/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6388655
I feel like im starting to get it just a tiny bit
Still have no idea how im gonna color the potion which is supposed to be
1. in a glass container
2. glowing a pink/purple shade

is a consistent artstyle too much to ask for?

I'm basicall illiterate when it comes to digital art settings and what not and i need some help.
i'm trying to change my sketch to look more red so i can do lineart over it CSP but when i change the color balance only some parts change to red and others stay B/W.
i'm trying to change the colour of my sketch layer so i can do lineart over it.

Anyone can explain values? or post links

Harch crit is also welcome

>>6389143
>lock the transparency
>pick the colour you want
>gpen to go over everything

>>6389138
Is "permabeg" the style you're going for?

>>6389151
probably the book How to Render by Scott Robertson

>>6389151
In the vein of the other anon's image, think of the spectrum of values you'll use. Paint the absolute darkest/lights (ends of the spectrum) areas first, any values will be in between that

>>6389154
>>lock the transparency
what does this mean

>>6389181
red
additionally, if you just want to change the color of the entire layer to one - blue button
and if you just want to lower opacity - green slider
and make a new layer for the lineart

>>6389183
thanks, that blue button is a game changer.

>>6388981
Ok so bear with me
1) what are some good head/face learning sources. Proko covering loomis is good but his eye explanations wasn’t good. I then moved onto Steve Huston I fell in love with his beginner’s head construction but when I followed up with the intermediate section I was very confused I’m not done with it. I will power through the intermediate part but I’m heartbroken over how how confused I am so far.
If possible what are some good resources that cover facial features properly? Especially the eye since my eyes look like shit.
2) I’m getting angsty over brushes, please someone tell me a good brush and i promise I’ll stick with it until I get angsty again. I’m using (primarily) Procreate and photoshop.

>>6389195
don't forget to lower opacity! otherwise that red will hurt your eyes

Thoughts?

>>6389213
RESIZE, DUMBASS

>>6389225
make me

>>6389213

any help with this kind of pose or reference images of a man on the slender side lying down roughly like this, real, anime-style or otherwise?

>>6389236
Where is her mouth and nose? The card on the table isn't in perspective.

>>6389261
tape a camera to your foot and take a picture of yourself

>>6389264
unfortunately, i am a tiny woman so it wouldn't really help with the body proportions...

>>6389213
No thoughts
>>6389264
Jus did
>>6389273
>unfortunately, i am a tiny wom-ACK!

>>6389276
Nice apu, saved

>>6389276
>>unfortunately, i am a tiny wom-ACK!
what did he mean by this?

>>6389280
Thx fren, I'll do some more in the future.
>>6389281
>what did he mean by this?

>>6389285
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>>6389286
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>>6389281
>what did he mean by this?
many dudes on here are mentally ill and think everyone is secretly a trans woman out to get them and seeing the word "woman" triggers them to have an episode while they piss and shit themselves crying, running to their wojak folders. hope that clears things up.
anyway, if no one got references, nevermind.

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fucking autistic retards

>>6389236
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>>6389302
>Anonymous 11/24/22(Thu)pee:p00:41 No.6389302▶
>fucking autistic retards

hello sharty

>>6389305
>he doesn't know they actually draw
Little devils

I just finished a drawing I'm quite satisfied with and enjoyed the whole process of making it. This gave me a great surge of motivation and happines so I tried drawing something in extreme perspective.

It's almost like I forgot how to draw after finishing the last painting, the work process doesn't flow nicely and it looks like shit.

I feel like shit and currently contemplating suicide and the end of my art studies.

Is this normal?

>>6389316
when you have an idea for a illustration that involves something new, do studies that will help first. doing some boxes in extreme perspective first, studying what clothes a musket man will wear, etc. when you feel comfortable with it you can move onto the next thing, if you tackle too many new things at once you will get overwhelmed

>>6389316
your skill in basic forms isn't strong enough yet. I recommend more 5 minute figure drawings

I'm practicing my rendering. Any feedback?

Grinding more heads from different angle

almost there just gotta work on the fabrics.

