Draw Thread

[Anonymous No.3992777]

If you need resources you're not gonna make it.

keep pixels 1000 or under

[Anonymous No.3992846]

what's the point of a draw thread when there's already asg, beg, las, porn thread, animation thread, etc.?

[Anonymous No.3992849]

>>3992846
its where everything else goes

[Anonymous No.3992851]

[Anonymous No.3992865]

[Anonymous No.3993883]

[Anonymous No.3994015]

>>3992777
Don't be a lazy twat, post the header

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.

>dA /ic/ group :
http://4chan-ic.deviantart.com

>/ic/ Resources/Reference/Downloads/Links:

>General resources :
http://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/
http://sites.google.com/site/artandwhatnot/

Be kind and give as much advice as pictures you post

[Anonymous No.3994016]

I'm making another doll thing

[Anonymous No.3994548]

>ask an artist for critique
>she responds with 3 voice messages

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1NwlZPAlho7

[Anonymous No.3994563]

Crits on blockout before I start adding finer detail and rendering?

I want to finish something from blockout to render for once in my life. Hopefully, the peer pressure of having posted it here will be encouraging. If I don't post progress on this piece for a while, feel free to start calling me names and insulting my mom.

[Anonymous No.3994577]

>>3994563
Nothing worth rendering here. Draw properly first. You have been watching too much robotpencil havent you?

[Anonymous No.3994608]

>>3994577
Guess I'll need to find some references on military equipment and clothing.
also hands.

[Anonymous No.3994637]

>>3994016
Thats fucking cool
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3994849]

Commission WIP, usually not my subject matter and perspective needs tweaking in the back but I'm having fun

[Anonymous No.3995070]

>>3993883
Nice colors, keep it up

[Anonymous No.3995090]

>>3994849
I really wanna see progress on this, got a blog?

[Anonymous No.3995155]

>>3995090
I usually post WIPs on insta, look for exitmothership.

Little more work on this

[Anonymous No.3995262]

>>3994548
You basically had sex, good job.

[Anonymous No.3995519]

>>3994548
chink chong pong

[Anonymous No.3995556]

>>3994016
Blog? I really look forward to seeing it finished!

[Anonymous No.3995717]

>>3992777

[Anonymous No.3995852]

Not usually the fan art type, but I couldn't help but be inspired. Not sure if I'm done with this or not yet.

[Anonymous No.3995945]

[Anonymous No.3995953]

>>3994548
GodnI wish whthat was me

[Anonymous No.3995955]

>>3995945
very nice

[Anonymous No.3995962]

>>3995945
Good work, but could be elevated with greater edge variation.

[Anonymous No.3996036]

>>3995945
is that björn?!

[Anonymous No.3996043]

I missed the draw thread, we went like 2 weeks without one right? I come here to see how actual pros draw like, always kicks me back to reality whenever I think I'm getting out of /beg/
>>3994548
I've never felt jealousy this intense. Not even when my ex girlfriend got pregnant. Good lord.

[Anonymous No.3996052]

>>3995519
She's not chinese

[Anonymous No.3996053]

>>3995852
I think you should go to /beg/ first

[Anonymous No.3996061]

>>3994548
Fuck you. I go on this site to escape women (the bane of my existence), not be reminded of their wretched existence.

[Anonymous No.3996064]

>>3996052
Eastern European?

[Anonymous No.3996069]

>>3996061
Have se-

[Anonymous No.3996201]

Crits on values? Anything obviously wrong?

[Anonymous No.3996221]

>>3996201
The difference in values on the pyramid in the middle names it look like it's extruding in intead of out

[Anonymous No.3996276]

>>3995962
Yes, but I can't even remember the last time I used a round brush
>>3996036
Yes

[Anonymous No.3996455]

I see nobody has called my mother a whore yet.

Some minor progress. Even with the cartoony proportions, I can see some perspective and anatomical issues cropping up already. I'll try to eyeball it, but if that fails, I'll guess I'll have to actually construct this shit.

[Anonymous No.3996458]

>>3995945
Nice
>>3993883
Would have been great if the girl was drawn well

[Anonymous No.3996465]

>>3996455
Maybe finish it then post. Right now it has no structure to tell what you're trying to draw.
Draw with lines if it takes you too long to draw with blocks of shape

[Anonymous No.3996588]

Few more hours of work on this boy

[Anonymous No.3996652]

>>3996588
It's good but they don't look like they are fighting. Every character looks like they are posing separately. Also why not start with color

[Anonymous No.3996657]

>>3996064
she's some kind of latino ya dip

[Anonymous No.3996663]

>>3996652
Thanks for the insight anon. Even though its more of an ambush situation I see what you mean. Not sure how much I want to change at this point as this is on a really tight budget. I want to put in one more horned guy attacking from above, though, so maybe that helps a bit.
Regarding color, I worked a lot straight from color before and became less good with values over time,which I wanted to focus on for this one. And I want to test gradient mapping but I should get to that really soon.

[Anonymous No.3996719]

Not used to using colors

[Anonymous No.3996727]

>>3996061
>Browses ic to escape women
>ic mostly draws women

[Anonymous No.3996854]

[Anonymous No.3996907]

>>3992846
The draw thread usually has a semblance of quality

[Anonymous No.3996943]

>>3996061
Hahaha get fucked.

