/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Half of us are gonna make it.

>>4390449
If only we had such a good rate. It’s like 1/10.

I posted this in yesterday's thread but nobody gave me any feedback, I just started making things and would really like to know what you guys think of them

trying to feel the form as instructed

>>4390485
I also did this one today, but I don't like it as much

>>4390485
I think what you need to learn to improve is perspective

https://youtu.be/nAlCyQqEZSU

>>4390485
>>4390491
Don't photobash.

>>4390251
>>4390339
trying flash to evenly light a page causes my shitty phone kick out streaks and spots like in pic related. also it's still uneven for something page size.
i am retarded when it comes to cameras though.

>>4390447
how the fuck does one keep drawing for more than 10 min. was able to draw for hours just a year ago but now I cant sit still for 10 min and draw and what kind of fucking process do I have to draw to not have my drawings look like shit. I see ppl who draw lazy sketches who looks better than any shit I do. pls help I hate this feeling

>>4390559
Grind for a thousand hours and you will get better.
Until then you just have to suffer.

>>4390561
im a retard what the fuck is grind? English is not my first language

>>4390563
"Grind" is a slang word that means "do the same thing over and over again". Like grinding battles in an RPG to level up.

>>4390563
"grind" is a term for doing the same (usually unpleasant) thing over and over every day. Kind of like having a job or an activity you probably do not really like but you have to do it out of pure necessity.

>>4390486
Asuka poster, may I ask how old are you m8? I'm always impressed by the amount of effort you're putting in. We should all be putting this much effort in

>>4390559
Hold tight,i believe in you anon

>>4390559
What do you think changed in your life now that you can't sit for more than 10 minutes anymore.

>>4390576
anger issues, ptsd, therapy sessions, depression lost most of my social group. right now when I sat down to draw I got angry and couldn't keep drawing lol thats why I smoke and drink, lol

>>4390572
thanks bro.

>>4390559
you need to accept that your drawings look like shit, and find joy on the small improvements.

>>4390588
I see, I am sorry Anon that is really saddening to hear. Are you looking to draw as form self therapy or as a legitimate skill?

>>4390571
I am 23 years old
I would like to put more effort in actually if I knew I was doing the right studying method

Demon I drew from imagination, can I call myself intermediate at this point?
I know it's still lot to learn, my biggest issue here is her left leg. I don, t know how to lower part of leg in that position.

>>4390599
There is no right studying method except draw a lot and figure things out.
Ask any artist how they got good and they'll never mention a book or a study method. They might mention a good teacher they had. Mainly they'll just say that they drew a shit ton.

>>4390604
You stop being a /beg/ when you create more than you learn.
It sounds like you acknowledge thay you still have a lot to learn.

>>4390598
>Are you looking to draw as form self therapy or as a legitimate skill?

yes as a legitimate skill. I want to make comics. my own OCs. I even want to go into animations but its hard when you have a mental block like I have now and filled with mental issues, lol. thats what suckes the most when you know you can do it but your mental state is keeping you from doing it. I mostly make a nice looking drawing maybe once a month or two but mostly i just draw for 10 min before I have to do something else. sorry for much text. just tried to explain myself fully

How are my proportions?

>>4390604
>I don, t know how to lower part of leg in that position.
Did you try make the pose yourself? Sometimes that helps.

>>4390613
I understand, if you really want to make drawing a legitimate markteatble skill then you must know that it will be a long and difficult road especially with all the other life problems you have mentioned. It will need as much work as any other legitimate skill like learning a new language or a new academic subject.

Just , as >>4390594 said you could to cultivate drawing as a new habit. Start small try to make something in 10 minutes and them get up take a break and them come back and do another one. If you stick to it soon you should start to feel that you do not want to stop after 10 minutes because you are not finished yet. The key is being consistent, doing this daily, thinking of it when you have downtime like doing some manual labor or any activity that leaves your mind to wander.

Also I know this will probably be the opposite thing you expected to hear but best thing I can suggest is that you also take care of your metal health and life because this practice is guaranteed tot make you stressed even more especially once you get into it deeper.