>>6389377
Griffith if he female

>>6389458
Nice

beg here, I think I fucked one of her legs but don't know how exactly and I would like some advice on what I could change on the piece to look better.

>>6389543
draw a line down the legs where the front will be facing

>>6389157
>>6389151
The trick to value is to understand that’s it’s to define the form rather then stick to rules about where the light is coming from. Try ti use the value to describe the form beautifully rather then adhere to rules and directions. Feel the form.

Didn't have much time today because of ye old thanksgiving but the bridgman must go on

How do you keep markers from streaking

>>6389643
Set opacity to 100

>>6389151
just learn to shade a ball faggot.

Wip for my "manga"

>>6389043
hot

What's the best general drawing exercises that have helped you improve?

>>6389940
Drawing

>>6389367
I like it.
Personally, I would suggest working on your textures, but I guess you are already in the process of doing so.

>>6389944
drawing what?

>>6389947
Vidya babes wrestling with sexual innuendos

asaro head study, im really strugling with proportions

>>6389969
>proportions
Maybe you mean accuracy, Asaro head has exaggerated planes to show change in form with simple indications of light and shadow. Your rendering reads well, if you want to focus on accuracy/proportions just omit it and sketch it from different angles.

>>6389956
You've been drawing the same shit for more than a year at this point.

>>6389976
Such is the fate of Coomer permabegs.

>>6389940
Drawing anything except w*men. Out there there's a horse training to fight you, you must learn his anatomy to stand a chance

>>6390010
>based, i can't draw women as well
That pic is funny. Chud vs Sheboon

Studying Vilppu

>>6390108
Feedback appreciated

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>>6389976
What can I say? It's the thing I like to draw and it brings me followers and commissions :)

>>6388981
OP is a faggot for leaving out the subject section

>>6390108
>>6390116
how does this relate to vilppu. are you attempting to feel the forms? build from imagination? try to use more control in your lines.

>>6388981
OP is also a faggot for not choosing the images uploaded on the last thread

>>6390136
>>6390131
what a faggot (OP) is.

>>6390108
Oh mein Gott, he back!
How's your hand going?
>>6390133
>braapp

>>6390133
Thanks can you tell me what I should practice from Vilppu?
Here are my gestures

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>>6390143
Thanks my hand is pretty much healed but I sti probably can't grip a digital pen. Artist grip with pencil is my main option for now until I get an iPad that allows artist grip.
I also got into art school so there's that.

>>6390141
tremendous faggot

>>6390148
Are you going by his book? if so just follow what he says to do. Its a pretty good book and fast to work through.

what do you hope to gain from vilppu would be my question.

>>6389956
ah yeah love ryona

>>6389743
thanks anon

I don't have a consistent art style (and can't be bothered to finish the guitar), but what do you frens think I could do to improve in the near term? I mostly work with sketch stuff but I would love to get into more lineart desu

>>6389196
You need to check out Understanding and Painting the Head by Marco Bucci. Your questions will be answered there.

>>6390116
u back esdeathanon !!
I can't redline right now but if you draw with a pencil I see two problems
- apply less pressure on the pencil, sketching is delicate work, you need to be precise and able to erase a lot
- I remember thats a major problem for you but please draw *slower*, the muscle are not accurately reproduced at all theres a shit ton of chicken stratching I really feel like you put 0 effort in those arms but I think ur just impatient it will be more beneficial for you to draw a few well made gestures than 10^39293 botched ones
These are from live models ? I hope you find your courses useful

God fucking damn it, I hate being a beginner.

>>6390319
keep drawing and the problem fixes itself

>>6390319
Here's the original BTW. Wanted to practice cross contour lines drawing this. Fuck man, I really hope all this practice pays off soon

>>6390321
Thanks, I'll try practicing daily. Hope this is worth it.

>>6390136
Crashing /beg/ with no survivors. One OP at a time

>>6390319
perfect taste, tho

seriously never know how to do line art for hair properly. it always looks terrible

>>6390368
Thanks

>>6389940
Figure drawing. Covers: observation, anatomy, learning to measure shit, shading. Observation drawing in general is the best exercise there is.

finished baybes

I am trying to do at least a page of grind per day. This is from today.

