/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71rha3140k

>>5207951
should I be convinced with a man wiho drew that in sticks?

I've definitely improved in 3 years but I still suck at drawing full bodies

posting here again. Havent drawn traditional in months and might have gotten too reliant on tools, proportions are all fucked.

>>5207963
no, you should do your due diligence.

>>5207972
fairly good drawing. I think it would do you good to go back and really get a good grip on structure and basic forms in perspective. You've got the perspective of the main forms down but a lot of the details get wonky and unclear

>>5207946
Where did you get the background?

>>5207946
what was the point of tracing the background? it looks like one of those AI generated landscapes

>>5207993
Trying Loomis heads.
I have a hard time with the construction of the ball but i think i'm getting there.

Yet i can only draws ugly androgynous faces.
Is it my features that are poorly done or the whole foundation?

Thanks, welcoming any critique.

>>5207993
Fuck i accidentally quoted (You), my bad.

>>5208050
hazukashii desu ne

>>5208052
die chink, you're an embarrassment

>>5208041
draw from reference using the loomis method

>>5208054
oh! no, i am just a weeaboo

>>5208061
die weebtard

>>5208063
fair enough!

>>5208054
>>5208063
iyana yatsu -sune

>>5208240
/fag/ is that way ->

>>5208240
nice expression.

Fun with a Pencil is quite fun!

>>5208270
>i
know draw your own potato heads

>>5208270
Loomis is honestly the most fun way to learn.

>Loomis
Draw these cartoons, now draw things you love! Now draw from imagination! Invent your own figures and stories! Study up your anatomy when you need to. Draw from nature. Know the type of art you want to make! Your individuality is of the highest importance! Collect references of interesting things and organize them!

vs

>250 boxes
>250 cylinders
>100 treasure chests
>mirror rotated planes
>draw these bones
>Draw these beans
>draw these robo beans
>draw these superimposed straight lines


Like, I understand the importance of exercises, but a lot of art courses with arbitrary assignments that instructors put together can in fact be not appropriate for your own artistic journey and the kind of goals you want to accomplish. You should just be given the theory and then apply that theory to the kind of drawing you want to do. Being told what to draw and what to do can be stifling and slow down your growth as an artist.

>>5208304
stfu retard, loomis is good but is way faster doing specific exercises for specific stuff you want to draw

>>5208270
Liar

>>5208321
no it isn't

>>5208296
Is Shibafu learned from Loomis? Anyone know?

Ok I know it's really autistic to ask "how long until I can do X"

but I am starting from nowhere, literally drawing circles and cubes right now. My dream in the future would be to create a manga as well as a visual novel. Multiple if possible. So when we think about a typical fantasy/supernatural battle-ish Visual Novel, how skilled are the artists typically? Think about something like Fate/Stay Night. H-h-h-how long would an average human ape take to reach this level?

I know manga would probably take even more skill

>>5208386
2 years and be a neet

Today's session. I'm working with Andrew Loomis' Head & Hands book. I definitely need to work more on this.

>>5207946
not /beg/

>>5207946
very /beg/

up close shot of the first 2 rows.

My front face is so bad because I think I don't narrow the sides of the head and then try to make it work which it won't

>>5208511
>>5208523
One personal tip that works for me is to just work in pencil and then ink with a micron or ballpoint pen. Pencil can get too messy, especially with too dull a point for your fine lines. Also, draw bigger. maybe around the size of your palm

>>5208529
that is pencil, mechanical pencil. But yeah I draw super small. I need to draw bigger. I had immense trouble with the lips and noses because of the size

>>5207946
I know what to grind to learn the naked figure, but how do I approach clothing? It's something that's always given me trouble

I literally don't know where to post this. Is there any decent drawing program on Linux that isn't Krita that doesn't use Wine/Emulation?

>>5208386
7 years with 3 hours of drawing per day

>>5208596
There's Gimp but it's probably still shit

>>5208596
No.

>>5208596
next best thing is to emulate windows

>>5208596
linux is for sysadmins and masochists. get a macbook
i use arch btw

>>5208722
>get a macbook
Macs are for people with jobs and teenagers, never buy one with your own money

Where can I find resources for learning how to render?

>>5208880
https://www.ctrlpaint.com/
unironically the best free resource on the internet

>>5208888
Where are lessons 6 and 7?

I really want to draw some comics, also the bottom left is from this animated music video of Stupid Horse I found interesting

>>5208270
How the fuck do you all draw these potato heads so nicely

>>5207993
>what was the point of tracing the background? it looks like one of those AI generated landscapes
ai isn't that good at generating landscapes

Why the only stuff I draw that looks good is the one done by watching somebody else's work. Why I can't just draw like a normal person. I don't want to copy others. That's shitty.

