/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

why am i so shit at art ahhhHHHHH

hows this
ref https://sketchfab.com/models/80613cfe8a8a4affab36b3744ff53976

finished this. did it from a memory of my friend's house and my imagination

>>3213641
also did this painting based on an old drawing of mine

>>3213641
>>3213644
Your Art is becoming pretty Cubist

>>3213665
by that do you actually mean cubist, or just that i draw a lot of cubes?

by that definition is cubism /ic/'s favorite art movement since they draw so many boxes? is /ic/ neo-cubist?

100x70 Graffite
I can't remember how many hours it was because i go to life drawing when I feel like it. And sorry for the terrible quality. My phone is old

>>3213668
Why don't you search on your computer what the word means?

I'm working on a different method, painting a first layer of just light and dark (titanium white and cobolt blue in this case, plus linseed oil), then painting the mid tones with just those colours, blended wet-on-wet on canvas. If anyone has a guide to "proper grisaille" methods or relevant artists or something I'm glad to hear. Mark Tansey was who got me interested in this and I tried to replicate his technique without knowing too much about it

i know the fur coat (if you can even tell that's what it is supposed to be) looks like complete and total ass :< if anyone has some critique/advice about it, that'd be lovely
otherwise im starting to be happy with the hand and kinda the composition (tho i think i'll make it perfectly square and mess around with the border some)
critiques pls!!

dump

>>3212247
lol i never thought i could inspire anyone to create something, cool.

and no, name's Martin, quién es Miguel?

>>3213838
i feel like every week there's a new anon that learned how to draw digitally like zedig/thdark

why do you all gravitate to that no line weight fake moebius style? I think it looks nice, but it's just been done before so many times already by so many different artists. It's like the house style for illustrators right now.

>>3213841
>it's just been done before so many times already by so many different artists
literally any artstyle

>>3213838
heads too big for their bodies

>>3213842
art history says otherwise. name an impressionist before the impressionists. coming up with something original isn't impossible, just very hard.

>>3213873
>coming up with something original isn't impossible, just very hard
wich is exactly why criticizing something for not being new is stupid

>>3213882
variations on a theme exist though. i'd rather someone do something new clumsily than a worse version of someone that already exists. history is full of people that emulated other contemporary artists and those people are never remembered, it's the originators of the idea that persist.

>>3213694
Values and proportions are good but you should focus on your line which is too simple

>>3213885
>'Id rather someone do something new clumsily than a worse version of someone that already exists
And I prefer something refined from an already proven thing to a bad work with a redeeming gimmick.
I'm sorry, but I never bought into the modernist discourse, we are going to have to disagree here.

>>3213890
meh. to be fair im >>3213641
and im basically just doing gauguin, and before that i basically just did van gogh, so im boring too

Wip done in Procreate how does it look so far?

>>3213907
what reflections need work. the shadows on everything but the lil chimney are muted and its also not aligned with the perspective of the house.
the cast shadow behind the tanned building suggest is really really thin.

>>3213941
the middle of the reflection in the water looks great, but it does not look good on the right nor does the blue shadow on the roof on the left look good. shadows (and i assume reflections) have to do with layering. look up a tutorial on how to do them easily. i'm going to bet that if you copied the image, flipped it, and then put layers of color/blur, etc., over it, it would look like water

don't try to make reflections/shadows by finding the right color and putting it down. you need to put the right color down, then add layers of darkness to make the shadow. like in real life i guess

>>3213907
Looks amazing from the thumbnail, with the exception of the blue shadow from the chimney the other anon pointed out.

Surprised by how cleanly this was done in Procreate.

>>3213907
There are some scale issues with the width of the posts and window sizes in the foreground. Reflections look nice though.

photo study

Making this environment piece as part of a project for one of my classes, not quite sure how I should approach rendering grass from a great distance at this point so early in the process.

Is this too shitty to post in this thread?

What do you guys think? I'm realizing how overly dark a lot of the pieces I do are.

>>3214330
You're completely symbol drawing and you don't seem to be able to describe forms and planes yet. Start practicing simple shapes like cubes, spheres and cones from multiple light sources and angles. Do a bunch of still lifes and unironically Loomis.

yay first time my stuff has been the thread image!

worked on another background today, have the lighting done now i just gotta color it

>>3214336
Yeah it could use some bounce light in the darker areas. Are you using a lot of overlay layers or something? The whole image is very saturated. Cool brushstrokes though.

