/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5238749
/beg/ here, what's soul?

>>5238749
Soul in an artwork; being able to feel that person's personality. Your art is a reflection of your personality, but good are you at reflecting it through your artwork? And improving on yourself as a person. Two things you can work on to improve the soul of your art.

>>5238760
dangerously based for this board

>>5238749
Just hone your taste lol

>>5238782
pyt

>>5238756
When an artwork is really honest it has soul. ie. No hiding behind a fake put on style that isnt how youd naturally draw, or cleaning it up to the point you cant see the human hand that made it. As soon as it feels the artist is hiding something from you it loses all soul

>>5238808
literally souless, also that face looks like the Lenny face

>>5238811
You just hate anime. I get it

>>5238749
>>5238760
>>5238808
https://youtu.be/woI6t8dCQcQ?t=1592
26:32 - 27:02
This is about drumming but it's also applicable to drawing.

>>5238808
I know that by "emotion" and the "feeling" that it can convey, but I get what you mean and I despise people who can make such good pieces but go out of their way to remove any feeling that is in it.

>>5238811
post your soul

>>5238756
When you want to shit on something but you can't find big mistakes in the art style you say that it's souless
For example
>Shit that I grow up with
Soul
>Same shit but I didn't grow up with
Souless

It's also works in the other way,when you like a piece but you don't know what exactly you just say that it has soul

>>5238749
Reminder that soul is a meme word ic made up and in reality it doesn't exist.

I have no soul. It was beaten out of me years ago

I just stare at the ceiling and try to force myself to act like a human being and draw, but all I can do is copy pictures I like. grinding doesn't matter, technique doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that you like what you draw

>>5238894
all words are made up

>>5238861
>this comment
Soulful

>>5238898
Gender is made up. :)

There isn't an exact word for it, but what people here mean when they say "soul" is a very real aspect of art; it is merely one that's abstract and difficult to verbalize.

>>5238756
it’s something losers say when their art is objectively not good so they can feel better about it.

>>5238952
>Gender is made up. :)
this but unironically. i dont know what kinda gotcha you're trying to go for here

>>5238760
Detecting critical levels of based.

>>5238845

>>5238760
You've made it

>>5238808
>>5238811
Going to have to side with this anon. I like the background and perspective, but girl feels unnecessary and make the image overall image feel disingenuous, like it's trying too hard to feel deep.

>>5242858
There is a whole genre of anime art that is just environments with anime girls in them. They would be more interesting without the anime girls honestly. Nothing says "I have nothing to say" to me faster than seeing a gallery full of that kind of crap.

>>5238808
Soul? I just wanna see sole if you catch my drift

>>5242879
>>5242858
ok we get it you hate anime

>>5242858
fucking based

>>5242910
there is good anime, genuinely soulful, like early dragon ball, Dr, slump, Doraemon, but that girl sitting with some citiy scape shit has been done a million times and better, if you think that is what peak soul looks like then you need to buy some high grade TASTE, so cope with your shitty argument of "you hate it because anime"

>>5242955
oh so if it was fanart from a franchise you like it wouldnt be bad? having a problem with >human in >location is a very bizarre criticism. 90% of all art fits this category

>>5242960
You crealy dont get the point, if you think a generic anime girl splattered in some complex landscape if top soul then think again, the city scape is not even done in an interesting fashion and the girl is just a blob with some weird symbol drawn on her face, I hate bland mediocre art, being from stuff I like or not,

>>5242955
>>5242964
>tries to hard debate soul

>>5242966
soul= appeal
which is an art fundamental, you get it now Grug?

>>5238749
ask for yourself, retard ngmi /beg/

>>5238756
Nonsense

>>5242964
I understand what you mean. Sometimes anime really feels like low-hanging fruit. The style is very tired and has reached it's end from the looks of things.

>>5242964
no use debating personal preference. that pic you posted is gross to me and has no soul, pure normie pixarcore

>>5242996
>has reached it's end.
holy fuck, you people. why are you on an anime message board to begin with?

>>5242969
>continues to try to hard debate soul

>>5242999
>its gross because, because you said anime pic I posted bad
Critique the piece from an artistic point of view and prove me wrong, otherwise if just some revengeful tantrum because someone hurted your weeb feels.

>>5243016
if you are not going to contribute something useful to the debate fuck off, nigger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT7escb2kUw&list=RDMMlT7escb2kUw&start_radio=1&ab_channel=LaurinD

>>5242964
this really captures how the city in northern argentina where my grandpa lives is like

>>5238808
soul
>>5242964
soulless

>>5243033
copium 500 mg twice a day

>>5243020
i already critiqued it. it's normie pixarcore. its the kind of generic doughy potato nose faced character design you'd see in the design book of pixar or any other western studio who tries to ape their style. very derivative.

>>5243056
>pixal style bad
>you hate my image because is anime
Holy fuck nigger you are actually doing what you said I was doing, the butthurt must be really strong, that city scape ink drawing you posted is a dime a dozen at best, that makes all anime art bad? No, just the one you posted
while this is "pixarcore" its an interesting, appealing well designed picture, so cope, seethe, dilate, etc, because for what I see you dont even understand the most basic shit about design.
GET SOME FUCKING TASTE

>>5243059
must be tough having shitaste

>>5243071
The fuck is going on in that image?

>>5243002
Well it was pretty good at one point, but not any more. 4chan isn't really an anime message board either, come on.

>>5243002
This is no longer an anime message board, retardo

>>5243071
what you replied to has at least 5 times more soul than your image

>>5243071
this looks like it was just a photo ran through a filter

>>5238756
The stuff dreams are made of.

>>5238749
you grind soul by experiencing varied hardships and intense emotions, prove me wrong.

>>5238749
youre a stupid shit and you are literally too /beg/ to understand what youre seeing

>>5243056
>very derivative
>my generic anime girl in a landscape isn't
Do weebs really?

Is the quickest way to get soul not looking at other art when drawing?

>>5243751
"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you andd show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
-Robert Henri, "Art Spirit"
The quickest way to "get soul" is to fucking be born. That and consuming media that you like. But the quickest way to have it show in your work, as I'm sure you meant, is to get good so you aren't bound by your limitations. Then produce a lot of work, now that you can actually show what you want to accurately.
Don't waste your time worrying about soul, just get back to work.

>>5243765
Thanks anon

>>5243512
I literally cant