/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I did this

>>4898116
i love it!! so cute~
such lively expression

>>4898116
cute

i painted a sunset

>>4898995
whoops did the water wrong, looked like piss before

>>4899034
begone cumfarti

>>4899484
In before the inevitable shouting starts.

Post marble sculptures you faggots

>>4899500
it's just one guy, painted this at the park

>>4899656
and this one

>>4898116
i like a lot the hands and shoulders

asuka paintin'

Some critique?

>>4899034
>>4899656
>>4899659

Is there somewhere you post your finished work?

>>4899926
The single eye thing is just masturbation to impress normies. Your average viewer will scroll on through. Don't worry about making finished and polished art until you work on drawing a bit more. Do something challenging, like the rest of the face. You want me to tell you that you did a good job, but that's not what you NEED. You made a convincing eye, now keep going. Draw like you owe it to yourself to improve, not like you're farming internet points.

>>4899790
Nice

>>4899926

Is this your first watercolor? Good job, if so. Remember to use a medium size brush, if you can get away with it. Larger brushes can carry more water and paint and prevent you from overworking the surface of the paper.

I feel a bit weird posting this at this point because it's just blocked in with watercolor pencils, which I'm going to blend and paint over anyway, but here it is...

>>4900094
Yes it is, thank you for the advice! Usually I just draw with pencils and black and white.

>>4899975
Thank you, too! I'll try some more and to improve myself!

>>4899790
awesome

>>4900139

Looks good, anon. Is this an illustration for a book?

>>4899790
soul

>>4900540
No, just a stand-alone piece. I like painting little vignettes like this.

Picked up my gouache set for the first time in a long while.

did some practice here

>>4901067
This sucks I can’t even see her tits

>>4900704
This looks great! Though what's with the light/white trees on the left?

>>4901067
James Gurney would be proud.

>>4901319
Thank you. Sunlit alders.

>>4900704
This feels genuinely green. Good job

>>4897990
you chose my pic anon!! I am honored!

>>4899790
incredible

>>4897990

doing some studies

>>4901868

>>4901870
Doo doo

>>4900139
This thread is dead, so I guess I'll post phase 2. Blended the watercolor pencil with a little water filled brush,

Next I start painting.

>>4902562
Losts of soul, anon. Hopefully you can add more value to the final painting. Make the back wall pretty light and everything darker towards the foreground like the backs of the desk and chairs, if you do value. Good work and good luck.

made a bird

>>4902725
Very nice anonski.

i call this one Empire :D

A trio of little still life studies in acrylic on multimedia sketchbook paper

>>4903017
the fruit are kind of messy, but the drill looks nice. Looks like the more drawing focused aspects of the drill interested you more than the basic shapes of the fruit.

here's another cityscape

>>4903036
jesus brian lighten up

>>4903036
cezanne study

Begone cumfartiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

the boards officially 99% coomers posting coom they found on twitter so here's a study of a painting from 1860

>>4903379
still life study

>>4903488
i don't understand why you paint
you clearly aren't interested in brushwork, color, composition, or improving

>>4903544
I’m an artist, I make money by selling art. I have to make art to sell it, if I don’t make art I’m not an artist. Please get a life outside shitposting here.

>>4903604
Lol

>>4903379
>the boards officially 99% coomers posting coom they found on twitter

Suddenly changing from boobs to landscapes doesn't put you on the high ground here.

>>4903488
>>4903147
>>4903544
Typically with studies, the goal is to learn something.

>>4903604
Why don't you try to make art then.

I'm worried about you on a psychological level. You should take a break and re-examine why you wanted to be an artist in the first place. You have the work ethic, but you could be applying it much more effectively. When the masters say that you should make as many paintings as possible, they implied that you should be finishing your work.

Perhaps you would benefit from some critique offline. Contact some other artists that will take the time to tell you what you need to hear, because your unwillingness to respond positively to criticism online is hurting you. You've invested so much into your hobby, and it's hard to watch you struggle like this.

>>4903659
Listen u little shit

BEGONE, CUMFARTI!

>>4898995
soul
>>4899790
soul

I really like the character design in the movie 9 so I studied some characters from the movie in colored pencil

>>4904427
nice loved that movie

Acrylic on paper

Still in the beginning

>>4901868
nice one

>>4904510
How did you mix your flesh tones? I've been working on a portrait, but I've been having trouble mixing colors I like. I like yours though.
Also, looks like it could be an interesting painting. What is the background going to be?

