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[Anonymous No.1885131]

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>>1881942

Post your current drawing here and give constructive critiques to others!
Please make sure your posted image is clear and is under 1500 x 1500 pixels in size.
If you want critique on a drawing from the previous thread, you can delete it there and repost in this one.

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[Anonymous No.1885143]

hmmmm...

[Anonymous No.1885164]

Another update, I guess. I still think it's going better but it's so hard to define forms while rendering and defining value and lighting. He has the same face as my Dante because I can't be loose enough to mess with his features. Frustrating, but hopefully slogging through this will make the next one easier.

[Anonymous No.1885172]

[Anonymous No.1885173]

[Anonymous No.1885177]

Trying to decrypt these ancient Chinese secrets

[Anonymous No.1885182]

[Anonymous No.1885188]

[Anonymous No.1885194]

I'm a bit more simplistic than whats ITT but here goes. Also a shamless link. please love me:

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/viraltwist

[Anonymous No.1885195]

eh

[Anonymous No.1885198]

[Anonymous No.1885218]

maybe her parents can just be sisters. so i can avoid having to draw sexy lips.

[Anonymous No.1885245]

[Anonymous No.1885295]

>>1885218

dropping it now

[Anonymous No.1885303]

>>1885295
WAIT!!
Just put a darker shadow under her nose - not too much spread, practically just a thick line. And then let it ride.

[Anonymous No.1885322]

>>1885303

don't listen to that guy. Darker shadow will increase contrast in that area and nose shadow will become a focal point.
Shadow under nose in this case shouldn't be darker then upper lip and shadow under bottom lip. It would also kill that ghost-look

[Anonymous No.1885325]

>>1885303
>>1885322

! i actually noodled around with the facial features for millennia and had a much stronger cast shadow below the nose initially. then i remembered that shadows don't add and at most there would be a slight cast shadow caused by the occlusion of the light bouncing back into the face from the underside of the hat. and indeed i feel a very soft shadow worked out better, also because it keeps the values grouped more cleanly (and this is something i have to improve on!)

thanks for feedback and thoughts anons

[Anonymous No.1885347]

My first attempt at portrait drawing, I hate drawing portraits. :/ This one is byproduct of about 9 attempts of redrawing it from scratch, other ones looked very horrible. I think I made slim progress looking back, but I have a long road ahead. :/

[Anonymous No.1885349]

>>1885325
dont usually do this, but here. let me know if i ruined your picture

[Anonymous No.1885379]

no ref
im really weak at drawing the lowrer body

[Anonymous No.1885391]

>>1885322
>>1885325
>nose shadow will become a focal point
Yeah, that's what I meant to happen when I suggested it. Right now it almost looks like the face should be a focal point but the least amount of detail is there so now it looks like everything around the face is in focus and the face is out of focus, and that just looked weird to me, but oh well.

[Anonymous No.1885403]

[Anonymous No.1885412]

sorry for my assery in other threads today

heres a monkey

[Anonymous No.1885418]

Well, I took this as far as I could. I know it's not great but I feel like I learned some stuff, so thank you to all the anons who gave me pointers!

[Anonymous No.1885420]

>>1885412
one more drawing

this ones supposed to be about following false prophets. The soldiers are protecting the 3 suffering people. the shadows are being cast towards the sun, implying there is another light source behind them, and althought they are in this "light" they are still suffering. But they refuse to accept help from another alternative.


haven't done an illustration piece in a long time wondering if the theme is clear in this. albeit i just explained it

[Anonymous No.1885421]

>>1885418
the hand and arm are very wide. wider than normal. if you could just scale it with the crop tool or whatever in photoshop i think it would be good. up to you

[Anonymous No.1885424]

>>1885421
Hm well, I did post it already... Let me see if any more changes come up, and I'll consider editing and reposting.

[Anonymous No.1885431]

>>1885420
Hey Brian

I'm the anon who called you out in the other thread

Just wanted to show some fairness and let you know that had you posted this one, the flack you received would have been a lot less. Nice piece, should work this out!


inb4 homo

[Anonymous No.1885447]

>>1885431
eh i just get testy sometimes. without anyone even saying anything. for the most part im usually pretty quiet on this board.

also if this sketch gets approved its going to be a huge painting for a bed's headboard. so that'll get posted eventually.

even if it doesnt get approved im gonna paint it cause i think its a cool idea.

[Anonymous No.1885454]

I've been drawing for 10+ years, just not very committedly (noob here).
My black marker died before I could finish.

[Anonymous No.1885458]

>>1885454
looks great

[Anonymous No.1885465]

>>1885458
my bad.
I was going for sad, ashamed, incomplete person who ponders by pond in forest, unmoving through various days of sunshine, rain, and both sunshine and rain.

[Anonymous No.1885467]

>>1885465
sure i can get behind this. anything that makes you put lines on paper/board

[Anonymous No.1885470]

>>1885173
I really like this

[Anonymous No.1885481]

>>1885465
Why dont you just paint instead of wasting e-markers

[Anonymous No.1885490]

>>1885481
>e-markers
What?

I recently moved and my art desk broke. I don't have an easel and don't have a flat desk to put a garbage bag over or something.

[Anonymous No.1885494]

>>1885420
I know thats Oath of the Horatii on the right, but what is the reference of the picture on the left?

[Anonymous No.1885500]

>>1885494
i couldnt tell you it was a picture from a recent /ic/ thread that's probably buried by now

[Anonymous No.1885503]

>>1885198
*homerun
this one is beautiful

[Anonymous No.1885508]

>>1885131
was a request, currently a wip atm. thoughts? its very rough atm

[Anonymous No.1885515]

how the fuck do you get rid of those gradient rings.

[Anonymous No.1885608]

>>1885420
Nice linework, brah! Have you ever tried to copy some of the old masters works? Mikelangelo, Rafael and Rubens are especially good at such expressive kind of lines, that human body should be drawn with. Sorry for my english, though.

