/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2700989
Alcohol.. Years and years of drinking will fuck your brain up nicely.

These shitty portraits are probably making him more money than his previous more interesting work, and he's just resigned to it/given up.

God that's sad, his old trudvang stuff is some of my favorite fantasy art.

>>2700989
He has graduated. Flying looks a lot like falling to those without the ability.

>>2701104
Dank bait

>>2700989
I kinda like the bottom middle one. But yeah, that's a shame, what happened?

He must be suffering from some mental issue.

When you've learned the rules, and it is time to break them, that is where innate talent becomes critical.

Picasso had it. Tapia, obviously not.

His Harry Potter book covers are probably the best out there though.

>>2701143
>piccaso was good meme
Whats it like literally having your taste dictated by memes

>>2701147
those are pretty bad lol.

>>2701150
This is way better than the Tapia drawings though.

There is a sense of rhythm and sculptural quality in it. The design looks DELIBERATE and not like it was badly traced with some symbol stuff haphazardly added to it.

>>2701155
Show me your superior Harry Potter cover art.

>>2701158
kek

>>2700989
one foot in one foot out. he was never good in the first place.

>>2701158
Tapia is that you??

>>2700989
he went from shit to shittier

>>2701230
No. He went from fucking awesome to I can do what ever the fuck I wanna do because I'm awesome.

fuck all ya.

>>2701157
Kill yourself my man

>>2701397
>I can't come up with any counterarguments so I'll just spout this meme phrase all the other cool 16-year olds love

You sure it's the same guy?

this is way more interesting than those generic fantasy drawings.

http://www.alvarotapia.com/dark

>>2701414

It's... Not. I'm a fucking idiot, haha. They just have the same name. In my defence I believe he had a online portfolio with a very similar url. Sorry lads I had a bit of a manic episode on energy drinks in the early hours.

I repeat:

NOT THE SAME GUY

Sorry.

>>2701448
u fucked up.

>>2701448
Hey buddy.

Go fuck yourself.

>>2701157
If I post an image similar to that I'll be called a beginner and be pointed at the sticky.

his nowadays art is just him. I guess before, he was drawing from his imagination but now he is by his feelings and self-representation, like chagall, he want to represent what he feels and not what he imagine. This kind of art, and this totally style changed, might expose that he is actually in a bad mood in his life or in a new way of thinking

>>2700989
Is this real? The bottom ones look like something a beginner would do when learning illustration/graphics design, but who hasn't quite figured out the basics yet and is just experimenting. The blatant mistakes are the worst. They don't look like conscious choices to simplify or play with forms, but actual mistakes. The woman on the right is a prime example, as the lines are bad and don't wrap properly. It just looks poorly drawn.

>>2701485

Please do, make us Guernica v.2.0.

>>2701147
Too cluttered and chaotic, the original book illustrations are way better desu

>>2701147
No. this is way too muddy.

The use of black is out of control, making it look amateurish.

The sketch is good how ever. The colors are shit over all.

>>2701147
reminds me of Drew Tucker. That old school mtg artist.

>>2701147
>>2701155
>Bad
I bet you have never seen the finnish covers.

>>2701645
Is this jewish propaganda? Serious question.

>>2701645
Oh god I haven't laughed like that in a while, thank you anon

>>2701645

harry potterberg and the 50 sheckles

>>2701645
those are terrible!

harry potter is not a fucking cartoon.

who made this one? anyone know?

>>2701485
>caring what a bunch of anonymous nobodies on the internet thinks
I bet you you even take advice from people here as well, lol

>>2701555
>textbook nostalgiafag

>>2701766
Posting for reference

>>2701778
gross

>>2701778
5-7 are really nice, can't read the title for Azkaban but it's nice otherwise.

>>2701766
There's a lot going on in these, but they aren't overly cluttered (save for the last book, imo). Their focal points are very clearly defined despite the details.

>>2701840
>Their focal points are very clearly defined despite the details.

2-4 are very weak compositionally and the rendering is subpar. The general style isn't very good either.

6 and 7 looks like those cheapo airbrush paintings you see on your local funfair.

1 and 5 are the only decent ones IMO

>>2701766
Are you saying these are better or are implying these are the ones I grew up with cause neither apply here

>>2701778
Guy drew the thestral look really cool here though, that would make a cool poster. So would the 3rd one.

Really don't like the 4th one though, squeezing the death mark in background just seems like too much. Wish it could be moved around a little.

>>2700989
I mean you're right but you come off as really annoying

>>2701894
Really? I thought 5 was the most bland out of them, compositionally and content-wise. And sure, the rendering isn't great on a couple of them, but they're very eye-catching, I remember as a kid being totally drawn in by the covers alone and I think their simple, dynamic compositions are why. They shove all of the important details into one third of the illustration, on Chamber of Secrets it's all in the top third, the on Azkaban it's all on the right third, and for Goblet it's all on the left. It's kinda neat. I agree about 6 and 7, though I don't think 6 is as bad as Deathly Hollows.

