/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I dont know where to go from here, i draw these sketches and now theyre kinda okish but i dont know how to progress to take them to the next level, people say take more time but wtf do i do with more time, i drew this in about 5/10 minutes and just looked at it like well what can i even do with another hour or another 10 minutes? this is just the extent of my skill with drawing a face currently

>>4967650
Read the fucking sticky holy shit, go to /beg/, people have been telling you as much for weeks now, do you think you're above practicing or reading a book, like everyone else before you had to do? 10 fucking minutes and you are at a loss? Your drawing doesn't even have bottom eye lids for fuck's sake. What a fucking crybaby bitch you are

>>4967674
thanks anon :)

>>4967650
Try shading. Basic linework is all good and well, but add some volume or mood. You've pretty much said you can't think to go further than a rough sketch? As the other anon said there aren't even eyelids or anything

>>4967686
mhmm yeah i guess i should start shading, i know it sounds like im lying but no lower eyelid literally is a stylistic choice...

He really told him to jump into values

He really said no eyelids is my style

>>4967541
am I the only one who killed this guy every run for the ring

>>4967725
>He really told him to jump into values
whats wrong with this?

i did a quick paint

>>4967730
You have no grasp of fundamentals, this will be hilarious though, please carry on

>>4967731
could you tell me what specific fundamentals are lacking in this portrait?

>>4967732
Listening.

>>4967730
soul

>>4967541
Some pencils I am working on for a story with a friend. I really feel like they are not good enough but it is my first project so I am trying to forge ahead. Any opinions/critiques are very welcome. I am big boy

>>4967745
More o this

>>4967731
are you the same guy talking about lack of fundamentals near the end of the last thread

>>4967735
?
on the contrary. I only listen to correct advice. it is a skill, actually, to not listen to crabs like yourself on this board who are trying to hurt my progress out of jealousy, but thanks! :)

>>4967541
repostin from tailend of last thread

>>4967753
no

>>4967761
dunno why youd pretend to be me but ok...

Beg here. Just wanted to say OP's Pic related is fucking rad. What should i study to reach this level and do drawings like this?

I am a big fan of Craig Mullins by the way

>>4967541
Beg here. Just wanted to say OP's Pic related is fucking rad. What should i study to reach this level and do drawings like this?

I am a big fan of Craig Mullins by the way

>>4967778
there's a guy who false flags like this in every art thread

>>4967772
This is looking really good so far, keep it up!

>>4967650
learn anatomy and post your scribbles in /beg/ next time.

>>4967745
>>4967750
S-S-SOUL

>>4967930
Thank you so much my friend.

>>4967772
I like it even as is, maybe with the weapon filled out though

turning to glass.
Been playing a lot of ck3

Any pointers on the anatomy, perspective,etc?

>>4968101
Perhaps make her body appear at a higher angle, she looks like she's going to take a tumble down the stairs. Other than that the lines and color look fantasic! Good job anon.

>>4968101
Bigger tiddy

slow progress, damn i really didnt know how to draw feet

>>4968101
OOPS IM G-GONNA

>>4968204
COOM

>>4968247
lmfao

I don't know where to go. Might just quit this one and do some studies

>>4967541
I really want my drawing to come to life and enter the physical world.

>>4968247
i'm dying

>>4968247
soul

>>4968076
For a moment I thought it's Disco Elysium fanart

>>4968247
Sole

>>4968204
>damn i really didnt know how to draw feet
no problem

>>4968577
based

>>4968577
jeje

>>4968577
incredible. I should just let you finish the whole thing

>>4968577
god damn it

>>4968247
Are these for sale?

>>4968589
>I should just let you finish the whole thing
at your service

>>4968607
thank you anon. I'm going to print this out and put it on my wall

The person who drew the OP did draw something unironically soulful

was supposed to be a drawpile doodle but ended up working on it all day

>>4968615
you're giving yourself too much credit /beg/

>>4968795
go to beg and read the sticky

>>4968885
really diggin the linework in this

>>4967772
lads i got another commission and the boys are gathering for pubg tonight

Beg thread died for another troll so repost here
I wanna draw bunch of figures in space with background but all i can is those flat sketches
Idk what to do and how to move forward feel like i'm hit a dead end

>>4968247
Is this a 3d model? What did you use to make it?