[Anonymous No.3996958]

>>3996727
>ic is mostly women
fixed that for you

[Anonymous No.3996963]

>>3994016
look pal
you're too good to not be resizing your shit down below 1000 pixels
I can't look at any of your fucking pieces when you're seriously uploading them at almost 3000 pixels tall

[Anonymous No.3996991]

>>3996458
What's wrong with the girl

[Anonymous No.3997012]

>>3996053
Damn, thought I was intermediate at least

[Anonymous No.3997646]

Something I did as a mock up for a Binding of Isaac inspired game. Boss/enemy. Looking for C&C, thanks in advance.

>>3992865
Looking good so far. You could push your blacks I guess more but maybe they are not finished yet. I would personally make the lips of the girl not as wide. You could push a bit more intricate details on certain parts of the mech, but I always miss that myself.

>>3994016
Looking forward to seeing what comes off that one.

>>3994563>>3996455
The arms proportions don't match between them at first glance. Unless the character has that kind of body deformation.
I personally think doing shape design like that is a nice challenge. On another note, you may want to break the space on the silhouette so it reads more clearly, for example pushing the hands doing the action, out from the body. It's not a requirement but it can help readability.

>>3995090
The blood looks a bit like jelly, which can be intended, sort of a comedy pun? Killing zombie strawberrys! That's actually a fun thought.

>>3996719
I have a similar problem ha. Looks good so far! Now just work it out more or pushing some interesting lights.

>>3996854
Made me think of borderlands. Nice! But you could go for more visual interest, either more interesting lighting or details on his mug.

[Anonymous No.3997970]

[Anonymous No.3999138]

This should have been done over a month ago but im a lazy fucker, just picked it back up again, here is progress

[Anonymous No.3999147]

>>3999138
I love the way you painted the sky so much, the atmosphere in general is really energetic and powerful. Props to you

[Anonymous No.3999151]

>>3999138
I cant tell if that is criticism in disguise, but the sky is dog shit, mostly a place holder, will be hitting that after im done with the characters, but thanks

[Anonymous No.3999153]

>>3999151
>>3999147

[Anonymous No.3999406]

i need critique on this and i'm too lazy to look up anatomy books rn
come on guys, rip me a new one

[Anonymous No.3999407]

>>3999406
btw, i had this blurry piece of shit as reference, so no wonder i probably made lots of mistakes

[Anonymous No.3999434]

>>3999406
>>3999407
Dude, Stop pretending.

[Anonymous No.3999463]

>>3994548
She wants the L

[Anonymous No.3999479]

>>3999434
wdym?
i especially don't like the part where torso and legs meet, i feel like there's something wrong there.. also, i don't know how dicks look when they're flaccid lmao

[karl !!TYgCK6KE4VT No.3999486]

any tips on what I should practice to be able to take my work further? I'm drawing from imagination and this is as far as I can go, like what should I do to finish it? What should I practice to be able to finish stuff like this?

[Anonymous No.3999490]

>>3999406

his balls tiny

[Anonymous No.3999500]

>>3999406
>>3999479
>i'm too lazy to look up anatomy books rn
>i had this blurry piece of shit as reference, so no wonder i probably made lots of mistakes
he means stop acting like your mistakes were something you were able to control yet were simultaneously too lazy to correct yourself. this demeanor paired with asking others to do your work for you is laughable.

>>3999486
theres lots to be done. the background is one flat color, as is the hair, as is the cloth on her breasts. think about the form instead of thinking about placing values if that makes any sense. her neck and trap have no difference in depth, and similarly if the breasts didnt have the line indicating cleavage, it would look very formless. try hiding your linework layer to see what i mean.

[karl !!TYgCK6KE4VT No.3999508]

>>3999500
I can't really imagine how the stuff looks, like I don't really know how to paint from imagination.
Any tips on what I should study and what I should focus on to be able to do it? I'll finish this tomorrow.
Like, what should I think about when I'm painting from a reference? What should I focus on? The way light interacts with the forms? Hmm.. I guess I answered my own question.
ty

[Anonymous No.3999514]

>>3999500
well, what's the point of this thread then? you could just study everything by yourself, but oftentimes others are more efficient at pointing out mistakes or where one could improve ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous No.3999571]

>>3999514
im assuming you just wanted someone to fix your anatomy since you had no way of knowing what was correct from your reference.
that is perfectly reasonable but the complaint comes from prefacing your work with 'im too lazy to look up anatomy books rn' and 'my ref was bad.' this is telling that youre either making excuses for the quality of your work or that you could have done better if you wanted. in the first situation, it is pretending or coping that nobody cares to hear, and in the second, there is no reason to give critique. just letting you know for future reference: whether or not you mean it, people will see those expressions as excuses, and they wont want to help you

if you still want some critique:
these angles do not follow the reference's perspective or pose.. check them over and over again.
your lines arent helping you out in any way apart from looking a bit comic-like with the veins and edges. even when they do its almost as if it were unintentional because of how sloppy it gets in certain areas.. try a bigger brush size since you need to work on perspective and creating forms.
sloppy hands, sloppy lips, and sloppy hair.. guessing you need to study those independently.
anatomy errors in the torso and the groin especially.. there is almost no ribbing in the lat, and the serratus muscles go forward from it-- not backwards into it. also, the nipples are shooting straight forward
finally, tiny balls as someone said

>>3999508
ive been doing stuff from imagination too, and it really helps to not use linework while painting. i use a 100% opacity brush and think about the planes that create the form. i practice the same way from references.

[Anonymous No.3999880]

[Anonymous No.4000457]

>>3999880
/beg/ or better, stop posting

[Anonymous No.4000728]

did a pastel of one of my oil paintings?

