DRAW THREAD

[Anonymous No.2474699]

Previous thread: >>2465700

Post your current drawing here and give constructive critique to others!

Please make sure your posted image is clear, downsized to around 1000 pixels wide, rotated to the correct orientation, and that any unused space is cropped.
If you want critique on a drawing from the previous thread, you can delete it there and repost in this one.

>dA /ic/ group :
http://4chan-ic.deviantart.com

>/ic/ Resources/Reference/Downloads/Links:

>General resources :
http://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/
http://sites.google.com/site/artandwhatnot/
http://characterdesigns.com/
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3.html
http://finaltrinity.tumblr.com/post/13163064364/art-references-tumblr-accounts

>fellowBro's books :
http://mediafire.com/?i44dwzkf9j9n8

>Figure Drawing Tool:
http://pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
http://posemaniacs.com/

>Photoshop Brushes
http://cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/tower_of_evilzz

[Anonymous No.2474702]

try not to take my trolling too seriously

i drew 5 pages of hands today but ill just post these two

[Anonymous No.2474705]

>>2474702
that is only one page

[Anonymous No.2474706]

>>2474702
once i added a pencil intersecting my fingers it made things WAY more complicated. it's going to take a lot more practice to be able to draw that convincingly but i tried it a few times today.

[Anonymous No.2474711]

>>2474706
your edges are lovely and style is recognizable

[Anonymous No.2474713]

>>2474706
what pencil do you use

[Anonymous No.2474719]

>>2474702
>>2474706
These all look terrible
>>2474684

[conmana No.2474745]

anyways update on this not too happy with it atm , a lot of meddling to do. werk werk

>>2474702
>>2474706

Good
remember to draw from imagination or all that sweet info goes poofda'

[Anonymous No.2474755]

>>2474719
someone's jelly

[Anonymous No.2474756]

>>2474713
graphite

[Anonymous No.2474820]

>>2474745
your values are everywhere. Would consider doing more value and colour studies.

[Anonymous No.2474872]

Ive only been drawing regularly for a few months. be gentle, howd i do

[Anonymous No.2474886]

from ref thread

[Anonymous No.2474898]

>>2474886
Bretty nice, I like it. No real criticism but I hope you draw the feet.

[Anonymous No.2474912]

>>2474872
fine. now do 500 more

[Anonymous No.2474922]

>>2474912
Sick

[Anonymous No.2474967]

Sigh. Trying to make an illustration is hard
I want to do more things than portraits but maybe i should take less big steps so i dont get overwhelmed.
Redlines or colour corrections would be greatly appreciated!

[Anonymous No.2474977]

>>2474719
they look fine, stop being a nigger.

[DalaiLana No.2475003]

how is it?

[Anonymous No.2475020]

>>2475003
It's ok, keep drawing

[Anonymous No.2475025]

>>2474967
This looks great. Don't let the colors get too muddy though.

[Anonymous No.2475063]

>>2475003

[Anonymous No.2475069]

My first time with both color and imagination

[Anonymous No.2475079]

>>2475069
my friend: "is that a dog faced person"

resized

[Anonymous No.2475080]

Just finished this, fuck my shit up

[Anonymous No.2475099]

Alligator man.

[Anonymous No.2475102]

>>2475099
this is awesome

>>2475080
this is trash fucking garbage

[DalaiLana No.2475109]

>>2475063
what?
>>2475020
I'll color it. :)

[Anonymous No.2475138]

>>2475102
ok, how/where can i improve champ

[Anonymous No.2475165]

made a wizard doodle at work.
i never sign anything but the person who wanted to keep it asked me to.

[Anonymous No.2475169]

>>2475080
wrong thread

[DalaiLana No.2475174]

flat colors

[Anonymous No.2475188]

>>2475174
You didnt even traced correctly

[Anonymous No.2475189]

>>2475080
>>2475138
not the guy you asked but the lines are wobbly, the hands are a little strange (specifically the huge nailsbeds), and the back of the head/ear. that last one is the biggest thing-- look at the back of a guys head. don't draw each individual strand of hair.

the style isn't really cohesive throughout and it's okay for a starting point but a lot of improvement can be made.

you have good ideas, keep trying, do studies etc if you're serious about this stuff

[Anonymous No.2475191]

>>2475169
What sorta thread should this be posted in, new to /ic/

[Anonymous No.2475195]

>>2475191
beginners thread probably

[Anonymous No.2475200]

hey i was wondering if you guys could help me because i want a tattoo and i found a pic that gets really close to what i want but i want it to fad into crows or ravens. i hope you guys can do something cool with it haha

[Anonymous No.2475201]

Please help with the lighting. Feels like it's all wrong.

[Anonymous No.2475204]

I feel like I've got an ok grip on line art and perspective when drawing from imagination. where's the best place place to begin when learning to paint? I'm absolutely new to colour theory and only have a vague understanding of values/light

Also general critique on these two appreciated

[Anonymous No.2475208]

>>2475200

[Anonymous No.2475211]

>>2475204
>only have a vague understanding of values/light

Then start by learning value, it will be a lot easier to learn colour later if you have the knowledge

[Anonymous No.2475214]

>>2475208
why not? and do you know where i can find someone that could help me?

[Anonymous No.2475218]

New ink study from one of the pictures in the beginner thread. I felt better about this one.

[Anonymous No.2475246]

>>2475214
Your local tattoo artist you lazy Fuck. Do something with your life.

[DalaiLana No.2475250]

>>2475188
i don't trace lol
............................

critique?

[Anonymous No.2475264]

>>2475250
Either lose the lines or make them more prominent; right now it does have a traced look.

[Anonymous No.2475281]

>>2475250
out of all the women you could draw, you chose lana del rey. how basic are you. you also drew the hair flat and lifeless.

