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[Anonymous No.1923343]

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>>1920765


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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crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3.html
finaltrinity.tumblr.com/post/13163064364/art-references-tumblr-accounts
fusroda.com/resources/

>fellowBro's books :
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>Figure Drawing Tool:
pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
posemaniacs.com/

>Photoshop Brushes
cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/tower_of_evil
digitalbrushes.tumblr.com/

[Anonymous No.1923346]

First page is finished, what does /ic/ think?

[Anonymous No.1923350]

>>1923346
I didn't notice the pink croc or realize why the green croc was sprinting in the first read.

[Anonymous No.1923352]

reilly is the man
its so easy now

[Anonymous No.1923355]

>>1923350

true, how can i make the pink lizard stand out more so the page is easily readable??

[Anonymous No.1923376]

Did this as christmas print for my mom, any critique? I know the anatomy is off.

[Anonymous No.1923380]

>>1923376
Wow, somehow the upload made the colors highly saturated, someone know how to fix this?

[Anonymous No.1923381]

>>1923376
That's wonderful, I like it. as long as you didn't trace then +kudos :)

[Anonymous No.1923384]

[Anonymous No.1923385]

>>1923376
Maybe the background shouldn't be blank white.
It's kind of hurting my eyes

[Anonymous No.1923390]

>>1923385
Right now it really does! The original had the saturation turned down and the white background did compliment it.

[Anonymous No.1923394]

>>1923384
I see what you are going for. Try and make it your own a little more because this isn't a comparison that is going to favor you.

[Anonymous No.1923395]

>>1923384
>>1923281

[Anonymous No.1923414]

>>1923355
Using shapes or values. Right now it is conforming to the ground itself. It might be cliche, but if the close-up on the eye had a pink heart in it, it might tie the two together more.

[Anonymous No.1923421]

>>1923394
You are making an unfair comparison. Sure there is a similarity in the character but the execution is totally different from RJ. You can tell Rj operates with many layers and the one you compared has few if any layers. Different process= he is making it his own.

[Anonymous No.1923423]

gonna be a while till the next update.

[Anonymous No.1923425]

[Anonymous No.1923428]

[Anonymous No.1923429]

>>1923421
You can't deny this, man. You're either samefagging or just inexperienced with art. The color scheme is uncannily the same, the brushwork is similar, even the background is the same. If you're the OP of the picture, just admit you reference RJ's painting; there's no need to be in denial.

[Anonymous No.1923431]

>>1923346
y u no resize it?

[Anonymous No.1923436]

>>1923429
They can make a piece inspired by one they like. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a great way to learn.

[Anonymous No.1923443]

>>1923429
Yo, I'm the one that done the piece. I have no problem admitting I was trying for a RuanJia look, I thought it was kind of obvious. I just wanted to see if I could get a similar look, that's all. Not trying to dupe anyone! Just a learning experience.

[Anonymous No.1923454]

Studying contrast

[Anonymous No.1923472]

>>1923428
>>1923454
her right eye is going away

[Anonymous No.1923484]

#1 or #2?

#1

[Anonymous No.1923486]

>>1923472
cool

[Anonymous No.1923488]

#2
>>1923429
This is me. I guess I'm inexperienced because I disagree with you or because you have to be absolutely right? He is doing it in his own way so what if RJ inspired him. He isn't copying him, and the only person making the comparison so far has been you.

[Anonymous No.1923491]

>>1923472
Well it was supposed to be a person who was spliting in two

[Anonymous No.1923495]

>>1923454

I'd focus on basic proportion for a good while longer if I were you.

Go back to your reference and actually check your measurements. Compare the size of the head to the body, and pay particular attention to the spaces between the chin to the bottom of the nose/nose-to-brow/brow-to-hairline, as well as the overall height vs width of the entire head. Compare the relative sizes and the spaces between of all the features with your reference.

As a rule just start with the big shapes and get those right before you get bogged down in the details. On a similar note try using a bigger brush in general. It'll help you focus on the big overall shapes and forms, as well hopefully preventing you from getting dragged into the details before you're ready.

Good luck anon.

[Anonymous No.1923500]

want this done tonight, even just roughly, since it's just a gift

[Anonymous No.1923502]

>>1923500
You gave my waifu a disgusting man face kill yourself

[Anonymous No.1923511]

Been struggling with making woman faces from imagination, especially pretty ones, everything comes out manly or ugly. So after some studys tried again now. Does this look like a (pretty) female face? Kept hair short so it wouldnt affect.

[Anonymous No.1923515]

>>1923500
This maiden isnt maiden anymore, she looks like shes 8 month pregnant and got hands on the belly. If that was your intent, then well done.

[Anonymous No.1923531]

>>1923511

dont work off of imagination you bellend, do studies it should be 50/50 face studies, then learn something, then do imaginative face studies. SHHIIIIEEEET

[Anonymous No.1923555]

>>1923495
>>1923495
Maybe you can tell me where I fucked up the proportions exactly? I've only roughly compared them through thumbnails till now but I can see maybe I drew the head slightly wider, but that's it apart from other minuscule things I think

[Anonymous No.1923559]

quick practice portrait......trying a new approach to painting and rendering which i found to be much easier for me..just need to work on more dramatic lighting

[Anonymous No.1923576]

>>1923500
>>1923515
fffffffffffffuuck man.
I just came back from fapping and here you go making the unseeable, to be forever seen.

My dick is going to hurt for the next 18 hours because of you. I hope you are happy.

[Anonymous No.1923622]

[Anonymous No.1923626]

Tips?

[Anonymous No.1923634]

>>1923626
Don't draw shitty hentai

[Anonymous No.1923640]

>>1923634
i won't get attention otherwise

[Anonymous No.1923644]

>>1923640
Im not saying you shouldnt
Just dont do shitty hentai

[Anonymous No.1923654]

>>1923644
Define shitty, the pose wasn't my idea, it's a request, "...-Her laying on a bed with her legs opened wide and she has a unopened condom in her mouth , winking at the screen-..."

[Anonymous No.1923658]

some sketches from my mole fore-skine skutchbook. :)

tell me what you thik
how do they make you feel?
what do you think when you see these sketches?
what do they sound like?
what do they SMELL like?
how can I improve how they feel?
what does your aunt think of them?

[Anonymous No.1923665]

will post next update tomorrow

[Anonymous No.1923672]

[Anonymous No.1923676]

this is one of the current projects I'm working on

note: I noticed that all their noses look the same, and I'm fixing it.
Otherwise, any sort of critique for it?

[Anonymous No.1923677]

>>1923676
I posted the wrong damn picture, sorry

[Anonymous No.1923700]

>>1923555
The major issues are the width of her face, the placement of her eyes, the angle of her mouth and the overall head proportions ("rule" of thirds). You're right though, a lot of it is miniscule but a lot of small minor mistakes just end up compounding on one another - especially with portraits. Get the major stuff nailed down first or you'll often end up with lots of little isolated areas which look perfect but somehow don't tie together.

Anyway here's some basic checks you can do - http://i.imgur.com/G99sbw9.jpg Pay attention to where the lines intersect different features, as well as the overall shape of her head.

Put all that into practice and you'll end up with something that (hopefully) looks closer - see the gif. Your values look good though anon, keep it up.

[Anonymous No.1923717]

>>1923384
Is there a link to a video/tutorial on how to color over grey scale like this?

