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[Anonymous No.3571201]

New questions thread because the old one doesn't bump anymore.

[Anonymous No.3571203]

Does anyone experience this? Using photoshop CS6, at times my pen pressure seems to get ignored and it'll register and just blot down the full size brush.
Is there a way to fix this? Intuos 4.

[Anonymous No.3571208]

>>3571203
It happened to me sometimes when using the hotkeys of the tablet, the physical buttons i mean. now i only use the keyboard shortcuts and I have no problems again, i had read on one side that several wacom models had a problem with that, which was a factory problem.
I do not know how true it is in any case, because I do not have many people to corroborate it

[Anonymous No.3571210]

>>3571208
I never had this problem in CS3, so something is up I think. Annoys me to no end...

[Anonymous No.3571212]

What are some good ballpoint pens for drawing? I'm /beg/ and usually hear to start off with pens because they teach you line confidence and such, issue is all my shitty ballpoints blot way too much.

[Anonymous No.3571226]

>>3571212
Why insist on ballpens? How about fineliners or fountainpens.
Alternatively keep a tissue at hand to take the ink buildup from the ball if you really insist on using ballpens.

[Anonymous No.3571231]

How do I into colored pencils?
Are there any good guides to using them properly?

[Anonymous No.3571232]

>>3571226
I've only really used ballpoints, I'm all for messing around with different mediums I really dont mind. I would take suggestions for any type of pen.

[Anonymous No.3571232,1]

what are some good pencils that i can buy in bulk to burn through.

[Anonymous No.3571282]

>>3571212
the good ol' BIC doesnt blot and is cheap

[Anonymous No.3571288]

>>3571201

I have spent a long time trying to draw.
I cannot draw a box or a plane or lines that connect, my draftsmanship is shit. Most of my drawings are me copying the contours of the subject. How do I fix this?

[Anonymous No.3571293]

what are some good pencils i can buy in bulk burn through

[Anonymous No.3571316]

>>3571288
You should give some more information or an example. If you've actually been trying to draw, but can not draw a box something is wrong.

[Anonymous No.3571322]

>>3571288
Idk about drawing boxes but you should pick up gesture drawing for human figures. I had the same problem of drawing outlines of shit and gesture drawing really helped

[Anonymous No.3571329]

>>3571293
Staedtler tradition, or use mechanical pencils.

[Anonymous No.3571497]

>>3571201
Cute dog

[Anonymous No.3571510]

How important is Keys to Drawing/Drawing on the right side of the brain for absolute beginners? Like someone thats barely drawn before in their life. Debating if i should go over it before i tackle other fundamentals.

[Anonymous No.3571574]

>>3571510
Skip drawing on the right side of the brain, but strongly suggest you do Keys to drawing (and actually doing the exercises).
Assuming when you say absolute beginner that you have no experience, Keys overall doesn't bother you with construction but rather with observation and just putting a pencil to paper and get some feel for drawing.
Doing fundies is for people with at least the motor skills/muscle memory to control what they're doing.
FIRST draw from life, get a feel for putting down lines, then delve into how to approach it technically.

[Anonymous No.3571578]

>>3571574
well i strongly suggest you skip keys to drawing which is mainly horse shit and only do drawing on the right side of the brain where all the horseshit is segmented off from the exercises which are much more useful than keys

[Anonymous No.3571702]

>>3571574
Thanks for the help Anon, ill do Keys first.

[Anonymous No.3571940]

So guys, I have a problem
I've been practicing digital drawing on my laptop because reasons, I used mypaint on a linux distro because it didn't have much memory. Now I got a better pc with windows and installed Sai and krita but my lines look horrible as if I am drawing them with a mouse and there is no pressure sensitivity
Is this a driver problem or what?

[Anonymous No.3571966]

How do I get good at rendering? I feel like it's something I never get better at

[Anonymous No.3572075]

>Every female face I draw ends up looking too manly

What are some useful differences in forms, proportion, shading, and construction to help emphasize femininity, rather than masculinity, when drawing faces?

[Anonymous No.3572082]

>>3571497
agreed
>>3571510
i'd recc both if youre brand new. its good to have the info and the upside down man (in right side) is one of the most reknowned drawing exercises
>>3571966
gotta try try again. have you studied values and done black and white studies? if rendering is your problem, its probably the way you paint
>>3572075
less square jaw
lighte/less pronounced bones (brow, nose, chin, etc)
no lines
smooth skin

[Anonymous No.3572083]

>>3572075
basically women's heads are blobs with eyes, lips and nose (optional) stuck on, where as men's heads are built up from planes and angles.

see the works of manet for illustrative examples

[Anonymous No.3572110]

I want to ink and color digitally. Should I use watercolor paper or is there any other kind I should use for inking?

[Anonymous No.3572111]

>>3572110
Work on ink traditionally and color digitally is what I mean here. Should've worded it properly first.

[Anonymous No.3572116]

>>3571212
I just use whatever pen I have on hand. On the other hand the Hi-Tec C hyrid is something most pros use.

>>3571510
Not at all, imo. Go through Vilppu or Dynamic Sketching.

[Anonymous No.3572118]

>>3572116
Pilot Hi-Tec C
is the name of the pen, its a hybrid*

[Anonymous No.3572135]

How long did it take you guys (after first starting out) to like the stuff you draw? If you don't like your own work yet, what do you hope to improve about it?

[Anonymous No.3572267]

Somebody posted recently some chinese website for piracy, where you could find some tutorials from gumroad etc you could not find on cgp. I cant find it, anybody know the name?

[Anonymous No.3572530]

>>3571201
Any tips on drawing breasts? I can't draw them no matter how many books and tutorials I read.

[Anonymous No.3572534]

Are there any good resources on figuring out weight/balance? I find whenever I do poses I struggle with leg placement and my figures kinda just look like they're floating around, they never feel solid.

[Anonymous No.3572547]

>>3572534
Start by drawing from the ground up. (?)

[Anonymous No.3572589]

Can someone post art that a /beg/ should aim towards, but not necessarily good or amazing but just "mediocre". I just need examples to get the idea.

I watched a video that was posted here weeks ago (I can't remember the title or find the video for the life of me). It said at one point that a beginner artist should aim towards their goals by first a lower skill level and increase the level as they get better. Aiming high too early causes problems or something.

[Anonymous No.3572599]

why do threads always die once i reply to them

[Anonymous No.3572611]

>>3572534
Gesture drawing. If you don't know what you're doing don't first draw a head, attach a torso, and put legs under it. Start with a quick gesture to get the pose right.

[Anonymous No.3572662]

As a beginner trying to figure out figure drawing
During the process of drawing a figure should I focus on the gesture or the construction? As in, do I have to use a mannequin to construct the figure every time or start with the gesture? Or both? At the very least I think I have to draw the horizon line every time for the sake of having at least some amount of perspective
I'm still unsure as to how to go on about things properly. I know some people just construct everything but I also know of artists with good skill that say they never constructed shit, no Loomis or any books, but I have no idea how they figured out how to draw people properly. I'm guessing at that point it comes down to mileage

>>3572611
Obviously not him but how do I do a gesture and also keep the perspective and proportions in check? I am starting to get gesture studies right I think but every time something is off about the body and I don't know how to apply the gesture to imagination work unless I am drawing a pose from my visual library

>>3572599
Well then look at the post count and dont reply to a thread when it's on page 10, silly anon. If it's about to be archived, wait for the next questions thread or better yet make one yourself then ask your question

[Anonymous No.3572672]

is making it a bad goal? really the thought of becoming a career artist (though, of course, i'm not pursuing it in university) is what drives me to work on becoming good

[Anonymous No.3572715]

So weird question, but why does nobody online seem to draw lips? I've looked at a lot of popular artists on various sites and many of them have radically different styes for rendering faces. Almost none of them ever do detailed lips though. I get why they would be excluded in more cartoony styles, but I've seen otherwise realistic drawings where the character's mouth is still just a line. What gives?

[Anonymous No.3572763]

>>3572715
It depends on the artist. I think the no lips thing is popular right now though. All I read is shoujo Josei shit though, so I see lips all the time.