>>6390416
first page based on my understanding of the first 2 chapters of perspective made easy.

>>6390373
Try filling in the hair with colors or gray first and then line around it

>>6389692
Good drawing overall, but if you're going for this style you should study how artists like Bruce Timm draw hands and feet. Her foot is so wrong it takes attention away from the rest of the drawing.

>>6389703
I'm pretty sure that's a Blue Lock panel. Are you trying at all?

>>6389705
You clearly got the hang of digital tools, great. Now turn off your computer and study some structure with pen and paper. Flat styles are cool, but they only work when you understand what you're simplifying.

>>6390373
All your shapes look too much alike. Maybe if you vary it a little bit it will look more natural.

>>6390172
Maybe try some grip strengthening exercises?
I believe you already do that, but still.
>>6390319
Hard round.
Aber das hier ist aufregender, stimmt's?
>>6390416
Cool ̶b̶u̶t̶t̶p̶l̶u̶g̶ Ruhrstahl X-4

picrel meant for >>6389775, also my trash for today

>>6390424
Bruce timm? lol

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>>6390414
Go on youtube and watch at least 4 videos on values then come back to this piece.

I appreciate that you're working with a round brush as a beginner and that often is the best way to study drawing, but you would have better results with landscapes using a couple of textured brushes.

I can also tell that you zoomed in a lot working on her face. The less zooming you do, the more cohesive a piece will be. See that there are a lot of fine lines on her face and none in the rest of the drawing.

I tried to follow a technique Loomis recommended of an outline in pen and shading with pencil. I wouldn't say it had the desired effect.

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>>6390440
OKAY so my idea was for the light to come from behind and top. BUT that leads to this relatively boring lighting that only highlights the outter outline of the figure and everything else is pretty much in low intensity lighting that doesnt create much interesting contrasts.

So at least for the woman i just yolo'ed the light and did random shit

what main issues u see in my values?

thanks for the concrit btw UwU

>>6390178
I want to draw from imagination mainly.
>>6390299
Thanks anon is this better?

>>6390458
Wrong way

>>6390447
The leg is buck broken, fr
>>6390458
build your imglib than

>>6390424
>I'm pretty sure that's a Blue Lock panel. Are you trying at all?
I love blue lock's artstyle. I was trynna imitate it, not a panel tho. Why did you say i wasn't trying, I don't get it?

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>>6390495
Sorry wrong way

everyday I'm thankful I'm not esdeath schizo or greg

>>6390494
Just crabs being crabs. It's pointless to post anything here if you don't want some schizo screaming about how terrible your art is.

This felt like a waste of time. I need to find a faster way to practice.

could I get some feedback on the character design? i know the drawing itself sucks but I'm a 3d guy so want to try to make my own concepts

>>6390621
Top half interesting top down boring

>>6390625
true, thanks I'll add some stuff to it

>>6390263
I’ll be checking it out soon because thank you

>>6389155
kys crab nigger

>>6390733

>>6390752

Trying to break a habbit and include backgrounds to all my drawings from now on.
Idk what am i doing desu.

>>6390172
>I also got into art school so there's that.
Bwahahaha gl mate.

>>6390755
Ok assuming this isn't a troll you have somehow gotten worse since the last time you've posted.

>>6390769
looks like you are spraying and praying with the airbrush tool, needs more hard edges
the shadow underneath her has mostly hard edges but kind of makes it look like she's floating an inch off the ground with how uniform it is

FINNA DEsign a chinese orange fish for my next oil painting

Years of just grinding has made me incapable of knowing what I want to draw.
I just doodle now
Help me

I really need to figure out how to produce and learn faster. This one killed me. It took over 1.5 hours for this shit. It should have been an easy reference but I ended up redrawing the face literally ten times before finally getting something slightly better than prebeg.

