/sqt/ stupid questions thread

[Anonymous No.4795153]

/sqt/ or ask your questions that are too stupid for their own thread here.

[Anonymous No.4795158]

>>4795153
i downloaded Rendering with Pen & Ink, but what is the best book for learning to render with a pencil?

[Anonymous No.4795167]

HOW DO I GET MY CRUSH TO ASK ME OUT

[Anonymous No.4795238]

How do I draw like this?

[Anonymous No.4795295]

>>4795167
ask her out you fucking coward

[Anonymous No.4795296]

>>4795158
Rendering with Pen & Ink

[Anonymous No.4795334]

>>4795167
Show your devotion to her by secretly following her around on camera. Then after two weeks of that, email the pictures and videos to her with a title “I LOVE YOU” so she’ll see that you truly are the one for her.

[Anonymous No.4795351]

>>4795153
I'm trying to write down all the fundamentals I need to put immediate attention on, as well as resources teach them. Basically, my list so far is: Anatomy, Light and Shadow, Perspective, Technique, Drapery, Stylization.
My question is, should I make it a goal to practice each of these in one day? Or is it better to only dedicate a specific day to each from a week, sort of like weight lifting (today is perspective day, tommorrow is anatomy day etc). Is developing a rigid schedule of fundies to learn unrealistic, and i should "just draw'? I want to try, but need advice.

[Anonymous No.4795422]

There's a storytime of Prison Pit on /co/ and I love the rough linework in it. Does anyone have any brushes that replicate this look in either SAI or CSP?

[Anonymous No.4795427]

>>4795238
become a girl

[Anonymous No.4795492]

>>4795295
How I don’t even see her anymore thanks to covid
>>4795334
Won’t she get creeped out?

[Anonymous No.4795546]

>>4795492
No, I was just pulling your leg, anon. Just ask her out like this
“We should go out some time”
Which isn’t really asking her out and doesn’t put you in a position to be outright denied, but if she says yes then that’s great.
Just be confident and don’t be awkward. Women get turned off when a man is awkward because it makes them feel like danger is near.

[Anonymous No.4795575]

>250 boxes
>1 box a day less than a year
>2 boxes a day 4 months
>5 boxes a day 1 and a half months
>10 boxes a day less than a month
>25 boxes a day 10 days
FUCK
YOU

[Anonymous No.4795585]

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU IMPROVE

[Anonymous No.4795600]

>>4795585
Just draw loomis with hard round brush

[Anonymous No.4795610]

You can't, you suffer from terminal ABR (Anime brain rot), there is no hope for you

[Anonymous No.4795792]

>>4795153
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHY IS THE COLOUR OF HER SHIRT NOT CONSISTENT

[Anonymous No.4795818]

>>4795792
kek, didn't even notice.
Thanks OCD bro

[Anonymous No.4795822]

What's wrong with hard round brush?

[Anonymous No.4795840]

>>4795822
If you like it, nothing. But you should try out other brushes. To me using hard round is the trad equivalent of painting with your fingers or a bottle cap.

[Anonymous No.4795872]

How do I get the textured uhh texture like this drawing has in photoshop?

[Anonymous No.4795874]

What are some drawing exercises you guys recommend to get better at drawing good sexy women?

[Anonymous No.4795967]

>>4795872
Try multiply layers over a texture

[Anonymous No.4795991]

>>4795840
Hard round brush helps build confidence. using the HRB in digital is the equivalent of drawing with ink in traditional.

[Anonymous No.4795995]

>>4795167
draw a portrait of her with the hard round brush, women love that shit

[Anonymous No.4795997]

>>4795991
People are saying HRB should be used for everything including rendering, do you render in ink flats with different pens or what? Also, I wouldn't even recommend doing only ink with no sketching, at least ballpoint pen or something weaker like that.

[Anonymous No.4795998]

>>4795997
I guess the trad analogy isn't totally accurate. You can do a lot with the hard round brush + opacity

[Anonymous No.4795999]

>>4795998
Why don't people recommend using only a stick you find on the ground for oil painting confidence if it's so good?

[Anonymous No.4796008]

>>4795999
I didn't say that you should limit yourself to one single tool, what I'm saying is that as a beginner you would benefit a lot from drawing in with ink, as that would make you think more carefully about each line. HRB isn't necessarily as effective as ink in making you think about line economy, but is close enough since a lot of strokes with it will look messy and difficult to read. You can use any brushes you want, but if you want to get better fast you have to be confident with the hard round brush.

[Anonymous No.4796091]

>>4795351
You focus on observation,technique, shape/form and perspective first for about 6ish months or until you are comfortable with all of them and can do them okay then you can move on into the others. The four I mentioned are the key to being able to learn anything more complex in art. Try looking for a first year art school course list for one of the top schools to see what order they are taught.

[Anonymous No.4796100]

>>4795874
Unironically hug girls and feel their forms

[Anonymous No.4796104]

Atelier cast studies are usually blocked in by separating the light and shadow at the core shadow. However, I've found that when doing notan studies of master paintings I consistently get a better result (stronger graphic read) if I clip the midtones into shadow. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.4796186]

How do I learn how to look at a pose reference and tell what angle the groundplane is at and generally how inidividual bodyparts are relating to each other in 3d space? I look at poses as very 2d and it's hard to snap out of that way of thinking.

[Anonymous No.4796478]

>>4795995
>Drew a portrait of a girl because she was mad at me
>She loves it
>She shows it to everyone
>She thinks I have a crush on her
>Everyone thinks I have a crush on her
Yeah it's not like I obsessively draw another girl and have at least 20 portraits I drew of her or anything, why are normies like this? I draw everyone

[Anonymous No.4796509]

Any advice on how to learn to paint like this? I've been using nothing but hard/soft round brush with flow jitter to copy references so far, and mostly worked in grayscale, but I think I'm good at seeing color, though not so much at pushing it. Where do I go next? What should I practice? Do I just sprinkle some strokes with a textured brush?

[Anonymous No.4796699]

Who's the artist?

[Anonymous No.4796760]

>>4796509
I usually use a textured brush with pen pressure opacity instead of a soft brush. notice how in this painting the textured brushes all look like they're on surfaces with very gradual changes in values such as the mans forehead, the womans sleeves/under her breast, the wall behind them whereas the values with stark contrast have very hard edges such as under her neck or the man on the rights cheekbones or the shadow from her glasses. Find some textured brushes you like and go to town on some value studies, maybe even try recreating this drawing.


ALSO would you happen to have the name of the artist?

[Anonymous No.4796774]

>>4796509
Block in with hard round, chalk brush for final pass

[Anonymous No.4796806]

Does/should one ever "graduate" from sighting points two dimensionally aka Keys to Drawing style?

