DRAW THREAD

[DRAW THREAD No.5059233]

DRAW THREAD, the, "If Bouguereau Was Alive Today He Would an /ic/ Poster!" edition


If you happen to have the Draw Thread copy pasta then feel free to post it below.

Post your the art you are working on at the moment and give feedback to others. Be kind and constructive, NO CRABS ALLOWED

[Anonymous No.5059527]

>>5059233
y'all suck.

I'm posting first I guess
This is something I've been working on for weeks, I don't really have any questions or concerns, just posting anyway

[Anonymous No.5059587]

>>5059527
Give fox a nice dick anon

[Anonymous No.5059686]

>>5059527
Looks good

[Anonymous No.5059714]

>>5059527

Another GMI warrior has appeared.

[Anonymous No.5059739]

>>5059527
turbo mgi
that's a lot of line work tho. Are you gonna paint over it or color the lines?

[Anonymous No.5060093]

Critics please

[Anonymous No.5060134]

Does anything look janky on this? I'm unsure about the torso, specifically the transition from the butt>hip>waist>lats and whether the ribcage is too big.

[Anonymous No.5060142]

>>5060093
The nose and mouth aren't in the same orientation that the eyes are. Nose and mouth going this way <<, and the eyes are going this way >>. The hair is flat and needs more brightness on the lit parts to match the value range of her face. Also the thing behind her looks like a penis cooming.

[Anonymous No.5060171]

>>5060093
I tried liquifying a little, but i think the biggest problem is that some of the features are slightly misplaced.The hair looks amazing tho.

[Anonymous No.5060215]

>>5060134
looks good enough to me, nice 'feel the form' buddy

[Anonymous No.5060216]

>>5060134
The eyebrows is problematic.

[Anonymous No.5060239]

>>5060216
The character has really high eyebrows like that.

[Anonymous No.5060418]

>>5060239
I understand lol it is the promblematic woman's eyebrows lolol

[Anonymous No.5060650]

>>5060134
Torso needs more meat in the upper back

[Anonymous No.5060755]

>>5059527
-y'all suck
Thanks McRae

[Anonymous No.5060758]

>>5060755
Well, guess I do suck, how did I fuck up the greentext?

[Anonymous No.5061558]

>>5060093
I like it! Plenty of criticism was made about the face so I’ll give my two cents on the smoke, it’s too regular and unnatural try getting a bit more wild, towards the left it literally looks like a rope, lovely painting overall Tho!

Here’s one I made, any crits before I post it?

[Anonymous No.5061751]

Trying to draw realistic physiques without having to rely so much on reference. Had to use one for this

[Anonymous No.5061836]

>>5061558
There should be more negative space on the left than on the right. Makes it easier to digest, but just my opinion.

[Anonymous No.5061862]

>>5061836
I see what you mean it does look easier to the eye and puts more focus into the bird, thanks!

[Anonymous No.5061913]

I dont know what I was going for with this. Practicing rendering, I guess?

[Anonymous No.5061928]

>>5061913
Right way up, I hope

[Anonymous No.5062089]

>>5061928
Looks good

[Anonymous No.5062276]

>>5061751
My first time actually getting through something using crosshatch. I usually bail on it and revert to cell shading. Did I pull it off?

[Anonymous No.5062445]

just a sketch, but some things feel off
I can't tell

[Anonymous No.5062469]

some 5 min. value-quickies

[Anonymous No.5062489]

render and sketch practice took me 2 hrs.

[Anonymous No.5062490]

How do I make my sketches look more aesthetically appealing? I want to make clean sketches the first time so I don't have to clean them up as much later.

[Anonymous No.5062636]

>>5061751
>>5062276
For such a ripped guy his deltoids are too small and not long enough on our right side. Biceps are the wrong shape. Pecs don't appear to be attached to the humerous like they should. Inside muscles of the forearm should attach above the elbow.
His waist is also thin but thats fine if you want that comic book style. Although it's a bit warped because the perspective is off.

David Finch just released a nice video on cross hatching. It's on Proko's youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjkPMsbvTs

[Anonymous No.5062675]

>>5062445
some of the anatomy is a bit funky, but nothing too big. Drapery could flow better too, to accentuate whatever movement you want. I just think its kinda just sitting there like a pillow. Other than that, I like it a lot

[Anonymous No.5062685]

>>5062490
Your stuff looks really aesthetic to me. Some of the stylization makes it look like you're bad at drawing, like with the boy's head sliding off his neck, and the funky hands (I'd bring out the bony landmarks in the hands more). If anything, just make your stuff more pointed and angular. Focus on rhythm and letting things flow into each other more too. pic related is a good example of how things can be angular and still flow, it kinda has a smilar style to what you're going for so idk.

[Anonymous No.5062690]

rough sketch -> readable lines -> set lighting ->

about to render this bad boy but for now I sleep

[Anonymous No.5062706]

>>5062445
The... the leg...

[Anonymous No.5062713]

>>5062685
Thanks, yeah my doodles can get pretty bad sometimes lol. That's definitely part of the reason they don't look very good sometimes, that and losing steam at the end and saying "fuck it" just to finish it. I've been trying to get more used to drawing with less lines rather than chicken scratching all the time too, so that's another thing. Any chance you have some links to sites that discuss line weight and flow? I'm horrible at finding good refs

[Anonymous No.5062725]

>>5062685
Pic source, please

[Anonymous No.5062761]

>>5062445
Did someone put her left knee in a hydraulic press or is this an optical illusion from the dress

[Anonymous No.5062844]

>>5059233
Picrel
>>5062690
Very cool, the sense of perspective is good. I think the foreground guy's right arm needs either more foreshortening or should be further back, it's caught in between now and looks awkward.

