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[Anonymous No.5129339]

Post your drawings and give critiques.
Last thread: >>5109002

[Anonymous No.5129776]

messing around with perspective from imagination.
can someone help me unfuck the man lying down?

[Anonymous No.5129815]

>>5129776

[Anonymous No.5130391]

>>5129815
It’s not bad, his rib cage should be bigger. Even though the overall torso will taper with foreshortening, men's ribcages are quite wide

[Anonymous No.5130401]

>>5129339
Value study. I hate them.

[Anonymous No.5130447]

>>5130401
Good sense of form. The lack of bounced light obviously made your job easier, but it would help if there was more bounced light on his left side to pick out the form more. Also I’m not so sure the very bright, long highlights on the trapezius and collar bone are accurate, but I can’t talk much cuz I hate painting complex values too

[Anonymous No.5130457]

>>5130447
Thanks, dude Yeah, more bounced light might do the trick. The highlights are probably not accurate, but I just liked how it looked, plastic-like maybe

[Anonymous No.5130508]

Just having some relaxing fun with Mixer Brushes

[Anonymous No.5131108]

im a beginner and this is my first attempt at gesture drawing. Idk how to draw hands or feet

[Anonymous No.5131196]

I drew Portrait of Eugene Boch in ink

[Anonymous No.5131337]

[Anonymous No.5131343]

[Anonymous No.5131347]

>>5131343
Try to be more accurate when working side to side, across the center line. Precision is important

[Anonymous No.5131375]

>>5131196
noice style

[Anonymous No.5131471]

2 hours, trying to get back into drawing. This is my punishment for not practicing.

[Anonymous No.5131922]

Practicing motion and action stuff for comics. Web comic is the goal at some point

[Anonymous No.5131931]

>>5131922
And a good goblin adventurer

[Anonymous No.5132312]

[Anonymous No.5132356]

>>5131337

cool! looks like n64 graphics

[Anonymous No.5132358]

help

[Anonymous No.5132360]

>>5131922

lovely colors, what is your plan here? comp is chaotic af

[Anonymous No.5132438]

>>5131471
You don't have to practice every day, although you should. What you absolutely *must* do everyday is look at hundreds of images of art, and at least read a few pages from a book.

[Anonymous No.5132460]

>>5132358
Nice values, i think what went wrong with this is the pose. The upper body is static while the lower body looks dynamic. Maybe thats why it looks unnatural. Cool beetle armor btw

[Anonymous No.5132467]

>>5132358
amazing, but I think shadows on armor are too saturated / could be of a different hue to complement sword and drapery color. Also blog?

[Anonymous No.5132488]

>>5132358
weird body type, looks too lanky and takes away from the sense of power

[Anonymous No.5132561]

>>5132360
ty and its less of a whole composition and more of a practicing movement/action on a comic page. i'll be trying to do a lot more.

[Anonymous No.5132638]

finished rough outline I will use to paint, I am too lazy to actually detail this further in the drawing especially since I am going for a more painterly feeling
is this a mistake? do you think I should actually clean it up properly or no?
also any suggestions? the second khajiit behind the front one is her illusion spell/shade.

[Anonymous No.5132644]

>>5132358
sword feels like styrofoam because there is zero weight to how it is held and neither is there any additional indication of its eigt
it sort of feels like she is offering it to someone
also perspective on the handle circle thing is a bit messed up as it is on the entire sword but I don't blame you since it is difficult perspective to get on an object like that, you can chalk it up to just weird shape and no one will notice

[Anonymous No.5132654]

>>5132312
Very cool, rendering is a bit inconsistent, it is a lot more stylized with more confident strokes on te breastplate but the armored armor is softer and also as more muddy values
the design is a bit all over the place but it has potential, if I were you I would streamline it a bit, especially random bits of metal

[Anonymous No.5132661]

>>5131337
second face is busted a bit

[Anonymous No.5132818]

>>5132358
Insta?

