/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

From far away the draw thread image looked like some swamp monster.

draw threads are so fucking boring.

>>2068179
Why?

>>2068182
lots of boring static images all the time

>>2068199
>>2043151

I've had my pace up for few days, i'll just post "few".

This shit was hard.

>>2068261
>>2068266
>>2068269
These are very pleasent.

Posted these yesterday but nobody responded. I just started taking drawing faces, more seriously. Any CC is much appreciated.

>>2068261
>>2068266
>>2068269

very good

>>2068373

nice values, add hard edges and finish it, check the legs and the skirt tho

>>2068269
>>2068266
>>2068261

tools used???

>>2068425

Looks like ink, markers and digital.

>>2068425
Just few ink pens and markers, and rough adjustments of values in photoshop like mentioned. Here's one more.

about 40 min speedpaint

>>2068441
these are great
>>2068460
good thumbnail

took this a bit further, crits and comments appreciated

>>2068479
read sticky

>>2068460
ok?

>>2068467
boring

>>2068490
exciting enough for you?

>>2068499
Art boner achieved. Thanks anon.

>>2068499
much better gj

>>2068499
no, its not the concept thats boring. its the color and everything else that deals with rendering him out

>>2068499
> Mattmurdockwithasword.jpg

>>2068467
saturations

>>2068584
Dude... that is a shitty paint over. No one should take your advice if you can't demonstrate well enough.

This went bit far, but had to try it.

>>2068594
idk, i think it looks better and conveys what hes trying to say pretty well.

>>2068594
>>2068584
if anything it makes it less boring actually...\
gj who ever did that

>>2068594
Paintover is solid. Don't be confused by the level of polish or the quality of the brush strokes - that isn't what anon was trying to show.

>>2068625
Thumb looks interesting, like some wobbly structures floating in a blue/red tinted sea.

20 minute poses

meh

>>2068740

Literally spent years afraid to paint sci fi stuff because it seemed too hard/intimidating. Fuck my scared ass, just gonna go for it and try and fail and try again. One day I'll knock out pro sci fi shit like it was nothing.

quick selfie from mirror. crits welcome

Crit my figure?

>>2068809
Really nice man! Next time post it upright and not sideways though.

Just small nitpicks:
-mouth looks SLIGHTLY out of perspective
-contour of far cheek is a bit ambiguous
-shadow shape of the cast on the neck is not a nice shape
-overall can use a bit more variety...different brush sizes, more hue and saturation shifts, more control and hierarchies within things, edges for example (especially where the hair and skin meet, there should be a ton of edge variety there)
-the values around the lips are a bit odd...the cast under the lower lip is very dark, adn that value isn't repeated in the crevasses of either the corners of the mouth or the line where the lips meet. Also the lower lip has the exact same local colour as the rest of your skin, probably it would be a bit darker, redder, and more saturated. This goes the same for the nose and such, or like your jawline might be a bit less saturated and have a very subtle greenish or bluish tinge to it.

>>2068800
Pretty cool; I'd put some white on the top at the front of the ship to balance it out. Also, edges.

>>2068809
Looks like it was made with peanut butter

rough line work before tracing onto marker paper

>>2068809
Good job anon. there is a ton of information in this painting considering the amount of brush strokes.

So I posted thislittle oil painting in non-draw thread a couple of weeks ago. Would like to get some crits befor I work on it again.
Thank you.

>>2068826
Cool. Reminds me of Charles Burns' work.

>>2068818
Thanks a lot! I see what you mean about the monotonous local color and edge work through out. You nailed most of the reasons why I struggle to "finish" paintings.

Straight outta Yarnam

>>2068815
Luvin it

>>2068470
Slighty aroused

>>2068381
Draw the whole face.
Hell, start doing skulls

just cast my fraiser up

Found a new brush and started doodling a little fuckaround piece last night.

...I should really be focusing on my finals. Shit.

>>2068800
Thunderbirds are go!

>>2068460
This is awesome.

>>2068809
Love it

>>2068885
Nice. Doffy is my nigga

10 minute warm-up,need some crits if someones up for it
yes, it is boring
yes, its generic shit
tell me more

>>2068954
>Thunderbirds are go!
Holy shit I had to look up what you were referring to, but they are similar yeah! Pure coincidence though.

>>2068600
I love it, tumblr?

any tips?

