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[Anonymous No.4697665]

Stupid Questions thread. Questions that don't deserve their own thread.

Idiots welcome.

[Anonymous No.4697699]

Should I study paintings or study from photos when it comes to trying to understand rendering/painting landscapes and backgrounds?

[Anonymous No.4697712]

>>4697699
Craig Mullins said in the Sijun Posts pdfs that photos are fine, but you MUST study from life. Colors and values are distorted in photos, and if you rarely paint from life, your paintings will look like photographs. I personally don't understand the physics behind how photographs distort color and value, but I know one factor that plays in is lens exposure. Cameras just can't see the range of light and dark that the eye can, so they blow out the lights or flatten the darks.

[Anonymous No.4697724]

>>4697665
There are no stupid questions

[Anonymous No.4697728]

>>4697724
edited: sqt-simple questions thread

[Anonymous No.4697729]

>>4697699
Photos are alright for landscapes at first while you're getting techniques down but you should really do plein air painting if you're really into landscape shit.

>>4697724
Yes there are. You're stupid if you think there aren't stupid questions.

[Anonymous No.4697731]

>>4697729
>[HEADCANON]
Sad and stupid

[Anonymous No.4697887]

>Draw head
>Think it looks ok
>Put up to light to see flipped
>Everything is slanting to the right, eyes are never lined up or the right one is bigger.
Dose anyone know how to rectify this? It bothers me i can't notice this shit unless flipped. I think i may actually be retarded. This is drawing with head guid-lines or just slapping some symbol-drawing semi-circle eyes on a something. Shit never lines up when flipped.

[Anonymous No.4697892]

>>4697731
What the fuck are you talking about?

This is the stupid questions thread. The stupid people thread is here: >>4692676

[Anonymous No.4697946]

what should I watch/learn after drawabox and dynamic sketching

[Anonymous No.4697954]

>>4697699
You should work from life at some point with landscapes, because the key to them is values, and with photos, you're depending on the photographer's decisions regarding value, which may or may not fit painting. Also, photos flatten depth, something you need to learn for landscape, along with lighting and atmosphere and everything else. You're also relying on the eye of the photographer for composition, and it's always better to have the freedom of choosing the vantage point and composition yourself.
Photos are fine during the learning process, but like figure drawing, at some point you need to confront the real deal.

[Anonymous No.4698000]

>>4697887
think in 3D forms, train your eyes and hand to draw perfect vertical lines, and practice a lot

[Anonymous No.4698041]

Am I supposed to rest my hand on the tablet screen while drawing or have it float? Or both? The screen is close to vertical.

[Anonymous No.4698746]

faggots

[Anonymous No.4698790]

>>4697946
you can try environment sketching

[Anonymous No.4698798]

>>4697946
Vilppu. Perfect transition into drawing humans.

[Anonymous No.4699243]

>>4697887
flip it while you draw it

[Anonymous No.4699414]

>>4697665
i want to draw bbw (like pic related, artist is toroboro), anybody know of reference packs with bbw?

[Anonymous No.4699422]

Photoshop does this weird thing with pressure sensibility, how do I fix this without a third party app? I don't want to pay
My tablet is a Cintiq

[Anonymous No.4699607]

I prefer /beg/ and amateur art as opposed to professional art, I like looking at it more. Am I stupid?

[Anonymous No.4699632]

>>4699607
How /beg/ do you mean?

[Anonymous No.4699691]

>>4699607
>he fell for the soul meme

[Anonymous No.4699757]

How do I put the eyedropper hotkey so that it's only there as I hold the button and goes back to being a brush when I let go?
(On photoshop and krita)

[Anonymous No.4699843]

Anyone have a download/torrent of photoshop? I had a bookmark on a MEGA that had numerous programs from /ic/ but I lost it.

[Anonymous No.4699876]

>>4697665
Is it better to print references on paper or just leave them as digital?

[Anonymous No.4699916]

>>4699422
Looks like a tampon

[Anonymous No.4699917]

>>4699876
I just use a second monitor. I used to split my screen. Just keep them digital

[Anonymous No.4699923]

>>4699757
I'm pretty sure that's how the "alt" key works. Your cursor only becomes the eyedropper when you hold it down.

[Anonymous No.4699926]

>>4699876
pure opinion and preference really, if i had to print the hundreds of images i have id go broke

just have backups like a pendrive with your refs and books in digital format

if you want physical ref or inspo just buy a physical book or print out a specific book you want thats what i did, printed 3-4 of my fav/most used books so i had physicals of them

[Anonymous No.4700082]

What sort of book/video courses deals with anatomical fat distribution?

[Anonymous No.4700108]

noob here. can someone explain what these mean? I mess around and barely see a difference

[Anonymous No.4700188]

>>4697665
I want to draw cute anime girls. How much time is required to achieve that from zero?

[Anonymous No.4700295]

What parts of a PC should I prioritize when building /buying my Rig?

I plan on, animating, 3D modelling, painting, and streaming on it.

[Anonymous No.4700449]

>>4699757
On krita the default key for that is Ctrl

[Anonymous No.4700496]

>>4698041
I rest the tip of my pinky on it while I'm drawing but not my whole hand.

[Anonymous No.4700500]

>>4699422
Ah the shoelace/condom ends to the lines.

What OS, cintiq version, and program/program version are you using? Can't really answer your question without actual info.

[Anonymous No.4700502]

>>4700295
Get something good enough for some serious 3d modeling and it'll be good enough for everything else you want to do. SSD, really good graphics card, and a CPU that can handle heavy load. It would be a good idea to ask /3/ or /g/ about how good your build needs to be for 3d and what parts to look out for.

[Anonymous No.4700538]

>>4699422
you could pirate lazy nezumi pro and pay it back when you make it

maybe

[Anonymous No.4700587]

This is most probably the wrong place to ask this but desu I don't know where: Is there a board/thread where I can find suggestions for commission artists?

[Anonymous No.4700728]

Which fields of art are "future proof" as a source of income and which aren't so useful? I'm going to be learning 3D and concept art skills through classes soon but I want to practice stuff on my own time as a backup. Preferably not porn/furry but if its worth it be honest.
>>4700295
Good GPU above all, ssd and good CPU also (at least don't let the CPU bottleneck the GPU) large amounts of RAM can also be useful depending on the programs you use, I've allocated 16gb for krita

[Anonymous No.4700908]

>>4700082
Morpho: Skin and Fat folds by lauricella

[Anonymous No.4700914]

>>4700188
They won't look cute until a year in of dedicated practice, anon

[Anonymous No.4701048]

>>4700538
I tried once, Windows told me it was a Trojan, the ReadMe file said I shouldn't worry about it
But a few hours later, my phone told me someone tried to open my Steam Account from a new device so
I thought maybe it was another thing, a few days later it happened again, I deleted the file and run a scan for malware, it stopped since, so I'm concerned about that.

>>4700500
Wacom DTH-1300 Cintiq 13HD, with the latest Driver from Wacom
Windows 10, latest update
Photoshop from Creative Cloud, latest update

[Anonymous No.4701064]

>>4700914
Thats not entirely true. A low beg can make cute art. It will just take them a dozen plus hours of refining the same piece.

