Art progress thread

[Anonymous No.3870425]

Post your art progress, no shame.

This is a friends progress, what do you think about it?

[Anonymous No.3870437]

>>3870425
I don't think you should be friends anymore

[Anonymous No.3870459]

>>3870425
How do people unironically draw in the early 2000s way and willingly keep their drawings?

[Anonymous No.3870462]

>>3870459
havent you heard anon? latest patch allows us to keep all the drawings we want made before 2030

[Anonymous No.3870471]

>still drawing anime style
You didn't progress.

[Anonymous No.3870474]

>>3870471
>>3870459
>>3870437
Ic is such a sad place kek

[Anonymous No.3870478]

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Hows my anatomy?

[Anonymous No.3870512]

>>3870471
he can do realism just fine, hasn't stuck to anime all that time.

[Anonymous No.3870569]

>>3870512
Well then it's not a good display of his progression if he's actually been training his realism all this time, post a comparison between his old realist art and his new ones.

[Anonymous No.3870572]

Your friend has improved a lot. I'm happy for him.

[Anonymous No.3870645]

>>3870425
tell your friend he did pretty good

[Anonymous No.3870668]

>>3870478
Cool but there's still flaws in it. Where are his forearms? Why is his waist dislocated? I tried to fix it as much as I could.
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[Anonymous No.3870669]

>>3870425
>it's a f-f-friends drawing
Ye nice one OP >>>/beg/

[Anonymous No.3870676]

>>3870668
somebody redline

[Anonymous No.3870749]

>>3870425
The face is still woefully flat but atleast it's clear he's studied other art a lot. He's obviously developed far, but he would do well to start thinking into the realm of the third dimension (even when doing anime) If there wasn't hard shadows and line weight variance this would look incredibly flat by the line composition. Not to say that it's necessarily bad to exercise a style, such as depth by shading or something like that, I just think it's compositionally boring to make an otherwise flat image attain depth exclusively by shading. It's the same as forcing depth by blurring, when there is so much more to the process and reality of perception.

[Anonymous No.3870752]

haha wow!! i might not be talented, but that doesnt mean we cant be anime art friends!! add me up on dqd friends

[Anonymous No.3870764]

>>3870752
I see regression

[Anonymous No.3870767]

>>3870752
takemiya jin, please write yuri of us together :3
make me the top, okay?

[Anonymous No.3870827]

>>3870668
Nice proportions faggot

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[Anonymous No.3870904]

My first digital drawing from 2016

[Anonymous No.3870905]

>>3870904
One of my recent ones

[Anonymous No.3870911]

>>3870905
Although your result is a lot better, you've not learned much about construction.

[Anonymous No.3870926]

>>3870911
True that :/ do you have any advice ?

[Anonymous No.3870934]

October 2017, October 2018, March 2019

I started working with color this year and it shows that I don't know wtf I'm doing. I also am having a hard time with expressions, so I think those are my two biggest points I'm working on right now.

[Anonymous No.3870941]

>>3870934
Good job, anon. I think they look good

[Anonymous No.3870945]

>>3870941
Thank you!

[Anonymous No.3870949]

>>3870934
Fucking garbage

[Anonymous No.3870954]

>>3870949
Post your progress.

[Anonymous No.3870956]

>>3870954
I deleted all my art so I wouldn't have to see my lack of progression

[Anonymous No.3870957]

>>3870934
Expression is mostly in the brow and dilation of the eyes. You don't normally define the brow, so you define it with your eyelids/eyesocket; and then use eyebrows to help accentuate the form.

[Anonymous No.3870975]

>>3870957
sweet! not him, but thanks

[Anonymous No.3870977]

>>3870957
That's super helpful, thank you!

>>3870949
Thanks for your feedback and I hope that you're able to feel happier with your own work soon as well

[Anonymous No.3870980]

I had an incredible day of it yesterday it was just electric here really. I rectified a coat of paint on one I'm working on and it came out great. Really good brushstrokes, very happy. Then onto an old portrait that's been going for at least a year, it all came really. It's brilliant. You know? I was dancing around, nearly lost it in places but brought it back I was so happy. One one hand, you can't beat some of these brush strokes it's like it came from Minoan Crete. I'm not totally happy with the features, but it is becoming a bit of a tired painting for me so I'll take what I was given and be very happy with it. £80 thick black wood frame with gold edging, lovely.

That's it innit? Onto the next one. Booyah.

[Anonymous No.3871048]

Artline July 2018 vs quick sketch in today 2019

[Anonymous No.3871056]

I can't progress no matter what I do.

[Anonymous No.3871064]

Not much progress as i wanted too but atleast, when i look at my older stuff (especially sketches) i can see clear improvement.
Lately i'm really focusing on fundamentals and real figures, but life is not helping me with that.
Fuck i wish to have more time for drawing. I would love to do it for a living.

>>3870957
Great tip. saved.

[Anonymous No.3871141]

>>3870752
You had 4 fucking years, man

[Anonymous No.3871150]

>>3871064
I can legit see your improved art in a doujin, good job, anon.
>>3870425
In four years it still looks anime... Like.. Early 90's anime.
How?
>>3870957
Thank you, also
>l-lewd

[Anonymous No.3871160]

2002 --> 2019

[Anonymous No.3871170]

>>3871160
12 years with barely any progress
That's scary.

[Anonymous No.3871171]

>>3871160

[Anonymous No.3871173]

>>3871141
He's not talented. Only a talented person would get better in such a short amount if time.

[Anonymous No.3871180]

>>3871160
HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.3871188]

>>3871160
good progress, your current work reminds me of fullmetal alchemist (and that's not a bad thing)

[Anonymous No.3871191]

>>3871056
Either post your work or don't post.

[Anonymous No.3871193]

>>3871064
can you tell me how did you learn to draw?

[Anonymous No.3871194]

>>3871048
Any feedback guys?