[Anonymous No.1885639]

>>1885515
BY NOT USING GRADIENT

>soft brush

[Anonymous No.1885643]

>>1885164
That hand and forearm are freakishly wide.

[Anonymous No.1885668]

trying to get a consistent process down

[Anonymous No.1885670]

>>1885668
and process

[Anonymous No.1885675]

>>1885639
>soft edges don't exist

Fucking noobies, man.

[Anonymous No.1885700]

>>1885643
carpal tunnel + compulsive fapping = ?

[Anonymous No.1885702]

>>1885639
>>1885675
shouldv'e inb4'd
I don't usually use gradients but I figured it'd be good for establishing the atmosphere. Not sure if it worked.

[Anonymous No.1885705]

>>1885702
And now you went completely overboard with the soft edges

seriously, don't inb4 if you know you're kinda doing it wrong, just don't do it wrong and try to do it right?

It's not horrible but it's far from appealing and needs loads more work

[Anonymous No.1885709]

Here's the final of the wip from the last thread. I need sleep now. So tired. Crits appreciated. Cheers.

[Anonymous No.1885711]

Some of the studies i did.

[Anonymous No.1885714]

Still waifu.

[Anonymous No.1885728]

fucking likeness man

[Anonymous No.1885729]

Is this passable? I feel like I can do more, which must be pretty evident to you guys, but I'm not sure what.

[Anonymous No.1885730]

>>1885728
I like it, man! Her face is smooth and her features are as detailed as they need to be. I do want to ask however, will her hair and clothes be improved on later? I feel like you put in great effort with her face but everything else is still in the first stages of development. Still looks neat, though.

[Anonymous No.1885740]

>>1885714
cute

[Anonymous No.1885750]

>>1885711
super hot anon\ got any finished work??

[Anonymous No.1885781]

I posted this in the last thread, anon said I fucked up the anatomy on the neck and collarbones.

I tried fixing them a bit, although it's done in pen so what I have to work with is limited. Still looks like shit, is there anything specific I should be looking for? I looked at some collarbone references and I can't seem to figure it out.

I tried getting the shoulder and upper parts of the arm anatomically correct though, and I'm not sure if it worked out.

Anyway, general critiques or specific explanations as to why this is shit, thanks.

[Anonymous No.1885782]

>>1885729
Nose region feels awfully flat.

[Anonymous No.1885799]

I'm playing DnD with a few friends and I'v been drawing their characters. sorry for the low quality

[Anonymous No.1885803]

tattoo request for a friend

[Anonymous No.1885813]

>>1885781
Stop trying to stylize things before learning the basics of anatomy.

[Anonymous No.1885821]

>>1885803
I really like it. Some people have asked me to make tattoos for them. Did you scan that in? or is there a texture you used for the dragons space (The grey)?

[Anonymous No.1885823]

>>1885821
Thanks!
Yeah, I usually draw stuff like this on transparent paper, since it has a "oily" surface whick makes the pencil glide and lets me achieve smooth, strong lines. Then it's scanned in and colored later.

[Anonymous No.1885843]

This is my first time ever coloring an image, man this is hard! I know it's still far from finished, but do you guys have any pointers at this stage about how to go on from here?

Two little side notes:
I'm aware that its still pretty desaturated and lacks contrast. I've tried a couple things to add contrast but it kinda just made it look weird (like darkening the area under her left breast, which made me lose the feminin softness I'm trying to go for.. Any ideas anyone?)

Also: her body is monochromatic, and I guess it'd be a good idea to change that. Any ideas as to what colors could be used here, or is there like a general rule of thumb or so? (like using colors from the environment maybe?)

Thanks a lot everyone!

[Anonymous No.1885845]

>>1885813
I've been trying to anatomy, kind of failing at it

do I just do shitloads of figure drawing? Or more detailed studies of just random people?

[Anonymous No.1885850]

>>1885711
Damn nigga, thats sexy as fuck

[Anonymous No.1885851]

>>1885845
Read hampton, then do shitloads of practice. (only doing shitloads of practice works too obviously, it just takes longer as the system needs to be developed while you go)

[Anonymous No.1885852]

>>1885782
Do you even /Ultron/?
he has a flat nose, in fact no nose at all

[Anonymous No.1885866]

>>1885709
It looks unfinished, especially the background. Everything is blurry when it doesn't need to be, and it honestly still looks like it's in its early stages.

Look up the blog post "Gurney Depth and Edges" to get some better ideas on how to handle depth instead of uniform blurriness.

[Anonymous No.1885869]

My first commission was to finish the drawing on the right. the result made me depressed enough to stop drawing for two months. tell me what you think /ic/

[Anonymous No.1885871]

>>1885869
draw and study more, faggot

[Anonymous No.1885878]

Apart from horrible values, colors, design, perspective and composition, his pose looks too feminin. The drawing wasnt better tough. How much you got for this?

[Anonymous No.1885887]

this is a still life on newsprint i did a while back that i need some feedback on.

[Anonymous No.1885894]

>>1885869
Someone paid you money for this? Where and how do I find these people?

[Anonymous No.1885904]

>>1885894
>>1885878
It was free
>horrible values, colors, design, perspective and composition
I just followed the requester instructions and stickied to the original. about color, I never painted anything before

[Anonymous No.1885949]

>>1885904
>My first commission
>it was free

[Anonymous No.1885967]

[Anonymous No.1885989]

>>1885904
>>1885869

Why did you expected that it would turn good if everything he requested was bad, and only thing that could improve it (colour) was something you dont know? Also if you are going to listen what your potential customer wants its always going to suck no matter what. You are an expert not him. Let him tell you what he want and then do it your way, even thou he wont agree. In the end he will be more pleased with result.

[Anonymous No.1886025]

>>1885295
Her chin looks huge, the mouth nad nosse are too high.

[Anonymous No.1886030]

http://mentalcrash.deviantart.com/
Hi

[Anonymous No.1886033]

>>1886025

Would you mind doing a redline?

