/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3125279
Thanks anon, that was close

Does the artist of the pic have a blog?

can someone post the reference photo of the op pic?

Working on this atm.

>>3125369
...looks like you're just copying a picture. :/

>>3125371
Not really, I spent arround 20 hours sketching, coming up with a composition, doing an oil sketch, then I shot arround 30 different reference pictures that I refer to for the final rendering.

>>3125369
Wasn't it on muddycolors?

>>3125381
No I'd really love it if my work was featured on muddycolors

>>3125375
Could the issue be that you are copying parts of those ref pictures as is? Instead of basing your work on it and not copying parts one-for-one?

I recommend looking into stuff like edge control (can't recommend a specific tutorial, you'll find plenty) and practice using a clear focal point and fade-out of rendering. That should help get rid of the copied look, but it could take a few weeks/months of practicing.

Pic not related. Also, I lost $200 trading crude oil today. But doubled down on new short positions.

>>3125375
all that effort and it still looks like a photocopy

procreate sketch

>>3125454
Did you paint the reflections yourself?

>>3125369
i know photo reference seems like a perfectly fair way to get poses correct, but anon! If you have friends who are willing to do all these poses for you GET THEM TO DO THE POSES FOR YOU! i WISH i had people that would stand around for paintings. Even if it comes out crap as a result you will learn so much more about working with models, painting efficiently and quickly, and rolling with punches if you actually get the models to pose for you over multiple sessions.

I'm a drawer, not a painter, but I'd like to learn. Tell me the things I should work on most?

>>3125574
best way to get good at painting is getting good at drawing. 1/3rd of your work should be painting, 2/3rds drawing. I'm pulling that figure out of my ass, but whenever I see tallies of great artist's work that's usually the ratio.

How badly have I fucked up so far?

>>3125641
you need to work at a higher resolution. we shouldnt be seeing pixels like that. minimum size i work at is 2k by 2k.

Trying to get the hand of edge control in my paintings. I definitely need more practice on this, but I'm amazed at how much my paintings have improved by focusing on the edges for once.

(Also yes I smudged the other half because i'm a lazy mother fucker)

My goal here was to try something cartoony and kinda colorful.
This one is my lastest work and it is probably the best I can do for now.
Any sugestion/critique?

>>3125726
lasso tool/layer masks and locked layers. they are your best friends.

page fill.

>>3125641
indeed, work at higher resolution, it's pretty important if you want to add detail. Looks good so far though. What I would maybe like to see is ùmore realistic horns, a bit less regular. keep it up.

>>3125763
we saw this already in another thread. More of the same boring shit. Your joker is cheesy.

digital paint study WIP

>>3125841
>digital trace copy wip

>>3125825
Ref?

>>3125844
none

where is a better position for the ass?
left one is actually showing the ass because perspective

right is hide so the ass cheeks show a bit.

sorry for my bad english

study

>>3125279

>>3125788
>>3125763
I looove theeeeese. Do you do more Batman fan art?

Just created a DeviantArt account today and want to get more into working digitally instead of only pencil and paper.

https://mmjcxx.deviantart.com/

>>3125763
shade your drawings, wrinkle man

>>3125395
This is dope

>>3125788
It must really grind your fucking gears to see someone draw better from imagination than you can with refs huh.

>>3125907
Gorgeous

>>3125923
edge control and brush economy will take this piece further

>>3125986
are you the guy that posted those drawings? he's known to be an ass hole so i wouldn't be surprised

>>3126027
WHO IS HE
or she

>>3125907
that lantern is really pretty!

>>3125788
hi there.

>>3125933
thanks, but nope sry, I just read some comic issues and got inspired to sketch something. the only other thing bat related was pic related, an Iron man type gear batman version. old and unfinished though.

>>3126027
no but I am. why am I known to be an asshole? hell I don't even think i'm known at all, I rarely post here.

I made this with some shitty Watercolors and colored pencils. It was fun to do, but I think i fucked up this whole thing.
The perspective specially.

>>3126077
Sorry for the file size but im on my phone.
Also my scanner is shit so here is a photo is you want to see it better.

