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[Anonymous No.1958726]

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>>1955368


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.1958737]

>>1958726

just scribbled out chicken scratch

[Anonymous No.1958738]

>>1958737

[Anonymous No.1958745]

>>1958738

i have no plans for this, im just making up crap as i go along, lol

[Anonymous No.1958762]

>>1958745

fuck it, im moving on to something else, this shit went no where

[Anonymous No.1958769]

>>1958762

tfw you wasted all your time sketching something random cuz you felt like it when you could of been working on your webcomic instead!

my webcomics:

http://theduckwebcomics.com/DEMON_JUICE/

http://theduckwebcomics.com/TRUE_SAGA/

http://theduckwebcomics.com/FATES/

[Anonymous No.1958803]

critique me please

[Anonymous No.1958809]

Still need critique on the face. It's a WIP so I will add the light from the hair on the skin as well

[Anonymous No.1958813]

Redid a few things. Cleaning up and fixing stuff.

[Anonymous No.1958836]

[Anonymous No.1958838]

>>1958813
For ur next giant pic here is some inspo.

[Anonymous No.1958840]

>>1958838
Every time.

[Anonymous No.1958847]

>>1958840
If you niggas actually made good comps when you had giants in the pic and not boring stale side views then this pic wouldn't be posted ever again

[Anonymous No.1958849]

Worked out the hair and rendered the rest. Still something to do.

[Anonymous No.1958851]

>>1958838
Thanks, but I going to go back to my Metroid fanwak project once I am done.

[Anonymous No.1958856]

>>1958849

I think maybe you should smooth value transition around the nose/upper lip area. Her cheeks are looking kinda weird, like sh'e making a face.

[Anonymous No.1958857]

learning to steal and cheat

[Anonymous No.1958863]

>>1958856
Thanks man, currently working on it and it gets better! I just couldn't see these issues since I was tweaking and looking at it for hours.

[Anonymous No.1958866]

>>1958856
Can I have your ref pic, pretty please? :3
I think you're stretching one side of his face.

[Anonymous No.1958868]

>>1958769

just got finished sketching this: >>69067775

[Anonymous No.1958874]

>>1958856
Really man, I fucking love you right now.

[Anonymous No.1958902]

>>1958866

It's in the ref thread. You can find it a bit larger by using reverse search.

And thanks for the tip, just got back from the gym. Will go back to it later.

>>1958874

Yeah, man, much better. Reads better as a thumbnail as well.

[Anonymous No.1958953]

[Anonymous No.1958973]

Posting this from class, painted a few thumbnails from imagination, what do you guys think? What could improve?

[Anonymous No.1958977]

boring

[Anonymous No.1958983]

[Anonymous No.1958985]

>>1958973
these are really nice man.

[Anonymous No.1958990]

>>1958983
not really though.

[Anonymous No.1958996]

>>1958983
you used backslashes instead of forward slashes

[Anonymous No.1958998]

Well, I think I've done as much as I really can with this... I think the rendering on the shirt doesn't match the head, is it really throwing it off? Are the shoulders too wide? Anything that looks weird?
>>1958973
Man these are awesome. I've got to do some color thumbnails too, I'm gonna use this for inspiration.

[Anonymous No.1959009]

Please critique this mess

[Anonymous No.1959013]

Sorry

[Anonymous No.1959016]

>>1958836
bad

[Anonymous No.1959017]

[Anonymous No.1959030]

>>1959017
Looks great except there's some stuff on the horse I'd nitpick. The snout is too short and doesn't taper down narrow enough. Also I think the eye looks too small. Lastly, I think you should simplify the forms of the rear leg. You can check out some other pics of horses, too, you don't have to just stick to copying the piece if that's how you've been approaching it. Right now it looks like an odd human leg instead of a horse leg. Other than that, good stuffs.

[Anonymous No.1959031]

>>1958836

it's beautiful. i would do something like pic related though, otherwise you are really losing to figure in favour of the waterfall. i'm sure there's a more tasteful way but you get the idea.

[Anonymous No.1959043]

>>1958836
it has much potential, but the picture's way too cramped or rather compressed - work on the composition and don't place the human too near the centre

[Anonymous No.1959045]

>>1959031
Why must the figure always be in focus?

[Anonymous No.1959050]

>>1959045

it doesn't. but when there's a figure and a waterfall, it's safe to assume the figure is more important.

[Anonymous No.1959057]

>>1959050
Why is it safe to assume that? The figure is almost completely lost looks intentionally done.

[Anonymous No.1959059]

>>1958836

I love your work! I have been struggling with color temperature, especially regarding skin tones.

Any tips?

[Anonymous No.1959062]

>>1959017

Post it with the ref again, dude.

[Anonymous No.1959065]

>>1959057
would look more interesting with multiple figures rendered in that fashion.
One just looks unintentional.

[Anonymous No.1959068]

>>1959057

come on man...