[Anonymous No.4000844]

Expirmenting. worth it to refine or just move on?

[Anonymous No.4000864]

>>3992851
I like it anon, it’s cute

[Anonymous No.4000871]

its neat-er if you listen with the music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

[Anonymous No.4000935]

Just a sketch

[Anonymous No.4000940]

Finished this, my line art is fuck anatomy is obviously fucked and can't draw appealing faces, anything else?

[Anonymous No.4000962]

>>4000457
Lmao im literally a professional who doesnt live in my moms boyfriends basement..more than 95% of the posters here could say

[Anonymous No.4000966]

>>4000962
Ngmi

[Anonymous No.4000974]

thoughts?
drew this several months ago, think it's the last thing i've drawn before losing inspiration

[Anonymous No.4000988]

>>4000844
another

[Anonymous No.4000994]

>>4000844
>>4000988
Channeling those chaddington vibes, I see.
I like it, but for some reason it lacks a feel of grandiosity. I'd start looking into large scale atmospheric perspective, I think it helps a lot with making things look absolutely massive.

[Anonymous No.4001001]

>>3993883
It's coming together beautifully
>>3996588
So much going on in this pic, I love it
>>3999138
The details on these characters are insane
>>4000974
The head looks nice but what is this body??! Reminds me of that cartoon of Darwin as a monkey

I've been working on this but I'm really stuck on the sky. Any suggestions or maybe refs of clouds would be much appreciated. I've been trying for hours but nothing seems to work with the rest of the piece

[Anonymous No.4001020]

You'll never guess where this is from

[Anonymous No.4001024]

>>4001020
Is this Lisa from The Room?

[Anonymous No.4001029]

>>4001024
god fucking dammit

[Anonymous No.4001031]

>>4001001
It's me again I think I'm actually gonna leave it like this, without the clouds. It's good enough.

[Anonymous No.4001063]

>>4001001
I'm trying to figure out how to paint more like this. My work is too tight and overworked. Do you work from photos? Great job.

[Anonymous No.4001070]

>>4001063
Thanks, yes I work with multiple references, like a different ref for the ship, a different one for the birds, rocks, etc.

I swear this is my final attempt at clouds, I'm gonna sleep on it and figure out tomorrow which one I'll go with.

[Anonymous No.4001295]

>>4000966
Lmao i also drew this fool

[Anonymous No.4001652]

[Anonymous No.4001729]

I drew Cary Grant today but it ended up pretty shitty.

[Anonymous No.4001731]

[Anonymous No.4001733]

>>3995945
>Bjorn Andresen

[Anonymous No.4001736]

[Anonymous No.4001743]

I'm overpainting a really shitty drawing I made when I was younger

[Anonymous No.4002118]

making a drawing for a deceased woman

any tips on how to make it look more apealing

[Anonymous No.4002145]

>>4001743
You haven't learnt a lot in that time.

[Anonymous No.4002166]

>>4002145
I feel like I’ve learnt a good amount...

[Anonymous No.4002168]

>>4002145
This is the finished result

[Anonymous No.4002171]

>>4002118
looks like a man

[Anonymous No.4002270]

>>3999880
Funny considering how lenient Trump has been the past 3 years with exercising our military might.

[Anonymous No.4002271]

>>3992777
Self portrait from a few days ago.

[Anonymous No.4002279]

>>4002271
Very pretty

[Anonymous No.4002384]

>>4001743
You've improved quite alot! Don't listen to >>4002145 he is crabbing

[Anonymous No.4002431]

line portrait

[Anonymous No.4002440]

>>4002384
Thank you, anon :) your anatomy is really impressive, I love the way you portray weight in form

[Anonymous No.4002517]

>>4000994
Thankss, i took extra care about scale for this one but its still missing something i think..
Maybe ill add some spaceships?

[Anonymous No.4002560]

>>4002517
I think it's mostly a composition issue.
Right now, it feels a bit boxed in, like a really close shot of something that's supposed to be large scaly.

Perhaps try to open up the scene a bit and let it breathe, give a feeling that there's a lot of space outside the main scene. Here's a shitty edit to illustrate the point.

[Anonymous No.4002583]

>>4002560
That's some bomb critique, thanks!!

[Anonymous No.4002594]

>>4002583
Thanks, I guess one of the most important rules of composition is that empty space has as much significance as the rest of the composition.

You have to have some kind of space that your main subject occupies, not everything has to be a focal point. Let the eye wander a bit.

[Anonymous No.4002641]

>>4002171
u look like a girl!

[Anonymous No.4002937]

>>4002168
The hand is awkward. Temperature doesn't change properly as you change value. Hair looks like a metal. Boobs don't have correct form

[Anonymous No.4002963]

>>4002517
also, blog?

[Anonymous No.4002980]

>>3997646
blog? really like this but she needs to look more christian tho

[Anonymous No.4002981]

>>4000871
>listen with the music
kek

[Anonymous No.4002999]

I just started using medibang and drew this from imagination.
Is it any good? Or should I go back to /beg/?

[Anonymous No.4003020]

>>4002999
yeah, /beg/

[Anonymous No.4003024]

>>4003020
damn, feels bad

any advice?

[Anonymous No.4003041]

>>4003024
Explain your drawing process if you have one> i.e. how do you start a drawing, what are you thinking of.

