a draughtsman for once and not like a shit tier photocopy machine who only wants to reproduce a pretty picutre?

Quick study I did
Pl0x support me on patreon xxoxox

>>2038428
kronz pls

>>2038404
A good time limit is 4 - 6 hours. You'll get quicker with practice over time/be able to get more done in the time you set for yourself.

>>2038432
Alright, I think I'm gonna try it out. I think I'll limit myself to 3-4 hours, but I won't try to rush it too much, just get as far as I can. In the end hopefully it'll serve as a good warm-up for me to work on my commissions. One of them is a celeb portrait anyway and I've been pretty fucking terrified to start on it.

>>2038432
4-6 hours? Man, I haven't spent that long on a study in a couple years probably...

>>2038436
That's the spirit! Go for it man.

>>2038440
Well I've got what I think is a mostly decent sketch. I think I'm gonna make a few more tweaks then try for color.

>>2038503
Alright I think I'm gonna try for color now.

>>2036609

>>2036545
I tried but damn did I hate drawing his face.

>>2038903
Turned out bretty nice, why'd you hate drawing him?

>>2038926
Thanks. And I just wasn't a fan of his features or the angle/lighting. Was good practice though.

Well I did it again. Couldn't freaking stop myself. But I think this turned out pretty good? So maybe it was worth it. I really shouldn't have spent all day on it though, damn it. I try to tell myself it benefits my customers in the long run but I know I'm a p.o.s. for not just doing their pictures. Ah well.

>>2038903
Fixed some things with the contrast and tried to take a non potato quality picture this time.
>>2039208
This did turn out nice, you got a decent likeness here.

>>2039421
Thanks although looking at it with fresh eyes this morning I see the likeness isn't nearly as close as I thought last night lol. I'll probably mess with it some more.

>>2036609
QT

Painted with a mouse.
Had to stop before I hurt my arm again.

Please donate.

But I don't wanna do bergerdick cumonbuns

>>2039801
you'd rather draw super generic tumblrcore photos?

>>2039803
Is it so hard to imagine someone might want to draw a pretty portrait (which I find interesting) rather than an ugly dude with weird features?

>>2039772
kronz PLEASE

>>2039821
>ugly dude with weird features
I'm not that anon but you're godamn crazy. He's a beautiful man.

>>2036545
one day, /ic/

>>2039848

>>2039829

Every time I see him I think "Ayy LMAO".

This is beauty, no homo.

>>2039851
That's not beauty, that's sexy. I just feel like Cumberbatch has a more elegant air, and that fits more with my idea of 'beauty'. Quinto is definitely a cutie though.
No homo.

>>2036545
He looks like how the x-files theme song sounds like.

>>2039849
Airbrush less. A lot less. In fact, just stop altogether.

Harder, flatter brushes would do you a favor.

>>2039911
Not him, but what is "/ic/ approved" photoshop brush?
I was told to use hard round.
But with disabled opacity
>hard round with disabled opacity doesnt mix colors
I was told to set hardness to 0
>stop airbrush
I am using "2b pencil" tool from photoshop for everything now

>>2039911
I initially drew it with hard brushes, but i smudged it all, trying to make it look good. Guess i'll just keep trying, thanks

>>2039997
>But with disabled opacity
>hard round with disabled opacity doesnt mix colors
You disable pen pressure opacity and instead change the opacity yourself, either with the slider or with the 1-0 keys on your keyboard. That's how you blend.

Here is mine.
How do you scan your drawings dear anons? I think I have a shitty scanner.

I've been trying to make the likeness and execution better. At least I think it looks more like him now. I'm hoping it does so I can move on to the hair and be done with this.

His mouth is a troll

>>2036545

I'm always torn on these threads. On one end I see some pretty impressive stuff but on the other end I learned that the best way to study is to do a bunch of quick drawings instead of one long one. Like you'll get a lot more out of it if you're doing 12 5 minutes studies instead of 1 full hour study.

>>2041675
Shit, sorry

>>2041682
Yeah, even if you are going to do the long one, it'd be better to try sketching from the reference a few times before attempting it. Study the shape of the features individually, then if you actually went on and tried to do the whole picture, it'd probably be way easier. I'm gonna try that next time.

