sqt/qtddtot - Stupid Questions Thread

[Anonymous No.5094485]

For stupid questions and questions that don't deserve their own thread. Give it a try and find your question in the previous thread before asking.
previous >>5064803

[Anonymous No.5094504]

How do I stop being stupid?

[Anonymous No.5094514]

>>5094504
YOU CAN'T!! LOL

[Anonymous No.5094721]

How do I get my art to look like this. It's an organized, hatch-edy sloppy comic look that I like very much.

[Anonymous No.5094730]

>>5094721
Read the book Pen & Ink techniques by Alphonso Dunn. Should teach you the technique you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.5094768]

How to overcome fear of failure/criticism?

[Anonymous No.5094771]

>>5094768
If you dont fail you will never learn, and refusing to improve due to fear is the ultimate failure. Small failures are temporary, learn from them and be grateful to their lessons. Be grateful to criticisms, grow thick skin, take what can be useful advice and ignore the pain. The worst failure is to not even try.

[Anonymous No.5094919]

If I draw a circle in perspective and then use that to draw a rectangle around it will the result be just a rectangle or a square rectangle in perspective?

[Anonymous No.5094935]

>>5094919
what?

[Anonymous No.5094940]

Test

[Anonymous No.5094943]

how can i do this effect? where there's like lens distortion that adds chromatic aberration but only at the edge?
(I know how to do chromatic aberration, but "just" adding it and deleting it at the center looks nothing like what I want).

[Anonymous No.5095764]

>>5094730
Thank you!

[Anonymous No.5095974]

>>5094943
Keep your lineart on a separate layer and do the chromatic aberration on that. Then create a gradient erase with the part you don't want aberration on erased and clip the aberration layer to it. Boom.

[Anonymous No.5096098]

i understand you'd have to do the entire base before etc before you do this, but how does this artist makes the pants look like this? the brush strokes look so meticulate and calculated but it seems also as random as real life cloth would be. i just don't understand how i'd ever be able to craft edges such as this, even on a completed piece.

[Anonymous No.5096104]

>>5096098
example two. this just seems so beyond normal form and such, and i understand its texture but how the artist manages to convey this is way beyond me.

[Anonymous No.5096134]

>>5094485
what did garfield give jon?

[Anonymous No.5096228]

>>5096134
I'm too lazy to look up the original but probably gave him Garfield flavored lasagna like a good Garfield does. Whilst probably also coated with hair and a dose of cat cum, oh no.
Oh Shit SHIT OOOOUGHHHHHHHH OHHHHHHH IM COOOMING I-I'M GGGONN@@@@ cccKKKKCCCKKCCKKKCCOOOOOOOMMMMMMM OOOOHhh ahNNNNNNNNGGGGHHH

[Anonymous No.5096229]

what should i take after the art and science of drawing?

[Anonymous No.5096239]

>>5096229
a walk, a sketchbook, a tab of acid, a deep look into your psyche and reason for drawing, and action, in that order
idk buy an artbook by someone you like and do some studies
you gotta figure out what to improve in first mayne

[Anonymous No.5096280]

brainlet here is there some sort of program where you don't have to draw at all but instead type "make line 2 by 400 pixels red" or something like that? I want to make stuff without having to perform the physical execution

[Anonymous No.5096288]

>>5096239
no i mean courses

[Anonymous No.5096291]

is drawing with shitty materials like drawing with weighted gear

[Anonymous No.5096342]

Any decent android app for quick stupid doodling? (I still have paper and computer for serious art)

[Anonymous No.5096378]

>>5096280
Do you specifically want to type things?
Because otherwise vector graphics are pretty much what you described

[Anonymous No.5096385]

>>5096378
not specifically no. How do you make things in vector graphics?

[Anonymous No.5096399]

>>5096385
Instead of drawing like Bob Ross you tell the program a set of instructions like
>Start the line here
>End it here
>And maybe bend it here at this angle
>Oh and set the thickness to 4
You can edit each line, curve and shape separately and to your liking
It's how your anime pic was made actually, from the look of it

[Anonymous No.5096401]

>>5096399
ah thats what I'm looking for actually. Are there any good tutorials that you know of?

[Anonymous No.5096417]

>>5096401
Look for "Pen Tool Tutorials" on Youtube to get the gist of it
I'm using an old-ass Corel Draw but most people use Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator from what i gathered, but the general idea is the same so just download whichever program you like

[Anonymous No.5096431]

>>5096280
logo programming language i guess
otherwise basically any graphics api is like this, look at pico8 or tic80

[Anonymous No.5096487]

what painting medium is the best to start in?

[Anonymous No.5096540]

>>5094485
How do you determine what anime character is popular for nsfw twitter?

[Anonymous No.5096774]

>>5096280
you could slap something together in like 5 mins with canvas in tcl/tk or tkinter.

[Anonymous No.5096883]

what does "interesting imperfection" mean in the context of art?

[Anonymous No.5097033]

Outside of robertson, what else should I be doing if I want to do this sort of drafting? Is there even a viable career option for this?

[Anonymous No.5097259]

>>5095974
maybe it wasnt the best example I showed, but it was the only one I could find yesterday.
look at pic rel, the chromatic aberration is only at the edge of the lens, because the lens is concave (or convex idc idk). it's not at the center, there is no distortion or CA at all, only at the edge.

[Anonymous No.5097265]

>>5097259
It's still the same deal as what that anon said, just do all your filters and then clip them to a layer with a vignette or something on it so that the effects get masked out in the center.

[Anonymous No.5097269]

>>5096229
NMA russian academic approach.

[Anonymous No.5097309]

Pic is my level right now i did some copies from books and life
i would love to get some help what should i do next ?
I'm not really good drawing from models i always get mad and frustrated about how bad iam unlike copying from books.
I don't want to be 100% copy what i see like proko, but something like glenn vlippu/steve huston but i feel like i don't understand the decision making after gesture and construction.
Do i just copy the shadow and anatomical shapes that i see ?
sorry if it's confusing i don't know how to explain this
i have been stuck at this stage for 2 months now

[Anonymous No.5097336]

>>5097033
It's called architecture. Look it up.

[Anonymous No.5097413]

>>5096883
things such as asymmetry, dirt and wear and tear make things look more interesting and appealing.

[Anonymous No.5097716]

>>5097269
someone needs to upload the rest of it

[Anonymous No.5097756]

How does a passive stylus works ? Does the tablet detect the pen or the nibs ?
My tablet stopped working, the cursor is not tracking the pen, and i want to know what is broken between the tablet in itself and the stylus.

I have a XP-Pen Artist 15.6, if anybody need to know.