[Anonymous No.4003076]

>>4003041
I block in basic forms first like the chest, the head, limbs, etc. using midtones. I don't typically do a line sketch because my lines are always really bad and painting over them is a pain.
Then I start rendering the forms, adding details as I go, starting with midtones, then shadows, then highlights.
I paint everything in one layer, or add something in another layer and merge it after when I'm done with it. For example if I were to add color or clothes, I would do it in a separate layer, and once satisfied, I would merge it with the rest.
The final thing I do is adjustments like color correction or value adjustment.

Pic related is something else I did earlier today, but that time I started with colors instead of grayscale. I've started doing grayscale because as you can see, my values are pretty bad. I also know I'm god-awful at doing hair. However, I know that there are other things that I'm bad at that I'm not aware of, hence posting looking for critique.

[Anonymous No.4003091]

>>4002937
Thank you, I’m gonna do some hand exercises and colour studies today.

[Anonymous No.4003213]

>>4002999
Good: rendering, reflections, perspective
Bad: Values, anatomy, proportions

[Anonymous No.4003232]

>>4003076
skewed anatomy aside, you make some strange choices on what to saturate and what not. the background is not important here yet you made its orange stronger than any color on the the actual focal point - the face

[Anonymous No.4003321]

A bit of progress. Next, figuring out what to do with those nondescript stubs for arms, and giving him a face.
>>3997646
Thanks for pointing out the proportion problems, I fixed them quick and dirty while figuring out the color stuff.
I have to admit, I don't know how to draw.
I took painting classes, where we were taught to lay down the forms with large shapes and silhouettes. Drawing is some arcane abstract stuff to me. I mean, lines don't even exist IRL, you have to describe an object by separating its forms with contour lines of varying thicknesses, overlaps, and they have to describe the shading, form, perspective, all at once? Too hard. Fat blobs of shapes is a lot easier to deal with.
t. iq89

[Anonymous No.4003356]

I tried to improve the way I draw hands since my last painting by using my own as a reference, I'm excited to get gory with her second face aha

[Anonymous No.4003367]

>>4002279
Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.4003368]

>>3994548
Dutchfag?

[Anonymous No.4003369]

>>4000988
ooOo is that a Rangda?

[Anonymous No.4003391]

>>4003321
Improve your edges. Also the lighting on the figure makes look like he is in a different environment

[Anonymous No.4003407]

>>4002384
Blog?

[Anonymous No.4003408]

>>4003407
https://www.deviantart.com/ngmi

or "exodusisnear" on hentai-foundry

[Anonymous No.4003441]

>>4003232
I was going for a sunrise glow, but I wasn't really paying attention to the saturation. I didn't implement the idea too well, probably should have made the face darker and more saturated with a stronger directional light.

Short answer is that I just suck, I guess.

Thanks for the help, though.

[Anonymous No.4003445]

ducktales bg study

[Anonymous No.4003478]

>>4003356
Update

[Anonymous No.4003554]

>>3992777
I just finished this not too long ago.

Messed up the perspective a bit, and I kinda don't like the white glare I put on the eyes.

[Anonymous No.4003604]

Hi guys, I did this yesterday any tips how I could improve it?

[Anonymous No.4003610]

>>4003604
I really like this, anon, it’s very appealing

[Anonymous No.4003636]

>>4003610
Thanks mah dude

[Anonymous No.4003693]

Just a funny idea that ran through my head, but I keep fretting over the posing, Not sure if it's flowing right.

[Anonymous No.4003695]

>>4003604
There is no shadow beneath the fingers which makes them appear floating. There should be pretty sharp cast shadows on the face under each finger. There are no indentations on the skin where the fingers land. That nose ridge is wonky and lacking form. It's also the area that the eyes are most drawn to, so fix that. Areas of the face like the chin and jawline appear too small and flat. Lastly, the fingers are lacking in detail like the wrinkles in where they bend.

[Anonymous No.4004013]

It's been months since I sit down to paint. Tried to do a landscape, sucked ass. Please destroy me and tell how I fucked up and how to fix is possible.

Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous No.4004053]

>>4003478
I really like the way you colored the skin on this one.
blog?

[Anonymous No.4004097]

Did this awhile back, but forgot about it until now. Don't have the original drawing unfortunately

[Anonymous No.4004195]

[Anonymous No.4004279]

>>4004013
The composition feels a bit strange but I really like the lighting situation

[Anonymous No.4004280]

>>4004053
Can I have your blog instead so I can give it personally? On insta

Thank you, anon :)

[Anonymous No.4004328]

Working on this draft for 2 days. Now realize it prolly looks like shit.

>>4003604
>>4003478
>>4003445
Really good.
>>4000988
>>4001001
Amazing shit, wish I could do this.

[Anonymous No.4004329]

>>4004328
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.4004538]

>>4004329
Keep working, anon, it’s already pretty appealing. Try working on the gesture and anatomy though.

[Anonymous No.4005100]

Blocking in the values. Anything that looks off with the lighting or anatomy so far?

[Anonymous No.4005213]

should I quit art?

[Anonymous No.4005230]

>>4005213
No way, you have better linework than most people here, including me

[Anonymous No.4005270]

Re-kindled my passion for this piece and will try to finish it in the coming weeks

[Anonymous No.4005294]

>>4005213
I love seeing your stuff

[Anonymous No.4005295]

>>4005100
Her pose is very fluid, I like this one.

