Progress

[Anonymous No.2773452]

2016 progress thread!

[Anonymous No.2773503]

[Anonymous No.2773593]

Gonna try and learn how to draw in 2017

[Anonymous No.2773605]

>>2773452
progress != wip

[Anonymous No.2773642]

>>2773452
>was muddy shit
>turned into muddy shit
Wew, such progress.

[Anonymous No.2773963]

>>2773642
Well, aren't you a souce of happiness.

[Anonymous No.2773968]

>>2773963
that dudes a douche but that's a weak ass comeback OP. Come on son, put your heart into it! He took everything you worked for motherfucker!

[Anonymous No.2774075]

>>2773593
>in 2017
wrong attitude

[Anonymous No.2774101]

>>2773452
>>2773642
Fantine had a rough life ;_;

[Nose Bro No.2774103]

>>2773593
>progress thread
not
>already decent thread

[Anonymous No.2774120]

>>2773452
the hair is really blurry. I think this is the number one issue with digital paintings. any real personality just gets homogenized and hard to look at

[Anonymous No.2774138]

>>2774103
I like you, but you're wrong bby

[Anonymous No.2774150]

>>2773963
I'm sorry anon, but it's trash. That's what copying from photos and not squinting does to you.

[Anonymous No.2774531]

Everyone's so shy lmao

[Anonymous No.2774566]

trying to simplify but it's a lil generic i think

[Anonymous No.2774579]

>>2774566
My immediate suggestion is to try another background color, and make the eyes and tail come out more in the silhouette. They get kinda lost. You also want the highest contrast to be in the face.

Also, plantigrade look to digitigrade feet just irks me, but that's my opinion.

[Anonymous No.2774592]

life is constant progress, compare me to me

[Anonymous No.2774594]

>>2774579
thanks!! you're right, my eye tends to go anywhere but the face in both. i changed the feet since i felt the digitigrade legs made the character feel kinda weightless and it'd be harder to animate, but i get what you mean

[Anonymous No.2774595]

lost everything in oct. i made over the past year

[Anonymous No.2774597]

>>2774595
Stuff like this makes me really happy to see, can't wait to see where you are in another three years.

[Anonymous No.2774612]

>>2773452
Wow, it only tookt one year to add ruidmentary detail. Two years later... maybe it's finished by now???

[Anonymous No.2774618]

>>2774595
Very admirable progress.

[Anonymous No.2775019]

Recently found a drawing I did when I first got into Shoujo six years ago, second sketch is one I did about two days ago.

[Anonymous No.2775038]

>>2775019
nice, but this is a one year progress thread I think. I'd like to see that from you actually

[Anonymous No.2775051]

>>2775038
Ah I see, I don't think I have something as comparable as those two from a year ago, I'll keep looking though.

I do have a drawing of a shoujo-looking pokemon trainer I did two years ago

[Anonymous No.2775155]

>>2775051
redraw it then you got a direct comparison

[Anonymous No.2775171]

>>2774595
>literally drawing the brow ridge below the eyes, and the eyes on the forehead
I honestly can't tell which of these progress pics are troll images anymore.

[Anonymous No.2775209]

i feel like i could've done alot more studies this year...

[Anonymous No.2775212]

>>2775209
how old are you?

[Anonymous No.2775228]

>>2775212
26

[Anonymous No.2775240]

>>2775209
D-do you have a Tumblr??

[Anonymous No.2775247]

I haven't updated it for the end of 2016 but I've also not drawn anything worth a shit in the last third of the year anyway.

[Anonymous No.2775255]

>>2775247
Nice, got bretty gud in just a year.

[Anonymous No.2775286]

>>2775240
Nope sorry

[Anonymous No.2775291]

>>2775247
solid work anon

[Anonymous No.2775451]

>>2774566
Got more of your work? Website? Looks very interesting to me.

[Anonymous No.2775462]

>>2773452

[Anonymous No.2775465]

>>2774150
Not Op but,
explain this squinting to me...

[Anonymous No.2775470]

>>2773593
that fucking pink nose

[Anonymous No.2775471]

>>2775465
Not the fella who suggested the squinting, but:

It's basically squinting your eyes and blurring your vision so you can see shapes and shades better. It makes it a little easier to pinpoint contrasts too -- darks look darker, lights look lighter. Google "squinting painting" or something to that effect. [spoiler]I've heard it suggested multiple times in classes and literally didn't appreciate its value until now... doing it now with paintings and it helps a bunch

[Anonymous No.2775473]

I've been doing traditional only, and i've recently picked up water color painting.

Anybody know When should i get into digital painting?

[Anonymous No.2775477]

>>2775473
Dabble with it now simultaneously. It's not going to function entirely the same, but things you learn from digital can be applied to traditional and vice-versa.

[Anonymous No.2775483]

>>2775477
thanks for the reply. Should i use a cintiq or one of those draw tablets?

[Anonymous No.2775494]

>>2775483
My poor ass answer is going to be a regular tablet. I think in the sticky there's a rec list. If money isn't a problem, read up about the cintq and see if it's what you want and something you'd genuinely get use out of for the money. I use a tablet with wacom digitizers in it, which does what I need to do for a third of the price, buuuuut I'm basic.

[Anonymous No.2775534]

>>2775494
ever tried an intuos?

[Anonymous No.2775542]

I uh...I don't think I improved at all. What do I do when I'm good enough to be considered good (but not AMAZING) and I'm just kinda stuck there?

[Anonymous No.2775809]

>>2775465

Lots of people muddle with details, squinting takes the details away and forces you to see the basic shapes and value arrangements.

[Anonymous No.2775813]

>>2775542
>and I'm just kinda stuck there?

If you're like me it's because you found a comfort zone and stopped challenging yourself, at least that's what I chalk my plateaus up to. You need to make an active effort to reflect on the things you're bad at / frequently avoid and deliberately study them.