[µ !AkV6PbePZg No.1923752]

>>1923622
i like this
>>1923384
eager to see the final result, dont bs me telling this is the final
>>1923654
not defining anything, but caravaggio and bougeureau went through a lot to do what they have done and you're here on ic posting grls with their legs open and condoms. is this your purpose on earth? cant you do better?

anyway update 3

[Anonymous No.1923753]

>>1923626
Darken your lines, my eyes hurt from all the white.
I cant fucking see it at all

[Anonymous No.1923756]

>>1923622
doin good girl.
If you question it, just take a break and come back to it

[Anonymous No.1923780]

>>1923753
stop using names, this is anonymous board for a reason.

[Anonymous No.1923793]

>>1923780
fuck off James

[Anonymous No.1923840]

I would like a second opinion on this before I start coloring.

[Anonymous No.1923850]

[Anonymous No.1923851]

>>1923840
>that long filename
what you playin at nigga

[Anonymous No.1923858]

>>1923851
Nothing

[Anonymous No.1923863]

>>1923752
Don't bring philosophy in this, I can do better, when it comes to face portraits but I also want to practice porn.

>>1923753
It was just a rough sketch so I could get any major things that went wrong right, before I would line it up.

[Anonymous No.1923866]

>>1923355
You should give it a better silhouette in the panel.

[Anonymous No.1923882]

Hey /ic/, this is the last time I'll bug you for a while. I'm gonna do this painting with all the stuff you told me, color theory and variation in the skin tones, proper lighting, rendering, all that good stuff. This is the only wip I'm going to post though, and I'd just like to double check the pose and anatomy before I move on, and anything that can be said about the composition. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.1923915]

>>1923752
>you're here on ic posting girls with their legs open and condoms
enjoy sleeping in your moms basement, not knowing where your next meal comes from

[Anonymous No.1923935]

>>1923500
Pose is ambiguous - I can't tell if the arms are coming forward holding an invisible object or if they're supposed to be on her waist. Head's a little big, and face is too big for the head. Your lighting is also flat and inconsistent.

Construct the body from basic forms (boxes and cylinders), pick a definite primary light source direction, and use the construction to better map out what planes are facing the light and which ones aren't.

Redline for possible pose suggestion. Either way I'd look for some refs or take photos of yourself and extrapolate what you need.

[Anonymous No.1923940]

>>1923882
You could do with some foreground elements there.

[Anonymous No.1923941]

>>1923717
>>1923717

[Anonymous No.1923943]

>>1923882
Look like he might be a little off balance, like he'd fall over to our left.

Clothes are a little too form fitting, especially the pants (all over but the transition below the calf is pretty stark).

The pelvis looks a little ambiguous. I suggest drawing out the entire top of the stool in perspective minding the horizon. Then place a pelvis sized box planted on top. Make sure the top of the torso builds off the top of this box, and the leg cylinder emerge correctly from the box without too much chair clipping (a little is fine due to deformation of the flesh and the cushion).

I do like the face. The giant holiday ornaments are a little weird in the context of everything else being ordinary (guy, stool, presents on floor).

You could probably lose a bit of the right side of the canvas and expand the left a bit. Be sure to do a dozen or so value thumbnails before jumping into the painting to figure out lighting, arrangement and local value of background and objects, etc.

[Anonymous No.1923944]

>>1923882
>>1923943
Oh, and the knees look freakishly large. Pull up some anatomy diagrams for reference. Even on muscular people, the region that contains the knee cap, the end of the femur, and the head of the tibia and fibula doesn't vary much in volume. It's mostly just bones, ligaments, thin tendons, and other soft tissue that isn't muscle.

[Anonymous No.1923948]

>>1923935
Your redline is very nice.
its very comforting. I wish I had a daki with that construction on it, so I can sleep with perfection. Ill wash the sheets like every week man.

I dont know what I am anymore. 50 hours awake arent doing me wonders

[Anonymous No.1923954]

wip

[Anonymous No.1923967]

>>1923717
I can just tell you how I did it if you prefer?
I just painted in greyscale until I was happy with what I had, made a colour layer mode and just painted loosely on top, increased/decreased saturation and then painted on top. Biggest thing I learned from doing this painting is, if your values are off, your colours will be off.

[Anonymous No.1923969]

>>1923954

looks good so far. very little mud. you're gonna have to blow that up in res one millionfold if you want to clean it up at later stages though. also the light, while accurate and descriptive, is a bit boring.

[Anonymous No.1923975]

>>1923352
sorry, who?

[Anonymous No.1923976]

Can I get some pointers on how to push this piece further?

[Anonymous No.1923977]

>>1923975

google the reiley method.

[Anonymous No.1923978]

>>1923626
Either learn to draw or go back to /jp/ OC.

[Anonymous No.1923980]

>>1923954
The really fine brush strokes are ruining it. Areas like the eyes look like you're approaching this like a drawing rather than a painting. The nose is good, paint the rest like that. Try using a bigger brush and stay zoomed out. Don't put any details unless they are absolutely necessary and are a clear improvement over your base. Don't put too much contrast in the details - smaller shapes will require subtler value and color transitions.

Get a ref for that beard. It's too shiny and groomed like a shampoo commercial. Should be matte and messy.

[Anonymous No.1923982]

>>1923658
They look good.

Sketching is competent but needs commitment (finish your ideas).

They're nicely unsettling in a Giger way, but still too ambiguous so not as impressive as they could be.

Check out this guy if you haven't, will inspire you lots:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/150961-Mike-Butkus-Sketchbook

[Anonymous No.1923985]

>>1923976
I like the figure. The robot looks silly, off balance, and nonsensical. Doesn't match the mood and handling of the figure and the painting as a whole. Gritty and real characters and worlds requires gritty and real robots. You can have some level of fun and silliness to the design, but it'd need to be toned down.

For making the mech more realistic, think about the joints and how it moves. Reference real robots from locomotion labs and factories, as well as vehicles and construction equipment.

Horizon looks too high compared to the figure. Composition is static and boring. Try to direct your shot as a director for films would. Camera placement and angle, type of lens, lighting used, etc all work together to convey a mood and help tell a story.

Current setting is confusing. Looks like a stage, except there's a hole in the backdrop and a post apocalyptic world outside? Doesn't even look like the building as adequate room for the backstage area - the destroyed background is also the wall of the building?

[Anonymous No.1923991]

>>1923940
Okay, cool. That big shaded in ornament is supposed to be in the foreground, I'll mess around with that and maybe some more balloons. I wanted more balloons in it anyway. Thanks!
>>1923943
I'll try to see if I can adjust the center of gravity a bit, I think I see what I'd need to change. The clothes won't be that form fitting though, I just wanted to indicate some places where it needs to really hang loose, I didn't actually draw any lines for the sleeves or pant legs. Thanks for the note about the composition, too. As for value thumbnails, I'll have to skip it, gotta get this done by xmas.
Thanks again everybody, see you probably next year.

[Anonymous No.1923998]

>>1923991
>As for value thumbnails, I'll have to skip it, gotta get this done by xmas.
NOOOO
It'll save time and headaches in the long run. When you have a thumb that works you can paint with confidence that your values and comp will work. It shouldn't take you more than 30min to an hour.