>>4968353
I'll take that as a compliment, its a neat looking game my guy

>>4967794
That's really good. I can only say add more detail. Mullins's seem to have a lot of depth and detail. I think your values give depth, but, again, it missing the "eye journey" and complexity that Mullins can give.

>>4968108
This. Bigger head, wider shoulders. The bg doesn't match up with the fg. Also the bg color needs more contrast to the character. It's too 2D. Good job otherwise.

>>4968204
only her left foot is fappable

>>4968274
No, this is really good. Personally, I just think the superboy comic thing is just cliche. That theme particularly doesn't match with this style. Try pen.

>>4968302
stop watching cartoons

>>4968795
It looks like you have fun. It's bold doodles. Not much to advise upon. Good stuff for stickers and t-shirts, sorta like me lol.

>>4969002
Same

>>4968885
I'd love to see this finished, anon. /m/ fag here

>>4968615
no

>>4967541

>>4968615
doesn't even look finished

>>4969678

>>4969631
Blender and Maya

>>4969790
these are excellent, but i would say the composition is bad. showcasing each character one or two at a time would be much better.

>>4969821
>4969821
Chad illustrator

>>4969938
>must be zoomer.
>but he likes melee.

>>4969654
Oh anon i would love to have this level of skillz. This is literally a Craig Mullins painting, but don't worry. I will paint like him someday and will deliver. I promise.

>>4969946
Fantasic. got links?

>>4969946
this is awesome, you're well on your way already man

>>4969946
I hope to boost stomp brutes in halo infinite

>>4969951
I got them from an old Halo website. Let me see if i can find it.

>>4969953
Again. This is a Craig Mullins painting. I am not worthy of the praise at all.

>>4969974
I just hope the game to be good.

Study, I was surprised to find how limited the palette is; lots of colors that appear in the foreground still show up in the background despite the difference in depth. Hopefully I can actually incorporate that in my original pieces.

finishing off this hellish month of drawing everyday, i'll color some of these later this week. american psycho is my fav of the month

>>4968885
>>4969551
sick
>>4969581
cool
>>4969683
>>4969693
really good woh
>>4969938
love your lines and colors
>>4969949
amazing
>>4970065
i like their mouths

>>4970159
If I ever make my mad magazine ripoff I'm hiring you

>>4969949
STOP

winging it

>>4970404

>>4970649
i love this gif

>>4971150
blog?

>>4971150
>go back to /p/
oh wait

>>4969551
>>4967772
something I started with the spooky energy in the air

last

>>4972633
Really nice. Don't like how the far eye is bigger than the other one tho

tried some hard round brush single layer painting as practice and I have no clue what I am doing

Glenn Vilppu and Steve Huston as Zombies

>>4972670
I'm glad you raised the poleyn, looks better now. Still a generic character but well done.

>>4968108
Same guy here again.
I got some time to look at this after a while, so
tried to see if I just tilted her upper body more upright if it would fix the issue of her looking like she'd fall over.
If not, I'll take the L on this one and try and catch it in the sketch phase I guess lmao

>>4971622
I see it

>>4968108
Oh yeah, also ignore that white shit on her left boob, that was just a random stray mark I can fix in like, 10 seconds.

>>4972961
Thanks. My commissioner was really satisfied with how everything turned out.

The person who commissioned the character loves it, but I feel like it's not where it should be. I wasn't really a fan of "navy blue robes + purple cloak" as a color scheme, but it was requested.

Still, I'm very new to painting as a whole because color always scared me, but obviously I need to get better fast so I can keep selling art. So yeah, rip into it if you can, I need the help.

>>4973065
The guy's neck doesn't connect to the center of the torso.

>>4973085
That I am aware of, I've been leaving the face for last because it badly needs a paint-over, but I will fix the neck.

