/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Commission piece that I’m currently working on. Having fun with it.

>>6413086
only thing i'd recommend is doing the underdrawing in charcoal rather than in paint for commissions, paint can be a bit too inexact

Brian thread, ignore and hide.

I'm liking Brian's work more and more

>>6413127
I paint like ass for half the year. I spend summer and fall running my business and do my actual good painting in winter and spring.

>>6413139
i like the winter coziness

Hey, guys. I'm looking to invest in as complete of a set I can of alcohol-based copic markers for comic illustration, primarily character design. Which brand offers the most complete set and range of colors? Thank you very much in advance.

Hello, i used a ref from a previous /trad/ thread. This is the second session, it still has masking fluid covering some parts so i'll probably go for a third.

Post watercolour WIPs and pieces please

>>6412947
I haven’t had the time to acrylic paint but it’s super fun, old-ish portrait of a friend

>>6413837
So Copic itself is a brand. I'm not sure if it's the OG alcohol based brush marker, but it's basically the standard. I would have recommended Prismacolor last year if you didn't want to splurge on Copics, but I think they're discontinuing the line since I've been seeing them on major clearance at every art store. With that being said, you could easily get a good deal. I personally prefer Copics over all of the alternate brands (Ohuhu is my least favorite and I think they give Instagram/YouTube artists free sets for the good reviews because they kinda suck in person). If you want new, you can buy them for cheapest on Blick. After Christmas, you'll see a lot of sets for sale on sites like Mercari and that's where I got mine for a really good deal. I like that Copics are refillable, and they get a lot cheaper to use when you're refilling them. Other good Copic alternate brands I like are Kuretake and Tombow (make sure not to accidentally get their water markers). Hope this helps.

>>6414063
good job bro try using some green/blue for the beard next time.

>>6414454

>Everyone making threads about AI art and fuming

Kek, tradbros we just CANT stop winning

AI will never replicate my MDMA 4AM diarrhea

Cubist-y figure on a small canvas

>>6414850

>>6412947
how do you solve the glove question? some people put a hole in a mitten but that sounds retarded to me

>>6414968
Is this for a hand job?

>>6414900

>>6414991
potentially

>>6414968
Cute :)

>>6414850
Not appealing, just looks like a figure but painted retardedly (sorry)
>>6414900
Somewhat more appealing, the face in padticular. Unfortunately cubism sucks inherently.

>>6414968
This is very nice bro, good job.
I'd also like to know how do you keep your hands warm.

Whole digital art community is just doomposting. They act like they can’t physically pick up a paintbrush. It’s impossible. Le digital is the future, even though it died 2 months ago

>>6418433
Nice booba

>>6413837
>>6414228
I like using Ohuhu markers, but my only experience with markers so far has been Ohuhu and cheap Aliexpress markers.
Ohuhu feels really nice and if you know how to blend and how to use colour, it can really make an artwork pop. I used Jazza's video where he compares as much alcoholic markers as he can to see which one is the best, Copics win, of course, but for a steep price.

Maybe I'll check out some that >>6414228 recommends.

>>6418433
Currently I'm imagining what it will look like like when the market is flooded with millions of 3d printed ai oil paintings. When I finally realized the majority of people don't give a shit about art it was a major blow to me. I'm beginning to think the majority of the minority don't care beyond pretty pictures to put on the wall. Of those, they collect from specific artists. I don't have any repeat buyers. I feel like such shit right now about this.

bouguereau copy on tan paper, 16x20 inches.

>>6419248
>3D printed ai paintings
That already exists, you act like people don’t take their best images and sell prints of them. It’s too cost intensive to do that with real paint. If you train an AI to make real oil paintings what if it’s a shit painting and nobody wants it, and what if it makes 100 of them and they’re all shit. You’d be put out of business so fast. Jpegs are free to make, paintings cost materials. Simple as

>>6419248
>the majority of the minority don't care beyond pretty pictures to put on the wall
exactly, that's why trad isn't going anywhere

>>6419333
Very nice

Did a Winslow Homer copy

>>6419333
Ace!

>>6414454
Thanks friend, yours is lovely too, I’ll give it a go!

Finally feel burnt out and ready for a Crimbo break. Was painting tonight, after forcing myself away from the tv, which is not like me, and it's not really gone as I wanted.
Now sipping a rum & coke.

Need serious criticism on this before I scrap it. I'm very new to the oil medium and obviously my drawing skills are below average but is there anything worth saving here?

>>6418433
Any advice on how to get better at softening edges? Contrast? Values?

>>6423644
It doesn't look like you have a clear idea of what shapes the human body (and the object the figure is lying on) is made up of. This has nothing to do with the oil medium, you need to think in 3D space more and apply that to your painting.

I’m finna start like 20 or so paintings over January after like 6 months of doing other stuff and 2 years since making a trad painting.

Whatsa best way to get back into the habit or getting wet?

