/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

landscape from today

Let me know what you think

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>>3199434
it looks stunning. you shoukd check out Nicholas Party. He is currently showing at Karma in NYC.

My first long pose. Sorry for bad quality image, my phone is quite crappy

>>3199565
lets see if it doesnt flip

>>3199433

>>3199621
looks like she just smashed the biggest fattest baddest blunt

>>3199625
thaNks

>>3199570
why do people waste time drawing ugly hoes

fuckin around

Thoughts?

>>3199570
>wearing thigh highs
Lewd

Working on some values again. Changed some stuff around after checking a horizontally flipped edit. Need to try for better blending, among plenty of other things

>>3199631
My drawing class professor hires the most hideous models. Its a travesty

>>3199621
Very soft. I love it. The eyes are a little bulgy relative to the nose and mouth, if you're looking for cc. Were you referencing a pic?

>>3199893
Don't bullshit your values
Simplify the face into planes and define a light source

>>3199621
>The blazed bastard love child that agent Cooper and Annie had.

Please tell me that's a self portrait.
Your dad is the raddest

finding the background hard.
finding everything hard.

>>3199980
Interesting concept and interesting style. I'm not experienced enough to give any advice other than; keep working at it. I think you are doing fine.

>>3199980
I don't understand what that pole thing is supposed to be. The tree is interfering with it visually and is kinda blocking the guy's line of sight and overall composition. Especially if you plan on detailing the city.
Otherwise the colors are lovely and the linework is starting to look very nice too. Keep at it.

>>3199451
Clean that brushwork. Use bigger strokes where you can and blend some.

>>3199456
>>3199458
I like the angular style. The hands and faces need some work. More importantly you have to learn to control your values. The backgrounds are too dark compared to the figure which kills the sence of space. Keep the higher contrasts for the objects in the front and use lighter strokes for the background.

>>3199570
Looking good. the picture quality is pretty bad though, take the whole drawing, crop it properly, and adjust the values in photoshop if you plan on posting it online.
The right hand is kinda perpendicular and stiff and whatever she's holding is tangent with the shoulder. Otherwise the drawing and values are very nice.

finished this

>>3199940
Soy boy cuck

painted on jute for the first time. the texture you get is so awesome and the material is so inexpensive

>>3200174
>>3200311

Nice stuff.

>>3200311
I don't think purple was a good choice, it doesn't complement any other color but still stands out, for how saturated it looks mainly, making it look like plastic against earth tones

Doing this piece for a friend's novel. Specifically asked for colored pencil and it's killing me

>>3199458
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>>3199453
>>3199454
>>3199456

This shit is /beg/ tier

>>3199872
Violating one of my favorite animes with hypebeast tier clothing labels gets a -10859375 from me.

Jackets don't bunch up like that at the shoulders. The pants look weird, like Kaneda has a matchstick ass. if you say it's because his pants are sagging like a diaper wearing nigger I'm going to shoot you.

>>3199893
Left eye is smaller than the right, can't unsee

sketch

>>3200404
blend the strokes, try to identify hard edges and soft edges

Such an angry looking fellow.

>>3200404

Ohh~

o////o

>>3199982
thanks m8
>>3199991
to be honest, im not sure what the pole thing is either, like some sort of orb carrier....
i guess i can change the colours on the orb pole to make it pop more infront of that tree?

study

Turning a study into illustration. She seems a bit derpy. Is it the mouth? Will probably keep the neck and below sketchy

>>3200774
Did I die and end up somewhere else? is /ic/ getting gud?..

>>3200925
What's that pink shit all over her face

>>3200932
freckles

>>3199433
happy little trees
any feedback color/value wise?
supposed to be autumn

Painted a picture of a friends dog.

>>3200959
вы зaeбaли мeня пидopacы
i hate dogs and people who are obsessed over them

https://youtu.be/6f4DT0jh0Vk

>>3200959
Did he got bitten in the mouth by a bee?
Aside from that I like that loosenes. Maybe you should check shadow part of his neck, it's pretty dificult to read

>>3200955
Maybe add a bit more orange? Kinda gives me a summer vibe

some weird shit

>>3200990
need noise filter and camera layout(battery,rec,etc)

>>3199433
I'm going to use this piece to confess to someone, please be absolutely brutal as possible, I want it to be perfect. Trying to make the clouds better right now.

