/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

i'll start this off.
critique encouraged.

>>3971878
Cheers m8
>>3971900
There will be more detail, the scribbles are just the sketch overlaid

>>3973764
this is looking great, do you block in colors first then add lighting, or do you just jump straight into it all at once?

Wanted to try again but this time better. So tips very welcome

Used no reff yet

My art isnt on the same level as the others but id still like a critique

Has anyone done these lighting guides before? Is this correct? i'm struggling abit

>>3973646
Nice colors, maybe next time try to keep smoothing things out. Also the values around the eyes are a bit janky.
>>3973839
Yeah seems right. Could try to emphasize the color contrast, orange goes against blue so you could make the face colors more in the orange/red section and more saturated. To be very artistic you could use very saturated red in the ear and very saturated blues as accents on the sleeve.

Anyway, pic related is something I made today from a ref.

>>3973646
I love this a lot. Hope you don't mind me saving for inspo

Tried drawing guns from imagination

>>3973774
I jump straight into everything after a rough sketch and then once major shapes are down I try get the edges right. its not very efficient as a process

>>3970823

https://www.deviantart.com/themichaelmacrae/art/Swarm-796532458

Michael why the fuck did you listen to that anon that criticized your design choices, specifically about the little armor plate that gave the machine angry eyes?? Was it not your intention?
That was a great, charming little detail.

finally switched to CSP but i still have to get used to the new interface. Anybody got advice on some good brushes?

>>3974887
Frenden brush set has everything you need, you'll just need to take the time to separate your favorites.

https://frenden.myshopify.com/products/clip-studio-800-brush-set

>Why yes, I'm to lazy to finish my drawings. How could you tell?

Could I get some critique on this please? I'd like to improve it.

>>3975283
Pretty cute. Try adding more blue to the distant landscape and making the sky more orange and red, then bring some orange and red onto the stuff in the foreground as highlights. Just play around.

>>3973645
WIP

I'm gonna make this nibba holding a dead and ragged something, but I can't decide if it should be an animal or a person.

>>3975293
DUDE skinwalkers LMAO

>>3975293
a dead bigfoot?

Could use some critique. Been trying to learn how to paint better and it's hard af

>>3974455
>>3975122
>>3975269
>>3975283
>>3975293
>>3975484
>>3975541


You all need to have multiple orders of magnitude shifts in your perception of reality. Understand wholeheartedly that the way in which your brains process visual information and neurologically translate that information to your motor system is probably like 100>10>1 (visual information>processed data>artistic result).

>>3975621
what the fuck are you talking about

>>3975621
based schizo anon

>>3973834

>>3975621
Was that a big boy way of saying "Your art looks shit because your eyes aren't trained to see your mistakes"?
Because if so, that must've taken you way too much effort to impressively state the obvious

>>3975641
you really have to be pretentious to think others don't know their mistakes

it takes practice to improve, and part of practicing is showing others your mistakes so you can get advice and further reflection upon your work. I know my work isn't good but I'll still post it in hopes of somebody giving advice that will help me more than my own

you don't just go into isolation for a couple weeks and come out knowing kim-jung fu

>>3975122
Chernobyl pussy monster

>>3975651
Think u replied to the wrong person bud

>>3975656
i was just adding on to what you were saying

>>3975663
Ohh I see, yeah I agree completely. My bad

there is something to improve on, but i cant see it

Someone teach me to paint please.

>>3975667
>>3975663
>>3975656
>>3975651
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>>3975632
stay mad you NGMI imbeciles

if this is your dogma, then lay in it and waste away

>>3975621
I just wanted some crits bro, this isn't helpful.

>>3975638
I like the way you've done the colors/values. The pose is really boring. There's some black squiggle in front of her ear and jaw that looks like she's got a piece of plastic twisting out of her ear. Try making a more fluid pose, maybe some contrapposto. Also that shield's sizing is odd, and its shape. Roman shields had that shape but were huge, almost as tall as a man's shoulders. Kite shields were really tall. Heater shields were too short to rest on the ground like that.