[Anonymous No.4005416]

>>4000940
Foot reads as dick

[Anonymous No.4005441]

I'm having a lot of fun with this, does anyone have any ideas for the background? <3

[Anonymous No.4005444]

>>4002963
Yeahhhh
https://www.instagram.com/thmsvis/?hl=en
or https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1215490/34

>>4003369

I took that picture in Bali, suppose to be a hindu god:)

[Anonymous No.4005461]

>>4001731
nice

[Anonymous No.4005469]

>>4005444


Damn, your stuff looks really nice.
Congrats

[Anonymous No.4005537]

>>4005461
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.4005717]

>>4005213
As a profession, yes. I don't know the scene on small galleries, but I would imagine it's not a very viable option to make a living. Maybe your stuff could be big if you were a woman of color.

I know it's a stylistic choice, and I said this before, you like to do a bunch of abstractions, add random doodles to make your art looser or more organic, but you don't have a good sense for shapes, color or composition.

I also know you do this because you don't like to have your work compared with any other painter, you want your style to be unique, but I think there's a bigger reason for your stuff to be the way they are:

You are too impatient/lazy to think about the lines you're placing down. There are always points in your drawing where you are intently drawing your lines and then places where you clearly say fuck it and let your hands do whatever. For example, please walk me through your design decisions for that left hand.

-

So to sum it up: You just want to draw whatever, you feel you're too good to draw what people want to buy instead of just doing what you want to do, and you don't run in the right circles that would appreciate and pay for that (and that made ugly painters before you successful). Nothing wrong in doing it as a hobby though.

[Anonymous No.4005725]

>>4005717
>For example, please walk me through your design decisions for that left hand.
my design decisions for the left hand were "I better hurry up cause this girl doesn't want me staring at her anymore"

[Anonymous No.4005730]

>>4005725
You're telling me you can't do better than that from imagination?

[Anonymous No.4005738]

>>4005730
Define better. I could paint the Sistine Chapel from memory if I really wanted to. If your definition of lazy is that I’m capable of more but I’m not doing it that’s partially acceptable but I have plenty of paintings that have 40-80 hours of work in them so I’d hardly say I’m lazy in that respect. I would just rather take my time with things

[Anonymous No.4005780]

Working on this for a while, I wish I had not started with greyscale first because coloring is becoming more of a chore

[Anonymous No.4005788]

Werkin on some clouds wip

[Anonymous No.4005801]

>>4005780
Pick a light source and stick to it - typically with outdoor scenes you just have to find where you want the sun to be. Also your value structure & composition don't work to begin with, so your colors wont work either.

[Anonymous No.4005907]

[Anonymous No.4006370]

>>3993883

>>4005270
>>4005907
very cool, do you guys have any resource recommendations for painting scenery?

>>3995070
>>3996458
>>4001001
thank you

[Anonymous No.4006431]

>>4006370
Ah, you're the anon that made this picture, really like how it's looking so far!

>do you guys have any resource recommendations for painting scenery

Well, collect a ton of all kinds of environmental reference, also study them. I used to have a Dropbox collection ready for sharing but whenever I posted a link here it got removed so I took it down. Otherwise I would have loved to send you that.

[Anonymous No.4006509]

>>4005469
Thanks!

Ill go dump some of my sketches here, I took alot of drone pictures while traveling and was looking into how to use them with concepting. this one i probably like the most

[Anonymous No.4006511]

>>4006509
Any critique would be nice, Ive just been trying some new things in these

[Anonymous No.4006514]

>>4006511

[Anonymous No.4006515]

>>4006514

[Anonymous No.4006519]

>>4006515

[Anonymous No.4006523]

>>4006519

[Anonymous No.4006526]

>>4006523

[Anonymous No.4007108]

I'm almost done this lady

[Anonymous No.4007141]

>>4007108
Man your stuff is so good MacRae

[Anonymous No.4007142]

>>4007108
teach me your way senpai

[Anonymous No.4007153]

[Anonymous No.4007156]

>>4007142

Honestly most of what makes this cool is just photoshop gimmicks, (airbrushed global lighting and stenciled textures) not a lot of actual skill in drawing or painting. The Concept is also doing a lot of work, since it is a really cool idea the whole wooden figurine thing.

You could as a beginner figure out how to do this in a couple weeks or so if you were motivated

[Anonymous No.4007162]

>>4007156

Also if you zoom in or really just look at it for more than a second as a thumbnail it REALLY falls apart because underneath the photoshop tricks there really is just bad-mediocre at best drawing and attention to detail. Chicken scratch strokes, poor stroke economy, just plain old bad edges, almost no real rendering, most of it is an inefficiently done first pass at best.

[Anonymous No.4007219]

>>4007156
>>4007162
Classic crab. Bunch of condescending text and no work posted.

[Anonymous No.4007229]

>>4007219

Disappointing reply.

[Anonymous No.4007242]

>>4007108
I was browsing your artstation the other day and realized I had a lot of your wip saved from the drawthreads without realizing they were from the same person. I really like your stuff. Even more than your ability to render what you're thinking, your ideas are really cool.

[Anonymous No.4007246]

I'm kinda stuck on this one, ic please help me.

Can you guys understand what is going on in this picture? Does the distortion read well? Should I use blur effects?

[Anonymous No.4007278]

>>4007141
Aah don't say my name that's weird

[Anonymous No.4007301]

>>4007156
... stensiled textures? I mean I use a few common scratchy brushes if that's what you mean. I try to be as traditional of a painter as humanly possible.

