/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6537470
One of standard brushes? Don't seems so much unique for me
>>6540413
"Knowledge" is transferable. But stylus has sensitivity and angle, why would you buy one without them? if stylus is without at least sensitivity just use mouse
>>6542739
Chicken scratch naked women, scratched like 100+ in one-two months. Have nothing to show because didn't spend time at coloring or shading at all
>>6542862
Just draw. Encounter problems, invent solutions
>>6543898
I do same. Sometimes switch practice subject
>>6548626
1-2 years, if you won't fuck up marketing

Where would I post for critique on fetish art? I am working on something with a generic OC to test out a belly stuffing scenario. The /salt/ thread seems most appropriate on this board, but it’s more for regular porn. I thought about the drawthreads on /aco/ and even /d/, but they’re very focused on limiting posts that aren’t requests or deliveries. If I ignore that, the best place seems to be split between the /aco/ OC drawthread and the /aco/ alternative drawthread. I just want opinions on an unfinished piece.

Has anyone here made a public commission sheet? Did you notice a significant increase in commission offers? (assuming you were getting them from DMs before)

what medium can be this done thoroughly, traditionally or digitally?

>>6588866
oil

>>6588746
where can i get good critique of my work? i've been trying to improve but getting critique from people who are obviously talking out their ass is just awful

>>6588852
personally i did not notice an increase because of it
i still only get clients from either referrals or when a client shares my work on their platform
(though the commission sheet did get some attention)

How come when I increase the dpi in SAI on my PC, I notice an increase in quality, but when I do the same in Procreate on my iPad, it doesn't seem like anything changes, even after I zoom in?

How do you get the eye for what's important in a bad reference? This is just a random one I stumbled across. For example, when I look at this a lot of the individual components muddle together. I can get ideas of how the underlying figure looks but I'm not skilled enough to accurately convey areas like where the legs meet the pelvis or the arm that's obscured. Would I get better at this if I studied how clothing/drapery sits on forms, together with more anatomy? Or do you just avoid images like this entirely in favor of clearly defined ones from easily understood views?

>>6589464
You can always do the tried and true method of zooming out to try and get an overall impression of the picture to see what sticks out. It seems like you should try out using multiple references or even setting up 3D models in the same poses to help your understanding of the body. Simple poses are nice for practice, but it's good to try and challenge yourself every now and then so that you can make good progress.

>>6589464
Just redline bro

>>6588746
I'm making a commission sheet and I wanna point out that I can draw in relatively different styles of coloring and lineart.
What are the chances that I will just confuse the client and they will think I can only do an specific style with an specific type of commission?

Probably super retarded.
How do I stop smudging in my sketchbook?
I usually draw with a pencil at an angle for the sketch, but when trying to draw the more definitive sketch I use a mechanical pencil, with this I have to pay my hand on the paper and it ends all smudged and my hand dirty.

>>6589967
Just put on a glove, or paper tape on the side of your hand

>>6589967
If you’re resting your hand on the paper to steady it, try not to move the part that contacts the paper so much as it’s doing so. Think of blotting a stain rather than wiping it.
t.left-handed pencil user

i saw a character design based off of a guy character who’s a fan favorite with girls,
but this similar looking design got a lot of automatic intense hate from normie guys.
i’m trying to figure out how to design deeply likable characters, and have no idea what cues to avoid making them hated.
so i have a question for both guys and girls:

First, are you a dude or femanon?

What kind of male characters do you hat to see? Can you think of any examples?
What sort of attributes in male designs do you love to see? Examples?

What kind of female characters do you hate to see? Have any examples?
What sort of attributes in female designs do you love to see? Examples?

(reason for my question:
i saw a character design based off of a guy character who’s a fan favorite with girls,
but this similar looking design got a lot of automatic intense hate from normie guys.)

i’m trying to figure out how to design deeply likable characters, and have no idea what cues to avoid making them hated,
so i have a question for both guys and girls:

First, are you a dude or femanon?

What kind of male characters do you hate to see? Can you think of any examples?
What sort of attributes in male designs do you love to see? Examples?

What kind of female characters do you hate to see? Have any examples?
What sort of attributes in female designs do you love to see? Examples?

Asian artists know black people exist, right? So why the fuck do they do this? This bitch sure as hell ain't Nessa
>inb4 "pastels", "lighting", "color theory"
Nah, y'all just racist<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>>6590083
I'm in love with the generic coomer style

>>6590083
>femanon
hate:
>bland cookie-cutter designs, extremely over-designed, characters whose dominant impression is built around compelling the audience to feel a positive emotion like lust, where they don’t have a candidly individual personality divorced from this.

examples:
>sword art online characters and similar for cookie cutter designs,
for over-designed: some heavy armor space marines whose armor masses maybe 2/3 of their figures, but you see their small head stick out of the top of the mess, and a lot of really brightly colored fantasy or pseudo historical rpg skins nowadays with all sorts of multi-colored flapping decorative elements that look like they were just added because in a a silhouette designing phase it made them look dynamic, but they’re really just fluff filler and could be replaced with anything that had a similar silhouette.
>for compelling the viewer to feel an emotion: every webtoon ever with a male fanservice character with bedroom eyes who randomly looses their shirt for no apparent reason. i didn’t mind kill-la-kill’s parody of this trope, though. (1/2)

>>6590110
female characters:
hate: >cookie cutter designs, cookie cutter personalities, character designs compelling the audience to react to them in a certain way (like “aww, how cute!”,) where the impression the designer gives is that this is a more dominant prompt than the person themselves.
examples:
>cookie cutter: rwby(?), sword art online style stuff, compelling the audience: a lot of lolis that are only inserted a little like fanservice to make you think “how cute!” same even more so with a lot of small ‘cute’ blobby mc animal companions. i don’t like feeling subconsciously like the designer’s trying to manipulate my response.
love: >i love female characters who have a rich and vivid backstory, i also kind of like jaded characters, or characters who look like they’ve really lived a little in their world. examples: ghibli does this, a bunch of historical films do this, and a lot of old-style soulful dnd designs when they were first coming out, like rowdy grinning barmaids and stuff.