>>2069156
pencil and paper no tracing!! i know you probably spent a lot on your tablet but you're not getting your moneys' worth just tracing either.. not speaking from hate here i'm a former tracer myself now i'm starting from the basics again, don't end up like me...

>>2069161
no tracing here

>>2068168
Before, I could not into drawing, but now I am of Loomis "Fun with a Pencil" for three day and make funny face men, but not very good.

>>2069169
i think this looks really sweet! :)

>>2069172
Is taste of paper and graphite, so not too sweet.

Thank you, artfriend.

done with copic markers, i think i had made his head too small or something, and tried enlarging his features slightly with a pencil

>>2069156
>I can try

>>2069187
thanks man

>>2068168

>>2069186
Looks great, i thought it was watercolors; i could see some sort of comic in this style

>>2069156
Looks fine, i'd use a more interesting brush, or at least some blender or soft brush to blend easier; you're making your life harder by blending with a hard round. Likeness is fine

>>2069277
i love it

>>2068460
Good for you, now back to practice

>>2069118
>tell me more
What the fuck else do you want to hear about your shitty 10 minute tumblr warm up? Fuck off

>>2069118
seriously? fuck off.

>>2069318
>>2069383

Jesus ... I'm starting to hate this place.

>>2069401

To be fair, they might have been harsh but I can totally see why they might react that way to that post. Can you honestly not see why?

>>2069118

>>2069401
>posts tumblr shit outside the stylization thread
>"did this in 10 millisecond guys I am also blind and my family was being raped by bushbabies as I drew it"
He deserved the insults he received.

>>2069404
The remarkable insecurity and paranoia against disingenuous behavior that is the lifeblood of this site?

>>2069118
I can understand the desire to show off a WIP that is a large project that you've already dumped many hours into.

But the run of the mill WIP of something that you've put no effort into feels like a weak minded attempt for instant gratification which is really prevalent within tumblr and deviantart.

>>2069156
you traced this and you colour picked and it still looks like shit. Now i'm going to tell you something very important; there is nothing wrong with cheating, even if you hide it, but it is much harder to do. If you had made an honest effort with this painting you may have come up with an interesting image, instead you have this. Tracing is okay but it is incredibly difficult, it takes many years of drawing to be able to use it effectively in an image such as pic related.

haven't tried a complicated master study before, so holy shit, this is hard.

>>2068826
>>2068997
>>2069118
>>2069278
>>2069424

>>2063029

>>2068644
It's completely senseless on a fundamental level. Down facing planes like the brow ridge should be more saturated, not less, because it catches reflected light from the cheeks. Same with the down facing planes of the hair. Using greys and neutrals can be a very effective tool to make a color palette harmonize and appealing to look at, but what that guy did is incredibly ham-fisted and flat out wrong.

>>2069438
take it or leave it, no one cares about your feelings.

>>2069588
>doesnt post his version
what are you trying to prove again?

>>2069588
I wouldn't call it senseless at all. You have a warm light source as the primary, and strong blue light sources as the ambient. At a base level, this means we should expect saturated warms in the lights, and desaturated cools in the shadows.

I think you might be overstating the effects from bounce light onto the downward facing planes. For regions in shadow the downward facing planes should be warmer than sideways facing planes in shadow. However, all planes in the shadow would probably be notably cooler than those in the light - downward facing or not. Considering the obvious speed that anon spent on the paintover, I'm willing to excuse him for not painting in all of the light subtleties.

The main purpose of the paintover is to show the major light relationships between light and shadow, to show contrast in saturation, and to show depth. For those reasons it's clearly much stronger than the original, which has saturated warms, saturated cools, and no real desaturated colors at all. I think that the solution is pretty elegant, and it should be taken as a starting point towards correcting the piece, not as the final polished result of what it should be. It is an effective block-in.

>>2069424
Shit paintover

>>2069588
>>2069614
Oh, and I happened to find a quick render I made a couple of months ago when trying to study different lighting effects. It's not amazing, but I tried to simulate skin through a small amount of subsurface scattering that warmed the shadows a bit towards red. The main light source is warm, and the blue background acts as an ambient light source. It's incidentally similar to anon's original painting. What stands out to me is how grayed the shadows become from the blue ambient light source. Anon's paintover does a decent job of showing a similar effect.

doodles from last night, trying not to trace that much.

>>2069464
wait drew traces? fuck man.

my first post on /ic

no bully

>>2069649
>trying not to trace that much
get out.