>>2041682
It depends on what you want to study. If it is proportions you want to study, the focus solely on that. If it edges, then the likeness does not mean much, if it is values, again the rest does not matter as much. A problem some people have with these things is they are trying to do too much at once when they need to focus on one part oft heir work that is lacking and use it to patch it up.

>>2038432
>>2038503
Noone is gonna comment on the fact that anon has commissions "stacked" with skills like that?

>>2041752
What do you mean? Are you saying I'm not good enough to have commissioners? Also it's not a "stack", when I posted that I only had 2 that I'm going back and forth on, although I did pick up another small one since then.

>>2041762
different anon here. How do you get these commissions? I'd like to think I'm of a similar skill level but I never get any commissions ever. How do you promote yourself and find them?

>>2041806
Well, just to clarify, that thumbnail sketch anon quoted is not the kind of thing people who commission me see on my galleries or receive from me after paying, this last update >>2040648 is more like what I'd show. Aside from that, I've pretty much gotten all my commissions here on 4chan, a few through DA. One of the ones I'm currently doing, I picked up here on /ic/, the other two are people who follow me from when I used to draw on /co/. I pretty much just go in drawthreads and draw and when someone asks for my info I give it, and just post on tumblr or da or wherever else I can.

>>2041806
To add on, make sure you have a commission sign too, with prices or at least what you offer. Once I made one it helped a lot.

>>2039421

what pencil do you use for drafting ?

lizardmen, man

>>2042799
The funny thing is it still pretty much looks like him.

>>2042799
dont substitute a shitty joke for your drawing. haha. now get back to it faggot

>>2038419
>Also not every study has to be a fucking color and value study.
Light is the basis of all drawing and painting you goddamned troglodyte.

And if you want practice construction maybe you shouldn't have form-destroying backlight on the figure that leaves out most of the subtleties ?

Face it, your azn waifu is a bad picture to study from.

>>2045014

Don't subnstitute contributing to the thread with being an anal tryhard.

>>2045045
>abloo bloo bloo

>>2045045
>artist defend his turd confirmed

>>2045033
>Light is the basis of all drawing and painting you goddamned troglodyte.

>what is rendering and painting practice
>what is high-key value practice
>what is clothing practice
>what is non-value/colour observational practice

Not that Anon, but you're pretty simple minded.

Is it just me or is the study thread usually a lot more active than this? Is it seriously because op picked a celebrity and /ic/ is so very against le celeb photocopy? Or is it just that people don't like Cumberbatch specifically? Or people just not interested in doing studies right now in general?

>>2045298
It's not a particularly interesting thing to study like a woman's weird labia or something.

>>2045147
All of those are related to light and shadow, fucking dumbass.
>what is non-value/colour observational practice
What does this even mean? Are you looking at something in the dark?

>>2045298
partly because if the color filter, partly cause I think his face is really weird and dont want to draw it.

>>2045564
>>2045572
This board is full of beggars who want to be choosers. People need to get out of their comfort zones and draw whatever's put in front of them. You learn nothing by going "eh I don't wanna draw that" and walking away. Besides that if anyone here seriously thinks they want to work in the industry, they need to understand that they WILL be asked to draw crap they don't feel like drawing. The key is to find a way to make it interesting. If your reference sucks, improve it in your drawing, that's how you're supposed to use reference anyway, not just to blindly copy it but learn how to make it into a cool picture. Or just use it as an opportunity to practice your brush technique or rendering or something.
So many missed opportunities for growth here, so many.

>>2045642
>beggars who want to be choosers.
Nobody asked for a study thread, and you can't expect a lot of participation when the ref is so underwhelming.

It's a somewhat shitty photo of a funny-looking celebrity. Nobody is missing out by not doing the study. They can do a still life in the same amount of time and learn a lot more.

>>2038503
Question from a newbie.

What do you use to draw this? Tablet + photoshop?

Did this in hour and I don't like it at all.

>>2045703
not him, but yes

>>2045660
This. The fucking weird filter on the photo turns me off of it.
/ic/ needs to relearn how to pick good refs.

>>2045703
Yes, I usually like drawing in pencil but I wanted to practice digital painting and color so I did this in photoshop. If you're wondering how I kept the reference up, I used PureRef.

>>2045033
Form-destroying backlighting? Are you slightly retarded?

>>2045642
I have a folder full of portraits to do studies of, I don't need or want to draw this one. I don't like it. So what? I don't plan on becoming a professional painter, drawing is something I do for fun.