[Anonymous No.4701072]

what are the first steps to getting a following? From then on how do you start with getting commisions?

What are the first essential sites to upload your art to get a following?

pic related is my work. Not much above /beg/tier but I've seen people get far starting with way less

[Anonymous No.4701079]

>>4701072
Gotta be Twitter. Just stay patient until you get lucky with Retweets.

[Anonymous No.4701122]

>>4700914
> year in of dedicated practice
How much dedicated? Hours per day?

[Anonymous No.4701139]

>>4700587
Self Promotion Thread if you haven't found it already

[Anonymous No.4701211]

>>4697665
What are the best time slots (EST) for streaming art via Twitch?

[Anonymous No.4701269]

>>4701211
Generally 3pm to 7pm

[Anonymous No.4701278]

>>4701211
6 EST is Midnight in most of EU, so you can easily catch a lot of EU viewers as well (most nerds and geeks will be up til like 3am anyway).

[Anonymous No.4701308]

Anyone has the last chart thread? The ones that give you books and a structure to follow

[Anonymous No.4701586]

How do I actually practice and study efficiently?

[Anonymous No.4701589]

>>4701586
Draw every day, post things online or to friends for critique, if at first you don’t succeed then try, try again, repeat things, study from life, photos and other artist

[Anonymous No.4701596]

>>4701586
Get a course (Like Vilppu's) and go through it.

[Anonymous No.4701630]

>>4701589
I understand life but when you say other artists do you mean like try and emulate their style or whatever?
>>4701596
is Vilppu's course /beg/ friendly?

[Anonymous No.4701636]

>>4701630
>Is Vilppu's course beg friendly?
Yes, if you take it seriously. Not practicing enough will make you feel like an idiot.

[Anonymous No.4701640]

>>4701630
Emulate other artists' techniques. A style I’d just a range of techniques used in particular ways and you won’t come up with one on your own, it will be a mix of other artists,

[Anonymous No.4701697]

>>4697887
Don't be afraid to rotate the page while you draw. I used to keep my paper at roughly 25 degrees rotated left to compensate for the exact same issue.

[Anonymous No.4701698]

>>4699414
Watch amateur BBW porn.

[Anonymous No.4701708]

>>4697665
How do CRT shaders work and hos can I get the same effect in a Krita document/my own images/GIFs?

[Anonymous No.4701980]

Is guache a good medium for portability and neatness? Is it a good way to get into trad painting?

I wanna paint outside from life more (I do digital still lifes occasionally like pic related) , but oils are a pain in the ass. Is gouache messier/more burdensome than watercolors?

[Anonymous No.4702767]

>>4701980
Gouache is actually really hard to use. If you want to learn how to paint, start with acrylics. You're going to have to deal with the color changing a little when it dries but it's a good intro to painting

[Anonymous No.4702825]

is there a way of coloring in non-opaque lineart that isn't a gigantic pain in the ass? I like the way this brush looks and its really easy to use, but I always end up with this horrendous artifacting wherever two colors meet that I have to zoom in and correct manually throughout the ENTIRE drawing. Duplicating the lineart layer until it's opaque just makes it look atrocious

[Anonymous No.4703101]

>>4702825
Make Lineart a separate layer, colour it, reduce layer opacity, in that order.

[Anonymous No.4703114]

>>4702825
I had this issue for a long time too.
I end up just drawing really large. Like print size, and 600dpi.
When it's that large, you can barely notice it and then you can reduce the size when you export.

Even what you posted is not noticeable as a thumbnail.
I clean up obviously bad spots but I try not to focus too hard on tiny imperfections.

[Anonymous No.4703139]

How do you (when working with more than one layer) put your entire Photoshop document into greyscale to check values better?

I know Feng and some other youtuber did it but I literally cannot find the vid. Would love to do it at the press of a button instead of flattening, Ctrl+alt+shift+B-ing and then undoing it all.

[Anonymous No.4703161]

>>4703139
Ctrl shift U

[Anonymous No.4703188]

>>4703161
That only works for the layer I have selected. I mean the whole thing.

[Anonymous No.4703207]

>>4697665
Who gets more money, yiff artist or hentai artist and what is the safe level of skill requires to sell "art"?

[Anonymous No.4703268]

>>4700587
If you're looking for fantasy commissions, there's the /tg/ Drawthread. They have a bunch of artists in their sticky.

[Anonymous No.4703361]

>>4703139
Image/Mode/Greyscale can have a key combo assigned to it - default it doesn't.

Or

Create a B&W layer, make it the top layer. Turn it on and off clicking on the icon

[Anonymous No.4703377]

>>4701072
Don't wait, there's almost no getting lucky. You've to try to work with others, get some artist friends obviously not only just to get popular, but to have fun. Try to think, how a viewer even finds someone who's not to popular in the first place.

[Anonymous No.4703387]

How do I add color to a grayscale painting? I see lots of speedpaints start in grey and then put in color

[Anonymous No.4703438]

>>4703387
you don't. learn values (value groups, lighting situations and so on), learn how color relates to value and combine the two. it helps to set up your color space off to the side to keep things consistent.

[Anonymous No.4704144]

>>4703387
You paint on a layer over the greyscale layer, with transparency/layer modes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJitss58XKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZc-uYXv3Y

[Anonymous No.4704278]

>>4697665
how do you think of poses and angles to draw?

[Anonymous No.4704349]

>>4697665
Do I really need to draw with the shoulder on digital? I'm using a small intuos and drawing with my arm makes my art process so slow and tedious, I end up not drawing anything in the end.

[Anonymous No.4704354]

>>4704278
One of the reason why we start with a gesture first. It's super easy to draw and redraw to find better poses if you're just laying in a stick figure.

>>4704349
No, but I do recommend upgrading to at least the medium intuos tablet. Go with Huion or XP Pen if you can't afford the medium intuos, but don't draw on a tablet too small.

[Anonymous No.4704402]

Is it possible to learn figure drawing without ever learning gesture drawing?

[Anonymous No.4704428]

why do i need to learn gesture if the majority of poses in fanarts are pretty static and with not a lot of movement?

[Anonymous No.4704454]

>>4699923
>>4700449
thank you very much! that's exactly what I wanted

[Anonymous No.4704511]

>>4703139
Better than >>4703361, just create a Multiply layer on top of your stack and fill with black.

[Anonymous No.4704524]

What should I draw on the first page?

[Anonymous No.4704546]

I spent 60$ for some fine liners months ago. I have only ever used pencil so I was kinda excited; I just noticed that you can’t vary line weight with them, and it’s too late to refund them. I still plan to use them, but for the future, what kind of pen should I buy to have lines that can have some variance? Do I need to get ones of those meme manga ink pens and variable nibs or something else? If manga pens what nibs and ink would be good for a /beg/?

[Anonymous No.4704725]

>>4704546
nibs are the only good and cheap way to go about it. Zebra g pen is probably the best you can get, you can get 1-3 nibs for cheap on ebay from japan and they will last for quite a mileage. Any india ink that isn't too cheap is going to work fine.