[Anonymous No.5097803]

Does twitter have an equivalent to aesthetic bloggers from old era tumblr? I'm shamelessly interested in aesthetic posting without any commentary but I don't know how to find it on twitter.

[Anonymous No.5097809]

>>5097803
Use neocities.

[Anonymous No.5097820]

>>5097809
This is actually very helpful on my search for inspiration thanks anon

[Anonymous No.5098084]

Anyone know artists or youtubers who use markers similar to this?

[Anonymous No.5098100]

There's a painting of a dog that I'm looking for, you guys might be my best chance of finding it. It was a picture of a white borzoi dog I think, it's mouth was wide open and drooling. The whole thing is a little creepy. I think the artist was japanese. Thanks if you can help me out.

[Anonymous No.5098154]

The twitter app doesn't remember my setting to see sensitive content but only when I'm looking at my own tweets, does anyone else have that problem or were you able to fix it?
This has been an issue on two Android phones in a row, now.

[Anonymous No.5098164]

>>5097309
You are definitely heading in the right direction. Keep doing what you're doing, drawing form on top of form, except at a finer and finer scale. Pull up a figure model photo and draw from it for 4-7 hours. You're not copying, but you're drawing it in deep detail, building form on top of form on top of form. You are copying, but not really. You're copying it 3 dimensionally. Run cross-contours over it and change the lighting direction if it helps.

[Anonymous No.5098402]

in general, how long does it take to get to a professional level from zero?

[Anonymous No.5098836]

When are you ready to do comissions

[Anonymous No.5098863]

>>5098154
Nah, shits fucked. It's been like this for years and I don't see it being fixed any time soon.

[Anonymous No.5098866]

>>5098863
Annoying, but thanks

[Anonymous No.5099092]

>>5098402
https://fzdschool.com/blog_posts/before-after
With focus around one art field, e.g. concept art, you can start producing pro quality stuff within 12 months.
That's with full time study (8-12 hours a day, every day) plus instruction and critique from professionals and a healthy learning environment with support and motivation from your peers.

[Anonymous No.5099157]

Best scanner settings to scan pencil stuff?

[Anonymous No.5099665]

>>5098402
5 years.

[Anonymous No.5100002]

>>5097716
I think some research is going on within some d*scord group. Let's pray.

[Anonymous No.5100035]

>>5098402
10k hrs

[Anonymous No.5100127]

>>5094485
Why often good drawings gets no attention online but bad ones do?

[Anonymous No.5100304]

>>5100127
How realistic/detailed a picture looks is not everything anon.

[Anonymous No.5100630]

>>5094721
You make an incredibly tight pencil skecth with all the light sources planned out and just ink with less care while following the well thought out sketch.

[Anonymous No.5100957]

Should someone give up on learning how to draw because they are not a kid anymore?

[Anonymous No.5100969]

>>5100957
Yes, we only accept kids here.

[Anonymous No.5101057]

>>5094485
Do roaches eat pencil shavings?

[Anonymous No.5101063]

>>5094768
Being able to fail early on is a luxury, failing early on only means you feel like crap for a little while
Failing when you made this shit your career can fuck you over

[Anonymous No.5101102]

wanna draw porn, wanna draw cool stuff, wanna design my own vehicles and cities, and even draw emotional shit
but there's so little time. how do you choose what you want to draw?

[Anonymous No.5101168]

>>5100035
This one's a pretty good estimate. I was told that it takes 8-10k hours to get "good" at an instrument which turned out to be true, not that I really counted but it took about 5 years of in school practice (lazy) with 3 years of in school and lots of out of school practice (started really enjoying it). I'm majoring in something else but I still sometimes play in state ensembles with other music majors
Obviously you can't just sit around doing the same thing every single day for thousands of hours, plus you need feedback from someone who (at least kind of) knows what they're doing at least every now and then

[Anonymous No.5101173]

>>5096134

[Anonymous No.5101648]

how do i learn to draw like this

[Anonymous No.5101675]

>>5100127
What the drawing is about, and how it goes about what it is about matters more for attention online than how professionally made it is. Past a certain point, skill makes little diference in the eyes of your average non-artist viewer.

[Anonymous No.5101729]

>>5096104
looks like he just add brush strokes on top everytime, with more light each time, maybe in different layers. then you can refine all in top

[Anonymous No.5101955]

anyone have line weight tutorials?
say you have an object coming towards the camera, but the light is also coming directly from the camera
would lines be thicker closest to the camera or furthest away from it?

[Anonymous No.5102045]

>>5101648
this is a stupid questions thread, not an entirely braindead completely retarded questions thread

[Anonymous No.5102064]

what resolution canvas should I be using? for lets say a 4000x4000 pixel image?

[Anonymous No.5102362]

>>5094485
Uhh how do you get the artistic pop up box/effect on photoshop

[Anonymous No.5102371]

>>5102362
>Pen Tool Tutorials
fuck nvm, that's clip studio
god damn I'm retarded

[Anonymous No.5102377]

>>5101955

[Anonymous No.5102379]

>>5101102
Learn to run a schedule. Time management is a skill on its own

[Anonymous No.5102387]

>>5099157
Default is good enough; some scanner even got pencil art preset. Just remember to level the output properly afterward in photoshop or any other art program

[Anonymous No.5102688]

>>5102379
>need to sleep 8 hours
>need to basically spend 3 hours of your day preparing decent meals so you're not sluggish and unattentive when you study and draw
>8 hours of your day are at work + an extra hour driving home and back (if you're lucky)
>only 4 hours left for everything else, good luck getting those 4 hours to be 100% productive toward studying and drawing too

[Anonymous No.5102765]

Someone has an invite to peers? I've been waiting for the 1st but they are still closed. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.5102774]

How do you record and create a timelapse on your drawing in photoshop? Inb4 get a screen recorder, I would prefer something that keeps recording only the canvas without the program UI/something like that. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.5103055]

>>5102774
Just use OBS. It's free, easy and useful for other things too

[Anonymous No.5103060]

>>5102688
> 3 hours per day preparing meals
I recommend taking a quick stroll through /fit/. They've got the quick and healthy down pretty well

[Anonymous No.5103063]

>>5102688
>>5103060
meal prepping is really good, thats for sure. Also, 4 hours is plenty of time to get good. Just make sure you spend most of your time doing studies.

[Anonymous No.5103127]

>>5103060
for healthy meals you spend at least an hour preparing and cooking everything and thats at least 3 times a day, and then you eat it

[Anonymous No.5103145]

should you learn how to paint traditionally before painting digitally?