[Anonymous No.5132834]

i'm doing a necron/mechanicus style self portrait of sorts, pretty fun so far. Listening to the Mechanicus game ost helps a bunch

[Anonymous No.5133032]

>>5132834
No offence but this is /beg/ tier imho, you need to work on your construction.
If I were you I would focus on simplifying the shapes and trying to convey the same design but with shapes that would allow you to study form and perspective more...so mostly I would remove the lines and stuff and just try to at least make a blocky face with a cylinder coming out of the eye

[Anonymous No.5133036]

>>5132312
good thumb but things become messy upon closer inspection

[Anonymous No.5133038]

>>5131375
thanks, hopefully one of these sells. This is another van gogh study

[Anonymous No.5133063]

>>5133038
oof, flow breaks pretty badly around hips here

[Anonymous No.5133093]

>>5133032
Thanks, but i'm just having fun with some color. What do you think?

[Anonymous No.5133223]

>>5130401
wow this is dope
like someone else already said, adding bounced light will build another layer of complexity and make it more interesting
also focus on having a good balance of hard vs soft edges -- the torso is looking a bit blurred and hard edges can help solidify the look
good job, buddy

[Anonymous No.5133241]

>>5133223
Thanks, man. Will keep your words in mind next time I do a study like this :)

[Anonymous No.5133758]

Drew Private Chonkers

[Anonymous No.5133881]

>>5132661
how so?

[Anonymous No.5134183]

>>5131196
Good! Love the style

[Anonymous No.5134185]

here's a small study I did tonight. I was trying to focus on how to draw/render/colour the clothing folds. it's pretty rough, I'm not totally sure how to go about polishing stuff. let me know what you think, any critique is very appreicated

[Anonymous No.5134238]

>>5134185
I feel your struggle
I think the main thing is to capture going from the hard edge when the fold is inwarsd towards the soft transition out, so you should try to envision it like gradients going from hard to soft
your burshwork is ineteresting btw

[Anonymous No.5134643]

Looking for some feedback. I'm trying to get better at logos and creating mascots so I can develop a portfolio for marketing art, graphic design, etc. How can I make my character more approachable for a brand to be used on a cereal box or a school safety PSA? Are there any technical issues regarding rendering/lineart I'm not seeing?

[Anonymous No.5134723]

>>5134643
dynamic characters with strong silhuete is all you need really, also you need to think that they must fit well on different types of packaing and logos

[Anonymous No.5134738]

>>5134185
Looks great!

[rebullo No.5134743]

>>5134643
That's just tails from sonic, my feedback is to make something original and to not go by anime standards, mangakas and animators work tight deadlines and have to pump out sttories without having any time to make new charachters so they use the 3 or 4 templates for everything, you are drawing, illustrating, make an effort.

[Anonymous No.5134993]

something i need to fix before i color it?

[Anonymous No.5135005]

What happened to asukafag, haven't seen him posting anything anymore for quite awhile, is his country in flames?

[Anonymous No.5135038]

[Anonymous No.5135186]

Tried out a new brush for lineart

[Anonymous No.5135251]

Drew me room
>>5135038
Very moody i like it

[Anonymous No.5135375]

via getty

[Anonymous No.5135402]

>>5132488
I think the contrast between bodytype and pose/equipment is what makes this image interesting.
Ive seen to much bulky figured in armor its nothing interesting to look at. We dont need more merc.wip style illustrations on here.

[Anonymous No.5135440]

i drew the Colosseum

[Anonymous No.5135477]

>>5132358
Love the design and the colors but the pose is really boring.

[Anonymous No.5135505]

>>5135038
Love this. Great atmosphere
>>5135186
Looks good, but mainly when the lines are mostly thin like the bottom right one
>>5135251
I think you could have pushed the values/contrast a little more but nice work
>>5135440
The stuff in the foreground is not great and doesn’t really describe anything (is it grass? dirt? underbrush?), and the perspective on the little road is off, but you did a great job on the clouds and the building itself

[Anonymous No.5135644]

[Anonymous No.5135859]

>>5133038
>>5131196
what do you mean sells? who are you selling this to? pigs? are you delusional?

