/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

first time trying to draw actual scenes and not just random stuff. Inspired by the band Comus.

Thought I'd show some of how I go about doing a portrait at this point. It was more of a value exercise than a portrait exercise, but any advice would be appreciated.

>>2917728
Fuck

>>2916988

That ear is tiny. Check your proportions mate, everything is either too big, too small or badly placed.

On vacation, started sketching again.

>>2917896
Another one.

>>2917731

>posts image larger than board rules specify
>reposts same image, still too large
>doesn't delete the op

10/10

Various sketches of body parts based on a page from Figure Drawing For What It's Worth.
I'm hoping that I can get into color properly during my study of this book as well as more value studying.

I'm really eager to pick up Vilppu after this or another book that would help me with getting down facial features. I can construct heads in many different perspectives with no problem, but applying facial features just fucks me up.

>>2918228
These are pretty good. Nice linework for digital too.

Vilppu won't help much with facial features though he will help you with other things. Maybe try checking out Hampton/Kevin Chen/Huston for head construction as they construct the major forms of the features as well. It helped me a lot.

>>2918255
>These are pretty good. Nice linework for digital too.
Thanks. I read a suggestion about trying to get your drawing done in as little strokes as possible and really trying to nail that to become more efficient.

>Maybe try checking out Hampton/Kevin Chen/Huston for head construction as they construct the major forms of the features as well. It helped me a lot.
And I'll check them out, thank you very much for the suggestion

>>2917898
What pencil lead are you rocking?

>>2918293
I think I was using a 2H for those. Its great, you have such control over the darkness of the pencil strokes.

Why do you ask?

>>2918930
I have a smudge issue that I'm working through at the moment. I've downgraded from B to HB, but I'm not sure if I'll be taking the H-train.

>>2918938
place a piece of paper under your hand, draw from left to right. or get one of em fancy gloves

hippo skull

>>2918941
I really like your works, both in terms of subject matter and composition. They seem to bring something new to their respective "genres" while remaining somewhat traditional.

Since someone else posted Nosferatu, I'll post a WIP of a Greek figurine which resembles him. Eventually the street will have figures about half his height. I should switch to Staedtler -- the Prang is fun initially but is not good for detailed outlining.

>>2919230
Love these

>>2919288
thanks anon. here's an earlier page.

>>2917896
>appreciated
Fucking neat!

Workin on it right now

Portrait of a close friend for her grandma's birthday (hence the frame). Grey-toned sketchbook with white pen/pencil, an ebony pencil and a standard mechanical pencil.

Drew some in one of my class's workbooks today

>>2919010
why thank you!

>>2919584
you drew face features for the different angle of the face- also i think diferent angle. and they are too big, did u use ref?

>>2919575
i like it, i like the hatching. i think the head is too big but its hard to tell with this big ass res. make it smaller next time

>>2919584


hi brian. the features are all fucked. does she lack a mandible irl too?

>>2919662

look at me repeating myself. you get what i mean tho

>>2919701
failed twice, nice
meant >>2919692
ofc

>>2919692
Screenshot

>>2917076

Some gestures that I did

>>2919741
your lighting is allover the place. the character doesn't look like it belongs in the picture. Perspective is all off. Cool concept, but shit's jacked in many ways.

>>2919812
Its a wip.
You are right,the character looks that dont belong to the scene because its not coloured yet...and the lightning can be fixed,what i dont know is how perspective is fucked up i dont get it. Thanks for your apreciations

>>2919816
it doesn't matter if it's a wip. the tree, the character are out of perspective. The lighting on the character is wrong to begin with. you didn't think it through.

Don't get touchy, dude. If you want pats on the back and congratulatories, you're in the wrong place. It's obvious the annoyed tone you're presenting through your words.

>>2919741
What GSM level is your sketchbook? Are you making use of watercolours?

>>2919835
Maybe is annoying for you to give some arguments

>>2919852
Im working with acrilics and ink on board(mdf)

>>2919856
...what?

>>2919692
>you drew face features for the different angle of the face- also i think diferent angle.
>>2919816
>You are right,the character looks that dont belong to the scene
>>2919856
>Maybe is annoying for you to give some arguments

>>2919878
no one said these people were intelligent.

>>2916988
What do you use for drawing white?

A regular white color pencil doesn't do it.

>>2919567
Thanks brah!

>>2919293
Cool mech concept. Its hard to draw robotics that look functional.

>>2919741
This is awesome man. Very cool concept.