[Anonymous No.1959080]

>>1958813
that pilot looks familiar....from an old garbage how to draw manga book i had once

[Anonymous No.1959083]

>>1959030
different anon here. i was actually just admiring the back legs and the bluntness of the snout before i read this lol.....i feel like it makes the horse sturdier and more powerful. more "war horse"

[Anonymous No.1959086]

[Anonymous No.1959100]

>>1959086
looks like after you drew the main dude you really rushed it

[Anonymous No.1959101]

>>1959086
cool shit man

[Anonymous No.1959111]

>>1959100
Yeah I do have a tendency to rush at times, like the hand holding the blade on the snake chick

[Anonymous No.1959122]

>>1959013
This is ass

[Anonymous No.1959128]

[Anonymous No.1959133]

>>1958836
>watermark

[Anonymous No.1959135]

>>1959083
You can do that and all, Joe Madureira is really good at drawing thick, stocky horses. The problem I have with his pic though is that it looks like wrong anatomy rather than stylization.

[Anonymous No.1959140]

trying to salvage this now.

[Anonymous No.1959148]

I'm done for today. Gonna put a couple of beers in the freezer and play me sum DnD.

>>1959140

I like your edges, I'm too lazy to set up proper masks.

[Anonymous No.1959154]

>>1959086

[Anonymous No.1959157]

>>1959135
ah, i dont know much about horse anatomy so im not 100% on what im talking about

[Anonymous No.1959158]

>>1959154
nice, tyty

[Anonymous No.1959171]

I need help, tunnel visioned and fked my materials. Also some help on the anatomy would be great.

[Anonymous No.1959177]

>>1959171
The whole left of her (her right, left side of picture) seems skewed, like if someone took that half of the picture and used transform>distort and dragged it down. I'm not sure if you'll be able to fix that, but that seems to be the main problem as far as I can see.

[Anonymous No.1959199]

I'd like some critique on this, I'm pretty new to digital painting so I'm not totally sure on what techniques are most effective for this sort of thing.

By the way, does anyone have any suggestions on some good brush packs? I see a lot of paintings done with rough, square brushes and I really like that style.

[Anonymous No.1959202]

>>1959199
Not really critiquing your art, but I really like the values that you used there.

[Anonymous No.1959204]

>>1959199
biggest thing i see first is that the lighting is off makes it look super flat. the thumbnail reads well

[Anonymous No.1959206]

>>1959199
Its really dark, fix the lighting on his right side maybe more transitonal values. As well the materials could us a bit of work. If tou squint at it you will that most of your values range from 1 to 3.

[Anonymous No.1959212]

FUCK just realized i was lurking for like an hour waiting for someone to post when i couldve been working on m goddamn Skeletor picture FUCK

[Anonymous No.1959227]

Dirty line art WIP

[Anonymous No.1959232]

>>1959202
Thanks, I appreciate it
>>1959204
Yeah now that I look at it you're right, especially the lower half of his body
>>1959206
I'll mess with the curves and lighting and see if I can brighten it up a bit. What do you mean by 1 to 3?

[Anonymous No.1959263]

>>1959227
Head's a little too big.

[Anonymous No.1959266]

personal pic

[Anonymous No.1959271]

>>1959266
beautiful. I'd say the atmospheric perspective is a little strong, i hope youre gonna do something with all that background space

[Anonymous No.1959273]

>>1959266
my first thought was "who put that castle there and blocked the view"

[Anonymous No.1959283]

>>1959266

That's lovely.

[Anonymous No.1959284]

>>1959266
fantastic

[Anonymous No.1959290]

>>1959266
it's shit. the hat and cane are too simple. the castle design is straight out of walt disney world. and it looks unfinished.

[Anonymous No.1959295]

>>1959266
Damn. That is really beautiful man. Do you start with greyscale and then colorize it?

[Anonymous No.1959314]

>>1958849
needs more ambient occlusion to soften the face, the shadows make unnecessary oldness

[Anonymous No.1959316]

>>1959128

[Anonymous No.1959323]

>>1959290
>it looks unfinished
>people rampantly posting WIPs in this thread bc that's what it is fucking for
>the stench of jelly in the morning

[Anonymous No.1959325]

>>1959266
jesus. plenty of ruanjia in there. would love to see what would happen if you overstated some hard edges here and there. like lasso-tool sharp in just a couple of spots on the character.

[Anonymous No.1959328]

>>1959271
>>1959273
>>1959283
>>1959284
thanks, i'm not really gonna do anything more with it because i feel like the composition is too busy at is it is and i wanna move on, poor planning on my part
>>1959290
i kind of agree on some points but i think it's time to move on
>>1959295
i used to do that but i didn't for this picture. now i feel like doing color that way has held me back from learning how color and light actually work

[Anonymous No.1959335]

>>1959086

do you have any other work hosted somewhere online?

[Anonymous No.1959338]

>>1959266
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.1959350]

>>1959283
>>1959284
>>1959290
I love /ic/

[Anonymous No.1959356]

>>1959328
I probably already have it written down somewhere if you've posted stuff here before, but just in case I haven't had a chance to ask yet-- Do you have a site where you put your stuff? I'd love to see more.

[Anonymous No.1959357]

>>1959356
I bet my cup of coffee that's catbib.

[Anonymous No.1959359]

>>1959357
oh heh you're right, thanks.
sorry catbib, yep i have your link. never mind the ask & really wonderful work.

