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[Anonymous No.3750905]

Post your current drawing here and give constructive critique to others! don't take anything personal!

Please make sure your posted image is clear, downsized to around 1000 pixels wide, rotated to the correct orientation, and that any unused space is cropped.
If you want critique on a drawing from the previous thread, you can delete it there and repost in this one.

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[Anonymous No.3750911]

Old Bread:

>>3733812

(Sorry I didn't edit the OP image but I'm on my phone)

[Anonymous No.3751247]

Trying to draw something cool

[Anonymous No.3751261]

>>3751247
try improving that anatomy bro

[Anonymous No.3751271]

>>3750905

[Anonymous No.3751292]

>>3751261
What anatomy may I ask? The ear you mean? I could understand that, I couldnt find a good stylization for that

[Anonymous No.3751297]

>>3751271
Kewl

[Anonymous No.3751303]

Repostin from last tread

Any help with the fg? I'm not sure how to approach it, due to all the stuff going, it either doesn't read or the colors are bad (or both).

Will it be sufficient to clean up the bg, or does something more need to be done?

[Anonymous No.3751307]

>>3751247
Like what you're doing stylistically.

The chin looks weird, like it's being pushed way the fuck up into his face. Eyes look a little close together. Nose looks detached from where the rest of the face is going. Just try playing around with those parts and see where that gets you.

[Anonymous No.3751309]

>>3751303
Darken the crab. They look too close making the crab and scene lose it sense of scale, it's clear the crab is far away but he feels close.

[Anonymous No.3751310]

>>3751303
go as basic as you can get away with on the foreground. Couple of kelp frond silhouettes maybe. Once you get rid of the sketch framework on the ships in the bg it'll look way less cluttered. Blur / desaturate them a bit.

Pose-wise it looks like the bear is aiming to the right of the picture instead of where the crab is. Maybe adjust the leading leg a little bit.

Cool pic tho bro

[Anonymous No.3751354]

>>3751310
thanks, I'll try that.

>>3751309
To push it in the background, it's rather applying some greenish fog in front of it? Darkening it would only bring it closer I think

[Anonymous No.3751362]

>>3751303
bear needs to be more turned towards the crab (so gis back is towards us). rn it looks like he's looking past the crab entirely

[Anonymous No.3751373]

Soo, I'm trying to get into drawing...
Here's some sketches. I know it's not good. Any critique or tips?

[Anonymous No.3751412]

>>3751373
Read pic related. Also >>3744900

[Anonymous No.3751422]

been about a month working on this

[Anonymous No.3751443]

Gonna start doin studies more.

[Anonymous No.3751504]

>>3751247
I like it. The values are just right, and ill take the facial anatomy as artistic licence. The ear/neck/face ratio kinda bugs me but yeah. Nice.

[Anonymous No.3751526]

practicing eyes rn

[Anonymous No.3751547]

>>3751526
Is she sick

[Anonymous No.3751568]

Something for the prompt thread.

[Anonymous No.3751602]

>>3751526
this makes me mad in ways i dont even feel like typing out

[Anonymous No.3751606]

>>3751303
That bear looks like a mouse

[Anonymous No.3751710]

Well? What
do you think ?
I'm very druんk

[Anonymous No.3751740]

>>3751547
maybe

>>3751602
thanks for the constructive crit, ima grind loomis for another 10 hours

[vu !d1jwGJruwE No.3751845]

[Anonymous No.3751864]

reposting from last thread, you made this new one so quickly. >>3750802

>>3751247
If you try to make it cool why the sadness? I like the result overall so far!

>>3751271
Very striking. Could use some reflection distortions on the water side.

>>3751303
I'm disagreeing a bit with some of the layout of what I think the reflections are on the crab? OR rim light, which should come from Fresnel reflections? I dunno anymore to be honest.
Rad storytelling so far!

>>3751422
Did you learn more or less than with shorter paintings? The waves look really good on the foreground boat, there's the two at the side of the picture that look kind of peaking symmetrically a tad. You could probably change one more, twist the most to the right so it points to the background boat for instance for composition.
Looks really good, damn those waves really have a ton of energy below that boat.

[Anonymous No.3751869]

First time painting on photoshop. Is there an easier way to paint things into the background without making 100s of clipping masks?

[ginsujunior.artstation.com No.3751870]

Yeah I'm still working on it

[Anonymous No.3752095]

>>3751443

Neat edges on the shell! If it were me, I'd exaggerate and add a bit more values to the yolk, maybe flecks of reflected light. Yolks are pretty watery.

[Anonymous No.3752097]

>>3751869

Nice job on the skin but unfortunately, her neck looks broken.
And what's up with her left hand?

[Anonymous No.3752161]

>>3752097
Thanks man. The head/arm was kinda done after I did the body so the anatomy went became a bit wonky. The left hand I wasn't sure how to paint hard edges for the details so I left it as a clump.

Now I know how to actually paint stuff I'll try study some hands today.

[Anonymous No.3752174]

>>3751271
Why are you posting my image?

[Anonymous No.3752189]

>>3751869
>I'm afraid to draw hands and feet: the painting

[Anonymous No.3752196]

>>3750905
Oops missed the new thread.

[Anonymous No.3752220]

>>3752189
literally this. Only got a tablet for Christmas so still getting used to drawing without looking at the pen, my lines are shit.

[Anonymous No.3752236]

can i get some crit on the colors? im going for atmospheric perspective towards the top of the image but im worried about it just looking washed out.

