/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Me in 2017

>>3738233
Present me

>>3738235
This years mileage

>>3738218

from the start of the year to about the end

>>3738235
Not bad, sort of Araki-esque.

From end of last year

>>3738496
To end of this year

im still shit

>>3738248
0 progress

>>3738218
Way better line control and if just feels more "natural" if that makes any sense. Also am building the attention span/motivation to do art more and longer. Still have a very long way to go though!

>>3738496
>>3738499
tips? I've been doing cartoons since I was a kid, trying to break into semi-realism/realism, your progress looks great, how did you do it, this is my latest foray into "realistic" rendering

>>3738496
>>3738499
And this

started taking it seriously at the end of august, but i've been drawing for some time

>>3738529
>>3738532
I guess for this thread, this was me aroun d this time last year, though I wasn't going for realistic, this was probably the closest I could get to realism anyways

>>3738532
I started drawing 2 years ago doing tons of life drawing/masterstudies and learned the riley method. You got a good start but need to focus on your edges. Study how to create the entire spectrum of edges and when/why you should use each. Also think about your shadow shapes and beef up your core shadows.

2 years ago

>>3738568
Now

>>3738538
I can't tell which is which.

>>3738560
Blog?

>>3738538
left is cuter, the lips especially

>>3738861
https://www.instagram.com/stevenulbrichtart/

*shrug*

colorizing like Ted Turner

>>3738568
>>3738567
Now you’ll be able to do furry commissions!

not a beginner, and this was like 6 years ago, but i recently tried referencing some of my older works which was fun. They are so much more stylized.

>>3740348
it's amazing just how easy it was to do, so I did several

>>3740351

>>3740355
not as good as the original actually lmao

this one ended up almost identical

what's really interesting is I learned just how different I do things now. Before I made the eye in 1 arch, and that's what made it so stylized, but now I try to make it like a 3D object.

the way I did hair back then was in individual V's, but now I tend to do it in clumps.

It's interesting because I actually have a lot of difficulty reproducing the old style unless i also adopt the old methods of drawing eye's and hair, which is fun.

I even tried referencing a regular drawing, but it failed terribly. I don't know if it was because it was facing an angle, or if my old style was just simple to copy in the way i was copying it.

would definitely recommend trying to draw in the style of your old works.

>>3738560
>2 years ago
Very good work anon. I'm proud of you

>>3738235
Not bad.
>>3738233
The bottom left girl is laughably bad

>>3738235
Rendering is a little better, but faces still look like goo, no structure.

Left is from Jan 2017 and right is pretty recent. Still can't really do much besides sketch tier looking things but at least it's not a complete mess. Drawing was pretty neglected until around mid 2018 when I started doing more.

>>3738235
I like your style, anon. It is kinda wonky, but also really cool.

>>3742765
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>>3738218
first years progress.

2017 versus...

>>3743608
2018, I have more shit on my phone than my comp at the moment so this is all I could find

it's not good yet, but it's better

>>3738218
I guess I have a better sense of style...?

>>3743565
Nice!

>>3741601
This is hella good progress keep at it.

>>3738885
How's watts?

>>3743615
Love it, I think I follow you, but if I don't, blog?

>>3743763
pl4ntm4n.deviantart.com
https://twitter.com/Damnitmamet
and thank you!

>>3743538
But I like anime

Still suck.

>>3744115
Cheer up Anon, at least I'd fuck that elf in the middle.

>>3744172
I constantly loose the grasp on the forms. Like one day I may be able to more or less feel them when I'm drawing, and then the next I don't know what the fuck am I doing.

>>3740348
Post most recent work?

>>3744323
pls no bulli this isn't what I usually do

>>3744821
Was hoping for more anime/real life illustrations for a more accurate comparison to 6 years ago and now, but eh alright

>>3745094
ok it isn't the literal most recent anime girl but I like this one more so

Fucking sucks

>>3744821
i actually really like the perspective of the present box, and your lineart is pretty smooth! just keep working anon!

>>3741625
Thanks!
>>3743565
Great start, focusing on learning edges and core shadows/shadow shapes for a bit could give you a big level up
>>3743612
I like skull anon, the red is pretty cool
>>3744115
I deff. See improvement in your forms and perspective, keep it up!

>>3743752
Best thing about it are the students you meet there (I think this is true of most brick and mortar schools). The instructors are good and I'd deff. reccomend it for grinding your fundamentals. I stopped going a few months ago cuz I was just turning into a sum of the teachers and needed to find myself artistcally, as well as put more skill points into digital/commissions. I will be attending on/off throughout the years to tune up my fundies as long as I live near it.

I mean heres an example from november 28th

>>3746366
to now

>>3738236
if all those books are filled, excellent job

if not, decent job

>>3738538
soul vs soulless.

>>3746367
Why's the tie going down the middle if her body's twisted?

>>3746890
Yeah IK I messed up the tie, I fixed it a few hours ago. But I'm on phone rn.

>>3746367
If that's shading, Alonso would call it a yoke.

>>3744115
You're definitely improving, unless you're fishing for compliments you should realize that. A more human-ish similar to Spring 2018 would be better to judge, but in the last drawing your lines and shadows are clearly better

>>3747180
Oh, I know that I'm improving. It's just that I was drawing for like 20 years since school without any direction and study so I have a shitton of bad habits.