[Anonymous No.4705074]

>>4704511
Hmm I did that and I'm turning it on and off and it's not doing anything. Just showing the full black layer and then off again.

[Anonymous No.4705093]

>>4704428
The more you understand and learn how to exaggerate, the less static your 'static' poses will be. The tiny nuances of poses (the natural tilt relationship between the shoulder line and hip line, natural arm resting states etc) and what makes a good one will build up and you will have appealing poses.

[Anonymous No.4705386]

Can you seperate different parts of line art into layer sin an imported image?

[Anonymous No.4705390]

>>4705093
thank you

[Anonymous No.4705392]

>>4704725
How do you know when to change out a nib?

[Anonymous No.4705416]

Convert to Alpha or make a new layer, then change the first layer's setting to multiply?
The first one is kind of distracting since covers the art in all those squares to indicate transparency, but the second one is also annoying because after saving it, and coming back to work on it, the colours won;t match if I go over them even if I ctrl and left click on a colour and copy it.

[Anonymous No.4705516]

Can I make anime art styles compatible with the influences of european artists like Druillet, Moebius, Pratt, etc. while still making it look like anime?

[Anonymous No.4705520]

>>4705516
No you can’t, but maybe somebody else can

[Anonymous No.4705543]

>>4697665
>Shill own work on Reddit and Discord.
>No one clicks the tweet link so the decent reception there can carry over to Twitter.

[Anonymous No.4705569]

Help a fellow thirdworlder guys...
Low system requirements painting software?
I cant use krita or photoshop neither, i'm currently using paint tool sai but its limited af. I have a 4gb ram with intel i3 btw

[Anonymous No.4705608]

>>4697665
Are loomis and perspective made easy good books to start for a complete /beg/?
Once Im done with them Im thinkin on tackling bridgman.
My objective is to make some thicc drawings to bring some food to the table.
also, is copying my favorite artists an effective way to study?.
And finally, should I continue to draw with paper and pencil or should I concentrate more on making digital sketches, wich way is more effective on making some gains?

[Anonymous No.4705681]

is it wrong to steal color palettes via eyedropper tool? or does everyone do it

[Anonymous No.4705690]

Are things like pic related just related to having mental illness and low IQ?

[Anonymous No.4705749]

goddd how do you settle on a style, /ic/? i can do basically anything and i like everything. i'm doing a piece rn and can't decide if i want it to be lined or to render it softly a la pic related. i think both would look great, but how do i decide?

[Anonymous No.4705770]

>>4705690
It's linked to
>didn't bother to learn shit
and
>muh style

[Anonymous No.4705815]

>>4705749
You grow into it. There’s also nothing wrong with mixing it up. You’ll get to a point where your style just naturally comes out. Think of yourself as being in art puberty right now.

[Anonymous No.4705827]

Why do some anons ridicule artists who post here? I mean crabs should maybe take a hint from those putting in the time and effort to progress

[Anonymous No.4705852]

>>4705827
>Why do some anons ridicule artists who post here?
A lot of people here are just looking for artists to tear down just for the sake of tearing them down. I don't think it has much to do with jealousy, it's just people who have, for one reason or another, antipathy towards other humans. Likely due to emotional problems.

Mature adults are maybe 20% of the users on this board. Art in general attracts young people, so you have lots of young people making very harsh and unkind comments because they haven't had the life experience yet to really understand how unkind it is to make those remarks. These are remarks they'll likely look back on and wince in a few years.

And even the adults here who are artists who do work, many of them are freelance and have never really had to work in a professional setting so you see skilled and talented artists act moody, unprofessional and with no collegiality.

Lastly, we have many posters from developing countries where people can be very unkind, and these people take the attitude they learn with them when they come on the internet.

That is not to say all freelance artists, all young people, all third worlders are going to make spiteful comments. But certainly the bulk of these remarks are made by the aforementioned groups.

Oh, and it's the default behavior for women, too.

[Anonymous No.4705865]

>>4705852
Stellar answer, I thank you for your response anon you have my blessings.

If you could entertain another question? Are there any other boards to your knowledge that is similar to /ic/ in context because I have found myself with alot more time on my hands and have been practicing my digital painting and would like to see more techniques on brushwork and painting techniques.

If you're on instagram please dm me @I_art_Marlon

One love anon, stay blessed

[Anonymous No.4705887]

I have an unopened pack of 110lb card stock. Is this good for ink? Will any ink bleed through? Specifically Pilot G-2 or BiC ink.

[Anonymous No.4705896]

>>4705865
Most boards on 4chan are more or less like this. You would need a time machine and to go back 7 ish years to experience 4chan before tons of bitter normies with chips on their shoulder swarmed the entire website. /ic/ has good information here. If you are wanting specifics and you are not getting answers to your question when you ask in threads, you should go to the /ic/ archive on wasoru or other archive website and use search terms to see people from past threads on /ic/ discuss what it is you're wanting to know

I don't use social media and even if I did I'm a beginner and I only draw, I can't help you with painting or pretty much any topic at my skill level.

[Anonymous No.4705906]

>>4705896
You're amazing tho and that makes you better than most

Thank you again for your advice anon

[Anonymous No.4705907]

How do I use the box/oval method properly? Most of my torsos/arms look like shit .

Someone told me I shouldnt use the shapes if I dont understand them, so I’m willing to understand them

[Anonymous No.4705978]

>>4705907
Boxes indicate the mass along bones.

Ovals indicate joints and round masses.

See it as simplifying the drawings structure.

[Anonymous No.4706025]

>>4705978
Hmmmm.

How do I know I’m doing it right?

[Anonymous No.4706092]

>>4697665
Can somebody please explain to me how to draw the vertical part of the cross in the Loomis method?

[Anonymous No.4706107]

>>4703139
if you're unsatisfied with >>4703361, try this single shortcut
https://youtu.be/-K6H2OdBVlE?t=246

[Anonymous No.4706252]

>>4697712
>the physics behind how photographs distort color and value

Depending on how the photographer sets up his camera, the darks and lights in an image can be obscured if the value is incorrect. Ex. if a camera auto records black and white objects as fifth value but if it's incorrect, the image's highlights and shadows will be messed up. People who copy from amateur photos usually have purely greyish shadows and white highlights.

Photographers who rely on the accuracy of colors would place their objects in correct values corresponding to shutter speed and f-stop.

[Anonymous No.4706253]

>>4697946
Anatomy, so you can draw anatomy in perspective.

[Anonymous No.4706277]

>>4700295
I'm building a PC purely for 3d modeling (zbrush, Autodesk stuff). I prioritize the mobo, CPU, and memory. Not sure if GPU is important in your build, I think you need to research if the programs you're using is CPU or GPU intensive.

[Anonymous No.4706289]

How do you pronounce Vilppu?

[Anonymous No.4706310]

>>4697665
Are there any disadvantages to using a Huion 1060 over everyone's favorite tablet, Wacom?