First time doing digital in years

>>4973106
You should stop symbol-drawing, even if you're drawing animu. Try to work with construction and actual three dimensional forms rather than everything being a cardboard cutout. There's no reason to rush through a picture if you learn nothing by the end of it.

>>4973110
What's symbol drawing in anime style? I did construct things, but i need to work on shading to make things more depth. Thanks.

>>4970256

>>4973115
Symbol drawing is the term for what your brain does naturally, which is replace real things with simplified representations of them. It means instead of breaking down forms and shapes and trying to understand the subject, let's say for example a hand, into it's actual component parts and laying it out properly on your page with structure, contour, perspective, etc., you just draw a blob with some thin blobs coming off of it and call it good because your brain will read it as a hand even in it's hyper simplified state because our brains are designed to simplify things and see patterns, not to see detail.

It doesn't matter whether you're cartooning, doing anime, or doing hyper realistic portraits, the same underlying steps still apply.

Even anime artists need to learn this stuff in order to up their game.

>>4968247
Hardiest kek

>>4968274
really solid but both perspective and anatomy is weak on the dismembered cop, especially on his lower body. I'd scrap it and attempt him again carefully observing the perspective lines.

>>4967772
Big improvements. Unrelated but did your client give you a deadline? You've been working on this for quite some time.

May keep working on this but I ran out of time and already gave it to the guy

mixed ref and imagination

>>4971150
Colorpicked to shit. There's no way you have this much control on hue+saturation while having /beg/ tier brushwork. Won't be surprised if it's traced too.
Shameless!

Bleh idk

Blah

70% fingerpainting

>>4973532
Poor guy

Thoughts? I thing Everything is a bit too hard-edged everywhere, I might soften the background edges.

Also, I got a bunch of questions about how to make money with drawing, like what sort of content to draw to make the easiest money (I don't care what, I'm broke and need money asap). Are there specific threads about that stuff? Or should i just make a thread about it?

>>4973223
No he is as autismo as me, so we both critique it and let it simmer. Plus he is my first through steam commission so I'm making sure it's good to his and my quality standard.

>>4973737
whats so bad about the brushwork?

I pushed some rendering on the fine details and added some gradient maps to swap the saturated blue for a more muted navy and darken the values on the cloak and push the overall saturation because my tablet is apparently more saturated naturally than my monitors so the whole thing was looking a bit washed out.

But I really want to make the cloak better and get a more streamlined form for the figure overall, but I'm not sure if it works to cover a lot of the chest details. Also the left arm is looking a little weird, I may have to tweak that a little bit. I'm noticing that it feels very long and should probably have the middle bicep part raised up a bit.

Started something new, mostly from imagination. But how the fuck do I get reference for this type of lighting? I've probably bitten off more than I can chew with this one.

>>4974562
https://www.google.com/search?q=hard+moonlight+through+window&rlz=1C1GTPM_enUS880US880&sxsrf=ALeKk00G3XivRHbvmtD7HLx0hQdsH8tYqQ:1604351104535&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw37jN4eTsAhVM1lkKHTntCxwQ_AUoAXoECAgQAw&biw=1920&bih=890#imgrc=tl4WztgKFZVsDM

Just the first thing I put into google, assuming it's a nighttime scene.

The thing I think that is most important to remember that there wouldn't really be such a hard terminator between light and dark in the case of strong light coming through a window like that. There might be a harder edge on the shadow on the floor, but there would still be a significantly large amount of bounce and ambient light in the room itself if the lightsource is bright enough to shine through the window like that. Especially because light spreads out and softens as it travels, so if the window is that high up and that far away as your picture implies, it would essentially be lighting the whole room rather than just that one tiny spot. Cast lights through windows aren't lasers.

>>4974567
I guess I should add, it CAN be an extremely strong terminator/contrast between the light and dark if you crank up the contrast to overexpose the light, or if the window is very small and there's no other possible source of ambient light in the room (which doesn't seem to be the case since you drew other windows) like in a prison cell or something.