>>6390789
And now I notice that on redrawing I made the head too small damn it

Baibis is it soulless to use this as a guideline/reference for an oil painting. i feel like copying a digital painting made by myself is not very soulful

but i was tryna pencil draw the sketch and i wasnt feelin it and this has more soul then my pencil sketch that i wasnt feelin was feelin very empty pencil drawing idk why

>>6390788
just let go for a while baiby. put on your favorite music and let go. you can do this.
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>>6390777
You sure?

critique me

>>6390807
>followup

Initially it had a mythical appearance, but open rotation it looked like trash.

So I had to edit the face.

Unfortunately now the face appears far more disgruntled and earthly.

I even muddied the water (literally)

I am struggling with the perspective of the lotus flowers in the water.

>>6390319
>>6390323
In what fucking world did you practice cross contour lines in your drawing?

>>6390854
dont get cocky nigger. you will also be murdered in the apocalypse. as much as your barking may seem significant now, you're just another lamb for the slaughter.

>>6390815
uh yes. Now you've downgraded to symbol drawing AND chicken scratching

>>6390871
Your niglette curse has no effect on me as I am not from those lands.

>>6390874
Eh maybe it is chicken scratching but in no way has my skill gotten worse.
And symbol drawing lmao pyw. Let's see a non symbol drawn face.

I just doodle and hope one day Ill be able to draw people and interesting cities and landscapes. fml

Any crits on this? Maybe someone with experience in either ink or watercolour?

I try to add texture, but whenever i try to do that in ink it fucks up the balance and lighting. It came out ok here but it still feels kinda flat.

>>6390928
>texture balance
Push the contrast more, dynamic sketching like. You have more density behind the eye and flatter texture everywhere else, try get rid of some completely in areas you don't want focus.

Hello beg. Today my motivation was low.

>>6390928
i like it and no i cannot help you with water colors, they filtered me hard
>>6390848
solid but kinda too blocky
>>6390789
i am afraid fast gains dont exist in drawing discipline
>>6390759
nice soldier and cunnies!
>>6390495
welcome back to beg. this one is kinda cool, you are getting better
>>6390443
if you pushed the values near the ink edges harder (shadows) it would work, but like this the lines are too strong contrast and break the idea
>>6390259
you could improve it by adding background and shading
>>6389610
i have a theory that bridgman (the author) is gay
>>6389387
very nice and creative!
>>6389367
i dig the artistic highlights and the contrast
>>6389138
at least you have multiple art styles, i dont have even that

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>>6390458
Focus on the stuff about shape building and proportion stuff that comes in handy for that. Are these poses you post from imagination?

my main crit of these is that you use hatching that is just scribbles seemingly. The way vilppu does it is called a modeling tone. try using the sides of your pencil to do the tones. as neat of strokes as you can get them.

>>6390955
Hi anon, I'd watch your proportions if I were you. The boy's torso is needlessly elongated

my current dream is to draw manga but i all i want to study is photos of real life objects. i love anime and manga but for some reason my brain doesn't see them as things worthy of practice until i master realistic things then switch to reproducing more stylised manga drawings

>>6391016
Leonardo Da Vinci himself said these were the steps to follow for a beginner learning to draw:

1. Study perspective
2. Copy Master Drawings
3. Study nature

All Old Masters drew from nature LAST in their training, they viewed life through a stylistic lens. One look at any of their art and you'll see none of it is realistic; they all look like Jojo characters. I think (you) need to buy some manga and start copying it, asap

>>6391016
if anime is what you want to make you absolutely need to study it. a lot of it is quite different to realism.

I don't been drawing lately

>>6391094
NO TIME FOR DRO HARD IN THE PAINT STEVO LAD

>>6390854
Aren't the things marked in red cross contour lines?
>>6390871
Jesus Christ dude chill out, he was just asking a question.

>>6391162
No it is not. It is a poor mix beteende shading and hatching.

>>6391186
Guess I'll have to look up what cross contour lines are again. Thanks for the heads up.

>>6391162
They could be, if they followed the contour.

>>6391251
And I could be a moose, if I had antlers.

