/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

what software is he using?

>>6867075
Clip Studio Paint

>>6867069
How difficult is it nowadays to be popular on Twitter by publishing your own comics?
My account is shadowbanned because I draw porn.
Planning to create a new one, completely SFW.
Guys like the Tawawa's author and pic related have made me thinking to write my own story.

Vector lines dont stay inside an active selection in Sai2, is this intended?

I want to draw porn but I can't seem to get the pelvis from different angles and positions. Can't find decent photos. Art books seem to avoid this. Please help.

I feel like I've gotten good enought with the hard round brush and want to move forward with using custom and textured brushes. What are some good tutorials on this subject of digital painting in general? Pic related is where I'm at right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMQBwzsyD8
What is that triangle thing this guy does with his chins? I don't think I've ever read about it anywhere, is it a secret technique? He does that triangle thing in his other videos too.

How do you keep drawing despite needing to cry every time you think of the fact that Donald Trump could be re-elected?

>>6867461
It's a method some mangakas use for measuring the distance between the brow ridge and the chin. This is the average distance mind you so they can decide to go higher or lower depending on the appearance they want the character to have.

>>6867467
Try out the new melatonin CBD infused onions. I hear it's all the rage rn.

>>6867069
Is the cartoony pseudo anime style the only way to truly make it on social media?

>>6867535
If you want fake anime fans/tourists.

>>6867440
SAI2fag here, elaborate, because I dont understand what you mean.

If you mean that vector lines dont move when you select them with the selection tool, that's because vector lines work differently than your regular raster layers and, as such, are not affected by the selection tool at all.

If you want to select vector lines in order to move them you have a few ways, but I'd like you to elaborate first just so I dont infodump you an advice it may not be what you're looking for.

>>6867069
What is the pic in OP made with? I'm guessing color pencils?

Tell me how to take care of my kneaded eraser. Do I just keep it in its little plastic box? I notice that it gets sticky in there when I get it out. Do I keep it wrapped in plastic? How do I know when it's time to replace it?

>>6867555
Jesus Christ I want to fucking eat that thing so bad, fuck I'm hungry

>>6867560
Didn't know Marines browsed this board

>>6867535
yes

>>6867456
This recent video is a decent overview of the more common types of brushes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJG8Xw7V1bw
Good brushes have multiple uses, especially at different sizes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCda5XJiL10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyIipNGoSMQ
Lixin demonstrates this well too. you can get pretty convincing textures quite easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L82WlDEvoxw
this video is good too.

Wootha has a free brush course on artstation learning. For general digital painting videos I like Craig Mullins, Anthony Jones, Jonathan Hardesty and Jon Neimeister (his course is on proko, the free youtube stuff is good too).

Anyone have a quickstart guide to becoming a decently earning NSFW patreon artist? For me, something around $300-$400 a month is my goal within a few months.
$5 all-access and a $15 limited option that gives a fast, simple bust sketch for at least a few months: would this work?

How much content would I need to be creating? Other than twitter, how do I shill my stuff - uploading to boorus and r34 sites?

Is focusing on a niche or drawing whatever the anime girl fotm better? Is drawing for bigger artists' OCs required to jumpstart growth?

>>6868267
>How much content would I need to be creating?
Literally just one (1) drawing.
>how do I shill my stuff, uploading to boorus and r34 sites?
You can't be doing that, that would be advertising/shilling.
>Is drawing for bigger artists' OCs required to jumpstart growth?
If you don't value your dignity...
drawing fotm girl>other artists' OCs

>>6867069
Can you still make it with carpal tunnel or is it over

This board is going to become /po/ in a few years.

>>6868630
That's because all the anons will have gotten so good they don't want their work associated with 4chan

>>6868428
Isn't surgery the only fix to carpal tunnel?

>>6867075
who is he?

>>6868428
There are cripples drawing with their mouth and feet, I'm sure you can put on a sock and not bend your wrist and draw from your elbow/shoulder?

>>6867069
Which old masters were best at drawings (Something I can copy with only pen and paper) ?

>>6868267
It depends entirely how talented you are
If you're talented you could probably just start drawing and they may come

If not, you want to stick to a niche, either have an OC (better if it's for an existing franchise, say Pokémon) you exclusively draw

Or pick a very specific thing and draw exclusively that
There's a guy here who posts video game characters wrestling eachother l, he's not amazing at art and supposedly gets $200 a pic, although they are usually 3 or 4 panels with 2 or 3 people interacting

>>6868630
It only feels that way because of the surge of new users from 2020. Everyone picked up drawing during the rona and now that it's over, everyone is quiting.

>>6869007
Just do bargue plates

>>6867069
Why art hard do?

>>6868298
>>6869015
Thanks for the replies and info.
I'm mutuals with some bigger fish who've gone the OC route so I can try fanart after making my own.
I'm not talented either so I'll figure out what niche to dive into.

>>6868651
>anons will have gotten so good they don't want their work associated with 4chan
Is this a thing that happens? Why?

How can i remove this stupid heckin shadowban from twitter! Only my fallowers see my art.

>>6869330
I don't think I've seen anyone ever get unshadowbanned, they just live with it. Once you go NSFW you stay NSFW.

>>6869350
i want to draw only mild porn and naked anime girls, how can i get followers? Help me anon-chan!

My proportions are shit. When drawing from imagination, I have to constantly increase the canvas size and even when doing observational drawing (copying stuff) my proportions are all over the place.

Should I copy more stuff until I get proportions right before starting with gesture and figure drawing?

>>6869330
how do you know you were shadowbanned?

>>6869595
Do not stop figure drawing. You can do more copies if you like, but figure drawing is where you'll iron that skill out.

>>6869617
I got like 8 views on stuff that i post at most. My art is not good tho, bit i getting better every year. I checked those ''are you shadowbanned'' sites and tried to look for my twitter with incognito and vpn and yes. I can't find my blog.

Pls no bully but, how do you color a digital painting?
I had the standard workflow for cel shading and shit with lineart, base, multiply, overlay bla bla. But now I'm getting into more serious shit, wanna paint, ditch the lineart etc. My issue is I'm literally too stupid to coprehend color? I really prefer doing greyscale first because I do way better if I go GS>Color but my issue is coverting it to actual color.
I'd like to try and avoid gradient maps as they are a bit tehnical and it's a hassle trying to get a range I want and it quite frankly, isn't very fun. So what is the best way, or at least a simple way to retain my values from greyscale and convert them into nice color without it looking completely washed out or losing the value ranges I established?

>>6869330
>>6869350
I posted one life drawing I did at my university life drawing class and it got flagged as nsfw and now I think I'm literally shadowbanned. I don't get more than 2 views on my posts

Is being even a niche artist while refusing to touch Twitter a valid option?

