/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>drew

I painted these for first time. I dedicate the left skeleton to /ic/.

>>6569550
Every day you don't draw it's a day where you lost. Keep that in mind.

>>6569569
Nice work!

>>6569541
>stop visiting a general for 3 years
>come back
>they are still using the pics I drew

Cargo cult art: If just keep applying technique, I'll make great art. It'll happen.

>>6569541
I got a shout-out by the lady from FLCL back when I was a permabeg. Made 2 and a half games.

>>6569587
My longest streak is 729, drawing every day is pointless because it adds extra pressure and you start shitting out whatever you can make just to meet a quota and sacrifice actually doing something meaningful for that.

The ideal balance for me was drawing as much as I like (or don't draw at all if I don't feel like), while also doing at least 2 study sessions every week.

I generally draw 3 times a week outside of my study sessions, 5/7 with meaningful stuff instead of daily 30 minute diarrhea is pretty nice.

>>6569653
merc_wip ?

japanese artists I admire started following me

>>6569587
I improve my art and gain followers when I don't draw.

>>6569541
My art idol/hero followed me on christmas even though I'm /beg/

>>6569740
post your art?

I drew for 3 hours and I'm not tired. In fact I'm going to draw some more after I eat.

>>6569541
I’m almost done with my first bridgeman run

>>6569541
>senpai noticed me and liked my work enough draw my ocs more than once.
One of the best feelings in the world.

>post art anonymously
>people keep reposting it
Purely ego shit, but it's nice to know when people genuinely like your art and aren't just reposting it to suck e-peen or because "this art had a lot of likes, therefore I should like it too"

>>6569952
I can relate, no retweet can compare to a repost.

>mum liked the drawing I did on her mother's day card

My masterpiece.

300 hours of meticulous planning and diligent execution. 18" by 24" poster sized, and my raised middle finger to a terrible life that inspired me to make it. A bad photo of it,but you get the idea.

>>6569541
>anons almost always call my drawings "cute" or says it has "soul" (compared to a few years ago where they ignore it or ask why I posted something so disgusting)
>OC I did in aug 2022 has been reposted regularly for over half a year
>I can quickly sketch something in 5-15 minutes and its a lot better than my finished art used to be
>my oshi has liked my art twice
>someone I wish I could draw like commented on my art

Losses
>everytime I post my drawings on /ic/ multiple people ask if I have Parkinsons (i dont)
>I still struggle to draw regularly for more than a week at a time

>>6569541
>mentioned on /co/ thread about abandoned webcomics
Felt nice to see people still care about a vent comic I did in college.

>>6570204
its bad, composition is horrible, looks ugly, furry, and its blurry.
nice waste of time

>>6570309
Would you mind posting your work? I'm really curious

>>6570204
schizoid gem

>>6569791
Oh yeah, i know you from your artstyle. Mind saying who it is? that sounds very encouraging.

>>6570340
Nta, but it’s probably kyubumlee. Saw him commenting on that anon’s art.

>>6570309
pyw
also i have shaky hands too it's no biggie you just gotta adapt your style into it

>>6569541
i drew pepe the frog as an /ic/ user and a lot of people complimented me

>>6570336
>>6570398
I dont want to post my work because /ic/ is mean to me

>>6569699
Honestly seems like a solid idea, will try out

I pissed off an old acquaintance on /ic/ today. I can sleep with a smitten smirk on my face tonight.

First time using markers for shading, just a practice off a reference. Used some really old markers I bought in highschool over 10 years ago, whose tips aren't really fit for the size of the area - old Pitt brush pens.
Extremely proud of how it turned out for a first try, and motivates me to get some copics.

>>6570204
I like it. Reminds me of TRPG manuals from the 90s and 2000s, like Ironclaw or something.

>>6569541
An actual high skilled artist liked my work, even though I was a permabeg and posted it on my own page and not in her OC gift album in her group (that was back in 2015)
I finally came up with final OC design after 6 years since his concept was first created
I finally started to actually improve and learn fundaments after many years of "just draw"

>>6570154
what did you draw? last year i did a van gogh-like floral pen drawing on the card, but mothers day is coming up again and i don't have any ideas

>>6570340
>>6570343
Yep. His work is so cool.

>put work on artstation
>it gets 1 like

>>6570628
My mum likes cats so I drew her one.

>>6570815
based, wanna show?

>>6570815
Based . I wish my mom was alive.

>>6570839
My condolences, anon.