>>4390651
Addendum: I asked in >>4390598 about you using it for self therapy because supposedly some studies have shown just the simple act of scribbling random lines on a paper, even mindless scribbles, can have calming and focusing effect on the mind. Also other studies supposedly found that talking on the phone and scribbling random stuff aimlessly while doing so resulted in better recall of the phone conversation and. So it can serve as a form of self therapy and it supposedly have a positive effect on your if you in the long run.

>>4390588
drinking fucks with your brain, even when not drunk it's going to make you slower/lazy

>>4390616
everything is wrong

>>4390559
coomer adhd brain rewired by refreshing the catalog for years.

>>4390616
overall proportions look decent, but that head is fuckin massive.

>>4390883
Oh no no no

>>4390883

>>4390604
Blog?

>>4390883
Anime heads can be whatever size you want them

>>4390907
and the size i want is smaller.

Feedback/criticism is welcome

>>4390737
>>4390883

Thanks anon! I knew something was weird, now how I didn't saw it I don't know. Guess I will focus my practical study on proportions for now.

>>4390916
The way you said it, people might think that you are me lol

>>4390928

>>4390559
I draw for 2 hours minimum everyday plus I doodle at work all day. I've been at it since last April. I don't think I'm gonna burn out . My secret is, I have to alcohol, and weed, I have no friends and I threw my other hobbies in the dumpster. Good luck buddy.

>>4390928
nice ass!!

>>4390937
Gave up alcohol and weed*

>>4390937
Pyw

>>4390935
>jawline
He bought?

Otherwise nice, keep going anon.

>>4390937
>I don't think I'm gonna burn out
>quote from burned out man

really tho, that sounds a lot like stories of people that burned out.

>>4390946
Not him but, I also average around 2 hours a day and my work is still shit. 2 hours a day is not a huge amount of time.

>>4391017
doesn't every story sound like of people that burned out?

>just feel the forms
I can't feel the forms, my eyes turn light into a 2d image for my brain.

>>4391047
How do you interpret "feel the form"? What do you think that it means?

>>4391063
Seeing in 3D

I also posted this in /pi/, I drew this masked demon lady

>>4390559
gotta build up to it. I draw a least 1.5-2 hrs every day now. hard to believe it myself.

>>4390599
do NOT get a repetitive strain injury. spend some of your neet time expanding visual library outside, maybe get into photography as it will benefit your art , there's only so much you can learn in drawing figures for one day and after a point there are diminishing returns

>>4391073

how do I learn to draw in pen so I can impress cute girls?

>>4390604
damn, this is good, mind if I ask you what learning material you used for drawing?

>>4390904
seconding

>>4389458

>>4391117
been looking at figure drawing book, last picture >>4391117 was from this evening, would appreciate criticism of bottom right anatomy study and then memory drawing.
Pic related was from this morning - memory drawings

>>4389458
>>4391120
wrong way round

>>4390904
>>4391114
You guys are serious? Well I'm on drawbox curse now.
For figures I was reading Loomis book and lot of tutorials from YouTube like reiq.
I deleted my blog cuz all of my art was terrible.

>>4390935
>white women
gross

>>4390604
i like her design a lot! i hope you don't mind but i doodled a quick fanart of her

>>4391131
It's cute, drawabox is good too, don't sweat it so hard anon. You need to believe in yourself more.

>>4391141
This is great anon, I'm glad that you like my design.

>>4391109
Thank you, looks better with those colours and shadows

trying to feel the form better

>>4391065
I always took it literally, like if put a line in a sphere you can feel the contour, so you do the same thing on the paper, but with one axis less. Isn't it what everyone means?

>>4391204
The truth is that there's multiple meanings because you have to be a certain skill level to actually feel it like you mention. Some people actually think you need to see it in 3D.

>>4391124
>>4391120
I finished my first sketchbook! now when I die, the police will find out how much of a degenerate I was

>>4390447
Spooky cyberpunk city rough draft

>>4391196
honest critique, just draw horror

>>4391222
composition is boring.
use a cropped curvilinear perspective if you want a sense of scale, imo at least move the horizon away from the middle of the page like that

>>4391222
I'm almost 100% positive your scale is messed up, but you're a beginner, so it's okay.

>>4391211
Keep it safe, after few years you gonna look at it with tears in the eyes.

