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I didn't progress shit this year.

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>>3995705
Really good anon

>>3995705
You should word on your proportions anon, those are some very long arms and very small feet. But you've made alright progress, still

>>3995705
I think I was better in the past

>>3995705
The character is a friends demongirl I draw every year for their birthday. 2018 was so bad, I scrapped the file and never posted it anywhere so it's gone.

When I look at the people who have done so much in 5 years I spent fucking around, it obliterates me. If your reading this, please, take your work seriously. This is what putting off anatomy and other fundies does to you, anons. Be better than me

>>3995705
Good work
your anatomy improved a bit, you have to work on the legs especially on the proportions between the leg and feet (feet are too small), the arm looks too long (the elbows begin near the end of the rib cage), knees look a bit too low; just on the top of my head.

I like that you started shading. Shading- even if its a little bit of it like flat colors- is a good thing to get used so you won't be lazy in the future.

Keep up the good work OP

>>3995705
You need to shift your proportions a bit if you want to draw cutesy stuff. You can't just put a cute head on a loomis proportioned body and call it a day.

But as for progress, you have gotten way better in so little time.

>>3995767
2017 is best here, you've gotten worse.

>>3995754
No progress. Only a few days so whatever

Started taking fundies seriously this May, using books like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and Keys to Drawing to train. Left was a chair in my house, right a chair at my office.

>>3996040
You should check out Scott Robertson's more technical drawing manual for mechanical objects like that-- you'll learn about form and construction.

>>3996040
This doesn't look like you take fundies seriously, sorry. The chair on the left has better perspective than the one on the right.

You need to draw contruction lines and check perspective in objects like this. The leg that's closest to the viewer looks crooked, the seat is not centered and more of it should be seen in this perspective etc.

not much progress because this is about a week apart and just imagination sketches rather than finished work.

>>3996265
The perspective and anatomy on the leg is really off. Gonna start perspective made easy then loomis figure soon

>>3995705
Left is my random attempt at loli when I started digital earlier this year, right are a few desert punk doodles I did, bottom left one was using a reference. I really should pick up my slack and study proper forms. And perspective. And anatomy. And proportions.

>>3996000
really? I'd think you're fucking with me but quads don't lie. What is is about 2017 that makes it the best? it seems to anime

>>3996323
Not him, but 2017 had better gesture and composition overall. 2019 is more polished and rendered, but feels more stuff.

I don't really keep my old artwork as I don't like to see where I came from but so far this is my most recent and best one I did.

>>3996457
fair enough. thank you for clearing it up. I've been recently going in depth with anatomy studies and I think I lost the gesture in all the refining. I'll have to take a break to do some gesture drawing to make sure my work isn't getting too stiff

the sad part is, I was only a tiny bit through the course when I painted that. now that I'm further along I can see how much I fucked up on parts that I hadn't got to yet. Fuck dude

>>3996483
I’m the opposite. I store all my past works even though I only use trad so I have over 500 pieces of paper I keep. I use it to see my progress and try to make sure I’m constantly improving.

1/3 This shit and the following pic were made last year

>>3996528

>>3996530
And this I just made just for this thread. Made me realize I don't actually have a drawing that acrually show my progress but the drawing looked so much better before I tried to ink it, I fucking suck at it, I still have a long long way to go.

>>3996531
Forgot to say this was done by memory btw

>>3995756
Thanks anon!

>>3995758
>>3995795
Thanks for the feedback! I admit I drew the feet in like 20 seconds at the very end because I got lazy. And it Iooks like I extended the elbow way below the third head mark, don't know why. I'll work on that and everything else

>>3995996
That's a good point, thanks for pointing it out. I haven't really worked on faces yet, and I think that 'style' is a habit from my younger years when I kind of dabbled in drawing.

For the time being I'll stick with the classic proportions (in more dynamic poses) as my reference point until I'm really confident with it, while also working on the fundies (I think my perspective/spatial awareness is still lacking, all my drawings look kind of flat)

>>3996525
That's cool, I might start doing that too. I mostly work digitally, so I could put dates in the file names for future reference, like this:
>2019-07-02 - 01 - female figure sketches.jpg
>2019-07-02 - 02 - male figure sketches.jpg
>2019-07-02 - 03 - gestures.jpg
>2019-07-03 - 01 - fundies exercise.jpg
... and sho on

>>3995705
That's really good progress for 2 months. What did you use to learn fundamentals and the human figure?

>>3996630
Thanks! I've been using these two books, "Perspective Made Easy" (E. R. Norling) and "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" (A. Loomis). Other than that, Proko on YouTube, and some other random videos. Lately I also started using a 3D skeleton model in Blender for reference.

On phone so can't use template. Started like this

And today is my one year anniversary

>>3996530
bane?

