/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Colour-wise, how can I better convey those sunbeams?

Why are there so few replies?

>>3443930
shadows

Digital is so boring

>>3444072
so is your work

>>3444092
tsssssssss

>>3444072
Do you even try to get proportions correct?

>>3444092
Yes

>>3444187
Give me a critique if it’s so bad

Wip

just over halfway there I reckon, any feedbacks?

>>3444043
How does this effect happen? It's like you can see the actual rays of light. Is it because of AO?

>>3444214
how do I color pallette like you?
But you need to clear your brushwork

First and only digital. So easy.

>>3444068
Looks kinda nasty when you see the full thing, but the thumbnail is amazing. Did you use any reference?

>>3444035
Because we like to complain more than draw and paint.

>>3444214
looks nice in thumbnail.

Is this pose ok?

>>3444072
It's pretty fucked up that you go around saying you're the greatest artist ever when your girlfriend is clearly better than you in every way. But you probably talk down on her art and walk around like you're the real artist in the relationship like you do on this board. Pretty lame, dude.

>>3444420
And I'm sure you'll completely miss the point and say "duuuuuhhh my woman supports my art my woman is hot durrrrrr"

>>3444420
Me and my woman make totally different styles of art. No way to know whose better. I freehand, she traces. I do abstract and she does representational (the real reason you think she is better). She filters, I don’t. She paints big, I paint small. Comparing us is like comparing Van Gogh (me) to Rembrandt (he). It’s incomparable. How a lot of people in our city prefers my art.

*however

>>3444478
It would be beneficial to you if you keep those kind of comments to yourself.
Otherwise, people could know about your true nature.

>>3444490
I didn’t say anything wrong. That’s the truth.

>>3444499
What a waste of good digits. Now fuck off, you aren't even posting new art

>>3444521
Now that I put it in perspective you see I am the best.

QUESTION, this is from an artist that i'm trying to study. when i up the saturation on her work to better see the wide variety of color, i can see that this was rendered with what looks to be endless tiny strokes or 'dotting'/dabbing the brush, rather than gliding the brush and covering large areas like most people do. Is this correct?

>>3444576
in phtoshp yu can customize your brush to color dynamics.

so when you do a stroke it changes saturation or hue...mix it up with overlay and that would be it.

I don't know where to go from here...

I tried some loomis stuff and I'm not sure if I'm good enough to progress to the part about expressions or not, but I'm bored of just drawing cartoon faces. There's something unsatisfying and frustrating about it.

After that, I enter a period where I'm not drawing as much as I think I should and/or not actually trying when I do draw.

So some time passes and I think okay, maybe I should go look at some other drawing tutorials since Loomis is annoying me for whatever reason.

I find a tutorial online some where which recommends practising the basics for a time before actually bothering with drawing stuff, which I do and think that I'm not as technically good as I used to be (which probably wasn't that good to begin with), so I go back to the /ic/ sticky...

I try drawing the Stravinsky, and realize that either my technical ability is not as bad as I thought it was or I spent more time on this than I should've. But I still make mistakes. I also give up on the head and face because aside from me getting the lines wrong, by that time, I was bored of the exercise and was more interested in seeing how the proportions worked as a whole. My proportions are off? and they seemed to be off when I was doing the skill exercises too, but the result isn't nearly as off as I... I don't...

This is process is frustrating me and I'm not even completely sure why. I feel like someone tossed a hot pizza at my face while playing the Head-On ad.

tl;dr: I feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and oddly enraged. Tell me if this is a good result or not so I can move on.

>>3444600
Or just... I don't know just tell me something because I've been trying to learn to draw on my own all this time and its too hard to do it that way for me because I just overanalyse every fucking thing.
I'm not even sure it ever made sense for me to do this exercise.

Practicing

>>3444420
Who's his girlfriend?

>>3444600
It's a good result, move on.

>>3444576
maybe a bit, like the red on the face, but upping the saturation causes noise, so it's probably that.

>>3444609
Thank you.


I guess I'll try working on faces and maybe draw some shoulders and stuff to. See what I get from that.

>>3444621
I used to mix up the rules for /ic/ and /i/ so I didn't realize I could even do this kind of thing until now.