>>3214330
No but there isn't much to say besides learning a bit of theory and maybe working monochrome to begin with.

>>3214265
Very nice. The jaw area is kinda fucked and so is the ear. The hair is too loosely rendered compared to the rest. Bonus points for that foot.

>>3213907
Love the colors and the rendering is promising. The composition is very lacking IMO. Mostly because the positive and negative shape are evenly divided and the angle is kinda boring. It's kinda charming otherwise.

>>3213838
Those are neat. I like the pose and shapes on the right a lot more. The other two are kinda stiff.

>>3213694
Some more contrast in selected areas would be nicer. It's too even. The composition and proportions aren't bad though.

>>3214359
Yeah, I tend to overlay a fuckton of images together over the composition and then merge the whole layer before overpainting. I tend to forget to brighten it up after.

>>3213841
There are way more artists who use this extremely generic western comic book ink style based on that one line weight tutorial image with the dude in the sunglasses that constantly gets reposted on /ic/.

>>3214336

>>3214462
i just played with the levels in photoshop

>>3214353
the wonky perspective doesn't bother me much. But the pavement does.

>>3213628
please respond

>>3214465
Hey, thanks, that works pretty well.
I should get myself photoshop, Sketchbook Pro has nice brushes but post-processing is virtually nonexistent in comparison.

>>3214483
>>3213628
If lines are statements, you're trying to say too much, all at once, with no logical structure. Simplify your ideas, give them some space to breathe.
Instead of one confusing tangled line, use a simple C curve and a straight to give it an extra punch. The ear or the silhouette of the nose is where it's the most notable.

I also don't understand why you'd pick such a complicated model and draw it from different angles just to practice contours. Maybe breaking the head down into simple forms, kinda like Peter Han does, would've been more beneficial? Dunno.

>>3213614
any feedback?

>>3213665
whatever it is I respect it.

>>3214361
The thumbnail looks god tier. I think at this point you should start thinking about refining pieces, it looks like you've started getting the hang of blocking colors out. Also gimme the sauce on the reference you used, I wanna try painting this as well

>>3214613
start thinking about design- think about using small medium and large shapes in everything you do and always get rid of stuff that doesn't make sense. like why the hell is this guy wearing TWO belts when he's already got his pants secured by a sash?

>>3214613
belt don't work that way, where is beltguy when you need him

>>3214265

Don't tell me this was made in Procreate

無處

>>3214738
Photoshop CS 6

>>3214522
how do i portray all the detail and form in a model like that without using those tiny lines? is it possible with lineart?
>to practice contours
im just practicing a variation on a head from observation
>straight lines
arent those a crutch? if the ref isnt straight then i shouldnt use a straight line right?

tell me if im wrong on any of these, also im not exactly sure what to practice for the next short while, any advice?

Any c&c?

>>3214353
Tbh, as another anon said I actually prefer the underpainting, and I find it a bit mediocre (but most of the previous thread sucked)
Now that this is said, undertaking such a painting is courageous, inspiring, and it's pretty cool to have some traditional.
In general I'm very fond of your background s, even this one despite the fucked perspective.
Keep up the good work!

OP where can I find a guide about getting that backfround effect? Not a bad work, man!

>>3214837
Thumbnailing is very important for composition, try out several small sketches before deciding on the final one.

Well, its my third creation, so pls be honest.

>>3214871
thanks I guess. In fact I always do lots of thumbnails for every comp, but one thing is that when making the clean drawing, I most often lose all the energy of the thumb.
One thing I was thinking was to do some things with a different approach for a while to kill this deadly cycle.

Made a bunch of changes since my last draft. How does it look so far? Crits? A lot of things don't seem right

working on this photostudy

>>3214988
ref img

>>3213614
Any input is appreciated.

>>3215004
Going to become something like this in the end, but I need to change the gold stash and possibly add some trees etc.

finished this

>>3214877

It's your third creation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixljWVyPby0

>>3215169
alright now im done

>>3215169
Yes! oil painting has got to represent cell phones more often, especially in portraiture.

>>3215200
most of the time when i do sketches in public it's people on a cell phone or laptop. honestly anything besides constant phone use in portraiture looks kind of staged at this point.

rough experimental creature doodle.. I think I will just do some photo studies after this

>>3215200
>oil painting has got to represent cell phones more often
but why?