>>6570334
As I said,it's a bad photo of it. And it was how a leisurely walking commute suddenly vanished,and I was transferred to another store that took me a trip into NYC,a bus back to Jersey to ride an hour to some Sbarro pizza joint on a highway,and a 30 block walk. I had one night off,and I worked on this to keep my sanity. Yes,it's flawed,but its its something that I will never do again. I liked the archway, having a coffee table book on picturesque churches and that was a photo in it.

And eventually the store closed,and I was transferred again, but to a store that was within walking distance, but down a huge hill,which I had to walk up after a long night of tossing boxes around. I then tried doing this entirely in Photoshop, and its pseudo 3D look caught the eye of an art director for Bethesda when I submitted a link to my website for a concept artist job. But the art test that I was given I gave up on,because I still had a 48 hour week and a couple hours walk,so the artist who could deliver far faster than me would get the job. I was supposed to design 3 things : a barbarian dressed in ragtag armor, a Cyber-Manticore,and castle ruins in a jungle,and then draw storyboards of a fight between them. It took 2 weeks to do the barbarian and cyber manticore, and when I was starting the castle, I surrendered to fate.

>>6570828
Dunno how well the camera picks it up.

>>6570815
>>6570885
Based and cute kot anon

>>6570628
Not him but try a portrait basic but simple choice if you don’t have any ideas, I did one for her birthday.

>>6569541
it's been a week since I finished my last piece and I still haven't cringed while looking at it
it usually takes just a couple days

>>6569541
>the charm of of the sketch didn't disappear once it has been cleaned up

>My work got clicked

>>6570885
wish i could just draw innocent shit like that. nice kot.

>>6570940
It's the best feeling in the world to finish a piece, look back at it weeks later and still appreciate it. It's like you've successfully crawled out of /beg/

>>6570974
Or your taste just stopped developing with your skill

>>6570943
I kneel.

bumo

>>6571017
What situation are you in then, anon?

>>6569541
2 people asked me if they could download my latest piece, with one telling me they were gonna put it as their background (I post only in discord so it fairly common to ask for perm)
I also got told that some of my drawings look like the original artstyle, which is uplifting because I go out of my way to imitate artstyles
When I draw shota/loli I get told very often that my stuff is cute, and that's a big W for me

Speakings of L's, I got shadowbanned on Instagram and I still cringe at what I draw most of the times

>>6572328
Share your lolis >.>

>>6570204
Feels like someone drew a furry version of the first edition D&D art.

>>6569541
I got my art accepted as in-game cosmetics for a game I love

I used to draw a lot of crude stickman comics with jokes that were influenced by what I liked back when I was in secondary school and surprisingly my classmates did read them and actually enjoyed them a lot (probably because it was about them), they then started drawing and tried to make their own comic as well, at least a dozen of us made a 'comic club' where we would share our comics around to read, giving advice on jokes and gags, etc.
It was somewhat of a healthy competition as well, since all of us started off knowing nothing of fundamentals and we did it purely 'for teh lulz' - to see if who could make the funniest shit ever.
I left my country due to family circumstances and later on asked my still in contact friends if they still draw and as I figured, they all stopped after I left, none of them kept it even as a hobby - I was the glue that held everything together, the moment I left was when their interest started to dwindle.
I think that period back then was my honest-to-god 'victory' and I doubt that in my lifetime, I could ever recreate it again, that kind of unity; now I'm just a lonely dude who draws for myself.

Revealed Botfags' operation across different boards' drawthreads and made drawfags rather use stealth drawthreads than the actual drawthreads that consist Botfag's request spam for 90% of the threads

>>6574378
Nice story, anon.
You can create that as long as you're living.

>>6574396
Based. /aco/?

>>6569541
When I was younger and /beg/ I drew fanart of a really cool artist's comic character (he worked at Nick and smaller Marvel stuff) and I made her sword a bit different in proportions, and this guy (it was back when artists still interacted) posted a comment telling me the fanart was cool and he actually liked the way I drew the sword a lot, and he changed it a little bit in his actual comic.

>>6570204
>furry with poofy 80s hair
holy shit you just awakened something in me

>>6574378
Yeah man, same here. I was a popular kid and my mates looked up to me. It's sad

A victory?

Here's one,a satisfied customer, wearing a tshirt that I designed for an online hangout I have haunted for a couple of decades, the last bastion of Quake 2 servers.

>>6574467
This is a recent drawing of that character, done by accident, since I was trying to draw another character, but the eye suggested her,so I went with it. I am trying to draw in pencil again after 12 years doing ballpoint pen, and this is a lesson for me in doing fur and hair. I need a lot more work done before even considering my first project:a poster sized image.