[Anonymous No.5062851]

>>5062844
looking now with fresh eyes, I totally agree thank you

[Anonymous No.5062856]

>>5062851
I'm this dud forgot to put feedback
>>5062844
if you're draw something this big/wide
you need to put a focal point (It's where your eyes will land first/focus of the piece)
maybe try putting the couple in the front and the dudes in the table to be in the back ground, because at the moment my eyes are all over the place trying to look for something. to focus on.

[Anonymous No.5062928]

A prompt i was given from a friend, Don't shit on the font ik its cringe

wanna know if the values r doing alright and if my anatomy is looking funky

[Anonymous No.5062931]

>>5062928
the prompt

[Anonymous No.5063280]

study...

[Anonymous No.5063324]

Trying to get to the point where hair doesn't look like a birdsnest or a mop anymore..

[Anonymous No.5063497]

[Anonymous No.5063968]

>>5060134
>>5060650
I tried to add some more meat and refine the muscles of the armpit. Also toned down the tits a bit. I'm trying to figure out how to reduce the barrel chest.

[Anonymous No.5064027]

i fucked up the perspective but i don’t wanna work on this anymore

[Anonymous No.5064132]

>>5064027
If this is the kind of stuff you like doing you'd probably like SketchUp. You can build a whole scene just like this and its not hard to learn.

[Anonymous No.5064154]

Random spiderman sketches. I don't even like spiderman, just the Spiderverse movie, but it was quite the fun, maybe I draw some more later

>>5064027
It is looking lovely, the perspective seems fine to me, but you definitely fucked up the shadow on the stairs, kind of ruins the whole piece. Otherwise this could easily be a real cartoon background

[Anonymous No.5064165]

>>5064154
Would look better if the lower legs tapered to a big foot. Kinda looks like Megaman legs right now.

[Anonymous No.5064303]

>>5064154
These are really really cool, great lighting, linework and stylization.

[Anonymous No.5064950]

>>5063497
Looks lovely! fingers are a bit sausagey though.

[Anonymous No.5064952]

i really don't know where to improve with my art. it's like i have all the right skills in all the wrong places. fuck

[Anonymous No.5065031]

>>5062675
>>5062706
>>5062761
I fixed the dress, I actually didn't noticed the weird shape of the leg

[Anonymous No.5065161]

>>5065031
Yeah this looks a lot better. Had me worried that you'd keep the weird leg, but thankfully you didn't

[Anonymous No.5065624]

Currently attempting Craig's Mullins course homewor, task was to bring a dark image provided into a light image with HDR. Feel Like I almost got it for a study but I feel like it's too washed out, would increasing contrast and saturation fix this issue?

[Anonymous No.5065783]

[Anonymous No.5066238]

>>5062469
Good

[Anonymous No.5066261]

not working with my usual setup, noticed the monitor I had my ref on was considerably britghter then the other one and stopped.
tried adjusting the levels a bit but it still doesn't look good.

[Anonymous No.5066316]

>>5062844
>The nazi beg is back.

[Anonymous No.5066358]

>>5066316
>Nazi

[Anonymous No.5066364]

>>5066358
are you an american by any chance?

[Anonymous No.5066382]

>>5066364
Yes

[Anonymous No.5066473]

Am I good enough to post here or should I go fuck off to /beg/?

I dont get eyes...

[Anonymous No.5066495]

trying to go for humor. is this amusing or am I deluding myself

[Anonymous No.5066497]

I've been drawing for 2 years and i still don't know what i want to draw so i always end up with random shit like this. I really think this is the reason i stagnate. How do you what you like to draw? Why did you chose to draw anime or knights or anything? How you decide?

[Anonymous No.5066499]

>>5066495
i don't get it

[Anonymous No.5066500]

>>5066497
>How do you know what
fix.

[Anonymous No.5066681]

>>5066495
>trying to make digital art look trad

[Anonymous No.5066728]

>>5062636
The video is great, we need a thread for good standalone YT videos like this one you posted.

[Anonymous No.5066912]

I haven't posted here in a while but I'm trying to get back to drawing more than once a month

>>5059527
>>5061558
>>5061928
>>5062685
>>5063280
>>5064154
>>5064154
>>5064027
love these

>>5062276
the hatching is a bit irregular and it takes away from everything else

>>5062844
Nice but I feel like the male characters blend into the background a bit too much.

>>5062928
Shoulders and tits don't have the same perspective

>>5066261
I like the values here. though the hair is a bit of a mess. Not a fan of the dark line separating the head from the body, I feel like you could make that shape more interesting and descriptive.

[Anonymous No.5066915]

[Anonymous No.5066990]

>>5066473
You dont get the entire face. Back to /beg/.

[Anonymous No.5066994]

>>5066915
S-S-S-SOUL

[Anonymous No.5067063]

>>5066495
It’s not very amusing, more subversive. Technically it’s very good, and I like the expression, but you should focus on more naturalistic posing, I understand the cradling pose you wanted but it doesn’t look very relaxed, try studying more refs of soldiers holding their guns idly in order to get the loose feeling

[Anonymous No.5067108]

can possible a redline maybe pleasius? :) *smiles *

leg is broket

[Anonymous No.5067110]

>>5067108
sorryin pixcture is biggis..

[Anonymous No.5067295]

shaping blobs with a brush is funner than lines, cool

[Anonymous No.5067301]

>>5066473
Clean lines aren't a showstopper post here like in beg

[Anonymous No.5067379]

Self portrait from today

[Anonymous No.5067457]

>>5066912
Portrait-goathorn-valuestudy guy here, thanks for the response.
Hair is definitely a weakness of mine and i've been looking at steve huston's head drawing course and sinix videos on hair so I think I have enough to work with on that for now.
I think the bigger issue for me are shapes and trying to get away from line-dependancy since I'm kinda lost regarding that, If anyone has some Input/ resources on how to approach that I'd be grateful.

[Anonymous No.5067486]

>>5067457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQfF-P70V2Q
I found this vid useful for learning more about values and shapes.