Im trying not to outright trace her legs, but I'm having a hard time with her left leg. How should it look with the knee at that angle? I would be grateful for simple references for drawing legs too. Thanks.

>>5208942
I have no good input of any sort but there's a quality anime I haven't seen around in ages.

>>5208596
AzPainter. Linux users pride and joy, and envy of us winfags who has only outdated buggy version.

>>5208945
I love it a lot. I want to learn to draw so I can draw this ducky in different poses.

>>5208304
I totally agree with the draw for fun and learn as you need but
>You should just be given the theory and then apply that theory to the kind of drawing you want to do.
How would we do that? we would just ended up having much less fun than if we were drawing for fun and learning much less than if we were doing the exercises. not to mention that some of those are physical training not just theory, we need do the reps for it to be effective. like with superimposed lines how can we implement this into a normal drawing?

>>5208386
>Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can

>>5208596
what is wrong with krita?

Not bad for a loomis head, yes?

>>5208960
they are furries for one

>>5208954
>learn how to make a box look correct in perspective
>apply that idea to anything box-shaped in what you're drawing
>learn about construction
>start marking down basic forms of whatever you're drawing before you move into the details
etc, etc
applies to literally all of it
you are doing the reps by actually doing it
>less fun
you're not doing anything radically different, you're just implementing a new technique into your workflow. you're still drawing whatever the hell you wanna be drawing.
>superimposed lines
this and the other early DAB lessons are entirely about pen control which you'll also learn by just putting in time drawing.
if you're that attached to it then put an emphasis on inking your sketches or something, copying the lines you've already made.

>>5208990
also gonna add - everybody learns differently. if setting time aside to do these exercises on their own is helping you, then fuck it, do what you want. i've learned over the years that i learn best by getting my hands dirty and putting new ideas into practice, but i'm not everybody.
can't hurt to give it a shot though

>>5208386
Years.

>>5208990
>draws 12 figures with just the construction in mind
>draws a figure to have fun but using construction
who would learn more?

>draw just to have fun
>draw to have fun but also applying stuff that he just learned but never used before
who would have more fun?

>>5208937
>like a normal person
A “normal person” basically can’t draw at all. The default for someone who has never studied drawing before is to be as bad as the worst person in the /beg/ thread. Drawing from imagination is really fucking hard and it takes years to learn. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

Bros how do you even remember the silhouette of an object after you take your eyes off of it. I forget shit immediately. Am I just ngmi?

>>5209042
How the fuck do you forget the ellipse?

Recently bought a pen tablet.

Any criticism and advise will helpful

>>5209058

>>5209055
It's just shitty hand control

>>5209062
Ok that is not entirely shitty hand control but you get my point

>>5209058

>>5209070

>>5207946
should i start tracing to be in the OP image?

No idea how to place the hulking figure behind the guy.

meant to be leaning over his shoulder to look at the map he's holding.

One sheep
Two sheep
It's time
For sleep

>>5209074
Yes, tracing is the way to success. Even nvidia is doing it

I've been reading a book for 3 days and I'm pretty sure I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing. I think I'll just give up and go back to drawing cubes for a month.

>>5209134
Love the cock armor

>>5208386
>>5209020
Basically this. You can set goals like "gotta make it in 2 years" "I gotta master this subject in X weeks" but that's just setting yourself up for disappointment. Accept the process and accept that it'll take thousands upon thousands of hours. If you think you're willing to put that in than just enjoy the process however long it may take and make the best out of it.

>>5209150
Don't do it bro you are doing great already. Just maybe stop drawing facial features like literal shapes unless that's by choice

>>5209235
I just got lazy with the ears, the rest are a mix of incompetence and insisting on major lines to see if I fuck up too much or not. Usually I remove them later but that one's just practice

Finally finished off my first notebook. It took a year, but I'm going to finish off the next one quicker. I did not get much better.

>>5209400
I’m about 7 sketchbooks in and it’s only now that I’m finally starting to feel like I might be improving and everything isn’t hopeless.
Keep going. And draw more often. A book per year is pretty darn slow (not that I’m much faster).

>>5209042
the greater the distance that your eyes have to follow the easier it is to forget.

damn, audio books are great! even if I am just absorbing 1% of the knowledge, I am consuming 1000% more and enjoying it.

>>5208041
>>5208058
Tried again this time one from imagination and with the reference as suggested.

I have a hard time drawing the ball, the reference one looks nothing like the model as expected, especially with the side of the ball that need to be cut off.
I still have trouble seeing how the ball fits into all this.