>>6869773
>My issue is I'm literally too stupid to coprehend color?
i used to struggle so much with rendering but it wasnt until i started oil painting that something clicked in my head
>If you havent already, learn how to render with greyscale. Its easier to learn and you need to understand value anyway if you want to paint
>Use the zorn palette or color pick from a photo (pic related is a good one to do that with). Using limited palettes can help you better understand color relationships.
>irl shadows tend to have a blueish hue
>if youre trying to paint from life or from a photo, squinting your eyes helps
>for me, its easier to start with my core shadow and then add lights
i dont hardly use multiply/overlay anymore, usually i do my shadows/highlights in a normal clipping layer or just draw directly on my base with color mixing turned on

Im definitly not a pro so take all this with a grain of salt, this is just what helped me

>>6867069
I got some questions.

Does a drawing style just come naturally for everyone through practice?

How smooth is the transition from pen and paper to tablets?

How does one make connections when picking up a drawing hobby and wanting to make it a career after finishing college?

>>6867069
How good is Tumblr for posting art right now? I mean, no NSFW just regular stuff

>>6869773
you don't have a bad start, honestly. unfortunately painting is pretty tedious, and there's not an easy way to get exactly the colors you want just from grayscale- but here's some tips that could help+ a quick paintover as an example

>>6870413
not considering inherent art style that everyone has depending on what they are most comfortable drawing, art styles can be learned and are 90% influenced by the art you surround yourself with and decide to study

the biggest learning curve from trad to digital is the loss of tactile sensation with the medium itself- you have to get accustomed to adjusting your approach depending on the tablet, drawing program, brush, etc. but otherwise if you are already skilled with pen and paper, you will be able to catch up to your current level once you can get used to this

social media- it's really the only way nowadays to connect with people in art if you are not already surrounding yourself with those types of people in person. especially for making connections to people working within industries, it is important to at least have some social media presence so that people can find you easily. the only other way i can think of is maybe attending some job fairs or industry conventions and try to connect with some attendees there

>>6867078
Thanks
>>6868740
@canvas_mochi

does all the gay little “noo you have to heckin studyerino and fix the little mistakes” shit matter.
I feel like this filters a majority of actual artists cause they obsess over gay little details cause “nooo that’s not Hecking anatomically correct” or some other gay bullshittery about “noo your Hecking lines aren’t straight!!”

I fucking hate artfags for the “drawing is ez” meme, I want to cut them up and let their body parts float in the pool. In Minecraft of course.

>>6870717
You know you're good at something when you make it look easy. Glad to make ngmis like you seethe

>>6870749
pyw
>>6870717
most of the artfags drew like shit for years for fun and eventually started learning and studying properly, then they tell everyone else to not waste their time like them.
the process is different because you just draw a character you like (poorly) and then you want to draw it better so you look up tutorials vs the analysis paralysis people starting from 0 experience.

>>6870717
In places like studios where theres tons of concept artists and stuff no, ypu dont want to polish. If your details dont visibly improve the image while viewed as a thumbnail (so has to be about 20% of the total painting) then you are done.
Pic related can use tons of improvements, but it's fucking done and every idiot can see its blueberries in a spoon. Onwards to the next one, theres no time to suck a dick to polish when ypu have 3 turn character turn arounds to do in a work day

>>6870912
Prompt?

>>6870942
it's a normal photo ref anon

>>6870115
>>6870596
thank you for the tips anons, tho I forgot to say pic unrelated it's just an old thing I dug up recently so I just had it on hand and posted it to make my question more noticable, Saved that feedback sheet tho much appreciated

Pic related is my recent attempt (all the others are colored picked from photos or still being rendered in greyscale)
>>6870989
this is one of the photos

I lost like half of my established values when I colored it with gradiant maps and I got very annoyed at the process and since it was a stupid social media thing I just gave up, CSP also started lagging on me by that point.. I had plans to add all sorts of cool lighting but I just couldn't be fucking bothered at that point. I'll try the multiply/color on top of the greyscale and fix the saturation advice, I need this to work I can't handle gradient maps and I'm too shit to go straight to color

>>6870997
pic related**

>>6870615
>art styles can be learned and are 90% influenced by the art you surround yourself with and decide to study
I'm still Sonichu comics tier when it comes to drawing skills.
What's the best way for someone to 'modify' their drawing style or 'nudge' said drawing style into a desired style? I've read that select digital brushes make a huge impact but I feel that is kind of "cheating" if custom brushes are a necessity to a certain style.

>>6871298
"master studies" of the artists you like. Pick 2-3 artists you like the style of (for example lineart, anatomy, or the way they paint) and do a study (try to replicate the thing entirely) every day.
If they have any watch their process videos
Style usually isn't based on brushes, maybe more recognizable sometimes, but not based on. Still need that drawing skill to draw things in that particular, unique way.
Artstyle comes with time tho, it's your personal way of simplification, seen through your eyes and your personal decisions what to add/keep/change in any given work. Honestly you don't need to sweat too much, grind those skills and do the amster studies and your style will come pretty fast

>>6871298
study the shit out of an art style similar to what you're aiming for. start with dedicated studies where you try to break down all aspects of that art style and what makes it look the way it does, then replicate art made with that style until you can recreate the methods without a reference. try doing it yourself and see what you've been able to commit to memory, then take those drawings and compare to references again and figure out what was lacking. repeat process until it becomes muscle memory- can be applied to any aspect of an art style

What does "cheesecake" mean when people use the word on this board? I often see it being used in comparison it to hardcore porn. Is it just a euphemism for lewd art that isn't explicitly sex?

What's the best wagie job to support getting good?

Is there a "standard" size most people use when drawing? I usually default at 1920x1080 at 300 resolution.

>>6872440
Look through your favorite art and look at their dimensions to find your answer.

>>6872440
my canvas is 3000x3000 for every piece, headshot fullbody multichar etc. i just adopted it as the nicest res to draw on with my brushes.

>>6872440
At least twice the target resolution you'll export.

Anyone have a good tutorial on how to paint effects like water, fire, thunder, wind etc.?

>>6872803
just google "digital painting fire/water/whatever", there's millions
pick one you like the look of and do it

Do I start with bridgeman as ultra/beg/ or do I work through something else to get competent first?

Not art related, but it's character design related, I guess.
>try to make an oc or a narrative
>never get attached
What do? I don't like my own characters.

>>6873322
Just make one-off naratives and characters it doesn't need to be deep. I'd argue this is more interesting since you can make way more characters with different designs and personalities instead of being married to specific characters and their stories.
Alternatively, make just one archetype you like that you change slightly for each story. Pic related is my inspo for when I need a main character.

Sincerely, somebody who can't into OC's and never will.

What do normies value in an illustration? I think my perspective is skewed because /ic/ is mostly artists.

When a drawing has too many lines, i start to not understand which line is which. Do artists have the same problem, or it's just me?

are grunt animators masters of anatomy? Most animated stuff has good anatomy as a baseline and animates pretty well, so that means they all mastered it, right? why aren't they drawing their own things?

Is the janitor dead?