>>3215194
being an artist?

I wanna be your dog

I've been drawing a person each day now during my breaks at work.

>>3215246
I love these, and you did the impossible. You drew a bike. Fucking things are impossible.

Though... it seems a bit dark overall.

>>3214892
you clearly are trying to do something that you have no idea how to do. Either search references for what you try to achieve or try to do something less ambitious for now. You're over your head with this one

>>3215246
amazing. do you sketch them from life then polish them later? or are these from photographs?

chipping away at this

>>3214988
i think you might be losing some of the drama by excluding the stuff in the foreground from the ref, kinda feels like we're on the edge of the action instead of in the middle of it.

>>3214837
it's clear it started as a solo character piece which you built upon afterwards. the rushed layout and composition sort of detract from the character, so I would crop all the unnecessary space out and focus on the girl.

>>3214892
>>3215272
i tried to find some references who are close to what you're trying to achieve

sun in your eyes

>>3215276
Fun!

>>3215276
>it's clear it started as a solo character piece which you built upon afterwards

no it's not. why would I lie to some anon on an ottoman woodworking board?
If you want evidence for it, when I posted the lineart for the character alone it was at the same tilted angle in this image. If I drew it as a solo character, I would have drawn it upright.

As I said most often when I try to translate a sketch/thumb into an actual drawing, some awful things go on that destroy most of the idea. Not always, but often.

one example is this: I did a design of a car that I thought was pretty cool, but the perspective was wonky. I tried to redo it while fixing a perspective grid, but it completely destroyed the design. I tried on another grid and it still destroyed the design. Unfortunately I don't have the scans to show it, but it's one of the major things that hamper me: how do you get from gesture/thumb to full perspective drawing while retaining essential qualities of the drawing?

rant over, but if anybody has tips I'll go read/watch/learn.

i just started using watercolors. any thoughts?

>>3215234
10/10

Is this "good"?

>>3215276
Now that I look at it, maybe you cut off the upmost ear a bit, to create a tangent between the picture edge and the tip? Right now, it gives off the sensation of being ever-expanding upward. It's a pretty pretty lovely lovely picture, would love to see more of what you got.

>>3215276
foxsheep-anon what's your blog again? You should animate more btw

Could someone help me, pic related is me trying to draw from imagination, I start by just drawing a line and then building random forms off it, however the results are usually completely random, and I have trouble putting the forms that are in my head onto paper without them looking flat. I heard someone say it's easier if you imagine a silhouette but i'm not sure. Does anyone have any advice on this?

>>3215276
I love the design and style i think it needs some color adjustments. It's too dark, kinda hard to read and slightly too yellow (could be my screen). Some atmospheric perspective would be nice. Otherwise it's super comfy.

messin around with water colors

>>3214336
i like the lighting coming from the back, but i think you have too many saturated colours, so the bright colours dont have the effect they could have if they were contrasting some less saturated areas. its mostly visible in the very brown street you have, in the darkness they wouldnt have this tint of yellow they would have from the light coming from your light source. also it doesnt really look much like a modern collapsed city, but more like a fantasy-scene because of the brown rocky path imo.

>>3214336
is your monitor properly calibrated?

didnt do a good job on that one.

How can I improve the composition of this? It feels wonky.

>>3215209
Way cool, I really like the way you rendered its skin/fur. Looks a little shrink-wrapped maybe but if that's what you're going for it looks great.

>>3215234
blog?

>>3214988
bit of progress

alright last update

>>3215654
wow nice brush. I'd ask what it is, but I can't use it right annyway....

Can I get some opinion on this please? I am not super serious about drawing it just makes me feel good I draw like once a few months when I have that kind of mood but I am still curious.

>>3215732
It is a shitty painting with tons of mistakes and symbol drawing.
Apply yourself

>>3215654
good stuff
a question on that sun position. if its that low (for the shadows to be that way) then wouldnt it be sunset? and therefore have a redder/darker colourscheme?

>>3215732
Sorry I made it worse. :P

Which one do i take to completion?

>>3215822
Tbh you should always try to finish your work. But if I had to choose one, I am really liking the composition/content of the 2nd down on the left.

>>3215820
not bad for what you had to work with...

>>3215807
What is symbol drawing explain please.

