/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2091103
ive been doing this for a year and a half
>OP

But why?

>>2091105
>for a year and a half

might wanna push your boundaries a bit harder buddy...

>>2091103
>>2091105

Do you draw all your images sideways? That's quite a feat!

Also, resize images. Don't be a fucking lazy slob.

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>>2091103
is this all you draw?

>>2091127
>>2091117
>>2091120
i have (and still do) done real art like portraits and all that regular but essential stuff.

this is some tiny shit i do for fun sometimes, i literally started using prismacolors a few days ago

17 btw so im a new ass feggit and need direction

>might wanna push your boundaries a bit harder buddy...

yes, and i am trying to.

>>2091127
no, not even close.

>most recent works

>>2091138
>17 btw so im a new ass feggit and need direction
For 17 you're pretty skilled honestly. Most teenagers are pretty awful. Keep it up and you'll probably be a legend in your early 20s.

practice in multiple styles, & try designing something completely different every time. it seems to teach very necessary skills. it works for me atleast.

owner of #1 #2 & #3 >>> & im 19. like I said, try all kinds of things. it will help

>>2091144
thank you, i would post realistic shit ive done but i dont have it around right now

>>2091147
>>2091148
thanks gius i am looking at an artists named HJEOJEO, is this a good idea? (on google)

any artists you recommend?

>>2091125
>>2091124
>>2091121
love the style btw

this is a thing i did in class today

(not finished)

>>2091166

>>2091144
kek

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>>2091187
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>>2091189
#3

sorry about the image sizes

>>2091192
how long have you been drawling

>>2091192
>>2091189
>>2091187

I've been drawing for about 5 years now, although not very consistently. I haven't made anything new in weeks

>>2091194
if u got time you should hone yo skills

>>2091194
i want you to be aware that you are losing skill with every second.

>>2091196
That's exactly why I'm having such a hard time getting myself to just sit down and draw.

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>>2091214
how long have you been drawling

>>2091208
kek, you don't understand. you either improve or you don't. and by "don't" i mean you get worse.
there is no standstill.

>>2091144

>>2091224

>>2091218
2 years I think, but I've been lazy about it. So now i'm trying to improve and stop being a lazy cunt.

>>2091224
comparing to picasso is unfair, who still has parents that force them to practice art as children in this day and age?

Picked up a tablet around May 2012 and started drawing for the first time. Been "arting" casually for about 3 years now. I've just started getting more serious about my work though.

Drawings at the top are late 2012 and the bottom is between Jan and April of this year.

>>2091224
>Picasso at age 13
You mean Picasso's father at age 56.

>>2091196
this is not necesarily true

while it is true you will lose your technical abilities, as your muscles need to get used to drawing and for example precise line drawing does need nearly everyday practice to maintain skill level, leaving out drawing and painting for a while and focusing on something else, or just simply relaxing may bring some interesting results.

theres many illustrators and artists that have gotten better after a time they havent actually painted.

its sort of like your brain has time to cool down and rethink all the possibilities and approaches

ignore the d/ic/k idea that you need to paint 80 studies a day to actually git gud. do what you feel like doing.

>>2091232
your shit was stiff as fuck and still is stiff as fuck, please read on composition and theory of form ASAP because you're fine otherwise

>>2091241
what this guy means is try different poses

>>2091245
yeah, dynamic figures of sorts.

and youre fine so you can stop evading drawing human parts of the body such as faces mayne

>>2091230
Asians

>>2091248
too busy making iphones

>>2091239
well, you basically have to draw almost every day just to achieve a certain quality to your lines and gesture. and that's just to get it.
in order to keep it you have to draw even more.

what you're talking about is something that comes later down the line. most people don't even have any consistency to their art, that's because they just practice on and off.

>>2091245
Yeah I know.

>>2091252
what im talking talking about is that you need to cool off a day a week a month to be able to take a look back at your work and actually recognize mistakes.

thats not something that comes later, thats something youre always dealing with depending on your adaptability.