[Anonymous No.4796895]

>>4796806
I think you are supposed to move on to construction and drawing from imagination (partially or completely), so yeah

[Anonymous No.4796923]

>>4796760
>I usually use a textured brush with pen pressure opacity instead of a soft brush
Hadn't thought of that, will try it out. I really like the shapes and edges in it. Artist is @pollenoxide, I think most of their work is in a different style than this study, though. Thanks for the advice, anon.

>>4796774
Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.4796930]

anybody using drawpile?
why the fuck this thing doesn't even have stabilizer?

[Anonymous No.4796988]

>>4796930

anyone uses Ibis Paint on Android? Do you guys know if you can turn off rotating with touch? I like resizing, but that it also rotates the canvas pisses me off.

[Anonymous No.4796993]

what medium does Amano use?
watercolours?

[Anonymous No.4797043]

>>4795153
i hate the idea of using paper because im an enviromentalist faggot so in this case is Digital art process to learn the same as traditional drawing

[Anonymous No.4797045]

>>4797043
this is the gayest post i've seen on /ic/ lmao.
go hug a tree stupid

[Anonymous No.4797046]

>>4797045
if they had a pussy i would fuck them but thats besides the point, is it the same or not?

[Anonymous No.4797052]

>>4797043

Buy Hemp Paper then, its recently legalized use for production under Trump.

Also how do you think the Paper Industry survives if they dont take care of replanting trees. The whole point of the industry is having more trees to be able to continue with the business, they have a positive effect on it, unlike conservation attempts where old grow forests just go up in flames while people stand around wandering why it happens.

[Anonymous No.4797203]

>>4795153
does anyone have a mega with a bunch of photoshop brushes in it? particularly any used by eastern artists?

[Anonymous No.4797205]

>>4795351
Just draw things you enjoy for the first year homie. You'll be able to learn what you need to focus on and develop your passion. Passion is the most important to nurture. You will crash and burn if you rush into art. Art takes years. Take your time and enjoy it before bringing in all the hard shit.

[Anonymous No.4797207]

>>4797203
They use clip studio paint

[Anonymous No.4797653]

Is speedpainting only a thing pros should bother doing?

[Anonymous No.4797673]

https://twitter.com/SIZUCOMARU/status/1009979592994484224/
Yes it's definitely hard round but
How do I even begin studying more surreal styles like pic related and https://twitter.com/pajamabou

[Anonymous No.4797687]

how important is sensitivity when learning digital art? I've disabled my pen sensitivity thing for all of my drawings since it feels like a hassle but it seems like everyone has it on

[Anonymous No.4797721]

>>4795153
fuck boxes in traditional, do an animation of a box spinning around in space, that's real shit.

[Anonymous No.4797745]

I have a constant tremor in my hand. How does one get a steady hand?
Normally I paint and it isn't has much of a problem. But lately I've been trying to do line art and I notice the snarkiness in my hands. It's not from caffeine or hunger.

[Anonymous No.4797794]

>>4797687
if you turn it off then you might as well draw with mouse

[Anonymous No.4797803]

>>4797745
I had the same thing when I tried to learn how to draw in the middle of the summer break, it went away when I started school again and handwriting was mandatory again.If it's not anything medical related, just keep going

[Anonymous No.4797863]

Starting from scratch, how hard is it to switch to digital drawing and reach the same level of skill you have with drawing conventionally?

[Anonymous No.4797905]

>>4797863
Non-display user here.
A week to get accustomed to it (different hand-eye coordination, etc.), a month to reach the same level.
I was extremely frustrated when I began, but I grew to love digital more than trad.

[Anonymous No.4797930]

>>4795351
Don't put anatomy first, anatomy is for when you already know how to draw somewhat, the gesture and basic forms are more important, you won't be able to learn how to draw the anatomy without learning how to draw first, you'll just learn the technical information

[Anonymous No.4798291]

>>4797803
I've always had it even as a child. It never seem to go away. Even in hand writing my hand shakes. It causes me to spill drinks often. I rarely see doctors and when I mention it they've been quick to brush it off. Because of that I just kind of accepted it.

[Anonymous No.4798378]

>>4796509
Do people seriously get off to this?

[Anonymous No.4798380]

>>4798291
tell the doctor you want to pursue a career in drawing and maybe they'll take you more seriously

[Anonymous No.4798383]

>>4797043
Are you an eco-fascist? If not then just kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.4798385]

do you use pressure opacity or pressure density for painting, whats the difference, which one is better and which one do pros use

[Anonymous No.4798464]

>>4798385
Id like to know thos too, and the flow pressure thing in photoshop

[Anonymous No.4798857]

anyone know what the name of this pose or position is? I'm trying to find references but I don't know the name. Sorry for drawing it with mouse.

[Anonymous No.4798880]

>>4798857

"lounge" or "lounging"

[ta-kun No.4798931]

>>4796699
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/4575012/artworks

[Anonymous No.4799128]

Probably wrong thread, but can anyone help me find the original source (or sources) this was traced from? I'm compiling evidence against an art thief and haven't had any luck with this one. Everything they've "drawn" is roblox OCs so I doubt it's actually their own.

[Anonymous No.4799179]

>>4797687
It is extremely useful. How did it seem like a hassle to you?

[Anonymous No.4799192]

>>4797863
It's really not that hard. After the initial period of getting used to it, the only real limiting factors are
1. The speed - there will always be a miniscule delay between your hand and the marks appearing on screen
2. The precision - tablets are pretty advanced, but they are still not PERFECTLY sensitive to every movement of your hand
3. The page rotation aspect, which can be mitigated with canvas rotation tools

But in my opinion the advantages it offers far surpass the minor downsides.

[Anonymous No.4799320]

>>4795167
boxes

[Anonymous No.4799334]

>>4795238
hard round brush

[Anonymous No.4799441]

>>4797043
Using a computer consumes energy unless it's run by a hamster

[Anonymous No.4799482]

>>4798378
Most people are retarded sheep. Muh diversity good

[Anonymous No.4799541]

>>4795872
somsnosa fanart is based af

[Anonymous No.4799566]

>>4799482
>>4799482
It's actually more of a matter of degradation and/or the idea of foil characters rather than some /pol/ conspiracy
As in, some people plainly have a fetish for degradation and there's also the idea of how having a brute juxtaposed to a cute girl highlights the cuteness of said girl
Personally I'm not into it since interracial often resembles scat

[Anonymous No.4799691]

>>4799179
When I started out it was a bit annoying to actually think about how much pressure to apply when drawing. I didn't like how my lines were inconsistent so I turned off the sensitivity and felt it was much easier, so I just kept it that way. Typing this out though made me realize I just took the easy way out though, so thank you.

[Anonymous No.4799701]

How do beginner/semi-beginner Japanese artists just carefree post their stuff and still get a following? I even see bigger artists retweet their stuff but it isn't that great. I'm constantly worried about gesture, structure, etc. but I see some people just dump out stuff consistently but not the most accurate. How do I get this mindset?