[Anonymous No.5135990]

>>5135859
I just sell them on eBay. Usually I at least get the starting price but not a lot of interest lately. Idk if it’s me or people just aren’t buying much right now

[Tesseract(Ex-Boxman) !!Hl5DZnM7v9M No.5136201]

trying to depict a glass cube that looks like a Tesseract that i bought at some thrift store....
i put pieces of paper around the cube to make a good pic lol. its really difficult to keep going idk...

I also took a 3d picture of it using my 3DS, and that is helping.

should I ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY1Vetd7OCs keeps playing in my head

[Tesseract(Ex-Boxman) !!Hl5DZnM7v9M No.5136273]

>>5136201

now i feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKOOVkBdb6A

but should i keep going?

[Tesseract(Ex-Boxman) !!Hl5DZnM7v9M No.5136302]

now its https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6GrZYE2il0

[Anonymous No.5136307]

>>5136273
>>5136302
keep going bro, you're almost there

[Tesseract(Ex-Boxman) !!Hl5DZnM7v9M No.5136323]

>>5136307

NOW IM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJdAqy5my_8

[Anonymous No.5136378]

i keep starting drawings at like 3am and regretting it

[Anonymous No.5136420]

>>5135644
nice rendering

[Anonymous No.5136422]

leg

[Anonymous No.5136426]

>>5135990
its so funny how you can't help but bring up how you sell your art. it's like a tic

[Anonymous No.5137106]

The quality of this thread has gone down hill.

I remember, not too long ago, that it was mainly artists that could or would regularly make money from their work.

What happened? Same thing with /alt/ as I always saw that as a nice middle ground. The place you went to after clawing your way out of /beg/

[Anonymous No.5137129]

>>5137106
So where do you post for the massive amount of time that is in between the first beginner months and being able to profit from your art?

[Anonymous No.5137209]

>>5137106
pyw

[Anonymous No.5137229]

What do?

[Anonymous No.5137235]

>>5136426
wouldn't you?

[Anonymous No.5137300]

>>5135005
have you ever heard something happening to Poland for the last 75 years?
racist
I'm just busy

[Anonymous No.5137602]

>>5137235
that aspect of my practice isn't the one I draw pride from so no

[Anonymous No.5137609]

Drew this some weeks ago. Trying to define the design for a character.

[Anonymous No.5137615]

>>5137609
And this one is about a year old already.

[Anonymous No.5137777]

>>5137300
senpai noticed me >.<

[Anonymous No.5137831]

Did two studies, will probably do them every day
one is of Jablosnki and another is Peleng. Goal of the study is to get me used to actually completing pictures in time without going into autistic detail and rendering certain parts of the painting while rest is unfinished. So I am essentially trying to do good amounts of values/form/color, as much as I can with a 1 hour deadline.
I want your critiques especially regarding how to optimize shapes and values, often times I will lose minutes when I initially lay down values and they are muddy so I have to go over them again to get them right.

[Anonymous No.5137833]

>>5137831

[Anonymous No.5137945]

[Anonymous No.5138002]

any tips for improving?

[Anonymous No.5138044]

>>5138002
Go to /beg/, your figure is completely busted
Focus on figure drawing and gesture

[Anonymous No.5138341]

>>5137831
Jabloksi and Kolesov chad, a fellow man of culture. Good values (assuming they weren't picked). They are very different artists though, Kolesov is more focused on form whereas Jablonski does very classical work with lost edges. Kolesov's style is pretty much all hard brushes (you can find vids of his working process), whereas Jablonski uses more textured brushes

[Anonymous No.5138354]

>>5134185
I did another small clothing study. I'm having some trouble getting the small value shifts down without it looking messy. let me know what you think.
>>5134238
>>5134738
thanks! that explanation makes a lot of sense, I definitely think I was approaching the fabric incorrectly. this attempt felt much more successful

[Anonymous No.5138378]

>>5138341
No crutches, did both with Kolesov rectangular hard brush with texture he used
I'm not trying to focus on brushwork as much since I want to develop my own sense of brush style, focusing more on trying to lay down the shapes and values in under an hour or so to build my confidence and work speed
Do you have any suggestions on how to avoid muddy values at the start? As I said I usually have muddy values unless I sit down and think a bit more and do a second pass

