Traditional thread

[Anonymous No.3697335]

Pens, paper, ink, paint whatever post what you're most proud of or what you're recently working on traditionally!
Since we dont have a thread like this?

[Anonymous No.3697470]

Made this doodle couple of days ago, not really proud but i like it.

[Anonymous No.3697506]

>>3697335
Did you take that from /cgl/ or is that your work?

[Anonymous No.3697673]

>>3697506
It's my work bruv :D

[Anonymous No.3697723]

>>3697470
Get an image resizing app for your phone you can make sure orientation is correct and you won’t make fuckhuge pics on computer

[Anonymous No.3697741]

How can i take better pictures of my drawings?

[Anonymous No.3697747]

self portrait that im working on and was proud of but becoming increasingly irritated by it the more i look at it.

[Anonymous No.3697749]

>>3697747
I would be irritated looking at that face as well. At least you won’t be accused of making yourself look more attractive than you are.

[Anonymous No.3697750]

>>3697749
i knew i should have added "i guess i know how other people feel now"

[Anonymous No.3697754]

>>3697749
>t. no artistic talent in an art thread

[Anonymous No.3697756]

>>3697741
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwRc9-f_zN4

[Anonymous No.3697758]

Thinking about doing commissions but I think people want tablet stuff. It's kind of infuriating to learn digital art when it's much more natural to work on a "single layer".

Anyway I drew this recently and it came out pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.3697759]

>>3697723
I was going to repost it, but I forgot

[Anonymous No.3697761]

>>3697754
Gesture battle me IRL not online faggot

[Anonymous No.3697765]

>>3697761
post art or begone

[Illastrat No.3697775]

Tell me what you think

[Anonymous No.3697795]

>>3697758
traditional commissions are totally still a thing (in some instances, good traditional art seems to be more valued than digital of the same quality) its just you need to present for digital viewing, on-screen, or for print. That means getting a scanner and learning how to edit in PS. Once you do that your work will look 10 times better.

[Anonymous No.3697800]

>>3697775
Personally I'm not a fan of the entire bottom portion of the picture. The face and its fracture looks fantastic compared to the lower half.

I think her teeth may also be a little iffy, but I can't point out why. I think they're coming off as a frontal view when they're supposed to be angled like the rest of the face.

Oh and a cloud is clipping into her hair on the right portion of the image.

[Anonymous No.3697803]

>>3697795
Any tutorials on how to photograph traditional work without having it be too “edited”? My phone pictures of my watercolors look so bad compared to the actual work.

[Anonymous No.3697804]

>>3697758
traditional commissions are totally still a thing (in some instances, good traditional art seems to be more valued than digital of the same quality) its just you need to present for digital viewing, on-screen, or for print. That means getting a scanner and learning how to edit in PS. Once you do that your work will look 10 times better.

Of course you can always offer the original artwork as a selling point, which is a nice benefit over digital.

[Anonymous No.3697817]

>>3697804
I've been trying to find a scanner for a while. I'm expecting one on Friday and I hope to god it doesn't suck. I've gone through two printer/scanners and they have this horrific quality. The older models used to do some fantastic scans, but I digress.

I am happy there's a market for traditional drawing, though. In some sense I'm apprehensive to study digital because I don't know how to start without guides. At least traditional can be self-taught by observation. I've also been told that traditional usually doesn't get paid much. While I'm not drawing for a livelihood, this drawing took 9 hours and was roughly ten dollars. Maybe I'm just undervaluing myself because I doubt my skill.


I guess it's just a matter of how willing am to push.

[Anonymous No.3697921]

[Anonymous No.3697927]

>>3697747
I like it. Its got real emotion to it and the eyes have life.

[Anonymous No.3697956]

>>3697747
Look like you’re on the spectrum my dude

[Anonymous No.3697957]

>>3697956
like 90 percent of 4chan?

[Anonymous No.3697964]

>>3697957
exactly, im glad that im part of the 1% unlike you fucking idiots

[Anonymous No.3697975]

>>3697747
>was proud of but becoming increasingly irritated by it the more i look at it.
can relate lol. I think it is a good thing cause it makes you raise your standards. let it happen, and get a feel for why you don't like it.

[Anonymous No.3698028]

>>3697964
>90 percent
>1%
The absolute brainlet

[Anonymous No.3698029]

>>3697927
>>3697975
thank you. ill keep working on it and hopefully get it to where im happy with it. itd be a first

[Anonymous No.3698204]

>>3697673
Teach me the ways of /cgl/. How do I draw cute clothes and hairstyles? How do I draw lolitas with nice coords? And how do I draw with appeal for girls?

[Anonymous No.3698211]

>>3698028
>he fell for it

anon, if im a brainlet then you're not even human

[Anonymous No.3698220]

>>3698211
Based “I was only pretending to be retarded” poster

[Anonymous No.3698446]

A motherly character for a game that I’m making (not a furry, btw)

[Anonymous No.3699103]

>>3698446
Did you draw on a napkin?

[Anonymous No.3699118]

>>3699103
It's probably watercolor paper.

[Anonymous No.3699122]

>>3697921
good birds I like it

[Anonymous No.3699779]

Been fiddling with this for a bit but have given up due to the spear going off the page. Am gonna have to MSpaint it onto the main structure.

[Anonymous No.3699814]

holy shit i hate charcoal so much

[Anonymous No.3700083]

>>3697335
what happened to your insta?

[Anonymous No.3700874]

A little dwarf I drew and rendered during a university class

[Anonymous No.3700934]

Here’s one that I’m working on. It isn’t my best.