>>3200390
All your mushrooms have faces on them, it's kinda cute. I like it a lot so far, I would try to make the colors more vibrant though.

>>3200925
I dont think keeping the neck that sketchy and muddy is helping at all

>>3201014
The colors are pretty saturated so as far as putting a focal point goes, you are committed. No room to add much save your some highlighted areas on the trees back there and the ground. Ambient lighting is going to really make this sing, so use it wisely.

>>3200959
Add a bird silhouette or something to help give scale. Perhaps a palm tree sticking out from the right?

did a second painting on jute

Just started drawing literally 3 hours ago so here is my first drawing.

I've never been into drawing, until recently; it occurred to me that it could be fun to draw and it might help me get through some tough times.

I'm thinking about taking drawing courses and "The Great Courses" one looks quite appealing, but I thought I'd ask you guys first since you know better and you can tell me what to focus on in order to improve.

>>3200991

>>3201014
Tried forever on the lighting until I changed my approach, tear me a new one boys.

>>3201129
I think a brighter background would make the dark foreground look more realistic.

holy shit /ic/ is getting worse, all the good people are leaving

havent painted bananas in a while. bananas are hard to paint.

>>3201120
dont listen to some anons here. You just killed your piece

>>3201197
post your work

>>3200774
holy shit this is good

This was probably the most difficult thing I've ever designed and painted
It took like 2 1/2 months because I kept getting in a panicked frenzy when I'd start it

>>3201350

neat.

you've lost some of the wholeness of the form in places - like the back of the hand could have been resolved in a more elegant fashion; right now it's on the verge of having been "carved" into too deeply, too many times, at a somewhat regular interval.

still, lovely stuff. the way you've handled the base of the thumb and the wrist are wonderful.

>>3199872
Kill yourself

Gotta do something about these wings. Thoughts?

>>3201374
it turned out really cool

>>3201434
wow thas beautiful, nice brush work
Maybe make the wings translucent? You could show veins but maybe that would detract to much from the feminiity but (I forget the word for it) you know when you put a flashlight behind your fingers it looks like you can see through your hand and your skin turns bright red? I don't know what that is, but I think it would work well in this painting

>>3201469
Oh yeah! What you're talking about is called Sub Surface Scattering.

I did try to indicate some of that with the red in the shadows. But I didn't want to overdo it, and honestly my lack of skill makes it easy for me to overdo effects like that. But by the fact that you mentioned it, perhaps I should practice it more! Thanks for the feedback!

>>3201434
What are you painting with to get all these textures?

>>3201385
Thank you, I know see what you mean, I'm trying to get faster, this one took me around 5 hours and even so I managed to get things look unfinished. I will try harder next time.

>>3201474
Just a fairly basic chalk brush overlaid with a sea sponge texture. You can build it in Photoshop with the stock brushes.

I turn the flow down super low so I can build up texture with the strokes. It's a fun way to paint.

>>3201149

>>3201272
That's beautiful

>>3201287
>You just killed your piece
how?

>>3201557
LOO

>>3201557
fixed the stroke mouth.

>>3201608
i don't get it.

I feel like the proportion or position of the legs is wrong, somehow.

Also crits on perspective are appreciated because it's my main weakness. I went through perspective made easy but scott robertson is too technical for me, anyone know a good in between?

I feel like the proportion or position of the legs is wrong, somehow.

Also crits on perspective are appreciated because it's my main weakness. I went through perspective made easy but scott robertson is too technical for me, anyone know a good in between?

>>3201661
the legs do look too small. also for the right leg the knee is facing towards to viewer so the shin and top of the foot should be as well.

>>3201129
In my perspective, the woman and the dude seem bigger than they should, idk I'm a /beg/ still

posting an early version so that I can apply any advice I get.
this is a quick setup of the values, but are they working?

>>3201014
>I'm going to use this piece to confess to someone
What did you mean by this

did a vertical still life

>>3202054
Have you considered going vertical and still also?

>>3202057
But then where would the life fit in?

>>3202059
that bit is squeezed out.

>>3202060
we're approaching reddit comments territory incredibly quickly.

>>3202057
holy shit

>>3202062
fits your reddit territory quality of art.

>>3202069
They hate me on reddit

>>3202070
one wonders why.

>>3202074
probably jealousy

>>3202083
probably not.