>>3125907
that's really good.

tried to limit to a couple of brushes and still went overboard

>>3125788
post your work
>inb4 mercwip dodge

grinding out some character portraits for my dnd group

morning sketch from imagination as a practice

I'm going to be working on this until the head death of the universe.

>>3125788
cry more

>>3126283
You have such a way with tension, dude. It looks great, can't wait to see the finished thing if I have to live forever for l to do so

>>3126283
Dude, why do you have such small following? You are really good.

stupid photo study, too boring to finish

>>3125574
Did you use a ref? Cause that reflection of the rainbow is wrong.

Can I get some tips on how to compose stuff like this in the future?

I feel like I messed up on directing the eye.

>>3126306

>>3126306
Don't use little scribbly brushes to shade it when you're blocking in - if you lay down just the big masses of light and shadow you can use the values as part of the comp more than your lines do. Squint or zoom way out to check if you still have big, readable value groups.

Move your "camera" a bit, and layer the distance more. There needs to be a stronger spatial relationship between your figures.

Design the environment at the same time you do the figures. Just use rough gestures for them, and block in the environ more in terms of big shapes, strong lines. Design your detailed figures and perspective grid and architecture to suit the basic flow of your thumbnail, not the other way around. You're not gonna add a line or two to something in this stage and fix it, so you have to plan from large to small in your shapes.

>>3126300
>too boring to finish
Never gonna make it

>>3126300
Where did you get the ref? I thought Area 51 was pretty secure.

>>3126312
badum tiss

>>3126199
Maybe try limiting yourself to one brush?
Or make your own, it is actually really easy to make an all-purpose-brush for drawing and rendering.

WHO DID OP PIC?

>>3126495
I did.

>>3126510
If that's true, you should make a blog

>>3126543
What. Why? There's nothing special about that piece.

>>3126560
I like it, makes me wanna learn how to paint. Just fucking do it, jesus

>>3126069
Blag plz.
I really like your linework.

something I just started, I want to polish it later.

>>3125454
looks comfy, although the colors are a bit bland.

>>3125641
looks good, the hand is too big though.

>>3126309
Great tips, thank you!

Can I get a critique and help with how to move forward with this please. I'm new to working from imagination and I understand it looks like a mess but im not sure what I should do.

>>3126543
>impressed by copies

95% complete now.

finished this

>>3126896
Wow that's impressive.
Background is half added but that's okay. You look kind of fat but that's a problem with your body not your art.... probably.

>>3125888
can someone redline this? i know you arent my personal army but if you can helpme that will be great.

Anyone seen the movie Dagon?

>>3126910
>You look kind of fat
my secret. ive been exposed.

>>3126283
Wonderful piece, the lighting is excellent and I really respect your perseverance

>>3126951

I like how you draw. Got any advice? Maybe any links to artists you're inspired by?

>>3126283
Better than your past work, not as good as your future work. Meh

>>3126954
I don't know if this would be helpful to other people but the way I approach most organic things is to try and simplify everything down to one of these two lines wherever possible. You'd be surprised how much of the body you can reduce to just two blob or three blob lines sort of nested inside each other.

>>3126283
you make me want to kill myself in the best possible way

>>3127014
great post

>>3127014

I think I had an unrealized feeling for what you described and with your explanation I think I can make much more use of it now.

It's really weird actually. It's like when you're looking at that woman/rabbit illusion and someone points out the other way of looking at the picture. Suddenly you begin seeing the same thing differently.

Many thanks!

anyone spare a red line? so many mistakes gah ...

>>3125279
on mobile cant resize

study I guess

charcoal portrait

>>3126910
>Background is half added but that's okay
i redid the background. kept the blue, but mixed in some red so it wasn't so chromatic

>>3127577
>still an ISIS piece of shit

Finally done with this.

>>3127577
your style is interesting but why do you paint so many self portraits and still life? don't you have some other ideas or feelings you'd like to express?