[Anonymous No.4007327]

>>4002384
you would do great as a wikihow artist

[Anonymous No.4007351]

>>4007108
gesture and expression are two things your work always sorely lacks. A lot of that probably has to do with your perspective skills being lacking. Studying old cartoons and drawing from life even if it's just for a week would loosen you up so much.

[Anonymous No.4007366]

>>4007246
think you're mixing up your perspectives, and as a result the illustration is all shooting up in one direction. his face leads to his face leads to the knight then flies off the canvas in a boring way. Maybe try doing the fist coming towards the viewer like this? I couldn't honestly find a use for the other hand being in the composition

[Anonymous No.4007368]

>>4007366
>his face leads to his face leads to the knight
face leads to his fist leads to the knight*

[Anonymous No.4007383]

>>4007366
>I couldn't honestly find a use for the other hand being in the composition
I actually do know the reason you put the other hand in the painting: karate man

but sometimes simpler is better, you don't need to show off your uwu gesture skills at all times.

[Anonymous No.4007514]

>>4007366
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I see what you mean. What I was trying to do with that arm stretching from the bottom to the top of the screen was to show the transition from a more realistic style to a stylized cartoony one as it gets closer to the knight's head. So, the other hand was there to emphasize the more realistic style, because I wanted the pose to feel more kung fu-ish instead of just a punch... and also I was trying to make the whole thing more interesting.

Seems like I failed a bunch. Anyway, thanks again for the input!

[Anonymous No.4007539]

>>4007162
>Chicken scratch strokes, poor stroke economy, just plain old bad edges, almost no real rendering, most of it is an inefficiently done first pass at best.
I have never seen someone LARP so hard as a digital painter on this board. This is the densest string of buzzwords I've ever seen and none of it is applied. This has to be bait.

[Anonymous No.4007547]

>>4007246
i think the similarities between our two knights are kind of funny.

I sketched this up a couple days ago (I wouldn't consider it anything more than that, it's a WIP and barely 10% complete) and have been too busy to do anything with it. Now I'm stuck and I'm not sure what to do, I want to place him in a scene in the aftermath of combat. I also suck with colors and values so I'm not sure which direction to take.

[Anonymous No.4007552]

>>4007246
i think the similarities between our two knights are kind of funny - the greenish hue, the red cloth, the horns.

I sketched this up a couple days ago (I wouldn't consider it anything more than that, it's a WIP and barely 10% complete) and have been too busy to do anything with it. Now I'm stuck and I'm not sure what to do, I want to place him in a scene in the aftermath of combat. I also suck with colors and values so I'm not sure which direction to take.

[Anonymous No.4007564]

>>4007552
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>4003688

stay there until you can draw something like an apple without completely fucking it up

[Anonymous No.4007568]

>>4007514
>show the transition from a more realistic style to a stylized cartoony one as it gets closer to the knight's head.
I hate to break it to you, it all looks stylized and cartoony. I like the ambitious concept though.

[Anonymous No.4007582]

>>4007351
When you mention perspective do you mean Everything exists more on the x and y axis of the frame and there's little 3d depth in the images?

[Anonymous No.4007597]

>>4007568
Yeah, that's what I was worried about. Thanks again

>>4007552
I see what you're saying... but then again red cloth and greenish hue armor makes up 90% of knight design out there lol. In any case your design is way cooler than mine.
I would say, if you don't know what to do with this just leave it as is. Tacking on a background behind a random character isn't really a good idea, the character feels stiff and out of place.

If you insist on doing something with it, you could just render him and do a simple background just to showcase him better.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PmBXEZ

a more extreme and badass example:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EVgoeA

[Anonymous No.4007624]

>>4007597
>red cloth and greenish hue armor makes up 90% of knight design

awe does it? Mine was based off a dream I had, a knight with almost spruce colored armor with a heavy red fur over his back. I guess I just absorbed it from seeing other stuff and my subconscious put it together.

I was definitely thinking of a soft, subtle background that didn't distract from the character, yet helped tell a story or gave information about him. I like the second image you linked. Maybe I could do something like that.

I just felt like adding a bunch of detail to a character in a void would be less interesting.

[Anonymous No.4007767]

>>4007301
Out of curiosity, do you use any photo textures or do you paint everything?

[Anonymous No.4007770]

>>4007767
I think that's what he tries to say:
He paints it.

I assume he works closely with reference but if you zoom in on his works it all looks legitimately painted.

[Anonymous No.4008078]

>>4007582
Yeah, which is fine, but you paint illustrations in perspective that’s usually reserved for fine arts. Nothing squashes or stretches to emphasize motion or comes out at the viewer. And that’s not even to say your work should be Final Destination 3d, cause there’s subtle ways to apply perspective to have things recede slowly away or to the side

[Anonymous No.4008088]

Hey

[Anonymous No.4008309]

>>4008078
Hmm yes I've thought about that often. It's mostly intentional but only because I can't find a way to add that depth while still showing everything I want to show in a piece. It's a tough balance.

[Anonymous No.4008664]

[Anonymous No.4009109]

>>4007219
>hurr durr buzzwords i cant hear U!!!!

[Anonymous No.4009117]

>>4007301
>as humanly possible

Did you try Using REAL paint on REAL matte board? Lmfao this whole new generation of “artists” is a weak pathetic joke.

[Anonymous No.4009123]

>>4009117
>assblasted trad fag

[Anonymous No.4009171]

>>4009123
>soulless automaton that thinks art is a career

[Anonymous No.4009327]

>>4009117
Are you ok?

