/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

HOW DO I GET AN ARTIST BOYFRIEND PLZ HELP

>>3989882
Dilate harder.

Can I ask stupid questions here?

>>3989885
No

Im a NGMI. I just draw for fun and are learning and studying things that I find relevant to what I want to draw.

Does anyone here have a trick/tutorial for drawing eyes. I cant draw eyes on my drawings to save my life.

>>3989898
Yeah it's called learn the fucking anatomy

Please gib answer, how the fuck do I color not like a 12 year old >>3989501

>>3989880
How many of us use ic?

>>3989898
Show your work.

>>3989921
what did you use to color that, pencils? I’d recommend trying a mix of digital (easy mode) and practicing with markers or watercolors.

>>3989924
Alright thanks, it's just since pencils, markers and paint all handle very differently I'm lost on trying to understand how to color

>>3989882
i'm here

>>3989880
any books on how to draw some delicious food?

>>3989880
Where's her nose? WHAT IS THIS DEMON

I picked up a pencil yesterday and drew for the first time since I was a kid. Never had any sort of training, never took art classes seriously, and now the result is that my attempts to draw anything more than a 3d cube looks like a child's doodle. Not discouraged or anything it was a ton of fun.

Is there any merit to tracing as your first sketching experience? My thought is that I don't even know how to turn shapes into a drawing so if I take some time to trace and get even a small idea of how to move the pencil to get a sloppy result that's gotta be better than nothing right?

What kinda art does you masturbate to most?

Where do I find art prompts? Something the gives me a list of ideas and or generates them so I can fill up my sketch book?
I tried that art prompts.org or whatever and it gets stuck on one promt. I know DAD has a forum but I'm too dyslexic to use use it :/

>>3989921
Scott Robertson - how to render

>>3990036
Tracing does nothing for understanding shapes and volume. It does train mechanical skills and lineweight. You seem to be overly concerned with the final result of your training, this is a mistake, you are learning not making a finished piece. Focus on enjoying the process for now.

>>3989880
Does anyone know of a book or any resource that teaches "set dressing" for illustrations?

>>3990036
I picked up a pencil yesterday and drew for the first time since I was a kid
This is where I'm at too. Is there anything worth knowing as a complete beginner or should I just wing it? Should I start drawing from the shoulder?

>>3990036
>>3990315
we have a sticky for a reason you fucks

I've been using a regular digital tablet (Huion H610 Pro) for a while and now I wanna get a screen tablet. Is the XP-Pen 15.6 Pro a good choice?

>>3989947
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this exact same thing.

>>3990315
If you're a total beginner just draw. Dont focus on anything. You need to biild up your mileafe snd comfort. If anything at all focus on measuring with your eyes.

>>3989947
>Where's her nose?
>asks anon while frogposting
the irony

did this using the box method and the perspective still feels off. Did I get the torso right?

Does Photoshop have a fill button?

>>3990712
Your skills are too low, you have too keep drawing. Just a "method" won't save you of your lack of actually knowing how to draw.
Anyway, it's good that you're using boxes at this early stage, don't get disencouraged. Keep drawing you dumb dumb

>>3990713
Yes. it's under the "edit" tab... I think. Google it... fuck.

Redpill me on PaintToolSai brushes. Is it worth to download custom brushes? Which one? Why do I see people talk about Photoshop and CSP brushes but not Sai brushes?

Why do people care about their style?
Genuine question, even if perchance they don't develop naturally... why do they care?

>>3990961
Everyone thinks they are special and when their art looks like everyone else's it ruins the illusion.

>>3991098
>their art looks like everyone else's
that is happening to me and it fucking hurts

>>3990745
This wasn't helpful at all. Fuck you.

What are the social medias that are relevant nowadays and which are dying/dead?

>>3991098
That explains noth-
>>3991188
Nani?!

>>3990176
Make your own list and use random.org.
Use the currently up roll thread.
Look for storywriting prompts, they might do the trick.

I've got two about Clip Studio. Bought it during the sale.

1: Why are all these decorations broken and how do I fix them?

2: Every like 5 minutes or so, my clip studio loads something, as though it's saving or something. It's really fucking annoying because I can't draw while it's doing it. How do I stop it?

>>3991307
He's right though. Get mad all you want but having mileage is necessary. Even if you want to argue that you need to do lots of studies, that also implies you need to draw a lot.
Source: I was also a beginner and so was everyone else at some point.

>>3991307
I have and am putting in the work, dog. I've been doing at least one study a day. I know you need to get mileage to get better, all of this is a given at this point and is common sense. "Put the work in" is absolutely useless here.

I'm already working on myself to improve, I would have liked to have gotten a tip in how to improve that particularly weird pose, but instead it's "Keep drawing you dumb dumb."

I was looking for tips with the box method, because it would make some weirder things, especially poses with extreme angles easier.

>>3991862
>>3991893

my back is killing me
very specifically my tailbone, right at the end of my spine, and nothing else

How do I fix this? Feels like I'm sitting on a bruise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rrZmwMS0LQ

I found this pop up in my youtube recommendations today. I never animated but can some one explain why they're using an MS paint-like image as part of the process for making their anime? wtf is going on and what are they going to do with it to get the end result?

>>3991893
In previous pic you picked an awkward pose and the lens distortion from camera doesn't help, you're better off drawing people from life instead of copying photos and learning how to draw feet and hands. You're trying to run before you've learnt to walk because bodies in unusual perspective like your picture are not an easy thing. Study anatomy and rise difficulty step by step. Learn anatomical landmarks of head, ribcage and pelvis, when you build the figure start with these three boxes in wanted perspective and then start finding these landmarks in the perspective

>>3992347
stop sitting on your tailbone and cushion your fucking butt you dumbfuck

What happened to Dongho Kang's artstation account?

>>3989880
Is she from that manga about a dude who's going to be so Chad in the future that future people sent an agent to the past to stop him from becoming a Chad?

If I were to make a lifesize sculpture and put real clothes on it, would I be able to actually sell/display it or would there be some kind of copyright issue?