Dynamic sketching is the truth

>>6391271
Better with an image

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>>6390854
Okay, I think I got it now. This is better, right?

>>6391301
Original, here

This /beg/ thread has been extremely slow lately. Disappointed in you guys.

>>6391312
Maybe you should try not being such a faggot next time.

>>6391312
im busy drawing what do you want

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>>6391301
Worry less about your "cross contours" and more about your accuracy. Look how wrong your head is.

>>6391328
Yeah, the head is a bit wide. I'll work on accuracy in the future. But what about my cross contour lines?

>>6391332
Can you describe to me what a cross contour line is please?

>>6391301
You're trolling right? Google cross contour drawing examples. Then practice some of those instead.

>>6391335
Parallel thin lines along inside the silhouette of the drawing

>>6391341
Okay, how about that: Do I even need cross contour lines to draw good art? Doesn't seem like I'm making any progress in that subject so I might as well skip it for now and just practice drawing.

>>6391344
No they are used to describe the form.

>>6391325
gmi

>>6391351
You're not making progress because you don't even understand what you're practicing.

>>6391351
You're not going to get good cross contours practice by drawing flat anime styles.

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>>6391351
Sure you can skip it if you want to but it's a ngmi mindset. If you don't understand cross contour lines then you don't understand form and if you don't understand form your drawings will be beg level. Man up pussy you found something you don't understand now it's time to study it, there's a million free resources out there explaining it. Don't fall into the trap mindset of just moving on thinking you'll just "figure it out" one day, you never will unless you apply yourself and try to comprehend what you don't understand.

>>6391301
Nothing wrong with studying your fav artists or styles. But what you're doing is copying and replicating the end result of the artist's product. You are skipping the actual work phases what they went through to achieve the end result. If i were you I would try first reconstructing the pic. You can use those pics you've used to copy the end result but instead of copying the final lines, try constructing them from the scratch. Try breaking the body parts into parts, basic shapes that eventually make up the body and body parts. It helps you understand how characters and perspective are constructed. When you understand what are the base forms under the final lines, it makes the shading easier. And don't be discouraged :)

>>6391067
Crustaceans

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>>6391355
Thank you for your answers, they were very helpful. Alright, I'll stop drawing random characters and go back to the course I purchased on udemy. Finally try to understand what the hell cross conteur lines and get a hold of the drawing basics. See you some time guys, hopefully I improve until then.

>>6390259
Think I am getting somewhere with shading and the kind of brush I want to use for monochrome images, just don't know how to make shading better and perhaps add colour.

Any tips on making appealing sunsets or improving images like this? I thought about making the whole part with the cliff and character smaller.

will listening to music while practicing distract me? been doing it for years and i believe it's the main reason why i improve so slowly

>>6391647
No. I do it all the time, it helps ease the passiveness of drawing. The only time you shouldn't listen to music is if you're studying things like perspective or anatomy.

>>6391645
Look up some references you like, they'll have a good composition etc and eventually you'll be able to do it on your own.
>>6391647
Not for me although I don't really hear it when I'm focused.

I have drawn an ok amount this year. Not as much as I would have liked but whatever. Problem is I have so little time and energy when I get to draw, I just do fun stuff and don't study. So I feel like I haven't improved at all this year.
Not really looking for advice I guess just venting.

bruh, still practicing did this for fun

I keep losing patience trying to do observational drawing, how do I fix this?

Is this a decent exercise for practicing anatomy, making skeletons and trying to plot muscles group shapes? Any kind of follow-through i should keep in mind?

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>>6391829
by doin it everyday a lil bit longer, add +1 min. or 5min.+ to your next patience-obervationaö-drawing-session, if you do this for a whole week, your patience in observation-drawing is increases by 25 min. you have to keep it up but dont forget about reak you need them.

>>6390416
Wip for a personal piece. I like thick legs and thighs but I sadly suck at drawing it.

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>>6391846
these two are pretty cool anon.

Any feedback on what I can improve?

>>6391870
what did you find hardest to draw?

