/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Mainly focusing on line work

please bully me

Other thread got deleted?
Some watercolor practice. I've committed to submitting 3 pieces to a local art show in March so really rushing to figure this out as I have zero finished pieces

why i was impatient?

Should I read vilppu's books or watch his videos?

>>4359209
None, hi's not for begs.

random insect construction exercise
1/2

cleaned up
2/2

didn't realize how messed up the thumb and knuckles were. need to step back more

I'm getting ignored in every thread I'm glad beg is back.
what should I focus on? is this an acceptable progress??

>>4359244
Finish a drawing
that isn't in 3/4 view

>>4359246
next time..

>>4359244
You've stopped improving, asuka anon...

>>4359134

>>4359270

fuck off

that's an improvement

stay in /beg/

>>4359382
Resized because people care about that for some reason. I shouldn't have busted out the black pencil. Also her face is off. It looks like an Asian female but not like the girl in trying to draw. :(

>>4359395
Fuck

just something I tried..

>>4359537
I like it.

Is this correct for mirroring planes in perspective? I followed Scott Robertsons book for this

>>4359134
plane guy reporting in, drawing something other than a plane for once

>>4359173
Keep studying. Work on proportion in your figures and thinking 3 dementionaly. Folds (and everything for that matter...) arnt just lines, they're 3d forms that push and pull on the body. Keep going and you'll get there!

>>4359218
I like that you're showing the thought process of thinking about form and you're drawing through. Keep practicing and you'll do great!

>>4359134
This is an idle animation for my game. Before I get into drawing the character on top does the underlying movement need to be changed/fixed?

>>4359650

why is it hitting its own hand? Self punish?

Why my lines still look like garbo or do i focus on cleaner lines at the end?

>>4359678
I was thinking more like the gesture someone might do when they are preparing to hit something but can't yet so they slap it into their hand idly. Like a teacher with a ruler or a thug with a bat.

Why my lines still look like garbo or do i focus on cleaner lines at the end?

Just keep studying

can I post a bunch of my art here and get generalized advice, or is this place intended for single-image critiques only?

i've tried posting like that before, but I just don't see the point. most of the time I can see my drawing is garbage, someone might point out some things I don't see, but I still won't be able to get much out of that. receiving general advice that encompasses all the mistake seems more worthwhile, otherwise you just turd polish all day.

>>4359719
Well you seen anon, I'm your puppet. You control me, IM YOUR PUPPET, I DONT KNOW ME.

>>4359688
But still, why is he hitting his own hand? Is he a masochist?

>>4359650
It's got a long right arm, probably that coomer meme come true

>>4359719

make it into one image so you don't spam the thread

I need tips on acrylic painting, especially how to get nice skin colors

>>4359218
Insects have three parts to their body - the head, the thorax and the abdomen. They have six legs all connected to the thorax, the middle part.
Look up some refs and draw some ants or wasps or something.

this took about 30 minutes, any crits?

>>4359876
Can't even tell what I'm looking at.

I can't draw a face to this for the life of me. I'm okay with the body, but realistic eyes as well ass 'cartoony' eyes look terrible.
Can anyone give me advice, please?

>>4359688
Yeah, reasonable people can see that. Maybe add another frame of the crowbar moving down to his hand, otherwise it might look like he's hitting himself too hard.

>>4359267
you are really exaggerating the angles

i enjoy digital painting more than drawing. used a ref

>>4359876
learn to rotate fucking photos, woman

For painting with acrylics - I'm having the most difficulty in mixing paints and coming up with a color that's similar to my reference material. Is this something that comes with experience, and is there some method that I can apply to improve faster? Can anon recommend me a video or resources on mixing paints?

>>4359735
Learn to draw first.

>>4360028
i think the proportions are fucked up

>>4360250
PYW

how am i doing, not done yet

>>4360273
If my drawing is better than yours what are you going to do?

some poses with zero ref. They are fucked but are they fucked enough to stop filling and go back to ref poses?

