/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2236133
Be more subtle.

Mari Shimazaki

Ctchrysler

I realize sameface but with modifications, it can be perfect

>>2236180
this person is the literal fucking embodiment of tumblr face and tropes.

>>2236192
still better than dragons and spacemarines

Pretty much everything on his blog. He literally draws exactly how I want to draw one day. Right down to the sunny beaches and cartoonish children/women all the way up to his loose and vibrant landscape studies.

The man truly is a marvel.

http://joelcorcia.tumblr.com/

>>2236206

>>2236208
last one.

eu03

>>2236403

>>2236133
really, OP? that's awful.

>>2236429
I didnt even notice groot.
Or maybe someone else cause ya know Poision Ivy is DC and Groot is Marvel

>>2236445
> Thinking something has to be good to be inspirational
A person could be inspired by a pile of shit thinking "I'm not gonna be like that"

>>2236403
Thats a lot of special sauce

>>2236551
And you're here to prove that or what?

>>2236583
It's a pretty fucking easy concept to understand, how are you not getting it you autist?

>>2236800

Lol at how you keep posting your pic over and over.

by Da Zhong Zhang
I just love the touch of idealism

>>2236804
and you kept being autistic over and over, kek.

>>2236817
Most /fa/ video game character that exists

>>2236552
I like this.
>>2236798
This one is almost dreamlike. Very nice as well.

I wish I could emulate these beautiful textures gdi

>>2237063

>>2237075

wtf

>>2237080
the man might not be an artist, but he has some good ideas about furniture.

>>2237075
Forgot to mention, artist is Hiroaki Samura.

This one positively reinforces me every time I scroll past it.

>>2237087
I draw anime all the time because I'm not an insecure faggot who thinks styles and/or subjects are what determine how good you are.

>>2237074
I'm really digging this

>>2237087
Who are you trying to impress?

I hope you're not older than 15

>>2237063
>Most /fa/ video game character that exists
ew no

>>2237094
Prove me wrong, you fag

>>2237089
>I draw symbols because it's easy and I need to appease my waifu
The style is literally made to be quick and easy to draw.

>>2237089

>I'm not an insecure faggot

So you're just the regular kind, then? I guess you must be if you're drawing so much anime.

>>2237097
post something you've drawn of equal or greater quality.

>>2237100
Why even bother replying to /pol/ crossborders?

>>2237100
No matter how good of a drawing I post, you will criticize it much harder to fit your opinions. Also pic related.

>>2237096
go to /fa/ and have our fuccboi be ripped to shreds

real inspiration coming through

>>2237211

>>2237212

>>2237214

>>2236133
>http://turnipsss.deviantart.com/
nice self promotion

ur art is shit m8

>>2237218
OOO FUCKING DESTROYED, FUCK YOU OP.

>>2237100
>bland colors
>bad composition
>no focal point
>no thematic value
Every time animefaggots post art that they think is amazing, it's just generic, uninspired crap that looks like it's straight out of a VN background.

>>2237110
Jesus fucking Christ this turd nugget is on /ic/ too?

>>2237217
What's the appeal here? looks like prototypical Chinese league ripoff job

Always feel inspired when I look at this piece.

>>2237243
found one >>2237295

>>2237243
Oddly enough the other shit posters posted the perfect response.
>>2237110

Also most your points are wrong but that's just for any noobs out there who might be confused by your shitposting, not because I want to get into a troll fight with you.

>>2236133

>>2236133
Anything by Artgerm, the dream of drawing like him is what motivates and inspires me

I've always been a fan of Ovopack's work.
Figured some other folks might like 'em.
http://ovopack.tumblr.com/

>>2237999
It's really nice to see adorable anthros with nice settings
Thanks for sharing!

Katsuhiro otomo

Creator of akira

>>2237492
I wish he stopped being a one trick pony. Grew tired of his pinup girls long ago

Michael Buffington Jr.

Leyendecker

???

Anyone got "Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers"?

Jeff Simpson

>>2238073
one more

Wesley Burt
His sketchbooks are way better than his digital stuff

>>2236583
LOL

>>2237099
that fucking design looks like it has a million watermarks on it. bother's me like fucking hell.

genzoman

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/

kuvshinov-ilya

algenpfleger of course...

Bit of an obvious one but why not

>>2238130
It sorta annoys me to see one-trick ponies with good technical knowledge, I wanna see how they would draw all sorts of things but all you find is cute girls
pr: Poch4n

>>2238169

This. Seeing him draw in person was amazing. He's a pretty funny guy too.

