/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4225493
You need to expand your horizons when it comes to composition. Different camera angles, more active poses. All of your work looks good but every piece I see is [fantasy character standing in the center with afterthought background]. You have the ability to paint characters. Now make them interact with each other and the environment.

>>4225557
You're right. I'll get to work on some Loomis. In the meantime, are there any artists I should be looking at for dynamic poses and comps? Hiroaki Samura comes to mind.

>>4225732
>Hiroaki Samura comes to mind.
good idea

>>4225975
>"Hiroaki Samura?"
>"hmmm, cant remember who that is"
>click on pic, bottom half of pic is outside screen
>"that rock render, oh no..."
>scroll down
>"yep, I fucking knew it"

>>4225975
Eh.. That's not quite the Hiroaki Samura I was thinking of.

me think

me paint

>>4225975
>fishing for coomers.jpg

Not done. Puter blew up. Took a pic of screen though

Movin to ‘draw/ from int cause I’m not /int/ yet.
Any suggestions which skills I need to seriously work on?

>>4226669
>Any suggestions which skills I need to seriously work on?
A little bit of everything

>>4226669
The figure looks terribly amateur and its not just because of how you painted it. It looks like an action figure with all kinds of all-too noticeable anatomy and proportion flaws. (How the right arm connects to the torso, terrible hands, right thigh just looks like blobs of meat, etc.)

Honestly focus on getting a GOOD drawing with minimal flaws first before wasting your time turd polishing. If this is the type of art you want to create you MUST be practicing figure drawing.

>>4226793
This makes me realize how ghoulish and gracile some women are without their decoration

>>4226709
Thanks brah, yes. Trying to study eclectically, dipping my toes in everything, but Ive got a ways to go

>>4226669
The figure looks terribly amateur and its not just because of how you painted it. It looks like an action figure with all kinds of all-too noticeable anatomy and proportion flaws. (How the right arm connects to the torso is noticeably incorrect, ugly hands, right thigh just looks like blobs of meat, etc.) Perfect anatomy isn't everything (Frazetta's own figures had plenty of flaws), but these problems are too significant to ignore.

Honestly focus on taking your time working up a GOOD drawing with minimal flaws first before wasting your time trying to paint a weak drawing into something good, you do not have the knowledge to do that yet. If this is the type of art you want to create you MUST be practicing figure drawing first and foremost out of anything.

Ontop of how-tos like Bridgman or Hampton, draw more from models, focusing on capturing the figure as a whole and its actions instead of getting too lost in the details what muscles are what. Once you have an strong idea of how the body should look, you can simplify and IMPLY the small anatomical details instead of trying to make every muscle separation clearly defined and accurate.

The old masters did this all the time. Most effectively they would simplify all the complex forms of the body, but artists like Rubens would add all sorts of subtle lumps and bumps into his figures that aren't really representative of real muscles, but somehow they FEEL accurate to the eye because they are close enough to the truth of how they look. The point is perfect anatomy isn't as important as artisticly reflecting the the true characteristics of the figure.

>>4226977
an example of Ruben's vague anatomical lumps.

>>4226977
Thank you, this is the best advice I've had in a long time. This was supposed to be an exercise in working imaginatively without relying on ref (I'm a total photocopier usually). You're totally correct, I spent barely any time on the drawing stage, and despite working from imagination, I killed all sense of the figure as a whole and ended up with disjointed lumps of "anatomy" - missing the forest for the trees. I did try to focus on motion, trying to keep the C curve through the body, but I suppose it was irrelevant when the body is so off-putting. I see what you are saying - that Rubens looks so right because it flows, it feels how you would see muscle without intimitly knowing its structure (intentional no doubt).

I have a long long way to go, I'm excited!

If you have time could you offer some critique on the painting method too? Just starting to learn about light and colour, using HueValueChroma.com

some in-progress commission work

Wide frame or close up? I like doing these simple, sort of atmospheric pieces.

>>4227567

>>4227155
That's a very big head.

>>4227567

I really love this. If you could spend some time creating a beautifully intricate pattern/engraving on the wall this could be a wonderful piece.

please dont give up on this piece.

>>4227155
you get paid for this?

>>4227576
yea, it was just done for the stylization at first, but i'm probably gonna tone it down again.

>>4227767
Yep.

>>4228022
>Yep.
based

>>4227648
Great anon, keep it up

>>4227567
what is this?