>>3992634
yes

Whats file size should I use for drawing? I tried 500 by 700 px, but it was to small and 5000 by 7000 px was to slow. Should I just use the presets the software gave me?

>>3992643
Fashion in general cannot be copyrighted. It is subject to trademark and some patents, but this would be inapplicable to your situation.

>>3992658
Wow I was so sure I couldn't do that.. So even if I were to put a shirt with giant letters saying "NIKE" or some shit there wouldn't be any issue?

>>3990805
All the "brushes" are just other peoples custom settings for the defaults. You can make your own easily. It's more important to use textures, but you're better off pasting a texture and adjusting it to your piece rather than dealing with a lot of the blotmaps people have out there.
http://painttoolsaibrushes.splstc.com/understanding-brushes-textures-painttool-sai/
There are also textures on this site. So few people make blotmaps that no one usually cares aside from the odd old dA or tumblr tutorial.

>>3992576
I chose the pic because of the weird perspective. In any case I took 5 minutes and redrew the lines over the armature and it looks much better.

Thanks for the actual feedback, though.

Does timed drawing sessions and quick gestures really do help with long term drawing?

I feel like I am focusing on polishing turds and like no time warming up. I understand that doing gestures help with fluidity in poses and stop them from being rigid. But how does being timed really help? To stop getting tunnel vision and focusing on the whole picture and only focus on the motion of the body. It's been a while since I done any gestures studies and painting and I end up getting so focus on creating one single picture, it feels my art is suffering.

I know I might be answering my own questions, I just need confirmation.

>>3989880
>OP pic isn't another high res Frazetta
I don't have any questions
I'm just disappointed

>>3991893
Goseb?

>>3992667
This depends. When you say "put clothes on it", are you using actual items of clothing? If yes, that is fine.

If you're sculpting the clothes or sewing replicas, then you can use the design of the clothing, but you must steer clear of the logo which has trademark protection (you'd be guilty of counterfeiting), or any other image on the clothes that are sufficiently creative enough to warrant separate copyright protection.

Fuck it. I'm going to grind hands. Throw me your favorite hand learning material and any tips. I'm so sick of not being able to draw them.

>>3993029
Thanks!

>>3992800
Timed gestures will force you to make quick decisions and forget about detail. It's useful when you're first starting for the day and makes your mind more sharper. Moving from 30 seconds to 60, 120, etc. really does help you warm up. Don't take it so seriously, it's just a warm up.

>>3993048
Thank you for the reply anon, I appreciate the response.

Are these really a crutch for beginners? I'm thinking of using them for some of my graphite drawings. Especially for creating a midtone on a paper. I'm trying to switch back over to doing more traditional pieces.
I'm more use to using shammys to smudge charcoal.

I have no artistic skill and I don't know where to begin
I guess that's a stupid question

>>3993056
Yeah. Our brains naturally want to focus on the detail and doing timed gestures helps you whip your ass into shape and see the big picture. Forces you to make quick decisions.

>>3993064
begin with the sticky
cmon son

>>3993084
What is the sticky

>>3991857
1) That can happen from time to time, for some reason the brush tips get misplaced or deleted. Go to the clip studio launcher and click the gear in the upper right, then maintenance menu>organize materials or organize material folders. That should force the software to re download/relocate the missing brush tips.
If that doesn't work, you may need to do "reset additional materials" in that same maintanence menu. Be warned that this can take some time and will reset personalized brush settings.

2) Sounds like the auto save/recovery. Check file>preferences>file > restore (top)
You can uncheck it or adjust the time, though I'd suggest make sure you are saving often if you opt out.

Why is my art so ugly

>>3993062
what are those for
serious question

>>3993089
I did the first thing but it didn't work, I cant believe I have to reset my brushes just to fix these this sucks so much. Thanks for the help though, turning off autosave is helpful

>>3993216
They are often used for blending and smudging, usually for shading. Often with graphite or charcoal.

i wanted to create a twitter account but they wanted my number; I endup discovering that twitter does this with everyone trying to creat one acc
so everybody on twitter don't care that twitter has their numbers? i don't wanna be doxed

>>3993250
Twitter requires a phone number now? I was able to set mine up with just my email.

>>3993089
anon i managed to go on 'add initial sub tools' and I can add them, but is there any way of doing more than 1 at a time? It would take hours to do it like this lol

>>3993250
You can just remove your number afterwards

>>3993252
my account got blocked because of ''suspicious activity'' and now they ask for my number
>>3993258
gonna try that later

>>3993088
the first thread the top of this board

>>3993233
thanks habibi

>>3993034
You have your own hand so draw it, use mirror for more poses and maybe a lamp for different lighting because you'll have problems in vague light. You can do this with feet too

Which PS shortcut menu has Shift + Click?

>>3993108
because it's porn

Can I do that in photoshop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONv_Y0Mts20

>>3993250
They tried to make me supply it because I was "suspicious" (which is complete bullshit, they just want more of your personal information to sell), but I emailed and said I didn't have a phone and got it cleared. I think they've now stopped letting people through with this.

>51.8°F
>Heater and Jacket equipped
>Deadline in 48hrs
>Coffee doesn't keep me warm
How do you guys fend off alluring sleep even the deadline pressure isn't keeping me awake.

>>3993650
GIVE ME A REAL ANSWER REEEEEE

>>3993268
Oh my bad

what program does yosuke murata use for the background speedlines in one punch man? here i think he left the + thing in the background.

Are there any free software that can draw smoothly? Tried Paint.net and got the Corel painter on humble bundle once but both feel wonky. Even paint 3D that came with windows feels better but still not quite what I'm looking for.

>>3993989
Autodesk SketchBook Pro

Is there a name for when you just sketch without thinking? you just draw lines without thinking about what you're gonna draw or how it will look

How do I rip/download videos off of NMA?
Is it literally just downloading or is there some protection?