>>6590111 (this was the asker answering)
thanks dude >>6590100

keep them coming anons
what do you hate/love to see in character design?

is it bad to use other peoples art as reference? I can copy someone elses art somewhat closely but I'm worried if I use real life as a reference it won't turn out nearly as good

>>6590083
I think going for something that wouldn't tick anyone off means the result might not be all that interesting either, but it's a fair decision.
>female
>cannot stand The Kiritoface with the template girlface and bland haircut, or his cousin the bowlcut webtoon kpop guy. not a fan of excessively androgynous faces in general, unless it's meant to be creepy like Johan Liebert
>really like suits and trench coats. this is pretty much an universal female audience thing trust me on this one
>dislike blatant waifubait with silly hairstyles trying hard to stand out from the waifubait competition(see: any Shounen Jump harem series, any isekai lineup) but was big into Love Live when I was a teenager
>Love Live has a huge female fanbase in general and I think it's owed to the dressup doll-type aspect of the different outfits. The character designs are nothing special but the outfits are interesting and not excessively male gaze-y
I detest characters of either sex stinking of self-insert fodder and nonsensical over-the-top outfits like Genshin shit or WoW-style Fisher Price pauldroncore armour.
Neutral on samey faces because it's just missed opportunity, but it escalates into annoyance when it's from the artist being afraid of drawing something other than the one face they prefer for either sex. There can and should be interesting aspects to a design outside of being palatably fuckable to a wide audience.
I prefer characters being differentiated by face, frame and posture rather than whatever anime shit gets tacked on top of a mannequin. Capcom fighting games have their share silly hair but they're still some of my favourite character designs because all the elements go together well and I could tell Ryu, Ken and Dan apart if they got a buzzcut.
Following the internal logic of your chosen genre should get you far, and keep in mind some people will hate a genre no matter what. All the focus group research in the world couldn't make me like Nomura Final Fantasy type shit.

>>6590194
As an addendum on the preferred female designs, I wouldn't say my taste today matches my taste when I was younger(just thought the observation might be of interest to you. And I mean for real girls went apeshit over those .pngs and spent a lot gambling for them you absolutely should take the fashion aspect into account)but I would be sold on pretty much anything as long as I liked the character. Most of the things I read or watch don't have flashy character designs, so there's little room for strong preference, I just have to be sold on it making sense with the character and the internal logic of the place they inhabit. If the character is interesting that's half your job done already, R. Dorothy from The Big O isn't exactly groundbreaking but she's perfect the way he is and half the reason for that is how likeable her personality is and how well her design fits it.

>>6590194
>>6590207
I can’t thank you enough, these are wonderful responses. Yeah, I’m for certain interested in the difference between age groups, and it feels like a lot of our design tastes are just alike.
Thanks again, you really helped me solve it, i was getting unsure in focusing too closely on nebulous design aspects and differences, but you’re 100% right that the core of the internally consistent character informed by their world and personality makes for cool designs. Love you, perceptive anon. Thanks again!

I painted a sketch all on one layer but now i dont know how to proceed and what to do next. It's pretty rough and only the colors are settled in, but the lineart is not. Whenever i try to turd polish the sketch i feel im fucking it up. Help finding a workflow from this point?

>>6590438
I'm glad it was of use. There's a lot of senseless meandering but at least you could say it's a good example of an audience member's visceral reactions.
There's something really compelling about the character's looks reflecting their essence even if things aren't always so obvious in real life. It's a bit like how dialogue in literature and film is more to-the-point than how people talk, the character's design is part of the visual storytelling and you gotta deliver what information you can with it.

>>6590901
Hell yes on all fronts. The stream of thought relay hid the best kind of goodies, and love your attached

>>6588746
can i see ur butthole?

>>6589994
>>6589996
I think I described my issue wrongly.
This is what I meant.

Trying to make raindrops in my art on GIMP. Would anyone happen to know why everything white is turning purple? It's driving me up a wall.

>>6590083
>femanon
i like all boys generally, since i base myself off personalities, but i have some dislikes such as
>facial hair (unless it's full on fluffy beard)
>cookie cutter short hair shonen eyes combo ex. eren yeager, csm denji etc
>just generic femcoomer artstyles (mystic messenger/korean comic etc)
like
>suits, tho it needs to look good with striking elements to compensate the formality of the suit, or silly/exaggerated elements to accentuate it.
female
>dump truck ass/overly exaggerated big booba/those weird coomer hips
>moderate design, that respect femininity of a character (ex. reimu touhou)

>>6591143
Thanks a ton!
The facial hair definitely helped, I was just wavering on sorts of beards, and sounds like we’ve got just the same feel on cookie cutter stuff. That’s two thumbs up for suits too, had no idea they were so solid a pick. Never thought of the femininity thing before, I checked out the character and I see exactly what you mean. Great insights, anon!

>>6591141
Do you have the image in indexed color mode?

>>6591204
I restarted the GIMP and it seemed to work now. But I'll keep this term in mind. It was driving me insane. Thank you

is studying everyday recommended or should we have breaks

how do i know when im ready to start drawing from imagination?

Is there a hack or tip for painting iridescent colours digitally? Or should I hunker down and just learn by observation?

>>6590083
You are getting horrible advice from these anons.
>>6590110
>>6590111
>>6590194
And the reason I say that is because you specifically asked about desiging deeply likeable characters. Characters from SAO/Genshin/Moeshit ARE deeply liked. Why else would people still be talking about SAO all these years later if that weren't the case? Why would Genshin continue to be the standout game in its genre if that weren't the case? It's no problem to have personal preferences, nor is it a problem to have a distaste for popular/FotM designs. But if you are someone who aspires to design appealing characters, then turning your back on designs which have been judged appealing by a wide audience is foolish and arrogant.

>>6588746
What brush sizes do people usually use? I mainly stick to a 1920 x 1080 canvas that I resize depending on what space I need, and I set my main brush to 5.68

>>6592695
Nigga just draw. You should be reinforcing studies by seeing how you work without them. Study, draw, study, draw. Shits not rocket science.

Am I the only one who just uses the fill bucket on a lower layer, fills in the smaller gaps, and calls it a day? I see all this other shit, and I feel like people are working way too hard.

is there a brush where if you go over the line again it gets thicker?

>>6593218
I use this gradient set to make parts of my art iridescent really quickly: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1869679
(It's for clip studio, but you can easily replicate the gradient sets in Photoshop/whatever)

GIMP is hurting my balls.

>>6588746
Yeah, what the FUCK is a crab?

>>6588746
How do you get the blur-like effect of this?

>>6594046
It's chromatic abberation, there's a few ways to do it.
If you're on Photoshop, you can go into the color channels tab and shift them slightly. Or, you could make colored overlays for the lines/colors and shift those.
CSP has a few auto-actions that do this, but I haven't used them.

how do you get your spark back

i have a hard time holding an image in my head while drawing, how do get better?

>>6588949
You don't

>>6594667
Read. Not joking, books exercise your mental modeling abilities and require retention of information. Illustrated books would work best if you're beginning and can't gel with normal books, but Graphic novels and manga defeat the purpose as all the mindwork is done already

>>6593966
Crabbing is the act of pulling people back into a shitty mental state like acrabs in a bucket pulling an escapee back into the bucket.

Anybody knows what kind of art style is used in this image? I've been looking all over the internet, but I can't seem to figure out where have I seen this art style before.

>>6595025
AI watercolor

Are jannies dead, why haven't they deleted any of these 10 AI threads still up?

>>6593720
Wow, thanks for the asset link! Appreciate it. I'll try it out when I'm free

>>6595197
>work for free
>300 ai threads on every board getting reported
>a few thousand posts of people reporting trolling everywhere because of ai making people post stupid
why you think nothing is being done?