>>2919784
I like it. Very minimal but effective.


Any criticism for my pic related?
Not using a reference btw.

>>2919934
Either a conte stick or conte pencil. Here I used a stick for a thick stroke for the quick sketch.

>>2919934
white charcoal is a thing senpai

>>2919934
For me ( >>2919584 ), a regular white color pencil actually does work just fine. Why are you having problems with one?

A white color pencil works great when it's not in any contact with darker marks. It smudges into a shiny, muddy mess if you try and draw over graphite, but when used directly onto toned paper, it works fine.

For drawing on top of darker marks - grab a white gel pen. I use a Sakura Gelly Roll Regular Gel Ink Pen - 0.4 mm - White. A white gel pen allows you to draw on top of graphite easily, which is really handy for drawing fine highlights in the eyes, for example.

Old sketch

>>2919835
>le reddit spacing
>DON'T YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, THIS IS 4CHAN XDD
>>>/out/

>>2917766
not op, but i have a friend that is like that, so the ear is possible

>>2920626
I think we should be referencing the size of most ears. Not focusing on a few freaks with tiny ears.

>>2920656
not those guys but 'we' aint a thing. cant decide for me, ill draw tiny fuckin ears all day long biatch
>>2920532
thats kinda cool, but reads hard. mb photo quality but id bump the contrasts

>>2920605
What are you talking about? What the fuck is 'reddit spacing'?

>>2920682
Maybe this one reads better

>>2920733
nice religious imagery. looks like something from scary stories to tell in the dark. I could see someone getting this tattoo'd on themselves.

>>2920733
This one reads just as bad as the previous one.

Here's your issue: you're not using contrast to help distinguish different features. I'm not talking about a contrast in black/white values, but a contrast in shapes & details. The is too much detail in too many shapes that are all too tiny.

You need to be breaking these complex images up with varying levels of detail and larger, clearer and simpler shapes. For example, I recommend leaving any skin blank (like the hands). If you fill those in, they're just going to add to the visual clusterfuck of the drawing, but leaving them more empty & less detailed will really make them pop and look great. This is because they will be a lower detail shape contrasted by the higher detail shapes around it.

Does that make sense? Just my thoughts!

>>2920715
Using paragraphs apparently...

>>2919810
I love the incorporation of a different color and different drawn surfaces; the same can't be said for my monotonous, grey sludge

Going to post some sharpeners I drew

>>2920682

Then enjoy your drawings being shit forever

>>2920532
garbage, try hard, community college illustration class tier, ooga booga evil/christian mockery imagery.

>>2920891
Not bad, but draw bolder line weights. Draw plastic as somewhat soft and rounded and draw steel sharp.

From tonight, more small soldiers

How my drawing?

>>2921521
Pretty good, now try drawing her again in a 3/4 side view.

>>2921816
>rando

My nigga

Recently been doing 1-3 sketches a day figured, I'd post a few.

Sorry for shitty phone camera.

>>2921521

Stop drawing so hard. If you want a clean black just use a pen. If you're leaving a dent in your paper/the black is shiny, you're drawing too hard. If you can't erase it, you're drawing too hard.

>>2921816
He is the best

>>2922040
>>2922318
Dang, wrong one

>>2919784
100% no ref. Only pen. I've been looking at trees lately to figure out how the heck they work and I'm quite happy with this. but the smaller branching is still a mystery to me.

>>2919302
How long have you been drawing? These are all really impressive

>>2919285
I knew I saw this before.

How's this /ic/?

>>2924045
An environment would complete the picture. It's handsomely stylized, although it could be smaller in order to fit the page.

>>2924045
I think we've all copied that horse picture at some point. I've seen it everywhere lately.

My coding teacher. He's a total doof

>>2924162
And when we were learning about systemic mycoses

>>2916988
Work on structure and proportions before you render.

>>2917076
Love this. Tree might be better placed somewhere it isn't tangential to the moon tho.

>>2917712
Final product looks good mate, but you might benefit from a more systematic approach, working down in value in all areas instead of detailing in a piecemeal way.

>>2919230
Nice doodles!

>>2920532
Hot damn. This is what a good brain draws on good drugs.

>>2919023
My courtyard shrunk considerably. Thought there would be more room, but it's not as 'readable' as planned.

>>2924163
dude this is so fucking sick ho my GOD. both are

>>2924259
Whats the message here? Is it a racial thing?

>>2924269
It's probably me making fun of myself. I've never found random compilations of references to have a conscious message.