[Anonymous No.4706315]

>>4697665
How do i sharpen by hand? like instead of using the sharpen filter how can i arrive at the same effect through colors? What makes something look "in focus"? I looked closely and theres almost outlines around certain points, but i don't understand it at all. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.4706404]

>>4706310
Literally none, just download the drivers from the Huion page and you will be fine.

[Anonymous No.4706415]

>>4706289
First seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbN8wbRz9i8

[Anonymous No.4706463]

>>4706315
With contrast. All sharpening does is adjust the contrast in colors, using algorithms. The other way is harder edges. If you put a light value color next to another lighter value, the lack of contrast will soften the transition in the eye - the way to sharpen that is to either make the edge hard, or widen the contrast.

[Anonymous No.4706497]

>>4706107
Good tip - but i wouldn't use 20% dot gain, as that would change your values on screen. He says he doesn't know what that list is, but I do, which is why I would use the generic grey profile at the very bottom, without getting into what dot gain is and pre-press specifics.
Not sure why he's working in CMYK either, but that's another rabbit hole I don't want to get into, without knowing anything about him.

Still, gonna try this when I have a chance. It's about as much effort as keybinding what i posted, no biggie.

[Anonymous No.4706629]

>>4706310
Huion screen displays can have a lot of problems, but with regular drawing tablets, they're fine. They don't fuck up too much.

[Anonymous No.4706701]

>>4706463
thanks anon

[Anonymous No.4706856]

>>4706497
i think the main advantage said in the video is you can have both color and black/white versions on separate instances- so you wont need to toggle it constantly once you create a separate B/W instance

[Anonymous No.4707087]

>>4697665 Whats the best place to post if you want to take furry/fetish art commissions? That's where the money is...Right?...

[Anonymous No.4707126]

>>4706856
I didn't say it was a bad tip - I want to play with it, to see how subtle 20% dot gain is, and if it's noticible, recommend the right profile.

[Anonymous No.4707575]

How to draw appealing faces? Mine are aids to look at, and they’re an important part of making shit look good.

[Anonymous No.4707644]

>>4697665
Are the Google trend graphs accurate?
I wasn't expecting Rem to top every character not named Saber and Rei but here we are.

[Anonymous No.4707657]

>>4707575
jesus fuck i never thought the jewish meme man was based on a real person

[Anonymous No.4707660]

>>4707087
If you're doing it just for money then you're going to end up wanting to kys. Try fur affinity I guess.

[Anonymous No.4707864]

I use an old version of Krita (been using for years) and some of the dockers just vanished. And usually I just go to settings and docker selection, but the problem is, for some reason I can't select the dockers I need from the menu anymore as they're greyed out. Some dockers can be selected normally but some not, for some reason.

I've never really encountered something like this and I've fiddled with all the possible settings without any result. Please send help.

[Anonymous No.4707882]

>>4707864
just upgrade to 3.0 bra

[Anonymous No.4707892]

>>4707882
But it sucks ass.

[Anonymous No.4707906]

>>4707892
well, your choice. in that case:
1. export your hotkey setup
2. copy your custom brushes, patterns, etc.
3. reinstall whatever version of krita you're using

[Anonymous No.4707913]

how do i stop myself from reflexively going over every line i draw multiple times? im pretty sure its just a bad habit i got into while practicing as a kid but now its so ingrained i can't help doing it

[Anonymous No.4707923]

>>4705569
I have the same specs, just use paint tool sai. Works really well, but my laptop is pretty old and the monitor is really shit so double check in another monitor when coloring.

[Anonymous No.4708318]

>>4697665
How do I export gifs in Photoshop unoptimized? Every attempt I do keeps giving me artifacts.

[Anonymous No.4710276]

As a black person, is it physically possible for my work to lack soul?

[Anonymous No.4710623]

>>4710276
yes. a good chunk of black anime and comic art is technical and deliberate in a way that doesn't feel organic imo. I think it falls into a similar trap to what makes many superhero comics feel soulless - it has a kind of self-importance, like it's trying to prove something, rather than being a joyful exploration of the visual possibilities of a setting, a story, its characters. Especially with black weeb art, it's like artists are ashamed of just drawing cute shit and they try to make it "cool" instead.

[Anonymous No.4710633]

>>4707913
That's just restating lines. That's fine man just clean up any messy shit. If you really want to do less lines, grab a pen and practice drawing lines at your comfortable angle. Do shit in as few lines as possible. If you put one down, force yourself not to go over it again. Make every mark very intentional. It's not rocket science.

[Anonymous No.4710634]

>>4710276
Just have good tastes. You're human, you have a soul.

[Anonymous No.4710639]

>>4707913
you can change your approach by changing mediums for a bit. ink is less forgiving than pencil, so it forces you to think and draw differently, and when you return to pencil after that your sketches will look cleaner and more deliberate.

[Anonymous No.4710641]

>>4706310
My first one was a total dud. Just make sure you buy through Amazon so you have the return policy. Huion support is retarded and will argue with you until your refund/return warranty runs out.

[Anonymous No.4710987]

How do you come up with poses, backgrounds and composition?

I seem to be stuck on drawing the three same poses and have them floating in the middle of the void of nothing.

[Anonymous No.4711186]

Is it a dick move to delete my DA account if I have a few thousand followers who seem to enjoy the awful fetish pron drawings I've suddenly become acutely ashamed of?

Don't know where else to ask

[Anonymous No.4711237]

>>4711186
Give them some warning so they can save shit they like. Maybe even a reason, so they don’t give you shit. If they’re fan, there’s no reason to burn that bridge. I wish I had fans. Do not tell them how to find you once the account is gone, though.

[Anonymous No.4711345]

For you people who draw porn, can you masturbate to your own art?

[Anonymous No.4711368]

>>4697665
I think most of you have experienced this. You publish a piece you're reasonably happy with and immediately the very nano second it is uploaded for everyone to see mistakes jump out that weren't there before. The thing is, I am already a very analytical and self-critical person. I understand the importance of going away from a piece to come back with a fresh pair of eyes. I've learned to never post at the end of a caffeine driven all nighter and always get some sleep first if possible. Even so, there is always something without fail that will stick out like a sore thumb immediately after posting to social media that I didn't notice before. Nothing extremely major - almost always it's little fixes that can be done in minutes. But still. How do I invoke this psychological mechanism without posting to social media first?

[Anonymous No.4711423]

>>4697665
Why is this image so cute?

[Anonymous No.4711428]

>>4711345

I only did it once, when I was super duper horny. Otherwise I found that drawing porn actually lowered my desire, probably because of the constant low-level arousal drawing pictures that takes multiple hours to complete.

[Anonymous No.4711944]

I have a very stupid question that's not very art related but I don't know where else to ask and google isn't turning up anything.

If someone got harsh burns on their torso, would their nipple be burned off? This character I'm drawing has burn scars and I'n not sure if I should include the nipple.

[Anonymous No.4711948]

>>4711944
Yes.

