/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3556275
Maybe he just wants to?

>>3556275
You could say the same for a lot of illustrators. They have jobs but you almost never see or know where.

Why do you give a shit?

>>3556275
>Ilya...living in Japan....why..

>reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, someone I hate out of jealousy is doing something with their life and I'm a loser! Better go post on IC so other losers who share my point of view can validate me and make me not suicidal.

Moving to Japan when you're a fat neckbeard who only qualifies as an enlish teacher is a bad idea

Moving to Japan as a successful artist who can enjoy the luxuries of Japan is a good idea

Japanese are very racist to weebs, if you're a respectable looking member of society they will respect you

>>3556275
I'm guessing he just wants to live in Japan?

>>3556325
No they'll mostly just ignore you at that point too.

>>3556325
If you look like this they will respect you?

>>3556275
I wish anime girls were real and they were the standard of beauty. It's nice to see that everyone has some pretty, no more fights anymore

>>3556275
he's a weeb

>>3556325
>japan is very racist to weebs

No, they aren't.

>>3556275
It’s easier if you live closer to the people you copy

>>3556275
Visited Japan, saw an interview /his paintings in some Japanese art magazine, so he definitely gets some publicity.

>>3556275
>why tho?
Because nips are so unaware of the outside world that they'll never recognize his "references".
Oh wait, he's tracing mostly anime...

>>3556325
I don't know if you know, but the current Prime Minister identifies as an "otaku"
The thing about english teaching is true, though. But that's something you do while you look for another job, even if it's like waiting tables. Ironically, female westaboos tend to like western men because they are automatically less misoginystic than japanese ones. Like, if the girl wants to work, the western dude won't complain, and in fact will encourage it, while the japanese guy would force her to be a stay at home mom.

>>3556325
this is somewhat true, japanese are more self aware than others, this is attributed to what other countries know them as their arrogance. it is similar to how french people dont give a shit if you try to learn french, they think youre a retard and in love with a version of france only seen in movies.

>>3556774
Why are Japanese men so based? They should be happy.

>>3556275
is the country with the best standard of living. why wouldn't (You) wanna live there?

>>3556667
Nips are the best at finding traced references tho, it's fucking crazy sometimes.

>>3556784
What does best standard of living mean here?

Maybe he just likes it there. Japanese work culture is terrible, but all other aspects of daily life there are pretty nice if you bother to learn the language. If he can make a living there while being a freelance artist then it sounds like he's living the dream.

>>3556788
He works in freelance so he's far from being a wage slave as other would be in Japan.
I follow him on Instagram and his works gets featured quite often on magazines, comics, concept art and he makes a lot of ads ( which happen to be really pretty ). He also has an active patreon where he gives course, step by step videos of his artworks and raw files of them, which allows him to have a decent income

>>3556275
>So Ilya is actually living in Japan now.. why tho?
why do you care where he lives? you wanna be his boyfriend, you fucking faggot?

>>3556275

Given the choice between living in Japan and living in the wide-awake screaming nightmare that is modern Russia, I would take Japan any day of the week.

>>3556275
>Discussing the personal life of someone like it matters
How is this related to art in any form or way?

If you come to a point in your life that the highlight of your day is shitposting a pseud-bait thread in a dead board in 4chin, seriously reconsider suicide.

>>3557066
This, if you wanna discuss Ilya thats fine, but when it becomes just a circlejerk either pro or anti Ilya and/or meaningless bullshit about his personal life then its just a bunch of insecure cucks who want to suck Ilya's off but instead of just shitposting in his insta or somewhere like that, they vent off their frustations here.

>>3557073
Whats even left to talk about him at this point?

Hes a guy who took 15yo of art experience to git gud and relevant, yet he traced the shit outta people and even sold their drawings as if it was his own creations, despite having all this experience.
Also his process videos suck most of the time.

If you wanna follow semi-realistic anime then use his work, otherwise move on already, hate those newfags who don't know shit about art and their art ''''senpai'''' gallery consist of only Ilya, Saki and Artgerm instead of you know, looking for more artists.

>>3556305
stop being so paranoid you autistic retard.

>>3556784
lol what? you're watching too much pewdiepie kid

>>3556814
tone it down ilya

>>3556275
His stuff gets published for lots of stuff. Magazines, Book covers, Posters. You only see these stuff if you follow his social media.

>>3556782
They are happy. Japan is fixing its demographics problem without the assistance of immigrants, unlike USA and Europe.

>>3556275
>why tho
He got an artbook published, made art for square enix mobage, did official art for an anime adaptation of some otome? game, and weeaboos give him enough free money on patreon to live off of as long as he keeps uploading the same headshots of girls every week.