The tall figure is from Greek pottery, so I think of him as being a part of my Byzantine or Chisinau self, if that makes sense?

I'll post this here too
(gay poeple)

>>2924285
What's the message here? Is it gay propaganda?

>>2924299
Yes; it is gay propaganda that condemns sex

>>2924283
No it doesn't. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.

>>2924314
Well if it condemns sex then continue on your way then.

>>2924316
It has no genuine earthly dimension, it's more like Kim Deitch or Shrek.

>>2924163
I need to step up my game, this is really cool. What is your background in drawing? looks like you have a lot of experience.

I'm not very good I've just been fucking around with a friend's tablet the last few days

>>2923943
only a few years, im 23 now. i need to focus up some more.

>>2920715
On reddit return doesn't create a paragraph, you have to hit return twice or hit return and then before the break double space.

It's funny, because both me, the guy calling the other guy out, and the original poster have all outed ourselves as reddit users.

(Good thing 4chan is anonymous)

>>2925301
>outed ourselves as reddit users.

I never understood why people on 4chan think this is embarrassing or some dumb shit. Reddit is a much better site that 4chan overall.

>>2925266

That fills me with some hope, I'm turning 20 soon and I just started working on my art 4 hours a day -- do you have an art blag?

>>2925331
except it's censored

>>2925203
you'll get better

>>2925372

>>2925375

>>2925361
http://bigfancynoodlings.tumblr.com/
or i dump a lot of them here too
http://bigfriendlyninja.imgur.com/all/

>>2925377

I love you even more now that I've seen more of your art, any advice for a newby who sucks donkey dick?

>>2925401
Remember to smile once each day.

>>2925401
study and constantly try to apply what you've studied even in the simplest doodles.
draw what you enjoy and push out of your comfort zones.

>>2925375
cool concept

>>2925442
This made me smile :)
>>2925443
I will do, thanks :)

Thoughts?

>>2925372
>>2925375
>>2925376
DUDE WEED LMAO

>>2925642
This

i don't even have a sketchbook because i only draw on paper when i'm not on my computer.

Weird loomisy sketch crap

Hello! I'm new to 4chan, this is my first post. Gotta say, I love the atmosphere on here- I'll be around. Here's something I sketched out within the last year

Yeah why not

That's from over a month ago, but anyway

>>2926102
cont.
>>2926095
Great line work, but the composition doensn't help

>>2926103

>>2926104
cont.
>>2926100
I really love that old woman's design and weird prespective, but you've been very lazy on everything else.
Also, I don't like all that text, it's just confusing and obstructs the reading of the image

>>2926107

>>2926107
Thanks dude. I agree with all your criticisms.

Don't have much to say about your stuff. It's pretty damn good. The faces are great.
If anything the lines could be cleaner but that's just nitpicking.

>>2926108
Fuck it, I'm tired of getting my images turned after turning them

>>2926113
Shit, wrong file. Yes, i'm a lazy fuck.

Ink sketch

>>2926117
Entonces deshazte de esa bagueza y aprovecha esa linea tan dinamica y confiada (confident) para superarte. Por ejemplo, en esto que acabas de colgar, la imagen hubiera mejorado mucho si no hubieses simplificado tanto en las frutas y verduras. Podrias dejar por otra parte a los vendedores del fondo así como los tienes, para enfatizar los elementos en primer plano.
La verdad es que supongo que tienes ya una buena base de dibujo escondida detras de esa pereza y me gustaría ver más trabajos tuyos.
Asi que: blog?

>>2926153

http://romualdomiyamoto.tumblr.com/

I appreciate your words man. Truth is I'll never stop drawing so i will get better. Not gonna make a living out of this anyway, but thanks dude.

>>2926132
bats are not what they seem?

>>2926187
Very cool!!

Another sketchdump attempt, because hurdurr reasons and general inompetence
TRIGGER WARNING: Stuff might be at an odd angle, haven´t the foggiest why.

1/13

2/13

3/13

4/13

>>2926250
oh dont go to 13 pls. bigass un-rotated pics. I kinda like this one

5/13

>>2926253
Imma doin it!!

7/13

8/13

10/13

11/13

12/13

13/13
Witness!!

>>2926199
thanks! messy linework tho, its from ~8months back. i think imma redraw it

>>2922408
First work I've seen itt that shows evidence of strong draftsmanship. Please teach me.

Thoughts?

>>2926310
Also how you change the image to looking up right using a iPhone?