Its a good thing I checked that otherwise I'd be frustrated forever.

>>3444195
This is drake right?

Even if it isn't, the lips are too tall, and the left and right side of the lips should line up around the middle of the eye. Eyes should be about a single eye width apart, yours are wider. His nose is wider.

>>3444613
what's going on with the wolf's mouth? I appreciate the shading you've got going on

>>3444613
I'm curious now.
What's the story with the wolf?

My character for the tabletop rpg Masks.

>>3444611
Round face... looks Hawaiian. Not a bad drawing.
What's all the stuff in the background gonna be?

Also put a cover over your mattress or photograph your stuff in a different place.

>>3444681
Hair looks alright.
I'm not sure if she's supposed to be a bit overweight, but you seem to be getting there with the general figure.

>>3443930
They look fine?
What's the intention?

>>3444719
nvm.

>>3444428
>>3444420
Why do you fucking care? If this person is a problem, it doesn't really matter because he's not going to go away unless he actually does the kind of thing you are doing right now.
Stop shitting up the board.

What do you guys think?

>>3444816
Finished version

>>3444816
>>3444819
>4160x3120
>sideways

no ones gonna click m8

>>3444819

what do yall think of my latest banner for my art profile?

>>3444266
Off yourself newfag

>>3443930
I think you need a brighter yellow and make the light beam brighter higher up

>>3444258
good stuff

>>3444916
That's really cool

Did two interior drawings

>>3445660
Second one

>>3444035
Only a handful of people actually draw and post regularly on this board.

>>3445707
And lately I spend more time shitposting than posting what I'm working on (Brian)

>>3444901
what is it?

>>3444035
Draw Threads aren't well-defined enough conceptually.

crit pls

>>3444536
This is bait right? The paintings look like a highschooler really tried their best and it came out decent not really beyond that.
In any case if you're not baiting and this is your art I hope to see you actually get good eventually since there are not that many decent traditional artists here.

>>3446113
Wait I did not read the name nvm carry on you're doing great, big fan!!!

>>3446134

Color study of my kitchen

>>3446374
How long you been arting for?

>>3444261
dust scatters light

>>3444413
what are you going for? is it meant to be a battle stance or what? her pose doesn't have much weight to it

>>3446374
Well done.

>>3446374
very nice.

i wanna be a concept artist

i wanna be a concept artist

>>3446374
Looks awesome. Is it digital? or watercolor?
>>3444613
I very much like the mood that is created because of pure black areas of background


Reading through the Johannes Itten book and doing the exercises along the way. All non black-and-white blocks are from the section about the hue contrast. Black-and-white blocks are a beginning of the brightness contrast chapter. I do not really FEEL that I took much out of these exercises. But I believe by even without feeling the progress, my mind upgraded a bit by doing those. Am I delusional?

>>3446716
Sorry, forgot to resize

>>3446374
hot hot hot

>>3446056
nice colours

>>3446883
The style falls apart at the giant brown shadow at her neck. Maybe try softening that shadow. Would lose the consistency of the style but would make it much nicer to look at. Would do you good to not be attached to one type of brush stroke across an entire piece. A style can be more than just one technique.

Remember me

>>3446675
quite nice, but the ones on the left and top right are hard to decipher. There is too much stuff going on (shape-wise and coneptually) and not enough motivation for some design choices. Whats the blob in the tree? Whats with the menhirs? What is the pole needed for? Simplify your designs and repeat shapes for consistency.

>>3447019
No, sorry. Your work seems pretty unmemorable. Who are you?

been trying my hand at a different style

>>3446685
I dig this

Haven't posted here in a while but need a fresh pair of eyes now, before I round this one up.
Any glaring issues?

>>3447129
One thing I would say is to watch out for any missing details especially in the darker areas like the lips and ears

>>3447019
You know what, he'll be remembered. I'll give him that.

>>3447129
try simplifying your shapes.

>>3444676
>>3444653
>>3446716

He is Bunkai. God of decomposition. The main character in the story lost his best friend, a blackbird. Bunkai has come to claim it.