>>3556782
>Thinking that the Japanese society isn't fucked up

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

Add to that their almost serfdom to their workplaces, shunning of citizens who fall out of line and often devotion to authority I wouldn't call them based at all. There's very little freedom in their society.

>>3556275
this guy is so generic

>>3557715
In Japan, the relatives of those who jump before trains during rush hours have to pay the government for causing inconvenience to other people
They have the highest % of NEETs and shut ins
They still censor porn in 2018
The list of other social anomalies could go on for hours

>B-But they have few immigrants!!
>But b-but!! superior Japanese women virgin by marriage who never ever does sex outside marriage and would never ever have a relationship with men of color
>B-But!!! Muh C/J/K-Pop idols waifus are so pure!!

Everyone who ever wants to live in Japan as their ultimate goal in life is always some retarded weeb with a deluded view on its culture, always cherry picking a ''''''fact'''' or two to backup their delusion

>>3556782
hm most of them do have small dicks...

>>3559182
reminds me of a joke:
>what's harder than an asian guys dick? Getting a white guy to stop thinking about them

>>3558836
this

>>3558836
Japan is going down hard. Also don't forget that their police are monsters who write off murders as accidents if they can't solve them and also force confessions, leading to a 'low' crime rate.

the notable art stealer and refs tracer
nips media probably knows it too

>>3558836
>They have the highest % of NEETs and shut ins
Except they don't you fucking retard. Do you get all your statistics from /pol/?
>The list of other social anomalies could go on for hours
Doubt it considering you could barely list 3 things, one of which is wrong.

>>3561385
Not an argument.

>>3558836
>b-but the country has problem
None said Japan was perfect, no country will ever be. Even considering the issues it has, from the Yakuza to the NEETs, suicide rates, politics,... It still sounds like a great place to live. Better than Russia anyways in the case of Ilya.

>>3556275
Did somebody say ilya?

>>3565192
There's some you can barely differenciate from afar, it's crazy

lmao @ his new "value studies"
>run dis shit through photoshop and slap some texture brushes on it
It's like he doesn't get what "value study" even means

>>3565244

>time to do a value study!
>better apply some chromatic abberration in the end

what

>the kron clones are even more blatant with their tracing

>>3565250
Every time I look at his art there's chromatic abberration slapped on it

>>3565244
>>3565250
>yfw these people don’t know what a study actually is

>>3565192
It absolutely blows my mind how he gives the same dumb pouty lips to all characters, regardless of characterdesign.

>>3565252
How are Guweiz and Ilya so aesthetic?

>>3565273
Their aesthetics is "instagram photos of azn or somehow "retro and artsy" girls and slap pouty lips and/or ca on it"
It's funny how guweiz is such a copycat that he even got krons plagiarism nailed.

>>3565283
Wait which one is guweiz's?

>>3565289
left is guweiz art (not even credited as a study or anything) middle is photo ref, right is overlay of both.


More:
"Audrey Hepburn
HIs artwork: http://imgur.com/6NPYC9s
Ref used: http://imgur.com/4oJuqIE
Overlay: http://imgur.com/flNQQN4

His art before warp: http://imgur.com/beEFu9q
Reference: http://imgur.com/vTglN4E
Overlay: http://imgur.com/18cLlFx

The steps are from his facebook page. At some point Guweiz uses warp which is why I overlaid the early steps

Sunlight
Artwork: http://imgur.com/T0hZNIr
Reference: http://imgur.com/gFCIoqP
https://www.instagram.com/s......
Overlay: http://imgur.com/3Fhm9th

This is in his patreon http://imgur.com/gCv7P9c

value study
Ref (top) and artwork (bottom)
http://imgur.com/pWYwxvQ

overlay: http://imgur.com/fNreoS0

Artwork: http://imgur.com/V6NugHN
Reference: http://imgur.com/Ys5y3NR

Overlay: http://imgur.com/ueZDEYV

Ronin
Artwork: http://imgur.com/6svy5Si
Reference: https://www.deviantart.com/cushart/art/FallenAngel-401030284
Overlay: http://imgur.com/0MZLy23
he posted his sketch on facebook

Art (sketch phase): http://imgur.com/TDNYuTU
Reference: http://imgur.com/hNei4lh
Photo credit, Jonathan Waiter
Overlay:
http://imgur.com/nIrIMwK
http://imgur.com/KwWvuR5

This is in his patreon : http://imgur.com/nzEI5CI

his process

***He does not mention anything about using a grid:
http://imgur.com/blzVGsP

His only speed paints start with the lines already complete:
http://imgur.com/VCPCWaN

comment confronting Guweiz (the comment was hidden and that user was blocked) :
http://imgur.com/OvIzyLQ
________
Hypocritical anger toward an app modifying and using his artwork for a game: http://imgur.com/GGNe7ck "

>>3556275
He did a manga. Or at least one chapter of a manga. It's hillariously bad and reveals he has literally no knowledge of perspective and construction. Someone on a scanned it a few months ago.