Here's my 3 year progress, I know its not much though

>>3995767
I think both 17 and 19 are different types of art work, both are awesome though. Keep it up Anon, don't lose sight of dynamic poses (17 is very dynamic) as 19 is a bit static, but beautifully colored.

Figures on the right were done faster and without shading, but I feel like I'm getting better at anatomy and feel of 3D space.

What do you think, bros? (Note that I didn't really draw much for the first half of the year, so the dates don't matter much)

First one was latish February when I first started and the middle two were were June-ish and the last one was the other night.

I've gotten comfortable with heads and the features and while it isn't perfect I would like to think I've gotten better. I do need to spend more time drawing in general and finally move on to learning to actually draw bodies.

>>3997674
Ha-ha, I see you used to hide face features behind beard/moustache (I feel like a lot of people do this). Great that you're not doing it anymore. Keep it up, looks good.

>>3995705
don't save many sketches but i found really old shit the other day so might as well share

>>3995767
contrats anon, very nice

2019 also took like 1/3rd as long as the ones before it.

>>3998235
Might wanna stop grinding your rendering stat and put some points on anatomy instead

>>3998465
Is it the proportions or the broken pelvis?

before IC (pre april 2019)

>>3998591
after IC (april 2019 to present)

>>3998206
good style. big improvement for sure. almost looks 3d now

>>3995767
nice progress. got an IG? I would follow.

did this one mid january

>>3998472
It looks mostly like the right leg to me, the thigh is very short and the foot is rotated too much, making her ankle appear broken

>>3998639
Visible improvement
But are you using the vector tool for your lineart or is that freehand?

Why is most of the "old" art here not even a year old?
Fucking hell, I need to get off this shithole. I'm never gonna make it, am I?

>>3998613
got 600 million times worse, shiggy diggy

>>3998720
Thanks and I am freehanding using the blob brush tool

>>3998761
Isn't that a good thing?

IM JUST GOING TO DRAW CUTE ANIME TITTIES, DO I HAVE TO STUDY FUCKING ANATOMY FOR THAT? AAAAAAAAAA also i dont draw everyday, i just draw whenever i like it

>>3998770
I dunno, there's no improvement on most and there shouldn't be, as a couple months won't turn you from scrub to competent.

wew, so this is what ic likes to draw?
to each his own, i guess.

Used to rely heavily on painting before I knew anything else. I noticed my drawing skills were weak and spent most of my time simply grinding drawing forgetting completely about color.

Now I feel like I have improved my technical skills but forgot completely about anatomy in the process.

>>3998958
Blog?

>>3999064
Mothesstuff on instagram

it's something

>These are all /ic/ has to offer
I sincerely wish the ones that improved more than you are actually self-aware enough to not post here. Only OP had a considerable improvement, everyone else is stagnant at best.

>>3999132
this >>3998235 is improvement to me. care to explain why it is not?

Here's everything I drew since highschool.

>>3998235
So close yet so far.

>>3999163
Blog?

>>3999140
>Considerable improvement
Can you not read? The one you quoted didn't improve in almost anything, he went from pillow shading to muddy pillow shading over the span of two years. Didn't learn anatomy, didn't learn construction, didn't improve his colors, etc.
I don't talk about proportions because they are obviously supposed to be stylized, but going so far as to say that everything going on is style is being facetious. His 2018 work is the best in my opinion, probably due to the simplicity and cleanliness.

>>3999209
Don't know retards can type so many words

>>3999213
Either take the crit or go back to your hugbox, kid. In the last six years I haven't seen /ic/ in such a low spot and now the reddit mentality of "you are beautiful the way you are" has become the norm. If you want me to elaborate on anything you can go ahead and ask, but being passive aggressive about stuff only puts you in a position where you won't see improvement and, instead, rely on the mental masturbation that is your own ego to get you anywhere, which it won't.

>>3999213
Here's a advice for ya kid. Getting butthurt over crits about your work on /ic/ is like being a wounded animal in a pond of piranhas. Just swallow your pride and improve or else you'll end up like dentist-kun

>>3999209
i get what are you saying, but to me the 2019 is better looking anyways.
it's true that he needs to sharpen his anatomy skills, but while the colouring is a bit muddy at least it works.
He got better in different ways to me: 2019 tells a better story than 2017, for example. the background isn't boring, the scene has feeling.

if you can correct me please. while i think that it's not an HUGE improvement, i still think that it's considerable enough.

also, what about >>3998591 or >>3999110 ? Isn't that also considerable improvement?

>>3999226
Not really, desu. Taking into consideration the time they took to achieve what they did they improved very little, which is not bad, it's just slow. I unironically think /tg/ is a better place to learn art than /ic/ at this point, the drawfags there are far more helpful than the people here that want to reinvent the wheel because they think too highly of themselves and the problem is obviously in the material because they are perfect and don't make mistakes. See, it's retarded to me, for one, that this art board shits on Loomis while all the people in the field not only say they use his methods but go so far as to praise his teaching skills and material, but I guess /ic/ would rather drink from the regurgitated Loomis teachings from the gooks, just because.