>>3446457
No, it's more like she's distracted, like surprised something childish and playful almost. By "ok" I meant is it ok anatomically-proportionally-gesture-vise

I'm too bored with this to continue so I'm calling it finished.

>>3444536
You post a lot of trash, but id give this a 6/10. Apply yourself. You know how to use color and light, but we need to see how you work with space. It's time to put those same tired brush strokes aside and put that oil paint to better effectiveness. It's great that you probably produce more than anyone else here and you are trying new things and experimenting, but your work is getting stale. Do some landscape studies or something that isn't broad strokes portraiture. Like I said, you probably do more than 90 percent of the folks here, some would shitpost you at any opportunity, but I want to see you improve.

Also, the 777 thing is kitsch. Anyone who wasn't raised on a diet of paint chips can do better than that. I know you can.

>>3444613
Imagery is excellent, but doesn't read well.

>>3444681
Look up the term 'symbol' drawing. Stop doing that.

>>3444901
Kangs/10

>>3446374
Best thing in the thread. Doing gods work. Keep it up.

>>3446883
>>3447011
The neck shadow is desaturated. More color in your color m8.

>>3447419
Make it not-boring then. See it through.

>>3447055
Appreciate the crit, yeah I tried going for that bizzaro fantasy look but my shapes and understanding of architecture and building design is so infantile, got a lot of work ahead of me.

>>3446374
photocopy/10

>>3446386
geez I'd guess since I started hs, but i'm out of uni now.
>>3446466
>>3446576
>>3446734
>>3447544
Thank you
>>3447741
Yeah I used photo reference, I need to do more creatvie stuff but I'm so lazy

>>3446374
Are you the same guy?

Planning to take this idea to a canvas eventually. any thoughts?

>>3448078
Needs more face but very cool

>>3448079
>Needs more face but very cool
i FULLY intend on adding more face, believe me.

Sketch..

can you build a internet following through simpler understated work? one that provides revenue through patreon and/or prints.

Or is it all about maximalistic tightly rendered girls so real you reach out and touch them? Like kr0nprinz and loish. I'm not necessarily looking down at that style, people who paint in it, or people who like it. I understand the broad appeal. except for sakimichan... Just wondering if there are any artists that work with TinTin-esque dot eyes instead of biiig round shining eyes.

>>3447763
>Yeah I used photo reference, I need to do more creatvie stuff but I'm so lazy
bro it's your kitchen, just set up in front of it and draw it.

>>3448313
not with a nose like that

I'm narrowing down a method to make silhouettes fast and with dynamic poses.

>>3448313
I would say that simpler kind of art is the most popular kind right now. As long as you post consistently I think it would build up a following pretty quickly.

I'm pretty happy with how this is coming out.
Any crits welcome, especially about color and painting technique.

Did another drawing at the cigar lounge

>>3448313
I hate literally everything about this design wise, but to say it's not executed well would be a lie. Great consistent brush work, but anatomically it's borderline offensive how you've 'made light' of the person's obesity. A person that 'thicc' in real life would have a much less flattering upper body, but i think we both know that. And don't get me started on your tumblr nose.

>>3448548

theres always at least one thing off after i save

>>3446685
Blog?

Am I late for the whole mermay meme?

What's a good shading?

>>3448418
reminds me of Risk of Rain
very neat

>>3444043
i love me some god rays. in the future maybe direct them a little more from the top rather than the left. but i'm really digging the atmosphere

She's a wrestler that hit u wit a chair.

>>3448662
Really really like the pose on the right.

>>3448972
nice

>>3449419
Unsettling

>>3449419
love it

>>3443929
>>3443929
>>3443929
Does the person who created the art in OP have a blog I can follow? I love this.

I'm not sure if this is the right thread, if not can someone tell me where I can get a better response? I'm just wondering how people turn shitty sketches on paper into very neat vectors. Do you have to scan the sketch and then "go over it" in photoshop or whatever? If so how do you accurately do this while using a >mouse?

>>3449602
>If so how do you accurately do this while using a >mouse?

You don't. That's what tablets are for.

>>3449604
So you scan it in and then meme it with the tablet?

>>3449419
>remember the 6 trillian

>>3449641
That isn't even a Jewish nose you degenerate.