>>4360360
Take a picture, it’ll last longer

inspired by my dog

>>4360486>>4360486
you should loosen those bad boys up
theyre not bad but idk why you'd be reluctant to go back to drawing with models. Even if you had gesture down it's smart to go back to ref and refine your understanding ya dig?
>>4360495
I love this

>>4359134
I know it's a very unorthodox subject that doesn't tell you much about anatomy and such, but does anybody have any critique or tips looking at pic related?

>>4360650
pic related is my ref

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>>4360652
try drawing it from different angles

Am I gmi?

>>4360695
Do you mean just to be more challenging and dynamic, or do you think I failed to capture my reference? I'm just recently trying to get back into the swing of practicing and I decided that this creature will be a good subject for many different perspective exercises due to his relative simplicity, so I will draw him again at differing angles.

never posted here before so I just wanna know where I'm at right now

Are there any resources for alternative hairstyles for weeb themed shit?

Like, anything that NOT bangs

>>4360652
since theres not much in terms of gesture you could try focusing on projecting the material of the mask as much as possible
it's not a ref I would use to start though, does it have some significance to you?

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>>4360773
just pull the hair back?

>>4360773
Hair is the least of your concern.

>>4360776
I wouldn't say I am using it to start, I've drawn casually for a long time. It does have significance, it is from one of my favorite games, and I just replayed it and simply wanted to draw that character for the fun of it, not particularly as an exercise. It just grabbed me and I figured it would get my hand back around a pencil.

>>4360494
what does that mean

>>4360773
Here you go.

I'm really trying here

>>4360985
god i wish i were that post

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>>4361009
what do you want now :(

>>4361009
pyw

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>>4361099
based

>>4359134
I know this isn't perfect but it's the best I can do right now. I really tried. Please crit and rank.

>>4361179
Fuz it up until its snowing in 3 dimensions all over that page. Is what I would do. Go wild with it. Its your art and no-one else's. I want to see the pointy frosted tips on each snowflake.

>>4361179
Oh forgot to rank, it looks perfect.

You're insanely jealous of my rad MSpaint skills, I know. Don't let it get to your head. Go aheaed and crit or rank this, don't hold me back.

My first semi original piece in months

>>4361204
you could improve this a lot by putting the gun in perspective instead of leaving it so flat. i also think the arms are too short but you're not gonna be able to fix that at this point

>>4360985
I changed
now going to sleep

>>4361207
I admit the inking was super rushed. I didn't have time to put work into the gun so I left it unfinished. Thanks for the feedback though

>>4361204
This should be glassed or behind at least four levels of bars in a place that looks like a vietnamese prison camp. Would you mind?

>>4361238

I can't fucking draw and I hate the way this feels aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>4361278
your drawing is completely different. you're not constructing the body right and then youre trying to build anatomy on a non existent skeleton. im looking at her waist and butt on the left. completely different shape than yours. also the butt crack. just look at the butt crack vs yours. you arent ready yet to be doing figure drawing. try learning to draw a mannequin, learn proporton and then learn to draw a mannequin in perspective, then you can crank out some gesture to get poses down, then you can grind anatomy. if you don't do it in that order, you won't improve.

If I trace bodies, will that help with my anatomy and proportion construction?

Skull studies

>>4361488
try and see

>>4361303
Thank you for this. I've been stuck drawing fucked up bodies for the longest time. I knew I needed a better way to practice but I wasn't sure what to do. Props for the advice. I didn't post the previous drawing, but that sounds like solid advice so I'm gonna run with it.

>>4361251
Thanks for the laugh, bud

Some skull

Wanted to try something new today. I sketched a close up of an upper body at work when I normally do full body stuff. Looking at it with fresh eyes, I can see how much I didn't actually follow my ref though. But it was something new to try.

>>4361856
i dont know what to say anon

>>4361858
I dunno, I just wanted to post my progress here and see if I'd get any critique or anything. Like I said, it was more for practice, I didn't really plan on doing anything more with it haha.