>>3125279
sketch from imagination

>>3128310
>don't you have some other ideas or feelings you'd like to express?
if i can't express them with simple subject matter then it's not worth it

>>3128145
Great

>>3128145
i just added a bit of athmosphere to see if you could get mor depth.

I'm not sure if it's better but i let you be the judge off that.

Brian sux

>>3127302
What are your influences? Did you finish this piece or have more pieces like this one? I find it appealing, i am adding this to my reference folder so i can try it later but it would be amazing with more pieces and finished stuff

>>3128417
nice try, illastrat doesnt post in draw threads

>>3128489
There's a first for everything>>3128489

>>3126239
yuh

>>3128405
>if i can't express them with simple subject matter then it's not worth it
your concept for an originial painting doesn't have to be elaborate

>>3128498
im just happy if i can get it to look like me, or the fruit in front of me, or the tree in front of me. i dont have the skillset to be a genre painter right now

>>3128495
Holy shit, how do I get as good as you are?

first time using dipping inks, i've used a small thin paint brush for it, are fountain pens really required for this medium? i have one but the nib is too big for fine details like i like to do

>>3128582
abuse glow dodge and stay in your comfort zone

Attempt to design a mascot

>>3128593
cute, though the face is a bit dead.

>>3126300
ayyyylmao

>>3126896
what made you this way brian? have you lived off of your own feces your entire life? i wanna know. how can we help you?

>>3128480
Thanks anon. I'm afraid it is not done yet but maybe I will finish it by the end of next week. As for influences I honestly can't think of a strong one maybe Shin Ichi Sakamoto the guy who draws koukou no Hito but particularly Innocent this later one is just freaking gorgeous. I also love almost anything with fall off shadows and chiaroscuro.

You can check some of my finished stuff on my deviantart and tumblr

firez-da.deviantart.com
firez-tbr.tumblr.com

>>3128416
Personally, the top one cus the details are more pronounced. And for me, that's part of the beauty

>>3128671
yes it's definitely a tradeoff.

>>3128145
Do you take on disciples to mentor?

>>3125675
>>3125763

I beefed up the resolution, thanks guys

Also, I feel like I've really fucked up the face/neck area but I'm not sure how. The positioning feels unnatural? idk

>>3128409
Thanks anon.

>>3128416
Yeah, I was trying to add more blue as well but I completely changed my pallette and I wanted to stay with the red-green-yellow aspect of it.
But I like yours as a standalone, there's a lot of desicions or sacrifices one has to make when it comes to creating atmosphere IMO.

>>3128697
Not really to be honest. I'm really busy mentoring myself to keep at it. I can try to answer some questions maybe but I don't really think I'm capable of teaching/mentoring someone.

Honestly this perspective is giving me brain damage already.
>>3126283
Honestly I'm fucking jealous of your rendering.
>>3128495
Might want to add some more shadows to the face scales, it looks somewhat flat.
>>3128701
I think the neck is positioned too far left, and the upper torso (shoulder area) is too wide.

>>3126179
Edges in your backgrounds' are too sharp.Also try to get more curved shapes here and there,now everything looks straight as fuck

>>3126681
you need to flip your canvas more often

>>3126283
are those monsters going to kill that girl? D:

Fuck still not done, why am i drawing so slow reeeee

getting used to brushes

>>3126283
main deity looks unbalanced, like it's about to tip over.
>>3127302
skull is too big. makes it seem like her face is in different perspective from her hair.
>>3126913
better to ask in the porn thread.

>>3128902
>Egyptian eye
Eye seems to be straight on but face is turned away from viewer.

>>3128838
This is pretty slick dude.

>>3126896
>>3128600
lmao
Brian why do you keep fucking painting yourself??

Crab alien, plan to sculpt this guy in ZBrush. Need to learn how to paint/render, too.

Will I make it?

>>3129103

>>3128838
I like this but the perspective on the torso's right side is giving me a headache. Would be better just erasing it.

>>3129099
damn, this is sick

>>3128926
Since you are a furry, you might want to learn how to render rabbit ears properly, instead of drawing them as vague blobs.

>>3128793

Any tips for drawing horse heads? Also excited for season 4 !!