>>3565298
Holy shit that's quite the collection
What a hack.

>>3565298
Truly a kron clone

>>3565308
seriously?? do you have a link?

>>3565379
I didn't save it but here's what it looks like. It's awful https://www.deviantart.com/kuvshinov-ilya/art/First-Chapter-of-ChromatiQ-is-out-now-599449714

>>3565389
does really look like babbys first storyboard

>>3565298
I always post this picture when people are talking about Guweiz tracing because this is one of his most famous pieces but despite it beingly a repaint/overpaint he has never mentioned he used a "ref" for it, I've noticed he seems to be very sneaky when it comes to use references, almost as if he was trying to take all the credit

This piece in particular irks me the most since not only he got a DD for it, he has never credited the original photo despite people constantly praising him for his work and originality on the piece

>>3565524
What the hell, I remember really liking this piece years ago, feelsbad

>>3556275
>Japan
>Ilya working in a japanese studio

Holy shit.

>Ohio nice to meet you Irya -kun! Today we are finarry starting out with keyframes for our new grorious cute girrr anime. First shot is an extreme row angre focusing on girr's butt as she runs rate to school.
>*Ilya draws a portrait of a girl staring blankly into the camera while holding a piece of bread in her hand*
>Nonono, Irya-kun, shimatta! What arr you doing? Give us more emotion, more movement!
>*girl's face is now looking 15 degrees to the left, her mouth is slightly opened, the bread is now blurred so hard it looks like a piece of cardboard *
>WHATTHE FUCK IS THIS KUSO, IRYA-KUN? Where is your russian Shishkin, where is Repin?! SHOW US THEIR GRORIOUS LEGACY!
>*Ilya is now sweating profusely, his eyes racing around the room in attempts to find at least one manga cover to copy from while "sukablyat" is echoing trough his skull like a gong*
>*a wet stain appears on Irya's brand new uniqlo pants*
>*he starts shaking*
>*whole studio stares at him in awe and fear as his body shakes so hard it separates into green and red*
>*the Third Impact is finally upon us*

>>3565633

>>3565389
His stupid fucking comic is really the worst thing he ever did. It's all lazily photoshopped photos for the backgrounds and awkward characters that float over them like cardboard cutouts. Nigger doesn't know about perspective and construction. Literally all he can do is draw girls looking at the camera from the shoulders upwards.

Look at this shit

>>3565524

inb4 "hurr durr every illustrator uses reference no rules just tools"

I'm gonna dump this shit now, hold on to your butts, becauses it's REALLY embarrassingly amateurish.

This comic is the laziest shit ever.

I always try to stop rapists by agressively tilting over and falling into them.

I got crocodiles for shoulders.

This page is probably some subconcious cry for help after he realized he got to publish a comic book in japan without having the skills to actually make it work and fessing up wasnt an option anymore.

>>3565650
>goes on for years humblebragging about how he chose to be a literal normalfag
This drags on for fucking ever. I feel bad for the guy, you're right when you say this feels a bit uninspired and embarassing. Did he make people pay for that?

>>3565656
I wish I could sell out and move to Japan like this but I'm a tsukushi tier deplorable who won't settle for less than his best fetish art.

>>3565659
Does he even have a proper job there or is he just living the weeb dream from his patreonbux?
Also someone should look into what having your livelyhood depend on drawing the same girl over and over again does to a man's psyche.

>>3565665
If he was capable of anything else, he would have come to America and done literally anything else from fine art to concept trash. He found his niche doing whatever the fuck he does there.

He accidentally recycled this guys head because he's such a lazy piece of shit. You almost feel sorry for whoever got suckered into buying this garbage.

This is such a clusterfuck. He even forgot how to draw hands

I guess this is the book's moneyshot, because it's the classic "ilya-girl"

>>3565669
>manga is called ChromatiQ
>no chromatic abberration
wtf ilya

>>3565678
This whole thing is a clusterfuck of bad photoshop and not knowing how to use screen tone.

>>3565683
I'm pretty sure it's there, just not in color. Something about it makes me want to vomit and it's not 5 cock and cokes.

>>3565683
The cover page has some.
I don't know if there was ever more than one chapter, because it's so embarrassingly bad and shows his artistic ineptitude very well. He probably went back into his comfort-zone after realizing drawing more comics displays how bad he is with anything that isn't the identical pouty lips girl looking into the camera.

>>3565687
What bothers me almost as much as his piss poor composition, non existent panelflow and absent perspective and construction is how awkardly thick and amateurish his inking is.