>>6423647
define shadows beforehand, and do the blending in one layer. thats how im doing these latest ones.

>>6423703
try oils more this time? i think you did a few in oils but 99% of the ones i remember were acrylics

i painted my stupid fat fucking face

>>6423644
You need to let yourself put oil paint over wet oil paint. Don't be afraid of losing control, control looks bad compared to harmony.

>>6414454
that is a special work, what are the dimensions here?

>>6414454
The background gradation of color is very nice. It’s simple, it just goes from red to yellow to green to blue but that’s an underused color scheme in painting I think.

>>6424379
>>6424405
thank you very much! it's 80x100 cm

>>6423644
read 'drawing lessons from the great masters' by robert beverly hale.
practice drawing cylinders and spheres until you can draw them in such a way that they're so good they look like an optical illusion. drawing cubes is to condition your mind for perspective so you should do that as well. by practicing these shapes, your paintings will take on their nature. as an example; if you drill proficiency of spheres into your artistic ability, you will be automatically better at drawing breasts.
the book i mentioned will teach you the fundamentals so that you are well-quipped to navigate the various aspects of art. it moreso teaches you how to think like an artist, rather than simply telling you what to think.
you can already do hands better than ai so at least you've got that going for you.

A little WIP to keep the spirit of the thread alive. It ain't much, but it's honest at least.

Trad bros win

>>6425363
sovl but I want more

Mucking around before I try an oil painting tomorrow, probably going to change the subject tho

>>6418433
Nice. Brian do you still have that desert painting, with the dude walking towards the factory. It looked kinda apocolyptic.??

>>6426023
amazing...

An unwelcoming crowd. Sketch I finally finished today.

>>6425653
No that’s long gone that was from almost 10 years ago

I painted my winter jacket and hat

>>6427547
Painted the paint tubes on the ground. Been feeling pretty depressed lately I think I’m doing too many paintings off my laptop screen

Here a little bear drawing, only about 20 minutes but it was just a quick sketch to practice-ish

Work in progress. Bad photo, I think.

First time painting on black paper.

>>6428890
Looks good, giving me a Mordor vibe!

>>6428890
i like how the sun illuminates different sides of the volcanoes, as if the sun were sitting directly in between them rather than far behind all them. it adds some nice atmosphere.
when i first saw the thumbnail it had a nice atmospheric fantasy vibe, though when i opened it up it didn't look as good. i think it lost that sense of atmosphere (when i saw the full size image) due to how you didn't spend much time blending and rendering. but the impression and colors that you have are very good. it could make a very good finished piece

>Traditional Artists posting their work freely
>AI "Artists" posting their work freely
>digital """"""Artists""""" kvetch and screech
I don't know who's die to be on.

Started out as a quick sketch to try uplighting a tree with candles in watercolor. Got the bug to work in watercolor for some reason. Now I'm carried away with the "quick sketch" part of the exercise.

Original is by John Frederick Kinsett. How do you guys go about getting smooth + interesting gradients in oil. I'm just smudging shit around until it looks right. Maybe that's fine but it feels like kinda hack brushwork.

>>6429567

The actual painting is the size of a postcard so I'm not going to be able to get super refined, but I'm certainly going to try and blend and polish up the lighting as much as I can. There's also a lot of detail I haven't added yet. Thanks.

>>6429891
you need to use more paint brother

>>6429640
Maybe this vase of flowers with a hand can sway you towards our side

>>6425492
fkn great bro love it

>>6431172
Kind of looks like a Toriyama drawing

>>6414454
I find it helps when sitters wear these kinds of bulky fabrics. 30x40" also gives it a wonderful kind of scope. I have a 30x36" gallery canvas but this really illustrates what could be done with the additional length. I enjoy how it feels so modern yet could be rooted in the Renaissance.

made a birthday gift for my friend, it's acrylic on wood

Worst state ic has ever been in, literally nobody drawing at this point this is pathetic

>>6435746
Honestly seems more active and there’s more people than Brian posting.

Like in January last time I checked in everyone was whining about some sticky of stolen art tutorials being removed and it was mostly just some Czech shill farm making Draw This In Your Style threads to farm free art to steal.

Like 2018 or whenever was a handful of “schizo” namefags basically just posting shit to piss off people telling them to kill themselves.

Honestly this AI hysteria has brought in way more activity, and the best part is that it’s not just a bunch of sniveling ESL Putin shills attacking anyone that’s not an oligarch cocksuck.

Seen so many people over the last idk 8 years wander over to /ic/ and post legitimately cool shit that is kind of innovative and novel and would have a real potential and is definitely something they should keep working on, and they’ll basically be called trash by anonymous foreigners until they get demoralized and/or fuck off.

The board becoming more and more anti-namefag and more and more pro-anonymous Eastern European shill farm employee that is a professional contrarian and wants to steal your art, is really what kind of fucked things over. Rather of a bunch of newfags sincerely arguing about AI than a bunch of Ivans calling every westerner a degenerate faggot that sucks at art.