[DalaiLana No.2475290]

>>2475264
I like the lines

>>2475281
Thanks for the critique i guess

[Anonymous No.2475296]

>>2475200
Has no punch with transparent lines.
Transparency feels like a weak way to work with lighting.

[Anonymous No.2475297]

Fucked that link up.
>>2475250
Has no punch with transparent lines.
Transparency feels like a weak way to work with lighting.

[Anonymous No.2475301]

>>2475290
Just stop tracing whats wrong with u

[DalaiLana No.2475305]

I wasn't trying to paint realistically. I am trying to come up with an appealing style.

You know what I should paint more but i don't like paint look honestly lol..I like the comic book/anime style with visible lines.

It wasn't a finished piece anything like that..I just feel like doing a quick lana sketch.

[Anonymous No.2475339]

>>2475214
Do you know where you are?

[Anonymous No.2475365]

>>2475305
You have to know the rules before you can break them. Learn to paint and draw properly first

[Anonymous No.2475392]

>>2475079
put more effort, anon.

[Anonymous No.2475415]

>>2475201
try to simplify the fire

[Anonymous No.2475473]

>>2474702
why do you put so much emphasis on the outlines?

[Anonymous No.2475525]

>>2475109
>tells him to keep drawing
>starts coloring an unfinished drawing
Okay buddy

[Anonymous No.2475659]

>>2475415
What do you mean by simplify?

[Anonymous No.2475700]

>>2475473
No reason. I think it looks nice. I don't always do it when I'm figure drawing though.

[Anonymous No.2475742]

It's a work in progress done with watercolor

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2475751]

Bunny stuff from tonight

[Anonymous No.2475758]

>>2475742
A5 format (8×11")

[Anonymous No.2475770]

>>2475659
i mean compared to everything else being simple shapes, the fire stands out.

[Anonymous No.2475778]

>>2475165
i like the style
you need to work on giving character to the hands

[ye No.2475788]

[ye No.2475795]

>>2475751

ohhhhhh baby

[ye No.2475800]

>>2475751
beerus sama

[Anonymous No.2475994]

>>2475778
thank you. i'll put in some studies then, hands are still a bit tough.

[Anonymous No.2476031]

>>2474706
>>2474702
are these from reference or imagination?

[Anonymous No.2476044]

How is it?

[Anonymous No.2476045]

Critique? Plus suggestions for back and foregrounds?

[Anonymous No.2476048]

>>2476044
It's perfect lol

[Anonymous No.2476049]

>>2476045
Sorry. Fixed.

[Anonymous No.2476052]

>>2476048
Thanks <3

[Anonymous No.2476065]

>>2476031
Both and neither. Brian has his own school of thought when it comes to drawing. You go to the trouble of getting live models for reference -studying other art or using photos to find out details for something you want to draw from imagination is women's work and isn't real art. Once you have your live model or still life, look at them enough to throw some shapes down but not enough to make be accurate. Then slap some hatching across everything, ignoring the fact it doesn't match the forms on the reference at all and creates a texture that doesn't give the impression of the one the model actually has but it's right because you used **live reference** so how could it be wrong? As long as you have live reference nobody can claim you filled in gaps from your imagination or that anything is wrong with your picture even if you never looked at the reference twice. With these easy steps you too can be a silver surfacer, putting a glossy finish on amorphous blobs across the galaxy!

[Anonymous No.2476189]

the idea here is there is an ent appendage mounted on his arm that he can use to grab people and shit and it's being powered by his suit

[Anonymous No.2476247]

drew some stuff at the coffee shop. the owner said i could hang something in there so ill have to do something new.

this girl let me draw her but she wanted to work on her computer and she was typing and i can't draw hands typing oh god

[Anonymous No.2476250]

>>2476065
what?
>>2476031
i like to say they are from life. they weren't from photos if thats what you were wondering.

anyways i drew some hands too

[Anonymous No.2476252]

>>2476250
and i drew this bust thing of beethoven that they had there. im tired so im gonna draw catt a few times then play league maybe then sleep maybe

[Anonymous No.2476258]

So I drew my favorite skelebros. After drawing something, is it a good idea to retrace it with something like a 7B pencil? I tried it with this drawing and my only problem is when I make a mistake, it gets hard to erase it. Is there an eraser that cleans more smoothly than others or are they all the same?

[Nose feratu ¢π No.2476268]

>>2476258
make sure to kill yourself
unoriginal, wrong thread, no spark, tumblr.

out.

[Anonymous No.2476273]

>>2476268
rude

[Anonymous No.2476291]

>>2476273
such is the internet, but I could care less about him and other haters

[Anonymous No.2476331]

>>2476258
Fucking garbage

[Anonymous No.2476496]

compositional study of a jeremy mann painting

[Anonymous No.2476544]

The tutorials on the tut thread about composition really helped

[Anonymous No.2476550]

is it okay if i post 3 of my unfinished drawings im working on? anyway, here they are

[DalaiLana No.2476552]

well, I tried "painting"

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.2476565]

>>2474702
>>2474706
Do you have a Tumblr?

[Anonymous No.2476572]

5 hours

[Anonymous No.2476573]

[Anonymous No.2476580]

any ideas on how to make this look better?

[Anonymous No.2476592]

>>2475751
nice, you got a blog?

[Anonymous No.2476594]

>>2476044
10 Buscemi's / 10

[Anonymous No.2476602]

>>2476572
Good
Nice samovar

[Anonymous No.2476606]

>>2476252
You said you dont play games, you lying scum fuck you.

[Anonymous No.2476608]

>>2476550
I like your shading and the overall style. It remins me of renaissance sketches/paintings. Your anatomy is a bit lacking though and the faces are horrid. I think you should focus on doing face studies, it would help you a lot.