>>3565687
>This whole thing is a clusterfuck of bad photoshop and not knowing how to use screen tone.
The way the action is told is awful aswell. It's so fucking slow, just look at this >>3565681 page where the girl charges for 3 panels. It all looks utterly weightless. It's a bunch of nothing.

Honestly, his comic is so bad, it's surprising it's not brought up more often on /ic/.

>>3565697
And who charges like that. Not to mention she got her trademark blank ilyaface while charging.

That being said, you'd think doing all his "studies" would leave him with a better understanding of what hes doing

>>3565697
>>3565695
I've read literal porn with better art and composition.

>>3565633

Came here just to say this >>3557066

>>3565695
>What bothers me almost as much as his piss poor composition, non existent panelflow and absent perspective and construction is how awkardly thick and amateurish his inking is.
What bothers me the most is the writing. I think average people can forgive the art but imagine 12 chapters of this writing.

>>3565699
>>3565695
Jesus christ, I think...I think even I could do it better...

>>3565651
>>3565643
>>3565650
>>3565669
>>3565695
What do you think was the editor's reaction after seeing this shit?

>>3565633
>>3565689
he fucking named it chromatiq I can't even anymore

>>3566105
>What do you think was the editor's reaction after seeing this shit?
Shahmefur dispray

>>3565643
>holy shit those backgrounds
I'm almost certain that the backgrounds in his other """art""", like >>3565665, are all from photos, possibly others people's photos he stole, knowing how lazy he is and how little he cares about stealing.
First of all, as we can see from CHROMATIQ(lol), he definitely isn't good enough to compose, paint, or even photobash decent looking backgrounds. Secondly, they're all daily environments and taken from the perspectives most people take regular photos with phones. Like those perspective aren't even geared towards creating a certain feel or something, they often don't even contribute to the composition, the background is literally just there. Not to mention they are all taken from eye-level. That's how normies take photos they post on instagram, instead of how illustrators come up with backgrounds.
He most likely took/stole photos, put his cardboard cutout waifus on them with lazy filters, and called those his art. He even has an art book, I saw it in a shop once, just an entire fucking book of these low effort wastes of paper.

>>3565633
shit haven't keked this hard in a while, thank you anon.

>>3566135
>He most likely took/stole photos, put his cardboard cutout waifus on them with lazy filters
Yeah, pretty easy. The family mart below shakeys pizza in shibuya is immediately recognizeable. He either lifted a photo from somewhere or made one himself.

>>3565273
because they rely on people doing all the real work for them and disguise plagiarism as "Studies".

>>3556443
They should be.

hahahahahahaha

>>3565248
You just know...

>this salt thread still not deleted

>>3565298
>http://artist-grapevine.tumblr.com

>>3566760
>https://www.deviantart.com/avelix/journal/Warning-About-Artist-Grapevine-735104397

>>3556275

living it up with all those patreon bucks. the world truly is his oyster.

Faggots.
Let's see you do one better, hell if Illya can make it and cash in on normies what's stopping you? and before you ask me, normies would not appreciate the dfc form due to the pedo hysteria.

>>3567144
Omg you're right. What should I draw to make the big bucks that's not porn and not anime anon?

>>3567148
The good ones copy, the great ones steal.

>>3567144
Hey, don't call me a faggot!

>>3556275

Asian girls are the most aesthetic of all the girls. It's not surprising an artist would want to be there.

>>3567144
it's not that easy, no begginer can do it, he steals pose and other stuff, but he doesn't trace everything, he can color too, just making something like him won't do a thing either, guweiz was said that he is copying the style and got huge butthurt because of it, either way, you need to copy the way normies won't catch you

So.. ilya is a good example in how you can trick normies and get a shit ton of money?

>>3568864
Between money and not a single shred of respect from artists, I think the choice should be clear.

Photobashing is industry standard, normies don't give a shit about the process. No rules, only tools. Fake it till you make it you salty retarded crabs

>>3569381

/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3569381
I wonder when someone says something like this, does the one think none knows that here?

>>3568749
Japan isn't even in the top 10 of most athletic countries, and China only makes it to 7 on the list. Most athletic countries are:

Brazil
Russia
South Africa
Kenya
Argentina
United States
China
Nigeria
Germany
Ghana

>>3569734
what has the first one to the second?

>>3565389
those backgrounds are juste sad

>>3565298
weaponized autism

>>3569734

Anon, can you read?

>>3569734

What the fuck are you talking about

>>3569734

not sure where you're getting this athletic metric from bur i've studied it a bit

http://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2016/medals

i think that's a good metric i didnt take into account the winter olympics cause it's quite niche

>>3569734

>>3569921
Apparently not lmao. I legit thought he typed athletic.

>>3556774
>x indentifies as an otaku
That doesn't mean he likes weaboos tho