This is my practice using only inkwash, no pencil sketch. I try to challenge my self to put more thought on brush stroke.

I painted for the first time in like 3 years. :)
How do you guys feel about Mr Robert Ross?

>>6436280
>Bob Ross paints
They are shitty for their price, you got similar or better result with chink shit. W&N if you want an artist grade paint.
I'm saying this without my bias on the fact that Bob Ross brand is owned by Jews using his name and his son has no benefit from it.

>>6436342
I got them as a gift a few years ago and they seem to work fine for me, but I have no other frame of reference
I was more just referring to the man himself and his painting style/videos than the jews profiting off his name.

>>6436354
I thought you ask about the paint and gave you a feed back about quality and the reason why most painters hate the brand.
Otherwise, Bob Ross is great to watch.

>>6435746

Isaac Levitan study

>>6437672
Cool, looks Aztec

I painted an ass

>window shopping the colored pencils
>see this tin
>see the drawing they choose for the tin
Why...? I'm not buying this.

>>6437954
>Why?
Jews

>>6437792
Could there have been a Comforti ancestor who was minting coins for a Roman brothel?

>>6437988
>Roman
hah no, we're southern italian ancestry. Fuck the Romans, fascist pricks.

>>6437954
>soft core
>drawing
you don't even use colored pencils

>>6437954
I'll never understand their marketing. bottom left is what my local art store had forever.

>>6437672
This is really cool, nice work! Do you have a blog or something? How did you come to draw this in particular? Really nice in any case, how long did it take?

>>6437954
>>6438131
I can understand it, it shows of the colours and lines you can make, while presenting a very safe and nonthreatening drawing. People might be less inclined to purchase if they feel it's just for professional artists, this way it looks more approachable.

>>6439095
Thanks, Anon. :) I'd been dragging it for about a month. Had I been more efficient, it should have been done in less than two weeks. I don't have a blog, as of now.

drawing from life is so hard wtf
I think I've ruined myself by only drawing from photo reference. I can't even sketch a simple building from life.

>>6439222
Thats because IRL you've got two different images, one for each eye. From a photo you essentially only have 1 image. You keep getting confused by the two images from each of your eyes.

Some recent trad stuff I've done top two are oil bottom one is coloured pencil

>>6437792
did another nude

>>6437672
does anyone know what tools were used to make this? I know its probably some type of pencil or charcoal related, but I'm not sure on the specifics.

>>6439667
This is what I used, anon.

>>6439675
>Pentel .9
My negro gentleman. Exquisite taste.

>>6439675
>putting your traditional stuff over your digital stuff

>>6439871
Asserting dominance ;)

>>6439372
did a male nude

>>6439372
>>6439953
Lovely! I adore your green girl. Though you really should add the pussy.
>>6439286
All gorgeous. The delicacy of the pencil & gestural approach to the bunny is nice. You have great range.

>>6439960
nigger

>>6439953

>>6439960
nigger

Work In Progress.

Any advice here?

>>6439675
Thanks a lot anon, you're really skilled. I know it took a lot of dedication and discipline to get where you are now in your journey, and it paid off.

You are helping the environment, right?

>>6440680
Push your values more. Keep working on drawing accurately. I'm guessing you're right handed because the whole thing looks slightly stretched up/right.

It snowed on my sketchbook today and the effect looks like snow how neat is that?

You are all so talented anons, 2023 will be your year

>>6441059
Push more into values you think it's too midtone? I thought it was a bit mid so I was working some lights into it also but didn't want to overdo it (still grasping that concept)

>>6440889
>trad
>environment
buy a fucking tablet if you care

>>6440208
Portraits are secretly super complicated. You have to do so much abstract shit to make them look right

>>6441223
A nude

>>6440789
Means a lot, anon. Thanks :')

>>6441070
Very pretty!

>>6440651
Wonderful sky! Love the colours.

>>6441414
Nice work!


I drew an exploratory mech, halfway through shading I realized I had watercolours, so shaded with those instead. The perspective is fucked. Maybe I should focus more on individual elements? Like draw only the mech, or only the guy or the background. Instead of a whole scene at once.
Would love feedback.

>>6440680
yes, take that fucking massive reflective sticker off your easel. it will invariably fuck with your sense of value

>>6437672
>genuine rendering ability and imaginative drawing in /trad/
i kneel

I'm doing the schoolism watercolor course

>>6441414

It's over before it even started.

Today I copied some ears from Charles Bargue’s drawing course book that I got for Christmas.

>>6442818

The iris compiet one?

>>6443530
yeah. her style is easier for me to follow

I try

>>6415014
sick! sauce?

>>6437672
nice and creepy

>>6441481
Looks good, reminds me of girls last tour

>>6443978
I like the pen work but you should push the dynamics and consider placing your shadows differently: face and void just next to face are the darkest parts currently. If the face was the lightest part of the figure and the background around it even darker that would be neat

what did they use to do the coloring on stuff like this?