>>2238130
I like the pic he did of the dark haired girl with big eyes

>>2238179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS41JwhOwdY

I remember this one from before I started drawing, never knew his name at the time and was completely blown away.

>>2238189
Full image

>>2238195
amazing work, and i really didn't expect him to be using that style of pen. I was honestly expecting a sharpie or pigma.
I attempted to use one of those squeeze ink brush pens, they're bloody hard to use.

>>2238174
>finally git gud
>draw nothing but cute little girls

>someone commissions a dragon from you
>draw a little girl riding a dragon

>someone hires you for concept art
>all your characters are little girls

>an architecture firm hires you to design their buildings
>spend 5 minutes on the building and 20 hours modeling tiny girls for scale

>>2238211
me tbh

>>2238211
>not designing a building shaped like a gigantic cute little girl

>>2238246
gdi that pure black hole just fucks everything up.

>>2238083
his shit was impressive ten years ago, now not so much.

>>2238252
Wes is still considered top of the industry, not sure what you're talking about. His sketchbooks are still famous and really well done, and his painting skills have really developed a lot in the past few years.

>>2238248
Yeah, the pure black breaks the composition and attract your eyes from the otherwise low-contrast painting
but
Maybe that's the point? It is a black hole, it's supposed to have a strong gravitational pull. Maybe the artist is trying to convey it by giving it a strong compositional pull?

>>2236206
>>2236208
pretty typical calarts student stuff. don't understand why anyone would cum over this.

>>2236554
wow what the fuck how did this get missed?
This is awesome, all you people on here have the shittiest of shit taste I have ever endured.

>>2237075
Holy shit.
I want to see more but I'm afraid I'd lose my innocence.

>>2238283

Hipster detected. Oh, it's not "original" enough.
Eat shit you pretentious faggot

>>2238327
Are you the author of that crap by any chance?

>>2238211
>git gud
Stop this epic maymay. Theres no such thing as reaching the level of gud. Its just an ideal to strive for

>>2238292
That and this piece are from an artbook of his. They are pretty tame compared to what else is in it.

Love of the Brute is the name of the artbook

Jeeyon Kim
Got a really good one but I can't find it online, so I'll scan it up later

>>2238460
Image is pretty crap, but maybe someone knows an uploaded version of it

>>2238345
Gud is a level of satisfaction either you or the large public have toward your work. You'll never be perfect but you can be good. It's not a hard cut line but it is there.

>>2238352
http://drtenge.com/?p=937

>>2237999
Good taste detected. Hes one of my fav artists and I have yet to find some kemono artist with a similar style.

>>2238327
> Oh, it's not "original" enough.
well that and it's not really good to begin with. there's a million artists with the same aesthetic, they're all ripping off a cartoonist named kiraz.

>>2238464
that means im still really far from being gud.

>>2238063
Name of artist?

>>2239055
Looked all over, couldn't find anything

>>2238283
"Post all the pics that you look to for inspiration"
Your opinion is irrelevant and baseless. For one thing typical as it may be that doesn't change the fact that that very statement means it's top quality all the same which leads to my second point. His work inspires me and that's why I posted it in the inspirational art thread. Whether you agree with me or not does not matter because what inspires me wont inspire you.

TLDR I can like whatever the fuck I want bitch. Typical calarts student "stuff"... what a faggot.

I love Takehito Harada's saturated, pastel like palette.

>>2238283
Oh look another "edgy" trendsetter that's so over that lame calarts stuff. Yawn.
If being unoriginal means I can leisurely paint drawings like this while watching a great of tennis then I'll take whatever amount of inspiration I can get from this guy.

>>2238283
Oh look another "edgy" trendsetter that's so over that lame calarts stuff. Yawn.
If being unoriginal means I can leisurely paint drawings like this while watching a great of tennis then I'll take whatever amount of inspiration I can get from this guy.

>>2238283
Oh look another "edgy" trendsetter that's so over that lame calarts stuff. Yawn.
If being unoriginal means I can leisurely paint drawings like this while watching a great of tennis then I'll take whatever amount of inspiration I can get from this guy.

He might draw girls like aliens, but I think he's closer to doing the "semi-anime" style right than most people.