I'd recommend using the biggest brush you can feasibly use and stick to 3 colours for value studies. Slowly make the brush smaller as it becomes too hard to make the changes you want to, but like work on the whole thing as a thumbnail, not focusing on any one area. It'll force you to focus on the shapes to convey the image

[Anonymous No.5067829]

>>5067295
lets see your blob hands then handbro

[Anonymous No.5067891]

[Anonymous No.5068070]

>>5067486
thanks my dude, I'll give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.5068165]

>>5066382
Based and freedompilled

[Anonymous No.5068201]

Workin on this illustration here; I've always had this sorta issue with rendering past the midpoint; I get a little lost when I'm determining textures and what needs to sharpened and softened.
Also there's a lot of really cool work in this thread, great work anons!

[Anonymous No.5068274]

>>5068201
tiles on the floor are not the same size and the perspective looks wrong because of its irregular diminishing size. might be better to use a perfect grid or the like

I don't understand why the centermost guy would turn like that to see the monster(?). He can just turn his head to his left (from normal sitting position) instead of turning 270deg to the right and bringing his right leg over the chair?? doesn't seem thought out very well

story is not immediately clear because of composition. the main guy is too far from the center imo. you can probably cut or compress everything on the left since it's all just black anyways. but the camera shot itself just doesn't illustrate the scenario well, you should read Framed Ink if you haven't already

[Anonymous No.5068301]

>>5068274
Got it, thanks anon!
Most of the reason that I have that 270 degree turn is so that he kicks his leg over and grabs his sword so he can jump into action, it's a bit melodramatic, but I felt like that better conveyed a chaotic mood for the scene.

I do agree that the left side should be compressed, but I think centering my character would throw off the eyeflow a little wouldn't it? I structured it so he's the first read and the monster is the second instead of focusing on the main character alone.

I couldn't agree more that I should have placed a grid down before doing the perspective, I just laid in my vanishing points and made my lines converge there.

[Anonymous No.5068346]

>>5068301
ah I would think that putting him closer to center/symmetry would make him feel more stable in the composition and unphased by the ensuing chaos around him. also desu he was not the first read for me

[Anonymous No.5068358]

>>5068301
>>5068346
Do not center him, it’s currently doing rule of thirds which is good. Rotate image so that the angle of the floor is opposite and the image is 'sliding' towards the sitting king, make the guy in the turned completely towards the monster with his hand grabbing his sword handle and his other hand grabbing his scabbard to steady it, and also the guy middle left needs a more chaotic pose to contrast the sitting king

[Anonymous No.5068370]

[Anonymous No.5068372]

Did a quick rough rotation, is this any more compositionally sound?

[Anonymous No.5068373]

>>5068358
meant to give you a (you)

[Anonymous No.5068418]

>>5068372
Tilt even more to the right, guy middle left is actually fine but make a glint on his left side to pick out his arm and sword

[Anonymous No.5068640]

>>5068372
1 - The perspective here is not translating well at all. Is he supposed to be standing on the floor? Right now, this looks like a midget knight standing on the table. If that was your intention, my apologies.

2 - The forms here aren't reading well either. The values are too dark. I did a double-take at first because it looks like she's standing in an empty sandbox.

3 - While you may have intended to make this guy a directional marker, it looks like he's staring at the midget guy on the table and not at the beast in the doorway. I suggest you make him face the table like the guy in area 4 and turn his head towards the beast or just delete him altogether and move the innkeeper to the head of the table.

4 - His body is weird. That much roundness at the top of his back suggests he doesn't have a neck and the lower region of his back is completely square and unnatural.

[Anonymous No.5068765]

[Anonymous No.5068827]

>>5068640
Opened up the shadows a bit on the left side, and yes the dude on the left is standing up on the table. I cropped in a bit more, not sure whether this worked in my favor or against it.

[Anonymous No.5068854]

>>5068827
Fuck off why are you so good

[Anonymous No.5068859]

>>5068827

I THINK I'M GONNA COOOOOMM AAAHHHH.

[Anonymous No.5068890]

>>5068854
>>5068859
Thanks anons!

[Anonymous No.5068898]

>>5068890
You deserve it, man. Keep up the good work!

[Anonymous No.5068944]

[Anonymous No.5069016]

[Anonymous No.5069139]

>>5069016
Um is that a giant sperm behind her?

[Anonymous No.5069143]

>>5069139

[Anonymous No.5069204]

>>5069143
Well ill be damned

[Anonymous No.5069294]

>>5059233
Been lacking on the drawing since I've been sucked into raiding and mythic+ in Shadowlands. But due to the weekly vault mechanic I'm working hours back in daily.

[Anonymous No.5069451]

>>5062445
the legs kind of jut out unnaturally like they aren't attached to a hip/pelvis. if you impose where the hips/pelvis is and compare it to the legs it's a bit off, right?

Are you making a simple model first to make sure the proportions are right?

[Anonymous No.5069454]

>>5069451
Yes, I draw an "Egg" for the chest and a "Basket" for the pelvis, I think that somewhere I simplified the shapes and lost the connection maybe??

How is this sketch going?

[Anonymous No.5069459]

>>5064154
Quick fix on the head

[Anonymous No.5069486]

>>5063968

Since she looks fairly athletic that meat you're trying to add is I think first the serratus muscle, and then I think the lat and some other muscle stack on top of it like layers. So it right now it looks a bit flat. I think it's really the lat insert that needs to be a bit bigger. and that line is melding into the serratus a bit much so it isn't popping out.

[Anonymous No.5069493]

>>5069454
great as far as I can tell. I'm jelly you got so much movement going. I don't think I can help much since that's pretty much beyond me.

[Anonymous No.5069531]

>>5069454
for the previous drawing I figured it out by imposing over it. the broom is going through her pelvis. she's not reaching out far enough to grab the broom after you move it forward enough to the point where she would be straddling it and not impaled by it. As for the right arm the insert was messed up a bit and is smooshed towards the medial line.

