/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Charcoal doodles, working on building bodies from blocks. Also dunno how to give depth to things like vines.

>>4881336
some more skelly progress

Bridgman study, crits appreciated

>>4881625
Not bad, but I think that you would be better served by A. studies from life and B. learning in depth anatomy before going back and doing studies from Bridgman. I suspect you don't know what some of the structures you're drawing are, so they're coming out vague (where Bridgman is all about the sort of "carved from blocks of wood" specificity).

That said this is a great effort. My primary criticism of the piece itself is the somewhat sloppy rendering. Try to be as clean as you can, and be sure you're doing an accuract construction / lay in before you move onto the smaller anatomical forms.

>>4881652
>>4881625
Note: When I say life I mean people, photos are fine, but if there's a local figure class definitely go, it's fun and helpful.

>>4881652
>>4881653
Thank you so much! Yeah, I'm just making up the bulges in some areas, especially around the rib cage and thighs... I'll start doing photo studies then, and I'll work on my anatomy and cleanliness. Thank you for the pointers

just quick portrait sketches for today

>>4881693
Beautiful. Great job!

>>4881599
I love your concept annon.

>>4881599
pretty freakin dank
>>4881625
Maybe some harder edges I'd say, texture feels kinda even across.
>>4881693
Very nice! Cant say I know what would be an improvement to add

>>4881705
Thank you!
>>4881723
Thanks, I'm aiming for Kim Jung Gi level of line economy but for portraits (but I know its impossible haha), helps finish commissions faster, also more accuracy.

>>4881336
Can anyone help/give critique on the colors? I think I'm having some trouble with saturation/desaturation, but I can't quite put my finger on what to change...

Thanks in advance!

>>4881336
Can anyone help/give critique on my colors? They feel off, but I can't figure out what to change.

Thanks in advance!

>>4881693
noice

>>4881859
I think it would look better if the robe is darker than his clothing, it will make his clothing stand out and push your character forward. Try to recolor his robe with Dark shade of blue close to your color scheme, make sure the value is darker than his clothing, just do it on a separate layer and see the results first if it improved.

>>4881859
His hands seem like they're in bright white light when everything else looks like its dark and lit in purple, blue, and pink. Fix your light source color for one. Also seconding that you need to darken the cape. Its weird that its brighter than the rest of his clothes even where it should be in shadow. I think you need to put an adjustment layer on top and set it to greyscale. Look at your values, theyre weird and they might be throwing off your colors.

trying to stop being a coward and finish something for a change.
does the mouth feel weird? idk if maybe a dot mouth would be better.

>>4881599
the values are too crunched but the idea is really cool, check the construction on the eyes and nose. they're floating a little. feet too
>>4881859
try to think a little more in terms of gradients maybe. they talk about that in that valve style guide
>https://support.steampowered.com/kb/9334-YDXV-8590/dota-2-workshop-character-art-guide#intro
also try to think in terms of where you want the viewer to look and how you're gonna guide them through the drawing. right now my eyes are just going straight to the hands b/c they're such a high point of contrast
>>4881521
very soulfull anon. maybe try to do a greyscale pass with 3 values and really get a sense of what you want to do with the lighting and the mood. right now it's all kind of flat but i like what you're trying to do with the hue shifts

Still faffing about with this.

Kindof frustrated with the first girls' face...

>>4882706
why are you here
you are too good for this place

Also, its eerie how much this looks like a movie still
kind of uncanny valley-ish, not the faces but liek the whole thing?
But it looks god

I don't know how to draw faces

>>4882804
nah it looks cool and funny, it has character
i think it'd be better if her eyebrows were turned down though

>>4883140
Thanks!
Down how?

>>4883140
or actually just make her have no eyebrows

keep going, the composition is great

>>4883144
Like, her eyebrows are pointed upwards, kind of like a sad face. I would either remove them or make them pointed down, like as if they're mad, since she's smiling though she'll look evil.

>>4883181
I want to get this sort of look

coloring makes me so nervous
I don't really know how to tell if any of this looks right, im having a really hard time with the guy's skin
He's supposed to look like he's very tanned from the sun, I'm thinking he'd have like an Indian's or Mediterranean's complexion

>>4883211
Instead of changing the color, how would you feel about making dude's hair longer to add to the flow of the action? overall it looks bad ass. I wish I could draw dramatic action shots.

>>4881599
This is now in every thread

I Studied the Blade

>>4881336
A drawing using my anatomy studies.