[Anonymous No.1959367]

>>1959359
He's probably lurking around 4chan by now, shitposting in /v/.

[Anonymous No.1959380]

bird

[Anonymous No.1959382]

>>1959367
yep, or something like that. ✌

[Anonymous No.1959407]

I was playing with the blur effect to create some depth. How could I improve this?

[Anonymous No.1959410]

>>1959407

Use a soft brush instead, and spend more time working on getting proportions and shit right

[Anonymous No.1959434]

>>1959335
Yea i have some stuff on deviant art http://nis-gman.deviantart.com/

[Anonymous No.1959438]

>>1959410
maybe ease up on the blur and spread it out a bit, unless youre going for an out of focus camera look

[Anonymous No.1959439]

Did a Jason Chan study

[Anonymous No.1959440]

>>1959439
looks more like you copied it instead of studied it

[Anonymous No.1959441]

>>1959380
Oh, I am laffin

[Anonymous No.1959444]

>>1959440
well that's just, like, your opinion, man

[Anonymous No.1959447]

>>1959439
Lose the lines by the nose, more saturation in general and get a surgery on that chin!

[Anonymous No.1959456]

>>1959133
Not surprised he started adding one.
Every time he'd upload somebody would ask for artists name or website.

[Anonymous No.1959457]

>>1959439
you gave her a fat fucking head

[Anonymous No.1959460]

>>1959171
>>1959177

Tried to fix some of the problems like the hands and the arms. Also was told to try some different brushes on some other pieces I was working on. Got some brushes from kalen chock.

This is a game cover I'm working on for a school project.

[Anonymous No.1959463]

>>1959460
The construction is still off, and the colors are very muddy and clashing. The only thing I could think of to try is make an overlay layer with a color fill, maybe like a pale blue, and use that to try to unify the colors some but at this point you should probably just move on. Work more on solid construction from here out.

[Anonymous No.1959464]

I am still new to digital art. Basically just doing what I did on paper but minus the inking.

Also, I suck shit at coloring. So all I have right now are the base colors.

[Anonymous No.1959466]

>>1959460
try flipping the image

[Anonymous No.1959473]

>>1959456
agreed. (it really is just functional, when it's just the site name and is based on previous experience with what to expect from us anons.) i would've asked, and found it nice that i didn't have to.

[Anonymous No.1959480]

>>1959325

jesus, all that projection. do you use a ruanjian paintometer to analyze every god damn painting ?

[Anonymous No.1959483]

>>1959464
that's look cool tho, I don't even color my stuff yet, can't even get anatomy right. lol gotta keep practicing.

[Anonymous No.1959484]

Doodling

[Anonymous No.1959486]

>>1959463
>>1959466
Thanks, flipped and saw how broken it is. Normally i flip throughout but not this one i guess. Its too far to save so I gotta start over and make a new. Thanks again

[Anonymous No.1959498]

Can I get a critique on this piece?

[Anonymous No.1959499]

>>1959013
The nose man

The nose

Noses have curves

[Anonymous No.1959506]

>>1959266
Fuck me.

[Anonymous No.1959508]

A little wip

>>1959266
Nice man! Post more often dude.

[Anonymous No.1959512]

Im a sick puppy

[Anonymous No.1959515]

>>1959508
Damn, thats pretty fucking cool.

[Anonymous No.1959518]

>>1959486
no problem yo

[Anonymous No.1959520]

>>1959512
>dat kneaded eraser
Why are you so cruel to your equipment?

[Anonymous No.1959521]

>>1959266
This is Catbib!

[Anonymous No.1959522]

>>1959506
k.
I have to warn you that I cum pretty fast so Its a one trick pony

[Anonymous No.1959524]

>>1959499
You can see the planes of the nose, but can you see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?

[Anonymous No.1959531]

i don't know why my paintings/drawings look so flat?

[Anonymous No.1959533]

>>1959531
Your values are all in the same range, studie the planes of the face to see where light would hit and how it turns.

[Anonymous No.1959534]

>>1959531
Dont cut and flup your eyes to both sides on a 3/4s

[Anonymous No.1959535]

>>1958803
It looks like you made the fog so thick that you can't see the horizon which can happen but then the tank/car doesn't look like it's covered by that much fog considering how far away they are. So either remove fog from the background by darkening in the horizon and adding more detail to the people or add fog over the machines. Personally I'd say remove some fog otherwise everything just turns grey. I dunno, jus tryin'a help.

[Anonymous No.1959539]

>>1959534
Don't do it all.

[Anonymous No.1959543]

>>1959539
>>1959534
Man, you fuckers should have spent more time in english class than art. Your sentence structures are horrible.

[Anonymous No.1959545]

>>1958803
Add some small white high-lights along the gun to bring out some of it's detail.

Where is the attention focal (thingy you want the viewers to notice first?)

[Anonymous No.1959547]

>>1958857
I really like that hill. Montana?

[Anonymous No.1959549]

>>1959460
Is it just me or are the arms a little curvy. Like on the left arm for example (her right) its like it comes down then just above her armor it starts going out and to the left but then ends up going right to her center.

[Anonymous No.1959556]

Would someone double check this >>1959541 real quick please?