>>3999196
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=27563939

>>3997370
Thanks anon. This is the check I need while I move forward. No use in rendering out something stilted and stiff

>>3998209
Thank you anon. That's really nice
>>3998609
I don't have an IG but I have a twitter. I have been going through a dry spell though. Doing a lot of studying and note taking, but not a lot of interesting, finished work worth posting

https://twitter.com/Quiet_Deity?lang=en

>>3999240
>This art board shits on Loomis
Nigga what board have you been going to? People on this board worship Loomis like its the 2nd coming of Jesus.

been trying to get into digital painting for a while now, but not much progress. reading alla prima+robertson, anyone have other recommendations that are not media heavy? poor connection atm.

>>3999132
Use punctuation man, your first sentence is a sloggy mess to read through.

>>3995705
Torso too long legs too short arms too long.

>>3999226
>>3999240
i take these as compliments.

I'm only starting to draw, but the first thing I've noticed is that arm/shoulder drawing is the way to go. Should I be tensing/using my lat or bicep when moving the pencil?

>>3999240
PYW

>>3999311
Post yours, daddy.

>>3999290
Looks like you peaked in 2017 and have been slowly regressing.

>>3999306
if you want to use your entire arm i think its pectoral+lat. bicep works the elbow. i try to use a mix of whichever motion is the least worn at the time.
>>3999316
my speed has at least increased, gotta go fast. but could you elaborate, how can i rise to such a summit once more?

Why not. Left is from one of those "Your Style" threads and is the first thing I posted on /ic/, right is totally unrelated but since it's also a witch, it makes for a good comparison. I should say, left was kinda bad for me even at the time. I'm proud of my progress but many things still dissatisfy me. Working on my rendering/painting a lot these days.

>>3996528
I wont buy your games Todd

>>3998613
>>/mlp/
Also
>blackwash

>>3999326
Okay thanks for the advice!

I still draw anime when will my anime phase end..

Timeline of sketches. The most important thing that changed is that I stopped making sketches prior to tracing them with cleaner lineart. Now I draw the final lines already in the sketch phase.

>>3999416
You french?

>>3999418
I wish

>>3999209
I did say I drew that 3rd one 3x faster. I wasn't joking about that. These tickle your dick?
>>3999218
I was asleep until now.

>>3999416
will you marry me?

>>3999409
when you dont enjoy it anymore. seems like you still enjoy drawing anime (which is fine, it is good to draw what you like)

>>3999517
So let me make sense of this. You pointed me towards your own "improvement" after I said most of this thread didn't make considerable improvement, then you called me a retard for giving my opinion, and after I called you out you now feel attacked because you're too good to get critiques? Man, you must be really about that little improvement, I almost feel bad for you.

Btw, nice noodle arms, they really make the muscular legs pop due to anatomical contrast, almost as good as how their faces look as if they were punched inwards. I still stand by my argument that your shading is muddy and you don't understand hue variation, but I'll have to look past your ego to accept that.

>>3999547
>[...] really proud about that little [...]
Fixed.

>>3999547
>then you called me a retard for giving my opinion
I didn't call you anything. Don't take it out on me cause someone decided to defend me. I respect any critique given to me, and I understand where you're coming from. Holy shit though, what a spaz.

>>3999366
sunkissed

>>3999517
2017 pants looks gross

blog?

>>3999555
Imagine being this assblasted about someone rightfully shiting on your art.

>>3999547
>>3999555
Oh wait no, I should have clarified better. I've been asleep through most of the argument, I was trying to say I wasn't the one that called you a retard. Should've been more clear about that. I take back calling you a spaz.
I don't know where you got the characterization that I was some kind of muhstyle elitist though.
>>3999592
You are!
>>3999584
https://twitter.com/MaakoleArtWorks

>>3999547
Can you post you work? I dont mean it in an attacking way im just curious to see how powerful you are.
I personally only really appreciate a critique from someone much better.
If you dont want to thats cool too.

>>3996483
stop tracing anime

>>3996525
>I have over 500 pieces of paper
Im trad and digital and already went through multiple 500 copy paper packs
get to it

>>3999326
>>3999316
I think 18 looks the best here, really like how you can see each part of the body how its put together

>>3998613
Not a fan of the content but your shapes got much nicer. Would suggest addressing the stiffness next.

>>3998958
Sorry, I think you've regressed. 2019 is less compellingly stylized and has flatter forms, even if it's less stiff.

>>3999337
Good job, nice use of color.