>>2701404
>my incoherent textual diarrhea deserves a counter argument!

>>2701645
These trigger my nostalgia, but I can admit they're legitimately bad.

>>2701766
The English covers, I never liked. They're not awful like the Finnish ones, except for the first two, but I always thought they were kind of bland.

>>2701778
Harry's looking pretty damn anime in Deadly Hallows, and the composition in the Goblet of Fire could use some work, but I still really like these. Best Harry Potter covers I've seen.

>>2701676
UK Children series – illustrated by Thomas Taylor

Its one of the better ones, my personal favorite is the new american version.

>>2701656
Probably not, dude is liberal as fuck but doesn't seem to be a Jewish. He explained the nose that all classical illustrations of wizards and witches always had long and prominent noses.

>>2701660
You are welcome

>>2701673
I remember that everyone that read them hated the covers even as kids. I thought that the end of the nose being sliced off was extremely retarded.

>>2700989
He started breaking form. The unwashed masses were not into it. He got upset, blamed them for not "getting it". Broke form even more.
There's probably a whole bunch of hipsters who really like the new stuff.

I think these were just for fun, but Olly Moss's Harry Potter covers were pretty good from a design point of view. I don't know if they'd be very eye-catching for kids, though.

>>2702027
Probably aimed towards adults who don't want to buy the children series.

thomas taylor probably did the best set of covers. he knew exactly what he was doing. nailed the dream/adventure fantasy feelings.

Why the fuck are there so many different iterations of the HP covers?

>>2702044
kek

>>2702016
those are pretty bad too. they look girly and lame.

>>2701147
>hermione
>white

>>2702048
Kinda, they just happen to be what I wanted the covers to be as a kid instead of the horrible >>2701645 covers.

>>2701628
So which covers would you consider better?

>>2701147

>>2702069
because I did not have the opportunity to create any harry potter covers.

Niether of them, to answer your question.

>>2702044
how is this a real question

>>2700989
>contemporary stuff is garbage
this meme needs to stop. we have this thread biweekly.

>>2702105
Post your work.

>>2702143
nah. it's too good.

/ic can only handle so much.

>tfw no one knows about the harry potter french book covers

>>2702318
At least you had something decent, meanwhile we had this

>>2702319
Holy shit I can't believe someone got paid for those

>>2702319
>>2702318
I can see how these might not appeal to kids very much, but honestly I love the French covers for the books. They don't really give off a sense of grand adventure, but they're very moody and atmospheric in their own way.

>>2702335
>you too can make it, /ic/!

>>2702338
It helps to see the full illustration, too.

>>2702338
I like the emo potter one the best

The stuff down the bottom looks much better than that deviant art crap at the top.

>>2702338
>go back to /beg/

Homestly only so me weaboo idiot or a red neck tattoo artist, moron ho thinks digital art is good? Sakimichan fan pr high school student would think the ones at the top are not cringe worthy...

He has finally stopped doing cringe worthy neckbeard art.. Its the right direction.

>>2702370
nigga which country you from? shit reads like you need loomis for your spelling

>>2702371
Im on a phone and have huge fingers.

He's pretty fucking great tho

>>2702382
maybe for a normie brain like yours, but I would like to think we are more intelligent than that.

>>2702382
maybe for a normie brain like yours, but I would like to think we are more intelligent then that.

>>2702394
>we are more intelligent

with dragons and spacemarines, kek.

>>2702399
There is a lot more to concept art than dragons and spacemarines, some of the greatest art of this generation is being produced in concept art.

>>2702403
maybe for a manchild brain like yours, but I would like to think we are more intelligent then that.

>>2702403
Example? I'm curious what you consider greatest art. My standards are fairly low.

>>2702403
>the greatest art of this generation is being produced in concept art
BAIT

>>2702405
try this for starters.

>>2702407
I didn't say all of it was, only some you retard

>>2702417
>only 21
>already this good
Is this real life

>>2702417
beware of responding to this, whether you are a fan of the image or find it unremarkable, it bait, the premise being that it is a grand piece of concept art that someone new to painting might find exciting, but is entirely underwhelming otherwise.

>>2702425
Alright, let's see you do better, Picasso.

>>2702417
what move or game was this made for?

>>2702431
imo concept art doesn't need to be produced for a specific movie or game, you see a lot of concept art that isn't made for anything (including some of the best images, because all movie and game stuff gets locked up behind NDAs)

>>2702430
i'm not saying i can do better, it's just that it's clear that this is not the greatest piece in the world and yet the poster posted it under the pretense of "some of the greatest art of this generation is being produced in concept art," which would certainly get a knee jerk reaction from some people after seeing their example. i think someone posted the same piece a few days ago with the same file name ('goodart.jpg') and it got a few people riled up, so i'm just lightly pointing out that it's slight b8

>>2702420
>I didnt say I was being entirely retarded, just partly.

>>2701150
are you actually retarded?

>>2704272
obviously you are. I don't even have to ask that same question.

