/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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> there are no wrong answers
Except if you post generic trannime

>>6219524
Wokada's Miku galvanized me.

>>6219536
>trannime

Piss off to /pol/, retard

porn by mammoth

>>6219541
>>6219543
Why are you on 4chan? Genuine question.

>>6219553
To own the libs, obviously
*attaches chudjak*

>>6219524
This particular illustration of Misa. At the time I genuinelly thought art couldn't be better than this.

>>6219524
Basically, all stuff drawn by this guy. This one in particular is just so fucking good, that I couldn't resist and started doing something to achieve even an ounce of his mastery. Still a /beg/ and will likely never be as good as him, but at least I still have fun drawing and don't plan to stop trying in the nearest future.

>>6219524
I guess it would be this one. The subversion of cuteness, the raw emotion there's in it. Maybe I'm looking too much into it and seeing stuff that just isn't there, I don't know.
A guy shared it on a matrix server I was on and it made me feel stuff I didn't know I could feel, dunno much about the artist, reverse search didn't help either and I think I just saw him post once or twice here on /ic/, usually accompanied by people saying all sort of stuff, I guess it's fair.
Either way this piece is the one that inspired me, there are better pieces out there that's for sure but this is the one that did it for me

>>6219691
compositional mass

>>6219726
Ruan Jia managed to make his arts look both breathtaking and super boring at the same time. Truly the GOAT.

>>6219731
What AI program is this?

>>6219738
That's just how Ruan Jia draws. Yeah, this new wave of A.I shit made his art look less special. However, he spawned shitload of clones and wannabe, though. Those faggots are quite toxic, too.

>>6219744
>non-anime face
Unexpected, I like it quite a lot.
Of course, the eyes are a bit big, but this is the least ayy-looking Asian drawing of a female I have ever seen.

>>6219524
what started me was that katawa shoujo VN, first to draw some stupid shitty fanarts, quickly turned into art hobby where i only draw original stuff.

>>6219770
>>>non-anime face

That is your usual industry female head number 93577463882+ you can see on Artstation. This not unexpected at all if you already familiar with the landscape of digital art. Majority of Asian artist draw female like that instead of the late 90s - early 2000s anime style.

>>6219784
I think it's a nice break from all the boring anime faces I see daily.
I don't like anime faces because they're very deceptive and create a discrepancy between the realism applied to the rest of the body and the realism applied to the face.

>>6219524
pic related helped me when i was depressed, there was something about Alke pre-fanbox era that made his paintings really warm and cute, I miss that.

>>6219770
Its literally a trannime face, are you blind?

>>6219770
On contrary with how many people usually believe, Asian female rarely have true slant eyes and usually wear make up to fake it. Alot of them even have big round eyes, too. It is quite disappointing, grew up as an Asian male, liking slant eyes but every girls around you just want to have that boring pair of big eyes with no slant.

>>6219797
>>I think it's a nice break from all the boring anime faces I see daily.

When over-exposed with either of the artstyle, you will grow tired of it. For me i had enough of those 3D model-like female heads. They all look fucking same and souless.

>>6219815
As I've said, my issues lie elsewhere.
Anime faces are way too stylized and reductive.

>>6219819
Which kind of anime faces? The Jap make some of the wackiest stuff if you lurk more.

>>6219823
What do you mean "kind"? Generic anime faces are everywhere if you go to Pixiv or Exhentai.
Copying is the name of the game in doujinshi.

>>6219826
Oh, anime artstyle can varried, even anime sometimes dont look the same. Usually, Pixiv and Hentai stuff do have generic stuff, however, it this kind of style can be a foundation to work around it. Like this Kanjo Joki guy i'm following on Twitter.

>>6219770
its the lack of noses, when jap artists dare to draw noses it looks really good

>>6219826
For semi-realistic style, the problem is they can't go absolute nuts on human. Unless they draw creatures then the style is absolute banger.