>>3993808
CSP probably (done by his assistants, he usually only does the characters and bits of the background)

See Yoshikazu Hamada on Youtube to see it done, it's a "Special Ruler"
>>3993989
>smoothly
as in vectors? Inkscape is free
>>3993108
>>3993771
Unappealing, bad anatomy
Bad lineart
study some Steve Huston (or whoever your preferred figure artist is), this should improve both your forms and lines

>>3993255
You should be able to shift click when you import no?

How do you choose skin tones? Like I am really struggling with skin tones, it boggles my mind. When I use the eye dropper tool on my reference I get a tone, it doesn't even look like the tone I was trying to get. I know the tones seem to have different values depending on how dark/light the surrounding tones are but still.

Im 18 and I hate working normal jobs. Is it too late to start drawing? Like if started streaming art would people sub and donate

>>3994396
Sampling non simplified colors of reference is a mistake. Sampling colors in general is bad imo. You'll develope an eye for color if you just work it out yourself. Using soft brushes is how I do it. I'll work in different colors with medium and hard after I get a good soft base.

>>3994045

Right-click page that contains video, "save page as..." downloads all page content including the video. Worked for me when I had the trial.

>>3994407
If you've got even an ounce of personality yes.

a good default sketch brush for clip studio paint that I can just make black and start drawing?
I use opaque water colour for basically everything but I hate it for linework, sketching or scribbling. I can't really explain why but it don't look good, especially black.

Any good recommendation of books to learn Oil Painting ? I went in the Artbook thread but didnt find anything really helpful

Or should I just experiment

>>3989880
Have any of you guys used Fiverr before?
I have a couple of gig ideas but I am not sure what to expect from the website or how to price my work.
Anyone have any advice or tips for a beginner?

>>3992419
That makes the whole painting process less tedious. They usually don't do that for western cartoons because the painting process is way easier with vectors.

Once it's done, they blur and blend everything in After Effects. That's how you get the anime lineart aesthetic.

>>3994776
Alla Prima by Richard Schmid is what I often see recommended

How do I break free from the want to have perfect proportions and correct anatomy to going back to trying to stylize and exaggerate the forum.

>>3995455
Stylized forms still have their own proportions and rules. You want kirbyesque square fingers and barrel chests, they still maintain consistent proportions and style. Even trash anime follow rules.

>>3994162
No? Why can't I do it? Just literally hold shift and click a bunch of different ones?

what kind of marker was used for this drawing?

Will these hold me back or will I eventually get the muscle memory down?

Drop some art discord good for crits

>>3996167
Lmao, dont even think about it.
Draw like a normal person not like a bitch with plastic circles

>>3991307
Stay ngmi retard

>>3996177
Then how do I learn how to draw straight and parallel lines?

>>3996209
By practicing drawing straight and parallel lines a lot.

>>3994045
I've been saving NMA vids with Firefox. Right click the page select "View Page Info" then go to the "Media" tab. A list of images and videos will be there. Select the vid and press save as

>>3990199
Interior decorating books, and possibly set decorating for theater/film. The overall answer is "research", which is easy with the Internet. If you want to create an interior with turn of the century decorating, you'd do the same kind of research someone doing the sets for a movie would do.

>>3993062
Personal choice. I don't care for them, I preferred to develop my drawing skills to where I didn't need them, but they've been used by artists forever.

>>3996167
Those are primarily drafting tools. You can use them, but you really should focus on learning how to draw without them first. There's some overlap with drafting, especially in illustration, I learned a ton of tips and techniques to draw more accurately in college studying illustration, and I do use tools digitally when I need precise lines, but i learned to do it manually first. It;s better, trust me on that - it might seem easier now, but learning it first will pay off later.

Can someone recommend me some well-drawn eurocomics?
I've recently discovered Barbucci, Bengal, and De Longis and I'm absolutely in love with the art

there's several sites for gesture drawing reference but is it really that useful to draw gestures of staged, forced poses done in a photo studio? wouldn't it be better to draw real people going through motions?

>>3995939
If not water color w/ brush, then a water color brushpen

How do you remove the background from a jpeg so it will be transparent for the printing process on tshirts?

>>3996522
>wouldn't it be better to draw real people going through motions?
yes. the weird poses can be good for studying form or muscles you dont normally see, but personally I hate them. Youll make more progress drawing normal poses and real people. Whether its staged or not doesnt really matter just that its a good reference. It pisses me off how many refs on quickposes and loa have the feet cut off.

>>3996633
are there any sites good for that type of natural ref? other than the two you mentioned i only know of sketchdaily

>>3996179
Post your work

I just got my BFA in art practices. Should I stick with commissions+ trying to get studio work into local galleries or should I get a real job?

If I don’t have my tablet yet is it worth it to get special paper to work on colors with my markers or would learning coloring with markers not help when it comes to digital

Is it possible to learn fundies like form and perspective from cartooning or should I go straight into trying to draw from Vilppu or Hampton?

Is it weird, that even though I know how to draw from imagination and life, I don't consider myself an artist.
I don't feel like I make art, I just draw what I think looks cool or pretty.

Would people still buy a sticker or pin if the artist's signature was on it?

>>3989880
Anybody using xp-pen artist 12 ? are you satisfied with it or does it have alot of issues ? is it good for a first monitor ?

Can I do that in photoshop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONv_Y0Mts20
creating shapes with lasso tool

Which bridgeman book should I start with? I'm not neophyte and already know anatomy

>>3989880
how to draw vectorised drawing in anime style in Adobe Illustrator? I mean the brush is kinda off. If I draw mine in lat sai, SAI, how do I export it into AI for banner works and stuff?

>>3989880
How do you create an artbook? I want to publish some of my artwork into a physical book to thank my followers and patreons.

Where do I post if I'm looking for critique? I do stuff like pic related, and the only active thread I see is /alt/. I don't want to waste a whole thread for one image.

Am I just being retarded and missing something obvious?

>>3997161
yes
>>3997162
complete guide to drawing from life

>>3997264
Post in draw thread. Also for fuck's sake turn your fade down, why does every ic artist use brushes with 50% fade?

What method would you use to start plotting out the pose for this?

>>3997591

are there any professionals that posted their routine for when they were learning or anything?
i can't stand stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out what to do when better artists already thought this shit out.