[Anonymous No.2775816]

>>2775470
Pink..?
Where?

[Anonymous No.2775826]

>>2773452
left is from about 6 or 7 months ago, both are from the same ref

[Anonymous No.2775863]

>>2775171
i dont really get what you are saying

[Anonymous No.2775865]

>>2775826
whoa

[Anonymous No.2775869]

>>2775465
You squint to lose superficial detail and simplify value forms.

Bright values go closer together and get relatively righter, dark values clump together and get darker. This allows you to see past details and smaller values and go straight for big shapes of light and shadow.

Do not squint for color though, only for value.

[Anonymous No.2775882]

>>2775826
Nice, there are a bunch of issues in the second one but the improvement is there and very good! Just keep going and do more! : D

[Anonymous No.2776039]

>>2773452
digital is hard, having a hard timing making with it what i want to.

[Anonymous No.2776053]

>>2775209
>studies
Start painting for real already

[Anonymous No.2776201]

>fundamentals improved
>general appealing of my drawings worsened
it's like I'm trying to apply the fundies I learned to my drawings but I can't do it properly and it makes them look worse than before

[Anonymous No.2776207]

>>2776201
It's normal. It will get better once you internalize said fundamentals and open up time to work on other stuff like dynamic poses etc.

[Anonymous No.2776271]

>>2773503
>>2773452
That's a pretty good step forward

[Anonymous No.2776275]

>>2776201
Post your work man, I promise I won't be a tard
maybe I can help

[Anonymous No.2776325]

>>2775826
That's amazing. What's your study method?

[Anonymous No.2776330]

>>2773503
I'm barely at 2013... keep it up anon

[Anonymous No.2776339]

Tried to find comparable pictures. I'm ashamed that in the 4 years before that my progress was abysimal. But much of it is probably related to this: >>2776207
2015 when I finally got my ass around to some Pappa Vilppu. Gotta get more of that in sometime soon.

[Anonymous No.2776456]

>>2776201
I know that feel bruh. I'm still a beginner but sometimes I look at the stylized stuff people with no fundies do and it's better than my stuff. I think the main reason is just cause I hadn't studied stylized stuff, so if you wanna improve on it you gotta do studies of a styles you like. For example, I recently started studying cartoony stuff and a little bit of anime and realized that it's extremely shape based, so some people would just draw circles for the head, eyes and pupils and then just use elongated cylinders for all the limbs and they'd get an appealing character out of that. Whereas I'd try to indicate things like bone structure or I'd try to follow traditional proportions and my stuff would look like ass.

[Anonymous No.2776467]

this is from november but should show a one year difference
less muh style I hope

[Anonymous No.2776475]

Sooo are we supposed to post only studies' progress?

[Anonymous No.2776483]

>>2776339
You need to get out of your comfort zone and draw full figures. The more you practice full figures instead of busts or portraits, the better you'll get at cartooning

[Anonymous No.2776496]

>>2776467
it looks nice but the legs look waaaay too bent

[Anonymous No.2776501]

>>2776496
>thigh gap with the ass cheeks showing through
I hate this meme, it's so stupid

[Anonymous No.2776570]

>>2773593

nile, are you ever going to get off of 4chan and get good?

[Anonymous No.2776619]

i'm pretty happy with this year tbqh

[Anonymous No.2776623]

+ these from this month

[Anonymous No.2776668]

>>2776467
I swear to god if I see this shitty art reposted on another thread I might actually kill myself.

[Anonymous No.2776674]

>hey guys look at all my unfinished artwork and how much better it is than all my unfinished artwork from years ago

If you think practice is just sketches and studies you're an NGM

[Anonymous No.2776687]

>>2776475
that's not much improvement. someone who practiced right could have done these in a 3 month difference.

[Anonymous No.2776702]

studies, January 2015 vs June 2016.
clothes didn't improve as much as faces, but i'm working on it now.

[Anonymous No.2776706]

>>2776619
i feel like i'm stuck in the first stage of this picture right now

[Anonymous No.2776750]

Im 19 and i draw like shit can i get better in 5 months guide me /ic/ i have 5 months to spare to go to college.

[Anonymous No.2776751]

>>2776750
just be critical of your work and honest in the areas you know you need to improve, then work on them

[Anonymous No.2776756]

>>2776674
progress in technical knowledge is a clearly visible point of measurement wether it's a finished piece or not

>If you think practice is just sketches and studies you're an NGM

it is the large majority of it if you want the gains tbqhfam

[Anonymous No.2776759]

>>2776751
Can i show you a pic of how shitty i draw?
It looks like a 13 year old drawing.

[Anonymous No.2776762]

I haven't progressed yet because I started today

[Anonymous No.2776763]

>>2776759
nobody cares about your shitty drawing

read the sticky, work hard, and be analytical and honest towards yourself in terms of improvement

you aren't gonna get to a respectable level in five months - you'll make art gains, but you're still going to be shit for a good while (1 to 1.5 years) until you start picking up

[Anonymous No.2776795]

>>2776762
Good. Keep going.

[Anonymous No.2776864]

>>2776570
does now sound good?

[Anonymous No.2776878]

>>2776483
I agree both with that I need to do that, and that it'll help me get much better at cartooning. And I have actually started a massive push in that direction lately. (even if I didn't get a ton of success yet with it)

I've just chosen bust portraits because they're easily comparable.

[Anonymous No.2776906]

>>2773452
those are some disgusting muddy dull colours desu

are you colour blind?

[Anonymous No.2776919]

>you could put a 5 years old drawing side by side with my current work and wouldn't notice a difference
>I know it's completely my fault

[Anonymous No.2776928]

>>2776864

no, you have had 6 months or more. what are you doing with your free time?

[Anonymous No.2776955]

My progress from 2011 to 2016

2012 was a terrible year for me. I did not include any from 2012 because I made the worst art of my life in 2012.