>>3201661
Legs and feet look small but otherwise it's really nice

Just finished this.

Great Horned Owl

>>3201129

The composition is dead in the water. Give the couple some room to breathe!

>>3201610
Can you post reference?
That neck looks a little too long.

>>3202057
>>3202059
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>>3202062
>>3202069
>>3202070
>>3202074
>>3202083
>>3202088

Get a room, you two.

>>3202323

>>3202463
Well I'll be damned...

>>3201667
>>3202255
thanks, hopefully this is a bit better

>>3201434
But wtf is happening to her left thigh?? (our left)

>>3202267
saved. kek

>>3202463
>>3202474
it looks odd because of the camera lens

>>3202650
How would lens distortion make the neck look longer? It's not even foreshortened. On the drawing the crease at the top of the trapezius looks a bit too low down which might be contributing to it.

>>3202664

>>3202670
? just a fish eye lense

>>3202618
gotta push your values, try to paint in terms of ambient light. that means you block in a solid color for the general lighting of the entire face(any grey) and his clothes. then you can just render from there, while you can also block in your cast shadows. avoid as much strokes like what you have going on, its not very painterly just makes it look like a shitty mess. be thoughtful and focus on shapes.

>>3202054
thats called a portrait you fucking dumbass

>>3202670
There doesn't seem to be much difference, but if anything it looks longer with the longer focal length which would be less distorted and more true to how it looks in real life.

>>3202673
A still life is called a portrait? Anon those are bananas not people

>>3202673
>A portrait shaped still life is a portrait

Is this worth the time to finish? Or it's a meaningless turd?

>>3202811
Sorry

>>3202814

Looks like a good beginning sketch.

Working out a cyberpunk city for a client.

frens

I cant decide

do I draw for fun now or go back to study?

>>3202844
Study and turn it into fun drawing, voilà

>>3202845
Goode indea

>>3202842
nice

>>3199434
I like it. More?

working on this

>>3202990
Is he drunk?

>>3202672
Thank you so much for the feedback, is this more like what you were talking about?

>>3202615
I dunno? Which part of her thigh are you talking about? And what exactly about it looks weird? And how would you suggest I improve it?

The Winos
Oil
22"x28"

what do you think?

좋은?

>>3203335
아이 칸 타입 인 코리안

Whenever I try to do bashing it ends up looking really soulless, anything I could improve in these pieces? Before I decide to spend 10+ hours on an actual painting. This is intended as concept art.

>>3199434
Blog plz

I realize this is muddy as all Hell, but I don't know how to fix this kind of thing AFTER it's already gone wrong.

>>3203086
yes just render it from there

>>3202781
>>3202776
the orientation is called portrait you fucking dick munches. you call a wide horizontal canvas a landscape and a tall canvas a portrait, just how uneducated are you fairies?

>>3203390
why are you trying to mimic jia ruan when you haven't even studied light and color and furthermore brush strokes?

>>3203399
You don't call it a "Portrait Still Life" and a "Landscape Still Life" you nutjob. I was just saying the still life was vertical. I'm pretty sure everyone else knew what I was talking about idk why you're arguing semantics

Don't remember if I ever posted this shit... Some of my reference studies from last summer. I'll post another one I did of a statue.

>>3203402
portrait is the correct name for that orientation, stop being autistic.

>>3203402

>>3203407

Here's another study. A quick grayscale study I colored with gradient maps and some color/multiply/overlay layers. I feel like it might be more efficient to work on my stuff in B&W as coloring stuff in PS is pretty easy. I know I'm probably not getting super painterly results but you can always overpaint dat shit and introduce crazy tones to it (didn't do it here as it was just a quick study thing, but you know...)

>>3203390
push your values more. Your darkest dark is like MAYBE a 6 on a scale of 1-10

>>3203415
this is nice dude. I'd be interested to see the gradient maps and layering you did; I tried working that way once and wasn't able to make it look as organic as you have here

>>3203413
>>3203414
Not a thing. It's called a still life, not a portrait still life

>>3203401
what? not the guy who posted, but shut up.