[Anonymous No.1959559]

So what programs is everyone using?

I'm trying to use PS. Lags and lines are jittery. Clip Studio and Sketchbook seem to work fine though.

[Anonymous No.1959569]

>>1959559
I still use pencil and paper, with the occasional bamboo, haha.
As for software, I use CS6

[Anonymous No.1959572]

>>1959559
I'm using Krita and ArtRage because I'm too poor to afford Photoshop.

[Anonymous No.1959573]

>>1958953
this merits a response. good job

[Anonymous No.1959581]

>>1958973
Colours/values are pretty good, but the shapes are boring and the shots don't really set anything up...get a more interesting focal point of something. or make them an establishing shot or have some purpose to it.

[Anonymous No.1959588]

>>1959440
as in youre not really capturing how the original artist paints. thats the point of studies

[Anonymous No.1959590]

>>1959480
what the fuck is with the hostility. he didnt say anything upsetting

[Anonymous No.1959591]

>>1959572
Pirate them. It takes less than a few hours.

[Anonymous No.1959598]

Fucking hell, why can I never get a word from you guys when I really need it??

[Anonymous No.1959603]

>>1959598
Its ok it took about 4 days for someone to get back to me on here

[Anonymous No.1959604]

>>1958977
I really like these

[Anonymous No.1959605]

>>1959598

[Anonymous No.1959608]

[Anonymous No.1959619]

>>1959547
Yeah, I think so.

[Anonymous No.1959624]

>>1958726

[Anonymous No.1959664]

>>1959266
Kill me already

[Anonymous No.1959668]

>>1958868

new sketch, ignore filename as always, just got finished sketching this from scratch in sketchbook pro, about 4 to 5 minutes in so far

[Anonymous No.1959669]

>>1959664
WHAT IS HIS SECRET?

[Anonymous No.1959673]

>>1959668
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.1959676]

>>1959673

what the eyes? ive been doing that stuff since wayyyyyyy back in 2009 when i first started uploading my artwork to the internets: http://jesse-the-art-maker.deviantart.com/art/The-Sun-Serpent-202147281

see i gave the dragon on the sun the same kind of eyes back in 2011, i dont know, just something i made up, no real meaning behind it i guess lol

[Anonymous No.1959678]

constructive feedback needed!

[Anonymous No.1959680]

>>1959673
>responding to Bones

[Anonymous No.1959686]

>>1959678

why not finish it first? put some detail on the pitchblack circle lines, smooth and polish out the texture on the girl and her mask, but make her hair rougher, other than that its to early to give you any critique, and its really unfair and a bit piss poor for you to ask for any this early because YOU already made up your mind about where you going with this so anything ANYBODY says is going to be automatically wrong because YOUR working on this right now and so only you know whats right and wrong about it

so wait until its finished next time dork

*i see your trap, but i roll a 12 sided dice deactivate it, no numbers on the dice, just hard and soft dicks, hard dicks are sucess, i roll a hard dick, success! you've been called out on your bullshit*

bitch

[Anonymous No.1959690]

>>1959668
This is what crawls out from under my bed at night.
I don't know if you're trying to scare me, but it worked.

[Anonymous No.1959692]

>>1959668
Teach me senpai~

[Anonymous No.1959698]

Don't think this is working out.

[Anonymous No.1959708]

>>1959480

lol. i mean you see it too, right? i know you do. there is only bad art, and degrees of closeness to ruanjia :^)

[Anonymous No.1959710]

>>1959668

welp this sketch is going no where, moving on

>>1959690
hold on i did make a scary version of this, i will post it next

>>1959692
im not that good yet, im still learning and practicing myself

[Anonymous No.1959711]

>>1959480
didn't get what you mean by projection.

>>1959148
uh thanks anon. you should try setting actions to create a new layer, and another one to create a clipping mask on the current layer. works really well me thinks.

[Anonymous No.1959712]

>>1959690

this is scary, smear brush to the face son!

[Anonymous No.1959733]

>>1959266

what's the painting process here? does anyone know? the light and colors look so natural

[Anonymous No.1959734]

>>1959266
Whats your process for this?

[Anonymous No.1959735]

>>1959733

it's called being good

[Anonymous No.1959749]

>>1959712
I would pay good money for that doll.

[Anonymous No.1959769]

>>1959710

new sketch

>>1959749
lol

[Anonymous No.1959789]

>>1959769

new sketch, weird mouths

[Anonymous No.1959793]

>>1958983

[Anonymous No.1959800]

>>1959789

another new sketch

[Anonymous No.1959817]

>>1959769
I can see the gears turning, but its time to focus on the planes of the face so you can build a better foundation.

You cant build a house on bad foundations, so study the fundamentals and they wil help your sketches have more life. You got this.

[Anonymous No.1959832]

Trying out to applying values. Been doing a couple of studies but never got around to play with em properly. Anyone got some info what makes a scene good value/contrast-wise?

[Anonymous No.1959901]

>>1959832
You want to use a range of values, dont be scared to push the value range. A lot of people are scared to do thar and play it safe hovering between 3 - 7 on the values and never going to 1 or 10, this is because they don't understand transitional values.