It makes me actually angry that I feel like I crab myself constantly on trying to make sure I'm drawing what is seen to be proper. I haven't finished anything in a month because I'm overly worried about literally every aspect of my picture. I just want to have fun.

[Anonymous No.4799754]

Any recommendations for books that teach you how to draw mecha? I'm blown away by the more mechanical designs (vs say ultra-stylized gundams or EVA types). Especially some of the things you see /toy/.

[Anonymous No.4799765]

>>4795167
Draw her hard round brush

[Anonymous No.4799920]

Why does this look wrong?

[Anonymous No.4799932]

>>4799920
boobs sinking too low, missing midriff, flat pelvis.

[Anonymous No.4799943]

Anyone have a safe torrent for photoshop?

[Anonymous No.4800044]

>>4799566
>interracial often resembles scat
Holy shit based

[Anonymous No.4800176]

>>4799920
>Why does this look wrong?
it's a yomu drawing with no feet or stockings

[Anonymous No.4800178]

>>4799932
>boobs sinking too low, missing midriff, flat pelvis.
i see you've never seen a woman irl before

[Anonymous No.4800542]

Hey guys, is there a website other than google where i can look at old master paintings/drawings in full res?

[Anonymous No.4800842]

how do portrait artists on Instagram like ilya kuvshinov make money? do they just sell prints and art tutorials?

[Anonymous No.4800865]

>>4799920
her torso is way too long

[Anonymous No.4801055]

Any good resources on knees?
Like I know the structure and anatomy of the legs and what flows in there, but when I look at a reference there is so much going on I get confused.
I just feel like I don't understand the plane and form changes in the knee when I look at a reference, other than that I can do upper muscles and lower just fine from reference but when it comes to knee I just make a box trying to assume where condyles starts and ends then draw tibial and patella.
Help

[Anonymous No.4801077]

>>4801055
bridgman breaks down of anatomy is pretty nice to understand planes

[Anonymous No.4801258]

>>4798291
lol say goodbye to your dream of becoming an artist

[Anonymous No.4801283]

>>4796993
HARD

[Anonymous No.4801305]

>>4801258
Hasn't stopped me. It's why I paint, plus its relaxing.

[Anonymous No.4801336]

>>4797930
This makes sense. As /beg/ I was trying to copy down skeletons and shit when I had no basis elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.4801349]

>>4799701
As a /beg/ what helped me was imagining I was a top tier pro and I saw posts of other people drawing things I liked to draw. If I saw they were consistent and showing improvement or whatever other feature I liked, I would repost/follow. Just like people here, if you've shown you've improved you dont get shit on except by actual crabs. Just post and improve.

[Anonymous No.4801391]

What does Hard and soft brush means

[Anonymous No.4801399]

>>4801391
brush with a hard or soft edge

[Anonymous No.4801426]

>>4795872
Make a bottom layer, draw on top of the layer with some translucency, put a texture on the bottom layer.

[Anonymous No.4801665]

Do you draw with mechanical pencils?

What type of lead is your favorite?

Sharpening pencils seems like unnecessary effort. Going to try some mechanical and clutch pencil types.

[Anonymous No.4801755]

>>4795153
How much can I improve in 1 month and a half? I'm preparing for inktober and I want my drawings to look decent in terms of proportions and anatomy.

[Anonymous No.4801761]

>>4801755
Get off the board and start drawing.

Or pyw for critique.

[Anonymous No.4801833]

>>4799920
Her face is strangely unrendered compared to her body. It looks like she’s wearing a paper mask.

[Anonymous No.4801863]

>>4801665
Yes, 0.7mm HB led, Pentel Twist Erase.
Fun fact: a lot of people think mechanical pencils can only make sharp lines, but you can make big, meaty marks by simply holding the pencil at an angle and grinding the lead a bit.
When my lead is almost out and I only have a little nib that's too small for the pencil left, I like to drag it around with my fingers to make marks.

[Anonymous No.4801864]

>>4801755
you can be better relative to where you are now.
>I want my drawings to look decent in terms of proportions and anatomy.

you can do that in a month

[Anonymous No.4801867]

>>4795153
How can I learn to draw porn for a living?

[Anonymous No.4801876]

>>4798385
>>4798464
opacity is how opaque or transparent your brush stroke is, flow is how much paint is applied.
neither is really better or worse, flow is more like how paint would function in real life. i like it more b/c you can get a better variety of wet/ dry brush effects
>>4797863
first it'll seem harder and then when you get used to it it'll seem way easier.

[Anonymous No.4801940]

does this anon have a blog?

[Anonymous No.4801973]

is there any site where I can look at photos of fine art with the 'right' colors?

[Anonymous No.4801975]

>>4801973
And do you think your screen is properly calibrated? What about viewing the pictures at different times of day with different natural lighting in person?

No. Digital color sucks ass

[Anonymous No.4802048]

>>4801867
Loomis

[Anonymous No.4802089]

Are there any good resources on the actual *techniques* of digital rendering/painting? Like how to make brushes achieve certain looks or specific workflows for trying to get different styles?

Basically just more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbo6ZAuF914

I can find lots of /beg/ YouTubers giving bad advice about overlay layers and smudge tools, but I was hoping there might be some more actual pros talking about higher-level stuff.

[Anonymous No.4802104]

>>4801975
How do you even know your eyes are properly calibrated bro?

[Anonymous No.4802192]

>>4801975
'Digital color'?

[Anonymous No.4802366]

Any good tutorial on coloring in Sai?
I usually paint on one layer, but I'm trying to develop more skills on using layers and masking. I still find my lineart lifeless and rough.

[Anonymous No.4802397]

Is it ethical to trace over a 3d model you made for cityscapes and scenery? Like you use some procedural city generator, or make one in Townscaper then draw over it and spice it up?

[Anonymous No.4802562]

>>4801283
FORCED
MEME

[Anonymous No.4802860]

If I’m honest with myself, I’m avoiding drawing altogether because I don’t think it’ll be any good or that its too difficult to learn or use to its full potential.

I definitely want to, but that fear’s been eclipsing my motivation. What should I do?

[Anonymous No.4802861]

>>4802860
just draw

[Anonymous No.4802865]

Is there any good comprehensive book on animal anatomy? Courses or videos are also good, but I like to hoard books ;)
>>4802860
It’ll take forever and a half to get good, so don’t even worry about it. If you wanna draw a pretty picture of your waifs with thick thighs, or paint a gay fruit bowl, just do it. There’s no penalty for messing up

[Anonymous No.4802866]

Will twitter dingdongbanme if I post pictures of beaten up anime girls?

[Anonymous No.4802914]

>>4799920
Because of the animu head you brainlet

[Anonymous No.4803575]

>>4802397

Is it a personal project? Then do whatever you want, man.

Is it a commission? Be polite and ask them, but do whatever you want, man.