[Anonymous No.3572781]

>>3572715
it depends on the type of art you are looking at. a lot of contempary cartoony art has upper+lower lip drawn, like in steven universe, which was inspired by shojo anime

>>3572135
>How long did it take you guys (after first starting out) to like the stuff you draw?
can't remember. i always thought i was great, i was a little baby dunning krueger
>If you don't like your own work yet, what do you hope to improve about it?
perspective, painting skill...honestly a ton of things.

[Anonymous No.3572813]

has there ever been a child prodigy who naturally grasped the concept of perspective and made intricate pieces? not interested in xerox printers or autistic savants

[Anonymous No.3572865]

Is all drawn or animated porn called hentai, or is there a western term for it?

[Anonymous No.3572872]

Is there any good pose archive that isn't Pinterest

The ones I've found so far weren't as big as I'd like

[Anonymous No.3572963]

>>3571201
how do you define Hearthstone cards artwork?

I'm doing kind of well with realism but I want to transition to something more cartoon-ish or more blizzard like but I'm having trouble finding information on the subject. I know the whole "study artists you like" and that kinda thing, but I still feel like I'm missing some stuff.

[Anonymous No.3572965]

>>3572872
in the artbook thread there's a couple links with tons of stuff, many model books. There's another one in the DAD/LAS thread, check both. Pinterest kinda sucks.

[Anonymous No.3572968]

anyone have a cintiq companion? It doesn't seem capable of running essential programs like photoshop or livestreaming without lagging. Does anyone have a solution to get rid of lag?

[Anonymous No.3573043]

>>3572082
I suck at painting in general tho. I always end up with monstrosities like this.

[Anonymous No.3573267]

>>3573043
>paints fit girls
You are gonna make it my friend, keep at it

[Anonymous No.3573388]

>>3571201
What resolution do artists you guys know work at?

[Anonymous No.3573411]

>>3573043
learn to draw before you try painting

[Anonymous No.3573412]

Why do I get single digit likes on Instagram when I've seen stick figures get more?

[Anonymous No.3573488]

>>3573412
Why do you care about how many likes you get?

[Anonymous No.3573490]

>>3573411
I can though retard don't give advice if you don't know what you're talking about

post your work and prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.3573510]

>>3571203
I had an old bamboo that never gave me problems but when I bought the newer Intuos pro it happened a lot. No fix worked for me on CS6. Eventually got jewed into paying a PS subscription but everything works well.

[Anonymous No.3573514]

>>3573412
you don't tag enough, you don't post at the right time, you don't have enough followers, you don't have the right kind of followers, your art is devoid of appeal
pick one

[Anonymous No.3573576]

im not a clever man, id go so far as to say im literal retardation. so bear with me.

trying to work out off page perspective in a way other than guessing.

shouldn't the degrees of A and B be the same?

[Anonymous No.3573579]

>>3572530
You've read tutorials and books and still don't know how to draw them? Everything gets better with practice. Either you want to get better ASAP (which means you understand how much your drawing will suffer before you get good) or you can slowly build up to it by practicing everything known to mankind about figure drawing (which will even help with body shapes and breasts at different angles).

[Anonymous No.3573598]

>>3572662
anyone please

[Anonymous No.3573599]

>>3572672
What exactly is 'making it'? It sounds like getting paid to work decently in the art industry. You should do some research into the company you're aiming for since the majority of them don't care about actual artists, just if your portfolio output meets their criteria (this is why there's heavy emphasis on connections more than talent).

Most people who are able to draw well aren't even in the art field. I know someone who draw figures in the medical field, and professional architects nitpick at the tiniest details in design. Every field employs some level of art, but it's not a necessity to getting better pay.

It's also why artists are stereotypically considered stupid in the career field. A lot of young people are suckered into the art industry in hopes of getting recognition. What they don't realize is the few who do get realized are so few and far in between and you have to try really fucking hard to get recognition. Of course, standing out is what you have to do at any job, but for young artists it's usually demeaning, especially true for current trends in social networking platforms. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.3573601]

>>3572813
Akaine

[Anonymous No.3573619]

>>3572662
Gestures before constructions. If you spend time trying to first construct it will eat up as much time as if you were to practice gestures. Your drawings will end up looking stiff. Don't worry about the accuracy with gestures if you're a beginner. The basic idea of gesture drawing is understanding the flow of the human figure. It should take 30-45 seconds or less. Construction is second and that usually comes with anatomy.

Later on you can learn proportions, but this can go in between your practice with gestures and construction and not necessarily at the end.

Don't burn yourself out with like, grinding 200+ gestures in a short amount of time. If it's not your usual work output, it's not going to make you any better than thoughtful 40-60 gestures at 45 sec intervals each day till you feel confident to move on. It also helps to reward yourself afterwards with probably a fun drawing to remind you of why you want to be proficient in figures to begin with. I've pretty much stopped the fun drawing portion because my dedication has turned to fundies. Kinda like how people would reward themselves with some unhealthy food after workout, but then it gradually tapers off to dedicated health food.

[Anonymous No.3573623]

>>3572110
>>3572111
Help me faggots.

[Anonymous No.3573636]

>>3573623
bristol board is the usual recommendation

[Anonymous No.3573656]

>>3572968
>Essential programs
>like... livestreaming
Anon, please...

[Anonymous No.3573661]

>>3573619
>Gestures before constructions. If you spend time trying to first construct it will eat up as much time as if you were to practice gestures. Your drawings will end up looking stiff. Don't worry about the accuracy with gestures if you're a beginner. The basic idea of gesture drawing is understanding the flow of the human figure. It should take 30-45 seconds or less. Construction is second and that usually comes with anatomy.
>Later on you can learn proportions, but this can go in between your practice with gestures and construction and not necessarily at the end.
I haven't made it clear before but I should have pointed out I am not a total beginner, essentially I had some experience with drawing as I did draw on and off for years and even studied in that time, I just didn't get serious about it until now. Now I am looking to make my figures accurate because although I feel my general anatomical knowledge isn't awful, my proportions are still kinda screwed as I didn't study them much. I'm not sure if I should just eyeball and copy more ref of people and build my experience like that or rely on construction (I do know some skilled artists don't seem to use much construction at all and I guess that is thanks to experience)
>Don't burn yourself out with like, grinding 200+ gestures in a short amount of time.
>Kinda like how people would reward themselves with some unhealthy food after workout, but then it gradually tapers off to dedicated health food.
My problem right now is that I do want to draw every day and get good but the fun part of drawing has kinda died
That is, I do have fun studying shit but not drawing from imagination, I always feel upset that my work doesn't come out as what I imagine it in my head. So studying is kinda my comfort zone that I don't want to get out of
Unfortunately many pro/skilled artists advice against doing only studies or just not drawing from imagination in general, as it won't make you grow, and that terrifyies me

[Anonymous No.3573662]

>>3573490
Wether you're right about being able to draw or not, the painting would be a lot better if you painted it on a sketch. So.. his assumption isn't that wrong, no need to bite off with PYW's for nothing.

[Anonymous No.3573664]

>>3573623
If you're not going to paint on it, bristol is sufficient. Watercolor paper would be a waste if you aren't going to use watercolor on it.

[Anonymous No.3574249]

Anyone know good resources for colour theory? I feel like I've good the fundamentals down, but I have no sense for what colours work together.

[Anonymous No.3574291]

>>3571201
Anyone here have any advice from/for someone who's "made it"?

I make a comic that's pretty popular. It's not, like, HOMESTUCK popular but it's well known enough that you or someone you know vaguely knows about it. And it's great! It's cool, I'm even doing a con for the first time in a few months. So I don't want to come off like someone who's whining about how their golden toilet seat isn't pre heated. This is cool, and I wouldn't change anything, but it has all these new problems that I don't really know how to solve.

People develop these intense one sided relationships with you and feel cheated when they get to know you. I've even had people try and dig up "receipts" which is cool and not weird and stalkerish. I also just don't know how to interact with my "fanbase". I don't know how to interact with people in general, honestly. This is really tough since most artists, myself included, are kind of their own brand.

Also I feel a lot of weird survivor's guilt. Like I'm a pretty good artist, and I work very hard, but there are a lot more talented/harder working artists out there. I know them and I don't really know how to talk about this stuff because I feel like they should be here, not me.