>>2069668
What's it say in the lower left

>>2069649
Don't trace at all then. maybe even try from imagination

>>2069671
tor der lüge, death to lies- its just a quote from a poster I liked

>>2069673
I know, I'm addicted to tracing, or so used to that I don't know any better. but I'm getting there.

>>2069668
I like the overall design but you should really practice your fundamentals. Like all of them.

>>2069694
what's the worst part about it, its due in next Thursday so I really need some other critism aside from the other idiots in my a2 group

>>2069692
Mind if I help out.
Try not tracing, I've seen a lot of students trace because they think they can not accomplish the task. Though art is about troubleshooting a problem and learning how to solve it.

Don't be scared to make a bad image, everything can be thrown away and deleted.

>>2069591
That's part of what endears me to this place I think.

General thoughts/crit?

>>2069878
Good rendering
Bad composition
inconsistent lighting and figure scaling

>>2069891
The rendering doesn't even look done, son. the rendering is probably among the worst parts.

>>2069891
more like

>bad rendering
>bad composition
>no sense of depth
> no defined light source
>perspective is wildly off
>anatomy is fucked
>poses are stiff af

i like the subject matter though

This is a study of another artists study of some film still or something. I didn't spend enough time on the drawing, and felt helpless toward the end at getting those small intricacies of rendering.

>>2069901
I can tell it's Sansa Stark, so that's neat. Her eyes are too small, though.

>>2068815
Good motion. It looks like a keyframe from an animation.

>>2068885
Really cool, doflamingo looking menacing

>>2069891
>>2069893
>>2069898

I'm not done with this, nor am i hesitant to re-do any areas. feel free to point out specifics or paint over. I'm not getting offended.

So far with what you've said, i'm going to change my foreground figure completely, scale up / change gaze direction, etc.

Scale down figure in background.

Add more obvious shadows that indicate a light coming from 2:pm high to the left side.

I have no idea what I'm doing, all the stuff from my imagination looks weird and ugly

>>2068815
This looks amazing! Was this with reference?

>>2069923
his shoulders look terrible and hte neck is too long and hands arent defined

>>2069922
Pretty cool, but really bad tangent with the arch. I had no idea what it was at first because the left side looks like a tree or a tower, and the right wing is stuck to the other side.

>>2069927
not OP but I think it would look fine after that arch is rendered more

Also that dragon looks sick

title related

True Detective fan art, scanned version still a WIP.

>>2069466
study looks great so far, it's too bad the anatomy in the source is so fucked up though

>>2069925
Thanks! It was from imagination, but it did take an embarrassingly long time for just a simple line/hatching sketch trying to get the construction and anatomy right.

>>2068826
is this really rough line work

>>2069936
Expand your image library

>>2069980
>>2069936

so guys what's a good book to learn to draw hands and feet? I usually post at the beginner thread but it's about to die.

I'm a pleb when it comes to painting/coloring. Any ideas for how to light the figure in the foreground?

Any ideas in general for light sources & restricting my palette are welcome.

>>2069989
This is an awesome composition and an awesome drawing. An easy fix I could suggest would be to add a dim warm light coming from the bottom, lighting the underside of the front character. Then pushing the back figure back with atmosphere.

>>2069984
Hogarth has an awesome book for hands
Though I don't recommend it, I learned feet through Victor Perard's book. If you can find an alternative, though, by all means use it.

How fucked up am I by trying to draw stylistically then later learning how to draw?

I'm fairly well-recieved among non-artists but I'm pretty sure it's obvious to trained drawing artists that my fundamentals are fucked up. Do I just need practise and referencing?

If anyone is feeling particularly kind and feels like doing their redline, I would really appreciate it.

I mostly doodle headshots with my finger on my phone these days since I rarely have time to sit down and draw.

Thanks guys ;-;

>>2069984
You're definitely not beginner level, bro.

For feet, I used Hampton's construction. For hands, I just learned the basic construction through my own method because nothing else worked for me.

>>2069989
>Any ideas in general for light sources
A light source in a painting can come from literally anywhere. Think of it like a set on a movie. YOU decide where to put the lights. Ideally, you would want the light to come from above. We've spent thousands of years with the light coming above us (the sun). Just look around you and ask where are the lights? They're usually coming from some source above you. Top-lighting is our default scenario. This is not a rule for paintings though! Remember, you control the light.

