Questions Thread.

[Anonymous No.3265820]

No need to make a thread if you only have a single question.

Don't know where to start? We have multiple stickies >>1579290 → → → → → → → → → and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj please read them as most of your common woes are here.

Want to build a habit drawing daily? Then LAS is for you: >>3251150→ → → →

How to draw Chinese cartoons 101: >>3264100→ → → →

Are you a beginner? Do you struggle with drawing boxes? Do you wish to receive critiques from Anonymous? Join us over at the beginner thread: >>3265101→ → → →

General Draw thread....you know, where the slightly cooler kids post: >>3260326→ → → →

Artbook Thread (hey you got to thread watch this; it's FREE* resources!): >>3263542→ → → → →

If you're into degeneracy then we have something for you, too. The Porn Thread: >>3258226→ → → →

[Anonymous No.3265833]

>>3265820

I'll start, boys. I have this problem.

<<<<<

Where the fucking stylus jumps around, but only when I'm not drawing.

How can I fix this garbage? It started recently. Haven't touched the drivers and It worked fine yesterday.

[Anonymous No.3265834]

>>3265833
Have you tried restarting

[Anonymous No.3265867]

>>3265834
Well, I restarted, reinstalled the drivers, restarted again and the problem seemed to go away. Thanks dude.

[Anonymous No.3266064]

How do I get people "hyped" about the shit I do? Like, I try my hardest to present my stories and illustrations as best as I can, but it always seems like people eventually lose interest. I even create one/two sentence summaries of the whole thing to keep things from getting to "talky." But even then it doesn't always work out.

Are my ideas just not that interesting? How do I keep people engaged with a story?

[Anonymous No.3266078]

fellas where the fuck did I leave my pen I can't find it anywhere

[Anonymous No.3266084]

>>3266078
I use my pens and equipment as bookmarks sometimes, check there

[Anonymous No.3266086]

>>3266064
This is something everyone deals with, and there's no easy fix, if it were that easy, everyone would be rich artists. You just have to keep going, and hope that you build a better audience. Over time your skills will improve, hopefully, and draw more people in. It's not something you can cheat or buy or force. You can try different marketing techniques to reach a bigger pool of people, but content is content, and bringing in the eyeballs is something even the top people struggle with at times.

[Anonymous No.3266126]

What are recommended books for brush inking techniques?

[Anonymous No.3266130]

is there a good way to make clean digital lineart without obsessing over every stroke? I wanna make decent lineart and lineweight. I don't know if its my hand or me tampering with the brush settings too much, I do that all the time because drawing on the tablet feels so fake.

also should I quit listening to music while drawing?

[Anonymous No.3266137]

Looking for any advice regarding designing proportions for less human-shaped biped characters &, especially, constructing poses for bipedal digitigrades and the like.
I guess I could say working out poses is something I struggle with in general, as well. Sitting, shots that don't show the legs and anything else that doesn't involve having to actually ground a character (certain action poses, floating in a void) is all easy but the moment you introduce a floor they've gotta stand on I start fucking up.

Image not my own.

[Anonymous No.3266143]

Can you use a ruler on a drawing tablet?

[Anonymous No.3266155]

>>3266143
Nothing's stopping you from putting a ruler on a drawing tablet but
1. Why would you? Most software has anything you'd use a ruler for built in
2. Good luck getting any use out of it with anything that isn't a Cintiq/pen display

[Anonymous No.3266271]

how do i color edit brown to white?
I can do white to brown but not the reverse.

[Anonymous No.3266335]

How do i become porn artist? I have 3.6 terrabytes of porn reference.

[Anonymous No.3266476]

what do I do when I don't feel like drawing but haven't practised much that day? less caffeine?

[Anonymous No.3266556]

>>3266271
photoshop has a 'replace colour with' tool somewhere in the edit menu but it's not great

[Anonymous No.3266558]

>>3265820
where can i cheaply buy clip paint studio or is there some torrent with newest version?

[Anonymous No.3266567]

>>3266476
Draw

[Anonymous No.3266568]

>>3266567
when i cbf but do it anyway i draw utter shite though

[Anonymous No.3266571]

where can i find reference body parts photos, like hands, legs, torso, tits, crotch, ass, head, face, palms, fingers, etc, etc

[Anonymous No.3266604]

>>3266568
That's the idea.You keep doing it till it stops being shit.

[Anonymous No.3266612]

>>3266604
listen you empty headed pillock I'm going to rewrite what I said so you have another chance to read it

WHEN I CBF BUT DO IT ANYWAY i draw utter shite

I'm not saying I always draw shite, just when I cbf but force myself to

[Anonymous No.3266620]

>>3266612
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. You force yourself until it stops being shit.

[Anonymous No.3266624]

Finally built a PC and got Win10 license on it.

Just set up my Intuos4 and installed Krita and GIMP 2.8 and every time I lift my pen and start a new line there's some input lag, giving me this flat bit at the start of every line. It also feels pretty annoying having the cursor drag for some milliseconds at the start of every line. I don't think I can get used to this, nor do I think I should. I can't go around cleaning the first centimeter of every single line I draw.

Any idea what causes this? Any experience on similar issues? I already had a terrible fight turning off a bunch of tablet features on this piece of shit system and most of it's gone but it appears some lag still remains.

[Anonymous No.3266643]

>>3266064
You need visibility. Draw people in with something. Shock value or something trendy, sex sells and so do popular culture references.

Work on making a good and interesting first chapter, then upload it somewhere. /a/, /co/, /i/? Maybe a couple of chapters, depends on page count. Finish it off with a cliffhanger. Include in something to draw people in. Cute girls, edgy setting, whatever to sell out. A trashy comic/illustration or two will bring people to your better stuff, especially if you can combine trashiness and selling out with whatever you enjoy.

A good way to build your name is to have art site accounts for fan art, people are far more interested in drawings of their waifu than good art or design in general. Draw fan art on whatever you like and sneak in some of your own designs to lure like-minded people in. Collaborate and communicate with other people online. Try to make friends. Network in Reddit, tumblr, Twitter while promoting your art.

[Anonymous No.3266686]

>>3266612
Post what you think your good art looks like then. You type like a mongoloid so I'm sure your 'good' art is 'shite' too lol

[Anonymous No.3266720]

>>3266624
probably a driver problem
reinstall them and make sure it's the right one

[Anonymous No.3266731]

>>3266643
>Work on making a good and interesting first chapter, then upload it somewhere. /a/,
>/a/
Don’t do that.

[Anonymous No.3266752]

>>3266624
Put tablet sensibility to maximum

[Anonymous No.3267233]

any video tutorials on 2-d art?

[Anonymous No.3267262]

I told myself I wouldn't use a tablet until I feel worth of getting one. Reason being is that I had developed so many bad habits with my old tablet that I was actually going backwards with my art progression.

So for a yearish I only did pencil+paper, and then I got a bit desperate and did digital art with a mouse (tablet was broken). Despite taking forever to draw, I was actually progressing at a satisfactory rate and was making works I was actually somewhat happy with. After 3 months of this I decided I was ready to go back to using a tablet and got a screen tablet, figuring I had finally let go of the old habits.

And then I tried using the tablet. All my old habits instantly rushed back in, no matter how long I spent trying to figure out how to get my brush to do what I want, it's like it was going against everything my mind wanted. I figured it was due to lack of mileage but I got used to the tablet's mechanisms pretty quickly, so then I tried playing around with brush settings, brush packs, etc. but they didn't solve anything. I nearly had a nervous breakdown because I was so looking forward to making the next step in my art journey, only to be kicked back down by stupidity.

What the heck was I doing differently with my mouse than I was with a tablet? It's like the pen just didn't cooperate with me, but I really wanted to get comfortable with using a tablet because I'm tired of spending 3x the time using a mouse. Is it just some oversight with my brushes? Is it all in my head? This is giving me mad anxiety.

Pic unrelated.

[Anonymous No.3267267]

>>3267262
*feel worthy

[Anonymous No.3267285]

>>3267262
how are you holding the stylus? sometimes i find I'm death gripping it for hours, leading to stiff drawings and feeling frustrated. better to be very loose when you can, and stay zoomed in enough that you're using a good chunk of the tablet area

brushes can definitely make a difference too. when I found a good pencil brush that could let me be very light and precise I started enjoying drawing digitally a lot more. same for painting when I discovered hard round + low flow

also just play around for a while, don't have high expectations. I'm sure you didn't have high hopes for your mouse drawings, so when they looked good you got extra excited

[Anonymous No.3267286]

>>3267262
Just draw.