>>4391246
>after few years you gonna look at it with tears in the eyes.
why's this brother?

>>4390041
To the anon from the previous thread, I've attempted to use some filters to make the the character stand out more, but if that doesn't work out then I'll mess with the levels a bit in photoshop. I also redid the sword so it looks less cartoony and looks more like a broken rusty sword.

>>4391262
gesture is stiff as fuck. (inb4 skeleton)
can't see properly due to color filter , but add some saturated reds to make the character stand out, while lowering the background and shadow saturation. that's my guess for someone who never colors

drawing lumps makes me sad

>>4391252
I got my first sketchbook from 2014 and when I see my progress I feels so happy that in crying uwu

>>4391276
post some pictures so we can see!!

first year in university, studying art, tone excercise black to almost white, go at i.

>>4391284
You should ask your superior or the guy sitting next to you.

>>4391284
holy shit, how useless

>>4391284
my god...

doing retarded shit like this is like learning the alphabet one letter a week.
go into some more advanced stuff - value keys, temperature, anything, do it in your freetime and surprise your fellow students with some actual skill

>>4391303
I like this, have a twitter or tumblr?

>>4391303
>saying this when he didn't even do it right
>tfw the artwork you post even shows you suck at values too and would more than anything need to practice such a chart

>>4391305
>talking shit without posting work

your argument is null and void

>>4391196
is this the right direction?

>>4391279
This is embarrassing

Hope you're drawing

>>4391310
TERRIFYING

vampire dude

>>4391279
>>4391312
Funny part is that i thought that i wasn't bad back then.

I finished the pencils on a full 9x12, I posted the thumbnails in an earlier thread, but it got no attention. Should I keep working on this and fixing polishing the turds, move on to inks, or just completely start over?

>>4390447
So I have this idea but I'm having a bitch of a time putting it down on paper. So I want to make this demon character. And he has all these swirls on is face. Sort of like nightcrawler from xmen except its not scars, its actually holes. idk if you've seen those "trypophobia" tattoos, but basically that. i cant really figure out how to draw that. there are a lot of islamic designs that are basically the right shapes but i cant really figure out how to make the skin look the way i want it to. ill reply to this comment with a ref

>>4391367

>>4391367
ref 2

>>4391211

I'm going to sleep

So I'm having some issues with my shading armor. The Style on the right seems far too overdone and looks like shit, but the style on the left seems very bland and lacking. I don't know how to shade armor for a cartoon, and make it have depth.

Help me out /BEG/

>>4391385
cool. nice pelvis. got an ig?

Is instagram better than twitter for posting Art n stuff?

>>4391393
Not sure,I like the bottom right.

>>4391393
you have to do studies of metal objects bruh. your hatching makes the texture of the armor look like fat man body hair.

>>4391393
Your hatching direction is what's throwing this off. Pay attention to the way the lines bend on your rightmost drawings. They're concave where they should be convex and just end up looking like scribbles. You need to follow the form of the helmet correctly. Pay attention to how the hatching direction changes the form in pic provided.

>>4391393
soul
>>4391409
soulless

>>4391410
retarded

>>4391405
>>4391409
I see. Does hatching on metal translate well into a more cartoony style, or would it be better to stick with the more basic style. I want to be able to crosshatch realistic metal, but I don't know if it would work for a cartoon. I thought maybe thicker lines might help.

>>4391410
brainless

>>4391389
>>4391310
>is this the right direction?
if are you going for a uncanny look, yes

What did I do wrong? It looks way better on paper. Perhaps it's the angle, IRL you don't look at it from the very front

>>4391415
it can but i dont think you know what youre doing. your hatching looks random.

>>4391409
>>4391415
Just a quick sketch, but is this the right direction?

>>4391310
yes

>>4391439
here m8 perfect example for you

>>4391447
Saved

>>4391385
guys you've gotta try this, I was going to just draw my desk before going to bed, but if you just look around and draw it will all fit together . I never thought drawing from life could be this fun. Almost was tempted to spin around , flip the paper and do a full 360 drawing
>>4391395
No

>>4391449
also now I suddenly have a qt scubadiving gf ! out of nowhere!

