/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2048336

>>2048341

>>2048343

>>2048344

>>2048334
>autism thread
ftfy

Faggots.

Get back to work.

>>2048353
y-you too...

>>2048353

Nice cozy nook in the corner of my house in southern WV. Built my first PC in December so I'm glad to have finally moved on from my Macbook Pro. It's much more powerful than the Macbook, so I can finally work with complicated PS brushes at large resolutions.

My little Intuous 4 (medium) has been going strong since 2009. It's taken a mighty fucking beating over the years, but it still works great.

Specs:
i7 4790k
16GB RAM
MSI GTX 970 ...you know.... for work and stuff.
500GB SSD
z97X-UDH5 mobo

+ Photoshop CC mainly

>>2048368 (cont)

Second work station I set up in March. Decided to blow a load of cash on a nice high end printer. Bought an Epson Stylus Photo R2000 and a nice paper trimmer and have really been loving it. I've been testing different papers to see what I like, and it's been great to print my own stuff at a high quality. Being able to look at your work physically instead of on a screen is a nice change of perspective, so I'd definitely recommend getting one if you got some spare cash!

>>2048371
>Epson Stylus Photo R2000
very nice. what's the maximum size paper it can print? tried googling it and all it came up was "paper roll" and when i looked further i couldn't find an exact size

>>2048374
I've been printing with a 8.5x11 variety pack of different papers, so that's why they're all pretty tiny.

The printer itself can print up to 13"x19", which is big enough for my needs. I plan to print that size when I find a paper I really like.

The jump in price to a 17"x22" printer is just not worth it to me, since it's several hundred dollars more.

This thing is an ink hog though - even more so than I expected. Holy shit. Print quality is amazing though!

>>2048378
nice setup man, worthy investment

>>2048378
honestly man i'd rather pay for prints at a print shop. also i recently bought some prints that were printed on nice watercolour paper, incredibly beautiful. you should look into arches watercolour paper

I occasionally change the pictures on the wall, depending on what I want to draw/look at.

>>2048371
What do you do for a living if I may ask?

>>2048433
Do you recommend having references like that up all the time? If so exactly what should I have up?

>when-you-see-it.jpg

>>2048455
>you will never live in a gaming/art house with your bros

Fuck man

>>2048455
>new close up of desk.

>>2048457
you can if you try anon.

Paolo Rivera's battlestation. I want.

These threads always turn out ironic. It becomes pic after pic of anons showing of how well they invested in surrounding themselves with art gear but also revealing how really mediocre they are at making art.

Fancy table, lots of paints, lots brushes, lots pencils, but work that looks muddled, washed out, and flat.

Slick computer, slick tablet, slick headphones, but work that looks overly assisted, not fairly skillful, and done in a state of distraction--unfocused.

What's like to being so materialistic about making art?

>>2048497

>>2048497

I'll stop being mediocre eventually, anon. someday.

>>2048497
Gotta spend money to make money nigga ayy lmao

>>2048442
I've been trying to build up a career as a full time illustrator for about a bit over a year now. I managed to squeeze by last year without having to get an unrelated job. I didn't make a whole lot but I also had pretty low costs of living, and no debts or anything like that.

This year was shaping up to be a bit better, but the past month and a half have been unproductive. I'm starting to get on track again though.

>>2048497
>revealing how really mediocre they are at making art.
>Only two of the posts ITT actually show art

Sweet projections chum

>>2048502
>If I don' be buy'n them wacoms like my favorite artist do, how th'n I'm gonna gitgud.jpeg?

>>2048509

i'd prefer people just buy wacoms instead of shitting up the catalog with "WHATS THE BEST BEGINNER TABLET" threads, though.

>>2048509
Post work poorfag queer

>>2048511
I'm too poor to be an artist. How can I post any art work if I'm too poor to make art?

>>2048512
frazetta practiced anatomy on notebook paper. you got no reez to complain

>>2048512

>Tfw living in cheap apartment with 2 people who I barely talk with

>>2048517
>those greasy tablet buttons

Absolutely disgusting.

>>2048513
Are you better than frazzeettaa? You must be because you have better tools then him.

>>2048528

yeah

>>2048528
I feel like you didn't understand the previous post

>>2048520
That can't be grease. maybe dead skin cells or the tablet wearing away.

Do you ever clean your tablet /ic/?