[Anonymous No.3752237]

>>3751740
Good answer

[Anonymous No.3752271]

This is an npc for a game so she's supposed to be a little plain looking but gosh dangodon I love her.

[Anonymous No.3752310]

>>3752196
Yass

[Anonymous No.3752316]

>>3752220
Those hands aren't bad anon.

[Anonymous No.3752320]

>>3751310
>>3751362
>>3751606
I changed the bear, you're all right.

>>3751864
It's hard to keep the lighting consistent in such a scene, so you must be right. Toned them down a bit.

Thanks all.
Call it done at that point, as I don't really have the skills to do much better.

>>3752196
Really like the desaturated colors, you probably concentrate on the underlying drawing at that point.

>>3752236
It doesn't seem washed out to me.

[Anonymous No.3752323]

>>3752320
Looks great now anon!!

[Anonymous No.3752390]

>>3752320
>It doesn't seem washed out to me.
thanks anon!

[Anonymous No.3752450]

I was trying to do the five value exercise but I feel like I’m not doing it right.

[Anonymous No.3752493]

>>3752450
In a direct comparison it's going to look weird no matter how well you do it because you're using a warmer color temperature than your source picture. Just desaturate the pic.

[Anonymous No.3752560]

Roughing out some poses for a Catwoman pinup. Which three do you guys believe hold the most potential?

[Anonymous No.3752580]

Drew this for an sponsored post for a influencer.

Gonna add the influencer kinda peaking over the speaker, anyone got any feedback on how it looks now?

[Anonymous No.3752584]

>>3752560
Top two and bottom left

[Anonymous No.3752627]

something I've been doodling

[Anonymous No.3752702]

>>3752236
BBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPsnnnnniiiiiiffffffffffff...oh yes my dear....sssnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiiiiiffffffff....quite pungent indeed...is that....dare I say....sssssssnniff...eggs I smell?......sniff sniff....hmmm...yes...quite so my darling....sniff....quite pungent eggs yes very much so .....ssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiiiiffffff....ah yes...and also....a hint of....sniff....cheese.....quite wet my dear....sniff...but of yes...this will do nicely....sniff.....please my dear....another if you please....nice a big now....BBBBBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPPFFFFFFFFLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPFFFFFF Oh yes...very good!....very sloppy and wet my dear....hmmmmm...is that a drop of nugget I see on the rim?...hmmmm.....let me.....let me just have a little taste before the sniff my darling.......hmmmmm....hmm..yes....that is a delicate bit of chocolate my dear....ah yes....let me guess...curry for dinner?....oh quite right I am....aren't I?....ok....time for sniff.....sssssnnnnnnniiiiiiiiffffffff.....hmmm...hhhmmmmm I see...yes....yes indeed as well curry......hmmm....that fragrance is quite noticeable....yes.....onion and garlic chutney I take it my dear?.....hmmmmm....yes quite.....BBBBBBRRRRRRRRPPPPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTT Oh I was not expecting that…that little gust my dear….you caught me off guard…yes…so gentle it was though…hmmmm…let me taste this little one…just one small sniff…..sniff…ah….ssssssnnnnnniiiiiffffffffffff…and yet…so strong…yes…the odor….sniff sniff…hmmm….is that….sniff….hmmm….I can almost taste it my dear…..yes….just…sniff….a little whiff more if you please…..ssssssnnnnnniiiiiffffffffff…ah yes I have it now….yes quite….hhhhmmmm…delectable my dear…..quite exquisite yes…..I dare say…sniff….the most pungent one yet my dear….ssssnnnnniiiifffffffffffffffffffffff….yes….

[Anonymous No.3752716]

>>3752196
Does Samus make you ahhhhhh, Mr. Lonely and Horny poster?

[Anonymous No.3752725]

>>3752580
cute. isn't the logo a bit off-center though?

[Anonymous No.3752761]

>>3752716
AAAHHHHH I WANT TO SMELL SAMUS’S SUIT AAAAHHHH AAAAHHHHHH I WANT MOMMY SAMUS TO SQUISH ME INTO A TINY MORPHBALL AND CALL ME A GOOD BOY AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.3752885]

[Anonymous No.3752905]

>>3752560
>>3752584
First rough refined.

[vu !d1jwGJruwE No.3753231]

[draw this No.3753241]

>>3750905
hey draw this. look at those nose scrunches. look at them boobs. look at that drapery.

[Anonymous No.3753285]

>>3752761
Thank you based lonely and horny poster.

[Anonymous No.3753431]

>>3752761
kek

[Anonymous No.3753764]

>>3751271
I want ur skillz :(
>>3751422
...And yours too
>>3752320
This is so cool! Great concept too
>>3753231
Very William-Turner-y. Can't wait to see it finished.

I'd like some critique on my pic. I might re-do the sky and the lights later but need to get some sleep now

[Anonymous No.3753770]

how should i tackle oily textures?

[vu !d1jwGJruwE No.3753774]

>>3753770
look into specular reflection

[Anonymous No.3753804]

Just wanna post a doodle I did in my phone. Wanna draw more but I’m scared of big projects. Disposable things are comfy

[Anonymous No.3753822]

Can I get some advice on how to improve this? Or where exactly did I go wrong?

[Anonymous No.3753919]

>>3753822
The perspective between opening, water level, and base aren’t consistent. If you’re going for realism, consider that the highlights, specularity are more about the glass reflecting the environment.

[Anonymous No.3753924]

work in progress

[Anonymous No.3753932]

Relearning light sources again after spending a few months focusing on linework.

[Anonymous No.3753935]

>>3753932
Firstly some perspective would help; even a little bit of foreshortening from the closer shoulder to the further one.