>>4904505
I like the sense of motion in your painting, but I'm not completely sold on it. I'm having difficulty explaining what I don't like though. Sorry. I wish I could be more helpful. Maybe a bit more detail in the main figure would help

>>4904623
The elements will be shells, crab legs and live rounds

Skin color is made with lightning in mind, in this case I tried to push it more to an orange and magenta hue, so theres a lot of reds, oranges and browns in there...

But normally my base color is always burnt umber and a lot of white, this will make a beige/warmish grey tone, with this I add a bit of red and a bit of yellow ochre... Then is just adding whatever color you Want

>>4904633
Thanks! I'll have to do some experimenting today.

>The elements will be shells, crab legs and live rounds
Ah, I can see that. I thought they might have been flowers at first. Cool

>>4901126
Oh sweet, you have planes of the head as well.

It gets easier to understand once you learn anatomy.

>>4903604
lmao

meh

>>4905201
try to practice getting it down in half as many lines if you can. If that means you have to start over a few times that's fine.

>>4903604
>I’m an artist, I make money by selling art. I have to make art to sell it, if I don’t make art I’m not an artist.
You're not an artist, you're a businessman.

>>4905234
you'd do well to do the same

>>4905244
>>4905234
Not even that, just selling tat to normies.

>>4905224
painted a parrot too, apparently paintings of birds are popular

>>4905296
These don't even look like birds.

>>4905359
Wtf do they look like to you, dogs?

>>4905390
Brown slops.

>>4905396
Idk what to tell you dude, use your imagination

>>4905390
It looks fine to me anon. Your forms could be more established in the legs and torso maybe but I look at this and it’s obvious it’s a bird.

>>4905390
>>4905396
it's not hard to make birds look aesthetic as fuck - they are!

the feathers have a direction - you know - you COULD just use that natural and obvious direction to align your brush strokes to
that's probably what ALMOST every /beg/ intuitively would do

but of course
one could also not be so spineless and submit to the oppressive force of natures inherit beauty and rebel against it - thus is the way of true (((Art)))

>>4905409
so what's yours in this thread?

>>4905398
One shouldn't have to use the imagination, the artist should provide a decent enough work.

>>4905622
Ok, is this one a bird enough for you, you poor aphantasia stricken beginner

>>4905654
Pls go to /beg/

>>4905654
Ok, I don't paint birds much but here one that I sold a long while ago, 6x6 inches.

>>4905675
how much did you get?

>>4905684
£80 I think.

Starting a new one

>>4897990
This is a digital sketch of a large piece I want to paint. I usually don't paint traditionally, so are there any tips to translating a digital piece to the canvas? Especially a large canvas?

>>4905897
I normally project it with a projector
If you dont have one, just grid it, find a canvas of the same resolution of your digital painting

>>4905906
The grid is a good idea! I'm not too worried about it being exact, but of course the proportions need to be right. Is there anything about the subjects or colors I can improve?

>>4905914
Get more sky in that drawing, just to get a bit more temperature contrast between warms and colds

Also a face of the guy is to cartoonish when compared to a more realistic horse

>>4905897
How large is the canvas? Cheapo prints typically go up to 11" x 17", so you could always make tiled prints and transfer the ink with Wintergreen oil, though I don't know how the canvas and paint would interact with that.
The easiest way would be to project the image onto the canvas and trace it with pencil, but you need access to a projector.
And you could always grid it out and redraw it, or just use the digital sketch as a guideline and redraw it without worrying about copying it exactly.

>>4905921
Will do! Thank you!

>>4905925
Well, I have a 48 x 60 canvas that I had in mind for it, so printing it out might be cost prohibitive. Then again, the paint will be pretty expensive too for something that size. I do have smaller canvases on hand, so maybe I can try a transfer onto that.

>>4905936
16 prints at 11" x 17" will cover that (minus 2" at the top and bottom), and that should only be a couple of dollars, even cheaper if you print black and white

>>4905950
This is true. I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thank you!

>>4904625
actually, that's very helpful. will render out the scene with more details since there's a lot of room, and pump the midtones and see what we'll get

Still fairly new to using color. Here's a study I did in oil pastel (with some pencil to sharpen the facial features) of Lady Agnew by John Singer Sargent. Changed some colors bc pastels made my palette more limited.

