/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

So, taking a look at the table of contents at the start: this book will teach us
>Facial Construction
>EXPRESSIONS
>Figures!?
and
>ACTION POSES
Sounds very promising.

>After you learn to draw Ariel, Blaze, Serena, and X-O-Dus with the materials provided in this kit you will be on your way to creating your very own exciting Manga pictures!

Woah! I can't wait.

>Page 5, Materials
lmao has this dude not heard of a STYLUS? I'll be drawing digitally of course.

>Page 6 first facial construction of OC Ariel
Upside down egg, throw on shapes on top, bada bing bada boom, holy shit it WORKS.

I went ahead and used page 7 as a reference for coloring. Since there is no word on guidelines, principles, or anything else on the topic I randomly used a little bit of everything to give that head some color...the results are spectacular and I also just noticed she lost her eyebrows during the process, whoops!

Note to self: Try drawing using a higher resolution & DPI. Stuff came out a bit small.

Now, onto bottom of page 7 and 3/4 and Profile view construction (I'm literally shaking).

>>6935417
This bitch looks suicidal
not even she wants to be in the guide

>>6935420
She'll have to pull through until this is over.

Why does the cover look so competent compared to the contents?
>based on original artwork by Ben Krefta
Oh. What a scam.

Yeah, sale strategy probably. YouTube thumbnail bait precursor.

The next step was a little easier to get into the flow of her shapes but at the same time there's surprisingly little guidance. Caught myself glancing at page 6 a few times to see if there are really no other inbetween steps.

Pretty sure I fucked up both views, might have to redo. Triangle too high on the 3/4 view, egg shape too pointy and narrow at the bottom.
Not too many guidelines on the profile view, so instantly fucked up nose and mouth placement. Perspective on the crown beyond scuffed but won't stress over it for now.

Gonna try both graphite and colored pencil coloring on those next.

>>6935486
>Please Lord forgive me..

Lost a ton of time trying to figure out settings for a natural looking pencil/crayon shading tool. I thought this would be easier (I was wrong). The fat ink plus pencil aesthetic also really don't work together.
The result should speak for itself.

I consider skipping the coloring and just focusing on the drawing parts until I figure out something appropriate.

Maybe I'll watch some EZ coloring guides in my off time if it ends up looking too lifeless. Having at least one finished result per lesson would be nice.

Good idea for a thread but poor execution because you want to be funny.

His head gear messed me up.
Just said screw it and shifted down his eyes on the final ink, after fiddling with the V shape for ages, lol.

Two things I took away from this mess tho: When I had a clean ink of the head gear shape and its angles, instead of erasing and trying to add the (bone) segments, I should've just made a clean layer on top, working freely and eventually wiping the rough shape below. Instead, I had to erase multiple times and do a ton of unnecessary corrections.
Secondly, might be a good idea to zoom out every now and then as to make sure that the char hasn't suffered a sudden stroke of autism.

Gonna retry this one tomorrow, when I'm fully rested. Good night.

>>6935953
Damn it, I meant to put a ref picture next to it

As promised another attempt, went better this time I think, although I did fuck up the hair and head gear once again lol.

I've waited for a bit, but it turns out the 3/4 view Blaze head won't draw itself, so here it is. Left out the faggot horns this time because they're annoying.

Onto the profile view.

Ah well.

>>6936849
kek

Warming up with the 3/4 view

yikes

Had some trouble understanding how he went from a dead eye stare in the sketch to the finished eye.
Just extend the eye lashes I guess.

>>6935410
What a shitty tutorial book. There are far better resources than this. These "learn how to draw anime" books made by westerners aren't even very good. Pro tip: If the artist isn't Japanese, you should probably avoid it if want to draw like a mangaku.

Recommend /ASG/ general
>>6930369

>>6938125
Technically OP is high IQ since the style of the book is artificial intelligence proof.

>>6938125
>There are far better resources than this.
Yeah, there is no doubt about that.
Anime wasn't meant to be the main point of focus anyway. I agree about >>>/ic/asg

The idea was to get a DAD kind of thing going with a common objective. As for why this: it's short and a low barrier to entry. I saw it being memed over the years, but never actually seen anyone follow it seriously and posting their results.

If I end up making a follow up thread, I'll list some candidates and run a poll or something, so it's not all up to just me.

Personally, it helps me go through the motions without much resistance and as laughable as the progress and results are, at least I can say I didn't waste away my time on brainless media consumption or similar. I'm sure it'll be more fun once other people chime in.

>>6938330
No one is safe.

>X-O-Dus
>52 feet tall, 9.5 tons
>Weapons: Missles; heat deflectors; head Vulcans (?)

Armored core looking ass.

Messed up on the construction sketch so everything else suffered.