>>4881364
shade/draw them little cylinders

Meh. Sketching something to test character. I won't upload it anywhere but I haven't been working in anything new for a while

a quick sketch of a key golem

>>4883211
In that light, I think the skin would have more orange in the reflected light within the shaded back area. He looks flat because of your brush work, and maybe that's intentional, but human skin is a soft object, so your coloring will have to be done carefully to look correct. Right now, the figure seems muddy in the shadowed areas, likely because it all seems like one hue. Your color in the sand guy on the left is big dick energy, while your guy on the right is in two-color technicolor.

>>4883239
wow thanks anon, that was a nice confidence booster. I think I will make the hair a little bit longer, it has to match to the character that it is but i think its a bit too short now anyway, thank you
>>4883768
that's so weird that the lighting on the dinosaur looks better than the guy, the dinosaur was so much easier and the values are so much more limited on it. it probably took me 1/5 the amount of time I spent on the guy. Im taking your advice into account, I'll give it another try and make it less muddy and more orange, here's hoping

>>4883463
saved

I did this one using the original as a reference, completely beginner to drawing both traditionally and digitally.

>>4883808
I honestly think you're making a bigger deal out of it than you really need to. Your careful brush work is nice, but lay your colors in quickly and if you have problems, just paint over it. It's important to just paint fast and eat ass. There is no "next try", the whole painting is a try; just make a mess and sort it out later, you're going to make a lot more mistakes by design. That way you're going to take risks you may otherwise stay away from. I think it's great that so many people here try to work from a tight drawing, but I think it can hamper people's ability to push their work as much as they'd like to.

>>4884010
Yeah you're right anon, I always belly ache over things like this because I suck at them, but I'm probably sucking so bad because I always belly ache over them.
I'm just trying to do a good job on this one because its going to be a book cover. Its the sequel in the series and the first one looked kind of shitty and I have to live with it being out there, being bought and read and people looking at my fucked up workmanship

Does this look better?
He doesn't look like a white guy, does he?

>>4881336
another dnd related one

>>4881336
hey thats my drawing cool. Did some studies

Studying linework. How did I do?

>>4882706
Your work literally hasn't improved in years. You have ideas down and you can execute them pretty well. They're fine for illustration but they lack balance with composition, color, light and edge control. You're just rendering for the sake of it.

flat color commission today
https://twitter.com/zarkaedotink

>>4881521
>>4882393
Mostly attempted anon's advice at establishing the lighting and mood. Will work on cleaning up and actually fleshing out the characters more tomorrow.

>>4882804
Very nice, is a cómic?

>>4884511
Thank you, It's for a Touhou Project Collab I'm participating


I think I'm done for now, Critics and commentaries are more than welcome

tear me to shreds pls I can't see my own mistakes

>>4884054
Not the original guy who responded but that shading on the dude looks way better. Heaps less 2 dimensional. Very nice, I'm keen to see this one finished

Just finished this one up. It's been a very long time since Ive dedicated some time to my digital work since I've had a severely shit monitor for a few years. But I got a new one so I'm trying to get back into the swing of it. I have a terrible case of sketching a lot and not actually putting the time into finishing works. My shading is shit

>>4881599
Can do without the shitty text.

Still working on this from several threads ago. I changed some things with the body and leg position and i gave up on trying to do the city background it was just too much to figure out and i think its less complicated now. I know i'm probably fucking something up though, but i need some fresh eyes on it. I get to about this point and i'm not sure how to improve it. Some areas are still unfinished like the hair and arms, but i like to leave those till i'm sure about the rest of it.

Still working on this from several threads ago. I changed some things with the body and leg position and i gave up on trying to do the city background it was just too much to figure out and i think its less complicated now. I know i'm probably fucking something up though, but i need some fresh eyes on it. I get to about this point and i'm not sure how to improve it. Some areas are still unfinished like the hair and arms, but i like to leave those till i'm sure about the rest of it.

Last post:
https://yuki.la/ic/4811699#p4824463

>>4885583
I feel like the background has way too much contrast, I keep looking at it like it's the focal point.

REEEEEEEEEE

Skech

>>4884619
Flip the image. And finish drawing it.

>>4885583
My eyes immediately look at the background.

>>4882706
Do you work on the dragon prince backgrounds?

>>4885590
>>4885705
Ok thanks. I tried to reduce contrast and that looked bad, but desaturating a bit looked a bit better. I'll play around with it some more later. Anything else i can work on?

>>4885711
He did but he’s freelance rn iirc.

>>4884194
Another larping /beg/ critique. Draw thread is gone to shit.