>>2926364

I am toooo lazy to complete it. ;_;

>>2926365
>>2926364
I imagine these are really small on paper. You gotta draw larger if you want them to look good when scanned.

>>2926364
>>2926365
Consider that a 500x500 image at 72 DPI would translate as about 6x6 inches. So to get a fairly small image to look faithful on display you need to draw larger. The bugs are probably 2x2in each right?

>>2926430

>if you want your images to look good big then just draw them bigger

gee whiz

>>2926422
>>2926430
I think they look great. I think the thick lineweight works well considering the level of detail.

Drawing them larger with the same sized pen would not look as good.

Suave

>>2926081

>>2927599

>>2927601
Wow anon you're like a prime Disney concept artist

>>2927605
I don't know about that, but thanks!

>>2927605

Midway through this one, I have pics of the finished version if you guys want to see more

>>2927643
Took it as a compliment, I know a Disney concept artist. Hes amazing.

drawing schoolgirls after frustrating practice without an improvement always calm me down. sorry for shitty camera (a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶d̶r̶a̶w̶i̶n̶g̶)

>>2927614
WHY DO U DENY ME?

>>2927709
I know they usually are. My point was that the images posted are nowhere near disney artist level

>>2924259
I really dig the Robert Crumb style

Really not used to NOT draw digitally. I'm in awe of all of you.

>>2926402
This looks great finish it for me senpai!!

>>2928812
your noses look flat, like a nose on a greek statue. that's fine if that's what your reference happens to look like but don't get caught in the sameface trap. noses have a lot of different planes and the size and shapes differ a lot from person to person.

>>2928819
I just tried to draw the reference - maybe I need more interesting refs. I drew Adam Driver and Domhalm Gleeson a lot lately they have fairly odd noses. So yeah I'm aware that faces look differently.

I had huge problems to draw the features in an interesting way - everything is so much harder when I can't cheat with photoshop.

Unfinished picture from one of my old sketchbooks

>>2925850
Those ears seem very large, anon.

Janice Griffith

portrait

>>2930469
rendered nicely but mouth and nose look a little flat

>>2926264
This one is easily the best looking in my opinion.

>>2917712
Why the outlines?

>>2930370
That's gorgeous. maybe the line is too thick some times, but I bet it was intentional

>>2931805
Not that person, but creating outlines is a pretty common stylization technique.

Fearful of becoming too similar to Terryl Whitlatch's style, but i'm pretty much her #1 fan lately so it's difficult not to after watching and learning so much from her vids.
Here's a study from today

>>2932235
Nice study. I wouldn't worry about getting too similar in style. Learn what you can and in 5 years you will be doing something else either by choice or simply having drifted towards other interests.

>>2917712
Since it's a marble bust, you could shade in the background to make the outlines disappear

(Pic is just doodles from imagination)

>>2917712
Very fine. What pencil are you using?

I'm not that good.

>>2916988

Where can I see more of your work?

>>2933650
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/glVIM

>>2933650
https://imgur.com/gallery/KHLhK

like 3 months old

>>2919302
what are you drawing with?
just a normal red pencil ?

>>2916988
Thoughts?

yeahhh boiiiiiii
can't draw legs

>>2934985

>>2934987

Eh

>>2916988

>>2921106
Nigger what? You sound aggravated brother, what weight weighs upon your humble mind?

>the ride never ends

>>2935154
Nice stuff Whitlach fanboy(girl?). You have a blog?

I think you are being very clinical about it, and that's good for gaining an understanding of what is going on, but at the same time it is easy to miss the essence of the animal. It doesn't really FEEL like a donkey, you know? The impression is not clearly communicated. Take a look at someone like Claire Wendling and you will see she understands animals, and what it is that makes a cat look like a cat, a fox like a fox etc. Even if she isn't doing them all that accurately or scientific there is that other quality that captures the way that animal looks and behaves. You might try to focus on that side of things more in addition to the stuff you are doing already.

Ancient African amazon chick. I'd comment on other people's posts, but my 4chanX extension is being retarded, right now.

For post on /ic/
Don't mind the shiiiit

>>2935564
I love this
great edges!

>>2926187
twin peaks
its happening again mah nigga!

>>2935650
You have the soul for a poet and the heart of a warrior, yet you may have been born a century too late.

>>2935666
i knooow cant wait
have some more

>>2935737
nice !

>>2935762

>>2935763

>>2935765

>>2935565
Thanks for the advice. I do follow Claire Wendling's work and she's probably my second favourite. I'll try to put more essence into the animals, this particular study felt very lacking.