[Anonymous No.3267291]

any good tutorials for cell shading?

[Anonymous No.3267298]

>>3267285
I hold my stylus like a pencil, if that's what you mean. I'll keep looking into brushes but I know that if I can paint with a hard square brush using a mouse, then I should be able to do the same with a tablet. Speaking of which, I see what you mean by the last sentence, but I'm actually just bad at drawing with a tablet, period. It feels like I'm drawing with my left hand or something, and it's felt that way even back when I would use my old tablet. Is there some tablet tutorial out there or something? Am I just autistic?

>>3267286
I know it sounds stupid but I'm actually kinda recuperating from drawing. Legitimately trying to control my breathing and clearing my head because I was just so shook by how awful it felt using the tablet. I'll go back to pencil for a bit I guess.

[Anonymous No.3267307]

is it better to do 1 hour a day or 2 hours every other day?

i.e. does resting between days help more than hinder skill development?

[Anonymous No.3267313]

>>3267298
>Am I just autistic?

>posts moeblob
>weird complaint about tablets
>ptsd from using a tablet
>nervous breakdown
>bothered with drawing with a mouse
Yes.

That said, I hate drawing with a tablet and only use it to paint.

[Anonymous No.3267318]

>>3267313
Can I ask what your painting process is like? What brush settings you use?

[Anonymous No.3267321]

>>3267307
Speaking purely from a habit perspective, daily might be better in order to maintain consistency, which is arguably most important.

Really it probably depends on the person. If you draw for 2 hours, do you get better results in the first hour or the second? That should probably determine whether it's best to do an hour a day or 2 every other. Same rule applies to 4 daily, 8 every other, etc.

[Anonymous No.3267327]

>>3267307
Daily is better, skill isn't even built unless you put in a certain amount of time daily. It also depends on what you're doing and a million other things, but daily for as long as it's comfortable to do so, one day a week off sounds good. Rest and time to synthesize information is also important. Anon above me also raises some good points.

[Anonymous No.3267347]

How do you make sure your style is consistant? My style seems to have alot of variety and doesn't stay the same way long, is there a way to fix this? Or is it normal to have a style that changes every month or week?

[Anonymous No.3267349]

>>3267347
Everything I draw looks like I drew it. Is that style?

[Anonymous No.3267351]

>>3267349
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.3267353]

>>3267351
Answer my rhetorical question first.

[Anonymous No.3267356]

>>3267353
Yes

[Anonymous No.3267364]

>>3267356
So you consider style to be nebulous and unconscious. Then it's beyond you're control.

I'm kidding, but that is an aspect of it. On the one hand style is a conscious decision based in certain repetitive linguistic cues, on the other hand, if you keep doing something else it may not be what you want to do stylistically.

[Anonymous No.3267368]

What do you think of mechanical pencils, /ic/?

[Anonymous No.3267373]

>>3267368
I use them to sketch. They're great for getting clean lines, not so great if you're going for broader strokes, but there are workarounds. In the end, it's all about whether it feels right to you or not.

[Anonymous No.3267375]

>>3267364
I get where your coming from, but i think maybe my style is inconsistent because i dont know what style i like anymore. Is there anyway to make myself think i can just stick to a niche, its really bad for my commissioners and i feel bad about it.

[Anonymous No.3267384]

>>3267375
Oh, you have to stick to a style for a reason. Shit. Make a ref wall and put it right in your line of sight so you stay on model. It's what araki has to do to remember how to draw some characters.

Now you're free to fuck around and find something new. I saw one artist change it up like model years on a car. He got significantly better overall, but stuck to what he was doing and rolled out iterations towards his new style and better quality every month or so.

[Anonymous No.3267748]

HOW DO YOU RENDER FOLDS

drawing lines easy. making them look 3D? not so much. help

[Anonymous No.3267959]

Is there anything I can use to quickly "block in" values when I'm drawing traditionally?
I just want to get the base values down fast instead of spending time hatching like an idiot.
This will save precious time when I'm doing fast studies.

[Anonymous No.3267969]

>>3267748
Cylinders and cones. You even drew cones.

[Anonymous No.3267975]

>>3267748
where is this crop from?

[Anonymous No.3268006]

Is there documentation on different types of mannequins from various artists?

[Anonymous No.3268028]

>>3267959
Draw a thing
Quickly fill the entire object with a value
Draw shadow shadowshapes
Darken/soften the core shadow
Quickly fill in basic shadow tone in relation to the local value you did earlier
Pull out highlights with an eraser if you didn't already
Done

The trick is to work in a very limited 3 to 5 step greyscale rather than get all noodle-y with values

Pic not me

[Anonymous No.3268047]

Best exercises to master my basic shapes? I mean, all these construction methods require you to know how to manipulate cubes and cylinders, what are the best exercises to take confidence and be able to draw those shapes freehand at any angle?

[Anonymous No.3268056]

Does anyone else sweat a lot when drawing? My hands don’t get clammy, but when I get up after drawing my pits are soaking wet.

[Anonymous No.3268059]

>>3268056
Only when I'm doing life drawing on croquis cafe.

[Anonymous No.3268179]

what are those pencils called that are blue and when you scan them in they become invisible?

[Anonymous No.3268219]

Wanted to try a starry twilight sky and figured I'd try snow in the foreground. I can tell I need lots of work, but could someone point me in the right direction(s)?

[Anonymous No.3268229]

>>3268219
give it a foreground

[Anonymous No.3268412]

>>3268219
>>3268229

or use change of value to signal the snow is up close and not sloping way down, away from the view, esp in the bottom left-center of the picture

right now that little line on the bottom makes it look like viewer is standing on the bottom of a hole

[Anonymous No.3268454]

how do you see my anatomy in thsis draw?

[Anonymous No.3268497]

>>3266130
Lazy nezumi

[Anonymous No.3268522]

any good brush packs for clip studio?

[Anonymous No.3268556]

Can anyone recommend a tablet around $200 for artbooks/comics/manga/ref/books? Getting really tired of being limited to my desktop monitors for drawing from reference or instructional books and want to get mobile.

[Anonymous No.3268564]

>want to draw all day
>sit down
>nothing comes out
>stare at blank page all night
>wonder why the fuck I'm still doing this to myself
>go to bed unhappy
I'm never gonna make it, am I?

[Anonymous No.3268575]

>>3268564
look anon
you're not gonna be happy to hear me say this
but if you have to ask 4chan if we think you're never gonna make it then you're never gonna make it
you clearly don't actually enjoy drawing (evidenced by you not drawing) so go do something else with your life instead of wishing you'll be an artist someday
if you think I'm being rude, I really don't care
take the tough love here because you fucking need it
so sick of seeing this "omg I REALLY WANT to draw but I just CAN'T bring myself to" shit everywhere I go
if you actually wanted to draw, you'd be drawing whenever you had the time for it
but you don't want to draw
do something else

[Anonymous No.3268579]

>>3268564
Take a deep breath. Walk for a few minutes. Count to ten.

It's just one bad day. Not every day will work out the way you want it to be, especially for drawing. You'll be fine in the long run.

[Anonymous No.3268597]

>>3268564

Do you lack confidence? Do you feel that every thing you can do is garbage? Do you feel like procastinating before drawing? Can't come up with any good ideas? Are you bored of drawing shit from reference?

Fill a sketchbook with gesture drawings. Read Hampton's figure drawing, but only the gesture section. Go to quickposes.com and start doing something.

Just focus on drawing every day without miss. It doesn't matter what you do. Just draw.

For now, filling a sketchbook will be more than enough for getting your feet wet. Once you get momentum, you will no longer leave those fucking sheets empty.

[Anonymous No.3268598]

Are there any solid books on who to write/draw a good comic strip? Trying to google advice leads to a lot of Wikihow-tier shit, or advice from esteemed nu-comic artists like Owlturd and Sarah Andersen.

[Anonymous No.3268618]

A few questions:

I'm in the market for a sub-100 dollar tablet. Will this be good?

https://www.amazon.com/Huion-Drawing-Graphics-Express-Rechargeable/dp/B01HT70QGY/ref=sr_1_7/145-7978384-7093035?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1515455307&sr=1-7&refinements=p_36%3A1253505011

I'm aware of the value of learning analog drawing before digital. How much should I do analog-wise before I transition to digital? Or maybe I should flip back and forth between them?