>>3975683
Study colour relationships and values, every part of her looks to be separate, under separate lighting. When you have pink skin and grey hair they still need to be related. There's no point in spending so long rendering the lips when it looks like a patchwork quilt.
Also I understand that she's wearing a pink tshirt but at first I thought her neck was covered in literal brown shit because it's sticking out of the anus of a big pink butt. The shoulders are too big.

>>3975686
Get a load of this faggot

>>3973646
Great subject, thumbnail looks excellent.
Upon getting closer a couple things jump out at me which could be improved.

Not going to comment on your colours and values, they're quite and help the expression effortlessly.

Digging this pallet-knife style, very textural: But with great power should come great restraint! Things can start to look very busy and overworked when the size of these flat shapes starts changing sizes.

This is only exaggerated further by the somewhat arbitrary direction of some of the strokes, which can be useful to bring attention to details in thing other than portraits, instead here lending a somewhat messy appearance, which takes away from the usually economic look of the style.

Overall it's a nice portrait, it can be hard doing edge control when you're using such a hard edged brush but you've managed to define all the important forms nicely.

>>3975283
it took me a few minutes to figure out that it's a lillypad. I think seeing a lillypad from the inside is an unintuitive shape. If you wanted to make it more obvious, you could add some lillypads and their flowers in teh background, like behind the frog, then people would understand it more easily. Also, I can't recognize what the fish has in it's hand.

I can't tell what is going on with the ladnscape but it looks like the silluette of dinosaurs?
Also It seems like there's supposed to be some meaning here, like the frog is expecting something from the sky which is why there's so much sky - there's some kind of scene set up - a dinner party with a bug as the course? But desu I think it's not very clear what the scene is.

TLDR your drawing made me say What for a while. add more stuff to make it clear

>>3975683
Skin is very warm and hair is very cool. It's like they're being lit in two different environments.

Made a quick edit using blue/pink Soft Light layers to show what I mean.

Give hair pink tones if you want warm lighting. Make skin bluer/grayer if you want cool lighting.

>>3975291
>>3975781
Thanks anons for the critiques!

>>3975726
having struggles choosing a shield and pose

i think im doing something wrong

>>3976073
that leg is fucked

>>3976073
it does look weird, you have tips to fix it?

>>3974887
blog?

Not really happy with how this came out but it’d take too much effort to fix vs what I put in :/

>>3976019
Good, now move to the next stage and clean up your edges. Hard, firm, lost, all of them, I want to see them in that painting.

>>3976264
Still lonely and horny as always I see :3

>>3974817
Nice! cant wait to see how it looks when its finished

a small study of Leyendecker to test the Pitt Artist Pens. I'm thinking of doing the whole drawing to see how it looks. One detail is that in person the grain of the paper doesn't bother, it looks like the light pink tone behind the figure.

>>3976624
I have never seen a vagina.

>>3976717
I don't have any critiques, I'm just really into this. Good job

Any advices would be appreciated

Working on an abstract piece

it looks off so far and idk what to do.
idk what to do about the motherfucking cat the shading looks like shit and idk why

>>3977026
Whatever is rim lighting the cat would be local and not light the clouds like that. The forms of the clouds are lost and don’t make sense, clouds fluff with light wind and stream with high winds, and although they can be miles across, wind direction doesn’t change that abruptly. Your perspective between the layers of foreground and background don’t make sense either.

>>3977020
clearly some dogs fucking

>>3977178
>>3977020
lmao this is the first thing i thought too
furious humping

>>3977020
>>3977178
>>3977193
I see a long-snout dog wearing sunglasses fucking a wrinkly pug

But if you look at the tails as antennae instead, it looks like a beetle molting it's shell

I'm actually kinda impressed

>>3975621
is "perception of reality" the 100 or the 10
it must be the 10
what are you even recommending.

>>3977026
atmospheric perspective on the clouds, they should be less saturated. also no transparency with the clouds fading at the edges so it ends up looking like fall leaves in the sky. bad crop, the foreground is heavily tilted but we only see a sideways cat, cloud texture is orthogonal to the rest of the piece

>>3976903
your rim light makes her look like shes a pice of paper (flat)

Drew my hand, pls crit it

>>3977272
manly hand

Watercolor/ anatomy advice?

