/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

For Example, shiny and exuberant, energetic texture like here. How you do that?

Or sharp tones and dynamic manga effects. How would you do that?

>>2086243
>>2086244
look at the pictures, you can literally see how its done, because its fucking pictures. Look with eyes and then think with your fucking head.

>>2086311
I think OP wants an artist's opinion. That's the reason anyone posts here to begin with. If you're going to take this attitude then there's no point at all to this board beyond a sticky and a tumblr link thread.

We're almost to that point already though, so feel free carry on and keep shitposting.

>>2086311
Calm down, we're all friends here.
>>2086241
I will never understand how Craig Mullins can make this painting with such a great light source, it actually looks like the sun is reflecting off of them.

>>2086392
don't know why pick didn't upload...

>>2086241
What does this picture mean? I'm suffering (I guess I'm not the only one) from the first case (because writing in school more than drawing but even then...). Is there a better way to handle the pen?

>>2086407
hold the stylus like so

>>2086407
Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMC0Cx3Uk84

enjoy

>>2086407
I believe the first one is the correct one. I do the second one, and everyone who's ever noticed has commented on it.

>>2086422
this guy is such a fucking dork

never understood how people can draw characters so lively and in different expressions and still making it look like the same character

>>2086488
God I hate boondocks, but the character drawings were superb. Character expressions is whole other learning issue on its own.

>>2086500
I didn't even know where this is was from, Ive never watched boondocks and I probably never will but yeah these drawings are amazing. It's my dream to draw characters like this

I've always wondered how digital artist get these clean lines and this crisp, perfect outline around their work. See the white around her?

>>2086505
Boondocks was something you'd enjoy if you were a stereotypical nigger.
I'm too much of a white cracker to find it entertaining but that's just me. The drawing where very good for an animation though.

>>2086509
That's a very simple effect.
If you are using photoshop, you can go to layer effects and use Stroke. (The thing you want to outline has to be on its own transparent layer)

Outlines with line variation are a different matter.

>>2086513
>Boondocks was something you'd enjoy if you were a stereotypical nigger.
>implying

The Boondocks was too conscious about the world you're living in. Of course you're going to hate it, you're a drone. The Boondocks didn't become shit that stereotypical niggers would enjoy until season 3. That's the moment it became the very thing it was suppose to be making fun of, and it's because most of the talent that went into writing the show left by that time.

If you're going to sit here and say season 1 and 2 of the Boondocks wasn't quality with it's writing and direction, there is literally no hope for your taste.

>>2086532
>The Boondocks was too conscious about the world you're living in.
Not that guy, but your post is hilariously ironic. The show is as shallow and politically correct as its possible to be.

>>2086537
>politically correct
>implying

That's impossible because it doesn't campaign feminism or gay people.

how did they get this effect?

>>2086550
simple photoshop effect
>layer, edit, paint vivid scenery

>>2086550
Theres a lot going on here. Which effect do you mean?

>>2086550
so i'm guessing the step by step process was something like this:

1. the guy sketches out this environment, using references of the architecture and stuff, the first sketch is pretty much just a line drawing
2. he fills in the values, considering all the light sources, getting as dark as possible where necessary and vice versa, resulting in a much more high contrast drawing than the one shown here
3. he digitally lays in the colors from a somewhat reserved pallet of dark blues and bright warmer shades to give it the sunset, golden hour look, probably took a very long time
4. he touches it up in photoshop or whatever program, adding filters that subdue the contrast and the saturation of the colors to give it a sepia tone/vintage look

to answer your question: with many hours of work

I like that drawing but the figures look a little flat to me which turns me off a bit. Producing work like this comes from drawing and painting a lot of still lifes and landscapes keeping the light sources in mind at all times.

>>2086540
>Implying, there's that word again!
>A show that came out almost 10 years ago didn't have feminism or gay people
Feminism wasn't as prominent back then, not sure about gays though, they had one guy who was afraid of getting raped in prison so...

How to shade like this?

>>2086584

That doesn't negate that there was nothing politically correct about the show. It ridiculed the absurd nature of both white and black communities. Which is why society drones hate it. They are the people it's making fun of.