>>4227567
definetly wide shot.

>>4228076
a pillar

>>4227568
Honestly love the close up, makes the pillar feel like its size towers over the girl way more, and the composition feels a bit more balanced too

>>4227568
To put emphasis on the impression of how massive this pillar is, and also just a general rule of thumb, you should put the eye level (horizon) where the observer is supposed to be. Here I think it'd be fitting if you put the observer at the same level as the figure exploring the pillar, since you want the viewer to do the same.

doing this as commission for a hoodie. anyone have any tips?

Hnnngh. I've moved on but I've got to make this lady work somehow. I Improved dem hairz and shit but I still need to do some shit... What a waste of time...

>>4229480

Oh Jesus how do I make this into a coherent image? I'm doing another piece for a client, on the side now and I'm just about ready to dump this bitch Because I hate this style! I don't think I'll ever do realism in this way again. It's boring!

Maybe just have a bunch of color dodge bullshit everywhere? Hnnghhhh I hate it!

Ehhhhhh....

>>4229494
>>4229480
Shut up spaz

>>4225493
>>4225493

I FUCKING LOVE THIS! However, it's just some dude spazzing out like "I've got my axe!" and the rendering is fucking PERFECT.

I fucking love your rendering style! Just do something like a poster for a ficticious movie or something! Like... Do a movie for some bad 90's cartoon. I'm gonna do one for Thundarr the Barbarian. Just pick something that makes you think about the COMPOSITION because your rendering is fucking perfect. I'm saying this because the thing you have now is just a dude standing in a cave (?). Do the same rendering, same fucking love for the character but just make it into a "thing".
Tl;dr: Challenge yourself!

I'm so fuckiing wasted... I don't even know.

>>4229507

I'm so fucking sorry. I just realized what a huge asshole I am. I should never post shit when I'm drunk! YOLO (as teh young people say).

>>4229513

I also say YOLO even though I'm not a "young person" though.

Wip, still trying to get used to new program (procreate)

haven't posted in a long time and i don't recognise any of u, but here goes

>>4229521
hey, ur values are way too dark and it obscures everything. it reads ok as a thumbnail but in actual size its very messing and distracting, u do NOT have to draw every strand of hair and every little line. use a much larger brush or else it just looks very flat, your lightsource is pretty boring but that's subjective so i tried to keep it in line with yours. good job trying to compliment blue and orange you're on the right track there, but with your overuse of black it became very muddy. Practice form and light before trying to tackle many colours.

>>4229585
i just realised the fucking image is flipped ffs

>>4229588
So? Delete the post and repost you asswipe

sketching stuff

>>4229585
Thanks for the tips!

>>4229585
bruh whuchudoin your paintover is worse than original lmao

looks wierd

>>4229769
refine ur taste scrub

Anything that could use a fix? And suggestions on improving the color scheme?

>>4230098
Give her nipples you fucking coward

>>4230121
Thanks. Made a few corrections

>>4225486
This is what I get for drawing the character first and leaving the background last...
I'm not sure what color to make the background and if it will change the lighting. I know in painting its really bad to have everything one tone like this (usually) on the left but that's how I was originally painting it, kind of like "the morning after" so everythings bright. If I make it like on the right side than everythings dark and more of nighttime setting. I'm not sure what to do

>>4229480
Shut up anon this is great

>>4230175

>>4230472
Shoo

>>4230516
Wut

Trying a pose I wouldn't normally do. Hopefully it's got less of a "guy standing there" feel to it.

>>4230565
now its just a guy sitting there, also i have a feeling you dont know how to draw faces

>>4230636
It's actually a chick sitting there. I tried to convey a mood with the gesture. I don't really have much imagination for compositions. If you'd like to recommend something then I could get cracking at it?

>I have a feeling you don't know how to draw faces
I wouldn't say I'm "good" at them, but I definitely know how to draw them.

>>4230565
somehow got stiffer

>>4227648
This is gorgeous. Did you colorize it from greyscale? If so, how do you go about it in PS? (sorry for for the noob question, I'm just getting back into painting after despairing over precisely this when I left off...)

>>4230738
Literally looks like the Boomer meme. I like it.

Trying to improve my rendering and apply it to finished pieces over the next 2 months

>>4230639
>he posts a ref
uhh okay sure buddy-

>>4228022
>Yep.
how much?