>>3997652
Nicolaides has a book that breaks down a student's schedule. If you google manga artist schedule there was one famous dude with a busy week.
Summary is if you're not drawing rn you are ngmi

>>3997654
i know drawing a lot is always the #1 answer but i'd rather structure what i want to draw now.
i was focusing on trying to make finished work at the best of my ability lately but just doing that feels too little progress.
i'm trying to come up with a routine. like doing gesture and construction every day, but idk what else i could do. i also think splitting time in 50/50 between studies and imagination work would be good.

>>3997447
thanks, friend

How to into cartography? Is this even the right board for it?

I would appreciate any information or links for dealing with wrist pain, like exercises or positions I should use to prevent it.

>>3997814
Wasd and pen and blade on youtube if fantasy maps is what you mean. Theres lots of ways to generate maps. Random stuff usually best, like dropping macaroni on paper and using edges for coasts or other random shapes. Computers are better for generation and lots online for that. Get the basic random map or use real maps to "steal" your coast lines. If you want real rules for maps and land masses, im not writing it all out for you. Main one to understand is rivers start in mountains and flow to oceans. Lakes are low lands these rivers pool in. You can have multiple rivers feed a lake, but only one river continues on to lower lands/oceans.

>>3997862
I'm mostly interested in how to make my maps aesthetically appealing, I already know where and how to place things like rivers. I'm thinking that I probably need to get better at drawing but I don't know how much grinding out fundamentals would translate to cartography, although I guess if I get good I'd be able to identify what skills matter for cartography and then switch to primarily practicing those

>>3997447
How do you turn down fade in Photoshop?

Whenever I watch speed paint videos I see that they rarely zoom in. Is that how they really draw or are they using a sepersted program that is always zoomed out?

>>3989880
Do any of you have a good giant sketchbook recommendations? Something like this, but without the spine breaking or a company that wont send it in broken. Or is the notebook fated to fall apart if it's 300 pages?

>>3997981
>Or is the notebook fated to fall apart if it's 300 pages?
From my experience this is the case. The one thing I've learned is that stitched hardcover sketchbooks last the longest, but when they fail they fail hard.
I guess it's the same as any other large-size book, the larger it is the more difficulty the binding has in maintaining the integrity of the book. Add in constant manhandling and flattening when you sketch and draw and you have a recipe for disaster.
Stick to smaller books, large ones are just a novelty.

>>3997961
A lot of times they have a second window open for capturing the process. This one isn't the "active" window, so it doesn't zoom in or rotate like your main one so it appears more streamlined than it actually is.
Although, there are speed painters who don't bother with zooming in often because they are going for speed over quality/detail. They also tend to have incredibly large monitors to make up for this fact, though.
I guess the simplest answer is "it varies"

>>3997820
Looking up anything on tendonitis in the wrist will get you most of what you need to know, you can add "exercises for artists" to get some slightly more specialized results.
I had a nice video I used to watch and follow along, but I can't seem to find it right now. This one has some of the same exercises, so it'll have to do for now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEf5AGef4yI

>>3997215
If you are going the physical route you'll need to get a hold of a publisher (indie or not) to find out there specifics on file formats, size, color, content regulation, etc.
Otherwise, starting steps is making sure all your "pages" are the same color (rgb/cmyk) and dimensions. After that it depends on the publisher on whether you need to send them all your image files in their desired format or if you need to compile them all together in a PDF.

>>3996964
Depends on how distracting the signature is. I've seen artists put their user/name on stickers on the border or faintly inside pins and buttons and no one had issues with it.

>>3996949
The term "artist" used to only be used for people who did it as a career. It's okay if you don't want to call yourself an artist, it's actually pretty normal especially for those with low self esteem, but you shouldn't fight it if someone calls you one. Just say thanks and move on.

>>3996945
You can, but it's kind of like trying to learn algebra without learning multiplication first. It's going to be easier and less frustrating if you learn how to build up as apposed to jumping in right away, but nothing's stopping you from doing both simultaneously...

>>3996935
If you are going to be learning something it would be worth it. Art is weird in that a lot of different methods and mediums can be applied to other methods and mediums. If nothing else, sitting down with your markers will give you the chance to figure out how colors blend with ink, which given how some digital tools mimic markers more than paint, will give you a small head-start on learning how to use them.

People on this board say that it's better to tape a piece of paper on the screenless tablet to have a better drawing experience. But what do I do if the tablet doesn't respond to my pen when the paper is taped?

>>3998059
That's literally not possible.

>>3998059
The paper is to only give it a more traditional feel, whether it's better or not is entirely opinion.

>But what do I do if the tablet doesn't respond to my pen when the paper is taped?
Which tablet? It might be such a thing as you needing to either get something like a matter phone screen protector that allows conductivity made specifically for your tablet, or something like hard plastic with a matte surface for those tablets that use sound for location.

>>3998059
People recommend to use a paper on top of the tablet all the time here.

>>3998174
It's a Huion 1060 PLUS.

>>3998034
Thanks for answering the speed paint question!

>>3989880
ANONS what kind of materials do i have to mix in order to create golden or bronze watercolour or gouache paint?
Also in my Career the guys Who chose comparative anatomy study cat's muscles and bones because its similar to humans, i just wanted to share this info

>>3989880
Have you guys ever considered redrawing an anime by hand as a method of practice?

>>3993752
I made a new one back in january so they still ban you until they get your phone number.

Any special criteria I should know when picking a protractor, or should I just go with a basic model?

>>3997591
>>3997593
How do you do those hands?

>>3989880
Someone told me if I've ever considered using a hard round brush. What does that mean? Any examples of hard vs soft brush?

>>3998783
There's literally an Anime Study thread that talks about this, anon. Yes people do that.

I have just been using basic bitch HB 2 pencils and a pink ass eraser. I'm pretty beginner, but what's some sick art supplies I can get? What charcoal pencils do I get, what eraser and what kind of knife to sharpen them like a chad?

how THE FUCK do I understand the pelvis and its movement? It's such a weird shape I can't wrap my head around. How did you all get it?