>>6219832
I find what you're posting quite fascinating, actually. The artist knows that they're drawing something that is generic, something that has been done a million times by his peers, so his attempt at distinguishing himself is to do something absolutely outlandish, in this case, using the copy paste tool to add a third eye above the second eye.

I think it's more or less proof of the concept, that you need to do some wild stuff to distinguish yourself if you're drawing anime.

>>6219841
I agree. Noses are so important to characters that removing them leaves you with little else to distinguish your characters. This is probably why Japanese characters have wild hair styles and hair colors, so you don't get them confused, despite them having nearly identical facial features.

>>6219841
No, majority of Jap art i find, they all have noses.

https://twitter.com/N0ID0NTTHNIKS0/status/1543240441692397569/photo/1

>>6219852
i honestly dont understand why japs hate noses so goddam much, they go as far as to draw a semi-realistic human face and then leave it noseless, which makes them look like weird aliens

>>6219869
yamada akihiro does this a lot, despite her artsyle being more realistic than the average anime ayylmao face

>>6219524
can't recall the exact picture but pretty sure it was something from range murata that someone had posted on /v/

>>6219877
This feels awful lot like it was traced from a photo.
Weird.

>>6219568
pyw

>>6219881
the dude is just that good

>>6219869
You do realize that the paint below have noses, right? Nose is an extention of your skull inside. It is not a separated object on your face. Usually, when you draw noses, you depict it with light/shadow values and the nostril is quite hard to see naturally, unless you aim for a specific camera angle. That's just how you draw nose once you learn the basics about it. You don't need to draw ugly nose, always go for the appealing one.

>>6219872
>>Literall inhuman bug eyes
>>Realistic

Go for Pablo Uchida if you want actual realistic trannime.

>>6219904
>You do realize that the paint below have noses
I was very obviously referring to the creepy alien-like child above, retard. This artist in particular almost always draws noses, but it looks really weird when they dont

>>6219910
>Pablo Uchida
not bad, but a shame he only draws one expression it makes his paintings really boring and forgetable

>>6219918
Noseless usually aim for the creepy aspect. Normally the Jap draw noses, from simplistic to complex, depends on their taste. What autists usually say around here is like from their tiny knowledge on the media.

>>6219926
He is character designer. He doesn't draw exciting special illustrations because that is not his thing.

>>6219936
>posts an example from 30+ years ago
lmao

>>6219936
Ah, yes. An ancient anime somehow invalidates the existence of a trend that Japanese artists prefer to draw no nose at all.
>Noseless usually aim for the creepy aspect.
BRB rewatching all of my ripped moe anime to experience them as horror shows.

>>6219952
Here is something not ancient. Feel free to pick.

>>6219955
>Feel free to pick
You mean cherrypick? The thing you're doing right now?

>>6219952
You bought bunch of moe anime DVD then complain about them as "horror shows" just because they don't have gross tumblr noses? Give me a break with this shitposting. You are acting like an edgelord.

>>6219963
Are you autistic?

>>6219959
Hey i'm not cherrypicking at all. Gundam is the most popular zoomershit you can get. Even this isekai moeshit, the character obviously has visible nostrils and a nosebridge depicted by a high light.

The absolute state of the board can be explained by the sheer amount of trannime ITT

>>6219889
>inb4 it's trash
I already know.

>>6219524
I don't have one, really.
I've been drawing for a long time, and while many images have inspired me, I can't quite narrow them down to one single.
I can at least, narrow it down to a medium.
I really liked comic strips, the boring funnies in Sunday newspaper. It would be hard to guess by what I draw now, but these were a big inspiration on me.

>>6219524
It was an angel with one wing cut off. I can't remember where I saw it. It was black and white and only the blood was red.

>>6219920
hot damn I should have done a master copy of that piece instead of the one I just finished
will-senpai I kneel

I can't put my finger on it but something about his work speaks to my soul.

>>6219524
I think it was when I randomly found a twitter post about kotobukiya figures showing starfire (pic related) and realizing how much I liked pinup art and character design art in games in general.