>>6874453
Let's get real
/ic/ never had a janitor

>>6873355
>since you can make way more characters with different designs and personalities instead of being married to specific characters
Thanks I'll consider this. Many people actually do this under the guise of AUs. I'd just like to harness my energy to something of my own instead of existing franchises for once.

>>6873980
Usually you indicate the right line by making it thicker or darker.

how long did it take you to become "good" (or competent) at drawing?
just got back into drawing and everything looks like shit so I'm a bit discouraged, I know I'll improve with consistency and time but I wanted asked how long did it take you guys to see improvements?

made a thread about this but figured it fits more here

>>6873676
good anatomy and correct perspective, of course

>>6874897
People get good at 10,000 hours on average, it's been studied.

Give it to me straight, /sqtddtot/.
How bad am I going to have it as someone who is 25 and getting into drawing?
What should I prepare for due to my predicament?
What should I expect?

>>6874962
2 years until pro level, if you do it right. David Finch started drawing at 20 years old (as a high school drop out) and got hired as an intern at Top Cow at 22 years old. Though it was just an entry level background artist position, within a year he took over Cyberforce from Marc Silvestri. 3 years to go pro.

Do the Finch roadmap faithfully, and you will find success in 3 years too.

https://davidfinchart.com/where-to-start-and-where-to-go-from-there-a-roadmap-to-professional-quality-art/

hey anons.
i used to be an "artist" when i was a kid. 7-12, i'd sit in class all day drawing original characters with backstories and cool designs (i went through them the other day), and i even made my own card game like, 3 times.
but i havent put pen to paper in years, and recently i decided to dip my toes back in and try drawing something for a story im writing on >>>/qst/. how did i do? my first time making digital art, done on a phone with finger.

What's the best way to find refs for a specific pose? I tried googling and pinterest to find a lounging/reclining photo ref like the exercise in keys to drawing asks for, but it's hard to find something that looks like this.

Then I went on a porn image website, entered a model's name and found similar images in a second. But I'm not sure this is a sustainable method of finding refs

>>6874897
gonna take a while, so you in or what? Time to draw

>>6875301
why not?
you can also try setting your own by using MagicPoser or something

>>6875301
find one that is roughly what you want and reverse image search for similar ones

MY INSTAGRAM POST KEEPS DISAPPEARING. HELP.

I JUST WANNA FINISH INKTOBER WHY DOES INSTAGRAM KEEP DELETING MY POST?

Is there something I can get to turn a desk into a drafting table? Like... basically just an angled block of wood I can put on my desk? I know this is a dumb question but I just don't know what it would be called.

>>6876731
drawing board? Osamu Tezuka has something like you want in this doc:

https://youtu.be/fWk_anQfgjM

>>6867069
What are some good sites to publicize manga-like comics?

>>6867069
D'you guys have any experience with kickstarter or indiegogo comics?

>>6874971
>3 years
Alright no better time like the present to start.
Thanks anon.
I'm okay with more things to know to prepare for/things to expect.

>>6875998
Use mobile

>>6867069
To anyone that uses Krita, what are the best settings/brushes/options i can set to if i wanted to partially mimick the style of Carlos Ezquerra?
Because i hate how flat my drawings usually are and i want to make the brush strokes seem more dynamic and the color shading/blending a bit more interesting.
Or any other tips using Krita is nice, i just mentioned Ezquerra because i think his style is charming.
And chances are some stuff is less about the tools and more about the skill, so maybe i should look into artists streaming/recording themselves using Krita and how they do it.

does this particular style have a name? closest i could find was maybe "19th century draft/sketch", although that might all be what it is.

>>6867555
it's called a kneaded eraser for a reason, you knead it, fold it in on itself, tear it into two put it back together etc.
and you replace it once you get grey streaks or other shit when you start to erase

Visual novels always seem to have god-tier background drawing skills.
Anyone here want to enlighten me what hacks they're using to accomplisht his?

>>6877353
Maybe your looking for woodcutting/metalcutting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer

>>6877765
I think it's the old school Tom&Jerry/Scooby Doo approach - when they used to still do BGs in oils. Ghibli BGs come to mind
So I assume they're just replicating oil painting in digital

>>6877765
I guess dedicated background artists focus on different techniques or skills, like giving texture more importance.
Also not the case here, but a lot of VNs cheat by tracing or blurring real photos.

>>6867069
can you adopt an adult neet

>>6877804
How can you tell that it wasn't traced?
Was this traced, then?
Save for a few objects, it really looks like a rendered Blender environment with a very funky shader slapped ontop.

>>6877772
this is way closer than any of the crap i was finding. thanks!

>>6877821
Barely disguised Blender renders are super common too. Recently played The Sekimeiya and every single background that wasn't an edited photo was obviously 3D.

>>6874897

7 months or so from complete beg to being able to draw a decent goblin. that's when I see clear improvement and know that it wasn't a waste of time. The weird thing is the improve is not really gradual. That 7 months I grinded basics. Simple shapes/ values and forms/ gesture drawing/ head and body construction etc... After basics practice for 2 to 3 hours I do portrait studies using real photos. I can somewhat get likeness using the construction method. At night before sleep I try imagination drawing. This is the time when I suffer. I almost always cry myself to sleep because my drawing from imagination looks like literal shit.

Then at the end of that 7 months I don't know what happen. It feels like all the practice I did finally "clicks" It's like my brain finally finish processing all that information. I guess it's what most pros call "breaking the wall".

Is it totally impossible to grow on Instagram nowadays?

My Twitter is gaining followers and likes, but Instagram has been throttling my posts.

>>6878045
I have never gained attention fast on IG. I got a huge burst on Twitter this year and jumped from like 800 to 1.5k, but only maybe got 20 followers on IG. I just don't think people really care about it. If I go on the explore page on there it's literally just stolen TikToks and I don't think anyone actually uses the search bar and DEFINITELY does not search for "illustrations" "art" "digital art" "artist" or anything like those.

>>6878045
You need to make reels and follow the shitty art trends that come up. It's not just post, pray, and rely on your current network/following like Twitter

>>6878184
Reels no longer work if you don't already have a following

>>6867069
what's the fastest way to improve observation? im so lost

>>6878198
Draw with only straight lines. Compare points, and angles.

Dont rely too much on crutches like measuring with a knitting needle, the point is to train your eyeballing skills. Do hundreds and hundreds of these simple block ins. Draw tbe same image dozens of times, getting closer and closer each time. Theres no alternative to target practice

>>6878198
Get Betty Edward's The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, skip to chapter 2 to ignore the philosophy~. In chapter 2, it tells you how to build a viewfinder. Use this to improve observation quickly. She says eventually you won't need a viewfinder and surprisingly she was right, in my experience.

>>6878074
how do you suggest I build a social media following in general? What other platforms should I concentrate on? Should I just bite the bullet and start a youtube channel?

any good discord servers for drawing on /ic/ or otherwise? i want somewhere to talk about figure drawing but i don't like autistic hug reddit servers or edgy /ic/ ones. i want to actually talk about drawing

>>6878458
>asks for a server for drawing
>actually wants to talk about drawing
ngmi stuff to be honest
just draw and post on /ic/

>>6867069
Anons, tell me who your favorite artists are.
Preferably artists whose works have been around for decades if not centuries, rather than some random Xitter e-celebs.