[Anonymous No.5103249]

>>5103145
that's like asking "should you learn to ride a bike before you ride a motorcycle?"
fundamental skills will carry over regardless of which way you go, but at the end of the day they're different things and you will need to adjust and learn.
of course if you get good by drawing one way, youre gonna start off better when you switch. or you could stick to one from the start. it really doesn't matter, and anyone that tells you it does is fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.5104160]

can i really make some side money drawing furry porn comissions or did cr1tikal lie to me?

[Anonymous No.5104201]

>>5104160
If you're popular in the community and a decent artist you can make piles of money. It takes dedication to get a decent rapport in the community, so don't think you can just barge in there and start printing cash. If you aren't either a furry or exceptionally strong-willed, odds are you won't be able to sit through drawinh all the setup porn you need to start charging for comms.

[Anonymous No.5104324]

I'm on Photoshop 2019, I want a shortcut that opens a new layer WITHOUT any dialog boxes

The default for new layer without dialog box is ctrl + alt + shift + n
I want to change that to just F1

Now, I could assign "new layer" to F1 but the dialog box still shows up. Anyone know a workaround for that?

[Anonymous No.5104340]

My main art goal is to make a game using my art as sprites, but I only really like to draw on paper and ink. Would I still be able to make this work by scanning my art, or should I just suck it up?

[Anonymous No.5104342]

>>5104340
thats what they did before

[Anonymous No.5104389]

Anybody knows what's the rendering method here? Ink wash maybe?

[Anonymous No.5104483]

What is feeling the form and how do I learn it?

[Anonymous No.5104573]

>>5104324
More complicated shortcuts will require that you record an action and assign a function key to it. Example https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/creating-new-background-layer-action-photoshop/

[Anonymous No.5104587]

>>5104483
Learn how to shade.

[Anonymous No.5104678]

>>5097033
I mean, yeah, you could be an architectural artist of course. But being able to draw like that also lends itself well to comics, or concept art for games and film (live action and animated).

[Anonymous No.5104753]

>>5103145
Doesn't matter. But you need to learn how to draw accurately and with proper values before you do any kind of painting. Do a sight size drawing course and lota of value studies, then you should be good. If you go for digital painting, just make sure you learn the basics of using your program first.

[Anonymous No.5104888]

toned paper that’s good for markers? the strathmore i use has some bleeding

[Anonymous No.5105309]

>>5094485
How do I get better at perspective? I know basic perspective (up to 3pt), but I wanna do more extreme perspective like foreshortening, difficult head angles, camera rotation, tilts, etc Is there anything I should practice to gitgud at It?

[Anonymous No.5105606]

Best way to remove slight compression noise back to pure colors?

[Anonymous No.5105610]

>>5103127
that's why you cook in bulk and freeze meals silly goose

[Anonymous No.5105622]

>>5105309
Literally this. Volume 1 is good too, but about half the book is the basics and volume 2 focuses on drawing people.

[Anonymous No.5105629]

How much am I going to handicap my gains if I always draw on a flat surface?

[Anonymous No.5105639]

>>5105629
wont hurt your gains, will hurt you though

[Anonymous No.5105911]

>>5105606
Not compressing the picture in the first place.

[Anonymous No.5105994]

>>5105911
good god, how didn't I think about that!
Than you stranger, you saved ne, my job and my life. I will cherish your priceless advise until the day of my death.

Not.

[Anonymous No.5106000]

>>5105994
blow it out your ass cunt

[Anonymous No.5106004]

Is there a quick way to resize multiple images in Photoshop and stick them in a smaller image?
Like, every time I make an image like this one so I can look at all of them compiled together I just eye ball it and drag the handles of the transform box to fit. Is there a way they could snap into position and size??

[Anonymous No.5106022]

>>5106000
don't you "cunt'" me, that tier of "un-advice" is fucking garbage because 99% of the time you want to remove artifacts it's because someone else fucked it up and it's the only one currently available.
I know all about "don't lossy your shit, retard", thank you. the problem is the rest of the fucking universe.

[Anonymous No.5106031]

How do I stop physical sensations of fear during drawing and how do I focus myself more? I'm terrified of drawing my own art for some reason, and every day when I try I can't focus and can't put what I want to down onto paper. I'm obsessed with practicing but it's just an excuse to not make something serious, when I actually try to make something serious suddenly I can't used what I've practiced. I don't know.

[Anonymous No.5106073]

>>5106031
literally Just draw, The fear will disappear on it's own.

[Anonymous No.5106079]

>>5098402
As old as the demon lolis I'm drawin

[Anonymous No.5106130]

>>5106073
I wish that I'd known this 15 years ago, when I wanted to get good at drawing but every time I drew I got angry and hated myself. It goes away when you just draw.

[Anonymous No.5106132]

>>5104201
thank you anon

[Anonymous No.5106303]

In Photoshop when I paint something with a single brush it is all homogenous, there is no build-up when it goes over itself, but on Sai it does, I think by default (opacity is at 40% in PS and Sai in both images)
Can anyone tell me what this brush setting is called, generally ? (I tried changing the "build-up" setting in photoshop and nothing changes)

[Anonymous No.5106335]

>>5106303
Pen pressure

[Anonymous No.5106340]

Does anyone have JH Stonehouse's anatomy? How is it?

[Anonymous No.5106347]

>>5106031
you're scared of not knowing what to do/how to approach something
there's a lot of different processes to everything but the good ones are very similar
you'll be a lot more confident in your drawing when you learn construction processes

[Anonymous No.5106437]

>>5094485
Test

[Anonymous No.5106450]

>>5106340
It reveals new and exciting body parts and revolutionizes human anatomy as we know it.

[Anonymous No.5106691]

What would you buy if you had to buy your supplies for the next 1 year?

I have a problem with always looking for new supplies, and going to challenge myself to not buy anything for a full year.

Of course that means one last splurge of supplies right now though...

[Anonymous No.5106838]

how do I go from /beg/ to /egg/

[Anonymous No.5106840]

>>5106838
fundies

[Anonymous No.5106873]

>>5104573
Using record action I managed to assign it to F2 (F1 is unavailable despite me delisting it from "Help"), but it's close enough. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.5106885]

>>5106303
it's called Flow in photoshop, it's the value next to opacity

[Anonymous No.5106901]

>>5106303
Hi anon if you're talking about going over the line again in a single movement it's the airbrush option https://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/airbrush.htm

[Anonymous No.5106902]

AHHHH HOW DO I KNOW WHICH SCREEN HAS THE RIGHT COLOURS?
i have like 3 different monitors and they all look different. a calibrator isnt in my budget
my xp-pen is notably brighter/has higher contrast than my other two monitors I use, i dont know what is right.
most expensive screen i have is my roku 6-series TV but i don't think that was calibrated before shipping to me
whats the solution here?