>>5209545
Forgot pic lol.
I fixed her midway because she had a huge jaw and diverging eye.
Looks like i just made the mistake in the opposite direction.

If anyone have a critique or an idea of what i'm doing wrong please tell.

hand studies from today. What do you think?

Question about colours: is it normal that a lot of shades of green look almost the same to me (example: #34eb40 and #46eb34)? No test shows that I have colour blindness, but I have a particularly hard time with choosing which green to use, and that doesn't happen to any other colour.

>>5207946
What resources do anons recommend for drawing people in perspective and environments? I've done perspective made easy, which briefly touched on the subject, but I'd like something more thorough.

Want to gift a book to my nephew that wants to learn how to draw, should I go with fun with a pencil or keys to drawing?

I like video courses more so I don't read art books.

Best resources for understanding and practicing Value/tone?

>>5209074
I just chose it to make the mirrors edge joke, it is also a good thumbnail.

>>5209565
kinda flat and you are not considering the anatomy of the hand, pay attention to the real shapes of the fingers

How do you guys build stamina for drawing? I find myself feeling mentally saturated after an hour of doing perspective practice

>>5209662
have you heard of taking a break?

>>5209678
Wtf no

I'm trying to learn a more "painterly" style, but can't achieve it yet
Any tips on exercises and studies that I should be doing? (beyond the fundamentals - I'm looking into that already)

How long to paint on this level assuming ~3 hours of serious practice/day?

>>5209715
Holy fuck what is with all the people asking “how long to get this good” today.
Never, the answer is you will never be that good. Happy now?

Does anyone have a resource or some advice I can use to avoid sticker eyes? I'm not entirely sure how to show that they sit in sockets at different angles.

>>5207946
Why is this the /beg/ op pic

>>5208894
Aimkid is practically a master of perspective at this point, you need that more than anything to do what he does

>>5209719
No, I want an answer to my question from someone who isn't a fellow shit-tier beginner and irritated because 100% of the posts he sees aren't useful to him.

Posted 2 threads ago but came in right as autosage hit

>>5208596
Mypaint maybe?

>>5209741
Be honest anon, do you think this looks even remotely presentable?

>>5209741
You've got her face skewed off to one side and you have her nose pointing out the wrong with a huge nostril. Did you draw a cross and circle first to get the right proportions?

>>5209715
literally check in the archives there are tons of retards making this similar question

>>5209818
lol

the huge nostril tho

>>5209741

>>5209735
You just want gratification, you haven't even posted any work

>>5209715
you'll find out from working 3 hours per day consistently how long it takes

>>5209567
Could be that your monitor is ass at displaying greens.

>>5209715
Absolutely basic painting, blur effect. Like assuming you can draw it you should be able to do this straight away. If not then practice drawing not painting

>>5209943
Hahaha pyw

>>5209948
oh I didn’t realise you were retarded. 3 hours a day it should take you roughly 6 lifetimes

>>5209948
you will never make it

>>5207946
help

I feel like I did a decent job with the coloring, don't you think?

gonna aim for two draws today!

>>5209684
You should study how to pick colors. Your color choices make the whole thing look extremely flat and boring.

And the horse is wrong but there's no way not to suck at drawing horses anyway.

>>5208386
Think it that way: FSN was made by multiple artists. Different guys for sprites, backgrounds, lineart, coloring etc.

>>5210074
bruh

>>5209723
did you try doing studies?

>>5209741
did you try draw a box yet?

>>5209684
This is a bit too advanced for your skill level, going by the mistakes in anatomy. You con work on a painterly style working on studies building a scene like this, while also improving your overall skills.
I'll pick one issue - of many, for you to look at:
The perspective and anatomy of the rider. His legs, astride a horse, would be spread wide. You have his legs connecting at a central point in his lower torso, with no accounting for a pelvis. That, and the perspective and construction of the saddle is all wrong, horse's backs don't go straight back like that.
It's not bad, it's just far above your skill level. Look at the mistakes in perspective and anatomy, while working on developing a painting style. Pull the pieces of the scene apart and work on them separately. Work on horses, saddles, the human body, and textures and lighting.

>>5209735
There is no answer. Some people work fast, some don't. Their speed or lack of it has nothing to do with you. It will take as long as your skill level allows - some good artists might do that in an afternoon, others a week.

>>5210080
>>5210141

That makes sense. I agree, I have difficulty choosing colors and I guess I relied too much on my imagination for the anatomy.
Thank you, the mistakes you two pointed out will help me know what I should be paying attention to

>>5209741
>win7
Why

>>5210214
india

Is Steve Huston's recent basic anatomy course recommended?