[Anonymous No.1886050]

>>1885418
What the other anon said, the arm and hand are huge. The arm can pass as normal, but the hand is horrendous: look at the pinky, it's bigger than any other finger, the space between the fingers is so wide it's funny. The veins on his arm only help this picture I am forming in my head that he found out about the fappening just now, his arm is about to explode after all the exercise, but he can't take the grin off face.

But in all seriousness, for fuck's sake, anon, experiment blocking in shadows with a bigger brush. Sometimes rough small brush strokes look cool, mostly on details, but without caution it can look very dirty, amateurish. Also, it could be less of a pain in the ass for you when painting. I am looking at the roughly painted pants and I am imagining the suffering you went through to cover all this area with a smal brush, like you are trying to paint a wall with a toothbrush. This is a great example of the kind of areas that would look way better if blocked with a bigger brush, these kind of large areas with small values variation.

[Anonymous No.1886069]

[Anonymous No.1886088]

feedback?

[Anonymous No.1886090]

Drawing some manly tits tonight, tips /ic/?

[Anonymous No.1886116]

probably should clean it?
>inb4 Scott

[Anonymous No.1886117]

Why does no one ever reply to my pictures here?

[Anonymous No.1886118]

>>1886117
which is yours?

[Anonymous No.1886120]

>>1886116
Were you inspired by that horrifying 4 legged robot thing?

[Anonymous No.1886121]

>>1886118

>>1885668
>>1885670

[Anonymous No.1886124]

>>1886120
Boston dynamics, yes.

[Anonymous No.1886127]

>>1886121
Well I am no regular yet, but it doesn't seem like you really had a question to be answered.

It's a painting of a face, pretty decent.

[Anonymous No.1886130]

>>1886127
Just comments or crit I guess. For some reason whenever I post stuff, no one responds to it

[Anonymous No.1886131]

Alright, I tried to fix the edges up a bit.

[Anonymous No.1886133]

>>1886121
Eh it's alright, keep going. You're in that horrible mediocre stage that every artist goes through. Not terrible, but not amazing so you generally get ignored. Just don't give up, you'll get through it, I see potential!

[Anonymous No.1886137]

>>1886133
I thought as much, thanks i guess

[Anonymous No.1886138]

>>1885729
in his defense i think the character does have a flat face.

[Anonymous No.1886141]

>>1886121

happens to all of us. if you insist you will usually get feedback (such as right now). don't be afraid of being obnoxious. i like the drawing, there's just not much there to crit. consider it really good if it's done from imagination, despite the fact that the angle is easymode you describe the features confidently and they have a lot of character. values need work and you might want to start looking into color so you can more accurately describe form.

one example to illustrate what i mean by that, is this ruanjia painting. same easymode front view. however you can spot by the nose that there's a subtle difference in the temperature and value of the shadows which describe its sides. this is one principle you could apply to your drawing to further its illusion of 3d, if you chose to take it further.

hef gud day

[Anonymous No.1886143]

>>1886141
Sweet thanks. And yeah it was from imagination. I'll keep those tips in mind, thanks

[Anonymous No.1886145]

>>1886131

i like this but i feel like the flatness of the vehicle thing really messes up everything. it seems 'accurate' perspective wise but the viewer will subconsciously search for cues to understand the form and shape of the vehicle and won't find any.

[Anonymous No.1886197]

>>1886116
boston dynamics pack dog thingy whatever the fuck + competitive motorsport?

okay.

okay.

[Anonymous No.1886212]

>>1886141

Why can't every crit be like this? Man.

[Anonymous No.1886295]

I started obsessing about the contrast and made the image black and white to make sure they were just right.

How does it look so far?

[Anonymous No.1886345]

>>1886212
92% of /ic/ are beginners and shitpost to better their feelings.

[Anonymous No.1886361]

the model was really into this drawing. that makes two young white ladies with boobs bigger than their head that like my artwork.

and if your wondering yes thats the only metric i weigh my success on.

[Anonymous No.1886364]

>>1886361
I like the style of your lines, also the thumbnail almost looks like a Silent Hill nurse.

[Anonymous No.1886365]

>>1886361
You do lines kind of like me, but differently. I like it, it's unique.

[Anonymous No.1886366]

Toot toot

[Anonymous No.1886368]

/ic/ I know I suck but what do you think I should work on more? I've been going through "fun with a pencil" lately, do I just keep doing that?

http://gutsandeffort.tumblr.com/

[Anonymous No.1886369]

>>1886366
face appears slightly sunk into the head, almost like it's pressed in.

their right brow ridge might be a little bit higher, although i'm a shitty artist so don't necessarily take my word for that.

is there a reason for the scribbles

[Anonymous No.1886370]

>>1886368
i don't understand this comic.

and don't you drawfag for /v/ sometimes?

[Anonymous No.1886371]

>>1886368

I like your shitty comics.

[Anonymous No.1886372]

I have a good feeling about that one. From ref.

[Anonymous No.1886374]

>>1886370
The third panel is the girl's mother NTRing her and the fourth panel's supposed to be a form of "loss".
And yes I do and I would really like to git gud for them. Any advice would be appreciated.
>>1886371
Thank you.

[Anonymous No.1886387]

[Anonymous No.1886389]

Some sketches I just made. Don't know if this goes to the stylization thread.

[Anonymous No.1886433]

>>1886295

the perspective of the bottle is off
I personally think it would look good if you put the horizon in the middle so that the cap isn't visible

also it doesn't look like glass right now, just a floating volume of yellow liquid
Maybe add reflections? I haven't drawn glass before

[Anonymous No.1886435]

makin some thumbnails, amidoinitright.jpg?

[Anonymous No.1886438]

[Anonymous No.1886441]

>>1886369
Haha wouldn't doubt anotomical innacurracies, I just drew what I saw and zoned out.

Lines and colors are there because i felt it needed something, and that was the closest feeling I could make it be???

Just having fun with the process, not the result!

[Anonymous No.1886455]

>>1886368
The one with the JFK text in the background made me laugh, and the Magical Truck Adventure one was pretty good too.