How the fuck are you actually supposed to use artbooks?
Got myself loomis and some others, but it's basically just a collection of their drawings.
Where are the actual instructions? These fuckers aren't teaching you anything,l they are just showing off.

how come some artists get banned on patreon for drawing incest and some don't?

boxy or spherical forms for drawing the body

>>6879221
Watch videos instead

>>6879221
i’m going through reading it and drawing all the plates as i go through head and hands

my copying skills are mediocre but i think i am getting something out of it

i haven’t been getting a lot of yous on here whenever i post my art lately, do you guys know any reason why?

>>6879248
boxes for the boxy parts, spheres for the spherical parts, duh!

>>6867069
Is there anything like ''Point Character Drawing'' or any other book that breaks down anatomy and gesture
but for quadrupeds? like horses specifically
cartoon horses

>>6867555
>I notice that it gets sticky in there when I get it out.
A little sticking to the plastic is whatever. If it's sticking to your hands and shit its probably the oils in the rubber leaking out. Try kneading them back in and stop leaving it in hot places of you are.

>>6879459
Vilppu has a book on animals.

Anybody here know how to make a pen that functions like this one in CSP? I would appreciate any help!

>>6879888
That should be the border effect that you can find in the layer property window

https://support.clip-studio.com/en-us/faq/articles/20200008

When i draw abdominal muscles with lines, i don't know when to draw the lines, and when to delete them. I'd like to not make them look like a series of squares. Any useful guide about this?

Is there a website that just shows you pictures of random stuff sort of like a random google images?

>>6879934
https://artres.xyz/references/
this one is decent

>>6880029
this is very nice thank you anon

Will Betty Edward's workbook help me become better at drawing w/o any accompanying guidance? Sticky says to ignore the textbook b/c it's full of shit, and just buy the workbook and do the exercises.

>>6880041
just do keys to drawing

>>6879913
Look at how others draw abs. Sometimes it's shadows, sometimes it's the actual ab to emphasize it.

>>6879248
I find boxes for the pelvis and chest better for perspective, sometimes even the head. In reality a mix of both, like whatever you need to showcase the perspective the most correct to you. Your the only one who needs to accurately read it

>>6878458
same, asked twice in the last few months and there aren't any for /ic/

>>6879459
If you really want I have a zip of from an Equine drawing workshop. Idk how much it'll help you without the actual video portion tho. Heres a few points I remember that were important: Horses and zebras are closer in relation to predators like wolves than cattle - their anatomy makes more sense then, they also have 3 teeth type including canines. Equines are built to run with their spine, long legs, MASSIVE chests that have massive lungs and noses that work like bellows when they run. Don't forget important landmarks - the hole above the eyes, they have no collar bone so that whole area is mainly muscle, and the weird circle of fur where their back lags connect to the hips - it's there for draining away moisture from their backs (horses can get rain rot). GL lol https://file.io/Wr5xAsr2jURU

>>6879741
>>6880374
Thank you, bros. Very appreciated

Has anyone tried working with different color sliders like RGB HSB or LAB?
Do you think any of them can benefit you in a specific way in your painting process? Did something improve or click for you that feels more natural? I have used the default color picker for a few years now and though I am already familiar with it and know the basic stuff I am curious if there's an actual benefit to switch to another one, right now I'm testing LAB though I'm still trying to figure it out, it's kind of neat how it treats lightness slider as hue shifting for some colors. HSB and RGB seem pretty intuitive too.

Also I wish I could like the triangular color picker but the way it behaves from light to dark in full saturation seems to have a different behavior than your basic color square, is there any reason people like it more?

what's the best place to just view all the art a specific artist made like a database?

>>6880856
HSV is the way, perfect for me.

>>6880366
To be clear, there ARE /ic/ servers. Just no good ones.

Do you all keep your .psd files?

>>6867069
What do you guys do when you have a really shitty art day? I mean in the sense of nothing you draw feels quite right. What usually takes no time or effort suddenly does.
I did draw today but it felt like shit and the end result also looked like shit.
I know days like these are temporary but what can you do in the moment? Walk away and try again tomorrow?

>>6881307
Why shouldn't you? I back my old files up to the cloud to free up space on my harddrive.

>>6881309
I tried the meme exercise from Sinix video on "tempo", it's basically trying to fine tune yourself into your better intuition side, for me it's something akin to drawing with the wrong point of the pencil lead where your lines look shitty and the paper is dented from them, you adjust so the edge so it's softer and you feel comfortable doing them while removing that awkward feeling, obviously there's more to that than your pencil, sometimes is something more mental, but you need to figure out some of these external and internal elements if you already haven't, so you are on your better form to do your drawings.

For me it's not a drag because I naturally tend to do this or spend some time fucking around the canvas with my lines, checking if my hand grip feels okay, if not I fix it a bit more or switch to my second one that makes me more loose then switch back if I need to, I also test if my pen sensitivity is working as intended or if the driver shat the bed again randomly, then I do these exploratory lines without thinking much and only aimig for good shapes, in a good day I know what they look like or my hand does before I even become conscious of them, in a bad day it may take longer to fine tune so my hand pulls them off, if all of this shit makes no sense to you just watch the video, there's another one from Proko with this guy that does something similar, I think it's well worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVY5gla0FNQ&ab_channel=SinixDesign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYGFwGhHnA&ab_channel=Proko

>>6881312
because they take up space and the older ones are a load of shit anyway

>>6881307
>>6881370
yes if they're online. In case anybody ever takes it so you have the working file to prove it for a takedown - especially do this if you draw fanart

>>6867069
Rocks aren't what gave man the inherent advantage, wooden sharpened sticks are, which then evolved into wooden sharpened sticks that were hardened over a fire, and then sticks with point rocks at the end, then sticks with pointy SPECIAL rocks at the end (obsidian), and then sticks with pointy metal at the end.

>>6880856
HSV/HSB, RGB and Lab give different answers to different problems.

I want more yellow. RGB: lower B (or increase both R and G).
I want more saturation. HSV: increase S.
I want my color to be more cold, with the same values. Lab: decrease b.

I suggest to select colors with HSV, because it is more intuitive. Then you can adjust the colors with other sliders, according to your specific problems. You can start with Lab too, but I would not start with RGB.

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You have said that you are trying to figure out Lab. It's easy.

L - Controls the value. In Lab, value depends ONLY on this, which is why it's a color slider so powerful.
a - Controls the tint (green/magenta).
b - Controls the temperature (blue/yellow).

Let's compare Lab with HSV.

H - Controls hue, which has an intrinsic value tied to it.
S - Controls saturation. Higher saturation, lower value.
V - Controls value. Higher (input)value, hihger (output)value.

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A last little unimportant thing. In Lab 50% grey is not equal to HSV 50% grey.