[Anonymous No.5138381]

anything wrong in the anatomy? I think I did okay but the chest seems off somehow. and maybe the feet. feel free to redline, i'd appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.5138383]

>>5138341
>>5138378
Also second issue I have is that I can't feel values well enough in color, I constantly use greyscale modes to view at what point I'm at the moment and then continue from there
I honestly don't understand how people simultaneously understand meticulous details of value and color at the same time without using bnw modes

[Anonymous No.5138385]

>>5138381
that file's too big, sorry

[Anonymous No.5138388]

>>5138381
Your chest is off because it would be stretched but your rigid horizontal lines imply that they are in resting position
I would deform them vertically but tilted towards each vector of the hand for obvious reasons, also deform nipples since they would be stretched
Otherwise it is a pretty solid figure, good job

[Anonymous No.5138390]

>>5138383
I've heard of people recommending checking values with BnW so you shouldn't be afraid of using it. I'm not great with values in color myself but I think that's because I don't check via grayscale. Also you shouldn't speed, you should work at whatever pace you find yourself working in. A better rule to avoid overworking things is 'It's finished when you think of it as finished, and any ideas you have to add later are not to be added'.

[Anonymous No.5138392]

>>5138385
His legs below knee are also wrong, foreshortening is too extreme and he looks like a midget
You either need to further enhance the perspective and make it feel essentially like a fish eye shot or you need to fix up his feet
Take a perspective grid and compare the size of his legs to the rest of the body and it will make sense

[Anonymous No.5138393]

>>5138390
>>5138383
Also, 'shapes' when it comes to drawing people (and creatures) are defined by anatomy. If you learn your anatomy you will learn your shapes, because there will never be a unique shape on a body, caused by either form or light, except in cases like a weird shadow projection.

[Anonymous No.5138395]

>>5137229
Advicefags, pls...

[Anonymous No.5138396]

>>5138388
>>5138392
Thank you! I'll correct all that, I appreciate it

[Anonymous No.5138398]

>>5138390
The main reason why I'm afraid of using it is that eventually I want to be able to ditch all unnecessary tools and be able to paint without layers of any modes, just color, brush and single layer
Obviously not for professional work but just more of a general proof of skill to myself

[Anonymous No.5138404]

>>5138395
Not much to say man, your art is charming but form and anatomy is busted especially on the boys face/jaw
Grind some references where two humans interact and you should get better

[Anonymous No.5138405]

>>5138398
You'll probably reach a point after a lot of practicing where you have a good sense of values that you won't need to refer to bnw. Old artists would squint at their work, which would blur things into shapes of light and shadow, so you could try that.

[Anonymous No.5138412]

>>5137609
>>5137615
Your values are good and you have a sense of composition. Maybe try studying from a master whose style you are inspired by in order to settle into a more cohesive style yourself, because the first piece has good perspective and subject but is harmed by the use of sketchy black lineart, whereas the second piece has better values and cohesion but relies too much on textured brushes.

[Anonymous No.5138439]

>>5138404
Thanks, will do. Time to grind!

[Anonymous No.5138477]

whats wrong?

[Anonymous No.5138486]

>>5138477
Everything, go to /beg/ please.

[Anonymous No.5138523]

pretty new to digital but having fun so far, any tips?

[Anonymous No.5138538]

>>5138523
Digital art suffers from a lack of randomness, which thus causes a lack of happy accidents and forces an excessive amount of deliberation. Whilst I do not recommend using heavily textured brushes, I do recommend trying to increase randomness. Try going into your program's list of brushes and experimenting with each in terms of finding something that behaves more like a traditional tool, and then try editing its settings to be more to your taste. My lineart brush is based on a brush that was actually made for shading metal in my program, but I found by tweaking it that it could be used to make a brush that behaves more like an ink pen.