If you're talking about lighting, that shadow on her right arm (viewers left) doesn't make sense. The cast shadows everywhere don't make sense as well (under chin, under hair line), the should be in line with the direction of light.

Vary your line sizes, use less lines. It'll look a lot less boring.

[Anonymous No.3753938]

>>3753924
I''d say if you're going to use that thick line as an "outline" to the picture, also use it to create an illusion of depth (as you've done between the chest/non-gun arm).
The top of the pants, the folds at the bottom, all the outlines of the gun, they all don't "pop" out because the line weight is the same.

[Anonymous No.3753940]

I finally made it

[Anonymous No.3753953]

Anyone else find drawing on a tablet extremely hard because it's "slippery" compared to traditional pen/pencil?

I'm having that issue with pic related (it's just a sketch), something feels off compared to my pencil stuff. Anyone notice anything strange (particularily the anatomy)?

[Anonymous No.3753956]

>>3753932
>>3753935
couldn't do much about the lines or anatomy but I did mess with the shadows a tad, thanks for the feedback.

[Anonymous No.3753957]

>>3753953
you have terrible line quality. and your color choices and placement are bad. pen is different from pencil is different from charcoal is different from oil is different from watercolor is different from digital. there's always a learning curve with mediums but a sturdy foundation will help bridge the gaps. alternatively, some people put paper on their screenless tablets to get rid of that squeaky feel.

[Anonymous No.3753975]

>>3753940
you do realize he follows a lot /beg/s

[Anonymous No.3754012]

>>3752560
>>3752905
In my opinion - you're tackling form too early in the process.

Form should come AFTER your SHAPE is defined. If you only worry about shapes first, you have more freedom and a higher chance of coming up with more visually unique thumbnails for further development. Form can always come later but a muddled silhouette (not talking about this drawing specifically) is beyond saving.

[Anonymous No.3754033]

Any ideas for the background, rendering, etc? I've been staring at this for too long.
I intended for her to hold one of the flowers audience is throwing at her

>>3752450
A for effort, but are you doing a five value exercise or are you just making a painting?
If it's the former, there's no way you could've squinted properly and still got this much detail in.
Squint, zoom out or both until all detail becomes unrecognizable and draw the big blobby shapes of value. Make it read just like the reference and you're on the right track.

[Anonymous No.3754079]

First commission in the new year, life is good

[Anonymous No.3754083]

>>3754079
how long did that take you and what are your rates?

[Anonymous No.3754088]

All done

[Anonymous No.3754187]

>>3754079
Took about 11 hours at a rate of 30€/h.

[Anonymous No.3754189]

>>3754187
Meant to reply to >>3754083

[Anonymous No.3754193]

>>3754187
>>3754189
nicely done.

[Anonymous No.3754194]

[Anonymous No.3754210]

>>3754194
I really like the style but the anatomy on the legs is to distracting, it just feels off.

[Anonymous No.3754216]

>>3753431

[Anonymous No.3754237]

>>3754033
I think it would be best if you did a couple of thumbnails working out the overall lighting and composition to decide on what background. Your idea for it is good but if you want to execute it cohesively starting from the semi-rendered figure you already have is going to be harder.
>>3753822
You've used cheap white tones instead of having the glass refract the beautiful blue of the glowing liquid in it, there is almost no interaction between the vessel and its contents. Glass is wonderful to paint because it picks up notes of color from its surrounding and contents, you'll notice that if you try a still-life of it.
>>3751422
Foreground waves look amazing but the strokes on the foreground boat don't carry enough precision making the wooden construction of look unnatural and warped.

[Anonymous No.3754238]

>>3754210
yea i agree

[Anonymous No.3754277]

>>3753764
really awkward tangents and unbalance on the right side of the image. the foliage seems like it drops out or reduces in size way too quickly only a few yards away. i wouldn't put the shooting star behind the tree. personally too your values seem too compressed or there's a lack of general ambient occlusion which makes everything too ungrounded and seem pasted on or just floating there. i'd maybe push out the left vanishing point further as it makes the far building look really distorted.

overall i have no idea what your composition is making me look at. the first thing my eye sees is the tower and flag, then down to the plants then up and around to the shooting star, or maybe before the plants my eye goes to that very low detail tree in the middle. you should check out jack hamm's landscape book. it is an incredible resource for composition.

[Anonymous No.3754297]

>>3754194
His left (our right) leg needs to come up a bit, because it's creating an awkward tangent line with his other leg.

[Anonymous No.3754365]

[Anonymous No.3754367]

Trying to be a bit faster with going into colour and digital. This was done in like two hours, not including the sketchbook drawing i based it on.

[Anonymous No.3754391]

>>3754237
Thanks boss

[Anonymous No.3754412]

>>3754365
really nice!
whats ur blog, dA instagram etc

[Anonymous No.3754424]

>>3754412
i hope this isnt a troll but i am shameboxx everywhere.

[Anonymous No.3754430]

More roughs. Which ones stand out, and which should be redone?

[Anonymous No.3754446]

>>3754277
Thanks Anon. I toned down the values a bit in the final version. I'm still a little awkward at drawing things in perspective, but I hope I get a bit better with practice

[Anonymous No.3754456]

>>3753822
>>3753919
Thank you for the advice, I’ve gotten a hold of a perfume bottle to go do a study now.

[Anonymous No.3754459]

>>3754456
Meant
>>3754237

[Anonymous No.3754491]

>>3754430
I think fourth in second row and the third in the last row could use tweaking. All the designs in the first column look well defined

[Anonymous No.3754587]

>>3754491
Much obliged.