2016 was the best year yet and I expect 2017 to be much better still, if not equally good

[Anonymous No.2777000]

>>2776955
go away chunbum
all of your work is garbage
why do you post it when you KNOW everyone here hates it
fuckssake go to reddit with this shit

[Anonymous No.2777066]

>>2776955
>Evangelion fanart
This will never be not funny.

[Anonymous No.2777067]

>>2776928
What's free time?

[Anonymous No.2777073]

>>2776687
Everybody has their own tempo.

[Anonymous No.2777084]

>art progress
>copying
pick one

[Anonymous No.2777228]

>>2777000
If you can't pick a single work that you like from 33 works I posted all with varying styles and subject matter then something is wrong with you, not me.

[Anonymous No.2777274]

Gonna regret this, but I have the most old shit laying around for fanart so just showing progress drawing with that shit.

[Anonymous No.2777280]

>>2777274
>>2768545

[Anonymous No.2777368]

[Anonymous No.2777387]

>>2777368
This is probably a joke, but the right is cute. Blog?

[Anonymous No.2777395]

>>2777368
If this is real, what happened, what clicked?

[Anonymous No.2777397]

>>2777368
Is this some sort of meme?

[Anonymous No.2777516]

>>2777368
>thick af for 2016
ang is that you

[Anonymous No.2777534]

>>2773452

2014 looks like it was the 2013, but rendered to the end and not abandoned in the halfway. In terms of actually finishing things and not being complete lazy piece of shit - it is important progress - but in terms of actual art skill there's none.

[Anonymous No.2777573]

>>2777228
phahahahaha

[Anonymous No.2777590]

>>2777368
She ate the poor doge thing.

[Anonymous No.2777793]

>>2777368
UHHHHHHHHHHH

THICKER

[Anonymous No.2777820]

This is all from Jan- March of this year

[Anonymous No.2777823]

>>2777820

Unfinished/ June 2016

[Anonymous No.2777826]

>>2775462
Legendary.

[Anonymous No.2777837]

>>2775462
Neither the original artist nor the newer, muh-style artist know how scrolls work

[Anonymous No.2777987]

>>2777395
Honestly I'm not 100% sure, but I think my recent improvement started when I met guoh in an /ic/ skype chat and he taught me the importance of form

>>2777793
kek maybe it was a bad idea for me to put in a redraw for comparison

[Anonymous No.2778915]

>>2776955
it fascinates me to see what aspects of their own art people cherish and foster.

protip: you and brian are both grasping at the wrong things.

[Anonymous No.2778939]

>>2777368
OP gained like 150lbs in 4 yrs - project self image in work

[Anonymous No.2778955]

I thought it would be fun to revisit this edgy sonic character I had when i was 15.

[Anonymous No.2779004]

>>2778915
and what exactly am i grasping at?

[Anonymous No.2779007]

>>2778915
Brian and I are the best in this board period

[Anonymous No.2779009]

>>2779004
>4 years and still can't even an ellipse

[Anonymous No.2779027]

>>2779009
why does everyone keep giving me that comment on that still life? which ellipse are you referring to? the vase is a little off and thats an easy fix, but the pitcher is exactly what i was looking at.

[Anonymous No.2779047]

>>2779004
Man, technical talk aside, I really love 2016. It reminds me of Cezanne. Keep up the good work, you have good taste

[Anonymous No.2779049]

>>2778955
First thing I thought of when I saw this fucker was Hello Kitty. He's a qt.

[Anonymous No.2779053]

>>2779027
they're brain damaged and think that pitchers are a perfect ellipse

[Anonymous No.2779073]

>>2779049
That's really fuckin cute, anon. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.2779093]

>>2779007
kek

[Anonymous No.2779211]

>>2773452

[Anonymous No.2779330]

[Anonymous No.2779347]

>>2778955

>going from edgy sonic shit to cartoony characters with nice flow and movement

Love that! Good job, you.

>>2779211

You're getting better at copying other pictures. If that makes you happy, okay. At one point your pictures will look the same as the photos. What then?

>>2773593
I like your dark and edgy shit. It's nice.

>>2773503

Good job! Keep going. You're already better than the majority of /ic/.

>>2774566

Actually feb looks more interesting and appealing. Both are nice though.

>>2774595

Love the black and white value studies.

>>2775247
Shockingly good progress for a year. Get out of your comfort zone and start drawing a bigger variety of things though, and you'll git gut very soon!

[Anonymous No.2779350]

>>2779004
this is depressing brian

[Anonymous No.2779352]

>>2779347
no reference for the last two

[Anonymous No.2779353]

>>2779004
>2013 was the best

[Anonymous No.2779360]

>>2779352
What?

[Anonymous No.2779361]

>>2779360
>>2779211
the last two and the girl with the orb are not copies

[Anonymous No.2779460]

so uh, 2016 was awful

[Anonymous No.2779483]

>>2779460
lifeless neutral expressions

[Anonymous No.2779484]

>>2779483
If only that was my biggest problem anon, but yep you're right

[Anonymous No.2779490]

>>2779484
How many drawings a month did you do?

[Anonymous No.2779505]

>>2779490
very little, I've been feeling too tired/anxious about art/etc to draw much at all so Id say 3-8 digital sketches a month and about a small thin sketchbook in total for 2016

[Anonymous No.2779509]

Just started again after 5 years.

I just started both the books for over coming symbol drawing. Gonna aim for 4 hours a day.

I'm gonna bring it back lads.

[Anonymous No.2779516]

>>2779509
Keep at it anon! We're all gonna make it!

[Anonymous No.2779518]

>>2779516
Thanks. I just want something in my life instead of sitting on my ass for hours on end.

And just today I stumbled upon a piece of art that I made from elementary school. With my sweet old art teacher.

She died 2 months ago, and I want to take it up so I can best remember her.