>>6444698
Like colored pencils or pastels or some shit ?

Working on a background for this one now.

>>6445934
Thicc

>>6444698
Looking closely, I think it's mixed media, with lots of colored pencils over water color.

>>6444698
Probably airbrushed like everything else in the 90s.

>>6444698
I would back up what >>6445989 said, it honestly looks like watercolour pencils with some of them washed and some of them just used straight as pencils.
>>6445999
Assuming that was done by Tennapel I don't think he used airbrushes in his workflow, but I could be wrong/it could be another artist's work.
>>6445934
Cute succubus, not normally a fan of the fat lips but it works in that drawing.

>>6446273
Very tight work

Finished this drawing.

>>6446273
sexy

Planet Chernabog, where strange, plant-like organisms feed on sulfur pools in the shadow of volcanic clouds.

Gouache and mixed media.

Oh, and, uh happy new year?

>>6418433
you painted my boobs

>>6450666
I love this

>>6448919
I'm really really sorry anon but this looks very souless and AI like, and believe me those aren't words I throw around

>>6450684
Thank you very much.

>>6450683
Not yet but I'm sure he'd be more than happy to.

>>6450691
Gee thanks

>>6450683
put your top back on you absolute whore

>>6450683
bitch do you mind
(@briancomforti on instragram)

>>6437672
holy shit that's great

>>6450683
thats some bad gyno you got there bro

My Captain Beefheart fanart, inspired by his toxic behavior as described by John French. I still owe Don Van Vliet alot, no matter how he was in person.

>>6450683
why are you so sweaty

>>6441223
>You have to do so much abstract shit to make them look right
No you don't

>>6450873
I love you, can you paint me fully nude?

>>6450873
is your roommate hot? I'm kinda jealous.

I'm almost 28 and I don't have friends either

>>6451770
Is this her? Pay the fucking rent

>>6451745
I mean okay if you want contact me somewhere other than here. Or if you’re a man LARPing consider transitioning

just post'em here so we can all draw you

I'll repost my Captain Beefheart "portrait", maybe /trad/s will critique me. The point was to paint him with a toxic influence visible.

/trad/s... My heart will always belong to traditional art. I'm fucking tired of what most digital art communities are - OCs, anime and cartoons, "cute characters" and a whole other load of bullshit. Even the fucking male artists draw like women with these kind of characteristics present on their pages. I hate being a consumer in such an environment.

>>6446273
oddly satisfying

>>6452781
it's the white highlights

>>6452881
All thigh no butt, that doesnt make much sense

>>6444079
>>6451077
Thanks, anons!

>>6451745
Message me then what do you want, I have like a million social medias

how 2 get good at oil painting? I litcherally use the same brush for everything, mix paint with that same brush without ever cleaning it, rarely mix my own colors and paint straight from tube colors.

>>6454387
Unironically watch some Bob Ross.

A bit curious on professional watercolour, till now I've been using Cotman. It's expensive though but thought I can afford a few tubes. Which brand and which colours would be a good choice?

This one is my favorite painting, I made it based on one panel on the original Devilman manga.
What do you People think?

>>6454387
>how 2 get good at oil painting? I litcherally use the same brush for everything, mix paint with that same brush without ever cleaning it, rarely mix my own colors and paint straight from tube colors.
Get a palette. Get a pad of disposable palettes, use a diner plate, anything. For God's sake.
And also watch someone else paint, as anon pointed out Bob Ross can teach you a thing or two about wet in wet painting.

>>6456876
Good, confident mark making. Good shadow shapes.

>>6451745
So this was just a dude yeah?

>>6443401
i like your style anon

>>6456876
anon this is excellent

>>6457368
That wave is going to engulf that nice old building,. Shame.

>>6456504
I started with W&N cotmans and they're decent. Upgraded a few colours into the W&N professional grade and they're a lot better, worth the money IMO as for me they last a long time. I upgraded my primary colours and i still use some of my cotmans for greens browns and the purple occasionally.
I got a warm and cool of each primary to start with.
I will say i find myself using some of my pro colours more than the others but i think its just something you figure out by trying them.

all your works are so amazing, i did some possums the other day w watercolors paints. I'm not very good so this was more of a practice i guess

>>6457739
like how mischievous it looks uwu

>>6457793
maybe too much

Did a sketch. Looking for composition critiques before I move to canvas. I'm thinking shrink some of the water on the left to zero in on the main island. Theres a little 3 inch waterfall there that I want to be a focal point. Gotta go back for more ref first though.

>>6454387
Look up "Draw Mix Paint" on youtube to learn how to mix color. Get a palette knife. Don't worry about using the same brush for everything. Unless you're using pure white then wiping your brush off between colors is enough.
https://youtu.be/TNB3XY67Q-I
https://youtu.be/CIAiC15FfeQ

>>6451745
Here ya go.