>>4229242
Is this a design thats gonna be printed on hoodies?

I might be talking out of my ass here but I wold sharpen the handprint edges. I dont think muddy edges will print very well.

>>4229480
the shadow on the left leg where it attaches to her body doesnt make sense. It's very dark with a very hard edge. Which implies a small light source in a dark place. But the shadows in the rest of the image are very light and soft.

>>4230565
You seriously need to take some figure drawing classes. Because although your rendering is nice, your poses are always super off.
Also you should try more brush economy some part need just one good brush stroke but instead you do 5 scratches. It shouldn't look that messy even if it s the start.
Good job on trying to get off your comfort zone tho

>>4230179
that's why we only have begs in this board

How'm I doin'?

>>4231131
Solid butt dimples. Frazetta would be proud of that ass.
>>4230804
Is that you, wicksz.

Im making Santa.

>>4230738
His pants turn me on.

(≧◡≦) any critique before I move onto the next stage?

>>4231460
Whoops sorry about size

>>4231076
It's that bad, huh? Well, I redrew the pose with only lines so the rendering wouldn't be distracting. Does it still persist in my drawings?

hey, cucks

>>4231868
Your value range seems dark for the subject matter. Reminds me of pic rel.

>>4231868
The one on the right looks a bit like the torso is based on a 3D model, I can't tell why tho.

>>4226356
I thought he had a big cock

>>4231868
this feels like depressed slav porn...hot

>>4231293
Honestly the thumbnail looks like a ps1 screenshot

Tiny portraits are a great joy

Cannibal monsters for dnd dont know what to do with the head

I have trouble coming up with how to draw certain features or hair, any favorite anime/realistic hybrid artists who have good art to learn from? Ideally something not overly rendered that's easier to understand?

>>4232039
I wish instead of a Santa game it looked like front mission 3. . . :(

>>4231868
Fix your noses for fuck sake

current drawing for an /f/ project

>>4232644
shading outlines for the digital ink and paint

>>4231880
He does. Its off camera

>>4232646
>hey looks goo-
>turn head
Nvm

>>4231868
>water dissapearing as soon as it hits her head

>>4232644
>>4232646
>5100x7016
>wrong orientation
If you can't be bothered anon, how can you expect anyone else to be?

just learning how to rendermonkey for now, re-started to practice painting after a few years of not bothering to try

I think I should start trying to render whole bodies to see how I do

ouo

still working on it.
Don’t like the hands.
Getting into some Hogarth and fix later.

>>4232681
ouch. Didnt notice that. Either way, here is another painting

>>4233303
your style is nice but completely unerotic. not sure if that's what you're going for or not but i don't know if anyone can coom from this

>>4233333
people coom from trucks with dicks, and they cant coom from a huge boobed girl just because the lighting and unergetic pose?

Not happy with this, I'll try again tomorrow but I don't even know how to render stuff past this stage

>>4233404
Like this

>>4225486
Muh stumpy legs and perspective are wonky as heck D:

>>4233404
>>4233408
thanks anon, feel like this improved a lot after I put in some halftones and blending

>>4233554
Yeees. Deeper values. More blending. Get those soft shadows real soft. Get the hard ones real hard. Textures in the midtones, nothing in the shadows. Ignore confusing bits of bounced light until the end of you must put them in.

Can someone help me choose a hairstyle or something I’m stuck

Desperately need help: I fucked up his left eye, too far
and
the hair
bois
i really need all the advice in this world
still a WIP tho

>>4233629
felt that, I struggle a lot with hair choices too. I recommend trying to figure them out before you start the drawing.
Anyways! I think that long, middle parted hair would look really good and goes with the whole angel aesthetic

>>4233635
You’re my savior, thank you so much!!

>>4233643
God I love this, the person on the left’s hips look a little weird, but other than that it is amazing. Love the style and colors

>>4233037
any feedback?

>>4233643
great shapes, i think you should square off the elbows and make them less pointy

Just a wee update. I think I'm going to do a second painting of this but closeup with a different angle. I had the thought that she found a small key dangling from a nail in the pillar. The second piece will be of her looking at it.

>>4233654

Thank you very much. Here's another of my doodles.