>>2048529
My point exactly, thank you

>>2048530
And I feel like you don't understand the purpose of battlestation threads

git gud guys

>>2048657
That is the spookiest battlestation I've ever seen. Good ups on keeping the traditional animation dream alive though my nigga.

foxdit station 1.0, pretty basic.

>>2048668
eww gross your a leftie

>>2048668
It's weird seeing people use the same wallpaper as you. I took it down a month ago but before it'd been that for like ever. First glance scared me. Thought it was my room.

>>2048668
I'm actually extremely right handed, but I've developed carpol tunnel so severely that I've learned to use the mouse left handed.
>>2048723
Haha. How freaky would it be to post other people's rooms for them. We should save as many of these battle station photos for the next thread and creeper the regulars.

>>2048508
And both of them are actually pretty good kek

Tiny fucking work area reporting in

i bought a gaming computer so i can't really do art on it. :(

>>2048759
what? If you mean that you dont have a tablet I understand but just because you have a gaming pc doesnt restrict you from using programs such as photoshop

best in thread >>2048433

>>2048657
Honestly, I'd like to work in an area like that.
Props for light table

>>2048343
>>2048346
i don't like this meme

>>2048842

>>2048500
that's not how the blue yeti works bud

Old photo, My battle station is a 6ft tripod and bag filled with whatever supplies I need for the night. Never know what I'm feeling, so I just pack an assortment of mediums I'll enjoy over the night. Last night was Working with watercolours and ink, most nights are oil painting, pastels or charcoal/chaulk for when I'm feeling muted, oil pastel for when my heads blowing out my skull and cloth/marker/solvent/stencils for textile work.

Works well and because most of my gear fits alongside mY daily carry, I'm never stuck in a situation where I don't have my canvas. Ended up oil painting with a friends on a second story roof yesterday, out by the railyards a week ago and on top of the local community center overlooking the railyard. Fuck desks!

Most of the shit fits in my backpack, the exception is my oil painting gear which has it's own red-blue-yellow covered bag. Standard loadout has my organizer, papers of varying weights, full range of pencils, charcoal/chaulk, blending tools, razor blades, watercolour set, basic brushes, inkstone/inkstick, viewfinder, ruler, miniset of oil pastel, Journal and my shit camera.

I'm 6'4, so how you can deal with those low angle surfaces is beyond me. Desks turn into a hunched nightmare for me, I need to stand and move around. Although standing desks aredank.

PROFESSIONAL TIER

>>2048464
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>>2048579
>>2048657
>>2048889

Bohémienne master race

>>2048763
I think he means he cheaped out on the ram and motherboard so can't do high end media work.

You can still run bootleg photoshop with 8gb of ram anon.

>>2048842
The fact that it's fucking FiRez's stupid shitty drawing actually makes you mad

>>2048924
i htink it's jst not a good memer, she doesn't look smug or anything. no cohegen between the image and the umad.

>>2048510
wacom shills pls

>>2048847
:^)

>>2048889
I don't understand why people would post pics like this without at least cleaning up first. Take 2 minutes to get your garbage out of the way, slob.

>>2048924

>>2048933
>god tier /ic/ meme
>image related

>>2048368
THE DUNDER MIFFLIN CUP i love u

Could we also post dream battlestations? I just love seeing nice work areas

>>2049456
How's this

living the life :')

>>2049456

>>2049496

>>2049463
Laughing when you have a headache is quite weird experience.

>>2049495
The shame has led me to clean it up.

Here it is now.

>>2049463
I've seen this image so many times and never noticed the cat.

>>2048334
>Painting meme movies

James Jean's studio

>>2049668
>giving a flying fuck

>>2048455
i saw the fagot

>>2049708
defending memer painters

>>2048709
>>2048709
Da Vinci was left handed you pleb

tried the swim float out for engraving /printing

>>2049456

>>2049456

>>2049456

>>2050660
that
i like that
cacti, window, lamp, brushes even a decent view of something to draw

dayum

>>2050660
Pretty nice, does drawing work well in front of a window?

>>2048464
Nice dildos on the top of that deck anoner

Took picture 2 months ago when I got new tablet, nothing really changed since then

>>2048881
>All this setup to achieve this shitty job

lol

Couldn't you just imagine 3 apples? (and also paint them correctly?)

drafting table for sketching

portable easel for oil painting

Laptop for digital art

Organized as fuck.

>>2051400
Post poster?