Let me know if any of the others catch your eye.

[Anonymous No.3754678]

>>3752725
honestly dont see it, which way do you reccomend i move it?

trying 2 learn how to paint n stuff, anyone got any tips (using procreate)

[Anonymous No.3754680]

>>3754678
woops

[Anonymous No.3754687]

Hi i wanted to know what can i improve from seeing this drawing that i did yesterday, its watercolor

[Anonymous No.3754690]

>>3754687
Shit, fixed

[Anonymous No.3754706]

>>3754690
The drawing itself is off, her right arm is way too skinny, her mouth is off center, her ear is weird, but these are all drafting critiques that you’ll improve as you draw more and more. For the actual water coloring, you only actually appear to be taking advantage of the medium in the background. You’re being way too concsious in painting the subject, you could get that result with colored pencils or markers. Generally, using true black is poor form in watercolors (or actually in most media especially digital, in oils it’s typical to just mix a dark warm and cool like ultramarine blue and burnt sienna). Be bolder and experiment. I recommend starting a new piece, if you really like this subject, then redo this piece. We have thousands of bad/mediocre paintings in us that we have to get out of the way until we are where we at. Often you’ll spend hours on a piece and maybe a day later try the same subject and get a better result in a fraction of the time.

[Anonymous No.3754712]

>>3754690
>yesterday
>30 12 2018

anyway, there's so much it'd be nitpicking. major anatomy issues would be the left hand, the left shoulder, her ear, the nose pointing straight at us instead of being in perspective.

color wise it reads horribly. turn it greyscale and you'll see some things. hell, even look at just the thumbnail. you have a very saturated and dark red next a saturated blue which just makes my eyes buzz. then you have the pale hand next to the pink which also looks bad. you need contrast in the value and saturation of these parts. the sand looks horrible, the bushes and beach do nothing to improve this color or composition wise. the sky doesn't make much sense color wise, maybe try working with lighter washes and wet into wet. the figure and hair is mostly colored fine although i'd probably add some shadow tones to the hair because it's not just one color.

[Anonymous No.3754787]

>>3750905
I KNOW I KNOW the only thing I "drew" is the ship, but it's from scratch, no ref, I bashed the seat and the windshield interior thing, not sure if I'll keep them because im new to bashing and its easier to just paint the shit anyways. I need suggestions on what to do with the ship details and lighting. help, /ic/! this is a commission album cover

[Anonymous No.3754794]

>>3754446
SUGAR
SPICE

[Anonymous No.3754796]

>>3754787
lmao 4got the image

[Anonymous No.3754845]

>>3754706
>>3754712
So my biggest problem is that i don't know about composition and color (i'm currently practicing anatomy) And it still doesn't feel like i use watercolors how they are to supposed to shine

[Anonymous No.3754853]

>>3754845
nah your biggest problem is you're posting here instead of drawing.

[Anonymous No.3754854]

I had a slow day today.

[Anonymous No.3754868]

>>3754680
Go home sinix, you're drunk

[Anonymous No.3754945]

>>3753924
I loved that series when I was a wee lad

[Anonymous No.3754949]

[Anonymous No.3755024]

decided to paint out a doodle i liked, trying to get more comfortable with moving "paint"

[Anonymous No.3755062]

Coochie...

[Anonymous No.3755119]

No porn thread so posting here
WIP
Do i have talent?

[Anonymous No.3755256]

[Anonymous No.3755263]

>>3750905

[Anonymous No.3755393]

>>3754678
>>3754680
>>3754868
forgot 2 mention, butt this is a sinix study.

[Anonymous No.3755415]

>>3753975
>he only follows 340 people.

[Anonymous No.3755426]

>>3755024
nice flying head dude

[Anonymous No.3755444]

>>3755415
look at some of the pages he follows, they're pretty /beg/, he just follows randoms that likebomb and comment.

[Anonymous No.3755467]

I don't leave the beg or alt generals often, but damn. There are some pretty good artists here.
Mega mawile vs azumarill
Are there any guides on terrain destruction? Simplifying to cubes works, but I can't do it forever.

[Anonymous No.3755629]

This my OC. is she cute

[Anonymous No.3755658]

Working on this, trying out a different process of rendering inside of cells

[Anonymous No.3755677]

>>3755658
where is the light source coming from?

[Anonymous No.3755683]

Commission sketch fresh out of the press

[Anonymous No.3755688]

>>3755677
Originally just supposed to be more of an all around ambient light type deal and layers will be added after the base characters are rendered to unify the environment and lighting

[Anonymous No.3755706]

[Anonymous No.3755710]

>>3755119
No

[Anonymous No.3755720]

>>3754365
The nose ridge, chin and the ears are inconsistent. Good otherwise.

[Anonymous No.3755725]

>>3755119
It looks traced

[Anonymous No.3755732]

thoughts ?

Anything helps at this point. I feel like there's something wrong with the eyes especially

[Anonymous No.3755734]

>>3755732
If I had to nitpick about the eyes I'd say they could use some darker values around the lids but honestly I think it's super lovely as is.

[Anonymous No.3755741]

>>3755119
if you need to trace, at least do it better. what is that mutant dick?

[Anonymous No.3755772]

[Anonymous No.3755775]

Currently working on colouring this with copics, coloured fine liners, and gel pens.

[Anonymous No.3755792]

is there anything off/distracting about the composition?

>>3754277
not that anon, but thanks for the book recommendation.

>>3754949
my eyes want to go to the right edge of the pic thanks to the high contrast between the wing and environment. it steals focus from the main body of the character.