What to work on depends on what you want to do. If you want your stuff to be more realistic, then anatomy and life drawing is the way to do, if you want better comics in general then study composition, especially with books like Framed Ink, etc. It all depends on what you want to improve on. The humour is there though and I like it, so please don't get rid of that while focusing on artistic improvement.

>>1886435
Up the contrast between your lightest and darkest value. Having some stronger darks vs lights could help you to make more important decisions with composition. Depth is just as important too though anon, and the tree one is lacking that though the other two are good, especially the bridge one.

[Anonymous No.1886459]

Some help, please? It's not done yet, but the more I try to keep going, the more I see I'm not getting where I wanted, in the first place. Problem with values and depth?

[Anonymous No.1886482]

heres two more

[Anonymous No.1886483]

>>1886482
i could barely hold eye contact with this girl cause she was so pretty

[Anonymous No.1886517]

having fun so far

[Anonymous No.1886562]

wip, is this worth finishing? or should I move on

[Anonymous No.1886564]

>>1886517
I like this, but it doesn't read as anything as a thumb. Make focus points clearer- work on your compositon. I like the flowery thing and the figures?

[Anonymous No.1886567]

>>1886562
did you photobash this and apply a filter? I mean it's okay i guess if you're using it as base values but what did you really work on... I can't tell at all if this is worth finishing

[Anonymous No.1886569]

>>1886567

nah, I did a really rough sketch and I applied a filter, bad Idea I know, I just wanted to try it

[Anonymous No.1886571]

>>1886569
nah dude it's not too bad of an idea, I was just wondering why haha. I reckon you should work on it a bit more and then post, there isn't really enough to crit rn

[Anonymous No.1886595]

doing studies

[Anonymous No.1886601]

For the love of god someone redline my hands and arms. This is why you dont skip the hands in life drawing folks

[Anonymous No.1886655]

WHO WANTS TO FIGHT THIS MIGHTY WARRIOR??

[Anonymous No.1886666]

>>1885131

[Anonymous No.1886692]

>>1886601
you dont need a redline, you simply need to study anatomy. everything in this is symbolic (inb4 muh style), so do yourself a favor and read hampton first, then draw it again (id love to see a comparison of this and the after-version tbh!) good luck!

[Anonymous No.1886693]

What can I do/use to get more contrast in my drawings?

>>1886459

[Anonymous No.1886696]

[Anonymous No.1886727]

>>1886693
It looks like you're copying and not analyzing. Your forms read flat, define your planes and use more confident shading.

[Anonymous No.1886730]

Wip crit? Advice on how to proceed, things to fix etc

[Anonymous No.1886732]

>>1886730
I don't know what I'm looking at. I'm guessing a giant whose hands are becoming a tree?

[Anonymous No.1886735]

>>1886732
is it really dark?

[Anonymous No.1886736]

>>1886666
My brother just told me the dragon head looks like a goat. Tips on how to fix it? I'd like to keep the horns in some way or other.

[Anonymous No.1886738]

>>1886732
Calibrate your monitor??

[Anonymous No.1886739]

>>1886730
???

[Anonymous No.1886740]

>>1886738
>>1886735
Haha, I didn't mean the darkness. Just that I have no clue what's going on.

[Anonymous No.1886744]

>>1886730
?

[Anonymous No.1886746]

>>1886740
i find that strange. He's sitting on his knees in the snow, looking to the left. the stuff at the bottom is his cape covered by snow.

[Anonymous No.1886753]

>>1886601
Hey! I think a large part of what's causing you problems in this is the lack of good, solid forms in your drawing. You have some good stuff going on here that implies some masses, like the ribcage, the shoulder muscle, and the overlapping lines on the arms which help us imagine that this is a body moving in a 3D space, so now you've just got to push it further. Envision the pose from multiple angles, and try acting it out yourself to see where each of your limbs are going and how far they reach. I'm sure you've heard the spiel about building up the form with simple objects to begin with, like cubes and cylinders, which I feel would help out here a lot. Arms are basically just tubes connected by an elbow, so if you can manipulate cylinders freely with your drawing, things should start to make more sense!

For me, learning anatomy helped me understand what kinds of forms I could use to help construct each part of the body, so >>1886692 's advice might help out, too. Hampton can be a little confusing and intimidating to start with, though, and I often see artists turn into Hampton clones after studying him extensively, but he's definitely worth reading.

I know you only asked for help with the arms, but there are some other things that you should be weary of! While the rendering is helping to define some parts of the body, the drawing itself is very outline-y. There's no real definition on the torso, abdomen, or thighs, aside from the bathing suit. You don't have to draw every crease and change of direction, of course, but breaking up the contour so it's not a single curve going from the breast all the way down will make the character feel like less of a cardboard cutout.

My tablet's broken, so I couldn't do a redline per se, but I did a redraw! I borked some of the details and the styles are obviously very different, so take it how you will, but I hope it helps in some way.

[Anonymous No.1886769]

>>1886730
HOLY FUCKING SHIT DAT GIRAFFE NECK

[Anonymous No.1886771]

Is this worth polishing or should I change things first?

[Anonymous No.1886773]

>>1886771
Its asymmetrical
check the size of arms and legs

[Anonymous No.1886776]

>>1886769
how in the hell could i possibly ever miss such a beast of a fuck-up? my god

[Anonymous No.1886781]

>>1886773
Are you saying there's asymmetry in limb size, or are the symmetry and limbs two different problems?

[Anonymous No.1886782]

>>1886771
Nice piece
work on it, is already looking decent enough

I did notice too that the arms on the right, for example, feel bit on the thick/heavy side, especially in comparison to his physique

[Anonymous No.1886804]

[Anonymous No.1886807]

one of the first times I try to paint a face from imagination

[Anonymous No.1886825]

I feel like I'm pissing against the wind here /ic/.
What do?

I've been very inconsistent with painting digitally and it shows. I never fully know what I'm doing..

[Anonymous No.1886828]

>>1886069
i like it, keep going

[Anonymous No.1886834]

>>1886807
Bucky??