I'm gonna paint your picture Mrs.Z! I made you a promise and I never break a promise!

[Anonymous No.2779544]

>>2779518
That sounds like a really bad anime self-pep talk.

But keep going, anon. You can do it.

[Anonymous No.2779571]

>>2779544
Yea it's cheesy as fuck. But I'm gonna keep going.

[Anonymous No.2779575]

>>2779518
Noble cause, but now that you promised you better work your ass off if you don't want a poltergeist.

[Anonymous No.2779576]

>>2779544
>really bad anime self-pep talk.
you reminded me about that guy who said he' surpass Ruan Jia. Whatever happened to him?

[Anonymous No.2779714]

>>2773452
Hoping to start a career in design(someday). Hoping to god that I'm on track for that

[Anonymous No.2779739]

>>2779714

>(just got a tablet)
>drawings got worse.

if you don't practice daily, you are still going to be shit no matter how much you drop on gear.

[Anonymous No.2779741]

>>2777067

not going to a shit atelier school for concept art, that's what

[Anonymous No.2779743]

>>2778915

i havent been on ic since may, who is brain and chunbum?

[Anonymous No.2779745]

>>2779739
How did they get worse?

[Anonymous No.2779749]

>>2779745
I wouldnt go as far as to say he got worse, but it's clear that he has stagnated

[Anonymous No.2779750]

>>2779749
I agree with you there. How can I fix this?

[Anonymous No.2779937]

>>2779743
Apparently the worst artists on ic ever

[Anonymous No.2779948]

>>2779937

Brian is okay but has a god complex that stifles him and keeps him from gitting gud. Cumbum has a god complex too but is just horrible and has no hope of ever producing something aesthetically pleasing.

[Anonymous No.2779951]

>>2779743

>chunbum

Chunbum is a living parody of a stereotypical delusional artist. Part of me really hopes it's some guy posting another dude's art and fucking with us.

[Anonymous No.2779957]

>>2779948
>>2779951
I am so hurt by your mockery hahaha
Is my art really that bad? Hahaha
You guys are funny

[Anonymous No.2779959]

>>2779957

It's pretty bad, but it's your ego that makes you completely intolerable.

[Anonymous No.2779964]

>>2779957

This is my first time coming across you and I think you are a terrible person.

[Anonymous No.2779965]

>>2779957
I wonder what they smell like, haha.

[Anonymous No.2779986]

>>2779964
You seem to be a nice person for saying that. My friends love me :D

[Anonymous No.2780311]

>>2779948
>Brian is okay
aw thanks anon

[Anonymous No.2780341]

>>2779986

I am. I am trying to help you. We are here to help.

[Anonymous No.2780360]

[Anonymous No.2780390]

>>2780360
you're left handed? the most meme-y of handednesses?

[Anonymous No.2780664]

>>2774566
>>2779347
>Actually feb looks more interesting and appealing. Both are nice though.
i personally don't think it's more appealing, but i do find it's a little more interesting, for sure! i guess i lost some of the charm thru oversimplification.

>>2780360
this is really nice, a little all over the place though. what's your goal? i like the characters at the end, but there's nothing to really compare them to

[Anonymous No.2780855]

>>2779750


stop drawing from your imagination and study reality

[Anonymous No.2780860]

>>2780855
How long do you have to study before you can start with your imagination?

[Anonymous No.2780861]

>>2780360
whats with all the figure drawings and paintings with no faces, fingers, or toes?

[Anonymous No.2780883]

>>2780860
Other anon is wrong. You don't stop drawing from imagination completely, you do ref + imagination in conjunction. Otherwise you'll either be a photocopier or someone who can't draw.

[Anonymous No.2780887]

>>2775240
those crazy bitches would be after him in a heartbeat. of course he doesnt have a fucking tumblr

[Anonymous No.2780899]

>>2773452
'15 studies took me 2+ hrs
'16 studies took me less than 10 minutes
im just going for speed. spending too long on forms i dont understand wasnt working out so well.

here's to a less shit 2017

[Anonymous No.2780901]

>>2779460
blog?

[Anonymous No.2780903]

>>2780883
but I cant draw from imagination at all, thats why i am asking

[Anonymous No.2780912]

>>2780903
Learn hwo to construct stuff properly. Learn the basics, i.e. how to draw spheres, pyramids, cones, cubes, etc and then apply that to ref. So try to construct everything from a photo (instead of just sight sizing with the angles) and the more you do it, the easier it should get when you do it from imagination.

[Anonymous No.2780926]

>>2780903
Oh, if you want to draw from imagination you're going to have to just build up your visual library over time and learn to draw from memory. A visual library is a mental collection of subjects (like animals, architecture, vehicles, plants etc) that you have drawn and studied in depth enough to just recall the information at the snap of a finger (and if your skills are up to par you should be able to do so accurately). This is just built up over time with lots of memory drawing (look up the shrimp method for how to train for that). Eventually you can easily put together different parts of animals and plants youve studied to make aliens, or anatomy and machinery to make characters with artificial body parts, for example. So figure out what things you want to be able to use when you draw from imagination and study the shit out of them.

[Anonymous No.2780992]

>>2780926
OP here, thanks for the tip! I do often time feel like my designs are a little bit lackluster, and your suggestion helps a ton

[Anonymous No.2781023]

>>2780992
If character design is what youre studying for, it will also help you to learn about the elements of design and do lots of fashion study, gesture, perspective, human and animal anatomy study, as well as figure drawing.

[Anonymous No.2781356]

I know the lighting, perspective and anatomy is still fucked but whatever.

[Anonymous No.2781366]

>>2781356
The left is a little more appealing, but that may just be because of the content.

[Anonymous No.2781369]

>>2779211
Well that's sad

[Anonymous No.2781498]

>>2781369
what do you mean?