[Anonymous No.5069537]

>>5069454
I didn't notice you already finished it and fixed it my bad kek

[Anonymous No.5069646]

>>5068827
i just made a quick edit because i think the perspectiv needs to be changed a bit.

[Anonymous No.5069814]

>>5069294
i have a colorblind friend who paints just like you anon.. I think you should check if you are, sincerely

[Anonymous No.5069976]

>>5068827
The ground and window area in general need to be completely reworked imo. Honestly at a glance it looks like the monster is coming in from a window that's directly above/behind the dude on the right. The stuff in the back right needs to be taller and bigger I think as well. In general the perspective is still mega fucked, and you will need to do a good amount of painting to make it readable.

[Anonymous No.5070055]

First time drawing in months, decided just to have some fun with designing something for my forever project.
What say?

[Anonymous No.5070079]

>>5066495
I like this but the gun looks like it bent at the butt. Reminds me of when runescape went to upgraded graphics and the gnome village got the update
>>5066915
Soul
>>5067108
I can't redline but if you're trying to foreshorten, study what a torso would look like laying down with the head coming towards the pov. The way you have it drawn just makes it seem like he has a super short torso, ergo disproportionate
>>5067379
Sorry, don't critique Mer
>>5068201
Beowulf v grendel? Looks good, but ultimately like a soulless hearthstone pic
>>5068765
Values look good except for the face
>>5068944
Me irl
>>5069531
I think doing a little foreshortening on the left leg(one furthest from pov) and maybe some other minor vanishing point work would translate the energy you're trying to convey a bit better

Pic rel is something I did recently.

[Anonymous No.5070146]

>>5069976
>>5068827
agree with this. the bench (and presumably the table as well) on the right is longer than the one on the left. too many elements are inconsistent/out of scale intentionally or otherwise.
I think for this illustration, after choosing your thumbnail you should have established the setting in orthographic top/side views to get the scale of the environment, then project it in space. I'd even say using a quick 3d prototype could have saved you a lot of trouble. it's easy to spot uncanny shit in familiar man-made setting like this- even getting the size of a cup handle or ladle wrong can start to become uncanny, unlike some obscure mech or natural structure where you can get away with blowing up proportions etc. you should take the time to plan your props in advance and have better approximation of size (in general but more so for indoor settings)

[Anonymous No.5070149]

[Anonymous No.5070173]

>>5068827
either you don't see your mistakes or you do but refuse to change anything because 'muh style'. either way, this image isn't working at all. quit wasting time, go back to the concept stage, and design a new composition for you idea. also, you really need to work on your anatomy. it's very obvious that you're drawing from boxes in perspective with very little understanding of the human form.

>>5070055
she doesn't look balanced. where's her other leg?

[Anonymous No.5070218]

>>5069459
Don't worry, I appreciate it anyways, my dude

[Anonymous No.5070248]

>>5070149
I like this. I wish bone armor in morrowind looked like this

[Anonymous No.5070418]

is it ok to post something I need help with if it’s (soft) porn?

[Anonymous No.5070420]

>>5070418
yes, but also there's a porn critique thread

[Anonymous No.5070434]

>>5070420
yeah, but my question isn’t really porn-related so I figured this would be the better place to ask
the whole thing feels very dead to me and I can’t figure out what it is, I guess it’s the skin tone or the palette in general or something
I thought about adding some warmer tones but then I got autistic wondering about orc anatomy
also, any other general crit welcome, I’m aware of the foot not being positioned well, but I noticed it too late and I can’t be fucked to fix it now

[Anonymous No.5070477]

[Anonymous No.5070899]

>tfw not sure if extremely slow thread or being silently instructed to fuck off

[Anonymous No.5070905]

>>5070899
everyone is playing cyberpunk or trying to beat sephiroth on smash to get him early

[Anonymous No.5071069]

Sketch I made of my character in a Anima Table Im playing with friends Need to get home and actually do the hand pose so I can get it totally right.

[Anonymous No.5071297]

>>5070434
well i'm not sure. I just painted over it to see what i would do.
What i see is a sort of ambient occlusion pass render. It's a nice starting point but i light doesn't hit every object the same. I'm not sure i mostly paint by what i feel is right so maybe someone with more knowledge can help you. But i would prioritize the focal point and then have the light fade out from there.

[Anonymous No.5071384]

>>5069454
I didn't like it

[Anonymous No.5071411]

I didn't want to go too detailed for this one, ended up just making a muddy textures and weird lighting situation, how does one create good textures digitally.

[Anonymous No.5071924]

>>5071384
I like the overall piece but the braids have come out looking really flat.

>>5070149
Really like the shapes and forms you've used. Definitely reading it as chitin/carapace.

>>5070248
Alma Fetcher! Bonemold armour in Morrowind in pure and aesthetic as fuck as is.


>>5070149
>>5070477
>>5071384
>>5063968
>>5062928

Also, blogs?

[Anonymous No.5072731]

>>5071297
I was going for a dark mood with a weak directional light, but I guess I made the transition to dark too abrupt, I tried adding more falloff and broadening the range, but it still has that shitty quality I can’t describe, like the individual elements don’t belong on the same image
I’ll call it here, thanks for the help

[Anonymous No.5072738]

>>5072731
>dark mood = literally pitch black
that's really low iq and fail as an artist. I don't know what to say,,,

[Anonymous No.5072743]

>>5072738
not “evocative of a dark mental state, literally dark mood
as in low light

[Anonymous No.5072748]

>>5069486
Thanks. I'm actually going to attempt to make her look less buff as i do the painting phase. I sort of go overboard trying to detail the muscles in the drawing phase to guide the painting. This is where i'm at now just trying to get the skin midtones and some basic background composition set up.