>>4902562

Something else I'm working on, using more or less the same method as the room painting.

Step 1. Pencil.

>>4906351

Step 2. Watercolor Pencil.

>>4906353

Step 3. Blended with a water-reservoir brush.

To be continued...

I need help on choosing the right clay for sculpting. Anyone knows anything on the subject? Google can't help me for shit.
I remember a while back a fellow anon gave me his contact and we chatted about sculpting and it was awesome but then I lost it for some reason :/

gayan cucksharti

>>4905675

Lmao suck it Brian, this anon blows your retarded shit out of the water

>>4906017

Jesus christ

Why do you insist on using a medium for toddlers?

>>4907022
ok

>>4907062
here's more of my "retarded shit" for you guys to "blow out of the water"

>>4907062
>>4907064
yea these both suck its clear you have no actual interest in painting or art

>>4907260
I don’t even make that much money lol. I’m not Doug dimmadome

>>4907260
Pyw

>>4907273
That's not even what I mean, it looks like you're not interested in color, composition, brushwork, drawing, etc etc
>>4907274
lol

>>4907336
>it looks like you're not interested in color, composition, brushwork, drawing, etc etc
those paintings have all those things. wtf are you talking about. stop being a retard

>>4907338
I mean shit has a flavor but it's a bad flavor right?

>>4907343
they're paintings of birds you spaz, why are they so offensive to you. how fully blown is your autism.

>>4907026
Who cares what medium he uses?

>>4907343
>I CANT COOM TO BIRDS
is this what you meant?

>>4907366
they're not offensive they're just bad lol
>>4907381
lol

more like no-brainian cumsharti

>>4907366

>>4907509
your first mistake was thinking i think my paintings are any good

>>4907562
no one has ever made that mistake

>>4907582
Which ones are yours in the thread?

>>4907562
If that's so, what are you doing to improve it? Just painting aimlessly won't get you anywhere, and you're stagnating. It's clear to everyone you're not getting any better.

>>4907602
>It's clear to everyone you're not getting any better.
they sell at my current level. I can make $60-$80k a year where I'm at. That's fine for me. Good luck to you guys becoming Twitter Gods though.

>>4907606
this is why i say its clear you have no interest in painting

>>4907619
so you think you're better than me? is that the gist of it? good for you i guess. I hope you get successful in a way that shields you from the criticism you're giving me.

>>4907624
If you have no interest in improving, why do you post here? This is a artwork critique board. If you are already making 60k-80k, imagine how much you could make if your art were actually good.

>>4907624
You’re just as assblasted as everyone else here. Your art can sell yes, but it’s not anything interesting. It’s the same way you find cheap art prints at Homegoods. Marketable, a fitting accent to bathroom tiles, but not interesting or good. That’s not a problem if you want to just make money and not worry about improvement. So what is it you’re actually doing here?

>>4907719
>So what is it you’re actually doing here?
posting my fucking work

>>4907725
For the love of Jove get a trip so we can filter you, and then you can talk to people that want to talk to you, and everyone wins.

>>4907725
You don’t fucking just post your work here. Learn how to take criticism you fucking child.

>>4907725
but why lmao
read the title of the board dipshit
you clearly just want attention and spaz out anytime any of the people actually treat your art how other artists would

>4907606

I doubt it

>>4907792
>>4907805
shut up bitches

>>4907821

>>4907852
i sold two paintings today

>>4906946
I tried it a few months ago. my best advice would be to buy modelling clay like monsterclay or premo. Monsterclay is better in my opinion.
Clay is usually really tough at the beggining but as these are oil based just try kneading it or even a little heat (not too much). Try to have a few tools. A knife, a little ball or whatever its fucking name is. Also baby oil (unscented) to smoothen out your shit at the end. And baking is probably the toughest part. Dont make very big chunks as the heat may cook it unevenly and it may crack.
Good luck anon

>>4907865
Thanks anon but I don't rly know what you're talking about, last I heard oil clay isn't supposed to be fired?
I'm more into water clay anyways.