[Anonymous No.1886837]

[Anonymous No.1886880]

I think I need help with my brush settings.
I'm using a hard round brush with both opacity and flow set to pen pressure.
I have to press like a moron to reach max opacity and that's annoying.
I don't think my block-in is supposed to be blurry like that right? But in the same time I want to control value directly.

Any tips?

[Anonymous No.1886937]

>>1886880
Turn off pressure sensitivity for opacity, but keep flow sensitivity so you can still color pick the edges of your strokes. Learning to set down the right values is a smart thing to do, it will help your understanding.

[Anonymous No.1886969]

Not sure where Im going with this, hatesexdrivedistractingmyshit.jpg
>Should propably invest in a tablet already

[Anonymous No.1886973]

>>1886937
Thanks I'll try that.

[Anonymous No.1886979]

>>1886389
nice do like.
tumblr?

[Anonymous No.1886982]

>>1886969
Very nice, how much time did you put in it?

[Anonymous No.1886987]

full blown vagina in this one

[Anonymous No.1886990]

Part of a personal project of creating a JRPG party I am working on for fun and experience, had to stall a bit but due to life. But I picked it up again. Aiming to be done with three of the characters this week.

[Anonymous No.1886993]

>>1886987
The black shape creates an unnecessary focal point.

[Anonymous No.1886995]

>>1886990
Second one. He is an archmage trapped in a prepubescent boys body after pissing of time itself.

[Anonymous No.1886998]

>>1886995
Third one. Sorry for spamming.

[Anonymous No.1887003]

>>1886998
Where's the granny form of this one?

[Anonymous No.1887012]

>>1887003
She may or may not have one.

[Anonymous No.1887019]

>>1886979
no, I don't think I'm good enough to have a tumblr, maybe in a couple of years.

[Anonymous No.1887020]

>>1886998
>Just Olivia

She doesn't have a title to go with that? Why do you have to be so sexist?

[Anonymous No.1887031]

>>1887020
Olivia "The Feminist"

[Anonymous No.1887036]

: ^)

[Anonymous No.1887045]

>>1887036

looks really good anon, I'm jelly

[Anonymous No.1887046]

>>1887036
fucking shieeet, man.
i remember the wip of this.
i really like what you did with the colors.

[Anonymous No.1887047]

>>1886517

I like it, nice choice for colors

[Anonymous No.1887052]

>>1887036

how do you use so many colors? how do you even come up with so many colors to use?

[Anonymous No.1887056]

>>1887020
>>1887031
Haha, Yeah I am not aiming to shy away from that subject. There is one character who is created around that and I will try deliver her next week. As for Olivia's title she is a noblemans daughter that wants to play war. She is put in charge of Alexanders squad and that greatly angers her because she expected more.

[Anonymous No.1887060]

>>1885904
Don't do art for free you naive faggot.
I don't care if you feel like your drawings are worth than a shit smear on carpet you get compensated for what you do.
Faggots like you are why people think artists on lower levels are suppose to do shit for free or "exposure". The next time you do work for someone you do it for some type of pay. Even if it's fucking peanuts, literal fucking peanuts, you get compensated for your talents.

[Anonymous No.1887063]

>>1887036

crazy awesome. that's it. i'm following your tumblr as we speak.

[Anonymous No.1887064]

this isnt great but its still a winner to me

[Anonymous No.1887070]

>>1886088
i really love this

[Anonymous No.1887071]

>>1887070
no you dont

[Anonymous No.1887072]

>>1886361
do you have an art blog or da?

[Anonymous No.1887084]

>>1887072
http://serkerart.tumblr.com/

i upload in bulk. deviantarts shit for that.

[Anonymous No.1887090]

>>1885869
I kinda feel bad, because my eyes are too advanced to make something so horrid, so I never had this phase of crappy drawings. I had the harry paintings, The shit values that lacked contrast, the crappy anatomy, but never this.

No offense, but

> the lighting is unbelievably off
>you forgot that colors are less saturated the further something is
>God damn dat hair highlight...
>color scheme is all over the place
>The armor literally looks like metal cylinders
>just shitted out bats with bat brush cause spooky
>you detailed the ogre who's all the way in the bg... FIND A FOCAL POINT
>EVERYONE IS POSING FOR THE CAMERA

Sorry but... that's a mess, don't be discouraged though... Think of it as a learning experience and NEVER create something like this again. Also be happy you got to go through this phase...

[Anonymous No.1887097]

>>1887090
You didn't post anything of yours. Now I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.1887101]

Figure study. Crayons on newsprint. CCW
Working from Michael Hampton's book/videos.

[Anonymous No.1887119]

>>1887097
>You didn't post anything of yours
They never do.

[Anonymous No.1887123]

>>1886372
neck seems too long
ribcage too stiff
ass crack too stiff
what the heck is behind the chick
blur the chair leg in the background
hash out more values

[Anonymous No.1887124]

>>1886517
damn this is nice
make flower glow as light source. dab its light here and there n its good

[Anonymous No.1887128]

>>1887119
Damn, from the way they talked it seemed like I would get to see some amazing art from them. I mean if they "started" off talented, just imagine where they would be now.

[Anonymous No.1887140]

>>1887128
as not that guy i agree. show your work mystery man!

also heres something landscapey

[Anonymous No.1887153]

>>1887046

>i remember the wip of this.

where can i see it

[Anonymous No.1887170]

is this the right thread to ask for advice if someone get stuck on drawing something?

[Anonymous No.1887176]

>>1887170

>Post your current drawing here and give constructive critiques to others!

basically yes. you can also try posting in the beginner thread i guess if you feel you aren't up to snuff or whatever.

[Anonymous No.1887188]

>>1887176
>snuff
kinky.

Already posted on another thread but not loving the activity much.

>>1887160

Sorry, i'm new to ic and have no idea where to go.

Also using sai with basic brushes, can't go with PS since its too laggy for me and got already used to with sai. All the tuts so far i googled-fu are mostly for PS with custom brushes.