[Anonymous No.3755808]

>>3755119
Read the sticky.

[Anonymous No.3755821]

>>3750905
Literally mfw trying to figure this out

[Anonymous No.3755845]

>>3755725
>>3755119
Why do you say it's traced?

[Anonymous No.3755846]

>>3755741
See >>3755845

[Anonymous No.3755866]

>>3755845
Because it has all the traits of traced art.
Lines mysteriously falling perfectly into place with no sense of lineweight, form or construction. Terrible folds, crosshatching and when there's information missing suddenly they don't now how to draw, hence the misformed dick. If you can't see this you're either blind, trolling or a beginner.

[Anonymous No.3755883]

>>3755792
The perspective looks a bit fucked, the whole of the background feels like it should be lower along with the horizon line. This way you could also lead the attention more to her head with it contrasting against the bright gate behind her.

[Anonymous No.3755884]

>>3755866
>with no sense of lineweight
lol, did you even looked at the pic?
>>Outer line in a single weight
>>Inner lines have lineweight
>Terrible folds
now folds have to become the form you like instead of being random, just to please you.
>crosshatching
now croshatching is a crime, sure never a great artist like mucha used it on it's works. now you taught me.
> the misformed dick.
there are lots of kinds of dicks, not only the ones you like. you should now since you suck so much dick on a daily basis.
just because you don't know how to draw does not mean everybody that draws better traces.

[Anonymous No.3755887]

>>3755883
thanks for the crit anon! i see what you're saying and yeah, i think i agree. i'll try messing with the bg.

[Anonymous No.3755895]

>>3755884
Wow, being this salty.
Your traced art is bad, accept it and learn how to actually draw.

[Anonymous No.3755896]

>>3755895
Yeah, sure faggot

[Anonymous No.3755906]

>>3755896
Why are you so defensive?

[Anonymous No.3755936]

>>3750905
Literally mfw trying to figure out values

[Anonymous No.3756065]

[Anonymous No.3756095]

>>3756065
It's trash. She's wearing clothing.

Remove the clothes, and you MAY talk to me again.

[Anonymous No.3756099]

>>3755732
It's pretty good as it is. What you lack is routine. When you keep repeating the same rendering techniques, the overall pieces should clean up with them.

[Anonymous No.3756130]

I’ll stop.

[Anonymous No.3756148]

okay, how the fuck do I paint digitally? I don't understand it. I just can not wrap my head around it. Everything I do is always (black) lines, flats, hard shadows, highlights. How do I break this? I want to make actual "paintings" and not "bootleg anime screen shots." Everything looks so phenomenal and blows me away and I get so inspired, but then I try it myself and I'm instantly frustrated because I don't know how to render or add values or what the fuck ever. I just want to be able to paint in a style similar to pic related I found on twitter. Not just for anime shit, I mean overall. How do I get out of this mess?

[Anonymous No.3756156]

>>3755467
go outside and pick up like 8 rocks. Come in and draw them from various angles as your terrain. Also add tiny stones and debris floating in the air but don't clutter the page with it

[Anonymous No.3756167]

>>3756065
Still early but her right breast/pectoral/shoulder anatomy seems a bit off

[Anonymous No.3756291]

>>3755792
update. do the colors look natural?

>>3755936
think of the head in terms of planes to help you design your lighting and to help you make sense of what value goes where. loomis has a couple pages devoted to this idea in "drawing the head and hands"

[Anonymous No.3756295]

>>3756148
Post your work

[Anonymous No.3756297]

How's this?

[Anonymous No.3756310]

>>3756297
I feel like my eyes are vomiting.

[Anonymous No.3756314]

>>3756295
at work, will post tonight. any general tips would be great for the time being though as I can just scribble them down real quick

[Anonymous No.3756322]

Trying to get back in to groove.

[Anonymous No.3756324]

>>3756291
The cools in shadow are usually from the ambient reflected skylight so you might want to be more consistent about that. Some prism affect from the direct sunlight on the water might be cool and you might want to sell the refraction and ripples a bit more. There are ripples on the water surface but the stairs and pool bottom aren’t distorted in areas.

[Anonymous No.3756353]

>>3756322
You are good m8
If this from reference?

[Anonymous No.3756356]

>>3756314
Digital is all about lines or rendering, if you're good both. If you can't see in 3D inside your head, you need to get back to traditional and work on construction and perspective.

Digital is much more straightforward than traditional, I feel. You draw and what you draw is what you get. With a pencil you have to keep in mind the shape of the tip, the hardness of the pencil, how thin the paper is and how easy it is to blend textures or make lines thicker. None of this exists in digital, hence why sometimes strokes can feel "off".

[Anonymous No.3756358]

>>3756297
Looks like a FF final boss 3rd form

[Anonymous No.3756380]

>>3756324
thanks a lot, anon. painting water refraction/reflection is a mystery -- i'll have to find some references.

can you elaborate on the cools in shadow bit? is the inconsistency in my choice of hues or where i applied them?

[Anonymous No.3756449]

>>3756358
Now that you mention it...

[Anonymous No.3756475]

>>3756380
https://youtu.be/gwLQ0cDb4cE

[Anonymous No.3756477]

>>3756475
thanks!