>>3449644
Why so angry, Chaim?

>>3449648
>Chaim
Fucking kek, I'm a white British woman, about as Caucasian as they come faggot, and I'm not the artist.

>>3449650
>I'm a white British woman

do you bf?

working on details

>>3449758
to victory, brave doggo

>>3449650

We'll need to see those jubblies, luv.

>>3449758

I love this holy shit.

>>3449657
>>3449843
Still mad that I ignored you? :^)
Pathetic.

>>3449854
no i here waiting you reply show it to me bobs

>>3449854
>Still mad that I ignored you? :^)
>replies to me

Out with yet tits, "British Woman".

>>3449865
Poor thing, he thinks it's still 2006 and can only communicate in stale memes :(

DO lejun YOU ebaums did it XDDD NEED neva 4give lul HELP??

>>3449854
im with you sis but you're getting kinda cringey

>>3449876
Bitch you better be a fucking super model with the way you're embarrassing yourself on 4chan. Jesus.

>>3449419
Stop doing tumblr shit. Put in the work, draw and learn something. You're wasting time posting kitschy garbage when you could actually be making something worthwhile and making something of yourself. The brushwork is nice, but it's becoming a crutch. Computer generated texture is only going to get you so far and it's not going to cover up your weak areas. Stop posting for praise and do something worthwhile. Everyone knows that tumblr "just add red to every facial feature and make everything cute because drawing is hard" "technique". Make something original and contribute to society and stop letting people enable you.

No idea how to color and render this crap

And I've got two days to figure it out

>>3449968
You got me, it's ya' girl, Barbara Palvin.

>>3449758
blog?

>>3450096
this one will be my first post on Instagram tomorrow actually.

https://www.instagram.com/marcolunavillela/

Stop being Christian.

>>3450199
You forgot the eyepatch and the bandana

WIP portrait of a random youtuber. Almost done with the skin

I think I'm doing ok

>>3450988
That's where you'd be wrong, sweet child

>>3449758
finished

>>3450988
alt or beg is where you want to be
we could crit you but we wont summer child

>>3451089
Great work, man.

Man, I gotta start studyin again. Anatomy stuff I can find, but I'm awful at paintin. If anyone knows any good digital resources or channels that are good at showin someone's process I'd appreciate it.

>>3451089
Nice.

>>3451089
i'm taking this, saying i did it, having prints made and sell them. And there's nothing you can do abut it, faggot.

>>3450375
Pretty good. The eyes seem a little too big, or the mouth too small. Not sure if thats and intentional stylistic choice, but it seems distracting to me

How do I get good at character design?

>>3451089
Digital garbage. Lemme guess this took you about 2 hours on and off?

>>3451229
Look at real people. Just start searchin for pictures and videos of crowds on Youtube. Anyone that jumps out at ya, anyone at all, draw em. Maybe it's what they're wearing, or because they got a long neck, or have a weird shaped head, anything. Also, if you're lookin to make people laugh, you should have a pretty good chance usin mugshots for your caricaturing and design needs. Hell I did one of a guy with a long neck and it ended up turnin into a vampire design that I was satisfied with. See, even made his eyebrows shaped like bat wings. Point bein, don't see the person that stands out to you as an end it itself. See it as the start, the springboard.

>>3451287
That's extremely helpful, anon. Any advice you can give on character design for non humans?

>>3451313
Unfortunately no, man I don't think I've ever tried drawin one.

How's my composition? is it good enough to make something good from it? This is definitely what I struggle the most with, in regards to art. I don't know if it's my weakest point but it's certainly the one I have to force myself through the most.

>>3451501
Alternatively, I tried pushing the good old rule of thirds by making a small change on this one. Either way, crit pls

>>3451501
you should follow the Rule of thirds

>>3451507
Here >>3451503
Do I push it more?

painted this apple. brb gonna paint another and try to fix this one up a little

>>3451512
welp, I saw the second post but didnt read it, you actually made it worse, my eyes focus right on his ass
you need more space to the right, not to the left

>>3451518
Got it. How about now?