[Anonymous No.1887208]

[Anonymous No.1887218]

>>1885131
fucking help me please /ic/.
The prompt for my final project in my college painting class is to take items or a style from 3 different artists or their paintings and to make a painting out of it. We need to have a "narrative" or "message"
Is it just me or does that sound really stupid? Won't the message get completely diluted by the fact that we for literally no reason have to use other painter's work?
My teacher is fucking dumb. When I showed her that I wanted to use Leyendecker she said "OH BUT HE'S JUST COPYING NORMAN ROCKWELL" and gave me a bunch of shit for it because she's an abstract painter.
pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.1887221]

>>1887218
>When I showed her that I wanted to use Leyendecker she said "OH BUT HE'S JUST COPYING NORMAN ROCKWELL" and gave me a bunch of shit for it because she's an abstract painter.

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.1887225]

>>1887221
Norman Rockwell didn't come until literally 2 decades after Leyendecker.
She had no idea who he was so I assumed maybe he wasn't well known (you know maybe just an /ic/ cult classic kinda thing) but another girl overheard us talking from across the room and said "Are you talking about Leyendecker? I love his work."

[Anonymous No.1887227]

>>1887225
>She had no idea who he was so I assumed maybe he wasn't well known (you know maybe just an /ic/ cult classic kinda thing) but another girl overheard us talking from across the room and said "Are you talking about Leyendecker? I love his work."

i don't believe that he is as well known as Rockwell, but I see him mentioned reasonably often and always in high regard as a fantastic illustrator.

your teacher just sounds silly.

[Anonymous No.1887238]

>>1887227
She is.
I am so frusterated.
sorry for blogpost

[Anonymous No.1887242]

[Anonymous No.1887261]

/ic/ I really am trying to get better at drawing digitally, and drawing in general, and I'm trying to take the advice you're giving me.
It took me 3 damn hours to sketch this.
Please just tell me what I can improve upon.
Although I'm starting to think that digital drawing might not be for me.

[Anonymous No.1887278]

feeling pretty good about this. am i allowed to? also can you spot mistakes in the cast shadows?

[Anonymous No.1887288]

>>1887261
I messed with the legs a little..
How am I doing?

[Anonymous No.1887289]

>>1887261
3 hours isn't really acceptable for a sketch. Do more gesture drawings 5 minutes each, then wrap up with a 30 minute

[Anonymous No.1887291]

>>1887289
I know it's not acceptable, this probably would've taken 20 minutes if I'd drawn it traditional..
The sad thing is, I meant for this to be a bunch of quick sketches anyway. I keep trying to start these quick and loose but they end up being poorly structured. I'll try again to do something fast and loose, although I have a feeling it's going to take a lot more of these slow, controlled ones before I get used to the tablet enough to draw anything quickly without royally screwing it.

[Anonymous No.1887294]

>>1887289

it's not really *acceptable* but i think it is more important to draw well and accurately than do stuff quickly. speed comes naturally with experience.

[Anonymous No.1887309]

Copied a Yugioh card in watercolor. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.1887352]

[Anonymous No.1887418]

>>1887261
The arm on the right is the right length, the other is too short.
Remember that elbows are usu right underneath the bottom of the rib cage and hands generally rest around the apex of the thigh.
You're doin' alright, but do timed figure studies like anon said.

[Anonymous No.1887449]

Here's another attempt, I think this one took a little less time.
>>1887418
Thanks for the tip. It's so hard to judge on my own, that arm was longer but I thought it was too long so I shortened it, guess I should've left it alone. I'll get on the gesture/figure studies soon.

[Anonymous No.1887457]

Do you like it? :)

[Anonymous No.1887460]

[Anonymous No.1887492]

dear god somebody help me pls. Staring at my own fucking hand and and i can't draw the pose i want, or anything even remotely anatomically correct.

[Anonymous No.1887501]

>>1887492
so get an anatomy book? bridgman has nice hands

[Anonymous No.1887502]

today's effort

[Anonymous No.1887504]

>>1887460
awfully clean and shiny for a soldier

[Anonymous No.1887507]

>>1887502
I really like the texture on this. Structure also seems really solid to me, but then again I'm not 100% sure of my judgement.

[Anonymous No.1887543]

>>1887492
>>>/beginner thread/

[Anonymous No.1887546]

>>1887502
second one for the day

>>1887507
thanks man I'm trying pretty hard to git gud in time to do an application for a scholarship at an art school I can't afford to go to

[Akkai No.1887580]

>>1887309
use more darks, lights are fine. Push values, search the term on google. When you did it right, its like enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.1887582]

any critique welcome :)

[Akkai No.1887584]

>>1887582

you're not using perspective right on the table, on top of this the woman/child to the left looks physically more like a child but has the face of a 40 year old woman. Idk, everything else seems alright and I think you're controlling your values a bit too much. It should be brighter in the brigther regions and darker in the darkerst regions.

[Anonymous No.1887586]

>>1887584
Noted, appreciate ;)

[Anonymous No.1887594]

fixpencil sharpener in the funky lighting that is my room

[Anonymous No.1887595]

this is my current wip... hoping to move into colour soon

[Anonymous No.1887598]

>>1887278
nice work

[Anonymous No.1887599]

>>1887595
this is my other wip :/ it needs alot of edge work around the dress but I'm trying to take it slow

[KJKallio !OTcb98yDKo No.1887624]

Made this. Also website: www.kj-kallio.com, still needs some more work.

[Anonymous No.1887629]

>>1887599
Oh, I'm liking this! Love the expression on her face, the pose and the story-telling aspect (if that's the right term in English). Looking forward to seeing more!

[Anonymous No.1887633]

>>1887624
you could photoshop animal head on top of people and it would like much nicer.
i did that once as experiment, then realized it's furry shit.

[Anonymous No.1887634]

>>1887624
perspective on the medal seems off

[Anonymous No.1887635]

>>1887599
you should mention when you're just copying a reference. The difference is striking, and you don't want to look dishonest.