>>4974574
>>4974567
Ty mate.
>assuming it's a nighttime scene.
I actually didn't. I guess I just have no idea how light works anymore lol. This is the only reference I was able to find of what i was thinking of so far. I image the room to be poorly lit while having strong light come in from the outside and cover the upper half of his head in shadow while having the face lit. True enough that it shouldn't read as a fucking laser so i guess I'll have to change the lighting scheme a bit while somehow keeping the face shadow.

>>4967690
>>4967730
>>4967745
>>4967750
>>4967772
>>4968076
>>4968101
>>4968204
>>4968247
>>4968302
>>4968795
>>4969551
>>4970162
>>4971831
/beg/

>>4967883
>>4968274
>>4968552
>>4969581
>>4969683
>>4969821
>>4969938
>>4969949
>>4970059
>>4970163
>>4970404
>>4972633
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>>4973065
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>>4974562
/int/

>>4968885
>>4969790
>>4970065
>>4970159
>>4971150
>>4971622
>>4972670
>>4973052
high /int/

>>4967794
>>4968577
>>4969693
>>4969946
/pro/

not a bad ratio guys but just remember, you're never going to make it if you keep posting here. that includes you, /pro/s.

>>4974583
Well if it's a normal daytime thing then really nothing special has to happen lighting-wise? You put some long shadows behind the characters and you give them a fairly strong highlight on the planes of their body facing the brightest window, but the whole room is lit pretty ambiently so you won't have super dark shadows on the back faces like you would if the window was the sole light source.

>>4974586
you got some weird grading criteria

also two of the pro ones are literally pro, they're by Craig Mullins

>>4974602
>you got some weird grading criteria
>btw 2 of the pro ones are literally pro
well whatever my criteria, it seems to be accurate.

>>4974586
hmmmmmmmmmmm
>>4971150
is prob traced and color picked. You sure seem to have a nice eye for art my man.

>>4974586
>high /int/
Whitebox literally can't do anything but lines and they're not even good lines, hes a below average INT. Look at any of his paintings, they're fucking terrible.

>>4974650
chad lines.

>>4974588
I guess the light makes more sense this way. I'll keep working on it

>>4974586
>/int/
i made it bros

>>4974586
>the Kojima chicken
>high int
there goes the list's credibility

>>4974586
>hurrr fully rendered = pro!!
It's so painfully obvious that you're /beg/gar.
Stop shitting up this general with your mass replies, and please post your work.

>>4974800
Kek.

also >>4968204 is /beg/, but also pro? >>4968577

Must be the dragon shoes

>>4974804
those two different posters
if you can’t see the difference in skill, you need to draw more

>>4967730
have i made gains?

>>4968885
Holy based

Need a few tips from some anons.

I'm getting thourght Drawing on the right side of the brain and I'm having a lot of fun, I made my own Viewfinders and Picture plane, but I have a little trouble with them.

When I got to Negative spaces and the drawing of the chair aside from the stuff I can fix like my Viewfinders being too bendy, it's very hard for me to focus in the drawing, because I'm either following my pen (Regular whiteboard marker, couldn't get my hand on a felt tip for now) or focusing on the chair and loose track of my pencil.

I'm trying to find a middle ground for both of these, but as of now, this is my first wall with this book. Any tips from anons that have done this before?

>>4974960
>is for biden
>is political
rip

>>4974915
no

>>4974915
>homelander seeing his kid choosing a nobody he barely ever saw over himself

Sketching this atm.

>>4974975
meh

>>4975013
you could sell this as a poster/print

>>4975013
Very nice.

Drew a birb. Never drawn a birb before.

I have more fun drawing shitposts then studying or drawing actual things

What you guys think? Im doing greyscale only for now, but i might soon move to coloring directly.

>>4975013
Blumpf

>>4974586
My crocs are /beg/ but I promise they are comfy.

Who is whitebox and which of these are his work?