>>6595255
Each board has its own mods retard. And they are all trannies.

>>6594726
Wait, they do that?
Crabs are dicks.

>>6595511
https://youtu.be/BdqwSDoMOdM

can confirm

How do I fake it till I make it with digital art? I don't give a shit about actually being good at art, just cheating and giving the illusion that I'm good. Doing this specifically to impress arthoes so they have sex with me.

>>6595703
Photobashing

>>6588746
Is Vector art that doesn't look like shit actually possible? Every example I see of it is the flattest, soulless shit imaginable.

i dont get it, whats this for? how does it work?

What's an easy way to colour on Krita?

>>6588746
would an aggie thread get jannied if I made one? otherwise anyone wanna aggie?

https://aggie.io/0hoxkb574e

>>6595787
looks like a badly explained perspective mirroring technique, otherwise idk

Why is this rich ass chess player using AI for thumbnails instead of paying artists? So lame

What books and things should i study to learn how to draw and design structures like pic related, and technological shit, maybe airships and whatever.
I already know how to draw boxes and shit.
Where can I find resources on the fundamentals of 2d FX animation like fire, smoke, etc.
And what should I read for basic on how to draw clothes, the swastika book feels so advanced.

What's the name of this type of trees? Need for searching references and have no idea where else to ask

>>6597436
Figured it's probably cypress

>>6597436
Looks like a yew to me.

How do I determine what I draw is a "sketch"? I wanna do sketches for posting and commissions but I have a hard time determining what makes a sketch exactly.

>>6598025
My definition of sketch is anything not "finished".

not sure what happened, but I no longer seem to have "tabs" in krita where i can swap between open documents
how do i fix this?

>>6596942
That's the endgame of art, imo. After you have technical skills, you still need to go out and build an immense visual library, in order to design cool worlds and characters. Your visual library can only be built one object at a time, so it's a slow and tedious process, no matter how you look at it.

What most people do, I think, is to start projects, so they have a focused goal and can grab reference for that project to base their designs off of it. Why not try that?

>>6598327
maybe you accidentally hit tab, try pressing it again. or it is in full screen mode or something, ctrl+shift+f.

>>6598339
neither. i used to have tabs similar to what you'd see in a browser that I could use to jump between open documents
now i have to hit ctrl+tab to do that

>>6598339
i had to do a lot of looking around because it's retarded to explain
i was in sub-window mode, had to go into configure krita's general, then under Window change multiple document mode from subwindows to tabs

Where to find pics for lighting study? not the poses sites, I have them

yo, i'm not a drawfag but i come here with a question,

what is this fashion style called? i'm trying to find more examples of this fashion style on pixiv but i'm not finding much of anything

https://twitter.com/T__TRACK/status/1638109565891022848

basically like, tight clothes with a baggy jacked, lots of buckles and accessories, guns or swords are a bonus lol

>>6598330
It's like learning anatomy, I'll try that for clothes first since i already know a thing, i think the project idea is good because i can join practice with creative expression, making it less tedious and more exciting to create cool shit while learning.
Thanks for the idea.

>>6598863
If you want to see similar stuff, search "anime streetwear" (pixiv tag is ストリート系 for this, I believe) or "anime techwear" (pixiv tag テックウェア) (actual techwear is like, hiking gear you can carry a week's worth of food in during a monsoon, but the term got misused for clothing with lots of pockets and straps). The technically correct term is darkwear / warcore (pixiv tag 武器娘) but it's less used for art.

A lot of artists don't tag clothes on pixiv, so the best way to find a lot of this is just liking a lot of work similar to it (like neco, ohisashiburi, etc.) so the algorithm just pushes those kinds of posts to you instead. (There's also the streetmoe subreddit if you're alright with that, they like posting pixiv links to that kind of stuff.)

>>6588746
What does this mean in csp? I'm looking through an artist layers and noticed they put all the alts in this folder that holds folders.

What can I do to make this more interesting to look at? Particularly in regard to the girl in the front's expression.
It just feels boring to look at. What am I missing?

>>6599163
ahh thanks so much anon! techwear was one i tried after making my post and i was able to find alot of good examples, and sorta ended up tailoring my discovery feed to a similar style. saving these tags tho thank you so much!

>>6590099
>he posted it again
kys bot
nogs are disgusting
simple as

>>6599767
https://help.clip-studio.com/en-us/First_Topic.htm
look through here
I doubt it's anything super crazy though

how to make perfectly aligned panels?

What should I draw that doesn't appeal in absolute to trannies so they never follow me?
>ibn4 Loli

>>6588746
I used to have a link to a database of anime character sheets, but I can't find it. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about and have the link?

>>6600107
Found it: http://setteidreams.net/settei/

>>6600026
use a ruler

>>6599804
Having more of the hand overlap and affect the flesh in the face will sell the contact better to the audience. Even if it's meant to be languid just bringing the thumb in a bit would do a lot.
I know you're mimicking a comic's style and get the feeling the image is meant to feel low-energy and a bit theatrical anyway so this might not apply, but if the girl in front is meant to be scared then adding slight expression indicators could help. Like making the pupils slightly smaller or some eyebrow creasing. You could also have both lower eyelids pulled up a bit or push that a tad more on the left one.
It's not that boring to look at, there's at least stuff happening. Straight-on view centered compositions tend to feel a bit dead but the overlapping let you avoid making it too flat, and while they aren't exactly dynamic they're great for a staged or theatrical type vibe and their similarity to religious icons makes them look very imposing.

>>6600948
That was incredibly insightful, I never thought of adjusting the thumb or changing the size of the pupils. Thank you so very much for your input. Happy Easter.

I'm trying to copy reference - almost exactly - into my sketchbook without tracing but just using my eye. This is comic book superhero stuff. I can't get the proportions right and everything looks horrible, even without shading. What should I do?

>>6601093
should i start using the Grid technique?

>>6601119
Grid is too autistic and mindless so it will either never help you learn to eyeball things or make you take ages to reach any level of competence in it
You wanna start measuring with the goal of getting used to it in a manner where after a while you won't need to do it in the first place. Comparative measuring is the way to go
Determine the dimensions (width vs height) of the source image and replicate as well as you can. Those are your boundaries for the copy and ensure you keep the relative proportions accurate even if the size itself is different.
Use comparative measurement to place the large volumes/envelope of the image and be very careful about it. The early stages are the most important. If you get it right early on it's nearly impossible to fuck the rest up, it's all about patience.

Nothing I make has soul, any advice? It's not about art style, my drawings just don't look like they were made by an actual person.