[Anonymous No.3756525]

>>3756130
Lovely work. Keep it up

[Anonymous No.3756557]

>>3750905
post it in the archived thread
How's this one doing

[Anonymous No.3756635]

bookmark

[Anonymous No.3756648]

>>3756525
tnx anon, that means a lot ;)

[Anonymous No.3756656]

Just relaxed and let my wander to get that spark back. Didn't care much for the structure, though if I end up liking the concept, I may paint over the sketch and tighten those foundations.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.3756837]

Progress

[Anonymous No.3756876]

Sketchbook stuff

>>3756837
>>3756656
Oof, I thought it would have looked nice with some softer watercolor style painting, looking forward to seeing progress either way.

[Anonymous No.3756933]

Rendering this shite

[Anonymous No.3756950]

>>3756933
wtf that composition
Make up your mind, she's inside, or outside? Because it's not raining/dripping inside

[Anonymous No.3756954]

>>3756950
>>3756933
I kind of agree with this. Your painting skills are beautiful, undoubtedly, but there's just so much going on in this painting that nothing really comes to the forefront.

[Anonymous No.3756965]

>>3750905
Not done yet.

[Anonymous No.3756967]

>>3750905
>>3756965
Here's the second one I've been working on..

[Anonymous No.3756997]

[Anonymous No.3756998]

>>3756950
Isnt it obvious it's raining inside?

[Anonymous No.3757187]

[Anonymous No.3757193]

>>3756356
finally back. Here's my most recent poster I did to sell at a small gig I got. Finished it in late November. Not much new since, due to Christmas time at work. I get what you're saying about lines or rendering. I feel like my lines are decent and I don't know how to render very well at all, but especially on digital. I've gotten even a few compliments here on /ic/ on my lines for what it's worth. (not on the pic I posted though)

[Anonymous No.3757247]

Her shoulders are broken but as far as color goes, am I on the right track? This is my first time paining without lineart

[Anonymous No.3757265]

>>3757247
blog/site?

the leg being busted is the biggest thing i'm seeing that looks off. maybe the background lighting should be reflected onto her more.

[Anonymous No.3757266]

>>3756950
very stupid criticism

[Anonymous No.3757279]

Zelda oil sketch, 4 color palette

[Anonymous No.3757280]

[Anonymous No.3757281]

Just finished a compilation for a roleplay im going to run

[Anonymous No.3757397]

>>3757279
is zelda a boy?

[Anonymous No.3757490]

made this for my dad.

[Anonymous No.3757770]

>>3755772
Sweet. The only constructive feedback I would like to give is that you should vary the details a little, as in, don't give every part of the image the same amount of detail. This will guide the viewers attention.

However you could also fix that by giving it a less detailed background so the foreground character is the detailed part.

[Anonymous No.3757789]

>>3757187
Going to resume this after I refine a few roughs. Anything about the skin's values, color choices, edge control, and tonal variation that needs to be touched up before I merge the layers and go into the detail work?

[Anonymous No.3757792]

new

[Anonymous No.3757795]

>>3757792
Someone likes Junji Ito.

[Anonymous No.3757803]

>>3757792
The bumps on the neck are unnecessary, work on the hair, lines are scratchy there. I like the water alot, you put in a shit ton of time into that.

[Anonymous No.3757805]

>>3757792
Sup HeiYuBai?

[Anonymous No.3757817]

>>3757397
I’ve always thought of Hylians as elfish and androgynous :)

[Anonymous No.3757822]

>>3757795
well yea
>>3757803
tnx anon, will do
>>3757805
h-hi

[Anonymous No.3757838]

i watched a few videos on youtube and started doing figure drawing. Any advice?
i have a few more i might post btw..

[Anonymous No.3757888]

>>3751373
Work on still lifes, then study anatomy. Draw things as they appear to your eyes, not how you think they should look.

[Anonymous No.3757892]

>>3757838
It's a promising start for a beginner(it really is) but really pay attention to your proportions. Study anatomy!

[Anonymous No.3757899]

>>3757792
>when you see calarts.jpg

[Anonymous No.3757904]

>>3757899
You really start to puke and your eyes roll into the back of your head?

Grow up /ic/

[Anonymous No.3757905]

>>3757904
t. Calarts student
You will never make it Tumblr.

[Anonymous No.3757907]

>>3757904
L0L

Upvoted! xD

[Anonymous No.3757915]

>>3757904
Is this bait?

[Anonymous No.3757926]

>>3757892
thx. whats more efficient? learning anatomy from books, learning it from youtube videos (i watched a few from proko) or just drawing until i get it right?

[Anonymous No.3757953]

>>3757926
not him, but draw from life.

[Anonymous No.3758038]

Done with it

[Anonymous No.3758040]

>>3758038
Really cool, got an Instagram?

[Anonymous No.3758046]

Idk I think my anatomy is a little off

[Anonymous No.3758051]

>>3758040
Yep
https://www.instagram.com/klinck_foster

[Anonymous No.3758057]

>>3757817
>sees Hyrulians as elfish


They're literally elves

[Anonymous No.3758064]

>>3758051
Damn hell yeah I love robots and shit. Great stuff.

[Anonymous No.3758071]

>>3758057
Not really, some of the dudes look like beards dwarves with elf ears

[Anonymous No.3758085]

>>3758046
Legs too long

[Anonymous No.3758090]

>>3758046
A fellow Yoji Shinkawa's fan, am I right? I like it, but the pose is kinda stiff. His drawings are all about motion.
I think practicing gesture drawing would help on this.
Keep it up, you're doing good.

[Anonymous No.3758107]

>>3758085
Shit I knew it
>>3758090
Yeah, of course. You're right - I was struggling with it so I gave up and made a joke drawing kek. I think I'm gonna try this again (for real)

[Anonymous No.3758218]

Made a self portrait, gonna post it on my gram tommorrow.