>>4975307
To me personally I think your values are fine. I think what the problem here is that once you've started painting, you lose what the original sketch was underneath and the proportions become wonky and/or changed. You also seem to have a problem always keeping the perspective in mind for each body part. Here's a redline I did. There's a couple notes in the image too.

>>4967541

Feedback on how to improve?

>>4975386
add more pixels

>>4975388
As in a bigger canvas?

>>4975392
Lmao

>>4974586
>>4967772
All my stuff marked /beg/ huh :C, well this is what ive been working on today

meant for underwater

>>4975488
Your stuff is better than mine and he ranked me higher.

>>4975488
It's a shitpost

>>4975358
Not him but nice crit.

>>4975358
didn't even draw the picture, but i'm saving this

>>4975010
Looks good. You NEED to add more hair to the top right of her head, above her forehead.

>>4974022
I think you should make the couple and the couch just a bit lighter then the collumns, it will give more depth.

Could some nice anon give me a helping hand here? I can't figure out interior geometry for what ever reason. I put up a grid to construct it but it still feels off. (Don't mind the dude on the floor in broken perspective)

Turns out this became way harder then i expected.

>>4975857
Use 3 point perspective instead

>>4975358
anon here. Thats such a nice critique!
I'll keep a sketch layer for now on, or at least stop at some point of the painting and
do a red line check for the proportions.

Thank you so much, it really helped to identify an mistake early on! Now my workflow
will be more consistant.

I did some quick doodles before starting my day. I copied some drawings I found on gelbooru. Don't mind the big scribble at the bottom

>>4975920

>>4975932

>>4975843

Good tip man, thanks

>>4975935

>>4976069
mate, go do your math, if you want to draw pick up new paper and do it properly.
No one wants to see your calculus exercises to show how smart you are.

>>4976069
does ur mom know ur drawing in math?

>>4975912
Please reply to >>4975813, I'm not trying to criticize you, just genuinely curious.

>>4976089
Oh i didn't saw that! Sorry!
I don't really know who you're talking about. My biggest inspiration would be sinix design and to some extent, samuel youn. I wish i knew him tho, since you found similarities.

>>4976135
No problem, anon. I didn't know about Samuel Youn, thanks for sharing.
>I wish i knew him tho, since you found similarities.
Here we go : https://twitter.com/Nt__sm/media

This is something I'm trying to work on between other projects. Same guy from >>4973065 though this was started before that. Also, delivered that commission, client super happy with the final result, but I still want to re-paint parts to fix a lot of issues.

Anyway, I'm trying to essentially learn by stealing from one of my favorite artists' style, but he paints with actual acrylics on top of pencil sketches, so I'm trying to recreate some of that digitally. I need to learn how to push the lighting more and experiment with brighter, punchier colors.

Also I'm not in love with the pose/composition here, but I'm finishing it anyway because I need finished paintings.

>>4975841
I will be, its far from finished.

>>4976382
Love the gesture. The ogre truly looks like he has weight. Good texture on the leather too.

>>4976400
Thank you. I'm actually not really happy with the "weight of the pose on the troll because I feel like the left leg (stage right) is too far forward and it feels off balance. I think if I rotated the lower leg (from the knee to the foot) to make it so it was farther back it would give the whole figure a bit more stability.

>>4976075
>>4976072
it's physics -_-

>>4976475
cringe mate. calculus is physics, and calculus is math. Stop pretending. Again, no one cares, post drawings.

>>4976382
I think the arm holding the mace could use some more dynamism.
It's OK but he looks like a toy basically, with the arm in this position. It's not interesting.

Other than that it's good and better than what I could produce.

>>4975920
You've got a big load ahead to learn. I would recommend to study the actual human form, not from an anime reference. Perhaps even an actual photograph, or even the many youtube arties might have something to say about illustration anatomy. It's a pure fundamental for pornography of any sort.

>>4976475
Yeah, keep pretending you math class has anything to do with the scratch drawn next to it. There's nothing to say about it.
go /beg/ in /draw/

>>4975920
Source for the artwork on the left, please?

>>4975013
Impressive.