[Anonymous No.5107057]

I'm looking for a mecha artist on Twitter
He drew these nice looking mechs and I can't find the account anymore
His pinned tweet was commission prices in the range of hundreds and the last one was some variation of "mech + girl" and I think the image was a black mech with orange accents and a girl in front
I suck at explaining but I hope some knows who he is

[Anonymous No.5107064]

>>5107057
Have you tried asking on /m/? Don't know myself.

[Anonymous No.5107095]

What is this, the head of the femur sticking out? Could someone roughly draw the bone situation underneath or point me to a resource that deals with these things because I like how it looks but would never think to draw it like this.

[Anonymous No.5107098]

>>5107095
*pelvis and head of the femur, the pelvis I understand already

[Anonymous No.5107101]

>>5106902
Colour is subjective anon :)

[Anonymous No.5107104]

>is loomis actually good or is it just a meme?
>should i bother with a screen tablet if i already have an am used to a screenless one?
>in sai could i set up a second, flipped view instead of constently fliping my drawing? would that actually help?

[Anonymous No.5107297]

>>5105606
pls help

[Anonymous No.5107302]

>>5106902
Calibration is how you know. But keep in mind that viewers won't have calibrated monitors anyway, so it is a fruitless pursuit unless you are doing commercial printing.

[Anonymous No.5107305]

>>5107104
Are these real questions or examples of over-asked questions?

[Anonymous No.5107329]

I am painting a pretty big canvas of 2 x 1 meters (78 x 39 in). it has a limited palette of red, orange, yellow, brown and black, with quite some contrast.

what would be good to start with? the lights, or the darks? the background? I've never done a painting so big

[Anonymous No.5107377]

>>5094919
an ellipse in perspective will correspond to a square in perspective, if you wish to make a rectangle you should extend it once you've laid the proper square in

[Anonymous No.5107382]

>>5097756
it detects the pen, nibs are just plasticky bits that push down on a pressure sensor

[Anonymous No.5107388]

>>5106450
true, the people who dont know about the amalgamastic bi-quadpectracep are ngmi

[Anonymous No.5107390]

>>5107095
the dip is the femur, the part that protrudes is the upper thigh fat deposit

[Anonymous No.5107613]

Any tutorials on how to actually use ink and make my lineart look less boring?

[Anonymous No.5107826]

>>5106073
Doodling random aimless things or drawing and just trying not to worry too much about it? Regardless genuinely thank you, I'll try my best.

>>5106347
This is exactly the kind of thing I've been thinking about recently, do I just keep trying to draw and I'll just naturally build a process? Is there any info anywhere about this kind of issue? Thank you regardless

[Anonymous No.5107954]

>>5107329
bump

[Anonymous No.5108408]

>>5107305
they're all real please help im fucking beg as fuck

[Anonymous No.5108501]

Can someone explain what the line and % mean?

[Anonymous No.5108527]

>>5108501
size of dots and what % of the area will be covered with black.

[Anonymous No.5108550]

whats the crab meme mean?

[Anonymous No.5108571]

>>5108527
Do all japanese comics use screentones?
Why does pic related exist when you can't use greytones?

[Anonymous No.5108582]

>>5108527
How are you supposed to get these grays with that chart?

[Anonymous No.5108606]

>>5108582
Screentones have a % black and the guide tells you what % black to use. What's the confusion?

[Anonymous No.5108614]

How can I cause as much harm to the whole world as possible through my artwork? I dislike everyone and everything and would enjoy seeing the world worse off with other humans less happy as a direct result of my actions.

[Anonymous No.5108682]

>>5108614
apply for a job at disney

[Anonymous No.5108743]

Is there a way to do this with multiple levels/heights?
Like if I wanted to make a building that had one section that's one story and another that's two stories

[Anonymous No.5108790]

How in the fuck am i supposed to draw in the anatomy into my mannequin to study anatomy? Do i just have to force it in there and eyeball it to make sure it's right? Am i even studying anatomy right? Fuck

[Anonymous No.5108910]

i'm unironically super autistic and i need help
i just started downloading some materials for csp and even though i have the material palette i can't add the download tab to it, but clicking the folder changes one of the existing tabs to the download tab
but i can't do that because then all the tabs wouldn't be there. is there a way to add the download tab on the right of pic rel?

[Anonymous No.5108918]

>>5108582
When you print it out on paper it makes the tones. Looks like total ass on digital but test it with your printer and you will understand.

[Anonymous No.5108922]

>>5108910
seriously what the fuck
i can hide material palettes from the side bar but not add new ones???
i'm at my fucking limit god i wish i wasn't such a pussy

[Anonymous No.5108923]

>>5097756
The tablet constantly sends out a signal and the pen picks up these waves and pings back with position, tilt, rotation, and nib pressure. Nib pressure is simply the nib pushing on a small barrel that covers a copper coil, when the coil is more exposed it sends a higher power signal back. When the coil is not exposed it is sending a weaker signal.

What operating system and tavlet driver version are you running? Did you recently update your drivers or install a new antivirus?

Are you able to open your tablet drivers or are they refusing to run? The screen still turns on, yes?

It is worth it to speak with support about it, they might be able to help you troubleshoot or send you a new stylus potentially. Did you drop your stylus a lot or crush it? If so you may have broken something, it could be worth buying a new stylus from Amazon and testing it.

[Anonymous No.5108925]

>>5108910
I don't really understand what the fuck you're trying to do. You're trying to move your download folder? Or import things you've downloaded? Sort them? I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.5108927]

>>5108790
I found it best to just draw the skeleton and build up all the different muscles starting from the ones attached to the bones. Doing a study with oil based clay is really helpful for that, too, if you're a more tactile learner.

[Anonymous No.5108929]

>>5108925
there's the side bar (pic rel) and i'm trying to add the download folder to the empty space on it

[Anonymous No.5108933]

>>5108929
wait what it's different now
i somehow fixed it in my autistic clicking i think?
there were 9 tabs but now there's 10 and i guess i can just use the new one for the download folder

[Anonymous No.5108936]

>>5106902
Get a colorometer. You can rent one from a camera shop if you can't afford one right now to at least get everything set up right. But really you should have your own so that you can regularly calibrate for room light changes.

>>5107613
Learn about 3d forms. They will help you. Things that are heavy or close to the viewer will have heavier lines than something further away or lighter. Same thing with light and shadow, a blown out highlight might have sparse lines while heavy shadow will have thick lines. Look into chiaroscuro (idk if i spelled it right) style of painting, it helped me to learn more of how to convey forms with shapes and line weight.