>>4361864
symbol drawing?
I say keep studying but then again dont take my word for it im still a /beg/

>>4359240
Looks good so far! I definitely think you'll improve faster if you start pushing yourself to learn about the smaller details, these figures look simple. You could also try drawing things for fun, then focus on whatever you have issues with doing those pieces.

>>4359134
Dresses are really hard anons. How do you maintain the flow-y-ness when a character is sitting?

Here is my pic from another thread, obviously "beg" level. Loomis redraw with some faulty construction

>>4361238
I'm curious. Show us what your gesture drawings are like.

>>4361937
butt too low, shoulders too stiff (horizontal), neck is too hunchback

>>4361956
Thanks, I'll do a quick overlay fix once I am home

How the fuck do I apply form to actual drawings? I know how to draw a proper cube or sphere but I feel whenever I try to apply form to an actual drawing it always comes out flat and without form. The guy on the bottom left is prolly the closest thing I can get for a character with form and he still seems flat somehow.

>>4361998

First attempt of figure drawing, rate?

>>4362054
ref

head study

>>4362054
Nice, I would try to cut down on the messy lines im also trying to fix this bad habit.

>>4361950
is the gesture that bad?

>>4362056
Her dick looks like a foot

>>4362076
It's awkward.

>>4362079
ok then ill work on gestures

i feel like one of my biggest weakness is not being thorough with rendering. its so god damn tedious anyone got tips any tips? anyways no one acknowledged this in the last thread and pls rate my turtle which also suffers from the same lack of rendering problem

>>4362096
here is a turtloius

Where can I learn fresco art? Can I teach it myself like drawing? What kind of materials do you need?

>>4361856
kys faggot

>>4361856
Tits too small

>>4361937
did those construction lines help at all?

How do i make the asses look bigge is it alot of forshorterning?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYN_gX0GF8U

>>4362297
I'm sorry if I miss your art. Next time my dudes!

I suck at colors, i did this to experiment skin colors but i think there’s something wrong with the background color (i never know what color should i use for the background)...
What are your thoughts?

>>4362237
They did.

The key to avoiding his selection is to draw porn

>>4361901
the dress looks fine, the face and hands are your biggest weakness as far as I can tell.

>>4362188
Have your (you), only out of confusion.
>>4362229
Right? Too small, should have made them bigger

>>4362297
keep being based

Why can't i stop coming back to this board

does any of this work

>>4362403
Asukaposter...

>>4362297
Pyw chink

>>4362405
i'm not him

>>4362342
Well that's good to know. The dress was frustrating enough to make me rush through those other marks. But if the dress looks right, I'll prolly do some editing to deal with those lackluster features you mentioned when I get back from work.

>>4362403
Middle one, kinda.
But they still all look like generic aliens.

The art review got removed faster than a butt hole in a gay orgy.

>>4362403

if I have really to pick one its middle. but anon do more than 3 so you have more choice.

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>>4362434
yes I will
just wanted to test quickly if I am not completely retarded
i wanna master gestures and poses so that I am not hated anymore

>>4362403
Really fucking cool, I would clean it up a bit and you could exaggerate their poses. Like if something is leaning back make them lean really far back so it doesnt come off as boring

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>>4359597
Well I did some experimentation with lineweight and restarted the lineart for the scout

>>4362472
And I'm going to try painting it to make those lines way less needed, this is what I got last night but obviously still wip

>>4362562
the eyes need to be closer desu

>>4362564
can it be one eye then
no problem if there's no another one

Been trying to work on my portraits, eye-placement and keeping them properly balanced is giving me the most trouble.

>>4362697
Yeah, you always put one eye higher than the other. It's always the same eye too. Every single time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYN_gX0GF8U

>>4362727
Yeah, I'll have to keep it in mind. Should be an easy fix then.