[Anonymous No.5138555]

Just trying out a lot of different ways to draw a face/head.
I think drawing the “skull” first really helps.
my eyes are a bit fucky still. It’s tricky to get them as i want them. Mostly just draw over and over and somehow it “clicks”
>>513852
I’m not the best painter but try painting big zones of color first and then add details. Then you could add as much volume as you want and help yourself find a balance in the painting just by looking.
What kinds of colors do you want to use? Where should they go? Think about stuff like that. Although it depends what you want to do.

[Anonymous No.5138562]

>>5138523
I really like the colors, very good! Do you have any tips to learn color theory?

[Anonymous No.5138565]

>>5138555
Good stuff, reminds me of Keith Thompson's style.

[Anonymous No.5138572]

>>5137945
Love this, do you have a blog?

[Anonymous No.5138574]

[Anonymous No.5138584]

>>5138574
symbol drawing

[Anonymous No.5138606]

>>5138574
>>5138584
It's not symbol drawing but the angle of the face is a somewhat difficult one (but a very common sight in photos). Practicing with skulls and references will iron out the kinks

[Anonymous No.5138610]

>>5138606
ty for the recommend sire

[Anonymous No.5138661]

>>5138572
I use pentaerythrit0l on Twitter.

[Anonymous No.5138709]

>>5138538
Yeah I really need to try more stuff out, so many possibilites!

>>5138562
Thanks! If you haven't read "Color and light" by James Gurney you should, really great book!

[Anonymous No.5138737]

>>5138381
>>5138385
>>5138388
>>5138392
>>5138396

I did those fixes and it looks a lot better, thank you again!

[Anonymous No.5138763]

[Anonymous No.5138875]

[Anonymous No.5138876]

>>5138412
I like your eye. The horse head was actually the first piece I made after installing Krita, and I was fucking around with the brushes because I really liked their texture. So I went ham with that. Was also feeling a lot into Beksinski at the time (I was not attempting to emulate him btw, but it'd be dishonest to say his work wasn't affecting me in any way).
This other piece was made right after that one. But yeah, in general, I don't really have a cohesive style, of sorts. One day I draw more one way, the next day I draw slightly different. Which I don't think is necessarily bad per se, but the inconsistency might be due to something less favourable. Might also not be the best thing ever if I ever plan on selling anything/doing commissions.

[Anonymous No.5138905]

>>5138876
Yes they did make me think of Beksinski. I like the eye sockets in both

[Anonymous No.5138949]

Also posting here from /beg/ cause usually no one replies me there. Done this, still without shadows and not sure to add a background or something

[Anonymous No.5138984]

>>5138737
His leg to the left is still a bit wrong, raise the knee further up higher so the leg below the knee becomes slightly even longer

[Anonymous No.5138986]

>>5138949
What do you want to convey? Should she feel lonely? What is your mission here?
Base the color of your light on her mood or whatever you want to make us feel

[Anonymous No.5139042]

>>5138986
At first I wanted her to sit on some stairs, but I think I'm bad at that, still can't color background that well, so it came out horribly. So I thought let's just make her sit outside somewhere, like in the nature, but everytime I try to draw a tree I wanna kill myself, I'm fucking bad at it. So my last thought was to make her sit somewhere indoor, maybe on the couch idk... And that's it.

[Anonymous No.5139047]

Another landscape with MS Paint's black and white mode. Really enjoying this style

[Anonymous No.5139070]

>>5139047
oooh, that's neat. I haven't seen paintings like this before, and it's really well done too.

[Anonymous No.5139086]

[Anonymous No.5139090]

>>5139086

Why it gotta be sideways kek.

[Anonymous No.5139148]

I'm on the last of 3 commissioned pieces for the month. This one requires me to draw a magic doorway that blasts, tentacle-grabs, and shoots magic bolts at people all at the same time.

I mostly want to get some input on whether the composition is working out at the moment. I know it's super rough but still.