Do you work for a company? Make sure there's no commercial use license on stuff and clear it with supervisors, then do what you wan, man.

[Anonymous No.4803596]

>>4802866

>bruises, a little blood, boxing and fighting themed violence, etc.
No, you're fine.

>gore, abuse, or sexually-themed violence.
Account locks and shadow bans. Mark your account as NSFW in options to avoid trouble. So long as it's not like actual guro shit though you should be fine.

[Anonymous No.4803690]

How in the world do i draw a straight line that is longer than an inch

[Anonymous No.4803695]

>>4803690
throw the pencil at the paper, it will make a straight line

[Anonymous No.4803736]

>>4803596
Thanks for the info.
>Mark your account as NSFW in options to avoid trouble
Yeah, I'll do that. It's not overt guro, but it probably looks like it was made with horny degenerates in mind (because it is) so I guess I'll have to be a bit wary.

[Anonymous No.4803773]

>>4795153
>>Reimena Yee GhostHot beverage SÉANCE TEA PARTY SEPT 15
@reimenayee
300 pages per book within a year or so (+ commissioned illustrations) is a bonkers amount of physical labour. Is it a wonder that I am busy? And yet... idk the people in my rl who mostly arent artists don’t get this. It’s invisible work.


Is this reasonable?
How did old school comic book artist made these huge patrician graphic novels in months?

[Anonymous No.4803780]

>>4803773
>>$800/page in the mid-nineties for a brand new penciller with a hot style?

Those are pretty good rates!


real?

[Anonymous No.4804308]

Is the stabilizer something every professional uses or is it personal preference? Not sure if I have a use case for it

[Anonymous No.4804313]

>>4795153
should I bother grabbing the pencil like Eviston suggests if I want to end up drawing digitally?

[Anonymous No.4804321]

What do you call this style of lighting/shading? How do i obtain that?

It's really cool.

[Anonymous No.4804328]

>>4804321
Its just specular highlights and simple shadows.

[Anonymous No.4804334]

>>4804328
>specular highlights
wow, had no idea about this
any advice or tutorial on doing this correctly?

[Anonymous No.4804355]

Is color picking good or bad ? how should you find the right colors to blend with??

[Anonymous No.4804366]

How do you render anime hair to have that glass like look?

[Anonymous No.4804400]

>>4804334
Get a small round rush and make a mark on a round, shiny surface where you think the light hits it.
It's nothing complicated.

[Anonymous No.4804414]

>>4804355
It is just a tool. Are you talking about color sampling from reference or color sampling areas of your painting in order to render? If it's the former, I would recommend paying attention to how colors change with lighting so you can do it yourself instead of relying only on reference for color. If it's the latter, then the only thing I will caution is that the more you sample the color the closer your painting will get to grey. All you need to do to remedy this is to throw a separate color in periodically.

[Anonymous No.4804417]

>>4804400
I see
what about the colors on the highlights/shadows?

[Anonymous No.4804433]

how do i start commissioning? i have no social media but im reasonably good, should i start somewhere live fiverr and use popular tags? or make a twitter and start there.

[Anonymous No.4804449]

Should I practice the whole figure at once? or just parts are more familiar with?

[Anonymous No.4804726]

Does photoshop have this transparent color swatch? or I just can't find it

[Anonymous No.4804830]

>>4804417
You just push it toward the color of your light source. The more reflective the surface, the more you push it.

[Anonymous No.4804878]

>>4804830
Alrighty then, thanks anon!
I hope someday i'll present an example of mu my understanding.

Magister is one of few notable artists i really admire in their work.

[Anonymous No.4805031]

Was sketching this scout in a running pose last night and really struggling to figure out how to place the legs. I think the angle was messing with me, and the awkward crop at the bottom.

Out of curiosity, can anyone sketch out a correct-looking placement for the legs? Just wondering what that would look like.

[Anonymous No.4805500]

How do you know you are shadow banned?

[Anonymous No.4805504]

Anyone here know how to upload anything to instagram without it becoming compressed garbage? I'm trying to set up a page for illustration and design but it just gets compressed and covered in artifacts whenever I upload anything.
I've already tried downsizing the file size, uploading it at 1080x1080 as well as smaller sizes, both png and jpg, but it all comes out as shit.
What's the secret to posting on instagram without having it turned into deep fried trash?

[Anonymous No.4805566]

>>4805504
On Instagram your posts are, as far as I know, inevitably going to be compressed and it shows more obviously when zooming in. However, since this is the norm for all posts, it's not really something to worry about too much. You can use Instagram simply as another place to host your art and post full-res work on another website that you can link on your profile. Another option for better-resolution posting is to use stories and highlights, but it's not ideal for providing a gallery format for your work, nor for posting anything that's not a tall rectangle.

Not sure if this helps at all, but the far left button in pic related allows you to post non-square images.

[Anonymous No.4805710]

>>4804433
>i have no social
then create a social media presence.
dump your art and hope someone likes it enough to ask if you can commission something.

protip: furries are almost always looking for commission work.
if you dont like furries, the rise of dungeons and dragons popular means lots of people looking for their OCs to be drawn.
personally i would go the D&D root.
I dont do commission work right now since i got lots of other shit to worry about but i would definitely just do D&D shit.

[Anonymous No.4805824]

>>4805566
My issue is that it doesn't even look as good as other's lowres work. I'm just trying to post a simple logo but it still has very pronounced artifacting and blurring that destroys the design.
I already post full res elsewhere but I can't advertise with something of such low quality. I just don't know how everyone else does it and where I'm fucking up.

[Anonymous No.4805903]

>>4805824
Do you mind sharing an example?

[Anonymous No.4806027]

>>4795153

Does anyone at all know where to find Tom Rhodes' (aka RnDFantasy) Canadian mountie art? It was extensive. There used to be twitter/tumblr/pinterest pages dedicated to it, but now suddenly it's seemingly been completely purged from existence. This is the only piece I could find from a random 2014 twitter comment.

[Anonymous No.4806034]

>>4804726
please answer I don't have photoshop

[Anonymous No.4806080]

Is it that important to focus on capturing the likeness of a person when you are a beginner practicing head drawings? Obviously being way far off is something to be avoided, but I've been watching several lectures of good artists and getting the likeness right never seems to be the main focus(if it's off by a bit they don't seem to mind) and they usually are just trying to get the construction right.

[Anonymous No.4806119]

>>4806080
Construction is more important starting out. Learn likeness later, but for now focus on making sure the major forms are in the correct proportion, are the right shape, and are in a consistent perspective.

[Anonymous No.4806202]

this question isnt deserving of a whole thread, which oil paints or oils (brands) would you recommend? describe them?
i am new to it and have only tried Gamblin. its nice as far as i can tell.

[Anonymous No.4806305]

>>4805903
This is usually what happens, which I don't see happen as drastically in most other posts.
I'm not sure if it's also my color choice.