>>6574632
Oops

>>6574633
Needs more FLOOF and I liked the more realistic wolfy face in the former
godspeed with trad anon, I said fuck you to digital long ago

>>6569541
>artist you admire follows you back

some guys who remembered me from a few years ago commissioned me to help design stuff for their indie game. got to do their marketing key art and everything

finally got art on steam. we're all gonna make it bros

>>6574751
That is the true end goal for any content creator or producer.

>>6574766
that's just silly, people follow you back automatically in a lot of cases

>>6569541
cliffy b liked my jazz jackrabbit fanart

>>6576462
cap

>>6576462
BASED jazz jackrabbit appreciator

>>6576463
no cap I just mentioned him in the tweet

>>6569541
I also once got retweeted by z-t00n, again fanart

>post art on a new social media account
>someone reposts an old drawing I made and ask if I'm the same artist
>tfw someone saved my art

>>6576462
>jazz jackrabbit
is it like some poor Sonic knockoff?

>>6569541
I'm responsible for the artist skill tier meme threads. I only made the first one in early 2019 and it took off.

>>6572310
hopefully in the GMI one
inshallah

>>6569541
>Streamer has an art competition
>Lots of her normal simps drew shitty art for it
>Throw my drawing in the mix
>Win $300
felt pretty good. first time I won money with my art too.
felt especially good because the faggot /beg/s who lost were art students always talking out their ass.

>>6576542
not sure which came before but jazz is ancient stuff

Finally got a contract with a company to do some work with them. Really excited.

>>6577034
Show me the 300 dollar drawing, anon

>>6570204
>people think schizos and autismos are opposite to each others
Here we see the schizo-autist in action.

>>6570879
you severely underestimate what it takes to create art. Look at this objectively. Even someone who likes the particular style would think this is trash. This story with the art director is either not true or you see it through the warped lens of megalomania and narcissism.

>>6579080
>>6579077
why u bully him

>>6569541
>years of giving twitter (You)s to artists I follow who mainly draw of a franchise I'm into
>started drawing 4 years ago
>only ever draw fanart of said franchise
>some said artists started following me back and giving me (You)s
I keep saying to myself that I should only draw for myself but I do really like this feeling of being acknowledged by my senpais

>>6579080
What happened was that I "caught the eye" of the art director when he went through submissions for the concept artist job. That means he found something interesting enough to give me a chance to compete for the position by participating in this test. I imagine that the art director would see which version of the subject matter fits the project, and that doesn't necessarily mean "the best artistically",or whatever,but the style that meshes best with the overall look of the product already envisioned by the director. It was an experiment that I liked what I achieved with it,and I could imagine severely disappointing this director by not submitting my work looking like the faux 3D kind of thing, giving him stuff assembled from bits of separate drawings as this pic was. I tried to be kind to the future polygonal architect that would have to build a model from my picture someday, so I stylized it with low polygonal shapes that could be distinctly textured,and also tried giving it a look that the viewer could imagine its history. The barbarian was terrible, bad pose,bad execution. I'll post that next.

>>6579552
Cyber manticore

And the bad barbarian.

And a bonus picture for y'all. Successful experiments. Playing with Alien Skin in Photoshop 5.5 and being proud of what I made. The glorious late 90s.

>>6579559
Endearing. Don’t take this as a complement or a bash, it just is.

I've been trying to paint backgrounds, found a fun way to do it (rectangle brush and lasso)

>>6569541
>one of my drawings got posted in one of those "art you saved from /ic/" threads
>one of my drawings got uploaded to danbooru as "drawfag"
feels good to be gmi

>>6579574
Exactly. Not "good" or well executed, but has the charm of a child's finger painting. I found a picture of a Japanese schoolgirl and used the smear tool on the face to disguise it,some green paint on a separate layer using the hair filter then some standard Photoshop filter to make it leafy. Bevelling with shift in light source to make the ruins 3D-ish. The waterfalls were motion blurring and a lot of morphing. And I made her satchel Glassed for some reason. It all started with the wall behind her,which was another image swirled and made to look like a mural with a few touch ups. Happy experimenting with the best game in the world: Photoshop, where you always win.

>painting I posted in /beg/ ended up as the OP pic for the next thread
>first Twitter follower other than my friends is a painter who I didn’t follow beforehand
I appreciate the small things, maybe too much.

Another play date in Photoshop. Found a bodybuilder, and a nude woman lying down, and built this monstrosity around them. In my next experiment, I tried to build a Dragon with scales copied and pasted into patterns to use like building blocks for constructing the form.

>>6569541
>100 post's on my own thread

>>6569541
my work got reposted on /a/ without the intent of mocking me

>>6579580
>tfw some anon uploaded my art to a booru
>it got 17 updoots
>average is 10

the headpats feel goood

The Built From Bits Dragon.