>>2086608
You're using the word "shade" when you probably mean "render". You'll get better at rendering if you stop thinking of it as "shading" and start thinking of it as "rendering".

>>2086633
>rendering
You know, /ic/ is the only place I've ever seen the word "render" used in that context. I study art and illustration at University and I've never heard anyone say the word "render".

>>2086420
>>2086422

I thought that was a joke when seeing the pic but that seems to work well for larger forms. Thinking of it I think I remember seeing artists drawing their sketch like that. Thanks.

>>2086615
To each their own. The show was crude and unfunny to me but I can see the appeal, the drawing in its animation was very good for an american adultswim cartoon, making it stand out more than some other shows on during its time.
>>2086663
No problem, the only issue ive ever come across with holding the utensil that way is when using a tablet. Tablet pens are so thick that it doesn't allow free motion like pencils do. Does anyone have the same problem? How do you guys draw with a tablet pen?

>>2086635
Because he doesn't know what he's talking about. 85% of posts on /ic/ are useless. Including this one.

How can I emulate styles of famous animu like Panty and Stocking, what techniques are even used here?

>>2086706
>Does anyone have the same problem? How do you guys draw with a tablet pen?

The great thing with tablet is that you can zoom and unzoom, so you can do "large stroke" just by unzooming and doing your "usual wrist stroke" (I guess, I'm new to digital).

I feel like a lazy git when I'm using my stylus since I usually find myself resting my hand onto the tablet

>>2086635
Not him, but I study illustration at a college as well, at a damn good one, and I hear the term rendering used every day by both teachers and students during critiques and just small talk about art. My professors constantly use the term to describe fully realized details in a drawing that give the illusion of form and space in a drawing or painting.

I don't know where you're going but they must not talk much there.

>>2086712
ink
color your lines
cel shade (or whatever it's called)

>>2086712
Proportions, specific line variation, simplified designs.
Don't recommend copying it exactly since fuckin everyone does it

>>2086797
Another collegefag here, seconding this shit.

And that other anon could have been talking about values/rendering at the same time. I always translate "shading" to "values" when talking to normies.
Rendering works too but it's not really the focus.

I would like to do those geometric shapes you see in art nouveau but I have no idea how to tackle it.

>>2086608
I'm not really seeing what you want from this image. Looks pretty generic. Looks like a soft brush that uses opacity to create a painty look without obvious brushstrokes, if that's what you mean.

>>2086898
AutoCAD is very good for making geometric art.

Illustrator is usable but not as good.

>>2086898
compasses and careful measuring.

>>2086615
I simply didn't find it very funny. All the jokes felt really forced, and if an animated show could be poorly "acted", then this one definitely was.

how do you even plan something like this?

>>2086509
this video shows you how to do it in sai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWEHvYDbO00

>>2086955
There's no explanation for minds like that.
Painting upside down too

>>2086540
No, it just portrays the world as seen by an angry, delusional black guy with a huge chip on his shoulder.

>>2086584
>Feminism wasn't as prominent back then,

How old are you, exactly? Feminism has been a constant thing since the 60s. Social media has made it more visible, but it's always been a staple in most forms of entertainment.

>>2086955
By having no other distractions in your life I assume.

>>2086955
by order; I (the pope) want you (artist) to fill my ceeling with scenes from the bible. i want to have chapter a, b ,c....
You (the artsit) divides the shape given (the ceeling) through these numbers and starts scetching. aso...

>>2086509
look up selection tools. magnetic lasso tool etc...

Just what do you even do to get insane linework and patterns like this?

>>2087663
Other examples

>>2087664

>>2087665
This still boggles my mind.

>>2087666

>>2087667
You get the idea.

>>2087669
fucking manga artists man

>those exact lines, stylistic but realistic
This guy can do some amazing stuff

>>2087682
>born in 1960
>graduated in 83
Look at the bright side of things, you probably weren't even alive when this guy started to git gud. We are all gonna make it.

>>2087689
His first exhibition wasn't until 1998 so he would have been 38, I find that more impressive than if he had his first exhibition a few years after his graduation. It's not about when you get there, it's about working no matter how long or how hard, to get there.

>>2087669
what's so hard about this?