>just break it down into simple boxes/cylinders and place those
It's been a few years now and I can't even fucking draw the basic solids where or how I imagine them, let alone with proper anatomy.
I try to really think about where to put my lines but I consistently turn it into a fucking mess of misplaced, formless, scribbles.

>>5210256
Why don't you try drawing over a gesture? It looks stiff and unbalanced af

>>5210263
gesture is a meme

>>5210269
no wonder you think so

>>5210289
pyw

I want to make a comic or something.
So I'm keeping colors simple, but things just look off..

>>5210263
sure, but I won't always have a ref of the exact pose i want from the exact angle

I'm going through Fun with a Pencil because I want to learn how to draw people but I'm struggling with some of the facial accents he does, or at least understanding the building blocks of the face. Nose, ears, eyes, and mouth placements I understand, but it's things like cheek bones and chins I'm not quite picking up. Are there rules for the more foundational parts of the face like there is the more expressive parts (i.e eyes go on the dividing line, nose begins where the vertical and horizontal lines meet etc.)?

>>5210314
7-8 months in with little anatomy knowledge
>>5210392
shoot, baited by a different dude? well it was practice

>>5207946
Pls critique, I want to make full fledged anatomically correct line art. Very recently switched from pencil and paper to a tablet.

>>5210327
most important thing to get right is the faces. I would spend a couple hours a day for the next two months just copying art with the style of faces you want to go for.

>>5210407
Just use simple balls for the cheek. There's a reason why you're drawing blooks, its because you're not supposed to overthink the anatomy at this point. Once you get down the process of construction, immediately go draw other stuff you like. Find photo references and draw the stuff in there using the process that you used in drawing blooks.

>>5210141
Overlaying a new sketch (which could still be improved) based on your reference , I can see what you're saying.

>>5210428
thanks, I should practice faces more

>>5210434
But what gets accented on those balls? This for example, he draws the circles for cheeks but I don't know how he decides which lines get actually detailed. Is that something that will just come along in the book?

>>5210424
books
The Complete Guide to Anatomy for Artists - Gottfried Bammes

Anatomy 4 Sculptors

>>5210424
I've found that studying anatomy helps.

One day I'll study arms, then back, etc.

helps to put things into logical order when you draw it.

>>5210269
Gesture is emphasized entirely too much here, but it's an important and useful thing to learn.

>>5210327
You're mixing airbrushing in the sky with flat colors and random paint strokes on the ground. Pick a style. If the ground and figure are flat shapes, them make the sky the same, draw some solid, stylized clouds.

>>5210435
Good. Keep going. Remember, break things down. Do studies and sketches of the parts of the overall piece, then refine them into a finished panel.

>>5210472
>>5210481
thanks brehs

remember begs: A healthy person has a thousand wishes, a sick person has one.

Critique pls i am new

>>5210518
that makes sense.
Thanks, I'll try to fix it.
>>5210428
by the way, I was wondering on the specifics about the anatomy. What should I focus on when I'm practicing faces? I can't really catch the error

>>5210214
I would still be using mine if microsoft didn't decided to not support my new cpu :(

>>5209961
perspective drawing handbook by d'amelio should help plus anatomy/figure study

>>5210550
Looks ok, work on some proportions and keep on studying and you'll be fine

I am really afraid of using references and get accused of tracing when I am not. I am also afraid of drawing something from imagination and make it extremely similar to other pre existing piece of art. Can someone help me with this? I need to change my mindset. This is making me incapable of drawing

I posted this in the vent thread, but I am a /beg/ so maybe you can help me here guys. I appreciate your opinions

>>5210601
always draw from ref and ignore witch hunting

>>5210628
But why exactly? I am afraid of developing bad habits if I don't draw from reference. Can something like that happen?

>>5210550
the pec connects to the upper arm. the mannequin on the top left should be not as full because it is being stretched out from the arm being up

>>5210650
no, but you'll develop bad habits no matter what if you don't have someone like a teacher to oversee what you're doing

>>5210601
you have to draw from reference a lot otherwise your mind will fill in the blank and you'll make mistakes that aren't accurate to the final product's goal.

Even when they animated Sleeping Beauty, they filmed a version live action so the artists could use references.

made this gay ass drawing. something feels really off about the pose. is it a foreshortening problem or is the whole perspective just really off?

I traced but I still suck at rendering so its still dogshit ...

>>5209741
Keep drawing anon

>>5210694
Hey it's not bad, good work! Why don't you try to follow a painting guide next time? Maybe you learn a new technique

>>5209891
Kek

>>5210707
Thanks! Yeah I should check out a step by step guide honestly rendering is overwhelming for me right now

Give it to me straight, how bad is it?