[Anonymous No.2781500]

2014

[Anonymous No.2781502]

>>2781500
2015

[Anonymous No.2781503]

>>2781502
2016

[Anonymous No.2781909]

I'm actually amazed at how decently I progressed.

[Anonymous No.2781924]

>>2779004

I frankly don't know what everyone else is talking about: that picture from 2016 is really good, and I would hang it in my house if it were free. Certainly, however, it is not original: but with just a couple more tweaks to your sensibility and style (which you seem to be striving to achieve), I think you could make some really good things. Do you do anything other than still lifes? I realize the 2015 could be considered a landscape, but frankly it still strikes me as rather stiff for all of its affected flashy motion, and indeed I think it's the worst of that set.

[Anonymous No.2781926]

>>2781909
this isnt a cringe thread

[Anonymous No.2781927]

>>2781924
>would hang it in my house if it were free
that's not really a compliment to someone whose trying to make a living with art. Also it sounds like you might be new here. He is actually decently skilled as an artist although he isn't improving as much as he should be, the reason he gets so much hate is because he thinks he's some kind of god tier artist or reincarnated old master. The delusion is too fucking great.

[Anonymous No.2781930]

>>2781909
the one from 2014 was better, you've regressed.

[Anonymous No.2781931]

>>2781927
Let's not forget that he cyber stalks 4/10 underage girls with 3 inch diameter moles on their face

[Anonymous No.2781932]

>>2773452
I know I'm late to the thread but, this doesn't really seem productive, rendering the same piece slightly better over several years... sometimes you should just scrap stuff and move on, grinding things and understanding deeper methods of construction

[Anonymous No.2781933]

>>2781909
I like the one from 2014 because she is skinnier.
I have regressed as well. Mainly because I don't do much drawing, but instead focus on painting and learning new styles.

[Anonymous No.2781938]

>>2781927

Well, when I say I'd take it for free, of course I would also be willing to fork over a couple hundred bucks or some other realtively small sum. I hope one would take it as a complement when I say I'd be willing to have their artwork crowd out something else I could potentially hang on my wall. I also think that there is pretty significant improvement between those four pictures (with a lapse in 2015), with the last being dramatically more engaging than any of the previous three. But what do I know? I am not myself an artist, and only come here to see what art the 4chan mentality has produced, with the fantasy of finding some hidden gem. That hasn't happened yet, but frankly I am pleasantly surprised even if the overall quality tends to be pretty poor.

>>2781927
>>2781931

Alright, well I didn't mean to get into the petty drama. I'm just saying that he is not bad at all and with promise, from an outsider;s perspective, if that matters at all to any of you. His butt-buddy Cumbucket or whatever his name is, on the other hand, is crap. He has merely regurgitated his art history lessons with an unskillful hand. Brian seems to still be somewhat constrained by tradition (specifcally the tradition of the late 19th-20th centuries) but I think he is going somewhere.

[Anonymous No.2781939]

I do my own holiday cards every year.
I can see that I am much better now. Lots of drawings done in the last 2 years.

Bee Happy!

[Anonymous No.2781941]

>>2781924
i didnt do any still lifes in 2015 cause i was busy making shitty abstract artwork. for the most part i think 2015 was a wasted year, and 2016 was where i got my shit together.

brianvcomforti.com has my best work from 2013-2016 if you're interested in seeing more

[Anonymous No.2782303]

>>2781939
pls be b8

[Anonymous No.2782310]

>>2781939
I can't

[Anonymous No.2782349]

A while back I made a huuuge comp of all my progress from when I started getting serious about drawing (almost a year ago now, first started drawing 6 months before that) to now-ish. it's mostly my sketches and studies, although iirc I think I only had room for about 50% of everything.

trigger warning, I'm a degenerate furfag.

Part one: https://a.pomf.cat/weutng.jpg
Part two: https://a.pomf.cat/lbpbgr.jpg

In the last 2 months I've mostly been doing studies around flow and weight of my lines, force, better arm and leg anatomy without the crutch of a reference photo, and faces (biggest weak point), and in the next few months I'm aiming to work more on shading/painting with colour instead of values while focusing on lighting and more faces.

If someone is interested I can get a few of my recent studies and finished bits together and share them

[Anonymous No.2782520]

i like rocks

[Anonymous No.2782577]

>>2775826
Can you post that ref?

[Anonymous No.2782764]

>>2780899
>im just going for speed
why? there is literally no point in doing quick drawings that you don't understand either

you just wasted your time, sorry. longer studies could've taught you something. speed comes with practice anyway. not saying that gesture is not important but yours are sloppily executed. think before you draw.

[Anonymous No.2782782]

>>2777274
I love it. Good job.

[Anonymous No.2782923]

>>2782764
>think before you draw.
You are absolutely fucking retarded. That's the last thing you want to do.

[Anonymous No.2783009]

>>2775247

Decided I'd update it since the end of the year is nigh. More of the same though, really.

[Anonymous No.2783041]

>>2776955

we get it you like gauguin

[Anonymous No.2783238]

>>2776919
Don't sweat it. Only you can motivate yourself. You think all the /ic/ shit talkers are a horde of amazing artists?

[Anonymous No.2783240]

>>2782520
good shit, keep at it bro

[Anonymous No.2783249]

>>2782923
>You are absolutely fucking retarded. That's the last thing you want to do.

No, you have to think about composition, angles, lighting, reflection, anatomy, lines and masses. You have to KNOW where the muscles and bones lie. You can't mindlessly try to copy.

[Anonymous No.2783253]

>>2783009
Good to see you getting better anon, I remember seeing you in late 2015 and hoping to see you get better

[Anonymous No.2783256]

>>2779743
Brian, Illastrat and Chunbum are the jesters of /ic/, basically imagine the words "muh style" as a human

[Anonymous No.2783273]

>>2783256
please stop lumping me in with illastrat and chunbum.

just because the three of us work traditionally doesn't make us similar in the slightest.

chunbum is delusional and nowhere near what I can do even if he thinks were chummy, and illastrat is for all intents and purposes a retard.