>>6391873
The arm band things, I feel like they look kind of flat, especially the ones by his feet. Also I think the standing pose looks okay but I'm not sure how good the crouching one turned out, might look a little awkward.

>>6391863
thanks.

>>6391850
I can't believe I didn't think of that

>>6391870
Your poses are very stiff and you should check your hand proportions, one looks too small.

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>>6390752
If you make a Twitter I'll follow you.

Currently using Krite to draw, pretty used to it, I just keep asking myself how I should be drawing, what the dimesions should be, which image format is better when I finish a drawing, that kind of shit

this is something I've done a week ago and I feel like it's pretty good, although it's far from what I want to be drawing like one day

>>6391892
Thanks for the feedback. I've been trying to loosen up my poses but they still come out looking pretty stiff. The sketches usually look okay but then I fuck it up when I do the lineart. Should I just do lots of gesture drawings?

xringe

Todays face practice

>>6391851
very nice, which how to draw manga books do you recommend to a fellow anon?

>>6391911
tips on drawing more compactly?

>>6391973
Actually this is A3 paper so those heads are quite big.

>>6391902
NTA but this video might help
https://youtu.be/t-crXRMju-Y

I wish I had more time and energy to actually study and pravtice

I don't get it

>>6392053

Wassup bruhs

Wanted to make this into an oil painting supposed to be one of those 20mt long fantasy dragons u see a lot

Heres with a tiny canvas

Alternatively I have to buy a gigantic canvas to give that feeling of a gigantic critter

>>6392060
based asylum dweller taping 2 papers together, nice lines too

Thoughts?
Not sure if this makes a difference, but I resized down from 4000 wide.

I'm on my last legs here. Destroy me, crab me, tear me a new one, I don't care. Just give me some real pointers so I know how and where to improve
>just draw
Aldready did. I'm banging my head at this wall four to five hours a day.
I'm starting to think I will never make it. So just tell me what I need to do to improve and I will do it.
Picrel is my most recent work. I tried to work with composition and rhythm with this one, but it still looks like shit, on top of being bland and uniteresting. Help.

>>6392088
looking cute bro

only gripe is the pale woman looks cross eyed. move the eye further back

Today's quickie (pardon the awful lighting)

On CSP how can you change lines with opacity to to be solid? for example I paint black with opacity so that its a gray but I want to keep the gray without anything else showing through it?

Hello beg, i suffer.

>>6392088
this is very cool. its like you are inches away from being INT. All i can point out is that you are scared to push the values (but you can argue they are in well lit room so there isnt much space for dark tones). Still if you made the background more darker it would pop the characters. You could also render some highlights or even render some blurry figures in background sitting at bar or dancing. The gold rendering could be way better (the hair ornaments). But its still very decent. Also missing nails
>>6392030
nice cunny and nice SOUL
>>6391900
find what resolution the normies use (steam survey, popular phone screen resolutions like iphone) and draw in double of that (zoomed out). Then before exporting downscale it. It makes it all nice and sharp
>>6391831
your best bet is to follow some course, i think all INT books dabble into anatomy one way or another
>>6391675
fun is what matters the most anon. Now PYW
>>6391647
No. On contrary with good music background i get into the zone easier
>>6391645
drawing from the reference would be a good start
>>6391312
i am sorry i shall commit art seppuku
>>6391015
i know, i always fuck up proportions one way or another. And the worst part is that on bad days like these i dont even care

>>6392088
I don't think there's a quick fix, just keep doing your figure drawings and master copies. Be anal about your proportions and anatomy, and observe a lot. You're not bad, you just need to keep going.

>>6392126
Berry nice lobsterbro. I might even say... Not /beg/

>>6392088
suletta or whatever her name is, her right arm seems really long. mentally rotating it down to her side makes me thing her finger tips would be at her knees

I remembered that this board existed so I thought I'd ask for an estimate of where I am and where I could make the most immediate improvements. Asking because drawing isn't really a main hobby of mine (I basically only draw anime girls as a party favor) and I'm not part of any communities dedicated to it, so I don't have any overall sense of "the field".