>>4233643

Heres more

>>4233037
Not really sure what to say... it looks good but I can tell you still need to practice getting that certain "professional" level of brushwork. This looks too airbrushy which is a halmark of an amateur. I think you need a better balance of soft brushwork contrasted with sharper, more opaque strokes especially in places like the eyes. Her right cheek area looks great, it's nice and sharp which contrasts the soft gradient of her cheek, but that's the only place you do it correctly i think.

>>4231874
how is this painting so mundane but also so horrifying at the same time? Frig I love his and Piotr's paintings

>>4233037
drop the meme brushes and learn how to blend/render those subtle color differences by hand. your brushwork needs a kick to attain the next level of depth

>>4233554
top of her head/hair is completely in light, and you have too many terminator lines in your shadows for this early on, just make em a smooth gradation or something until you narrow in on the right value.

I think a few of your lights are bleeding into the darks, but I suspect thats just because your terminator shadows are way too contrasty and confusing me.

>>4233834
Additionally dont leave the background white, block everything in even if its not entirely accurate, it will help you narrow in on the right values, and its good practice in general.

>>4233835
quick edit to show what i mean.

>>4233835
T H I S. So much.

Always do your background tone first before anything else because values are 100% relative to the values around them. Doing your work on a blank background can make you match values to that instead and end up with your values looking too light or blown out.

>>4229780
It's lopsided. Remember to flip the image when you draw to prevent this kind of issue.

>>4231543

Yes it does. You avoid overlapping and foreshortening, the pose are not well established in space and stiff. We can tell that you are not comfortable with anatomy.
The point was not to correct the pose because it's bad, you shouldn't care about making this final picture good anyway. The point is that right now if you had more figure drawing practice you would nail this poses without too much effort. Practicing posing only from imagination and a few references will only get you this far.
Going out of your comfort zone also means taking a look back at your strengths and weaknesses and try to study on what you need to improve. Right now all your stuff are sketchy characters with the same lighting and rendering. Bad poses and anatomy hidden under that one rendering you seem comfortable with.
Even if you feel like you found your style that you wanna pursue you should really practice different stuff; work on your lines, practice different rendering do some exercice with limited values...etc. Because all those different methods will make you progress way more on this specifics style you want to achieve than just trying over and over again.

>>4233814
>>4233832

Thanks for the feedback, I kinda tried to avoid the sakimichan-y airbrush look but I indeed don't know how brushwork works yet.

Sometimes it's like I had to choose between rendering fully realistic or putting some random sharp strokes to break the "soft" look.

Do you guys have some cool pictures with good brushwork that retains this realistic color style that I could look for as reference?

>>4234169
Use some texture in your midtones. That's a good way to avoid the soft plasticy look of digital. I have some skin and fabric brushes for that purpose just to break it up a little bit. Just don't go crazy with them.

>>4226793

>>4234169
It's tough for me to say what you should do to improve, when I looked at your piece my exact thoughts were "this looks great, but still amateur" but what exactly is it that looks amateur? I'm not sure. I can just tell. I really think you are on a good path though, if this piece is any indication of your other painting endeavors. So it might sound frustrating to say, but just keep at it, keep doing what you're doing. I'm a firm believer that if you figure things out for yourself you'll learn better and faster in the long run.

>>4234422

>>4234423

I suck, I know. Any tips? Using Krita

>>4234428

It looks like you might be using black to shade your skin-tone. Maybe using just a darker shade of your base color would look more natural. A little color can go a long way.

>>4234428

Use reference. Check your proportions, and you'll benefit from going to ctrlpaint.com and watching the videos on digital art.

Bg style test.

>>4234449

I like it a lot. Some of the smaller, shorter, high contrast brush strokes on the tree and the fallen log are a little distracting for me, but otherwise I think it looks great.

>>4234454

Oh. They deleted it. It looked good desu

MS Paint Portrait. Nothing but curve tool.

>>4234457

Wholesome couple portrait wip.

>>4234461
thanks for resizing but holy shit

What do you think about it?

>>4234422
>>4234423
>>4234426
>>4234461
umm... Anon, you wanna talk?

>>4233570
>>4233834
>>4233835
>>4233847
Thanks a ton anons it's a huge help.
Tried to keep it in mind for this, still not happy with the results but it feels a lot better AND it came out in like half the time

>>4234810
Much better. My only gripe with this one is you aren't drawing what you see exactly. It might help to put a grid over the next one you do and just really be careful about your line placement and visual measuring. Try to get the angles and sizes of features right and when it looks right go in and clean up and refine that linework. Then try again without a grid.