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I think that the triangle is supposed to show you the value you are using, but it fails on that because the triangle shape it's supposed to change together with the hue. Not truly better than a square color picker, but it kinda let's you know what your value could be. I'm fine with the square color picker

What’s a good course like dynamic sketching but is made for digital art

>>6882850
Drawing Fundamentals with Thomas Fluharty

>>6882850
ctrl paints sketching course

>>6882850
Related.
What brush should I use if I do dynamic sketching but digital?
I’m on Procreate if that makes any difference

How do I apply construction without being overly rigid and forcing the whole drawing into a procrustean bed?

>>6883470
Here's a cute little secret: Shape is more important than form. If you can get stuff in the right place, that is way way more important than having form.

I drew pic related with no construction, just shape. All drawing is cartooning, at the end of the day.

Do tons and tons of studies. Do THOUSANDS of copies from artists you like. The Bridgman book has 1000 drawings. That's a good start :)

>>6883473
based crab. this might set him back months

What is this stance called?

When you study something, and then try to visualize it in your mind
Are you meant to see it perfectly? like the entire structure, shapes, colors, shadows, and every single little detail?
I am practising memory drawing, but I am running into issues

I don't know how to stabilize my mental image very well, for example, I've been studying a Ferrari Testarosa and I can remember a lot of it from memory now
but the issue is, a lot of the times the image in my head will transform into a Countach even tho I haven't studied that one??


Is there a way to practice image stabilization in your head?

>>6883539
standing on one leg

>>6883539
ready for sex with me

>>6877805
If you wash it and feed it, yes

Why is gesture recommended to practice from the beginning before touching even a single book of anatomy? A lot of roadmaps tend to include basic shape understanding. + gesture before dealing with the human body itself

what does he do to turn the greyscale to color at 39:10?
https://youtu.be/Fh9tEaQaf_M?t=2350

>>6884531
In most cases, the aesthetics of the pose are more important than its anatomic correctness.
>>6884568
Gradient map.

can someone please please help me get exactly this brush in Photoshop (Krita)???? I just can't get that woobly feeling, is it impossible to get on PS and is a MS Paint exclusive kind of thing?

>>6884820
try looking for a binary brush

Is there a mega link for all the photos up on characterdesigns. com ?

>>6869330
I think you need to remove all posts that lead to your shadowban and wait a few days. If you post even slightly nsfw stuff you need to mark your account as potentially sensitive in the settings.
Dont use too many hashtags and if you post something write something in the description. Dont use hashtags alone and use 2 at most.
Dont post too much.
When I started uploading my stuff to twitter I did so only using a lot of hashtags and I uploaded stuff from multiple months at once plus I didnt mark my account as potentially sensitive while uploading lewd stuff.
I was shadowbanned for months and did not realise it. Recently I deleted all of my post and waited, after two days it got lifted
All of these tips above are from another anon so take them with a grain of salt
you can check your shadowban status here https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com

What does the SAI license entail?
Do you get version 2 when it is fully released? Can you use the technical previews normally?
I know there's a thousand pirates of it out there, but $40~ is not that much.

>>6884820
bruh that is a simple hard round with little to no stabliazation

>>6886901
you get sai 1 and 2 to use forever

>>6873980
>draw line of what I want to make
>draw another line to corect it
>repeat it a few times for each detail
>notice its starting to be hard to differentiate shit
>erase lightly where its hard to tell whats what, to the point I can still see the old lines, but will be just some shadows after the new lines
>draw my new lines, since I chose from my old lines, I have higher chances of getting it right in fewer lines
>repeat as many times until I am satisfied with the end result
>let erased marks to be part of the end result, they can look likes construction lines, shadows, shading, debries, whatever

>>6886982
Oh, and also this >>6874716. And you dont have to make the whole line thicker to enphasize it. Just the start and finish of the lines works too, as long the others are simple lines. The moment you start having too many thick lines, then you have to start making some even thicker
Or erase back some, and redraw fewer thick.

Does anyone know any books on patterns for clothes, backgrounds, wallpapers, embroidery, etc. That sorta shit

I've been out of /ic/ for a while, so now that I'm back, I see that people have been shilling David Finch's roadmap.
Is there merit to said roadmap? Everything seems pretty bogstandard (stick to simple shapes first, practice gesture, then anatomy, etc...) aside from the Bridgman twice thing.
I know there's been baiting and trolling about it but just wondered if that's legit advice or yet another /beg/ / crab trap.
I know "just draw" trumps all tho

I wanna draw horses, am looking for refs, do you know of a book full of horse photos? I ask mostly for the convenience of having everything in a single pdf (or equivalent) file

>>6887545
You can turn any folder into a single file for perusal in your preferred document reader by zipping it and changing the extension to .cbz.

>>6867069
I've been working on foundational stuff like gestures, constructions, proportions, and volumes for so long just so I can get to a good place, but everything I attempt to create I hate because it all sucks. It's never right, there are always issues, it takes me forever just to do simple things, and I'm too embarrassed to even post in the beg threads so I usually delete what I make out of pure frustration. when will I know I'm at the point of drawing what I want to draw? when does it all click? I feel like I'm always lost and spinning my wheels getting nowhere, meanwhile, there are a ton of things I still need to learn and a ton more I'm sure I'm not even aware of yet.

>>6888825
it's hard to give specific advice without seeing your work, what area are you struggling with most?

>>6888825
your problem comes from the fact you can't copy something accurately.

I recommend doing a gesture drawing, then dragging your drawing over the reference. If it's off, do it again. Do it again and again and again. After drawing it 10x, you'll be significantly better. Move onto the next reference

You don't need to get it 1:1, but this is a process to get iterative improvement. The reference is your only judge of quality, at this point, because you don't have enough knowledge to exaggerate or caricature anything correctly.

This type of thing is probably most effective with copying drawings, not photos. Get a Yoh Yoshinari drawing and do this process on it.

>>6874444
animators are masters of appeal and form, especially rotating it in 3d space and keeping it appealing. We're all just grunt monkeys following the leads, and they're monkeys following the supervisor.

source: was animator for 10 years

>>6883539
shit chamber for a front kick

>>6888890
>can't copy accurately
>recommend gesture drawing, the most abstract of all the abstract things in art
>>6888825
If your problem is can't copy accurately like the anon above said, just open KtD or Eviston's book and work through it
observational drawing is the most essential skill, no amount of study can help you if your hand can't even follow your eyes instructions

How do I draw good clothes? I want to improve since clothes are my weakest point: to design to the folds. I really want to draw clothes that have a nice flow to them. Book recs are appreciated.
Also, I really want to learn to draw animals, would be cool to have a lead on how i should start (again, mostly recs on how to find good references lol).
Sorry for the long post I wanted to get my point across also i no english

>>6888889
picrel are my latest gestures and construction attempts. I've been jumping around from books to videos to references and copy studies. I just don't know where to go or who I should follow. everyone has some sort of direction they suggest going towards and I want to do it the right way before I try drawing characters. I'll post some older work when I tried anime stuff next

>>6888890
so in picrel:
top left: I drew the volumes directly on top of the image. still fucked up that leg
top right: my attempt at gesture drawing thinking I knew what I was doing
bottom left: gesture/construction drawing where I kept moving my work over onto the ref to make sure I was doing it right. still don't know what I'm doing with gesture
bottom right: I'm going through Hampton's Figure Drawing: Design and Invention book while also watching his YouTube instructional vids. I just copied what I saw, but when I try gestures on my own, I just can't feel the form or line placement to make it not look shit

>>6888914
yeah, that's another thing: the order of what you should learn and how to implement it all to make something decent. I've seen a ton of different directions to go in this regard. I'll try your suggestion, though, thanks.