You should look up Sargeant and study his paintings a lot of the old masters use values to push composition. A great way to learn is to turn those masters art to grayscale before trying assess cor value. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.1959923]

>>1959817
Not him, but I cant figure out the triangle range on female cheeks. More so, the distance between the wing of the nose, to the ear, to the jaw line and back.
I fuck it up everytime.
Pic related

[Anonymous No.1959944]

>>1959698
I like where you're going with this,but the boobs are uneven.

[Anonymous No.1959949]

>>1959832

Someone recomend me Read Color: a Workshop for Artists and Designers by David Hornung, I think it might help you too

[Anonymous No.1959975]

>>1959923
Learn the proportions of the front and side view. Use boxes and construction to draw the head fro 3/4 view. If you're having trouble you either aren't observing your reference accurately enough, or you aren't thinking in forms enough.

[Anonymous No.1959984]

Hey /ic/, can you rip this apart for me before I get too committed to any general mistakes I've made?
Are the shapes too cluttered? Not enough flow?
Throw it all at me.

[Anonymous No.1959992]

>>1959901
>>1959949
Cheers, initially it was close to black, some medium value on the pads and the turtle-ish was on the brighter side, I was looking at the histogram and the majority was in the dark end so I figured maybe I just should try to keep everything around a balanced value and not to the extremes?

[Anonymous No.1959995]

>>1959975
Sounds like good jam.
Thanks Ill try it

[Anonymous No.1959999]

>>1959984
Take a really small brush and lower the opacity of that guy and draw really neat and refined linework, then come back with something we can actually look at, instead of the blur of a blur of a blur of an idea

[Anonymous No.1960000]

wip

[Anonymous No.1960001]

>>1959984
and stop chicken scratching. Strong confident lines, if you dont nail the line the first time undo and do it again.
This practices speed and accuracy

[Anonymous No.1960011]

>>1960000
That skeleton really sends shivers down my spine.

Look how big he is.

I don't care if he's boasting a happy face I would run for my fucking life.

[Anonymous No.1960016]

>>1960011
The fuck nigga. He's super kawaii

[Anonymous No.1960017]

>>1959999
It's just that I'm going to spend a good 3-4 hours on a piece the moment I start linearting: I prefer having the basics of the body right before I commit to that so I don't have to think it out while I should really be focusing on how the cloth folds etc.
>>1960001
This one, though. Hits home. I'll go practice confident lines, it's something I do really need and hadn't realized to name before this.
Thanks.
I'll go work on this and reappear someday with a sketch made with more conventional methods.

[Anonymous No.1960024]

[Anonymous No.1960038]

>>1959508

Thats a pretty kickass Skeleton I'm gonna have to save it.

also I'm done with my Tendipede and needs some hard critiqing here.

[Anonymous No.1960072]

>>1960024

a little muddy. try to describe the turning of form not only with a change in value but also with a shift in color temperature.

[Anonymous No.1960123]

[Anonymous No.1960135]

>>1960123
You ain't lookin to good there Stalin.

[Anonymous No.1960156]

>>1959444
no he is right. what you did is not a study but a copy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kfK46nruKM

somone should update the sticky and link this video.

[Anonymous No.1960165]

>>1960123
>that face you make when your friend says he doesnt drink vodka

[Anonymous No.1960166]

>>1960024
You should probably try starting with line drawings and get the forms and composition down better before you paint in color.
You seem a lot better with color than form.
you could also try adding some texture to areas you want the viewer to focus more on.

[Anonymous No.1960177]

>>1960038
Can I please get a critique for this.

[Anonymous No.1960193]

[Anonymous No.1960204]

>>1960038>>1960038
Soooo is it a centipede inside a teddy bear? The legs give off the idea its a stuft animal but the head threw me off. Also thr solid bug tail at the looks like a bug in a costume. Honestly it looks likr some shit from the garbage pail kids. If this is just a design piece you could push it and make either more threatening or more playful its confusing with the abundance of soft shapes.It could be better I suggest making atleast 30 thumbnails/silhouettes then a few line drawings to figure out how to make more apealing.

[Anonymous No.1960207]

started off /v/ drawthreads did this just now

[Anonymous No.1960210]

>>1960072
Just seen this, thanks for the tip!
>>1960166
I always suck with my forms, so I will go back to practicing it, thanks anon!

[Anonymous No.1960212]

>>1960204
Alright lets try this again, can I get a good critique from someone who knows what they're talking about?

>>1960207
Kinda to basic for a critique man get outside your comfort zone and actually try to draw something bigger and more complex then 15 lines.

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>>1960212
>Alright lets try this again, can I get a good critique from someone who knows what they're talking about?

Eh, I doubt you would get a good critique on improving your drawing here.

[Anonymous No.1960224]

since i read how much time run jia spent on his pieces i dont even know when to call something done

[Anonymous No.1960225]

>>1960221
Ya I know but this is the only place I know of that can give me a hard drill sargeant like critique, however rare it is.

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>>1960212
Looks like shit, you feel better now?