>>4906017
This is pretty good, and nice improvisation

I like this one >>4906353 much more than this one
>>4906359

>>4907064
You say it like you were posting masterpieces or something lmao

>>4902725
>>4905224
>>4905296
>>4905409
>>4905654
>>4905675
>>4907062
>>4907064
>>4907562
this is a bird thread now

I'm not gonna give this it's own thread.
Is charcoal better than a lead or graphite pencil for canvasses?
I can get a fairly decent under drawing with a pencil, but not good enough for my tastes, the canvas texture doesn't properly work with it.
No I will not use a bag of black chalk to stab through a cartoon and transfer a drawing.
No I will not use brown paint for an underpainting.
I want to draw on the canvas then paint it, don't suggest anything else. What's the best material to use.

>>4909008
>don't suggest anything else

Well then, you do want you've already decided, use the charcoal.

>>4909059
More suggestions ideally.

>>4909008
if you use pencil, you can paint over it with matte medium which will seal the graphite beneath it, none of the oil paint will mix in with it.
If you're using charcoal, you can use a card to kind of scrape shellac over it to seal the drawing underneath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxRN9tcN6pQ

>>4909062
You can get acrylic pens, you know.

>>4908996
hijacking the bird thread to make it a cezanne reproduction thread. I hear they're hot right now, hotter than birds!

>>4909008
I prefer charcoal because it can mix with the oil paints and create an outline for you without having to make one with the paint itself. You have to paint pretty thin for that to work though.

>>4909181
Poor fella is rolling on his grave

>>4909247
cezanne's been rolling ever since Picasso stole his style, why not make him roll a little faster.

>>4909268
lol ur paintings are so uggo

>>4909268
Although cezanne woumd be the creator of a proto-cubism, picasso was the one to improve it

You are just a weak knock-off, just grazing the surface, trying to emulate the style without understanding its fundamentals

>>4908996
>posting art you care about in this shit hole
why...

Took a reference and tried simplifying the folds in clothing, but I'm afraid it just came out messy and hard to read

>>4909459
make the fabric drape and hang more, like it has mass. simplify the folds. you can do it, looks good so far

Took a reference and tried simplifying the folds in clothing...I'm afraid it came out messy and hard to read

>>4898116
You will never be a woman

>>4909268
trying some surrealist stuff

>>4909590
so lazy

>>4909469
Almost there... fabric has mass and it drapes with volume too, casting shadows and stuff

>>4909590
i think this one came out cool, trying to do more layers

Playing with thinning medium

>>4908671

Every painting goes through an awkward adolescence between the initial sketch and the final painting that looks uglier than either.

The question is, can I pull through that awkward phase and make a completed painting that lives up to the original sketch's potential.

>>4910072
Haha! I like this way of thinking. It describes my experiences quite accurately.
I'm still a beginner painter and there's always a point when I end up hating what I'm painting and want to give up. But usually if I struggle through, I end up with something I don't mind and maybe even like.

>burn through wood pencils incredibly fast
>decide to buy a fancy pants mechanical pencil that apparently keeps a consistent line and will last a while
>my strokes are too light for the mechanism to actually trigger and rotate the lead
Ah this is a pain. At least I know my strokes are loose.

>>4910307
Try working in ink. If consistent lines are REALLY your thing, fountain pens have basically no variation (unless you buy a flex nib)

Yo guys check out my sick as mountain, pretty good right?

>>4910177

Yeah there's always a point where it just looks like a mess. The more experience you have, the more you can see through that mess to the final product.

I just finished this tonight.

>>4910812
that's fucking really cool anon. damn.

>>4910880

Thank you! It's been a long time coming. I remember I couldn't even get a base-sketch I was happy with for a long time. Kept picking it up and putting it down until I finally got something I liked.

>>4910789
bruh thats wicked

here's a horse

>>4911182
Braah thats wicked, we gmi cumfarti, youre alright...

>>4911182
also i finally got my paintings organized

>>4911224
nice storage area. i love the smell of drying oil paints

>>4911224
Snap the full-frontal to the left. Is that a Croquis Cafe model session?

>>4911376
No it must be an art class

Does this look okay? I wanted to make a sticker design but I fucked in the tabby cat’s fur so bad, i can’t wrap my head around how to paint it. I’m not done yet but getting close, I still have to do the tea pot and cups more , you probably can’t hardly see them now

>>4911376
It’s a painting from the 1950s I bought on eBay for $200. I’m trying to resell it for more but I like having it cause it’s cool

>>4911399
Closer look at it

>>4911400
They couldn't paint hands either. Or faces. Lols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBqmUe-6cUo

>>4911573
cool. i like the tiger that eats the lasagna. she did a good job drawing that one.