>>6596942
thats 3d

How long should I spend with any given book? I'm drawng through Vilppu's manual. I did excercises yesterday and today and I'm already on page 21/173, so around 12% of the book, which means I'll complete the book in 20 days. I plan to work through Morpho, Bridgman and Hampton, so at this rate I'd be done in little more than two months. Am I going too fast through the excercises? I'm drawing 1-2 hours a day, copying almost every example and trying to come up with my own versions too (so if the excercise is drawing babies made of spheres, I copy the babies and make up some of my own in different poses).

i fucking hate it when people shave off their eyebrows and draw them on slightly too high.


griping because im seeing this on those line of action type sites, like wtf i can't triangulate the location of the models real eyebrows and draw the rest of the thing in 30 seconds.
what if my art ends up looking like paul bearer because of this

>>6601299
I gridded for the first time last night and my result was far more accurate than anything ive ever done before. I just set up a grid overlay in photoshop and saved a jpg of it and did another grid layer overlay when i did my digital wacom sketching. I was doing a portrait.

how the fuck do I into perspective?

>>6601482
You don't think they were designed first as a 2d drawing?

>do webdev reps during day
>exercise in evening
>drawing reps supposed to go after that

>always too drained of energy, also arms hurt after exercising
I don't have a question

I spent years doing nothing but studies and decided to finally start drawing my own shit and holy fuck I never realized how fun it is to draw what you want to draw, I just can't stop
Except now I'm running into an issue where it's so fun that I literally cannot fall asleep anymore, I just want to draw all day and all night. The piece I'm working on right now I haven't touched in 48 hours but last night I was awake for hours thinking about what I'm going to do next.
I love being this excited about something but shit do I want to sleep. How do I calm the fuck down

>>6602151
Don't. Just let the juices flow. But also use it for good. Build a cportfolio, an account, or just make a comic or whatever you want. Enjoy your powers.

>>6602160
Man I want to, but I gotta sleep. The sleep deprivation's messing with my art skills too

>>6600881
Is there any place that's good for just posting visible art and interacting with other people who post art?
Reddit is...reddit.
Twitter has a ticking time bomb running it and occasionally gets you into the dumbest drama, but it seems good for soulless fame and views?
Tumblr's fucking dead, but the people who are still there are really fun to be around.
Deviantart lost a loot of traction since the shitty redesign and the fact that it feeds your stuff to the AI meme, but frankly that site is most in line with what my current skill level is.
Newgrounds seems the most promising and relatively bullshit free.

As someone who's drawn on a screenless tablet for over a decade (though I have tested a number of wacom displays but ultimately sold those off), i'm still trying to wrap my head around drawing on a screen tablet. Got this ipad and apple pencil as a hand-me-down and don't want to waste it but for some reason i'm not taking to it at all and i'm trying to narrow down the reasons it might be. I've decided it might be mainly because of the cramped space and the visibility when I have my hand covering the screen as I draw. Can I solve this problem by holding the pen further back? I seem to not have this problem on paper oddly enough.
As for other factors I feel like i've done everything else too. Grip for the pencil, glove to not smudge the screen, matte protector to get a paper feel, stand to prop up the screen. Yet i'm still struggling to feel like drawing naturally on it. I still draw at my desk, just would be nice to have CSP on a device I can draw on the couch or outside. I'm losing hope...

>>6602151
awesome. share your stuff? im happy for you

when you take a break on a piece, write down what you were going to do next but didn't, so you don't stress about forgetting where you left off.

try to block out your thoughts when you're in bed.
thoughts can come to you but you can't actively generate thoughts.
either tell the art thoughts to fuck off or write them down in a little note pad.
i hope you get some good sleep.

>>6602151
How do I have fun drawing?

As someone who has a fairly vivid imagination and can draw decently with reference, why is it so much harder to draw without it? It's very rare that I get something that's okay-ish without reference, but I must put a lot of thought into it and end up doing a lot of redraws. I haven't really started drawing yet, so I expect it will get easier the more I practice, but I'm just wondering what the science is behind that.

Also, how do I manage reference images?

>>6602562
Applying imaginative ideas to things you draw only works if you know enough about what makes an object or form believable, and how to depict that in drawing takes a lot of skill and practice. It's a "know the rules before you break them" situation and using reference expedites the process so you're both drawing and learning at the same time instead of stopping to draw one thing perfectly before moving on. If you were to approach it like the latter then you'd never get started on anything. Some people get trapped in that mindset. Study enough to get you going, you'll learn to draw it without reference the more you revisit the subject on your art journey.

As for reference images, Pureref is good for putting together a collage for specific uses that you can pull up whenever. Have it open on the side while you draw so they're always within view.

>>6601686
Obviously if you need to transfer an image from surface A to surface B gridding is a fine option that involves minimal time-wasting and is used by many professionals but considering that Anon is copying superheroes into his sketchbook I assume he's trying to copy to learn so if he uses a grid it'll be pointless.

>>6602515
Thanks anon, I'll try that out. I think you're right, most of my thoughts were about what I wanted to adjust or things I wanted to draw next, so I wouldn't be surprised if the fear of forgetting is what kept me up.
I know it's unlikely but I'm afraid of someone recognizing me here, so I must decline posting my art, but thank you for the encouragement

>>6602555
(I'm assuming you're still early in your art career here but) I started as an adult and honestly I fucking hated it for the first 2 years or so. But I'm confident in my ability to learn things and knew I would get better eventually, so I just kept at it, and then the gains started snowballing and now I really like looking at my own art. I still see issues and stuff to improve on, but they're much fewer than the things I like about my work now, and on top of that I love the content I'm drawing, so there's no way I couldn't find this fun

Been working through Steve Huston's Figure Drawing book after finishing Keys to Drawing, went through the first half drawing everything and doing all the exercises with no issue, now I'm in the second half where he goes into more detail on each body part and... it somehow feels incomplete? Like he'll only have a couple drawings of the head shape or the eye with their most basic forms, and the next one already feels very "rest of the fucking owl" with no explanation as to what's going on or what he did.
Should I just deal with it and finish as best as I can then find another source like Vilppu? Or am I missing something?

>>6602696
>but considering that Anon is copying superheroes into his sketchbook I assume he's trying to copy to learn so if he uses a grid it'll be pointless.
grids are just measurements at specific, fixed, intervals instead of using a pencil which is highly inaccurate, especially for portraits

>>6588746
its painting easier than drawing?
and i dont mean the meme, i mean for real
ive seen some people do amazing painting daily, while others (me included) struggle to do above average drawing

asking here because my own thread was a failure. can anyone point me towards a few artists who drew castles/architecture like this, using repeating lines and simplified shapes, but better? this is the best example I have sorry.

>>6603013
Huston's book has been acknowledged to be kinda terrible and incomplete. He rushed it, just to make some money, I think

>>6603235
Damn, alright, guess I'll check Vilppu or Morpho to supplement.

Does it make sense when you're measuring and making the initial marks to use a SECOND pencil in your non-dominant hand and simultaneously make the mark with the FIRST pencil in your dominant hand on the paper? Everywhere I read, they say just to use one pencil in the dominant hand to take measurement, but by the time I've gone from my measuring "stance" to the paper I've forgotten my measurement or its accuracy has eroded.