So yeah any advice? I have a couple other things getting to me but I'm way too tired to think of them right now. Thanks guys

[Anonymous No.3574293]

Is it worth investigating and exposing a probable tracer if they're getting paid for their work?

On the one hand, I don't want to torpedo an actual autist's life if this thing does get legs but at the same time I don't like people paying 50 quid or more on traced shit.

[Anonymous No.3574303]

>>3572968
meant for photoshop, livestream was just a runon sentence. I've resigned myself to not livestreaming with the companion.

Another question though, is there any way to add the opacity tab to your right click on photoshop? Currently it has a Size and Hardness slider and I'd like to add one for opacity as well.

[Anonymous No.3574314]

Why do digital artists all seem to layd own flat colours for an entire image before doing any sort of shading? Is there an advantage to doing that versus going section by section?

[Anonymous No.3574326]

>>3571201
What's a good way/ rules to go by to reconstruct a drawing?
Like reverse engineer to find out how the artist constructed it?

Trying to draw different styles and not everything has character sheets available.

[Anonymous No.3574335]

>>3574314
Because it takes advantage of layer modes.
3d software usually has diffuse colors separate from shadows, speculars, etc.

generally much faster workflow if you know what you're doing.

[Anonymous No.3574340]

>>3574335

Yeah but then don'y you need to create a different background layer for each individual colour in the drawing? Seems like a good way to get confused really quickly.

[Anonymous No.3574342]

>>3574314
you mean blocking?

everybody does that. not just digital

[Anonymous No.3574345]

My 11 year old daughter is drawing this. I should be concerned.

[Anonymous No.3574442]

>>3574345
>daughter

You've already failed.

[Anonymous No.3574471]

>>3572715
You should look at noses and eyes too. Eventually with drawing you learn what lines you want to emphasize to produce depth, volume, or the weight you want to convey. Lines or strokes often carry more than one function. They might describe shading, outline/contrast, local value, a texture, or the cross-contour of the form. Using more lines is more detail to draw the eye toward so typically you want to avoid drawing every line you see.

[Anonymous No.3574478]

I got into a fancy schmancy school in LA. its near my hometown so its not a big deal, except for the part where the school is seriously legit, and I will be expected to keep up. also need to maintain high gpa for scholarships.

what are some tips to stay creatively juiced academically? Do I really need to munch adderall?

[Anonymous No.3574491]

>>3574314
Because it's very hard to control your brush and pigment with digital. You lay flat colors so that you can easily select the parts you want to paint. This lets you render and control edges by clipping/masking only the sections you want to paint. Clipping to your selection means "I only want to paint within this portion", like masking or covering the rest of your canvas with tape.

[Anonymous No.3574530]

>>3574345
cuuuute

[Anonymous No.3574533]

Hi what's this circle called? the one we draw with?

I've seen some people's circle things take the shape of whatever brush they happen to be using. Can do I do that in Clip Studio? I think it'd help a lot and I'd prefer it too.

[Anonymous No.3574539]

>>3574533
go to preferences (ctrl+K) and then go to cursor

[Anonymous No.3574546]

>>3574539
thank u

i wanted something that looks just like my brush tip but there doesn't seem to be the option sadly

[Anonymous No.3574584]

>>3574546
I believe it's called tool specific
perhaps go with brush size & tool specific together

[Anonymous No.3574601]

>>3574584
Still just a circle but with a little pen icon on it too. I tried screenshotting it but the icon disappears in the screenshots for some reason.

[Anonymous No.3574620]

>>3571940
It does sound like a driver issue. If you have a wacom, make sure in your tablet properties you've added them as an application. If it says "DRIVER NOT FOUND" that's your issue. You can restart the driver in your services by looking for Wacom Professional Driver and restarting it and the art programs. If even that doesn't work, the website of any manufacturer should have drivers for download.
also you need to set the stabilizer in sai manually. In the bar under the fie, edit etc. there's a bar with the controls. The last one is stabilizer. The higher the number is, the slower slower the brush cursor moves in a sense, but the smoother it becomes. The S-1, S-2... are mostly for precision lineart, but if you're super wobbly-handed you can start set it anywhere from 10 to S-2 depending on what feels comfortable.
You can also set this and pressure sensitivity directly for certain brushes you make or edit by right clicking and selecting options or double clicking.
I don't know much about krita, sorry.

[Anonymous No.3574624]

>>3574533
>>3574601
preferences > cursor

dummy

[Anonymous No.3574632]

>>3574624
yeah i found out how to find it but it doesn't give the option I want.

I think it's just clip studio being a bit shit, i wanted it like pic related so i can properly see what im doing.

[Anonymous No.3574636]

>>3574345
that's not bad for 11yr old animu honestly.

>>3574326
find animation sheets, some wont be 100% cleaned up
or just put it on 40 perfect opacity and draw over it.

>>3574291
you could make a FAQ with art tips politely explaining that while you appreiciate love, you are focusing on your own self care. or something like that.

and honestly, if you can admit 'i didn't pull up by my bootstraps to be better than you, i am mostly just lucky' i don't think those talented artists would resent you unless they're by nature jealous people.

especially if your webcomic is built on humor instead of storytelling/art (?) i understand if you don't want to elaborate on that.

[Anonymous No.3574653]

>>3574249
Some tips: try making a whole piece with one color using both cools and warms of that color.

But the color or hue does not even matter that much, the value is the most important thing. If you get the values right you can use any color there you want.

You can google "color harmonies" and it will give you some basic information about colors. I like to colorpick from nature pictures, say some kind of animal, birds are very good for this. Just google some images of birds and pick colors from them.

Also there is the book by James Gurney called Color and Light, which I have seen people recommend. But I have not read this book (yet) so I can't say how good or bad it is. Might be worth checking out too.

[Anonymous No.3574666]

>>3574632
it differs by brush
I have several similar to that
got the daub brush pack? I know for a fact many of them have brushes that look similar

[Anonymous No.3574669]

horizon = the level your eyes are looking at it. always. right?

[Anonymous No.3574674]

>>3574669
yes horizon is your eye level. and so it does not change if you look up or down, but if your head/eyes moves up or down, say if you squat or step on a chair or whatever.

[Anonymous No.3574683]

>>3573514
How many tags? What time? How do I get more followers? What kinds are there?

[Anonymous No.3574711]

>>3574674
thank you.

[Anonymous No.3574713]

>saw a beauiful 1920s illustration for a jane austen book
>have never been able to find it again
am i fucked?

>>3574683
not him, but put lots of tags on stuff, and participate in inktober. inktober always gets me followers.

[Anonymous No.3574735]

>>3574713
nvm i found it

[Anonymous No.3574736]

>>3573661
>Unfortunately many pro/skilled artists advice against doing only studies or just not drawing from imagination

Do what works for you. Also I'm not familiar with your drawings enough to criticize what you should work on.

[Anonymous No.3574741]

>>3574736
>Do what works for you.
I actually don't know what people mean by this, and I see a lot of artists give this kind of answer. If you mean just do what you like to do until you get good at it, well I don't know how well that works and that would probably end up in me skimming over the more boring things like constructing with boxes and perspective grids and shit because I find that so boring as opposed to gesture and organic forms which I really like drawing. I understand why people say that as learning art comes down a lot to intuition, but as a beginner trying to learn how to learn, it's not easy for me to understand just what I should be doing to get good
>Also I'm not familiar with your drawings enough to criticize what you should work on.
I can post my current WIP if you want. I mean I think I do know I should work on, but it's the kind of thing that I find harder to figure out than anatomy where I can just look at photos then medical pictures of muscles or whatever and draw these until I learn how the muscles work.

[Anonymous No.3574746]

>>3574741
Post the wip, it''ll make it easier to try to answer your issues

[Anonymous No.3574748]

>>3574345
No, she's just having fun since she's still a kid. Girls are easily impressed with Japanese animation because it helps them channel some creative outlet. Action packed cartoons are usually weak with dealing with the emotional side of animation.