[Anonymous No.4711951]

>>4711948
I thought so, thanks

[Anonymous No.4711963]

who is nosebro and why do people dislike him

[Anonymous No.4712021]

>>4701122
2

[Anonymous No.4712049]

>>4701308
seconding this, i need more images like this

[Anonymous No.4712139]

what brush set in CSP will get me these paint textures?

[Anonymous No.4712141]

What is this kind of style called? Is it just digital painting?

[Anonymous No.4712165]

What are the rules on putting an IP’s logo on fanart? Will I get a c&d if I try and sell prints?

[Anonymous No.4712198]

>>4712165
That's a bad idea, you shouldn't do it.

[Anonymous No.4712216]

>>4712139
Gouache

>>4712141
Yeah that's just messy digital painting

>>4712165
Definitely not. The fanart print alone is enough to get a cease and desist, but using their logo would for sure get you fucked.

[Nosebro No.4712222]

>>4711963
me and because I namefag and they're jealous

[Anonymous No.4712228]

>>4712216
cheers

[Anonymous No.4712240]

Why does an image on twitter have different colors than when it's downloaded? Right is the image open in twitter, left is the image print screened and pasted in paint, middle is the image as it appears when saved normally.

[Anonymous No.4712251]

>>4712240
Ok seems like browsers force a certain color profile when showing images. Isn't that really bad for sharing art on the internet? How do artists deal with this?

[Anonymous No.4712333]

how do I render like this?

[Anonymous No.4712450]

>>4712333
how close is this?

[Anonymous No.4712513]

>>4697665
Do artists deliberately pretend to be retarded in order to gatekeep, or is it genuinely difficult to communicate process at length? Seems like, in speedpaints for example, artists ignore recording the sketch lineart segment and just color the entire video. even gumroad videos are often times a couple paragraphs of speech while some chode clicks through psd layers. why are they like this.

>t. /beg

[Anonymous No.4712519]

>>4712513
I think it's because craftsmanship is procedural knowledge and only a small portion of it is actually verbalized. artists have a lot of illusions about their own process.

[Anonymous No.4712537]

>>4712513
no clue how it goes for other artists, but i usually have only vague idea about what i am going to draw and do couple dozens of sketches before committing, it would make no sense to record that process

[Anonymous No.4712542]

>>4712450
whoa, firefox fucked up the colors big time. Everything is much more saturated than it looks on my image viewer or in Krita. I changed the color_management mode in about:config. Let me see now.

[Anonymous No.4712553]

>>4712542
are you sure it's not krita fucking up colors?

[Anonymous No.4712560]

>>4712553
100%. The colors in Krita are the same as in other softwares. My Firefox has now the same colors as well, after I fixed by turning off the color management option.

It fucked up my image because I opened it in firefox, copied the image and pasted into 4chan because I'm too lazy to browse the images normally. So it applied its shitty color management into my image, and I ended up copying it. I wonder how many people here have the problem but don't know.

[Anonymous No.4712596]

>>4697665
Are internet art friends a good idea?

[Anonymous No.4712675]

what's the best free drawing app

[Anonymous No.4712685]

>>4712560
If you're working in 16-bit then I think you have to flatten it and convert it to 8-bit to properly export it to web, but I'm not too sure, I don't know too much about color management and I just stick with 8-bit because how it handles grayscale is more intuitive to me

[Anonymous No.4712693]

>>4712596
Almost never but sometimes yes

[Anonymous No.4713161]

>>4697665
So what general drawing tool would you guys recommend for windows? I'm pretty sold on Krita so far, but I'm open to suggestions, even open to pay if there is good reason for it. Adobe is out of the question though, I hate that fucking brand with a passion.
Also the brand is not allowed to be on this list (like Adobe): https://www.oneangrygamer.net/traitors-of-america/

[Anonymous No.4713172]

>>4713161
I'm not looking through your stupid list. You can do it yourself.

Clip studio paint, Corel Painter, Autodesk sketchbook pro, medibang paint.

[Anonymous No.4713251]

>>4713172
ok thanks, but why using any of these over Krita? I liked Corel Painter in the past for it's realistic sludge color mixing style, but I think most tools can do something like this now (depending on the pencil?).

[Anonymous No.4713340]

>>4697665
am I ngmi if I don't want to draw something that looks like a pain in the ass to draw or is too complicated?

[Anonymous No.4713383]

>>4712596
some people from here follow me and I follow them back on insta and twitter and it's comfy, we message sometimes and comment on each others stuff. anything more and I'd probably get anxiety lol.

[Anonymous No.4713401]

>>4712216
>>4712198
I'm pretty sure Dave Rapoza didn't get permission to use MGS for this piece. he tweeted it at him but he didn't respond. My painting has a big space where the IP's logo would fit perfect... I think I'll just put it in and not sell prints.

[Anonymous No.4713554]

hello
when teachers say "the warmer the light source the cooler the shadow will be"
do they mean that literally the shadows will have a cooler hue shift than in a more neutral light source or do they mean that figuratively as in the contrast between the warm tone make the shadows look cooler
I understand why the shadow would look cooler in the second case but if the first case is the right one then why is that?

[Anonymous No.4713688]

>>4713554
It’s relative. It also has to do with the energy of light in the visible spectrum and the way light is absorbed and reflected.

[Anonymous No.4713844]

>>4713554
It's a rule of thumb. The sky is blue, so it fills the shadow with blue.

I can imagine that in an indoor setting, that rules is up for debate.

[Anonymous No.4713849]

>>4713340
nope, learning is best done halfway out of your comfort zone.

[Anonymous No.4714263]

>>4697665
qhats the source of this?

[Anonymous No.4714294]

is there a way to quickly swap the transparency checkerboard colors in krita? like swap b/w a light and dark setup. its difficult editing a light svg with the defaults and its cumbersome opening configuration and selecting colors.

[Anonymous No.4714657]

I'm a beginner but what should I do to be able to reach a level soon enough (it's not lazyness) where I can draw like Yuasa, that means, expression and color mattering the most
Currently doing Keys to Drawing

[Anonymous No.4714933]

What's a good site for references of men? I tried /hm/ a couple of times but the content is too hardcore and sfw/tasteful nudity aren't really the point of the board.

[Anonymous No.4714947]

Is there a way to prevent brush strokes darkening the previous strokes? Im confused on how alot of digital painters have clean af brush work with basic round opacity with normal blending mode. The only way I can circumvent this is by using the paint and blend brushes in krita but it's not the basic round opacity that everyone touts to be the only you need. Would it be ok to only use the paint and blend brushes in krita not the basic round? The paint and blend is infinitely more intuitive then basic round opacity for me. Sorry for the brainlet tier question.

[Anonymous No.4714962]

>>4714947
Try the Greater blending mode on the brush preset or stop being so focused on using a specific brush. Opaque brushes lke the Ink presets don't have such a quality either.

[Anonymous No.4714966]

>>4714947
In PS there are two settings that control how transparent your brush is, Opacity and Flow (in CSP its called Brush Density)

The same stroke doubling back on it self with less than !00% FLOW , will overlap like in #1.
If theres less than 100% in OPACITY the stroke doesnt overlap, like in #2, unless you lift up the pen and make a new stroke

I dont know what the terminology for these are in Krita but the principle is the same across most programs.