[Anonymous No.1924001]

>>1923998
S'fine, don't worry for me anon. I already know what I'm gonna do with this pic, I did some roughs/sketches before already. Thanks again though, haha.

[Anonymous No.1924024]

>>1923343
started this the other day. im still rubbish at anatomy haha. opinions?

[Anonymous No.1924030]

>>1924024

Having a white background will throw your values off mate. Unless the finished product will also have a white background.

[Anonymous No.1924033]

>>1924030
ah thank you.i seem to always forget that. i'll put it to a grey or something. until i start going all in.

[Anonymous No.1924034]

>>1923985
Thanks, good input.

[Anonymous No.1924040]

>>1923935
Ho shit man, thanks so much that's a really nice redline.
She's meant to be holding a gifbox, sorry I left that out, here's the version from after >>1923502 posted.
But your version is so much better, trying to incorporate it now without outright copying it somehow.

[Anonymous No.1924046]

>>1924024
flat

[Anonymous No.1924051]

>>1924046
yeah, im working on it man. its in the early stages and im still learning. trying to get better.

[Anonymous No.1924107]

>>1923352
>>1923975
there is a dvd of jeff watts explaining it on cgpeers

[Anonymous No.1924117]

>>1924107

how do i find it?? i search for jeff watts and find nothing.

[Anonymous No.1924119]

>>1924117
here you go anon.You could've googled before asking stupid shit like you're new to the internet

[Anonymous No.1924120]

>>1924117
here
Drawing from the Model with Jeffrey Watts

[Anonymous No.1924132]

>>1923700
shit you're right, i wasn't paying attention to that shit at all because i thought I was familiar with it, thanks a lot man :)

[Anonymous No.1924133]

>>1923700
shit you're right, i wasn't paying attention to that shit at all because i thought I was familiar with it, i didnt construct the head at all at first just painted what I saw, thanks a lot man :)

[Anonymous No.1924139]

>>1923978
How about you learn to critique? You realize that answer is of no help to me? This is /ic/. How about telling my why it sucks, plus this is the more updated version.
>>1923863
Is there something wrong with the neck? The nose? The vagina?

[Anonymous No.1924184]

First time photobashing, any critique?

[Anonymous No.1924187]

>>1924139
>Is there something wrong with the neck? The nose? The vagina?
Yes, all of those things. look at a ref.

The vag is too high. she has no trapezius. the nose is just 2 dots.

[Anonymous No.1924189]

>>1924184
better than a lot of the people in /ic/

[Anonymous No.1924190]

>>1924184
This is so good, oh my god

[Anonymous No.1924192]

>>1924189
Thanks!

>>1924190
Thank you, I like yours.

[Anonymous No.1924198]

>>1924187
This is my reference.

[Anonymous No.1924201]

>>1924187
I'll fix the nose when I shade it, this is just the lineart, I don't like using too much of lines in the face.

Is this better?

[Anonymous No.1924215]

>>1924201
You're just symbol-drawing porn. Go read the sticky and study fundamentals.

If you want serious critique, then show that you're serious about art.

[Anonymous No.1924226]

>>1924215
Go fuck yourself. If it's symbol drawing then there is something obviously wrong, you should be able to point it out.

The nose and the nipples will come later when I fully shade, if you're saying that's symbol drawing. The lines for them are just to tell where they are, later I'll color them in. What's wrong with the rest?

[Anonymous No.1924232]

>>1924226
She just told you what was wrong.

[Anonymous No.1924235]

>>1924226
You tilted her chest into an upright position

[Anonymous No.1924238]

>>1924184

the mouse looks out of place compared to the background, some grim dark shadowing and grading would probably help

I love the composition

[Anonymous No.1924242]

>>1923752

[Le Sticky Man No.1924249]

>>1924226
Holy shit the symbol drawing is real.
>not knowing that the vagina curves
>drawing it so that it's flat
those nipples though
nigga take that dude's advice and go read the sticky.

[Anonymous No.1924260]

>>1924226
>>1924226
>gives general advice
>fuck off

Stop being so defensive.

Her shoulders are too close to the ribcage, they need to be wider. Notice how her body is in a 'box' shape.
Is she laying on a pillow or something? I cant find out the perspective. In the source image, her elbows are on the mattress, indicating where she is in relevance to you [the viewer]

[Anonymous No.1924261]

>>1924226
>>1924249
Also, look up Doxy Pussy box.
Your pussy box game is weak bro

[Anonymous No.1924270]

>>1924238
Thanks so far, you're right. I wanted the mouse to stand out but overdid it I guess. I wanted to do a touch up anyway so I'll consider this tip.

[Anonymous No.1924297]

Are there any useful guide on how I'd go about digitally painting a scanned sketch?

[Anonymous No.1924314]

[Anonymous No.1924320]

time to work on the wings

[Anonymous No.1924321]

[Anonymous No.1924345]

>>1924232
Her advice was as good as saying "Learn how to draw." Not helpful at all, I'm looking for actual feedback.
>>1924235
>>1924260
She was being condescending. I'm exactly looking for something like you said. Just saying ''fix it '' isn't enough. I need to know what's wrong.

I'm not going totally after the original reference, I wanted to give more focus on the face so she's semi-sitting on the bed, lifting herself a bit of the mattress to show her vagina, so the arms are under her. She's propping herself up on the bed. (bad red line picture to explain)

>>1924249
>>1924261
I admit full fault on the vagina, I googled doxy pussy and everything that comes up are a bunch of ponies, however their pussies are well drawn. I'll use that.

I don't really think that one should use line art for nipples, I think if any line art is used it's should be just a little tiny bit, the areola is just a slightly darker skin tone than the breast, so you should let the coloring do the talking. So those nipple lines are just for show until I start to color them in.

[Anonymous No.1924351]

[Anonymous No.1924356]

[Anonymous No.1924358]

>>1924345
Taste the vagoo, anon.

[Anonymous No.1924362]

>>1924201

[Anonymous No.1924365]

>>1924358
Thanks man, that's hilarious though.

I saw a vagina drawing tutorial on /ic/ once, it was really good, it used pink ink and was mostly lineart. Never found it again.

[Anonymous No.1924366]

>>1924345
Your matching pose and words do not make sense.
I think I understand what you want but give me a few hours to do it. Currently busy

Also you suck at Google

[Anonymous No.1924367]

>>1924362
Thank you

[Anonymous No.1924369]

>>1924366
Yeah no problem, any help is appreciated.

[Anonymous No.1924417]

So I know the proportions are a little off in some places, I'm focusing on my brushwork right now. Trying to find method that works. Any thoughts? :v

[Anonymous No.1924424]

>>1924356
That's pretty neat

[Anonymous No.1924425]

>>1924417
Looks pretty good, your forms and lighting are on point. Aside from the proportion issues you mentioned, you could use a harder brush for the hard edges. Your shadows have good hard/soft edges already but the muddy brushwork makes them less distinct than they could be and everything kind of blurs together. Having them terminate more crisply on the hard side will add a lot to your work.

[Anonymous No.1924446]

I started watching the feng zhu tutorials, anyone had any progress on improving with those?

[tinuviele No.1924448]

the one on the left is rushed because i was so tired of working on it. critique is much needed

>>1924356
i love this.

[Anonymous No.1924450]

[Anonymous No.1924455]

[Anonymous No.1924459]

>>1924450
Pablo?
Is that you?