[Anonymous No.3871198]

>>3871064
There's some improvement, but there's regression too:
>more symbol drawing than before
>hiding hands
>hiding legs past the thigh
>anatomy is worse
>rendering shows less effort

[Anonymous No.3871202]

>>3871160
i like

[Anonymous No.3871203]

It was hard to find something that I know the approximate date of and was made in the same medium as the new stuff. So many areas I left completely behind.

>>3871160
Don't listen to the naysayers, you kept a simple style but clearly got a lot better.

[Anonymous No.3871213]

[Anonymous No.3871216]

>>3871213
Do more like the second from the right.

[Anonymous No.3871226]

>>3871064
>>3871203
>>3871213
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3871252]

>>3871226
@Terokah / @Hakoret on Twitter

[Anonymous No.3871365]

>tfw went from drawing funshit to lewdshit but at the end of the day it's still all weebshit

[Anonymous No.3871368]

>>3871365
Not my thing, but really good progress, anon.

[Anonymous No.3871372]

>>3870905
looks like you worked on the dangan ronpa games

[Anonymous No.3871391]

>>3871365
>all that bondage

shine on you crazy diamond

[Anonymous No.3871404]

>>3871365
blog?

[Anonymous No.3871407]

>>3870980
>>>/180/

[Anonymous No.3871452]

>>3871150
Thanks anon.
>>3871193
There is no magical key, just grab some books, watch tutorials on youtube. Study your favorite artists and draw alot.
>>3871198
>hiding hands
>hiding legs past the thigh
Anon its not hiding, i just really like this pose. My hands and legs aren't super good but its not that bad.
>rendering shows less effort
Sometimes less is better than more.
>>3871226
twitter.com/AnkoruNSFW

[Anonymous No.3871500]

I improved my observation skills slightly

[Anonymous No.3871504]

>>3870425
Not trying to crab or anything but this is the progress you should achieve in 4 months, not 4 years. That's what happens when you skip the fundies early on.

[Anonymous No.3871509]

>>3871504
Post your work.

[Anonymous No.3871512]

>>3871500
how's your imagination skill?

[Anonymous No.3871517]

>>3871512
Fucking horrible I can kinda draw cute guy faces tho. But beyond Faces I can't draw anything else lmfao.

[Anonymous No.3871543]

>>3871368
>>3871391
thanks lads

>>3871404
here ya go: https://twitter.com/Lumpychan

[Anonymous No.3871547]

>>3871543
great bondage content!

[Anonymous No.3871548]

>>3871372
... is that intended as insulting ?

[Anonymous No.3871558]

>>3871500
Your work on the left is very clearly a trace/copy/heavily referenced. Your awful line work reveals it all

[Anonymous No.3871563]

>>3871558
Yes that's why I said my Observation skills improved lmfao. I just used an asanagi reference.

[Anonymous No.3871571]

>>3870905
It's very flat and stiff

[Anonymous No.3871572]

>>3870957
That's actually 10/10 advice, thanks senpai

[Anonymous No.3871576]

>>3871543
how do you go bout coloring any tips? i cant color for shit, only redeeming quality of my art is my lines

[Anonymous No.3871591]

>>3871500
Asanagi. good choice anon.

[Anonymous No.3871601]

>>3870569
if one wants to do anime then they should show their anime, not their realism.

[Anonymous No.3871602]

>>3871504
why do people here keep insisting on gitting gud in a certain amount of time?
its putting retarded pressure on people for no reason, let niggas draw as they please, some people have jobs and school and shit o they cant practice as often.

[Anonymous No.3871616]

>>3871602
not him, but time is regarded highly here because improvement in short amount of time is deemed smart/talented, while the anons you see with only small improvements over the years are deemed laughable. I personally belong to the latter, but I understand the want for the former.

[Anonymous No.3871623]

>>3871602
if you focus on getting better, youll make more good art and youll be happier making better art

[Anonymous No.3871629]

>>3871602
not him but it is not about time more about efficiency in learning
if they want to improve faster then they should reevaluate their learning method and change it
if they don't want to push themselves then fine

[Anonymous No.3871650]

>>3871576
Here's a guide that really improved my coloring: https://imgur.com/a/Cry9xcd

Some main things to keep in mind is to make sure you have a good balance of less saturated parts and more saturated parts where you want the focus to be, as well as where light is hitting. Additionally if I see that the drawing is too desaturated overall, I'll use a saturation layer on top of all the layers.

How I do it now is to use multiply layers as a way to add value, but instead of using varying degrees of grays, I now use color. This helps by not having to rely on an overlay layer to manage all the saturation, though it might be easier to start with grayscale multiply layers and move to something similar when you're accustomed to it. Also like others have mentioned, James Gurney's Color and Light is very helpful for understanding color relations.

That explanation was probably worded like shit, but I hope it can help a least a little.

[Anonymous No.3871655]

[Anonymous No.3871657]

>>3871655
And then this is stuff from imagination.

[Anonymous No.3871659]

>>3871500
do yourself the utmost favor, and study anatomy before you go copying other people's work. And you shouldn't mindlessly copy symbols, you should ANALYZE why they chose to use a specific symbol (which you wont get unless you study anatomy first). This is the best and worst tasting medicine I can give you for you to git gud. Read, nigga, read!

[Anonymous No.3871701]

Howdee

[Anonymous No.3871710]

>>3871173
>4 years
>short amount of time
lmfao. More like a really long amount of time. They should be 10x as good. I bet you're shit too

[Anonymous No.3871719]

>>3871558
learn to read

[Anonymous No.3871724]

>>3871623
this

[Anonymous No.3871729]

>>3871616
its messed up, they keep talking about how "hard work triumphs all" yet they love worshipping the people who already had the skill.
it sucks, kills all fun in drawing

[Anonymous No.3871741]

>>3871729
That's with everything in life (school, work, etc). If it's simply not your style, dont let them affect you and move at your own pace

[Anonymous No.3871742]

But how

[Anonymous No.3871743]

>>3871710
Not him but get x better in y amount of time is a stupid concept.
Everyone have different things to take care of and different method of learning especially self-learn.
True, he could be better but i don't think he spend 8 hours everyday for 4 years so he get a pass.

