Challenge time !

[Anonymous No.2767808]

hey /ic/, try to make pic related look like a ruan jia painting ! I think its a good exercise to understand how things work in his pieces.

i tried, but i failed.

[Anonymous No.2767812]

>>2767808
if yuo pay me.
hourly rate: $65/h per hour
pleas send mon ey to mommu
tjanks.

[Anonymous No.2767811]

>>2767808
>i tried, but i failed.
nevertheless you should post your attempt

[Anonymous No.2767817]

>>2767811
I usually delete things i fuck up.

[Anonymous No.2767862]

>set to greyscale
>lower contrast
>new layer set to color
>add local colors
>new layer
>use textured brush to add color variation
>be very withdrawn about highlights
>give everything a 1/8th inch thickness

There you go.


I can't remember specifically, but way back there was some thread that talked about the "ruan jia" way of painting. Like someone translated an interview with another jia-esque artist and made a thread on it.
Probably in the bowels of the /ic/ archives.

[Anonymous No.2767866]

>>2767817

Delete your life

[Anonymous No.2767868]

>>2767862
>I can't remember specifically, but way back there was some thread that talked about the "ruan jia" way of painting. Like someone translated an interview with another jia-esque artist and made a thread on it.
>Probably in the bowels of the /ic/ archives.
It was tehmeh who primarily broke down Ruanjia's choices in his paintings iirc. But it's important to note it was done years ago so only applies now to Ruanjia's old artwork. Ruanjia's new work has taken a different path.

[Anonymous No.2767872]

Give me two months

[Anonymous No.2767875]

>>2767866
epic

[Anonymous No.2767881]

>>2767808
I already failed one painting today OP are you trying to get me to commit suicide?

[Anonymous No.2767891]

>>2767881
Its okay if you failed your painting, it happens even to the masters. just relax, warm up your hands, look at your favorite paintings to get inspired and do what feels right while not rushing things. You might impress yourself.

[Anonymous No.2767894]

>>2767891
While that's inspiring I think I better not try again today. Maybe if this thread is still here after a while.

[Anonymous No.2767902]

>>2767808
NO FREE WORK

Why would anyone want to copy Ruan Jia anyway?

[Anonymous No.2767929]

>>2767868
Its hilarious when shit artists attempt to breakdown masters.

especially when they think they know their work flow.

[Anonymous No.2767934]

>>2767929
Well I wouldn't call tehmeh a shit artist, he's been painting and drawing for like a decade and is a working professional. It's not like he was making any big claims either, he simply was analyzing things like how Ruanjia uses edges and color in his work.

As for the workflow, there are many videos of Ruanjia painting so you don't even need to bother with guesswork.

[Anonymous No.2767942]

>>2767929

Hereby I crown Ruan as the king of noodling

[Anonymous No.2767944]

>>2767808

No mention of meme lab mode yet, /ic/? I'm actually impressed in a way

[Anonymous No.2767945]

>>2767934
True that, but tehmeh is still shit desu. His recent work is pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.2767947]

>>2767944
What's wrong with lab ?

[Anonymous No.2767948]

>>2767947

Idk if there is anything "wrong" with it, but I remember long threads this summer where everyone went full autism mode thinking they would find the secret to chinese digital painting with lab mode or something. It literally became a meme

[Anonymous No.2767951]

>>2767948
Oh i remember this thread, it was glorious

[Anonymous No.2767985]

>>2767945

why would you want to shit on an /ic/bro who has been a good contributor to our board. there's no good reason for that.

>>2767948

I fell for that meme one time. It's cyclical.

[Anonymous No.2768003]

>>2767985
>why would you want to shit on an /ic/bro
Why do you care? his stuff really isnt that good for the 11 years hes been drawing...

[Anonymous No.2768043]

>>2768003

I think he's working in a studio now. The thing about working in a studio is you really don't get to spend a lot of time polishing stuff. Regardless, it's a nice painting and you should be nice to other artists.

Not like you know how good someone who's been painting for 11 years should be anyway.

[Anonymous No.2768044]

>>2767985
>I fell for that meme one time. It's cyclical.

who the fuck even falls for the LAB meme

[Anonymous No.2768046]

>>2768043
you dont think i know? fuck out of here

[Anonymous No.2768061]

anyways, is anyone doing the challenge ?