>>4391330
Your faces are terrible, you have to fix those before anything else. For example in your eyes, you don't have any specular highlights (the white dots in people's eyes). Little details like that are really important on faces. Look up how artists you admire do faces and do what they do.

>>4391447
So if I wanted to take this, and simplify it, how would I go about that?

i've been drawing for over 5 years and i still dont feel comfortable drawing skulls

>>4391477
Are those from imagination or ref?

>>4391486
the two bigger detailed ones are from memory/construction and the other ones i held my model skull in my hand and tried to draw it (i dont have any desk space)

>>4391453
Study face details more, specifically remember eye highlights. Got it.
I'll do the pencil stage over again after several days of study.
Thank you for your critique!

>>4391459
i cant do it for you

>>4390447
posting here cause draw threads have been dead and desu i'm a beg faggot at this, crit rendering pls (and lineart/construction if you want although i'm more confident about those)

>>4390883
>SIEG

>>4391449
fell into a trance and started drawing just by observation

>>4391262
i'm the anon from last thread; silhouette is better, much more readable, good work on that (idk whats going on below the waist though- does he have legs?). pose is a little stiff like the other anon said, i think its because of two things mainly, the angle between the torso and hips is a little steep, and it feels like we're looking at the torso from two perspectives at once (see pic rel.). remember skeletons dont have muscles so no traps, so top of torso is much flatter than normal, much more box-like. also elbow looks a little small to me see pic rel. again

didn't feel like doing an anatomy study. here's random bullshit.

kitten

>>4391561
Beautiful

>>4391405
>>4391409
I tried to apply the hatching tips. This is part of an incomplete comic. I wanted to get the shading right here and also work on putting my characters in a setting with perspective. How does it compare to >>4391393

"Progress"

>>4391677
Good job

>>4391670
a scribbly texture was fine for the chainmail parts.

>>4391389
this is both horrific and yet so appropriate Asuka Anon, well done.

I tried doing a potrait

>>4391819
vinny is that you?

do I copy loomis or do I just use the shapes he demonstrates into my drawing habits and routine while also using other sources

>>4391310
>>4391389
>>4391196
Seriously, dump anime bitches in the can and start drawing horror instead. You're much better at that.

Will I make it?

>>4391857
yes, but your boomalope won't.

>>4391858
>yes, but your boomalope won't.
dont worry I will send it into the maze/oven when people start attacking the colony. Its death will not be in vain.

>>4391855
The second if you are just starting, fellow Hanakobro. Which book are you reading?
>>4391851
Who?

>>4391864
>Who?
this guy

>>4391880
>Who?
this guy

>>4391880
>The second if you are just starting,
I'm confused, just copy? im reading fun with a pencil and figure drawing for what it's worth

>>4391892
read the actual text in fwap, there isn't much of it.

>>4391892
You are supposed to learn basic construction from fwap if i remember correctly.
>>4391886
Nah, it was a guy that asked me to draw him when he saw me doodle.

>>4391856
He already stated that he doesn't like drawing anime

what is the best lens to learn to draw in?
eg. pic related is in a telephoto lens by the foreshortening pattern

how do i place lines around a sphere correctly? i feel completely brain damaged when i try to do this, like it's physically impossible no matter how much i grind at it or what observations i make

>>4391969
Nikkor 50 mm f1.2

>>4391991
The precise way of doing it: construct a perfect cube around your sphere (by using a horizon line and vanishing points), pick a point on your sphere where you want your arc to intersect, find the matching point on the opposite side of the sphere, construct a perfect square that intersects those two points, draw the unique ellipse that fits inside that perfect square. Vandruff shows an example of this in his perspective videos.
The way everyone actually does it: just practice a lot and eyeball it. Make sure your lines aren't totally flat anywhere, that's the number one mistake people make.

>>4391502
small head, if it wasn't intentional.

>>4391561
comfy

>>4391991
if you're looking at a physical ball with lines on it and still can't wrap your head around it. try paying more attention to the shape of the 4 wedges instead of treating it as two arcs.
you can also break the arcs up into chunks/dashes and see how much it's curving in each section, instead of trying to fully comprehend the whole thing in one go.