>>4975388
BTW, reference is the left pic.

>>4967541
Is her right hand too disconnected? I know it's not in the best spot, but I wanna know if it's too obvious

>>4976739
No, it's actually fine, keep going.

>>4976682
Teeth do not follow the outline of the lips, this is not a cartoon.
Teeth should be consistent in size and follow the jaw bones. The gums start showing when the lips are stretched enough.

First time drawing a vehicle. This thing make sense?

>>4976739
Her right elbow is too far down. Should be near the waist (although the hips are pushed far up in your stylization, so the elbows should be slightly below the waist).

Her index finger can't stick out like that considering the pose of the hand. It would need to be broken sideways.
Whenever you're doing hands try to do the pose with your own hands and see how it looks. Grab a broomstick if you need.

>>4976979
>>4975130
>>4969949
my nigga most of your lines don't make any sense in your drawings.
Are they for blocking in the values? Because the majority of them don't correspond to any value area.
Are they for conveying form? Because many of them go directly against the forms.
What the fuck are they beyond empty stylization? You need some sort of justification for them to look appealing.

>>4970159
that gene wilder is awesome

Study time. I got a little lazy because I’m a tired guy

>>4970159
Drumpf

starting off the morning

>>4977256
either you fucked up the foreshortening of the legs or it's too short. Can't tell because I don't have ref.

>>4977792
I absolutely fucked up the leg (a bit of both). It looks like the weight should bear on the knee and the calf should go along the ground plane

>>4975857
Its not 100%, but i tried to fix it under the assumption that the corner is symmetrical. Keep track of your vanishing points and check you construction with ellipses when you're unsure. Also don't jump into values before deciding on a light source, the lighting in this is all over the place.

Honestly, scrap the whole background and do a new composition. This one just looks weird - why are they in the tiniest corner when the room is (assumedly) so big? Why the focus on one corner? Why this unequal spacing of vanishing points? Try to think of what you want to communicate:
Power, the one guy winning, competence, might -> 1 point perspective
battle, movement, decision, change -> 2 p
one guy towering over the other, fear, empathy -> 3 p

>>4978208
and this is why we use reference kids

>>4978222
To be honest his/her work is not that bad.

Why is /ic/ so pretentious? I am 100% sure none of you here are good enough to have such high standards for criticizing other people's work. I can see talented artists in this thread but none of you are past int.

>>4977823
it can be forgiven if we say the other leg is carrying his weight which is not visible in this angle.

>>4977823
practice preserving the angles accurately when you're drawing from reference.

>>4978232
Lol everyone knows it's your art.
It's shit dude, you can't even tell if she's supposed to be sitting or standing, perspective is nonexistent, just look at that knee. It's directly from that nude anime girl laying on the dock shitpost, you're just too shit to notice. Not to mention the pasted on had that stands out like a sore thumb. It's a smorgasbord of beg concessions vomited onto a skewed plane, of course shitters will be greatly impressed by this anime tripe.
There have been hundreds of better artists here

>>4978232
/beg/s should be shot on sight outside of their containment board

>>4978222
>>4978432
>>4978232
>>4978208
I legit see nothing wrong with this an I like it.

>>4978764
No

This board is detrimental to growth. The sticky should be the only thread that exists.

>>4978797
/ic/ is a cesspool of contrarian and childish bullshit. People have this black and white view on art, with shitty board culture and memes conflicting with actually valid critique and teaching skills . For example, people have this idea that your skill in art is tied to "making it" when making it literally means just making money. Greg Land makes a shit ton of money, so hes made it, right? All critique and discussion can be simply shut off by a "I make money" and no one dares to challenge that. Everyone has this superior complex that they are a better person and because they spend 8 years drawing (with 6 years of that time being drawing cringy anime art on deviant art before even learning about fundies) you must not DARE post work that is flawed in any fundamental way. It's disgusting. And what do we get from this mess? Actual good artists, great artists, and even middle tier artists get their works ignore and absolute beginners and shitposters getting all the (You)s. And sure the beginners could use it but the issue is no one wants to put in effort into critique and analyzing a piece so they pick the easiest thing. So people get burned out because they think their art sucks or they keep making the same mistakes. It's pretty sad. It's also funny because /beg/ is probably the best general here because people actually give constructive critique, praise, and motivation. Every other general can be summarized as an image dump

>>4976596
Perspective of the feet is faulty.
>>4978106
Hip and feet are placed too forward. The pose might be exaggerated to convey gesture, but you still need to have a somewhat realistic center of mass.