Thoughts?

>>6603333
just do it anon honestly you should know what works best for you not ask us

>>6588746
What's the best website/search engine to find art on? Im trying to find this one piece of political art from I think the 2016-17 era and I cant find it for the life of me
I've used every search combination under the sun but I haven't found anything, is there some ai i could use?

>>6602135
you are grindsetting straight into CTS

>>6588746
Should non-Japanese people even atempt making comics? If people are so tired of "woke" shit in western comics, how come non-woke western comics aren't popular along side manga/manhwa? It seems to me like people don't even bother and just ditched western creators all together. I'm asking this as someone who wanted to make his own little "media franchise" but sometimes it really just feels like one was born in the wrong continent at the wrong time.

Im pretty bad at coming with good character designs, almost all of them come out extremely basic. Would like to know how to find good ways to design clothes and acessories.

>>6588845
doesnt bbwchan have a draw thread?

If I only have a couple of hours a day to draw, how I do use that time to grow as quickly as possible?

you guys know that program where it will extract every color in an image?
i dont remember if i got it here

How do I enjoy the fundies grind?

>>6604707
draw what you want and critically think about the fundies while doing it

Can I learn art by just copying other people's shit and figuring it out?

>>6605027
yeah, just took a few thousand years on multiple generations of teachers for humans to figure perspective, youll do fine not going for their easily accessible knowledge

>>6605031
bet you think you're real fucking funny huh?

>>6605031
this is a stupid answer because if you copy drawings by people who understand perspective you'll eventually get an intuition about perspective. those people may have learned from teachers, but you'll have their work as a teacher.
same goes for every other fundamental

>>6605027
You'll probably run into some speed bumps where it would indeed be faster to learn from reading the information from a book, but that would require finding the right nugget of knowledge at the exact time you need it (and can be hard to figure what exactly you're missing when you're working alone)
But if you copy mindfully and copy people who are skilled you should be fine.

>>6605182
They couldn't learn perspective from the real world?

>>6605191
if you've ever drawn from life (not from a photograph, which obviously didn't exist in the time frame you're probably thinking of), you would know that it's much harder to translate what you see in the real world into something that's convincing on paper.
copying from another artist, who has already figured out how to translate reality onto the page, basically shortcuts figuring that out. It may be faster to learn this from a book, but I am pretty firm in my belief that you can learn this from enough copies of artist's works.
The real world is complex. Skilled art is simple at its core.

But if you copy those old European paintings where they forsake perspective in favor of religious motifs, then yeah, you'll never learn perspective. But I would hope that you're a bit more thoughtful in picking what art to copy.

>>6605223
>But I would hope that you're a bit more thoughtful in picking what art to copy.
it's /ic/, not russian art academy. what you think

>>6605226
I mean, if you pick that art to copy, it's because you like that art right? So your art will be closer to what you like, which is what I imagine any anon would be striving for.
I'm just saying that if you want to learn perspective specifically, that's an awful choice. I think even the dumbest of anons would pick up on stuff like "their use of color is great but that face looks weird to me" and would pick art/features that appeal to them

>>6605027
yes. this is the approach I am currently taking. my advice to you is not to focus solely on accuracy but to also take speed into account. the ideal is being able to draw both accurately and quickly. you will want to vary how quickly and accurately you copy an art piece, not only as a whole but also each part of it. that means if you're not confident in your ability to draw something you only spend as much effort on it as you can without it affecting you personally (the ngmi tears) and over time you will gain the confidence neccesary to draw it more accurately.
>>6605182
this is correct. and if you're going take this approach it's important you preoccupy yourself with what it means for an artist to be skilled. otherwise you're learning the mistakes of other's. in the end you still have to read all those books but now you also have a method of practice.

>>6605237
also this. you need to preoccupy yourself with what it means for an artist to be skilled to you subjectively. for someone a skilled artist could be one who makes league of legends splash art. while there is objectively a lot of technical skill involved in that to me it all looks like ass. you need the nuts to say "this looks like ass i am not going to do it like that" instead of "i don't like this but it's what good art looks like so I have to do it like that"

>>6605276
I'm going to study NTR porn artists

Is it a terrible idea to practice gesture drawings with pen? I am absolute shit with graphite and charcoal but every lesson I watch on youtube is using those. I'm just working on getting the concepts down, I don't plan on turning these into final drawings.

>>6605374
no why would it be

>>6605383
much less control over line weight was my concern

>>6588746
How do tell if you have good references?

How do I keep my sketchbook drawings from smudging when I draw on the next page?

>>6605784
draw from the shoulder without touching the page. start lifting

where do i start with morpho

>>6588746
How do I stop fucking up my proportions? I know what everything looks like it's just the size. Trad stuff makes this a real pain in the ass since 90% of the time I draw in pen. Whatever body part I start with ends up being too big by the time I'm done the rest of the body. If I try to consciously map out where everything is, my drawing doesn't fit on the page. Do I keep trying to burn psychic guidelines into my sketchbook or is there a better way

>>6608015
If you mean which book, Simplified forms.
If you mean how to start, page 1, copy every drawing in the book.

is it ok to be much better at digital art than traditional? my hand is too shakey for traditional lineart/inking

>user bookmarked your work (pornography)
>user is now following
>click profile
>Gender: Female
why does it feel better
why does it hit harder bros

>drew so much my hand hurts but want to keep drawing and finish my pic
Now what?

How do you get into digital art without hating everything

>>6609456
because men are more upfront about their coomer tendencies, and women are pickier about their porn. so it means more maybe

Do I HAVE to sketch in pen? Was told I should sketch in ballpoint but honestly sketching in pencil just feels better to me.

>>6610226
With coffee, pills , or other coping mechanisms available

>>6611180
Use whatever the fuck you want. But fucking do it

>>6609456
>”female”

>>6611211
>japanese name
>japanese profile
I believe

>>6590938
The OP was just bait wasn't it? ;-;

I'm using Paint Tool Sai 2 and I don't know what the fuck happened I think I pressed a hotkey or something but my favourite brush completely changed and now the density is super light I think how do I fix this please I'm begging you my brushes are my only personality

Extremely stupid/spoonfeedy question incoming:
I really like Krekkov's linework, does anyone know about what brush settings I'd need to approximate it? I'm pretty useless with my software atm since I'm moving from trad to digital. I use Photoshop.

>>6611837
Looks like some kind of pencil brush with pen pressure.

>>6611844
pen pressure for flow or size? Yes I'm stupid and can't tell.

How do I get gud at values? Do I just study paintings and stuff or is there more to it?

>>6601479
I think my problem is that I don't try to communicate something in particular. All I think about before starting is "I want to make something that looks good". I'll try to draw something more purposeful and see if it solves anything.

>>6610157
listen to your hand or enjoy CTS in a few years. anyway improvements are better when work is in short 30ish minute bursts with small breaks in between

Is adobe lightroom even worth a pirate? I already have clip studio pro and I don't know if there's anything special it has I can't already do.