[Anonymous No.5108939]

>>5108933
Well, idk how you did it but glad its done. Autism won this battle.

[Anonymous No.5109650]

>>5094485
How do you open an intuos 5? I need to solder in a new usb port since wacom solders like total ass. I tried opening it but I feel like im going to break it. Any tips?

[Anonymous No.5109912]

How long does it take to get a pretty decent understanding of the female head from beginner level? If someone draws pretty girls over and over again and nothing else, how long would it take for them/the average artist to have a decent grasp on the subject? To understand generally the form, lines, shape and space?

[Anonymous No.5109925]

>>5109912
If you just wanna do very slow photocopies of random thots, a few months.

[Anonymous No.5109963]

has anyone here ever been commissioned to create album art? this local musician wants to release soon and hit me up for a drawing. he said he doesn’t have much but could pay a flat fee and would pay the portion rate or whatever it is from sales? they want an animal with sci-fi elements but I mainly focus on people. i haven’t even decided what price to go with for sq in for my art or how contracts work, I have my first art show later this year and am very new to the game in terms of taking it seriously. people knew me as the artist kid growing up and i have a lot of people(is 13 a lot? idk) asking me to commission and i’m starting to get anxious. i read i can’t be too available in the music world too, guess it would cheapen me or something? just fuck me up with your truths senpai

[Anonymous No.5109970]

How do I make bumpy, uneven but even lines like this in photoshop? Does anyone know of a similar brush. I'm using this pic from hilda as a reference for what I mean, the lines are near but the edges are uneven

[Anonymous No.5109986]

>>5109970
Size jitter

[Anonymous No.5110002]

>>5109986
wew that was easier than expected, thanks dude

[Anonymous No.5110016]

>>5101057
roaches will eat glue between book bindings and dust and all sorts of shit to survive. They can also survive up to a month without food, but only a week without water. People focus too much on putting food away if you have an issue with bugs, the actual thing you need to do is get rid of all water sources overnight in you dwelling. You want to dehydrate them out, and they will go. This means completely drying the sink and not leaving wet dishes out overnight, making sure your bathtub and sink are dry if you took a shower before turning in, and not leaving half drunk glasses of water out.

[Anonymous No.5110020]

>No rules only tools
To what extent is that true?

[Anonymous No.5110027]

>>5107613
your lineart isn't boring, it's messy. work on your control so that you don't need to go over a line multiple times to get the shape you want, this matters more than you think for the difference between something professional looking and something that looks like a kid scribbled it.

[Anonymous No.5110387]

>>5104340
just scan

[Anonymous No.5110542]

Can someone explain symbol drawing to me? I still can't grasp of what exactly it is. Everytime i try to look up information about it I always get "how to drawl this symbol".

[Anonymous No.5110617]

how do i apply the feynman technique with learning how to draw?

[Anonymous No.5110644]

How so I know If I'm under the Dunning Kruger effect?

[Anonymous No.5110689]

I have a Win7 computer with a Wacom Intuos and a Samsung tablet. I enjoy using both, sometimes alternating between them for the same piece.

Been using Medibang because it has a cloud storage gallery that lets me open files from either device without hassle. Issue is, I don't really like Medibang as much as Sketchbook.

I am not at all interested in an iPad or an Adobe subscription, which seems to be the only other alternative that allows me to just swap between systems. inb4 >why? For a myriad of reasons, just pretend it's not an option.

Sure, I can Dropbox the files between or just transfer them through USB cable but when I do this, the Android versions of the program can't find the files even when I put them in the correct Android directly... or in the process of switching devices, the file's layers get merged/flattened. I assume this is due to a difference between Windows and Android file formats.

Is there a way to open a Sketchbook file I made on my desktop to my Android tablet? I feel like this is a super simple thing that I can't get to work and it's driving me nuts.

[Anonymous No.5110705]

>>5110644
Assume that you always are under it

[Anonymous No.5110765]

>>5110542
It's explained in the sticky.

It's when you draw the symbol thats in your imagination for something instead of just drawing what you see in front of you. You are drawing what you THINK an eye looks like, however it is not what an eye ACTUALLY looks like, because instead of observing measuring and drawing the forms, you are just putting down what you "know" which is either weebshit or an almond shape with a circle inside it.

Try upside down reference drawing exercises to fix this.

[Anonymous No.5110776]

how do i draw porn if people are ugly to me

[Anonymous No.5110778]

>>5110689
just sync a mega account between the two devices using megasync

[Anonymous No.5110779]

>>5110776
Don't then. Don't pick up the job you know you'll hate it.

[Anonymous No.5110782]

When I colour or attempt to render my line work or sketches they seem to lose a lot of their appeal. People respond better to my drawings that are just pure line work with some grayscale values blocked in. People within the industry have told me my draftsmanship is solid but the colour job takes away from it big time and it’s my biggest hurdle

How can I learn to render and colour? Where is a good place to start? I’ve had a lot of people explain colour theory to me and it just doesn’t click. I feel like I’m incapable of understanding at this point. I’d like to work as a concept artist and an illustrator but I don’t think I can without a solid understanding of this aspect of design

[Anonymous No.5110852]

I want to make characters in my smut drawings sexier in a more realistic kind of way. I see that Steve Huston has this beginning figure drawing class and this beginner anatomy class. Should I follow one before the others or should they be taken simultaneously?

[Anonymous No.5110873]

>>5110765
So when people uses shapes and stuff to construct the body, how does that differ from not being considered symbol drawing? Is it the idea of that it's just the basic rather than accurate representation of it?

[Anonymous No.5110896]

How do I do simple shape backgrounds like pic related? And how do I make sure it's actually centered correctly?

[Anonymous No.5110914]

>>5110896
personally, I'd:

use rectangle tool directly on bg and eyeball the enter, or check cursor pixel location if you want (it's far from centered in pic related), fill, crop with the rectangle select tool but a bit more than what you need, paste it on a layer on top of bg but give it a bit of offset over it's original position like in pic related

[Anonymous No.5110917]

>>5110914
Thank you anon, I appreciate the help. It really was a stupid question.

[Anonymous No.5110919]

>>5110782
wdym you are incapable of understanding colour theory

[Anonymous No.5110924]

>>5110917
np, by crop I mean copy btw but you probably know

[Anonymous No.5110925]

>>5110782
painting studies. photo studies. paint from life.

[Anonymous No.5110926]

>>5110873
because the shapes would actually represent reality/what you are seeing/supposed to be seeing?