>Any ideas for how to light the figure in the foreground?
You have light coming from the creature, that is one light source. I would personally put a primary light coming from the front of the guy and creature and use the monsters light as a secondary, weaker light source. Its ultimately up to you.

Been sketching as a hobby for years. Just got back into it recently after a looooooong time without drawing anything.
Just doing some random concepts, hope y'all like them.

>>2068261
Cool style and rendering.
>>2069118
Good show of skill, less strokes but well placed.

>>2070004
>>2070010
thank you, I just found a book called drawing the head and hands by Loomis, and I think I'm gonna use Hampton's for hands.

>>2070026
*I meant: Hampton's for feet. lol.

>>2070008
I don't know what to say, it looks like a boring stock photo

>>2069933

character sketches like this, always 2 light sources. always.

>>2070081
do you have any examples of character sketches with 2 light sources?

>>2070119

Yeah, plenty. Just throw a rimlight on it, it'll look amazing. Marko loves doing one somewhat diffuse light source that somewhat hits the entire figure from a nice angle, and one very harsh bright lightsource from the side to create a rim light that highlights certain forms. One warm one cold for best results.

>>2069914
Thanks, here's a Zephyr someone requested in another thread.

I didn't work on the body yet, so yes, I know.

What do you guys think about her face?
Any advice?
I kinda want to try into rendered animu, but I'm not even sure how horrible this is. I have no idea what |"m doing again.

>>2070242
Don't use hard, angular edges when drawing animu. Particularly lips should never be completely closed off, as it makes them look like they're placed on top of the face.
Try to show the facial shapes with fewer lines, and try to squeeze as much information into those lines as possible. This makes it look more feminine.
With guys, this is less important, as they often benefit from extra detail.

hey speedpaint bro im gonna join you and do some speedpaints too
so this is baby first spitpaint...i only like her face though hahaha

>>2070139
Cheapest trick in the book; how about try to make something look nice with one lightsource for a change?

>>2070242
>>2070210
>>2070017
>>2070008
>>2069935
>>2069923

>>2069626

>>2069464
I neither traced nor color picked, the only thing that I've done what I'd consider cheating is that I moved the eyes slightly because they were out of place. It's not that hard to notice that it isn't traced, just look at the jaw, the lips, the nose, ears, eyebrows, etc.

>>2070250

Well, why draw at all? Why not fuck eachother in the ass and sing macarena?

>>2070281
Are you trying to hint that the draw thread is only for realistic photostudies, muh concept art speedpaints and absolutely nothing else?

>>2070081
>>2070139

oh, never thought of that. thanks a lot for the suggestion i'll give it a go.

>>2070290

That's a damn fine plan anon.

from imagination
i need opinions

>>2070423
Muddy

>>2070423
I like it but think it can be tweaked to be stronger. I did a quick paintover, hope you don;t mind.

Basically I think the face lacks lighting and structure and is a bit muddy, and the white outline you did is not quite graphic enough to be successful in my opinion.

>>2070451

You made it worse

>>2070473
not possible

I realized I'm not able to ink on a drawing because details are too small and its full of half tones.
what do

>>2070473
No. It's heaps better.

>>2070485
traditional: should have drawn bigger, or learn to ink smaller

digital: blow that fucker up

half-tone problem: be confident in your lineart and this wont happen

>>2070494
That's extremely helpful.

>>2070473
You have shit taste

Almost done with this

Crit appreciated

>>2070451
nice redraw, we need more helpful anons like you

>>2070473
I bet you're the guy who thought >>2068584 was a bad paintover too. Just stop posting.

>>2070546
He's just a trolle(xD) craving for replies.

>>2070546
Nope not me. Although my opinion still stands about the other one being a shit paint over.

Made a sketch again. Im looking forward to paint something like this. Problem was that I used A3 after a long time and fucked up anatomy.

>>2069936
Thanks! But my anatomy knowledge isn't good enough to figure out what's wrong with Bougereau's anatomy in it. Is it the the exaggerated and inhuman neck to torso of the top guy? I thought it was a purposeful stylization compared to this >>2069982

>>2070298
no i dont want to see your pleb sketches of retarded stylized garbage

Hi

Hi

>>2068168
character concept

20 minute sketches from today

>>2070784

>>2070786

>>2070787

>>2070683
Sorry to upset you bruh ^_^

>>2070784
Looks pretty unique for life drawing, love the sense of brutal strength these have

>>2070609
it doesnt have to make the work 10 times better, it may stand as alternative, another road the picture could be taken

theres literally no reason for you to come in and spread negativity

>>2070775
picture is too big, try to resize it so that it would fit into the screen of most people when enlarged

>>2070248
Looks awful

from reference, obviously.
any advice?