I have two internal monologues one that says "just finalize rendering and be done with it. you've already over-worked it" and another that says "you have to push it further to get it past being mediocre. If you put this in your portfolio, you'll be laughed at" So I'm caught in this back and forth. I need some help

And I know I've been told not to post here before, But /draw/ is down. I'm far from the best posting here anyway since Shame posts here

any and all c&c is appreciated

>>4391449

>>4392049
>Shame
?

>>4392049
Really cool, I'd push the values on the head a little more though.

>>4391561
Post blog, be a girl and marry me

how do I become The Best at line drawings?

the ribcage is much more complex than many books lead you to believe
notice how there is a flat plane at the front
it's more like a rounded box than an egg
I think it is really important to learn this

>>4392058
where's the penor?

>>4392054
dunked on him so hard he had to delete. calm the fuck down anon.

how does one foreshorten?

>>4392066
Draw the endpoints first. Draw the closer end (e.g. the hand) at whatever size and position you feel it should be, then draw the other end (e.g. the elbow or shoulder) again by just feeling it out, then connect them.
If you know how to draw a box in perspective and also divide it equally in perspective to give you guidelines, that can also help.

>>4392066
>>4392068
It looks like you tried to foreshorten her left arm there, the one holding the cigarette. This should be a pretty easy pose to do yourself, so do that pose with one arm, take a pic with your other arm, and then study the pic to see where you went wrong.
A couple immediate observations: her left hand is supposed to be closer to us than her right, but you drew them as basically the same size. Her left hand should look at least a little bigger than her right in this scenario. You also didn't overlap your forms at all (upper arm, lower arm, hand), you just laid them out side by side. Typically in foreshortening, the closer forms will overlap and partially hide the more distant forms, almost making it looks as if the arm "grows right out of" the hand.

>>4392066
hey fellow coomer, dont forget we should probably be able to see her ass cheeks in the thigh gap

>>4392066
work out the angle of the axis in relation to the camera, decide on the lens you are using, plot the vanishing point based on that angle to the centre of the lens, draw perspective lines . plot an ellipse normal to the rotation of the joint , the ellipse should meet the shoulder. the ellipse and the axis meet at where the hand should be, draw and repeat for each object you want to foreshorten

I'm ready to give up and an hero. I just want to draw from imagination god I hate myself so much

>>4392144
Then just do it Anon. You have to be bad and make mistakes at first. There's no way around it. Just work through it.

what do you think about my comic stuff?

>>4392146
everything I learn I just forget
there's no time

Any feedback on these first four pages?

>>4391851
SPEEEEEEEEN

>>4392153
trippy, I like it. blog?

>>4392153
Looks neat as fuck monkeybro

>>4392182
>there is no time
Are you terminally ill?

>>4392219
just got insta currently
@vabajaba

also tried doing more panely pages

>>4391449
>>4392050

>>4392258
Make your gifs 95% smaller. There's no need for 3000x2500px gif.

what do I tell a guy who posts this and asks for critique? He's been drawing for years and makes no progress, claims to have read loomis and done drawabox and numerous other things. I don't understand how he's been stagnant at this stage (whatever this stage is) for so long

>>4392269
fuck, forgot pic

>>4392265
who cares?

>>4392269
>claims to have read Loomis and done drawabox
>how can he be so stagnant
I think I found the problem.

>>4392011
was intentional, shes a tall chubby mommy gf

>>4392273
>>4392269
I would tell him to draw a human figure using loomis then I would criticize that.

funny or no?

>>4392275
looking at the corner of a gif isn't as interesting as seeing the whole thing

>>4392364
a mistake, stop phoneposting

>>4392372
toasterposting

>>4392258
pic related
>>4392376
I like riding on the train, it's the best part of the day

Is it possible to learn how to draw well without books? I met a couple of artists are self-taught as in they just learned from drawing from life without the aid of books at all.

>>4392384
>I met some artists who learned how to draw well without books
>Is it possible to learn how to draw well without books?

>>4392384
I feel like people who ask things like this have been mislead in their life. Imagine going through education and never being taught to learn what's possible and what isn't. I'm sorry.