>>3215820
Why is she suddenly an elf lol.
The eyes are kinda creepy and for some reason that white line after you moved the nose bothers me the most. But sure you tried something could have been worse.

>>3215732
first of all, turning the head puts the eyes closer together. Many beginners make this mistake. Necks are not cylinders. Mouth should be higher and to the right. Study lip anatomy to get a sense of how the masses come together and connect with the area under the nose. Ear is way to small. Ears should be from the top of the eyebrow to the bottom of the nose. Hand anatomy is trash. Choker is not in perspective. I really like most of your rendering though.

>>3215849
Thanks, that is a lot of stuff to work with. There are some of the things you mentioned that I know are supposed to look that way and for some reason I just chose to draw like this anyway so maybe I should work on that.
Also all my drawings look kind of different and I keep changing styles everytime I get to drawing something.

painted a crowded beach

>>3215385
That's an unprecedented amount of crutches.

>>3216019
I love this, it has so much character and the tones and shades are so derived, well-mixed

>>3216052
>I don't know how to paint: The Post

>>3216052
I know you're just trolling but eh.

It was my first time making something in Illustrator and I hated it every step of the way.

pls halp... pls...pls

>>3216091
here's half a paint-over

>>3215732
>>3215820


Try to visualize the 'volumes' more. Construct harder. Make your eyes in proportion and draw tits with some weight that 'PULL' down towards the nipple. Add better sway of wind effects. Visualize hands in more basic shapes first and construct them at the correct angles.

profound revelations

Some comp sketches based on Shadow of the Torturer

>>3216098
Wow that looks way awesome- What sorta brush did you use around the eye? It's a very blurry feel but still some how comes across as sharp around the edges.

Thanks for the help I can see where my stuff was looking more warped. I'll use your paint over as a reference for how the lighting should fall

>>3216106
hard round brush with only 50% transfer for the whole thing.

>>3216109
Thanks for the help- Will keep working on this one.

>>3215828
I'll try that one. any idea of what it is tho? haha.

>>3216052
Ever try drawing anon?

>>3215822
The top right look more interesting to me. I don't know what the fuck is it though.

>>3215555
no man i like this

>>3214761
underrated

>>3214613
fantasy version of merc.wip

Can I get a redline on this? Doing a drawing for a friend but it's kind of wrong looking.

>>3214829
What difference does a tiny line or a thick straight make when it comes to conveying form? Detail, yes, but that's literally the least important part of your drawing.

Straight lines are no crutch, disregard whoever told you that bullshit. Again, think of lines as statements. A curve is melodic, graceful and elusive, while a straight is a bold statement - it tells you exactly where it starts, where it stops and what angle it is. Which is when doing studies, you should use them a lot, for block in, for measuring etc.
Even in creative work, squeezing in a little straight makes a curve look even curvier and more graceful in contrast.

I think you might find it enlightening to try a few plates from Charles Bargue's drawing course, hm?
Don't get me wrong, your observation is pretty gud, it's just some minor misconceptions about portraying form you could improve.
I also can't recommend enough Drawabox and Dynamic sketching for some quality line and form exercises.

>>3215703
it's one of the default photoshop ones where it changes according to stylus orientation. Don't worry about not using it right, I'm sure I'm not tapping to its fullest potential either.
>>3215809
good point. I made the shadow longer because I thought it would make a better composition, but I'll consider that when I keep working on it.

>>3216103
Whoa, I love this kind of statement.

It needs more consistency but you could study poster artists or "Vorticists" like Wyndham Lewis.

>>3215417
Still looking for a critique my dudes

>>3215417
Your picture is in that no man's land area where it's tough to critique it without you giving us something in particular to critique you know? You just toss this average looking image at us and say "CRIT" but unless we know exactly what you're going for, it's pointless. The generic critique applies here: No contrast. Asymetrical features, stiff pose etc. Is she supposed to look frumpy? I don't know.

It helps to give some details about what you're trying to achieve with the piece to help guide any potential critique.

>>3215820
Her right eye (our left) is sunk very far back into her skull. Her nose is also curving to the right of where she's facing so that we see more of a front on view of her nose but the rest of her head is from a 3/4 view

>>3215252
I hated every second of drawing the bike.