>>2070867
Could use a warm light. Throw in some edge lighting too.

>>2070867
She's supposed to be red, isn't she?
Also maybe smaller lips?

>>2070876
will take this into account with my next practice, thanks a lot though!
>>2070877
from the figure i used as a reference she has organy-blonde hair. which suprised me too sicne in the anime she always had quite red hair.
Biggest mistake I think i mad was going for depicting the figure as close as possible except for the hair and face. Won't do this again next time. Thanks for pointing that out, means it's not jsut my imagination that it looks messed up.

first time using paints and i have no idea what im doing

>>2070908
then stop painting and get back to drawing.

>>2070922
i cant, mate, this is homework

>>2070925
are you in high school or college

>>2070933
just starting college

>>2070935
for art? or is this just a class to the side

>>2070939
technically it's a class on the side at the moment, but ive signed up to go to art school in september

>>2070941
just general advice make sure you find a place to do figure drawing every week and observation drawings between semesters of college. there is usually okay focus on life drawing first year of college but it gets away from that very quickly. i went to art school for about 2 years and stopped when we started shifting into projects and stopped with the practice. you won't get good if you take a whole summer off and then just start again. I would've graduated this spring if I'd stayed in school.

>>2070786
this is me.

>>2070948
this is what i was drawing in college freshman year. and when i left i started going to figure drawing 3 times a week all year round.

if you feel like they are throwing you into things you aren't ready for like if you need to draw more but they are forcing painting assignments on you you should spend summers doing it instead. art schools can be a bit narrow minded about making you learn everything you need to know in 4 years which is impossible.

>>2070957
dude, thank you for the advice
i have a lot of trouble easing into new subjects in art

>>2071000
same here...

>>2070867
advice? open your eyes.

>>2070730
muddy

>>2070541
the lizard isnt affected by the light source and its pretty muddy too

>>2070534
the figure is boring, the colors are dry and unaffected and there is nothing noteworthy.

Question, do you think any people on this board would be interested in making a visual novel together?

>>2070797
i long for that day when you finally decide stop posting

>>2071113
are you recruiting or just talking out of your ass?

>>2070534
its lacking a fair bit in subletly and variation i believe. Even within your shadow zone try to think about what will receive even less light. In regarding to the drawing of the face the ears need to end closer to the base of the nose, and the face is also quite pointy as well, maybe pull it out more like I have. I slightly resized the head of the figure as well as I felt it was pretty tiny in your picture.

I'm not the best with specular reflections/specularity, but it's a way to add some needed variation to your picture. You've added some specularity/highlights to one of the red stripes on the wall, this should be echoed around on other stripes as I've done since those near should be at pretty similar angles to the lightsource.

I've also pushed more depth into the shadow area of the person's cloak, and added a bit of light seeping in as I feel it should be in this scenario

Well that's really it I suppose. Work on getting that spear to look nice and shiny (don't trust mine really). Get variation/depth where you can

Photo study. Trying to work efficiently

>>2071150
forgot to mention that i gave it a slight crop. I think there was a bit too much empty space before

>>2071155

I don't like the look of the textures. They look scattered like someone was sprinkling pepper on the frog.
Also be a little bit better on the edges.

Check out that bottom left of the frog, the frog's behind, it looks like a cardboard cutout.

>>2071155
I thought it was a photo from the thumbnail
So good job in that respect
Texture effect on the leg conflict with the form

>>2071105
Can't, trying to sleep.

>>2071150

Thank very much anon, for the valuable critique! Will try to use it as best as I can

>>2071113
I'm making a visual novel by myself.. and i've definitely underestimated the amount of writing and writing skill required. You should probably start by recruiting a few writers, if the writing is good, artists will become interested and the art will take care of itself, i think.

>>2071155
>l-lewd
i think last ctrl paint video could help you out

I'm about to call it a day, what do you think?

>>2071417

>>2069936
I think it's fucked up with intent, tho. Supposed to make it look more demonic and twisted. It's hell, after all...

hey /ic/ any minor fixes before I move onto color?