I think some of the inaccuracies in your drawing may have tripped you up when you started blocking in values.

>>4234461
>>4234423
>>4234422
Is this the person that drew trans wonder woman

>>4234760
i like all the colors you're implementing a whole lot but at least a portion of the chest anatomy seems a bit wonked or misaligned

cool stuff though !

>>4233834
>her

Apple tree girl wip! Having fun

>>4234761

You got a problem with big ears, buddy?

fddfg

>>4234839

I've never drawn wonder woman before. Sorry, not me. I don't really draw trans characters. Just short haired girls with big ears.

>>4234870
Please God give her cranium back it's missing

>>4234872

no can do bud

>>4234461

Trying to get better at painting. I'm going by the seat of my pants so I'd appreciate any advice you could spare.
I should have filled in her silhouette from the beginning so I could separate it from the bg, could have focused more on rendering instead of edge control

>>4233758
Another wee update:

>>4234461
I'm sorry but the style you're going for in these pieces is more than a little upsetting.

This caricature in particular looks nothing like the photo, you're trying to exaggerate to many features and all in the wrong ways. You even gave her features she doesn't have. Literally none of the drawing even vaguely resembles her.

>>4234423
those eyes man... you've got to stop

>>4234982
Like it alot so far anon!

>>4233518
Overhauled this from flaming window for no good reason to a pyromancer controling some flaming skulls just gnashing into two others for an interrogation >:O

>>4235400
Very cool. Saved in inspiration folder.

appreciate any critique

>>4235400
blog?

>>4233629
i like it bald

>>4233632
it's ok it's just very very boring

>>4234465
blog?

>>4235432
https://www.artstation.com/hitoshura

>>4235441
Don't have a blog, just post on 4channel and share with friends irl

Do proportions look alright? Sry for the size

>>4235438
Thank you, I'll have to switch things up to make it more interesting :)
I've never thought about it lol, even though it seems obvious

>>4235478
looks lit

wip

Some fgo fun

>>4236837
More texture more hue variation, make background black
>>4237025
Her spine bent too sharp almost broken.

>>4231460
looks great, very refined and professional. Keep on going!

how long does it take you guys to consider something "finished"?

>>4237053
Nothing is ever finished, just abandoned. Leave it and move on. You can always come back. Its digital art ffs.

>>4237071
not really what i meant. i think i'm impatient when it comes to drawing but i don't really know. i've seen some artists take 3 hours and others take 60. how long do you usually spend?

>>4237053
Depends on what I'm doing and what level of polish it requires.

Some things I worked on for 6 months. Photo-realistic graphite is a bitch and takes forever. Other things like digital concept art, hours at worst.

I can't figure out which versions of hair look better. Done about 8 different attempts to get it right and these are the best two. One is the 80s big hair version and the other is a more sleek version but still has a bit of the 80s curls.

I can't figure out which versions of hair look better. Done about 8 different attempts to get it right and these are the best two. One is the 80s big hair version and the other is a more sleek version but still has a bit of the 80s curls.

>>4237245
second has more interesting use of negative space

What do you guys think? Need some fresh perspective

>>4237025
Blog?

>>4235265
>>4237025
>>4237053
Blog?

>>4233632
He's honestly pretty dope
He has that flamboyant villain sephiroth/dio/griffith type of look to him.
Finish the hair out, clean up the rendering a bit, and maybe add some red to show sub surface scattering, and it should look great. it already thumbnails nicely.

>>4235265
This is fucking incredible. I love the subtle color variation. It feels very much like a painted background from an animated movie.

>>4236837
Not enough squatting or meddling

how many twitter followers should I have before opening up commissions?

>>4237254
I’d like to see it scanned, in the photo a lot of light is reflecting off of the ink so it’s hard to gauge the values. looks good though anon keep it up

>>4237254
Killed it with the text

Still trying to figure out what clothes I want to draw. I don usually make backgrounds but I'm looking to do something oriental or sci-fi

>>4237536
Thank you so much!

>>4238073

fkin love it

blog?

>>4227767

Hey dude, afraid I went straight into colour. Would recommend doing value study. This study is pretty much unfinished it's around 35-40 minutes of work maybe 50 didn't time myself. I normally do 2 hours. To push it further I would work on the edges and make the lighting crisper. The colour work is simple with relatively few hue variations and texture placements, and a concentration on drop shadows and rim/side lighting building out most of the forms nicely.