[Anonymous No.4009338]

>>4009327
hes okay hes just a sperg

[Anonymous No.4009356]

Self portrait

[Anonymous No.4009544]

>>4007552
you literally just redrew this.

you aren't unique.

you aren't special.

you aren't different.

you will never contribute anything noteworthy or memorable. you're literally just another idiot with below average skills who's completely blind to how bland and generic they are

[Anonymous No.4009545]

>>4009544
>>4007552

[Anonymous No.4009556]

4009545
4009544
4007564
>seething this hard you shitpost someone 3 times for zero (yous)

[Anonymous No.4009584]

>>4009556
It's just an average drawing too, idk why the dude is sperging out over it.

[Anonymous No.4009599]

Did a portrait study

[Anonymous No.4009603]

>>4009556

[Anonymous No.4009608]

>>4002118
put some colorful flowers in the bg

[Anonymous No.4009782]

Working on pic related recently, I'm still a huge fucking noob at dynamic colours and right now i'm mainly just practicing with Photoshop, roast me.

>>3999138

Bruh is this official art? I have a huge boner for Warhammer stuff, and that looks great, just finish it off.

>>4007552

Like the weight the armor and pose gives off, well done anon.

[Anonymous No.4010005]

Anything look off on this? I am unsure if the tits are in the right orientation. The arms should be pushing them out, but how much breast should be bulging out over the arm? Also the armpit crease is confusing me.

[Anonymous No.4010013]

>>4009356
Did another one

[Anonymous No.4010015]

>>4010013
Whoops

[Anonymous No.4010055]

>>4009544
please give me feedback too senpai
from imagination on cheap printing paper with a HB pencil and some pens I found

[Anonymous No.4010069]

>>4009544
aren't we all

[Anonymous No.4010081]

>>4010015
the ear is too low. The nose isn't in perspective, the tip should cover most of the second nostril unless you have an extra thick right nostril.

[Anonymous No.4010088]

>>4010081
Is this better?

[Anonymous No.4010094]

>>4010088
perfect

[Anonymous No.4010096]

>>4010088
you're getting there, the perspective on your chin and jaw doesn't match the nose, more of the neckbeard area should be visible and the arch has to be the other way I think

[Anonymous No.4010100]

>>4010096
I guess these crits are cute but I’m doing the perspective arbitrarily in different spots on purpose. It would probably be less jarring in a painting, if all of this was rendered so you could see I’m doing it on purpose

[Anonymous No.4010105]

toes.....

[Anonymous No.4010108]

>>4010105

[Anonymous No.4010114]

I feel like my artistic growth has fucking halted holy shit

Here's a big space nigga I doodled

[Anonymous No.4010122]

>>4010100
I know you're placing the features different spots on purpose, but I think it would look better if the jaw and chin matched the perspective of the nose and forehead. I think the eyes being wonky looks great.

[Anonymous No.4010145]

>>4010122
I wrote a long response and it didn’t send so I’ll just say “I feels you on that”

[Anonymous No.4010170]

wip attempt at self portrait on namek

[Anonymous No.4010424]

>>4006514
These pieces don't deserve to go without (you)s for another minute. Really engaging. Do you have a whole story behind these, a world? Or are they metaphorical, political?

[Anonymous No.4010445]

>>4003604
This is amazing. Nothing to improve really, maybe use less dramatic strong red palate. Try some softer skin color with less contrast instead, but eye color, hair and background, placement is good.

[Anonymous No.4010512]

>>4008088
Jesus!!

[Anonymous No.4010630]

First time using color in finished piece. Whatever, critique me

[Anonymous No.4010656]

>>4010630
I love this, snow in the shade is blue though

[Anonymous No.4010667]

>>4010630
I really like the crisp shadow shapes from the castle on the snow, I wish the rest of your shadows were as defined.

[Anonymous No.4010686]

>>4010630
I hate 3d models

[Anonymous No.4010798]

[Anonymous No.4010852]

Almost done with the background

[Anonymous No.4010918]

>>4010852
This is gorgeous, anon

[Anonymous No.4011002]

>>4005788
Fukkin nice man

[Anonymous No.4011056]

Painted at the beach

[Anonymous No.4011273]

>>4010424
Just experiments, i'm hoping ill find something in here that i can expand on.

[Anonymous No.4011277]

>>4011273
What's your process anon

[Anonymous No.4011301]

>>4011277
This one has a 3d base, but most of my other ones dont. I realize its actually quicker to do this, escp in regards to planning the picture and lightning it.

Otherwise i usually make a loose sketch to get a base or have a photo that inspires me.

Since 'Ive made a bunch of drone pictures on my travels i have a ton of reference for this kinda stuff and wanted to see what i can come up with in a few hours.

[Anonymous No.4011713]

Idk if i should do this kind of stuff again, does it look good ?

[Anonymous No.4011723]

Crit pls

[Anonymous No.4011817]

>>4011723
Imo the feet are placed a bit uncomfortably, this looks great so far though

[Anonymous No.4011836]

>>4011056
the lumps of paint detract too much attention from the painting, also it would be nice if there were some area with more detail, right now its hard to look at it because there no focus like

[Anonymous No.4011982]

>>3992777

[Anonymous No.4011995]

>>4009327

I fucking hate how complacent ic has become about mediocre art. 7 years ago we didnt tolerate these kinds of hacks now its just a bunch of spineless worms sucking mediocre guys like this dick. 4chan has fucking changed and it pisses me off. Its like Reddit without usernames honestly.