>>6220482
The artist is Shunya Yamashita, just in case if you haven't know.

>>6220474
based yoshitaka amano enjoyer

>>6220487
Yeah I know. Love his stuff.
He's was one of the ones that led me down the rabbit hole along with Reiq's Samus

>>6220487
Yeah I know. Love his stuff.
He's was one of the ones that led me down the rabbit hole along with Reiq's Samus

>>6219819
>Anime faces are way too stylized and reductive.
I'd argue they aren't stylized or reductive enough; you don't get the distinct subtlety of real faces but they also don't get out there enough to make unique, recognizable silhouettes (see Phineas and Ferb for example, call it silly or ugly if you want but their heads stand out anywhere)

>>6220339
Based

>>6220572
Majority of the characters in the show were drawn like that. They still have a sense of human anatomy and full on cartoony to avoid uncanny valley. I saw alot of morons picked on this show and claim "the characters don't look like human, they are creepy and shits". Well duh, they are cartoons, they only meant for animation and 2D realm.

>>6220572
Anime is not the same as Western cartoon. They are not always humorous shows for children. If stuff like Getter Robo looks like Phineas n Ferb, it would be a laughing stock.

>>Anon who has been bitching about anime style is a cartoonfag

Like poetry

Bought his book 2 years ago. Now i have 17500 views and 1637 bookmarks on pixiv which is more than majority of /ic/ will ever achieve however I wanna keep improoving even if it's just a little everyday and laugh at the crabs left in /beg/

>>6220598
Man, what happened to Guweiz of 2013? He is souless now.

>>6220591
Yeah, I'm just saying that nowadays at least, they don't have the facial nuances of real people in real life or even movies, because they're too abstracted; additionally, because in the common style of modern anime abstraction there's not much room for facial variation without it getting comical, you get sameface which combined with samey costume design leads to being able to identify some characters only by their hair
Your example is a good style, it fits the gritty mood of the show and the character stands out

this piece made me want to learn art as a hobby

>>6219991
post your work

>>6220624
This thread is not about posting our work is for inspiration and it's nothing but inane generic trannime garbage

>>6220591
Anon, I hope you're not implying that Ishikawa style artwork is the norm among anime and anime inspired artwork. That'd be plain dishonest.

Watching him do it from start to finish on stream, and seeing all the messy initial phases, made it look somehow achievable. Started in on some /beg/ book partway through.

>>6219852
The additional eye is clearly below, not above, the left eye.

>>6220640
link to stream?

>>6220652
that pic looks like it could be by ataruman, he streams on twitch and also sometimes does loli shit on picarto

>>6220626
if you can look down so hard on a genre of work, surely your work is superior to it? go on.

>>6220605
Modern anime usually don't make sense in stuff like, at direct angle, characters look stylized with a small dot as nose, but then at other angles, they almost look realistic, with visible nose, jawline and everything. I get what you are saying, but anime don't have to go full cartoony like Panty and Stocking. Middleground is not bad.

>>6220626
the threads also not about crying about anime on an anime image board no less, so may as well prove the pedestal you look down from

>>6220652
don't think it's saved anywhere, was on twitch a couple years back.

>>6219524
I cant find it, but the color work from berserk with the little witch and I think her mentor along with the general artwork of berserk in general.

>>6220662
Anon crying about anime is ironic, because anime has bunch of artstyles, depend on the animation director. Alot of them even went all out on realism, there is no definite artstyle for something literally created by bunch of people with each of them cooking up different ideas.

>>6220339
for some reason, I feel like there's people out there who ships these two...

>>6220661
>Middleground is not bad.
I absolutely agree, but I think it requires finesse to make it successful (not strictly skill per se, human faces require insane skill to do naturally but the when you have that down you just have to look to life for inspiration vs inventing your own abstractions while getting the feeling across and not going cartoony either)

>>6220600
What can he do bro? He stopped going to uni to be souless. He became even more souless when he took the Krenz pill and I can see a hints of souless Ilya in his art every now and then.