>>4362734
STOP SPAMMING YOUR SHITTY JEWTUB FAGGOT NIGGER

>>4362739
just report him

>>4362734
Bruh stop using your lips to draw mayne. Use your hand.

>>4362739
>Jewtub
High-larious

>>4362734
You blow your father with that mouth?

>>4362734
Pyw chink

Is this sort of practice helpful or am I so off the mark I'm hindering myself?

I don't really know how to practice a skill

dont know if I should post post or not ;(

>>4362734
Never stop posting.

green from reference cause i saw this isnt going anywhere

>>4362789
Stop talking to yourself

where can i find pictures of naked men to use as a reference?

>>4362798
Look in the fucking mirror.

>>4362753
I've never seen such African features on a chinaman.

>>4362800
i need men with muscular bodies

>>4362803
Get swole faggot, and use pic related as your inspiration.

>>4362800
im a girl teehee ;))

>>4362803
Go to the gym.
>not putting on muscle mass to make your own reference pictures

>>4362806
post your body

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>>4362811
coward

>>4362798
Go to a bar and ask men there if you can draw them naked.

Having trouble picking up shading in digital after doing nothing but traditional since I was in highschool, decided to try hatching in a digital piece. It was incredibly refreshing, thoughts?

Tips for drawing on the canvas and prevent the graphite from mixing with the paint?

>>4362757
No one yelled at me for this so I'm going to assume its okay?

>>4362811
sauce?

>>4362969
Search for any 3d virtual AI model, beware of queefing Roasties.

does this have any merit

>>4362982
Yes

Jesus christ I just went through Krita settings and added a crosshair to my cursor. Not only is the crosshair 144hz compared to the brush preview but its also a lot more visible. This simple addition made my line accuracy a LOT better.

>>4362982
Finish a drawing.

>>4359186
you need to scale up your drawings or scale down your brushes, you lack smooth blended colors. Very harsh colors clashing against one another

>>4363033
after i master fundies

>>4362474
Dude
Don't bother rendering right now, you're actually pretty confident with your lines and overall digital work it seems but your drawing is lifeless, the limbs are stiff and the head is not attached right, there's no movement, it's too static and it's boring. Do more gestures learn to feel the movement of the body, art has to tell a story, make your drawing more dynamic otherwise no rendering or lines are gonna make it less drab
Do vilppu

>>4362982
U have the idea of gesture now work on moving beyond it into building form and then hard anatomy, try practicing by doing these sketches then some longer poses with form and then one or two full anatomy drawings
U can dew it anon

An I getting somewhere with this environment design is really confusing with these perspective grids, and the rendering is just weird I can't seem to understand how to render in digital or how light works in general
Can I get some objective advice for doing environments or books to read

>>4363042
Thats honestly really valid but every time I ask for crits on my gesture everyone just tells me more mileage but I think it's really directionless if I do that. I am currently trying to draw something more dynamic so when I get it more fleshed out I will post it later tonight.

>>4363054
Think about the longest line in the body and it's direction and the rhythm you can create by contrasting the other side of the body. For instance if a character was running the longest line is from the chest to the back foot, and it's curvature should have an asymmetry with the curve of the front of the body to create a rhythm
Michael Hampton explains it better it's just gotta click in your mind

>>4362982
Yes. If you’re who I think you are. Draw Satania’s face.

>>4363064
Thats the thing, I've read his book and watched his lectures and I just don't understand gesture. I think I need to get better at figures in the first place so my gestures have more consistency

Does anyone else feel like they have just never gotten any good art advice or critique fucking ever? I've never gotten any better advice than, "Fundies" or, "read the sticky". It's gotten to the point where I just don't even ask anybody.

I'm not saying I'm entitled to help, but I just wish somebody could watch me draw and just tell me what exactly I'm doing wrong.