>>2071526
no but i got some major fixes for you

>>2071526
> some

>>2068168

Made this for you /ic/

>>2071589
That's really good, wish the timings were longer so i could see the forms and edges more clearly

>>2071589
amazing

>>2068168
I'm drawing a fat piece of shit.

>>2071589
Cool man. Would be interesting to see more gifs exploring similar things. The timing can be played with more too, as the other anon says it is a bit fast, but I can tell you are doing that to hide the fact that is the quick and dirty lighting.

Bouguereau study. Still working on it.

>>2071634
Nice, but is there that much difference in the value of her sclerae? The right one looks a bit flat in comparison.

>>2068168
Anything I can/should do with this before I move on?

>>2071644
No it's not, it's very subtle in the original. I've just been lazy and not fixed that yet.

>>2071634

i hope you're not color picking..

if not, what is your thinking process bro?

>>2071589
that's actually really cool, good job

>>2071662
I had to colour pick to figure out what light it is and I used that to figure out what complementary color the shadow is based on, if you know that you can basically deconstruct parts of the picture slowly by guessing the colour through observation on the larger areas and then try what happens if you blend it by adding either the colour of the light or the shadow.

The tool I use to pick colours through observation is a paper with different holes in it. James Gurney gave that tip in his book and I highly recommend it. It also helps shutting out the subconscious bias that can seriously fuck up the guess work.

>>2070908
Looks like he's jerking off.

I DON'T KNOW HOW THE FUCK TO CONTINUE.

I'm just so stumped on my drawing process, since I haven't really finished anything in so long. I've mostly only done sketches and the like these days whenever I do happen to pick up a pencil, and I think it's taking its toll on me.
Can anyone offer any suggestions to make this process easier for me?

Pic related, nothing really in order, but different stages I've been at on this fucking drawing. I tried using various methods I've seen and used in the past, half of which I'm clueless about.

>>2071589

Good! please slow it down a bit so we can see each light

I hope it's not too late in the thread to post, just finished this one.

>>2071875
Very well done

>bong

Faggut

>>2071878

>not blazing it while you paint

do you hate fun or what?

>>2071841
Take your image, shrink it down substantially and save it as a new file. On that file, while zoomed out, play around with values, colors, and light sources until you have something good. Don't worry about details or staying inside the lines - be messy. You might not even achieve something appealing on the first try, in which case you might have to do a dozen and pick the best one. These are your color thumbnails.

Once you have a winning thumbnail, use that as a blueprint for painting the fullsize image. Here you can use whatever approach is most comfortable for you, whether it's isolating individual elements with layers and masks, or pasting the enlarged color thumb on a layer underneath the lines and start rendering from there.

>>2071878
the only people ive ever met who act like this are people who make fun of stoners.

>smoking weed turns you into a gibbering retard

>masturbating makes you go blind

>>2071875
Damn bro looks good. First decent thing in this thread.

>>2071594
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>>2071615
>>2071702
>>2071871

Heh thanks guys. Added two more orbs and cast shadows, also slowed it down a bit. It really is very rudimentary but it was a ton of fun and really forces you to think about the forms and stuff.

If I have time to spare the next days I think I'll do this with a figure from reference and try to work much more cleanly and accurately.

You guys should try it, I think this exercise has a ton of value.

>>2071882
Faggot.

>>2071897

what about adding a ground plane or diffuse ambient light?

The lighting would be more complex but you'd learn much more, I think I might try doing that too.

>>2071901

Might be cool. And then maybe throw in 3 or 4 materials that have visibly different reflectivites and textures. Like maybe giving him a steel helmet, studded leather boots, a polished chrome bracelet or some stuff. That could be really cool. Basically turning photoshop into a 3d rendering machine. Thanks for the idea.

>>2071892
fuck you

>>2070784
i posted these for gods sake.

>>2071911
>fuck you
rudeboi

>i posted these for gods sake.
Yeah so? They're good, but I like weed-bro's painting more.

>>2071911
good sketchs but... its not enough.