>>6888825
>>6888889
>>6888930
the anime work. I was trying to imitate Akihito Yoshitomi's construction process but didn't understand a lot of what he was doing.

>>6888930
>>6888933
I think you're on the right track, learn to draw ONE type of manikin first from multiple angles and then do some figure drawings where you draw the manikin to imitate the figure. don't worry about time just get it as accurate as you can.

>>6867069
What really bothers me is that i can't understand how to truly improve.

When i see other artists doing graphite drawings, it's amazing, even if the shading is simple. My drawings feel like are just unexpressive lines.

>Just draw
I'm just doing the same mistakes over and over. I am completely missing something... Is there something that will help me out?

>>6867069
What's the extension that lets you send an image with a random timestamp?

>>6889726
>>6889726
>I'm just doing the same mistakes over and over
If you can spot them in the very moment they happen, then it's time to find an immediate alternative to the problem. If you're just shading randomly and not visualizing what exactly the pencil stroke is doing to your value structure or if it corresponds to the plane/faces of the form you're describing then you're not engaged enough in the process.
Watch an artist doing it, see the pencil stroke and how he does it, even if you have to replay it many times, it can also be that you're not controlling the pressure of your pencil, or it's simply you not understanding the concept enough, which can either be solved by looking at an example or just practicing it enough that you develop an intuition for it.
I'm talking from experience, I used to do that because I just took for granted that I could stumble around my shading until it came together because I understood the general idea based on the final result, the problem is I wasn't very conscious of every step I was taking to get there so my stuff looked sloppy and sometimes went off the rails.
Try this, and watch every step as closely as you can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3MsfZ-wjzA&ab_channel=BrentEviston
And remember that the real understanding is translating the concept in any medium, just aping shit won't get you anywhere so do studies or paintings/sketches of your own applying these concepts, that's how you know you understood, this applies to other fundamentals as well.

>>6867456
i don't want to shit up the thread with OT stuff but this looks really good :)

People say don't mindless copying
but if i were to study bridgman and construct the human figures in there starting with gesture and boxes, does it still count as mindless?

>>6890723
bridgman is a meme

>>6890843
i didn't ask

>>6867069
what is the point of using silhouettes and how do you use them properly? Are they mainly used for quick rough drafts and planning? Is it too advanced for a beg to use who is just starting out?

is this style alright for a political comic?

>>6890861
It's just gesture but with an emphasis on shape rather than lines and contours. Painters tend to visualize shapes better so you might find it easier depending on how your brain works.

>>6891022
you can have literal stick men for political comics

>>6890723
Mindless copying comes from when you don't check for accuracy. If you feel like you weren't accurate, draw it again. Do it again and again, until you've significantly improved. No way that is mindless. Dave Rapoza said he would copy an image 18 times, then redraw it from memory 18 times.

I've been drawing with only pencil and printer paper so far and I'd like to start experimenting with fountain pens. would it work if I put two or three sheets of printer paper on top of each other to produce a thicker paper for the ink or should I invest in a good sketchbook at this point?

>>6891022

>>6869309
The discourse of "4chan = bad" it's stronger than you think

>>6869617
There are websites that helps you know if you were shadowbanned, I cannot recall none of them by their name but it's easy to find

>>6867093
Go ask on co/ how's your webcomic general. They have great advice for posting comics anywhere.

>>6867447
Get a 3d model program like pose tool 3d. It'll show you every accurate anatomy angle, muscle groups, just no a vagina or dick.

>>6867456
Very good work. Please don't let crabs trick you with the idea you have to grind and study one aspect of art before moving on to something else.

>>6891310
Fountain pen ink will feather on regular paper, including printer paper.
Cardstock is my budget pick for throwaway ink drawings, but it could be a good idea to buy some actual good quality paper, if only for the novelty of it. It feels nicer to draw on.

>>6867535
>Social media artist

Don't do it. You'll compete against AI and artists who have a team of underlings they pay to do their work for them. Make a portfolio and use a professional social media to show employers your work.

>>6868428
Start taking organic curcumin supplements and eat organic tumeric as much as you can. Curcumin is a extract from tumeric that stops inflammation.

>>6869595
Just use references in a layer under the picture. As long as you don't trace it isn't tracing.

>>6871000
It could help you to study and copy textures more and use a reference photo for textures. Everything looks like it has the same smooth texture. Beautiful body language and facial expressions. But their skin and multiple types of different fabrics should have different textures.

So I've been working on my line art all this time and I just recently got back into digital because I want to add color to my work. the problem is I can only cel shade but I want to make more serious works and it really doesn't fit the style. I've been thinking of just ditching line art and start painting on top of my loose sketch.

is it a bad idea to use AI as reference?

>>6891368
Portfolio is king for that. Most industry profs don't have valid social media accounts
Post some sure but employers don't care about likes and instagram cropping when hiring a new BG artist or whatever

>>6869595
Along with all the other advice, try pic related to help you out. It's a completely valid way to work and is used often for buildings.
Copy ref image, alt+drag to the side and fill with grey or whatever to use as the canvas. Then alt+drag horizontal lines and eyeball vertical ones to place everything as you see it. For a body you can like drag from a hip, shoulder or clavicle whatever

>>6891439
thanks anon, thank you for complimenting the body language and faces - it's my passion and most important to me for characters. I'll start with texture orbs to practice and then study different fabrics specifically

Up

Is drawing nicely on a very large canvas a skill you need to develop (as opposed to a small canvas)? For example 3000 x 3000 vs 1000 x 1000

>>6892199
??? you can just zoom out?

>>6892215
I mean drawing the same thing on a large canvas vs smaller. Like a figure that takes up the whole canvas

what's the grainy effect that 90% of pictures have?

>>6875301
Do the pose yourself and take a picture.

>>6888825
If your enjoyment of drawing is based on the result, you'll never enjoy the process. Until you can enjoy the process of drawing itself INDEPENDENT of what comes out the frustration will persist.
Try to remember why you wanted to draw to begin with and remember that this is art and not surgery; mistakes are opportunities not obstacles.

how do you guys pick an artist to copy from to develop your own style? there's just so many that make me feel things

>>6891485
It'd be nice to see some of your work to have an idea of what's the problem.