>>6458847
I want you to look at the floor you drew, then the character's feet and take a few moments to contemplate the concept of "perspective"

>>6458847
Vanishing point where?
The character's figure is nice, but it's not forbidden to use a ruler.

>>6459509
Those redlines are stupid. You are right that perspective is fucked though. The floor isnt 90 degrees square against the wall. The window has the same issue. Figure is fine though

What's the easiest way to transfer a drawing to illustration board?

Is there any advice to mixing colors with oil paints? Like is there a website that can tell you to mix what colors to get what.
I always wing it and i dont know what i am doing. Sometimes I get close to ideal and other times its completely wrong.

>>6459714
As another anon pointed out, Draw mix paint really has a good channel for this.

>>6459502
>>6459509
Oh yeah. I'm going to have to redraw that for sure.

>>6458847
try doing a painting from this. you already did the drawing, the blueprint is there. the painting wouldn't be that hard.

Work in progress. 36" x 48" canvas. Acrylic.

>>6460170
are you struggling with any parts of it?

>>6460269
No struggles so far. It's just that after painting her lower region, I noticed how much darker it was and that the face should be as dark. I'll darken the face if I'm not lazy.
Obviously I used a grid and that helped immensely in making sure I don't doubt what I'm painting.

I feel like such an idiot. I tried to paint >>>/s/21481801
I don't get how people draw people. I guess it's just practice, but I still feel pretty dumb doing it. Doesn't help that I used garbage paper, I should have used the nicer stuff I have. But I don't want to waste it.
Any feedback is appreciated.

>>6460280
That's really great. How do you get the features so accurate to the ref? What kind of sketch do you do first?

>>6460515
It's good that you took the time to finish it. Think of the first parts of the drawing step as being more important to the final work than anything else. Check all of your proportions to your reference, and when you aren't sure about something then you'll know what gaps in your knowledge you have to fill in. Be very careful not to simply copy what you see without thinking about it, as you'll grow very fast by being mindful of what you're doing. Keep finishing your painting like you've done here, and enjoy it. Keep sharing it with us.

>>6460526
With the grid. I just draw the important outlines. the pencil lines would be as detailed as this pic from google. Important contours such as the clavicle would also be marked with a line.
I take advantage of the very fast drying time of acrylic paint, I can just slather on colours without regard if it actually matches the reference image and I'll fix it on subsequent layers. This is why I prefer it to oil.

happy tiger is happy

Reworked the perspective

>>6460909
better

Not super happy with this one, I think I'm too beholden to the reference. Doesn't really feel like there a focal point in this to me, probably should have lightened the rocks around the gate. More atmospheric perspective was needed on the background hill and bridge, its merging with the closer hill, I make this mistake all the time. Thoughts appreciated.

>>6457047
Nice line work, anatomy of the skulls looks a bit off to me.

>>6457368
Really nice, I love the clouds. If I HAD to find a bit of criticism I'd say maybe the large cresting waves form isn't making much sense/not similar to waves I've seen in real life, hard to describe just doesnt look right to me.

>>6457927
Splat, poor little guy. Squeeze some darker values in there.

>>6460893
Cute, would pet and have my arm ripped of by.

>>6463067
Coming along great!

i drew some fish

>>6463510
You need to simplify the values a lot. I find doing small, 3 or 4 value, pencil sketches keeps my paintings a lot more readable.

Calling it finished

>>6464039
I'm thinking the inanimate rocks are now the best part of the drawing, rather than the girl

>>6464054
I put more love into those rocks desu

>>6464039
The lower legs need a lot of work. They have no volume

>>6440651

Progress.

BOILING with anger and hatred
i hate water mixable oils so goddam much
i have never felt hatred for something so much in my entire life. i hate so strongly right now it's unreal.

>>6418433
>uses e-whores and porn as models.
At least i’d have the decency to not copy porn if i did figurative painting. Who is even buying this trash?

>>6465862
>sees figure painting
>instantly assumes its some girls nudes from onlyfans
bruh

>>6465838
I've never even bothered to try them out.
Post some of your results with them I'm curious!

>>6412947
You

All

Will

Die

As

Genetic

Dead

Ends

https://youtu.be/sxm2aMq-3Zk [Remove]
The people you trust

Want

(you)

To

Kill

Your

Self

The future is judging you

>>6466213
Quality post right here

>>6465838
I've bought some but have yet to use them.
What was wrong with them, and which brand did you buy?

Using Maxfield Parrish's techniques of glazing.

>>6459704
transfer paper.
if you're cheap, you can make your own with 6B+ and lighter fluid as a solvent.
if you're full favela dweller, you can scribble on the back of your drawing and use it as it's own transfer sheet.