If you can find cartoons, shows, or movies that pertain to her interests, she would hopefully stop drawing anime, but it's really difficult these days to find an appealing animation that isn't anime. If you have time, take her outdoors instead of leaving her with the internet.

Either way, your kid seems happy. She's not drawing corpses (kinda a red flag for girls, not really for young boys).

[Anonymous No.3574753]

>>3574748
>Action packed cartoons are usually weak with dealing with the emotional side of animation.

Oh, also like to add that anime is more prettier than cartoons. Girls go nuts over pretty design elements as much as the storytelling.

[Anonymous No.3574768]

>>3574746
Alright, here's my latest WIP, this is stylized unlike the realism I usually try to go for but it started as me trying to draw something for fun
I didn't use the box method for construction but I still tried to draw the forms of the figure keeping in mind the perspective
I think it's clear I have lots of issues, from the figure to perspective to composition and so on

[Anonymous No.3575166]

>>3573576
of course they are. but do you really need all that to improve your artwork?

i'm not against learning stuff, but it seems like people procrastinate working in they artwork with the excuse of studying very niche/useless details on anatomy or perspective that will never put in practice irl

[Anonymous No.3575295]

>>3574768
>I think it's clear I have lots of issues, from the figure to perspective to composition and so on

You need to practice more.The background looks fine, but if the figure is meant to be stylized then I can't help you.

Any example of your realism practices?

[Anonymous No.3575305]

>>3573576
This is geometric transformations 101. It's correct.

[Anonymous No.3575308]

>>3575305
Aka just plain geometry.

[Anonymous No.3575313]

>>3575295
>>3575305
>>3575308

my eventual use for it will be drawing cars. so I just need to approximately know what degree my lines need to taper away at to get the perspective look I want.

thanks for reply. its a start.

[Anonymous No.3575471]

any tips for charcoal and value improvement?

[Anonymous No.3575566]

Does the endless cycle of revisions even after uploading ever ends?

Better yet....Is there point in which you start recognizing your mistakes before you call your pieces done?

I've on this for 5 years and it is just getting worse, at the end of it no one truly sees my finished stuff....fuck ;_;

[Anonymous No.3575575]

what settings do you use flow for? what percentage of flow do you use for what sitautions?

just trying to wrap my head around the use and mechanics behind flow in photoshop

[Anonymous No.3575662]

>>3575295
eh well I might post something when I get home but I'm not sure i have a good one to show
let me look for it in a few hours tho

[Anonymous No.3575871]

>>3575566
give yourself a limited number of revisions, at final size percent zoomed in, then call it done, or you'll never have anything finished.

[Anonymous No.3576096]

Which Nibba drew this?

[Anonymous No.3576129]

I'm doing Bargue plates, and I'm not sure exactly where my focus should be. Each plate takes a little over one hour to do. If I could, I want to get to a point where I can accurately sight check stuff without autistically measuring every distance. Is this a realistic goal?
Can you get sufficiently good at sighting to be able to capture a likeness, or will you always have to measure?
Or is it not even required to be perfectly accurate to capture a likeness? What does an acceptable error margin look like?
Should I check stuff as I'm working, or keep working until something pops up as being wrong? I only care about the method that gives me the most experience.

[Anonymous No.3576132]

>>3576096
pixiv id is 4713

[Anonymous No.3576135]

is there a 3d anatomy app? something that lets you rotate and look at muscles from all angles?

[Anonymous No.3576210]

is there a physical book out there of reference photos categorised for lots of different things.
like with a little bit for ancient weapons, clockwork, factories, tropical plants, machinery, space rockets, clothes/materials. For example , with a few good photos each
would be really helpful to drawing from imagination or inspiration in general.

or is there a pdf of something already compiled like this I could print out.

[Anonymous No.3576216]

>>3576135
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=3d+anatomy+app

[Anonymous No.3576217]

>>3576216
thanks snarkanon. is there one that is particularly good?

[Anonymous No.3576221]

>>3571201
hi, windows fuckers did new update,
now clip studio paint doesnt function anymore.

ALL MY COMIC STUFF IS KNOW UNACCESSIBLE TO ME.
Since it was a cracked program, it is my fault as well.
I reinstalled it multiple times, reset my windows, nothing helped.
I just get a strange blank window when i click on clip studio..
Anything I can do?
I promise to my self, from now on, I will save every file multiple times and do presketches on paper.

[Anonymous No.3576224]

>>3576221
>ALL MY COMIC STUFF IS KNOW UNACCESSIBLE TO ME.
now a year of work is basically "lost", even though i still have the stuff, it doesnt matter if i cant open it.
NEVERTRUSTDIGITAL

[Anonymous No.3576229]

>>3576221
tbf bro it happens to legit copies too, window updates are asshole.
you tried uninstalling and then finding a new torrent with a different version? I don't know if it works though
alternatively, and more annoyingly, you could upload all your .csp and have a friend who still has a working CSP and PS to open them all and change them to .psd or whatever you want

[Anonymous No.3576235]

>>3576229
i guess i just have to learn it the hard way.
From now on i will do the layout on paper-
Because i did the layout and Scribbles digitally before.

that was very dumb and naive. wont do that mistake every again.

[Anonymous No.3576253]

>>3576221
cant you uninstall the new update?

[Anonymous No.3576261]

>>3576235
I do everything digitally myself, I mean unless I'm working on trad
but I also have windows updates delayed for 365 days and continue doing that every 365 days. would turn them off entirely if micro$oft didnt fuck it up for no good reason.
I honestly should probably go back to an older OS. either way, don't give up trying to fix it, it is fixable

[Anonymous No.3576376]

is there some way that I could perfectly mimic drawing on a dry erase board with a marker, but with a tablet? as in, I enjoy how a chisel tip dry marker feels and works, so I want to do exactly that but on a tablet. special stylus? best program? wat do

t. read the sticky which makes no mention of tablets or how to start with something like this, and I don't even want to git gud at drawing I just have a very specific purpose for doing this

[Anonymous No.3576396]

>>3576210
get a 4chan image downloader extension, go to /hr/, begin downloading threads

[Anonymous No.3576445]

>>3576376
you could maybe take a dry marker tip and attach it to the end of the stylus somehow along with a spring in a way that makes it press the stylus tip in turn. would be lots more work than it's worth though

[Anonymous No.3576504]

>>3576376
art rage.

[Anonymous No.3576548]

How do I get good at drawing beards? Are there any good tutorials worth looking at?

[Anonymous No.3576714]

I just want to make my own manga how can I do that

[Anonymous No.3576827]

Can I talk to friends over discord or watch things on Youtube while practicing drawing?

I'm replacing video games with drawing and I'm not sure how to do it.

[Anonymous No.3576917]

>>3574666
I'll give them A try thank you. What are some good ones?

[Anonymous No.3576963]

If I already own an ipad pro does it make sense to get a desktop tablet?
And if so, is Huion junk, or worth it?

[Anonymous No.3576964]

HOW IN THE FUCK DO I GET GOOD AT DRAWING SCAPULAS FROM MIND?

[Anonymous No.3576974]

I'm out of touch as fuck. What's some hot shit to draw that'll get me notes on Tumblr?

[Anonymous No.3576983]

>>3576964
Practice.

http://anatomyzone.com/3d_atlas/musculoskeletal/upper-limb/scapula/

[Anonymous No.3576987]

>>3576983
thank you very much

[Anonymous No.3576990]

>>3576974

Fanart. Its always fanart. Especially if you do fanart for whatever shitty anime is popular at the moment. That super power teenager anime is the hot on the internet still.

But you know, 99.9% of people that note you for that kind of fanart will ONLY look at that fanart and ignore everything else. I'd really advise against doing fanart unless its for media you actually enjoy on a personal level.

[Anonymous No.3576991]

>>3576974
>Tumblr

Gay yaoi boys. The other spectrum is genderfluid transgenderkin.

[Anonymous No.3577036]

>>3576990
What if I hate all this zoomer ironic weeb bullshit. Am I just doomed to not making it?

[Anonymous No.3577253]

>>3577036
you could draw 'aesthetic' things. witches, pretty things, horror shit
who said anything about 'making it'? you asked how to get popular on tumblr and we told you.

