/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Started the hair and hoodie today, next week will probably finish this

>>4437908
did a small oil sketch outside

>>4438032
A bit confusing, that brushwork is a bit chaotic to be aesthetically pleasing...

>>4437943
This is a really awkward painting.

>>4438981
How so?

Made a tiny 6x8 cm oil study to work out the colours for a 60x80cm canvas version of this Hopper.
I have a canvas with a slightly damaged edge that I had a free replacement for, so I'm going to paint it for myself.

>>4438032
As a thumbnail (before clicking on it’ the light, values and color read pretty nicely.

>>4438981
That is shit feedback.
Say why or fuck off.

>>4438887
Nice.

>>4440159
>>4438981
this
i personally like it

Posting this again in case it gets more replies. Plein air from a couple years ago, but planning to go back out when the weather picks up and I have some free time to do more, so any feedback would be useful.

>>4440187
It makes a great thumbnail, but its pretty unrelentingly 'green'. You need a pop pf red in there like Constable, to give the eye a rest and set the green off against something.

>>4440187
Although I agree with>>4440313
I like how there is a bit of greenish hue to the sky, may be doing that to grass would help? I like how the dark green parts of the grass seem that they are see-through

>>4440109
Seems so light and flowy, like it

Trippy mutt with acrylic

>>4440382
A bit muddy, but i like the blue and green touches in the background, the pink really stands out!

graphite 18"x12", commissioned by a friend

>>4440464
Hmmm trying to understand this, there are parts that remind of of attack on titan

>>4440636
You must be 18 to post

>>4440313
I will try a sienna ground next time, see if that helps.
This is another one from around the same time, slightly less successful because I get overwhelmed by leaves. Lose control of the overall mass.

>>4440464
those shapes reminds me of Beksiński, impressive anon.

Are vegetable solvents a good substitute of turpentine?

>>4441025
this one super cool

>>4441828
Depends what you're doing with it - even the cheapest white spirit will thin oil paint well enough and allow you to apply thin, runny layers, but nothing works quite like pine turpentine. The only way you will know if it's a good substitue for your way of handling paint is by giving it a go.

>>4441862
Thanks

On going, did the hair and background
Also put a bit more saturation on his skin color

>>4440163
Thanks anon, appreciated

>>4440176
Thanks anon!!

>>4441868
Although just to clarify, what solvent in particular were you thinking of? Can you give a link to it?

>>4441883
Tintorsetto, link is in Italian, I tried to find some data sheet but nothing
https://www.bellearti.it/set-di-pennelli-e-accessori/5210-Tintoretto-Tintorsetto.html
I'll just buy turpentine

>>4441893
Shame you couldn't find an MSDS; marketing of "non-harmful" is worthless without it. Zest-It, Gamsol, and other thinners are all marketed as "safe" or "non-harmful", but they'll still kill you if you drink them, and you can't just pour them down the drain. Try this Tintoretto stuff if you want, but it seems prohibitively expensive to me. If what you want is a *safer* and *less smelly" alternative to turpentine then Gamsol is probably your best bet, although bear in mind it is still lethal and it still has a smell. If you absolutely insist on painting with oil paint in a 100% non-toxic way, you will probably have to look into water-miscible oil paints.

This is a pretty old work i found while searching for something in my bed room, although the complete work is shit I still really love the skull and its collours

I found this in my room, its a really old work but I still like the skull, the rest of the painting is a bit shitty

>>4442320
Sorry guys my phone said the first one wasnt posted

>>4440636
it's not really depicting anything specific

>>4441099
thanks anon

>>4442320
just fix the colors

>>4442380
I wont fix anything, this is a completed piece from 2015, also out of everything what I really like is the skull colours and green flames eheh

Drawing I did with a refference in ball point pen.

60x80cm acryl

>>4442776
Icant understand if the whites are paint or texture reflecting light, I kind of dig the feel, but you should maybe use a smaller brush for the body. Also IMO I think the subjrct blends to much with the backgroung...

>>4440313
To provide another perspective, I actually like how green and overbearing >>4440187 is. The painting you posted is more harmonious and balanced, which is sometimes good, but in this case I just find it less interesting.

>>4443302
Well I guess it depends what you want from your picture. Green is a difficult to sell as a main colour in a painting, and most landscape painters get around it in order to sell their works.
If anon is painting to capture exactly what they see, then that's up to them, but shouldn't we all instil design even during plein air work?