>>3977301
The main thing that’s putting me off is her neck, it feels like we should be seeing more tendons. This still looks kinda pretty though

How can I improve upon this? I couldn't figure out how to pose the arms or the torso, so I just left them gone

>>3977269
Sankyu anon-senpai. I'll work on it

>>3977315
plan it out first. It looks like you were just drawing as you went. sketch a whole body/pose first and then fill in the details

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>>3977342

Good values but why no details?

>>3976060
The pose isn’t that bad but I feel like the shield should be 1.5x larger. That shield doesn’t look very practical.

>>3977301
Unless you want the liquid to be some kind of blue goo you have to think about which color your main lightsource has. The water and even the skin and the background of the image for example will always have some blue in it if its a bright day. If you dont want to tinker with the skin color i would suggest to lower the saturation of the water a little.

>>3974911
thx anon, I think that will cover my need for brushes for a really long time

>>3976221
ig:@elektro.lurch

Does this skull look alright?
>>3976717
Great stuff anon, what paper did you use those on?
>>3977353
Disagree, bigger shield would block more of the character. Also small shields are extremely practical and used a lot throughout history

>>3977554
>https://plantec.com.ar/productos/block-de-papel-texturado-350-grs/

It's paper made by Reflex. That if I'm not mistaken also manufactures the Schoellershammer drawing papers.

Getting there. Thoughts on the character design and pose so far?

>>3978110
Looks good

>>3978110
>shitty attempt to show both cleavage and ass at the same time

0/10

it's not about the character, it's about the sex appeal. soulless

>>3978136
PYW

>>3977554
The drawing was very much off, hopefully this looks better

>>3978235
Fuck off, you don't have to be more skilled than somebody to tell them that their "chartacter design" is just a sexual fantasy instead of a character with any form of depth. If you bother to depict someone to wear armor, but simultaneously expose their navel, breasts, and tight enough clothing to define your asscheeks, it's either braindead pornography or aimed at neckbeards and basedboys

prove me wrong. protip: you can't

>>3977199

Essentially what I'm saying is this; the real reason for artistic struggle is not a lack of experience but a lack of perception. A lack of perception is basically a person not being able to perceive the fact of reality (i.e an exact value or line) and subsequently failing to translate that information into their artwork.

Its a question of being hyperconscious of the inability to translate the visual information that is processed (observation of reality) into a stronger piece of work.

Inaccuracy is a choice, not a skill. If it is possible to understand this, you will improve far faster and efficiently.

>>3978393
good to know you're so enlightened about the psychological fallacies of /ic/

>>3978110
How do I make such perfectly clear-cut lines?

I mean what program should I use?

inb4: shop

>>3975346
>>3975293
THERE'S NO CONTRAST TO THIS IMAGE AND I HATE IT

What should I do to fix it?

Should I practice painting scenes in grayscale to get more contrast out of them?

Wat do??

WIP btw, still working on the forest floor. I also want to make it look like it's foggy

>>3978393
You're right. The only drawing book you ever need is Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain. Everything else is secondary and should only be used after you fully understand the book's main intention, which is to make your thinking more objective and analytical and less symbolic. Once you can objectively perceive reality and convey it through line, you will be able to draw anything you want through observation and study, and then going through drawing books like Loomis will be a breeze since you'll understand the concepts more easily. Even things like perspective will come easier because your brain will have better spatial reasoning. Even if you just want to draw anime or cartoons, learning RSB will make copying and blending styles so much easier since you will have a higher understanding of shape and proportions, and you'll more easily identify the unique characteristics of certain styles. It just equips and shapes your brain to perceive more deeply and then accurately convey/reproduce that information, and it's the answer to anybody who thinks they don't have talent. It certainly comes easier to some people, and you might call that talent, but it's more than possible to get your brain to perceive and think more objectively just through the techniques and exercises in that book. It's the first painful step to being able to teach yourself anything drawing or painting related and actually progress in improvement.