I painted a sleeping fox. What do you guys think?

>>6392157
Fuck forgot about transparency in png

>>6392157
cute fox

>>6392012
that was helpful, thanks

Girlfriend's niece gave us the flu at Thanksgiving dinner, so been pooping and throwing up all day.

Still managed to find some time to bridgman

>been drawing on 12 cm by 20 cm pads of paper
i feel like this has been slowing down my observation studies since i have to mentally downscale everything which fucks with my pre-/beg/ mind and is one more thing i have to do

Havent drawn too much with pen and ink so i thought id draw some ocs. Any critiques on either how people, or my inkwork?

>>6392193
if you want a serious suggestion on how to improve going forward, I think you need to start doing daily figure drawing practice. I recommend 5 minute poses, for an hour a day. Focus on proportions and big masses, with basic constructions. Refer to Michael Hampton's book for that information.

I know this looks extremely fucked up so could someone help fix my angle plus the skirt? even just the hand i have no idea whats going and i cant find a reference for this angle

>>6392215
idk anon, there's no right answer to this. I moved the arm so that the silhouette of the pose would be clearer, and I lowered the camera so the perspective wouldn't be so drastic. However, I could've done this a million other ways and it would've all been right

>>6392226
thats actually a lot better for what im trying to do, thank you. i appreciate it.

>>6392228
np! Keep up your figure drawing studies and you'll make it

>>6392213
thanks, ive just started a vilppu figure course, so thanks for giving me something to do afterwards

>>6388981
>did a rough sketch while on a bus while having looked at the source material like 5 times
>do it, not good but think it's okay for a rough sketch
>get home, compare it to source material
>I'm way off
>suddenly picture is vomit inducing
I guess advice for coping with failure?

>>6392246
Just keep moving forward, everyone's been through it

>>6392097
Thanks anon, and noted
>>6392106
>All i can point out is that you are scared to push the values (but you can argue they are in well lit room so there isnt much space for dark tones). Still if you made the background more darker it would pop the characters.
Everytime I tried to put values the colors always look muddy, I was thinking about using another layer of reflected light on the shadow part, but I don't have enough understanding of how light works in a complex situation
>>6392107
Thanks, I guess I will just have to study more. It's just frustrating to not have any significant improvement in a long time
>>6392144
I see. That arm is a weird one, I already shortened its length from the ref, but still not enough.

>>6392250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA6KF8H4Ynk
my own creation offends my senses so much I literally want to end it

I always struggle with portraying correct emotion. Does she give off the (filename) expression I was going for? Also is 3 hours too much to spend on something like this?

just doodling whatever shit while i have a migraine

>>6392263
>Also is 3 hours too much to spend on something like this
the finished product is all that matters when youre starting, only professionals worry about speed
also peep pic rel, it might help you

>>6392306
Holy shit this is really useful, saved. Thanks a lot for this.

Please help me with spheres, I can't visualise how the circumference circles should be drawn on the surface of the sphere. Are there any rules that I can use to get this down?

>>6392336
The two pairs of opposite poles are symmetrical around the center. Remember that the ellipse has to hug the edge of the sphere. The shape should be a perfect ellipse, symmetrical in all four directions and centered around the middle of the sphere.

What do you do if you don't feel inspired to draw anything?

>>6392350
you fucking DRAW

mcdonal

>>6392350
studies, personally

>>6392306
Once again, thanks so much for this, I think it really helped me. She really looks like she's laughing at my penis now.

>>6392350
I go do some gesture drawings. The hate towards grinding gestures and other shit usually gives me a burst of inspiration so I have a reason to draw something else other than brain torture studies.

>>6392350
Looking at tutorial and art books. Or doing something else entirely, streching, push up, getting body in shape.

>>6392254
>my own creation offends my senses so much I literally want to end it
Aren't artists supposed to feel that about every piece they make?

>>6392384
Peak devianart bro.

Wish I was still furloughed.