>>3128838
lol that nose

>>3129170
>muh cartoony art
>unfunny pseudo deep adult cartoon fanart
>!!
>cant look up "horse head" on google to do studies by yourself

>>3129170

>>3129226
>Being this triggered

>>3125763
You use clip studio, right? Mind if I ask you what brush you are using?

>>3129287
not him but that looks like the based chalk brush to me

>>3128703
idk why but she looks liek shes flying there, looks surreal heh.

>>3129524
What

>>3128662
Ahh, i enjoy a lot black and white pieces, and yours my man are really pretty to look at, i wish you the best of lucks, i am looking forward for more pieces like these

>>3129287
>>3129287
yes it's on clip studio, but it's not the chalk tool, it's the or one of the basic pencil tools I think, called "rough pencil". I've never touched the settings because it's the best basic tools I've come across yet. alhought one thing you might want to do is disable the stabilizer, it drains a lot, and removes some sharp edges that actually look better with this tool.

was love at first sight with this one.

>pic related.

>>3128928
Thank you. I think/hope this is more proper

>>3128994
Any advice on how to fix it? i tried shorten the eye but it doesn't seem right.

>>3125729
Pretty cool. Now make one while trying to avoid using black, even in the background.

Hey draw thread... how do YOU construct your pelvis? I'm trying to learn my way thru it. Hips, the obliques, squash and stretch etc

Whats the method that works for you?

My stuff.

>>3129755
In fact is a little literary proyect. A short novel about a USMC Vietnam veteran who's back to home. The life after the war.

>>3129667
Not him but basically you are drawing the symbol of an eye. You have to turn around the socket of the eye and the eye lids, you also have to keep in mind the proportions and how each feature relates to the other ones, I hope this helps.

Nice colors though. Maybe try keeping the finished works on hold and just study heads for a while

>>3129482
I never get any (You)s anymore... is it poop?

>>3129755
Reminds me of the MGS concept art.

>>3129837
Her left hand needs more volume.
Face construction is a bit iffy like it was skewed. Her boobs needs more volume even if you don't want them to be the focus they look very flat like they were getting pressed from the top I also think they are too low usually they are one head below the chin.

Hair could use a more interesting shape,

It could be promising if you fix those issues

Pic related are some daily sketches and studies

>>3129844
Yeah, but shitty. He's clearly trying to emulate it tho

>>3129850
Blog?

>>3128838
i wanna fugg her

>>3129850
you seriously suffer from clumpiness in your forms. it all looks like you spend way too much time trying to clean up the lines, rather than figuring out how to do confident strokes. that makes everything look clumpy and made out of clay, rather than dynamic and light.

>>3129835
Thanks, i will try tweaking the socket and eye lids.

>>3129864
Not the same dude, but a neat tip about the eye is that the lateral side goes far back into the face, while the front side is almost flat with a small bulge.

So if you start turning the face, the lateral side of the furthest eye disappears very quickly behind the face.

Does anyone remember the guy who said he "treats human body as a height map, and draws a line where the slope is steep" ? He had some really nice shape pattern in his figure drawing, I'm putting together my inspo folder and seem to have lost him.

Pic is my work, unrelated. Feet are somehow super difficult for me.

>>3126283
If I squint it still makes sense, so you should be fine just painting over the linework and keeping the figures in the background as areas of rest, with many lost edges.
Overrendering is a real hazard at this stage.

>>3129627

>>3130343
>fix mouth shape in relation to eyes
can you explain that a bit more? i'm not getting it.

>>3130343
>one great artist redlines another great artist
Epic. You got a blog, homie?

>>3130343
Your redline doesn't match what you did on the left. How confusing

>>3130348
I meant that the mouth looks like a coy smile (happiness), while the eyes are fully open and the eyebrows tensed (surprise/anger), which is a very unusual combo and gives a weird expression, but that's just my opinion.

"Unmasking the Face" is a really good book about facial expressions and how they relate to specific muscles in the face.
Here's a tinyurl for a PDF of it -> y7bracdv

>>3130354
Really? How so.