Any feedback?

[Anonymous No.3758224]

>>3758218
Anon... I..

[Anonymous No.3758225]

>>3758218
I hope you aren't that ugly in real life.
Just kidding, it's very impressive, what technique have you used? Acrylic? Oil?

[Anonymous No.3758230]

>>3758218
It’s like you pasted seinfelds face on Jonah hills head.

[Anonymous No.3758235]

>>3758224
>>3758225
>>3758230
Ouch, I’ll have u anon’s know that I would consider myself to be a very handsome manboy. ;)

I used procreate on the ipad to draw this.

[Anonymous No.3758237]

>>3758235
Post your insta so I can laff at u

[Anonymous No.3758294]

>>3758071
Nigger they are LITERALLY elves

[Anonymous No.3758297]

>>3754012
post your work

[Anonymous No.3758310]

[Anonymous No.3758337]

>>3758310
the low detail flower is the focal point.

[Anonymous No.3758363]

>>3758337
>low detail flower
>low detail

For now, yes.

Everything is on it's own layer still. There's room for a lot of adjustments and softened edges once everything is taken care of

[Anonymous No.3758381]

Hope this doesn’t fall under the polishing a turd meme.

>>3758237
>@eisebrachtart
blz no bully

[Anonymous No.3758383]

>>3758363
>For now
oh ok. i c.

[Anonymous No.3758490]

>>3758381
>eisebrachtart
HAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT. I remember your portrait of your mom. You guys look identical.

[Anonymous No.3758803]

[Anonymous No.3758822]

>>3758218
Jewish?

[Anonymous No.3758937]

>>3758822
From what my parents tell me im mostly dutch with some Indonesian mixed in, but who knows.

[Anonymous No.3759034]

>>3755444
i have never commented or liked his stuff, diddnt really know he was on insta.

suk my doodle.

[Anonymous No.3759065]

Some faces from imagination and painting practice.
Any crits are welcome!

[Anonymous No.3759095]

fundies are one thing, appeal is a whole nother skill

[Anonymous No.3759104]

>>3758490
We both have witch chins and round glasses, so I get that a lot.

btw that portrait of my mom was based on a pic were she was like 6 years older than i am now.

[Anonymous No.3759163]

>>3759095
how does one learn that skill?

[Anonymous No.3759194]

>>3759163
Obviously I have no idea, was hoping someone could fill me in.

[Anonymous No.3759356]

>>3751422
i don't know why, but downloading pictures from /ic/ shows color better on my phone, than if i download it straight from my laptop

[Anonymous No.3759389]

>>3759163
design.

[Anonymous No.3759425]

[Anonymous No.3759432]

>>3759425

[Anonymous No.3759477]

[Anonymous No.3759527]

>>3759425
STOP DRAWING BUTTS YOU ARE TRIGGERING MY LONELY AND HORNY SENSIBILITIES

[Anonymous No.3759535]

>>3759389
i'd ask you to elaborate but i already know you wouldn't be able to.

[Anonymous No.3759646]

Sargent study

[Anonymous No.3759825]

>>3759163
Once you realize that rhythm, contrast and harmony are not just dots and lines from stupid textbook exercises but rather principles underlying all natural design, you might be on the right track.

The simplest way to figure it out is to save pictures that are appealing to you or trigger certain emotions and after you have a bunch, you'll start noticing patterns among them.

[Anonymous No.3759828]

>>3759163
>>3759825
And by patterns I mean just that, rhythm contrast and harmony, which are the most universal ones, but there are many more, see Gestalt principles.
It all comes down to biology, our brain evolved through millions of years of life in nature, so the principles nature uses to build plants and trees and fire and air are appealing to us.

[Anonymous No.3759871]

>>3759356
Is it the color temperature adjustment in windows?

[Anonymous No.3759877]

not done yet

[Anonymous No.3759886]

>>3759356

Damn, that looks nice! You've done an amazing job on the waves. You might want to have a little more atmospheric perspective to emphasize the distance between the ships. There's still something that's bugging me with the bow of the ship closest to us. The perspective just seems a little wonky. I tried to do an overpainting but I couldn't get it right either. If this was my own piece I'd probably go to 3D software and do a quick test to figure this shit out...

GJ either way my whigga/nigga!

[Anonymous No.3759898]

>>3759877
Are you named after that battleship?

[Anonymous No.3759907]

>>3759825
>>3759828
thanks mate but none of this makes sense to me :(

[Anonymous No.3759918]

>>3759907
I think it’s graphic design shit. Read Alla Prima II, it’s better and more inspiring.

[Anonymous No.3759920]

>>3759918
cheers. i've been meaning to pick that one up.

[Anonymous No.3759978]

zoomzoomzoom

[Anonymous No.3759982]

>>3759978
Is she wearing a gasmask?

[Anonymous No.3759984]

>>3750905

[Anonymous No.3759989]

>>3759982
sure

[Anonymous No.3759992]

>>3759065
I like the kinda blocky rough texture they seem to have

[Anonymous No.3760008]

>>3759978
i like everything about this
blog?

[Anonymous No.3760037]

>>3759877

Aye, I think you piece is fucking awesome and it has a lot of potential so here's my 5 cents:

Commit to your lighting choices. If there's a light that's making a highlight on her nose it's definitely also going to make a highlight on that mask on her head and other parts of her face. Also the eye patch and everything else. Looks like it's a reflective material like porcelain(?) so boost that shit up. If there's a green ambient light from the top/top right you commit to that too. It's going to hit the mask and you might also see it in the shadow areas and even her skin.