[Anonymous No.5139195]

>>5139148
sorry it is super rough so I'm in a rush
you can further enhance your perspective, it feels really like lost potential when there are so many characters and mostly 1 point perspective but you are not using all of them and their relative scale to really sell the depth of this
Give those characters some space and really make it feel like they were tossed back by a powerful force

[Anonymous No.5139199]

>>5139148
btw do you have any suggestions about where to get commissions for fantasy art and dnd stuff
I think people would like my stuff but I am not sure what places attract good customer base

[Anonymous No.5139214]

>>5133093
Looks cool anon :)

[Anonymous No.5139292]

>>5139199
try lurking >>>/tg/

[Anonymous No.5139297]

>>5139195
Yeah I actually made the same change with the figure on the left right after I posted, I made it much bigger. I tried a few different ideas, but I wasn't super happy about any other perspectives since the magic doorway is supposed to be the main subject of the picture. I mostly just want to limit unused/dead space and make the whole thing feel a little interesting since it's such a simple concept.

>>5139199
That's hard to say. I have a Twitter account with about 5k followers because I used to be a streamer in the TTRPG space. I stopped doing that a while ago, but way back when I tried taking commissions for graphic design and stuff via that account. I never really went anywhere with it, but when COVID killed my job, I decided to start answering messages I was still getting every few weeks asking if I was taking commissions (based on a post from 2018).

Since then, I basically do everything on Twitter. as much as I hate the place. That's where the majority of people see my design work (thanks to being at the top of Google Images) and I've been able to bring in illustration commissions from that even though I kinda suck.

You don't really need to be good to get commissions, you just need eyes on your work. So if you have absolutely nothing as far as social media presence, you'll need to build that up. You can also try using Fiverr and Etsy at the same time and see if that brings in orders. Post your work everywhere you can where the kind of people who commission works tend to congregate and have a note in your name or profile that says you're open for work.

It's tough, but you can do it.

[Anonymous No.5139299]

[Anonymous No.5139462]

This is frustrating

[Anonymous No.5139477]

[Anonymous No.5139488]

>>5132358
I don't want to say this piece is fundamentally broken... but it might be. Over all it looks great but there are so many things that conflict with one another in terms of perspective, anatomy and spacial relationships. I tried to fix a few things. One main thing that bugged me was that the sword looked like it was bent sideways. You created that illusion by shading it brighter toward the bottom than the top, That would have been ok I think, if you hadn't added that curved bit to the top of it, but since you had a variation of light AND the curved blade, you created the illusion of the blade having a big sideways bend to it. My fix isn't perfect but I think it helps.

[Anonymous No.5139531]

>>5132358
soul
>>5139488
soulless

[Anonymous No.5139614]

>>5139531
Unironically agree. Sometimes technical accuracy does a disservice to a piece.

[Anonymous No.5139699]

I used a graphite stick for this which is a new medium for me, so I struggled abit but I think it turned out alright.

>>5139086
This looks pretty good in terms of proportions. I think it would benefit from a sharper line/sharper edges in select places, like the contour of the chin for instance or maybe just more sharp edges in general really. Everything is sort of hazy and out of focus, like the back of the head just sort of disappears into the background, so we can’t really get a good sense of the form and size of the head. I find that the back of the head, that furthest away corner where the side plane meets the top plane of the head if you visualize the head just as a box, you don’t wanna leave that out because it says a lot about the tilt and rotation of the head in space. I don’t know if that last sentence made sense, but in general you want to, again, visualizing the head (or anything you’re drawing, really) as a box, you want to accentuate the corners and the sides, ie where there are one or more plane changes, as opposed to the planes themselves, because that’s how you most effectively communicate the 3dimensionality of the thing you’re drawing. Like, any edge or corner of a box says much more about it spatially than any point inside a plane of the same box ever does.

Maybe you could also push the values a bit more and go even darker in the downward planes like the bottom of the nose or the top lip, like really accentuate the core shadow of those areas where the form starts to turn away from the light. This will also better communicate the form. BeCause it is maybe a bit flat as it is now, too. It’s basically the same point as the one above about bringing out the corners and edges of things, the core shadow is basically the equivalent of edge of a more rounded box.
Jesus, okay I’ll stop writing now, I guess tldr is more sharp edges and think more about construction and geometry as you are drawing.

[Anonymous No.5139704]

>>5139699
I meant corners and *edges*, not sides.