>>2238283
Oh look another "edgy" trendsetter that's so over that lame calarts stuff. Yawn.
If being unoriginal means I can leisurely paint drawings like this while watching a game of tennis then I'll take whatever amount of inspiration I can get from this guy.

This so bad. I love everything about his style except those eyes.

>>2239203
>>2239220
>>2238327
>being so mad that you make three responses to my post

man why are people so obsessed with mediocrity. it's nuts.

>>2239229
source? google aint given me shit and those lines are niiiiiice

>>2239302
Sauce is Jeffr. I want to imitate his style so bad!

>>2236810
Beautiful colors, I love this.
>also dat qt

>>2239282
Holy crap! I need a source on this!

>no mike azavedo

>>2239361

>>2239362
I love what you posted but didn't mean to reply.

>>2239356
No name here either, was from an old inspiration thread with no name there too

>>2236133

tbh I get inspired but then I get very depressed because I'm shit

>OP's pic

lmfao

>>2239315
so you want to draw horribly then

>maybe if i put speed lines over everything it'll look energetic

Range Murata's stuff is super nice

>>2239700

>>2239725

takamichi

>>2239767

I'm a big fan of Alexandra Levasseur's artwork. Love her colors and concepts.

>>2239772

>>2239772
>>2239773
I'm not too hot on the color, it looks like henry darger did it, but love the subjects, it looks like henry darger did it.

>>2238246
I follow this artist and I wish they'd do more (or show more) bigger pieces like that, but I don't mind their sketches

>>2239783
it looks like henry darger did it.

My grandmother had a print of one of Monet's paintings, so I grew to like pictures of open fields of flowers that seem somewhat oddly silent and distant.

Generally I like to search for 'distant' pictures that seem slightly uncanny. Large and empty libraries, cathedrals, wires, rail tracks.

>>2239783
>>2239790
Really? I mean I kind of see a resemblance but, to me, it doesn't look like he himself would've done it.

Genzoman, the best of the best

The fact that some of you get so easily inspired by all this anime shit says something about the quality of your skills ( or lack thereof). Please stop shitting up the thread with this crap

>>2238292
then you should never read
>Mrs Bradley's Coach

>>2239841
>anime shit
Look at all the /co/mblr art and deviantshit. I just prefer pixiv to deviantart and save most stuff from there, even some weeb stuff. I don't consider much of it amazing but it's nice to look through some images to give me ideas for colours.

Im more into comics than single piece, so entertainment value>craftsmenship. But something like this (pic) is inspiring to me because the artist could have just try to spread the joke up into multiple panels. But instead, the artist compacts the gag into one image and is just as funny if not funnier, than making into a comic. It makes me realize I can make an image funny without turning it into a comic, so I can still be a d/ic/k, instead going full c/oc/k. If any anons have some pieces they find funny, or compacts a story into one, please post. Kim jung gi is really gud at this too.

Yes, I know its supposed to be k-on

>>2239907
and this is what I mean by, spreading the joke out in multiple panels (pic)

>>2239908
I don't get the joke tbh.

>>2239908
This is one of my favorite images of all time

http://stablercake.tumblr.com/

Arne is my favorite and I wanna be like him

>>2239282
>>2239356
>>2239625

Pretty sure that's 8939. I don't recall seeing that sketch in particular but it looks like his work.

https://twitter.com/H939

robertvalley.tumblr.com

guy worked on character design for TRON: Uprising and Motorcity

i just love his dynamic angles and super unique character designs

>>2238035
I have one of his art book. It's really good.

>>2239799
ugh im in love with this so much. It perfectly captures the atmosphere of a cold morning in fall at a lake.

Please help me, I need to know how to paint realism its just I can't the anime style is clouding my mind and I really want to do some realistic style for my job, even my body style is a little like anime, should I practice copying someone else works?

Something about this piece just gets me going. I love every thing about it.

>>2240392
Yeah this is really nice. It makes me want to drink something warm.

>>2238199
dude, learn to use a brush pen and it will do all the work for you. I'm only a half decent but the stuff I was able to draw with one of those things was 10X better than what I originally thought I was capable of.

>>2240579
Holy fuck I haven't seen someone mention Bergkvist in ages. I really wonder how she's doing and how she feels about the current state of the industry given how she was treated.

>>2240580
What happened to her? How was she treated?
I don't know much about her. I'm just inspired by some of her pieces.