[Anonymous No.5072751]

>>5072738
Also, is it really that dark?
It’s low key for sure, but it looks fine on my screen, but maybe I’ve been staring at it for too long

[Anonymous No.5072775]

>>5072731
Thumbnail almost looks completely black. Nobody will see the dark mood if the thumbnail barely shows anything. They wont click on it. I used an overlay layer at 100% with a white/yellow color which you can see on the right. Also adjusted brightness/contrast/saturation levels a little. Decide on where the light is coming from and make a separation between light and dark with some cast shadows and blended falloffs. You can add in some bounce light after you get that set up like i did on her arm.

[Anonymous No.5072777]

>>5072751
you need at least some light to make something look dark, yours is just all dark which desaturates it, look at the thumbnail you posted you cant tell what's going on, you barely can when the image is expanded. Look up paintings with chiaroscuro, they're very moody but all still have a full value range, yours is only midtone to black

[Anonymous No.5072821]

Honest thoughts? I still have a lot of work to do in greyscale before I move on to coloring stage, so this is still far from complete. I definitely not pleased with the left arm/hand in particular anatomy wise, and values still need adjusting in some areas.

[Anonymous No.5072838]

>>5072821
The only thing that stands out to me is the arm. It's a bit too tube like and doesn't have the subtle curves that even a lithe woman would have.

[Anonymous No.5072847]

>>5072775
ok, but I didn’t want to have a standard strong directional light, I wanted a low light setting
If I failed, that’s fine, but then I’d appreciate solutions to how to succeed in what I intended, not to completely change the goal of the image
a very strong directional light is not what I want, I was thinking more like a cave setting with a very weak light coming in from the outside and bouncing off the walls or something like that
the value range could probably use some stretching, but by no means would I ever use a full value range for something like this, it seems artificial

[Anonymous No.5072856]

>>5072847
If you're doing it just for you then do what you want. If you're doing it to show to others then you need to step into their shoes and see it from the perspective of someone who's seeing it for the first time. It won't matter that you tried to make it dark and moody if they don't even click the thumbnail because they only see a black rectangle. The only way to improve what you have is to add more light. That's the simplest answer. Make there be torches in the cave or some opening that's allowing sunlight or moonlight in or have the monster have glowing appendages. What matters is making the image readable and in its current near black state it isn't.

[Anonymous No.5072863]

>>5072847
the image is the one that is artificial!!!!!!!!
in real life your eyes adjust to the dark and low light.. once in your life you need to go outside at night! and i hope you get hit by a truck mate!

[Anonymous No.5072895]

>>5072838
>The only thing that stands out to me is the arm. It's a bit too tube like and doesn't have the subtle curves that even a lithe woman would have.

Thanks, I didn't really notice. I'll have to keep working on it.

[Anonymous No.5072897]

>>5072856
obviously I’m doing art for myself, but I wouldn’t be asking for feedback if I didn’t respect other people’s views of what I make
>more light
but is there no way of making something read as “there’s very little light here” without bringing in a candle to illuminate some part of it so we can infer the other stuff is dark?
something like pic related reads completely differently to me
I can’t produce an image of what a low light setting looks like, but we both know what it looks like, there’s a very low value key, but you still see relatively well
I know I’m getting autistic now, but forget the image theme, it’s just some oc request from /aco/, I’m genuinely interested in making the lighting work

>>5072863
I live in the country, “mate”, your eyes don’t adjust to seeing the full value range at night, go be retarded somewhere else

[Anonymous No.5072906]

Haven't drawn any bimbos in a while. Time to get back to muh basics.

[Anonymous No.5072916]

>>5069294

[Anonymous No.5072917]

>>5072856
>>5072897
like the pic related are low key and have a narrow range, but read well to me, is the answer grouping into simpler shapes to create a bigger gap in values/colors between shapes and make groups more easily recognisable?

[Anonymous No.5072924]

>>5072897
hey autismo
I was not the one who said it should be full range, wind your neck in lad

>>5072917
you are NOT even close! aside from the value problem you also have a color problem it seems. Maybe just get your eyes checked? or read a book or two

[Anonymous No.5072932]

>>5072924
what color problem?
what is not even close?

[Anonymous No.5072933]

>>5072897

You care a lot about your coom art bro. You seem to be torn between making serious, emotional pieces and low-quality porn.

[Anonymous No.5072938]

>>5072933
I don’t see how the theme is relevant to the subject being discussed, if you can paint an orc footjob in low light you can paint something else in low light

[Anonymous No.5072972]

>>5072917
Those are also nearly pitch black. You must have your monitor set realllllly fucking bright to be able to even see those. I can't even tell what the top one is..all i see is two red dots and some smudgy red below it. You need to calibrate your monitor. There are some online calibration tests you can do, just google "monitor calibration" and specifically check the ones that deal with grayscale contrast range. Anyone who isn't in a completely dark room won't even be able to see that there's something there at all.

[Anonymous No.5072990]

how do people paint someone help

[Anonymous No.5072997]

>>5072990
read the sticky

[Anonymous No.5073018]

>>5072906
When I shade from imagination I always miss opportunities and second guess myself. Anyone have tips/tools for getting shading/lighting right the first time?

[Anonymous No.5073021]

>>5073018
does it have to be from imagination? use reference :T

[Anonymous No.5073116]

how good do you have to be to post here?

[Anonymous No.5073150]

[Anonymous No.5073161]

>>5065031
wow this really came together!! great work!!!

[Anonymous No.5073242]

Does the butt/backside look okay?

[Anonymous No.5073353]

[Anonymous No.5073356]

>>5073353
Love it

[Anonymous No.5073511]

>>5072972
I’m phoneposting and it looks fine lol

[Anonymous No.5073664]

Some sketches i did today, need advices

[Anonymous No.5073666]

[Anonymous No.5073799]

>>5066473
You don't get eyes, proportions, shapes, form, anatomy, perspective nor linework. You shouldn't get out of /beg/ until you get rid of your symbol drawing phase.