I got rid of the rim light on her nose. If you want to have a rim light you also have to commit to that. the same light that's hitting her nose would also hit her cheek and eye etc. so it didn't make sense to me at all. I'm guessing that you're thinking that it was coming from that glowing ball thing but I think it looks better if it just hits her weird stringy arm... Also be consistent with the highlights on her weird stringy parts.

I don't know if she's supposed to be a child or what ever but you need to have some semblance of shape on her torso. I don't really have a ton of time to do these overpaints so did a terrible job and just kinda made her look like one of those Mortal Kombat bitches in their fighting pose. It definitely doesn't need to be what I did but you do need to do something about that. Now her body just kind of looks like a wooden plank with fabric pinched over it.

Some of this crap was probably stuff that you were going to do anyway since your piece wasn't done yet so I'm sorry if I'm pointing shit out that you already noticed. Also, I'm just some fucking hobo and I don't really know anything about anything so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.3760039]

>>3760037

Fuck, I lost a paragraph:

If there's nothing to see at the bottom area of the image, you've already established that she's in some kind of smog so you just smog that shit up! You don't want us to look there so there's no shame in blurring that area out.

That's everything I had to say. Back to work!

[Anonymous No.3760042]

>>3760037
>>3759877

Very nice crit and paint over my dude. Would also add that some edge variation would be nice. The edges used aren’t wrong but spell everything out for the viewer too much imo. This could be subjective on my part though, I enjoy pieces where I have to work a bit and there’s a good amount of abstraction. Also the shoulders look too high and wide but I’m not really sure what the anatomy of this character is supposed to be so that might be on purpose? Solid piece all around though.

[Anonymous No.3760082]

Just a wee update

[Anonymous No.3760128]

>>3760082
Where you doing that knight in the woods with the symphony?

[Anonymous No.3760136]

>>3760082
Based

[Anonymous No.3760157]

>>3760082

[Anonymous No.3760304]

>>3760128
Ye. I havent touched in months though

[Anonymous No.3760307]

[Anonymous No.3760329]

>>3760304
ah damn good shit all around tho boyo

[Anonymous No.3760354]

>>3760082
that's really nice

[Anonymous No.3760428]

>>3750905
dang what now

[Anonymous No.3760475]

>>3760428
burn up on reentry I guess

[Anonymous No.3760522]

>>3752236
not exactly like this but something similar,I'd say just study ref with similar positions to fix your mistakes. no neck, arms too beefy and tubular, legs too short.

[Anonymous No.3760527]

>>3752236
not exactly like this but something similar,I'd say just study ref with similar positions to fix your mistakes. no neck, arms too beefy and tubular, legs too short. Looks like it will be pretty nice when it's done though.

[Anonymous No.3760536]

[Anonymous No.3760545]

>>3760536
dang u gave her the yujiro treatment

[Anonymous No.3760547]

It's been a while since i've done anything close to finished
>>3759356
good shit

[Anonymous No.3760615]

>>3752627
that looks dope as fuck

[Anonymous No.3760616]

First time working with digital colors, any advice would be great. Background comin soon

[Anonymous No.3760661]

>>3757279
realized I gave him a juicy booty after I uploaded it everywhere. oh wells.

[Anonymous No.3760675]

>>3759907
>save a bunch of appealing porn pics
>flip through them a couple times
>realize they all have low contrast, high key pastel palette, unbelievably simple shapes and the parts of interest always take almost half the picture
>uh huh, so those are principles that make a porn pic appealing
>use same principles on different subject
>profit
Appeal isn't rocket science

[Anonymous No.3760741]

Draw my gf

[Anonymous No.3760753]

>>3760741
drew*

[Anonymous No.3760758]

>>3755467
blog?

[Anonymous No.3760761]

>>3759898
arashi just means storm

[elefterescu No.3760791]

lousy unfinished manga drawing which i hope to continue tomorrow

i want to finish the green pullover then draw in red plaits & green bows

[Anonymous No.3760800]

Stuck on this one, I love the idea but have no clue what to do next with it. Any tips?

[Anonymous No.3760801]

I like demons

[Anonymous No.3760831]

starting to render

[Anonymous No.3760841]

>>3760536
The musculature in her back doesn't make sense. Nice foreshortening though and I'm looking forward to seeing it finished with the added environment and scooter.

[Anonymous No.3760847]

>>3760082
>those huge rain strokes

really shows you the unfiltered skill

[Anonymous No.3760854]

>>3760527
thanks a lot for the redline and the references! i set the pic aside for now to work on other things, but this is very helpful. saving the pic for later.

[Anonymous No.3761266]

>>3760761
Oh could be read as yamakaze which was a battle ship in ww2 and a kancolle girl

[Anonymous No.3761447]

>>3760758
none

[Anonymous No.3761709]

>>3759978
really great man, do you have a blog?

[Anonymous No.3761728]

>>3759978
Mabel? Always pleasantly surprised when I see you still post here. Just out of curiousity, do you still frequent? or only come here once in a while?

[Anonymous No.3762072]

>>3750905

I'm not a board regular. Do you guys do requests here?

[Anonymous No.3762362]

>>3759978
Very energetic. I like it.

[Anonymous No.3762363]

>>3760616

Is she underwater? I know with that character it's pretty likely. If not, you may want to go a bit lighter. She's very dark right now.

[Anonymous No.3762364]

I know this is very basic right now but I'm going to paint it and just needed to get the linework down.

[Anonymous No.3762525]

NEW THREAD

>>3762524
>>3762524
>>3762524