>>3130359
aha, i get it. thanks for explaining, and thanks for the pdf.

>>3130034

>>3130361
yeah man np, and btw I love your stuff, I just think this one just had some problems I could actually fix. Also, I really really love your higher contrast paintings, please do more of them!

>>3130364
oh dude, sorry, im not op. was just curious about the note.

>>3130359
I'm terrible with faces, to the point that I suspect I have some kind of face blindness. Thanks for the book.

>>3129063
He literally has zero friends it seems

>>3130409
it seems that way because i literally have zero friends.

just finished this self portrait

>>3130499
>dozens of self portraits, still rookie mistakes
try aligning the features next time you narcissist autist.
>some anon redlines fagirez garbage
dont bother, she will continue to make the same idiotic errors until she dies. she doesnt have the mental faculties to make it
>inb4 samefagirez post your work rage

>>3130515
you seem angry on the internet, anon

study

Refining perspective skills

>>3130515
His face is glaringly asymmetrical if you've seen those photos of him that get reposted.

>>3130545
niiiice
blog?

>>3130575
>symmetry
>alignment
pick one you dumbfuk

>>3125907
Midnight diner Tokyo stories?

Ah fuck, i'm done, gonna take a break and go play games or something.

>>3130343
redline sucks
eyes don't match
huge ear
nigger lips
red nose
manly jaw
plus you made her look fucking ugly

anon you are fucking blind, stop giving advice

>>3129627
Hey, i am. >>3128480, sorry for not making justice on your piece but i wanted to let you know that i truly enjoy your art to the point of wanting to imitate it, i barely have 150 hours grinding so yeah, i am shit, sorry again for drawing like shit

>>3130712
>shit critique
Redline it or fuck off.

>>3130712
looks better than original desu

>>3130776
good for you firez, you finally made yourself a few noob worshipers.
it would be hilarious if they eventually get better than you and realize how shit you really are.

>>3129853
Thanks, it's firez-tbr.tumblr.com

>>3129861
I-I-I'm trying. Thanks for the critique anon

>>3130343
Thanks for this, the wide open eyes and nose are particularly shameful now that you mention it. I kind of regret being a shut in and avoiding looking at people in the eyes

>>3130364
Thanks, I will do more of those once I can get back to painting properly on Photoshop. Basically everything I've done these days is on the iPad pro which is amazing but just for drawing, at least in my case.

>>3129864
>>3130707
Anon, I'm afraid you will have to rework greatly that part, I'm a bit confused because it looks like you almost didn't change anything in that area. Not saying you should strictly follow my edit but at least try to give her eye a more proper shape

>>3130776
That's very kind of you anon, It also makes me a bit worried for you because as you can see I still make a lot of noob mistakes.

fwiw back when I started I was just doing features and it was just after grinding features for months that I attempted doing my first portrait

Maybe you should try the same, it will motivate you more to get easier things right like an eye, nose, lips but ...please try to focus on their forms rather than just copying blindly, as mem-ish as it sounds try to feel the roundness of the eye as you draw its eye lids, the solidness of a nose tip as it changes planes, etc...

I would have advanced faster if I had done the this, so please prioritize form over nice rendering.

Keep at it, draw every day, you will get better and drawing will become even more fulfilling

>>3130712
I think he has remarked some very valid points, it does departs from what I'm trying to aim but that doesn't make it shitty

>>3130830
>please try to focus on their forms rather than just copying blindly
I see, i will try this, what material or book would you recommend if i wanted to get more in depth about this concept? Since i am /beg/ tier yet its kind of hard to get the meaning of it

>>3130862
Try keys to drawing (to deal with symbol drawing) and then Perspective made easy. People recommend Robertson's How to draw but I find it overly technical and therefore discouraging (I haven't finished myself).

A sense of form isn't something you will "get" overnight but studying perspective and doing your studies will help tremendously.