>>4445289
Work on your values, you can have that sketchy look, but you should also know how to properly shade a drawing with graphite, try to work with lighter strokes and a livhter hand, and just have the darks in some parts, also an eraser is a great tool to make lights and a white pen for highlights, hope to see more of your work anon

trad = gud

getting back into painting a bit

>>4446109
I thought you'd put this lettuce thing to bed already.

>>4446109
So sick and fucking tired of seeing this shit, move the fuck on Brian.

>>4446567
see
>>4446564
a drawing I literally posted right above you

Just finished this today

I've got 18 to go, but I'm really happy with how this is shaping up.

>>4446815
this is nice, you could probably sell it really easy, get it printed on tea towels

i'm planning to try out traditional painting media for the first time. should i choose acrylic or watercolor? acrylic looks more forgiving, but i like the expression of watercolor

>>4446903
It really depends on your end goal, and style.

Acrylics are more forginving, but can be expensive to buy all the colors you need plus mediums and brushes

You can buy a good cheap watercolour pack for 18€ so thats a good option

Another option is for you to buy a guache set, with that youll learn how to lroperly mix colors and can have either a watercolor feel or an acrylics, depending on how much water you add

>>4447030
thanks for the tips, i didn't even think of gouache

>>4447134
Yeah no problem, I really like experinenting with a ton of mediums, so I can help you woth other quetions if you want

>>4446744
startship troopers fanart?

>>4446564
colored this pencil portrait digitally

>>4447294
pls no

First attempt at watercolor. Any advice?

>>4447939
Try to learn basic watercolor techniques, also a good paper is needed, anything below 249g is really not good, try to use your watercolors more freely and try to blend them a bit

As for the subject of the painting, I really dont have anything to say

>>4446819
Thanks for the tip, wouldn't have thought about printing it, but I love the idea of towels.

>>4446815
Do the schnozberries taste like schnozberries?

does it count?

drew a lady

>>4449480
Very pretty!
Care to tell your process? I'd love to learn to paint like that but I have no idea where to start.

>>4449495
i only painted birds so far, i would suggest you trying to copy easier paintings like this,'till you are comfortable with watercolor (or other type of paint).

did a drawing of a girl I know

>>4449795
did some light editing to it

>>4449984
did some editing to this one too

Acrylics

Not done. Want to add saturation to the white side of the painting. And maybe use the yellow as an under painting to a better color. Any ideas tips?

Want to add saturation to the white portion of the page, and maybe use the yellow as an underpainting for a different color. Advice tips?

just started painting. small acrylic on canvas. thoughts and suggestions welcome

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>>4450896
very trippy, i like it. your second image is very blurry though

Should I do this one with Impressionism staccato strokes?

>>4451386
Like this kinda strokez maybe?

>>4451390
Gross

>>4446576
A bad one. I know you only ever see their faces but study the rest of the anatomy.

>>4441869
This is nice. Good work so far. Got a strong atmosphere

>>4450893

>Just started painting

????

>>4441869
Thanks anon, heres how its progressing

quickie on a coin, I have no black paint.

here's three things I painted

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>>4452177
Why bother?

>>4452637
posting or painting?

>>4452176
Only this out of the other two, is the better one.
I think this type of brushwork only really works on foliage and the like, using it for sand and giving texture to the rock doesnt really work, makes it look rather unpleasing man.

I think using a darker background and then this technique with brighter colours is the way to make it standout,

I'm stuck home with a fineline pen 0.4

I wish I had a 0.2 or a 0.3

“Bird”
I’m a complete beginner to painting by I’ve really enjoyed it so far.

>>4451386
But then again, no.

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>>4453030
I should have used a sea green background d'oh

>>4452960
why is Mr Hansen so handsome?

>>4452846
If you wish for smaller size tips, and you cant buy them, just start drawing in a larger scale man

>>4452946
Try to tone the canvas before painting, also, use the white to really make a good straight hard edge

>>4453165
this one is supposed to be a lionfish

>>4452645
Both.

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>>4454546
Was trying to imitate this

Finger painting is the final redpill

>>4454546

Sketch of a fish from my tank
Might do a full oil painting of her.

>>4452637

stupid response, fuck off

What’s a good gouache for beginners? I see a lot of people reccing Arteza online but wanted to know what /ic/ thinks. First time using gouache but I’m intermediate in watercolor & acrylic.

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>>4451390
This is fucking terrible, but I love it.

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>>4455104
Windsor & Newton

Might have to turn up the screen brightness to see this one, thanks to my phones camera. Drapery wip

Underpainting start

General feedback appreciated, it is acrylic. and how much youd be willing to pay for this

>>4457015
composition needs some work. there's some weird tangents going on with the eyes. if you're going for an out line of a symmetrical shape like a key hole it needs to be almost perfect.