[Anonymous No.5139716]

why is this not as good as it should be?

[Anonymous No.5139809]

>>5139531
are you high?

[Anonymous No.5139810]

>>5139488

Thanks for the feedback!!

I will try to start my characters from the feet from now on, otherwise I always fuck up the perspective lol

[Anonymous No.5139875]

what's the difference between this thread and /beg/?

[Anonymous No.5139918]

>>5139875
people in /beg/ are willing to admit they are /beg/

[Anonymous No.5139942]

it isn't perfect but im happy with my lil man here

[Anonymous No.5140292]

>>5129339
I'll post my try at this drawing by velazquez and vilppu next.

[Anonymous No.5140296]

>>5140292
pretty proud of it. I spent about 30 minutes on it

[Anonymous No.5140350]

>>5139462
amazing work. It's gonna be a bitch to clean up those construction lines, tho

[Anonymous No.5140357]

>>5139477
Looks good except the face

[Anonymous No.5140377]

>>5139716
Look dude. I couldn't paint this, it would look terrible, I'm not good. But that right hand bro. I laughed pretty hard.

[Anonymous No.5140405]

did a figure drawing from a photo

[Anonymous No.5140467]

>>5139716
You're applying color without a solid understanding of construction, anatomy, perspective, or lighting.

You're just painting without actually building a real picture underneath first. So when you just smear colors into the vague shape of a person or a rock, it's not going to look right. I would start over, and focus on the major details; where are the planes, lights and shadows? What is the anatomy and pose doing? Is this following a set perspective that remains consistent across all of the objects?

Then try applying your color on top. Also, you seem to only be going up and down in tone to get your highlights and shadows, but not actually really going outside the color. You can, and should, make your shadows a different value (usually cooler) than your midtone. If you're painting in brown for the skin, push your value up towards green or blue or purple for your shadow.

[Anonymous No.5140471]

>>5139716
Nothing looks like it really has any shape. I like the base palette, but you really should work on your volumes, make them pop out properly. Also, foreshortening is a bitch and that is why you should look up proper refs for that. Or take a picture. Or look at a mirror. Idk, anything is better than that arm.

[Anonymous No.5140475]

>>5140405
I like your drawings a lot

[Anonymous No.5140483]

>>5139699
based charls

[Anonymous No.5140485]

>>5139699
C O W B O Y M O D E A L O N E

[Anonymous No.5140537]

>>5139477
felt like the nose bridge was slightly too wide. the ear was looking pre far so had to bring that in more. and the neck was looking a bit thick.

other that than its pretty good, hope the picture helps to show ^o^

[Anonymous No.5140608]

>>5140467
>>5140471
>>5140377
I will take all this into account, thank you

[Anonymous No.5140808]

[Anonymous No.5140849]

Im already regretting it

[Anonymous No.5140860]

>>5139699

Thx for the tldr anon. Made another one and pushed the edges harder I think.

[Anonymous No.5140905]

[Anonymous No.5140912]

>>5129339
practicing some crosshatching with markers

originally made yesterday for this thread >>5134173

[Anonymous No.5140992]

I started a portrait of Julius Caesar today. I'll colour it once I finish rendering.

[Anonymous No.5141028]

>>5140912
the hatching is nice everywhere except the veins, which start to become abstract elements rather than definitively veins on an arm.

I think that mostly stems from them not being hatched, they are represented with single continuous lines, when instead they should be hatched the same as everything else.

You went horizontal on the veins when you should've gone vertical, basically. I don't blame you, veins are a pain in the ass to hatch properly, I would've excluded them altogether cause I'm lazy.

[Anonymous No.5141313]

Its been a while since I posted one of the sketches I did at work so here you go

[Anonymous No.5142141]

[Anonymous No.5142159]

>>5141313
As someone who draws a lot of naked women from photo reference, I've never seen the vagina visible from the side at this angle.

[Anonymous No.5142196]

Did this from ref for another thread that got deleted

[Anonymous No.5142349]

>>5130508
I like this anon

[Anonymous No.5142353]

>>5130508
add a few highlights though, it will really make things pop

[Anonymous No.5142431]

Working on this, been awhile since I drew, I'm a bit rusty.