How the fuck do you draw shiny metal? Gibs help.

>>4911629
Take whatever you think the metal is refracting and distort it to fit the surface and curves. Studying real references would help a lot. Your drawings look weird because the metal is reflecting an object that's not there, because they're on a blank sheet of white paper. Also, erase your pencil.

value study, crits appreciated.

>>4911779
Whats with the random shadows on the middle of the thighs? They should be absolute

>>4911440
lol apparently he "retouched" the painting, I'm certain the areas he went over are the hands and face

>>4911224

Now douse everything in gasoline and light a match

>>4911839
What are you talking about? Not that guy.

>>4911935
Red is shadow. Green is random light where there should be shadow.

>>4911839
>>4912194
It's reflected light. Can also be seen on the lower part of her scapula.

Are there any good videos for the basics of landscape painting?

>>4912194
Yeah, what >>4912219 said.

bamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcp1lCW9YXc

>>4914256
Thanks for that, I shall have to watch this. So many tradders paint the same sort of thing, this guy looks interesting and different. Shame we barely get to see any painting in this though.

Some darkstalkers stuffffff. Idk how the fuck Joe Mad and Ludo Lullabi get such good lines and transitions, but I will figure it out!!!

>>4914335
You can find a lot of other people who do this sort of a thing, impressionist/atmospheric type of painting. There is no shortage of that.

What this guy does is he shows his work, and his process, for a narrative painting. This is something I've seen missing a lot in trad art material. Western world is filled with boring portraits of same models assuming same poses over and over again. I want some proper fucking storytelling!

Too lazy to remove my insta. Go spam me but make sure to follow and like :^)
U liek?

>>4914335
Another good one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAVPEP4dUI

>>4914392
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKClvE2B8Q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzP0NaA2a0

>>4911779
It's good anon, what pencil values are you using?

>>4915011
Thank you. Didn't get to buy art supplies yet so I'm using a regular HB pencil.

>>4914402
That lake is not following the perspective line, it's not horizontal.
The mountain looks a bit unrealistic. I think it should be either wider or have a less steep peak.
The clouds are too gangly and disconnected, they don't seem to have any weight.

What can I do with runny oil paints?

>>4916103
squeeze them onto cardboard for 10 minutes and let the excess oil be absorbed

>>4916140
Thanks yo

>>4899656
>>4899659
These are really good, but it does seem like in some areas you lose patience and make less careful strokes. The sky in the first pic is very detailed, clearly took a lot of patience, and I'd like that kind of care, say, on the ground, which takes up most of the painting.

>>4901617
kek, nice

>>4903017
Do paint the backgrounds first or the subjects?

>>4903544
That isn't helpful, that's just hateful.

Does anyone want to share their fav sites with a lot of ref pics? Bodies, still lifes, animals, anything.

>>4916314
the /ic/ sticky and google, not sure if you heard about those
or a lot of OPs in various generals have them

here's my first painting with poster paints, say something nice about it

>>4916330
I thought it was quite obvious I meant reference sites OTHER than these

eg I've found a shitton of really quality still life pics on pinterest, suprisingly

>>4915388
My thoughts exactly, thank you for the critique!

A gift for my sister, gouache and colored pencils.

>>4916353
Starting is always the hardest part, true at every stage, so that is very nice about your painting. I had never done an actual piece from gouache and never framed one til the one above, when I first started it I was certain I had made a huge mistake. Everythong turned out ok and the artistic merit or how it looks is not the most important part

>>4900704
I like this one, how do you come up with the compositions? "framing" it if you paint on site

Tried painting clouds pls crit

>>4916764
I see clouds, you were successful

De a little more progress on this. Still have a way to go, but holy shit I'm ready to be done with it. This is like the 4th or 5th iterationn of this canvas.

>>4916764 really nice clouds, the only thing I'd say is maybe lay off the texture on them, but that may be just a taste difference rather than a technical deficiency. They definitely read as clouds.

why are most paintings here of... nothing? why? is painting an actual subject too intimidating?

>>4916814
>>4916851
Ty bros wgmi

>>4916851
looks good

I tried painting a boat on a dark night

>>4916945
is that a picture of your wall?

>>4916945
really great exercise.
>>4916863
>>4916946
seethe & cope crablet.