>>4457047
the weird tangent is the way the eye curves with the top of the keyhole right. I'll try a different version, different season, and make it cleaner

>>4444444

Just finished this. gouache btw

>>4442437
>a-am i kawaii uwu

did a landscape in charcoal

i think this would've turned out better if i didn't repeatedly violate the light to dark rule
t. digital artist trying watercolor for the first time in over a decade

Holy shit this is one fugly thread.

>>4458766
pyw

>>4456329
More paint

>>4446744
dog dick trees?

>>4446037
I rike it

Anyone got any resources or know artists who use coloring pencils in original/expressive way? Plenty of coloring pencil videos on youtube but most of them focus on photorealism or very close on it.
Doesn't need to be abstract modern art, just any style will do.

>>4446744
That's a cool trooper!

>>4457516
>im a gouache btw
post binder or gtfo

>>4446744
is he a giant among a tiny world? scale is off, also the legs are not done in proper foreshortening work on that stuff before you detail the shit out of it

>>4462287

ngmi

i'm extremely jealous of this button. how do tradfags flip their work?
just carefully analyze while holding it up to a mirror and then try to remember what you noticed while drawing in normal orientation?
learn to draw while looking at a small mirror or upside down?
just fucking git gud?

>>4462309
As Beksinski often did: looking through a camera at the work.

>>4461239
whats up with the glare, anyways looks nice but this one looks better>>4458784

>>4462309
Mirror
holding against a strong light
Scan/take a picture if you have to

>>4437908
i think the neck looks weird xP lol

i think the neck is far behind lol

20x16 I think, done with oil pastels. Everything left up to randomization. Whole piece is built on rules and made with dice rolls to determine color choice and length of time spent on that color (min 1, max 6min). Solid shapes are only somewhat random. Most freely composed part of project.

I know it’s not figure work but figured it was traditional enough.

>>4462606
>Whole piece is built on rules and made with dice rolls to determine color choice and length of time spent on that color

how do I get into traditional art? do I need expensive paper and pencils or can I just use shitty printer paper and a regular pencil?

bit of an unusual canvas

>>4463098
I’d say get some decent paper at least. Just go to a local art store and grab a cheap sketchbook. Don’t get anything too big or you might overwhelm yourself and feel like you can’t fill the whole page. I’d say start fill the book with figure drawings.

As for Mark-making materials, I’d say you could probably use whatever you want. If you want to start with graphite a normal 2B pencil isn’t that bad. If you got some ball point pens lying around those are fun to work with. Experiment with what you have. If you like it then move up and on to more materials.
But purchase a sketchbook. Million times better that just having printer paper.

Second oil painting I've done in my entire life. It's still measing the leaves and I'm scared as fuck, I'm afraid that If I fuck it up the entire painting will be ruined.

By the way, some weeks ago there was a thread with some books and resources, and there was a mega link with tons of books on drawing and stuff... Does anyone have it by any chance? I would like to start drawing too but don't know where to start.

>>4463689
Original photo I took for reference

Bird I did from ref a couple days ago

This is a sketch for an oil painting of Shiva from Final Fantasy

>>4463689
you're doing this back asswards

I feel like I’ve graduated from posting exclusively in /beg/

>>4464458
explain

>>4464504
This is highly /beg/, but nothing wrong with being /beg/ in /trad/.

>>4437908
I did this, a little rusty with inking, been a while since I used my pens. Did a digital touch-up and vectored the horse man to make him look like he doesn't belong.

>>4463689
Wait for this layer to dry, then add the leaves. If it looks bad you can remove the newest layer with some odorless mineral spirits, just as long as you haven’t allowed it to dry. As Brian said though, it would have been easier to block in the big leaf shapes first, then add the visible branches.

>>4458784
Bruh you need to gesso your canvas or something. That texture showing through looks like shit.

>>4464504
Your values need work

Some of the recent stuff

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>>4465390
Repost

>>4464048
Started the painting

>>4465332
Im painting over an acrylic pour, so the canvas by it self is already preped

How do I become a good sketcher?
I'm not really looking to MAKE IT, I just want to be able to take a pen and shape things up to look halfway nice.
I bought an 05 pen and a 6 inch sketchbook. I feel like everything is just draw hatchmarks until your hand falls off, and then you can art, without actually teaching how to draw?

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>>4465411
Do you have a blog? I love it

>>4465384
I really like this one.