>>4975010
Made more progress on this one, contemplating doing more than one shade of lead, and possibly inking the lines.

>>4978810
I used to post in /beg/ but was made to leave via obnoxious nonstop shitposters crusading for all higher begs to leave. Some people in any community just have mental issues and it makes things harder on everyone else. /ic/ should have post i.d.s

I can't seem to make good looking hair for the life of me. I know this was quite a shitty attempt to begin with, I should've spent more time on it, but goddamn. Same thing with colour, feels like I always mess it up.

>>4975130
make it your last

>>4979304
What do you mean?

>>4978036
Thank you man, I'll redo the whole composition since it lacked direction.

>>4978036
I gave it another shot, hopefully this conveys the message better.

>>4979681
good luck anon, have fun

how'm I doing /ic/?

>>4979952
Don't color pick the original image

>>4979961
What does color pick mean

>>4979963
using eye dropper tool on the reference to get the color instead of finding it yourself. You won't learn how to use color if you do.

here's a spaceship

>>4980022
and a tank

>>4980020
Oh that's wack

>>4979952
Also try to paint on a neutral color, a middle grey or tan. If you paint on white your colors will likely come out too light, and if you paint on black they'll likely be too dark. Yours is certainly very dark at the moment. Pretty good proportions though.

>>4976905
looking good, cant wait to see finished

>>4975013
Impressive. Very nice.

>>4980337
Super cute

>>4980552
holy shit if real

Amazing rendering, but I don't know what he focal point is supposed to be.

>>4974960
nailed the likenesses, super expressive faces, noice gesture with the hands and great lines and colors. I fuck with it lad.

I made a small portrait painting thing of a badger. it ended up becoming a little kitschy and was maybe overworked a bit, but I like how it came out otherwise. please critique, any advice for painting technique and brushwork is very much appreciated

>>4976905

>>4980786
I gave it a shot but take my paintover with a grain of salt, drawing fur is really out of my zone.
I see what you mean by kitschy. I think what makes the painting feel that way is how there's little variation in the shapes and direction of the brushstrokes -- everything is very uniform, to the point that looking at the piece feels redundant.
Also, I like the colours you use.

>>4967772
I think i can wrap this one up completely next time I work on it.

>>4980867
fuggg didnt attach
>>4980861
kinda like both
>>4980802
super cozy and nice textures/values :D
>>4980552
I'm in awe of the might of this lad

i have the cronical issue of never being able to finish shit, i either dislike it or discard it or get bored or frozen and i dont know how to follow, any tips?

what do you guys think of my Asians

>>4981008
I would jump into that harem

>>4981008
They all look the same

Good job

Getting bored with this but I'm trying to commit to finishing drawings

>>4978432
That's not my work man, because I don't draw anime, and I believe that guy's work is better than what I can produce. Why don't you show us how it's done? post your work, you seem to have very high standards.

>>4980552
This is great.

>>4980868
Holy shit are you still working on this? I heard you say that it's a commission some time a go so i assumed you did this full time.

Hello

>>4981436
I work on other things too since I started that one a month ago, I find trying to brute force a single piece doesn't work well with me or is as fun as coming back to it with fresher mentality.

>>4978208
Not really a critique. I just wanted to see if I could improve it.

>>4980971
Imo it's normal to discard drawings fairly often, especially sketches. However you'll also find value in taking your work farther. I can see many areas in your piece that would definitely benefit from cleaner rendering and shapes (ex. the ear and the neck/clavicle are very rough). If you only ever stick to drawing rough portraits while omitting details, you're sort of depriving yourself of valuable practice.
As you practice carefully rendering forms then you'll eventually learn how to simplify them, if speed is your goal.