>>2240581
She was very well known in the early days of digital art because she did some incredibly realistic paintings with very nice subtle things in them. Nowadays they are nice but nothing that special, but at the time they were a few steps ahead of what anybody had done in digital. She was very popular. Then it came about that for some of her paintings, in some sections, she had used photos and painted over it. She was decried as a fraud and went from very popular to extremely hated and many fans felt betrayed by her for lying about her paintings (she simply never mentioned the use of photos). There was major drama in which she was treated really horribly and even received death threats iirc and the police had to get involved. In the end she quit art entirely, left all online communities and went to live off in the countryside with family.

And yet now people use photos way more blatantly and it's industry standard and expected and recommended.In fact if you don't do this there are many jobs you simply won't get hired for. Basically she was witch hunted for being ahead of her time.

>>2240589
And people don;t do the same for photo bashers? What kind of shit attitude is that.

>>2240600
No one gives a fuck outside of other digital illustrators who think they're better than it. Early digital painting was a very different world, essentially it was nothing but a hobby and most professional art was still done traditionally. She got reamed for doing something the plebs thought was cheating when now they eat it up.

>>2240600
Well there is some controversy still with photobashers, but the hatred for them comes mostly from amateurs or is spoken about behind closed doors. The number of people who publicly criticize them can be counted on one hand.

And while some people don't like it, it has become industry standard. If you don't photobash you will have a lot of trouble getting certain jobs or finishing certain jobs in time. A lot of art directors specifically ask for photobashes because it is faster. And even in illustration work it is becoming more ubiquitous, and has taken over things like MtG, Applibot, and some book covers.

>>2240609
>Early digital painting was a very different world, essentially it was nothing but a hobby and most professional art was still done traditionally
I wouldn't call it a hobby, but it was more niche and more conservative in the opinions of the community then. It was being used professionally even very early on by a few pioneering individuals, and has gradually grown in popularity since. The Spectrum books are a great resource on seeing how digital has grown. In the first issues from the early 90's there are only one or two digital paintings, then each issue it gradually has a few more until the ones now where there is half or more of all art being done digitally.

>>2240589
Well, that explains why she isn't really active anymore. That's too bad. I was expecting that she was using photo reference pretty heavily and was looking for something stating that on her deviantart without luck. She probably should have stated it, but it still doesn't justify a negative response of that caliber.
I wonder what she's doing now?

Even if it's technically nothing impressive anymore. The two works of her I posted really grabs my attention and the setting is right up my alley. I also like the use of light.

>>2240616
I think a lot of the time she probably painted from reference. I'm not sure how much was actually painted directly over photos. You can probably find the comparison images from back then. I seem to recall some hair was done that way and maybe a hand or something. It wasn't even in all her work I don't think.

But yes, it was unnecessarily harsh on her. One of the more tragic pieces in digital art history.

>>2240614
Speaking specifically of digital painting as opposed to general digital illustration, I meant that it was a hobby in the sense that it wasn't being widely used professionally in the 90s or even the early 00s. You had a few very dedicated forums for it and some pioneers, but not on this level where I swear more people know how to do shitty conceptart 1-inch brush painting than simple color illustration.

I always found the transition very fascinating. The original community were a bunch of traditional artists and graphic designers with very conservative ideas and methods. Half the shit done now was shunned.

>>2240626
Ah okay. I too find it absolutely fascinating how things have changed. I wish there was someone keeping track of all the developments, you could have a whole course or book on the history of digital art even though it is so young. There have been so many talented people involved over the years, the technology has changed so much, the aesthetics, the techniques. And it's gone from extremely niche to extremely mainstream and oversaturated. Unfortunately nobody to my knowledge is keeping track of this and a lot of the information and images have been lost from the internet (eg all the old images on Sijun are broken, eatpoo doesn't exist anymore etc).

Also, I think VERY initially, digital art used a fair bit of photography. At that point nobody had realized that it could be used to "paint" things from scratch, so they used it more in a photomanipulation way with perhaps a few brushstrokes. It was only a bit later with the invention of tablets and some more sophisticated software that "pure" painting became the norm in digital art. The reason everything was so conservative and things shunned was probably in part due to the desire to have digital recognized as a legitimate tool that still takes skill and isn't the computer doing the work for you.