>>3576714
first come up with a short story and draw it so you know you can make more

[Anonymous No.3577269]

>>3575575
For me it's usually either 100% or 30-40%. Most of my brushes have opacity/flow jitter and then others I leave opaque.

[Anonymous No.3577313]

did anyone just realise one day that painting is easy? like i was watching this, after painting something just as good myself and i'm suddenly like, actually, this is easy, what was the big deal about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9DtWinTrGM

[Anonymous No.3577336]

>>3577313
i realised perspective was easy. still waiting on the painting epiphany.

[Anonymous No.3577355]

>>3577313
>>3577336
>tfw neither perspective or painting are easy for me
a-any day now, here comes the epiphany

[Anonymous No.3577367]

could you put gauche in brush pens like you can water colours?

[Anonymous No.3577554]

what's that site that lets you view 3d models in your browser?

[Anonymous No.3577565]

>>3577367
no, you shouldn't even do it with watercolours fyi

[Anonymous No.3578084]

what would you do if your only client pays you little for very complex jobs, but if you raise the prices there is a possibility of losing it as a client and being left with nothing?

[Anonymous No.3578087]

>>3578084
Gain fame so you can have more options.

[Anonymous No.3578335]

Is it ok to sell prints of a commissioned piece?. I would like to bring this possibility to the client but I'm a bit ashamed to ask

[Anonymous No.3578351]

Did /ic/ ever have a golden age? How active was this place at it's peak?

[Anonymous No.3578358]

>>3578351
From what I remember it's better now than it used to be. Also seems like the toxic people have left

[Anonymous No.3578514]

No jump manga contest this year?

[Anonymous No.3578559]

How do you change line width with the pencil? I was trying to do it by tilting the pencil but then i loose all control if i try to go from thin to thick lines or vice versa. Is it something you just need to practice with or just not plausible?

[Anonymous No.3578562]

>>3576963
The V2 series by Huion are very good, maybe even the best of their kind. GT-191 V2 for 19 incher or the GT-220 KAMVAS V2, both are quite excellent. Brands like Ugee don't offer the screen protection, battery less pen technology and neither the matte paper-like feeling. I'm eyeballing the gt-191 v2, might end up buying it.

[Anonymous No.3578824]

There is too much noise to draw without music where I live. Is this the reason I can't improve or I shouldn't worry about it?

[Anonymous No.3578876]

>>3578824
Invest in noise cancelling headphones. Noise can be distracting even for people outside the art field.

Or go to relatively quit places like libraries or small parks.

[Anonymous No.3578880]

>>3578559
Work with a good pointed pencil, specifically sharpened with a razor and sandpaper block. Practice line weight by varying pressure and angle.

If you're really having difficulty, the first lesson on Draw a Box is just practicing lines and line method like ghosting or drawing a line over another to give different widths.

[Anonymous No.3578885]

>>3578084
Either the client acknowledges your needs as an artist or he goes. You are not obligated to have a parasitic relationship with a client unless you lack confidence in expanding your reach.

[Anonymous No.3578921]

What's the best book to read if you really want to imrpove your general knowledge of anatomy?

Before anyone asks, yes I do figure and gesture drawings. No they're not very good but I keep doing them every so often even if it sucks. I just feel like I'm approaching my limit to what I can understand through observation alone and would benefit from hard explanation of how the stupid human body works.

[Anonymous No.3578926]

>>3578921
grey's anatomy

[Anonymous No.3578927]

>>3578926
gray*

[Anonymous No.3579132]

Is there a trick to getting better at digital lineart or is it just a matter of practice

[Anonymous No.3579146]

Is it easy for advanced artists to rotate a reference photo in their head and re-draw it at a different angle? How do you even begin to do that?

[Anonymous No.3579156]

>>3579146
i mean they can do it

but a reference photo is so you know what something looks like. you look for one that gives you the information.

>>3578921
atlas of anatomy for the artist,peck

[Anonymous No.3579161]

Is drawabox the best way to improve draughtmanship or is just drawing stuff I want to draw is better?

[Anonymous No.3579455]

>>3578335
if it's an already commissioned piece, that's scummy. if it's a future piece that hasn't even been suggested to you by a client, than you can put a statement in your ToS that allows you to. It's still pretty scummy.
>>3579132
work in a larger resolution with a higher dpi and zoom out. You make smaller strokes while covering a larger area.

[Anonymous No.3579484]

>>3579455

What DPI do most digital artists work with? I'm at 300 right now.

[Anonymous No.3579553]

Does digital art ever stop feeling like trash? I can draw at a mediocre level traditionally and got a drawing tablet to animate, but it feels awful. Is there something I can do to make my drawing skill translate to digital so I can make neato movies?

[Anonymous No.3579557]

>>3579553
Draw more

[Anonymous No.3579595]

>>3579553
Explore different tablet and brush settings, I used to think I was trash at digital linework until I put my opacity + brush size on pen pressure and changed the pressure curve of my tablet.

[Anonymous No.3579746]

Does gesture drawing improve your overall figure eventually? I decided to study 20 gestures every other day since it's so important, I know it helps with conveying movement but I read a few times of artists with some experience saying it eventually teaches you correct proportion
Just curious

[Anonymous No.3579755]

>>3579161
>Is drawabox the best way to improve draughtmanship

Yes, afaik.

[Anonymous No.3579756]

>>3578921
Best anatomy book IMO is Artistic Anatomy by Dr Paul Richer. Bridgman is also really great.

[Anonymous No.3579906]

is Color Theory by Patti Mollica a good book?
Looking for some material to learn about colour, I'm sick of greyscale and using colour (digital) frustrates me to no end.
Brushes, pressure, all that kinda shit fucks with me but I figure I need the basics first.
Any recommendations? Betty Edwards has a colour book too but I didn't go for Right Side.

[Anonymous No.3579948]

does anybody have the Betty Edward dvd

[Anonymous No.3579950]

Does fixative spray have an expiration date? I've bought mine a few years ago and wonder for how long it's ok to use it.

[Anonymous No.3580149]

Does it matter whether I do my studies and exercises digitally or traditionally? I prefer digital art but honestly can work with either.

[Anonymous No.3580158]

Do you guys measure when drawing/painting/w.e? A lot of tutorials online will tell you to do so, but Vilppu and the classic painters like D'Angelo were/are strongly against it.

[Anonymous No.3580178]

>>3580158
It's good to do so when you're an absolute beginner to help you train your eye. However, even a slight deviation can result in a huge flaw, so you should aim to learn to rely on your eyes only later on.

[Anonymous No.3580328]

When I'm drawing a figure in perspective, how do I figure out how many heads tall I should make the figure? I know the loomis proportions but how is that affected by foreshortening?

[Anonymous No.3580331]

>>3580328
put the loomis proportions in perspective lol?

[Anonymous No.3580348]

>>3580331
That's literally what I'm asking how to do.

[Anonymous No.3580360]

>>3577554
sketchfab

[Anonymous No.3580399]

>>3571201
How to draw with your elbow? I've always been drawing with my wrist because it's sticks to my tablet and i can't move it. I'm not fat or sveating, but I cant move it freely. What do?

[Anonymous No.3580403]

Is there a forum where you can ask mangaka question

[Anonymous No.3580416]

>>3571201

I not a drawfag. I'd like to know what tools and techniques I need to go from left to right other than simple gradient.

[Anonymous No.3580417]

>>3580416

Whoops.

[Anonymous No.3580420]

How the fuck do I get my autism riddled mind to do things simply?

[Anonymous No.3580611]

Does anyone draw emojis and can share some tips/rules to follow?
I’m having trouble keeping good readability when scaling down and picking colors that read well too.

[Anonymous No.3580626]

>>3580417
smudge tool + dodge tool for a bit of saturation/glow on the specular highlight
yes its actually that simple

[Anonymous No.3580724]

>>3580611
If you're using something like clip studio (or other software, I haven't used anything else personally) you can make a new window, size it down and drag it to the side of your workspace to get an idea of what it might look like when submitted.

This site is also very helpful: https://twitch-contrast.firebaseapp.com/

If you're doing a character, It's important to remember to keep it simple, with extra emphasis on the facial expression to retain the fact that the emote is actually supposed to be 'emoting' something. Minute details are almost always lost.