[Anonymous No.4806308]

>>4805500
I don't know what shadowban is

[Anonymous No.4806336]

>>4806308
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu

[Anonymous No.4806358]

Is it even necessary to formally study all the theory and crap behind perspective? Like, I know Kim jung gi said he mostly just relied on his intuition and observation prior to when he was in college. I’m nowhere near that, but I find just drawing shit I like is far more enjoyable than have to autistcially study roberston’s theories, though I do find some of his stuff helpful and interesting. I did a bunch of motorcycle sketches today, mostly trad but pic related is two I did digital. I found that while it’s not where I want to be yet, this is more pleasant than using schizo Robertson methods (ellipses are still hard as fuck though).

[Anonymous No.4806564]

>>4806305
IMO it looks fine, yeah it's pretty badly compressed but by instagram standards it doesn't seem any worse than usual. The design is communicated clearly enough. Instagram isn't even really meant for zooming, so quality like this is understandable and not unusual (and I use Instagram a lot).

Also, it does appear that high contrast, flat images don't take to JPEG compression very well.

[Anonymous No.4806585]

Where do you go when you're good but not great? When you're good enough that the critique becomes less about mistakes and more just what you could do to make this better?

[Anonymous No.4806587]

>>4806564
I see, I'll try to manage then.
Thanks for the help.

[Anonymous No.4806648]

Has anyone ever made threads for videos they make? Is there a place people do that /ic/? Or would you not consider video "artwork"

[Anonymous No.4806651]

>>4799754
friendly bump

[Anonymous No.4806742]

>>4806585

People at that level tend to branch into different teacher-specific communities based mostly on their youtube preferences.

Just go find any given youtube art teacher type guy -Sinix, ModernDayJames, Trent Kaniuga, etc. - and look in the description of one of their videos for their discord link. Pick your favorite, join it, and start getting critique more suited to intermediate+ skill levels. All of them maintain their servers pretty well. MDJ is my personal recommendation.

>>4799754
>>4806651

I've never read any books specifically about drawing mecha, but I've definitely found it helpful to study the pros doing it. Look up artbooks for mecha games you like (armored core has some fantastic stuff) or find artists like Emerson Tung and see what they're doing, perhaps? That's all I've got, at least.

[Anonymous No.4806744]

>>4804414
Yea i was talking about color picking while blending while eye dropping the base and the shadow till they blend

[Anonymous No.4806778]

>>4806742
Super helpful, thank you. I knew YouTube had art resources but not where to start. I'll check MDJ out first since he's your favorite.

[Anonymous No.4806892]

Here's a really stupid question: Is is still worth going through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if I've already gone through drawabox?

If not, Should I just move on to Loomis or something else entirely?

[Anonymous No.4806896]

>>4806892
If you can comfortably draw from observation then you don't need Drawing on The Right Side of the brain. Really the whole point is just to get people to break themselves of symbol drawing, but if you're already doing that you probably won't get anything out of it.

[Anonymous No.4807012]

i wanted to take paintign seriously and i'm moving home soon and i wanted someting compact that i can take outside,has any one of you experience with french easels?

[Anonymous No.4807146]

Is there is any good infographic on muscles and bones?

[Anonymous No.4807686]

best resources for drapery?

[Anonymous No.4808315]

Is there any benefit in learning the deep minor muscles (i.e rhomboids, teres major/minor, coracobrachialis, infra and suprahydoids muscles) of the body?

[Anonymous No.4808317]

Can anyone recommend an online video course for digital painting techniques? Specifically layer effects: Multiply, Overlay, Color, Hue, Screen, Add, Etc. I don't know the first thing about them even though I use them every day. I'm aware of CTRL Paint, Schoolism, CGMA, NMA, Proko, and Watts.

[Anonymous No.4808372]

>>4808317
Ctrl paint has a grayscale to color course that goes over all the layer modes and what they do

[Anonymous No.4808374]

>>4808372
You're the fucking man

[Anonymous No.4808442]

>>4795600
how do I find a hard round brush in krita

[Anonymous No.4808483]

Does anyone have the image with the stereotypical thot having 10k likes for a turd picture vs 100 likes for a ghibli picture.

Need it as a ref for a comic. Spent over an hour on fireden trying to find it.

[Anonymous No.4809022]

>>4808442
any of the "basic_" brushes

[Anonymous No.4809024]

Stupid question and I know it will get a lot of shit poster answers. How do you get more attention on deviantart? I feel like the eclipse layout has made it harder.

[Anonymous No.4809026]

how do i get a g pen in sai?

[Anonymous No.4809096]

>>4809024
My man I went from 100 faves an upload to *maybe* 2 if I'm lucky. Even pros are down by 50% or more on their recent work. I dont know what happened to it, but I dont think it's you. DA just seems fuckin dead.

[Anonymous No.4809131]

>>4809096
You think its because you can no longer choose a category to upload stuff to?

[Anonymous No.4809144]

>>4808315
Of course, but take your time with it, and have fun

[Anonymous No.4809145]

>>4807146
Anatomy books are your best bet. Bridges and Hogarth

[Anonymous No.4809147]

>>4806892
If you can’t draw accurately yet you should stick with Betty Edwards. If there’s any photo out there you think might be too hard to draw, stay with it

[Anonymous No.4809150]

>>4806358
Just draw. When you hit a plateau, start studying the theory behind things

[Anonymous No.4809242]

>>4795167
>MY CRUSH
>MY
Holy shit, what's with the possessive? You haven't even asked him/her out and they're YOURS? That's almost as creepy as "my rapist," as if everyone's entitled to one, and this is the one assigned to you.
Fucking creep. Fuck off. You don't "get" him/her to ask you out. You ask them out, period. Done. Creepazoid.

[Anonymous No.4809246]

>>4795238
Don't draw what you actually see. Draw what you THINK you see. And figure out how to use different hues in watercolor to achieve dimension and folds and life. Shit, this barely-made-it figured out how to do it for infant books; surely you can figure it out.

[Anonymous No.4809248]

>>4809242
Settle down my dude and/or dudette

[Anonymous No.4809249]

>>4795422
Get a brush. Dip it in India ink. Draw on paper. Done. Dumbass.

[Anonymous No.4809252]

>>4795585
Stop trying to copy anime. Start practicing laying down the darks and lights in the shapes you see. Start practicing swooping through the lines. Start paying attention to the varieties of colors making up the light reaching your eyes. Stop asking for help on a Vietnamese animal husbandry board.

[Anonymous No.4809261]

>>4795872
Grab an image of a paper texture online. Put it on top of your art, make it a multiply layer, and adjust the opacity and hue/dark until it looks right. Thirty seconds.

[Anonymous No.4809273]

>>4795874
Let your fingers get used to caressing the contours of good sexy women, then use that memory when laying down the lines. Not being facetious, btw. It really works.