>>3999719
Ah!! this is great. I really like your how you do your pictures. I really want to get into line/painting more but damn is it hard!! Do you have anything I can follow you?

also, bonus for touhou

>>3999724
Yeah sure, https://twitter.com/tsflipp
I just did photostudies for and gestures/figures for a while. Persistence is key.

>>3999727
Cool, thanks! I also found a even worse Marisa from last year but I forgot about it, damn it.

I don't draw during the school year so all my progress has been in the past month kinda, didn't feel like digging up old "finished" pieces so these are just sketchbook meme drawings.

>>3997249
You didn't even improve

>>3999409
lmao the left pic is sending me

>>3999789
stop focusing on facial features/busts and start figure drawing

It may not be much but I'm proud of this one. I'm gonna re-do some of my old work too.

>>3998613
Good job anon. I have no idea how the other 3 guys thought it regressed.

Face looks way better and more stylized, the shading, line work, and colors are smoother and blend better together.

I think the hair though should have more sparkles, and make the stripes in her hair more noticeable

>>3998807
None of it looks appealing anon. Better get started on that grind.

>>3997228
lurk more

Oct. 2018 - May. 2019

>>4000166
Fucking hell, forgot to post pic

>>4000167

I like your coloring.

>>3999163
Hard to tell since you art isn't very consistent. It seems that you spiked in 2015 then not much change but then spiked again in 2019.

>>3995705
>that much progress in 2 months
LIES! LIES!

been stagnating since then

My first drawing and my last.

>>4000072
Back to trannymblr

>>4000265
>before is better than after
OOF

>>4000393

So is the new meme to assume artists we don't like are trans or...?

>>4000407
he's talking about the tumblr style of purposely making female ugly making it looks like a trannys.

>>4000072
Why have you downgraded your female? Now instead of being annoyed, she just looks like she thinks higher of herself and is a super stronk womyn whose better than any man and is just trying to come up with some verbally abusive way to demean and belittle him for being a lesser species than she is instead of just being mad that he's paying more attention to his tool than he is to her. Fuck, if I were that dude, I'd be paying attention to literally anything else than be forced to pay attention to that prehistoric walking agenda.

>>4000415
lolwhat he drew a cavewoman they are not supposed to look like anime girls

its definitely not tumblr style either

>>4000420

"Cavewomen definitely looked like anime lolis I wont hear any different"

>>4000420
you don't have to make females look like anime girls to be not ugly as fuck. Maybe learn a little about sexual dimorphism and not give females a brow ridge like a tranny.

>>4000430

1) women have brow ridges

2) they were almost certainly more pronounced in literal cavepeople

>>4000430
i actualy like the design

>>3999966
I think left is hotter. Blog?

It really boils down into whether or not if the artist was going for the cavewoman look or if that's the way he draws women. Can't really say anything more till we see more of his work.

>>4000072
7 years and there is barely any progress.... Fuck.

>>3999337
How tf did you go from complete beg to being that good in just over a year? I find it hard to believe. If true, fucking props my dude.
Pic related is your art from September 2018.

Still have a lot to learn, but I think I'm making progress

For a 15 years old is pretty good

I find those progress charts pretty worthless if only one previous and one after result are shown instead of an album or some sketchbook collection.

After all you can be around 100 times better from one pic to another that was made in the same week if you just put in more effort, use references and are actually careful while drawing.

>>3999337
I love this witch.

... I just realised after a few minutes of staring at it that those dark parts on her glasses are her eyes and not a reflection, which ruins it a bit, but it's ok. Still really cool in general.

>>4000691
A few people did posted collection of their works

>>4000289
That's actually a good amount of progress, well done!

2014 on left, today on right

>>4000657
That pic you posted was kind of a milestone for me. It's the first time I felt I'd designed and finished a drawing instead of just practicing in my sketchbook.
But like I said, the May witch was pretty bad, quick thing even for the time.
This was the best I could do back then, in fact it's dated Apr 30, one day before the witch. The garbage giant was me going all out with ink and G-pen and also wasn't representative of my average work. Most of it fell somewhere in between that and the witch. I'd already been practicing since March and my stuff from the very beginning was really bad.
But I also drew often from grade school up through high school, for whatever that's worth. Stopped through college, found /ic/ last year, got back into it, only more seriously than I ever had.

It's hard to answer "how" because so many realizations went into the process. In general, I studied fundamentals but not always or primarily. Most of my time was drawing from imagination. Until I'd get so disgusted with what I was doing that I'd study hard for a few days or a week, and gain a lot. I'm always looking at artists who inspires me, seeing what I can learn or take from them, always trying to push my style and appeal. You may not be able to draw the best (I definitely can't), but anybody can be creative to compensate.
And when a drawing would fail, I'd feel bad, but then think about how I needed to change my approach. And ultimately I just genuinely like doing it so no matter how low things get, I find my way back to it.
>>4000700
Thank you.