[Anonymous No.4714993]

>>4714933
have you tried the croquis cafe archives? Proko's photo packs of "Yoni" and "Anthony" are also pretty good. You could also just search up bodybuilders.

>>4714657
Do lots of figure drawing. Pick either Vilppu's or Hampton's teachings and draw with their process. Having the fundamentals and knowing the figure allows you to jump around from style to style like you're switching from a Toyota to a Honda.

[Anonymous No.4715018]

My stupid piece of shit Intuos 5 touch finally committed suicide. What should I pick up? I'm looking for something cheap to replace it. I'm looking at:
UGEE M708
XP-Pen Deco 01 V2
XP-PEN Star03 V2

Are these good brands? Any recommendations? I'd rather not drop more than $80, and I'd much rather never buy shit from Wacom again.

[Anonymous No.4715059]

>>4715018
Xp-Pen for sure. Ugee doesn't really exist anymore, they merged with xp.

[Anonymous No.4715134]

>>4714947
So basically, if you make a stroke that is at 25% opacity if black and you layer another stroke at 25% opacity, the layered part will add up to 50% opacity of black. So when you do a simple value study. Use a separate color at 50% opacity of black when you want a gray value, not black at 50% opacity since when you layer two or more 50% opacity strokes it will just add back up to 100% opacity which causes that dirty layered look.

In short, do not rely on opacity if you want different values, just pick out a separate value.

[Anonymous No.4715613]

I saw plenty of places recommending white vinegar to clean up dried paintbrushes, didn't really work on the worst of them, but anyway I may have overdone and left them too long, so I washed a bit with water but the smell is still there.
How do you get rid of white vinegar smell without damaging the brushes

[Anonymous No.4716592]

/beg/ who's been drawing for a year and a half here digitally. I did a little trad many years ago
So I feel like my construction and line accuracy is terrible. Should I try that challenge of only using a pen traditionally to maybe learn something? When drawing at my my pc I always rely on making sloppy construction lines on a layer below the real sketch I'm going to make

[Anonymous No.4716600]

I keep getting banned for making threads about this so I'll ask here:

How can I get an art gf?

[Anonymous No.4716682]

>>4716600
Lads please help...photoshop or Krita?

[Anonymous No.4716698]

>>4716600

be not disgusting
meet people at art related events
be not disgusting
talk to them - without being disgusting

Having a gf who does art is usually not all its cut out to be, just so you know. It's just as likely you won't have a study buddy and she will just get upset at critique. Not everyone has the "I want to get really good at this" mentality.

[Anonymous No.4716700]

>>4715613
Rinse them. The smell will go away with time.

[Anonymous No.4716702]

>>4716592
Yeah. You can use pen or brush pen or markers, anything you find interesting and that is permanent.

[Anonymous No.4716707]

>>4716702
Fug it I ordered 2 hard cover sketchbooks and pens
I'll try to fill both books with practice even if it's all terrible

[Gaiash !f99xKv3qN6 No.4716708]

>>4705690
Things that have held back my progress are more specific to me. Looking back at that image for example you'll note that I spent one year experimenting with Photoshop and then had several "didn't draw as much as I wanted" years in a row.

While I can't say my autism hasn't had an impact on my ability to improve (it's certainly why just reading art guides doesn't help much) there are more obstacles that are unrelated to it. I have a lot of interests and fall behind on most of them with art just being one example of it. My recent art projects have helped me make some progress but it's still very slow and often only details that stand out to me rather than areas other people are going to care about.

[Anonymous No.4716733]

>>4716708
Wait that image is yours?

[Gaiash !f99xKv3qN6 No.4716744]

>>4716733
Yep. Back in 2018 someone told me about a thread using this image, I showed up and was provided with a link that would update whenever said picture gets posted here. I occasionally check to see if people are asking questions I can answer.

[Anonymous No.4716745]

>>4716708
So you're like 31 now right? Post some recent stuff!

[Gaiash !f99xKv3qN6 No.4716755]

>>4716745

[Anonymous No.4716760]

>>4716755

[Anonymous No.4716761]

What are the best exercises for getting better at drawing shapes in perspective? I can think alright in 3D, but my shapes are often extremely sloppy and lopsided looking. I also have to constantly adjust and fix them until they look right.

[Anonymous No.4716858]

>>4716761
>shapes in perspective
That's plain drawing anon. You're basically asking how to get better at drawing.

[Anonymous No.4716871]

>>4716600
>tfw no mommy Sheppard gf
>tfw she will never give me cock and ball torture handjobs slathered in the nectar of the gods, Liquin

[Anonymous No.4717329]

>>4714993
>Do lots of figure drawing. Pick either Vilppu's or Hampton's teachings and draw with their process. Having the fundamentals and knowing the figure allows you to jump around from style to style like you're switching from a Toyota to a Honda.
Which one would you say it's better for starting that, also do I need previous literature for that, I'm currently doing keys and then maybe back to loomis since that one was hard

[Anonymous No.4717334]

Is it weird that I don't feel "ready" to draw something?
Is it weird if I can draw on paper but have to make more messy marks in digital? It feels so weird. I can't move my pen slowly or the lines will get wobbly, and I have to zoom in to draw everything.

[Anonymous No.4717413]

>>4716682
use both and you'll figure out.

[Anonymous No.4717524]

>been drawing/painting for 6 years
>still sort way above /beg/ but not quit pro
i want to take a break for a year to focus on some other shit. how bad of an idea is this?

[Anonymous No.4717537]

>>4716871

[Anonymous No.4717538]

>>4717524
its so easy to classify people like you

[Anonymous No.4717550]

>>4697665
When should I start to look into perspective when drawing heads and figures? I have sort of mastered the default Loomis head. Should I dive into Marshall Vandruff's perspective series right now?

[Anonymous No.4717564]

>>4717550
>Marshall Vandruff's perspective series
Probably the best video perspective series. If you prefer a book I can recommend Framed Perspective.

[Anonymous No.4717571]

>>4717564
So the sooner I start the better? And thanks for the recommendation I'll add that to my list.

[Anonymous No.4717578]

>>4717571
>So the sooner I start the better?
I guess so, a good understanding of perspective and how to apply it helps you alot with pretty much everything

[Anonymous No.4717590]

>>4717538
ngmi? yeah no shit. im not trying to 'make it', im a hobbyist. im asking is taking a while off going to fuck with my gains really bad

[Anonymous No.4717594]

>>4717578
what do you think youre going to accomplish knowing perspective. i have a fried who's an architect and he laughs ever time some ambitious weeb with a porn fixation brags about his supposed knowledge of perspective. do you even know what you’re on about??

[Anonymous No.4717598]

>>4717578
Thank you anon

[Anonymous No.4717604]

>>4717594
my brain hurts

[Anonymous No.4717610]

>>4717594
Architects have low IQ, hope it helps.