[Anonymous No.1924464]

Got myself a cheap tablet, transferring from mouse to it. Something I started with it now, not sure how Ill continue this.

[Anonymous No.1924472]

>>1924448
absolutely amazing, whats your gallery mang ?

[Anonymous No.1924484]

Nipples are just placeholders

[Anonymous No.1924486]

>>1924464
>not sure how Ill continue this.

you shouldnt

[Anonymous No.1924488]

Drew my friend playing piano.

[Anonymous No.1924493]

>>1924488

This is great, out of all the work posted on /ic/ I think I've probably stared at this the longest.

[Anonymous No.1924495]

>>1924484
apply loomis faggot

[Anonymous No.1924497]

>>1924448
I really think your stylization is working for you, but I think you could go even further with it. You're off to a good start in terms of color, although I don't think you need that purple line around them. The background should compliment the figures rather than distract from them. Also, nitpicking here, work on your hands.

[Anonymous No.1924512]

>>1924488

Thank you. Needless to say I had tons of fun with it.

but its 3am and im done.

[Anonymous No.1924519]

>>1924486
>Oh, so you think its good as it is
>Thx :)

[tinuviele No.1924520]

>>1924472
thank you! uh, i don't have much to show since i've just started making digital art, but i'll be posting to tinuviele @ blogspot in the future.

>>1924497
yeah, i'm still a rookie when it comes to anatomy, & have a lot of studying to do.

[Anonymous No.1924524]

A warm up drawing

[Anonymous No.1924526]

[Anonymous No.1924528]

[Anonymous No.1924533]

>>1924446
His videos rarely teach anything because he teaches at a school as his job. Though he does talk about a lot of theory and business.

[Anonymous No.1924539]

Just an hour

[Anonymous No.1924547]

>>1924446
Ditto what >>1924533 said. His videos are also good for learning about general workflow once you're already a proficient artist. He teaches things like shot composition, ways to work efficiently, shortcuts etc. But he doesn't do fundamentals in his videos. So, unless you're already capable as a designer, you likely won't get much out of them.

[Anonymous No.1924564]

>>1924040
I'm sorry awesome redline-anon, I only had an hour to get it done and I'm not strong enough to start from scratch so I polished the turd. Forgive me.
The hands, the box... I'm glad it's for someone that won't notice these things.

[Anonymous No.1924567]

>>1924564
I really like this but I gotta say her face looks a bit too masculine or at least something is a bit off.

[Anonymous No.1924569]

Is this how to start a city scape? I've never really drawn one before. I'm going it for a christmas gift and don't want there to be any outstanding flaws. All I know is to use a vanish point to draw the lines to.

[Anonymous No.1924570]

>>1924567
>Those might be: eyes too high, mouth too big, chin too shape-y and small hairline, atleast for me

[Anonymous No.1924571]

>>1924569
You're getting there, just make it more neat

[Anonymous No.1924574]

trying out a cartoon-paint feel. unfinished. how do I work out this perspective? should there be less details as the snow/environment hits the point?

[Anonymous No.1924575]

>>1924524
thats a bomb ass style you got.
You got a tumbls son?

[Anonymous No.1924577]

>>1924571

Okay, thanks. I'll post pics as I go. There's also going to be a superhero figure in the pic i'm just not sure where to put her.

[Anonymous No.1924591]

Kickin' it from the head (mostly).

Anything look obscenely out of place or just down right bad?

Thanks, d/ic/ks.

[Anonymous No.1924615]

[Anonymous No.1924617]

ughhhhhh i need to fix the right eye but i can't do this anymore i'm going to sleep

[Anonymous No.1924619]

This is mostly from the head.

Does anything look terribly out of place or just flat out bad? Thanks in advance for the feedback.

[Anonymous No.1924629]

>>1924528
Love the style. my only complaint is that everything about the pose and the legs is telling me that the character is facing the other direction. maybe try bending the head forward and down a bit if that doesn't change it too much.

[Anonymous No.1924638]

>>1924619
Good strokes good colors

[Anonymous No.1924639]

>>1924629
i actually really like the pose? with the style and the colours it looks kind of trippy and reminds me of liquid tv. Neat

[Anonymous No.1924644]

>>1924619
fucking beautiful get the fuck out of here

[Anonymous No.1924660]

>>1924619
Made me smile.

[Anonymous No.1924661]

Man the draw thread seems to have improved in quality recently. Did all the art school kids get bored during winter break and started posting their shit or something?

[Anonymous No.1924675]

Not really sure where to put her

[Anonymous No.1924678]

[Anonymous No.1924691]

I need some help with this before I shoot myself in the fucking face.

I have a tendency to get stuck on a lot of my drawings, and for some reason a lot of these are relatively simple poses like the one in the picture. It's like I can't draw if I don't have a more dramatic perspective to work with. It's like my brain refuses to understand form when I'm drawing something head on.

In this picture, I've also fucked the proportions beyond belief, and I don't really know why. I know the head is too small and the hips/legs too large, and it's just poorly drawn in general. I'm not used to drawing huge breasts, so I think that every time I enlarge the breasts, I redraw the body bigger to compensate, because the oversized breasts look odd to me.
I've put so much time into this pile of shit that should have been a quick and easy picture, and I just want to be done with it. A redline or any tips would be great.

The idea here is to have large breasts and an hourglass shape. I'm not going for chubby.

[Anonymous No.1924697]

>>1924691
Literally just lasso tooled everything under her left arm and shrunk it.

For more accurate and reliable results, construct the body. Use a box or a simplified head shape for the head, and do the same for the ribcage and the pelvis. It's a lot easier to check proportions that way. Draw the entire figure without the breasts, then slap them on after you have a construction for everything else.

[Anonymous No.1924705]

>>1924691
I saw you over in /v/.
What's wrong with you, man? I mean this edit >>1924697 is fine and all but yours has more personality and sex appeal as it is. Sure the anatomy is exaggerated but not in an "oh my God it's Liefeld" kind of way. It's a great drawing, I can't figure out why you hate it so much.

[Anonymous No.1924711]

>>1924697
I do construct the body. That's how I make everything I've ever drawn. However, in the process of refining, I always lose something, and the pose becomes stiff and awkward, and the more I correct it, the more I fuck it up.
As for your fix, now she kinda looks like a midget with big tits, but thanks for the attempt.

>>1924705
I know I can do better, and I'm sick of posting shit that is below par. The few things I have online that I've actually finished, are things I've posted that I was sick of working on and not really happy with. Over the years, I've gotten increasingly tired of drawing, and both my progress and enjoyment have stagnated significantly. However, In the past month or so, I've finally been able to work at a more steady pace and produce better pictures, and I feel like I can finally get started on a site when I have enough stuff to put on there. But I'm not going to post a bunch of shit or half-assed sketches. I want it to be up to my own standards.

[Anonymous No.1924713]

>>1923346
never blurr sequential art, its a lazy technique and looks like shit on top

[Anonymous No.1924714]

>>1924711
Well, I think you're being too hard on yourself. I used to have the same attitude about posting sketches and unfinished things but a friend said that I should, and once I did I felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I felt more like drawing, and felt like I could be looser, and I think I started improving a hell of a lot more than I had been for a long time once that happened. I still work on longer pieces that I take to finish, but I feel like the energy of sketching and posting as I please keeps me going. It's for you to decide of course but I think you might find yourself hitting those marks you've set if you give yourself some breathing room.