>>3977179
That right quad is fucked my guy

>>3978423
this is like an all new type of bad, like an especially polished turd

>>3978423
Open curves adjustment to enhance the values. Then put a fucking color dodge layer over it and start painting in lights. Maybe a flashlight hitting him headon and some ambient lights around his sides? Then a multiply layer for some hard, dark shadows according to the lights. Also use an overlay to make the trees paler since they're farther away and blurring into his skin right now. That's going to be the easiest way to up contrast without redrawing

Put a grayscale layer over it to check yourself while drawing. If everything looks muddy then you need to start using colors closer to the top and bottom of the palette square

>>3978327
>without any depth
>neckbeards and basedboys

Whew, this post reeks of Tumblr. A bit presumptuous, no? Last time I checked, catering to your crowd tends to drop sales faster than Sinead O' Conner's little temper tantrum. If he likes sexy female character designs, as a lot of men and women do, he has every right to draw and market it. As you're free to complain to the land whales and oversexed blue haired harpies that wail upon even the slightest exposure of skin.

I think the sky turned out nice.

>>3978816
This is lovely <3 the atmosphere is so comfy

>>3978434
Stop using such a tiny brush!

meh... too lazy

>>3979033
great color

>>3978423

>>3978472
Bad advice

>>3979238
how

This is my most recent painting, please help me improve.

>>3979242
>curves
>color dodge
>multiply

>>3979250
improve by studying harder and going back to references. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be so I'll accept that it's an abstract piece but if not, post in /beg/

Fuck me up senpai

>>3975484
The skin tone is close, but a little jaundice-y. Try blending in some red and some cyan, The different shapes of color you have on the face are good now, but I feel like you are shading with the same color darkened with black, rather than a complimentary, which makes it feel a little flatter, keep working on it though! It will feel better once its more fleshed out :)

>>3977301
Her left arm is a little longer than her right. Love the composition

>>3978418
The best way I can summarize what goes on in my head when I draft or rough out a sketch is to start with the basic primary forms in perspective then build secondary forms, tertiary, and then the details. From linework to rendering, understanding the fundamentals are key which I am still developing.

Other than that, thick lines for AO and objects up close, thinner lines for distant objects and details, practice fluid and deliberate strokes, etc.

I use the G-pen in Clip Studio Paint EX near exclusively, though I am open to trying out different brushes and tools if you guys have any recommendations.

>>3979388
The contrast between how the character and background is drawn is huge. He feels cut out and pasted. The lines on the head go in many directions which destroys the flow and makes it look flat. Nice palette though, I like it but it looks like you can do better.

did a pastel of my friend

Value range is still small but hopefully the proportions look okay
>>3979388
The pose doesn't read particularly well, also I feel like you're not treating the blue fire thing as a light source here which is a bit unnatural
>>3979180
Is the creature not supposed to have teeth? It seems somewhat silly the way it looks now
>>3978816
Great stuff anon

>>3977178

>>3979275
>not understanding that light and dark adjustment layers create contrast. that's literally the fucking point

if i can do this in five minutes with a couple adjustment layers then the original artist can do a lot better, and he doesn't have to repaint the whole thing

>>3979696
Lol

album cover for my music, it's unfinished so please let me know what you think of it. thanks

>>3979696
>>3979180
these are really cool fellas, thanks for the help. however can you give me more detail on how you did it? I've only been digital painting for a couple weeks and I don't know much about the lingo.

>>3978472
what

>>3979749
I'll be honest, I've seen a metric ass-ton of album covers that look exactly like this.

>>3979696
>>3979801
sure, color dodge and multiply are "blending modes," which are just color correcting layers. they sit on top of your art. if you draw on a color dodge layer, it's going to make the image below brighter in those places. multiply does the opposite

if you use photoshop, procreate, sai, whatever, you should have these blending modes. mode programs do. there's dozens of different kinds of blending modes you can play around with

>>3979801
https://mega.nz/#!v5cwGK6C!1F6OCgD2Dvxx5w-F8hIFbMZ1cJrfWnxK48Zj071fQnU

>>3977340
makes for great thumbnails
i like it anon
good brushstoke economy and colour picking

>>3978110
the shoulder anatomy feels wrong

>>3980132
I believe it's a combination of making the torso too narrow or not rendering the shoulder seam/creases and the flow of the folds.

I'll see what I can do if those touch ups do not fix it.