>>4916985
wanting people to challenge themselves instead of jacking off isn't being a crab

>>4916988
Actually, no. You're trying to have others into what you deem as a challenge- when in reality, these Anons are going through their own challenges, and you're dismissing them just like that. Also, define "actual subject." Because nature, scenery, etc. in here are all subjects, so what do you want?

dog

>>4916945
I can't even see the boat if there is one.

this came out cool, i might charge more for this one

>>4918465
You get paid for this...?

>>4918465
i don't hate this

>>4918524
have you never been to a normalfag's house m8?

study wip.

Still trying to get my head around working with graphite. I don't know any techniques in shading and rendering so I'm just banging my head against the wall and experimenting with different stuff. Probably wasting way more time than I should, and the quality of my work also suffers from it.

>>4919177
progress

>>4916473
Cool work. I can see the Klimt in it.

>>4919405
your endgame is realistic drawing?

have you ever seen a more based painter
https://www.google.com/search?q=eduard+von+gr%C3%BCtzner&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Im so glad to see some trad in here. Im gonna bump this with a drawing I did for my Call of Cthulhu session.

The players found this hidden temple.

>>4919646
Yes

>>4919646
how about you anon? what is your endgame?

>>4919879
Pretty cool illustration. The only criticism I have is that the perspective into the hole might be off. It seems a little too deep/too steep. Maybe.
I've drawn things for games I'm running too, nothing so intricate. Usually just pencil sketches. (Not to deviate from art discussion too much, but may I ask what lurks beyond the door?)

any critique is welcome

>>4919879
Really fucking cool concept.
It evokes a sense of dread, like finding suburban basement stairs in the middle of the woods.

>>4920210
I think it has a lot of potential, but you’d have to be willing to either break some perspective rules in the name of cubism or make that recession of detail more smooth for me to consider it finished

>>4916473
sick

>>4920134
Yes! I need to get to work in more architecture, gotta do more boxes.
>>4920222
I'm glad at leas that point gets across, its a creepy place. I wasnt sure how it would turn out, and even tho this isnt "great" It makes me want to do more stuff.

>>4918524
yup

>>4920706
Not the anon but where do you sell your work? What is the price range and do you make the customer pay for shipping?
I'm looking to start selling some oil painting.

>>4916473
The figure is coloured pencil?

>>4920735
ebay, i do free shipping, price range is usually $140-$375. I have a few very large pieces for $10k plus but it's mostly 16"x20" and 18"x24" pieces.

>>4920768
Thank anon.

>>4918465
i'd prefer a painting painted the sides

>>4920902
i've heard that critique before, I like the aesthetics of the flat image on the canvas, not wrapping around the whole thing. As far as I know the "wrap the painting around the edges" thing is a modern affectation that didn't used to bother people. But I like the look of the flat image on the canvas it makes it look less like a factory made product and more like a handmade decoration. And people can always frame the work after they get it.

>>4920911
he's not talking about the sides of the painting (that aren't even visible in your documentation) he's talking about the parts of the canvas that don't have paint on them

>>4920911
>modern affectation
i don't think that's true, most paintings have frames to hide the sides

>>4920916
i'm sorry, this is a bad example because they're wall paintings--nevertheless, the point is about the abrupt discontinuation from a painting
no one leaves the random paint marks on display

>>4920916
Yeah people frame them usually, frames overlap those parts of the paintings, unless they’re in a floater frame but that’s usually reserved for larger paintings.

Generally when I paint on canvas I stretch myself I use larger stretcher bars, and the color of the ungessoed canvas takes away from the distraction of having them unpainted. I generally tell people not to frame those, they’re meant to be wired and hung like that. For store bought canvases people tend to frame them, I don’t have much input on what happens to paintings after people get them, some people put them in storage as a collection some people hang them for display, some people give them as gifts.

doing two self portraits today

>>4911391
I like it anon, has a nice expression in the faces and is just the right amount of cartoony. Make those stickers

how are you meant to sharpen these charcoal pencils? did i already fuck up the string? it didn't look like it'd reach the front folds

>>4921096
>how are you meant to sharpen these charcoal pencils?
nobody knows

here's the second self portrait

>>4921021
>>4921099
you ain't black Brian

>>4921128
im green

>>4921128
>you ain't black Brian
calm down joe biden

>>4921099
i painted chad

>>4897990
What is the difference between Gouache and water color? At what point do water color paints become Gouache?