>>4882706
>>>4881859
no idea whats going on with the picture imma be real

>>4882706
Most of the rendering is really really good. I've been seeing your updates over the last couple of threads so I can tell you're put a LOT of time into it. My gripe is the same as the other anon, I have no idea what the fuck is happening here? Some tribal women are blasting headfirst through some bamboo to varying degrees of upset? (varying from-couldnt care less, to mildly upset)
I'm very confused by the situation? It's like they've been launched through but they are still perfectly posed as though they didn't collide with anything at all a millisecond ago

Just thought I'd go for a more chunky line art/ more anime-esque style than I usually do. First time in a long time I've done a full bg. What colors should I do, I was thinking some cottage vibes, muted/pastel colors. Yellows, browns, and blues.

>>4886254

Nice. I like the painterly style and face hues seem decent (I'm on mobile in the sun so I can't see it very well, someone correct me if I'm misled) my critique is just that the left eye is sliding off her head

The fabric isn’t done yet but I’m working on it. Trying to improve my method

hello /ic/, i posted some weeks ago on /beg/ and they told me to post here.
Black and white stuff is from like 2 months ago, since then i've been focusing
alot on shapes too.
File may be too small because i was going to do just the little joker study
before going to work out but ended doing other studies too, what can i
do better? Also, i use an intuos draw, will anything improve if i get a better
tablet? My line quality sucks and i think the pressure thing is kinda messed up

>>4885793
I dunno man, it's a fair observation. It's something I think about pretty often.

>>4885876>>4885947

It'll make more sense when it's done I think, I don't usually paint everything equally, some important things get left to the end.

>>4885786
I'm actually working at a concept art studio in europe now.

>>4884288
There's something very raw that i like about it

I'm drawing joker from persona 5's game

>>4886982
AAAAH my eyes!

>my art is regressing

>>4886982
How do you work with a background like that you mad fucker

>>4885636
what is this sorcery?
how does this look so much like something in the thumbnail but up close its just a few brush strokes?

>>4886254
Remember to flip your canvas. That eye is super far off to the right.

Otherwise very nice.

>>4887669
That looks much better.

>>4881336
which goblina?

>>4887768
middle

>>4887768
Number 3. 2 looks like a fat stoner and 1 is pippi long goblin

>>4887768
3

>>4887768
2

>>4887768
Let’s see 3 in green

anime

>>4887768
3 is very forgettable.
2 looks funny and relateable/ most interesting
1 is more typical but more waifu material

>>4887768

I'm stuck on this one, I don't know what I did fuck up, but it's not working.

Any c&c

can't believe i just did a study from an artist i fucking hate but they say you have to know your enemy

>>4887942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_R_jLOPHY
I haven't watched this yet but I have the feeling this would help you a lot.

Tried something new with the rendering here. I could have pushed the highlights a little further but I think it turned out alright.

>>4888008
uhhhh, oops too big

>>4887598
Digital voodoo magicz

>>4888010>>4888008
You could push the darks a lot, but mostly the local values of the materials.

>>4887942
Well it looks like daylight almost with that sky but is it being lit by the streetlamp? You could add rim lighting I guess from that lamp. It reads to me tho.

>>4887768
left is more cute/charming, middle has a disdained look and nice color, good personality, my fav. Right is probably the least I like.

>>4886427
They look good but if they are studies you have the reference to check, value/color wise they read, as what can you do better depends on what you are studying, are you trying to learn what exactly? Can't say about the tablet but if you can try one bigger do so, although for line quality probably you might want a screen one.


Leaving some guns I'm working on. I seem to have the issue of making them sometimes look toy-like? I think is the color choice at times (and the forms/detailing).

>>4888062
Guns can be any color, and sometimes the color can lead someone to think they might be toys until they get a close look or hold them, but these all look like toys because you're pussyfooting around how to render metal. It looks more like you're rendering plastic water guns.

>>4888089
Hmm, I t think I get what you mean, like some recent bullpups have that plastic look but they still look good without metal parts. Feel free to do any paintover tho. I do need to wrap my head around reflections.

>>4882393
Lol at this /beg/ trying to critique his betters.

>>4888116
Okay, and? More often than not your eye can pick out mistakes even when your skills aren't caught up to what you see yet. /beg/s are allowed to critique but if they tell you how to fix your problem you should ask them for a source supporting it or you should ignore their solution if you know for sure its bad advice.

Whats wrong with you? Did a /beg/ call out a simple mistake in a piece you worked 100 hours on while he fucked your mom in the ass? I don't get why you idiots get so tilted over this, you must have had some tragic experience with a /beg/ to hate them this much.