>>3451501
this is what i saw in the thumbnail

>>3451580
KEK I can totally see it now holy shit
I guess that's a giveaway of how much better my thumbnail should read

>>3451560
better, but still a bit off, are you using any tool to check the thirds or are you doing it by eye? usually the crop tool shows it

first one on the pic is your composition, the third doesnt line up with the main focus of the dragon, the head area
the rest are some examples, but you should also move the herd (? whatever that dude is looking at) to the other third
not sure how restricted you are in terms of canvas proportion

>>3451613
if you really want to keep the space between the dragon and the other thing as it is, this is the only way

Not like there's anywhere else to post.

>>3451620

oops

>>3451613
>>3451617
Thank you! The canvas proportion is not an issue, it can be whatever. I was using the crop tool and seeing the lines, but I guess I was being a retard. I used to rely too much on lining up the exact spots but now I somehow made a 180 and almost ignore them, which was even worse.
It's a herd, now that the proportions have changed I'll take your advice and move it. I don't know if you're the same anon that's been replying but either way thanks a lot for the feedback. I can usually spot my own problems but when it comes to composition I still don't have an eye for it, this is really helpful man.

>>3450040
post your work or get discarded

>>3451257
like 3 and a half, I’m not that fast

First time in here, what do you think? I recently started taking on this style, inspired by Mariel Carwright and Bryan Lee O´Malley

/beg/ is slow and I'd like some feedback on this before I call it a night, not likely gonna finish it.

>>3451660
I think it's cool. I like your colors and the pose but that soft airbrush-style shading isn't doing you any favors in my opinion
also post in /alt/ instead, you're probably going to trigger some autists in here

>>3451670
Thanks!! And will do

Trying to get back into colouring digitally. Been looking at a lot of Brian froud lately and made me want to try paint blue-ish skin.
I struggle with finding that balance between soft/blended brush strokes and sharper ones (I over blend). Also trying to stop myself from constantly zooming in.
any notes on the colours so far?

Recently started practising 5 hours each day.

Will my wrist get used to it? it hurts.

>>3451738
Not if you don't take breaks m8, I fucked my knee permanently by not taking a break when it was hurting.

Kek

>>3451738
You're taking breaks, right? otherwise you're a fucking madman. If you're already taking a significant amount of breaks, try stretching your hands when you do so. Look for "carpal tunnel excercise" on youtube, there's one single excercise I do where you just bend your hand almost 89 degrees (like saying "stop") and with the other hand pull back your fingers, see if you find it. It's literally the only stretching excercise I've done all these years for drawing and my wrist never hurts, I don't know if it's helped or it's just me.
But yeah, take breaks dude senpai. And make sure you're drawing in a comfortable position, and if you're forcing your wrist movements then maybe start using your elbow for some of them, move your arm around the canvas instead of trying to make your hand do everything.

>>3445661
>>3445660
I love how loose these are

>>3451738
Take breaks every 30 min and stretch. Pic related gave me severe carpal tunnel, I almost had to get surgery. Took 4 months of physical therapy and not using my right hand to not be in pain all the time. had to learn to write with my left. Now it acts up from every little thing. It got sore while I painted earlier. Sore at work. Sore from typing this, I shit you not. I have to stop and stretch every 5 to 10 minutes of using my hands.

Do. Not. Fuck. With. RSIs.

I went on a 19 hour adderall fueled drawing spree on pic related, on top of many similar days of drawing. The black ink went down first and then I used colored pencil in all the little centimeter-sized 'windows'. Lots of pressure to make sure it was all burnished.

And now I have a lifelong chronic pain for a handful of polished turds.

Do. Not. Fuck. With. RSIs.

I started to draw a year ago
Im working in this

>>3451514
Did some more, started #2 on a lighter background. not pleased with them yet.

>>3451738
Other than what has already been said by the other replies, try to adjust your pressure curve to something softer. I found the default settings to be far too stiff and it caused a lot of fatigue for me

>>3451740
>>3451748
>>3451755
I take breaks every 2 hours. I don't want to take too much more breaks though because each break I have the less chance I have at getting back into it and just being distracted for the rest of the day.