[Anonymous No.4011998]

>>4011056

I see what you were going for but its not working. The lack of attention to detail as another anon said distracts from bigger picture. Its also flat in a bad paint by numbers way.

[Anonymous No.4012037]

Based on a RDR2 screenshot

[Anonymous No.4012124]

>>4012037
I feel like you could stylise it more to look like an actual illustration

[Anonymous No.4012239]

>>4011995
>spend nearly a decade on /ic/
>still have /beg/ tier understanding
you better be shitposting

[Anonymous No.4012293]

>>4012037

KINO

[Anonymous No.4013093]

>>4011273
Another, is it clear whats going on here?

[Anonymous No.4013108]

>>4010005
Alright after checking alot of references, is this any better than the first attempt. I didn't want the tits to be quite so big and saggy. Tried to give them more pointy shape

[Anonymous No.4013141]

>>4013108
tits certainly look better now, also nice foot

[Anonymous No.4013195]

>>3992777
Inspired by morrowind

[Anonymous No.4013395]

>>4011002
thanks bruh

[Anonymous No.4013533]

[Anonymous No.4014158]

A little late to be posting this, but here. Something completely uninspired, if you couldn't tell.

[Anonymous No.4014182]

>>4011301
Anon, how much architecture do you know?
Do you think about all the lines you put on buildings, or do you just bullshit through it until it looks impressive?

I always wanted to learn how to draw things like that, but not knowing the purpose of each eave and steel beam on a reference always makes me give up.

>>4014158
NEVER skip ear day. Why does everyone do this?

[Anonymous No.4014206]

>>4014182
Because it's obviously not finished yet and the ear is clearly not a critical focal element.

[Anonymous No.4014215]

>>4014206
Yes, but the amount of polish everyting else received makes it look like cardboard. Add at a bare minimum a darker concavity.

[Anonymous No.4014244]

Is this a good ref?

[Anonymous No.4014333]

>>4014244
anything's a good ref if that's how you want your art to end up like

[Anonymous No.4014359]

When you download new brushes, do you add all of them to your software or just ones you happen to like?

[Anonymous No.4014535]

>>3992777
Why is this draw thread so fucking quiet ffs. Fuck all those bullshit threads, where are the artists?

[Anonymous No.4014567]

>>3994548
>she

[Anonymous No.4014574]

>>4014535
I know, you’d think that on a drawing board the actual drawing threads would be the most active

[Anonymous No.4014575]

>>4014158
I’m really liking this, anon

[Anonymous No.4014578]

>>4014182
Not really, dont know alot about architecture, just look at reference and use common sense. main thing is to make it look cool anyway.

Another experiment for this one

[Anonymous No.4014618]

>>4014578
I really love your world and your style.

[Anonymous No.4014620]

>>4014535
they're busy drawing/painting duh

[Anonymous No.4014681]

I really like the idea of this for some reason

[Anonymous No.4014688]

>>4014158

YOU. NEED. TO. LEARN. HOW. TO. RENDER.

[Anonymous No.4014690]

>>4014688
Why’s everyone so overly critical of this anon? Like every single thread

[Anonymous No.4014749]

Trying to practice darker skin tones.

[Anonymous No.4014906]

how do you like the faces?

[Anonymous No.4014912]

>>4014749
looks high af

[Anonymous No.4014960]

>>4014688
Show me how it's done. If I render too much, then I need to learn how to draw. If I render too little and focus on the forms, then I need to learn how to render. So which is it, anon?

[Anonymous No.4014967]

[Anonymous No.4014993]

>>4014967
blog?

[Anonymous No.4015043]

>>4014967
Oh my sexy anime babe. Thank you for this, sexy anime babe drawer.

[Anonymous No.4015044]

>>4014960
He’s just crabbing

[Wrexclone No.4015123]

Critique?

[Anonymous No.4015145]

Is this kind of readable? I feel like the thumbnail is a bit all over the place still, I spend about two hours on it.

[Anonymous No.4015233]

>>4015145
The background hill is way too saturated, add atmospheric perspective. You even have a waterfall, it should produce a lot of fog.

[Anonymous No.4015248]

[Anonymous No.4015262]

>>4014993
feason on pixiv

[Anonymous No.4015263]

>>4014681
i like it too. a flail is a surprisingly deadly weapon with little force needed for the damage output.

this is kind of weird but I used to attend this after-school program at a local park when I was young, it was pretty much just a daycare for kids who's parents were working when school was out.

one of the guys working at the park also managed this LARP group that would come around every Tuesday and dress up as knights and beat the shit out of each other.

the guy liked to make improvised weapons and one day demonstrated how quickly and easily a flail can be made. He took a light length of aluminum chain and a softball, and wrapped the ball in duct tape to the chain. It took less than 3 minutes to put together. he smashed a watermelon to bits in a single swing, dented the hood of his car, and knocked the cage-visor off a football helmet. kinda crazy

[Anonymous No.4015291]

>>4015123
Voltron galra?
Not very good understanding of leg or arm anatomy, go study that more. The abs are not right below the pecs, there is a bit of blank space that covers the ribs and isn't abdominal muscle or pectoral. Feet are bad.

[Anonymous No.4015337]

>>4015263
Ty for both the compliment and sharing the story, anon. That's genuinely really cool, I'd love to make a flail

[Anonymous No.4015403]

Hands are bad isn't it ...?

[Anonymous No.4016068]

>>4011723
>>4011817

[Anonymous No.4016274]

NEW THREAD

>>4016273
>>4016273
>>4016273