[Anonymous No.1960237]

>>1960224
Her eyes are unevenly sized.
Her neck seems a little long, and here mouth looks a little to far to her left.....I like her hairs and freckles...nose looks a tiny bit to thick.
>>1960230
Sounds like someones made for being so bad.

[Anonymous No.1960238]

>>1960224
Softer features mayne
And less gritty-brown shades in the jaw area
You'll get a more feminine look...unless that's what you're going for

[Anonymous No.1960240]

>>1960237
You keep asking for a critique on that drawing and its okay. Question is do you think its good?

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>>1960240
I just don't know why but I never sat down to ask myself that, I think its decent thats all,its just I'm wondering if I'm missing anything, I'm really curious about the shading since I don't normally shade with markers.

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>>1960212
Outside my comfort zone ? Like ?

[Anonymous No.1960258]

>>1960224

yo monica. do you post on the misc? are you aware? and by bro i mean never my bro, fucking faggot.

yes / no ?

i think i've seen your work on the misc. if you have no idea what i'm talking about, just say 'no'.

[Anonymous No.1960259]

>>1960250
Well if you want to look at it again, whats the range of your values? The light source looks to below the head. So imagine those button eyes which way is light hitting. With markers Ive used copics they are great for build up to shadows. Squint at it and see how yiur values are working as you apply.

There was someone else working on values in here and had a very narrow range.

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>>1960253
Draw actually people or real life objects, observe objects around you, learn form, maybe take a medical text book and draw the pictures in it to help learn anatomy. Start excersising actual skills instead of this flat boring dish water stuff man. Get out of this mind set man and try new things with your art. prehaps even different art styles and varying line wait experiment and practice.

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>>1960259
I've been useing copics to they're fuckin amazing, however one is leaking, and yeah the light source is bottom right down infront of the head. and alright I'll look into values some more. Thanks man.

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>>1960266
I dont remember the artist but he did a lot of the Alien art might find some inspiration there, also from Brom.

[Anonymous No.1960274]

>>1960156

Thank you very much, anon. This is some gooood shit. This motherfucker makes a lot of sense.

[Anonymous No.1960287]

>>1960269
I know who you're talking about I got some of his art on my phone, his the guy who did the original design for the xenomorph.

[Anonymous No.1960297]

>>1960038
I can't even nitpick this, that's pretty badass. Watercolor for the greys I'm guessing? Maybe add a few more darker shadows in the crevices, but that's a minor critique.

[Anonymous No.1960298]

>>1960269
>>1960287

HR Giger

[Anonymous No.1960301]

>>1960298
There ya go, poor guy died like what 5 or 6 months back?
>>1960297
Watercolor? nah man all marker and ink, and yeah I was wondering if its to light or if making it darker would bring out the fear more on it.

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>>1960237
>Her eyes are unevenly sized.
>Her neck seems a little long, and here mouth looks a little to far to her left.
>nose looks a tiny bit to thick.

This guy's actually retarded

[Anonymous No.1960308]

>>1960303
I may be wrong about the neck but how can you sit there and tell me the eyes and mouth are accurate?

[Anonymous No.1960309]

>>1960224
Hey anon did she smoke weed and then get punched on her right eye?

[Anonymous No.1960311]

tear it apart

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>>1960311
Fking beautiful, if I saw you at gdc I woukd hire you on the spot.

[Anonymous No.1960314]

>>1959678
anatomy is not good. boobs look fake. head is too big. arms are wonky, especially the one holding the cigarette.

[Anonymous No.1960320]

>>1960311
I like the colors but please do a bit more work on the lines, lighting could be a bit better but I'll give you point for tring an angle like that.

[Anonymous No.1960323]

>>1960224
Question: why is there scalp showing through the hair? It looks good but there are several small issues (some already mentioned). But yeah. The scalp bothers me a bit.

[Anonymous No.1960326]

>>1960323
I think thats just the light reflection.
He/she should have tried a better less skin tone color to prevent the illusion of a scalp.

[Anonymous No.1960333]

New character that I'm wondering if I should expand on.

I've got a bit of a story worked out its one of Death's last living relatives who has been longing to be human and alive so using either magic or a powerful witch he is slowly turning human over the course of a 1,000 years how ever he will die once he is human. As ya can see (with not much detail) his right and is flesh instead of bone.

[Anonymous No.1960341]

>>1960237
>Her eyes are unevenly sized.
>Her neck seems a little long, and here mouth looks a little to far to her left.....I like her hairs and freckles...nose looks a tiny bit to thick.
Gotcha
>>1960238
Thanks anon, i am still struggling with colors
>>1960258
No
>>1960303
>>1960308
He is right anon, i will fix it
>>1960309
Lol, does it look like that?
Again stil bad at colors
>>1960323
>scalp
Cant unsee now anon haha
>>1960326
Thanks !


Man things were easy with just values

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>>1960341
Hey would you happen to have a DA account or steam account?

[Anonymous No.1960353]

>>1959733
i don't really have a process, but i wrote a little journal post on da to explain some color stuff: http://catbib.deviantart.com/journal/light-and-color-stuff-510654683

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>>1959316
Cute and cheery, maybe lighten the clouds

[Anonymous No.1960360]

>>1960350
>steam account
why, you wanna play some cisgo m8?