This is it. I finally got to the point where my art is not good enough for me and I need to work on my anatomy. How the fuck do I study books in digital?

>>3999040
by picturing as a half sphere, I don't do this but if you still don't grasp 3d shapes so well this is way more digestible.

>>3999049
you draw your usual shit, you spot what you dislike, you watch tutorials about that exact thing and study, you do it until you improve, you get back to doing your usual shit, repeat.

Which leadholder would you recommend ? I was thinking about getting a Rotring but if there's some shit that's better out here, I might aswell go for them

>>3989880
I used a 5000px x 4000px resolution in krita.
When I started coloring it made my laptop lag.
Is it alright to just resize ? or this might change the quality of my artwork ?

Who are some good artists that have a style with line art? I know feng zhu, and I found this guy Ignacio Bazan Lazcano on ArtStation but it doesn't seem to be his usual style.

Just started with copics and suck ass. Streaky visible marker lines and no blending. Looked up tutorials and the flick method but they all use brush tips. I have the broad and fine tips. Is it still possible to do flick method with those? Do i just need to get a colorless blender? Ive been trying 3 color shading and understand the way to do it but am being heavy handed starting out. Judt curious if any adivce before 'wasting' my markers learning.

Should you use an additive color wheel to determine color harmony / color scheme / color gamut and then use a traditional RYB to determine how to mix the chosen colors?
As opposed to using a traditional pigment color wheel for both.

>>3999550
To clarify I mean for painting traditionally.Was looking at color wheels on james gurneys site.

Where did Histon learn his head construction method from.? I haven't seen Nyone else use it. Everyone else does loomis or reilly method.

Did he invent it himself or is it from another artist.?

Is there anyone that makes money only drawing humanoids, lke character design or portraits? Is it possible to be successful only refining this?
tl;dr can I make it if I only like drawing humans

>>3999940
Porn artists, animators and character designers all make money solely for working with humans/figures. However, one generally needs an understanding of anatomy, clothing, and figure drawing in order to work in those areas.

>>3999940
I'm not sure how you rate successful but there are people who get commissioned to do painted portraits and then there are people who do caricatures, but it's usually a side gig. Most people or companies, like big league game companies, want their artists to be able to do everything so that the concept art is consistent.
There's nothing wrong with having a preference or being exceptionally good at one thing, but you'd be better off having a full portfolio.

Is there such a thing as solely someone who creates/sketches/designs creatures and monsters and stuff like that or is it just a Jack-of-all-trades thing? Same for modeling stuff too, I guess. I know there's hard edge modeling which is spaceships/engineered stuff but is there stuff for beasts and the like? I really like concepting them and I'm kind of wondering if I could go anywhere with that.

>>3999032
I have a tin for prismacolor graphite pencils, soft, and I love them. I have a set of Tombows that are really good. Since I no longer take trad art as seriously I use a mechanical pencil.
Stay away from the orange charcoal pencils they tend to have a rough charcoal. I prefer my charcoal to go on the paper smoothly.
Kneaded erasers charcoal or graphite. Its useful for tones. New shamy can erase charcoal or be used for smudging.
I usually use a pencil sharpener or a xacto knife or box cutter.

How does one find a muse?
what is a muse really?
How do I get inspired?

What's this circle on the bone? I thought it connected to the top of the forearm cylinder but apparently not?

What's the best book/resource for learning about proportion? Like how to avoid making the arms or legs too short or too long etc.?

Repostan here since the other thread I originally posted this in didn't seem to get much replies.
>start over at Keys to Drawing after learning that Fun with a Pencil is meant for more advanced artists that have gotten rid of symbol drawing last year
>Do a good job on the feet and hand exercises
>Get to the mechanical objects exercise
>Suddenly everything goes to shit
>Start wondering if I've been restating the wrong way, if I've been writing notes too long/too short
>Try redoing the hand exercise a few days later to reassure myself that everything is okay
>It looks like garbage
>Lose all motivation to continue drawing and continuing with KTD and just scribble some rough studies in my sketchbook
Help a /beg/ brainlet out bros. Should I just only be focusing on the exercises right now and redo the ones i'm not satisfied with after I finish the book or should I not skip anything? Also whenever I restate it feels like I'm petting the lines more then correcting them.

anywhere i can see the past sketchbooks of artists that got good? i'm sure something like this exists somewhere

>>4000218
muse? well, why did you start drawing? did you ever have an art related dream?
there's lots of things that can inspire you but you have to know for yourself what that is.

>>4000357
anconeus

>>4000398
Have you tried at least learning the basics of perspective and form? If not, then try Dynamic Sketching + Perspective Made Easy. These stuff will instill you with a better 3D sense which will help a lot with mechanical objects (and everything else). Also as a preemptive warning: avoid Drawabox.

i'm trying to construct from photo ref, am i gimping myself by not using a grid?
i thought maybe doing it freehand would challenge me a bit more but im having second thoughts

>>3990712
Nope. You did not accurately copy the ref. Practicing bargue plates will teach you how to copy. Draw-boxes helps with drawing from imagination imo. However, knowing how boxes work can help with understanding perspective and planes

>>3991098
Thats becouse you they don't know how yo draw

>>4000417
Did you read my post

>>4000417
>>4000557
hi sorry actually i think you might be right and i shouldnt have been so rude regardless even you were you wrong sorry

>>3989880

I want to learn construction so I can draw from imagination, but I need to learn to draw from observation.

What methods do I use to draw from observation in a way that doesn't gimp me when I actually try to draw from imagination like the Kangaroo meme?

average age of a porn artist?

Anyone know what is done to get the shading on the cape, buildings behind/below Superman, the bottom half the wrecking ball, etc? Is it as simple as it seems and just 'color in' the area with a 2B or HB pencil? I can see lines and directionality at times - are these all just for spotting blacks when inking and line weight/stroke size/etc dont matter?