>>3451877
Like I said, breaks every 30 min. Don't get up and leave, just put the pen down, stretch and shake out your hand for 3 to 5 minutes while still looking at your work

> it hurts.
That's the first sign. I decided I'd push through. That's how I know and why I bothered to type so much.

>Will my wrist get used to it?
No.

>>3451755

I like the colour palette of this. Unfortunate placement on the black ink near the nose though, because it looks like a giant nostril.

Here's my latest drawing for critique. I know the ear and hand is awful

>>3451721
bootylicious

>>3452076
did you really take a photo of a screen?

I need to try to make a real comic book page. Just to see how it works out.

What do you guys think? Going in the right direction?

>>3452284
that's a weirdly closed space which prevents you from dealing with atmospheric perspective
this is the equivalent of hiding hands behind the back

So what about this, what if my wrist/hand doesn't hurt exactly, but it definitely aches and feels different from usual?

Is it just my muscles being tired? Should I take a day off? I just slept and woke up and it's still pretty tired, is that bad?

>>3452118
kek

>>3452118 I'm a lazy boy

>>3451287
Do you have a place where you post your other stuff? I like what i see so far

stereotypical fantasy hoe I guess
>>3452239
you should
>>3452297
very bad,use left hand

Picking this one up again

>>3452594
Perspective is le fucky

>>3452594
were seeing the trees from below, but were seeing the girl straight ahead

Don't know much charcoal, but I'm giving it a try anyway

Why is his hand in his ass for the pic above me?

>>3452613
>>3452615

Yeah, I've acknowledged that. Do you think it is enough to redo the body below chest? That's what I think is the main problem.

>>3452591
Anon pleaseee I need help

>>3452591
work on rendering metal, because it looks nothing like metal

>>3452629
no the easiest thing you can do is to remove the background and draw another, otherwise u would have to redraw the entire girl

I'm the guy from yesterday, after seeing it again with some fresh eyes I did some changes to the composition, mostly trying to make the lighting more interesting. How is this looking?

(the dino/monster's pose will probably need fixing later, I threw it together quickly to test things out)

>finally motivate myself to do this study someone posted
>thread dies the instant i start

I might as well post it here.

>>3452670
much better, at least the doggo is gone

>>3452660
how do you know it's metal then? humm
>>3452649
what's going on anon?

>>3452690
it's good,but you can still push whites a bit more

>>3452619
When your work is too shitty to get anywhere

>>3452690
Im not a fan of how the bird is out of focus compared to the background

>>3452619
you shouldn't be using charcoal like a regular pencil, use it to create shapes not outlines

>>3452702
Haven't noticed that.
This is why you don't work zoomed in at all times.
Don't have time to get my tablet right now and do it properly, does Gaussian blur help?

>>3452694
because you said shes a generic fantasy hoe, and the fact that you abused the highlights

>>3452705
You're not hue shifting the shadows.
If a shadow falls on skin you have to make it a bit redder, not just darker and less saturated.

>>3452694
my question about my hand aching

>>3452716
Thanks for the tip. Where can I read more about these things?

>>3452691
Yeah I deliberately got rid of him asap. I wish I could've kept him but my landlord has a no-pets policy.

>>3452615
Maybe she's falling forward from the weight of her fruit hat

>>3450040
What exactly is more 'worthwhile' work?

I got into illustration with the conceptart.org crowd and doing photostudies and studying Bammes and Hampton and memorizing every muscle, but at some point realized theres a whole world of illustration outside of the MtG and pixar thing- and that not every piece needs coreshadows and rimlighting.

Since then I've just been deconstructing my work and having a lot of fun with shape and design. I got A's and B's in my figure painting classes, so I *can* paint a reclined nude in oils on canvas or take reference photos to do something Rockwellian off of- but just found myself heading off in the opposite direction.

Are you implying """"technique""""" is more important than appeal? It's not. Maybe in the scifi/fantasy genre or russian academic drawings, where they are intertwined, but not otherwise. Look up Rebecca Green, thassenkam, Uwe Heidschotter, Mikkel Sommer, Bendik Kaltenborn, John Cuneo. Broaden your mind.