>>3976717
>>3973646
me likey

Here is mine, started painting today. I'm impatient af but I'll try and actually work on it a lot

Legit question, why there's so much anime here? What's the point of /alt/? Don't tell me it's containg thing, the skill of the anime here it's the same here and there

>>3981077
there's not a single anime post in this thread

>>3981086
Well, I don't want to quote evryone, but yeh, but half of the posts are anime or just stylized and part of /alt/

>>3981115
study wip
any tips on how to paint digitally? Any good resources? I have almost no clue what I'm doing.
Specifically any tips on the process? Like should I do soft edges first and then add in hard edges, etc.

>>3981201
AHHH FUCK I'M SO LONELY I WANT A GIRLFRIEND !!!!!!!!!!!

>>3981208
I have a gf...

>>3979696
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>>3975293
this is the final product im going with, ill just do better on the next piece

>>3981209
Go fucking die normie.

???

Edgy i know

the squad is here

>>3981589
get back to /beg/

>>3981598
keep your soft / hard edges more defined, there's way too many strokes all over the board

>>3981564
improve your drawing and composition skills

>>3981340
work on facial symmetry, study some asaro head models

>>3981327
boring composition, not enough visual interest, too blunt, and the values definitely need work, like a bit more pop on the character, it's all too mid-tone. but the direction reminds me of simon stalenhag in a good way

>>3979696
absolutely disgusting

>>3979388
learn some anatomy / general figure drawing. maybe start with drawing form. could be a cool idea but there's absoultely no fundamental knowledge behind it

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>>3977343
quit using the airbrush like that, you're just hiding behind mistakes and making what could be really good look shit. try these with just hard edges for a bit, then slowly re-introduce soft edges where they are appropriate.

>>3981589
Thanks, I cant unsee this now. How did you come to the conclusion, that you could post this anywhere else than /beg/?

random doodle

Quick sketch, no reference, playing with forms and gesture.

Will go through with the redesigned boots and sheathe later tonight. But I was inspired and wanted to complete the rest of the base colors.

In my friend's words, "She feels like one those tricky, evasive swordfighters in an arcade fighting game, a halfway point between Raphael and Hwang from Soul Calibur." Thoughts?

Comments and criticism are welcome.

>>3982326
The fingers on her right hand are weirdly long, maybe you could push her knuckles forward more and draw the back of her hand covering the hilt or whatever it is. Otherwise I think it's fine on it's own.
I think you should raise (draw) her right elbow (so her forearm is pointing downward, elbow would be located beside her forehead on the image) this way you can include more of her, and I think it would add to the vertical flow of the image.
>>3982532
Don't stop now

>>3982560
go back to beg, and stop tracing

>>3982326
>She feels like one those tricky, evasive swordfighters in an arcade fighting game, a halfway point between Raphael and Hwang from Soul Calibur.
If this is the feel you’re aiming for, I think the design could benefit from being made a bit sleeker. The design of her boots, pauldron, and the colorblocking on her sword in particular could be more tapered/elegant to sell a more roguish image.

I did this a while ago
(and then totally ruined it by overpainting)
Any tips on oil painting?

>>3982701
lmao i didnt trace. nice try tho

>>3982744
Ngmi. The values of the body are clearly photographic, yet the horns, face and hair are shit tier and give it away completely. You arent decieving anyone but yourself.

was practicing clothing folds when i remembered that one time the space shuttle challenger exploded

Trying to draw qt

>>3983587
i like it, can you draw a qt with mega milkies

>>3981589
>>3977020
>>3976214
>>3975122

beg

finished this landscape

Progress on the skin and hair (after the dark shadows are taken care of, I'll lighten certain areas on another layer with a more saturated color). Thoughts on the rendering so far?

>>3973645
you could use a thin brush and dark dark bwon paint to make the edges clearer. not outline like a cartoon but just make it less fuzzy. its really really good though! i dont think i could do aything close to what you did

>>3983749
also did this painting outside tonight surrounded by mosquitoes

>>3983783
i kinda dismissed this at the flat color stage but that skin shading looks really, really tight. good job. the left hand touching the blade is a bit awkward and crunched up against the body, like i'm not quite sure what she thinks she's doing there, but's a little late to change that now. maybe bringing the fingers together would have created a more triangular sleek shape to match her vibe? maybe it's the fanned open hand that's throwing off the gesture of the arm for me

>>3983839
>>3983783
oh my god i just realized it's because her left hand is backward? unless i'm reading it wrong and the blade isn't resting on her palm, the thumb should be toward her body

>>3983844
Her left hand is palm up, with the bottom of the sword resting on it.