[Anonymous No.3871767]

>>3871742
America in a nutshell.

[Anonymous No.3871771]

>>3870752
You actually regressed. I am not saying that to be mean, I promise. Your 2019 picture has more detail in it but the detail is in unnecessary places. The folds in the shawl/scarf are misplaced, the lines in the hair are misplaced and look like you are just guessing where as your older image portrays the hair in a solid, more believable mass.

Personal opinion too but your earlier style is also a bit more distinctive - kinda reminds me of Jamie Hewlitt meets Dead Leaves. It's very appealing and succeeds capturing that type of stylization. Your newer thing looks like someone trying and failing to imitate a shojo look. The new way you stylize noses and mouths is not visually interesting.

[Anonymous No.3871774]

>>3871048
Actual improvement.

>>3871160
Nice, dig simple styles.

[Anonymous No.3871776]

>>3870425
Can't believe it's already been a year since I started, long way to go still. Also sorry if I cluttered pic related too much.

[Anonymous No.3871785]

>>3871776
how many of these are referenced

[Anonymous No.3871802]

>>3871785
top and bottom right and bottom left of 2018 had references for the poses, the rest are just typical anime picture poses I'm familiar with after years of browsing 2D porn. I guess that can count as referencing though.
Spent this year doing my best to either use as little of or draw completely without reference.

[Anonymous No.3871803]

>>3871776
so the left is what you just start?

[Anonymous No.3871809]

>>3871803
Well I kinda cherry picked the best of what I did from 2018 but more or less yeah

[Anonymous No.3871901]

>>3871655
>>3871657
Nice work

[Anonymous No.3871915]

i need to branch out im gettting sick of drawing what feels like the same stuff over and over

[Anonymous No.3871918]

Here's mine

[Anonymous No.3872093]

>>3870905
>improved in rendering
>regressed in construction
Yikes are we witnessing the birth of pseudo-realism anime soulless gook artist number #921851250125?

[Anonymous No.3872177]

I'm still not quite where I'd like to be, but I'm doing my best to improve every day. Both 2019 works are from today, the bottom one being my warm up for the day and the top one being something from like, 25 minutes ago.

[Anonymous No.3872185]

>>3872177
I like your works. They don't seem absolutely terrible in any part. The colors you use and the faces you make are lovely, but you definitely could use extra fundies especially the head shape and wrist connections. Keep at it, anon!

[Anonymous No.3872189]

>>3872177
buddy, time for you to try out more better shading techniques, don't you think so too?

[Anonymous No.3872193]

>>3871915
hot, keep drawing

[Anonymous No.3872195]

>>3871701
i was the pikachu chopstick pic around the net, good job anon, keep it up!

[Anonymous No.3872199]

>>3871701
I've never asked this to anyone here before but do you have a blog or anywhere I could follow you?

[Anonymous No.3872211]

>>3872185
Thank you!! I think so too. I'll keep it and mind and try to work on it, thank you for the feedback!

>>3872189
I think so too. I've never been particularly happy with my shading. Do you have anything you suggest?

[Anonymous No.3872225]

>>3872211
Depends on what style you want. What do you want your own shading to look like? There are some artists who like their shading to be more on the realistic side, like Range Murata's clothing, Shinkiro's everything (pic related). There are some artists who go ham on their rendering, like Kawacy. Some just likes it simple, they just mix soft shading with cell shading. Figure out what your type is, study artists who specialize in that and practice according to your needs. I'm moving towards more realistic rendering so I'm examining relevant artists + practicing with real life references + reading books about it. You gotta have something you want, right?

[Anonymous No.3872291]

Still don't quite know how to do lineart..

[Anonymous No.3872296]

>>3871655
So much gay aura around that guy in the bottom middle.

[Anonymous No.3872371]

>>3871742
Nice murder-sandwich you piece of shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5VitkAhM7Y

[Anonymous No.3872382]

>>3872371
YUMMY YUMMY I LOVE HAMBURGERS MMMMM
DIE STUPID RETARD ANIMAL YUMMY :D

[Anonymous No.3872458]

>>3871048
Any feedback guys?

[Anonymous No.3872469]

>>3870752
soul vs soulless

[Anonymous No.3872472]

>>3870752
any finished pieces?

[Anonymous No.3872667]

still not very good

[Anonymous No.3872795]

>>3872199
http://tableguyic.tumblr.com/

[Anonymous No.3872822]

Okay I'm on mobile and can't figure out how to post these side by side, but this is 2013:

[Anonymous No.3872823]

>>3872822
And this is a sketch from today:

[Anonymous No.3872857]

>>3871452
>There is no magical key, just grab some books, watch tutorials on youtube. Study your favorite artists and draw alot.
What if I just study my favorite artists and draw a lot?

[Anonymous No.3872886]

>>3872667
he is very cute!!!!

[Anonymous No.3872900]

>>3872857
I do that and I'm shit

[Anonymous No.3872975]

I've posted these before but in other threads. I love going back and redrawing.

[Anonymous No.3872977]

>>3872975

[Anonymous No.3872979]

>>3872975

[Anonymous No.3872988]

>>3872975
>>3872977
>>3872979
Draw full figures without hidden hands.

[Anonymous No.3872995]

>>3872979
WORSE

[Anonymous No.3873005]

>>3872988
Yeah my older drawings we're mostly doodles and sketches so I don't have a lot of full bodies, but here's something newer with hands.

>>3872995
I mean.. I don't think so, but I know I still need a lot of improvement.

[Anonymous No.3873020]

>>3871742
I would eat that.

[Anonymous No.3873276]

>>3872975
>>3873005
Good stuff, continue developing your art. You have a lot of potential.