>>3130830
Firez man, I love your passion, even with all the shit you're getting on here you're not giving up, but you have to apply your fundamentals at some point.

look, most of your woman from imagination look like...Old children? attractive middle aged dwarf woman? I don't know how to describe it but basically your proportions are all over the godamn place.

the nose bridges you make, with that curve going inside is one of the main reasons. Only small children, and dwarves have that kind of curvature from the side. even asian woman who have very small nose bridges do not.
then your eyes are too freaking big, too far apart, and your nose too freaking small. scale down your eyes, put one eye space inbetween, and scale up your nose to match the eye.
finally your chin on this one is way too pointy, and your zygomatics way too large, side effect of the alien eyes.

If you simply use correct proportions, and only correct proportions while fixing one or two things your stuff would look so much better and much more appealing. Pic related is mostly your drawig with minor changes, but fixed proportions and look how much better it is.

Just my 2 fucking cents.

>>3130978
firez is basically an animeposter who thinks that children are the most attractive. He'll just say "but i want it 2 be cute !!!" and ignore everything you say becuz muh pedo style.
>inb4 firez : "no im listening" and then never applies the advice

>>3130978
All you did was make it more realistic. Clearly, firez is aiming for some sort of realistic anime style like kuvshinov ilya. Changing it to Loomis like proportions is completely redundant and you end up losing appeal with that.

>>3130996
(Continued) Why should he apply shitty advice?

>>3131003
1. which of the two look more like kushina's work to you?
2. what's the appeal of the original one?

>>3130499
>:4
Nice style!

>>3130830
your hands and feet are ugly, are you attracted to fat toes?

>>3130499
What about your parents, I'm sure they'd think it's fun to have a portrait of this quality drawn of them.

This is just experimenting. Found some things i like and some things i dont.

>>3130363
That's a spot on, thanks, man!
Do you happen to post your stuff somewhere? It's been a while since I've seen hands and feet drawn this well.

>>3130707
See pic related. I feel like the eye was on the side plane rather than the front plane.

>>3130515
d...do you need a hug anon-kun?

>>3131118
Came back to it and fixed my shit. Much better imo. I'll post another wip i started today

>>3131192

I made this last night, did you have any critics for this ?

>>3131216
The face features are all sorts of fucked up.

Is that Kim Wall?

>>3127014
This must be tip of the year. Shit's so much organic now. Thank you brother.

>>3125763
all those salty jelly comments shieeeeeet, good work anon i love these.

>>3131216
Learn facial proportions, the details look fine for the most part.

>>3131266
Thanks, did you have any tuto for the facial proportion ?

>>3130978
put down the Loomis book and look at some real people for once
not everyone's proportions are the same
you just made her look like an average white american woman in her 30s, they have more masculine features, especially more pronounced jaw line
firez's looks more european and younger, which actually makes sense since firez is not from America
not defending him, i still think he's shit, but these redlines are ridiculous and need to stop. not everyone should look like a character from Loomis book.

>>3131292
>white american
>europeans
What's the difference?? White americans moved to their shithole like 200 years ago, you really think that's enough time for a race to start looking different from your relatives back home?

>>3131295
>hurr durr all whites look the same
>just like all blacks and asians look the same, hurr durr

>>3131317
?? I never said that. I just said there's no fucking way anyone can generalize "white americans look THIS way, while white europeans look THAT way"

>>3131324
go out, travel, leave your mom's basement, see different races, look closer than just color of the skin, and you WILL see a difference.

>you really think that's enough time for a race to start looking different from your relatives back home?
look at african americans, so yes it's very possible

Question thread is dead so I will ask here.

How do I properly set color setting up and export images right so they look like they do in Photoshop?
Right now the images I export look less saturated and overall worse.

>>3131274
Bert Dodson Keys to Drawing

Also I recommend buying a small mirror. You can use it to 'flip' the paper and see it more objectively.

This is a drawing of a tattoo idea my friend drew for me. I posted it on /fa/ to get opinions and they said the drawing needs work but I'm not much an artist so I come to you guys to help me figure out what needs help and if so is there someone that can help me make it look better.

sup faggots

how is my anatomy?

>>3131532
that's a very flat human bean

>>3131445
What you're saying doesn't make any sense mate, please explain to me how that would work. Why would they look different, when it's the exact same race just living in two different places for a short amount of time.