>>4888147
Lol butthurt /beg/

>>4888147
The /beg/ is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a crab, NGMI, hack, tryhard, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a /beg/ and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”

>>4888148
Damn dawg, I get the feeling that the character was heavily referenced but not the BG. The contrast in skill, specifically your confidence in lighting and form is jarring. Use more refs for background elements and definitely read something like perspective made easy or perspective for artists to get the basic ideas down.

>>4888173
the character was referenced but not as a whole(used diferent parts, the face was the part were i looked a the ref more).I need to learn more about perspective, def agree with that. i didnt get the "contrast in skill" part can you elaborate?

>>4888189
To hopefully elaborate on the point of confusion: your background is very flat, indicating that you don't have the references or the knowledge handy to start laying in shadows/highlights as confidentially as you have with the figure.

>>4888216
oh now i get it, thanks.

>>4885583
as some mentioned background is too bright, te first thing which will catch theintention of the eyes will be the sun on the background with that tower.
Secon, her right hand is cut of, it has no connection ot anything right now, her left arm is not finished so can't judge that.
3. The hips are too bigh, liquify the butt just a little' bit so her back does not look "broken".
4. Her feet is too small.
5. Show folds and their form "naturally".
6. Ear and hair need a lil bit of work too.

>>4884059
did another one of these. Probably have one more in me before I do something completely different. Sick of fantasy right now.

>>4888147
Know your place, faggot

>>4884861
Wow thanks guys, you've been really encouraging. I hope this isn't dissapointing....
I think I'm gonna call it done. I don't know if I should have blended it more. Most of the time people on here are telling me that I should stop trying to blend and do a rendering style and just keep it like this with 'implied line' or like a cell shaded look.

>>4884861
Wow thanks guys, you've been really encouraging. I hope this isn't dissapointing....
I think I'm gonna call it done. I don't know if I should have blended it more. Most of the time people on here are telling me that I should stop trying to blend and do a rendering style and just keep it like this with 'implied line' or like a cell shaded look.

>>4888498
If you want to be an idiot and throw away critiques like that be my guest. Less improvement for you and less competition for me ;)

>>4888871
>critique from a /beg/
>being worth anything

Pick one.

>>4887768
1 is the cutest, 2 is the most fun, 3 is the hottest.

Another anon mentioned that the features (nose, mouth) on this look floaty or misplaced
Can anyone expand on that? I'm trying to spot my mistakes

>>4888161
based.

>>4889092
You captured everything pretty well. The nose is too long and the mouth too small and low down but that's the main issue. Great work on the upper hand and the sense of vertical light.

>>4888116
i mean i'm very open to crits and advice and if you have any they'd be appreciated

>>4886982

Base color

>>4889331
Cool stairs

>>4888010
That shading looks like hes stuck his boner into his belt

>>4888026
Is that you Mike?

>>4884187

The faces are very unappealing, especially on link himself. Tone down his package, too, unless he's wearing a diaper or something wtf.

>>4889316
gg on using the bucket tool

>>4884187
Ditch the epicanthic fold for the upper eyelid annon, it's more suitable for old people.

>>4889075
Have you tried to draw the planes on top of your drawing? You're creating a good illusion of depth with the left eye but the nose and mouth seem like they'd be in a slightly different perspective. The left cheek also is very forward/outward compared to the eye's curve, and the chin has nothing that conveys perspective. This is what might create the "floaty" impression; you're implying depth in the individual features, but the overall head has flat-looking or inconsistent areas.
A lot of it might come down to style, though. You're abstracting a lot of detail, which looks nice, but it means you've got way fewer lines to define the planes with. You might want to experiment with choosing different lines to draw out (you could use something to define the bottom lip/chin, for example, and you might not need both the upper lip and philtrum, the nose might look cuter with less detail, etc).
If you intend to always colour/light your work you can worry less about the lines themselves, though. Lighting is the most efficient way to define planes.

>>4883463
I love these colors!!

>>4889384
I'm not Mike

>>4886796
I love your work anon. Are you working on other pieces? Are you trying to write a story?

quick self doodle

>>4888062
Update with the ones missing. I wasn't too sure bout how to bring up interesting reflections on a glossy white surface. Next step is to focus more on texture and detail/decals.

4 hr figure drawing

>>4890639
>4 hr
lol why
this should take you 1 hour MAX.

>>4890653
I guess I'm not at your level yet

>>4890639
The shading is pretty accurate but the proportions are not, unless that was your plan. I suggest drawing more people in the same amount of time.