[Anonymous No.3268645]

>>3268618
I have the giano and it's great and I've heard good about the 1060.

> How much should I do analog-wise before I transition to digital?
Competent. It doesn't really benefit you unless you're already good enough to shit out a finished piece. Digital is fun to use if you like it, but all I use it for is painting shit without burning money.

[Anonymous No.3268664]

>>3268598
Understanding Comics.

[Anonymous No.3268848]

>>3268564
Your fear of drawing badly is currently greater than your desire to draw well.

[Anonymous No.3268908]

>>3268412
If you're talking about the line at the very bottom, that's the rip where I pulled for a blending nub.

This may exceed a simple question, but could you briefly explain what you mean by 'apply value' here?

[Anonymous No.3269076]

>>3266624
Maybe windows is trying to detect a click or double click.

>>3267748
An easy way to make a fold look 3d is to have some kind of pattern, texture or seam running across it

>>3267975
Michael Massen drapery and clothes book

[Anonymous No.3269196]

Dunno if this is more of a /g/ question but with the Flash format being phased out, what's replacing it for interactive content?
muh porn games

[Anonymous No.3269199]

From what I remember, there's always HTML5. But in-browser games are pretty much phased out. Hopefully someone proves me wrong.

[Anonymous No.3269210]

What paper is recommended for watercolor

[Anonymous No.3269217]

>>3269210
https://youtu.be/UuBdMJor-Bk?t=55

[Anonymous No.3269262]

>>3268598
how to draw comics the marvel way is surprisingly great. also framed ink.

[Anonymous No.3269264]

>>3268645
aye the giano is amazing value for money, and worth the bit extra.

[Anonymous No.3269346]

>>3269217
Thanks

[Anonymous No.3269370]

>>3269199
The important part, I guess, is that Animate CC/Some equivalent package gets the tools to script sequences in and export to HTML5. If it does, the rest will fix itself once Flash support is cut off entirely.

[Anonymous No.3269411]

>>3268179

Non-photo blue pencil?

[Anonymous No.3269466]

>>3269196
html5,javascript,unityweb,etc

>>3268179
blue pencils, there nothing special about the pencil, you just ignore a color when scanning

>>3268047
basic perspective and drawing them in perspective

[Anonymous No.3269787]

>>3266271
>>3266556
GIMP has color-to-alpha which works really well. Worth keeping on your computer if only for this.

[Anonymous No.3269796]

How do I make decent money monthly with my art?

[Anonymous No.3269851]

Is there a way to get a similar effect like the marker brushes in sai, but in photoshop? sai breaks my tablet and makes drawing really uncomfortable, but i love the software a lot, is there anyway to get a similar style in photoshop?

[Anonymous No.3269854]

>>3269851
Just copy how it looks.

[Anonymous No.3269856]

>>3269854
how? im talking a kind of brush that is similar in photoshop, not spending hours replicating a brush :/

[Anonymous No.3269857]

>>3265820
Is going to school worth it? I have horrible self discipline and rely too much on references to draw free hand.

[Anonymous No.3269860]

>>3269857
No, if you don't have any reason to go, it's not worth it.

[Anonymous No.3269869]

>>3269860
I want to get better? Would be taking drawing1/2 and go off life classes

[Anonymous No.3269878]

>>3269857
Don't go to art school if you're just going to put in the bare minimum amount of work. You'll get out of school and find that you've still got horrible self discipline.

[Anonymous No.3269972]

Bump

[Anonymous No.3269985]

G'day friends,

Was wondering what is the best way to get reasonable quality prints to frame using jpegs i've found.

Basically I want to frame these and hang them, however I am unsure what the best way to go about getting these on to a nice print would be.

Any advice?

I've attached a picture i'd like to use for example.

[Anonymous No.3269990]

how do you load and use different brush preset packs? do you just replace the existing one? what do you do when you want to use the default brushes again?

[Anonymous No.3269999]

>>3269990
What software?

[Anonymous No.3270034]

>>3269999
photoshop

[Anonymous No.3270040]

>>3268056
Use a good deodrant?

[Anonymous No.3270062]

how to prevent losing skill at something like figure drawing when practicing other things for a time? particularly drawing from imagination, i range from competant to pre/beg/ tier within only a week of not practicing it

[Anonymous No.3270113]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sjNTt_RsDo

What software can I use to do geometric animation like this? I see this type of animation often in japanese music videos.
Also, do I always need to make it manually? Is there a way to form these geometric figures automatically? (sorry for my english, hope my question it's understandable)

[Anonymous No.3270365]

>>3269787
I have that ill give it a shot

[Anonymous No.3270517]

>>3269411
>>3269466
ok thanks. so they're just regular blue pencils? i always thought coloured pencils felt a bit different to draw with than regular ones.

[Anonymous No.3270551]

>>3266143
Of course. I use my old collection of rulers, triangles, and french curves on my Cintiq from time to time.

[Anonymous No.3270554]

>>3269210
Good paper. It's really up to you, and the kind of work you want to do, and what's best for the painting. You can choose rough texture, or smooth. You can use lighter weight (thinner) for smaller work, and practice, because it's cheaper. You use heavier weights, like 300lb, of for large paintings and paintings with large washes, so it won't buckle.
Just make sure it's 100% rag/linen, or a high percentage, and for final work, acid free. The cheaper stuff has a lot of wood pulp in it, and you'll fight it more than the good stuff.
I recommend for a beginner a decent sized block of paper, the kind that's gummed along the edges into one block, it's easier to work with and can be cheaper. Arches is a good brand, there are many good to excellent brands.

[Anonymous No.3270555]

>>3269196
HTML5.

[Anonymous No.3270556]

>>3270040
Or lose weight. Sweating while sitting...never done that, but I've never been fat, but all the fat people I know always have sweaty armpits.

[Anonymous No.3270560]

>>3269999
Go to the brush palette. Go to the drop down menu on the brush palette, and choose "load brushes". Navigate to where the brush file is, choose that.

If you haven't gotten that far in Photoshop to know where the drop down menus are on each palette, I STRONGLY urge you to sign up for a free month at Lynda.com and watch the beginning Photoshop videos.

[Anonymous No.3270569]

>>3270517
They're normal colored pencils. The color is unique, though, it's not produced anywhere else as a specific lead color, and they're generally a harder colored lead, because they were used to make notes and crop marks and such for the printer. The ones I ran across over the years differed pretty much, from soft to harder. The history of them goes back to when line art was photographed with a copy camera, and special films were used on the camera, where the blue didn't show up. You had to use a specific color of blue, or it wouldn't work - there were all kinds of stories of shopping lists and notes and things on art that made it past the editors and got printed, because the designer used what they thought was the right blue, or used the wrong film. The filters aren't used with scanners, because that blue is light enough that if you adjust the values in a scan so anything below 50% after converting to greyscale is changed to white (the blue in greyscale is a light grey), or clear out the blue channel in Photoshop, you're doing the same thing. From what I remember, it's about a 30% cyan, in CMYK.

[Anonymous No.3270582]

Do I have to freehand my lines when I'm studying my perspective and making grids and such?
Is using a ruler considered bad practice?

[Anonymous No.3270586]

>>3270582
It's recommended to use a ruler early on.

[Anonymous No.3270603]

Can you recommend Clip Studio Paint for general digital painting??

[Anonymous No.3270838]

Whenever I use the wireless receiver with my Huion Giano, some programs hang until it's taken out for some reason. Namely HWMonitor, Window's disk partition tool, and adding torrents to Qbittorrent (I think it's because they all access connected USBs, one of which is the receiver?). I know it's the USB receiver because all of the above work instantly as soon as it's taken out.
Why does this happen and how to fix? I know I can just wait to stick it in until I need it, but is there a more permanent fix?

[Anonymous No.3270873]

>>3270838
sounds like it might be something wrong with the bus rather than the device

[Anonymous No.3270899]

>>3270603
Yes, it's great and worth the price. If you're short on cash wait for a sale.

[Anonymous No.3271502]

How do you not lose steam after a long session of doing a piece? Often times I can crank out a solid sketch or drawing for a couple of hours, and then once I move onto the next one it's completely garbage and I get discouraged. I know that they're just sketches, but it sucks that I can't maintain the same amount of quality.

[Anonymous No.3272276]

how do i into cgpeers?