>>3131274
Loomis, literally.

>>3131496
That ear is tinyyyy

>>3131544
>That ear is tinyyyy

Is that really the only problem? The guys at /fa/ made it seem like everything was terrible

>>3131532
This >>3131537 and also the external obliques don't go straight down like that, what about the flank pad.

>>3131548
Well I'm no expert but that's what's glaringy obvious to me. But besides that the neck anatomy looks astrange, the shadows on the neck are placed in a strange way. Also that little flap on the left side of the face down't really make sense, what's that supposed to be? The upper li is also shaded in an ugly way. Overall it's not horrible but not great either. Except for the tiny ear, that's objectively awful.

>>3125279
at the moment I can draw and paint limited subjects like still lifes or figures, but when I try and do more complicated compositions with environments and depth, my comps seem to become bland and uninteresting and I lose interest in painting it. What is making this composition boring/bad besides the fact its unpainted?

>>3125369
I love it buddy, you look like you could do the art for magic the gathering. Do you have a blog?

>>3125825
Remember thy Loomis teachings "Think big, draw small!"

>>3131789
>"Think big, draw small!"
what's that mean?

>>3131789
bad advice, better to use your shoulder and draw overhand

>>3131793
""""draw small""""...

>>3125907
quite nice but the really rough texture of the building contrasted with the very smooth skin of the lady in the back is quite jarring. I personally would recommend dialing the brush texture back in the future.

I feel like I have the proportions pretty nice but my rendering is pretty sad. Any tips on the rendering or general appeal of this?

get used to painting

>>3131883
ya thanks

someone here posted a link to a very good young Russian girl, does anyone remember her name?

>>3130978
as an anime poster maybe hes a pedo? they all are, it would make sense.

Currently working on this
Tell me what you think

>>3131944
work in a bigger resolution, we shouldn't be seeing all those pixels

>>3131786
Who is this?

>>3131946
Thanks.

>>3131292
>>3131317
>>3131445

>muh very insignificant genetic diversity in white groups
>I will differentiate and use that genetic diversity in my own art of white women
>and people will know they have different genetic background from different place around the world and not assume they are two different women from the same place.
>hurr look at all the knowledge I have over you hurrrrr look at me I travel durrrr using my knowledge
>here's my anime drawing of my waifu look you can clearly see she's from urupe

this is retardation at the peak of it's capabilities, or lack thereof. You will not make it, that's for sure.

>>3131959
this is american ignorance at it's peak
and i'm not even firez, don't speak to me like that was my piece
but you won't believe me, cause you're 12 and think you know everything (we all did at that age)

lighting study, what can i improve upon with my brushwork? any material i can learn from?

a fox based on some russian children's book illustrations

>>3131984
oh wow there's an expert here. let's play a game.

Do tell me where this woman is from. Mmm...dark eyes and she's a brunette so probably not from russia huh ? maybe america, or europe? but then is it eastern or western? or maybe even south africa...maybe none of those...

reverse search won't help you by the way. but i'll post the page about her once you give your answer.

baka

First time stepping out of my comfort pose zone, i have a feeling i will fuck up even though i already have all the references i need.

>>3132452
>all that reference
>barely anything drawn
clearly youre not looking for input because why would you? you have plenty of references so im guessing you just want attention

>>3132452
Can you link to the blog of the artist who drew top right?

>>3132551
Unlike most of you faggots, i draw pretty slow because i'm a retard, pls no bully
>>3132558
I only got pixiv if that's fine with you
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=74184

>>3132567
Draw faster.

Fixed colors and contrast

>>3132655
polishing a turd

>>3131944
>the hand
nice work tho.

kill it

looking for some help with this one,
the camera is supposed to be looking down on the character from just slightly above, I think the issue is mostly foreshortening, any redlines or concrits are very appreciated. :]

>>3125279
crit pls

>>3132907
Upper body and arms are fine but you basically drew the legs from the front.
Also her left boob is much bigger than the right one.

>>3132915
any chance you could redline for me? :]

>>3132933
No

Tried a real life study. It's a bouquet my sister got for her birthday.