>>4363123
And to add onto this, I feel like I know exactly what kind of art I want to do, but I'm just constantly bouncing between working on different things I can't get anything done. As soon as I work on one thing, I've forgotten another thing that I need to do. And I am so God damn sick of "just feel it Bro" bullshit.

i really need to learn how to pick better colors

>>4363232
shit, forgot to resize

Hands shitto

>>4359134
On the blue helmet, do the eye-holes come across as holes or as eyes with eyebrows over them.

>>4362739
Lololol

>>4359134
On the blue helmet, do the eye-holes come across as holes or as eyes with eyebrows over them?

doodling while watching scarface

drew yoruichi, got like 40 reblogs on tumblr so I think I did a good job, what do you guys think? :)

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>>4363356
wasnt tumblr dead?
>what do you gyus think
i have seen better

>>4363356

dude please learn how to draw a skull so you understand where you fucked up.

you are way too focused on the details when instead you should understand how the face and head works.

bully pls

I'm still trying to figure out inking. How do you know when the line should be thicker or thinner? Also, someone in /porn/ said my art came off as too flat. I can't say I disagree.

>>4363412

seems way to easy for you. do something harder.

>>4363035
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to improve once I get back to my paints. When you say "harsh colors", are you mainly talking about the greens?

Finally got my pen display replacement back. Bought a Kamvas pro 22 2019 last month and it already had a dead pixel line. Hopefully it doesn't die again.

>>4363472
I think you've mistaken overcomplicating a simple drawing for competence

>>4363480
Look at the image in grayscale, you can see the sharp transitions. Also with how rich some of the colors are like some of the green below the eye.

>>4363412
Linework is sloppy. ears imply you have some concept of 3D form. Wings and tail imply you have no concept of 3D form.
If you are a child or retarded please get off of the internet.
If you're an adult then please put in more effort.

>not actually /beg/
>post on /beg/ cause low self esteem

fuck you all

>>4359134
This looks like a woman.
R-r-right guys?

>>4363503
Who you talking about? Lots /beg/ here.

>>4363472
Oh I'm having plenty trouble with it

>>4363491
Now this is quality bullying. Yeah I have trouble with shapes. I'll when i get it right and get some refs on wings tmm. Thanks

>>4363356
I'm sorry but this is not a good job.
This looks like if Leela and Baraka had a baby.
Listen to the other guy and focus on skulls, or find a proper side pose of the character and see if you can do that properly.

>>4363468
I know what isn't flat

>>4363468
Looks fine for the most part. Typically lines are thinner where it's lighter, brighter and out of focus. Vice versa for thicker lines

>>4363327
Eyeholes. But now that you said that I see it too

>>4363338
Nice gestures. Finish the goddamn figure though

>>4363356
Your mandibles are way too long. And the mouth itself too. It enters uncanny valley. Look at refs

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>>4363038
ngmi

I know you guys get randoms posting Loomis heads in here every single day probably, but can anyone tell me if I am doing this right? What do I need to be focusing on here? Am I doing this right?

i did it i fucking did it i finally drew my first picture on adobe illustrator. I have several questions tho, most of you guys drawing digitally what do you set your brushes too? i dont want such thick lines on brush maybe make them a bit smaller is there any way to change their size? also how do i save images on adobe illustrator? what type of file do i save my drawings as?

>>4363670
Adobe Illustrator is meant for vector-based logo design, don't use it for drawing.

Besides sketching during work, I've Been working on this in my off time after work the last couple of days. Looking for some critique. I feel like her left breast is way too low, but being that she's supposed to be older at 45 and has giant tits anyway, I think they sag low enough and I just need to draw that line there. I dunno. Also, the coloring isn't done, but the hair coloring isn't gonna make or break this drawing.

What can i do that would help seperate skin from clothes but allow for some shading?

>>4363683
what program should i use then?

>>4363750
Photoshop/Clip Studio Paint/Krita

>>4360743
I don't think you look like a /beg/. You understand foreshortening and construction and everything is proportional and feels right. You're experienced enough to stylize effectively, you have good line control, and there is none of the beginner's awkwardness or stiffness evident here.