>>2240631
Forgot to mention that the reason that it was "a bunch of traditional artists and graphic designers with very conservative ideas and methods" as you call it was that for a long time the barrier of entry was pretty big. The cost of the software and a computer able to run it and a tablet were too much, so only people who were already established professional artists would buy it and use it. It was only in the early 2000's (I forget the exact date, maybe or 2005/6 or so) that the technology became cheap enough for hobbyists to pick up and start playing with. That's when CA really exploded and digital art began shifting more mainstream. I'm not sure what happened in the last like 3 years or whatever to make the community 50x bigger though. Possibly the community just opened up to the rest of the world instead of just US/EU?

>>2240638
It's all gone. I heard most of the history from various graphic designers who went through the transition or started on digital early, guys in or approaching their 40s now. You're right that no one used PS for painting and it wasn't really designed for it; it was almost purely photomanip and graphic design work. Painting has been attempted since the 80s, though. Bezinski was working on it before his death.

There have been affordable tablets since the early 90s, but photoshop and a computer were the biggest barrier, though no worse than any gaming pc (which was still twice as much as it is now). The biggest limitation was hard drive space. What made it blow up has been $70 tablets, rampant piracy, and alternatives to PS that aren't shit.

Around 2005 was when I noticed digital taking off as a medium. That was when broadband started spreading from major cities out into the sticks and when Apple was on top of their hipster graphic design game. I don't think the barrier was ever the cost, more that it needed the means to spread memetically and the critical mass to do so. Quite a few of my friends bought tablets, but I wasn't really into the digital look then.

I think it's grown so much recently because graphic design has grown massively as a field and there is, or was, a huge demand and a lot of empty chairs in the digital illustration field. People want those "easy" jobs but came too late.

>>2240710
I don't think it's all gone. It still exists as you say in the older generation of people who lived through the shifts. Mullins alone probably knows enough on the topic to write a book. Between him and other pioneers like Robh Ruppel and Sparth I bet you there could be a pretty comprehensive record made of the history of things.

And maybe you are right that the hard drive space and other physical limitations were what held things back. You look at early digital painting and it was all like 500x700 pixels at full resolution, and they painted with tiny brushes because the memory wasn't good enough to handle anything larger. Obviously this will impact the look of art compared to now where you can use sophisticated programs that run 200 layers on a canvas 20k pixels across.

Internet certainly has helped too like you say. I know without it I wouldn't have pursued art as a career. I never would have learned the things I know and I wouldn't have seen how it was possible to self-teach to a professional level.

>>2240731
>I never would have learned the things I know and I wouldn't have seen how it was possible to self-teach to a professional level.
I think this here is it. Broadband gave us youtube and youtube gave us tutorials. Before that, dA was nothing but colored pencil and copics. The video game industry working directly in digital didn't hurt either. Neither did larger monitors. I feel like it was the confluence of everything that did it, but the cost was never the real issue. Now it may very well be with price of paint and sable brushes getting banned for import by progressives and driving the price up. Digital art being cheaper for the same results is almost a theory no longer.

I don't think it's time yet for a comprehensive history because digital has only made one major step in all this time and still doesn't have anything native to the medium or even something that it does better than the mediums it borrows from. Going back in the conversation, this is one of the major hurdles digital art has against being "legitimate". It is like the history of early 3D videogames. There's good shit and some of it is exceptional, but it is limited by the medium. We are headed towards the metaphorical Golden Age very soon though.

Also, writing history in the internet era is almost impossible. You can't really say who did what, there is little documentation, and it all moves so fast you have to view it on a different scale.

>>2240743
We're already in the Golden Age of digital. Literally anyone anywhere in the world can easily purchase a laptop and tablet capable of running incredibly powerful software and then reach a professional level in several years using one of the countless resources online. We went from an age where there was no information online and you needed to go to Art Center to make it in the industry (other than the rare forum post from a pro with some spare time there was nothing online). Now we can spend $3 on a gumroad for hours of content, or take entire courses led by industry leaders and get personalized feedback, or watch free videos that walk you through every step of every software or purchase a book like the ones by Gurney or Robertson that covers more than most courses at top art schools. The industry is run by a young generation of largely self taught people--most people in the industry are under 40, and many are even under 30. You're getting more and more people now in their late teens and early 20's who are working professionally at fairly high levels.

The inherent "illegitimacy" of digital has nothing to do with what it produces or the quality of it. It's just that it is a digital file that can be copied infinitely and doesn't exist in a physical form, so has no value. It's the same as how a woodblock print costs less than an oil painting, except the effect is magnified infinitely.