[Anonymous No.4809279]

>>4796186
Don't for the love of god try to map out the perspective lines and trace on top of that. That's how you get shit that looks like it's floating and weird instead of grounded and real. Outside of practice, practice, practice, the only thing that works is fucking around with the proportions until it looks right, and then TRUSTING YOURSELF that this is what looks right. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.4809282]

>no matter what I draw it ends up being dark black drawings with no opacity while every other sketch I see on here looks nothing like it
What the fuck do other people use for sketching?

[Anonymous No.4809284]

>>4798857
Poses have names?

[Anonymous No.4809291]

>>4799128
Sorry, this is such shit, it's totally not traced from anything. Everything from the perspective to the proportions is godawful. I sure hope you weren't seeking validation for your own art here, because bleargggghh.

[Anonymous No.4809294]

>>4799920
Body rendered. Face not. Garbage.

[Anonymous No.4809295]

>>4804726
you mean colorless? transparent means there ain't nothing to see there;

[Anonymous No.4809313]

>>4799128
Why the fuck would you care? Are you a woman?

[Anonymous No.4809343]

is there something like /ic/ without all the coomer shit?

[Anonymous No.4809533]

>>4809343
Kill yourself you fucking Redditor.

[Anonymous No.4809537]

i want to paint in grayscale (just the values)
all i need is white and black paints? i want to paint very smooth transitions so i need lots of grays

[Anonymous No.4809541]

>>4809537
Sounds like you answered your own question.

[Anonymous No.4809549]

>>4809541
well, i was wondering if it would save paint to get a few shades of gray?

like say you want to make 55% gray

do you add black to white, or white to black? which will use less paint? because one distance is 55 and the other is 45, does that make sense?

so if i got a 50% gray i'd only have to lighten it with a dab of white, 5%

btw, the convention i'm using is
0% is black, 100% pure white

[Anonymous No.4809552]

>>4809537
Yes just black and white. Practice your paint mixing to make different shades of grey by making a value scale.

[Anonymous No.4809553]

>>4809549
Yes.

As for the particulars of mixing, you'll figure that out when you try it.

[Anonymous No.4809554]

>>4809549
If you're trying to save paint just get black white and a middle grey.

[Anonymous No.4809656]

I've actually got an opportunity to take a real art class through my university. It'd only be a 100-level introduction to drawing class because I'm in a STEM field, but do you guys still think it'd be worth doing if I'm low-mid /beg/ tier?

[Anonymous No.4809659]

I am starting out by copying pictures. Can I post those in /beg/?

[Anonymous No.4809684]

>>4809656
i took one for a math degree and it was pretty worthless, but quality will vary from school to school

[Anonymous No.4811461]

how do i properly tag my drawings on instagram and twitter?

[Anonymous No.4811469]

>>4809656
If professors from your school show up on rate my professor, I'd check there and try to find out which art teachers give a fuck and which don't

[Anonymous No.4811473]

>>4801940
i think thats seanskeatch he also has a discord

[Anonymous No.4811497]

How would someone dump a collection of fanart on twitter?

[Anonymous No.4811521]

>>4809537
You could try mixing them lol

[Anonymous No.4811712]

Is there a figure drawing book that offers a more guided experience than Loomis? I've read through it but I'm really not sure where to start. Should I just go grind out some mannikins and pray?

[Anonymous No.4811793]

>>4809533
I probably visit reddit less than you, you coombrained faggot bitch

[Anonymous No.4811829]

If I start a patreon site, how often do people expect me to post new content? Is there a general rule to this? I mean, for example, if I make a post once each week, will this still keep people paying tier and etc.?

[Anonymous No.4811839]

>>4811829
kek I’d worry about getting people to actually pay you for posting drawings first

[Anonymous No.4811842]

how can i find my style?
should i have lineart?

[Anonymous No.4811865]

>>4811839
well, I got 5k followers on twitter and I wanna post nude art so I'm not that worried. And even if I fail I still have a day job, too.

[Anonymous No.4811888]

should I be allowed to draw porn if I'm an incel?

[Anonymous No.4811892]

>>4811888
Doesn't the vast majority of porn artistes

[Anonymous No.4811898]

>>4811865
make it worth something, no point getting a patreon and ur only giving them hi res pics of ur art

[coomlord No.4811900]

>>4811842
I don't care about style.

[Anonymous No.4811916]

>>4811842
You shouldn't worry about it. Draw things you like and you will naturally gravitate toward a style.

[Anonymous No.4811933]

>>4811865
5k followers doesn’t mean shit, likes aren’t money. Getting people to actually pay you just for posting pictures of your art is a big ask for someone with 5k. You might think you’re big fish because you’ve got more followers than complete begs but even in terms of social media you’re basically a nobody

[Anonymous No.4811935]

>>4795238
get married
get pregnant with two kids
be in your 40s with a husband who doesn't care anymore and two little shitheads running all over the place

[Anonymous No.4812581]

what's that website that lets artists take commissions anonymously? It gets posted here a lot but I don't remember the name

[Anonymous No.4813071]

what's a good program i can use if i want to start making animations?

[Anonymous No.4813101]

If I drew like this would it feel Western?

[Anonymous No.4813116]

>>4813101
you need to learn writing and japanese language then post on twitter with it

[Anonymous No.4813120]

>>4795153
As an artist in general, is it a good idea to use firstname lastname on places where you push and showcase your "artwork" or work in general?
Would it be better or worse to use some kind of "username" or abbreviation?
I guess the usual answer would be if you do NSFW stuff use some kind of art name and for real life portfolio stuff use your real name?
Kinda hard to judge in the current online climate.
Any guides out there for this kind of stuff?

[Anonymous No.4813129]

>>4813120
NEVER use your real name for personal work, one mistake and the flood of bearded women will come after you and your family

[Anonymous No.4813162]

Will arting while drunk still help me improve?

[Anonymous No.4813294]

Is there a site where I can view master works in good quality, or should I just look in the artbook thread?

[Anonymous No.4813394]

>>4813294
There's more ultra high res photos on wikipedia than you would think.
Aside from that, I remember when I was in art school there was some service we were given access to that I forget the name of. You normally have to pay for a license to it, though.

[Anonymous No.4813490]

how the fuck do I color within the lineart? I keep trying to stay within the lines but I fucking cant, try to select the area but then my selection lines are shit too

[Anonymous No.4813537]

Is figure drawing using references on the computer really beneficial? Also how should I learn? Boxes first or gesture?

[Anonymous No.4813546]

>>4813537
>Is figure drawing using references on the computer really beneficial?
Of course it is.

>Also how should I learn? Boxes first or gesture?
Either, as long as you learn both.