[Anonymous No.4718037]

>>4717329
Well, Hampton learned from Vilppu. They both teach the same process. I personally like Vilppu better but Hampton simplifies a lot of the thinking process at first. Whatever you do, don't rush through those books, thinking they'll speed your progress up. If anything, they just outline a process that will set you in the right direction. Cycle through the chapters quickly and over and over again. No you don't need previous literature for it. You can stay with Keys while doing Hampton or Vilppu, but Loomis really is fucking hard.

[Anonymous No.4718154]

Csp user here. Just began messing around with the tool available to me acter having it for months. I kust found out about the symmetry ruler, and god does it make drawing front and back facing views easier. I've also noticed a lot of artist use it subtly in their art, and was wonder what other tools i could use to make the srawing process easier. I have a wrist issue, so any tips to make the process easier is much appreciated.

[Anonymous No.4718546]

Is learning digital harder than traditional?

[Anonymous No.4718549]

>>4717329

I'm reading through Hampton's book right now and I'd say it's quite accessible to a beginner. It's not overly technical and generally just outlines important principles about gesture and structure.

[Anonymous No.4718552]

>>4718546
yes and no

[Anonymous No.4718602]

>>4697665
Whats the method for turning a pencil/paper drawing into a digital one? Does it require a scanner or something to digitize it?

[Anonymous No.4718618]

>>4717590
don't expect to pick up right where you left off, but you can still pick up art after a break. a lot of artists take breaks.

[Anonymous No.4720252]

In CSP, can you turn a perspective ruler into a normal image layer? I'd like to draw in another program.

[Anonymous No.4720255]

>>4697724
i would consider anything that can be solved within 30 seconds with a simple google search would qualify as a stupid question because you were too stupid to just google it and bothered another human being for no real reason

[Anonymous No.4720256]

How is Loomis' Eye of the Painter?

[Anonymous No.4720292]

I'm beg, and all I can do is grinding the fundamentals and drawing using references. For now I'm not bothered since I'm following a couple of video courses, so I guess is ok to avoid drawing from imagination from now. Even if i tried, nothing would come out of it. But makes me wonder when the right time to practice it will be.

[Anonymous No.4720389]

>feel like a drawing is turning out bad and uninteresting visually
>but also don’t want to redo it because the original still has good aspects I don’t want to lose and at least looks decent on a technical level
Should I just redo it or does this sound like something that can be salvaged?

[Anonymous No.4720417]

>>4714263
It's from Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice by Sayaka Mogi

https://kodanshacomics.com/series/red-riding-hoods-wolf-apprentice/

[Anonymous No.4720438]

Is Cintiq Creative 16 good
what are its biggest flaws

[Anonymous No.4720558]

Is there a guide or flow map to the only drawing with permanent pen challenge, or just draw whatever i feel like i should?

[Anonymous No.4720811]

>create twitter account for my shit art
>relog
>twitter immediately locks me out of my account and demands a phone number
I mean, on the one hand, the world doesn't have to see my awful practice work. On the other hand, what the fuck.

[Anonymous No.4721315]

why do people say to not color pick your own work during rendering?

[Anonymous No.4721329]

>>4721315
Who says that?

[Anonymous No.4721383]

>>4721315
I don't think I've seen it, but it's just a shortcut just like lots of things, the worst that could happen if you "abuse" it is taking more time finding the pixel that looks the closest to the color you want.

[Anonymous No.4721388]

>>4721315
>one guy

[Anonymous No.4721633]

Do I need a drawing table to work with a drawing tablet?
I swear putting it down on my table and trying to draw with it is the most awkward fucking experience with drawing I've ever had.

[Anonymous No.4721649]

>>4721633
No, computer desk works. search for posture drawing tablet

[Anonymous No.4721676]

>>4721649
thanks anon

[Anonymous No.4721688]

Fug lads any tips on drawing sex that looks like it has movement to it? I just don't get it, the speed lines I try look awkward

[Anonymous No.4721742]

As a complete and total /beg/, about how long would it take to be able to draw cartoons on the level of pic related? Or the kinds of stuff this artist https://twitter.com/chan_co/media draws?

Would it be unreasonable to hope I could reach this level in a year assuming like 2-3 hours of study a day?

[Anonymous No.4721746]

>>4721742
6 months with references for anatomy at hand.

[Anonymous No.4721764]

>>4721329
I've heard many teachers say that as I went through color and light courses
iirc it was about getting muddy colors and not enough variation in the color since if you color pick too much already existant color you don't bring new interesting ones

[Anonymous No.4721769]

>>4721742
and add another 6 months to learn the appeal consistently and also 6 other months for the color theory to settle in

[Anonymous No.4721805]

>>4721746
>>4721769
Okay, time to buckle up for the long ride I guess

[Anonymous No.4721828]

I'm pretty new to drawing and I'm mostly interested in manga / anime / comic style. So far I made pretty good progress with following mikeymegamega videos on form, like this for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q040kkRK1WA.. But I was wondering if there is a good course on this type of thing, that basically starts from zero and teaches everything about the human anatomy and how to draw it. His videos are very nice to follow along, but they don't seem very gradually organized and I always feel like I'm missing important preknowledge.

[Anonymous No.4721833]

>>4721769
This guy sounds like such a beginner. Do not listen to him

[Anonymous No.4721835]

>>4721828
Also new, but iirc Glenn Vilppu's courses are really good for learning the human body. I just started it. I was also using mega mikey for learning how to draw faces and stuff.

[Anonymous No.4721838]

Anyone have that progression picture from that japanese artist on twitter. The first image was a touhou character with blue hair I think on paper, and the 2nd image was a digital image of I think another touhou character.

[Anonymous No.4721845]

>>4721835
thanks but 900$ for an online course seems outrageous. The pictures on the page don't even look that appealing. I was hoping more for something reasonably priced or even free on youtube or whatnot. It's not as if it would be a huge secret on how to draw the human form.

[Anonymous No.4721856]

>>4721845
Lurk a bit more new friend. Go find the video thread, that course is a very commonly recommended one around here for good reason.

[Anonymous No.4721858]

>>4721833
t. dunning kruger who doesn't know what he is getting into

[Anonymous No.4721866]

>>4721858
thanks a lot, wasn't aware of this thread. I was always looking for "tutorial" or "courses" or something like that. This will certainly help. I'm pretty motivated to really deeply learn about anatomy and every muscle in the body. Not sure if it's really needed to draw manga, but it's also a bit of general knowledge that can't hurt.

[Anonymous No.4721873]

>>4720417
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.4721918]

>>4721866
Yeah, those quick youtube guides I feel like are nice to get a head start so you can actually draw something that is recognizable so you're not just drawing shitty abominations, but shit like Vilppu who has dozens of hours of indepth information is what really levels you up. Also keeps you pretty occupied. And from the metric fuck ton of reading about drawing i've done instead of actually drawing has told me that in order to draw actual good anime or other very stylized styles like it, you need to be able to construct the real thing if you want to get past beg level.

[Anonymous No.4721943]

>>4713401
>>4712216
>>4712198
>>4712165
Looked up on copyright law, and apparently it’s illegal to even create fanart. How are all those artists in artist alley getting away with it? Parody law?