>>2091196
OH MY GOD YOU MEAN I GET WORSE EVERY SECOND IM NOT OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVELY SCRIBBLING WITH A PENCIL?! WHY SLEEP? WHY EAT? WHY LIVE?!

>>2091261
this >>2091262 is sort of what im trying to say. being obsessive and believing that you need to maintain daily practice without rest-time which is very different for each person is nonsense.

>>2091248

yeah but asians are generally never creative

they learn to play chopin etudes on the piano by age 7 or 8 and grow up to be either classical pianists and are forgotten by history, or become doctors and die in a labcoat slaving over test tubes. They draw realistic human busts at age 12 and then go on an art show at 13 and then are never heard from again because they don't have a creative bone in their body.

And then comes the russian composer, Stravinsky, who plays piano well but doesn't take composing seriously until 19 or 20, and then within a decade churns out not only some of the best pantonal masterpieces of his century, but also then goes on to lead to neoclassical movement and produces tons of other masterpieces. Or the Kadinsky who starts painting at age 30 and redefines art and art theory decades later. Or Faulkner who starts taking writing seriously in his 20s and late teens, and by his 30s writes the greatest american novels of all time. Or Yeats in respect to poetry.

And even for white prodigies, they always turn out better, creatively, than asians: Bartok, Picasso, Aivakovsky, Keats.

Asians are good with discipline, and can pick up skills really quickly with a ching chong whipping them into shape. But they never produce anything of actual value. Those who do are the americanized ones who grow up in households that are very white culturally.

just for fun.
on and off since i was like 13
so seven years
only got serious in the last year tho

>>2091271

1

on and off since 2012
moved onto music lately so havent really painted much

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>>2091281
love it has potential for follow up works

>>2091281
last one was from abstract paintjam

>>2091261
>>2091262
>>2091265
drawing every day doesn't make you obsessive.
it's fine if you're drawing for fun, but personally i think that if you want to get to a really good level, you have to practice a lot and build up to it. the kind of efficiency, sense, and technique required for it can't be achieved with just a little bit of work every now and then.

every time you make a pause you'll lose your edge, it happens every time. of course if you don't have an edge to in the first place you won't care. but but don't tell people to slack off. keep drawing.

>>2091291
dude nobodys talking about a little painting now and then, of course we get the sense that its good to at least make a sketch a day

the thing is that people on /ic/ tend to get extremely obsessive about it and being able to relax, not paint for a while is also important for you to improve. also people here are insecure fucks and by constantly pushing them to draw they usually get stressed as fuck and either never improve even though they constantly paint (chease) or are unable to even paint.

its good to draw often, but its good to be chill about it.

>>2091297
>the thing is that people on /ic/ tend to get extremely obsessive about it and being able to relax
people may say that but let's not kid ourself. nobody has that problem.
nobody is "working too hard" here. that's not our problem.

i've had more than enough of being chill. it doesn't lead to anything.

Made them into a grid. The cat is a wip.
I've been drawing for about 6 years

>>2091306

sorry, but the dog also looks like a work in progress.

not bad, but you don't rely too much on the grid, do you?

>>2091144
>For 17 you're pretty skilled honestly. Most teenagers are pretty awful.

Is this true? I feel like that's about normal for that age group.
>>2091232
That is some alien biology on the taur. And by alien biology, I mean look up horse anatomy for the legs. It doesn't look like an intentional breaking of anatomy.

>>2091310
Not really. Animal proportions baffle me so I've been trying to figure them out. In school I was taught that grids were evil for some reason. It's been tough to break out of the habit of taking shots in the dark and putting things where they "felt" like they should go .

>>2091321

I think it's more that the grid keeps you from thinking about the construction and underlying form rather than basic "this part is dark and this is light." It's not evil if you're just doing a portrait, but if you're trying to advance your skills, you should try sticking to more rigorous methods.

>>2091124

Perspective of the feet looks a bit off

>>2091327
Oh! Never thought of it that way. Thanks for the advice.