I think it may be the thumb throwing it off. Will rework it after I get back tomorrow.

>>3983783

i really like your art. would like to see more.

>>3977026
>>3980690
only cool ones in the whole thread
rest are lame. should be ashamed and consider a different career

>>3983868
posts like these are pointless and literal cancer
castrate yourself faggot

>>3983868
I can’t imagine how bad you are that you think those are good

>>3982718
Learn which pigments are transparent and which are opaque.

Hey guys, here is one I'm working on. Thinking of adding some kind of character or ship to it in the black space. Any ideas?

>>3983849
yeah i'm a fucking retard the hand is not backward. sorry

lol

Study

Study

>>3984157
that's pretty damn excellent

>>3983965
A tiny falling astronaut

>>3984260
ditto

>>3984217

Thank you :)

This is my first digital drawing. Not satisfied with it... please critique!

This is my first digital drawing. I'm not satisfied with it... please critique!

>>3984157
Love everything about the head. The browline, the cast shadows, the hair. Great!
>>3984517
I like the thumbnail a lot

The more I kept resizing, the more pixelized it got. sorry if this is too big.

>>3984274
>>3984260
the falling astronaut meme is the most basedboy shit

>>3983965
honestly a small mountaintop in the foreground with somebody standing on it would be top tier, especially if they were holding a spear or something (the thin line would draw the eye in)

im very new to art and this is a sketch in the works of me and a couple friends. im obviously gonna add new layers to nice it up but I'd appreciate any help.

Also could someone give me tips on how to colour and blend properly on a tablet?

>>3984653
Don't "chicken scratch" your sketch unless you plan to add a layer on top with smoother lines

>>3984660
i do plan to do that :)

im not good at drawing yet so right now i need to figure out how to actually draw things on my own and get a feel for it and the way im doing that is by sketching with chicken scratches. When i stop being bad i'll probably stop :)

still a lot to do

Why am I even posting here? I should stop coming to this website. I wasted another weekend on a sketch of a car.

>>3984923
And in top of it, I forgot to attach the fucking image.

Normally I do traditional stuff, but whatever

>>3984653
/beg/

Wip of a personal Zombie Pirate thing concept

Yeet

i dont understand how the eyes work. How do i improve it?

i just draw this, i just know the "basics" of anatomy any tip to not fuck this up?? this was just luck

>>3985322
shoulder and left boob looks weird and dont have the connect

>>3985318
Couple of things, first is that the right side eye in your drawing is completely viewable, whereas in the reference a part of it is blocked by the nose, his implies an issue with the perspective of the face
This will be compounded unless it is fixed, which is why it does not look as you want it to look

>>3985318
Second issue, the angle of the plane made by the eyes and the nose, to simplify, d raw a Lin from the center of the pupils on both sides, compare this angled Lin with a line drawn on the length of the bridge of the nose to the tip of the nose, compare both lines, you will notice a difference of more than 20 degrees, which is enough to make it seem very off

>>3985326
>>3985328
Got it, ty bro

>>3985318
Third issue, here is no line for the jaw, nor for the nostrils, assuming you have both please touch hem and not he smoothness of the natural curvature of the surfaces, hey can be most accurately portrayed through shading, though you might think that drawing a line for both will help, it will only make it seem off, it is best to sketch the area of shadow as area quick reference, then refine this shadow through layers of increased detailed rendering

>>3985318
In conclusion also please note the difference in the scale of the eyes and the face around it, I have attached a picture of an example, here you see the reference photo, the ratio of the width of the eye to the end of the eye to the end of the curvature of the face is roughly 3 to 2, notice it is roughly equal in you sketch, this is an addition of 50 percent more to the length of the face after the eye

>>3985318

>>3984653
/beg/
sticky/draw from photos/life

I suck at color.
There's too many hues in this composition, but I feel like they need to be there. Brown for the wood, chartreuse for the weed, blue for the sky, yellow for the gold...
How do you work with this when there's this many colors and they all seem to be needing to be saturated?
Why are beach pictures so beautiful but I can't seem to make this one work? It shouldn't look so cartoony.