[Anonymous No.1960363]

>>1960360
Nah just to talk about art, I got shit internet so I don't get to play online very much, that and I don't CisGo, I do play Arma, Loadout, could of other games though.

[Anonymous No.1960380]

I think I'm dropping this for now. Gonna a few more targeted studies before I go back to copying shit.

[Anonymous No.1960383]

Still WIP.

How do I into detail /ic/? Historically it's something I've always had trouble with.

[Anonymous No.1960390]

>>1960383
The composition here throws me off. It's not symmetrical but it's to segmented I guess. The sun and the buildings are too discrete (not discreet - too separate basically) Yeah, maybe if the sun were behind the buildings and a suggestion of clouds to the left?

[Anonymous No.1960393]

>>1959410
I put a lot more focus into the proportions.
What do you guys think is off?

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>>1960393

Shitty redline, but mostly the nose and back of the head.

[Anonymous No.1960407]

>>1960212
I told you before you inked it that the pose was shit and you find it hard to believe another anon would suggest putting more thought into into your composition by doing thumbnails?

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>>1960407
I did thumbnails and the only thing I regretted from that was not adding antennas before I inked it.

Besides I wanted a looming pose.

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>>1960383
try to have your pieces in some reference to reality, right now it looks like every other mediocre concept art with a bland and tasteless design
All i see is a floating tower and sun and nothing else. it's important to place it in a reality, so even just adding a horizon line, mountains or other buildings could help greatly.

[Anonymous No.1960433]

I'm having a really hard time drawing the pelvis, especially the ischium.
Anyone here with some good knowledge about this?

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>>1960156
i actually dont want people to know about this, because they might actually get good at art =[

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>>1959483
I got tired of anatomy so draw something else.
don't think I'm a weaboo just because it's manga-ish.

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>>1960433
you're making good copies, just focus on form structure. You have no idea what a real pelvis looks like except from these simplified images. The better you get at understanding form the better you'll be at executing stuff like this.

What I'm saying is, you'll learn to draw a better pelvis by drawing your toothbrush than from a diagram of a pelvis. If you actually have a skeleton to use though, then cool.

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[Anonymous No.1960499]

Can i get some crits on this by some nice anons?
It's supposed to be a big hatchery from starcraft being viewed from a mountain with a tank going down it. Don't care about the design or story. Just want crits on rendering and stuff.

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>>1960499
I think it looks promising anon, but whats with the dude to the right.

I think you should have the tank stand out more if its a focal point. I had to look fof it

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>>1960497
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.1960517]

fug it, i TRIED

[Anonymous No.1960523]

I need guidance /ic/. I've done this far but i have no idea how to go further to texture the leaves and whatever. It's all a blurry mess when you zoom in.

[Anonymous No.1960524]

>>1960517
-needs more emotion (detailed facial features)-
-needs brighter values/lights-
try for a not-so-dark background; it tends to change the feel of the atmosphere
the ref is a bit more chiseled than yours is. Yours is rounder and smoother
maybe a bit more textured brush library could help you get the feel of it too.

overall, really nice.

[Anonymous No.1960526]

>>1960517
Try aiming for stronger planes and sharper edges. One big issue is that yours is very mushy compared to the original. If anything, I advise painting in a way that your edges overall are too hard, and then later softening where needed.

You're also missing the bright light coming from the front. Notice how the front of the forehead is bright and yellow in the original, where yours is darker and redder.

Overall it's still a pretty good attempt.

[Anonymous No.1960529]

>>1960383
the colors wouldn't look like that. check your values and USE REFERENCES. smoother color transitions on the buildings would be nice too. use some of that perspective on the clouds, directed at a single point.
The sun be less... focused. by that I mean more saturated, as well as the buildings being more detailed.

also, that composition... a floor would be nice. or more perspective, added to what I just wrote.

[Anonymous No.1960539]

>>1960523
Slow down. This looks sloppy and rushed. Get all of the big shapes correct first. Make sure they have the right value, color and edges. Next, zoom in a bit and refine each of those shapes with the subshapes that are there, following the same principle. Keep repeating at many steps down as you want depending on the final level of polish you want.

I advise using some harder edged brushes, and brushes with some texture so that patches of underlying color can be seen. Pay close attention to how Olly does it. Zoom out of both, and squint at both. Notice the color and value differences for starters.

[Anonymous No.1960541]

>>1960523
>pressing 1,000 lbs

Check your >form< with the barbell nigga.

[Anonymous No.1960542]

>>1960514
?

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>>1960517
Pay more attention to those shadow shapes and edges, anon.

[Anonymous No.1960642]

WIP.

[Anonymous No.1960643]

>>1958726
Master study

[Anonymous No.1960644]

Master study

[Anonymous No.1960645]

>>1960642
Check your proportions, also that sword seems to weight nothing.

[Anonymous No.1960650]

>>1960415

Maybe you should have tried a three-point perspective, then. The way it is, there's no sense of looming in that image.

[Anonymous No.1960659]

I've been studying art a little less than 4 weeks so far and work primarily with pencil and charcoal. Am I on track? Currently focusing study on perspective, proportion, and gesturing... but sometimes I feel the urge to just blend and shade until I don't know how else to make it better.