>>4890653
pyw, dumb beg

>>4890773
im glad to hear that, the crit from before said the rendering was the thing I needed to work on the most. Yeah, my proportions and general drawing fundamentals still need work. Thank you

>>4890639
You need to separate your light and shadow values more.

Derp

>>4891172
Looks like she needs to piss

>>4891172
You've become too comfortable drawing small, you need to start drawing much bigger.

>>4891451
Is there any benefit to drawing large?!?

Tried to draw something erotic that wasn't porn. What do you think of my mega-whore guys?

>>4891729
*What do you think of my mega-whore, guys?
>punctuation matters

>>4891544
You are compensating for your lack of confidence in drawing detail by drawing small. It's also good to become used to drawing with your whole arm as opposed to just your wrist, it makes it easier to draw smooth, controlled curves.

>>4891544
i think easier to add more details and better lines so its good you can draw small but u should be comfortable drawing big too

>>4891729
You forgot to erase some lines on her torso. Her skin looks loose and baggy.

>>4891820
Supposed to be the bottom of her rib cage, but if it reads like skin folds maybe I'll just remove those lines. Many thanks

>>4891729
"not porn"
>I have a foot, high heel, and smoking fetish

A mate told me that she looks a bit downs but I can't see it and he can't draw. Please help

iPad mini

i hate painting now

>>4891925
its an overlay btw i don't take credit for the original photo

relaxin

Commission for a friend, who dipped on the payment and is no longer a friend.

>>4891748
Not lack of confidence, I think it s because I started with a wacom and got used to drawing from the wrist.
>>4891751
Ok anons, I will make a note to practice with some bigger pieces too.

Thank you both for your opinions/input, cheers.

>>4889316

This took me about 2 hours since the last time

>>4892036
Gorgeous

>>4892270

Turd polishing. The figure is atricious anon, as is the face.

>>4892270
Could you make the pose any gayer

This is a bit unorthodox, but i compiled this small gallery of drawings i have drawn during the last several months. Although i'd like to get critique on the single pieces, I'm very interested in knowing what the reoccuring mistakes are in my drawings and if there's some clear pattern of things I'm doing wrong.

>>4892367
my advice is go to /draw/ because this aint beg

>>4892367

I think the biggest issue is that your values are kind of all in the same range, making the important stuff in the composition less eyecatching than it should be. If you push your lights and your darks a little more on the focal points, things will instantly start to be more striking. Keep going, you're doing well.

>>4892391
This makes a lot of sense to me. My biggest problem with my own stuff is that it seems to look really boring and bland most of the time no matter what I try.

Thanks.

>>4892382
>>4892367
i am retarded i thought i was in /beg/ i apologise

>>4881336
How to make this appealing?

Here’s one I did, open to criticism as always

>>4886301
Called it at this point. Working on a drawing of some peaches, too. I’ll share that when I’ve gone far enough with it

>>4892270
You’re just pillow shading. Maybe practice painting more simple forms and move your way up.

>>4892673
what even is construction amirite?

>>4893078
Gotta say you are right, I did start with a construction but I drew on top of it so many times I lost it,tho thanks for the feedback,I’ll keep an eye open for it next time

another doodle for the day, btw im also
>>4886254
>>4889092

Much more to do still

Current work in progress, I get annoyed when I draw decent bodies but then need to cover them with clothes to make the image make sense. It just my prayers process of drawing form first and then draping the clothes on

>>4894260
Also not sure if I'm sold on the big boys head. I want to make him a bit more insectoid like a cockroach or something. Imperfect cell vibe

>>4893072
I think I can tend to fall into this shading style when I do digital as well, if I'm not doing hard edge stylised shadow. Explain pillow shading?

>>4894282
It’s when you shade so the darkest values are on the outside of the form and the lightest values are on the inside. It’s as if the light source is the viewers eyes and even then, it’s not consistent and often conflicting.

>>4894339
Great way of putting it, I usually fall into arbitrary top right semi-hard light. But it's the same concept

>>4890639
You can sit down and draw for 4 hours? That's amazing. You'll make it

i have to improve my patience on painting, and ... yes many more
>>4893328
beautiful simplification, anon... i have the tendency to focus too much on details...

>>4894664
It's not bad but why do you want to draw this stuff. Don't you want to draw stuff thats fun to draw

>>4894664
this looks good. I'd define the right eye more and blend the nostril

>>4894664
>that schnozz
lmao

>>4892270
The hacker

>>4896354

Stop posting if you're not going to implement the crits you got. It's shit, you are turd polishing.

Do you see potential in my work?