>>6391843
>>6391844
lovely

>>6392404
I don't, at least not when I'm finished.
Typically I absolutely find my work revolting while I'm putting down the baseline proportions. But as soon as I lay down the baseline shadows the picture takes a sharp turn from revolting to pretty, and the more shading I add the more I fall in love with my work.
Sometimes I like my work so much, that my feeling of adoration makes it hard to continue drawing and I have to take a break to calm down(days).
In any case I didn't put in even 1% of my typical effort into proportions, so the image image I posted turned out wonky as hell.
While if I put in time and effort, it turns out beautiful to my eyes.

So not sure where you get the notion you are supposed to despise every piece you make.

>>6392152
that's not how you use a crowbar on a door

I love just doing shitty little sketches more than tryharding

any critiques before I color?

also im not quite sure where to place/draw the boob. This probably wont get a response but it was worth a shot,

>>6392493
>das ist so scheize kino
kek'd, topical joke

>>6390955
I like the energy anon, very cool

>>6391844
>>6391846
Sovl...
>>6392060
Interesting... love to see the rendition though

>>6392180
Bridg-Chad coming through!

>>6392568
I think some BOOBA might help hide the lacking side of the foreshortening here

>>6392568
dumbo ears

It was all going well bros I fucked up by going full experimental instead of sticking to the plan.... (1/2)

>>6392585
I don't like how it turned out, feelsbad

Have any of you given up drawing as a protest aghast ai art?

>>6392591
How dumb are you jamal?

>camera worked: fucked
>drawing: need to get bigger paper
>values: inaccurate
>panels: not to scale with original and parts cut off
>accuracy: still end up rotating stuff because left-to-right in my eye is not the same angle as when i move my hand left-to-right
>overall status: pleasantly surprised at the outcome given i'm /beg/ as fuck

>>6392126
How did you make the shadows? Ink? Grey ink? Watercolor?

>>6392560
really like the countrydude on the top right

Ahhhhh

>>6392568
I've missed you Marc

>>6392653
i feel like you suck at rendering ice, but i cant tell you how because i also suck

>>6392568
alien lookin ass

>>6392407
That's bad.... right? :(

Can someone post the image showing a skeleton and some anime girls saying to be able to draw like this you need to master this

drewthis

>>6392702
flip the canvas

>>6392384
I know it is part of the anime style's nature, but there is a lot of symbol drawing going on here to the point it's flattening your drawing. Using references is not a sin and if you type "anime teeth" on Pinterest and do some studies based on stuff there you'll see a huge leap in quality for a very small investment of your time.


>>6392568
You extended one leg and shorted the other just to avoid drawing feet, you know it and it shows.

>>6392588
Dude, you drew more hands on this piece than a lot of begs draw in years. That's a gmi attitude, in my opinion. You finished something and that's great.

>>6392653
Are you >>6390414?? Very muddy values. Feels like you're not planning much on what you're doing and it's hard to critique when people do that. If a drawing is not that good it makes it hurt less to say "i just yolo'ed the light and did random shit" because well, it's not like you were really trying, right? But what kind of advice can I give besides telling you to think about what you're doing?

>>6392702
im not that good but maybe this helps

>>6392711
>Feels like you're not planning much on what you're doing and it's hard to critique when people do that

Yeah, Im drawing on "feel" rather than looking for doing things how they should be done. A lot of these Im posting because I just wanna share rather then critique, which is ofc not the intention of the thread but i couldnt find one to just dump stuff. Maybe if I end up posting the finished dragon it'll be more critiqueable since right now its like the crazy initial approach and not the finished thing.

>>6392714
thankyou anon, It helps,

>>6392246
>>did a rough sketch while on a bus while having looked at the source material like 5 times
Why are you setting yourself for failure and then feeling bad for failing? What are you trying to achieve?

>>6392588
As long as you had fun
>>6392653
B

>>6392622
Copic markers

Don Bluth style

Considering most of the art was either scribbly sketches or some weird misshapen linework, I like it. Zooming in and fixing lineart does help.
Of course it could be just cope because I just drew a head of an ugly guy.

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