I always challenged myself when I used to do studies by finding a reference that was strong in colour and lighting. Then I'd study in value first, then replicate the study in colour as opposed to painting over using a colour layer. I can honestly say it was the best study method I ever found and definitely made me improve a lot faster than the normal rate.

Highly recommend it if you are considering doing an art dive again.

Just remember you WILL get better. However, it's up to you how fast you want to improve. Study intelligently, focus and watch that shit pay dividends down the line.

Oops this
>>4238327

was meant for this
>>4227767


Sry boys been a long ass time since I've posted in /ic

>>4230671

Hey dude, afraid I went straight into colour. Would recommend doing value study. This study is pretty much unfinished it's around 35-40 minutes of work maybe 50 didn't time myself. I normally do 2 hours. To push it further I would work on the edges and make the lighting crisper. The colour work is simple with relatively few hue variations and texture placements, and a concentration on drop shadows and rim/side lighting building out most of the forms nicely.

I always challenged myself when I used to do studies by finding a reference that was strong in colour and lighting. Then I'd study in value first, then replicate the study in colour as opposed to painting over using a colour layer. I can honestly say it was the best study method I ever found and definitely made me improve a lot faster than the normal rate.

Highly recommend it if you are considering doing an art dive again.

Just remember you WILL get better. However, it's up to you how fast you want to improve. Study intelligently, focus and watch that shit pay dividends down the line.

>>4237492
>>4238285
thanks anon, Im on twitter: @art_mellon

>>4238038
I was actually trying to go for a british chav aesthetic.
prolly gonna abandon this piece

did these this morning, would really like some crit

>>4234265
Looks Rob Bliss-y anon, good job

>>4238733
idk if you're British too but most chavs here have shaved or gelled hair and it's usually dishwater blonde/brown and not cherub blonde. I think you finish this though, you just need to push your values and desaturated your colours a bit.

>>4238733
Finish it. Its pretty good.

>>4238773
>idk if you're British too
I'm estonian but I like brits and the whole brittain vibe allot. The music, fashion and accents. I really love it

>>4238748
do studies man

>>4238143
>>4238120
How about now?

Trying out new things. Still a Wip

>>4239415
This is cool

Started digital drawing this week, thoughts?

>>4239502
Before jumping to color and such practice sketchs and lineart so you can have a good grip at them

Working on this, based on a story from Hyperion.

>>4239503
>work on line art and sketches to get better colors!
Umm thats not how it works

>>4239564
Ngmi

>>4239564
I never said that you gigantic retard. I told you to get better and that before spending 3 hours with color. Because your lineart sucks

>>4239512
Really good colors and values. Wish I could do this

>>4238778
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>>4237040
ty for input, calling this final

>>4239249
Really nice. You work fast as fuck man

>>4239419
Thanks. I will post the finished version soon

>>4234810
2hrs, tried really hard on the sketch to just get the shapes and angles down. Can still see inaccuracies, some I can tell happened while I was rendering.
Didn't have enough time to render his clothes, and the teeth really threw me off fore some reason
I'll do some still-life tomorrow, or just something that's not a face, for a change

>>4234836
>is you aren't drawing what you see exactly
very true anon, I'm finally appreciating just how important the initial sketch is to the rendering.
I'll keep working on it, so thanks a ton

>>4238877
I’d say push the values a bit more, make the dark parts darker

Plz roast uwu

>>4240626
I like it anon, no need for self deprecation

>>4240694 aw thanks. Here's some less bat shit stuff.

>>4229242
I'd lighten or darken the hand print, it doesn't stand out enough.

>>4238045
its nice but those freckles look like smallpox

Sorry if you can’t comprehend my post moral art.

Tried a thumbnail thing. Like how do I even move forward with this?

Any thoughts?

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>>4227584
/beg/

>>4240935
seek help

>>4240900
Why are you lying? This is obviously a photograph with several filters.

Any thoughts on this wip? The character is meant to be like a goddess/life/spring metaphor thing which makes plants grow in an empty field around her. The bg will be an overcast sky & dead dry trees.

generic knighty guy

been working on this lately

>>4243760
>No visual measuring
>The whole picture is progressing in different stages
>Face skin is in render stage, not even a sketch, no eyeballs, no cranium, nothing else is on the canvas
What the fuck why are you working this way? Do you like failing?

welp this will take a while

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>>4234870
Your art style looks horrible because there's no hierarchy to feature sizes. You've got big eyes, big noses, big ears, and big lips and they all look the same because you're not playing with size variability. Make some things big, some things medium sized, and some things small.