Keep it up, good work.

[Anonymous No.2476611]

>>2475250
Nose looks terrible

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2476623]

>>2476592
http://kjkallio.tumblr.com/
http://kjkallio.artstation.com

[Anonymous No.2476626]

[Anonymous No.2476632]

>>2476602
Thank you

[DalaiLana No.2476658]

>>2476552
update...

[Anonymous No.2476769]

>>2476658
Flip your canvas. There are some alignment issues you might not currently be aware of (her right eye, for example).

[DalaiLana No.2476821]

>>2476769
I lowered it but her face is kinda like that lol...

I feel like my face is flat.

[Anonymous No.2476829]

>>2476606
Nope. I play like one game of league a day, lose, then go to bed

[Anonymous No.2476832]

>>2476821
You suck at values. Go darker. Go brighter.

[Anonymous No.2476834]

>>2476606
League isn't a game really, more like a chore. Good time waster though.

[Anonymous No.2476835]

>>2476821
Measurements don't match the reference. Measure again.

[Anonymous No.2476841]

/ic/ my index finger's nail is getting fucked big time while doing bust studies. Any suggestions on what to do to keep that from happening?

[DalaiLana No.2476842]

>>2476832
ok
>>2476835
I noticed that my eyes and lips are slightly smaller and the distance between the eyes are wider

Also the nose just a tad longer as well

But i don't feel like changing it because when it looks too exact some people think you traced over the picture.

[Anonymous No.2476992]

>>2476580
learn anatomy

[Anonymous No.2477035]

[Anonymous No.2477058]

[Anonymous No.2477091]

Librarian and book gremlins.

[Anonymous No.2477099]

How can I make this better ? I'm stuck

[Anonymous No.2477142]

>>2477058

I like it, rendering needs a little work but its p good senpai

[Anonymous No.2477148]

critique needed

[Anonymous No.2477170]

[Anonymous No.2477185]

[Anonymous No.2477200]

[Anonymous No.2477201]

>>2477200

[Anonymous No.2477204]

crit?

[Anonymous No.2477212]

Reference from the beginners thread

[Anonymous No.2477239]

>>2477212
pls go back to the beginner thread

[Anonymous No.2477244]

>>2477201
What am I looking at? Did you put a filter on a photo?

[Anonymous No.2477246]

>>2477244
Simply the study and the reference.

[Anonymous No.2477254]

>>2477246
Oh my bad didn't open the one above it. The expression and likeness are off. Try to focus on just drawing the shapes of the features right and then lasso and rearrange until they look correct. It's digital you can be as cheesy as you want

[Anonymous No.2477255]

>>2477200
You put work in for replicating a flat picture of someone else's work. That is what you did. Where is your soul, where is your understanding of the human form? Anybody home? Did you sell your soul? If your average /mu/tant would show off his recent mix tape, would you be impressed?

We're on this rock with the sole source of entertainment and enlightenment coming through the minds of someone else and you just refuse us and yourself what you are capable of by using a photograph with garish colours and allow yourself to be dictated what to do.
My scanner does better than you. If I put my cat on it beforehand, there would be a shimmer of personality there, even if it's just the imprint of my cat's butthole..
Nigger, what are you doing?

[Anonymous No.2477257]

>>2477255
Practicing.

[Anonymous No.2477258]

>>2477099
They look really awkward. If you were going for a graceful mermaid dancing with a diver and not a diver going "someone get that goldfish lady off of me!", you should probably try to redraw those poses.

The light is also too bright, I'd drastically dim the lumination coming from those jellyfish the further they go away from the focal point. Also, just an idea, but maybe you could try to remove the ground plane entirely which gives you room to stretch out the mermaid's body and make her look less awkward and cramped. Would also add a nice ambiguous element to it, the mermaid pulling the diver down into the depth while dancing with him. Though maybe that's not what you are going for here.

[Anonymous No.2477273]

>>2477257
Where is your soul, where is your understanding of the human form?

Anybody home?

Did you sell your soul?

If your average /mu/tant would show off his recent mix tape, would you be impressed?

Nigger, what are you doing?

>Practicing.

Listen, this might be the best work you have come up with up to now and if that is so, more power to you, god knows artists feel afraid of what others might think of their work..

You know loish? Right? How does anyone with half a brain set on art dig her stuff? Right? That's kind of the point, because she doesn't give a damn about impressing her peers, she impresses her audience.

Buy a mirror and draw your face. At least you can pose the hell out of yourself and get to express what you feel.
Man, you made me sad as fuck. It's there, your skill, the hours and months, this isn't a stick figure abomination, yeah, and you do this to yourself?

You remember the scanner I mentioned? This is your master, the thing you look up to, someone else's Ps Lightroom and how close you can get to it. Your goal-of-perfection scares the fuck out of me as a human being, because it doesn't require you to be human. I am afraid of robots. You make my kitty scared. YOU MADE MY KITTY SCARED!

[Anonymous No.2477328]

drew two of the baristas at the coffee shop. i did a drawing of this girl about a week ago. she was excited to be drawn again so maybe she'll want to sit for a painting? i got her number anyways and i'd enjoy doing a larger artwork of her when she's just in regular clothes.

[Anonymous No.2477330]

>>2477328
and then i drew this girl. she was fun to draw her eyes were very interesting. intersecting fingers though. oh man. so intimidating every time

[Anonymous No.2477338]

>>2477328
>>2477330
These are great. How many years did it take you to get to this level? Do you make a preliminary sketch or do you just jump in and draw the entire thing?