I am trying to imitate the look and feel of a retro shoujo manga, but I'm not sure which materials were used to color manga back before Copic markers were being used. Around the internet, it seems that watercolors, ink, and pencils were used, but I'm not sure about the solid color and colored lines seen in some retro shoujo manga.

How am I supposed to make gradients with hard round brushes? Low flow and opacity? Extremely small brush size?

>>5210738
You're meant to blend for soft edges. But using a soft round brush for soft edges is completely fine too, it's a matter of preference.

>>5210738
What program do you use? If you use either Photoshop or CSP, I suggest taking a blender brush, fiddling with it until the settings are right for you, and blend a small area between the two areas of color.

>>5210723
Not Bad, actually

>>5207714

Alright Loomis is all good and fun, but what am i supposed to do if i can't draw a ball with flattened sides?

>>5210768
Learn to draw a ball, learn to draw a flat side, then do both at the same time.

>>5209138
fuck this is really underrated lmao

>>5210550
Stop baiting for attention you're already almost at 100k followers isn't that enough frenchie?

>>5210791
I don’t know if it’s a joke.. but I am far from 100k and french aha

>>5210770
I just don't know how to cut them lad.
Each of them looks like so fucking wide.

am i gonna make it?

>>5210768
Practice

>>5210748
Good to know anon, you give me hope

>>5210682
her right shoulder is super long

>>5210797
I really wanna be mad but the fact you made an account just to shit post is kinda funny lol. Try to change your style if you don't wanna get spotted though

>>5210800
This is a shit post isn't it

>>5210837
Hahaha i dont know what you’re talking about hmmmm????????

>>5210800
nigga I hope you are joking

>>5210847
never change lmao

>>5210800
The box for the head feels like an optical illusion man, that shit hurts to look at

You ever stop while drawing coomer art and wonder “why”?

>>5210851
I swear anon, but pls do follow

>>5210855
Not beg, fuck off

>>5210864
did you forget what thread this is lol

>>5210864
Fuck you, you cocksucking shitlicker! I’m forever /beg because the crabs told me so! Not you or anyone else can take that away from me and if you try then I’m going to hunt you down and fuck you ‘til you love me, faggot!

>>5210866
I don’t get it.

>>5209731
what are some exercises I can do to help out with perspective?

>>5210871
The fastest but least fun is drawabox. Slower but less boring is using a perspective grid whenever you draw for a while. Drawabox can arguably actually make you learn slower if you don't apply it to regular drawing as well, I learned that the hard way

>>5210845
>>5210848
>>5210853
no bros please help me i'm desperate to draw porn to pay for my rent

Is there any tutorial on drawing hair?
Vilppu, Loomis and Hampton explain head drawing, but cut short at how to do hair.

Should i just trace ?
Why can't i block in well?

I'm really trying to get the hang of that loomis shit, but it seems i fail already right at the construction phase.

>>5210879
Fuck you, dude. If I’m NGMI than you’re NGMI. We’re all NGMI.

>>5210876
I'll try out both and see what happens

>>5210892
that looks good though, are you trying to crab the new begs?

humblebragfags gtfo

>>5210897
No, i'm not here to flex on guys less advanced than me or fish for compliment, i wanted to draw Proko, and i drew a head that at first i was satisfied in but it's just not Proko.

After years of practice i'm starting to realize i put my effort in the wrong way, so yeah alright i think i can draw a nose correctly, have volume in my drawings but at the end of the day i still can't draw a face comfortably, Loomis is foreign to me and when i superimpose my drawing to the pic i realise the face looks completely different.

We're all at different skillset man, we have our strength and weakness, and i just want to fucking draw a portrait correctly without having an eye one centimeter left of where it should be.

>>5210904
I don't know proko seems like a generic looking guy nothing there to capture his likeness also I think you kinda smashed his ear

>>5210911
I don't know how i missed that honestly.
I was so focused on the eyes and the angle of the head being all different.
Thanks b.

I'm not really trying to be a professional at all, but I may have sort of taken a request to draw something. I don't know how to draw hair or how to proportion hair on a head. I'm trying to go for a more black circles for eyes type of look of the center pic. Left face is my first attempt while the right face is my most recent.
TDLR: How to draw hair or anything (Yes know it's in MS Paint, It's just a draw request)

I'm not even attempting the feet yet

I've been told I'm terrible at drawing heads and faces.
So I'm going to practice a bunch of heads and see what exactly is the problem.
To be honest, I thought I was... okay.. at least. But I guess you can't tell if you're bad at it. Kinda got hit in the ol' ego there.