[Anonymous No.1924719]

>>1924714
I do post sketches, and they're a ton of fun to draw. Here are some from the porn thread: >>1920476

The problem is that I've always struggled with finishing stuff, and that's something I need to fix, even if it requires agonizing over pointless bullshit to get it right.

[Anonymous No.1924722]

anything obviously wrong with this?
Also, if someone has experience making clean lines in firealpaca, please tell me your secret.

[Anonymous No.1924724]

>>1924691
Hey, I know what you mean!
>>1924697
This guy is somewhat right that you can just shrink it and skew it after you're somewhat done with the sketch. But this will not solve your problem permanently, cause as you admit, you're losing a lot of time just refining, tweaking, editing and so on and it's annoying to even continue doing the piece. I've experienced this (still do sometimes) and it sucks big time, I know.
I'd follow his advice to draw the body first and the breasts last.

Other than that from that picture in particular, it looks like your problem is that you're making the waist a bit too long (maybe this happens accidentally when you're making a big waist arch). So if you purposely double check that in your sketches, you might begin to see and fix it.

Also, double check neck connection to head and the far shoulder seems too long. Everything is in pic related.

>>1924711
At this point I don't know if I'll ever make a portfolio. My art is so varied I don't think I have 2 pieces that look alike or share the same style. I like not having muh style all the time but it makes me wonder.

Sorry for long post, all of this just hit home too hard, especially big butt problem. I do it a bit too often.
Just keep posting sketches here and get an objective eye on your work. Sketch is good in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.1924725]

>>1924675
in the trash

[Anonymous No.1924731]

>>1924724
I think you have a point about the long torso. I think I'm fucking up the propotions between the hips and the torso. Correcting one messes up the other, and this repeats itself over and over. Now, if only I could figure out what causes this in the first place. Guess it's time to go back to figure drawing. I've been ignoring my fundamentals for a very long time now.

[Anonymous No.1924738]

>>1924724
>>1924731
Btw, for the neck/shoulder business you can just move the neck and head.

My number one construction advice when drawing figures is to always draw a middle line when something looks off. Connections and perspective issues can be fixed easily that way.
I'm more for resorting to ways to cheat your eyes into seeing properly than for grinding 'the fundamentals'. You pretty much have the construction knowledge down, just work on proportions/connections. Ganbatte!

[Anonymous No.1924739]

>>1924725

epic, bro

[Anonymous No.1924742]

>>1924738
The proportion thing is something I find extremely frustrating, because it's something that's so obvious. But when you look at something for too long, you lose the ability to see it for what it really is, which I'm sure you've experienced.
So I can draw something I think looks great, then come back a week or two later, only to notice all the flaws and wonky propotions. This problem doesn't really seem to have a solution.

Another problem I've noticed, is that my mood greatly affects how I see my art. I'm a cynical, negative asshole, so I tend to see most of my art as really bad. However, when I'm in a good mood, everything looks better, and I become more creative as an artist. It's as if I only see my flaws when I'm in bad mood, and only see the good parts when I'm in a good mood. It's hard to tell which view is correct, and I have no fucking clue what other people see.
When I was younger, there were artists I saw as greatly skilled and inspiring, that I today see as bland and unskilled.
Ah well.

[Anonymous No.1924749]

>>1923559
It's like you were looking at two different references, one for the back of the head and one for the face. Different angles for both.
Ear is fucking high, you better stop it before it drifts into space.

Rendering is not bad, especially the hair, I actually like it a lot. Could use some work on the eyes. And careful next time.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna need a gif for this one.

>>1924742
I totally get you dude. That's why I'm saying to cheat your eyes somehow, be it some kind of construction lines, flipping the canvas and whatnot. And of course, give it some time. Check your 'finished' sketches/paintings in a day or two and fucking redline that shit. You'll feel the urge to correct it anyway, and it's for the better.

[Anonymous No.1924750]

>>1924488
I thought there was stylization thread for this kind of stuff...

Anyway: that's actually very good, man. Please do tell about some online gallery of your as soon as you keep one.

[Anonymous No.1924751]

>>1924742
>>1924749
btw share blog if you feel like it

[Anonymous No.1924752]

What I'm workin onnn.

[Anonymous No.1924753]

>>1924742
Don't stress yourself too much. Its actually a good thing that you see flaws in your stuff, it shows that your visual sense is improving. Knowing how to correct it is another thing however.

[Anonymous No.1924754]

>>1924739
look at an actual sunset

[Anonymous No.1924759]

>>192461

>a turtle neck sweater
I love you anon.

[Anonymous No.1924760]

>>1924759 meant for >>1924619

[Anonymous No.1924772]

>>1924754

What I was looking for. Thank you. I can't use that pic as the original file is A3 but I'll apply the same idea. Don't bother shading batwoman as she's only a silhouette at this stage. Unless you're just showing the light on her hair. Either way thanks.

[Anonymous No.1924777]

>>1924619
Could use a better render down there, but it's good.

[Anonymous No.1924780]

I see several people are posting weird shit.
So have some of mine, for a change.
I don't draw like that anymore.

[Anonymous No.1924902]

help

[Anonymous No.1924958]

What the fuck happened to this board why are there so many pervs this time of year? Lots of beginners as well. The talent only lurks and posts redlines because 95% are fags drawing perverse things asking for help on something that makes normal artists uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.1924977]

>>1924958
>perverse things asking for help on something that makes normal artists uncomfortable.

You just have sand in your pussy.
Its the lonliest time of year, highest rate of suicide, why?
Pic related

[Anonymous No.1924982]

>>1924958
>stop liking what I don't like
>muh secret clubhouse!
>stop triggering me!!!

[Anonymous No.1924992]

>>1924977
>>1924982
These autistic immature responses

Say that to my face irl fagit l2draw etc

Know what, you wouldnt encourage someone drawing like this in an informative mature environment but defending someone who is which is abusing anonymity is very "muh secret clubhouse"

Any questions faggits?

[Anonymous No.1925008]

>>1924992
I would if the informative mature environment was for drawing adult material, obviously pornography has its time and place, but acting like a prude about it is pretty damn childish in itself. Times change, get used to it or get bent, this board is nsfw for a reason, anything goes.

[Anonymous No.1925026]

>>1924992
>sand in pussy
>autistic
Buzzword.

Look, its an NSFW board, thats why its all red/orange around, yea? Plus, porn brings in the bacon fast. This is a mature enviroment, because we are critiquing the piece to make it better and not saying "how much I would plow X".

If you have sand in your vagoo, you can just leave. No one is going to whiteknight you.

[Anonymous No.1925028]

>>1924992
>shitposts
>complains about others posting immaturely and how the board is shit
>commences to shitpost even more.

[Anonymous No.1925065]

>>1924958
Did you dad rape you last Christmas or something?

[Anonymous No.1925090]

>>1924567
It's the square jaw I think.

[Anonymous No.1925097]

>>1923882
I'm not posting a wip like I said, but now that I'm trying out working with less saturated colors I have to say it looks a lot nicer than I thought it was going to! Thanks for the advice, guys.

[Anonymous No.1925104]

>>1924902
What confuses me is that there seems to be no point, at least, not from what I can see. It's just a disembodied pe-mushroom trying to attack her, and then you added faces looking at her. Are you trying to make the mushroom kill her using sex?