[Anonymous No.4813567]

>>4813490
For flat color, there are so many different ways you can do this. It can even depend on how messy or disconnected your line art is. Play around with brushes tailored to filling line art, play around with the threshold of the fill tool, play around with the magic wand and subtract any artifacts, some software like GIMP (Smart Colorization) and Krita (Colorize Mask) even have "smart" tools for coloring line art, but these tools have their own flaws as well and generally require some manual tweaking.
For shading those flat colors, there are a lot of ways you can do this too. One way to do this is to use tools that the software provides for this (for Photoshop this is Clipping Masks, for Krita this is Inherit Alpha/Alpha Lock/Preserve Alpha).
Maybe you should just use a search engine to find tutorials specific to your software.

[Anonymous No.4813648]

>>4813490
There's a trick where you use the magic wand to select the background space, and then inverting the selection so you can use the bucket tool to quickly fill in your subject with a single color. Then you can set the layer to preserve opacity and coloring within the lines becomes a lot easier.

[Anonymous No.4813656]

>>4813490
>>4813648
https://youtu.be/z3tNS48DHGs?t=125
This video sort of shows it at 2:05.

[Anonymous No.4813682]

>>4813546
Thanks for the help

[Anonymous No.4813689]

Any good resources on curvilinear perspective?

[Anonymous No.4814032]

>Gesture drawing
In the beginning of my studies, I was able to get quick 1 -2 minute gestures down and they looked decent. Then I had to take a month off to heal arm injuries.


Upon returning, my ability to draw figures from imagination improved quite a lot, however when I attempt gesture drawing, I'm really bad even at 5 minutes with reference. The gesture drawings from before I had to stop were way better than they are upon my return. What the fuck gives?

>Art school
I really want to go to art school, but it's so goddamned expensive and I'm not in a position in life to go anyway. Online classes are fine, but I don't get feedback nor do I really have the drive to go at it consistently. I'm not at an age where I can just go to art school and it fucking kills me.

>Work ethic
I used to have such an amazing time learning and practicing until I injured myself. That caused me to break the habit I developed and now art is just a chore. I have so many ideas I want to get down, but do not have the technical skills nor the patience to do so that is satisfactory.

[Anonymous No.4814035]

>Gesture drawing
In the beginning of my studies, I was able to get quick 1 -2 minute gestures down and they looked decent. Then I had to take a month off to heal arm injuries.


Upon returning, my ability to draw figures from imagination improved quite a lot, however when I attempt gesture drawing, I'm really bad even at 5 minutes with reference. The gesture drawings from before I had to stop were way better than they are upon my return. What the fuck gives?

[Anonymous No.4814040]

>>4814035
The better I got at drawing, the worse my gestures looked. I used to symbol draw my way through the body rapidly and habitually, but once I started really understanding 3d form I stopped giving a damn about making a nice looking drawing within a quick time frame. I sculpt out all of my drawings slowly, carefully, and precisely, and by God I understand so much more now. My knowledge base grows, but my sketches don't necessarily improve anymore, superficially.

So I'd say, don't worry about it. Not unless your goal is to make a passable drawing within an arbitrary time limit.

[Anonymous No.4814046]

>>4814040
Interesting, that's reassuring to read. I think I'm symbol drawing as well, for sure simplifying anatomy when I draw from imagination. My figures looks very organic and dynamic, but my quick-timed gestures are fucking garbage.

How did you approach studying the 3D form?

[Anonymous No.4814149]

Hello /ic/
I'm a /beg/ thats been drawing for a year and a few months now. I draw every day for multiple hours, I try balancing drawing and learning along with money making and it's been quite tough. My anatomy still sucks a lot and im always spending a lot of time trying to fix my errors. If I try to do a quick drawing, they end up like pic related which was around 40 minutes. I also have to learn perspective which has been incredibly confusing. I'm reading framed perspective and theres so much to digest
I really want to start learning to animate as well but I also feel like I have no idea how the human body moves from imagination. A lot of my drawing involves using reference to try and learn as well

What the heck do I do. There's so much to learn. I want to be able to animate characters one day

[Anonymous No.4814183]

>>4813129
Wow bearded women run the internet and art community now what has the world come to why do ppl kneel to them

[Anonymous No.4814572]

>>4814149
Learning to draw often takes time, you're doing great.
Check out Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Norling if you haven't already, you may find it easier to digest

[Anonymous No.4814742]

>>4804321
What artist is this?

[Anonymous No.4814812]

>>4809659
Yes

[Anonymous No.4815000]

>>4814742
left is thiccwithq (i think)
right is magister

[Anonymous No.4815142]

>>4814572
I guess I’ll try that book again. I was reading it it on kindle and it started to get hard to follow too

[Anonymous No.4815160]

>>4795153
How do i accomplish JSR style or something alike?

I'veen study a lot of art from the scratch, and i was doing more or less until 4 days ago exactly i lost my hability to construct a decent anatomy and lost it.

I started from the scratch but i want some advices to put the style over precision at the time to make my drawing

[Anonymous No.4815173]

Where do you draw the SSS sub surface scattering? in the halftones? in the terminator? after the terminator right before the reflected light area?

[Anonymous No.4815382]

don't feel like watching a video. does anyone have proko guide to figure drawing (i'm a beginner) in text form? thanks

[Anonymous No.4815469]

I have an Xp-Pen Artist 22e Pro, and I'm looking for a stand or like shelf to raise it above the desk so I can put a keyboard underneath it, but I can't find any monitor risers wide enough to fit it. Does anybody have experience with this? I'm the big dumb

[Anonymous No.4815511]

>>4802865
Not him, but being "good" is very subjective. You can be a great artist to some people but shit to others, as long as you can do a competent job you don't have to worry at all. It won't take forever to be reasonably decent.

[Anonymous No.4815565]

>>4815160
If you have to ask, then you aren't ready to think about style.

[Anonymous No.4815721]

When people keep spamming fundie fundie fundiesss.
What exactly are those skills?
And how to achieve it?
One most obvious one is perspective,
But what else?

[Anonymous No.4815788]

>>4809252
>in stupid questions thread
>stop asking for help

[Anonymous No.4815792]

>>4795153
What does the 'banned artist' tag mean in gelbooru? I mean why tf do artists get 'banned' and what exactly does that mean?

[Anonymous No.4815816]

>>4815792
they are artists that didn't let their art be posted there

[Anonymous No.4815831]

>>4815721
depends entirely on what you want to draw
the golden advice is to look for the kind of art that you want to draw, and study how the artist used the 'fundies' to compose, draw, render, etc
copy, learn, apply

[Anonymous No.4815858]

>>4815816
Thank you

[Anonymous No.4815884]

Is there any guides to making brushes in clip studio? I’m wondering if there are particular methods.

[Anonymous No.4815889]

>>4815831
What are the "fundies"??
That's what im asking.
People keep saying more fundies more fundies but never say which.

[Anonymous No.4815900]

>>4815889
Perspective, form, construction, value, color, composition, shape design, anatomy, gesture

[Anonymous No.4815915]

>>4815889
read sticky faggot

[Anonymous No.4815946]

>>4815889
There’s no saving you

[Anonymous No.4815961]

can you get rid off this shit?