>>6460170
are you chilean? i feel like i've been here XDD

>>6460170
continued

>>6467542
canada

I thought I'd experiment with alcohol markers to try to get darker tones, just going over it with pencil.

too saturated?
>>6467548
love it

Would this be good for warming Chavant NSP clay?

i dont post in trad thread only because they are thinly veiled Brian ego validation threads

How most anons paint landscape?
Do you guys use references or construct everything from imagination and memory?

>>6468568
Sorry for being unclear. Painting in real life or using photo are counted as using references

>>6468570
I do sketches on site then use that plus reference photos in the studio.

This looks good?

>>6468570
All 3 or a mix

Anyone else find that they just can't create a body of work that 'hangs' together?
I paint portraits, still lives, landscapes, seascapes, etc. But sometimes my work looks like Impressionism, whereas my portraits and still lives are more crisp and don't look like the same person painted them. I've been selling for 10 years, but other people agree with me, that they all look like different people made them.
So after probably thousands of paintings, why am I still doing this?

Friend

I bought loose leaf paper of various kinds, but I can't get myself to sketch and doodle on them, I don't want to waste them. So they sit gathering dust while I draw on dreadful el-cheapo garbage paper. Is it ok to do little studies or sketches on watercolour paper, with watercolour? I feel like I'm only supposed to use it for big finished polished works, I've got a whole bunch of it and It's more wasted just sitting gathering dust. But still, it's like I'm wasting its potential by using it for simpler things. I'm procrastinating by overthinking again... What do you guys think about this?

>>6468631
I think it looks pretty good. The eyes are a bit small though and the chin is too flat, like he's a vase you could set down somewhere. A little more rounded would be good I think.

>>6467884
I like it!
I feel like her head is a little small, but well done!

>>6469791
I know what you mean about not using good paper, but you gotta practice with all the materials you would use on a finished "real" piece, including the paper you intend to use. You have to know how it'll react with different materials, how to prepare it, etc. You might not even end up liking it all that much. It's just a cost of doing business.

my bird painting really bombed but I didn't think it was all that bad

>>6471644
the bird are nice but the rest is shit
there is nothing of interest in the snow(?) and yet its way too busy so it distracts from the bird

What's a good way to keep my drawings from getting damaged? i noticed the lead keeps rubbing off on other pages whenever I close my sketchbook so I feel like I need a better way to store them

>>6471782
>lead
*graphite

>>6471782
I guess you could use a fixative? I'm not having that problem in my sketchbook, maybe it's the paper or the way you're moving it around.

>>6465980
Real art models don’t just take selfies of their tits

>>6472781
the good ones do

>>6471782
Leave one page blank.

What's the difference between indian ink and black acrylic ink? In my tests they seem to perform the same, the only difference is that I used normal water for acylic ink and demineralized water for india.

Trying to learn to paint, please ignore the date I only put it in for tracking purposes.

>>6439675
Did they discontinue that sanguine powder? I can't find it anywhere.

>>6473796
These look great to me

>>6473915
aww thank you honey

I actually painted today

>>6474298
not to be rude, just genuinely curious, but do you ever try working out your paintings more, giving them more of a "finished" feeling, blending all your obvious individual strokes?

>>6474298
I really like this one. Reminds me of the 70s.

>>6474308
I used to, now once I get the general idea onto the canvas I’m satisfied. Pic related is an old painting

>>6474333
This is another older one. I cut my teeth on still lifes, figure drawing, and plein air painting when I was doing most of my really serious studying.

>>6474337
Some super complicated stylistic plein air work too, I did it once I’m kinda done with it now. I don’t have much to say in those regards these days

>>6474340
Part of why I don’t continue in the vein of the older work is that a lot of it I sold already so I know it’s more or less taken care of in peoples homes. That frees me up to explore a lot of looser more expressive work that I never did when I was younger

>>6474341
I would honestly say the main reason I continue to paint, and why they're so simple now, is that I'm basically just interested to see if I can still do it sometimes. Like can I still do the magic trick. Can I still make one of my paintings. That's all. Once I satisfy that condition I consider the painting more or less done.

>>6474341
interesting. I like these, especially >>6474333. if I could ask, what are your main goals with your paintings? I know you sell them, but how much do you do just for leisure and/or studying purposes? do you have any aspirations of "making it big" (whatever that happens to mean to you)?

>>6474350
>I know you sell them, but how much do you do just for leisure and/or studying purposes?
I would say most of my art creation at this point is fairly leisurely. I paint what I'd like to paint, to the extent I'd like to paint it. I rarely study in the strict sense of how I used to. If I feel a tad too comfortable I'll draw my hands a few times to warm up for a painting but it's all fairly intuitive for me now.

>>6464039
How did you shade so subtly and soft the skin?

>>6474363
Q tips, cotton balls and blending stumps.

>>6474333
>>6474337
>>6474340
>>6474341
These are all really good, Brian. I've criticized you in the past when you posted some shitty, half-assed landscapes you churned out in 20 minutes, but these look like youv'e actually put a bit more effort on them. Nice job! That colorful landscape is really great, a fauvist-gauginesque style.