[Anonymous No.3272479]

How do other people do it here? I want to make a living from doing commissions, but it will be years of consistent practice before anyone would pay me for my art.
I really want to find a school that focusses on fundamentals and is strict but they all seem the same and not focus on skill but on 'creativity' (in the netherlands). But just being a neet for 4/5/6/7/8 more years stresses me out, a school seems like a safety blanket that says 'its okay to suck you are still in school'
but I cant find a school that doesnt seem like a waste of time /_\ what do I do

[Anonymous No.3272483]

>>3272479
Draw first, ask questions later.

[Anonymous No.3272491]

I want to draw cartoons. I love the Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Fleischer cartoons, the works of Don Bluth, and so on, but I strongly dislike most modern cartoons due to their minimalist or cutesy designs. Are there any books out there I could buy that show me, a dude who can't draw for shit but wants to learn, how to develop characters and draw them in different states of emotion/different angles/et cetera? Even if the books are for more experienced people, in depth books about drawing characters and giving them life are what I'm looking for. Recs please? I would be eternally grateful.

[Anonymous No.3272498]

>>3272483
Im just curious how other people have their carreer planned out
I have been drawing as a hobby for 6 years and decided I wanted to make money from doing art a year ago and have been practicing since then, while trying to find an art school
but after a year im still clueless

[Anonymous No.3272650]

>>3272498
not that anon, but can't you get neet bux from your government? do you have any idea what you want from art school also?

maybe get a job for now, and do comissions on the side for some extra cash. when you get good/popular enough, then transition it into your main. but maybe take my advice with a grain of salt, i don't know how things work over there.

[Anonymous No.3272655]

Is drawing on tablet really feels this slick?
How many days until I get used to drawing a perfect circle?

I just bought a Huion 420 for learning and this piece of shit is so slippery it made me mad.

[Anonymous No.3272656]

>>3272655
Yes
You can't draw a perfect circle

[Anonymous No.3272658]

>>3272656
Well I'm not saying a literally perfect circle.
I can draw a decent circle on my sketch book really easy, while making a curve on tablet feels like a chore.

[Anonymous No.3272835]

>>3272655
welcome to tablets. Some people use masking tape or a piece of paper taped on it, either way use stabilization or lazy nezumi for PS

[Anonymous No.3272876]

>>3272835
Does Wacom bamboe pad feels better to draw with?
Or none of these drawing pads got any surface that feels paperlike?

[Anonymous No.3272897]

>>3272658
Did you remember to force proportions in your tablet settings? Very common mistake.

[Anonymous No.3272900]

>>3272876
I have a wacom bamboo. It's very close to paper, yes, and the eraser that the pen comes with really does feel like erasing on a piece of paper, it's bizarre the first time you feel it. But it's not 100% like paper, it's still a bit smoother

But you can just tape a piece of paper over your tablet surface, the pen still registers perfectly.

[Anonymous No.3272905]

What programs should I invest in for my surface? I used Medibang for a second but it feels a little sparse.

Looking at Clip Studio and Affinity Designer right now but am open.

[Anonymous No.3272926]

>>3272897
You meant the sensitivity?
It just make the brush smaller or bigger depend on the pressure.
>>3272900
> and the eraser that the pen comes with really does feel like erasing on a piece of paper,
That sounds interesting, the only reason I bought this 420 is becauseI got a small computer desk and bamboo looks too big for my desk.

[Anonymous No.3272939]

What is the best /free/ option for an online portfolio?
There seems to be too many, and some people even use their deviantart/tumblr/instagram accounts like that, but I don't think those are the most professional option to present your work (I could be wrong, I no longer know).

[Anonymous No.3272943]

>>3272926
No anon I don't mean sensitivity, it has nothing to do with sensitivity. Your monitor has a resolution and so does your tablet. If the resolutions aren't the same proportion then any curved line your draw will be skewed.

I have a wacom, you need to google how to force proportions for a huion if they aren't already.

>the bamboo looks to big for my desk
I don't even have a desk, I draw in bed with it to the side. Dunno how to help there but they come in two sizes. The eraser is more of a gimmick honestly. The best thing about it is that you can draw with that end and unlike the nibs you never have to replace it.

>>3272939
ArtStation, Blogspot, or setting up a neocities. Also don't forget the expression "you need money to make money". If you want the "the most professional option" you get a website hosting of your own, which for an online portfolio only a few clients will want to see amounts to very cheap monthly fees.

[Anonymous No.3272961]

>>3272943
I already did matched the proportion, I even used rules and draw a circle with coins to test the proportion.
If I draw really slow I can easily make a circle or curve, but if start to add more pressure or speed the surface is too slippery to maintain a stable stroke.
I tried to draw on my lap but it really uncomfortable because its the USB wire and its really small, like a 7 inch tablet small.
I like the eraser idea because this Huion 420 tablet doesn't have an express keys on the pad, so I relied on my keyboard every time I want to erase or undo.

Well, this is pretty much my mistake for buying a $15 tablet.

[Anonymous No.3272966]

>>3272943
I should've added the inb4 for the money for money thing, I mean, that's totally right... but talking about free alternatives, what about if it would be a good idea to send clients a drive/outlook folder? or a link to site like carrd would be better?

[Anonymous No.3272970]

>>3272966
>what about if it would be a good idea to send clients a drive/outlook folder?
Do not send them a folder. Send them one PNG with all of your work on it, edited to look nice. Watch this video

https://youtu.be/sPESZ3JW2AY

[Anonymous No.3273000]

>>3272970
Hmmm. Nice. I'll definitely check that video later.

[Anonymous No.3273143]

>>3265820
> Own second hand drawing table
> Mom moved drawing table outside while I was gone
> Raining
> Returned, she didn't even bother moving it back in when it rained
> Noticed small bumps where the scratch marks are
>Thanks mom.
Anybody know how I can get rid of these bumps? I'm probably just going to put a board on top if all else fails.

[Anonymous No.3273180]

>>3273143
Sandpaper.

[Anonymous No.3273184]

>>3268047
Look at the world around you, and break everything down to basic shapes. You have the entire world to practice on.

There's no shortcut to just sitting down and drawing. The more you do it, the better you'll be.

[Anonymous No.3273187]

>>3270586
By whom? I never heard that restriction anywhere until I came here.

[Anonymous No.3273455]

what's the name of that guy that draws huge gay shit that was on /ic/ for some time and now super successful on patreon?

[Anonymous No.3273476]

Alright so I know what it means if you mirror a good picture and it suddenly looks bad but what does it mean if you mirror a bad picture and it suddenly looks good?

[Anonymous No.3273497]

hey m8,s how bad/good is this tablet?
price history shows a pretty good discount
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/XP-Pen-Star-03-Parblo-A610-Ugee-M708-Graphics-Drawing-Tablet-with-Battery-free-PASSIVE-Pen/1910017_32570044685.html

[Anonymous No.3273504]

>>3273476
means it's a bad picture that isn't so obvious

[Anonymous No.3273538]

>>3273476
maybe you mirrord it earlier and forgot

[Anonymous No.3273549]

>>3272491
johnkcurriculum dot blogspot dot co dot uk

this is a good blog with good book recommendations, just keep in mind john k's a creepy old fuck who hates everything post 70s and hasn't had a real job in eons because of his rancid personality

>>3272276
you have to wait around until there's a sign up date unfortunately. the site should say when the next one is

>>3272939
tumblr is fine if it has a nice theme, i've swapped instagrams with a lot of pros

[Anonymous No.3273550]

>>3272491
>>3273549
actually on second though k hates simpsons and bluth. just buy this book he shills and skip the blog.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0929261518

[Anonymous No.3273555]

>>3266624
I use to have the same issue.
Go to control panel in windows and turn both "press and hold" (by clicking settings) and "flicks" off.
I've also turned tip double click off in the wacom panel, not sure if it's related or not.

[Anonymous No.3273691]

>>3273550
God bless you my friend.

[Anonymous No.3273736]

>>3273691
no problem! also these are good if it's animation you like, i have the noble book and it's very good

[Anonymous No.3273849]

hey it's me beginner artist retard asking the question I assume has been asked 1 billion times before

Wacaom Intuos yes or no

[Anonymous No.3274007]

Is there a good shortcut to color semi-transparent lineart in CSP? Something with layer masks?

Pic is using line layer as a reference layer and using the fill tool. There are lots of blank spots left and it doesn't work very well with these kinds of lines.