>>3203418

Thanks a lot man! I did it by picking the colors from an actual person apart from the highlights and darkest shadows which I'll leave as ~97 black and ~97 white. You can use this layer as color, overlay, multiply or... I dunno. What ever. Just try mixing them. It's not a one step thing! Same goes for the multiply/overlay-stuff you do after that. You want to stack this one layer at a time slowly until you feel like you're getting closer to a more realistic render. Once you think you've got your colors right you blend some shit with a hard 100% smudge brush or a regular hard brush to make your colorfuckery less obvious. Also use some native facial colors and stuff (pic related)

Hope this helps...

>>3201374
YO i remember when u were beginning this"

i like it, turned out p inne= nice man

>>3201434

Beautiful work on most of this. I really like how you rendered her mid-section and how well it blends with the background.

I feel like the her hand to our right (her left) is a bit stiff. You might want to pose that into something more interesting. The perspective in that arm is also bugging me. I'd also like to see a sharper edge to the wing on our left and you might want to have it angled as it's creating a terrible tangent with her right (our left) arm...

Really nice work anyways!

>>3203401
But I have studied light, and brush strokes. I'm just still learning.

I'm not trying to mimic Ruan Jia, I just really like his work and it's a big influence for me. If anything, I'm trying to recreate the way he does. I like a lot of the ways he does things, and they speak to me.

I actually didn't have RJ in mind when I did this. This is just how I paint after after exclusively studying Ruan Jia.

>>3203417
This is a question I've been meaning to ask for a while, and not to seem ungrateful for the pointer, but why exactly does a painting need to have a full 0-10 value range for it to be a successful image?

>>3202842
I want a higher res for a wallpaper. This is pretty rad.

>>3203435
you havent studied light if value is your worst area. you havent studied brush strokes because ruan jia doesnt paint with thousands of tiny strokes, if you even ever looked at his high res paintings.

put the finishing touches on this

>>3203453
lol...

>>3203432

Tried to illustrate some of my points. Hope you get what I was trying to point out. I did some work on the boobs as well but I don't know anything about that stuff... There's still kind of a tangent with the wing but I still think it'd look better with a bit of an angle. Overlapping shapes make stuff seem more 3D. Cool image anywayz dawwghhhh...

>>3203449
Why did you compare my work to Ruan Jia's if it looks nothing like Ruan Jia's work?

Guide me if I'm making a mistake. Don't belittle me.

>>3203401

It's not like this isn't a way to study light and colour; why not have fun while you're at it and pursue an artist that you admire?

>>3203390

If you feel that your painting is muddy, then try to translate that diagnosis into something tangible in your painting. Odds are, you're not referring to mud having been placed on your monitor.

In this case, I think you felt that the values you've employed are entirely too close together; there are also a number of issues that exacerbate this: The separation of light and shadow on the skin is only a difference of two tones; your lights are at 9(0% brightness) and your shadows at 7(0% brightness). The area that divides the light and shadow is not very distinct, thus the form is not emphasized. You've also utilized textures in those crucial areas, which further breaks up the separation.

And so, the solutions present themselves. You could use a wider range of values to model the face. You could take care to emphasize the forms with crisp, careful transitions from light to shadow, with all the parts in tow; Highlight, Light, Midtone, Core shadow, Shadow. You could keep textures out of those transition zones, to ensure that they read clearly.

And I understand that you may want this piece to feel washed out, bright, and breathy, but there are ways other ways to achieve this. What if you made the background of deep, rich colours that contrast how little colour she has? What if you made the background and her hair full of hard, sharp textures that were all very dark, so they were still unified, and kept her face smooth? You can achieve that feeling without disregarding the physics of light and colour; if you understand those laws, you'll know how to break them without having an unsatisfactory result.

Here's a quick paintover; whether or not it's helpful is another matter entirely, hahaha.

>>3203467

Some shitposting here and there bit I also think you should work on your values and especially on your edge control. You don't need to push everything to 100% but you might want to push it just a little bit more.

Also I'd recommend using less strokes for your hair. Look at >>3201434 for example. You don't have to make a million strokes to imply a volume. I'm definitely not saying that you're bad but I think you could be fucking awesome with a little bit of work.

>>3203467
because youre making everything desaturated like every retard and making thousands of little strokes, which neither ruan jia does but thats what everyone gets the impression of.

>>3203464
take this overpaint with a grain of salt, your work is quite lovely

although you have a nice textural look i think she'd benefit from some softness especially in her skin and hair. i tried to convey that without losing too much detail
a trick to sub-surface scattering is to really saturate the mid-darks!
anything else is just miniscule pose fixes

>>3203464
Thank you for the overpaint! I'll try to watch out for tangents better and be more expressive and interesting in the future. (I'm still learning!)