I am actually sort of half-following along with Terryl's schoolism classes where she instructs her students to draw detailed drawings and then label the anatomy, but since i'm only a monthly subscriber and not actually enrolled in the course i'm just half-heartedly doing it, like the envious homeless child gazing through a school class window pretending to study while scrawling on paper with a broken stick.

As for blog, I haven't posted much in a while other than commissions as i've been mostly doing pencil studies that I don't publish much but here ya go.
https://jesswhoart.tumblr.com/

>>2935763
Really neat stuff, blog?

Finished sketch. Dreading to ink it since I no longer have a tablet so it'll have to be done via vector.

>>2935879
why not ink with g-nib like every other manga artist. then you no need worry about vector.

>>2935894
g-nibs are cursed. when i bought my first three pack, a while later i looked under my bed when they all inevitably went missing and there were four. none of my friends use them.

>>2935894
Want to make it digital and my inking is awful. Might blueline it tho to practice.

>>2919934
Look for conte crayon pencils. They're like a cross between a pencil and chalk. Or, get a china white pencil - pretty much the same thing.

>>2920891
Draw bigger! We shouldn't be able to see the grain of the paper. Don't be afraid to fill a page!

>>2935915
you are scanning it....that makes it digital . set to multiply layer, boom , done...
i have had a pack of g-nibs for ever now and never lost em, i keep em in an Altoids can to prevent loss. i love using them .
drawing the lines on paper makes everything much faster imo. just takes a little practice to get good at doing it.

>>2936236
also i put a magnet in the can with them under the pack so they dont fall out when i open the can.

>>2935915
last one , also you can clean the lines up in digital after you scan it.

>>2916988
>>2916988
>>2916988
>>2916988

more?

>>2935797
Neat, I remember your wolf's ass from a while back.

>>2928624
Yeah I listen to John Henhegan's podcast when it updates. There's a lot of Fleischer in there, Groening's Life In Hell, old statues, etc. I'm constantly copping without realizing it.

This is done with Rotring though, not Koh-I-Noor.

>>2936236
>Altoids can
Hey anon get with the times man.

It's always a relief when it inks right.

>>2926264
I really love your style. It's great when other anons use colour without holding back. You don't see a lot of pencil crayons in published work other than the Big YUM YUM Book or children's books. Collected Fairy Tales tend to make use of etchings or watercolours.

>>2936387
I really find few things more annoying than when artists write "notes" to themselves that are obviously meant to be seen by other people.
Not normal notes, but when people write shit like "LOL FAIL xD" or obvious dumb shit like that pic

>>2936410
I don't care about you to be honest.

>>2936415
Someones been watching mad men.
Dont be a pleb and you wont get comments like that

There are a lot of little assbiters around here.

>>2936385
thats a nice looking set.
i just like the Altoids thing because its small and magnets will stick to it and it will stay closed. i like to be utilitarian. i only use a mapping nib and g nibs when i am using them so i dont need a bunch of slots the cases they come in become the slots when i stick them to the magnet.

>>2936441
I'm amazed at how much character is in a nib, although it's very funny to be a nib fetishist. The Gillott is nearly an 18th century pen, and the Esterbrook is from a much more settled era. Knowing what Alex Raymond, Mort Drucker and Carl Barks used makes me want to retain their tools as a kind of living museum. When looking at their art, I can't stand the notion that their tools have gone out of production, so I'm obliged to advertise the products I respect most.

>>2936441
I'm amazed at how much character is in a nib, although it's very funny to be a nib fetishist. The Gillott is nearly an 18th century pen, and the Esterbrook is from a much more settled era. Knowing what Alex Raymond, Mort Drucker and Carl Barks used makes me want to retain their tools as a kind of living museum. When looking at their art, I can't stand the notion that their tools have gone out of production, so I'm obliged to advertise the products I respect most.

>>2936456
i will check some of those out maybe , any recommended source? i see a few different sets of them

http://www.johnnealbooks.com/prod_detail_list/pointed-nibs

Probably the best source outside conventional auction sites.
>Carl Barks used an Esterbrook 356
>Mort Drucker used a Gillott 1950
>Alex Raymond used a Gillott 290

>>2936456
This is probably a bad example since it looks like brush here, anyway they required nibs for lettering as well.

Pencil sketch

>>2936623
Oh wait, that one is in ink

>>2926312
You stop phoneposting

>>2936242
Thanks for the tips!!

>>2936895
np anon. it just makes stuff faster imo. just takes a bit of getting use to.