Gonna retry, this time with symmetry tool cheats and gonna give him some color as well.

Improved attempt 2.

Spent a lot of time messing around with Watercolor brushes. Fucking Japanese brush presets with their super-soft presets, requiring insane pressure to get discernable strokes out.

>>6938499
ref

gonna need one free bump

I did something like this a couple of years ago, and I was rather interested in what the source for alternative drawings are, because some of them were done in what I considered to be rather competent late 90s early 00s art style.

personally I prefer to draw a extrapolation rather than following the tutorial on this particular book.

>>6935604
OP is getting humbled by Peter Gray, it's funny.

>>6940147
that's awesome!

>>6940150
feels good man

>>6940171
he's actually pretty good. just can't into the style.

>>6940171
thanks! and here is one for the princess that was actually done a while back.

>>6940190
love it

>>6940172
Interesting, I haven't looked into him at all so it's nice to see.

>>6938502
>>6935955
I have been meaning to draw the other two characters and until I was done this thread is not allow to drop off... although I am not entirely sure if i'll actually finish it

>>6940172
its weird someone as seemingly competent as he is has not perform some sort of aesthetic analysis to break down elements of their respective art style to reproduce them properly. While I think some of the design he chose was too complex for children to instruct in such form, maybe they should have chosen better examples, and there should be plenty, maybe this is just boiling down to lack of research.

This was done in early 00s when anime was the hip new thing and maybe they were just rushing this out of the market, in some ways I actually kind of appreciate product of such viral quality, it really shows the cultural zeitgeist at the time.

>>6940385
thanks!

>>6942004
Very cool drawings, and thank you for the bump of mercy!
Next time, I'll make sure to attach some more work from following the book as well.

>>6940172
How can a guy that draws realism & cartoons so well suck so bad at drawing anime?

>>6944864
ask proko. There must be some visual cultural literacy that if you haven't got, anime actually looks like that to you, so your own rendition doesn't seem far off.
>Howanonseestheworld.jpg

>>6945206
SENSEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>6945206
I-It's...beautiful..

>>6945206

lol youre around huh. i see you're still hard stuck on the problem of drawing appealing realism

>>6945401
what problem

Posting p.14 (expressions) wip before the thread dies. Gonna try to produce four clean ones eventually.

>Instructions: don't be afraid of failing
>Just draw a dozen expressions and ink your best results

>>6946815
Yo that was fast, nice nice nice!

>>6946855
I posted in wrong thread. My drawings have nothing to do with the book. Sorry.

>I posted in wrong thread.

>>6946815
>teabagging via drawing

Ree

>>6940190
Really nice

>>6935410
>"how to draw" book
>it throws specific terms and concepts like you're an intermediate artist

>>6945401
i see youre still as humorless as a pigeons stool

:|

>>6951615
extremely hot and would take as my wife

>>6935410
How many more bumps do you need?
Get back to work already!

>>6951495
thanks, here are some more, this one is older then the other. At the time I was having an donut steel kick and started making up stories about some of these how to draw manga meme characters, and I was trying to incorporate some of the other sources like Katy Coope's books.

>>6954945
some example of the others, I don't have the interiors though. I'll also comment that I felt even though she is less educated at the time, she has a better grasp of the appeal than Peter Gray.

>>6954950
Another example from Katy Coope, I'll follow by a cross over drawing I've done previously. Some of the characters from that drawing is from different sources, but I couldn't find it at the moment.

>>6954951
this drawing was done as a cross over between characters from Peter Gray's book and Katy Coope's how to draw manga books, but it include two other characters from books that I couldn't find at the moment, just some weird things I done a while back I thought it might be interesting for people.

>>6954945
>>6954955
amazing, thanks for sharing

>>6954950
I owned this

>>6954955
The guy on the right reminds me of Zagreus from Hades, very nice!
>>6955724
Did you grind through it or some of its lectures?

>How to Draw Manga Artist Katy Coope Redraws Cover Illustration After Almost 20 Years

>>6958062
I drew the first lesson and dropped it because I had undiagnosed ADHD

>>6958079

And it still is /beg/ as fuck

>>6958079
>t.reddit tranny

>>6958079
oooooooof...

>>6935410
what is with the unironic lolcow tier book? You may as well have chris chan teach you drawing.

>>6958100
>>6958950
>>6958970
eh, I don't think its that bad.

>>6955572
thank!

>>6959258
cute

>>6935420
It's realistic. They made the bad art so yours can be better.

>>6962082
What is it? Can't even bring yourself to draw a few faces a day? SAD

>>6963582
>Can't even bring yourself to draw a few faces a day?
>mfw

>>6964708
drew a face

>>6965465
lovely

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