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>>1960659
Damn thought I had your ref. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.1960666]

>>1960664
Close! There's just something about topless chicks in jeans ...

[Anonymous No.1960669]

>>1960666
Well first dont ignore your hands and feet.
Try using more range of values. Have your darks go darker. Try and spend more time in the planning phase of your drawing so you can get the proportions right. Some forms read better then others. Some are really flat.

Outlining your drawing with make it look flat too. You darkened the space behind her to make her "pop out" but the outline negates that.

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>>1960669
Thank you!

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[Anonymous No.1960693]

>>1960659
>>1960666
Seriously though, just read "Charles Bargue And Jean Leon Gerome Drawing Course", copy plates for few days and you are golden, then move on perspective, gesture etc. Knowing how to exactly measure your study make enormous diffrence.

[Anonymous No.1960697]

>>1960693
Oh my god, sorry for all those misspells, I'm writing like an idiot. English is also my second language, so there might be some other mistakes

[Anonymous No.1960700]

>>1959624
Would like help with values/colour.

[Anonymous No.1960711]

>>1960700
when shading don't be afraid to select dark shades of different colours, as in when shading the green coat you can put in some dark blues or dark reds in there as well

[Anonymous No.1960717]

>>1958813
the figure is getting lost in the sky.

[Anonymous No.1960719]

Think i'm starting to get the hang of it.

[Anonymous No.1960728]

>>1960719
How did you get a hang of it?

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>>1960719
That's pretty darn good. Any tips?

[Anonymous No.1960746]

>>1960038
I like it, there are elements that are well done, but man that pose. The poor composition is really hurting this.

[Anonymous No.1960747]

>>1960711
Heard ya, but I have no idea how to do that. I added some red to the coat... not sure if it's better?

[Anonymous No.1960748]

>>1960719
Would also like to know.

[Anonymous No.1960764]

jup

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>>1960644
Leyendecker is all about shape design and you kinda missed this.
Also the composition is off because of the way you cropped the reference.
Otherwise you did good

[Anonymous No.1960775]

Painting I did from life, 2 hrs. I feel like the colours are janked?

[Anonymous No.1960785]

>>1960775

Looks good. Would have to have seen you subject to say anything about the colors.

[Anonymous No.1960796]

>>1960775
It reads well, so good job for 2 hrs. For colors justvpost your reference.

[Anonymous No.1960803]

>>1960785
>>1960796
From life so no ref photo, colour-wise I meant it's unharmonious. thx though

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>>1960719
there you go, nice and easy

[Anonymous No.1960857]

I`m making an illustration for my sister`s wedding and she wants a Calaca/Catrina theme. Any critiques?

[Anonymous No.1960870]

>>1960803
It's inharmonious because you seems to have a warm light, yet your shadows bounce back and forth between warm and cool. Even considering the reflected light from skin, you overdid it a bit it seems. Values are good though

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>>1960803
My bad Missed where you said from lifr.

[Anonymous No.1960878]

>>1960870

I liked the juxtaposition, but I guess it wasn't intentional, from what he said.

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>>1960870
>>1960878
Oops, see what you mean. I'll work on that, thanks. I can see a blue/orange thing going on in the shadows now that's bothering me. Thx

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[Anonymous No.1960915]

1 hour

[Anonymous No.1960924]

Made this in a evening

[Anonymous No.1960940]

>>1960906
I like, please finish.

[Anonymous No.1960942]

>>1960693
>>1960697
Wow, thank you so much! I save your pic and will definitely follow your very helpful instruction in future studies.

[Anonymous No.1960955]

>>1960719
Noice.

How long took you to get this level?

[Anonymous No.1960970]

Okay IC this is what I currently do,how can I make this look more "real"?

[Anonymous No.1960972]

>>1960970

Using softer brushes for the clouds would help. Clouds really don't have hard edges very often, especially when you're up inside them. They'd be much softer in that image.

I'd also say that a better technique to paint the planes would be to do a fairly tight line drawing of them and then use the lasso tool to cut out their silhouettes, lock the transparency of that cutout, and paint on it behind the lines for crisper edges. Basically Algenpfleger's technique. Painting them with the hard round with no lasso masking is going to end up making them smudgier than you want them.

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>>1960970
The main plane's perspective looks off. It looks like we can see some of the top of the cockpit, but not the top of the rest of the plane, almost like it's twisting.

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>>1960970
photobash metal on top.

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>>1960728
>>1960736
>>1960748
>>1960845
>>1960955
Wow, didn't expect to see such a response, thank you guys. I don't really have any tips only the practice matters, so keep at it and you'll git good, good luck!

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>>1960940
Thanks, I will finish it.

[Anonymous No.1961193]

It's still pretty early but I'm drawing me. I started out with a photo reference for basic anatomy but I'm trying to do all of the lighting/shadows straight out of my head.

[Anonymous No.1961195]

Is the focal point too small compared to the size of the scene?

[Anonymous No.1961204]

Lazy evening drawing.

[Anonymous No.1961221]

New thread:
>>1961218
>>1961218

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