>>3203471
When I say muddy, I just mean that there isn't a proper warm/cool relationship. The whole piece isn't really warm or cool. It's kind of just in the middle, with a bit of both in the light and the shadow. The reason I didn't do anything about it is because I only noticed it after I rendered everything I liked. And I feel like color balancing or adjusting the levels/curves really doesn't do the image enough justice. I really can only comfortably fix this kind of thing by doing it again.

But overall, you've left me with a lot of food-for-thought, and I appreciate you taking the time to write it all out. I'll try to practice some of the ideas you've mentioned, and thank you for the paintover!

>>3203472
That painting is mine. I wasn't trying to use a bunch of tiny strokes to imply volume, I just wanted to experiment with creating some strand-ey texture. Overall, the entire piece was an attempt to create a pleasing texture with the brush strokes. I painted almost all of the piece at about 75% zoom, except for places where I wanted to push some edges and render a bit more on the places of interest. Thank you for the feedback!

>>3203390
selective color is your friend
soften shit up sharpness can come later
if that is your final crop the composition is really poor
body is wtf tier but i'm not much better at it so ????

>>3203482
>>3203489
here i am doing over paints while wanting to an hero over my own shitty art

>>3203479
Well, like I said. I wasn't painting with RJ in mind. I am allowed to make a painting subtle in value and hue if I want, and I'm definitely allowed to experiment with new methods of rendering hair.

Did I miss the "your work isn't allowed to slightly resemble Ruan Jia unless it 100% captures the essence of his paintings" seminar?

>>3203489
>>3203471
garbage, neither of you faggots or basically anyone in here know anything about light and color

>>3203493
u completely missed the point. basically, stop painting like a fucking ape and learn how to actually paint

>>3203390

Did a quick overpainting on your portrait. I'm not trying to redo it or anything. Just pointing out how it might look more interesting with more defined edges, highlights and skin tones.


Btw. I read a bunch of your comments and you seem to have a bit of an attitude problem. It's not that you're being an asshole to people but it seems like you're not really ready to take any feedback. You constantly try to explain away everything you might have done wrong in your art. I'm not saying you have to agree with everything that everybody has to say but I'm getting a feeling that you're not even trying to look at your stuff with a critical eye. Your stuff is pretty good anyway but I think you might want to rethink why you're posting your stuff here in the first place.

>>3203497
post your work

>>3203502
fucking stop

>>3203507

U mad? Git good.

>>3203513
you aren't funny, and your work is shit. you somehow managed to make it muddier

>>3203514

Having more contrast, bumping up the highlights, adding more hues and colorizing the shadows would be a great idea for OP so I really don't really think you know what you're talking about. I'm not trying to be funny either. Just trying to help.

I'm not going to spend more than 5 minutes working on somebody else's image. You can point someone in the right direction without redoing the whole fucking piece.

>>3203516
then just bump it up with curves instead of adding your asshole looking brush strokes you primordial fuckwit

contrast doesn't always = better either

>>3203471
>tfw i can learn things from other people's feedback without posting my own work.

>>3199433
Rate my OC or I'll release my repugnant relish on to you

>>3200925
some sketches

>>3202267
I love it, anon

https://youtu.be/VoRDwe8kBzw ,

>>3203390

>>3203532
this.

Pls help

How do i get cleaner edges specially below the boobs?

>>3204001
>selfie study.png
... lasso tool and hard brush for hard edges, soft brush on transfer for soft edges. also work on your values

>>3204024
Thanks a lot!

>>3203453
You actually have friends?

>>3203353
Can someone explain to me this soulless meme?

Practicing perspective for game art

Called agent in the night

>>3204039
very nice! though that beanbag looks really flat

Cars of the future

>>3204030
they're just random people i met, not friends

did another one today from a sketch

>>3199433

>>3201742
It all seems flat. The shadows don't make it look like it has any sort of perspective. Try blending the shadows and playing around with it, overall a very cute piece and has the opportunity to look better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGEhWQN0FBM

anyone have any tips for line weight/ depth ?
I feel like pic related is kind of flat

>>3204549
oooo~ I really like that face.
Do you plan to do the rest of the compositon like that?
I'd maybe just keep doing what you're doing. You could make the lines in the background thinner.
Do you have a tumblr?