[Anonymous No.3873333]

>>3871776
>>3872177
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3873433]

>>3871915
What's yr approach to colour? Who's influenced you the most?

[Anonymous No.3873617]

>>3873333
WHAT THE FUCK YOURE ASKING FOR A BLOG FOR THIS SHITTER???? >>3872177
FUCK YOU STUPID RETARDS

[Anonymous No.3873621]

>>3873617
pyw

[Anonymous No.3873636]

>>3873621
I deleted it all

[Anonymous No.3873637]

>>3871915
I love your art. Where can I find you? You got twitter or something?

[Anonymous No.3873638]

>>3873636
make new work and then post it

[Anonymous No.3873641]

>>3873637
>Wanting to follow that faggot

[Anonymous No.3873642]

>>3872199
>>3872795
Great work, no idea what data you're trying to convey on the right though, Also what do you mean by "copies"? Are the ones marked red direct studies?

[Anonymous No.3873646]

>>3871655
the bottom middle gay one really is your best work imo. besides it being fundamentally good, the colors are really nice, I’d like to see you do more in that style

[Anonymous No.3873722]

Did this just now.

[Anonymous No.3873780]

>>3873722
another comparison

[Anonymous No.3873809]

>>3873780
Oh no you're gay

[Anonymous No.3873849]

>>3871160
your linework improved drastically!!! keep it up!!!

[Anonymous No.3873853]

>>3873780
do you do animation?

[Anonymous No.3873856]

i should do some compilation. Tho i don't have anything recent (2019) sad.

[Anonymous No.3873860]

>>3873333
I don't really like posting it but since you asked I suppose it's okay.
https://twitter.com/Herd001

[Anonymous No.3873861]

>>3873853
no, he does guys

[Anonymous No.3874154]

my stuff now might not be great, but at least I stopped drawing my little pony fan-art

[Anonymous No.3874168]

>>3873861
kek

[Anonymous No.3874178]

>>3870752
I <3 the eyes/expression in the 2015 one

[Anonymous No.3874311]

>>3871602
yeah bro just draw lol, draw whenever, bro, get back on that hamster wheel cashier job everyday and never push yourself. You need pressure to do great things, harsh fact of life, wanna make cool art, music or be good at something? work hard everyday, blood sweat and tears, otherwise be mediocre after 10 years. I'm not going to be another one of those guys at 30 with no skill, ability, in a dead end job they hate wishing they did more in their 20s, instead I'm going to work my ass off and feel some pain like everyone else that's made it. For whatever reasons, success rate goes down as you get older, at about 50 you don't have the mental capacity to be a pro league player, or become a pro anything, you really don't have the rest of your life to do anything. You only have one youth, then you can never do those things anymore, never go out clubbing with your friends, never have a highschool crush, never have a first love, hang out at parties, time moves on, you get older, less things are a open to you. You might think you're alive for 80-100 years on this earth and you keep putting off that thing you want to accomplish because you got the rest of your life, half that time will be in a wheel chair getting your kids to help you with new technology. I'd rather get somewhere, than to sit around in my 20s smoke pot, drink, video games, and play guitar here, there, and never get anywhere like my 30 y/o brother did.

[Anonymous No.3874492]

>>3873780
I think I remember seeing that before picture, really like your stuff.
>>3873637
Thanks @Lambrey3 on Twitter for the nsfw, @ohheythafisher for sfw
>>3873433
I tend to just go with over saturated complimentary colors, my biggest influence is probably Joel jurion or Kim jung Gi

[Anonymous No.3874518]

>>3873642
>Red = Copies = studies
>Blue = modified pose references
>Green = stuff from imagination / style memes

The bar graph is the number of days per month that I drew and the distribution between the 3 categories above. There is some correlation between drawing / studying more and quality content vs taking several month breaks and stagnating / declining.

[Anonymous No.3874634]

i stopped drawing almost completely from 2016 to most of 2018. feels bad. trying to get back into it but it's really difficult.
pic related is a self-portrait redraw, i did the original one in like 2012 and the new one is from june 2018. i pretty much stopped working on it because i don't want to figure out how the colors would work.

[Anonymous No.3874701]

>>3870425
Anime/manga has destroyed any chance you had at ever truly evolving like many others. Sad.

[Anonymous No.3874736]

>>3874634
test

[Anonymous No.3874819]

>>3871701
Fuckkk this turns me on

[Anonymous No.3875076]

>>3871203
Love your stuff my man.

First time seeing that 2013 character. Got any more?

Funny enough but I think I prefer the Irene here compared to the rendition in your comic panel. Maybe just the style? In saying that though the other one does look more 'professional' I guess, if that makes sense?

I prefer the current landscape to your old one but for the characters it's kind of hard to compare a human to a non human.

Not that you posted it here but your demongirl is always ace.

Keep up the good work.

[Anonymous No.3875097]

>>3875076
Thanks a lot man.
>First time seeing that 2013 character. Got any more?
That character is probably the first character I made, she was the MC of my first webcomic, then I used a younger version of her as a secondary character for another webcomic. When I made Irene she looked like pic related then I mixed something of this character's design into her. But I have been looking at old sketches and there is something I like about the old Irene.

>Funny enough but I think I prefer the Irene here compared to the rendition in your comic panel. Maybe just the style?
The one is the pic is traditional (minus the lettering), the comic is digital. I'm awful at digital but I used CSP in the comic instance to use tons of radial rulers. I can do that with a French curve and a thumbtack but it's absurdly time consuming.

>your demongirl is always ace.
I'm making kinbaku (Japanese bondage) things with her now, I posted one in the drawthread. This shibari thing is a rabbit hole and the work done by the masters is amazing, I can't get enough.