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>>4465388
I really like this one

Shoupd I keep going with this style?
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>>4446564
Great technique but the face looks a bit droopy.
>>4465388
Nice

Same olive jar a couple years apart

>>4468438
Buy darren rousar's book on sight-size. follow it exactly for 3-5 drawings. Instead of a cast you can use matte spraypaint on a cheap lawn gnome. Take your time, get things exactly right. Sightsize is super restrictive, but doing 120-200 hours of it will jumpstart your ability for all other drawing.

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>>4465381
Prettay...prettay good

>>4464885
You're still /beg/. If you insist on painting you might as well post 'em here, trad threads seem to die easier than others.

>>4464504
I don't care either way but for their own good it's probably best to stick to /beg/ and really nail down fundamentals. Hell, stick to pencil+charcoal; guy really isn't there for paint yet, just wasting money and time until they get block-ins and value control/organization down.

Otherwise he might get delusional and end up with his head up his ass and become like illastrat.

>>4465388
maybe next time try your start using a bigger brush until you can't. Your brushwork is distractingly busy. I like where you're going with it.

>>4463689
weird approach but I'm here for it

>>4469185
Cheers man
https://www.instagram.com/enginart_/?hl=en

little quick watercolor

Wip I’m not motivated to finish

>>4470371
looks like Freud. What dimensions?

Study for a painting.

watercolor:
>expensive gum-arabic paints
>expensive sable-hair brushes
>expensive cotton paper

Time to accept my fate as poorfag and switch to acrylics?

>>4470621
gee sucks to either have the most expensive supplies or not have the will to try at all. is it hard to talk with that silver spoon in your mouth?

>>4470633
You think those are a luxury instead the standard to painting watercolor?

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>>4470621
lol dude. if you're just staring get a small set of student grade water colors or a prang pan. then get synthetic watercolor brushes and a pad of inexpensive watercolor paper. then you tape the shit out of the paper to keep it from buckling too badly.

>>4470682
Yeah I've done that.

Synthetic brushes don't hold water, horsehair and other cheaper natural brushes don't keep point. Cheap chalk pan colors only give faded colors. Worst is the paper. Even on 100% pulp paper you can do some layering, but wet on wet techniques are impossible. I've glued some pieces to firm surfaces but it's really hard to get it off afterwards and even then the paper still buckles.

It's just a really expensive medium inherently. I've done layering for some while but I'm really starting to question on what is the point of doing watercolor if you can't do wet-on-wet washes which is the most fun part of it?

>>4470727

then suck it up buttercup. use coupons. get a few tubes store brand artist grade to make your own palette. get a few brushes. get a block of watercolor paper or one big sheet and divide it up. the joy of watercolor is that it works beautifully when working small. rome wasn't built in a day

>>4470453
It’s an A1 canvas, 23.4x33.1 inches
It’s ambitious in size but I’m a poor fag and these boards wear a gift, I usually just paint on cardboard :^)

>>4469901
Looks pretty decent as stylized. Ask yourself, do you enjoy it? Work it out as much possible and post finished piece. Check out also J.C. Leyendecker

Wet on wet oil painting.

>>4471560
This one is from imagination since no water near me

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>>4471560

Genuinely nice. Really like the rock effects in particular. Gotta ask though; Bob Ross fan?

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>>4447939
I'm just getting into watercolor and I need something cheap to practice on. Is there any major downside to using cardboard? I realize it will deteriorate quickly but does it have some properties that fuck up the paint somehow? I really don't want to spend a dollar per sheet of paper just for practice

I posted this in another thread but no one replied. How do i go about properly studying bargue?

Thread I posted this in ended petty quickly. Guess I'll post it here.

>>4472021
Cardboard will suck all the water up and make it look a bit like shit
There are a lot of sketchbooks made just for watercolor use, basically any mixed media paper will do or better yet, 300g, I use this brand

Are there any recommended standard woks for water paint(beginner level)?

Currently working on this one.

>>4472007
Yes I’m a huge fan. I especially like his attitude towards painting. I’m fairly happy with how the skies and mountains/background turns out but I think the midground and foreground need work.

>>4472489
Shoulders too close together, his right pec way to big/jutting out.

>>4450582
i like this. try to do the same thing but in watercolor, i think it would really help the dreamlike state of the picture

>>4455052
cute
>>4453480
also cute

did this study, still trying to get values / portraits right. Hair is too high up imo but noticed it too late

>>4462504
hand too small, upper arm too straight, figure looks stiff (look up some gestures from steve huston for example), darks should be darker. overall I like it it just needsa few final touches

>>4472581
Your values are in better shape than your hues. Do you have a thing against actual color?