>>6892487
You gotta start somewhere, think about what would you like to see in your own work, as a mental image, when you think about a beautiful piece that conveys color, value, or sadness, or greatness, or draftsmanship, what comes to mind? You have to decide what kind of message you want to tell and what really suits that voice the best, you probably can name plenty of artists, but again just stick to the ones that come to mind first, then inspect their work and do some simple studies on a relatively small canvas, trying to capture the general brushwork and technique based on what your observation skills fixate the most on (you can even make it easier by just cropping a specific area of a painting and trying to get as close as you can with your current brushes), then you can apply it freely to whatever you want to do and test if it can stand on its own, sometimes a brush that is closer to the artists medium is going to be necessary but don't let that stop you from starting.

>>6892551
I forgot to mention, the idea here is to learn from them, not to become their impersonator, just take what you like from the many artist that you like and then add some of your own voice and taste and let it transpire over your fundamentals/inspirations/studies.
Also sometimes the inspiration will come from their storytelling, composition, themes or general knowledge about their subject that its depicted in a educated way that goes beyond the fundamentals which shows more about their character than just the piece itself, so it's good to keep in mind all this isn't always so literal and opens up the options to careful observation and investigation (you may even want to learn about the artists themselves), and in some cases, to take inspiration from other forms of art, like music and the like adds another layer to your influences and way of approaching painting.

>>6867069
How?
I find it hard to believe anyone can achieve this just by gettin gud.

>>6892669
certain personalities create art that have mass appeal. that combined with posting very frequently can farm up big social media numbers.
it really doesn't have much to do with pure art skill, it's about making things that people scrolling by care about interacting with for the few brief seconds it'll be on their screen.

>>6892487
do multiple at once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvMHRgPdyk

>>6867069
what's the best and most efficient way to learn? I've gotten a ton of books, watched/followed along with videos/guides, sat down and drawn fundies over and over again, tried copy studies, etc., but nothing really feels right and progress has been extremely slow. I'm not expecting to be a pro overnight, but still

>>6893013
Find something you want to get better at. Study (draw) it. Draw it from memory. And where most people fuck up – actually use what you learned in a finished, high effort piece. It's literally impossible to not improve if you do this.

I understand line confidence, but when does said line start to look good? I don't chicken scratch or anything like that, but my lines still suck. Does it just get better over time naturally or are there some short drills i can do everday?

>>6893480
Drawing lines out of context doesn't really prepare you for doing linear on a piece. Try inking other people's drawings for practice, specially already finished ones so you can analyse their line choices.
You can also do master studies of sketches where you forget accuracy for a bit and focus on getting a handle on their "handwriting": https://youtu.be/ULvovwwAFLk

I been just thinking about what I've been drawing and why I wanna draw-- I love drawing and art, but it feels like I'm missing a compelling reason for doing so. People make comics and tell stories, and it feels as though ive forgetten how to do that. I think I've spent too much time worried about not being good enough to allow myself to be immersed in something. I want to give a shit about what I'm drawing, not because of just the processs, but because the result is something I care about.

What is the fastest way (i.e. specific exercises/techniques/etc) for a beg who only has about an hour a day or less to draw to improve?

>>6893692
Depends on what you want to learn to draw but divide your time, pick a subject you want to draw and work on making quick thumbnails. Use references, of real photos/ and maybe a few of artists you enjoy. Spend 30 minutes doing copies and studies and the other 30 minutes just drawing from memory and drawing original things based off your visual library. If you're spending all your time drawing things for studies it'll end up like work and you wont stick to it. Make sure to draw what you want during your freestyle segment

Exercises include, timed figure drawing, life drawing, blind contour, value studies, photo realism studies, perspective, anatomy aka breaking the body down into shapes which are proportionally/anatomically correct. This goes for backgrounds, values, etc but just pick one thing at a time. Learn how to draw the lines you imagine in your head exactly, start with simple things, if you can't make a circle or shape look the way you want then start there

>>6893674
I feel like you should just draw and not worry too much, the result is a byproduct of the work you do, as long as you're trying to make something you can be proud of and improving you'll get there. Don't worry too much about other people unless you want to compete against them.

>>6893674
That's exactly what you do tho when working as a professional artist. Most of the time you simply don't give a shit about the IP, the important thing is being able to do wuality work on things you don't care about.
If you ask me your perfectly fine and are primed for working as a professional, the journey is more important then the destination in your case

Is it a bitch move to copy and paste images of real water and/or water from Minecraft shaders to use in your art?

I heard a good way to generate texture is to change brushes every few seconds. Is that true? I have noticed my paintings look very plain if I use the same brush for the whole thing.

>>6894465
try using value and/hue variation on the flat parts

>>6894369
>what is photobashing

Is being able to draw impressive to girls? Like guitar or motorcycles? Have you gotten laid by drawing a girl nude a la titanic? Or does it hold no such power

>>6894513
you sound like you time traveled from the 90s

>>6877353
>>6877772
>>6877826
~Copper plate engraving~
Defacto method for reproducing illustrations prior to the invention of photo engraving.

Sad that so many here are ignorant of art history.

>>6867069
coloring

What the fuck is it
How the fuck does someone looking at an inked page even begin to imagine the fucking colors, I'm losing my fucking mind
I can paint semi well enough with ref and I'm not aphantasia'd, but for the life of me I can't seem to choose good color palletes.
I think I watched like 15 different videos this week that end after defining hue, value, temperature and complementarity
There has to be more to learn I'm clearly not getting it

Ok retard here
I feel like I can't draw, I try exercises, but it's so boring drawing spheres and cubes.
Should I copy an artists to learn how to draw? Like studying their art to undestand how everything works? I honesty don't mind not ever being able to draw realistic stuff. But maybe coying an artist will keep me entertained? Like I'm drawing something besides fucking circles.

>>6894500
Thoughts on Photobashing then?
It seems like one hell of a cheat/crutch, even if I've mostly left that mindset behind.

>>6894767
I don't think that's something you'd want to discuss on here. Photo bashing used to be a really prominent topic and it would constantly circle around the same debates; as you already hint at with keywords such as cheating/crutch vs. people arguing for efficiency or using all the tools at your disposal if you're smart etc.

The truth of the matter is that it may be required professionally, so it's a good skill to have (if you aimed at becoming a full-time concept artist somewhere). And if you lack any understanding for painting, colors, composition, then it is very difficult or sheer impossible to pull off convincingly, without the result looking like dog water. It's the same as using 3D software for difficult poses or geometry from challenging angles. Why wouldn't you use 3D software and just paint over a screenshot? If you can do it well, do it. But from my experience, you can't bypass the required fundamentals necessary. Good bashing incorporates the photos well, the artists often know exactly where and what color to pick to blend the realistic materials with the rest of the painting. It's mainly a technique used to dish out quick ideas and concepts at a fast pace.

The way you frame your question.. I'm not sure what to think. You're probably not experienced but you're curious. Who cares if it's a bitch move? Just do it and see how convincing the final result looks. Disregard the crabs.