[Anonymous No.3875099]

am i gonna make it

[Anonymous No.3875101]

>>3875099
Good progress anon

[Anonymous No.3875102]

>>3875099
Yeah talent is real
I give up

[Anonymous No.3875112]

>>3872822
This reminds me the zombie movie director from Courage the Cowardly Dog. I like it

[Anonymous No.3875113]

>>3875099
no ref?

[Anonymous No.3875134]

>>3875113
Always use a ref anon
This is the image I use the majority of time when I need to draw a male profile.

[Anonymous No.3875135]

>>3871171
I felt your heart just not into it, maybe this will get your blood boiling.

>>3871188
Thanks, I get that a lot, although I don't always quite understand where it is coming from.

>>3871202
I am glad.

>>3871203
>>3873849
Thanks, and yes, but I think their problem is that it took so long to make so little progress.

>>3871774
Once I found that I had draw characters page after page, I started to get a little lazy... but I am glad you like them tho.

[Anonymous No.3875138]

>>3875113
>>3875134
Same reference.
You should eventually get to the point where you only need a visual reminder of your subject - your own knowledge of anatomy will carry you the rest of the way.

It's a similiar feeling to determing what's grammatically correct in a given sentence.
"We /waz/ kingz" v "We /were/ kings"

One just sounds better and as such, certain things in art just feel and look better.

[Anonymous No.3875142]

>>3875135
>although I don't always quite understand where it is coming from.
Not that anon but the shape of the faces is similar to Arakawa's and she has a similar simple style.
Also when you make comics you are going to progress at a slower rate than someone who just draws figures. There's so much additional stuff to learn.

[Anonymous No.3875144]

My two months progress on heads I guess.

[Anonymous No.3875148]

Last year first picking up on drawing since childhood/digital art
vs Now
At some point i went full weeb and that killed my soul, but i know i learned some things, mostly wich i do not apply because i never finish anything

[Anonymous No.3875150]

>>3875148
>which
fix'd

[Anonymous No.3875152]

>>3875148
soulless->soul
good work

[Anonymous No.3875155]

I was so proud of the 2009 one :D

[Anonymous No.3875164]

[Anonymous No.3875238]

>>3875164
good shit
>click the like button
>click through 8 billion captchas

[Anonymous No.3875239]

>>3875164
>soul
>soulless

[Anonymous No.3875311]

>>3875155
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3875326]

>>3875311
https://www.instagram.com/silverkontus/ mostly post there these days

[Anonymous No.3875328]

I've been doing this on and off for 5 years now.

[Anonymous No.3875330]

>>3875164
More progress than I've made in the same amount of time.<div class="like-perk-cnt">&#x2668;&#xFE0F;</div>

[Anonymous No.3875336]

>>3875326
thats really good stuff anon!

[Anonymous No.3875348]

>>3875336
Thanks dood

[Anonymous No.3875373]

>>3875328
didn't use refs?

[Anonymous No.3876297]

Getting better every drawing I do :)

[Anonymous No.3876523]

>>3874492
>my biggest influence is probably Joel jurion
that's apparent, kinda to the point where I couldn't tell at first glance

[Anonymous No.3876557]

>>3872177
2015 soul
2019 soulless

[Anonymous No.3876601]

>>3871203
I just want to day I love the development of your linework. everything else is great of course but you definitely vastly improved your skill in utilizing line weight and texture. great work.

[Anonymous No.3876602]

I feel like a lot of the images in this got uh.. crispy when I was transferring it around so apologies.

[Anonymous No.3876611]

>>3871915
your bois are cute. also, not meant to be insulting, but are you french? lmao. your style just gives off an atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.3876623]

>>3871915
hours per day/week?

[Anonymous No.3876624]

>>3876601
Thanks man, that means a lot.

[Anonymous No.3876626]

>>3872667
I love your style ngl. maybe not the most technically adept but it's quite cute. blog? also is that an oc? I want to draw him.

[Anonymous No.3876630]

>>3873005
nice development after a year. like other anons said, work on more interesting composition and anatomy. I see a lot of potential in you.

[Anonymous No.3876637]

>>3875164
>Started in 2016 so had longer to draw
>Still less progress than this
>Even regressed
Talent is real

[Anonymous No.3876640]

>>3875144
great work! some aspects of the newer heads look flat still-- the hair and other details need better linework and shape. otherwise good progress dude.

[Anonymous No.3876643]

>>3876637
t.dobson

[Anonymous No.3876853]

i think i just got better and using a wacom tablet but i seriously dont think i have learned anything.

[Anonymous No.3876860]

>>3876853
trash. portraits shouldn't take that much time to learn. buff up your construction of the human head and rendering ability and then try again

[Anonymous No.3876862]

>>3876853
Now pot something from imagination.

[Anonymous No.3876902]

>>3876862
i drew all three from my imagination.

[Anonymous No.3876917]

>>3876902
Sure you did

[Anonymous No.3876931]

>>3871701

Gosh I admire your art and progress so much. I started drawing about 4 years ago, and I remember you posting those couple first 2016 pics in some threads, and your progress somewhere.

Seeing those is one of the things that inspired me to start drawing, and I'm so thankful for it. It's changed my life, and now I'm earning enough to support myself through commissions.

Cheers man. I hope your fingers stay strong, your eyesight never falters, and you're able to stay inspired and keep drawing.

[Anonymous No.3876938]

>>3876917
you're wrong.

[Anonymous No.3876941]

>>3875164
How did you do it anon?

[Anonymous No.3876945]

>>3871742
I-Is it bad that my mouth started watering?

[Anonymous No.3876951]

>>3871701
I don't like your style, but I very respect you found your own voice and feel.

[Anonymous No.3877031]

>>3876917
i cant prove a negative so you supply the reference images.