>>4981579

>>4980861
nice, I could feel that my brushwork felt very bland and uniform but I couldn't figure out what to do with it. your approach feels much more organic and lively. awesome crit, thank you very much!

>>4981020
>They all look the same

>>4981484
The hands look a little funky but otherwise I like it. Really digging the hatching

>>4982620
Based as fuck

>>4981008
There's something oddly unappealing about your drawings, maybe it's the squiggly lines, but I like your stuff, better than mine anyway. Keep it up

Beg here, got ignored on the /beg/ thread so now im here

>>4982653
It isn't deep, it's just very beg.
Please check the sticky out and take a look at some of the recommendations it has. Feel free to ask for any specifics or to continue posting your work to chart your progress

>>4975488
im gonna overhaul the hair next and work on fleshing out some requested adorned jewelry.

>>4980552
Youve made it

>>4981020
kek

>>4980552
I don't understand what's so special about this piece and why everyone is jacking off on it.

>>4981579
you made it worse but not bad

>>4982055
idk how people do lineart like this but it's impressive. Especially the shit on the legs.

>>4982785
Because you're incapable of sketching a loomis head. The eternal /beg/ can't even conceive the process that goes into a piece like this.

Am i GMI?

>>4982791
you're assuming too much in an anonymous board, you don't know it could be the other way around mate

>>4982875
pyw and prove him wrong (you can't)

>>4982938
>>4982791
I can.

>>4983064
Thats beautiful

>>4983064
That's a crop of a finished work, if you want me to do a loomis head you gotta pay for it because I don't work for free.

some sketching

hey bros, need some advice for rendering face in particular. for some reason the less rendered face looks better than the more rendered one. what am i doing wrong? feel free to draw over them if it helps

>>4982629
based on what?

how am i doing? also wtf do i do after this step?

>>4982007
I assume this is the same artist who drew the dragon that became an ic favorite? Keep it going buddy.

>>4983233
ctfu

>>4983287
You expect the drawing to turn out bad because your measurements are very inaccurate

>>4983524
what parts are inaccurate?

>>4983229
because in rendering it you changed the facial features. Also there are too many colors of similiar values. Theres almost 0 contrast between the shadow,, base and light values making it look muddy. In the right there is a high contrast in the nose, eyes, and mouth to the rest of the face making it look clear and not muddy.

>>4983527
This is a pointless question to ask because in the end if you can't see it yourself then there's no way you can make corrections based on the mere word of another's perspectives.
Read the sticky and keep practicing

>>4983578
please just for the sake of it point out a single measurement that is very inaccurate

>>4983582
Are you joking? The way you're wording that post implies you find it hard to believe it isn't perfect. The hairline is skewed, the eye sockets aren't sitting at equal heights or diameters, the jawline is a mess, the nose is a trainwreck, it's like a day 1 beginner's idea of construction, nothing seems measured

>>4983624
no i know its a fucking trainwreck which is why i asked here for advice, im beg as fuck i just wanted actual feedback rather than just "lmao this is bad read sticky" and i thank you for actually giving me that

>>4983582
Also it's not even centered and the perspective is all wrong, the mouth is embarrassing

>>4983632
You should still read the sticky and practice more

>>4983633
how is the perspective wrong when i literally traced a photo though? what part is wrong in perspective?

It's slowly coming together, but this was a clusterfuck of bad work process. Hopefully it's going to look okay when I'm done establishing the light and values. I'll run everything over with more paint and fix some of the anatomy later. Also yes i'll fix the pillars.

>>4981559
Aha, what ever works for you man. Usually i just power through everything. Maybe i'd get better results if i took breaks too. I like your work.

>>4983636
Because photos curve

>>4983636
You symbol drew a few things even though you traced, most notably the upper lip

>>4982794
Ask again in one year and I'll tell you

new thread

>>4984601

>>4984601

>>4984601