[Anonymous No.3274008]

How much skill is it involved in coloring this picture here? Not considering the lineart, how much time would it take an average artist to color this image in this style? Does any part of it look particularly difficult?

Kind of an obtuse question, I know..

[Anonymous No.3274016]

>>3274008
I guess I can kinda answer, I'm at around that skill level when it comes to coloring.

Doesn't look like there's too much rendering involved, but I'd say about 2-5 hours per character, Megaman obviously being the quickest. I'm not the most proficient so it might be faster.

[Anonymous No.3274036]

>>3274016
Can you explain what you mean by rendering? It's Mega's simple shape that makes him easier to color, obviously, right?

Would you say the lineart or the coloring takes longer in this instance? On average for artists, as I know it depends on hte individual.

[Anonymous No.3274040]

>>3274036
Oh, that's just the general term used for blocking in colors/shading/whatnot. Megaman's simple shapes and lighting scheme makes him one of the easier ones, whereas Dr. Wily has multiple light sources and more complex shapes.

Assuming you're not account for the sketching stage, I'd say it would be faster to lineart by a pretty decent margin.

[Anonymous No.3274485]

Why is it that often times when I begin to type out a long question on 4chan I end up finding the solution myself? Then I end up not posting my question. It's like my brain thinks differently when I do it. Anyone else have this happen? There must be some kind of theory to this.

[Anonymous No.3274508]

What happened to the book thread?

[Anonymous No.3274690]

>>3274485
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

[Anonymous No.3274787]

What are the best art lesson resources on youtube? Like if I wanted to do a still life.

[Anonymous No.3275064]

>>3265820
does it matter which country or city to live, to be a digital artist?

[Anonymous No.3275483]

How do I get my macbook to stop recognizing the GT 191 as an audio device when I turn it on? I have to remove my earphones and plug them back in every time to hear audio again. Does anyone else have this problem? (The tablet works great though.)

[Anonymous No.3275485]

>>3274485
I do, which is why I post to /ic/ so often.

[Anonymous No.3275498]

My lines, when scanned and darkened, are like this. Obviously they're pretty rough.

Is there a way within GIMP or PS to make them smoothen out or is going over everything exhaustively with a smudge or blur tool my best bet? I'd like them cleanly defined smooth solid lines like in a coloring book at best.

[Anonymous No.3275760]

>>3265820
I’m planning an outing for my Art Club, where would artsy people like to go? We already have regular outdoor drawing sessions, so I was thinking of something not art-related, such as karaoke. My club consists of 30% extroverts and 60% introverts, if it helps.

[Anonymous No.3275791]

>>3275498
Then use different tools or sketch ,scan, and then use the pen tool in PS

>>3275760
gamebar

>>3275064
no

[Anonymous No.3275829]

>>3275760
everyone likes milkshakes.

are there any fun talks or events your local science centre does ? those are cool even if not specifically art related. seconding gamebar. museums aren't.. great since everyone goes round at different paces. i know i'm a mega introvert and hate measuring my pace to other people's.

[Anonymous No.3275890]

>>3265820
Quick question. My father wants to take a painting workshop. He is literally /beg/ tier, the only paintings he did was at his treatment at a health resort .

He plans to take an beginner workshop. Does he need some basic understanding in drawing or are their no precognitions needed?

Just asking because I fear that that will be wasted money.

[Anonymous No.3275924]

>>3275890
he should probably be fine, i went to a beginner painting workshop once and everyone was rubbish.

[Anonymous No.3275951]

>>3275890
Depends on the kind of painting workshop, odds are he's just going to end up with a Bob Ross Lite instructor that'll teach fruitbowls and landscapes and you really don't need drawing fundamentals for either of those.

[Anonymous No.3275952]

Shit, How much should I charge for making someone a Design template for books/screens ?

it's a few effects touches and layer modifications but I can't really gauge the price for something that is going to be commercially used.

[Anonymous No.3276115]

Question, how you guys feel about Udemy courses? I'm in dire need of a crash course in digital painting.

Youtube tutorials usually end up skipping a lot of stuff, i just wanna know how properly use software like Krita and Photoshop.

[Anonymous No.3276319]

>people want to commission me, I want to buy game
>I think nobody in their right mind would pay a videogame's worth in some piece of backgroundless character artwork
>then I remember on reddit or deviantart people are asking 100$ for a subpar full body drawing
>but go back to thinking of my game and how I wouldn't trade it for that
What are fair prices nowadays? How do you even price art correctly? I escape this insecurity hell?

[Anonymous No.3276321]

>people want to commission me, I want to buy game
>I think nobody in their right mind would pay a videogame's worth in some piece of backgroundless character artwork
>then I remember on reddit or deviantart people are asking 100$ for a subpar full body drawing
>but go back to thinking of my game and how I wouldn't trade it for that
What are fair prices nowadays? How do you even price art correctly? How do I escape this insecurity hell?

[Anonymous No.3276464]

>>3275890
Wasting money is relative.

Just let him do the workshop. He will find out soon enough.
It is not just painting it is also meeting new people, getting new idea's and finding a purpose in life when you start something new.

A beginners workhop is not that expensive. No matter what level he is at.
No big deal if it turns out it's not for him. Just let him experience it.

[Anonymous No.3276527]

I'm new to digital art and I've made the mistake of drawing, scanning, and then trying to clean up the lines rather than drawing new lines over them with the pen tool.

I have dozens of pieces I've worked on that look like this. Is there anything I can do to smoothen these lines here in >>3275498 ?

>>3275791

[Anonymous No.3276576]

>>3275924
>>3275951
>>3276464
Thanks anons for answering my question.

To be honest I have the feeling even if he doesn't like the workshop he would just keep painting for fun.

[Anonymous No.3276578]

Could someone give me some tips for transitioning from grayscale to color?

[Anonymous No.3276581]

>>3276578
Don't think about specific hues and just slap on colors with the right value. You can always fix it later.

[Anonymous No.3276683]

>>3265820
Im looking for particular video about soft and hard edges. In it there was a hands and or bodies in blue skies.

Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous No.3276686]

>>3276527
That doesn't look bad, it just looks like you used one of the new brittle line Photoshop brushes. Colour it in and pretend you did it on purpose.

[Anonymous No.3276759]

>>3275952
anyone?

[Anonymous No.3276803]

>>3276759
Try checking out the graphic artists guild book for pricing and ethical guidelines. They give you an idea for how much to charge for things based on the size of the project and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.3276813]

I'm very new to digital painting and just got lazy nezumi pro.

Does anyone have any experience with it in PhotoShop? Is it a detriment to progress/improving, has it helped, or is there really not that much of a difference?

[Anonymous No.3276877]

recently got a tablet and having problems with random strokes here and there registering with full pressure. tried several online fixes like setting the double click to none, and nothing i've tried has worked. i have the latest drivers installed. anyone else having this problem? i'm using a screen tablet

[Anonymous No.3276922]

Anyone have that "will I ever be as good as the old masters?" comic?

[Anonymous No.3276944]

>>3276813
not a giant difference imo, though i haven't played with it much. it's much less annoying than photoshop's 'smoothing' tho

>>3276922
if you search 'old masters comic' on google images there's a comic, is it that one?

[Anonymous No.3276965]

>>3276578
Gradient map is a good way to start, and from there use overlay blending mode.
The "color" mode is terrible for coloring 'cause it fucks up your hue and saturation completely.

Sinix has a video about grayscale where he mentions a couple solid arguments on why it should be used only for studies.

>>3276813
Some people love it, some hate it. Try not to rely on it too heavily and only use it when you're doing clean inking, for example.
The perspective guides are pretty good, though a quick underlay in Blender or Sketchup gives you more freedom.

[Anonymous No.3277069]

>>3265820
/beg/ here should I use an circle templates for some practices or should I keep drawing them freehand?

[Anonymous No.3277169]

How do I perform a perspective-correction in photoshop without fucking up the proportions?

I've got a bunch of pics to adjust to make them top-down.

[Anonymous No.3277688]

>>3265820
>>3277572
What kind of construction methods are used for animating?

[Anonymous No.3277703]

why is the best time for drawing between 10pm and 4am?

[Anonymous No.3278045]

what kind of metal is the helmet made of? brass?

[Anonymous No.3278046]

Is there any non-wacom tablet with tilt and rotation detection?

[Anonymous No.3278052]

>>3277703
because you have eaten all your food and you feel the day is over. earlier on you feel like you're passing the time and you feel you would do it then stop for something else.