[Anonymous No.5110945]

>>5110020
The maximum extent allowable by local laws.

[Anonymous No.5110992]

Is it bad if I want to draw porn or do studies of porn art?

[Anonymous No.5110997]

>>5110992
Do you need permission?

[Anonymous No.5111030]

>>5110997
There is a stigma against professional artists drawing porn

[Anonymous No.5111034]

>>5111030
Do it anonymously then.
Do you want to make a living off it? Well then buckle up.

[Anonymous No.5111092]

Best site or book to better introduce myself into graffiti?

[Anonymous No.5111113]

>just realized posemaniacs uses flash
>which is no longer supported
GUYS?!?!?!?!?

[Anonymous No.5111136]

Does anyone else have a lot of trouble telling if their own work is any good at all? I've been drawing for a year and I can tell I've improved, but I have literally no ability to place my work next to another artist's and compare the quality. Is there any way to be more objective when analyzing your own work?

[Anonymous No.5111248]

how do these artists do this?
https://twitter.com/st62svnexilf2p9?lang=en
https://twitter.com/click_burgundy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

getting so good you can draw a fully pieces literally everyday

[Anonymous No.5111252]

What do I have to do to learn line control

[Anonymous No.5111270]

>>5111252
draw lines, boxes, and curves every day and a lot of them.
also practice drawing light. spend 30 minutes a day just drawing in light lines
this is the boring muscle memory part of drawing but its necessary

[Anonymous No.5111323]

any good guides on foreshortening? it's kicking my ass

[Anonymous No.5111339]

>>5111323
start with drawing lines on bananas

[Anonymous No.5111350]

>>5111270
King shit
Thank you

[Anonymous No.5111388]

>>5111350
for more information check out dynamic sketching/drawabox, art and science of drawing, NMA's beginner course and practically any beginner course

[Anonymous No.5111839]

>>5094485
could doing sculpture (like i am incidentally for /tg/ stuff) make me a better artist?

[Anonymous No.5111846]

>>5111839
Obviously. It familiarizes you with shapes of objects you're sculpting.
Especially if you intend to draw those.

[Anonymous No.5111873]

Should I be worried about drawing or is it more of a preference thing? I'm pretty used to drawing with just my hand and it might be a bad habit

[Anonymous No.5111910]

>>5111270
>light lines
Any examples?

[Anonymous No.5111916]

>>5110873
Because that's a form of visual measuring, using and measuring positive/negative space to block in whst you are actually seeing. Have you ever done a sight size drawing course? That's the idea behind it. Just a different kind of construction line. You're observing and drawing what you see.

Symbol drawing is paying no mind to what you see in front of you and just drawing what you think something should look like which is often wrong.

[Anonymous No.5111920]

>>5110852
Just FYI his book is the same stuff that is in his courses if he talks too slow for you. I would personally do figure drawing first and anatomy second.

[Anonymous No.5111981]

>>5111910
just draw the lightest line you can draw on paper without taking your hand off the paper

[Anonymous No.5112059]

>>5111981
Whew i completely misunderstood you, derp. I thought it was light as in light and shadow.

[Anonymous No.5112066]

>>5111113
There is (or maybe was) a thread where this guy made an html local version
He's done a damn good job so far too

[Anonymous No.5112520]

>>5111916
What is a sight size drawing course?

[Anonymous No.5112825]

how often does clip studio paint go on sale?

[Anonymous No.5112930]

How do I cope with this? https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

It's clear that in less than 5 years art will have been completely automated. I'll still love doing it as a hobby and expressing myself, but I wasn't emotionally prepared for my skills as an artist to be surpassed by machines anyone can run on their laptop.

[Anonymous No.5112935]

>>5112825
About once a season I think

[Anonymous No.5112949]

>>5112930
There will always be interest/preference in knowing a human made something by hand, even if the quality is equal or lower to that of a robot's work. Art has always meant more to humanity than a simple display of skill.

[Anonymous No.5112953]

did not find /beg/ thread in catalog so here's my question:
Is this course any good? If not, any other alternatives? Ideally video courses

[Anonymous No.5112978]

If I want to be a digital media artist, should I learn how to draw by pencil first or should I jump into digital media courses?

[Anonymous No.5113000]

>>5112953
its great

[Anonymous No.5113234]

>>5109912
just keep learning
time won't matter if you're constantly learning

[Anonymous No.5113374]

So when I draw from a reference (photo or rl), my proportions tend to get elongated the further I go from the starting point. It's not super crazy, but I often end up with the figure having a smaller head and wider body, not being able to fit everything on the page. I've tried multiple ways around this, laying out a large overall shape first, making sure the angle are correct, focus on negative spaces, etc and my proportions are always off in the same way. I've even tried sitting/standing differently thinking maybe the way my arm angles against the page affects it, but no luck. Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.5113381]

>>5112825
next sale is in march

[Anonymous No.5113505]

>>5113374
I have this issue too sometimes. You just need to look at the whole picture more often, hold it up away from you, back up from your desk— whatever. Just do it regularly so you can adjust while you're still blocking things out

[Anonymous No.5113557]

>>5113505
Hm thanks. I guess I'm struggling with this still, I tend to tunnel vision too much, I'm not sure how to overcome this :/

[Anonymous No.5113595]

Is it normal for Wacoms to feel way too slippery and uncomfortable? I'm using an intuos and Clip Studio and just making a simple sketch feels way out of my control

[Anonymous No.5113615]

>>5113374
just going off my own struggles, it seemed like a more general form of people being literally unable to see that the eyes are the center of the head even after confirming it with measurement

set a very definite border for your drawing and for your ref(crop if only doing part of photo or viewfinder). Then periodically stop working, take in your whole field of vision, and reference the parts against the border instead of just against eachother.
having a much wider frame of reference made it easier to stay consistent and fit things onto the page. helped a fair bit with the auto-flattening of overlapping and foreshortened objects too.

[Anonymous No.5113651]

I do a lot of studies but I feel like this is the can only thing I can do well. I have ideas but its so much harder to create something original.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice on getting better?

[Anonymous No.5113667]

>>5113651
Lately I’ve been trying to smash the refs I would normally use for studies together. Like, I’ll think “ok I wanna do this character in this pose in this location with this sort of lighting and this art style” and pick a ref for each. There’s still plenty of creative decisions you can make from there, but planning out stuff beforehand helps jumpstart things and is honestly kinda fun

[Anonymous No.5113711]

>>5113615
Thanks, will give it a try. I notice that I often struggle to fit things into shapes, whether it be features on a face or the figure on the canvas, even though I try to measure things out before starting. If I just start with features it ends up being more accurate :/

[Anonymous No.5113786]

I understand that krita only extracts brush tips from .abr files but when I import the brush it still does not appear in the texture selection. Did I do something wrong?