>>6220695
What can i say is, modern anime is confused of its own idenity. It wanted to look believable but also wanted to look stylish and reductionish. The result is something you usually see today, characters mostly look like rotoscopes of teenagers with nothing intriguing going on with the artstyle. Some might argue that super stylish art like Saber Marionette or Getter Robo look too off, but then, those things have personality, meanwhile modern anime isn't. And apparently, modern Jap culture already too got used of the modern style, they can nolonger go back.

>>6220678
No definite artstyle, and yet it's easy to tell when something is not anime.

>>6220335
my friend, when someone says PYW there is only 2 outcomes:
> you post something (regardless of quality) and they mock you.
> they fuck off and never answer cause they realize they are far below your level.

do not PYW if someone randomly ask you to, it's a waste of time.


>>6220652
https://www.twitch.tv/atamanman/about

>>6220719
I mean, Netflix has been making Castlevania bootleg anime and they look no different than your standard Gundam shows.

>>6219524
These RuneScape pixel art forum signatures. The WIP threads were really inspiring.

>>6220335
>>6220721
I was curious as he said
>I genuinelly thought art couldn't be better than this.
Also, you sound like a massive pussy fuck of nigger, why would you be scared about pyw

>entire thread is anime
>one traditional artist and it’s faggy ass Bougereau
None of you draw

>>6220799
pyw

>>6220799
It's inspiration thread, not artwork showing thread. Hell, anime is one good source for inspiration. Industrybros are mostly weebs.

>>6219524

>>6220797
pyw

>>6220335
It's actually charming. I feel like I'd really love your art in a year or two. Keep going.

For me i think I could never truly remember where it began... But I have to say, this series definitely was a big inspiration for me.
Shoulder a Coffin Kuro / Hitsugi Katsugi no Kuro
Truly a wonderfully drawn series though truth be told I haven't finished reading it yet. I only found out recently it ended... I think? Growing up I'd only read and reread the first couple of volumes over and over and over again.... I miss it.
I couldn't tell you if the series goes anywhere interesting but I can sure as hell tell you it builds up it's mysteries very very well
It's unfortunate that it isn't very well known...

Besides this I suppose CLAMP and Seinan Douman are two names that come to mind... Perhaps Ayami Kojima too? And Yoshitaka Amano? But I've been inspired by so so so many incredible artists and creations that it'd truly be hard for me to narrow it down

But it would be nice if more people checked out this niche little title

>>6219536
absolutely disgusting

>>6219524
Think it was pic related, can't really remember
>>6220474
Based.

>>6219802
dont know why, but this pic dont go out of my head, if i see his art. Like the cute and creepy aspect of it.

He is now a dedicated nsfw loli artist. His art go deleted because of it.

Itoh Sei's Kouya Ni Kemono
It just blew my mind how someone could produce that many pages, with that high of a consistent quality.

I've seen amazing comic artists before but his work, to me at least, was just something out of this world

It was this picture. Unironically.

>>6219524
There is no "one image". Instead, it was the gimmick seen in Final Fantasy Tactics of doing an entire collection of beautiful character portraits. That, and the use of color seen in it which I tried to replicate as well as other similar digital art coloring styles, inspired me to do the same for a fiction project I'm working on.

>>6220719
I remember that time here when I posted a Nausica page and 95% of people told me it looked western and absolutely not animu

>>6219524
Pretty much every panel with kintoun in the DB manga always amazed me as a kid

Back in 2019 I saw this and felt the compulsion to draw for the first time since my childhood.

>>6219691
It's teasunnh if you're still searching

>>6219524

>>6221558
I don't care how much people like DBZ. Peak Toriyama was during early dragon ball, when he would draw crazy vehicles and cool sceneries and not just over the top fights

Just so you know, I can't draw, and this isn't the picture that inspired me to draw.