Software is also getting scarily good. The stuff possible in 3d realtime now is better than stuff that would take hours to render before. Take a look at what people like Jama Jurabaev (he talks of some things he is doing in his interview on Collective Podcast) or Maciej are doing with different programs. This shit is insane and only going to get easier to do. The skill level required and the time required for things now is getting lower and lower as software fills in the gaps.

This is the Golden Age man, don't let it slip by as you wait for it to come.

Saw this at a cracker barrel. Artist is "Morgan" but that's all I know

>>2236133

>>2236133
Love Matt Dixon's art. It's exactly how I want to be able to paint

Koki is good

>>2240761
The illegitimacy I see isn't the usual case of it being easily copied, it's that it isn't its own thing yet. There is nothing you can do that can't be done better in another medium. It's changing, but as of yet there is no truly native technique, just those pulled from other mediums. Undo and photomanipulation tools and filters aren't it and the amalgamation of it all still hasn't found a native voice. I think VR will be the thing that changes that if a new program with a uniquely digital look doesn't come first. 3D animation already made that jump and can do what physical media cannot without being creepy stop motion.

This is why I say we aren't quite to the Golden Age. Everything is there or near enough, but the primordial soup of memes that is tumblr hasn't finished incubating what will herald it in. The industry is young, but those prodigies still need to mature and make something of value with focus instead of generic concept art with no inherent narrative. It's coming very soon, but there still hasn't been that landmark work. Illustration has only barely come out of the hole digital dug for comic books in the late 90s.

>>2240795
>There is nothing you can do that can't be done better in another medium
Sure there are. You can do 3d sculptures that couldn't physically exist. You can do paintings that utilize fractals or other computer generated imagery (think Android Jones). You can paint with very digital markmaking and cleanliness (think Sparth or Alberto Mielgo). You can utilize photos for collage on steroids like Maciej does. You can rework thing infinitely and experiment endlessly. You can use modular components for numerous design iterations. You have infinitely more control with things especially in 3d settings. Instead of doing a matte painting on glass and putting it behind, you can build the whole thing in 3d and have it look even more real and integrate much better and have things actually animated in it as well.

It's an infinitely flexible medium and a very fast one. No, it doesn't do "oil paint" as well as real oil paint. But it does its own things better than oils can.

>>2236810
>dat qt
today is a good day.

>>2240811
I was talking specifically about painting and already said sculpture crossed the gap. I'll give you markmaking in part and I guess collage, but the rest is more the concern of design than art. The design iterations and reworking are also what I see as a flaw. Sometimes (usually), it's just better to start over from scratch. The work is made to be fixed instead of done right the first time. Watching most digital artists work is pig disgusting because of those things. There are fundamental flaws that need a clean sheet to fix and no amount of lasso tool will save it.

I have 18th century etchings and ukiyo-e woodblocks and they all posses an undeniable quality that a digital print does not. Some is the physical depth of ink on paper, but there is something else. This is what digital still lacks. I think VR will be able to provide it, if not with physical presence, then something else.

I will compromise and say we are coming into the golden age, it is here, but hasn't had the game changed from what came before it yet. It's too design focused and you end up with a nebulous product instead of art that can be sold. I expect illustration to make the breakthrough before painting, we're long overdue for a comic or even a children's book of mindblowing quality driven by the art, art which couldn't be done any other way.

>>2240837
Alright sounds like we actually agree on most things then. I think for illustration/design digital has opened up tons of things, but as far as expressive work or whatever that undefinable quality is that is present in ukiyo-e and etchings it still falls short, I agree. As for new advancements in art with aesthetics or whatever, it is on its way for sure, but I think is still too young a medium to have any game changing things in images in general. Oils techniques and styles have developed over centuries, digital is a few decades old, and came at a time when draftsmanship and art education were at an all time low. It's shifting now for sure though, and I feel within out lifetimes there will be some major steps forward in art history.

Kevin Dart gets my dick hard

>>2241040
what am i supposed to be impressed by, here?

>>2241112
>Post all the pics that you look to for inspiration
you don't have to be impressed by anything you fuck.

Yoshinari Yoh is my biggest inspiration and his sketchbook is my bible and I want his new one as well.

>>2241140
oh wait fuck somebody scanned it? http://g.e-hentai.org/g/855785/6629f6cda9/ Is this pic related or is this some other thing? whatever I'm taking it.