[Anonymous No.2768088]

>>2768061
I will, but only if 3 or 4 other anons are also commited to be honest. otherwise it feels shitty to be the only one on a challenge..

sit your ass down and draw /ic/.

[Anonymous No.2768099]

>>2768088
too bad i cant access my pc right now...

[Anonymous No.2768101]

>>2768088
let's go /ic/ !!

[Anonymous No.2768110]

OP here.

to anyone who thinks I want "free shit", its okay to not use the pic related (it was just a sample, really), you can use any photograph you want.

[Anonymous No.2768158]

>>2768061
I'll give it my best shot.

[Anonymous No.2768159]

>>2768158
Good luck !

[Anonymous No.2768180]

Thought this might help others trying to do this challenge right now.

This is ruanjia's workflow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ReTu2Iu9C0&feature=youtu.be

http://www.creativebloq.com/digital-art/how-create-epic-dragon-scene-21514199

And you can look through the "training" section of his website to see how he goes about sketching.

Remember to work in a huge-as-fuck resolution. Good luck guys.

[Anonymous No.2768186]

>>2768180
Thanks for your help and positivity, anon.

[Anonymous No.2768224]

>>2768159
Thanks I'm gonna need it

[Anonymous No.2768225]

>>2768224
you are welcome.

[Anonymous No.2768265]

>>2767808
>>2768180
this shit actually got my blood pumped up, i'm in.

[Anonymous No.2768279]

>>2768265
Good luck and have fun !

[Anonymous No.2768304]

>>2767929
It's hilarious when you post a picture thinking you are above everyone else, when really the picture shows nothing special.

Seriously, get off your high horse. I would LOVE to see your recreations of Ruan Jia's style. Oh wait...

Regardless, it would be more beneficial to attack Jia's painting in little pieces at a time. Like how he rendered an eye, or how he rendered a hand, or armor, etc and solely focus on that.. Over time you can pull everything together.

[Anonymous No.2768325]

>>2768304
>when really the picture shows nothing special.
stopped reading there
fucking beginner

[Anonymous No.2768368]

>>2768180
This is what I've gotten from the video,
1) He maps out most of the values first.
2) He adds colour on top of it (What layer setting is he using?)
3) Adjusts the darkest and lightest values to define the forms.

>>2767929
His base colors are added in a very broken color style, he leaves a lot of smaller patches of color to add visual complexity. The hues look different but the colors seem to be of the same value. He then goes in and breaks it up with linear contours.

Here's my WIP so far. Not done yet but I need advice on how to continue. Comments and discussion?

[Anonymous No.2768374]

>>2768368
Looking great so far ! But didn't op say that we only had the import the pic and edit it ?

[Anonymous No.2768378]

>>2767808

[Anonymous No.2768481]

>>2768368
yeah. get your ass and your "visual complexity" back to the beginner thread

[Anonymous No.2768503]

>>2768368
you gotta get your form modeling and mark making down before you touch color at all.

[Anonymous No.2768508]

>>2768374
That's no fun

[Anonymous No.2768510]

>>2768378
Quite like this, despite not catching the likeness of the model. Dunno about Ruan Jia-style, but still a better look then this >>2768368

[Anonymous No.2768524]

>>2768368
He sketches first and thinks about composition

Then he puts down solid blocks of value and uses a white or black brush (whichever is the opposite of the color he put down) to sketch out what he wants, and then colorpicks from the BG around it to refine the block-in. This guy has been drawing for so long (or has planned with thumbnails before the video) that he already knows exactly what he wants byt he time he's sketching. Either go do some thumbnails first or try to sketch out where everything is before you start your values. You need to make sure everything is in proportion.

When he puts color down he glazes it over. I'll see if I can find you something about that stuff but it comes down to having good values and then doing a color overlay, then painting on top of that.

Paintings should always progress all at one time like pic related. Big ideas first and foremost then you go down to the little ones.

[Anonymous No.2768531]

>>2768524
Here's someone doing a color layer like that

[Anonymous No.2768534]

>>2768531
Here's another. Sketch, shadows, vaues, color only, all the layers so far together, and then rendered out version.

[Anonymous No.2768537]

>>2768534
Another example

[Anonymous No.2768538]

>>2768368

You need to start painting like this more after you get your sketch down though.

[Anonymous No.2768539]

>>2768538
But think about this more when you're laying down values. Think of them as shapes for your block-in.