[Anonymous No.5073931]

>>5064027
finished something else

[Anonymous No.5073938]

>>5073353
where did you learn to paint faces? This is beautiful

[Anonymous No.5074087]

[Anonymous No.5074134]

>>5059233
Quick sketch in graphite

[Anonymous No.5074317]

>>5062489
Good render! I don't know the reference but feels a little bit off proportion.

(wip) still thinking if i should dark down the values.

[Anonymous No.5074399]

[Anonymous No.5074448]

I wiped it off so it's modern now?

[Anonymous No.5074708]

A quick sketch I made using polygonal tool and a square brush. it was fun!

[Anonymous No.5075145]

if something feels off please let me now before I polish it like turd

[Anonymous No.5075153]

please 4chin, that's a lot of minutes before i can post a pic again
not familiar with anime style but a friend likes it, if something feels off please let me know

[Anonymous No.5075222]

[Anonymous No.5075304]

I don't know man, I've stagnated hard. Want to learn to paint but it ain't clicking, ended up doing lineart again.

[Anonymous No.5075389]

>>5059527
its very hard to read so far. im not the biggest fan of the composition but thats fine since its not a professional piece. the main problem here is the perspective of the two figures in the front. it really feels like they are on two separate layers of floors. i dont know if its because of what you referenced or what but you really gotta practice placing the feet on the ground plane properly because otherwise it is pretty telling that you are unsure of what youre doing. rather convenient that most of the figures in this painting are NOT showing their feet. good job tho. lots of room for improvement too.

[Anonymous No.5075437]

>>5075153
Very good job, good sense of anatomy.

[Anonymous No.5075458]

>>5075153

The angle of her left arm feels off, her shoulder is just gone there's no tension showing her arm is bent in the neck area. In general both the arms are just giving of stick vibes, give some definition to show where her muscles are so they don't look so tube like. Besides that you're doing pretty alright, keep studying anon. You got this.

[Anonymous No.5075491]

>>5075437
cringe

[Anonymous No.5075752]

My hatching is terrible. I need to improve my consistency and honestly patience. But I'm trying to work on it. Any tips for hatching? I'm not super into cross hatching personally

[Anonymous No.5075755]

>>5075752
keep doing it until you get better pog

[Anonymous No.5075756]

>>5075752
Also yeah it looks compressed to shit since I've downscaled to 1200x1200 for the thread

[Anonymous No.5075760]

>>5075755
That is good advice I guess. I definitely prefer doing it in trad, I feel like digital I get way more hand cramp doing lots of small lines

[Anonymous No.5075763]

>>5075760
thats for sherm

[Anonymous No.5075765]

>>5075763
What on earth is that supposed to mean

[Anonymous No.5075769]

>>5075765
thts 4 shr

[Anonymous No.5075779]

>>5075769
Man why do you type like this

[Anonymous No.5075781]

>>5075779
why are u slippit? im just hella vibin my main man..

[Anonymous No.5075823]

[Anonymous No.5075826]

>>5074317
You should try to separate the general light and shadow shape more from eachother. Doesn't necessarily mean darkening, but at the very least compressing the difference between the shadow values.

[Anonymous No.5076606]

>>5068370
amazing face that looks so effortless but you can tell a lot of work went into it. blog?
>>5064154
love the dynamic linework. blog?
>>5070477
great faces

[Anonymous No.5076680]

Cornwell study

[Anonymous No.5077039]

>>5074708
very cute dodo

[Anonymous No.5077121]

>>5075437
thank you anon, i'm doing my utmost with very scarce knowledge to be honest, I may feel some forms but not most
>>5075458
>her shoulder is just gone there's no tension showing her arm is bent in the neck area
Yes, I tried doing it again after rewatching a few videos about shoulders and arms, also moving it a bit, tho i'm still unsure about shoulders, they're very tricky
>give some definition to show where her muscles are so they don't look so tube like
yeah i needed to do that, even if i'm not confident with them right now i'll see what I can do when painting it
>keep studying anon. You got this.
absolutely I will, thank you very much for the feedback

[Anonymous No.5078278]

Warming up with an older piece of fanart.

>>5076606
Thanks!

https://twitter.com/WhiteBox_Studio

[Anonymous No.5078548]

arboreal atrocities

[Anonymous No.5078653]

>>5076680
Lovely.

[Anonymous No.5078769]

>>5075389
Cringe at this ngmi critique

[Anonymous No.5078808]

>>5078769
Based

[Anonymous No.5078879]

Do anyone know in which board can I post requests for drawings?

[Anonymous No.5079128]

[Anonymous No.5079142]

Critics please!

[Anonymous No.5079182]

Finally drawing again after a short hiatus

[Anonymous No.5079272]

>>5073931
very nice anon, got something for me to follow?

[Anonymous No.5079394]

thoughts? with or without fog?

[Anonymous No.5079396]

>>5079394

[Anonymous No.5079527]

>>5079142
Blog? Love this

[Anonymous No.5079534]

Character design sketch

[Anonymous No.5079541]

>>5079394
>>5079396
Without the fog. I know it's not done, but the structure is jarring. It is stylistically different than the environment around it, and the building looks like it doesn't 'fit'.

[Anonymous No.5079582]

>>5079541
>I know it's not done
shit. anyways ive had this thing sitting in my gallery for over a year and just dont have the motivation to work on it more it so i thought it was done. but i could add more detail to the trees, structure so maybe ill finish it next year. anyways the dissonance between the environment and the structure was deliberate. i was going for something to the effect of 'walking through the jungle and you stumble across this and decide to gtfo'

[Anonymous No.5079655]

>>5079394
>>5079396
meandraco?

[Anonymous No.5079699]

for an artfight

[Anonymous No.5079773]

>>5079655
checked but that is not me

[Anonymous No.5079783]

>>5079142
These neon color choices are cringe

[Anonymous No.5079787]

>>5078548
Cool

[Anonymous No.5079795]

>>5079142
I love it anon. The big thing that jumps to mind is that the nose looks out of perspective with the rest of the face. I also think that your color choices for the green blobs are really boring, you should play around with making the darker shades shift towards blue instead of simply decreasing in value. Maybe some differently colored organelle things inside the blobs could also make them more interesting looking.