>>3215273
These are all from imagination but I looked at a few photos of people from different ethnicities to get the features right

>>3215438
bump

I'm trying

>>3213614
sorry reupload

practice from tonight

>>3216407

>>3216407
dank

>>3213614

>>3216079
>>3216019
commenting on your own photos again I see. go make your own thread man. nobody really wants to see your stuff in here.

Critiques?

>>3215555
I don't know whether that's a finished piece or not but I really like where it's going. You should look into playing around with line weight a bit more, since some parts (such as the table legs) have lines that are too thick. You can also play around with adjusting the colors of the lineart depending on the immediate surroundings but if you wanna stay black because of a style choice then that's more than fine.

And if you were planning on getting to that anyways, then disregard my advice.

warm up doodle

>>3216138
thanks
>>3216567
oh yeah i have no idea what to do when im doing lineart it never looks good. I hate doing it anyway but im not good at painting as well so im frustrated.

Im trashman.

>>3215438

You like Amano. Good taste!

>>3216464

This one is really good

Took about an hour and I feel needs much more work, but I want to know what ways I can improve my brushwork. I mostly used the hard round brush here with opacity but not size, using circlular motions to blend the colours and trying to get hard and soft edges in there. The face looks like it has too many thick lines in it but I like how the shoulder muscles look.

>>3216814
that like what I accomplish in 15 minutes.

>>3216826
oh shit watch out guys

>>3216826
Cool, but I don't care and that's not help.

this might be the worst painting ive ever made

>>3216855
looks like shit.

>>3216826
This thread is for critiques, not cunts

<90 minute warm up study. Basic shit...

>>3216826
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>>3216961
still nice MY DUDE

>>3216961
garbage bud.

>>3216551
great how it is, is it going to be refined more? don't really know what to crit about it at this point otherwise. nice shape language tho

>>3216404
rly?? last time i posted you guys tore me a new one. i get it's hard to crit studies but i need my ass kickt

>>3216971
fix your shit

>>3217029
fix your mum to stop her from creating more dickheads

>>3215276
think i might be done with this, may have over worked it. let me know what y'all think!

>>3215393
>>3215433
>>3215444
thanks! hopefully this is a bit better.

>>3215435
more animations soon, comrade

>>3216855
i think it looks cool honestly

>>3216404

Look at the thumbnail. Does it read well to you? To me the texture looks like a delicious cheesy pizza. The value range is all over the place and there's no sense of focus. Like where do you want our eyes to go? I'd recommend doing some value studies with a harder brush splitting out the areas of shadow and light etc. before going into all that wrinkle detail.

I just came back to this months later because I was stuck and now I'm still stuck. Something about this isn't coming together or very wrong and I can't pinpoint it. Help me out please.

>>3217089
fuck anon, you've got an amazing eye for colors! The first thing that really pops out as off is the breasts, and general chest area. The breasts too high and too scooted to the left, and the whole chest looks unnaturally wide. Remember the breasts hang a bit lower on the pecks, you should try painting a nude version of the chest to get a better look at how you're positioning everything with all of the anatomy in place.

two other less important things, is that the raised hand looks slightly too big, and her bangs almost merge with her forehead, you should try adding at least a little bit of shadow to separate them more.

a couple of nitpicks: the hand shouldn't be bigger than the face. the breasts look like they're positioned wrong,

>>3217089
fuck anon, you've got an amazing eye for colors! The first thing that really pops out as off is the breasts, and general chest area. The breasts too high and too scooted to the left, and the whole chest looks unnaturally wide. Remember the breasts hang a bit lower on the pecks, you should try painting a nude version of the chest to get a better look at how you're positioning everything with all of the anatomy in place.

two other less important things, is that the raised hand looks slightly too big, and her bangs almost merge with her forehead, you should try adding at least a little bit of shadow to separate them more.

>>3217073
you're right, it reads horribly. but i did do just that, started in monochrome etc. thanks for the input

>>3217127

No problem man. I hope I didn't sound too harsh. I don't think that's a really good photo to be studying. It doesn't have a lot of value information and it looks like it's had a lot of color grading. Kind of looks like my mum though which is kinda weird.

I just tried searching "old woman photography" on Google and I found a bunch of more interesting photographs in the first ~20 that popped up.

>>3217089

That's really cool. IMO listen to what >>3217113 is saying though. I also think her eyes aren't positioned properly. The one to our left is too low as the angle of her nose and mouth imply that they should be more leveled.