[Anonymous No.3877102]

>>3876523
ive tried to distance myself from his stuff recently, I want a style of my own but i early on his stuff resonated with me because its kind of how i had always imagined i wanted my stuff to look, so its no surprise our stuff ended up extremely similar.
>>3876611
hah i take that as a compliment. Im a burger who loves franco-belgian comic art.
>>3876623
not enough. i draw maybe 2-3 times a week, once i start i dont really keep track of the time but its for maybe 2-4 hours. I dont think going for quantity helps much, i get a lot more out of solving specific problems, experimenting and drawing conscientiously.

[Anonymous No.3877113]

Whelp, updating this made me realize how repetitive my compositions have been lately.

[Anonymous No.3877127]

>>3875155
Not a style I'm usually into, but this is really neat. Good improvement, anon.

>>3875144
Alright progress, but it might be of benefit of you to focus on lineart for a while. Your messy lineart is really holding back your work, and takes a way a lot of the potential appeal, I feel.

>>3874634
Your fundamentals improved a lot, and youre lineart is really nice looking. Finish it, anon, it has potential. Push yourself to do more, you can do it.

>>3872667
The style is cute, but all the close headshots, and the few bodies I see make me feel you're lacking confidence in drawing bodies, and face angles other than 3/4th as well. I think it would be very beneficial for you to grind out some figure studies and anatomy studies, and maybe some Loomis heads so you can better understand the forms of the face.

[Anonymous No.3877128]

i love memes

[Anonymous No.3877342]

>>3874311
Based

[Anonymous No.3877362]

>>3876917
Tf is wrong with you, you don't need references to draw random portraits

[Anonymous No.3877363]

it's something I guess

[Anonymous No.3877398]

>>3875144
Loomis method?

[Anonymous No.3877411]

Started 138 days ago. These aren't the best examples. If nothing has gotten better, at least the line quality has improved slightly.

[Anonymous No.3877417]

I’m still lacking, need to do backgrounds and such. Hopefully by next year I’ll become great

[Anonymous No.3877494]

>>3877417
imo anon you should focus on proper facial anatomy (or anatomy in general) before anything else
good work

[Anonymous No.3877511]

>>3877411
A good example why "just draw" doesn't work. At least go subscribe to a 7 day trial of New Masters Academy or something.

[Anonymous No.3877528]

>>3877417
>>3877417
Did you ever try loomis?
It may help you

[Anonymous No.3877550]

i feel like im losing my drive every year

[Anonymous No.3877573]

>>3877550
I suggest you to try different mediums and style changes. Depends on what you’re aiming for.

[Anonymous No.3877585]

>>3877528
Nope, I’ve never have used it before,But ill try it out. Learning new techniques never hurts. Tyvm for the suggestion. I’ll make sure to buy his book.

[Anonymous No.3877592]

>>3877573
tried doing watercolor painting, im having a bit of fun but it takes much more effort.

guess i'll polish my style.

[Anonymous No.3877601]

Can't find my earlier stuff (not digital).


>>3871655
Dang, your stuff always looks super comfy.

>>3877113
Heyy, I remember digging your stuff on the Inktober thread!

[Anonymous No.3877704]

>>3876640
Thanks, I'll work on it !
>>3877127
Yeah, I'm already focusing on line weight but it might be easier if I used a pressure based brush, I'll try.
>>3877398
Who ?

[Anonymous No.3877724]

>>3872177
Eyes too close on upper right. Hands have a case of “I’m not doing the hand pose myself to see if it looks right.”
Contemplate 1 point prespective to get backgrounds back.
Pretty alright tho.

[Anonymous No.3877727]

>>3877592
Well Water painting is great and you can do amazing stuff .of it, however art in itself isn’t fun to improve. It takes plentiful effort and time, and most of all stress. I hated drawing stuff that I didn’t want, relentlessly drawing the same thing over and over again till it fits. Constantly critiquing my artwork and comparing to others. A huge mental breakdown, but it’s worth the improvement in the end.

[Anonymous No.3877728]

>>3877550
Push yourself more, anon. Learn to do color, and anime girls from angles that aren't just head-on. Do my dynamic poses, make compositions with more than one character. The fastest way to improve is to challenge yourself to do new things.

[Anonymous No.3877752]

>>3877601
Good stuff.

[Anonymous No.3877940]

>>3872193
>the pikachu chopstick pic around the net
really? that's kinda weird/cool...

>>3876931
thanks m8! glad to hear that /ic/ can inspire people to do something positive every once in a while.

>stay inspired and keep drawing
I will always love drawing - its what gets me out of bed in the morning now

>>3876951
>found your own voice and feel
I just do style memes now, I don't know why they amuse me so much...

[Anonymous No.3877958]

Vegeta, what does the scouter say? What's my artistic power level?

[Anonymous No.3877990]

>>3877958
Actually I was going to upload a before picture but now that I'm looking at them, they're just as bad. I haven't improved at all in about 5 years. Sorry for wasting your time.

[Anonymous No.3878042]

>>3877990
Dude this looks fucking great, thank you for sharing

[Anonymous No.3878083]

>>3878042
Thanks but yea I think I was at the same level maybe 5 years so.

[Anonymous No.3878136]

>>3872823
Deffo got some progress, step away from lines OR abandon them once your far enough into the rendering, but yeah, progress is progress! Gj

[Anonymous No.3878196]

>>3875152
Thanks, anon. Unironically motivated me.

[Anonymous No.3878206]

>>3877511
I actually read a lot of books, I don't "just draw". Between these pictures is like a hundred sheets of basic shapes and loomis shit.

[Anonymous No.3878217]

>>3878083
If the pic related is from five years ago then you’ve definitely improved. Even if the progress is small, all the nuances within the new drawing just make it work so much better. Don’t downsell yourself anon ! You’re great !

[Anonymous No.3878284]

>>3870752
I'm saving this as I love the 2015 style.

[Anonymous No.3878320]

I drew before the fall of 2015 but it was real bad and I don't have any photos of those drawings on me

[Anonymous No.3878323]

>>3878320
Your art is amazing looking? Is there anywhere I can follow you??