Is there a virtual reference tool for Asaro's planes of the body like there are for Asaro heads?

>>5211170
I'm going to assume that this isn't your work because it looks good.

>>5211196
It is my work, but it's all from reference.
Two of them are from drawings. (Rockwell and some renaissance guy idk)
I wanna know how I could improve my drawing from imagination I guess

>>5211184
no

Hello i need tips for improve, dont like how see it ( I try pixel art)

>>5211085

>>5209547
apart from proportions being off, what would you say is going wrong here if someone put a gun to your head

>>5210682
looks like she is 10 heads tall

>>5210723
unfinished/10

>>5210764
beg here, I think the vanish point is too close and might have two of them

>>5210768
you need to improve your hand control, I recommend draw a box for this.

>>5210855
she has a double chin?

>>5211042
try draw a box

>>5211085
>amputee
hot

>>5210064
Not so much, compare left cheek and mid nose, they are are planes the face same direction, yet the nose get light from the side and the left cheek from normal, be mindful when you practice and work with some reference to remind you of facts.

>>5207946
How do I make a shot like that in OP's picture ? Is it all just traced from a drone photo ? Drawing cityscapes is specially difficult, all I want is to draw spiderman swinging around but making many different buildings at creative angles is hard.
If someone has an archive full of nice city and buildings pictures please link it
sorry for the coom bait, just want someone to reply

I keep using the blend tool in csp it feels very convenient, is that a bad thing?

>>5211085

What's the correct image size to use when you draw? How many pixels should your brush be when you do sketches or inking?

>>5209741
You should try more angled faces so you can get rid of your terminal case of symbol drawing.

>>5211063
I like his/her 3rd leg gachiHYPER

>>5211718
entirely up to personal preference.
right image size? whatever aspect ratio you want, usually in the range of a few thousand px per side, usually about 150-300 dpi depending on what you plan to do with the image.
brush sizes are also personal preference, though they largely depend on how big the canvas you're working on is - a 5px brush will look much bigger on a 100x100 canvas than a 1000x1000 one.
just find and use a size that allows you to comfortably create smaller details. i've been using something like 4-6px on a 2000x2000 canvas lately and it's been fine.

>>5207946

>>5211916
KAWAII
MANKO
KIMOCHII

God dammit I just can’t get her hands right!

>>5211933
put your hands in your face, feel how big it is

>>5211718
as big as your pc can take it without slowing down, I use 4000px for the smaller side

>>5211933
Excited to see her get fucked in the ass by aliens

>>5211718
I use 300dpi and usually 2000x2000 or 2160x2700. Pen size is usually 20 and brushes vary depending on what I need to do.

>>5211948
300dpi?

>>5211960
I don't know, I only worry about the amount of pixels.

>>5211972
Bro DPI is more important than huge canvas size. Please don't give advice

>>5211992
why?

I want to make her look wild and feral but there is something missing

>>5212009
For reference this is her normal face.

>>5212009
look wild and feral to me, do you have a reference of what you was going for?

>>5211388
What?

>>5212017
This was the first time I drew her like that, but i can't replicate it.

>>5212009
>>5212011
>>5212028
Also not happy with the pose

>>5212029
The first time was also better.

>>5210892
Yeah it's weird how you can have a drawing that seem to pretty much match the reference but still look nothing like him. I'm not sure myself where exactly the likeness comes from. I'd maybe guess that you haven't managed to portray the depth at which the eyes sit and how the nose protrudes, apart from the obvious things where the forehead line doesn't match the reference for example.

It would be cool if someone who's good at caricatures could comment.

What I'd try is to copy more the feel of it. It seems to work much better. Take the mouth for example, it has a certain emotion/feeling/look to it which you haven't managed to copy. Or the eyes in your drawing they have a more blank stare it feels like

>>5211959
>>5211992
>>5211960
Dude what are you talking about. DPI? Thats for printing. I honestly don't know why programs have settings for it. I don't know what it does.
But I do know it doesn't change the image in any way. Or how you can display it. Your monitor defines how many DPI you can see your image in. Only thing that matters is how many pixels.

>>5212009
That kind of face usually pulls the skin around your nose upwards and folds it, maybe add a line or two

My failures these days are better than my successes two years ago. Does that mean anything?

>>5212009
>>5212011
>>5212028
>>5212032
Why does she look like a female version of SS4 Gogeta with cat ears?

>>5212090
>I honestly don't know why programs have settings for it.
not him. for what I understand it is a metadata thing that tells the printer the intended print size. still seems pretty redundant to me tho.

>>5212132
hot

>>5212090
>He doesn't print

>>5212135
Yeah that's my impression of it as well. Just some metadata thing that doesn't actually make a difference to anything.