[Anonymous No.2768542]

>>2768537
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzQdZQBAOyk

In this video he starts throwing color in at about 1hr.

[Anonymous No.2768605]

>>2767808
;--;

[Anonymous No.2768617]

>>2768605
Look at the above notes and try again. Look up gurney journey ribbon method for your hair issue. Fill in your entire background tone stop half-assing it.

[Anonymous No.2768636]

>>2768617
the brush I like to make my hair didn't worked like it used to be. I think I need a new tablet. It just strangely making straight lines although I'm making curves, which result this monstrosity.
So I gave up.

[Anonymous No.2768641]

>>2768605
this challenge is way too advanced for you

[Anonymous No.2768655]

>>2768636
You should need nothing more than a hard round and soft round brush to draw hair. Now stop blaming it on your tablet and relying on your brushes as a crutch and try again.

You don't want to prove this faggot >>2768641 right do you?

[Anonymous No.2768669]

>>2768641
I-I think you are correct. I should've stick drawing gestures, not detailed artworks like this.

>>2768655
B-But it's true. ;_;
>>2768531
>>2768539
If you're talking about these, I can't replicate them because I think the brush looks smooth and the canvas is big enough it might burden my small ram laptop.

[Anonymous No.2768821]

wip i guess. may or may not continue it later

[Anonymous No.2768822]

wip i guess. may or may not continue it later

[Anonymous No.2768850]

>>2768669
You should be doing daily gestures and once a week spend a few hours sketching faces.

[Anonymous No.2768951]

I didn't draw

[Anonymous No.2768982]

ive been told i copy his style, so I tried this quickly

[Anonymous No.2768996]

>>2768951
clearly

[Anonymous No.2769005]

>>2768982
I dont get it looks nothing like ruan?

just because you saw one drawing of his where he has blue eyes doesnt mean you can go around painting unorthodox eye colors and be claimed to copy his stye

your brush strokes are ugly and your edges need work, also the colors are muddy.

[Anonymous No.2769009]

>>2769005
this is probably his worst piece. you can really see where he uses wet brushes tho

[Anonymous No.2769015]

>>2768822
continued. coming along well i think.

[Anonymous No.2769017]

>>2769009
worst piece? i wouldnt say so. you cant even see the brush strokes on the official.

[Anonymous No.2769034]

>>2769005
I don't think the eye color is the only similarity, and you can believe what i've heard that or not it doesnt really matter.
Either way, thanks for the 'critiques' ill make sure to keep them in mind - however what would you suggest for brushstrokes if they're so ugly?

[Anonymous No.2769039]

>>2769017
i don't think that pic you have there is so bad. he probably did it in 15 minutes

[Anonymous No.2769049]

>>2769039
i did't say it was?

pic related is 3 yo but its the worst i could find thats recent

[Anonymous No.2769054]

>>2769049

[Anonymous No.2769058]

>>2769049
I think your previous post accidentally implied that the image you posted was his worst and that anon got confused. Also that pic you posted is not that bad either, the face is sort of so so and is a bit small bit otherwise it's well drawn.

[Anonymous No.2769078]

>>2767808
>ITT: only the brave post their work

p-please tell me how i did.

[Anonymous No.2769084]

>>2769078

[Anonymous No.2769236]

>>2769078
OK but you didn't stylize it like ruanjia. Use a textured brush and go crazy on the lighting and colors

[Anonymous No.2769341]

[Anonymous No.2769380]

>>2769236
thats how not to be ruan

[Anonymous No.2769426]

>>2769341
Keep going anon, you are getting close !!

[Anonymous No.2769427]

>>2767808
dont forget the kitty ears

[Anonymous No.2769520]

>>2769341
too saturated

[Anonymous No.2769560]

fuck that his style is hard, I just did my style

[Anonymous No.2769590]

lol. fail.

ermegerd robuts is gunna steel er jerbs!

[Anonymous No.2769637]

>>2769560
I like it

[Anonymous No.2769868]

Not any close.

[Anonymous No.2769980]

>>2769341
neat ! here we go !

[Anonymous No.2770309]

I tried.

[Anonymous No.2770336]

._.'

[Anonymous No.2770344]

>>2770336
cute lines

[Anonymous No.2770614]

Someone should try this in ruanjia style

[Anonymous No.2770801]

>>2769560
>9000x5832
other than that it looks pretty good, just gotta keep training your eyes and painting/drawing from life.