>>3201449
>>3203427
Thank you very much anons.

>>3204549
Thanks! I wasnt planning on it but maybe I'll try, and yeah I have a tumblr but I don't post much original work on it. amberstiel(dot)tumblr(dot)com

>>3204597
meant for
>>3204555

Well it seems like the thread has mostly died but I really need some help with this piece...
I've been working on it in small bursts for months now but I usually (or never) do paintings with backgrounds since I'm really unconfident in my lighting/perspective skills... If anyone could give me any tips or help I'd really really appreciate it.

>>3204662
Forgot to add that the big leg is gonna have motion blur which will hopefully make it look better later lol but everything else is an issue

Here goes. What think

Excuse the rough sketch. I'd like some opinions.

>>3204877
Spooky/10
As a beginner shitter I can only say I like the style and colors. Looks oldschool.

>>3204879
dude you're chicken scratching too much.

>>3204877
>MAMI!!!

>>3204662

>>3204895
I know. I said it's rough. I'll refine the lines once I'm sure it looks good. The parts around the face aren't scratchy.

>>3204662
I think the robot's angle could be changed a bit. Instead of having the foot almost directly centered at the camera, turn him counter-clockwise a bit. Basically what >>3204901 suggested.

>>3204879
I LIKE IT, although for me i would take her socks off ;)

>>3204871

>>3204901
Holy shit thank you so much, it looks a million times better even though its just a super rough sketch (?), do you mind if I reference this because I'm most likely just going to scrap the original now haha
Also I was wondering if you just learned composition on your own or if you have any resources to share on it? Thank you again T_T

>>3204910
Yeah! I'm gonna go with what was suggested for now since it looks miles better, thank you for your feedback too!

>>3204959
I'm an amateur myself so take everything I said with a grain of salt, but I believe that the foot looks less imposing in your composition as opposed to the one that the other anon suggested, and that's really the main point.

>>3204959
use it how ever you like. As for composition, i think it's just something that comes over time. Once you'll get more comfortable with the fundamentals, then you won't have to think about it and can mess with rough sketches knowing that you'll can clean it up later.
take your time and it will come naturaly over time

>>3204955
Maybe the places I draw are just way grimier but never in my 6 years of figure drawing has a model ever laid down on their stomach, most of the time they barely even want to sit without a blanket down. Maybe it's just cause it's a dude, I don't think a woman would ever do that pose

>>3204979
Lol. It's just Russia, the places here are pretty marginal.

hey

I made this for tower princess thread which ı enjoy but its too dry and no one comments on anything there anymore.

so have a look pls

frog princess

>>3204881
Thanks, I think the colored pencils give it that old-school feel. Have another

i dont know where im going with this. i've hit the point where im just perpetually cleaning what i have done instead of breaking new ground cause i don't know what to do

>>3204985
I dig it. Maybe throw some of the dark spots onto the blue sections. The face is kind of funky but it’s passable

>>3199433
This is a shitty fanart piece i'm working on right now, im trying to get better at using texture. Any ideas on how i could improve it?

>>3202990
think I finished it. not really any big changes but I should probably move on.

>>3204877
>>3204992

The thumbnails for these caught my eye. There's a lot of color but I like it. It definitley reminds me of Goosebumps covers and the color schemes of some old 70/80s comics like Killing Joke (before they changed the colors).
I really like it. I think you would benefit greatly from using a bigger canvas.
Looks to me that you're using colored pencils or some other similar traditional medium?
The edges on it all are just a bit too hazy, I think that if you worked bigger you'd have more room to sharpen the edges. Either that or really sharpen your pencils and put on a good layer.

>>3202591
What a lovely composition. I think it would look nice in some light watercolors with maybe some rich dark browns in the shadows. Its definiltey coloring-book ish and when I look at it I'd love to color it.

>>3203482
I think this anon has the right idea. Take a look at bat wings, see how the bones in them stick out a lot when there's a light behind them? They almost look like they're not wrapped in skin at all because there's so much contrast between the edge of the bone and the skin. I would hesitate on making the wings too bright though because you don't want it to distract from the face. In the thumbnail of this I think the shapes of light look too big, bright, or not the perfect shape. However, I do think it is an improvement because in the original pic the wings look too thick, making them heavy and as if she wouldn't be able to fly and they'd even be hard to carry around on her back.