[Anonymous No.2477339]

i made a thread asking for a critique, this is my first time using paint or ink and i just started using a tablet a few days ago. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.2477356]

OK The gist of this picture is that there is a kingdom on the edge of a slowly advancing forest. The forest is owned by the witch and the kingdom can't fuck around in or around the forest without her consent. She communicates with the kingdom via leaving semi ambiguous messages on this weird shaped stump. Interpreting and cataloging these messages is the job of the cleric. He and the king and a few guards venture into the woods to this stump to collect the correspondence. But this time there is something grisly atop the stump, something horrifying. The cleric sinks to his knees and the king dismounts his horse and goes to investigate while the cleric begs him not to look.

At the bottom of the picture I want to have the roots and branches and shit resemble a human figure.

TLDR: I'm wondering what you all think of this composition. Is it boring? Is it too flat? I've been staring at it for too long.

[Anonymous No.2477363]

>>2477338
about a year and a half of actual study. i just jump in, im training myself to do things without a ton of preamble. if people let you draw them i'd expect they'd want to be drawn quickly. both of those took about 10-15 minutes

[Anonymous No.2477374]

>>2477363
Sweet. Keep it up

[Anonymous No.2477445]

doodle

[Anonymous No.2477458]

>>2477356
I like it. Can't see a figure in the root system, but I think the composition and backstory are fine

[Anonymous No.2477471]

>>2477356
I think it's really cool keep going

[Anonymous No.2477518]

Can I get a crit on this? How does this read? What can I do to improve it besides deleting it?

[Anonymous No.2477535]

>>2477518
Feels flat, little dimension. Add some shade and perspective and it'll look better.

[Anonymous No.2477537]

>>2477518
Cool idea, reminds me of this.

Unfortunately your reach far exceeds your grasp. Sketch it out instead of just going right into painting.

[Anonymous No.2477538]

>>2477518
Cool idea, reminds me of this.

Unfortunately your reach far exceeds your grasp. Sketch it out instead of just going right into painting.

[Anonymous No.2477544]

>>2477212
>end_my_suffering.jpg

[Anonymous No.2477548]

>>2477538
Hey you got any more high(ish) rez mullinz paintings?

[Anonymous No.2477557]

>>2477356
Same idea as before, just trying a landscape version.

Not sure which I like more

[Anonymous No.2477558]

>>2477557
AAAAH

[Anonymous No.2477563]

>>2477548
I have a bunch but my internet's too bad to dump them gomen
>>2477558
First one is way better.

[Anonymous No.2477589]

1/2

[Anonymous No.2477594]

>>2477589
2/2

[Anonymous No.2477595]

>>2474745
i think the lighting on the right breast is too intense, and softer light would better suggest that her body is slightly twisted. this is fucking rad as fuck, by the way, please post when completely finished

[Anonymous No.2477603]

>>2477148
fucking sick 100%

[Anonymous No.2477606]

>>2474699
changing his face and hair for sure

[Anonymous No.2477613]

late night doodling.

[Anonymous No.2477639]

>>2476544
Have any link to that thread, buddy?

[DalaiLana No.2477683]

Update

Portrait study...tell me what's wrong? I know the value is still not correct.

[DalaiLana No.2477708]

>>2477683
one more question? Should u paint from a black and white picture? or a colored picture?
People are saying that you should do stuff in B&W before even attempting color.

But I have a really hard time judging values in B&W pictures.It's actually easier for me to paint in color than greyscale it.

[Anonymous No.2477718]

Designing some spaceship.

[Anonymous No.2477719]

>>2477708
If you can't get the value right, you probably can't get the color right, either.

[Anonymous No.2477735]

>>2477718
How much thrust can that pelvic spacecraft generate?

[Anonymous No.2477765]

>>2477718
I saw this posted like a month ago in a progress thread. Doesn't look like you've done anything to it. In a month... Are you sure you drew that?

[Anonymous No.2477770]

[Anonymous No.2477771]

>>2477212
>Kill..Kill.meeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.2477839]

>>2477765
Oh crap.
I drew it but it's just that I feel like I wasn't praised enough for it.
U see.

[Anonymous No.2477854]

>>2476065
fucking lol

[Anonymous No.2477860]

>>2477770
its looking good bruh, all i can suggest is that you dedicate some more time to this and pump some colour into it.

[Anonymous No.2477865]

[Anonymous No.2477907]

>>2477708
Starting black and white does help. Dealing with color is a whole different beast and can distract you from the values which are honestly more important in the hierarchy of how your brain interprets what your eyes see. So keep doing black and white for a good long while.

Are you asking if you should do black and white studies of black and white pictures or b&w studies of colored pictures? if the latter, this is actually exactly what you need. It's harder to judge values in b&w scale when your reference is in color. The challenge is good, you'll learn faster.

Ignoring color, everything you see is comprised of values in the range of black, medium, or white. Your brain is actually designed to enhance this visual information so contrast should be your first and foremost concern.

a good rule of thumb is to omit the 'inbetween' shades, or at least downplay them. What I mean by this is that if you were to look at all of the values from 1 (white) to 11 (black) you should avoid using the values of 4 and 8. Thus you'll have a clear value jump from white to grey and grey to black thus creating distinctive contrast, but still have variations of 1 to 3 values within those three value ranges. - Essentially, your lightest darks should never be lighter than your darkest lights.

So when you're looking at a colored image look for contrast. If you see it, try to figure out which category the color fits into (white grey or black). For example, look at this picture I linked. To simplify it as much as possible, the girl and gun are black as well as the far right of the picture, the rest of the room is grey and that triangle of light is white. From there you can add variation so long as it doesn't extend outside of the set value ranges.

Now you can add bits of other values into your whites greys and blacks, like in the image, but keep them minimal, don't break up the overall shapes of the value blocks by muddying them up too much.