>>4392384
>refusing to believe the TRUTH of Just Draw even when confronted with its very Existence

>>4392389
>>4392392
>>4392395
Well, I feel like a retard. I mean as in is there a difference of people just drawing as is and people learning from books? Since I see people going "here, have books go learn from them" and the other half going "just draw, disregard books"

Some of the longer poses from todays figure drawing

>>4392384

what are books?
just some guy's explanation of reality
anatomy books for example?
you can figure all that stuff for yourself by looking at dead corpses, photos, 3d models, medical scans, etc
but will you do it?
that one guy condensed all of his knowledge into the book so you don't have to

>>4392406
How much erasing do you do on a typical session?

>>4392399
"just draw" doesn't mean disregard books.

>>4392273
>>4392269
I have no advice but dude, rfck, sick.

>>4392408
A bit, but i try to minimize it

>>4392410
Well, that solves it. I'll just keep using books. Sorry that I derailed the thread for a bit.

>>4392333
no

>>4392406
what books are you usiing?

>>4392384
>>4392407
this anon get

>>4392467
I read the Loomis figure drawing one.

>>4392407
that is true, you'd be a fool not to leverage the work that other people have already done. it is also good to read multiple books on the same subject to get multiple perspectives

>>4392382
>>4392258
was this worth doing for me? I want to illustrate not animate,this is exercise in gesture i guess

okay guys
what about this

I dont know if chibis are worth posting but some concrit would be nice

>>4392566
PLEASE change your style of faces.
btw the neck is fucked - the torso, lower body and head all have no unity - perspective and gesture is something you need to practice

>>4392566
I don't like your style, neither authentic anime nor decent semi realism something confused in between.

>>4392566

Mate, I don't know why this weird face style of yours is the hill you want to die on. I don't even mind what else you've drawn, but jesus, those faces.

>>4392566
Looks like a male skull

>>4391670
I think it's better Anon. Experiment.

>>4392566
do you flip the canvas while drawing? it's important! what I said here >>4392583 , gesture is the most important. in this pose she would fall over as the upperbody is horizontal while the pelvis is tilted. you can see all of this in the gesture phase

>>4392575
>>4392575
there's some crazy things going on with the collarbone being stretched out.
chest and right shoulder meet up fine, then the neck meets up with the left side of the chest, and the left shoulder hangs all the way off like a typewriter.

>>4392269
>>4392273
it's flat, disproportionate and lacks detailing. tell him to study human anatomy and learn how to construct figures out of basic 3d shapes (as well as sharpen his pencil). do practices of muscle anatomy or even stick men doing random poses, he can improve (a lot if he really is willing to) if he takes himself out of the comfort zone. also, before drawing peculiar looking characters, imagine their appearance (or sketch it in another paper) before doing it right out of the bat. always do a base sketch before making the character what it, well, actually is.
i hope he takes those words to heart and motivates himself to improve his drafts.

Anyone here? I need help.

I want to destroy one of my paintings bad.

Should I still save it? My options are 1) paint over 2) A cigarette lighter and I don't smoke

>>4392642
Post it.
Or try talking to an actual therapist. That sounds more like a personal problem than a technical issue with the artwork, and you might get more useful advice that way.

>>4392642

I realized the tree on the left is a black girl and I tried to do pencil on acryclic but it just wears out the pencils. Also I tried to pour and paint pipe unclogger (base NaOH) on it to blur away the whole painting but it just went gray for a while and went back EXACTLY back into what it was

I tell you it was trippy but this painting must go.. or has it earned its survival? I don't know..

>>4392646

Yeah I'm in a "professional relationsship" with a shrink already.

>>4392649
looks like every single gurney painting in the intial stages. stop being a bitch.

>>4392649

Oh wait this one doesn't have the pencil work.. standby

>>4392649
See a therapist and paint over it.

>>4392652

Wow that is.. wow do you really think that way?

>>4392664
that shouldn't be construed as high praise

>>4392661
>>4392652

Thank you. Next week I'll see her I promise

>>4392670

Why not I absolutely love that work in progress as much as I (just googled now) love the finished dinotopias.. wow. That blob is eye pleasing as fuck I love it.. i love it..

>>4392670

I understand what you mean. But I still think wow. I can work onwards from here and learn the small details if I got the big lines.. wow.