>>4000719
I really like both of these

>>4000419

Well I wasn't thinking of making her pretty, I was more trying to come up with an interesting design for her. And giving her unattractive features kind of drives home that this is a silly situation that shouldn't be taken seriously, I think many old boomer comics do that.

>>4000507

Well I better keep practicing then.

>>4000750
You've got a good attitude towards drawing, keep it.

>>4000761

I enjoy criticism, I'd be upset if I only found people praising my work.

>>4000767
These actually look pretty charming

>>4000768

Thank you!

>>4000792
Nice nice

>>4000723
>But I also drew often from grade school up through high school
Okay that along with the pic you posted makes your progress make more sense. You've had quite a bit of mileage and are only now becoming good. I can relate to that, I'm kinda in the same boat but I'm not as good as you.
Good work, senpai. Tons of respect for u.

You're all trash what the actual fuck

>>4000792
shit nigger at least clean up that colouring a bit

>>4000830
Post your work crab

>>4000846
Sorry man I'd rather not dox myself

>>3995705

>>4000862
>Go on art critique board
>Don't want to post work for fear of doxxing???
Why are you even here crab? Are you writing your name and address on your artwork or something?

>>4000830
Snip snip

>>4000879
lol god I hope this is a joke
shit looks only slightly different after 2 years

>>4000879
how tf do you consistently manage to get worse each year lmao

>>3998766
>from furfag pedo to chad monster boy
Noice

>>3999966
Left has a better expression and cock/balls.

>>4000719
Stylish as fuck

>>3995705
Legs look like you've been studying Asaro. Good progress, anon.

>>3999110
Ah, I remember when I finally figured out that a suspender skirt on a girl with horns is the secret key to character design.

Grow and improve, anon. You're following a righteous path.

>>4000879
where did her muscles go? what's helping those boobs defy gravity? and what's going on with her chin?
at least your rendering seems to have improved slightly, but it feels like you're scared of something.
What's holding you back, anon?

:)

>>4002076
Good on you

I wanna fucking cry

>>4002206
Elaborate anon

>>4002222
I haven't progressed since late 2017, and I've been painfully struggling with studying, and drawing in general, for my whole life due to psychological issues.

>>4002237
I feel like it won’t help for me to say take it easy, I’ll just say: I hope your issues pass and you feel better <3 try to see art more as a relieving activity rather than something you have to grind

>>4002244
Thanks, anon

>>3999314
didnt read the fight, but nice ear faggot.

>>4002254
Nosebro calling anyone a faggot
O I am laffin

>>3999966
the lines were cleaner on the left, but I like the perspective on the right. Honestly if you pushed the perspective exaggeration on the right it would look a lot better. put more emphasis on the dick overhead too, like make it appear closer or something so that the precum would drip onto you

>>4000395
in what world is messy sketching better than clear form?
>>4000265
the left looks more masculine / handsome while the right looks a bit feminine, notably with the strong eyelashes and seemingly groomed / combed almost-connecting beard

>>3999517
yea definitely much betrer. nice work/

>>4000767
desu i hate it. i hate the style and the character is so ugly. look at that dumpy ass. she has big feet. the cross hatching on the neck is out of place and looks like hair. she has legs like a skinny fat person. the cut of the shorts couldn't be less flattering. homeless women are built like this. her nose is ugly. its grossing me out.

>>4002043
it got worse.

>>4002076
almost zero progress for 2 years. try harder.

>>4002043
Nice improvement with colors and rendering but I think you still have some issues with anatomy and gesture. The arms are helps out rather stiffly and the hand poses are uninteresting and unnatural, and there are some anatomical issues with the left hand. I think if you spend some more time grinding gesture and anatomy you could really bring your art up to the next level, anon!

>>4002512
it's a cartoon it's not going to be anatomically correct

Seems like halfway through the thread got really negative really quickly

>>4002524
This is a very helpful critique, anon! Thank you. I think the pose is more stiff than it would have been normally because I didn’t sketch and just went straight in with painting over her form, you’re still right though. I’ll do some more practices! Thank you

Glad I decided to finally start learning lighting and backgrounds. I used to really avoid that since I was so afraid of colors. The Yoshi one was my first piece really trying to apply that stuff.

not sure if this pose is possible lol

i've been watching a lot of proko's videos recently (still struggling with gesture, i keep drawing the contours instead of motion .—.)

>>4003063
Either tilt the hips more or pull the torso back towards the center a bit, otherwise it's an amazing progress man!

2017 was when i started taking art more serious and gave more of a shit learning about it.

6 months in and i feel like i lose more and more motivation to continue drawing, there's too much to stuff to grind man
i also got slower at drawing

>>4003100
Just quit then

>>4003100
don't feel overwhelmed, you don't have to take it all in at once. i'd say focus on studying what you think is most important for your goals, and worry about the rest later. but don't forget to challenge yourself either because you need to break out of your comfort zone to make the most progress.
i see a little improvement from six months ago, and that's a relatively small amount of time depending how much you draw and what you draw, so don't be too discouraged. being slower isn't necessarly worse, speed comes with experience.