>>3133159
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What the fuck dude

>>3133159
you made ramsay too boyfaced

>>3125279
DRAW THREAD...On a artwork board WOW i would have never thought i see a thread like this here on /ic/ WOW...wow aint that some shit...thats all i have to say

>>3133201
It's supposed to be the draw thread just like any other board. It's the drawthread for artists, except people don't like requests here.

>>3133201
Drawthreads have been on /ic/ for years you stupid nigger

>>3131984
where did the genetic diversity expert go hm? no answer for this >>3132226 ?

fucking failure.

>>3133410
lol, man you're pathetic. seriously, it's unhealthy to be this riled up about an anonymous internet argument that ended a day ago.

and before you start arguing about your dumb shit I'm not that anon.

>>3133446
so you specifically felt the need to participate and give your opinion about a discussion between two people that "ended" a day ago just to say that that person on the internet is pathetic?

Aye, now that's truly pathetic.

>>3133451
All this because firez likes to draw girls who look like they have fetal alcohol syndrome.

>>3133173
Ramsay Bolton, I assume.

>>3133454
>Implying fetal alcohol syndrome isn't the epitome of cute

>>3125279

how do you go about deciding on a value range? what is the thought process like for you?

I'm trying to learn how the artist on the left renders clothes. this is my attempt on the right. help?

>>3133691
Nice arms.

A 'halfway to black' is a good rule of thumb. Take the local value and drop shadows into a shade that's halfway to black.
If the light is very bright or the material very reflective, you can up the contrast a bit.

>>3133718
thanks! hadn't heard of the "halfway to black" thing. i'll give it a try.

>>3133691
They arn't a strong point for me, but what I've learnd is to make sure that they stick in the local value of the object for most cases.
For example, if you are painting a black shirt than the value range shouldn't be in the 1-5 value range (unless its shiny or something).

>>3132866
progresss

Practicing lighting, pretty new to water colors but they fun

Thank you guys for the feedback and also don't feed the trolls. I will keep drawing no matter what even if I'm stuck forever at a shit level

Thank you guys for the feedback and also don't feed the trolls. I will keep drawing no matter what even if I'm stuck forever at a shit level

i'm not very familiar with digital painting, I'm not very confident with it yet, how do you think it's going ?

I think I should scrap this because their pose just looks really awkward. My anatomy is poop too

>>3134357
do you do a lot of gesture drawing? lots of stiffness in that sheet.

I am not satisfied even after adjusting for a long time. Why does it look so shite?

>>3133884
I'm not sure anymore how to push it further.
If you guys dont have any crit ill just leave it for a few days to get a fresh eye again.

>>3134391
No, I guess I am too focused on improving my sense of form atm

Thanks for the critique,

Posting a sketch on a dead thread

>>3134389
someone scold me for colouring unfinished sketches

poo poo and also pee pee

>>3134769
Hope my handwriting isn't too hard to read. in general it looks like you're struggling with turning objects in 3d space. it's hard but keep going! it's a useful skill to have.
practice with simpler shapes (cylinders, beans, squares, etc) and work your way up. You can also trace topography on top of photos to see how the body turns in real life, or try to draw the cube/cylinder of the pelvis and rib cage on top of a model so you can get a better sense for how it fits into the human figure. Keep practicing and pushing yourself.
In a few spots (especially around the neck) you've drawn the muscles incorrectly. Muscular anatomy can be intimidating, but if you break it down into areas of the body (arms, back, front torso, neck, etc) you can teach yourself everything you need to know in a couple weeks. It's also good practice for learning to think in 3d.

ahhh thank you so much, and your handwriting is fine. I'm not sure what it means to trace topography, but everything else I'll do my best to practice! I don't think you can see it very well but I was actually trying to use boxes. I was really happy with the result because it looks a lot better than my usual stuff. Thank you again though and I'll keep at it

>>3131786
no blog but an ig:

https://www.instagram.com/mariuslaurischkat_art/

would really appreciate crit of this photostudy, particularly how i could make the hair better