>>2051694

thats a kim jung gi image boi

>>2051696
I know that but what exact image of his is that? I think it looks cool

>>2051698

here you are you lazy git

Pic 1/4
My little corner of the room, all cleaned up. Various dip pens, pencils and brushes next to the little drawers up on the desk. I used to use my drafting table in a slanted manner, but as my work space shrank, I had to adapt and bought an art board.

>>2053604
Pic 2/4
I used to use textbooks/stacks of magazines to make my art board slant like how my drafting table used to slant but Instead I made this little triangular thing out of a piece of wood and cardboard and stuck rubber soles under it to keep it steady. I love it so much.

>>2053606
>what's on the trays?

On the left side I got some Liquid Watercolors and smoking devices for when I need that nicotine hit.

Also Beer.

>>2053610
Pic 4/4

>stupid rotating pics

On the right side I just have various Inks and Whiteout.

>>2051391
That light level is my worst nightmare, I feel trapped just by looking at that picture.

>Buy a much needed drafting table
>Half way through it I need to use a fucking power drill to make the screw holes
>Incomplete table sitting in the corner of my room for days

>>2053604
>I used to use my drafting table in a slanted manner, but as my work space shrank, I had to adapt and bought an art board.

I have a feeling I'll have to do that soon. Makes me feel like I should have saved money and bought a normal desk.

nothing special

>>2053627
I actually have 4 lights that illuminate the room pretty well, I have them all facing the wall so that my photo didn't get washed out.

It's p comfy tbh

>>2053711
I always thought about using a slanted surface because it seemed to be an obvious improvement, but never got to it. Now I don't see much of a need anymore because drawing works fine without it.

And the upsides of using a regular desk are plenty.

Pretty lowcontent post, but meh, felt like saying it.

1/4 There's my workstation, please don't be jealous

>>2054172
2/4 Coloring gear that i don't really use

>>2054175
Usual stuff (don't cop derwent academy pens),should upgrade my digital gear when i will have the cash (pc+tablet)

>>2054175
3/4 Usual stuff (don't cop derwent academy pens),should upgrade my digital gear when i will have the cash (pc+tablet)

>>2054187
4/4 Paper and random stuff stock

>>2054188
5/4 the Smudgeguard of the poor

1/3

2/3

>>2054192
thanks for that, creating my own now.
really nice idea anon, also, nice setup.

>>2054242
>filter

>>2054300
I'm glad that I helped you

>>2054334
lol man its just my camera

station 1 for digi shit
laptop and junk

>>2055088
station 2 for traditional art

>>2051702
Amurica

marks fucking crazy ass setup.

>>2055169
He also uses driving-game pedals to control his brush

The foil on my windows keeps the government from stealing my ideas.

>>2048899
8gb of ram is plenty for photoshop, the hell are you guys doing, running all programs you have at once?

>>2055196
All the opened references/books takes already a few gigabyte. Photoshop is happy with 8GB for sure, but better get 16GB for all that other stuff.

>>2051466
>those speakers

what the hell were you thinking?

>>2049425
Because I love being a slob, you sissy.

>>2048776
post your work.

What would be a good tablet for reading books (reading loomis and bridgman, etc) and watching videos (including youtube videos like tutorials)? I'm asking because my toaster can't handle it. It lags even with youtube.

>>2048334
rat?

>>2051391

yes we understand what the fuck these things are possibly used for retard.

>>2054192
>>2054188
>>2054187
>>2054175
>>2054172

you got all this gear richboy, but i bet you suck dick at art.

>>2055381
All his shit costs less than $500.

>>2055388

artists live off breadcrumbs and walnuts.

500 is dream money nigger.

>>2055420
Are you serious? You can't be serious.

>>2055420
500 is a lot of walnuts and breadcrumbs

>>2055381
Well i started to buy drawing stuff when i was 11yo, i'm 17 now, so hopefully i have some shit.
+ most of those things came from sale
+ i might not be the new prophet of art but there's my last work http://postic.deviantart.com/art/Charlie-Robot-527131053?ga_submit_new=10%253A1429139205

>>2048503
are you a threadless fag? Drop that shit and work on better work. it hurts you in the long run

>>2055777
I got into T shirt design a few years ago in college as a way to make some cash. So I've been printed on Threadless a few times as well as other shirt sites.

What's your argument for how it hurts me in the long run? All my illustration opportunities have been a result of going into T shirt illustration.