[Anonymous No.1887637]

>>1887580

Yeah, I noticed that too. I thought it needed more contrast, especially with the clouds. Anything else?

[Anonymous No.1887638]

>>1887624

Oh.. I like it, looks very painterly. I have you as a friend on facebook, you're getting better and better. :)

[Anonymous No.1887644]

>>1887036

Awesome... I would really really like to know how to work with colors like this.

But hes left leg is off... Looks disconnected.

How much time do you spend on a character like this?

[Anonymous No.1887645]

>>1887635
Im not copying reference, the first picture is deliberately stylistic

[Anonymous No.1887646]

>>1887624
it's a cute drawing but honestly after seeing your folio i feel like this image drags the whole down a bunch. your other stuff is easily a step ahead of this one.

>>1887582
love the attention to detail and the fact that you stay subtle with color and saturation. comp works surprisingly well too imo. but i think you need to introduce some degree of color temperature contrast so you lift that amateurish-everything-is-reddish-pink look.

[Anonymous No.1887649]

>>1887598

thanks man

[Anonymous No.1887653]

>>1887645
Well, if you wanted to look like a noob you certainly captured the style. If you want to tell me you're telling the truth why don't you tell us about the brain damage that caused you to forget how to draw a person. Post the reference.

[Anonymous No.1887654]

>>1887595
You suck.

[Anonymous No.1887655]

>>1887653
I dont have a reference, the first picture is part of a portfolio to send to applibot, sorry to disappoint

[Anonymous No.1887656]

>>1887645
It's incredibly obvious that you didn't draw that face from imagination and there are even several photo artifacts still in that image that you didn't paint over yet, like that crown, parts of the wall, her hair, the eyes, the hand etc.

Who are you trying to fool here? Anyone with even a tiny bit of digital painting experience can spot a shitty photo paintover like yours from a mile away.

[Anonymous No.1887657]

>>1887595
>>1887599
I like you<3

[Anonymous No.1887659]

>>1887653
>>1887656
Holy shit you are fucking pathetic.

[Anonymous No.1887660]

>>1887655
That's his point. The first picture looks like shit because you didn't have photo reference. The second picture is a flat out photobash and as a result, there's a huge gap in quality.

[Anonymous No.1887662]

>>1887656
sorry but youre wrong :)

[Anonymous No.1887665]

>>1886655
clean up your edges

[Anonymous No.1887666]

>>1887653
>>1887656
>>1887660

what are you trying to accomplish? you are not /ic/'s witchhunter lonewolf hero. if you think he is relying on ref or painting over, point it out and move on you sad cunt.

[Anonymous No.1887667]

>>1887662

Sure I am :)

Listed, kid. You can fool yourself and a bunch of complete and utter noobs like >>1887659, but anyone with the tiniest bit of experience in digital painting spots this shit instantly. If you send this crap to Applibot, they will laugh at you. I'm not even against photobashing, just get good at it and stop lying like an insecure little faggot.

[Anonymous No.1887668]

>>1887656
>>1887653
>>1887635
Just went on his DA and found this, besides some obviously traced if not bashed "photo studies".
Amazing commission dude, I wonder what happens when Applibot will see it.

[Anonymous No.1887669]

>>1887657
>>1887659
>>1887662
>>1887666

Stop samefagging, it's not just one person calling you out on your bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1887676]

>>1887669

yes it is. it's only you, and you are samefagging. i'm not the guy who painted those two images. i just find it incredibly sad that we/you are having this argument in the first place. i'm also not pointing out wether i think he is or is not painting over photos. i don't really give a shit.

it's just that i feel this kind of attitude, like it's your holy mission to uncover frauds, is so dumb and destructive to /ic/ in general. i've been accused of the same thing countless times, every single one completely unjustified.

[Anonymous No.1887680]

>>1887676
>i've been accused of the same thing countless times, every single one completely unjustified.

>us lying shit tier noob photobashers need to stick together!

yeah, fuck off, no one wants you here. And nope, it's not just one person.

[Anonymous No.1887681]

>>1887669
I don't like you</3

[Anonymous No.1887682]

>>1887676
>t's only you, and you are samefagging
It's not only him man. It's pretty obvious that he is abusing photos when you look at his website. And by this I don't mean to make it sounds like this is a sin against the gods of art, but it will be extremely detrimental for his growth as an artist.

[Anonymous No.1887686]

Now I remember where I saw it. Fucking draw crowd filled with animu and furry shit. I also now remember why I don't go there.
Damn I miss cghub.

[Anonymous No.1887687]

>>1887686
Meant to reply to this >>1887624

[Anonymous No.1887689]

>>1887676
No it's not. You seem pretty salty over being "accused". Maybe if you weren't, you would know it's good manners to point out when you're copying a reference and not parade a repainted photo as your own skill. That is dishonest and makes you look pathetic. Copying refs are okay if you make people aware of it and not caught with your pants down trying to deny it. If you are bad, be big enough to admit it. Honesty and humility are virtues.

[Anonymous No.1887695]

>>1887689
I hope that isn't you.

[Anonymous No.1887709]

Need some help with composition and generally what's wrong.

[Anonymous No.1887749]

>>1887624
>Right click disabled
I recall reading a blog post talking about how art directors hate shit like that, as they need to save images to easily come back to them later.

Don't remember the source, but it was probably a post by an art director on muddycolors.

Food for thought.

[Anonymous No.1887754]

>>1887624
>>1887749
Found the link. Do a google search for "muddycolors art director right click" and it should be the first hit. Can't link blogspot directly.

[Anonymous No.1887757]

>>1887749
>>1887754

LOL am i supposed to respect a female art directors opinion? i don't think so tim.

[Anonymous No.1887763]

>>1887757
Shut up, Al!

[Anonymous No.1887799]

>>1886090
The hands are too big.

[Anonymous No.1887801]

>>1887036
>skipping leg day

[Anonymous No.1887823]

>>1887644

[Anonymous No.1887824]

How can i improve?

[batteryu No.1887825]

>>1887824
your work seems perfect like that. perhaps your limitation is software?