>>6474751
Thanks

>>6476013
The absolute madman he got a model

>>6476030
We can tell you have skill, now stop playing safe
>>6476013
Why is everything floating, is the carpet made of skin aswell?
>>6473796
Keep going. But stop at the right time, looks overworked for your level. Focus on base values and colours
>>6471644
It's a good start I guess, feels flat tho
>>6468276
I don't know how I feel about the shadows in the foreground being cooler toned than the sky blue. What do you think?
>>6464537
Everything about this hurts my ocular nerves

>drawing instructor promised a nude model for today
>it's a fat old man with a micropenis

>>6477432
Welcome to the exciting and uncomfortable world of figure drawing. I'm expecting you to post your results ofc.

Is there a person alive today with the patience to paint like Thomas Kinkade?

>>6477077
I'm the apple painting guy, good advice. In my defense the oils were drying up way faster than I expected due to absorption into the paper (I think), so I wasn't able to put down a lot of nice strokes. Gonna try prepping the paper with an acrylic white next time and see if that seals it up better.

>>6477756
No, thank god

>>6477918
Soz bro, either you've been scammed or you're mistaken, oils never dry this fast no matter the medium. The oils always win on unprimed paper not the other way around. After some time (not instantly) you would see oilstains everywhere. But if you're not worried about archiving your work while you're still practicing you shouldn't really have to worry. Nicolas Uribe does it often, he talks about painting on a budget aswell if you're intrested. I think he's mostly lazy tho :)
Prepping with acrylic gel medium as a buffer works well, it's cheaper than gesso and dries faster I just love spreading it on cardboards and whatever I can find

> don't waste your money on high end stuff for now, but try to get at least a standard quality for yourself, especially if you aim to practice detail

>>6478419
* paint surface instead of medium

>>6463510
I like your technique

That said, other anon is right, do a few value exercises to warm up first. You seem to get lost along the way somewhere. Which is interesting bc I also see a sense of focus and order, especially palette wise.

So I'll keep it short:
> values
> edges
> foreground/background. Try to find a way where I can squint my eyes and differentiate between the two
> detail. this overlaps with foreground and edges

You seem to be well aware of your recurring mistakes so I think you'll be fine. I'm pretty confident everyone has their own personal Achilles heel tho. Hope this helps

I'm mad because I can't find the time to work on shit its like I'm betraying a loyal lover

>>6477918
Yeah anon you really need to size your surface. If you don't want to fuck with gesso, just go ahead and use some krylon spray primer. I'm serious that shit works perfectly fine.

>>6464537
i like
do you always use black paper? how do I decide on the paper color

>>6478419
"Dry" was the wrong word, it wasn't fixed in place or anything, it's just that the paper I used is really absorbant and I was thinning the paint a bit with turpentine. It let the paint soak into the paper fast, made it difficult to mush around after. It was still mobile though.

>>6478478
Thanks anon I'll probably give this a try, and yeah I really don't care about preserving these little practice ones at all, it's just nice for when I wanna remember when I started practicing.

>>6460515
Actually really like the aesthetic with the watercolour and paper texture.
Your proportions are a bit off, but this looks really good otherwise, don't be so hard on yourself and keep going.

Did a small scetch before I proceed to paint it bigger. Still learning composition, added the boat late and fucked up the perspective.

I feel I've made the figure too big or the fireplace too small, but I'm happy with it.
>>6429675
This is gorgeous, especially the detail on the candles.

>>6460170
>>6460280
>>6467548
Finished.
36" x 48" Canvas
Acrylic

>>6480039
I like it anon thanks for sharing here

>>6471791
Lead is soft enough to draw with, though

>>6480078
Thank you.
I'll post the palette that I used for anyone who's interested in figure painting.

Titanium White
Crimson
Burnt Umber
Raw Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Naples Yellow
Light Olive Green (Wallpaper in the background)
Ultramarine (To mix with Burnt Umber to produce black and darker browns)

Brand
Liquitex Basics or Artist's Loft (Cheapest legit art store paint).

Mixing is done on the fly on a glass palette with the same brush used for painting, no palette knife is used. A 1 cm angular flat brush is used for the body and face. A larger 1-inch flat brush is used for the background.

Work fucked me for the last several months but I finally had time to go to my painting class again. Took him home this time so if that happens again I can at least work on him in my own time.

Today's session was mostly getting back into it, developing the details in the left limbs, drapery and face

>>6480039
I really like it! The part where the butt joins the leg is a bit wonky, and that toe looks pretty bad, but the rest of your anatomy is great. Your color is great as well, I would only ask you to try going darker on the dark areas, to generate a bit more contrast. And the highlight on the chest and shoulders is way too big, I'd make it smaller. Awesome job, anon!