Example - the wrecking ball at top has slightly darker line weights for the shaded in area near the gradient/hatching lines. On an inked piece, this is all going to be black, so I assume its just random shading and didnt care about his line weight, but you can clearly see different shading for parts of the bottom half of that area with distinct line directions

what should i be looking for when buying a monitor?

>>4000566
draw it from memory and if youre stuck, look up a ref. stop making it complicated.

>>4000876
You answered many of your own questions. This type of shading is just flat tone/value in most places to show where the blacks will be.

In any drawing its typically good practice to have your strokes follow the form of what you're drawing when shading, and the artist does that here even though the shaded tones are going to be black.

Notice however he DOES NOT leave out the core shadow on the figures and on objects like the wrecking ball. That's important and the inker can decide how he wants to implement it.

>>3989880
I might sound severly retarded but how am I supposed to read artbooks? Draw while reading? Read, then draw?

>>4000513
Those in one of the Megas? Or should I head over to CGpeers?

>>4000978
Google and youtube are your friends. Watch a few youtube videos of people copying bargue plates and listen closely. Then find some high resolution bargue plate images and copy them. Draw big and take your time. Use straight lines if your curvy lines suck

what's a good place to get clip studio inking brushes?

>>4000898
okay cool, but I'm confused with learning to draw from observation vs imagination anyway. From imagination I'm making circles/boxes and putting shit on top of them, but in observation I'm plotting angles and relationships. I don't see how one supports the other.

>>4001221
The assets store. If you use ぺん or ペン (pen) as a search it will come up with some nice ones once you sort by most popular. Searching ink インク also works.

Frenden has a large brush set available with inkers, as do other people on sites like gumroad.

>>4000927
pls someone answer ;_;

>>3992696
learn to use a much much smaller brush.

>>4000927
>>4002015
If you're talking about the learning art books, then it's a combinaiton of both. You need to treat it like a textbook and try to actively learn, read, and review what you've learned as much as you can.
What I like to do is read the whole thing, front to back. Then go back to each chapter/section and re-read and draw at the same time.

>>4000893
anyone?

I wanna start a trad. sketchbook, I usually work in digital. Any one have some good pen/ink recommendations? I heard microns are good, but I want to get more recommendations before I buy.
I also want some good greyscale markers. Any recs? Finally are prismacolor pencils any good?

My huion h420 just came in the post, havent drawn since my digital media class that i took in highschool so i could list it as experience on my resume. Therefore i have next to zero experience with tablet drawing, and probably forgot what little i did learn.
Im also a possessor of a hand that was personally cursed by god to not make anything fruitful. Art class was a nightmare since I was a child, I enjoyed attempting to draw, but i was so shit and my aart was so horrendous, I wasnt allowed to take Year 3 Art.

Im just looking for some resources for self teaching, a decent software to download/pirate for the tablet(i think im gonna draw weebshit, vidya characters, cityscapes and such).
What i posted was my first attempt using the tablet, as you can see i gave up quite quick and wanted to just finish my shit outline and start some basic circles.

>>4000893
>>4002231
thats not art related. I heard OLEDs are good and apparently high refresh rates (Hz) is good for gaming.

>>4002815
how is that not related? it can fuck up your colors(i think)

Where do I start if I want to do pixel art? Any good tutorial around? (I can't find one in the sticky) Can I use a regular drawing program like Sai to do it?

>>4002804

First time doing any "real" pixel art that wasn't just recoloring and fuck me if this isn't way more painstaking than I imagined it would be. Trying my best not to fudge anymore than I have to at this point (gridding).

>>4001947
thanks anon. i'm trying to find a nice brush set similar to shiyoon kim's fountain pen inkers for photoshop but it's a little difficult

I am older guy. I want to take up drawing but I simply feel ashamed at being bad while being so old. How can I overcome this? I wanna make it.

About social medias... At the moment, all that matters is Twitter and Insta, right? Are there other platforms I should make an account on?

>>4003451
There's no shame in wanting to develop a new skill, anon. It's never too late to start in drawing and you will make progress provided you draw daily.
Also none knows your age, online... I mean really unless you're 70 you still have time bro.

>>4003458
That is a good point. When should I start posting online?

>>4003463
When you complete something and feel like sharing it.
Or right away, if you want. If not on twitter, posting things online on DAD is good to stay motivated, and none will judge you there even if you're still bad. Or create a tumblr or DA gallery with your finished pieces to keep track of your progress.

Where do I even begin to learn anatomy? I practice heads and gesture daily but I don't know how to work on the body. I asked in /beg/ and I was told the ribcage, pelvis, clavicle and spine, but is there any specific pdf I should look for? Do I just draw people off of reference photos?

>>4003487
Daily gesture practice helps immensely with proportions,at least it does for me.
Can't recommend enough "design and invention" by Hampton and "Hitokaku" (you can find both for free on the artbook thread and online) to help you understand how any part of the body works, construction-wise.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/ Can anyone open the poses on their desktops? I have Flash installed and enabled, I don't know why I can't display the full-res pictures. I've been using this site for a long time now and suddenly it stopped working for me.

>>4003453
NSFW on twitter will get banned soon, better create a Pixiv accout

>>4002804
Read the goddamn sticky, lurk alot more, and start with pencil/paper.

>>4003495
I have the same problem.

what's the best place to publish comics independently? also how many pictures are allowed in one post on twitter? i'm making a comic and want to know if i can fit it all in one post

>>4003581
I think up to 4 in one post on twitter. I don't think it's a good medium for comics though, unless they're casual standalones.

>>4003607
>I think up to 4 in one post
shit. i thought it was more than that.
in that case i might just make a separate website that's independent of any social media platform and link to it from twitter. it's a one-off thing but it's like 20 pages at least

>>4003581
tapas? smackjeeves?

>>4000918
This is how my shading ended up looking in comparison. My lines arent as crisp either, despite putting lot of time into it. Is it just their art is reduced in size/dpi? My thumbnail looks perfect in comparison to full size. I feel like mine looks way off in comparison despite how basic it is.

Can someone red pill me on drawing in pen?