>>3277688
>>3273549
>>3273550

[Anonymous No.3278055]

>>3278045
Bronze I think.

[Anonymous No.3278059]

>>3278055
a quick google image search suggests you're right. thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.3278072]

how gr8 is this gif?

[Anonymous No.3278073]

>>3277703
everyone is asleep and there is less wireless transmission in the air affecting your mood

[Anonymous No.3278158]

>>3278073

holy shit i thought this was only me who had this theory

[Anonymous No.3278190]

Do any of you know how to take a blueprint and turn it into a 3d illustration the technical way? Like I know basically how to do it and make it look good but it'd probably be inaccurate. Does Google SketchUp allow you to put in the measurements and everything?

[Anonymous No.3278200]

>>3278190

You can do that with any 3d software. Sketchup is easy to learn, but very limiting. Blender is also free and in my opinion not that much harder to learn. But if you want to get going in a hour basically go for sketchup

[Anonymous No.3278205]

>>3278158
WTFFF holy shit man

[Anonymous No.3278214]

>>3278073
>>3278158

There is afaik no scientific basis for this idea but I personally no longer have wifi at home as I feel it affects my cognitive abilities. For a few days I slept with my head close to a wireless G4 router without realizing it (I was out in the countryside where I normally sleep like a rock) and had weird psychedelic and anxious dreams with a light sleep. When I made the connection and turned off the router at night I instantly went back to sleeping like a rock again.

[Anonymous No.3278222]

>>3278214
>and had weird psychedelic and anxious dreams with a light sleep.
That's ether total bullshit, or something I want to try. I'm definitely sleeping next to my router tonight.

[Anonymous No.3278239]

How do I get over my aversion to observing things? Like naked bodies, for exmaple?
I'm sure somebody has felt this in the past. It's annoying as hell to me.

Just power through it like a dislocated joint?

[Anonymous No.3278240]

What makes drawings cute?
What's best way to draw a moe type head?
And.....how do you find inspo?

[Anonymous No.3278274]

>>3278240

[Anonymous No.3278275]

>>3278274

[Anonymous No.3278277]

>drawing for 10 years
>still cant draw a box

Do I have alzheimer's or something? I shake all over. I can NEVER make a natural looking straight lines like the pros do. Goddamn it

[Anonymous No.3278281]

How do young people get good so fast? It's as if they absorbed a lifetime of knowledge or simply 'know' it.

I've been studying for years and I've never been the brightest person, but I hoped something would 'click' one day and things would make sense. But unfortunately I'm grinding away making little to no progress.

[Anonymous No.3278332]

Anyone here doing commissions, do you suggest different commission sheets for different styles of your art (furry or human, horror or cute, sfw or porn, etc.) or do you just link to your portfolio?

Suggestions on where to post commission sheets? (On 4chan or in general)

Specifically, I draw/paint digitally (characters or backgrounds) and do traditional inking/tattoo designs. I specialize in cartoon, semi-realistic and horror styles. My current commission sheet shows 3 pieces of art, with other options in text.

[Anonymous No.3278333]

>>3278281
Flexibility. Their brains don't have a bunch of information absorbed already, so it's much easier for them to handle everything that comes with learning to draw. Not to mention, of course, that they have a lot more time to burn. Combined with the difficulty of overcoming muscle memory and it's no wonder you see very few actual artists who started later in life.

[Anonymous No.3278341]

>>3278332
This is from personal experience so it might harm more than help you, but I personally haven't benefitted enough from commission sheets. What's worked for me (and this depends on your spare time and patience) has been going on websites where people are already looking for someone to commission, then message those people. There's some subreddits, deviantart groups, etcetera where people go and ask for something, usually stating their budget, then people link them to their portfolios or message them with some pictures. Hell, I got my first big commission on fucking FurAffinity of all places, where I went looking to sell my soul to some furfag for money, but instead I found a thread of someone looking for a very decent non-furry non-porn videogame painting and of all the people that replied I happened to fill the bill with my skills, and he was offering quite a lot of money for it. If you have a big audience and not much time, commission sheets will probably work wonders for you, and as for where to post them I'll bring up subreddit and deviantart groups again, just google and you should find many of them. Since you make tattoos, the commission sheets might work for you, post them there and definitely go for different sheets, of the many people that look past it, some of them mighT commission you. If you're willing to hunt the people down instead and talk to them, that will guarantee that you get the job way more often than not.
Again, that's just me, if you get anything significant out of this: post your sheets on subreddits and deviantart groups. Instagram and tumblr too, maybe, I haven't tried them.

[Anonymous No.3278355]

>>3278281
>I've been studying for years and I've never been the brightest person, but I hoped something would 'click' one day and things would make sense. But unfortunately I'm grinding away making little to no progress.

How mindfully are you studying? If you're just drawing aimlessly waiting for something to slot into place, chances are it won't. You need to direct yourself by analyzing your weaknesses and training them up with clear goals.

[Anonymous No.3278357]

Thanks! That does make a lot of sense. I keep getting the feeling that popularity is a big factor in people flocking to "commissions open" posts..

[Anonymous No.3278359]

>>3278355

Sorry, forgot to mention you

[Anonymous No.3278360]

>>3273550
>actually on second though k hates simpsons and bluth.

Why bluth?

[Anonymous No.3278369]

>>3274007
Magic wand the space outside of the lines, invert it, make a folder and apply a mask to it. Then just put your colour layers in the folder.
That'll ensure everything from the edge of the lines inward has colour beneath it.

[Anonymous No.3278610]

>>3265820
HOLY SHIT FUCK GIMP
Could somebody please explain why GIMP will sometimes randomly not allow me to draw with my tablet?
Gimp recognizes my tablet fine (the cursor will move where I move my stylus, and my tablets pressure sensitivity is fine because it works in other programs I just can't make any marks on the canvas in GIMP. Also it was working fine earlier but it suddenly stopped I'm not sure if I accidentally bumped a key on my keyboard or not (is there a "Don't let tablet work" key?)
This isn't the first time this has happened I don't know what caused or fixed it last time either.

[Anonymous No.3278777]

i thought there wasn't supposed to be falloff in sunlight, but the top of the cylinder clearly shows it. did they make a mistake or am i missing something?

[Anonymous No.3278780]

>>3278777
Yeah he made a mistake, that's why there's a whole paragraph talking about it.

[Anonymous No.3278785]

>>3278780
ah, ok. thanks

[Anonymous No.3278796]

I've heard you can use plastic weed trimmer wire to replace wacom noobs. I have a Bamboo, does anyone know what size/ gauge of wire I should get?

Pc completely unrelated.

[Anonymous No.3278807]

>>3278610
Restart GIMP first. Make sure you're not trying to mark on a hidden layer. Check your input devices settings and make sure pressure is enabled for the tablet and the tablet is enabled. Make sure the "save input device settings" option is enabled. You can have different input devices set to different tool settings in GIMP and if you touch the mouse, for example, you can inadvertently loose tool settings.

[Anonymous No.3278824]

>>3278796
0.065 inches and you'll need sandpaper to shape the tip. And fucking google it next time.

[Anonymous No.3278825]

Does tracing the human form help reinforce my visual library? I want to better get down the placement of visual landmarks, and better understand the basic contours of the body, as well as want something fast to rotate doing alongside warmup gesture.

[Anonymous No.3278827]

>>3278825
Try it and tell us.

[Anonymous No.3278864]

>>3278825
will it*
fuck I'm tired.

[Anonymous No.3278880]

>>3278824
>REEEE DON'T ASK QUESTIONS IN THE QUESTION THREAD!
I asked here because the few queries I entered weren't getting very good results. Also take it as a compliment that I trust your expertise more than google's algorithms, dear anon ^ -^~

[Anonymous No.3279144]

There's an article I read on /ic/ about the pricing of commissions, comparing the money earned by new/senior artists, explaining why it's better to get paid by hour instead of by drawing, etc..
Can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have it?

[Anonymous No.3279202]

I'm starting to question my goal. I'm improving and I'm very happy about it. I thought I wanted to do comics, maybe work for marvel/dc. Then I noticed how garbage western comic industry right now. There's no way for me to work on manga industry. I got some stories of my own but I think it's garbage too. Should I search another field in art? Like fine art, etc. The only thing I don't want to do is concept art.

[Anonymous No.3279275]

>>3278807
I checked all of those it still isn't making any marks on the canvas.
I have restarted GIMP and it still isn't working.