>>5212202
I don't have a printer anymore but I have and haven't noticed anything. How about you tell us instead of instead of making such a useless third grade comment.

stillll trying

Do you know about any tutorials on convincing backgrounds ? Not in a perspective sense, just how to draw the usual forests, deserts, cities and all without it looking like I'm just copying random shit from google images.

Been drawing heads for about 2 months now, and I feel alright enough to share what I've done.

How shit is my Misako /ic/?

>>5212090
I print my stuff...that's why I mentioned dpi.......

>>5212132
Because she's a dragon ball OC

Moving to SAI2 for the first time, can someone give me a baby's first on the stabilizer settings? Specifically why do some of them have an S?

I started drawing about a month ago, going through Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing book. Made myself a goal to draw at least an hour a day. I almost finished the book, copying and trying to understand the drawings and explanations in the book. But now I'm not sure how to proceed. Did I realy "get" most of the things in the book? Should I just go through everything again but extra slowly to realy grind everything out? I realy like how beginner friendly the book is. It realy does simplify alot of difficult concepts and construction. I actualy managed to draw a few basic body sketches that didn't look complete shit, so there is some progress. So I don't know, is it worth going over the book again or should I just move on to something else and return to the book when I need to refresh something? If so, any suggestions for a book that could complement this one?

Also something has been bothering me. I don't have a muse, something to inspire me. I don't have a favourite artist who's style I'd like to know how to draw or anything like that. My only goal currently is to draw at least one hour a day and to get better at drawing. Could this potentialy bite me in the ass? Not having something to aspire to?
Sorry for the long regurgitation, been stewing for a while.

The torso/arm connection is killing me, I have no idea how it works. Eyes are wonky too.

Doing some drawabox to get a feel of 3D shapes.

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>>5212594
can't say anything about that book in particular, but it's mostly up to you. do you feel like you've understood the concepts and how to apply them, and are you satisfied with how your work is looking? if not, go back and practice some more. if you are satisfied, then move on and do something else, while trying to keep all those things you learned in mind. it's something you've gotta feel out for yourself, there's no absolute answer.

as for the rest of your post, it's less about finding inspiration and more about making sure you have long-term goals set for yourself. inspiration can be a big part of that, like 'i want to draw like artist xyz', but it doesn't have to be. you've set a goal for yourself to learn to draw, but why are you doing it? what is it that you want to be drawing? are you going to be stuck in a loop of studying for the sake of studying and burn yourself out? it's good stuff to think about and figure out now rather than later.

>>5212665
You have the skeleton facing one way and the meat facing the other

Practicing gesture drawing photoshop, is there a better method than simply :
1. loading pic into photoshop
2. having 1k layers with different gesture pics, half of the page being blank
3. setting a 30-sec/2-min/10-min timer that beeps and then jumping to the next gesture

seems I could make some solid progress with this simple method

>>5212796
Well shit. I figured drawing 3/4 poses would lead to stagnation, so I tried to do some "torso facing right, head bent up and left" SHAFT pose.

I guess that's above my pay grade for now. I'll stick to easy poses.

>>5212450
>Been drawing heads for about 2 months now
Was it one head per month?

How do you hold the stylus ?

>>5212826
no, but do it anyway, i want to see you on the vent thread

>>5212851
no bully, i just realized i could just have the image open in another tab without wasting time dropping the image into photoshop, but that's what i did earlier without really thinking about what i was doing

>>5212850

>>5211323
Well the proportions is a big one.
Her head looks both too long and too wide at the same time.
The mouth is weird giving it a totally different expression and i don't see the rest.

>>5212067
I don't feel like it's matching, when i superimposed they looked completely different.
Yet i was sure when i was doing the loomis ball that i had it, that everything was in place.

Going to post stuff I drawed today

Im still an uber beginner.

>>5212903

>>5212910

>>5212903
>>5212910
>>5212914
ngmi

>>5212850
I have asked many times in many places how I should do it and only thing I learn that any way to hold the stylus is wrong. Only right way is go /trad/ and hold the pencil like any old master hold. Also I prefer to place my fingers as on the top-left pic, but hold the stylus almost vertical as on center pic because it's easier to control pressure.

>>5212903
Are you using a mouse or tablet?

>>5212903
>>5212910
>>5212914
Don't forget to study proportion and anatomy after perspective.

>>5212873
I tried it too and it is actually matching pretty well. Those obvious things disregarded, forehead line, head and ear. But those shouldn't really matter that much.