[Anonymous No.3701039]

>>3700874
that's bretty fucking cool anon, just post a smaller picture next time cause it doesn't even fit on my screen

[Anonymous No.3701042]

soccermom(smug)

[Anonymous No.3701047]

>>3697747
way better than anything mr spammer grid hack has ever posted

[Anonymous No.3701091]

>>3697335
reposting. from life. honest crits please.

[Anonymous No.3701114]

>>3700083
Its now @lunaticmoonart
:D

[Anonymous No.3701190]

[Anonymous No.3701354]

15 min sketch while watching portrait master study of lady Agnew so kind of a copy of a copy

[Anonymous No.3701366]

>>3700874
That is a fantastic nose

[Anonymous No.3701386]

>>3701091
It's a good sketch but it's unfocused which comes from chalk, I guess. Squinting down the whole apparent impression of light and shadow I get changes - there're a lot less dark spots than I assumed at first glance.
Try to make the light and shadow patter clearer and include more varied edges in your drawing.
Pick and choose what I said though, I have never seriously worked on black paper.

>>3701354
I really like this.

[Anonymous No.3701475]

>>3701354
Little quick cat oil sketch I did right after this

[Anonymous No.3701478]

>>3701475
Resize and reorient

[Anonymous No.3701499]

>>3701478
cat looks angry for no reason. very realistic work

[Anonymous No.3701590]

I inked Jacket from Hotline Miami in fluorescent ink during inktober. Then I burned out, because I’m a fool.

[Anonymous No.3701591]

>>3701590

[Anonymous No.3701603]

>>3697747
>>3697335
>>3697759
>>3700874
>>3699814
>>3700934
I like these in particular.

>>3697775
I think it’s okay but could be better, the foreground should be more detailed and the blobs of whatever at the bottom look really strange, kind of like the “idea” of liquid dripping, but not actually looking the way it would in real life, if that makes any sense. I see what you’re trying to do, juxtaposing nature and the city, I think that’s kinda neat.

>>3697758
You can still do traditional art commissions for sure, as another anon pointed out. Your work would go for a lot of money for the crowd of people who want detailed drawings of DnD characters and the like.

>>3697817
And for the love of god don’t even lift a pencil for a client unless they’re paying you well for your work. No one knows how to price or value art, which gives you the freedom to value it at what it’s worth. 9hrs = $90 bare minimum, probably more because what you’re doing requires training and study, it isn’t menial work that any untrained person can do.

[Anonymous No.3701606]

>>3701603
*at what you decide your time and effort is worth

[Anonymous No.3701650]

went way too light in the shadowed half of the face and now it doesnt look like its in shadow anymore, fuck me

[Anonymous No.3701654]

>>3701650
Nice work anon.

[Anonymous No.3701839]

>>3701386
thanks for the crits, anon. I'll try to be more conscious of the light pattern and edges in the future. I think it will help with the feeling of presence in a scene.

[Anonymous No.3701884]

>>3701650
do you have social media/blog/website? I really want to see more of your work

[Anonymous No.3701928]

>>3701884
I do but its just bland portraits and bad excuses so I wont post it.
But there are a ton of interesting portrait painters on instagram if you are into this stuff

[Anonymous No.3702285]

>>3701650
Fuck das guüd mane.

[Anonymous No.3702289]

Reporting in

[Anonymous No.3703574]

>>3701091
I'd like anyone to crit this based on whatever they want. do you like it or not, what is wrong/right? just your subjective opinion.
>>3702289
A bit dark and unrefined, but there is a feeling of space that I like.

[Anonymous No.3703605]

>>3701091
nice choice of medium, but you arent really taking advantage of it and the subject itself is pretty boring. the roots are kinda interesting, but the lack of contrast between them and the rocks take away a bit from them. And the rest is really bland, like the tree trunk that is pretty uniform then somehow it just turns into leaves.
and the composition is really bad
and why are some parts of the black lighter than the others? shitty camera or stained by the white? looks very amateurish

[Anonymous No.3703617]

First time using charcoal, it was pretty fun to use albeit hard to control. Is their some easy way to stop this from smudging now that I’m done with it?

[Anonymous No.3703624]

>>3703617
you need a fixative for charcoal, most common and easy to use are the spray ones.
you can also use hair spray as a last resort but it stains the paper

[Anonymous No.3703748]

>>3703605
It's my preferred medium by far. The drawing was made 90% at the scene, and the rest at home with no ref. I agree with most of your crits and I'll remember this when planning the next drawing. The light and dark patches is on the paper, it's not the camera. Thanks for the crits, I really need to get some input, cause imo it looks interesting, in a way that it keeps me looking, and I'm pretty happy with it, even if it seems unfinished/amateurish. I can definitely visualize this as a better version of the drawing thanks to the crits I've been getting. keep em coming,

[Anonymous No.3704277]

>>3703617
Use hairspray to fixate

[Anonymous No.3704344]

just drawing whatever, feel free to tear it apart

[Anonymous No.3704579]

>>3697506
>>3698204
>>3701114
>>3697673
Please respond.

[Anonymous No.3706409]

ded thred

[Anonymous No.3706646]

>>3701478
Another oil sketch

[Anonymous No.3706668]

This thread is going to have trouble competing with the sketchbook one

[Anonymous No.3706669]

>>3706668
WHY DOES IT DO THIS

[Anonymous No.3706700]

>>3706668
See
>>3697723

[Anonymous No.3708130]

>>3697335
I made a gif of the progress pictures of one of my portraits.

[Anonymous No.3708150]

>>3708130
Your workflow is almost as bad as your end result