>>6480315
good shit anon, I wonder if it's the phone camera with your lighting or are your highlights really blown out?

painted a fish after not touching goauche for a few years

>>6480039
Talking about acrylic, I have learn from internet that you can apply one layer of wet Baking Paper on the palette to keep the paint stay wet for longer.

I'm trying to do master studies of Frazetta. This one was made from memory after copying the original from observation

>>6481407
A bit of both. I still have a lot more to go on the values before I start colour, and my phone camera is also ass. It looks a fair bit nicer in person.

>>6481867
Wait wtf I'm looking at this now and realizing my normal reference image is super dark.

>>6481867
Yeah you're just missing the soft glaze over the torso. Also rtemember to lose those lines eventually!

I'm curios about warmup and such. If you guys decide that on your way home, or wherever that you want to draw a bird or some other subject. You get to your supplies and how do you proceed. What's your process? Do you do warm up sketches first, or warm up exercises and if so which ones or do you just start? Do you do thumbnails of different compositions, or do you start sketching directly on the paper/canvas after a reference? Do you use multiple references?

>>6427611
I love this

Painted with acrylic

>>6483722
You're overthinking it.

If you try to get to a pro level, then you've got a few interesting options already, just pick one, use it a few times (10, 15, not twice), weight its pros & cons according to your personal tastes, and eventually try something else.

Otherwise if you just want to have fun, just pick any and enjoy yourself.

Regarding the warm ups, try warming up the muscles involved: draw a bunch of lines, a few circles/ellipses, make sure your eyes are "connected" with your hand.

5/10min should be good enough. Some people warm-up for longer: for instance, they'll do a 30min/1h random figure drawing. But usually, those then spend about the rest of the day drawing & painting, so a more extensive warm-up makes sense.

I painted a bird, what do you think? Any feedback is appreciated.

>>6481476
That's nice, I feel the forehead is a bit flat though and you lose that nice soft shading on the hands.

>>6479101

Aww thanks. I'll try my hand at a face again. I think my main issue is that I get too eager to go in with ink and watercolours, I need to slow down and take my time with the sketch.

Hmm I dont so much talent for color

>>6486016
Actually added some light and color now its kinda dapper

>>6463648
>>6478449
Appreciate the responses, very helpful.

>>6486016
Post the updated one, is this a ceramic thing your painting or something?

>>6485490
I like it, dont have much in the way of crit. Very pleasant, I love spotting a robin when I'm out walking the dog.

>>6484180
Nice work, areas that are sticking out to me as far as needing more work are the ear, where her hair is covering her neck, and maybe the nose.
I feel like the hair around the ear should be covering it more or somthing, kinda feels like its sticking out a bit too much to me.
The way her hair line is covering her neck makes me think she has a really awful haircut.
Face generally looks a bit flat, might be the lighting in the photo but for example definition of the bridge of the nose isn't there.

>>6481465
Looks great, I think adding some black to certain spots will really make this pop, especially in the eye area.

>>6477077

>Everything about this hurts my ocular nerves

Good.

>>6478525

Nah I was at the art supply store and I bought a pad of black watercolor paper on a lark. This is only the second painting I've done on black paper, actually. Turns out I kinda like it.

As for what color paper to choose, I usually go with white for versatility's sake, but I will sometimes tone it with ink pads and such sometimes before painting on it.

Lots of people like starting with a grey or other midtone paper and adding the lights and darks. I don't do that much myself but it's a good option. Hope this helps.

>>6486319
It a circular canvas

>>6468276
this is nice anon c:

B&W mastercopy WIP, learning how to paint color into grayscale values and seems like edge control is a big factor here. I'm going to start my attempt to replicate brushstrokes and work on the drapery next, any advice beforehand appreciated.
>>6480315
>>6481867
Nice WIP so far, I hope you don't mind me asking but how do you plan or evaluate the glazing beforehand for a mastercopy? I do painting straight on canvas with an underpainting and have glazed only once.
>>6468276
Very pretty, so lovely.
>>6481465
I kneel.
>>6486016
>>6486971
I like the concept. I think next time you could try to start with block ins first instead of starting with small strokes because the values are confusing.
>>6486536
Cool stuff.
>>6486319
I like this one a lot, the focus is a lot clearer compared to your earlier paintings. I don't have much to say cause it seems like you already got plenty of help and know what direction to take.
>>6485490
Very scenic. Only crit is the bottom right is a little distracting cause it fights with the bird for attention but I like the bird a lot, anon.
>>6484180
Pretty, but I do think you could work on values, they are somewhat chaotic and with the hair I think starting with a large mass and then getting to the small details such as individual strands would work better. Tbh it's difficult to crit with the lighting.

>>6487917
Now that I look at it again, I need to reorganize some proportions and rework the values on the side of the face before continuing.

>>6487917
This is my first master study and I'm taking a class so I don't actually know how glazing works at all yet sorry.

>>6439372
whats up with the arm looking detached