[Anonymous No.2783291]

>>2783273
You're so delusional you don't realize you're delusional. That's all.

[Anonymous No.2783308]

>>2783291
i draw fucking hands all day. what am i delusional about? that it makes me improve? should i be fantasizing about my comic book that one day ill make and will change the face of the planet and be required reading at college level lit classes across the planet?

[Anonymous No.2783322]

>>2783273
I srsly thought brian and chumbun were the same person

[Anonymous No.2783324]

>>2783322
I thought Brian and Illustrat were the same.

[Anonymous No.2783326]

>>2783009
following your improvement has been incredibly satisfying for me anon
keep breaking out of your comfort zone and getting better, you're improving by leaps and bounds, and it's heartwarming to see

[Anonymous No.2783328]

>>2781366
yeah but he's definitely improved

[Anonymous No.2783348]

>>2783322
>>2783324
then you've been giving them both too much credit.

[Anonymous No.2783432]

>>2781933
Tell me more.

[Anonymous No.2783438]

How bad is it that I haven't improved much in my first year of drawing? I know it's far from good, but just how bad is it?

[Anonymous No.2783441]

>>2783438
post your art you dumb fuck

[Anonymous No.2783537]

>>2783441
Ok, here, top pic is six months ago, bottom pic is recent.

I could blame my cringy stagnation on a number of things, some of which are valid reasons, but they aren't gonna fix my art. I need to break out of the comfort zone I've dug myself into and focus more on getting where I need to get to.
I'm also working on some landscape and environment studies as well as going over the fundamentals I stupidly missed. I should be able to un-fuck myself throughout 2017.
All I'm asking is just how badly I fucked myself over on my first year of learning art

[Anonymous No.2783594]

>>2783537
Could be better but there's still some improvement over the first one, just practice everyday and you should see better results. If you really want you probably could follow Feng Zhu's one punch man training method, but unless you're aiming for an art job that would probably be overkill for most hobbyist

[Anonymous No.2783596]

>>2783273
But Brian your art has no heart. It's just technique and Asian art students can run circles around you all day in terms of technique if they wanted to. You are playing a losing battle. You think you are the next van gogh and picasso but your art has no heart. It had no soul.

My art has both.

[Anonymous No.2783789]

>>2783596
what kind of racist bullshit is that? i'm not korean so i'll never be any good?

i just want to sell paintings and make a living, my goal isn't to make people cry every time they walk past my painting in their kitchen.

and for the record, i've never once had an emotional connection to a painting. they're just paintings. i don't romanticize this stuff. i don't expect my work to change someone's life because other people's work never did that for me anyways.

i just enjoy painting. fuck off.

[Anonymous No.2783810]

>>2783789
So you just want to make a living with your paintings? That's it? It seems more to have to do with your ego than painting itself

[Anonymous No.2783811]

>>2783789
You are never going to make it big if you think and paint like that. You need to believe in the force, believe in the light like my friends and i do

[Anonymous No.2783863]

>>2783253
>>2783326

Thanks anons, I'll try not to let you down.

[Anonymous No.2783870]

>>2783596

lol cumbum your art is kindergartener scribbles, except done in acrylics instead of finger paint. Brian is lightyears ahead of you when it comes to ever becoming a succesful artist and his work is not that good.

[Anonymous No.2783908]

>>2776955
i'm sorry chunbum but this needs to go to the "autistic" progress thread here >>2768545 because you actually have autism
any other anons that don't believe me just look at his blogspot also
stay the fuck out of the asl they don't want you there

[Anonymous No.2783913]

>>2775228
>26
fuck it, I'm killing myself
I'm done with this

[Anonymous No.2783951]

>>2775209
that's a very specific fetish

[Anonymous No.2783967]

[Anonymous No.2783974]

>>2783870
>>2783908
Sorry guys but my art is wonderful and it must be affecting your ego. But your sensitivity cannot outweigh my right to share my art.

You can say whatever you'd like and wish but truth is self evident. My art rocks :D

[Anonymous No.2783979]

>>2776955
these are strong paintings. every painting gives me emotions of sadness, which i know you meant to do. Very good! Keep it up! you are a very good painter other people just have an ego and are trying to affect your artwork but you'll keep going I hope!

[Anonymous No.2783981]

>>2783979
Thank you! I meant to portray the emotion of sadness in my paintings and love.

I will not let the egos of these jealous artists make me stop doing what I am so good at!

[Anonymous No.2783987]

>>2783981
This is not me.

[Anonymous No.2784031]

>>2783974

If your art is that great then why does it get zero likes and comments on your page?

[Anonymous No.2784033]

>>2783979

Cmbum detected. How pathetic.

[Anonymous No.2784051]

>>2784033
Is that your trick to make me appear to be double posting?

>>2784031
On what page? I post on many places. Some places have limited audience. Some places you need to register or have an account in order to comment.
But in many places my art is showered with love and praise.

And most of my friends are on Facebook, Instagram and in real life. They include veteran painters, professional artists, and dear and praiseworthy instructors.

[Anonymous No.2784056]

>>2784051
Why do you post on 4chan then? I don't really mind your stuff but whenever you post something you just get shit on. Why not just keep posting in all the other places and avoid /ic/?

[Anonymous No.2784065]

>>2784056
Because I like sharing my art. I don't really mind the criticisms and insults.

[Anonymous No.2784069]

>>2784065
>I don't really mind the criticisms
quite literally the opposite point of someone giving you a crit

[Anonymous No.2784159]

>>2783537
Chill, my dude.
If you haven't already, make sure you actually try to draw/paint something to completion every once and a while. You're bound to run into some road-blocks and problems along the way, and when you're done you can look back and know what to study up on.
And don't take /ic/ so seriously.

[Anonymous No.2784163]

Started drawing this year. April to December progress.