>>4003117
This is fucking weird shit. Horribly drawn too.

>>4003174
1/10 made me reply

>>4003178
Why do you draw such odd shit? Its kinda furry, kinda sexualised dungeons and dragons. What’s that about?

>>4003178
he's not wrong though

>>4003181
>>4003185
>kinda furry
>kinda sexualised dungeons and dragons
Is this bait or all the (little) knowledge you have?

>>4003188
Are you comparing your fetishized scratching to that? You’re a horse and cart, that’s a space ship. Don’t compare yourself. That’s an amazing work of art, you have some barely evolved from stick figure furry thing with a weird fetish inserted into it.

>>4003200
stay mad :^)

>>4003202
You haven’t answered anything and you can’t compare to what you posted. Want a redline?

>>4003204
I wasn't comparing myself you subhuman 56% cuck, it was directed towards your mentally disabled-tier commentary of "odd shit" & dungeons faggotry when any person with a minimum of culture + more than 2 braincells would've recognized that as being a SATYR, but of course that went completely over your retarded head.

And now that I've pointed out how seething you are, you're coping talking about me not answering & ""comparing"" myself but you just look like a complete reddit sperg.

>>4003200
>>4003204
he's baiting you
just stop replying

>>4003209
Here you angry lil incel. Learn to draw eh?

>>4003242
You fell for his bait to draw his OC for him. I was gonna do the same but knew better than to please a massive faggot.

>>4003249
It’s not like it took effort. Anyone could do a better job. Worth it.

>>4003242
Thanks nigger, a fine addition to my collection

>>4003257
It’s the best image there. Why don’t you ever learn to draw?

>>4003257 You drew a hand on backwards on the first one lol

>>4003242
that guy's a retard shitposter but your drawing is pretty neat anon good job.

not quite done with this yet but figured id share anyway. left one is from 2014
also can you guys stop being such titanic spergs allready

>>4003063
Your torsos are way too long. From the top of her rib cage to her crotch is almost as long as her arm. Too much.

>>4003257
Pretty nasty not gonna lie.

>>4003291
I love the colours on the recent one, the atmosphere’s really cool too

entering fifth year of drawing, just noticed that the last two images i have just finished for a project are little similar to two images i have done a year ago so it would make for a good comparison.

>>4003073
thanks for the tips

>otherwise it's an amazing progress man!
thanks man, i've become kind of obsessed in the past few days

>>4003293
you're right, i can see that now

i just traced a few photos to see the difference, it's clearly too much. i'll work on it, thanks

>>3999669
people like you should hold their wrong opinions to themselves.

>>4002390
good advice, thank you

Still don't have patience to finish anything.

>>4003562
Your recent one is very impressive, anon!

>>4003562
very inspiring progress
+ point for drawing cute boys

>>3995705
7 years later, with over a dozen notebooks and a thousand hours drawing later.
How am I doing?

>>4004022
Are you satisfied with that?

>>4004028
Not yet, but my highschool art teachers and all art advice I've heard boils down to "Keep practicing" and "Practice makes perfect", so that's what I've done

>>4004022
>>4004031
At any point since 2012 did you actually look at any sort of guide or anything? Or did you just continue to do the exact same thing for 7 years without studying?

Practice means fuckall if you aren't practicing the right stuff. If you keep drawing the same mistakes, you won't improve. And it seems like that's what happened.

>>4004031
>highschool art teachers
why are you listening to high school teachers? stop pretending your art means anything. everyone in your life is probably a worthless system server, therefore anyone who likes your art is retarded.

>>4004022
Horrible. How did you manage to make no progress at all?

>>4004022
you know, the bottom left face on the 2012 side looks allright actually

>>4004044
>At any point since 2012 did you actually look at any sort of guide or anything
More than I can keep track of
>Studying
I read the books and diagrams, tried the exercises and watched the videos if that's what you mean

What's the "Proper" method if this is the wrong one?

>>4004062
Digital drawing is also a fucking pain for me to intuit

>>4004086
If you were applying what you've learned, which would be construction, proportions, and anatomy, you wouldn't be at the same, if not worse than the 2012 one. You're stylizing without understanding anything. You need to drop your weaboo shit right now and post me two sets of loomis heads. One with JUST basic head construction with no features (aka Ball, dividing lines, jaw) at a front, 3/4ths and side view, and then do another set but with the features. And not the fucking weeb stylization features. As close to realism as you can.

If you can't do that, we've found your problem. You've drawn the wrong shit for YEARS and it's to the point where you've crippled yourself and should start over from the basics. No amount of study can help you if you refuse to learn.