>>4896354
Horrible

>>4896444

No, not if you keep copying dumb toriyama heads

>>4896450
What if i want to be a hentai artist?

>>4896437
>>4896445
>>4896450

lmao samefag edgy "art critic"

>>4896456
It's not samefag, the art is beyond /beg/

>>4896459
Ok samecuck

>>4896482

>butthurt his shitty doodle got called out

>>4896444
Yeah Its not that bad. How long have you been drawing for? My biggest critique would be to have more line confidence. the chicken scratch is unappealing but it's also a counter productive crutch. You can do multiple lines to get your shape but they just need to be longer, more fluid and intentional until you find the correct line.
Keep it up and keep drawing. Don't mind the salty cunt

Critiquq?

>>4896730
and ref

Thoughts?

among us doodles

>>4896731
Why is her left areola the size of Saturn's ring
Why are her toenails greenish yellow from the fungi underneath
Why is a 60 year old woman naked in public and using the art excuse to garner attention
So many whys

>>4896762
Generic concept, composition looks off, lineart too sketchy, looks unpolished
5,5/10

Progress

>>4894806
Why i want to draw this stuff?
It is just a random picture i took from my reference-portrait-folder. ^^
The main-factor was to improve my values, e.g..
I could pick a beautiful woman face too, but why? I would get caught up on making ger even more beautiful than the reference.

The stuff which will be fun to draw, can come later, right now i rather suffer to go through these painful studies and repetition of drawing :P so it will not get bored anymore but rather just a thing which i already know and can do much faster.

Or do you mean something else?

>>4896765
fuck off my board, you basic ass r*dditor

Here's a commission I'm working on for someone.

>>4896689
Actualy that was just a quick sketch. This is what i would consider my finished lineart. I have been drawing all my life really, just on and off.

>>4896952
Looks wrong, like you pasted cyborg 18 head onto a random body

>>4896456
Nope you’re just bad

Trying to learn portraits by myself, this one is the best I could achieve. I don't know what to do to really get good, mates

>>4892270
Since you want crit:
>Anatomy needs a lot of work.
- That right arm cannot physically bend that way, not to mention it's not doing anything for the composition that the hand it just growing out of his back.
-Even if the hand went there, it's facing the wrong way.
-Left hand is having a stroke, I see. Anatomy anatomy. fucking study it.
-Face could be a lot worse. The hardest to look at are the eyes, but anatomically the features line up. (Ears being in the right place, nose lined up where it should.) But your shading all went into the pants and gloves, but not his face to give him more dimension. If you think you're above /beg/ go to the /asg/ since you don't seem interested in actual fundamentals.
-The pants painting looks like he has a front wedgie. I also feel the left legs got an obsessive amount of folding even though his pants are otherwise just fitting him.
-tldr his pants look like the waist is too big and the legs are too long so he had to hoist them up and now looks dumbasf.

You want a redline too, sweetcheeks?

>>4896952
the knees look flat and like they're about ready to snap

Feels like I spend a long time on line art. How long do you guys usually spend on it before you start coloring/rendering?

>>4897243
Time well spent its dope. IDK I'm shit at line art so either too long for how bad it is or not long enough so I can move on

>>4893005
Done with this. Gonna move on to study another subject

Referenced an old study and tweaked it. Am still trying to figure out how to paint

>>4897243
a lot.
i wouldnt worry about taking a long time with it unless ur doing commissions, just enjoy the process

very nice smooth lines btw, tits and hips could be adjusted a bit though

>>4893005
>>4897313
damn I like this a lot anon

>>4897293
>>4897635
Did my first pass of color/rendering. Haven't gotten to adjust the boobs and hips yet, but will definitely work with it. Thanks lads

>>4881336

Today's studies

Just started drawing again, these are fairly small. Not sure how to resize the image on my phone.

>>4897906
Good lighting and texture, bad anatomy and expression. Do more studies of people. Face is proportionally off, mouth is not located correctly, teeth are not lit properly, hand does not have the curve of the knuckles, hips are off
>>4898007
You should spend more time studying skulls and then fleshing them out with features from photos, your faces are flat.

>>4898007

jessr we need to cock the meth

>>4898018
What do you mean by flat? This is my first attempt after years, especially with shading with stumps, first time with that.

>>4898048 i lold

>>4898086
There is no sense of depth. Obviously this hard to achieve with frontal views so I suggest drawing in 3/4 views and near-profiles (there will be millions of photos for those) before coming back to symmetrical frontal views.