>>4360985
>>4361238
You've got a shit ton of potential imo, your faces are very expressive and your figures have some good shape to them, you just need to work out some bugs. Work on your gesture like the other anons said. You've got good forms but they aren't tied together into a cohesive, fluent whole.

where do i start with anatomy?

can I draw stuff like this or do I gotta learn loomis first

Finished the painting, putting color is definitely the hardest part
>>4359173
Keep studying. Your necks are too long, your bodies either too small or your heads too large, jawlines and lips need more work too.

>>4362697
there is something very nice about these. you have to refine a few things but a lot of potential. nice lips. i think the girl on the left, her eyes are too small and nose might also be too small. the dark one in the middle is cool but the eyes are not symmetrical, same for the one on the top right. but theyre cool. theyre beautiful fo sho. you could also clean up the shading a bit hatch if you're gonna hatch, but don't leave it scratchy. keep posting, i really like that you are drawing women with normal jaws and chins. i hate seeing people drawing something that looks like that awful korean jaw surgery. those girls look cute when they find the right angle. but sometimes when you see what they really look like, its disturbing. ig jaw and big lips are sexy. Reminds me of Sarah Conner.

>>4363838
i don't know, CAN you draw stuff like that?

hi first time doing digital painting , got any advice on colors or technicque ? I used Krita

hi first time doing digital painting , got any advice on colors or technicque ? I used Krita for software

>>4364085
sry for the big format don't know how to make it smaller

>>4362982
>asukafag will be better than me in few months
Oh fug

>>4364030
Hey thanks for the feedback man.

>you could also clean up the shading a bit hatch if you're gonna hatch, but don't leave it scratchy.
Yeah I've wanted to work on my hatching and have been experimenting with it for a while.
I mean as far as the lay-in for a flat value is concerned i think it's sort of fine.
However trying to hatch in a way that supports the form, or indicates things, always turns out really patchy, scratchy, muddy, dirty for me.
Maybe the key is subtlety and I'm just too much of a dumb brute...

Something like pic related is what I'd aspire to if I could pull it off in any way whatsoever.

>>4364174
very cool m8. keep at it

crit thanks
I know the proportions are a bit off compared to the reference (don't have a photo of it, was from life.)

>>4364174
post references

>>4362697
What'd/who'd you study to get such nice faces?

>>4363613
just keep going

>>4364087
in Krita, Image | Scale Image To New Size
then File | Save As so that you don't overwrite the original full-resolution copy

>>4363838
loomis is just basic construction so yes

>asuka poster has nice style with interesting works
>everyone tells everyone to study fundies before style
>having a nice style dictates your entire work
Seems like it makes more reasonable sense to develop a style in the first place
Wat de fug. How do you even get a style in the first place?

>>4364229
thanks man very helpful ; kinda dumb on my part for not looking it up myself

>>4364233
fundies are the most important and style changes weekly, at least for me

t. asukaposter

>>4364241
But it doesn't seem like it does at all. Seems like you have a very distinct semi-anime/semi-stylised look going on. What did you do to develop it? Did you start out just copying anime stuff or?
Genuinely curious.

>>4364229
thanks man , kinda dumb on my part for not looking it up myself

>>4364244
I never copied anything, I try to adapt things from real life that I find attractive

>>4364233
"Style" is not something you get when you want it, it just comes to you as you draw, we know that he sucks norasukos cock so theres some resemblance in their faces

>>4364258
I stopped with norasuko style a while ago

>>4364253
Everyone copies, anon. Your style is derived from something. Style is a choice selection of habitual shortcuts that result in a certain look, developed by drawing or painting a certain way. You've done something at some point to develop this style, I'm asking you where you think it came from.

>>4364258
There it is then. Asuka fag's style is derived from copying/studying noraskuo's work.
>>4364261
There is no need to pretend like you're original dude, even the great masters of ye old ripped the shit outta each other.