[Anonymous No.3279283]

For traditional painting specifically oils and for landscapes and architecture, is it better to learn by studies of famous paintings rather than learn the technical details of drawing of, let's say, trees or hills? Currently I'm starting with studies as I think it's a good way to get my muscle memory in place before I start studying colour theory but I have my doubts. Any oil painters want to share their path from beginner upwards?

[Anonymous No.3279319]

>>3278825
do a drawing of a photo by eye, then compare it to the photo by overlaying it or just examining it. you'll see the difference between the superior real thing and your own shitty version better

[Anonymous No.3279323]

Anyone know about Wacom pens?
I think mine kind of broke when I dropped it. It's still working just fine but I can feel the pen isn't clicking into place and it kind of feels really bad and clunky working with that. Just checked and a new one costs 100€ which is kind of ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.3279338]

>>3279323
Be careful taking it apart, there's two tiny springs in the eraser end that's a pain in the ass to get to line up and go into the pen correctly again.

[Anonymous No.3279340]

>>3279283
First year 6 months of live drawing and copying basic stuff: line - values and proportions. the other 6 months same but with planes of colours in oil. introduction to oil materials. mixing colours values and tones.
2nd year: What is paint and what is imitation. material painting - dynamic painting - color matching. Drawing with paint. aurea composition. Copying Masters.
3rd year: Developement of self style. Mistakes that helps. Becoming a house decorator.

[Anonymous No.3279384]

what happened to that guy a couple threads back who had to teach art lessons to a shitty teenager? did he comment again?

[Anonymous No.3279437]

>>3265820
is Eric Olson's perspective lecture available online somewhere? pls help i need it desperately and i dont have the money at the moment to pay for it

[Anonymous No.3279688]

why does the core shadow appear darker as the sphere curves away from the viewer?

[Anonymous No.3279724]

>do a study
>finish it
>find the mistakes
so what do I do next?
Do I fix the drawing or move onto the next study?

[Anonymous No.3279735]

>>3279724
Do the next study in colour and try to identify the various parts of the light and shadow.

[Anonymous No.3279736]

>>3279437
cgpeers

[Anonymous No.3279787]

>96-billion dollar company
>millions of users worldwide
>considered to be THE professional tool
>...can't even invert pen pressure in brush settings

explain this bullshit /ic/?

[Anonymous No.3279811]

>>3279144
Anyone?

[Anonymous No.3279819]

is there a way that if a draw a line then draw over it again it wont add more color on it? I just want to draw with a low opacity and not have the lines get brighter if i cross them. Sorry kind of hard to explain,

[Anonymous No.3279834]

>>3279819
Just use a light color and draw at 100% opacity

[Anonymous No.3279835]

>>3279819
Draw with 100% brush opacity on a new layer and decrease that entire layers opacity in the layers panel.

Consistent overlay with no crossover marks from your brush strokes that way.

[Anonymous No.3279840]

Does anyone can tell me what I could do to draw in this similar method/style. Currently I gathered this : correcting through adding more, pencil should be used like pen or other tool you can't erase. Artist is Karl Kopinski.

[Anonymous No.3279843]

>>3279819

[Anonymous No.3279874]

What kind of brush settings would match the line style in this pic. I realize a lot of it comes down to practice, but is the line variation due to changing brush sizes or pressure? Is the density of the line from pressure or opacity?

[Anonymous No.3279928]

>>3279840
build layers, you need some pencil control to do it.
Start with soft strokes, once you defined the structure of the drawing, it's just a question of building and refining the lines.

[Anonymous No.3280010]

huh

[Anonymous No.3280024]

I'm following https://www.ctrlpaint.com/digital-painting-101/blending-paint but I'm having issues mixing colours. In the video, he mixes with a brush @ 50% flow, eventually changing to 15% for a more subtle mixing.

Now I'm using the same brush presets and I can't mix not at 50% nor at 15%; the only way I can do it is if I lower it to the minimum of 1%. What am I missing? I'm not pressing too hard on the tablet, and I'm sure tablet pressure is ok since the wacom settings report as much.

[Anonymous No.3280030]

>>3279874
Looks like standard 4px round brush with pen pressure set to size and AA off.

Hard to tell since jpeg sampling can also introduce artifacts similar to what anti-aliasing does.

[Anonymous No.3280044]

>>3265820
any german speaking anons here?
Is their a good rough explanation about how to draw what I see in german? I don't think my english is good enough to understand it in english.

[Anonymous No.3280048]

>>3280044
nigga, just use your eyes an shieeet

[Anonymous No.3280056]

>>3280048
but I always fall back into symbol drawing

[Anonymous No.3280059]

>>3280044
zeichne einfach

[Anonymous No.3280115]

>>3280030
Thanks, that seems to be it, though I'm using SAI and it seems like binary pen is the non AA brush. Is this other picture the same kind of settings?

[Anonymous No.3280200]

What is the closest analog to Paint Tool Sai?

I've been having a ton of problems with SAI 1.2.5 on Windows 10. Can't get older versions to run well either. I still get some tablet problems which I've fixed before on both my old chinese tablet and my newer wacom cth. Lately though I've been getting some unbearable crashes and weird behavior. Only on SAI. I use a shitload of software and games that have been running perfectly well.

I already have Photoshop, and I already have years of photoshop experience, but I really detest sketching on it. Runs kinda choppy on my laptop vs. my workstation too.

[Anonymous No.3280206]

>>3280200
It's right there in the logo

[Anonymous No.3280211]

How can i reach levels of drawing like this?

https://einnharder.deviantart.com/art/O-P-E-N-C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-S-724006278

I really feel far far away from reaching those heights and i don't know where to start (with this i'm talking about tutorials or courses).

>Pic related is mine

[Anonymous No.3280358]

>>3279338
I think that might be it? I opened it up and didn't notice any springs. Might have lost them when I opened it the first time, but that was probably like a year ago so there is no way I'd find those again. Suppose there is no way to replace something that specific huh.

[Anonymous No.3280371]

>>3279819
Don't take your stylus off the tablet

[Anonymous No.3280417]

How can I make sure my proportions are correct when drawing from unorthodox angles? Like drawing a face from under the chin and tilted a bit

[Anonymous No.3280436]

>>3278222
what happen?

[Anonymous No.3280446]

>>3279835
The problem with this is that you don't get to reach higher opacities in the same layer, you have to switch to another layer

>>3279819
Your software might have a "Greater" blending mode option on the brush, it stops opacity from building up under the brush, but still lets you reach full opacity by just pressing hard enough on the pen.

[Anonymous No.3280583]

>>3280200
There are a lot of people who compare Clip studio Paint/Manga studio to Sai saying the drawing tools are similar. You can download trial versions off of the website to give it a try

[Anonymous No.3280591]

I really like the 2mm lead mechanical pencils, but every time I try to bring that barrel sharpener with me it makes a fucking mess. Having to wash it out if I want to bring it anyway more than cancels out the convenience factor. Is there a mess free 2mm lead sharpener? I tried the mitsubishi one, but that broke after like two uses.

[Anonymous No.3280608]

>>3280211
Do studies on how to render form digitally.
Start with simple things first.

Lots of video tutorials on youtube like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6TtwZS-3E0

[Anonymous No.3280626]

>>3280446
>"Greater" blending mode
Is there such a thing in photoshop?

[Anonymous No.3280630]

>>3280115
Looks like it, I don't speak runes but the brushes look the same except the size.
You can easily tell aa and non-aa stokes apart by looking at the edges of the lines.

[Anonymous No.3280643]

>>3280630
Gotchya. A lot of my line reference photos seem to be non-aa. Thanks for the help!

[Anonymous No.3280652]

>>3280591
What exactly are you doing that sharpening ends up messy? I never had that problem. Using Alvin Rotary shapener.

[Anonymous No.3280661]

trying to use a custom button layout for photoshop, but it won't recognize it. it uses the "all other" layout no matter what. is this a known bug?

[Anonymous No.3280664]

>>3280652
It's not the sharpening, it's the sharpener. I keep it in my lunchbox so I can draw at work over lunch and stuff and it always ends up filling it with shavings and getting my hands and everything inside messy. Any solution I can think of just ends up making it more of a hassle to use that over regular pencils.

[Anonymous No.3280686]

>>3280661
nevermind. reinstalling drivers seems to have fixed it

[Anonymous No.3280700]

>>3280591
Not that it's any less messy but if you have the staedtler one the metal cap part comes off and the hole on top is an on-the-go sharpener. Just give it a quick blow to keep it clean.