>>4898091
Okay, I will try that. These are also about the size of a half dollar, hard to do detail work at that size

>>4898095
Working at a small size helps with proportion but yes, detail is lost. However, one does not need detail to convey form. I suggest finding very stark photos of people underneath sunlight or bright lights and try learning how the main shadows of the face are cast before trying to do detailed shadows

painting an aarakocra, gonna try to fish for them dnd comms

>>4884421
Almost done with this one

>>4898283
Good sense of perspective. Maybe add more details such as the lip of the bar over its panels, carvings on the pillars, a wooden doorjamb and frame for the door, more bottles. Also bring the dwarf further to the left, a scene with so few characters shouldn't kick any to the side.

Doodle while on the phone at work

working on colors still

>>4897654
Thanks, anon, much appreciated

>>4898625
That's pretty cool

thoughts?

>>4881599
twitter account?

Skull is done. I'm aware the lighting is all over the place. Didn't realize till I went too far into in and not good enough to visualize it properly yet.

>>4899309
https://twitter.com/ArtKlinck

>>4888148
dogshit composition

Drawring iz hard

Tried my hand at some conceptart, what do you guys think?

>>4899994
think it's a poor design but thats just to my taste, nothing actually wrong with it, its well done. but imo good monster designs are cleaner, like the pale man in pans labyrinth or the necromorphs from dead space

Finally finished my color mock up, tomorrow I’m gonna start this on paper

>>4900063
Maybe a bit to small?

>you will never stroke Homelander's hair and tell him he's a good boy as he rails you with his super dong and calls you mummy

WHY EVEN FUCKING LIVE

>>4898625
Blog pls.

>>4897009
If you really want to get better, go find the asaro head model on Sketchfab and study it.

The asaro head breaks down the human head into a series of simplicistic planes. All human heads, regardless of who they are or what they look like, possess these identical forms. Once you learn to understand and replicate these planes, you will be able to draw anybody.

>>4900067

Homelander's gay, anon. Read the comic. Then read special episode about the party island.

>>4900098
no shit

>>4900091
I actually ordered one, but am waiting for it...

>>4900098
I was going to read the comic, but I've heard a lot of feedback from comic fans that the adaptation is significantly better and that much of what makes the comic interested is edgy, teenage humour.

Amazon Homelander will call me mummy at least. Just let a girl dream.

>>4900105
show tits

>>4900103
Jelly. I want one but they're too expensive. Well, have fun. Make sure to study it in various lighting conditions using lamps and stuff. You'll make real, measurable progress with this if you commit.

>>4900112
These bongos are only for Homelander, son.

>>4900105
Different stories imo. The fun of the comic is that they're professional Supe Slayers even before Hughie joins rather than the aspiring amateurs who have to figure it out as they go along. And I think some of the character relationships are handled better, but it does have more shitposts and edge humor to be sure.

>>4900206
If you endorse it then I'll definitely give it a stab sometime.

>>4881336
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>>4900219

How to make this appealing?
Critique please.

>>4900692
Bigger grain on your brush!

>>4900768
aite good feedback will do.

>>4900768
soul

>>4900786
Yeah, like, I totally see the style you're going for, and I love it, but this kind of illustrative style really benefits from bold, textured brushes that emulate crayons and pencils irl.

Maybe try experimenting with watercolour texture overlays clipped to the top of the art folder. That's what I do when I want to give my stuff more texture but I haven't used a textured brush to draw it.

>>4900816
I'll dump a few of the ones I like to use.

>>4900817

>>4900820

>>4900816
Do you just fade it out with 10% transparency like with noise filters?

>>4900835
Yup. Tinker with it until it feels right.

fucking around with hatching
Don't know how to get even and consistent values
Would appreciate useful resource on hatching

>>4891847
Head is ultra-round, teeth sticking out, eye so small they feel sunken in.
In my opinion, the thing that causes downs on this drawing is the huge area between eye, jaw and the ear. redoing the ear, chin and jaw could fix a lot.

>>4900841
Viktor Kalvachev's Schoolism course is very hatching focused. It's on CGP

>>4900080
http://www.instagram.com/pineapplemikel ty

>>4900067
i like this a lot, but i always feel like your lines are a bit too flowey - needs just a tad bit more structure. youre on the verge of greatness

still life practice

Current drawing for a contest

>>4901518
Hitler would be proud.

Some critique or advice?

>>4898625

this anon has soul

>>4881336
Feel free to tear into it because I really want to improve.
I’ve been trying to work on anatomy and construction, though haven’t had time to focus on perspective.

>>4901834
Looks neat, keep posting updates
Also, blog?