I bought a pack of ball point pens the other day to use when I do figure studies. And I wasn't aware of dhow badly and how much I like to erase. Is that the point? To stop erasing and using chicken scratch?

>>3993062
no rules, just tools

can anyone explain to me the wip marine meme?
it looks way above weg level

can anyone explain to me the wip marine meme?
it looks way above beg level

How do you translate one square from a perspective grid into height?

>>4003763
Is that the point? To stop erasing and using chicken scratch?
yes that's the point, it's supposed to be a learning tool to make you finish a bunch of eh drawings instead of labouring over only one drawing

>>4003804
some anon got in an argument and was told to 'post work'. s/he actually did post their work, the wip marine. so from then on, whenever anyone else said 'post work' they would just post wip marine.

>>4000559
cute

>>4002804
>Im just looking for some resources for self teaching
sticky, artbook thread, pirate from mega, cgpeer.
>>1579290
>>3980868
https://www.cgpeers.to/index.php (registration the 15 of each month)
>a decent software to download/pirate for the tablet
clipstudio paint, photoshop

replied because your "drawing" made me laugh

>>4003495
>Flash installed and enabled,
isnt that shit a door for malwares nowdays?

>>4003612
Since comic platforms are mostly shit I'm planning on doing just that personally.

>>4003495
It used to work here but now it's not. I only tried on chrome though.

>>4003897
Works on firefox.

>>3993753
Stand while working

What do you think about Dell P2419H?

>>3989880
I'm thinking of getting the Note 10 when it comes out to replace my Note 3 I've had for two years, but is there some other smartphone which is better for drawing on the go?

Looking for more memes like this one

>>3989880
what initial settings to set in SAi/csp/A.shop if my artwork is set for printing on banners and billboards?

Please someone post that meme /ic/ image of an anon crying in a dirty room with all his how to anime and manga books on the trash, all ic book recs on his bed, with a tablet drawing a stick figure

Is it considered impolite to post other work before finishing commissions?

>>4005757
This one? >>4005589

>>4005625
IIRC high DPI and colour mode on CMYK. Google is your friend.

>>4006153
I've googled prior on asking this question and they're only point out on printing papers and posters, not billboards.
High dpi lags my pc.

>>4005625
Ask the people printing it. Banners and billboards use proprietary software that scales images up - the people who will be doing the printing can tell you exactly what settings to use. If they have a website, they may even have a cheatsheet to download that will explain it.

DO NOT convert your image to CMYK. It WILL shift your colors, and if you have the wrong color management settings, you'll mess the file up. Let them convert it.

>>4006180
different anon, but how much ram you got? and are you using graphics card?

>>4006258
4gb ram on i5 with nvidia 740

How much do y'all draw? I try to get an hour or two in five days a week but beyond that I get burnt out or run out of things I want to draw.

When figure drawing, where do you start? The head? The most "obvious" feature? The longest gesture? I know how to measure in relation to other things, but what should the first thing you put down be, as almost everything else is measured in relation to that one thing.

Can someone explain why some Japs have similar nicknames on twitter? It goes like "jap symbols" one digit number "more jap symbols" two digits number and then "a" or "b"

>>4006351
Whatever I think I'll be the most likely to screw up, or whatever is in the center of the piece. I'm not great at preserving relation so I start at the center often.

>>4006358
>4th day, west, ordinal "re", 22a
>Sunday, west, ordinal "ma", 21a
I'm guessing it's their assigned booth/space in conventions like Comiket/Comitia to help people find them.

>>4006358
>>4006388
Yes, those are their table locations for events along with the days they're going to be there.

>>4006351
obviously from the core and center of the gravity, which is the navel/belly button. if you actually have doing grinding on boxed human, it's the most important part of the torso.

>>4006388
>>4006552
Oh, thanks

How do i get commissions ?
i feel i have the skills for at least cheap OCs or whatever but i'm autistic so i don't know how to get them.

This seems way too hard for a beginner to draw. Loomis in general seems way above beginner level (at least after the simple head constructions)
Or am I wrong? Should I keep grinding it, or look for another more beginner-friendly book that teaches the same stuff?

>>4006785
do dynamic sketching first if you can't control the basic 3d forms yet

what is the definitive best anatomy tutorial guide? i was going to start prokos but i want to make sure before i start it only to learn i could of been doing better.

Free ones are preferred but payed ones can work since i have the money. Thanks anons.

>>4006799
>what is the definitive best anatomy tutorial guide? i was going to start prokos but i want to make sure before i start it only to learn i could of been doing better.
What are you looking for exactly? Constructive anatomy, advanced anatomy? Are you okay with books?

>>4006789
How does even answer my question?

>>4006803
Books are fine but videos are preferred. and im not sure what constructive anatomy is, is that where you break it down into shapes? if so then yes.

>>4006804
it's fairly obvious lol

>>4006813
h-haha thanks for the reply
g-g-guess I have to do some dynamic sketching now

>>4006799
figure drawing michael hampton
this is absolutely amazing to start with
you can also find video lectures which are really helpful (there are some at vk. com)

>>4006812
Proko should do, then. There are no definitive tutorial, pick what appeals to you the most. Look for Hampton or Loomis books in the artbook thread if you want more.

>>4006827
i already own a loomis book, its just that i dont have a proper desk to set up a book and a sketchbook. thank you for the help anon.

>>4005364
Basically no, there's nothing better.

I'm still using my note 8 And it's great, you do you, anon

Did I fuck myself by marking my tweets as sensitive media? I get no likes and retweets, though my pixiv is doing alright

>>4006823
Gee, that anon sure wasn't informative! No worries, here you go.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=dynamic+sketching

>>4006785
What i got from that book is an introduction to drawing with construction, if you draw funny faces you can fuck up a lot and is ok, when you try to do something that is appealing, and then repeat it, then turning to to the left, looking up, etc, then you'll know how much the difficulty increase. Also you don't have to grind it to much, it is supposed to make you gain confidence, better do keys to drawing of perspective made easy next.