Years ago when I was still in an active Dungeons and Dragons campaign, I had the idea of creating a module for it that would be as ready to publish as I could make it, so I would be able to sell it to TSR as a standalone project, and this was going to be the cover. It was 40% complete before I abandoned it, and merely copied and pasted the background, and tossed in some placeholder images to make it seem complete. The dragon was a enforcer for a temple to an evil fire god,and had a missing front paw that he had fitted with a wicked blade like Azog in the Hobbit movies,something that I have never seen before.

>>6580438
How is that girl called btw? Just curious.

>>6581324
Sagiri Izumi from Eromanga Sensei

>>6579559
thats fucking cool I love it

>>6581343
Thanks!!!

>got two fanarts of my oc from a random anon

>>6569541

>Someone traced my shitty drawing to create their own shitty drawing.

>>6583750
You've made it. Someone looked up to you.

>dad randomly compliments my art

>>6569541
I am now getting regular commissions.

>>6583796
Holy shit, what do you draw that you can just show it to your family like that?

>>6583804
anon most artists draw things that aren't porn and don't make their family concerned

>>6569541
I am worse than Chris Chan.
I am YalDabaoth, and I have been kicked out of Heaven oncemore

I received fanart of my OC once.

My latest grind. Teaching myself to draw my characters differently.

>more and more big number sempais are following me
>artist I view as leagues ahead of me skill-wise told me that they're a big fan of my work
>another artist who I view as lightyears ahead of me said a nice thing about one of my pieces

Every time someone follows me I want to walk up to them irl and shake their hand

>>6583810
I wouldn't show my family even regular porn that's why i'm asking.

>>6584669
(or cringe oc)

>>6583804
>>6584669
>anon talking to their family

>>6584560
tfw I want to know that feel but I can't because my shit doesn't even get noticed by normal people

>>6579580
>one of my drawings got uploaded to danbooru as "drawfag"
This, I was honestly surprised when I found my drawing there

>>6583750
When someone else steals your work that's when you know you gmi

>>6569541
>You can look and find yourself on Google

>finally reached 100 followers on Twitter

>>6569541
>Someone took the time to save your shitty doodles and upload them to a booru
It feels special.

>>6569541
>Often getting good critique and paint overs from anon you can tell is /pro/ or at least well above your skill level

>>6585544
>something liked my badly drawn porn that was drawn on the fly and bordered on shitpost
Dunno how I'm supposed to feel about that.

>>6569541
>opened comissions for the first time
>filled all 5 slots

>art gets posted in /vg/ general of niche franchise
>art gets uploaded on gelbooru (still not good enough for Danbooru but I'll get there)

>>6569541
drew something I actually like after finished it a long time

>>6569541
I finally found someone who likes drawing as much as I do and also likes the same subject matter
It's a great feeling, he's well-spoken and enjoys my company as well. The highlight of my day now is watching him draw and drawing alongside him sometimes
I haven't jerked off in the last 5 days because I haven't had time to be bored, my mind is now always on "what am I gonna draw next, what is he going to draw today? would he like it if I drew this or that? what if I draw this today?"

Drawing already made me feel like I can fly, but now I have someone to fly alongside with

>>6569541
>finally gain the skill and confidence to complete an image sequence
>post it on socials
>get comm'd almost immediately
>client has excellent taste, is easy to work with, actually pays, and wants to keep working with me

>>6586288
>wants to keep working with me
Yep, those are the best type of clients
I have two of those that never get tired of comming me and it motivates me to deliver better and better work for them

>>6586276
Gay

>>6586276
Gay (affectionate)

>>6586338
>>6586376
I get why you'd get that impression but I firmly believe that men can develop healthy inter-personal relationships between them without necesarily wanting to touch each other. The guy I talked about in my previous post is more of a brother to me than a lover

Plus, I have already had a taste of the sweet touch of a woman in the past and I can very confidently say that I want a woman rather than a man on my bed

>>6586408
maybe it's just the way you expressed your appreciation for a drawbro, normaly people will just go "I met this cool dude and we draw shit togheter" but you almost wrote it as if talking about a platonic love

>>6586573
it is platonic love

>>6569541
>People love my ocs so much they sometimes commission me characters based on their aesthetic
>every time i post something oc related i gain like 10 followers
>made art frens who they themselves have dm me and invited me to their discords
Is not much and i still have a lot to learn but feels good having a little comunity

>>6586276
where do you find such people if i may ask?

>>6586847
thats awesome anon, i hope i can get that sort of support too one day

>>6583804
>>6584669
I show them my studies, landscape paintings or just stuff I did from courses