>>3217089
i tried
>>3217073
>>3217127
also no salt, you told me what i needed to hear lol

>>3217139
i'm really glad these threads are becoming more helpful than back in the day when it was just 'kill yourself' i'm never gonna be upset with legit crits, gods work my dude

>>3216646

>>3217089
The color is good and the proportion need some small fixes like this >>3217113 anon said.
The problem i see beside that right now is the whole picture is a little too "normal". The pose doesn't have any effect and give a a vibe that she just hold up her hand just because.
Try fixing the flow and define the shape more to give it more impact. Also somehow your picture remind me of buddla pose.
Pic related have a good flow and a nice visual impact.

>>3217163
>>3217141
>>3217113
>>3217139

Woah thank you guys so much. It's already looking a LOT better with your suggestions. And the character is supposed to be ethereal or whatever and the first thing that came to mind is that pose of the Madonna
you know the one where she has a hand on her chest and the other up, but it wasn't working here. I'll fiddle around with more interesting positioning for the hands to get a better compositional flow going

>>3217204
I think a little too much of the leftside horn tip is visible, since her head's at an angle, it should be receding.

The breast area is looking loads better. I'm in love with how you lit the underside of the mouth, though--so nice!

>>3217157
i'm glad he reminds you of scrat, because that is pretty much my favourite character archetype

>>3217204

>>3213614

>>3217240
Love it

I am happier with this than the dog I did earlier for an hour study, still p. bad. Help appreciated.

By the way, I am so excited to have rediscovered this animal, the colugo. Look at it, it's so fucking awesome. Like it come right out of a game or movie already. I want to do so many studies of this guy.

>>3217295

Hey, that's a pretty cool animal. Never knew a thing like that existed. I think you might want to spend a little more time on your studies. You got the colors right and the thumbnail looks great but you need to learn to imply materials better. Many artists have said that the best way to learn materials is to do it the hard/slow way first and then start figuring out which steps you can leave out.

I also recommend watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Bj_EmFm-g

It's nothing fancy but it's only ~12 minutes and you get the general idea of rendering fur.

>>3217316
Hey thanks, textures and brushwork is definitely my current weak point. I might do some slow material studies next if you think that's best. I was going to do some fruits and leaves and skin first since I don't have to focus on anatomy etc.
I've actually already watched that video this week! I love it, even if his wonderful technique frustratingly goes over my head. I'll need to re-watch it.

>>3217013
Thanks! I can see myself tweaking the shape of the flames and maybe refining some edges, but not much beyond that. I posted here mostly to see if someone could spot a mistake that went past me.

How can I improve?

>>3215820
uhhh a lil like this maybe (sorry i had to do this w a touchpad)

>>3217089
this is where you want the head to be imo

>>3215843
Please start in the beginner thread and use the references available. The book "drawing on the right side of the brain" will help you immensely :) good luck!

>>3217295
That thing is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
And your study is quite nice as well. I just wish there were just a few brushstrokes on the branch to give it roundness. It doesn't really matter for your study but the flat color zone kinda attracts my attention. It looks good nonetheless.

>>3217445
nah, i think the first one's head looks better. the torso is the problem.

>>3217440
Wrong. Corners of lips line up with the inner pupil, a smile with the outer.

Eh, I don't know. I think the values are fucked

Quick

>>3217806
not so quick

>>3217813
Spent way too long

Anything I should correct?

WIP. I'm don't really like those building on the foreground

instead of the fruit, I drew another colugo. oops. fruit next

Time to abandon this one. I'm way off- there is no resemblance which means i need to stop painting in color and go back grey scales in order to improve on proportions. Learn from my mistake of neglecting a critical foundation in art.

>>3217723
Because the foreground and its object have the same values as the mountains in the distance. Looks flat as hell despite the neat colors. Just desaturate the image, paint over what values they should be, then take note and repaint with the same hues in the new correct value/saturation.

>>3217723
Fuck it here's not even a paint over, I just fucked with your values a tad.

>>3217900
>>3217723
honestly I think if you just add some atmospheric perspective and desaturate the mountains a bit it would pop more. That said, I find the over-the-top saturation of the original kind of charming, like i'd hang that somewhere in the house. Then again i'm a sucker for orange and blue contrast.