[DalaiLana No.2477913]

>>2477907
Thank you so much. I guess i'll be doing everything in black and white for a while. XD

[Anonymous No.2477934]

>>2477765
Did actually post this one exactly? I have like 3 of such drawing, but the style looks alike

[Anonymous No.2477940]

finally finished this line art
critique would be nice as im a new drawfag

[Anonymous No.2478152]

>>2474699
Any good Krita tuts?

Also, I need help with head, breast, and knees

[Anonymous No.2478172]

>>2477339
Do some gesture drawings before you dive in clothes like that. It will fix the stiffness of the drawing

[Anonymous No.2478174]

>>2477330
Dude those hands are great. The face could use a bit more detail but nice work

[Anonymous No.2478335]

>>2476496
Holy shit! Very underrated.

People, take note. This is how studies are done.

[Anonymous No.2478417]

>>2478335
what.

[Anonymous No.2478438]

>>2476496
Fucking tight,very interesting art to look at.

[Anonymous No.2478443]

Feed back welcome.

[Anonymous No.2478447]

>>2478443

[Anonymous No.2478453]

>>2478335
>>2478438
are we looking at the same thing? his study is a big smudgy mess...

[Anonymous No.2478464]

>>2478443
resize

[Anonymous No.2478468]

>>2478443

You made her look like Donald Trump :(

Overall wide and bloated/puffy appearance compared to the soft features of the ref.
One quick tip on drawing faces, especially female faces - do not emphasize the nasiolabial fold, the lines that descend from the side of the nose. They make invariably make the subject appear older, and less attractive.

[Anonymous No.2478472]

>>2478464
My bad,keep forgetting.

[Anonymous No.2478475]

>>2477940
the gesture is very stiff for someone nearly getting tripped by a dog. Use more references, especially for the dog. It's right forearm is fucked and dogs don't look like that running. General anatomy issues to which I can only tell you >loomis
also >villipu for gestures. Which board are you draw fagging for?

[Anonymous No.2478509]

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2478514]

some cats in the spirit of the bunnies, imma draw more but im too drunk atm

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2478518]

>>2477683
why make a study of such a boring and easy subject? i thought doing studies was to break comfort zones and not going the easy way.

[Anonymous No.2478524]

>>2478518
why do you assume his comfort zone is portraits?

[Anonymous No.2478525]

>>2478518
not him, but faces are actually one of my biggest weaknesses. Not that I'm particularly good in other ares, but faces are definitely something I still have a lot to work on

[Anonymous No.2478528]

>>2478468
Thanks for advice,the way I had the nasilabial fold looked like shit, great advice, will use from now on.
When drawing this reminded me more of Katlin Jenner then Trump, ;)

[Anonymous No.2478535]

>>2478528
Better. Still looks pretty manly though. Keep on trucking.

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2478537]

>>2478524
not that his comfy zone is portraits, the photo hes studying from though is from the easiest and most boring angle ever, no real challenge there and he would learn way more from a more proper source.

[Anonymous No.2478561]

I've been doing pages like this almost daily and I feel like I'm not improving nearly as well as I could be. I'm trying to put in a reasonable amount of effort / focus but I still suck ass at female faces, for example. Am I too deep within my comfort zone? What should I do different to improve?

>>2478514
I like it! It's appealing whenever I see lines made with a constant size hard round brush, I should try to use that more. I could argue that you might want to make your lines smaller so you can put in more detail and have more control.

>>2478472
Maybe try drawing bigger next time? Whenever I see charcoal/related drawings they're always a lot bigger than you'd expect. Making bigger drawings gives you more control, I think. Your values are a little extreme. When doing faces in that kind of light - especially feminine ones - you should try to make your value changes and transitions as subtle and smooth as possible. If you don't they end up looking "dirty" per se.

>>2478152
There are tons of good breast / knees / other anatomy tutorials on youtube. The program you're using shouldn't really matter that much imo.

>>2477185
Your lines are sweet af but the values kinda ruin it t b h. I think instead of using some soft round brush, it would really be great if you considered more where the light was coming from and how the shadows are cast. Especially in the finer details. Seeing more patterns and detailed shadow shapes might help it. Other than that I really like the design and it looks borderline pro.

[Anonymous No.2478573]

>>2478561
Thanks for the advice Anon.

If you want to get out of your comfort zone with you drawings I would suggest that you draw more inside of the face and not outline everything. pic related is of an exercise that was done back in the day of drawing the face using planes.

[Anonymous No.2478589]

>>2478573
Thanks. I feel like I already know a decent amount about the geometry of the face, but I'd agree w/ you that I should do more things featuring facets / contours. I'll be sure to do more of that in my sketching. What I'm more concerned about is my construction. I don't really know how to control it properly and idk how to learn. Hence why I suck at drawing from reference and getting more feminine faces. I guess it's back to loomis for me.

[Anonymous No.2478596]

>>2477204
Maybe the back of the cape should be higher, unless the character is standing on top of something?


Anyways here's 20-30 mins of sketching Haruhi, anyone have any ideas on how to continue without it turning into shit?

[Anonymous No.2478607]

>>2478589
Have you worked withe Villppu videos? Hey has a series of 5 dvd that deal with face construction, they are great, there have been threads before in Ic that link where you can download his dvds..

[Anonymous No.2478646]

[Anonymous No.2478649]

>>2478646

[Anonymous No.2478650]

>>2478649

[Anonymous No.2478652]

[Anonymous No.2478681]

>>2478607
Dude I haven't but I really like vilppu so I should. I'll keep my eye out for the links but I've never seen them on here before, guess I'm not looking hard enough haha.

[Anonymous No.2478694]

>>2478596

her chest is slumped forward and it flattens the image

[Anonymous No.2478703]

>>2478528
Nice. Women have a bit more subtle and rounder jawlines also try making the part from bottom of chin to bottom of mouth shorter.