>>2071875
its not finished

>>2071882

fuckin yeah bro, I love painting when I'm ripped. #420 blaze it brothaaaaaa

>>2071953
not relatable enough? is it easier to relate to decent drawings than great ones because decent is something you yourself could also accomplish?

i think my problem is I care too much :(

Finally trying my hand at completing an illustration. I'm having a hard time designing a pair of hips/legs for this

sketchbook thread is getting swamped with people arguing and not posting work as usual so im reposting just for visibility

>>2072140
The bottom right is the nicest. Otherwise you have a tendency to make torsos too short, arms too long, and focus too much on wrinkles/flabs of skin when you've got some foundational issues. Everything would look nicer if you used the same approach as the bottom right with the hatching along and across forms.

little sketch before bed

>>2072059
Well, hips are a ball and socket so start there, you know you're going to have something like that. Take cues from anatomy as well as mechanical parts that function the same way.

Your robot looks pretty generic, honestly. Try zooming out and playing with the silhouette, and maybe you can get some cool looking legs/hips out of that. As it is now I'd just say to go with some generic loomis skeleton looking legs since the rest of it is leaning that way.

>>2072147
Thanks for the crit, I've definitely been getting lax with my proportions lately, although some of it might be that I'm not so confident with the brush pen. Besides those, what other foundations would you say I need to pay special attention to?

How's it?

>>2068800
That thumb looks professional level, please render this

>>2070017
I really like this anon, better than half the "life" shit on this thread

>>2072162
>better than half the "life" shit on this thread
Go back to jerking off to your crumpled up picture of a still life you fag.

>>2072167
Yep humans are so cool, its almost like its not always the same thing!

Mixed media

>>2072167
jesus, why are you so angry today. ive seen you be pretentious and aloof, but never buttmad. you even admit in your posts that you understand that your stuff is polarizing, i dont understand.

>>2072171
I'm that anon you're talking about and that asshole isn't me. Just someone who was rustled by that thread. I've said all I'm going to say on the matter.

>>2072158
Another one. I'll draw from other angles now.

>>2070669
yep, that's what I was talking about, it still messes with my head every time I see it even if it was intentional.

>>2069989
I may have overdone it, but this Is kinda how I imagine It would look if you had the lights reflecting off stuff. It's a bit sloppy

>>2072213
Really cool stuff.

Thoughts on this face?

>>2069989
fucked around with your image, didnt have my tablet handy. idk if any of this lighting looks alright to you lol

Tell me your thoughts

>>2072553
edgy teenage-tier stuff i'd expect to see scrawled in a textbook

bonus points however for taking a proper photo at a decent size

>>2072553
your linework is beyond shit, specially on something so simple like that

>>2072654

that brush looks nice, which is it?

>>2072553
I fucking love it, reminds me of ONEs artwork.
From a technical standpoint it's quite shitty but it oozes character.

thoughts /ic/?
No references. 10 min.

>>2072664
Not much to say. Try spending more than 10 minutes.

>>2072655

>>2072662
Yeah. All the character of a high school student lightly gracing his edgy phase.

Not quite done yet, but do you think it looks cheesier/weirder with or without bloom?

>>2072664
Looks Pretty Kewl Dude

Focusing mainly on composition at the moment, since I feel all my stuff feels way too flat. Any recommendations?

>>2072677
here's a suggestion. Blend the shadow edges into the background, make it more dim and make the shadows more desaturated

>>2072438
its boring

>>2072670

thanks bro!

>>2072696
Thanks. I'll try that out tonight.

Thoughts on this?

>>2072746
The ears look like they are on the same plane as the rest of the face when it should be much closer to the camera. I also don't buy that there is anything behind the faces.

That gap in the center kind of looks like a vagina and the silhouette of the whole piece looks like an ass. You should play that up and make it much bigger and vaginal as well as making their heads more round and full.

>>2072677
ayyy

>>2072553
>you and Matt aren't going to murder your coworkers are you?

>>2072754
went back and changed the lighting

watercolor/egg on panel plein air

>>2072793
what's your method with the egg? i've tried it once but after 20 minutes i couldn't handle the smell

>>2072802
The smell? I don't notice a smell with my eggs. Were you using really old eggs?

Panel preparation - glue/chalk gesso

Separate egg yolk/white
Blend egg yolk with water (~2 pts yolk to 1 pt water, add more water until desirable consistency)
Sometimes, add 1 drop white vinegar (makes yolk mix last so you can save it in the fridge for later

Real mode: Make paste of pigment/water, mix small quantities of paste/egg, and then paint
Lazy/on the road mode: Mix small quantities of tube watercolor with egg
Only mix a little at a time because of the quick dry

Not sure abour her right arm and torso position

>>2068845
Love the concept. Would benefit from the perspective being lower, looking up.