Otherwise my sharpener is the same as pictured and I've noticed that it does occasionally spew graphite out if I drop it. Shoving a small wad something like tissue or toilet paper solves that problem as long as I'm not shaking it like a maraca. You can also put it in a zip lock baggy and simply hold the sharpener while it's still in the bag and just shove your pencil in through the opening.

[Anonymous No.3280734]

Anybody have this thing?
Been using it and it's awesome 99% of the time.

But occasionally when I press a button that's bound to ctrl+alt+z for example, the ctrl and alt key remains pressed even after I release it, it kind of just locks in a pressed state.

Only happens every once in a while, but it's pretty damn annoying since the next pen stroke after the keys get stuck will start to drag and duplicate the layer instead of brushing.

Any way to fix this?

[Anonymous No.3280747]

>>3279688
Not sure what you're trying to ask but the picture you've posted is rendered pretty poorly.

[Anonymous No.3280823]

I want to try drawing a few manga pages. Tips?

[Anonymous No.3280825]

Does anybody have a link for pirated Watts' material?

[Anonymous No.3280842]

>>3279144
>>3279811
Is this what you're looking for?

[Anonymous No.3280865]

how do i animate like this?

[Anonymous No.3280894]

>>3280842
You're the best anon thank you

[Anonymous No.3280919]

>>3280865
You take videos of of different movement sequences, mash them together without any sense of momentum and then you trace it.

[Anonymous No.3280921]

>>3280024
a-any help pls

[Anonymous No.3280930]

>>3280921
Try doing multiple light strokes.

[Anonymous No.3280938]

>>3280921
Tablet problems can be quite frustrating. If it doesn't work after restarting your computer you may have to uninstall and reinstall the tablet driver

[Anonymous No.3280946]

having the weirdest issue with my wacom tablet.

any button i press on my tablet activates the alt key, which then remains pressed until i press alt on the keyboard. after that, the button on the tablet set to the alt key no longer works. the fuck is going on?

tried remapping the buttons, tried reinstalling several different drivers, even tried reinstalling windows. this all started with >>3280661
, at which point the alt key button worked fine. any suggestions welcome.

[Anonymous No.3280952]

Except when I absolutely need to sleep, the best way to make it to professional level is to never stop drawing right ?

[Anonymous No.3280954]

>>3279736
thanks, i did check there but looks like i just misspelled his name
gotta dive into it right now

[Anonymous No.3280956]

>>3280921
Ill bite.

In the video he's using the one called hard round brush.
However it's not the same as photoshop's default hard round brush, that's where your problem lies probably.

Download the brush pack from ctrl paint and you'll see his hard round actually has both opacity and flow modifiers from pen pressure (pic related).

[Anonymous No.3280966]

>>3280946
omfg i hate everything. rebinding the tablet keys to anything but alt and then rebooting and then rebinding it to alt again fixed it, at least for now. god fucking damn it.

[Anonymous No.3280968]

>>3280966
Welcome to the club.
It only gets worse with wacom drivers...

[Anonymous No.3280998]

>>3280968
:( now to reinstall the two dozen random apps i lost when nuking windows. lesson learned: dont fuck with your wacom settings unless absolutely necessary.

[Anonymous No.3281019]

>>3280952
remember to eat. and watch movies and read books to replenish your visual library. and set realistic, trackable goals, that shit is how video games are addictive.

>>3280823
on what? big subject. have you read scott mcloud's making comics book?

[Anonymous No.3281038]

>>3280591
Fully sealable ziplock bag + shake the shavings out at every opportunity.

[Anonymous No.3281043]

>>3280956
Odds are spacing is down too low as well, since all the "mystical flow setting that does magic & nobody knows what it's really doing! :O" is doing is layering every individual brush stencil over the other until it hits the max opacity % for the stroke.

[Anonymous No.3281061]

>>3281019
> on what?
Mainly materials. If I need more tools or if I can work with what I have.
> about book
No, I haven't. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Anonymous No.3281127]

I'm struggling with studies, because there's a problem I don't think many videos/text tutorials cover. What happens when you can't see an error and make it worse by "correcting" it?

You can see my study and notice how things spiraled out of control, if i feel the arm is too thicc, how can I know I will make it worse by making it thinner because it turns out i should have slanted it instead? I hope I'm making sense here. I feel like a grid would create a bad habit.

[Anonymous No.3281254]

>>3280930
It wasn't responding even with the slightest touch
>>3280956
I was using his brushes, but your pic at least gave me a direction: there were exclamation signs on Control: Pen pressure, so photoshop wasn't detecting it. Rebooting and reinstalling drivers didn't help, a combination of answers from several threads on the internet (partially) did the trick. Now every once in a while it stops detecting again but at least restarting the service through the third party tablet-tool fixes it.

God I hate Windows 10

>>3280938
Tell me about it.

[Anonymous No.3281300]

Those of you who have deleted all your social media accounts, did you get any peace from it? Did it help you improve.

[Anonymous No.3281301]

>>3281254
Win 10 tablet driver, aka windows ink, is utter trash but there's a relatively easy fix.

Go to
C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2018\Adobe Photoshop 2018 Settings\
And create a simple text file called PSUserConfig.txt with this line in it
UseSystemStylus 0

Then disable windows ink in the wacom panel and restart photoshop.

This solved 99% of the tablet issues for me.

[Anonymous No.3281304]

>>3281301
That's one of the solutions I applied, since Alt+Right Click (change brush size) wasn't working on it. I'm a little afraid to disable Windows ink since when I do so the tablet behaves erratically on photoshop and I got it working after 10+ hours, but I'm still gonna give it a shot
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.3281311]

>>3281304
>>3281301
Well, it worked, thanks again since this solves another issue(I had visual effects disabled but for whatever reason I STILL had them, so every time I right-clicked/click-and-hold the shitty circles appeared)

Just to complete the answer, I had to not only restart photoshop but also restore its preferences; this is done pressing shift+ctrl+alt while opening the program

Time to actually draw.

[Anonymous No.3281359]

is there a good place to get interesting creepy halls and such? I had a lot of fun making this and want to do more

[Anonymous No.3281374]

>>3281359
Search for #abandonedplaces on tumblr, also check out theproperpeople (instagram, youtube)

[Anonymous No.3281485]

>>3280747
it's from scott robertson's book, so the render should be accurate. im just wondering why the core shadow is lighter in the center of the sphere. the light is coming from straight above.

[Anonymous No.3281616]

/beg/ here. Yesterday I started the "drawing with the right side of the brain" exercises. I know that I still have to do hard work in order to get rid of symbol drawing, but I wanted to ask how I notice that I get rid of it. Should I post the drawing in the /beg/ theard? (When I believe that I got rid of it)

[Anonymous No.3281984]

What are some good resources to start to learn how to do ink drawing/rendering/hatching and all that? Also some resources on utensils/equipment that goes along with it.

[Anonymous No.3282149]

Got a new tablet today and Sai wont register its pen pressure.
It works perfectly in CSP so I know it's not the tablet or driver but a problem specifically with Sai, does anyone know how to fix it?

[Anonymous No.3282220]

>>3281616
Like the book says, its pretty hard to tell.
Your brain doesn't notice the exact time it happens, but it can recognize the change in some way after it happens.

It's different for everyone, but look for subtle indications like the muting of the chatter in your head.
Talking to yourself when you think is a left brain heavy process and indicates clear dominance.

For me it often gets replaced by humming to the melody of the music I'm listening to.
The process of putting the sounds of different instruments together to create a unified whole stimulates the same part of the brain that's responsible for visual imagery, just pick something without vocals and you're good to go.

[Anonymous No.3282413]

>>3282220
Thanks for the answer anon!

I'll give your tip a try, maybe it does help me in the long run.

[Anonymous No.3282748]

should i start with vilppu's drawing manual, or his figure drawing book first?

[Anonymous No.3282981]

>>3281359
https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/

>>3281127
don't worry about it my dude(tte). so long as you learn something, it's a good study.

although if i may offer some advice, i think you are rendering little details too early, like the candelabra and shaded skull. focus on blocking in the planes of the face, the overall values. use a larger brush, and paint mostly zoomed out at first so you can see the whole canvas. maybe desaturate the image you're studying from.
this might also help your before problem, if the foundations are solid you would have less to patch over.