>>6612033
I like doing pic related.
I find it easier to read

>>6612240
Good idea. I suppose those little dark flecks in the trees aid in giving that area an ethereal quality by anchoring it against the masses of lighter values. Do you anons know of any books about this sort of analysis? I guess what I'm looking for is the Robert Beverly Hale of values.

Any /int/ to /pro/ guides and advice around? I've been stuck in the middle /int/ for what feels like years now and i've been unable to break past it.

>>6611223
Anon, japanese trannies exist

>>6613655
>0.008 - 0.01% of population according to nippon
not really

>>6613697
>Believing nip propaganda
They just want to hide their trannies because unlike western ones, Japs can pass as women

How do you know what pose to draw? Also related, how's a good way to come up with poses?

>>6613815
Study gesture. You do enough of them everyday that you can start to come up with your own because you're knowledgeable on how the body moves and works. Or use reference, not just real people photos but other art too. See what pose works with what you're trying to accomplish. Shounen? Study lots of action poses/movies/sports. Pin ups? Look up similar artists and see what they focus on. etc.

Is there a course centered around shape appeal, sort of like the marco bucci or sinix videos on shapes but much more in-depth?

>>6614060
i want to be inside a cube...

how draw

I'm over complicating things. I just need to start a book. Just need to start a damn book.
>Keys to Drawing
>Drawing on the Right Side
>Fun with a Pencil
Which one? Just say one. Which one do I start with?

>>6614319
1. Drawing on the Right Side (skip the useless babble about brains and shit, just do the exercises)
2. Keys to Drawing
3. Fun with a Pencil

>>6614319
You've already read Perspective Made Easy, right Anon?
...right?

>>6614341
I'm gonna leave PME for last.
It won't help anything learning perspective without learning everything else beforehand.

>>6614356
counterpoint: you can't draw something in 3D space without the use of perspective. iirc the books you mentioned (not loomis) teach a little bit of perspective anyway

>>6614356
Understanding perspective is essential to construction and basically everything else related to drawing. There's also info like eye levels and perspective measuring that you might not get from books that don't focus on it.
Learning perspective first is going to make everything else much easier, since you'll have a way to understand the 3D forms and placement of your objects.
PME is much shorter than DotRS and Keys, anyway.

>>6614391
>>6614416
Oh.
I suppose I'll start with Perspective then.
Thanks guys.

>>6588845
>Where would I post for critique on fetish art? I am working on something with a generic OC to test out a belly stuffing scenario. The /salt/ thread seems most appropriate on this board, but it’s more for regular porn. I thought about the drawthreads on /aco/ and even /d/, but they’re very focused on limiting posts that aren’t requests or deliveries. If I ignore that, the best place seems to be split between the /aco/ OC drawthread and the /aco/ alternative drawthread. I just want opinions on an unfinished piece.
why not post in all those places i guess.

>>6614511
i recommend reading PME and another book at the same time, or even just watching a few videos on perspective. you *WILL* get burned out quickly if you start with learning perspective. it's not fun, it's learning rules and practicing them over and over via drawing boxes and other forms.
you just need to get acquainted with vanishing points, the concept of eye level & horizon line, and drawing ellipses freehand. assuming you just want to draw characters, environments, etc in a regular illustrative style, 50% of PME will be fluff to you. if you want, skip ahead to Keys to Drawing page 138 and read a little about perspective there.

>>6614694
i take this back actually, skimming through PME again there's a lot less fluff than i remember. however the importance of each chapter gets less the further you go on. there's no reason to practice dividing an ellipse over and over, you won't do that often (if ever), but the fundamental rules will always apply. it's likely worth reading through the book once, and noting which concepts you think you'll be using a lot (likely the ones i listed in my previous post).
i can't stress enough the importance of learning perspective from multiple sources though, if you're familiar with 3D software you'll blast through learning it.
what's more important than learning perspective though is having fun! many don't find perspective fun, which is why i recommended reading both one "beginners drawing book" and PME, in a balance.

>>6614694
>>6614708
Thanks for the suggestion anon.
Hopefully I'll bring myself to at least finish PME and Drawing on The Right Side, but I first need to fucking READ one of the damn books.
It's weird, it's almost like I'm scared of them or something.

>>6614748
The first step is always the most difficult.

>>6588746
is it normal to get a business license and file a DBA in murrica just for making money off digital art?

>>6614867
Pretty common if it's easy and cheap in your country. Depending on your local laws, you can pay less in taxes and/or write things off as business expenses. Forming an LLC gives you some legal protection as well.

What's the secret to growing on social media, outside of luck? Tagging my art and interacting with other artists isn't really working and I feel like I'm a complete retard for not understanding it. Tired of posting almost daily for no engagement and starting to wonder if I need to revamp my style.

>>6615078
Make good art
Draw something you'd save in your gallery if you found it on your timeline
If it doesn't catch the viewer within the first 5 seconds, it's gonna be tough

Is there any point to blind contour drawing? I feel like it could be somewhat useful as a quick warmup exercise but i dont know what else itd be useful for

>>6615091
Bit of a meme exercise but I noticed some improvements with my hand eye coordination and improved ability of observing and drawing at the same time and/or rapidly switching between two. So it's more useful if you draw from life and want to capture something quickly.

Anyone knows where I can contact the Violet Clovers guys? I wanted to join a new community recently but they nuked their Instagram page and their Discord link stopped working. Did something happen?

>>6615089
>If it doesn't catch the viewer within the first 5 seconds, it's gonna be tough
Welp, I think this is my problem since my art is decent. I didn't really think of it that way when I've been posting, thanks anon. Gonna try to rethink exactly what I'm posting.

>>6615143
Godspeed anon
This is mainly because the average person has a relatively short attention span when it comes to social media. You can use eye-catching color palettes, interesting compositions... The elements are there, it's up to you how you arrange them

asking seriously
please recommend me some inking artist to study/copy from.

i usually render my art using graphite pencil, but switching to ink feels weird and harder than anticipated.
any style from any era is fine. but please not those who use screentone.

thanks.

>>6615409
Kentaro Miura
>https://files.catbox.moe/5r6f24.jpg

Most of his best work uses some screentones, but his inking is still masterwork.
>https://files.catbox.moe/dsx6j7.jpg
>https://files.catbox.moe/j3i5h9.jpg
>https://files.catbox.moe/3kads7.jpg

I suppose you might be able to remove the screentones and greys by adjusting the levels?

>>6615517
thank you very much. it's convenient to have a link to download everything in one go.

>I suppose you might be able to remove the screentones and greys by adjusting the levels?
hmm i see, by levels you mean in PTS yes? i recalled it has that feature.


thanks again.