Either way, you should give me a website or something becuase I have lurked everywhere trying to make sure that if you ever finish this, I want to see it. Please...

[Anonymous No.1925120]

>>1924958
a lot of youngins joined after 4chan raped their tumblr minds

[Anonymous No.1925130]

>>1925104
I might not finish it. that's what worries me.

If I can't finish it how am I expected to tackle other big projects? How do I get the drive to finish it?

[Anonymous No.1925132]

Posting childish hentai isn't shitposting?

I'm complaining by wanting the bar to be raised?

Sorry I'm the only one with standards here. Ya'll can jerk eachother off for all I care.

[Anonymous No.1925134]

>>1925132
You can't be this much of a retard. You're on 4chan, and you expect generic art studies? Why don't you go to one of the countless other art fora that cater to socially retarded fucks like you?

[Anonymous No.1925141]

>>1924752

[Anonymous No.1925146]

This thread was atypically bad.
Hope the next ones get back on the track.

[Anonymous No.1925159]

>>1925132
>>1925146
Go back to your fucking blueboard, where you can hide from your dad who raped you

[Anonymous No.1925165]

>>1925146
Beautiful watercolor. This is your work? Do you have a gallery?
>>1925159
Chill. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the guy complaining about the lewd, probably just someone who was sick of seeing both sides argue about it.

[Anonymous No.1925172]

>>1925165

[Anonymous No.1925180]

>>1925159
>>1925134
You are saying i should expect hand drawn shitty hentai by people with no sense of form or anatomy because this is 4chan and that i should accept it because 4chan is a refuge or a special club for social outcasts? You are calling ME a social retard? Who the fuck would want to associate with you anyway?

[Anonymous No.1925182]

>>1924772
no worries dude

[Anonymous No.1925193]

>>1925180
you should expect porn and lewd drawings because ITS A FUCKING
N
S
F
W
FUCKING BOARD, YOU GODDAMN COCK-SLURPING TURD

This has nothing to do with society

[Anonymous No.1925194]

>>1925172
Uh...okay...?

[Anonymous No.1925195]

>>1925172
Hannah?

[Cuck-tier No.1925210]

>>1924455
Holy shit I love the eerie vibe this gives me
also the only thing i think could be better if making the hair more fluid
keep up the good work

[Anonymous No.1925211]

>>1925193
Its an artwork board. If you wanna draw shitty hentai, do it in your school notebooks. Art is sacred to me. It has beauty meaning and purpose. If your place in life is to be a pervert and draw shit hentai good for you. Im explaining why i have standards and why these fags piss me off and flood this board. Believe it or not but last year this place actually had talent. A year further even more talent.

[Anonymous No.1925218]

>>1925130
You just shorten it. I'm happy with what you have now though. You can always come back to it too. Lots of artists come back to old projects, even if years ago.

[Anonymous No.1925222]

>>1925211
>Art is sacred to me. It has beauty meaning and purpose

Ah, you're an idiot, or possibly a woman. Good for you.

[Anonymous No.1925227]

how i do?

[Anonymous No.1925229]

>>1925227
this one?

[Anonymous No.1925233]

>>1925180
You're socially retarded because you're on 4chan and don't understand the people who come here. 4chan is an anonymous board with roots in Japanese pop culture, with few rules that are actively enforced. A consequence of this is that people are much more free to post what they want, and will be more vocal about their opinions. The culture is steeped in porn, anime and every superficial and degenerate form of pop culture you can think of. And you actually come here, on a nsfw art board, to post mainstream art, and demand everyone else to only cater to your particular tastes? You have to be completely retarded to not understand that you're out of line here.
The internet is full of boards for people like you, so I really don't see what you're doing here.

[Anonymous No.1925236]

>>1925180
I think I get it. You're that high school biology cunt with the anger issues, aren't you? The one who's bragging about shadowing people at some university.

[Anonymous No.1925242]

>>1925211
Look anon, you telling people not to post their hentai and discuss their form of art in a public forum is ridiculous. You may not like it, you can let them know you don't like it, but you can't stop them doing what they have every right to do, and what honestly isn't hurting anyone. I don't want to speak in defense of that guy because he was a real prick to some of the people trying to advise him, but aside from that he and anyone else can discuss all genres of art here, that's just how it is. So please, you've made your opinion known, as is your right, accept that you can't impose your preferences upon this place, and stop using up posts that could otherwise be used for advice and critique.

[Anonymous No.1925248]

[Anonymous No.1925297]

This took about an hour or so, and it's literally the 1st thing I ever painted as a request.

Dunno what to work on 1st. Halp

[Anonymous No.1925337]

>>1925211
I know why your dad raped you, can't keep your trap shut, slut.

[Anonymous No.1925341]

>>1925227
>>1925229

>big canvas
>good tones
>good vibes

you did it anon.

[Anonymous No.1925360]

>>1925211
>>1925180
You should expect bad art because there are a lot of bad artists here.
If art is sacred to you then so is pornographic art. You may argue otherwise, and in that case it is not art which is sacred to you, it's art with an arbitrary exception. It can absolutely be beautiful, meaningful and "have a purpose". Most of it won't on this board, but that goes to every piece here, not just the pornographic ones.
The thing you can do to change this in the right direction is to give those bad artists good critique and help them improve. You can't just force someone to stop doing something they like, and trying to do so will backfire. You can, however, give them knowledge, and with newfound knowledge and wisdom, they can make whatever right choice there is on their own.

[Anonymous No.1925377]

>>1924958
>What the fuck happened to this board...

I think your unfairly comparing this draw thread with the last one.

The last one was up while a separate porn thread was also up and things went surprisingly well (in BOTH threads). Problem was, even though the porn thread was successful, no one bothered to create a new one and they all just came back into here.

[Anonymous No.1925381]

>>1924958
The board is a hollow shell of what it used to be.
RIP /ic/.
Fruit rotting on the dying vine that is 4chan

[Anonymous No.1925382]

Didn't get anything on the last thread.

I want to add more to it, but I feel like it would end up being too chaotic and complex to look at. Any thoughts? Comments? Critiques?

[Anonymous No.1925385]

>>1925382

You could add more, but you'd probably need to do it in a different line width to help split it apart from the background. At the moment your soldier has some decent dark thicker lines so he still reads well and its not too complex to look at. Generally something further away has thinner lines and less detail, so keep that in mind if you want to add further shit.

[Anonymous No.1925386]

>>1925382
edgy

[Anonymous No.1925390]

>>1925385
The New /ic/

[Anonymous No.1925395]

>>1925386
Sure, you could call it that. I was watching Full Metal Jacket and it got to the scene where Joker was being interviewed by the press and he said he wanted to be the first kid on the block with a confirmed kill.

>>1925385
Aight, I'll test that out

[Anonymous No.1925401]

>>1925390

Was there something wrong with the advice I gave?

[Anonymous No.1925420]

[Anonymous No.1925426]

>>1925390
>neo /ic/
dont jinx it

[Anonymous No.1925484]

tried for the first time to use only a background layer and a fixed layer for the character...