>>6221603
I'd say that while I prefer his more refined, earlier style, it's also interesting to see how much he optimized it during the later arcs of DBZ.

>>6219640
While this looks very cool, it's too obviously derived from either 3D or photo-references to let me appreciate it as an instance of outstanding technique.

I for one don't have a picture that "made me want to draw", to this day I have no artists I want to be like, but pic related was deeply inspiring to me in the sense that its silhouette really captivates me. It has the right balance between cartoony and serious/sleek, soft and sharp, it reminds me of the possibilities of 2D and why I like to draw.

>>6221686
>While this looks very cool, it's too obviously derived from either 3D or photo-references to let me appreciate it as an instance of outstanding technique.
Prove your dumbass statement.

>>6219524
i always drawed but those two pages made me start a comic

>>6221701

>>6219524
A mix between Sr.Pelo (yes), Yusuke Murata and Deep Sea Prisoner (Mogeko Castle artist)
This was i think 2017 when i started drawing for real and thankfully i improved alot

Is this board almost only animefags?
No wonder most are ngmi.

>>6221715
Cope
Western shit hasn't been good in more than a decade now

>>6221692
Anon, I'm a big fan of gengoroumaru myself, but you shouldn't let admiration blind you to evident facts.
I did a little bit of digging for the argument's sake, and here's a Tweet by him, stating that "3D dolls are ALMOST a godlike tool, but they are not quite there yet, because the kind of information I'm looking for is too niche".

Now prove you're not brown.
I did my end of the deal, do yours.

>>6221715
>>How dare you got inspiration from something i don't like?!

>>6219524
>What is the one image that truly inspired you to start drawing "for real", something that woke you up.

>>6221760
The most inspirational image in this entire shitfest of a thread.

>>6221692
I think he means that art uses a bunch of different clashing techniques and it's weird. The pig looks like he's from a different universe than the girl and both of those look like they're from a different universe than the leaves. It's a neat effect but it was obviously achieved by accident, not because it's what the artist intended.

>>6221526
A man after my own heart. That's Akihiko Yoshida's work. It's pretty amazing, isn' it

>>6219823
>>6220642
It's above in this one for sure

Seeing Sinix's painting videos always makes me want to draw/paint instantly. It's really more about his process than the finished works, I really like how it feels like he's sculpting

>>6220797
>>6220834
no answer, how ironic

>>6220335
I wanna be your friend

>>6221838
His art style varies from release to release, which is acceptable, I guess. But the portraits of FFT are my favorite, far above the rest.

>>6221762
more of a blackpill when you realize that's how much entry level in real occupations make.

>>6219802
his art is incredibly good on a technical level but when i see it i just feel such an incredible sense of disgust/dread, like its all a facade trying to sugar coat something really perverse

>>6219967
that's a snout nigga

this one

>>6223078
10000 a month
120k a year
That's a top 10% salary. If we're talking entry level, that's probably top 2%

And that's in the US. In most places around the world, that's easily 0.1 top %

>>6223399
This is why I qualified it with the word "real". Sorry, I don't care that there's 9 barristas for every programmer.

>>6223439
A programmer entry level salary is 85k in the US (just asked google)
You're still short by a third

>>6223439
Actualy, it's even more fun to look at entry level salaries in various professions
Average attourney entry salary? 65k
Average physician? 50k
Average airline pilot? 40k
Average trader? 60k
Guess none of those are real jobs

for me it was realistic oil paint portrait

>>6223441
you asked google, but did you consider asking google itself?

>>6223538
Google. A company that only hire the 0.01% best people, because they can afford it
Yes, of course. Are you implying that google is an average company? That the average developper works for google?
Are you even implying that google commonly hired entry level engineers and not people who already have at least 5+ years of experience in their field?

>>6223545
I bring it up because you didn't seem to realize that an average describes a wide range of actual values. There's a whole host of companies offering up six figures to living breathing zero working experience programmers in order to hit that 85k average.