Am I supposed to map my tablet to photoshop drawing area only? The way Im drawing right now Im not even using my wrist, Im using small finger motions which is giving me desired length of line on screen.

what are some jobs that would be pretty easy to draw during?
i have a bunch of convenient small sketchbooks that could fit in my pocket and I've been meaning to fill them up.
don't really care abt pay, just want something with a decent amount of downtime

>>6616235

What's a good way to get into a more "brush-y" style? Looking to get away from a soft paint/rendered style and wanna try to aim to do things more strikingly painterly like picrel. Unsure where exactly to start other than to stop relying so much on blending and focus more on blocking colors? But it's hard to wrap my mind around the concept.

>>6616235
elementary - high school art teacher

I want to draw fanart but I have no creativity and am terrified that I'm going to shit out essentially the same drawing that someone else has already made for the same series. There's some really emotionally intense art out there for the series I'm into right now, and I've always admired art like this so I want to make something like it too.
What do I do in the event that I do end up copying someone by mistake?
Alternatively, how do I improve my creativity?

>>6590099
Nessa isn't black, she's japanese.

>>6616617
Nessa is either vietnamese or cambodian, she wouldn't even pass for okinawan

Is it okay to feel like I am in hell when learning how to draw? I often get frustrated and cry when I practice. If I didn't care about drawing I would've quit in the beginning, right?

David Finch erases all the time and draws from the wrist. What should my response to his actions be?

Does anyone have any good guides on remaking Paint Tool Sai brushes in Clip Studio? All the ones I've found are very limited/outdated, and don't cover Sai 2's settings, or replicating how Sai handles pen pressure/velocity.

>>6617035
Murder.

>>6588746
How do YOU make drawing as enjoyable as possible, while drawing for fun and for study?

>drawing with digital drawing pad
>not going well
>put tablet down to take a break
>realise something about the anatomy, use computer mouse to quickly draw
>it looks better than my attempts with the digital pen
>wtf
>keep drawing draft lines with my mouse
>finish lineart with digital pen

Has anybody else had this feel? first time this has happened to me

>>6617035
Harass him and call him a fraud.

>>6616617
japanese can be black tho

>>6616617
I always thought she was Indian

>>6618924
>japanese can be black tho
Everybody knows that "black" means "african-american gheto black that's still riled up about slavery that ended centuries ago"
No gringo's named "Nessa", in the same way like 99% of animu characters are all japanese, but racist cucks insist on calling them "white adjacent"
>>6619515
>I always thought she was Indian
Always default on japanese unless the devs say the contrary, or don't, I don't know if the Pokemon world has a Japan in the first place anyway (Maybe it does).

>>6618924
WE

>>6618916
careful; drawing with a mouse can really fuck up your wrist. Though I say this as a fellow "space out and doodle in MS Paint with a mouse" enjoyer.

>>6616397
search how to draw like a painter and how to paint like a sculptor on youtube, those videos can be helpful for you to understand what exactly you want to do with your art
also learn about how to paint with only 2 values, silhouette, drawing by the outlines, and do not focus on construction
about the digital aspects: use some painterly brush and disable the mix feature, leave the opacity by pressure tho, do not use blending brushes and rely on the eyedropper for blending
also, different brushes creates different effects, if you use csp there's a thread here with a lot of painterly brushes

The more I use AI for porn, the more I wonder if people doesnt care that much about hands if the main thing they care about (for example, navel) is drawn well enough. For me personally, this is true. I don't care if the eyes look soulless, I don't care if the fingers are broken, because I only focus on the things that makes me horny.
If what I'm feeling is true for other people, doesn't this mean coom art value goes down because of AI? Not sure about SFW art, since there is no "horny" value in the art.
I know AI still sucks, and more power to you if you draw for the sake of drawing, but I'm just curious what other people thoughts on this, money-wise. Wouldn't clients just use AI and commissioning less for the fact that there's a new alternative other than porn artists? Moreover, I assume the market for artists now seems to be shrinking a little bit because of AI porn "artists" that has patreon. Also, how about SFW art? Any change at all because of AI?

Is there any book that could help learn to conceptualize cartoony mecha/robot designs like pic related?

>Make account on Pixiv not expecting much
>Post porn fanart
>Gets 100 likes in a day and lots of followers
>"Wow, cool!"
>Make new account on Pixiv for only my original characters because OC is my passion
>Post porn of OC
>Didn't even get views
How did no one see it...? So I guess fanart is the way to go...?

So I have a graphics tablet that is 15" how big should the thing I'm working on be on the canvas? I tend to draw with my wrist on a small canvas for some reason.

How do I connect the head to the torso when drawing full figures?

>>6621456
COKE BOTTLE IDEA

Is loomis method really that good or just a meme on /ic/?
t. started reading keys to drawing

>>6621046
It's pretty commonly understood the fanart tends to do much better than original art, especially if it's porn.

>>6616653
the feeling is par for the course, hope you get used to it

Why are reddit mods so strict with sources? The first time I did a post asking something about touhou and I used ZUN artwork and they removed because I haven't provided the ''source'' of the image.

Second time it was in a art subrredit and they removed because I didnt provide the source of mona lisa's painting lol

>>6621456
It's called a "neck"
>>6623558
>reddit
Your own fault, really

Is there a way to disble this pop up notification? It's really distracting and I would like to use the tablets shortcut buttons more often.

>>6623573
>Your own fault, really
Yeah, I deserved.

>>6619545
WUZ

How do you make artists friends? I feel like I work harder and grow more when I'm around people that are also working hard/having fun. Drawpiling is fun too.

>>6616617
explain this pic. what does kill la kill have to do with nessa

>>6609456
because you're sad and lonely

>>6616622
those vietnamese with blue eyes bro they're everywhere

>>6608912
>is it ok to be much better at digital art than traditional?

Wobbly hands is my issue as well anon. And I overcompensate by digital painting. I personally don't think it would be a problem but you can practice your trad by buying a cheap sketchbook and sketching.

Picrel digital painting with just a sketch without any lineart.

If Gustav Klimt actually a respected artist, or is there some major contrarianism? I think he's amazing but seems like every time I bring him up someone shits on him, and I'm not an expert.

>>6624882
thanks man, feeling a lot better about this

what is the difference between croquis and figure drawing?
are these not just two terms with the same meaning?

>>6588746
¿where is a good tutorial for man/women hair?

>>6625684
Croquis as a term for quick sketches is some cargo cult shit. Japanese use it because the French use it and weebs use it because the Japanese use it. There's no point in it when they could just use common parlance to communicate normally.
Figure drawing just means drawings that mainly concern the figure. They can be quick poses or long poses. Russian atelier students labour for hours at rendering huge full-body drawings of old men, and it's still figure drawing.

>>6588746
I'd like to commision a single doujin page.
Is USD250 for a page like this overprice?

>>6625841
sounds ballpark fine but it's really comes down to how comples the art is x how high in demand the artist is desu

>>6625841
Yes. Anything more than 15 dollars is a scam.

>>6625841
You shouldn't pay any artist a cent. Just pay them in exposure.