>>3450040

>implying tumblr shit is a real phenomenon
>being this desperate to be mad at other people

>>3449419
pushing the nose a bit far, but still good job overall

trying to paint. crits welcome

>>3452755
Anon don't pay attention to the other dumbass, your work looks fine. You gotta learn to recognize good, worthwile advice from shitty critique coming from a place of hatred, especially on /ic/. Hell, even if your work looked like dogshit you would still have to ignore a critique like that, spouting buzzwords is not useful critique. I despise the "haters gonna hate" attitude because I recognize even a very mean critique has its points and they can get overshadowed by looking like blind hate, but in this case it's definitely pure baseless blindness and you do have to ignore it.

>>3452705
>>3452732
Did you just post the same pic? I see no difference at all.

>>3452755
Nobody cares that you *can*.
Being bad on purpose is still being bad.

>>3452833
nigga what

>>3452833
No, no, no. People like firez, brian, illustrat, and cumbum are being bad on purpose because they outwardly reject learning fundamentals claiming it would ruin the purity of their self expression. The fact that anon *can* execute the fundamentals makes all the difference. One by making that anon's work actually appealing and not weirdly wonky looking unlike theirs and secondly giving solid basis to anon's stylistic decisions; those who cling to one style without having tried realism or other styles are usually stuck with some not-fully-realized, incohesive and unappealing "style" while those who are well rounded know much better what to keep and toss to get a unique and appealing look.

Can anyone help me with this truck? It's supposed to be floating off the ground, and I'd really like another pair of eyes to see any mistakes in the perspective. Thank you!

>>3452846
A small edit that would help is having the tires hanging way lower with some of the axel and suspension showing. It will give the truck a little gesture to help show it's lifting. The weight being off the wheels would make them hang anyway and that will help show it too. Most of the kids' poses help show it too but the ones in the truck bed should be gripping the sides and looking surprised or at least reacting too, especially since they're so close to the one who's causing it. She and the tires lifting from the ground are focal points, use those kids to guide the viewers eye to them.

>>3452846
the back wheel looks like the top of it is tipping inward to the wheel bed

>>3450069
I like the composition

Not sure about hair and head in general

>>3452880
I o the face is way too hard to read with her arm and bandages covering it, that might change when you add colour but I'm not sure I'm a fan.

The design is cool as shit tho.

Maybe make her hair more flowy to suit the bandages/ribbons.

>>3452853
>>3452855
Thanks for the feedback! hopefully this looks a lot better

Very new. Trying to incorporate some brushwork into my spay paint.

Suggestions and critiques would be much appreciated.

>>3452844
I'll never understand why brian gets lumped in with them...

>>3452297
help please

my wrist still feels weird and i ahvent drawn all day

>>3452922
Make the back wheel even lower and a little more to the left.
>>3452943
I included him with them because he has explicitly argued against learning fundamentals on multiple occasions. Since I was mentioning anons who do that and whose work suffers because of it I included him.

>>3452967
Look up some stretches and exercises you can do to relive the pain and overall stress you're putting on it.

>>3452533
As of now, only on 4chan.

>>3452755
What is your blog?

G and Maru pen. Constructive criticism welcome.

Thoughts?

How about now?

>>3453359
Try flipping the canvas horizontally to determine if the face is correctly aligned. Her left eye is off.

>>3453359
A K I M O T O K O Z U E

>>3453410
That's nice asf anon. I'm the same guy who gave crit before. I like the hair as it is but I'd personally make it longer and more flowy. But this works well, and its your character.

>>3444613
reminds me a lot of the style of Bastien Vivès (lastman, polina)
check his stuff out if you're not familiar with him

>>3453606
Lastman was great on VRV, that art leaves a bit to be desired though.

>Season 2 when!?

>>3453611
yup the animated series was drawn in an entirely different style
tbf, the whole lastman thing is thought as an extended universe with comics, video, vidya... and they released the 10 tomes in 5 years which is very impressive
Personally, I think it's very dynamic, but yeah, very minimalist

I drew a boat and the humidity is ruining my sketchbook

I know the backgrounds shit, but how's the coloring and anatomy

>>3454176
Make your canvas smaller. Nobody should have to zoom in to see what you did.