>>6223574
Of course.
But to reach that 85k average, it means a vast majority of developpers are under 120k.
You're making it sound like 10k a month is a realistic expectation for an entry developper. It's not, it's litteraly 50% above average. Only 5% of developpers are likely to get that much at entry level

I'm not into illustration so the book as a whole
I don't even draw porn lol

>>6223699
truly a masterpiece

This and the movie, I'd like to create something as beautiful as this story

>>6223729
Forgot to mention, it's a fanart of Angel's Egg

>>6219524
i want to create manga androgynous characters

>>6220640
that blue/purple/red outline is genius

>>6223775
It's pieces like those who always make me wonder if I should color my outlines

>>6219524
One of the pictures in Villpu Manual, unironically. With girl from spheres. I'm understood than I can draw too and it isn't for chosen ones only.
>>6219802
>Saw a nice pic of cute fattie
>Search for author's pixiv
>There is a sketch and she's very thin
>Other pics has a smell of perversion
I'm sad.

>>6219841
what is the artists name?

>>6219524
the self drawn porn I used to keep in a drawer when I was young.

>>6226653
Post it.

>>6221715
he doesn't know he's on an anime website...

>>6223729
>>6223731

sublime my friend

>>6225566
kishi torajiro

>>6219524
>What is the one image that truly inspired you to start drawing "for real", something that woke you up.
Pic related. Was browsing /ic/ a while back and there was an Art Nouveau thread involving Kay Nielsen. That's what really flicked the switch and made me go "time to actually learn this shit."
Another artist I found shorty after that gave me a similar effect was John Bauer. Specific works like Princess Tuvstarr gazing down into the dark waters of the forest tarn and Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon.
I've always like a those old airbrushed pictures from the 70s/80s like from Bat Out of Hell, Journey, Boston, Rhapsody and those gynoids by Hajime Sorayama.

>>6219721
>>6219726
>>6219731
>>6219744
>>6219771
These look AI generated

I started drawing because it was the hip thing to drawfag in the /vg/ thread I used, a lot of the people I looked up to either vanished or stagnated hard though.

Yoshitaka Amano ff9 concept art, I was raised in the south so when this hit mine eyes it woke this country boy up to a world few seen in my peer group. But a few of us grouped together as anime fanboys and with esoteric humour and hoodies to cover our skinny fat bodies. Hentai was our waifu and magic the gathering was our front, our excuse to detach ourselves from the main population.

>>6219524
I remember being really inspired by a user on deviantart called Ash-dragon-wolf like 15 years ago when I was a retarded kid on the internet
Been kinda drawing since then, but I really wasn't able to get into it until about 7 or 8 years ago when I finally had enough privacy to just start sitting down to draw
Didn't really follow any artists after that, except for ones I knew personally

I looked them up right now, apparently they're still going under a different name. They're still better than me, but thinking back it's amazing to see how far I've come compared to the dumb kid who struggled to even trace this artists work after school. I'm now a better artist than they were when I found them all those years ago. Seeing where they are now makes me hopeful about the progress I still have to make.

Porn by Zankuro

>>6219524
No image.
When I was in early elementary school teacher made all the class draw a hand.
I instantly drew two shitty hands with the best of my ability, while the rest of the class put their fucking piss reeking paw on the sheet and simply traced it
Result: everyone, teacher comprised, laughed and made fun of my drawing.
This assburn was so bad I decided out of spite to learn to draw. And I haven't recovered still, I still hate that people like if it happened yesterday
Who's good at drawing now guys? Are you enjoying your construction job while still living ten steps from your mom?
FUCK YOU FUCKING TRAILER PARK SHITS!

For me, it was this one. Everything is really beautiful, even if I dislike big pouty lips in general. Drawn traditionnaly, colors digitally, this is everything I want to be able to achieve one day. Took art seriously since then even if it's hard, but I wont give up.

>>6223699
i liked his work better before he drew the gainer manga.