>>4006895
yes you did. no porn artists mark their work as sensitive

ur basically hiding ur art from everyones timeline except those who went out of their way to verify some shit in settings

>>4002797
its purely taste honestly
i HATE microns and mostly use cheap fountain pens and ballpoint pens of varying widths. also gel pens are fun. just experiment with a bunch of stuff, theres a ton of options out there for ink/pens

for grayscale markers it depends what youre going to be using them for. copics are good but expensive for just b/w sketching. id say prismacolor markers. i use really cheap ones i got from a scrapbooking store bc i wont feel bad about using it up on quick studies

prismacolor pencil crayons used to be the best ones out there but theyve recently taken the piss and have lowered the quality for max profit. i still have older prismacolors but if youre buying new faber castell are fuckin amazing

>>4006690
>>4006375
Thanks anons. I'll keep working on it.

What's the purpose of artist OCs? They lay out their personalities but never do any stories with them

what medium is this?

When I’m practicing gesture drawing, should I be looking at pictures and basing the pose off them or am I supposed to just dream them up in my head?

For example I tried to copy the pose in this image

>>4007183
everyone uses references, there's no problem with copying a pose. you cannot create poses in your head unless you've created a visual catalog of various studies.

>really pale character
>have to put her in a white shirt
will this work?

>>4007113
it's nice to have draw something that belongs to you to draw
and a lot of these people pretend they'll someday make a webcomic starring the oc.

>>4007191
>and a lot of these people pretend they'll someday make a webcomic starring the oc.
I actually know one who did end up making the webcomic, the absolute madman, but he had some art of that character doing stuff. The ones I'm thinking of just make a bio page and that's it. What's up with them?

Can tracing be a useful exercis or is it just pointless fun?
How do you learn/improve from it?

How do you avoid smudging inking? Wherever I try doing a base layer in pencil, and then inking overtop, I always seem to smudge the ink at least once trying to get rid of pencil lines.

>>4007388
trace anatomy parts from pictures, red lining, greenlining the bone and muscle structures, flow of action, etc. while the knowledge are still fresh, complete a drawing on another blank paper, retrieve everything from your recent memory.
>>4007390
lift and a wooden stick

>>3989880
alright, dumb question here
If I reinstall my window along with my software (I'm talking about clip studio paint here) would my Clip key still work or it's invalid?

>>4007563
Elaborate? It's not my hand that's smudging it, it's the eraser.

How far into a drawing will you go before giving up on it?

>>3989880
can you explain the logic behind the green hues in the image? doesn't look like bounce lighting to me and there's violet hues next to the green hues

>>4007872
Seconding this question.

any good resources on hatching? i want to make my linework less boring and clean

>>4007875
I asked the question but what I'm thinking is that the scene has blue and green objects around, causing multiple indirect hues, for example the bug is violet and causing some violet bounce hues, then there's probably some green stuff and other violet stuff around

maybe I'm right, maybe wrong, either way the real question is how to figure out how to plot something that looks as beautiful because it's not very intuitive and seems more artsy than based on some realistic depiction of the scene lighting

the tail for example

>>4007872
>>4007875
I'm guessing iridescence/pearlecense? A lot of insects including moths have this sort of effect. These types of iridescent hue shifts is also one of Akihito Tsukushi's trademarks, just browse through some of his work and you'll instantly notice a pattern in how he colors stuff.

>>4007872
>>4007875
>>4007895
Example.

>>4007895
I'm open to that explanation being right, iridescence is something I've studied a bit but don't wrap my head completely around, I just understand that iridescent materials appear different based on viewing angle, so with curved surfaces you get rainbow like effects, in the example drawing only things in shadow appear to have iridescent properties

how do I get past beginner frustration? Like, I see people draw the proper loomis head construction, yet when I try it, I always fuck up the size or angle, etc.and it makes me feel like shit and makes me want to stop drawing. I 100% understand the knowledge part of it and understand why things are done the way they are and how the artist is going from A to B to C, etc. but my knowledge vs skill is waaay off and it keeps fucking me over.

>>4007983
you draw simpler stuff first
if you don't have the skills to draw simpler stuff you don't have the skills to draw more complex stuff so skipping the simple stuff is pretty dumb

>>4007983
Don't rush it. You are not going to become a great artist in the next week, or month, or even year.

You can not draw what you don't understand. If you don't understand how to draw wrapping lines around a circle to make it look like a 3D sphere, learn it. If you don't understand how to draw a convincing face, learn how the face works, is structured and how to construct one.

How do you befriend artists, I'm a big fan of cartoonish art but I never really got in to drawing or just fandoms/communities in general and I think it whould be fun to have a friend that can guide me and teach me one or two things about art but I don't know how to go about it. I come from a very religious family so I grow up with this mentally that everybody's bad except the ones that follow my sect so because of that my social skills are pretty poor.

>>3999050
thank you, senpai. this is way easier to work off

Help me with smoothing.
I have nezumi, which settings replicate the SAI and CSP smoothing the most?

Has anyone here purchased/used Live2d? I want to make trashy gacha game asthetic but unsure if the pipeline is suited for one person.

How do post on twitter?
I'd like to start posting things on twitter just because it feels less formal and than an actual art site like DA or Pixiv, so I'd like to post my smaller sketches throughout the day there.

But a lot of the tweets I see of things drawn typically have no tags or really a message, so the only way people see it is by following them/seeing a retweet.

Is it attention whorey to tag your artwork on twitter or something?

It line art worth it?

>>4007983
I had the same experience when learning heads from Loomis. I realized his head construction looks "easy" because he's experienced, and there's a lot more going on with how he divides the sphere to form a good head (you know, stuff that if is incorrect, would throw off the entire head...)

So a beginner attempting something that looks easy but is actually easy only because of experience-- would naturally be frustrated.

If a material seems too hard to learn, it's probably not you. Maybe there's information omitted that the author thought was obvious. It's best to look at different material. For me, what worked was cube construction using bridgman method-- obviously won't work with everyone, but the key take is to find material that clicks. If learning heads specifically, I also
recommend doing skull and asaro studies rather than the drawing books (even just pictures is immensely helpful).