>>3454178
here we go

>>3454182
>digital artists not getting it

>>3453188
I love your line weight but for such lovely detail in the rest those weeds at the foreground and childish looking

>>3452788
Real nice texture and stroke but theres so little contrast I can't work out where my eyes meant to be drawn, there's no point of interest

is this gay?

>>3454362
sure

>>3454362
It would be more gay if you made eye contact, but with the mask, it's all good really.

What do I have to do to get critique on my coloring and painting? I thought color was supposed to add more interest to drawings but my colored ones get ignored way more than my plain black and white line drawings. I take that as a sign in itself that I must be doing something wrong.

Shows what I know. Least I have a base to work with now. Still, I imagine these muscle groups in the back would stretch as the arms move around. But how much? What happens to the back when the back is stretched from bein rounded? What muscles, if any, get squeezed when the shoulder blades pinch together? What happens to the lats when someone bends side to side? The shoulder blades can protrude from the back, but is that because of certain motions or because in weaker people, the muscle groups around it are underdeveloped? So many questions that need to be answered.

>>3444068
nice
try a little ambient light on the character

>>3444214
what the fuck
did you trace over a 3d model?

How is the anatomy on this? I feel like the eyed may be to low on the face.

>>3454185
great critt.

>>3454579
Cheekbones are fucked

>>3454606
Too wide?

>>3454609
Ignore the weebshitter. You got the fundamentals down and looks great, I suggest you work with less lines when doing the eyes and lips. She looks old.

>>3454622
Thanks, man. The lines were supposed to come across as shading but I'm really not good at it. If you (or anyone else honestly) has any tips for shading faces using hatching or something I would really appreciate it.

>>3454622
>>3454579
Not the weeb poster but I strongly disagree here. The face was half drawn and mirrored, that's not the mark of someone who has their fundamentals down. Even with that cheat it still has a lot of problems. The nose is too close to the mouth and looks completely flat on her face. The face as a whole lacks dimension, the features don't look like they're set in a skull together due to the lack of definition of the eye sockets, cheekbones, and eyebrow ridge - obviously the cheekbones and sockets are undefined because nothing was drawn to indicate them, the problem with the eyebrows is they follow a straight line instead of curving with the ridge, missing a chance to create form. The cranium is too small and the face takes up slightly too much room on the head. It certainly isn't the worst start on a portrait I've seen but I think it's irresponsible to say it looks great. This person can still learn more.

>>3454638
Thank you! I have a lot of trouble making faces symmetrical on my own (also I am trying out a sketchbook app on my phone) hence why it's mirrored. I hope it isn't too much to ask, but would you mind redlining that picture so I can get a better idea of the mistakes?

>>3454645
Wait no nevermind, I just realized that there was a separate redline thread I'm going to just repost it there.

>>3454670
Well I wish I had seen that before I did this but oh well. I drew over it with a few changes. You can overlay the two to compare them. I hope this helps in addition to any redlines you might get.

>>3454686
Thanks again man, you don't even know how much I appreciate the help.

>>3454705
You're welcome anon, good luck improving your portraits.

This is not mine. I want to know the "artist", and said something about the relevance of doing something mainstream: why the hel people with some amazing habilities copy and drawing something unbecoming from themselves? Why? Why they don't try to create from "the nothing", something original?

>>3454801
Because that's hard. Copying photos is easy.

new thread when?

>>3452755
I like your drawing. It's really cute.

I only ever draw portraits and fanarts, how do I get into the habit of doing more than this ?

>>3452721
sorry man,you just have to let it rest and practice with your not dominant hand

>>3452755
I'm positive this is yurie akutsu lol

fucking weeb

>>3454199
thanks, it was a work in progress but I thought it looked kind of interesting like it is as well. But I will probably add detail to the hammock and foreground later.

>>3450040
This. I would unironically prefer Illstrat over this tumblr degeneracy.
>dude let's exaggerate literally everything lmao
>oh yeah that grotesque inbred goblin has so much character and personality
>need more GESTURE, let's make everything look like it's about to explode
>MUH STYLIZATION

>>3455850
>>3450040

painted this

>>3457056
sorry uploaded the huge one

create new thrad daym

>>3457165
ok

>>3457311
New thread >>3457308