[Anonymous No.5079839]

>>5062844
Hey, I love your work. Where can I find more of it? I first saw your art on the Right Wing Culture Creation thread on /pol/.

[Anonymous No.5079972]

>>5078769
Not all critique is cringe critique. I thought it was pretty fair and I made the damn thing. A lot of things about the poses and camera angle is complicated and frankly I don't think I can get it just right. I'm hopeful it'll all come together in the end.

[Anonymous No.5079975]

>>5062844
This is so fucking weird... like furry tier weird

[Anonymous No.5079981]

>>5073353

[Anonymous No.5080171]

>>5060758
>how did I fuck up the greentext?
seriously?

[Anonymous No.5080361]

Computer artwork is so soulles.

[Anonymous No.5080642]

WIP I can already feel her mocking me.

[Anonymous No.5080766]

>>5080642

:(

[Anonymous No.5080827]

>>5080642
What does it feel like to create something that hates you?

[Anonymous No.5080856]

[Anonymous No.5081104]

Tried doing the piece in B&W, colorizing with a gradient map, and then overlaying the local colors on top. I think it looks good in the darks, but in the lights the local color gets lost completely and it all stays purple. Not sure how to fix it (besides painting a totally different way).

[Anonymous No.5081177]

>>5080766
>>5080642
>why did you design me to feel pain?

[Anonymous No.5081189]

>>5079972
It’s cringe because >>5075389 is trying to apply finished critique to a WIP where the value structure isn’t even defined yet. It’s a /beg/ larping as /int/ critiquing a pro. If that isn’t cringe I don’t know what is. As a low-mid /int/ even I can see where they are going with the composition.

[Anonymous No.5081871]

implacable idiosyncrasies

[Anonymous No.5082101]

I tried to censor it so i wouldnt get banned for furry porn, but can i get some assistance with the lights coloring and anatomy please? trying to learn digital paint in csp is something that i have struggled with for a long time.

Thanks lads

[Anonymous No.5082152]

>>5082101
i want you to really think about the relative sizes of those hands and then get back to me mkay?

[Anonymous No.5082254]

Learning horses, any advice / critiques?

[Anonymous No.5082258]

>>5082254
That head and neck is ENORMOUS. The rest looks pretty good.

[Anonymous No.5082288]

>>5075826
thx anon!

[Anonymous No.5082297]

learn a lot about your shortcomings when doodling imagination shit

[Anonymous No.5082336]

I wanted to draw something for Christmas

[Anonymous No.5082346]

>>5082336
pretty sick, good shit dude

[Anonymous No.5082459]

Finished this. Thots?

>>5066495
Looks like he's using the gun backwards. For clarity it should be more vertical and have him hug it OR upside down cause you're supposed to carry a baby belly-up.
I really like the art, though. Blog?

>>5073931
Ugly clouds and road is lacking something to give it depth compared to the rest, but this is very nice, anon, I love it.
The little guy waving back got me.

>>5080856
Cool as heck, what anime to you usually study?

>>5081104
Flatten the gradient and erase where needed. Or mask some parts and apply a Selective Color filter.
I'm an advocate for just making a color sketch and painting directly in colors, though.

[Anonymous No.5082481]

Also >>5079142 here are some suggestions to have more than green around her.

[Anonymous No.5082503]

behold
my second work

[Anonymous No.5082557]

Just finished this. I wanted to go harder on the shading and use it to boost the mood but I despise painting colour and shade. I like the hard edges but I can't commit enough to it to have it be effective. Tried painting the shade but it just looked muddy and shit

[Anonymous No.5082822]

[Anonymous No.5082853]

>>5082481
In some ways this is a good edit. However, I feel like this loses the sense of claustrophobia & suffocating that the original had. Yours opens up the composition too much by not bringing that green all the way to the edges, when it should seem like a solid, closed wall of blobs where her head is struggling to poke through.

[Anonymous No.5082859]

>>5082822
damn, you got a blog?

[Anonymous No.5082969]

>>5082459
>what anime?

Gainax, this time I tried to commit myself to use almost pointy edges
I like some studies @TaffyToad makes in Twitter

>>5082346
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.5082973]

>>5082459
Forgot to say, I like your piece a lot!
The SSS looks pleasant

[Anonymous No.5083023]

>>5079783
Hey now... no crabs allowed

This is your first warning.

[Anonymous No.5083048]

>>5082859
https://twitter.com/ArtKlinck

[Anonymous No.5083271]

>>5083023
shut your gay ass up bitch

[Anonymous No.5083276]

>>5082481
Soul vs soulless

[Anonymous No.5083297]

>>5083271
second warning

don't make me post in all caps

[Anonymous No.5083562]

>>5083297
if you're schizzing out over a mild statement of a preference you're a fag

[Anonymous No.5083993]

>>5082336

[Anonymous No.5084037]

>>5060093
What in the living fuck is up with her neck?

[Anonymous No.5084044]

>>5084037
This was my reference
I think my "Plumb lines" are in the right place? Did I miss something, anon?

[Anonymous No.5084051]

>>5084044
Yes, your head is too small compared to the body and it makes the neck feel way too long.

Her head is bigger and as a result is correctly proportioned to rest of the body.

See filename for hints to improve your drawing.

[Anonymous No.5084059]

>>5084051
I did

[Anonymous No.5084070]

I have to push the values further on the next one, this is kind of flat.

[Anonymous No.5084076]

>>5084059
Well here is where you fucked up.

You've changed the angle of her head because, in the reference image, her hairline is near the top. This is what gives her the fullness to her head size.

Your gal is looking downwards but you haven't moved her chin down to compensate for this head nod. Most of her hair is the top of her head.