>>4364261
The fact that you no longer copy him doesn't mean your works wont resemble him for a while, it baked into your brain

>>4361494
You can't even draw a simple square.

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>>4364280
Ignore this anon's useless crit.
This has potential, but you're trying to run before you can walk. Go back to the basics, do the first few exercises on drawbox.com, get some straight lines into ya. Learn how to do em freehand. Then give it another crack. Use reference too.

Anyway, here's what I tried today

>>4361856
You've done basically nothing to make your drawing actually good. What sort of practice is this? What did you practice exactly?

Construction? No.
Measuring? No.
Drawning what you see? No.
Proportions, perspective, anything? No.

Apply yourself.

Started on Keys to Drawing as per the sticky but when they ask me to shade things in I just want to die. I also suck at lines and shapes but I suck to an extent that I can tolerate, but I feel like when I have to shade anything I have no clue what to do and I make everything look terrible and I can only do 3 tones (blank, pitch black, grey). I feel like this book just exists to embarrass me and that my hands and brain can't do anything.

>>4364335
post your work

>>4364332
im sure her leg is fucked, hips are fucked, but i always enjoy your sketches. there is still something nice about it.face is good imo. are you using references for the anatomy?

>>4364363
well I try to use 3d models on sketchfab like this one
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/anatomy-2019-99c588ddf7a94fce9cff6966a96e5307

Anyone have tips on tree placement for a “woodsy” feel? I’d ideally like to look at references but I can’t find one that captures the feel I’m going for

>>4359134
All kinds of warming up exercises?
I feel like practicing just like that kid from Whiplash.

(pic is hands practice in 30 seconds interval)

>>4364188
I hope you didn't confuse the attached image with my own work.

>>4364204
again, I hope you didn't confuse the attached image with my own work.
also what references?

>>4364220
I've read loomis in the beginning and it's good enough I suppose but I have to say I'm not really a fan.

I've skimmed some other things such as "Giovanni Civardi - Drawing Portraits Faces And Figures" and "Watson Guptill - Portrait Drawing A Step-By-Step Art Instruction Book"
But that was when I started to suspect that the book didn't really matter because my fundamentals were what was lacking and holding me back.
So for the majority of time i've just been trying to improve the basics, measuring distances & angles etc. and trying to be more aware of Forms and Planes, keeping things simple for the most part.

Recently I had a look at "Steve hustons Head drawing course", which I really like, and I've been trying to absorb that as far as my ability allows.

>>4364386
how did you learn to render like that? i keep just rendering the whole face with graphite and it looks all muddy, i mean it's fine, but i'd prefer how you've done it with mostly white.

where should i improve?

What happened to /ourvideocritique/ ?

>>4364404
Closed due to aids

>>4364332
>Ok so a couple of things.
>I think you started out with the top half. you did the head and tits confidently. you had a vision and you executed it ok. for the bottom half of the body, i think you didn't know what you wanted to do exactly. and because of that your perspective changed and doesn't fit. that's why i'm encouraging a ref. Maybe you were inspired to draw her face and tits and you wanted it to be a full body but you couldn't visualize what the legs would look like. that's what i see here.
>And you're not bad at drawing legs or feet but these ones don't match this body.
>The most obvious problem is the way the right leg bends. It's longer than the left leg. Her knee bends sideways? This make no sense to me.
> A less obvious thing would be her hips are out of perspective. When you got down to the thighs you started drawing the legs straight on at a flat angle. Yes, it's close to the horizon but it's not right. The hips would be at a similar angle to the boobs. So the right hip should be higher than the left hip which means you drew her butt and back and wait out of perspective. You drew that straight on, but remember we're on the floor looking up at her.
>also her pose is odd from any angle. She's twisting her body so her head faces left and her feet face the camera. It's not physically impossible but I don't understand what the pose means. Is it playful? Sexy? Strong? To me it's just weird. If I saw someone pose that in real life I'd tell them to relax and face forward.
>Never stop drawing Asuka Poster. I'm a fan.
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>>4364414
sorry idk why that was green text. im retarded

>>4364332
I think you've shown improvement with this one honestly, lower half is better than you've done in other sketches.