Another one based on Hyperion.

>>4226356

here's a higher res
not done yet.

>>4245508
what brushes, broski

>>4226356
Awwww adorable

>>4240986
I think you should push your values more, make the main focus (the lady) separated from the background by making her brighter

>>4240935
Ok boomer

>>4245538
i really like it o w o

>>4246160
wut is owo?

>>4246176
UwU'k b'OwO'mer

>>4245893
I mostly use shaddy safadi, lynn chen, and jaime jones brushes for texture.

Be /fit/ so you can be your own model

Not too happy with this, but I learned a lot

>>4246241
nice.

Thought of doing Stickers or something with this, but I'm not really feeling it anymore

>>4247141
/beg/ go study form and shapes

>>4230135
Her hands are weird. The fingers on the right are weird. And the right also feels weird. Maybe its the perspective?

>>4234760
That gun makes no sense. Legs look weird. Head looks weird, right forearm feels small. Chest is offset in rhe wrong way one arm is higher than the other yet the pec is lower. Werid nipple perspective.

>>4238733
I like it just finish rendering.

>>4239249
Feels like her head is a little too big but Idk.

>>4239842
Damn I wish you rendered the bottle more. It's just a vague shape.

Requesting critical construction

>>4246594

Kind of looks like he's pooping out your sig there

>>4247442
Guess I will. It was actually supposed to be a well rendered bottle, yknow the plastic bottom those shits have and with refractions and shit. idk why I got so fucking lazy. Defo need to get back to it and make some final touches.

Trying to get the hang of rendering forms without the airbrush/bluring-the-hell-out-of-everything

>>4247413
no u

>>4245538
didnt feel like working on the bear.
went back to muh bird pic

sketch

>>4248373
love it
link me to your other stuff

>>4248536
@art_mellon on twitter. and thanks anon!

>>4247820
really well done, satisfying in a way. reminds me that i gotta start learning how to render without the help of blurring too lol

>>4248604
Love your style, got a Twitter or something with more?

>>4248373
It feels like her upper right thigh is facing forward but her knee is facing the side. It feels broken.

>>4248805
Here you go.

https://twitter.com/WhiteBox_Studio

Huh, been ages since I've posted here.
Working on this massive piece, it's going to be the death of me

>>4249060
the white part of a jacket blends too much with the background. so yeah. a background would be nice, even if it would just be a block or a shape of color placed behind him to make him pop out more. or, maybe, if going for a more interesting effect, make the white part of the jacket completely the same color as the background idk

good learning experience.

>>4250702
close up

>>4251041
oh wow you finished it!! the colors are really nice, very smooth, however for some reason i cant help but feel like the sketch was a bit better lol. i think it's in the way the finished work, although it has amazing distribution of light and shadows, lacks any sort of .. uhh sharpness to it?? i kind of feel like everything is a bit blurred and i dont think it works well with the emotions displayed on their faces and the colors, composition as a whole. idk it's just my opinion. it is your painting style, but i think maybe finessing some details with a sharper brush could do well here:)
the colors on the wagergirl are beautiful though.. really like how she looks

>>4251041
hot o:
needs more contrast between his legs to seperate them though, or more rendering on the legs in general on the man

>>4251165
Seconding the water girl, looks really nice. Especially the shadow parts have a satisfying color.

star warsy thing

Sold this today for much more than I thought it was worth

>>4251932
For how much did you sell it and who would want to buy that?

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Looking at the thumbnail I thought it was a piece of dirty toilet paper with a child's scribble on it. Looking at it closer it somehow looks even worse. Looks like an edgy tween did it on a dirty paper they'd lost in their backpack.

ive been feeling like im stuck in regards to progress for quite a while, and nowadays i never go past sketches
help

>>4252839
i feel you. whenever that happens i usually just put on flat colors and call it a day. sometimes tho as i go i'll get inspired to start adding "oh ill just cell shade" and then "oh ill just slightly airbrush in some places" and i do much more than i anticipated before.

>>4252460
My mommy gave me a 10 dollar bill for it damn you niggas is mean