I don't know what plumb lines are for, but you need to pay more attention to this sort of thing.

See filename.

[Anonymous No.5084083]

>>5084076
>what are plumb lines
into the trash your opinion goes

[Anonymous No.5084085]

>>5084076
anon is mean, and sad

[Anonymous No.5084089]

>>5084083
Thank you!

>>5084085
I just work here. Somebody asked for a crit, I provided. If I'm wrong or you're intentionally giving her a weird neck, by all means go ahead and say it.

I don't want to go into other shit like her having uneven eyes, one eye looks lazy and is looking way the fuck off into the distance compared to the other one. First fix the size of the head so she doesn't have a giraffe's neck. Then we can take it from there.

[Anonymous No.5084096]

>>5084089
I'm actually here, sadanon

I was thinking that it's better to center the lacrimal of the eye for this type of comparison

I remember at some point I tried to shape the head a bit more to my liking, I think that's when I messed up since I just eyeballed everything
So I will fix it now

Oh and I don't really mind people talking like a retard here, It's /ic/, but I also think people expect unnecessary comments out when discussing something important? Idk

You just tell me what you see, my dude, I want to return to the drawing board every time I can

[Anonymous No.5084101]

>>5084096
>So I will fix it now
Based

I wouldn't compare it to lacrimal because of the alignment thing either. My redline of your hairline was off as a result, since you've angled her head that way also and as a result it throws that comparison as well.

I do hope you see now that the head is too small compared to your ref. Again, unless it's some effect you're going for, it makes her (your) neck feel too long for her head size.

The alternative is start to erase the back of her neck until it's slimmer. That might help the situation, but it might also cause more troubles.

[Anonymous No.5084131]

>>5084101
larger chin

[Anonymous No.5084144]

>>5084101
Err I don't think much has changed, but I measured the neck in comparison and they line up

[Anonymous No.5084178]

>>5079699
What happens in an artfight?

[Anonymous No.5084183]

>>5079699
you just broke the first 2 rules of the artfight club

[Anonymous No.5084186]

>>5084183
why?

[Anonymous No.5084551]

[Anonymous No.5084756]

>>5083562
FInal warning, I will in all caps call you a mean name and tell you to leave

test me

[Anonymous No.5084822]

[Anonymous No.5085358]

[Anonymous No.5085410]

>>5084551
I really like this. The costume design is great, the facial expression is great. I like the blocky aesthetic because it suits his character well.

Things that could be improved, if you choose to

1) Foot size needs to be increased.
2) Perspective is a tad exaggerated. There is no way that his left (our right) arm that thick compared to his right arm. Your vanishing point is somewhere to the right but not everything seems to be receding equally.
3) Legs could be slightly longer over all but I don't know if you want to end up having to adjust the perspective for all of it to compensate. Looking at the thumbnail, his legs feel short. The femur to the two leg bones feels fine, but compared to the upper torso they are not long enough.

Are you going to proceed to paint him or keep it as is?

[Anonymous No.5085466]

>>5085410
Thanks for crit, I'm gonna paint him sometime in the future, right now I try to finish all of my old sketches before the end of the year. Left arm is supposed to be more armored than the right, as for legs length - I've drawn them short bcs I wanted to emphasize upper body strength and chimp like posture/long hands, I dunno how to say it - bulkiness, but with kind of agility.

[Anonymous No.5085481]

>>5077121
hmmm

[Anonymous No.5085490]

>>5085466
Fair enough. I get OCD twitches because of the ultra-low hip placement, that's all.

[Anonymous No.5085493]

/beg/ here

Got a sonic fan character done.

[Anonymous No.5085668]

>>5085481
uncanny an eerie mask-like face

[Anonymous No.5085682]

>>5085668
hmmm... yeah...
guess i'll just leave it like that and move to something else

[Anonymous No.5085697]

>>5085682
good outlook, good luck

[Anonymous No.5085992]

>>5084551
Reconsider the left leg and arm

[Anonymous No.5086058]

Have this shit i found in a sketchbook i used when i was like 16 or something.

[Anonymous No.5086059]

>>5086058

Oh hey i found this too

[Anonymous No.5086060]

>>5086059

Wait shit fuck thats the cropped version

[Anonymous No.5086064]

>>5062844

They have identical faces

[Anonymous No.5086092]

[Anonymous No.5086095]

[Anonymous No.5086109]

>>5086095

Sup faggot you made his hand too big.

[Anonymous No.5086139]

>>5086109
Yup, giant ol' monster hand. Merry Christmas anon

[Anonymous No.5087751]

>>5085358
learn proportions my nigga

[Anonymous No.5087853]

[Anonymous No.5087951]

finally finished this piece, was rlly stuck on how to progress on grey scale

[Anonymous No.5088222]

[Anonymous No.5088433]

[Anonymous No.5088634]

>>5088433
Cute girl, learn male anatomy tho. The dude has extremely feminine thunder thighs and he looks like a chinlet.

[Anonymous No.5088659]

>>5087853
>>5088222

[Anonymous No.5088661]

>>5088433
awful proportions and anatomy caked up with stylization

[Anonymous No.5088724]

>>5088433
Give the guy's legs to the girl, and remake his legs to be less curvy. Its appealing, but the girl's legs have no real reason to look like that when the guy's are so heavily detailed in comparison

[Anonymous No.5089155]

>>5088659
???

[Anonymous No.5089275]

>>5088433
Nice colours, shapes and silhouettes.

[Anonymous No.5089326]

>>5089155
you're fucking up again handbro

[Anonymous No.5089353]

>>5066495
you've learned a ton, you're super good with color too, make sure you're doing perspective exercises as well, but don't stop your other studies!

[Anonymous No.5089965]

>>5084551
Needs a noticeable bulge if he's gonna be called the violator.

[Anonymous No.5090749]

>>5090748
>>5090748
>>5090748
new thread

[Anonymous No.5090763]

>>5062445
thats a sharp dick