>>6894868
paid gig under time constraint btw
background is some vidya level upside down
(not mine, old gif from here)

How do I get over my porn addiction

if light scientifically is like a continuous wavelength sort of thing why is the color wheel even a thing? why would the color loop back on itself? what dark powers are at play here

>>6895156
Does it loop tho? I thought that was just the limit of human understanding of wave lenght colors
Googling I see pic related being the "visible spectrum of light", ie humans can't detect the rest atm

https://www.britannica.com/science/light

>>6895076
need to find something else that makes you want to dedicate time to it. I still fap when I'm bored and anxious but I do it less so if I'm busy.
nfortunately I think apart from brute forcing it and quitting porn cold turkey the only real option is sex therapists/sex positive therapists. Somebody who can teach you cope that isn't porn

>>6894684
Yep. It's not ideal but if it comes down to drawing and giving up, stick to what makes you keep doing it.
When you want to take your shit to the next level you'll get the desire to improve the fundies anyway.
So this is about style but you can also study just one part of an artists art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvMHRgPdyk

In the immortal words of Nathan Fawkes: Art has to be enjoyable/rewarding/convenient because willpower only gets you so far, these things need to carry you the rest of the way

How do I get Krita make smoother curved strokes instead of this? Not brush stabilization, just higher refresh rate on the cursor position

>>6895156
would you be happier if it was just a slider instead?

>>6873355
>Pic related is my inspo
based karabako enjoyer

is there a program or something that you can import your own photos into for timed drawing practice?

>>6895076
Would have to type out 10,000 characters or more to tell you genuinely.
You've identified the problem though, so you're past step 1 already. That's pretty good already.
>>>/x/36210408

>>6895156
The connection that you see, the loopback from red to violet, is magenta, a color that does not exist, because it has no wavelength. Our brain makes up this color for us.

In the middle of red and green you will have yellow (complementary of blue).
In the middle of green and blue you will have cyan (complementary of red).
In the middle of blue and red you will have... Green? No, it must be the opposite of green, and that's why there is that loopback. Our brain has created a color for us in order to have a complementary for green, which is magenta

>>6896029
Pureref has a slideshow mode and you can set the interval between each pic.

>>6896029
there's an application made for that called GestureDrawing! it's $15 but you can find links to dl it in the archives

an anon also made his one
https://github.com/adnv3k/GestureSesh

Have you felt any change in the quality of your dreams after learning to draw? I am high beg and now in my dreams I can better visualize things such as a table in perspective or a building

>>6896709
No. Sometimes the dreams are vivid, sometimes not. Mostly I don't dream
Don't think that has anything to do with drawing anon

Why there aren't cool anatomy books for animals? I wish the was a Burne Hogarth animal drawing book or something...

>>6897535
There's tons of animal anatomy books out there. "Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger is one of the popular ones that come to mind

>>6896156
That's not specific to magenta. The vast majority of colors have no wavelength, think of White, Pink, Brown, Grey, etc. etc.
The visible light spectrum is just an infinitesimally small portion of all perceivable colors.

Are you artists also do graphic design? What do you think about the genre and field? You guys inherently have skills than would greatly transfer over.

Im asking because very popular graphic designer Michael Bierut said that he liked art as a kid but the general art seemed kind of hermetic to him and he was drawn to graphic design as it was a means to an end.

>>6900327
graphic design has more jobs. Any visual you see is graphic design while art is mostly illustration and concepting.
An artist can do graphic design if they study the basic principles of design and have some basic knowledge with adobe illustrator. But it's not entirely the same thing - designing something well requires knowledge that's different from a painting a good picture

One will usually choose one and have basic, lesser skills in the other

Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but what's the name of that artist who drew futuristic shiny chrome/metallic humanoids, kinda like pic related?

>>6870717
You have to have fun and study.

Not (A) have fun without studying.
Not (B) study without having fun.

Different camps of people will tell you (A) or (B) is the mistake they made, and you should "have fun" or "study" but you need to do both. You need to get the mileage but remember to do something productive, or you'll be doing ten years of 2D tumblr nose with no progress to show for all that fun, or years of amazing boxes from all angles but being incapable of drawing an actual character.

>>6900340
hajime sorayama

>>6900361
Huh, looks kinda different than what I remembered, but I guess that's gotta be it.
Thank you very much.

>>6900361
the coomer alter ego of syd mead

>>6867069
source of this book? >>6900169

>>6867069
source of this book? >>>>6900401

>>6900950
try again

>>6900956
...so?

I made an art twatter account that's pretty successful (5 followers) how do I get over the anxiety? Fuck I don't feel sober, I'm happy though

>>6895076
Drawing loli porn helped me reduce the number of times I fap to loli porn. Just draw, anon.

>>6895076
Get addicted to something else, maybe going to the gym

Should I read multiple artbooks at once or finish one before reading the next?

>>6901962
You're supposed to fucking draw, anon.

>>6902024
Yeah. But don't hike without a map.

Drawing is like hiking through a flat field that spans off into the distance every which way you look. You'll probably end up somewhere if you just walk any which direction, so long as you actually take the journey of a thousand steps.

>>6902047
pyw

>>6902096
https://files.catbox.moe/0iwiqv.png
The best part of any adventure is getting lost!

>>6902166
This is really good, thank you for sharing.

why is this board /ic/ if it is "Artwork/critique"?

Shouldn't it be /ac/ then? what is the "i" here?

>>6902179
Admittedly, I've never read Loomis or any other artbook. A lot of my learning came from asking others for help (redlining) and trial and error. If you have other people to draw with you, whether they're online or in real life, then you'll make leaps and bounds in progress. They can be better or worse than you, but having other people to bounce ideas, WIPs, and whatnot off of I think helps aid in the learning process way more than just reading and copying books. Just talking to another artist about how and why they do certain things can shed light on things that you didn't even realize you needed help with, I've come to find!

>>6902166
I am vomit

>>6902195
If you ask me you should try your hand on any of the essential books, even if you don't end up using any of the information gathered on the books it'll sure give you another perspective to both yours and other people's art.

>>6902209
I'll try to at some point, but reading artbooks makes my eyes glaze over as soon as I crack them open, for whatever reason. Still, a friend of mine started drawing recently and I'm already impressed with how he's able to shit out better drawings than when I first started, and he actually reads and practices from artbooks and stuff, so there's definitely something to it if you actually push through and do it.

Don't want to make a new thread for this but if someone can enlighten me that would be really helpful
What are some price guides to start commission work? I feel like anything I come up is either too high or too low. Not sure how to charge for Line art / Flats / Shaded / Crop or Full body.
Is there any resource or reference prices i should consider to come up with prices?

pls respond

>>6902194
Because /i/ is Oekaki aka drawing.
Then add the c for critique.

do people actually post here regularly and not draw at all? not improving is one thing but do they really not draw? or is it a meme?

>>6902920
>>6902920
>>6902920

>>6902449
>Oekaki
oh I see, thanks.