>>4003100
Blog?

>>4004086
>Digital drawing is a pain
How? for years people thought digital art was bad and like tracing cause it made art too easy with all its tools, and undo.

>>4004109
Fair?
But if you're telling me I should just restart and practicing circles and boxes for 6 months until I can get the basics of coloring book shape practice, I think you're about 12 times too later for that.

>>4004171
Lining, lineart and clean lines are pretty much impossible for me, even zoomed in or at high resolutions. I cannot even draw a clean circle consistently let alone complex shapes- things like Line Length become Olympic gymnastics to me.

>>4004179
the lines work in your 2019 work doesn't even seem too bad and now there's line stabilizing software built into most program or you can download 3rd party one to help with line art.

Your anatomy just seem to have gotten a lot worse, you lost a lot of details in your drawing over the 7 years, and the way you draw eyes now especially the one on that naked chick is just so god damn unappealing and bad it look straight up like an example of symbol drawing. How did you spend 7 years and 40GB of art tutorials and draw eyes that's literally leaving the face?

>>4004179
Aw dude your head construction is fucked. That explains a fuckton. The dividing line on the ellipse is where you follow the brow line. the bottom of the nose should land on a line that starts at the bottom of the ellipse. The bottom of the chin should be the same distance between the brow and nose line, so take that length, and measure down from the bottom of the nose. The features are also waaaaaaay too massive for the head, thus making everything feel too narrow.

As much of a fucking meme that Proko is here on this board, rewatch both of these videos, try again, and post results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZLkyTuX_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOldLWIDSM

>>4004196
In 2010-2012 drawing for me was an intensive process. That sketchy 2012 lined page was one of hundreds and I'd look at things and draw continually for pages, hours, days, with a lot of time and energy put into the backing of it. This included a lot of anatomical sketches, observations and a lot of experimentation.

Art for me grew slower after that due to college. I had a breakdown after I was diagnosed with mental illness in 2016 where I more or less threw all my art away and 'quit', throwing away 8 years of progress.

Art since then has been, sparse to say that least. I haven't yet found the motivation or backing to put the kind of intensity of practice today that I did in 2012 or to make real artistic progress, that's why I'm revisiting /ic/ today.

Also, all my digital lines I've posted are already using a line stabilizer.

>>4004206
In your case it may actually help to do some tracing and copying to get a feel of line length, strokes, and curves, and would help in drawing line art. It would also help to develop your visual library, which seems to be just awful.

Been workshopping this OC character all year.

Earliest ones is from February.

>>4003117
Remember the rule where if something is further it becomes bigger?

>>4004022
>>4004031
This is a good example of why "just draw" means nothing.
I don't know how old you are and it could be a reason of why you didn't improve during that time.

However, when you study, don't do an exercise only to say you did an exercise. You have to UNDERSTAND what you are doing.

>>4004086
>I read the books and diagrams
Read, try to understand how it works, draw. Does it look right? No? Repeat.
Now close the book, take a break, come back and draw from imagination. Does it look right? Do you know what the hell you are doing? No? Open that book again and work on it.

>tried the exercises and watched the videos
When I read that, I imagine that you took your pencil, you drew something, it didn't go well, or you got something than somehow looked like what's in the book and you said "Well I tried.". Nothing was learned but you "tried".

You have access to a lot of informations with those books but they won't magically make you better and do the work for you.

Take your time and invest yourself more, in a couple of months (even weeks) you should get better results.

>>4004022
Stop bullshitting. I'm willing to bet you drew those within the same week

>>4001573
thanks anon, but my last one is not my design, credits to alumerie on instagram. I appreciate it a lot though.

>>4004241
>When I read that, I imagine that you took your pencil, you drew something, it didn't go well, or you got something than somehow looked like what's in the book and you said "Well I tried.". Nothing was learned but you "tried".

It's more like, I saw an exercise or a video, paid attention carefully, copied it for a few hours to pay lipservice, thought it was a neat exercise and carefully finished.

Then the next day I drew something completely different and forgot about it or looked at a completely different lesson.

>>4004355
I literally didn't.
I can show you the link where the older pic is uploaded to prove it.

>>4004428
i dont want to be that guy, but it honestly sounds like you have learning disabilities if you cant improve a skill over the course of several years

>>4004439
I mean I did improve slightly, once.

But that was when I did the whole "Sit down and draw 3-4 hours a day" routine and filled out notebook after notebook, which I haven't been able to get back into doing since.

i started drawing in may of this year

>>4004022
Left actually looked quite interesting. Do you have more? The right isn't so good, sadly.

>>4004473
Hundreds of it
https://s1066.photobucket.com/user/brandygang/library?page=1

It's all Weeb tier, but its better than my modern shit by far.

>>4004487
Did you stop drawing in-between those 7 years?