>>4392649
cringe reddit

>>4392686

I'm not sure man.. this isn't right to just dismiss is as so.. this is beggar thread man.. oh fuck.

So you vote for torch it?

>>4392689

Ok ill torch it

It's burnign I opneded window and took off fire alarm

>>4392695

It doesnt BURN it doesnt fucking light on FIRE what the actual FUCK

>>4392703
nobody cares you fucking embarrassing zoomer

How do I learn how to do shading/hatching with a pencil? I started with studies and realized I have no idea what I'm doing when I tried anything beyond the linework, technique-wise.

>>4392708

I think at the least you might use this in formation: base does nothing to acrylic and acrylic laced with base does not light on fire

Latest of my painting I hate the most.. is it you

>>4392617
I never would have noticed. Thank you!

>>4392714
Be careful with the fire. Don't kys.

>>4392649
>I realized the tree on the left is a black girl
what

>>4390946
>pyw
Ig @nuruigumi

Why do people ask you to pay your work when you say anything. Here I said I draw at least 2 hours a day. Here's my drawings that I post pretty much every day. Are you gonna make some kind of point? Are my drawings relevant to the conversation? Is my opinion invalid if I am not as talented as Ruan Jia even though obviously you already know that since we're posting about this on beg...

>>4392710
ch 9-11 in how to draw what you see by rudy de reyna was what made it first click for me, he gives a nice straightforward method.
ching's design drawing covers it more broadly.

>>4392724

Done

This painting is best served cold, while listening to Wumpscutt - Is it you

>>4392728

The shape on the left what I originally painted as a christmas tree spruce I realized is actually a girl painted in black going towards something... in her life?

Don't worry if you are lost with my art.. lol

Green will have a say

Good night

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>>4392807
Why does this hobby attract so many schizos

>>4392710

the only thing worth studying is the body

>>4392710
Well there's two aspects to "shading" with a pencil, there's having the actual technique necessary to put down the exact tone you want where you want it, and then there's making good decisions about what tones to put where.
For the technique part, I've found that the best thing to do is to use the tip and go very slowly and deliberately. Some people have success with other methods, some people like using the side, some people like to smudge or even use graphite powder, but the tip is what helps me get the smoothest most even tones with the most control. Always start with light tones and layer more light tones on top of each other to work up to darker ones. Practice filling squares with the most even layer of light tone that you can using the tip of the pencil, trying to hide the paper grain completely. This is the building block that will allow you to put down arbitrary smooth tones.

>>4392815

Because it is a good way to let off steam..soul.. soulsteam?

>>4391561

good enough to sell as prints. I hope you're making money off this on socials.

>>4392381

okay okay what about this
I tried to utilize boxes better

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>>4391274
Alright I found some colors in the background that will help me separate the silhouette so for now refraining from using the filters. I didn't plan from the waist below (in hindsight I should have). I gave the pose more bend and twerk so it looks a little less stiff. Also thanks for pointing out my misstep in perspective there. If there's anything else I should polish let me know.

>>4392857
I think you shoud just take a nice week long break.

>>4392861
why
what the fuck
I draw every day
just tell me what is wrong and I will fix it in next drawings

Does this look like she's sitting on the ground?

>>4392710
tits too smol

>>4392857
>what about this
That's not how it works buddy. You will be bad for thousands of drawings. There's no way around it.

>>4392873
I learn nothing by just drawing unfortunately

>>4392863
You're literally doing the same thing over and over and each drawing somehow looks worse than the last.
That's a clear sign that you're burning yourself out.
Just take a break, trust me.
You'll see some amazing gains once you're refreshed.

>>4392857
don't know what these cunts are on about, it's fine for a construction study apart from the hips/lower body being to high

>>4392865
left leg doesn't convince me she's sitting.

I'm trying to learn how to draw characters in a 3d space and not just standing in the same pose

>>4392865
I think that if she was siting on the ground her left foot would be bellow the ground.

>>4392903
muscle mommy

>>4392566
Spooky as always horror-kun

>>4391819

Excellent

>>4392903
You're off to a really good start!

>>4391670
So here is the "Complete" comic sized down a bit to upload. What do you anons think?