[Anonymous No.3580759]

>>3580417
Also if you're going to do color blending like that example image, set the project to 32 bits per channel first. It will give far better results.

You can do this in Photoshop by going: Image -> Mode -> 32 Bits / Channel.

[Anonymous No.3580928]

>>3580328
Seconding this question
I know however Loomis has a method for this in his figure drawing book, basically drawing a box/square in perspective, splitting it up in sections for measurements, then draw the figure inside it
No idea how that shit works for any pose that isn't standing straight like a wood plank though

[Anonymous No.3580931]

>>3580417
What's the uncropped pic? Seems uh interesting

[Anonymous No.3581012]

How do I draw exaggerated smiling faces?
If I don't make the features all tiny then everything just turns into psychotic Gengars

[Anonymous No.3581042]

>>3581012
post example

[Anonymous No.3581044]

>>3571201
Can anyone rec me any process vids of anime artists that draws in a clean direct-draw fashion with little to no sketching?

[Anonymous No.3581062]

>>3580931

>>>/aco/2531896

[Anonymous No.3581081]

>>3571578
>>3571574
Guys Im so confused now.

Which one has better exercises?

[Anonymous No.3581116]

I'm doing a thingy in Gimp.
It's 15 fps so there should be 66 ms between each frame. But Gimp only allows 60 or 70.
Any way around this or do I need another program?

[Anonymous No.3581123]

Is it okay to do drawabox before keys to drawing?

Does the order of which books to learn from really matter?

[Anonymous No.3581136]

How do i get to this level?
https://youtu.be/9kqkFIcw_X0

[Anonymous No.3581152]

>>3580759
That’s retarded there’s no reason to set it to 32 or even 16 unless you’re doing photo shit. My god next you’ll tell him to use Lab mode.

[Anonymous No.3581154]

>>3581152
you can literally see the difference in his example image

[Anonymous No.3581179]

>>3580158
Vilppu isn't against measuring, I dont know where you get that meme from. He literally have a whole lesson dedicated to measuring and even used to give his classes his own official Vilppu(tm)-branded cheat sheets to specifically remind you of the principles of measuring

[Anonymous No.3581256]

>>3580399
lock your wrist. i tend to draw more with my elbow and shoulder but indeed switch between them all. wrist for the finest details or menu selections, elbow/shoulder for everything else.

[Anonymous No.3581257]

>>3581116
use krita.

>>3581123
drawabox is just practice. you can do them both at the same time although drawabox is pretty useless by itself and beyond the first chapter.

[Anonymous No.3581271]

How do i get started with digital art? do i buy a book or what? I already went through ctrl paint videos but i didnt find them to be useful

[Anonymous No.3581277]

>>3581271
what do you want to make? watch art process videos of those similar to what you want

[Anonymous No.3581280]

>>3580724
I’ve just been ultra zooming out but that’s much smarter. I think I can do the same thing in photoshop and if not I have clip.

Anyway thank you so much that’s all super helpful and I’ll keep it in mind for my next attempt!

[Anonymous No.3581285]

>>3581277
I really like darek zabrocki, craig mullins and chengwei pan's styles. I would love to be able to do stuff like them but i dont know how. i checked out craig mullins' lessons but they were largely useless

[Anonymous No.3581291]

>>3581257
What do you mean beyond the first chapter?
Whatvis good to do at the same time then?

[Anonymous No.3581301]

>>3581285
Then you'd be better dealing with studying traditional methods. Underpainting and then a lot of "glazing"/layering/texturing. It's a long process and a lot of work. I can't think of anything off the top of my head but this should be a decent start but it's also long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NygkJEc3yu4&list=PL0SSy7vUJ6ExSzVbhaliZ6S8242dJtKDm&index=2

Check out other traditional art books and videos to try to correlate it to digital. Those are pretty lofty goals if you don't have much experience at all painting. As you go you'll likely find a different style. Practice and experiment as much as you can, don't get sucked into the brush game. Get a small set of oil-like brushes and go off. But first learn to use a hard round and soft round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuk94Ug-Di0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ_22hZaDbk

[Anonymous No.3581324]

>>3581301
I agree with you my goals are ambitious given my current inexperience. Do you think i should start with easier things first?

[Anonymous No.3581342]

>>3581285
>checked out craig mullins' lessons but they were largely useless
how were they useless?

[Anonymous No.3581351]

>>3581342
Not him but a lot of the Mullins vids are more "masterclass" and lecture based than method that I've seen. I still got things out of it but the knowledge is easily above a lot of people's heads unless they can relate.

[Anonymous No.3581471]

https://createlet.com/best-drawing-books/

Is this list any good?

[Anonymous No.3581495]

>>3581471
perspective made easy and/or how to draw, framed ink, hampton i would recommend for a beginner. then later on try things like loomis' figure drawing or force you could try. for a beginner stick with those although i'd recommend huston's figure drawing book over hampton. almost all of those are easy to find in the artbook thread, online, or libgen.

get the books and draw. don't waste more time thinking about it than that.

[Anonymous No.3581561]

>>3581495
Thank you for sound advice.
I will look into huston book, his art is exceptional.

[Anonymous No.3581583]

Is there books on Drawing the bare minimum lines?

IE only lines necessary to get the idea across like Futurama etc does?

Simplifying 101 or something.

Also anyone has links to a resource on Storyboards?

I really want to go over storyboards from various shows, surely there is a site that collect them or something.

[Anonymous No.3581607]

>>3581583
http://ktshy.tumblr.com/tagged/storyboard-samples

[Anonymous No.3581614]

I haven't drawn in 3 weeks, what is the best way to warm up and get un-rusty? Anything more specific than just 'draw'?

[Anonymous No.3581621]

>>3579950
Please help.

[Anonymous No.3581626]

>>3581614
Draw random but solid forms in space. If you don't know where to start, go with boxes, cylinders and spheres first. Then start to combine and modify them

[Anonymous No.3581666]

>>3581583
you can't draw only the necessary lines until you've drawn and determined all the unnecessary lines

[Anonymous No.3581702]

How do I stylize my work to match the artstyle of Yoji Shinkawa? I love it to bits but I just can't put my finger on what exactly makes them special and how to cop

[Anonymous No.3581706]

>>3581666

Ohhh~

[Anonymous No.3581785]

>>3581702
learn how to lineart and composition like that first, then the rest is just textures. do more gesture drawing, it is a very energetic style of mark making.

[Anonymous No.3581890]

>>3581785
Thanks for the help anon, do you have any idea on how to transfer those textures on paper if im doing traditional art? I'm thinking watercolor

[Anonymous No.3581926]

>>3581890
watercolor, brush pen, ink washes, whatever. traditional makes the texture itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-zG3icKhk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyapdbETLQo

[Anonymous No.3581940]

>>3571201
Helps if you just name it /sqt/, like /g/, Stupid Questions Thread.

[Anonymous No.3582066]

>get idea to draw
>idea actually works out
>actually making something work
>want to get up, walk around and do literally anything else

but why

[Anonymous No.3582082]

how do you dry brush on krita?

[Anonymous No.3582101]

I wanted an artistic outlet so I picked up sketching.

So far I've been doing exercises from a book and drawing something from imagination every once in awhile. Problem is I don't feel artistic doing any of it.
I'm not sure if drawing is for me.

[Anonymous No.3582113]

>>3582101
Well you're a cancerous frogposter so of course you're going to go nowhere in life, not just art.

Best realize the waste of human resource you are and go back to meme spewing and shitposting "for fun" on twitter, reddit, and /pol/.

[Anonymous No.3582119]

>>3582113
I used to hate frogposters anon but slowly there faces started resonating with me.

Didn't you get into art to try an express something, hopefully positive anon? Do you ever think about how trudging through life expressing negative emotions all the time makes the world a worse place?
What I'm getting at is, you come off like a low testosterone beta male anon.

[Anonymous No.3582136]

>>3582119
>I'm gonna try to sound like an intellectual then spew b-b-b-b-beta cuck loser ha he'll never see it coming!