[Anonymous No.1925487]

>>1925382
>exo suit
lol mercwip 2.0

[Anonymous No.1925490]

>>1925484
add deeper values into the upper body
it's odd how the light sources are all over the place idk if that's what you're going for
the right part of the chest/shoulder looks dented in more than it should
upper left part of the cheek should be lighted a bit more. look up the planes of the face and you'll see

[Anonymous No.1925495]

>>1925490
thanks a lot! I'm still trying to wrap my head around all the planes of ,... well the head.
a merry christmas to you and everyone else btw. forgot to add it in the first post.

[Anonymous No.1925503]

>>1925484

Her skintone is unhealthily dull, I'm not familiar with the Portal series though so I'm not sure if thats intended.

At the moment the warmest part of her is her eyes, making them look a bit bloodshot.

[Anonymous No.1925518]

Today was ass day.

[Anonymous No.1925521]

>>1925518
ass days are good daysbut next try to upgrade to t&a days for max enjoyment !

[Anonymous No.1925526]

>>1925518
I can kinda feel the volume rushing through my veins, like snake venom.

>>1925521
tits and ass?

[Anonymous No.1925532]

>>1925382
Garbage

[Anonymous No.1925553]

>>1924512
>>1924488
i want to learn more of this peculiar creature

[Anonymous No.1925555]

Trying to paint a flaming psycho girl character, and don't know what the hell I'm doing...

Also having a hard time with skin values... literally all I know is that her palette is warm and somehow cool colors can be added.

Its just so damn illusive. Color theory is some un-graspable thing... idk

And it looks like that fucking gen 1 digimon, but its supposed to be more like a bird.

[Anonymous No.1925563]

>>1925420

[Anonymous No.1925573]

>>1925555

You could darken the white of her eye a bit, at the moment its the brightest thing in the painting and its really taking away from the flame (which you could also brighten). Maybe you could add the cool colors there?

[Anonymous No.1925579]

Didn't realise there was a new thread.
Anyhow, I'll just repost it here:

I drew this for a relative as a Christmas gift. She likes frogs so I though: why no?

Anything evidently wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.1925584]

[Anonymous No.1925586]

>>1925555

[Anonymous No.1925590]

>>1925586
>seems tomboy
newsflash, tomboy is the hot shit right now.

[Anonymous No.1925610]

>>1925590

way to cherrypick
that wasn't a crit btw

[Anonymous No.1925620]

>>1925165
Thanks.

>gallery
http://imgur.com/a/aaMN5/all

[Anonymous No.1925627]

>>1925227
Not bad, but the hair strokes look shoddy. It'd be much better/cleaner if, instead of white acrylic, all the major highlight zones were reserves of paper's white (using toned paper is another story).

[Anonymous No.1925629]

>>1925610
>>1925590
he wasnt ivin criting DUDE

[Anonymous No.1925640]

>>1925610
Not even the artist of the one you were critiquing.
Just sayin tomboys are the hot shit like hot wheels.
Vroom Vroom

[Anonymous No.1925651]

I should have used a bigger canvas size

[Anonymous No.1925655]

>>1925586
OP of that girl here:

You embody the reason I love /ic/. Nice to-the-point analysis and advice.

Her name is Tumera. Not quite bipolar, but dissociative identity disorder and a bit paranoid schizo. Her mom was really strong and constantly trying to kill her (jealous + psycho as well), so her dad infused her with the soul of a Phoenon (flaming bird/insect beings that live inside stars like hives) hoping it would protect her.

At first it turns her fear into flames and makes her go berserk, but later she learns to control it and becomes a sub-protagonist of the story.

She's called the Phoenon "princess" because the soul is of the daughter of the Phoenon that created the Sun. Out of context it makes no sense, but it was seen as a king.


You're right about the tomboy thing, too. I'm glad her looks tell that without having to see her in action!

some concept art of her (is that ok to post here since i just made it today?)

[Anonymous No.1925660]

Does anybody happen to have any tips for painting a fairly convincing texture fairly quickly? I'm trying to paint a glossy hardwood floor. Preferably going for a darkish wood, I guess like it was stained.

[Anonymous No.1925662]

>>1925660
Do it in steps. Get the brown base in place first - complete with hue shifts and diffuse lighting and all that jazz. Next paint in the wood grain and use a separate layer. Look up references for the types of shapes you should be painting. You may have to adjust blending modes or the opacity of this layer. Last, add in specular reflections on a third layer on top of everything else.

IIRC, algen has a psd demo from a few years ago (possibly on his devart) that had a room with a wooden table. I imagine he used a similar layering approach.

[Anonymous No.1925663]

>>1925662
Alright cool. So far I have flat brown there, so I'll start working in the rest of what you described, and I'll see if I can find that video, or maybe another with a wooden table. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.1925665]

>>1925663
It was a PSD, and I found it here:
http://algenpfleger.deviantart.com/art/Livingroom-psd-211431174

It's a bit of a hassle to navigate, but it looks like he manually paints in the wood grain using different texture brushes, then adds lighting effects on separate layers.

You could try a similar approach, but with the base color and wood grain on separate layers as mentioned in the previous post.

[Anonymous No.1925669]

>>1925665
Jesis, I never would have known this was a painting. I dunno, this seems like it might be a bit too involved - it doesn't seem like a quick impression, it seems like he basically fully painted it. Thanks again, I'll keep this around but I'm gonna check for something simpler too.

[Anonymous No.1925683]

>>1925665
>>1925669

algen constructs his interiors kinda like emulating a 3d render program. personally i think it looks like shit, but i think commercially it's a very viable technique (efficient, looks tight, and can be replicated easily)

[Anonymous No.1925688]

>>1925683
Yeah it does really look like a 3D render, if not a photo. WAY more realistic than what I need to go for. Luckily, I found a good quick interior design artist's video on it and now I have a good idea of how I can get what I need pretty quickly.

[Anonymous No.1925722]

>>1925688
Protip: if you can paint something like this realistically (keep in mind that you don't need to spend hours rendering this shit like algen), you can do whatever you want. It's no different than painting and studying real life humans even if you don't want to paint realistic humans.

[Anonymous No.1925747]

>>1925722
Yeah I hear you, I mean I'm not trying to go cartoony or pull a "muh style" sort of thing. I'm trying to make it fairly realistic and all, but I don't want to take it to that high a level of polish, not this painting anyway. Or at least not the floor, it's not the focus of the picture. Hopefully I'll get up the nerve to try out his technique and attempt something more towards hyper realism at some point in time. Right now I'm still floundering about with colors and lighting and stuff.

[Anonymous No.1925775]

>>1925579
>>1925774

[Anonymous No.1925784]

>>1924958
I, in particular, only redline stuff that has some potential and stuff that already looks somewhat good to me.
Wouldn't redline porn but I sometimes redline some remotely lewd stuff if it looks good. It's just preference.

>>1925377
This. We need more porn only threads.

[Anonymous No.1925789]

>>1925586
>>1925573

Update: added a body, some smoke, and tried to add cool colors. Darkened her eye too. Thank you for the tips anons

[Anonymous No.1925798]

>>1925651
what's this supposed to be

[Anonymous No.1925857]

>>1925579
hope this helps

[Anonymous No.1925868]

Decided to go with both an almost tangent between the knight and the magic circle for tension, and an overlap between the knight and a new outer ring for depth.

I hope she doesn't look ugly.