>>4392998
this is actually funny

>>4392998
Didn't notice those blank spots. Gotta go back and fix that shit.

>>4392998
cute AND funny

>>4392998
actually gonna make it.

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>>4393030
I feel like this is the same dude

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>>4393048

testing

>>4391426
t-testing

I'm trying to draw hand from the front as if having a martial art pose but it's fucking difficult
Is the hand on the right even close? I can't find references for this shit and have to draw everything from the head

>>4392903
H-how do I draw muscles like this? Please, give me your tips.

>>4393095
how about google "muscles" and start drawing from reference
you learn by fucking doing the very thing you want to learn, you can even trace other people's works, take multiple artists images, draw them with your own eye, it will later translate into your drawing through imagination and you don't need reference crutches anymore, don't just pick one or two guys that you copy, take hundreds if not thousands, your own preferred style will stick from the mish mash of tons of different art styles and thus become unique

Draw with thought, don't draw with your brain turned off, just "doodling" gets you nowhere, think of the reasons you draw each line with and why they belong into the image and you will also memorize them better when later trying to draw
if you just draw for the sake of it and multitask something else at the same time, you'll forget nearly everything you could've learnt from the drawing process

>>4392857

study cute girls or artist that draws cute girls. go spend a couple hours browsing artstation, pinterest or deviantart.

>>4392998
I find that you're comics use somewhat minimal dialogue something you don't see a lot from the west nowadays. Got a chuckle from me.

How to correctly place vp for 3point perpective that is perpendicular to the surface?

>>4393208
This aint no math nigguh, just draw lmao
you don't need those boxes to get good

>>4393210
I want to draw mecha, vechicles and hook up on some industrial design studio so i guess i need it.

holy shit why didnt any tell me to be accurate with durning sketching it makes it look a thousand times better than just trying to shotgun out lines and hope one of them is correct

>>439320
if you want it properly perpendicular, the distance between vp1 and vp2 divided by 2 and a line that goes straight up. pretty simple. that is if it's perpendicular to the horizon line.

>>4393212
a noble pursuit. godspeed anon

>>4393212
you really don't
I have a friend who draws mean mechas and it's all from imagination, he rarely uses reference unless it's for a specific existing thing, he took 1 year to himself to learn how to paint digitally, before that he had no prior experience to drawing except for random doodling at school, he drew as much as he could, watched tutorial videos of lineart, proper shading, values etc. he studied the drawings, not just draw mindlessly and thus became an absolute beast at it
you gimp yourself and your learning by striving for perfect perspective and angles, you should be drawing nonstop, instead of wasting time on building wireframes
when it comes to drawing, it's quantity over quality for you to learn to draw properly

>>4393228
yeah, but how far i put it above cov cuz puted diractly looks off to me.

>>4393233
Im not gonna spend too much time on this, just get fair understand of rules before braking them.

>>4393233
On the otherhand i enjoy that alot

>>4392903
Blog? That looks amazing. I want to be that floor.

>>4393211
Your face really stands out, study forms and placing.

Trying to work on my brush/ edge-control and values.

>>4392857
>tfw have a piece of knowledge which 99.9% of artists don't know ,that would allow asukafag to draw perfectly in any perspective

>>4393393
seeeeems nice post ref pls!

been trying to improve my gesture drawings by grinding it out but don't feel like I'm learning anything. Is there something I'm missing or should I just keep going through the hampton's figure drawing book im on?

>>4390984
Really good

NEW THREAD has been made

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>>4392998
Love it, do you have social media or a website?

>>4390447
Absolute beginner here.
Tried to make a fantasy kattel bell helmet but I don't know how to shade metal.
Can you Please help me guys

>>4392903
right arm is too short

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>>4393058
it is working!

>>4392857
looks alright to me

>>4393544
I just post on twitter. Handle is on the comic, Emps_rex

>>4393698
Followed :)

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>>4392382
did some studies from life. paying special attention to angles and it turned out just like 5 point perspective which I think is really cool .

>>4394000
didn't use construction or guidelines in any of these - I want to draw from imagination, was this exercise worth doing?>

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>>4394000
please give feedback on whether this was worth doing
was fun for a while

>>4394009
its actually eye pleasing not bad.

Critique? Thanks :)