Your predictable autist response is the answer to your "question", you're genuinely retarded/autistic (no seriously, it's obvious you're on the spectrum) and art is not for you. There's always one thing that autistic people have a strong grasp on, some autists strongly latch onto playing the piano or crafts and do it well for example. Obviously you can't focus on even sketching so stop wasting your and most importantly everyone else's time. Best solution would be for you to kill yourself, but I doubt you're not even competent enought to do even that properly.

[Anonymous No.3582139]

>>3582136
why wont you answer to his goddamn question, somebody lurking could use it

[Anonymous No.3582142]

>>3582136
It's not healthy to be this hateful unprovoked anon.
Going outside would be genuinely good for you friend

[Anonymous No.3582183]

My faces/heads look wonky when I try to draw them in perspective. I'm using loomis and shit and I can draw better without perspective. I'm making a box and constructing the head inside of it.
Is this just a matter of getting used to it and practicing or is there something else I should know?

[Anonymous No.3582190]

how the fuck do I bullshit gesture drawings so i dont have to use them but still convince my profs that i am? all i wanna do is draw but my profs always mark me down for not having a "gesture-like feel" to my work. i just draw, gestures are for boomers

[Anonymous No.3582232]

>>3582190
Practice your gestures properly, literally no other way around it

[Anonymous No.3582283]

>>3582190
post your work, they probably look stiff as fuck, literally just read a book on how to do them from like vilppu or hampton or some shit they're not even that hard

[Anonymous No.3582295]

Anyone got any video/book/tutorial recommendations or just general advice on rendering beach-scapes or water?

Pic would be something I think is ideal, but I'm not exactly certain how to build up the shades of the ocean and the seafoam. Gonna post two or three more pics to show what I'm going for.

[Anonymous No.3582297]

>>3582295

[Anonymous No.3582298]

>>3582297
also any advice on what shapes to use and how to render splashing water would be much appreciated as well

[Anonymous No.3582441]

is there a good reason to learn anything more complicated than sketchup if you're just going to do paintovers?

[Anonymous No.3582445]

>>3582295
well you have the foam and the rest is just like a crinkly plastic sheet that shows a bit of whatevers underneath
splashies are just white foam, droplets closeup
so closeup is like thick glass sculpture
further out in the ocean is more creamy, calm water is like stratiated glass

[Anonymous No.3582497]

>>3582295
If you knew anything about watercolor you'd understand the washes used in that.

[Anonymous No.3582508]

Is there an art app on Android that allows you to zoom in/out using just a tablet pen? I don't want to rotate the canvas with my fingers because of finger prints.

Any suggestions on what to do about this would be nice. They're distracting...

I've tried several like Sketch and Infinite Paint but no luck. Otherwise I guess I'll just be happy with Mediabang.

[Anonymous No.3582514]

>>3578514
It hasn't even been a full year since the last one in December. They announced the results in what, March or something? Not that long anon.

[Anonymous No.3582593]

>>3582497
Thank you /ic/, I don't kmow what kind of washes were used, that's why I'm fucking asking.

[Anonymous No.3582601]

>>3582593
Do you know how watercolor works? Do you know how to see colors? If you know how watercolor works then you'd see the lightest colors were the last colors used.

[Anonymous No.3582622]

>>3571201
People bombard me with questions about commission prices and then fucking disappear, what is this shit? Is this normal? I receive multiple emails each fucking day
holy shit im so pissed stop wasting my time morons
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Anonymous No.3582646]

Is there a tool somewhere like line-of-action or quickposes but for landscape/environment studies instead of figure drawing?

[Anonymous No.3582700]

>>3582646
i-is it actually possible to gesture draw a background?

>>3582622
they're probably running off cause yours are higher than they wanted and they're cheap. put yr commish prices on your tumblr/whatever so they have to look before asking

[Anonymous No.3582705]

>>3582700
Well, I was thinking more like the former site, where there's longer timers as an option.

Though what I'm specifically looking for is something that'll randomly pick subject matter so I stop spending more time waffling around on that than actually working.

[Anonymous No.3582713]

>>3582508
Holy fuck I just thought of a solution: using a glove. Wow.

Funny because I use them in the Winter while drawing so that answer would've arrived eventually!

[Anonymous No.3582736]

>>3582713
you'll need a touch screen glove or that won't work

[Anonymous No.3582757]

>>3572530
they're heavy and semi fluid

[Anonymous No.3582849]

>>3582757
you're not a good source of information on anything art related

[Anonymous No.3582852]

Is it super important to learn how things like the skeleton and muscles work for your drawings? Most of my artbooks feature tutorials with stick figures, but I heard its good to know how to draw the underlying muscles. I'd like to get better at drawing, but I want to know if I have to learn how the muscles work before I can draw comics and character designs.

[Anonymous No.3583076]

>>3582852
Yes it is, it's a fundamental skill. Get better instruction books.

[Anonymous No.3583135]

anatomy for sculptors covers simplified muscles I think

[Anonymous No.3583358]

Ya'll got any cool photoshop brushes I can paint with? I've only got the stock shit and some brush more for illustrating

[Anonymous No.3583378]

>>3583358
that's all you need

[Anonymous No.3583439]

>>3582101
Feeling 'artistic' is just a spur of the moment feeling, it's not suppose to fuel you in the long run. Being passionate about drawing, however, requires dedication and takes even the dullest moments of practice into account. If you don't feel in the long run that the moments of practice will benefit you, then you either 1) need to take a step back and breathe if you've been grinding excessively 2) acknowledge art isn't purely your thing. You probably enjoy it as a fleeting fancy - aka it's just fun- but taking it as a serious route is consuming your time being better at something else.

I don't mind frogposting because freedom of whatever etc., it just lacks the individuality that 4chan explored with reaction images. I've been on 4chan long enough to know sadfrog had been on the internet for like, 10+ years. It's just rehashing the same image. moot's canv.as project was built on this idea.

[Anonymous No.3583446]

>>3582295
This is really nice

[Anonymous No.3583459]

>>3582700
>i-is it actually possible to gesture draw a background?

Yea, it's called thumbnail sketching. And composition. And flow, since gesture drawing should help with how a background or figure should idealistically lead the human eye.

Gesture drawing is never 100% accurate with figures or backgrounds. It's always more playful than literal studies.

[Anonymous No.3583470]

>>3582852
If you're going for stylistic like cartoon/anime, then no, you honestly don't need to learn anything else aside from basic anatomy and possibly perspective if you're going for dynamic poses.

But if you want to come up with your own poses without looking for references every time you get stuck, then it's worth investing your time in everything anatomy. Learning the skeleton helps you understand the parts that move (twists, turns, rotation), and the muscles help with realistic shading.

Proko is friendly for beginners and experts to reeducate themselves on anatomy.

[Anonymous No.3583572]

>>3583439
Thanks anon
Redpill on the history of 4chan and reaction images. Are you saying you should always find your own?

[Anonymous No.3583581]

>>3572075
There are alot of nuances but for the basics just remember that female eyes have rounder upper eyelids while males have a more horizontal section with sharper angles, and fairer skin has less wrinkles so use less lines even if you see some (unless you're going full realism and account for every shadow and blemish since they're often the same shading as less prominent areas).

There are stereotypical features like rounder cheeks/faces, narrower chin and thicker lower lip but there are women with the exact opposite features. I've had the most luck when getting the eyes right so practice those.

[Anonymous No.3583586]

>>3573043
what >>3573411 said. You need to understand proper proportions first so make sure you can construct the face and body first before putting color on it. Definitely practice some portraits since you've fallen into the trap of making the face take up more of the head than it should.

[Anonymous No.3583590]

>>3574478
Look at shitty work made by your peers and hate them enough to want to prove you're better than them. Art schools are notoriously bad at producing graduates with actual competence when compared to a self-taught loomis fanboi who did it for himself instead of a slip of paper.

[Anonymous No.3583600]

Stupid question but I've been trying to get into digital work instead of pencil and paper but don't know if it's better to learn to use Krita or Gimp. Krita has so many more bells and whistles that I like but I fucking hate its tablet support while krita is great but I don't know if there's more things that I'll later find out are lacking (like how absolute shit its text editor is).
What does /ic/ use aside from photoshop and the garbage fire (imo) that is Sai.