Try this: take your tube of black, and give it to someone with firm instructions not to give it back to you for a year. Now, try and mix color without it, and look for the actual hues in nature. Start looking for and painting cool and warm colors, to establish your values. Your painting, aside from the sky, is brown and black. It's unappealing, and not particularly pleasant to look at. The little color you've actually used is drowned in all of the black. You have no reflected blue in the distance, and no atmosphere.

>>4463252
comfy
>>4470361
go further with color, it looks a bit pale as is
>>4471143
this could be a great painting
>>4472097
try copying what you see, the plates that come after have shadows on them as well so it's easier to see what you should be aiming for

>>4437943
Oil painting? Is the background yellow ochre?

Cant decide if i should varnish this one yet. Think it might need some red but i don't know how to incorporate it.

Inkwork in progress atm.

>>4473146its oil paint yes, but the color isnt yellow ochre, its a mix between napoles yellow with a bit of orange and white.

See this >>4441869, the colors are better

I already finished it, just letting it dry and then varnish it. Ill take a better quality photo then!

>>4451627
Sorry man, I meant this one
>>4451627

>>4466176
I like this one

Trying to make look less like a mess and define shapes better and too lazy to draw hands and feet

>>4473160
I'd want to pick out just a little more detail on the lighter trees before calling it. A few more small spikes here and there to give a bit more defined form.
No idea about the red though.

>>4473170
Looking good there.

>>4472109
beautiful

>>4473160
evocative

>>4473170
cosy and conceptual

>>4473120
Thanks for the feedback. Some of the dark cast is just the poor light, some of it is my mood reflecting in the art. Everything I’ve worked on recently seems darker, less saturated, and isolated

>>4473753
>beautiful

Thank you!

Howdy, boys.

started gloomy river view with watercolors. Needs a lot of work.

>>4469901
I forgot to resize this. Sorry yall I'm an idiot

Coronavirus painting

>>4474868
Sorry no pic

>>4472940
Thanks for the crit, I've altered his pec, but I'm happy with his shoulders, as there is slight foreshortening in the perspective.

>>4474983
if you rotated him, he'd have really narrow shoulders especially for someone so buff. It plays okay though, anyone who isn't an autist like me probably won't spot it.

The pec looks much better.

>>4475344
Well it's too late to make anymore alterations, as I just finished inking it, time to sleep, and then grind out something else tomorrow.

Painted this old drawing trying to experiment more with colors
>>4451627
This is nice but you should try to make the guy pop out more, right now it kinda blends with the bg.

>>4438887
Really good, I love this.

>>4440464
I really like this one too.

>>4446109
nice shape and figures but the colors are too muddy.

>>4446564
like >>4469875 said try to improve more with your faces

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>>4449629
CUTE BIRDS, keep the good work!

>>4449984
You need to improve your anatomy, those boobs are not placed properly and should be flattened since she is laying down for example, not to mention her hips and legs.

>>4463689
I think it looks nice, but if you are aiming for realism work on your shapes.

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>>4465388
These are amazing, especially the second one.

What is a /trad/-approved pencil sharpener?

>>4479685
Walmart machete

Here's one from high school.

>>4438032
leaves a nice impression in the thumbnail anon

drew this the other day
pen and ink

>>4479685

This.

>>4479685
Opinel #4

>>4473170
Looks great It's really evocative of something, I like.! Do you work from references or is it all imagination? How long do you think the existing inkwork took? Also what kind of pen are you using?

Can I buy charcoal pencils at Walmart?

Thank you for the suggestions. I did this today, no black at all on the canvas. Used masking tape for the ocean horizon which I’ve never tried before. I think the pink in the clouds is a little messed up and the foreground I wish had darker contrast.

>>4486807

I think the foreground could almost use some brighter and more saturated colors, just enough to make it pop out more? I'm guessing the pink might look messed up because you have it in spots as opposed to a more uniform look across the clouds similar to pic related.

Regardless, I love it. The texture and colors in general are super relaxing.

>>4479685

Another random dice roll project, 16x24, oil pastels.

The black shapes on top are the only thing not random.

I just started painting. Be gentle

>>4487545

nice work, keep it up. watercolours can be a cruel beast

I drew this a few days ago. I’m not an artist but looking to improve during the lockdown. I’d appreciate any criticism or advice.

>>4487545
paint smaller, its better to get to know the overlap feeling and control overall atmosphere

>>4487686
nice, keep at it and study from real life