[Anonymous No.2478740]

>>2478650
>>2478649
I always have this love/hate reaction when I see "broken line" sketching like that

[Anonymous No.2478792]

>>2475201
the marshmallow should either be brighter or warmer

[Anonymous No.2478797]

>>2478596

started redlining and just doodled something

try not to make her chest slump forward

[Anonymous No.2478850]

I didn't draw any wheels or tracks because vehicles are not defined by. Each truck car or tank is different in own right and labeling them as "vehicles" is objectifying. I don't draw wheels to resist oppression.

Also, fuck trying to ink on a monoprice in sai with a broken stylus. It's not very fun desu.

[Anonymous No.2478918]

>>2478537
>easiest and most boring angle ever
subjective
>no real challenge there
subjective
>he would learn way more from a more proper source
you are one presumptuous opinionated ass, you know that?

[Anonymous No.2478924]

>>2478918
Uh, no I think he's right... what do you learn from doing a head on shot with little value alterations.

Dalai has done much trickier stuff than this.
It really does look like a waste of time when there are much more educational shots to do.

[thread theme No.2478928]

>>2478924
>>2478918
could be 4 pleasure

[Anonymous No.2478933]

>>2478928
Impossible.
Who does things for fun on /ic/?

[Anonymous No.2478935]

brian?

[thread theme No.2478944]

>>2478933
this hit so close to home that it physically hurt me

[Anonymous No.2478954]

>>2478924
None of those guys but personally I find doing straight on angles to be very difficult. It challenges my precision and measuring. For me at least it's easier to do things at an angle but I do that all the time and sometimes things call for a straight on view so every once in a while I practice it. I don't think I'd have worded it exactly that way but I think it it is pretty subjective to say what someone is studying isn't challenging enough for them when you can't know for sure how much they've struggled with it.

[Anonymous No.2478962]

>>2478935
Gotta say I'm pretty sick of seeing this 6.5/10 (at best) chick and her damn mole all over the damn board every damn day because of one obsessive-compulsive virgin. I know by passionately vocalizing this fact I'm just going to exacerbate the problem but at this point I just can't bring myself to care.

[Anonymous No.2478967]

>>2478935
I got bored. She doesn't take a lot of full body pictures that's like the only one that came close and her bra was cool so I made it a shirt. What I should be doing is drawing my hands but I'm bored

[Anonymous No.2478968]

>>2478962
I went on her twitter a few days ago and it's full of pictures of her from the other side that shows off this even worse mole on her jaw. She's not bad looking and I'm not a fan of cosmetic surgery but she should strongly consider getting rid of them shits or at least the jaw one, woof.

[Anonymous No.2478975]

>>2478561
>There are tons of good breast / knees / other anatomy tutorials on youtube

Im just going to scrap this and get back to studying, thanks man

[Anonymous No.2478976]

>>2478968
really? i think they're endearing

[Anonymous No.2478978]

>>2478976
That's because she's your true love :^)

[DalaiLana No.2478984]

I doing it because I like it lmao and I do struggle with straight on faces.
I'm doing portraits first then i'll move on to other things.

Update....

[Anonymous No.2479031]

1.5h sketch

I started with soft shapes and mid tone colors which I'm not used to doing yet so I learned a bit

[Anonymous No.2479238]

>>2474745
I was working on this, but I'm starting to give up. I'm getting frustrated but I can't put my finger on why.

[Anonymous No.2479245]

>>2479238
Her ears are a little low, the nose bridge is flat in the middle. Looks pretty nice though. Also the purple lips clash with her skin, maybe make it have some orange/yellow or blue tints.

[Anonymous No.2479259]

crit before I move on pls

[Anonymous No.2479261]

>>2479259
Fantastic composition.

[Anonymous No.2479262]

>>2478935
>daquan

[Anonymous No.2479273]

>>2478935
he's /ic/'s greatest meme

[Anonymous No.2479309]

Any critique for this line sketch before I start adding values?


>>2475218

I don't think it's as bad as the person grading it says, but s/he is right on most points. You put a lot of effort into hatching that is admirable, but ultimately not necessary. In terms of lineweight yes, increase weight/thickness in places where edges intersect or come together, and omit the lines altogether where there is a lot of light. (like you do on the left shoulder. try that for the nose.) Your proportions seem good, but you should try to use more 'soft edges' in lieu of the hard and unrealistic ones you have on the face.

>>2476049

Nice Darkseid. Before anything else, don't forget to lower the size of your images to ~1000px x (height) before posting - makes it easier on all of us. Now, you have some problems with foreshortening(DS's leg just looks larger instead of closer). To fix this, add some more line variation to objects that are closer, more shadowed, or bunched up.

>>2476189

Looks awesome - can never draw mechs/suits that well, myself. Nice sketchy style, are you planning on taking this any farther?

>>2476658

Cool. Looks a bit over-polished/way too much makeup, but I haven't seen the reference picture. You've clearly learned how to draw eyes, but the highlights in the bottom lid seem overly bright in comparison to the eye itself. Even if the reference picture is that way, generally you want to add the areas of highest contrast in the places you want the most attention from viewers. Just a thought. It's looking quite plain without any values/texture/etc on it right now.

>>2478509

Looking nice, from the thumbnail it's coming along well. However, you can probably make the alien look like it has more depth by playing around with colors. In the shadow casted by his jaw, his skin wouldn't just get a darker shade of green; for example, try adding complimentary colors and mixing in a touch of red with the overall goal of making that area more purple. See what happens.

[Anonymous No.2479310]

>>2479309
Resized it again for convenience

[Anonymous No.2479313]

>>2479309
His lower nose and nostrils seem kinda fucked

[Anonymous No.2479327]

Critique before I do any more please, thanks.