Also this is for a commission I don't even smoke weed.

>>3979639
been trying to fix this arm for the past while
Does this look alright

>>3985841
I Can’t really tell where the hand or elbow is to let you know if it looks right or not...

Doing studies from life with some Schoolism stuff. Tried to use the lasso tool for this one.

>>3985949
Here's a better pic with the arm adjusted to the lines

>>3984157
I saved this, anon. Nice study.

Trying to design a wooden doll character that has a queen-like presence to her. I think the floating spears are a bit too threatening. not sure.

>>3984157
>hurrdurr clean room
>durr eat meat

>>3986053
Are you working on your own IP?

>>3986062
not really

I started drawing these characters about 5 years ago. Been meaning to finish them/design more ever since and I'm finally doing it now.

>>3986053
Ooh I like this!

>>3986060
????

HOW THE FUCK IS EVERYONE SO GOOD TODAY!!! cONGRATS!

>>3985683
P p plz help gois
I always struggle with this and nn n no one ever he-he-helps meeee ;-;

>>3978816
Here's another.

>>3986538
Not bad but that figure in the background has absolutely no reason to be that dark and sharp. In most circumstances objects appear lighter and less defined/detailed as they get further away. Fix that and there will be more depth and atmosphere.

>>3986549
Technically speaking maybe. But I feel it was an artistic choice, and the piece has 4 elements. The two boys, and the wall in the foreground and the balance is the dark figure in the background who is intentionally dark to reflect intent, and mystery.

You could add a haze but I think it's fun the way it draws the eye.

>>3986549
I don't think I'll work on it more, but yeah, I'd add lighter browns to the killer.
>>3986562
Overall, I'm really happy with the way the statue turned out. it's one of those things, without thinking, I just happened upon a shape I like. I was lazy about drawing the ground and the casualty on the floor seems kind of floating.

I would like to do DnD/fantasy commissions, but I don't have a following, and I'm not in those circles. Is this style/art good for commissions? What should I aim for?

>>3976264
shoulda been cleaning but did this instead

>>3985683
>>3986516

>>3979749
what genre?

>>3986795
Decide on the temperature of your light. Warm light calls for cool shadows and vice versa. And treat saturation in a similar manner as you would with values. With values it helps to start at the half tones and get darkest dark and lightest lights as you progress. With color, you envisage your neutrals and move towards saturation.

>>3980756
Oh? Going for a baby-faced madonna
I can't wait to see the finished piece

>>3986795
Wow that looks beautiful anom, thank you
What made you make the sky red? It’s a good combination just wondering cause the sky was really fucking me up

>>3986909
Probably since the main figure is green. Complementary colors make shit pop bro.

>>3984157
Nice work bucko

>>3986909

>What made you make the sky red?
You can pick any color if you have correct values

>>3986053
I'm designing more made out of different materials

>>3987514
FUCK i wanted to do something similar to this! I love this, good design, keep going.

>>3987373
>You can pick any color if you have correct values
prove this

>>3987514
I love the one on the right

Haven't had much time, but I made progress when I could. How's it coming along?

ex who i cyber stalked for a new photo ever since completely cutting me off

sigh at least im getting better at drawing

>>3987702
Creepy.

>>3987713

yeah well http://boards.4chan.org

>>3987697
Your line weight needs a little work. Your outer and inner lines all have the same and consistent thickness.

The boobs look like they're drooping over a slope.

Foreshortening needs a little more push, especially with the sword and her left hand.

That darker band going across her face is a little weird looking.

Colour looks good, I like the hair, too.

>>3987702
Post nudes or ref

>>3987702
>posting signature on 4chan
>literally retarded

lol

>>3987697
How to draw hair like dis?

>>3987671
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sysR13VM6Mk

>>3985953
Can I ask you what brush are you using on the semitone of the tape for example?