[Anonymous No.1925887]

>>1925584
who is this guy and why do his posts never get replies

[Anonymous No.1925890]

>>1925887

He's harmless enough and doesn't seem to ever post crit or reply to others, and he seems committed to his style of drawing so I don't bother him.

[Anonymous No.1925924]

Speedpainting some generic bad guys

[Anonymous No.1925927]

little studies from life

[Anonymous No.1925932]

>>1925927

these look incredible.

[Anonymous No.1925939]

>>1925890
i really like many things i see here, but i don't have the knowledge to give any useful advice

[Anonymous No.1925959]

>>1925248
dont know why but I like the dog
>>1925518
fuuark
>>1925927
do you have more m8? looks really good

[Anonymous No.1925967]

>>1925939
Are you the guy who did this?
Do you post your art anywhere, I need to know!

[Anonymous No.1925973]

>>1925967
yes. google "nonerandomdraw"

[Anonymous No.1926050]

>>1925959
Hey it's saintvicious.

[Anonymous No.1926072]

Okay I know I said I wasn't going to post any more wips but I'm really excited about how this picture's going and I wanted to share. I'm still getting used to working with a less saturated palette, and working with color in general, so the colors probably look pretty weird right now, I'm going to adjust them today and finalize the lighting and rendering. Ah man, I'm really enjoying this one.
>inb4 /ic/ crushes my soul

[Anonymous No.1926093]

>>1926072
It's great you're enjoying it.
You might enjoy it more if you had a defined light source, and understood color temperatures.

[Anonymous No.1926094]

>>1925973
thank you!!

[Anonymous No.1926097]

Any and all criticism is more than welcome, help me improve. I rarely draw people, but Korra just needed it. I sketched this on paper first then everything else in ps.

Something just doesn't seem right though. It might be because I've looked at this for a few hours but korra is pretty well known so maybe you can spot the glaring mistake.

[Anonymous No.1926099]

>>1926097
>hours

[Anonymous No.1926104]

>>1926099
I'm not very good in case you didn't notice

[Anonymous No.1926109]

>>1926104
>in case you didn't notice
Look at the top of the page

[Anonymous No.1926111]

>>1926097
eyes are to high, and misaligned
rest is pretty ok
i tried to rearrange

[Anonymous No.1926114]

>>1926111
You're right! and the reason they're misaligned is I was going for a more angle-y shot at first but I guess I don't understand shadows enough to make that work.

Thanks, I'll mess with the hair too to match. :)

[Anonymous No.1926117]

>>1926093
I'll be getting to that today. The main light is pretty much going to be above him and more or less in front of him, since he's near a wall, with some soft light coming from the tree, so there'll be a little bit of rim light on the side. I figure I'll get the temperatures more defined after I adjust the local colors and start rendering. I mean I guess it's best to set them up at the start and just go in for finishing details, but for me and all my inexperience coloring things, I usually can't tell what needs to go where until I have some color put down. Hopefully as I keep practicing this, I'll be able to make more of those color choices in the earlier stages of a painting.

[Anonymous No.1926123]

The hands were such a pain to do

[Anonymous No.1926147]

¬30 minutes each

[Anonymous No.1926156]

My bad, didn't know.

What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.1926158]

>>1926097
I hope this helps

[Anonymous No.1926161]

>>1926158
Both of you guys need to study the forms of the head.

[Anonymous No.1926162]

>>1926156
I think the coloring is maybe too neon?

[Anonymous No.1926163]

>>1926156
his eyes are the same colour as his skin, really like the way you've done the spear!

[Anonymous No.1926165]

>>1926161
Propably, what I think is weird though I was looking at Korra references, and she doesn't have any eyelids...

[Anonymous No.1926168]

random pose, and yes you guessed it, I couldn't find any freaking horizontal waist cut even though there is some out there, for fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.1926172]

>>1926165
Asami has eyeliner. So thats as close to eyelids as you gonna get.

[Anonymous No.1926191]

>>1926162
I see, maybe I went a little too far with how saturated I wanted the figure to be. I really wanted him to POP from the black of the canvas.
>>1926163
The strands where the fun part, just a flick of the round brush in random directions from the leather latching thing.

Thanks guys.

[Anonymous No.1926216]

i haven't opened up PS in forever
not even an excuse
Arisha kept me busy

[Anonymous No.1926263]

>>1926158
You drew lines denoting the general form of her skull and where to place features and then in the 'finished' image you just abandon them lol...

[Anonymous No.1926284]

>>1926263
Eh, I don't really use the lines that way, I just use them to feel how the head is supposed to turn and get more sense of the volume, not where the eyes/nose are/is supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.1926292]

>>1926284

[Anonymous No.1926293]

Critique would be much apprectiated

[Anonymous No.1926300]

>>1926292

[Anonymous No.1926301]

>>1926293
It's pretty neat.
Perspective lines are distracting.
Try to break the horizon line.
Don't be too lazy with the debris.

[Anonymous No.1926306]

>>1926168
Linework is good, anatomy too. Composition and motion, not so much.

>>1926216
The one on the left is good but the neck is too long/stiff shoulders.
The one on the right has too much contrast, no mid tones.

>>1926293
Design is nice.
But you need a sense of motion.
>>1926301 The perspective lines are breaking it.
There's no interaction with the environment. It looks like it's just floating there.

[Anonymous No.1926309]

>>1926293
>>1926306
Do whatever it takes, stretch the canvas, experiment!
I think a panorama fits pretty well.

[Anonymous No.1926311]

[Anonymous No.1926313]

>>1926311
Is that 'hell' or 'hill' because I think the latter fits pretty well for some reason.

[Anonymous No.1926315]

>>1926313
its hell

[Anonymous No.1926319]

In today's episode, we will see Naruto puke over Madara's looks as a mermaid.

[Anonymous No.1926336]

i did mario
critique?

[Anonymous No.1926337]

>>1926311
Is it just me or is there one guy in the dark in the background that has yellow eyes?

[Anonymous No.1926338]

>>1926336
When you're bordering realistic territory, I find it looks better that you don't use any black to make lines, wrinkles or shapes, because that's not how our faces look. They don't have black lines. It's ok when you're doing something that's not detailed or stylized like manga but you should rather use dark red on opacity 03 to shade it in Marios case. Also, sometimes it helps to make the holes in the nose orangy red. Though it's not technically correct it can make the drawing look more realistic.

[Anonymous No.1926342]

>>1926336

I'm going to continue to elaborate. I'm not really sure what's going on with the shape of the nose. I've never see a trippled-ish nose like that( three bumps) but maybe you're going after some reference or something. You should use more color contrast in this picture, more blue color as shading. I think it doesn't really look realistic how you shade the right side of the picture (everything turns shady and dark). However this picture is very detailed so you've got that going for you. His lower lip is also a problem, it could be plastic, it's so thin and isn't colored like a real lip.

When you're coloring lips they're more of a disgusting pale red, not that strong of a red. The way you put the white on the lips to color it makes me think of it like something else than lips. Make the lip softer, it's stretching so there should be a difference in it's width but there's really none. And color the lip a little bit more pink-gray-(pale red).

Also the insides of his mouth are red, it's supposed to be pinkish. His left eye seems to have way big of an iris. I think you could vastly improve on the hair by adding thin highlights into them.

[Anonymous No.1926358]

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[Anonymous No.1926396]

>>1926342
>>1926338
appreciate the info hombre