[Anonymous No.2479332]

>>2479310
looks fucking solid anon. love you construction and line weight.


strugling with fucking hands

[Anonymous No.2479352]

Howzaaaat

[Anonymous No.2479364]

>>2479313
No, it doesnt. Thats how real anatomy is.

[Anonymous No.2479370]

>>2479313
>>2479364

Thanks for the critique. I think the nose does have a problem, but I'm still not sure what it is. Think the philtrum might be too far to the right?

[Anonymous No.2479371]

>>2477589
love it, blog?

[Anonymous No.2479373]

>>2479309
this is legit

[Anonymous No.2479381]

>>2477058
Cranium is a tad small but otherwise good

[Anonymous No.2479397]

>>2479364
Real medical condition maybe. The philtrum isn't supposed to connect to one of the nostrils lol

[Anonymous No.2479398]

>>2474967
Really nice love the color so far.

[Anonymous No.2479429]

>>2479381
i disagree. i think its perfect.

[Anonymous No.2479436]

>>2474967

I know this is a sketch, but the elf on the left hand looks like it's chopped in half and gauntlet floats near it.

I know that you will fix it in final drawing, but I had to say it.
Nice composition though, keep going.

regards, total n00b

[DalaiLana No.2479458]

>>2479327
for me personally, I would never use black in a painting unless you're going for an inking style.

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2479462]

some cats

[Anonymous No.2479481]

>>2477860
Thanks! Yeah, gonna try to colour it sometime soon. The plan is to maybe use it as a cover for a small comic i'm working on.

[Anonymous No.2479485]

>>2479462
I really like the dynamic of your figures.

[?_? No.2479505]

Post my shitty doodle here because sketch book thread is die

I don't know when i get in to drawing again 1 month ago i want do some serious study(books or ehatever shit)
but now i'm just enjoying retarded doodle

[Anonymous No.2479508]

Art scrub here
Rate

[conmana No.2479518]

:-: ive repainted this face 4 times now
sucks mang

>>2479238
?
Just work through it frustration is good it means you dont understand something alla GAINS
keep doin your thang

[kjkallio !OTcb98yDKo No.2479522]

>>2479518
o hai there. Her pose seems way off, looks as if her torso is floating atm, nothign to suggest she is leaning on the glacier, i would also rework the composition

[Anonymous No.2479526]

First time drawing Nick and Judy from Zootopia. Any tips and such please.

[conmana No.2479528]

>>2479522
ye im aware of the whole floaty broken anatomy
ive been trying to fix it but yea as you can see
well work work

[Anonymous No.2479531]

>>2479526
Yea, kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.2479543]

>>2479518
Make the head bigger.

[Anonymous No.2479570]

[Anonymous No.2479580]

>>2476550
You've been looking at Caravaggio.

[Anonymous No.2479610]

>>2479462
i feel like these would look a lot better with a slightly thinner line but still these are awesome

[Anonymous No.2479637]

[Anonymous No.2479657]

>>2479238
>>2479518
If that was you I quoted, my bad. I quote to get the reply box up without having to scroll all the way back up. I suppose you're right, but usually I'm frustrated because I know where exactly I'm fucking up but I don't have the skill to fix/refine it. In this case something isn't coming together for me.

Sidenote, Did you post on CA at some point? I remember seeing a similar style/coloring method there but I can't remember the name.

>>2479245
Thanks familia. For the nose bridge, I guess I was aiming for the flatter, typically African/Asian nose versus the straight and prominent bridge common with white people? Do I still need to define the bridge if that's the case?

Also I feel as though her neck is too short?

[Anonymous No.2479681]

Spent an hour on this but it's kind of wooden, crit plox.

[Anonymous No.2479695]

Some of my latest watercolor paintings

[Kotou No.2479699]

There is some time since last I edited it and the sketch is kinda old, but it's one of my current ones.

[Anonymous No.2479700]

>>2479695
Perspective is Hitler-esque, nice branch though.

[Anonymous No.2479707]

>>2479700
Always a complement to be compared to Hitler

[Anonymous No.2479722]

[Anonymous No.2479726]

>>2479695

you mean gwash?

and i agree with the other anon, you may get called out by sjws for those drawings

[Anonymous No.2479732]

Can someone please rate my drawing of smokey the bear? I would like some outside criticism

[Anonymous No.2479737]

>>2479732
this is bearly art

[Anonymous No.2479743]

drawing that half asleep :p

[Anonymous No.2479773]

>>2479700
Im flattered
>>2479726
It's actually just watercolors but I used them pretty heavily on the image at the top

[Anonymous No.2479785]

>>2479732
2/10 The line work is way too sketchy and the shading has tons of white spots showing through

[Anonymous No.2479793]

>>2479722

in order to avoid the head looking flat, make sure you study the angles of the face, how things move through the skull. for example, one key tool for structuring the face is that the angle of the tip of the nose matches the upper lip, pic related

try some studies to map it a bit more

[Anonymous No.2479840]

>>2479785
Yeah, its just something that i drew up on my note 4 for shits and giggles. Plus the S pen on the right side of the screen doesnt work for sone reason so thats one of the reasons why his hats incomplete. Idk, just made it to get more experience with using a phone to draw something. Thanks

[Anonymous No.2479878]

>>2479840
>excuses.txt

[Anonymous No.2479899]

>>2479878
Ok sorry for giving backstory. I still take your criticism tho. Thanks

[Anonymous No.2479987]

Crit?

[Anonymous No.2479990]

>>2479987
her legs man...

[fuckingtripfag !VDpnjBYkP2 No.2479991]

[Anonymous No.2480000]

>>2479990
She seems pretty calm about it. Maybe it doesn't hurt?