>>3987237
I like it! Your values are nice

>>3986538
>>3978816
I'm neet again

>>3988161
Tonkohouse brushset I think?

>>3988164
Thank you!

Any advice on drawing the hair so I don't just ruin it trying to make such a big area so dark?also can I add the snow with a white pencil or should I just switch to digital from this point which is what I would normally do?

>>3988300
Ref

>>3986795
I really loved this version of the coloring, but I ended up going with this overly saturated kitsch style because I'm afraid the client wouldn't "get" the sky being red and it being dark.
I just went to the beach and pretty much everything is an overly saturated mess, even the houses are painted really bright colors.
However I'm a little worried this is still TOO much so, and wondering how I can make it look more realistic and less cartoony?

>>3987697
This looks really cool anon. I actually like just there being blue sketch lines fr the background, in a stylized way.
I could definitely see this being used for a comic book cover.

I am new to digital painting, currently at the paint-over stage which I am really bad at. I am trying to push myself though.
Any tips for finishing digital paintings are welcome.

>>3988300
Frankly, so much of your drawing is off compared to the model that I wouldn't worry about ruining it or how you could finish it right now.

>>3988300
Lol this looks like a WW2 anti japan propaganda poster

>>3973645
Allright

I've been wondering how to improve my drawing style.

>>3988564
the right hand must be drawn better

>>3988540
>>3988551
These aren't critiques. You have to actually suggest a way to fix it or point out a specific thing I did wrong so I could do it again and not do that. No fucking shit it isn't accurate. if I could draw perfectly I wouldn't be here.

>>3988574
Try adding more green.

>>3988585
You’ll get more critique in /beg/

>>3988614
I posted in beg first and no I didn't get more critique. It would have taken you about 10 seconds to check that.

>>3988585
>please breastfeed me on how to look at my reference

about to start on the lines

>>3988735
I like this.

>>3988735
Love this, excited to see where you take it.

tried to draw from my head

>>3988764
and I drew these cute girls at the beach today

>>3986149
Cute

>>3988767
I've seen things like you wouldn't believe. Things that'd make a grown man cry.

>>3988693
Why would I go to /beg/ to check on a /beg/? I’m kicking you out. Git gud faggort.

>>3988585
Don't expect real criticism on /ic/. Ironically, it's what this board is worst at giving

>>3988697
ok... let me put it to you this way. obviously i think your version here looks great. its much better. but if i was capable of just looking at a better version and that alone would be enough for me to improve my drawing, i would just look at the original reference photo that i posted here. i would love to know your logic here in posting this. i mean, im really happy you did. it looks beautiful but we're on a critique thread. and i asked for critique. and your response was to post a better picture, even though you knew i already have the original reference. What exactly would you like me to do with your picture? Do you think im going to learn by osmosis? this is why i asked for actual critique.

>>3979749
>>>/gd/

>>3989077
Cute face. I think her arms a bit too thin especially in contrast with the chest.

Trying to focus on gesture here - critiques?

I think im done with this one

>>3989077
Very cute but forehead to top of head is distractingly large

I feel that something is wrong with this one but I can't feagure out...need halp

Drew fanart for a friend. Thoughts?

>>3984586
really gorgeous

My doodle

I made a pretty wierd one

>>3989325
>>3989320
>>3989237
>>3989235
>>3988574
>>3988300
>>3984653
>>>/beg/

I used a reference for this one. Just trying to get a more painterly style.

>>3990328
Nice work. If you want to go to the next level, make sure to put in your darkest darks and lightest lights. I took this into Photoshop to check (in the Levels tool) and you in fact are missing in totality step 1 and step 10 on the value scale.

>>3990334
I was going for a cool and hazy look, so I thought keeping the values a little tighter would help sell that. Am I wrong for trying this? Honest question.

I haven't drawn in years and I decided to just sketch for the sake of it.

>>3983749
beautiful shit anon

Drawing from yesterday for /towergirls/.
Might scrap this and remake it.

Anyone ever used Krita? is it good for line work?

Anything that looks off?

>>3990334
you dn't know what you're talking about lol

>>3987514
Cool as fuck as always.

I need critique