[Anonymous No.4722002]

Is coomer art really that easy to work in? Like, make a comfortable living in?

[Anonymous No.4722005]

>>4721943
it's bad PR to go after fanart
Nintendo and Blizzard are known to do it regardless

[Anonymous No.4722021]

>>4722002
No, but you can easily make a supplemental income to your main source of income with it.

[Anonymous No.4722091]

can i get a quick redpill on retractable erasers? was considering getting the sakura sumo grip one. are they better or worse than regular old erasers?

[Anonymous No.4722140]

>>4720811
CIA glow niggers need to know if your drawing underage "art" mate

[Anonymous No.4722145]

>>4722140
At this day and age of thought policing anything can be deemed as under aged.

[Anonymous No.4722178]

>>4722145
None of it has anything to do with "security" its all about either keeping track of you or to sell your info to someone.

[Anonymous No.4722224]

>>4722021
my main source of income was a shitty low paying job, for what I've heard it could actually be that I could be better off drawing coomer art rather than going back to my old job

[Anonymous No.4722270]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdKIDMpvp5Q
Do you guys know what brush JJ is using here? Is it from the Clip Studio asset store or something? I can't read kanji for shit

[Anonymous No.4722284]

Can i practice drawing ellipses without those fancy tools that Marshall Dandruff said he used in his educational video series? I have only a ruler.

[Anonymous No.4722313]

How do you guys manage to really focus on a reference and capture the details properly? It feels like my hand doesn't want to make the right lines.

[Anonymous No.4722321]

>>4722313
Drawing isnt something thats natural. Drawing is something that is entirely unique to humans and must be something that is learned.
As a result, you need to learn how to draw to a point where it becomes muscle memory and the only way to do that is practice.
Its the same way you see a soccer player kick a ball and it sails perfectly into the goal net. Through practice, they know what muscles to twitch at the right moment to get their legs to hit the ball at the right angles with the right force to move it in the right direction.
Exactly the same with drawing. You need to teach yourself the right muscles to manipulate to get your drawing implement to move at the right angles with the right pressure.

[Anonymous No.4722329]

>>4722321
Not the other anon, but thank you for writing this inspiring comment anon, really, thank you.

[Anonymous No.4722331]

Any advice/resources for learning brush economy?

[Anonymous No.4722343]

>>4722329
Your welcome but I only say is because its what I tell myself when I have issues drawing what I see in my head.
I know what I want to draw but my muscles don't know as of yet.
Same idea as you see with infants and their ability to flail their arms around without any order.
Its because they don't really know what synapses do what with their limbs so they are just trying anything to get results. We take it for granted because those few years in our lives were spent doing everything we can to get results and once we were capable of basic function in society we forgot how useless we can be.
Its not something you should feel embarrassed about because there is no way around it. You will need to feel helpless and start from the ground up till you get to the point where your muscle know what you are trying to do. After that you can start with the more advance concepts which require you to apply what your hands can now do for you.

[Anonymous No.4722965]

How do I achieve a line work like this? I mean, what kind of brush setting should I use?

[Anonymous No.4723083]

>>4697665
does any other image board have an art critique board that isn't totally dead?

[Anonymous No.4723359]

How can I find a beginner Japanese digital artist?

[Anonymous No.4723370]

>>4723359
Pixiv > Search > New

[Anonymous No.4723386]

>>4723370
Thank you anon

[Anonymous No.4723454]

Created an animation of XiJinPing. Comments, suggestions welcome

[Anonymous No.4723648]

>>4697665
Can I post the same image in multiple threads if one of them is dead in terms of replies?

[Anonymous No.4723670]

>>4723648
just open paint, draw a single pixel, save, and you can

[Anonymous No.4723673]

>>4697665
why is this board becoming another aco with all the futashit?

[Anonymous No.4723675]

>>4723670
Is this to prevent reverse image searching?

[Anonymous No.4723684]

>>4722965
>whAt bRuSh sEtTinG

[Anonymous No.4723692]

>>4723675
No, it's to prevent flooding

[Anonymous No.4723710]

why does the skin with water on it get darker?

[Anonymous No.4723712]

>>4723710
refraction

[Anonymous No.4724003]

Why do everytime I try to draw a whole body from imagination it looks like unnatural garbage every single fucking time?

[Anonymous No.4724022]

>>4724003
Take your time and plan your construction. Also being able to recognize your mistakes is a sign your getting better, so don’t be discouraged!

[Anonymous No.4724109]

What problems do you run into if you make a black and white study then color overlay?

[Anonymous No.4724200]

can someone make a new thread?

[Anonymous No.4724388]

is this good anatomy?

[Anonymous No.4725912]

>>4700728
>"future proof"

no field is future proof, principally in art, the best you can do is have multiple sources of income as well a wide range of skills.

[Anonymous No.4725925]

>>4701072
>what are the first steps to getting a following?
start posting you shit online, then wait the luck appears.
>What are the first essential sites to upload your art to get a following?
all of them you never know which one your art will resonate the most. after that you can just keep the ones that works the best.

[Anonymous No.4726228]

>>4704524
loli porn

[Anonymous No.4726244]

>>4716708
on average how many hours did you draw each year?

[Anonymous No.4726258]

>>4710987
>How do you come up with poses, backgrounds and composition?

loomis creative illustrations goes over this, its pretty good imo

[Anonymous No.4726264]

>>4711345
I think I can, I never tried tho.

[Anonymous No.4726285]

>>4711368

>How do I invoke this psychological mechanism without posting to social media first?

it could be:

something about about the uploading makes the image looks different to you maybe the compression or how the browser render it

or once that you posted it you allow yourself to see the mistakes, like the art was not yours anymore.

but sounds like it is confirmation bias more than anything else.

[Anonymous No.4726302]

>>4711423
because it is kid like figure with a very endearing and innocent expression.

also you can, almost, feel her emotions just by looking at her expression,

[Anonymous No.4726305]

>>4712542
>>4712450
yours look flat

[Anonymous No.4726324]

>>4716600

basically this >>4716698

be a boyfriend worthy material, and go meet a lot of artists.

[Anonymous No.4726331]

>>4717334
>Is it weird if I can draw on paper but have to make more messy marks in digital?

I always heard that drawing on tablet is totally different that drawing on paper

[Anonymous No.4726334]

>>4718546
it is different

[Anonymous No.4726347]

>>4720389

you will learn more if you redo it. also you should lose this fear of break things it will hold you back. but if you are really that set in not losing it, just trace it or start from zero in another paper.

[Anonymous No.4727084]

>>4722284
you can eye ball it if you're not doing some high precision shit

[Anonymous No.4727259]

>>4724388
no, it looks uncanny

[Anonymous No.4727583]

Is this a good book for learning anatomy for drawing/painting? I know it says it's for sculptors, but I saw a Youtube video recommend it. And also I'm going through Micheal Hampton's book right now and it recommends also having an anatomy book to go through as well.

[Anonymous No.4727628]

Why do my eyes always end up like a mumbled mess when sketching traditionally? Very hard to add details.