[Anonymous No.2480004]

>>2479987
I feel like jacking it to Chun Li now.

[Anonymous No.2480007]

>>2479987
She has no torso and the far leg is bent at an impossible angle. You need to study anatomy more in general but if you want to complete this picture I'd recommend you get some reference for the pose. You'd probably have to redraw it though, I think it would be more trouble than it's worth to try and fix this one.

[Anonymous No.2480022]

Early as hell, but fuck my shit up, /ic/

[Anonymous No.2480025]

>>2479987

I agree it looks like she doesn't have a torso, and the legs look disconnected. I get the feeling that you're not confident in how the torso and pelvis connects. Also, while I know that Chun Li is supposed to have humongous thighs the knees look too thick. If you give the thighs more taper at the knee it will also make her more feminine, while keeping that powerlifter look to her legs. Use more reference.

On the upside you made my dick feel a bit funny, so you're definitely on to something here. Don't redraw it, try to fix it.

[Anonymous No.2480026]

>>2479990
>>2480007
Maybe it's a perspective issue. The reference image is the same pose but at a different angle. I wanted the legs to be perpendicular to the hips but something went wrong.

[Anonymous No.2480030]

>>2478652
Love this

[Anonymous No.2480031]

>>2480025
Thanks, anon. I totally agree
I'll try to fix it.

[Anonymous No.2480033]

>>2480026
The perspective issue is that you didn't foreshorten her body correctly. The leg isn't necessarily a problem with perspective but it definitely looks to be at the wrong angle. The reason I recommend you redraw it entirely unlike the other anon is so you have the opportunity to construct her entire body and learn how to place everything in perspective so it looks foreshortened, and then you will know where to attach that leg to her hip and how to point it in the right direction so it won't look broken. Redrawing something isn't admitting defeat it's an opportunity to learn.

[Anonymous No.2480047]

>>2480031

You're welcome man. One more thing, I think you could improve the way the fabric is hugging her ass. If you could bunch up the forms a bit more you could give that impression that her booty is bursting at the seams, so to speak. Hentai artists as I'm sure you know are REALLY fucking good at playing up this effect. Really increases that "hnggg!" effect.

[Anonymous No.2480050]

>>2477356
The story is boring but I like the compostion.

[Anonymous No.2480115]

[Anonymous No.2480163]

>>2478935
I bet he'll even draw her, while she's being fucked by two black guys

[Anonymous No.2480167]

some random ass doodles from today, got together with a few friends to draw.

[Anonymous No.2480186]

Wtf you guys r so dem talented

[conmana No.2480218]

>>2479657
No I posted on CA awhile back but I was all grayscale when I did

thinking of someone else

[Anonymous No.2480250]

[Anonymous No.2480283]

[Anonymous No.2480329]

I'm a puzzle author by trade, but needed a break from sudoku and crosswords. This was just for a fun, but I'm thinking about drawing more, larger mazes and doing a coloring book.

[Anonymous No.2480330]

hands

[DalaiLana No.2480331]

starting...

Is it bad that i just draw shapes and lines I see instead of those constructions you see in books?

[Anonymous No.2480332]

>>2480330
more hands

[DalaiLana No.2480336]

>>2480330
I see major improvements in your drawing. They used to look like wiggly sausages before lol.

[DalaiLana No.2480339]

>>2480329
That looks kinda off idk what it is. Where are your horizon line and vanishing point?

[Anonymous No.2480352]

>>2480339
It's done along an isometric grid, so there's no vanishing point or horizon involved.

[Anonymous No.2480357]

last shit i sketched. tryna do a series of rad lookin kids.

[Anonymous No.2480358]

streaming

twitch tv / grantsru

[Anonymous No.2480390]

>>2480358

done for now

[Anonymous No.2480394]

>>2474699

Carpal Tunnel and a track pad...

Any pointers on color pallets, lighting, and/or general feedback?

[Anonymous No.2480461]

>>2479352
Any opinion on this?

[Anonymous No.2480464]

>>2480461
The ref

[DalaiLana No.2480584]

>>2480352
aye
>>2480461
looks great but why are u painting on a white background? The cat is muddier than the ref.

Update.... More portrait study

[Anonymous No.2480620]

>>2479987

[Anonymous No.2480622]

>>2479987
a good research is useful to avoid mistakes

[Anonymous No.2480623]

>>2479987

[Anonymous No.2480627]

>>2480623

[Anonymous No.2480629]

[Anonymous No.2480647]

I'd appreciate crits on the shading and rendering rather than the drawing and construction

[Anonymous No.2480648]

[Anonymous No.2480654]

>>2480357
>rad lookin kids
kek

[Anonymous No.2480762]

>>2480647
The shading looks really good to me. Thumbnails of the study and the reference look really similar.
But the left side of his jaw looks too angular and bright. Also his face looks a little too wide.
Other than that you got the values pretty well, would like to see this a little more rendered.

[Anonymous No.2480790]

I'm redrawing this, anyone have ideas what to change/improve?

[Anonymous No.2480793]

>>2480790
duh, forgot to crop

[Anonymous No.2480825]

>>2480620
>>2480622
>>2480622
I'll devote an hour or two to finding reference next time. ty
There are still mistakes, but I think I'm going to move on.

[Anonymous No.2481052]

judge this shit pls

[Anonymous No.2481093]

NEW THREAD: >>2481091
NEW THREAD: >>2481091
NEW THREAD: >>2481091

[Anonymous No.2481113]

Trying to git gud at drawing robot/mechanical parts, yall have any tip or know any good book on the subject?
Sorry for shitty pic

[Anonymous No.2481976]

Here's what I worked on today

[OP No.2482485]

>>2481976
nice AAAASSSS :)

[Anonymous No.2483295]

>>2482485
Thnks :)