[Anonymous No.4816255]

>>4807012
autism detected

[Anonymous No.4816295]

can you do drawabox lessons on iPad pro

[Anonymous No.4816299]

how do you even go about learning character design? any books or vids that could be helpful?

[Anonymous No.4816334]

How much should I be reading drawing books or watching tutorials? I am still practicing, just not going through a textbook.

[Anonymous No.4816347]

>>4815900
Based
GMI

>>4815915
>>4815946
Too stupid to even list one.
NGMI

[Anonymous No.4816552]

>>4816334
You should have a good idea of what you're practicing unless you're just drawing personal stuff for fun. If you don't have a focus for your practice (like working on anatomy, construction methods, etc.) then I'd recommend picking up a book and finding something specific to work on.

[Anonymous No.4816620]

>>4815173
I usually go for a cheap SSS by adding a deep saturdated pink/orange/red coat along the terminator line. It's not accurate but looks nice and easy to do. ALso helps to cool the shadows to give it contrast.

[Anonymous No.4816629]

>>4815173
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjvYSbGHg4
If you wanna dig deeper this vid helps with getting a grasp on it but it ultimately takes a lot of practice to get it to start looking good.

[Anonymous No.4816715]

>>4816629
informative, I learned, thanks

[Anonymous No.4817177]

Can I study traditional and digital simultaneously?
Going through Keys to Drawing at the moment and I'm enjoying it, but kinda want to try digital.

[Anonymous No.4817178]

>>4817177
Are you asking permission?

[Anonymous No.4817179]

Anybody uses SAI?
How do i adjust color with Hue Saturation & brightness?
Seems like they took that out long time ago and never bother to put it back in.

[Anonymous No.4817190]

>>4817178
Maybe I should rephrase the question.
Is it a good idea to try digital when I'm still /beg/?
Sorry anon I'm kinda retarded.

[Anonymous No.4817194]

>>4817190
It doesn't matter. Try and use what medium interests you.

[Anonymous No.4817206]

>>4817194
Thanks Anon.

[Anonymous No.4817239]

I'm doing drawabox, and I'm supposed to draw for fun. But I can't draw anything but stick figures. What the fuck am I supposed to do? The whole reason I do this stuff is so I can have fun drawing in the first place.

[Anonymous No.4817271]

>>4806648

bumping my post from the other day. Still wondering how people here feel about it

[Anonymous No.4817283]

Does anyone know where I can get Marco Bucci's brushes? Thanks and pls dont tell me where I can buy them am poor

[Anonymous No.4817369]

>>4817239
your mistake is thinking that you're being asked to draw something that comes out looking good. you can draw whatever you want, it's just more than likely going to look like shit - what you're meant to learn from this is to stop focusing so much on how things turn out, and learn to enjoy the process of drawing despite the fact that it'll look bad for now.

of course it'll get better, since you're doing other things to improve your skills, but right now you shouldn't be avoiding drawing other shit just because you're scared it's gonna look bad.

[Anonymous No.4817433]

>>4817369
I watched the videos. It's not that I'm scared, it's that I lack the basic skills to make this stuff even look like something. I can't draw stick figures and scenes of symbol drawings for hours on end. I've actually done that so far, and it's getting tedious and not fun, while I'm learning how to draw lines.

[Anonymous No.4817467]

>>4816299
that's differently it's own deep subject but this little piece of advice helped me out.

"Try to create characters that can be described by the people who see them."

[Anonymous No.4817502]

can someone give me the sauce to this artist?

[Anonymous No.4817518]

>>4817433
yeah, i know it's hard. it's nothing wrong with you - it's just that these mental blocks exist that cause us to fall into the same patterns we always have.

try not to do the stick figure thing - you know stick figures aren't what you ultimately want to draw, but you're drawing them because they're all you know right now, and that's pigeonholing you into very limited area.

you have to venture out into those uncomfortable spaces. even though drawing a full person who's not just made of sticks - drawing something that is more fleshed out - is going to be hard and it's going to come out badly. but try it anyway.

i don't know what you're interested in drawing or why you're learning to draw - maybe it's because you wanna draw characters, maybe you wanna draw cool mechs, or whatever else - but try to draw those things you're actually interested in, and let yourself do it badly.

[Anonymous No.4817538]

>>4795422
Looks sort of like chicken scratch done with a default pencil tool in SAI or CSP.

[Anonymous No.4817541]

>>4817179
For me it's here, if this is what you're looking for

[Anonymous No.4817560]

>>4817518
>i don't know what you're interested in drawing or why you're learning to draw
Yeah, maybe that's the point. I'm not interested in anything specifically. That's something I can work on. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.4818096]

>>4817271
go ahead and start a thread yourself if no one else is doing it anon! Someone's gotta start it!

[Anonymous No.4818388]

>>4795153
Drawing from references is tracing, and the only "real" art is done exclusively by drawing from what's in your mind.
How do I change my friend's view? He's stuck doing nothing but aimless stick figure doodles and gets frustrated he hasn't made progress for years because he, I quote, feels like a fraud for referencing anything.

[Anonymous No.4818816]

>>4817502

@liult36 on twitter im pretty sure, i found that on pinterest

[Anonymous No.4818935]

>>4817179
There is also Filter > Color Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, if that's what you were looking for

[Anonymous No.4819009]

>>4817541
>>4818935
Oh fuck, i was fucking tired and didn't realized i typed SAI.
I meant to say Krita.

[Anonymous No.4819241]

>>4809242
Referring to a crush I have as my Crush is not creepy. Stop huffing paint thinner and learn to be human.

[Anonymous No.4819801]

>>4818388
put it like this: theres nothing more imaginative than your mind of course, but you cant pull knowledge you dont have out of it; referencing builds up this knowledge and creates a strong base for later. you can totally make it later on without references, but thats when your visual library is so large you can understand figure through mental visualisation instead of needing a tangible subject
basically, drawing from reference is the same as quickdrawing sessions in art school with a live model, where you're understanding whats being put in front of you so you can later just recall this information.

[Anonymous No.4819850]

can i get follows and likes if i just draw pretty Korean and Japanese girl portraits? i don't wanna to draw e-girls or insta model types.

[Anonymous No.4820080]

>>4819850
honestly, probably yes.

[Anonymous No.4820598]

My friend bought a commission from an artist he knows irl, for around £100, he recieved the commission digitally and everything is fine, but today I saw the original artist post the original commission, framed, and listed it as going on sale for £150. My friend didnt know that the artist would be selling it.

Is the artist in the wrong here? As an outside observer I see it as my friend buying the art, so it should belong to him, but instead the guy is double dipping and getting a lot of money from selling my friends idea. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.4820903]

>>4820080

Ok great, Also how do you make money anyways off portraits on Instagram?