>>3205009
Lol, I can see your fear through your painting. What an odd composition. It absolutely looks like you need to move the canvas over to show more of the building and far less of that huge empty negative space. Negative spaces like that can do wonders for our subconcious and can convey good emotions but I don't see it working for this painting. The shade of blue you picked is far too happy. Your building looks great though, 3D model-ish

>>3205049
>>3205009
You really could just cut off all that negative space and make this a very vertical composition. Its still a little boring but can be a nice compliment to your portfolio as it has nice rendering and lovely color.

>manage to finally find how to do the pose you were struggling with while doodling at work
>Forget it there
FUCK
FUUUUUCKK

>>3205049
Thank you! Youre correct on the use of traditional media. I dont care for the feel of digital means and I spent like 300 dollars on colored pencils and other tools so I feel the need to use them. Most of my work right now is done on half sheets of 8.5x11 just because I feel like I can get a piece done and move on to tje next faster. Same with this one. Very small canvas.

Flat color commission I've just completed.
Listened to some anon's advice and fixed up the line work as well as made her more expressive.
Thanks, anon.

>>3204984
>>3204955
>>3204871
ya got a blog?

i've never posted anything on this board before, but i figure the critique should be better than what devaintshart usually nets you. this image is just a screenshot, the actual painting is much bigger.

How do you guys handle studies? It's been a long while since I did any studies so I decided to study a pic from the ref thread. But I feel completely aimless, studying for the sake of studying isn't studying at all, I feel like I'm just reproducing like an idiot and maybe picking up on a thing or two, so I left it here. This is probably a dumb question, but let's say you know your weaknesses, how do you get better at them by studying? how do you go about the whole process of picking refs and studying from them? any of you do studies regularly for the sake of studying?

Btw, I know it's unfinished, but how did I do?

Trying to make this thing extra comfy

>>3205350
how do you keep track of such a far away vanishing point? i can't do that unless i make my canvas overly huge

>>3205354
It comes naturally after a while. Just set up a top and a bottom line that converge for a bit and everything between can be adjusted relative to them. Do that for the left and the right vanishing point, done. Working through Scott Robertsons book really made it click for me, though

>>3205020
Looks shit

>>3205192
Oh sure.
shevelevandrew.tumblr.com

>>3201095
Pretty Neat.

>>3205022
made me think of this picture. I like it a lot

A 40 minute pose I did in pastels in figure drawing.

finished this. 30"x36"

>>3205504
>not drawing the whole figure first

"anon I know its tempting to get into the rendering but remember to get the full gesture!"

>>3204001
It's not YOUR selfie, is it?
You don't happen to be near London, do you?

How you guys doing

Ghost ride the WIP.

>>3205580
If you went for the Dave Rapoza look, I'd say you're in the right direction, and even then it's still different and your style, which I'm really liking. You're just heavily lacking some proportion/anatomy (nose too low, head too big for the torso or torso too small for everything else). For this piece, I'm surprised you didn't notice those problems, since they're very apparent, especially the torso. Do you draw/paint zoomed in?

>>3205593
I just have barely drawn for the past months due to a tumor fucking me a big time and snowballing also into 3 herniated discs so I'm really rusty and anatomy wasn't my strongest point to begin with. I'll do some proportion studies soon, thanks for the help.

>>3205599
Shit, that sounds really rough, sorry to hear that. I wish you the best of luck anon, your stuff is nice and has some interesting potential. Keep drawing!

A weird idea I had of some monks or people in general who use special meditation and rituals to preserve themselves for ever lasting life.

>>3205604
woah

really nice rendering so far

>>3205602
Thank you, it's been really an extremely painful year but I'll manage. Especially since now the meds don't fuck me up too much to draw anymore.

>>3205604
i just feel like you aren't really reaching a style yet. the pieces are all so heavily conceptual, but the actual painting lacks any kind of individuality. It's a hard thing to try to set yourself apart by ideas alone.

I just don't think it's enough to know how to paint everything, I think you need to find a way to stylize everything too. That might just come with time, but I feel you've plateaued and are simply continuing to work without making meaningful progress towards a unique identity. Nothing really changes from painting to painting except subject matter.