[Anonymous No.3878369]

[Anonymous No.3878384]

>>3878369
This is really impressive anon, well done

[Anonymous No.3878393]

>>3878384

[Anonymous No.3878402]

>>3878384
what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.3878407]

>>3878320
>super dave
good taste

[Anonymous No.3878427]

>>3878393
>>3878402
Genuinely! If you look at when he started, and the recent work it’s a lot of improvement

[Anonymous No.3878436]

>>3878369
for someone who looks like they frequented tumblr, your art looks like you never got inspired by the thousands of decent art posts scattered there. Have you never seen an impressive artwork and thought "boy, I need to step up my game"? this looks like holly brown 2.0

[Anonymous No.3878469]

>>3878323
thanks!
https://www.instagram.com/wicksz/
>>3878407
RIP, I painted that only a few months before he took his dirt nap

[Anonymous No.3878474]

>>3878436
Yeah something like that. Only recently realized my ngmi status so trying to figure out where to go from here

[Anonymous No.3878642]

[Anonymous No.3878644]

>>3878642
An interesting progress

[Anonymous No.3878654]

>>3878474
It really seems like your art has been consistently more focused on maintaining a certain style over everything else. I think it would be really beneficial to try and restart from zero, and really spend some time learning the fundamentals and learning how more realistic faces/bodies work. I'm not the type who believes learning realism automatically teaches you how to stylize, but I feel your recent stagnation is due to a lack of knowledge on how the real human form works.

[Anonymous No.3878669]

>>3877704
>Who ?
Just wondering who's layout/guide you followed for heads. I'm only really familiar with the 'Loomis method", which your doesn't look like, and the stereotypical 'upside down egg' method.

[Anonymous No.3878698]

>>3878320
Looks very sycra-ish. I love it

[Anonymous No.3878722]

>>3878654
I know I should and I've been meaning to grind fundies but haven't drawn lately. Doesn't help that the most formal art education I've gotten is deviantart tutorials when I was 15 so it's frustrating trying to get anywhere or even motivated when I know it'll be shit. yeah yeah "just draw" it just feels futile. sorry pardon my faggotry thanks for advice

[Anonymous No.3879082]

[Anonymous No.3879134]

>>3879082
I used to draw everything when I was a kid then I got stuck in a loop with DragonBall. In a way I see why you shouldn't just draw DragonBall. At the same time it's better than nothing and if I wasnt drawing that I wouldn't have been drawing at all. Then I stopped that for a while and was drawing cars and 3d modeling nonstop for a while. And then this year I tried to draw a DragonBall character again. The drawing is still quite stiff but I'm way better at digital painting.

[Anonymous No.3879181]

[Anonymous No.3879222]

>>3877601
When did you start drawing?

[Anonymous No.3879254]

I'm starting painting now.

[Anonymous No.3879289]

>>3879181
Alright I'm not one to jump on over- and incorrectly used memes but

SOUL vs SOULLESS

[Anonymous No.3879517]

>>3879289
Right has more soul. Rough =! soulful

[Anonymous No.3879535]

>>3879222
Well, I've been moving pencils since forever, but I'm very inconsistent, lazy and pretty dunning kruger lol.
I remember I almost didn't drew at all between 2011-2016.

[Anonymous No.3879536]

>>3879517
I think the pose on the left is more interesting. You can see she's struggling with the thing because she's so smol. But she's got heart so she's trying. The one on the right is kind of boring. Technically better but less going on.

[Anonymous No.3879575]

>>3879536
Yeah, I agree.

Admittedly, it shows. When I made the left one, it was for a group of friends. There was more emotion behind it. The right was more just to compare technical ability since then.

[Anonymous No.3879593]

>>3879181
You’ve improved so much ! Admittedly, the pose on the left is cuter, but the overall technique on the right is better

[Anonymous No.3879602]

~The mark making wasn't ideal. As a whole thing I'm buoyant about it, I now what I want, I'm interested in some ideas from some other artists, it's got a good chance. Probably it needs to dry up completely , possibly , so that the brush has some resistance from the surface. It's a good idea and I do want it to exist. It brings to mind yet another artist. I'm looking at an older work and I'm not happy with it, I think the colours are off.I need some new paint, a fresh golden ochre and Indian red.

[Anonymous No.3879647]

Usually don't show my art around, but i'm curious, let's see what you guys say (also, first post ever on 4chan, henlo)

[Anonymous No.3879687]

>>3879647
mega improvement. i think its weird that the person who made those awful tits in 2018 made such good ones in 2019, your shading is real good. i gotta learn to do that. obviously you have some trouble with hands eh?

[Anonymous No.3879701]

>>3879687
Thank you! You are soo right, I really sucks at drawing hands, because I just started (seriously) drawing like a year and a half ago. I know it's a bit strange, i was afraid people would not believe me lol, but I'm studying Fine Arts in Rome, so i do TONS of exercise, that's where the improvement is from

[Anonymous No.3879708]

ps regarding the shading, practicing traditional painting can really boost the digital one, learning to mix oils really gives you a edge when using a color wheel

[Anonymous No.3879746]

>>3879181
your construction of the tuba (euphonium?) is pretty poor. the bell is misshapen and the body of the instrument is way too thicc, and the tubing is pretty wibbly and looks flat. it's also too small compared to her, making the bell look too big. your rendering on it is poor as well, but the colors are way warmer. like the other anons said, the pose is way less dynamic and interesting. I prefer the left one, even if it is less technically skilled. your anatomy and coloring technique improved but there is so much less charm and character.

sorry to harp on the tuba but it physically pains me to see poor drawn musical instruments.