Anybody here use corel painter? I feel like its underappreciated

>>4901652
>youre on the verge of greatness
This is flattering as fuck, but I really don't feel it. It'd be one thing if these were just silly sketches, but in reality they take me HOURS to structure and refine, and I really have no idea if that's normal or not. I wish I had some sort of gauge on what's an average amount of time for most artists creating stuff like this, but I feel like a lot are dishonest about this aspect of their art.

Do you have any suggestions for incorporating more solid lines in my work though? I've had the flowy thing pointed out as criticism before, but it's a habit I'm not entirely sure how to break.

>>4902111
https://twitter.com/_Manncho_
https://www.instagram.com/manncho_/

>>4902114
Have it but hardly use it, is that piece done in corel painter? cuz if it is, might start using it more.

>>4898283
Letting skelly ideas stew while starting another commission.

>>4902155
yeah. i just got 2021 after using 2018 for a while and did this to test out the thick paint improvements, as well as make something nice for my little brother

>>4902114
Dropped it after like the 5th time I lost a painting from it crashing

>>4902226
what version? i've had mine crash a bit but the recovery files always saved my ass

>>4900067
Why would you wanna fuck Homelander? I'd be pissing my shit if Homelander was standing less than 10 miles from me

>>4902238
2018. Also the year I switched to photoshop, which I heard is notorious for crashing, but I’ve had only 2 crashes and files recoverable in the last 2 years. Painter crashed 5+ times in the 3 months I was using it.

>>4902246
i guess we're complete opposites of each other cause I switched from ps because of their subscription model and haven't looked back since

>>4901179
ty

>>4902122
The likeness, poses and expressions in your drawing are super well done. tells a nice story. (ignore my poor pose/expression/likeness etc. im too autistic for that)
Dont see this as a direct improvement btw, just a few directions to look at. (The way i wouldve solved those problems).

I think the main problem youre facing is, the guesswork youre basing your lines on when unsure about structure.
Maybe a good exercise would be (what i would do), to try to convert a photo into linework and really make the forms read.
Thinking about lineweight and where maybe NOT placing a line can convey information better than actually placing it.

(And about the time thing: id not worry too much. youll get faster as you get more experienced)

:D

>>4894664
Shit, I remember doing a study of that guy two years ago.
You're doing well. If you're worried about getting lost in rendering small details, try blocking in all your most important shapes while zoomed out first. You'll get it -- you're already aware of your mistakes so you can only improve from here.

>>4902114
It looks like his left foot is too big even if the foreshortening is considered.

>>4881336

>>4902356
The speed and ease you drafted this out with has me blinking in bed at my phone. And yeah, my lines are often 100% guesswork. I wasn't sure how obviously that was communicated through my stuff, it's kind of funny that it's that readable. I think it's a remnant from when I used to do lineart traditionally, but was a little bitch kid who refused to study anatomy because it was "boring", so relied on drawing outlines of forms instead. Now I have more knowledge under my belt, but the loose, bubbly habit of relying on unstructured outlines is still there. For a while I thought it was important I try to put as much movement into my lines as possible, but all the movement in a piece won't work without a solid structure to leap out from.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out to me anon, I appreciate it. Probably take a while to correct it but at least I'm aware of the problem now.

I really dislike drawing backgrounds, I usually go for flat colours. I slapped this background out in a few minutes because I just dislike doing it. Any advice on backgrounds for someone who almost solely draws figures?

>>4902740
Don't soley draw figures? Also perspective should be a foundation.
Your drawing looks like it's on a stage with the camera directly in front of it.
Draw the ground. People and things don't float in space unless you're drawing them in space.

been struggling with this lately, crits appreciated

>>4902553
lol, thanks
like your study :L would be interesting to know how good you became (on values) since two years passed
Working on this right now

>>4902905
woops, forgot about the crop

>>4901834
what contest wants 3 small lolis penetrated by an alien.

>>4903025
looks awesome anon, blog?

>>4903186
thanks anon! it's @milkshine_ on insta and twitter

>>4903107
Halloween X Touhou contest

>>4890632
>>4888062
Got social media friend?

Been working on this big fella, wondering what I can fix in both my drawing and values before transitioning into color?

>>4904540
Soul. I love this style

>>4902114
here, just finished another character, this time for my mother. thick paint is a lot of fun if nothing else

>>4900979
Thanks man. I love the changes you made.

I'd love to know how to improve the read on her legs in the front view in particular.

Working on this. I haven't decided on the background yet. Also I might change the colors a bit so that it reads better. Here are three versions