Running krita 4.4.1
Link to brush just in case:
https://www.deviantart.com/bananapanik/art/Textured-Marker-Brush-V-3-126239197

[Anonymous No.5114150]

Are there any good ways to practice drawing arcs/line control in general without it being dull? I'm doing the Aaron Blaise perspective lessons and it's used the straight line tool until this lesson where I needed to draw a circle in perspective. Turns out, I can't draw an arc to save my life and had to retry like 40 times. I got better towards the end but they were still pretty bad.
Also I've heard people talk about line confidence where you should move decently fast so your lines aren't wobbly, but he was just drawing the arcs pretty slowly, is that just because he's been drawing for so long or something?

[Anonymous No.5114949]

>re commissions
specifically nsfw ones. I've only done a couple so far and I guess this is a good thing really, but the people commissioning me are super vague, they just say they want their character in some outfit and leave me to it. I send a sketch of a pose asking if they need anything changing and they just say it looks good. do they feel bad about criticising? do they just want their oc drawn, doing anything, period? should I send a couple of variants as quick thumbnails for them to choose from instead? do I care too much?

[Anonymous No.5114968]

>>5113651
You should do majority artwork and minority studies, I think. Just my opinion, I know other teachers will say differently (like Feng Zhu). But Glenn Vilppu said he just studied 1 hr a day and painted for the rest of the day, and he also said drawing from imagination was the best way to practice drawing, so I think you should just go ahead and do your imaginative work for the majority of the day. Let your studies follow your work.

[Anonymous No.5114974]

>>5106437
it is working!

[Anonymous No.5114984]

>>5114949
He just wanted his fap materials as soon as possible so stop asking question and take his money jeez

Btw make a rule that any commission request also needed to submit references. If not, you'll be fucked when a commissioner wanted an unexpected major revision right at the end

[Anonymous No.5114993]

>>5113595
What are you comparing to? Real paper?

[Anonymous No.5114999]

>>5112978
Digital drawing is just another tool. Pick whatever tool you feel like doing

[Anonymous No.5115002]

>>5114984
you're right dude I'm going too slowly and meekly about it. that's a good idea I'll add it to my comm sheet

[Anonymous No.5115090]

I can manage drawing profile views or close-up shots of characters in a panel, but whenever I try to draw them small they end up looking like little squares and circles since I can't add any detail. How do you draw small scale characters that are in background shots?

[Anonymous No.5115109]

can someone start a ref thread? I wanna draw something with other anons but I don't watch much films or TV or anything to pick a decent shot that people would like

[Anonymous No.5115186]

>>5115090Small figures should rarely ever be in your comic. Use more medium to medium-close shots to get in the characterization. Small figures should be reserved for showing scale like if they have a big mountain to climb because the mountain would be the subject of the panel.

[Anonymous No.5115203]

>>5115186
I'm talking about small figures like on this page

[Anonymous No.5115214]

Is a one-shot of 45-60 pages a month a good pace to keep? Especially if I have other stuff like uni going on. What's the quickest pace a person could keep?

[Anonymous No.5115346]

so i draw with a hard round brush copy in csp
and then i try the blue tool
but i can still see lines seperating the colours afterwards
is my colour profile not good enough or something?
same thing with gradients. I can never get an actual smooth transition

[Anonymous No.5115422]

>>5115346
Not this dude but speaking of hard round, now that csp supports ps brushes to an extent can you just import the hard round brush directly from ps?

[Anonymous No.5115518]

>>5099092
holy shit thats fucking rad

[Anonymous No.5115543]

>>5112930
This is why traditional always wins.

It’s timeless.

[Anonymous No.5115582]

Am I the only one who prefers drawing on my shitty non display tablet over an ipad w/ an apple pencil. I don't get the hype.

[Anonymous No.5115739]

can someone send me to good resources, channels for painting with krita

[Anonymous No.5115860]

Anyone know if Ulrik (ulrikbadass) is still active anywhere?

[Anonymous No.5116045]

How do you go about using a human reference to make something cartoony and stylized

[Anonymous No.5116068]

Is it possible to make something that looks “soft” with ink?

[Anonymous No.5116097]

>>5094485
How environments in games like Hades are made? Hand painted textures on a simple 3D model or some material mumbo jumbo? In pic rel we can see reflections on the floor and shadows from the columns. Is there anyone that can guide me to the probable pipeline for making such shit on my own? I have Substance Painter but is ot really needed for this?

[Anonymous No.5116100]

Does anyone still have the link to that schizo artist who was doing portraits using some vodoo shit like mathematica/metaphysical lines or something like that? i remenber he used a red comte and drew a lot of circles and lines and the whole canvas was full of them.

[Anonymous No.5116101]

>>5116097
Also shadows are fucked (difference between shadows cast from columns and character) so i guess shadows are painted over.

[Anonymous No.5116203]

>>5094485
what studies/practice would you guys recommend for learning anatomy to draw from ? im a moron at giving myself assignements.

[Anonymous No.5116207]

>>5115203
oversimplify them for readability at a distance, if that's your issue. the girl in the middle panel is just a circle with dot eyes.

[Anonymous No.5116212]

>>5116097
does game have an art book? read that. if not, check for game art director or someone and ask them on twitter. take some initiative

>>5116203
draw a croquiscafe, then draw on the muscles using a diagram to see if you can place them

[Anonymous No.5117217]

>>5094485
How can i practice drawing backgrounds in perspective like katsuhiro otomo does? comic perspective is beautiful but a fucking mistery to me

[Anonymous No.5117308]

how do i learn to develop an art style

[Anonymous No.5117412]

>>5117308
imho art style is the unique quirk that pops out when you have a good grasp of fundamentals

[Anonymous No.5117421]

>>5115582
I never found any benefits from using cintiq, I still draws faster on the intuos. Maybe my big hand was blocking everthing I dunno

[Anonymous No.5117879]

How much bumping is too much and is there some hidden etiquette?! Is it worth it bumping art on twitter that's more than two days old? What about reposting them instead? I only bump 1-2x but would increasing to 3-4x be better or too annoying, can anybody please lend their experience?

[Anonymous No.5117926]

Is there an online art library that allows me to slap some contemporary art on my wall >for free?