Didn't update this like I said I would all that time ago, and I'm still not finished with it lmao

>>3217961
before

>>3217962

This is really nice! Got that Rick & Morty vibe going in their eyes. I gotta admit I sort of prefer the one with the line art though. If you want to do it without lines you'd need to be more precise with the direction of the light. It looks like both of the kids faces were lit from the front when it doesn't seem to be the case elsewhere in your image.

Peter Stapleton made some stuff that's at least rendered similarly. Maybe you should check out some of his process videos for some lighting tips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PN4AWOJIM0&t=235s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZeIUfoQm0

I lied again on drawing the fruit.

>>3217998
Thanks! These vids are gonna be really useful, hopefully I'll be able to post an update more quickly this time.

>>3217893
>>3217900
>>3217909

Thanks, will definitely take these into account

>>3218216
Is that you John Cullen? Is this me?

Fixed the values, added some details and now throwing some more birds in there.

haven't drawn in a while so did some studies

>>3218402
Loving it so far, but you may want to look into making the sea not so dark considering how much sunlight there is.

The angle of the shadows is definitely off, but mostly pleased with the atmosphere

>>3218511
Shit, wrong one

>>3218497
Yeah, I'll look into that. There will be stuff in the foreground as well which catches the sunlight and creates more shadows on the water so maybe I don't need to do that much in the end

>>3218497
Wrong famalam. Deep water is dark and highly reflective

Some sketches

>>3218573
there is a beginner thread you know?
did it ever occur to you that your proportions are fucking terrible and that you can put down a clear line? that you are not drawing what you see but what you think you see? That you should start studying properly?

did a self portrait

>>3218652
lol

>>3217864
Love this.

>>3218652
Kek...worked at a care home for disabled people for a few years and this reminds me of what they would produce in art therapy

>>3218652
check em

>>3218615
Except I wasn't using a reference and was practicing using my head.

>>3218670
>>3218658
>>3218671
i was inspired by the symmetrical, hairy lined, symbol drawn look of the artists in /beg/

lizzo study

Did some graphite pencil today, it's been a while since I done this.

>>3218750
holy shit, pretty damn nice anon

>>3218550
Yes, but not usually as dark as this, especially since it's relatively close to the shore.

>>3218750
PLEASE POST MORE

>>3218782
ok

Some imagination drawing on a post-it

>>3218801
also more please i love your work

k, did one of my waifu

>>3214353
Are you the person who's working on "Roadkill" that graphic novel/webcomic?

>>3217603
I really like this.

>>3218216
still plugging along

>>3218298
this is a self portrait, are you talking about the hockey player?

I made some more doodles today

>>3219117
Her face looks pretty retarded... I might fix it.

Here's another

>>3215822
>>3216125
about 70% done with this one, I don't know if I wanna keep polishing this turd tho, I could try to add more atmosphere to help separate shapes a bit better but I though it would be a good idea to do everything in like 2 layers so now it's near impossible.

>>3217434
hmm.. lineweight and shading? best part are the tentacles.
>>3217603
thats cool n all, but i feel it would be better composition-wise if you'd cut it where all the shiet starts to fade. Or just draw more there, there is too much empty space at the top


some sketches from me

>>3219157
I dig your linework Anon - I'm trying to learn how to draw in a similar style.
Are you going to color it?
Blog?

I feel like her face is 'off' somehow. Maybe in the eye area?

>>3219458

>>3219136
the fengiest of zhus

le fat tribal guy

WIP

>>3219380
I'm probably not gonna color it. I know next to nothing about coloring or painting. As for the lines, I sketch really messily and then sculpt the lines with the eraser. It's very time consuming and annoying, but it's the only way I know how to do it.

I have a newgrounds thread where I post my stuff.
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1419062

Worked on this for a week

Literally first time painting since I was in school, just picking this up as a hobby. Interested in opinions on where I can improve. Not particularly happy with the left-side pebbles but it turned out much better than I thought I could do.

>>3219683
Also apologies for having to use a phone camera I simply don't own anything that can capture the painting better digitally.

>>3218901
>>3219302

thanks,
it would be a lie if i said any thought went into composition other then overlaping and avoiding tengants. I should though.

>>3219150
That helmet on the right is really cool

>>3218573
Dude those proportions.

Imagine seeing a guy like that in real life, that would be fucking terrifying.

>>3219683
There is a beginner thread for stuff like this.

>>3219854
Ah, please excuse me.
Polite sage.