>>4921376
it's thicc
>Gouache, body color, or
>opaque watercolor

>>4916187
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcp1lCW9YXc
Nice. I like the lighting of the room especially on the walls and ceiling, girl and outside.
The tree feels a bit flat I think, as if it's not really part of the room, but maybe you meant it like that.

>>4916764
Take better photographs of your painting.

>>4920768
Are the buyers always US based?

>>4921096
Don't pull on the string anymore. Just grab a single layer of paper near the top and gently peel, it will peel 'upwards' towards the tip.
Its kind of counter-intuitive.
See picrel.

>>4921399
Yeah I don’t want to deal with customs so I only ship in the US

>>4921381
are you supposed to use water with Gouache?

>>4921518
you can use water with whatever you want, same with any other implement you own, half the time I smear paint with my fingers

>>4921666
I used water on my tablet and it broke. Thanks for the tip faglord

>>4921687
You just didn't do it right. You need bleach and ammonia, mix those up with paint and the colors become way more vibrant.

>>4921666
what kind of advice is this

Started today

>>4921761
don't paint black people.

>>4921770
?

>>4921773
I hate them

>>4921752
retard advice

>>4921761
lookin' good

>>4921096
I use to use them at work and would go through hundreds of them. They suck to peel. You gotta unravel the paper really slowly or you can pull it away from the pencil and move the pencil in a circular motion to guide it. At the end of they day you're gonna go through half of the pencil from accidentally going to far and letting the lead to long. If you fuck up too much you can dig it out with a knife.

>>4922777
They use them at Starbucks which is really lame. It’s bad enough that’s where art school grads go to work, why rub it in their faces

>>4920754
Yes pretty much. painted a gouache base after I sketched, then did the gold acrylic paint and then started filling in the figure with both gouache and prismacolor pencils

>>4905897
Finally getting started on this. I have no idea what I’m doing but at least the sky is getting closer to what I want. I’m going for a Eugene Alexis Girardet feel.

How the hell do you keep acrylic paint from drying.
Styrofoam semi stopped it for a while but even that failed me, god damn it I just wanna be able to paint.

>>4922995
your big mistake was completely changing the composition. You had an image, you should've just painted that.

>>4923007
That was just an initial sketch. Idea’s the same, but hopefully it has more life to it now. I decided to add an adult cooking in a tent since the kid looked kind of out of place all alone. I’m probably wrong though.

>>4923005
Started putting a damp paper towel down in a sealable container, and it's kept the paint fresh for better than 2 weeks so far (with a little watering from time to time). I also dripped a bit of retarder on the paper towels too.

You can also use flow release in your rinse/thinning water to help keep the paint from drying on the brush. Shit cell picture, but you get the idea.

>>4923018
>expands composition and loses focal point on subject matter
>adds things freehand that weren't in the initial plan
these are the rookiest of rookie mistakes.

You need to change your mindset about making art. It's not about fitting as many little details and pieces of interest into a single piece as you can, a piece of art CAN be just a kid next to a horse, or a kid next to a fire, or an adult cooking near a tent. Not every piece has to be a mural. Rethink your approach because you are complicating what could've been a very quick, nice, simple piece in the name of showing off.

You clearly have some grasp on painting, drawing, and image making in general, but you need to scale back your ambitions for pieces. You could've made the piece what it was initially meant to be, and spent that time making a really nice motif on a large scale, but now there's about 6 other elements you have to bring up to that level, at a much smaller scale.

did a self portrait

>>4909590
Nice color palette!

>>4923145
You need to be actually good art before going picasso.

>>4923231
u just posted cringe dude

>>4923253
Every word of this is literal cringe.

>>4923145
Brian why are you so horny, I can see like three dicks and two pussies

>>4923300
west side

>>4923351
your work is better than what you posted 6 months ago when i was here last

>>4923082
Oh man. Hope I can fix it. I don’t paint at all really so I guess I just wanted to fit a lot of interesting things onto the larger canvas. Establish atmosphere, you know? I’ll see what I can do to simplify.

>>4919405
Finished. Made many mistakes and learned useful stuff the hard way. I rushed the feet a bit but I didn't want to bother.

Any critique is appreciated.

>>4923759
very nice anon

>>4923759
>>4923761
woops

>>4924140
looks like you had an accident

Illustrations of childhood fears, based on anon's stories.
P. 1.

>>4921775
Ngm

backyard