>>2922408

bump

>>2937339

>>2925659
Her left eye looks a bit off

Great drawing though!

>>2936768

i like that

more?

>>2937574
I haven't had a chance to ink/color any new things lately since I've been busy, but I have a couple other pages that I've probably posted before

>>2936410
I write shit like 'fail' on my stuff all the time.

>>2937599
Stop it, on the rare chance that someone actually looks at your sketchbook/whatever it's just another source of cringe

>>2937790
>just another

>>2919302
>>2919230
/co/ plz leave

>>2938150

>>2937592

nice work

>>2938186
>>2938150

These are cool

>>2938186
The church is terrible but the rest are awesome
I wish we were irl friends and hung out and you could draw the ribcage or sweater on my arm in sharpie whilst we drink cider in the spring weather

>>2924163
> Amazing art
> Horrible hand writing
I don't mean to dog on you but how does this happen? Every art god I know has lovely handwriting,

>>2936387
neat. unironically have a blog?

>>2935650
Ah to be 12 again

Some sketches from live I've made today
1/3

2/3

3/3

>>2938598
>>2938599
>>2938600

nice

>>2938186
>>2938150

Don't know who you are but you make coming to these threads worthwhile

>>2938825
>skepticalstare.jpg

>>2916988

I want to see more of your sketches

>>2933650
brog?

>>2926264
I really like a lot of these. Post more so that I have something worth stealing.

digitaru

Sketch phase of mortal kombat dragon for party decor, first time trying that logo, lots of mistakes but the kids loved it

>>2938825
>>2938453
>>2938448

thanks

trying to get a hang of the reilly method. I think i'm thinking more 3d and this method seems to be helping better understand form.

anyone have any good advice on drawing the reilly method in different angles?

I figure it's just cause i'm sticking to the method rn, but all my heads come out looking african american.

>>2939507

This is cool as fuck. Awesome stuff.

>>2939332
give me that as a tattoo

treant

>>2938446
very cute :3

>>2933909
Try separating the exterior from the interior with line weight sets.

A variety of hard heavy lines for the bones with delicate exterior linework or vice-a-versa.

>>2937873
I've only been to /co/ like once lol.

>>2941747

>>2919293
neat-o

Feeling rusty. Not likely to draw a woman with hair extensions again, but this actress is a significant comedienne.

>>2925372

This is really cool anon, blog?

>>2916988
Drawing is awesome & which is why i am thinking of trying it out, tho right now i have other business to attend towards, have fun the rest of you who are here.

>>2916988

blog?

Finally had a chance to draw some more in my sketchbook today, feels good

>>2942568

>>2942569

>>2925850
you need to free things up everything look so constructed and restrained.

I've been working on and off (mostly off, actually) on this for maybe 6 months now.

I don't actually know what to do with it and so I ask you for advice.

there's nothing like buying a brand new sketchbook, filled with empty pages.

>>2942849
I have this problem as well!

>>2943023
I can never just draw on a random page, I have to have concepts written from front to back before beginning.

a couple quick sketches after reference pics (and real life for the bottom one)

>>2943172
forgot image

>>2943023

but then that moment where you have to defile the first page, pure as the driven snow, and ruin the sketchbook

>>2942958
Looks very charming. Maybe you could draw an attendant on the right-hand side in the open area?

First attempt at real sketching. Am i beyond help? Inb4 the fucking thing posts sideways

>>2943800
Assuming this is pencil, you're going far too dark, probably caused by repeatedly retracing the same lines over and over again.

Most of your lines should be just as thin as those on his breastplate.

Regarding the actual sketch I can nitpick about how the chainmail texture does not wrap around the forms of the body, but rather appears as a static texture, and how there isn't really much form to his right leg compared to the far better definition of depth around the foot/ankle of his left.

tl;dr go bigger, I can tell from the grain of the paper this whole thing is only a few inches wide

>>2943805
Bigger, got it. Thanks anon. Second attempt at sketching here. I've never seriously tried shading, will try to focus more on that.

>>2942019

thanks, it's tumblr.com/blog/zoncanator

>>2944015
Study an actual doll sometimes, doll joints don't look anything like that.

>>2944011

So tentacles are not actually tubular, they're more of a trapezoid shape like the red one shown here.

Study!

>>2944005

awesome shit

>>2944029
Noted. Thanks, anon.

bumpo

>>2926477
They look good man, don't stress

>>2945366
Can't bump a thread past bump limit mate