[Anonymous No.1887826]

>>1887824
Practice drawing trees in the park.

[Anonymous No.1887827]

>>1887826

This

your cartoon drawings will improve 100x when you draw real life trees

[Anonymous No.1887829]

>>1887824
Fix that damn mouth.

[Anonymous No.1887832]

>>1887824

[Anonymous No.1887833]

>>1887824

It looks like she has 2 pussys.

[batteryu No.1887835]

>>1887826
question, what is the point of reference to judge how a character can be improved, real life anatomy?

[Anonymous No.1887838]

>>1887835
In general. The thing that will make any character look decent is the ability to fool the eye into thinking something is correct. The measure that is used would indeed be human anatomy if the subject is a human. Liberties can be taken of course, but at the end of the day you're tricking the viewer into seeing something that appears human based on landmarks in actual human anatomy.

[Anonymous No.1887840]

From life wip

crit besides the inner part needing shading?

[batteryu No.1887842]

>>1887838
oh, great.

[Anonymous No.1887846]

>>1887840
do you enjoy it?

[Anonymous No.1887853]

>>1886834
Who the hell is Bucky?...

[Anonymous No.1887857]

Hey /ic/, here's a redline I just received on my piece. Should I trust it? Maybe I have a bad eye but I'm not entirely convinced...
http://i.4cdn.org/co/1415808842451.png

[Anonymous No.1887860]

>>1887857
Redline on this >>1887288 I should've said.

[Anonymous No.1887861]

>>1887857
It's weird, with some proportions and muscles off and no perspective, but it ain't bad. What's the original?

[Anonymous No.1887863]

thoughts on this painting im doing for someone so far?
the background was originally going to be gradient yellow, since the dogs name is sunny. but he also siad how he wanted to dog to look "presidential" so i thought it'd be cool to add like a bookcase and window in the back. im not sure how im doing with the colors though, i have really limited choices (yellow, black, white, magenta).
should i add more purple in the dogs fur? also i have green as well, should i incorporate that somewhere?

[Anonymous No.1887864]

>>1887857
no. overlay your artwork on top of the reference and see where you went wrong, then close your reference and try and fix it from memory. rinse and repeat

[Anonymous No.1887866]

>>1887861
Original linked in this one >>1887860
>>1887864
I don't follow, are you saying I should overlay my drawing on this redline and fix it? Because he did provide one that was an overlay, I asked for the redline separated because it was visually too chaotic for me to make it out. Here's a link to that one http://i.4cdn.org/co/1415798446462.png

[Anonymous No.1887869]

>>1887866
I mean, if you used a photo reference for your original drawing I would suggest overlaying and focusing on that, or try and look for references that match your artwork and use those.

idunno you cant really trust redlines, especially on here. that particular redline does look quite off

[Anonymous No.1887872]

[Anonymous No.1887874]

>>1887749
Apparently portfoliobox does not provide the option to enable right clicking... oh well, shouldve uses another provider but this one was easy since im not familiar with coding. cheers yall

[Anonymous No.1887876]

>>1887869
Oh okay, I was confused because yeah, I didn't use a reference but it's a simple enough pose, I'll look for one.
Anyway I thought it wasn't just me. I mean even if stuff didn't look all that off, I still expect a certain amount of stylization or interpretation in a redline so like you said, I wouldn't usually put much stock in them unless they're for something more general like pushing the pose or composition, something that still leaves room to do my own work. I just really wondered if I was the only one doubting this, though.
Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.1887883]

[Anonymous No.1887886]

>>1887846
How do you mean? Yeah I like doing it, learning a lot I think. I draw in pencil all the time, but I feel I'm not learning enough by not doing digital stuff, so I'm starting to do that every day as well. Any recommendations on what to do? Is this good exercise? How's the approach based on what you can see? The next still I'll be doing will focus more on values rather than color, as this one did. I think I should focus on getting the basics down value wise first, maybe grayscales? From ref pics maybe.

Lol, rambling on

Might not be apparent from this but I started with a more organic sketch and went with guides only after I established my sketch, but I'm still wondering if it's the right way to approach things.


When I see algen's stuff I have to think he uses the tools the software has to offer just as much, the question is, did he when he started painting too?


pic related, only screen cap I have of the early sketch

[Anonymous No.1887996]

Did I anatomy correctly?

[Anonymous No.1888030]

>>1887996

considering how stylized it is, yeah it looks pretty accurate

[Anonymous No.1888089]

>>1887996
No, if you look closely it's missing a head. And correct me of I'm wrong, but I made adjustments.

[Anonymous No.1888109]

>>1887676
Wow are you dumb? He's trying to help the guy. He won't be taken seriously if he tries this shit with ADs.

[Anonymous No.1888127]

>>1887676
How is it dumb and destructive, exactly?

To be honest, if I ever get accused of bashing I'll take it as a compliment, unless, of course, I actually was bashing and trying to sell it off as painting...

Skepticism is perfectly acceptable, if you don't like it, I think you are the one with a problem, since if you were sure you didn't bash, you'd feel like a badass for making your painting look that real.

If you bashed and are trying to come off as a master, and someone calls you out, you get hostile obviously, it's far from a compliment, it compromises your lies ;)


Just my 2 cents, but you're the one making claims of being called a basher before, so I'd love to see where this comes from. I've never been called one, my stuff doesn't look nearly good enough, but I don't see anything wrong with keeping the industry sincere and open.

These techniques EXIST. We can mention them.

BTW I'm skeptical too. If both paintings are his and they are not bashed or heavily reffed, nice work! If they are, still nice work, but you're lying to yourself if it is

[Anonymous No.1888161]

[Anonymous No.1888405]

>>1885887
Study perspective, definitely study perspective. The forms and shapes are wonky, and the ashtray shows that you lack some understanding in how circles and ellipses work in perspective.

[Anonymous No.1888410]

>>1887238
I can relate, anon. My prof basically wants everyone to draw like Tomi Ungerer which decidedly gets on everyone's nerve who puts some effort into their drawings.