>>2702027
Those are good

>tfw Harry was a lesbian on the german covers

>>2700989
Looks like someone started to smoke weed.
Indicators: Weird, pointless overlaps like in the bottom left to create a disorienting effect often perceived as "deep" or "trippy" by some stoned persons; also, large areas of tiny, intersecting detail opting to "overwhelm" the eye (overwhwelming only the stoned artist, of course) like in the bottom right, also a way to say: duuudee, stuff is sooo intricate and vast and deep
Fuck drawing stoned

>>2704314
Post all of them, friend.

I actually really like these. They're very nostalgic to me, yes, but I also think they capture the more whimsical side of the books well.

>>2702338
The first one is great. The others I'm not a big fan of.

>>2704829
Holy fuck it's like the artist can only draw him an one angle and leaning to one side.
Fuck me that's terrible.

>>2704829
His smug face would make great reaction images.

>>2704314
that's not a lesbian, it's what a german "male" looks like now

>>2705589
actually no, this is how the germans see the brits

>>2704829
Brufaust

>>2705564
>tfw I unironically like these european covers

>>2704829
He appears twice in 4 of them lel

>>2702344

>>2701150
If alvaros earlier works depress you. Picasso will make you an hero. His shit rocked before he went full retard.

>>2701778
What language is that. It seems pretty functional if you can slap 5 words onto one root. Why doesn't everyone speak it?.

>>2706621
These are super nice. Where are the other three?

>>2702048
>they look girly and lame.

What's 'girly' in those?
What's 'lame' in those?

>>2702373
It's not like it would make any sense either...

>>2702141
well I'm new to drawing but to me the stuff on the bottom looks much easier

it sorta reminds me of the shit drawn in beginner textbooks like Keys to Drawing which I started working through via reading the sticky, if you look at old ink drawings from childrens books and how-tos on drawing from around the 80s they seem almost like a twin of half of the stuff contemporary and tumblr tier artists put out, it's like 2016 artists decided the 80s were cool again and just copy Bert Dodson

I could easily reproduce the stuff on the bottom as somebody who has been drawing for a few months but idk how I would even begin to do the fantasy stuff on the top

>>2705598
well germans are fucking retarded then, because the rest of europe views german males as hogtied bitch boys who look like the harry potter of their german edition. I'm sure harry looking like that on the german cover is no coincidence.

I really hate to use terms like "beta" and "cuck" but man if those words actually have a use they are for modern german males. I am fairly liberal myself and even I think germany's replacement of their entire culture with foreigners and the skinny german male's acceptance of this is hilariously masochistic, it's like an entire nation of H&M scarf wearers

>>2706814
>0
It's the Swedish covers.

>>2706814
Which title are you referring to?

>>2706850
the gentle colors and soft air brush look. looks girly and lame.

>>2705625
>tfw superior taste

>>2705700
The more I think about it the funnier it gets.

>>2701664

10/10 top goy.

>>2707154
>ishygddt

>>2707147
...

What I'm saying comes from a friendly place anon, you sound like you have some issues that involve either masculinity or femininity.

>>2700989

yeah he got worse by our autistic standards of fantasy sketching, but he probably gets plenty of illustration commission for editorials and what not, which is invariably more profitable.

We can't all be concept artists for big game studios or have successful IP's.

And for all you out there pursuing concept art, if you ever take the time to speak to industry folk, you'll realize that it is nose to the grindstone, soul crushing and endless hours. Every creative professional I have talked to that does mograph/video/conceptart for games confirms this.

>>2707340
anon.

I'm not hating. Art is subjective, you will never impress everybody.

To me it's girly and lame and dry shitty fantasy art. Lacks depth of style.

>>2700989
Depression, probably love issues.
Also
>>2700995
Dont drink and draw

>>2704829
>germans defending absolute shit only because It's german
Thats why germans so rarely make it.
Collective dunning - kruger

>>2701645
God this is funny.

Since nobody posted them yet, pic related are the Dutch covers. I liked them as a kid since they didn't show the characters faces, I hated them to ruin my own ideas/images. Still do now. Had this real ugly bitch drawn on my copy of Anna Karenina, I covered it with a black paper since I just couldn't imagine anybody falling in love with her.

>>2704829

Jeez a lot of these wouldn't even be bad if it weren't for his awful face at the front. The Order of the Phenix cover (minus his head) is actually pretty cool and the rest aren't great, but would be far from the worst HP covers.

>>2701676

Whoever did this did a pretty good one for HBP too.

>>2708587
holy shit. you're right.
he's photo bombing every one.

>>2707911
Holy kek someone got paid to ms paint together stock photos

>>2701645
is...
Is that Rebecca Sugar???

>>2707726
>Collective Duning-Kruger

There must be a German word that describes that!

>>2702027
half-blood and prisoner are fantastic

>>2707364
>Every creative professional I have talked to
So that brings the tally to less than 3 people.

>>2701645
Haha did they commission nosebro to do the covers?

>>2708652
Kek