[Anonymous No.5117953]

>>5117926
Pexels.com seems to have a decent amount

[Anonymous No.5117954]

>>5117879
bumping on socmed is annoying. i already saw your art and if i gave a shit i wouldve liked it the first time

[Anonymous No.5118306]

Which book do peoppe mean when they just say loomis? He wrote like 6 from what i can tell.

[Anonymous No.5118418]

I have a lot of trouble identifying and mapping cheek contours to planes of the face in a lot of artstyles, they feel arbitrary a lot of time, for example pic related feels way too low to me

Any resources that deal with this (apart from Loomis)

[Anonymous No.5118509]

How do I trick myself to enjoying the actual process of drawing and not worry about the results so much?

How do I mentally prepare myself to tackle a drawing I am clearly not skilled enough to tackle?

[Anonymous No.5118515]

>>5117879
>>5117954
This, never bump your art bro. When people retweet their own art too much I unfollow them. Chances are, you bumping your art is driving people away from your profile.

[Anonymous No.5118702]

>>5118509
timed figure drawing sessions or drawpiling with friends
this also requires the right mood to be interested in, but i find it a lot easier to get into than doing personal drawing

drawpiling with friends is kind of a double edged sword as well. i've had times where my ego is destroyed and i had meltdowns over friends who are miles better than me, other times it loosen me up and made me like being creative again

[Anonymous No.5118788]

I’m on a quest to find an [iPad friendly] slideshow tool/app/site for my drawing practice needs. I need a simple ad-free slideshow maker that I can upload my own pics and set the timing for (e.g., 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes), and these uploads can be saved for later use.

Anyone know just the thing?

Line of Action merely limits you to shuffling 100 photos into their preset selections.

[Anonymous No.5118827]

>>5118788
Don't know if such a thing exists anon, I've looked around myself and most of the usual websites are janky as fuck on iPad. I use the quickposes desktop app on a second screen and it works pretty well. You can choose your own folders to pull from and it lets you set the length of a session. It also has a custom session setting which is pretty nice, you can change how many poses of each timing you do. Just sucks having to be stuck at the computer for it

[Anonymous No.5118856]

is there a figure drawing website that has the option for images specifically of multiple people interacting?

[Anonymous No.5119265]

>>5111248
seriously their output is insane.

[Anonymous No.5119402]

My monitor keeps going to standby when looking at reference, should I disable it or will it break?

[Anonymous No.5119405]

do silhouettes have to be clear for every drawing?

[Anonymous No.5119599]

>>5119402
Go to power setting and change the monitor sleep timer

[Anonymous No.5119634]

most painting courses seem to be oil painting based but i hear it can be very tricky with the chemicals
would using acrylic instead be a good substitute?

[Anonymous No.5119655]

Is there a way I can make a kotkey/shortcut in photoshop for 'set brush size to X'? With X being 10, 5, 20, or somesuch.
I'd like to be able to rapidly shift between exact brush sizes for certain brushes.

[Anonymous No.5119717]

>>5119655
i had set my settings to use R to reduce brush size and T to increase it
idk why you need specific sizes this seems a better solution to me

[Anonymous No.5119728]

are there any pros that use krita

[Anonymous No.5119730]

>>5117308
just draw

[Anonymous No.5119734]

>>5096487
gouache

[Anonymous No.5119743]

>>5110020
completely true
using photograhy and 3d is completely fine, so is tracing

[Anonymous No.5119749]

>>5110542
we are born with kind of a visual language which is very simplistic. this is also why we see faces in objects (pareidolia) and symbol drawing just means using those symbols to draw instead of improved symbols created through understanding of anatomy

[Anonymous No.5119754]

Looking for the name of this artist and hopefully his book too. He did figure drawing in a distinctive, mechanical-looking way, breaking the muscles down into cubes. I remember pages about breaking down legs and knees and rotations of joints. I think it was a German sounding name. People used to mention him a lot here.

[Anonymous No.5119762]

>>5110020
the end result only matters

[Anonymous No.5119764]

>>5119754
Bammes?

[Anonymous No.5119913]

What canvas size would you pick for say, a 1000x1000 illustration? I tend to use twice the size and it still sometimes feels like doing pixelart while doing details

[Anonymous No.5119932]

>>5119913
If your computer can handle it; use 3-4k.
If not you can use this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAXb6o-3fWU

[Anonymous No.5121118]

What does hard round brush mean?

[Anonymous No.5121143]

>>5121118
like...just a circle
https://www.ctrlpaint.com/dp101-2

[Anonymous No.5121153]

>>5118856
this one has a group option in the settings
http://senshistock.com/sketch/#

>>5118306
fun with a pencil probably. its just a meme, learn however you find best

>>5110020
well, fundies are less rules than they are observations. good art usually has good fundies, but may be in different ways than you'd image... like a wiggly contemporary art drawing might have 'bad' anatomy and 'wrong' perspective by ic/lord standards, but be a good drawing because it has striking composition. art is subjective

[Anonymous No.5121565]

I have a question about values
I hear that the shadow area is always darker than the light area. For example a shadowed white piece of paper is darker than a brown rock in the sun. How does atmospheric perspective effect this? So this same piece of paper in shadow, if it were really far in the distance would is still be darker than the rock? Ahhhhhh I’m so confused

[Anonymous No.5121886]

Hello i have been doing figure drawing for a while now and i'm now going through rendering stuff, but i have no idea how it should be done digitally when i try to imitate traditional it looks messy or it looks like plastic and nothing natural.
How should i approach it ? any guide or examples ?

[Anonymous No.5122394]

>>5121886
learn how to shade a ball

[Anonymous No.5122413]

how do you use references correctly?

[Anonymous No.5122535]

>>5094485
What is the most easy to learn construction method for dinamic poses/poses for concept art? I'veen struggling to do poses now and i have no idea why its so hard for me. Any tips to construct a body like this?

[Anonymous No.5122617]

How can I learn to stop overthinking and complicating my drawing? Like instead of just drawing I get it into my head that I should store my papers in a certain way or maybe buy some new pen or I spend hours looking at tutorials. Why is it so hard for me to start?

[Anonymous No.5122629]

>>5122617
youre terrified of failure. do with this what you will

[Anonymous No.5122730]

>>5122629
Yeah for sure.
How do you deal with that fear?

[Anonymous No.5122747]

>>5122730
Practice and will?
You did begin somehow after all

[Anonymous No.5123664]

>>5096487
What kind of painters are you most interested in? Most fine artists use oil because it's easier to use than acrylic, but also more expensive.

First figure out what kind of art you are willing to slave over lmao

[Anonymous No.5123691]

>>5111136
We all suffer from the Artist's Curse. The only thing that works a little is to put it away for a few days and then get a fresh look.