>>4364414
thanks
yes you are right mostly
I drew a gesture but it wasn't thought-out enough and I got confused what I was actually trying to draw
well I'll get it right eventualy

>>4364434
since its digital, if i were you, i would just make a new layer, and draw in the perspective lines. and figure out the legs and all that with cubes or whatever it takes.just try again. or maybe even look for a ref at that angle and do it that way. whatever you gotta do, pirogi m8

>asukafag gets all the attention
its not fair

>>4364491
then draw good

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>>4363261
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-u0BJJZqHQ

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>>4364528
Thanks! but I meant like circles or lines...or anything Loomis/manga artist do to warm up before they draw

>>4364528
Holy shit are you gonna spam your shit forever you already got your shit deleted twice

get that ass banned

>>4364392
Oh I don't think I have a definitive answer to that, I can tell you what I'm trying to keep track of while drawing but I don't feel like I've reached a stage where I really know what I'm doing.

I think the most important thing is probably the clear separation of value-groups in to light, mid and dark tones and keeping the "clutter" within those value groups to a minimum. when I don't do that things usually go sideways for me.
I usually keep the white value of the paper as the skin tone, that is illuminated by a light source, but I don't think you have to, as far as I'm aware what's most important is that the contrast is clear.

If you look on youtube for a combination of the terms "value" "shape" or "shadow-shapes" you'll probably find things that are a lot more helpful than my ramblings.
Marco bucci has some great videos on the subject.

>>4364528
fuck off

When you think someones replying you but its just the chink shilling his jewtube
Feels bad

>>4364546
Watch my video. It is good for you.

>>4364291
Thank you. I know that basic shapes are my weakness and I’ve been working on incorporating them into my work and I’ve been watching videos on basic shapes a lot. This was just my first study so I didn’t honestly expect it to be a masterpiece, just wanted to practice seeing basic shapes in everything (Saw the exercise in a peter Han video)

Do you guys watch videos a lot? If so what kind of videos do you watch and how do you use videos? Do you watch things for encouragement, do you look things up when on a need-know-basis, do you find videos to draw along to, do you watch videos on particular topics (e.g. how to draw manga, how to draw eyes), etc? Total /beg/ here just using the sticky atm.

>>4364193
looks great to me. tacky jewelry but good render imo

>>4364620
Yes I watch many videos about fundamentals and whatever I want to learn to draw. There’s a stupid amount of videos on YouTube about art and about drawing, I’m sure what you want can be found

>>4364620
You can also use videos by drawing along like you said and to just learn different ways to draw things

>>4359560
muchhh betr

ok I tried sth like this

>>4359592
oh dear god

Please bully

Where do i need to improve?

I started drawing in 2016 and only now decided study at least one book, holy fuck I feel like a complete retard

Is this shit

>>4364707
you draw like a girl. your strokes and shapes are feminine. think line areound the beard and shadow areound the eye, the eye is too small and looks flat. color and values are really nice tho. but i hate the style.its like youre trying to make up for bad photorealism but adding cutesy shit. with the wavy lines in the hair and stuff. that i really dont like. either go for realism or don't.

>>4364707
wat that guy said but plus rendering, light isn't just a hard edge unless it's a clear cut form right in front of a light, the face needs more diffuse reflected light and not just one big highlight right in front

>>4362757
did you do any construction or just copy the contours?

>>4364401
everywhere?

>>4363505
it does but it also looks like a shitty sketch of a woman.

new

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>>4361303
It's kinda brutal to realize that you're right and I have to unlearn what I know and build a new foundation.
When I just doodle from imagination I hate the results less but I still see a lack of coherent forms and space.

>>4364693
It’s okay, anon. I’m the resident furfag.