>>3205617
Hmmm can you post an example of someone you think has style? I'm not 100% sure what you mean

>>3205629
i mean pick a post-impressionist and look at their early work compared to their mature work. everyone settles on a way they like to draw everything. van gogh painted fabric different than cezanne than picasso than matisse. It's just you seem to be caught in a rut of simply painting things how they are. Sure you rearrange the materials and the figures, and present a variety of different textures every time, but they're still all safely recognizable as what they are. When you paint metal, we know it's metal, but not in a good way. It just looks like metal. It doesn't look like YOUR metal, just looks like metal.

And that... I know it sounds like a copout to have a particular way you enjoy painting, but you will find it immensely multiplicatively harder as you continue to paint to simply paint things how they are. Everyone on /ic/ wants to be "The guy that can paint anything"

I always see "What Are Your Goals" threads and people say "I want to paint everything that comes into my head no matter what it is". You are already able to do that, but you need to take it a step beyond that or you risk diminishing returns in your studies.

Once you know the rules it's time to break them. You can paint fabric? Cool. Paint it the way you like to paint it then. Once you know the rules behind how light hits fabric, there's literally no reason to continue to paint it the same way every time. You could change the thickness or texture of the fabric, but odds are if you can already think of a different kind of fabric to draw next time, you already know how to paint it.

Art shouldn't just be about executing what you already know, no matter how vast what you already know is. You need to learn a new trick.

This is a random sideview lI drew of a person

>>3205604
What's your fuckin DA again? I always forget.
lookin good btw, maybe a bit weirdly cropped but keep at it

>>3205635
brian shut up and go to bed

>>3205867
Look at your drawing.
Now look at a person.
Now look at your drawing again.

>>3205867
Please read the sticky.

>>3205878
Geez I'm goin I'm goin

Ball Point Pen

>>3205867

nicki minaj?

Some stuff

>>3206148
u draw ugly people

>>3205379

I LOVE THIS! Followed.

There’s a drawthread going on /pol/ right now. Here’s something i put together for it.

>>3206266
Why not drop by and have some fun?

>>3206268
>>3206266
Step out of /ic/ for a bit and make a statement, could be refreshing!

Sketches inspired by Marcos Mateo Mestre

>>3206292
resized

What anatomy problems can you see here? I drew this today and I want some constructive criticism.

>>3206318

What were you going for here? The pose for the right chick on the right is kind of weird. She doesn't have weight on either of her feet which makes her seem like she's falling over. I'm assuming that dem huge heads were something you wanted to do so I'm not going to say a lot about that. Just kind of feels weird to have these semi-realistic bodies with doll heads. Doesn't feel appealing to me but what do I know. I feel like you ought to stylize everything a little more or do more normal sized/styled heads.

>>3206269
Nah I'm gucci

Didnt draw in like 4+ years what do you think about this one

>>3206387

What do you think of it?

>>3206388
well i think its good after many years without drawing anything i just got the idea in my head and did it in like 30 min

>>3206390

I think it's good that you like it and you still enjoy drawing. I don't think that anyone here could give you any critique that could be more helpful than: Keep studying. Draw more. etc.

finished this portrait today

>>3206466
i added steam on the coffee

>>3205635
Ok I see what you're getting at. I will keep this in mind but I'm probably going to continue as I am and if a "style" comes to me it will come naturally in time, we'll see.

Regardless, here's an update.

>>3206665
I fucking love this. Non ironic shit posting do you have a site or anything? I love the idea/concept a lot for some strange reason. I'm tempted to make this my phone's background.

>>3206665
Nice work, always love to see you here.

One point though, I think the close head is pretty weirdly balanced. I don't know what else you have planned there but right now it looks like it should topple over in any direction. It just keeps throwing me off whenever I look at it. Anyway, just my two cents.

>>3206683
Personally that's why I like it. It's like mid moment about to roll away. I feel like if it wasn't the picture wouldn't be as interesting.

>>3206466
Really one of my favorites of yours. Love that green next to the red everything is sitting really nicely together

Landscape in oils

Last post before bump limit.
Making this thing multi layered, need to finish entrance and then fill this with stuff.

Help. Does the hair on the girl look bad?
Does it look man-ish?

>>3207098
Does the hair here look better?

>>3207098
This one looks better

I want to go home.