Needless to say, I'm a little disappointed, but it taught me what I was ignoring and what I needed to work on - as well as reteaching me discipline after years of fucking around in unrelated things. Here's to 2017's art gains.

[Anonymous No.2784187]

>>2784163
looks like a nice progress for a couple months
can you tell what were you studying like books and such

[Anonymous No.2784196]

>>2784187
The only books I truly made use out of were Vilppu/Hampton and the ctrl+paint videos. My "study" was all observing how things worked in real life

[Anonymous No.2784199]

>>2783967
I can see the advice right now.

"Go to the symbol drawing books start there"

This place has given me advice PTSD.

[Anonymous No.2784200]

>>2783967
How old are you anon?

[Anonymous No.2784229]

>>2784196
Man how do you just "get it"? Like I have been drawing for a year, doing studies all that and I still don't know how to better understand studies/books. got any thoughts on that?

[Anonymous No.2784298]

>>2784229
I dunno man, I just try to think as analytically and 3D as I can while I learn so I understand my subject wholly. Also you gotta take a break from studies and do fun stuff from imagination so you can apply what you learn

[Anonymous No.2784530]

>>2782923

Anon, speed as a product of comfort and understanding of a subject is one thing. If you know a subject well, you'll get quicker.
Speed as a substitute for patience is another entirely. The gesture drawing meme has got too many beginners rushing out half-assed drawings thinking it's going to make them intuitively understand something they don't understand. There's a place for quantity over quality, but it's a waste of fucking time to work on a philosophy where you're TRYING not to think about what you're doing. I guarantee you any gesture drawing worth a shit the artist has made decisions on, the ones who 'make it look easy' have just internalized a process. That means practicing more than just gesture drawing. It requires an extensive knowledge of form and anatomy so embedded in your brain (from THINKING ABOUT IT and PRACTICING IT DELIBERATELY) that it comes naturally. The only thing you make intuitive by deliberately doing sloppy rush jobs is how to make a sloppy rush job.

[Anonymous No.2784845]

2016 was the worst year so far. I started getting lazier, to the point where I barely drew once a week and now I haven't drawn anything in months and I no longer find passion in drawing
Anyone else experiencing the same?

[Anonymous No.2784851]

>>2784845

Not to that extent but I've had a few rut months where I regularly went several days without drawing.

The best I can suggest is rebuild a routine. In my experience a lot of the 'no longer find passion in drawing' is the standard 'I don't really feel like it right now' that comes out of a lack of a routine, and once you have a routine going again it's a lot easier to find the motivation. It's just the effort to get back in the habit.

[Anonymous No.2784855]

>>2784845
your stuff from 2014 had more variance, personality and life than your more recent stuff

[Anonymous No.2785223]

>>2784845
damn, I love the way you draw guys, blog?

[Anonymous No.2785401]

I'm pretty disappointed. So much animeshit back then and I was pretty young so I was a dumbass but I've moved on from my weeaboo ways.
Now it's too much video games that I barely draw (digitally at least).

I think I draw better on paper though and drawing from my pen tablet feels pretty awful. I should replace it with a much better one.

Next year I'll self-study how to draw more realistic, how colors work, how to paint etc.

[Anonymous No.2785419]

>>2782764
I guess I misspoke?
I want to have a general understanding before I move onto those time-consuming studies that focus on muscles and bones and shit. For me, cranking out 10-20 30sec poses a day will help me build up my foundations. Because right now? Theyre shit senpai

[Anonymous No.2785427]

>>2785401
youre not bad, but you haven't improved on much either. from here on out its composition studies for you. a lot of these comps are unappealing and bland

[Anonymous No.2785428]

>>2781909
go home tumblr
this isn't a hugbox

[Anonymous No.2785439]

>>2780899
>>2782764
a better example:
the left (a commission) took me the better part of 4 hours because i got stuck on the anatomy for the longest time. constantly tweaked and re-sketched pieces of it for 2 goddamn hours.

the right was done for fun. took about 3 hours to sketch, color AND shade it. and it was overrall less painful. i even enjoyed myself. speed is nice

[Anonymous No.2785441]

>>2785419
What anime?

[Anonymous No.2785474]

>>2785427
Yep. I need more life and flow in my drawings. I was actually intimidated in doing pretty dynamic scenes and better composition or whatever back then but now I realize that's what I lack.

[Anonymous No.2785530]

>>2785401
BLOG

[Anonymous No.2785547]

>>2783594
not him but feng zhus one punch man training? i dont kno what that is but i want to try it

[Anonymous No.2785574]

>>2785530
I don't know why you'd want it since my drawings aren't that great and there's not much to see but here: http://snackstore.tumblr.com/

I didn't post much this year because half of my time and motivation went to drawing porn and they're in another blog.

[Anonymous No.2785581]

>>2785574
Other blog you say?

[Anonymous No.2785584]

Friend's design, I like her a lot

[Anonymous No.2785596]

>>2781366
This.
I think there needs to be more contrast in the second because nothing really attracts the eye.

[Anonymous No.2785597]

>>2785581
It's fudanshitter. As the name suggests it's full of awkward gay porn. Might not be your thing.

[Anonymous No.2785654]

>get into artschool to improve my drawing
>they refuse to teach me anything but one method of drawing, which is the opposite of what I was learning up until then
>my drawing gets progressively worse over the years because I never managed to properly switch from linear drawing and the new method is unappealing to me
>the school made me hate drawing, have no inspiration to draw anymore for a year now

What do /ic/?

[Anonymous No.2785667]

>>2785654
>>get into artschool
You fucked up and wasted money.

[Anonymous No.2785670]

>>2785654
ken kkkaaii men goooo meen dood feeerrffi kakk

[Anonymous No.2785695]

I think I'm improving pretty well. Loomis and Vilppu really help.