>>2055777
What's your argument for how it hurts me in the long run?

>>2055730
is this bait?

>>2055730
post your battle station

>>2056157
>>2054172

>>2056159
thanks

>>2055211
Yeah I have a 16 GB, and I don't use much of it, about 3 gb with all the references I have open

Then again I used to work on a 1 gb mac so I probably bought my conservation habits over to this one.

Photoshop eats up as much memory as you tell it to and half of the time it won't even reach the limit if you don't have open 15 different massive files, same goes for the art books

8gb is just fine, for digital 2D art 3D and game/movie making software however would require more. If you overuse 8gb on 2D art I'd say you're just not being organized .

>>2056275
How big do you work?

I have 16GB RAM too and I eat through it all in Photoshop alone. I actually with I had more. I personally work large though, on 7000px+ canvases, with many layers.

>>2056334
I tend to work small because of my old comp and then keep growing as I move along (you obviously can't do this if you're mainly into line art) Starting at 1500px for thumbs up to 7000+ once I get a grip on what I want. I don't have to do that anymore but i'm used to it.

I also tend to do what ctrlpaint calls "temp layers" I hate messes and the library of layers (though I do go overboard at times) so I separate the masses and merge down things Im satisfied with. You can also save multiple files as well with this technique just in case you mess up and can't undo, but I suppose you do that already.

some people also kill their ram with resolution, which you shouldn't do unless you're printing it, for all you "WHATS THE RESOLUTION ON THAT IMAGE" fans one of these files are 300 dpi and the other 3 dpi, no difference unless you print it.

I've been planning to fix the desk and get an actual PC one of these days.

>>2048378
Have you considered doing a CIS install on it?
Or ink refill syringes?

How much did it run you?
I am looking to get a printer soon as well.
a Canon Pro 100 or Pro 10 is looking great.
But those prices are almost Cintiq level.

Also wondered why we don't have a printer thread on here.

>>2057701
Since I'm pretty new to it, I don't see myself doing that anytime soon. I read up on some people trying to do CISS but they fucked up and ruined their printer. Ink refill syringes seem less risky, but I haven't tried those yet either.

I was also gonna go with a Canon PIXMA pro 100. I don't know why exactly, but I ended up thinking the Epson R2000 was better. I think it came down to dye based ink (Canon) vs pigment (Epson) printers. Pigment based ink seemed to fit my needs better, as it's supposed to be higher quality and work better with matte-finished fine art papers.

Good printers - turns out - are pretty expensive. The Epson R2000 was $700, but buying from the Epson store online you get an absolutely massive rebate of $250, or at least I did. Helped thwart the costs a bit. Good paper costs a bit too. Overall, a full paged 13x19" print costs maybe $3.00 to print for ink+paper.

An ink refill from the Epson store is about $20 per color. You can get a good amount of prints out of that, and only refill the colors that are low.

I ended up going with a 88lb. Polar White paper from Red River Papers. It's crazy thick and super sturdy, which is what I was looking for.

I also wish there was a good print thread here. I think a lot of printing discussion mostly between photographers, since digital illustrators don't think much about actually printing their work. It's really, really nice though. Being able to have a professional quality print whenever you want is great. Hopefully I can mitigate the costs of printing soon by selling some prints, but right now I'm still playing around with it.

bemp. post more stations

>>2057478
hey rat

>>2059507
absolutelydisgusting.jpg

>>2050660
Man, I wish it was autumn or winter again. Much cosier than this bright, hot spring.

>>2054469
You have a HTC one? Your camera is fucked, bring it in if you've still got warranty. The tint will get worse until your camera burns out (literally).

>>2059507
a Homura Pillow? People have all kinds of tastes for waifus.

no breaks on the work train

>>2059611
fucking christ that is large

>>2059616
>taylor the creation

>>2059658
s-sorry

I like to do it standing up.

>>2048517
Russian comeraden privet. :^)

>>2048497
>Fancy table, lots of paints, lots brushes, lots pencils, but work that looks muddled, washed out, and flat.
>Slick computer, slick tablet, slick headphones, but work that looks overly assisted, not fairly skillful, and done in a state of distraction--unfocused.
This.
Not trying to be too overly myself but i see what you mean. I always too shy to show my station because it has a shit tier tablet (that i use because i like it and don't see any problems with it) shit tier screen and shit tier table. Ok may be the chair is not a shit tier one because i need a good one to sit on it for the whole day.
But i work as a freelance artist with some big companies and you probably tried out games i worked on for Ebay or Steam release.
And i so fucking do not understand how those plebs with all that fancy stuff manage to be a meiocre artists.
Also noticed they like to mumble about "shit tier/god tier" screens and tablets more than to draw.