>>2241140
Is there a reason you like him specifically? A lot of Japanese animators have similar aesthetics/styles to my untrained eye. What separates him? Can you recommend anyone else? Is it his drawing or his animation that is more inspirational? Can you post some more of his work?

>>2241147
In his drawings and designs most importantly I like his shape language and lines. There's a kind of a waviness to it, for example his mecha's aren't rigid but instead very rounded and smooth.

Funnily enough the waviness in his sketches translates to his animation as well, if you look at the flames in this scene http://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15754/animated-creatures-dantalian_no_shoka-effects-fire The way his timing works in a lot of his movement is this constant easing in and out. It's flow-y, kinda.

>>2241161
Thanks for replying! The drawing you posted and the link in your post are really impressive.

>>2241166
Here's another good example of the shape language and the flowiness of the linework

>>2241168
Do you know his process on these? I don't really see him using an underdrawing really.

>>2236180
this person....tries so hard to be Korra shit now....it's sad.

>>2238790
THIS
man...too many like this and people eat it up.

>>2236206
the style reminds me of this man's work
http://pascalcampion.tumblr.com/

>>2236180
feminist be like

>>2241172
maybe a lightbox? maybe from the first try

>>2240264
I like how you can tell the anatomy is warped intentionally! Really nice.

>>2241479
>>2241172
I think the one I posted earlier is just drawn straight ahead.


For this he at the least used the lightbox to draw in the crowd. It was shown in the Making of LWA2

Love the landscapes of Alexandre Reider.

>>2241132
i beg to differ if it something that influence's /ic/'s work

most of these guys suck and as a result most of /ic/ sucks

>>2240761
>This is the Golden Age man

It's the beginning of the end actually. 25 years ago you could call yourself a graphic designer, beacuse your work was largely knowledge and skill based, with tools just being tools. Nowadays any inbred moron can call himself a graphic designer, and create work that is indistinguishable from that of other highly educated graphic designers. The tools are so powerful that a million crutches fill in those gaps.

Digital art is very close to that. No skill required. Already the level of skill necessary to produce impressive digital art is quite low, and in another 10 years the tools will do 90% of the work, and any moron will be able to produce mullins/ruanjia level work without a sweat or years (or decades) of training and practice.

This is why pros jump ship now. They know it's all fake bullshit. If you go into digital art trying to make it your profession you are a fucking idiot and will die poor, lonely and miserable.

If you spent the last 4 years studying art fundamentals and art principles religiously, thinking that this sacrifice will pay off and allow you to have a good career as a digital artist of some sorts... you'll fucking feel silly when five years from now the software is good enough to allow any imbecile to produce work at the level of yours, without them ever having to study anything. That's when you'll wish you had gone into ANY respectable career/field rather than this fake bullshit.

And this is coming from someone who is working professionally atm. Hurr.

>>2241589
thanks anon, never heard of now in love with them too!

>>2241172
>needing an underdrawing
laugh at the noob!

>>2239825
literally terrible im not sure if this is a meme or something.

>>2241787
Better start working on that STEM degree

>>2241787
Actually as someone who is "pro" your opinions are biased because you do have background knowledge.
Its easy enough to pretend tools do so much work when you're understanding what they do and how they do it. Naturally they do help a large amount and reduce the amount of learning you need to do, but you do need to still understand the tools and basic design principles.

Take hacking for example, once you have basic computer knowledge and understanding of architecture and basic programming knowledge, it becomes as simple as running a few scripts. In fact, once you know how to "hack" you're basically just clicking a few buttons while watching netflix.
But give the same tools to someone who has no idea what they're doing, its all just numbers and gibberish.
As someone who knows what to look for, its easy to say "oh look the tool is doing all the work, this is stupid and I'm going to lose my job" but seeing a new guy or someone inexperienced look at it, I quickly realize how stupid the average person is when not in their territory.

>>2241787

Give us examples of no skill "impressive" digital art.

>>2241489
yeah, he's amazing at exaggeration. his style feels damn near impossible to study though, haha.

>>2241787
I just hate how digital feels. Its convenient as fuck but might as well be an office job. Tho >>2241899 is right. It took me ages to learn my baby knowledge of photoshop, before it got conveniently simple to use. That barrier is still there. I just realized after the fact that It felt like a soulless 9 to 5 job instead of something i liked to do.

Though i do agree that probably people who dont actually have a real ability can thrive now. They just have to learn a different approach and set of tools instead, and end up in the same place.