[Anonymous No.2785774]

>>2785441
k on shit

[Anonymous No.2785780]

>>2785547
Lost that parody pic of him but basically he said that one should work more than 5 hours everyday (he said his student work 16 hours per day) in order to become competitive enough to be hired by the big players in the industry.

[Anonymous No.2785839]

>>2773452
Didn't paint anything so no progress. lol

[Anonymous No.2785903]

>>2785695
lmao

[Anonymous No.2785906]

>>2785584

>never getting better at anything except lighting

jesus de la cristo.

[Anonymous No.2785960]

>>2781498
ignore them its fine

[Anonymous No.2786060]

>>2785654
Wait, how were they teaching you draw? What do you mean by "linear"?

[Anonymous No.2786295]

>>2774595
your improvement seems fast, but you NEED to learn fundamentals before polishing your rendering. I guarantee you will look back and think "holy shit, why was I polishing turds", which is a good thing, it means you've improved

[Anonymous No.2786298]

>>2775209
Your method is strong but you seem to only paint things that a 12 year old mind could conjure.

[Anonymous No.2786381]

>>2773593
ITS BUPE GUYS HEY BUPE BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPE HEY BUPE

[Anonymous No.2786579]

ah...

[Anonymous No.2786582]

>>2786579
oh, just realized I didn't copy/paste the ink layer on the mass effect piccy. Well, I guess thats a good thing if the painting stands out on its own without inks, oh well.

[Anonymous No.2786585]

Still honing down on finding a sweet spot/balance with practice routines- my results are underwhelming despite 2016 being the most productive year I've ever had this far.

[Anonymous No.2786587]

>>2786295
any suggestions on what should i work on the most?

[Anonymous No.2786599]

>>2783913
Why anon?

[Anonymous No.2786601]

>>2786585
you were pretty good in 2011, you should be much better by now than you are.

[Anonymous No.2786606]

>>2786579
not my thing but nice improvement I guess. You got better at anatomy and moderation

[Anonymous No.2786609]

>>2786601
I was a kid at the time, and only really drew for fun, resulting in lackluster improvement for a number of years. I only started doing studies and trying to build ability through focus during 2015, but even that was sporadic.
But I do still agree. I should've been able to come further than I did this year. I'll have to work twice as hard next year.

[Anonymous No.2786626]

>>2775209
>dick brain polishing weeb shit BFTO

[Anonymous No.2786632]

>>2786609
how old are you?

[Anonymous No.2786634]

>>2785584
Let me guess venture a guess and say the character turned fatter just as the artist.

[Anonymous No.2786638]

>>2786579
Gawd I still love the line work on that dragon. I doubt it but do you have a place for your sfw art?

[Anonymous No.2786643]

>>2774592
You suck, but you're good. Keep it up, and one day you might be as good as yourself

[Anonymous No.2786650]

>>2786632
18->19 during 2016.

[Anonymous No.2786657]

>tfw destroyed a sketchbook full of drawings because im an autistic faggot who can't control emotions

i'm never going to fucking make it lads

[Anonymous No.2786866]

>>2786657
No, Anon, frustration can push you a long way
Just don't destroy, start building

[Anonymous No.2786879]

>>2786657
One day I got so butthurt I threw away year and a half worth of sketches. That's like, 100 print pages and 4 craft paper sketchbooks. Kind of regret not having old shit to look at for motivation but such is life.

[Anonymous No.2786903]

>>2786657
Do /fit/izens who make it ever delete their pre-gym photos?

[Anonymous No.2786941]

My years progress, plus a painting I'm currently trying to make work there's a long way to gettin gud.

[Anonymous No.2786942]

>>2786941

[Anonymous No.2786983]

>>2773452

I-im gonna make it r-right guys?

[Anonymous No.2787045]

>>2786579
have any of your viewer complaint about lack of dick shape variety?

[Anonymous No.2787050]

>>2785906
The original design is pretty bland, so I try to stick with it. So far what gives me some trouble is trying to render architecture
>>2786634
Not fatter, but had gains for days

[Anonymous No.2787059]

>>2776467
I like how you've drawn the hair of recent, what kind of tutorials would you recommend on drawing hair, I tend to struggle drawing hair myself because of lack of investment and proper guidance.

[Anonymous No.2787207]

>>2775869
>relatively righter
>post about squinting

not my OC

[Anonymous No.2787214]

>>2775209
>2007
>2008
I don't believe this

[Anonymous No.2787259]

>>2786941
nice progress, you seem to have patience.
could define the contrast between the detailed and less detailed areas a bit more, but that's more or less a subjective matter

so here's mine:
might be an extreme example since these two are fundamentally different,
but it think it gets to the point..
the right one is still very rough, but it shows how I tried to use other ways of drawing than simply (turd)polished lines which already start with the details.

I have not forsaken this simple way of drawing, but only doing it this one way feels sluggish.

started very late with changing this somehow, but since I'm not in a hurry to gonna make it, I'm okay.. but could definately need some more self-discipline. feels like wasted time this way. I try to draw specific storys for like, years, and hardly get some shit done

>don't be as lazy as me anon

[Anonymous No.2787874]

>>2779460
c-chabs, is that you?

[Anonymous No.2788370]

1 year progress, saw it on leddit

[Anonymous No.2788589]

>>2788370
>still no likeness
>evolved the signature
wew, good job

[Anonymous No.2789722]

>>2786941
Thought I might post the more detail version.

[Anonymous No.2789998]

>>2789722

your colors are better but your anatomy is still meh. Why are you making so little progress from 14 to 16? Stop wasting your time and go study. Getting max gear on WoW isn't going to get your a job.

>>2788589

he posted on levelup! via Facebook as well, he does a lot of copying of portraits, can't expect much anon.

[Anonymous No.2790001]

>>2786381

no that is nile.

[Anonymous No.2790093]

This is pixel art stuff but hopefully thats alright, sorry if not