[Anonymous No.3583690]

>>3583590
this board is full of idiots and you know it

>>3583358
search photoshop brush in the archives, there was a megafile a while back

>>3583572
sadfrog is pretty commonly used, sometimes people prefer more variety
but it's just a reaction gif, no one truly cares

[Anonymous No.3583691]

>>3571201
is there a way to rearrange brushes alphabetically in photoshop, or just rearrange them at all, i have too many and it's super hard to find stuff

[Anonymous No.3583716]

What's a good word for social media handles? <name> art/draws/nsfw/etc?

[Anonymous No.3583760]

>>3583470

I love things like superhero comics and anime, so perspective and basic anatomy would be good for cool poses and perspective.

Learning the muscles for realistic shading sounds good so I'll look into that.

[Anonymous No.3583807]

>>3583600
Krita is fine. I use a combination of krita, CSP, and PS. For Krita knowledge look up David Revoy and GDquest on youtube.

[Anonymous No.3583879]

is eyeballing what you see and draw it accurately a skill that can grow? it seems some people are more analytical and observant of what they see and thus are better at using ref/studies, but idk
also seconding this >>3579746 out of curiosity

[Anonymous No.3583883]

>>3583691

I had the same problem and I just reset everything to basic, loaded the brush sets i did use, and deleted the brushes i rarely used. I now have a handful and it's much better for my workflow, i don't even miss the ones i deleted. Trim the fat anon, you don't need hundreds of brushes.

[Anonymous No.3583911]

>>3583879
if u grind bargues you will become more accurate

[Anonymous No.3583913]

>>3583879
Of course.

You can work your way up to it too if you're finding it a bit difficult.
You can start with detailed grids to make it easier to measure stuff out.
And eventually you can reduce how many intersections your grid has, until all you have is a center line for x and y axis.
Eventually you can get rid of those too, and just eye ball it.


And for comparative measurement, when it doubt measure, all it's going to do is take a little more time, which is fine if you're doing 25 minute layins or 2-3 hour studies.
It's better to spend a little more time early on plotting things out than to realize you fucked up when you start adding details.
If you want to improve your eyeballing, do shorter studies, like 1-10 minutes.

[Anonymous No.3583916]

>>3583600
Photoshop is the best tool no doubt.
Watch the Craig Mullins lectures on digital painting, its the one thing that helped me out the most.

[Anonymous No.3583919]

>>3571201

Are there any resources/references that specifically focus on the torso (more accuratly the proportions of the chest and dimensions of the hip/lower torso and how appendages connect to the both of them) that you guys recommend?

I'm not talking just loomis and the like but a more in depth focus like they sometimes do with hands and heads.

[Anonymous No.3583926]

>>3583911
i should look into those

>>3583913
i actually don't mind eyeballing then fucking it up for the most part. i just don't want to eyeball stuff all the time only to find out that has led me nowhere and in a year my drawings will be just as shitty and disproportionate as they once were even if i am constantly improving in other fields. i just want to make sure eyeballing stuff during studies actually pays off
doesn't help i hate these methods like grids and such for perspective and measuring, i find them the most boring thing ever
anyway thanks for the advice

[Anonymous No.3583957]

How can I achieve this traditional ukiyo-e efect like pic related in digital? Is it like a filter or textured brush?

[Anonymous No.3583958]

>>3583957
Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.3584011]

>>3583958
noise, watercolor textures, gradients

[Anonymous No.3584334]

Anyone know any good colored leads for a 5.6mm clutch pencil? The ones I have which are koh-i-noor brand (I think) are pretty dull and muddy

[Anonymous No.3584416]

should i trace an artist if i want to learn their style?

[Anonymous No.3584433]

>>3584416
no, you should study the work and do a copy. then look at the copy and figure out why it is worse than the original.

[Anonymous No.3584472]

>>3584416
Yes, trace a piece you like but actually study it too.

[Anonymous No.3584521]

Writer here, I'm working on a script for a comic and I'm just wondering how much would hiring an artist usually cost?

[Anonymous No.3584613]

>>3583572
Earlier 4chan was immature but creative with their reaction images and in-site jokes. They were mostly created in mspaint and photoshop.

[Anonymous No.3584845]

Is there any examples of anime artists that use low-effort brushes? I mean brushes that can look good even if you don't put much thought into your line quality, so you can just focus on making the actual shapes and forms

[Anonymous No.3584968]

I have a Huion GT 191 but something about the gamma or color is fucked, and doesn't match my pc monitor or that of other people I asked with a test pic, any idea what I can do to make sure it's accurate?
The default settings don't do shit for this on their own, I have all RBG colors at 100 and brightness at 25, constrast at 0. Any hgiher than this and you can barely look at the screen without squinting, it's like the blacks are very weak but everything is very bright

[Anonymous No.3585243]

what is the best place to start doing fun art streams where my painting window is tiny but the better majority of the screen is youtube shit/ cartoons/ disney movies/ various other nonsense

[Anonymous No.3585247]

>>3584521
From the sounds of it, if it's a script thats longer than a few pages, you'll want to team up with someone to produce it together. As in, if it's going to print, they get a % of the cut, included in a flat rate you pay when they start to work. But, if its just a few pages, like 3-5 it will probably only cost a couple of hundreds based on who you decide to go with.

[Anonymous No.3585250]

how do i make people actually read my webcomic? i've done like 40 whole pages and posted em, but i feel like almost no one bit.

[Anonymous No.3585313]

>>3571201
why has the aa on the default brush gone to shite? I'm using gimp

[Anonymous No.3585373]

>>3585313
GIMP Isn't Made for Painting

[Anonymous No.3585569]

Anyone using the Huion New 1060 Plus have an issue with pressure sensitivity? No matter how hard I push, it never reaches 100%. I'm using Photoshop CS5 and I'm having to double all my strokes when I want to fill in an area with a solid color and it's driving me nuts. My brush is set to 100% opacity.

The image on the left is the default pressure sensitivity curve and the one on the right is the softest available in the driver settings. Nothing I do seems to change this, it's like the hardware itself is fucked. I had the Giano at one point and it didn't do this.

[Anonymous No.3585587]

>>3585569

Update: I just tested my friend's pen on my tablet and it works fine. Guess the pen is fucked. Lucky I just bought it.

[Anonymous No.3585751]

>>3585587
if it's the pen, have you tried pulling the nib out and reinserting it? long shot, but I hear it can work

[Anonymous No.3586192]

>>3585313
Get Krita. It also works on Linux.

I used Gimp back in the days when my Linux distro had not other art program alternative. You can finish drawings in Krita faster than Gimp.

[Anonymous No.3586195]

>>3585250
Know your target audience and advertise on sites with said target audience. You can also try networking with art groups with the same mindset. Sci-fi doesn't work well for like, anime audience unless you draw in their preferred style. It also has to have appealing drawing or writing.

Post work.

[Anonymous No.3586240]

I'm buying furniture for what will be my """studio""" and I wanted to know if anybody has any tips and dos and don'ts about buying a desk that I plan to do a lot of digital painting on?

Space is relatively limited as he room is thin and long and the desk has to be parallel to the long wall, window is on the left when facing the way the desk will face, in case hat changes anything

Should I get a raised platform for my laptop so I have more space for the tablet?

Any tips are more than welcome
(Random desk for attention)

[Anonymous No.3586297]

What kind of pencils and paints would you guys recommend for life drawing classes, or school in general? I start this life drawing class soon and they say to bring your own stuff but have no idea what I would actually need besides paper, and some shitty penciil; there’s painting involved too

[Anonymous No.3586412]

>>3586297
bold pencils, the ones with only a b and a number on them. portable sharpener, the kind with a barrel attached. maybe some cheap charcoal and an eraser.

[Anonymous No.3586503]

>>3585751

Holy shit anon, that was it! Well, the whole nib turned out to be bad, using a new one altogether made it work. But it was the nib! Thank you, you're a fuckin' lifesaver!

[Anonymous No.3586512]

ay what's a good sketchbook for poscas

[Anonymous No.3586559]

>>3586503
glad to hear anon!!

[Anonymous No.3586895]

Any good websites for 3d objects/environments?