>>6625841
Yes, don't even bother. Just threaten to kill them if they don't draw it. You should beat them up after they do it as well.

>>6588746
What does pinups mean? I keeps hearing it from time to time but I don't understand what it's supposed to mean.

How often do popular Pixiv artists get offers through DM?
Those that get offered to use artwork as an end card to an anime, how is the process?
How can you tell someone really is the End Card guy of said anime? (So as not to be scammed)

>Fall for the hard round brush meme
>Everytime I want to color in a blush it never forms right
>Use multiple layers with different values, fuck with opacity settings, and many different blending options
>The blush never blends in right with the skin tone and instead comes out with blotches of red
>Get tired, notice the forbidden air brush tool that is frowned upon from here
>First stroke gets just the right pigmentation and blending right
All these years...

>>6626977

>>6626894
One character fullbody, usually a simple background.
Think Sakimachan "sexy lady standing" spam pieces.

>>6626977
use your fucking brain next time, for real.
The hard round brush is meme because all the beg faggots that come here asking about brushes and shit instead of actually trying to learn how to draw, they are trying to cope with the stress and feeling of failure that is common in every craftsman by pointing at something that could solve that, in this case is the brush, wich is in most cases a lack of actual interest in the art field because they are normies looking for social interaction.
If learn and think then you should already know that that simple meme is just to avoid people to distract from the core aspects.

Is the same with things like those begs that paint with the airbrush because they all suck but they are sticking with that because what i said before, and they end making those ugy drawings where the shadows are random strokes of the airbrush made in random places with no coherence.

>>6625785
>hair
Nigga you can't even draw a straight line why are you worrying about hair

>>6625785
Here's the tutorial: use as few lines as possible to define your forms, and imply fine repetitive details instead of drawing them.

>>6625785
Sinix.

>>6588746
One way I think digital art does not capture how pencils work is by opacity layering. The way you get from lighter to darker shades using pencil is by progressively adding pressure. If you shade in the same place, with the same pressure, the opacity remains the same, it does not get darker (except maybe for the initial strokes). However, in digital art, the opacity keeps overlapping, getting darker despite applying the same pressure. This can be easily solved by only displaying the maxima of the two opacities instead of their sum. However this does not happen in any software I have seen. Is there any software that has this type of shading?

>>6627884
I'm not sure why flow confuses everyone. This is what you mean, right? Overlapping the same spot increases opacity only if you increase the pressure?
Just map flow to pressure in your brush settings.

I went over that big spot like 15 times with the same pressure on the same stroke. If I do another stroke of the same pressure it increases opacity.

>>6627884
Nevermind, I think you meant on different strokes as well.
Compare density blending mode on your brush settings will do that in CSP, Photoshop doesn't appear to have this option as far as I can tell.

>>6627927
Yes, this is what I mean, thank you. Why the fuck is this not more widespread? I hate digital art because of this. Do you know if Krita has this?

>>6627987
I don't know if Krita has something exactly like this, but it appears "greater" does something kind of similar. The "wet alpha" blending mode was also added in February. (or will be added soon, I don't follow Krita)

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkFKSoauyUU
>https://krita-artists.org/t/wet-alpha-new-blending-mode/58272

>>6628000
Nice. Sank you anon.

>>6628004

What's the best way to seppuku?

>>6627884
>>6627927
What? Photoshop has this. Just add a texture overlay to a brush in brush settings. Or simply use a pencil brush (not the pencil tool). Every art program has it and it mimicks traditional pencil almost exactly. It does that with texture. Notice how you can't get the same effect without any texture.

Is dedicating 1 hour of learning and reading books per day a good amount for improving?

>>6628876
Coloso vids are roughly 1:45~2hrs.

>>6628877
Who that?

>>6628882
Videos from coloso, the secret sauce that makes you good.

>>6627884
I can get a pretty convincing pencil feel on procreate, a lot of people ask if my stuff is traditional.

>>6627702
>>6627751
thanks

>>6628884
>https://coloso.us/
Are you referring to this anon?
Seems similar to stuff like Udemy. Is it really any good?

>>6628930
It's pretty good, but since they speak in moonrunes, you can't draw and listen to them at the same time because you gotta read the subtitles. But it's worth it setting aside 2 hours just to watch the vids.

>>6628949
What's so different about it from something like Udemy for example?
Also, are the videos available for free?

>>6628979
I haven't tried udemy, I guess the difference would be listening and drawing versus not. You might wanna hop over to the video torrent thread
>>6617938
and check the past threads in an archive (Or if lazy just ask around)

>>6628985
I see.
Honestly, I already have the Peter Han Dynamic sketching course, and I don't want to get to a point where I start hoarding lots of courses but finish none.
That being said, I'll ask around and if Coloso has any worthwhile courses I'll check them out.
Thanks at least for the suggestion anon.

Why is it that I'm terrible at writing and have no drive to write stories, but I love designing characters in my style? Do you think most artists are also writers or not? I just find it strange that I consider myself creative with drawing but not writing.

Have you ever written a story?

>>6629330
writing is a completely different skillset and profession, but most artists are probably studying writing on the side because they want to draw comics. (Not that many succeed)

>>6629330
team up with a writer, just like in my animes

What's the difference between constructing stuff with blocks and shapes like loomis does in pic related vs using super squiggly lines to plan out your drawing? Should I use both? Whenever I watch professional art videos they only seem to use the squiggly lines to plan out their art

Guide on the left is what I'm talking about when people use squiggly lines so you guys understand what I'm talking about

>>6629370
super buff pro artists do the construction in their heads and use quick lines for planning.

>>6629370
>>6629372
That's just the difference between a very clean diagram for demonstration and teaching purposes vs actual everyday sketching. What might seem like random squiggliness are actually restated lines for sculpting and refining the form.
Construction's only purpose is helping you plan and visualise, so you should draw whatever you're comfortable with. If you go all squiggly without a purpose it'll just make things hard to read.

>>6624822
yeah

not sure where else to ask this but when I'm drawing completely freehand (eg. not resting my palm or any other part of my arn/hand on anything) after a few minutes my entire hand starts to hurt and goes numb
i've tried compression gloves and they don't seem to help, the only thing that helps is resting my palm against the drawing surface
could this be some neurological thing or is this normal?

>draw quickly but it looks like shit
>draw slowly but it takes too long and i lose steam
I just want to be able to get my thoughts out faster or have a style I can use for those "sketches" so I can circumvent giving up too quickly. Do I just need to lower my expectations on what a rough looks like or am I not sketching enough? I've been fighting this feeling for a decade now.

What size pen tool should I use if I'm trying to recreate a traditional micron?

Drawing on an A4 sized digital canvas, but if I use a line that looks right when I'm zoomed in 100%, then when I draw zoomed out like everyone tells me too, I can't see shit. But when I zoom in to draw where I can actually see, my lines are weaker because now small curves become huge.