>>5212826
I use one of those sketch daily/quickdraw things with making the windows always on top with autohotkey but I think I should find some other method since I've exhausted most of those images

>>5213021
Was trying to get the tired sway like this walk ;-;

My head hurts. I accidently used ref a few times with 2 light sources without realizing till someone told me and messed up some shadows.

>>5212826
I use pureref. or put the web browser in one side and krita in the other, with krita taking 75% of the screen

>>5212450
looks like someone has been drawing for only a week anon

>>5212830
damn

>>5207946
isn't that traced?

>>5212928
I know. Im probably one of the top 5 worst artists on here.

>>5212940
Tablet but i bought it 5 days ago and im still getting used to it.

You guys are probably going to get to know me and my autism because im probably gonna draw dogshit every day for years and post it here so people at least see it.

>>5213078
We all start somewhere anon, I was just wondering because it looked like the lines on those boxes have zero pressure sensitivity

>>5213094

Ooooh yeah, it's because I am trying to work on my straight lines. So I am using MS Paint or Paint.NET

One because it boots up a lot faster than Krita, but also it exposes the fuck out of all my little shitty muscle movements that ruin my straight line. Currently looking at Draw a Box, Peter Han, and Dan Beardshaw and they all say that my lines are going to suck for a while until I grind the fuck out of trying to draw straight.

>>5213098
If you PC is weak and hasn't SSD for Krita then use AzDrawing-2 (with en translation from dev.art, can mirror canvas, has a lot of layer modes) or FireAlpaca (little heavier but can rotate canvas and has a lot of texture brushes, can foldering layers) or MyPaint if you won't buy SAI. Paints is bad for drawing because they can't eat fractional coords from tablets and rounds it to integer killing line smoothness. You can switch to Krita when you will ready to spend a hours in serious artwork required a rich toolbox than other soft hasn't.

>>5213143
Oh, my bad, I means AzPainter-2. AzDrawing-2 has a lot of useful tools for monochrome work and animation but can't into color (ever grayscale, only opacity is supported). But you can use it to animate when you studying forms rotation, just switch to animation mode.

>>5211473
Hi OP here, google Skyscrapers or skyline from above and use perspective grids to analyze the perspective of the scene. Then copy and reinvent parts of the scene that adds to the overall composition in terms of value

>>5213149

Hmm, I checked out, found a download on the official site but it doesn't look like it's compatible with my Huion. Only my mouse works with it.

>Forgot how to draw hands for the billionth time

I need to do head/hair/face studies.

I was going for broad and gruff with a puzzled expression but he just looks like an angry sausage.

>>5213255
nice lineart

>>5213204
Turn of Windows Ink and Mouse Mode in driver also turn on pressure and turn off mouse coords in Az preferences. Or use Alpaca, it can eat almost any tablet.

>>5213255
can you explain to me how do you usually do your lineart? one continuous stroke or something else?

>>5213255
Feet aren't properly placed on ground, his hand is poorly defined and lacks a wrist, and his ear is too small and too far back on his head.

>>5213263
>>5213275
Thanks guys. My lines are something I've been trying to work at late. More control, better use of line weight and figuring out where not to put lines..

>how do you usually do your lineart?

Short controlled strokes. Too much ctrl+z, even if I am cutting back on it. Still can't confidently pull off circles/ovals so these are usually two or three strokes which I think you can notice makes some of the curves look a little angular.

>>5213286
Thanks man, didn't catch the ear but I see it clearly now.

The hand does need to be reworked. It's not the worst hand but definitely has issues. I mean, look at that thumb.

>feet aren't properly placed

One of the banes of my existence. I need to do a slew of basic perspective exercises, among other things, until it's finally hammered in to me.

Thanks for the feedback man.

3D art counts right?

I'm practing shading in my sketchbook. But when I flip over the page and start on something new, the last one smears all over.
What do?

new thread
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>>5213748
>>5213748
>>5213748
>>5213748

Ignore the background. Critique? I'm practicing shading

Wip, how can i fix this anons?

What is wrong with the proportions?

>>5213980
Why the fuck would you decide to make your fanart of a character designed to be visually unique with a picasso face and asymetrical body shapes and then just make it a pretty girl lmao. It looks fine other than the fact you need to flip your canvas since blue is on the other side

>>5214234
just for fun lol, and yes I fixed what I painted wrong.

>>5208897
This one in particular looks better than my others because it's from a section where you reference a drawing by Loomis himself. My other, original heads aren't as nice, but I'm getting the hang of it. Get back in there anon, we'll rise from the depths of /beg/ together.

>>5208296
I am, this is from a section where you're specifically supposed to copy from reference.

>>5214042
>What is wrong with the proportions?
How do I even answer this? Nothing is wrong if you intend it to be anime-ish style.