>>4004541
Somewhat.
I stopped drawing "Seriously", in the day-to-day grind that I described, and slowed down to the odd sketch or attempt at drawing every few weeks.

That's what you see on the right here
>>4004022
It's something I might attempt to do every few weeks or months to come back to. Drawing only as a formality.

>>4004487
Anime face fucked you up in that you never learned how to draw faces properly. And for some reason the moment you put cloth on drawing your anatomy and poses get completely fucked. You know you can draw cloths over the body right?

But that was in 2011/2012. WTF happened in those 7 years you literally went back to square 1. I didn't even know that was possible.

>>4004022
Worst 'progress' I've ever seen, please open a book

>>4004022
its not even the lack of improvement it looks like they are a day apart

you cant even see any sophistication that would simply come from the mileage of having drawn a lot and using the tools more confidently

>>4003308
still cant believe you post here
nice work anyways

>>4004022
no way this is real.

>>4004022

To all those who consider the fundamentals a meme be warned; this is your future.

you would think after all this time i'd know how to draw hands, and women, or anything for that matter

>>4000679
mods

>>4003291
your values are fucked, and your skin tones are whack, but its good improvements anon. just work on those two things

>>4003308
Absolutely astonishing piece of work.

>>4000679
wack

dunno if this is true progress or affirmation of an artstyle

posting this because I never get any harsh feedback, I've just been drawing off and on digitally for the time-span listed.

>>4006573
>draw art in 2017 of a character from a game that released in 2018
I do realy like the box-headed dude with the flamboyant shirt though, very cool.

Started drawing from the shoulder for the first time ever. I was shit before, but now I'm absolutely trash and I can't go back. Why isn't drawing easy like cooking?

Feel like I've been stagnating recently because I haven't been pushing myself to make more ambitious pieces this year

>>4007670
much good very like

>>4007684
i really like 2019. good work anon

Its been ages since I did this

Here's a bunch of stuff. I just realized I've been drawing on phones for four years

Image was compressed to 1.4mb using indexed colors/dithering so it still looks purdy

I've gone through a lot of computers but this is what I could find of my old stuff

>>4007881
You ever gonna draw hands?

>>4007887
yes anon, I do draw hands

>>4007887
>6 figures
>1 hand

>>4007909
Is now a good time to tell you about a thing called cropping or nah?

>>4004487
>>4007909
Kek, really makes you think

>>4007720
I really like your work, nice style

>>3998235

That feel when I like 2017 better than 2019

>>4004487
bro Im sorry to say this but drawing might not be for you, maybe your brain can't process 3d at all and not retain informations
>>4007670
I like all of them, the left has a lot of soul too, are you that guy "wholesome orange" or something

>>4007670
bro, you were always good

>>4004487
You have to actually understand what you're reading not just copy the pictures in the book and count that as learning. Start over from the fundamentals instead of trying to stylize art before you even know what it should look like without stylization.

At this point I'm not sure you can improve but you can try. (Also I don't see any guidelines at all in those drawings, learn those and use them )

>>3997669
you are getting better anon, try to feel the volumes of things underneath the skin, the things you draw will look a lot more realistic, look at this example

demon thot

>>4009202
very solid progress, good job!

>>4009214
thanks

>>4009202
are the well defined muscles intentional?

>>4009255
Was the stupidity in that question intentional?

Top one was painted from reference in Jan 2018 (about 5 months after I started to learn how to paint, but only a couple months after I picked up digital painting), bottom one I painted from imagination today.

>>4009258
no, i was just wondering if it is a preference for muscular girls or that thing when one studies a lot of anatomy and just draws characters too muscular, since the original has a much softer body type

>>4009255
yes it's her natural demonic strength

>>4009262
prodigy

>>4007721
thanks
>>4008361
>wholesome orange
nope
>>4008428
I've been drawing since I was a kid, but didn't start pushing myself to learn seriously until mid 2017.
I regret not focusing on it earlier, but hs wasn't great for me and I was too depressed.
but it actually might be better this way because now I know exactly how I want to draw and where to find my inspiration.

but, anyway pic related is something i drew in 2013, when i was 14

>>4008252
Thanks, anon. I've been feeling really shitty and insecure about my style lately so I'm happy to hear that

>>4007757
Thanks Anon

>all these faggots posting progress
>none of them show day 1 absolute /beg/ tier start of the journey shit
>all of them are just "herp derp already established the basics, here's me later stylizing!"

The absolute state of you lads. Someone needs to man the fuck up and post their day/month 1 vs. now so I can feel like I can actually make it if I just keep to it.

>>4009202
Insane progress for so few months, gonna make it.
/beg/ aren't born equal

>>4003257
This is great

>>4009695
The problem is most of us started drawing as children retard. We don't have our shitty kid scribbles anymore, which is basically what /beg/ work is.

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