Trying to practice rendering and the human torso at the same time. Blending feels so damn difficult, but I think I'm picking up a few things.

>>3219136
Anon, pls stop and get back to the fundies.
Apart from this image looking like two staked upon each other, your composition is very bad.
Where should I look in this image, everything is overly prominent with no sense of direction.
Hell, even the environment doesn't make any sense. Where are these huge water masses coming from when there is nothing but mountains surrounding it.
Please think before you mindlessly slap textures on a poorly drawn thumbnail.

>>3218573
You got nice lines and your understanding of the forms is well enough but as the other anons suggested you should be more careful about to proportions.

started this

>>3218864
Yes sir, this a concept for the background style for Roadkill actually. Going for a kinda run down old European style city

>>3219120
>>3219117

I really like these! I wish I had such a vivid imagination and sense of motion... Would be super cool to render out something like this. Cool-yo.

>>3219885
lil more

>>3219136
This is the textbook definition of trying to run before you can walk. Stop photobashing and work on your fundies.

>>3219969
She should have been wonder woman

I designed a few characters over the years and would like to know what might be right or wrong with the designs and what I could do to improve my art or my designs.

https://imgur.com/a/ZWDff

>>3219597
Thanks!

>>3219996
finished this

>>3220449
very interesting approach

>>3220459
thanks its a different style than ive done in the past. very stroke-intensive but i think the results are worth it

>>3220471

Is that an oil painting? I think you could utilize that technique in parts of a painting but it'd have to be some kind of war/action/horror- thing. I feel like I'm getting a seizure just looking at those fruits and I'm not sure if that was your intention.

started inking on the five point

>>3215169
first one is the best

>>3216551
this is great

>>3219458
nose is a bit recessed. practice drawing that angle a bit.

>>3217927
moar

>>3219867
draw from life
picking the exact colors with the color picker is the wrong approach

>>3220491
Nice

>>3220508

>picking the exact colors with the color picker is the wrong approach

Do you mean eyedropping the colour straight from the figure or manually picking a color from the color picker, because I eyeballed it.

I did the painting. This was an experiment without a plan.

>>3220585
Oh god I love this so fucking much please never plan again anon and be my cute artist bf ;-;

>>3213614
here's something. any real crits that are helpful? oil on canvas paper.

>>3213614
forgot image...

>>3219615
kek
Just imagine what you could have done in that time, what you could have learned

>>3219302
these fingers are crippled, look at the index for example and how crooked it would be in real life. You are just copying the shapes instead of the form that underlies these things

>>3219087
looks like fucking isley

>>3220802
oh yes, i am well aware of that. I prob should've mentioned, the upper one is older, i was merely filling up the empty spaces in my sketchbook

>>3218652
u must be mentally disabled or maybe autistic? and I don't mean this in a meme sorta way. i think you legitimately are though. instead of being mean to you, at least you can still live life and enjoy something from it.

>>3220409
I agree, Gal Gadot is a really shitty actress that cant even adjust her voice.But then again seeing how catastrophic the DCEU is becoming, i think it is better this way.

oil paint, you can check the speedpainting here if you're interested.
youtu.be/yLkySuCVFAY

>>3218817

>>3221015
im just lonely. did this painting today too. working through some ideas

>>3221304
where teh blog at senpai?

>>3221312
this is done only critique is the bottom left looks a little muddy compared to the rest of it. And I don't like the very outside border.

>>3220597
well thank you! E d du N;)?

>>3221312
>>3218652

Don;t know why you're getting roasted. The technique is not amazing, but your work feels like a nice cross between impressionism and cubism.

The colours and overall feel are great!

I think maybe the brush work is a little lazy, perhaps slow down a tad. The hand on the portrait is fucked up, and not in a well considered way.. but I love the face.

>>3221317
yaow12.tumblr.com

>>3215007
What the fuck, you're making anti-semite art? This is garbage. It looks like a collage made in paint.

>>3219458
the nose is front view but the head is 3/4

>>3213614
I should had choose another hobby like shoe making or something. Drawing is hard.

study

Quick muscle study

>>3221996
you are right!

>>3222039
>>3222039
>>3222039

NEW THREAD
NEW THREAD
NEW THREAD

>>3217864
I actualy really like the buildings. However, the green of the volcano looks a way too saturated compared to them.