>>2059709
This is the dumbest thing I've read on here all day.

>>2059713
>This is the dumbest thing I've read on here all day.
you seem upset

>>2059709
Amateurs are often talked into buying all kinds of shit before they get experience in the art of buying and art itself. And often you have to buy things just to try them out and similar or for a phase.

>>2049657
uhh, good job anon >.>

>>2048759
Anon I bought a gaming pc, an asus and its great for art as it requires similor stuffs as gamer pcs except for that good graphics card

>no computer

>>2059782
>look at me!
>I take drugs!

Ugh fine

>>2060486
*australian detected*

>>2060490
lol good one

Itt degital/wiacom "artists" XD
Watercolor/pastel artist here, only kind
Aquarel
polish Karmanski & White Nights
Brushes: Sable, 6 Winsor, some small synth daler rowney
Paper: Mostly daller Aquafine and polish fabriano, canson if i fell fancby
Pastel paper: polish Tiziano
Pastel: Kohinor

>>2060498
>"artists"
nice b8, 1/8 made me respond

>>2060500
well soon i will have my first big 20 artworks exhibiton. Oh sorry, you preffer furry/anime porn that you post on some tumblr/blog/DA

>>2060505
learn english you fucking trog
also your attitude's kinda shit and I wouldn't mind some proof of what you say

>>2060498
>>2060505
lol whos this faggot?

>>2060492
rememba its ic
no fun allowed
enjoy your ban

>>2060505
what is your secret, menstruating on canvases? :^)

>>2060498
>fuck off
why the fuck do polish people have to remind everyone their fucking polish OH HEY GUYS IM FROM POLAND. POLAND IS COOL

>>2048660

Kazerad is that you.

>all these laptops

I use a tablet in conjunction with my laptop as well, the button layout is just superior for my SAI hotkeys.

>>2061056
i use a tablet in conjunction with my bedroom curtains. Using it with a computer is genius though

>>2061079

Shut up, some use their tablet with their PC's. But a normal keyboard's layout is too wonky for me. I have to use my laptop even if my PC has a bigger monitor.

>>2055378
Are you okay?

bump from the grave

posting some from shoot your studio. Most are Architects offices, but its worth looking through, some of them are really nice.

ayy
I need a desk with a back light for tracing i think.

>>2049425
I actually get it. I mean, if someone really works in the middle of chaos like stacks of paper just scattered around the table, and they really create their art there, i feel there is no need for clean up if they take the picture.

>>2060807
this
im polish btw
jebac polske

>>2065980
There are thin light boxes now, no need for a complete desk.

>>2048529
I always seethis picture everywhere. Is something wrong or what?

>>2059687
I bet you do

>>2065917
I actually really like this setup.

>>2066128
It's not perfect, it's to small, i need a bigger desk/table for the TV and video games really, to the left is also bed.

I should really invest in a desk

>>2049577
0.5/10 because I like the table.

Bitch ain't even working; she's just reading a magazine and showing off her rock collection.

I don't have a big kid desk or big kid art supplies

>>2066354
>watercolor master race
>no copics
>no $35 billion worth of art equipment
>desk is barely large enough for everything
>sits on own legs

>great looking watercolor painting

The law of inverse art ability holds!

Welp, you guys inspired me to finally reclaim my desk from the family office and make it into a proper workstation. Thanks.

>>2067603
>literally toaster

>>2059843
to be completly fair the bong isn't even 5% of the photo

there is literally no attention whoring
stop being a fuckwit

>>2051346
what does this even mean?

>>2067603
>>2067630
... What. Why dude

>>2048755
papes pleaaassse

Couple new things, otherwise same shit as usual
>Waifu bought me an angled desk thing
>she also bound more of my drawings into books
>mom bought me some new prisma color pencils, she literally said "Ticonderoga are shit"

>>2067877

>he doesn't have a toaster in his workspace

Shit photo -sorry but Ill bump and submit.
Underneath the sketchbook is pylexi glass which i balance on top drawer with a light underneath for animation or tracing
I'm poor as fuck but it works

>>2068665
sorry it fucked up

>>2068667
and again it did fml