[Anonymous No.3879819]

ahhh haven't checked in on the thread since then but thanks for the input
>>3872886
thanks!!!
>>3876626
I'm @viridiandrop on twitter and ig, don't have a tumblr blog or anything like that. also thanks! I'm still practicing but hoping to get better at fundamentals. and yeah, I've posted him at the oc thread over on /i/, if you end up drawing anything of him I'd love to see it! >>>/i/572133
>>3877127
ah yeah, I had compiled those pictures before I posted in this thread, it was mostly meant to showcase the evolution of the character design I was drawing but I figured it would work for displaying art improvement as well, I probably should have made another for this thread showcasing more anatomy than just the faces, but I do make sure to practice! I'd like to draw more facial expressions and more varied positions and perspectives, I just haven't realized how boring my compositions tend to be until recently, lmao. But thanks for the input!

[Anonymous No.3879887]

>>3879593
Thanks anon

>>3879746
It's okay anon, I need to hear it more than anything. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.3880011]

>>3871160
Blog please!

[Anonymous No.3880020]

>>3872857
You can imoprove that way but improvement will be slow and you will plateau early.

[Anonymous No.3880042]

>>3879181
blog?

[Anonymous No.3880055]

>>3879181
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3881202]

>>3879181
>>3879289
>>3879746
Don't listen to these crabs, anon. The pose is stiff, but you're working in the direction you wish to see your art take, so don't get too down on it. Just keep working on it! Practice gesture, and form exercises, and keep drawing! It won't take too much longer now before your drawings are full of life and dimension, just so long as you continue drawing towards what you wish to see in your art.

[Anonymous No.3881218]

>>3881202
not crab, just stingy for the drawn physical construction of musical instruments

[Anonymous No.3881230]

>>3879181
2019 is clearly better drawn but you should try to go back to the elements of the first drawing. I like the 2016 face much better and the inside of the tuba (or whatever that is) is more interesting to look at. Second drawing is more precise but in a way that looks like you pasted a photo of a tuba on the drawing, it's jarring.

[Anonymous No.3881234]

>>3879134
now that I think of it, it's probably Dragon Ball that gave me my design thing for baggy pants. I love baggy pants.

[Anonymous No.3881414]

>>3871602
its to the benefit of everyone. the fast you get gud, the more time you can spend as a competent artist before you fuckin DIE

[Anonymous No.3881422]

>>3870827
It still lacks mass, you got to feel the forms.

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[Anonymous No.3881439]

>>3881422
kek

[Anonymous No.3882046]

>>3871216
Uhm... ok.
Subscribe to my patreon for the giant horsedick version.

[Anonymous No.3883311]

>>3874492
Did you nuke your account or did you fall victim to le epic report?

[Anonymous No.3883320]

>>3878136
Better?

[Anonymous No.3883393]

>>3881218
Post your Tuba.

[Anonymous No.3883394]

>>3883320
Yos

[Anonymous No.3883599]

>>3878320
What's going on in bottom right?

[Anonymous No.3885187]

no offense to anyone but this thread is really depressing

the average progress is very minimal
the ones who are really good also were really good before

I wanted to believe that learning art is many ways similar to other learning, and simply putting enough work will make you good unless you are a brainlet who has difficulties in general learning.

[Anonymous No.3885210]

>>3885187
Don't just look at visible progress, maybe they've also gotten faster at drawing! I can only speak for myself, but instead of struggling with anatomy in a piece for 3 hours, it just takes 1 hour now (depending on poses amd perspective of course).

[Anonymous No.3885300]

Minimal progress, but I'm happy. Struggling a lot with hands and challenging poses.

[Anonymous No.3885303]

>>3885210
Amem to that. I took hours to create a shitty rough sketch of something, but now, at least I can do it it faster and feel like I'm not wasting time without progress.

[Anonymous No.3885329]

>>3885210
This is true for me! What usually took 2 days now only took 4 hours. :D

[Anonymous No.3885391]

>>3874154
blog?

[Anonymous No.3885413]

>>3885300
struggling with gesture the most. stiff as a board

[Anonymous No.3885434]

>>3885413
Yup. Any advice? I really want to get over it.

[Anonymous No.3885466]

>>3885434
as you know it's tough and there aren't silver bullets. not sure what you've studied but if you don't do any gesture drawing you should. vilppu, huston, and bridgman are my favorites and you can get books from the book thread. try to download some watts or vilppu videos if you can but there's some good bits on youtube. steve huston's book "making ever mark count" is good because it emphasizes gesture, then construction, then gesture, and more construction and so on. inevitably you lose the gesture as you construct over it, it's always important to keep it in mind as you iterate.

https://www.youtube.com/user/KarlGnassStudios/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA9o111IH1VD8Kxz0YLn8_A - the beginner gesture drawing and figuary videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vilppu+figure+drawing anything with vilppu or huston on this page

"we never copy the model, we analyze the model" - glenn. eventually you learn to keep in proportion and exaggerate the body while still being believable. stick with boxes, cylinders, and spheres as it's easier to push those in space, use your imagination, and model lighting. later you can add anatomy over it. start with the main masses the torso and pelvis, add legs, and then put in all the rest. i find karl gnass' methods really helpful as i used to get too stuck in detail early on when i should be focusing on the "spirit" of the drawing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxBiylAMNM&t=15m28s

[Anonymous No.3885547]

>>3885466
Focusing on the spirit of the pose is a really useful tip, I usually rush for the details. Thanks for all the info, anon.

[Anonymous No.3887138]

Never give up

[Anonymous No.3887249]

>>3879181
>it's already been 3 years
Damn. Time flies by.

[Anonymous No.3887819]

>>3871915
Oh hey, that's fisher! Keep up the good work and thank you for inspiring me.

[Anonymous No.3887913]

>>3877411
This is an amazing example of what happens when /ic/ tells people to 'just draw'.

[Anonymous No.3887943]

>>3883320
is this lil-tachyon?

[Anonymous No.3887965]

>>3887138
lol

[Anonymous No.3888025]

[Anonymous No.3888048]

>>3887943
This is not

[Anonymous No.3888291]

[Anonymous No.3888300]

>>3888291
What's their 2019? Did they get with the times and modernize or stay 2000s style?