>>2072906
Those are some insanely long legs

>>2072937
you are right, thanks

Trying my hand at portraiture... Again. So far I've already picked out two big issues with the facial features. What else am I getting wrong /ic/?

>>2072654
I'm not sure if you're going for it as a style choice or not, but the legs feel like they don't belong to the rest of the body. Very blocky compared to the rest of the piece.

>>2072968
Quickly went and fixed up a few of the mistakes. Would really appreciate critique.

So I guess that when the corrector dries out and I can fix those things its finished
it came out much more shitty than I thought. jeez...

>>2073007
>shitty

The fuck are you talking about? Apart from a little bit of wonkiness with the hands, it looks fantastic.

>>2073021
>wonkiness
Shit
give me the details on this wonkiness

>>2068470
Are you into Brad Neely? If you've never heard of him, go on youtube and watch Babycakes. Your drawing reminded me of his shit.

>>2073028
I should've just said hand actually. Jesus' hand feels a tad misaligned with rest of his arm.

>>2073043
Ah, that is going to be corrected. you made me sweat big time man

>>2068600
I think this is great stuff. I don't really know my art vocabulary very well, but I guess I'd say it has kind of an elegant simplicity? Like the drawing style seems kind of confident and 'loose', and the finished image really conveys a sense of place, at least for me. I immediately think of some Canadian/Alaskan wilderness, although I've never been to either of those places myself. I dunno, just seems like a great illustration, in my opinion. Post some more of your stuff?

>>2069186
Head size looks fine to me? Maybe it seems small because of the bulky gear on his torso or something..
Great drawing, looks really 'professional' to me. Is this what you do for a living, or are you in school, or what?

>>2072140
I think this guy >>2072147
is correct, but I'd also add that I think you're headed in the right direction/on your way to getting good.. don't give up, and keep drawing!

some sketch

we need a new draw thread soon too

Here's a stupid 'barbarian woman' thing I've been drawing, inspired by Frazetta and ridiculous fantasy art stuff.

>>2073086
Here's after I moved her nose higher up her face and tried adding some color. I kind of prefer it black and white though, I'm not very good with colored pencils.

>>2073086
>>2073087
Whoa, sorry about those big-ass file sizes, I thought I resized them properly. Here's a drawing of a friend that came out kind of weird, hopefully I got the image size right this time. Any and all feedback/critique/shitposting would be appreciated.

>>2073089
Fuck, ok I'm obviously terrible at trying to resize things. Sorry about that.

>>2073086
It looks like you know how to render somewhat but you have no idea how to do perspective or anatomy. It's terribly flat and her body and face look like a cross between Picasso and an Egyptian Hieroglyph.

The decent shading gives it all a very unappealing and uncanny vibe.

>>2073094
Yeah, I haven't done figure drawing in like three years - I'm about to take a summer school course which will be three hours a day, five days a week, so I'm hoping to improve that anatomy issue. I wanted to make her look ridiculous/unrealistically voluptuous, but it didn't work out.
Thanks for the feedback!

>>2073089
It looks like he tried to make out with a straightening iron. Hand on the guitar, what is this? It looks like he got it stck in a meat grinder. Don't be lazy and try to get ALL the fingers. The thumb is just too high up. The nose. Noses are hard but it's not good. And that nose peircing is just ugh.
Nice linework, the shirt looks like a nice start but you are being lazy again. Either simplifiy it more or do every fold and crumple. (this could be applied to the whole drawing) The eyes look cartoonish. The ear is not bad. It looks like he's holding his severed thumb in his hand. Move it moe to the right. About the touche- either do it or don't. No half-half. Do more construction before setting off to inking. Drawing by photos is a pain. Good luck and get to work

New thread:
>>2073111
>>2073111

>>2073106
This is all solid advice. Thanks Anon.

>>2070908
Do you have a reference for this painting? It would help if you had a photo or if the model could come on a regular basis.

Try variation in tones and values, as well as colour temperature. Would really help the shadows. Also, warmth on places like cheeks or eye sockets bring life to the subject, to "paint blood", so to speak. You'll see these bits around joints and sensitive parts around the face.

Looking at the placement of the facial features and construction of the head and face are useful too, for example, the ear is too low. The top of the ear should almost line up at eye level and the bottom should be just around the nose level.

Just saying what I think, hope it helps!