[Anonymous No.5142465]

[Anonymous No.5142469]

[Anonymous No.5142476]

[Anonymous No.5142789]

>>5142159
Yeah it was a fuck up

[Anonymous No.5143236]

>>5140860
Nice. This definitely has more finish. it's obvious that you have worked more on the individual features this time, so that it is not just the eye(s) that stand out like in the last one, but the entire face. Proportions are good (again).

I still think this one suffers from a lot of the same issues that the previous one did, though. I just reread my previous critique and it was pretty incoherent even to me, so I don't blame you if you didn't get much actionable advice from that. But let me try again :P

IMO, this would still benefit from some nice sharp lines in select places to sort of hem in the face and separate things clearly from each other. The chin especially is crying out to me for a much sharper, darker contour line to separate the head from the neck and to clearly show us that it is two separate objects, with one (the head) being in front of the other (the neck).
A more general rule for where you may want to use a clear and crisp line to emphasize the contour of a thing is wherever overlap occurs, i.e. chin overlapping neck, hair falling in over the face, top eyelid in front of the eyeball, the top lip in front of bottom lip, the sides of the nostrils in front of the cheeks, in the case of a 3/4 profile, the nose in front of the far side of the face, etc.
Just like with value where you have a range from white to black with gradients of gray in between, I also like to think of lines/edges as being on a spectrum, from the broad, soft gradient to the very sharp, thin line. And just like having a very dark value in a light area can be great for grabbing the viewers attention, so can a sharp line used sparingly and with purpose be a very effective way of emphasizing key points in your drawing. I think someone like Fechin is a master of a purposeful use of line, so maybe his drawings would be interesting to look at? (pic related)

I had some other points that I wanted to bring up, but it's getting late now. - I'll write those up tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.5143730]

>>5140992
Is this a bargue plate exercise? I want to render like this

[Anonymous No.5144019]

>>5142431
Stop jacking off

[Anonymous No.5144024]

Very basic drawing of some nude I got. My 1st time really drawing anything.

[Anonymous No.5144261]

[Anonymous No.5144497]

Alright, give it to me straight (leaving theme aside)

[Anonymous No.5144506]

>>5144497
primitive

[Anonymous No.5144516]

>>5144497
The idea is cool but neither the composition nor the rendering are good enough to sell it

[Anonymous No.5144557]

>>5144497
I think it needed a worm's eye perspective looking up at the GM. Awkward how he's just floating there.
Rendering is good but the feel is not there. It looks almost like a still life, it has little energy.

[Anonymous No.5144592]

Here's a sketch drawn from imagination

[Anonymous No.5144609]

>>5144497
Stiff, Poses need more life, better gestures, and the angle/composition is just boring.

[Anonymous No.5145118]

>>5138002

while you should go to /beg/ as >>5138044 had said, you should disregard the rest

focus on form, drawabox.com should teach you basics, when you start getting the hang of simple forms, try making your characters out of said forms

[Anonymous No.5145121]

>>5137229

the glaring thing is alien heads, neck should be roughly in the middle of the head, otherwise it feels like someone pulled the face out of the head

[Anonymous No.5145211]

I don't usually get critiques here but I might as well try. Does anyone have any input on this character design?

[Anonymous No.5145213]

>>5140849
NownI need to select the accessories and flowers tonuse as base. Somebody already said they want to "adopt it" so I only need to finish it

[Anonymous No.5145221]

I don't usually get critiques when I post here but I might as well try. Can someone give me feedback on this character design? For a webcomic.

[Anonymous No.5145229]

>>5145221
I think the boots tongues should not fuse with the pants lines. Makes that whole section "flat"
I think you can add something to the shirt ifbyou think it needs more "personality".
That's mostly my input, I know all other anons will talk about shapes and silhouettes so Im skipping that

[Anonymous No.5145235]

any critique on these ?

[Anonymous No.5145311]

>>5139047
Another one, inspired by the desolate god forsaken landscape that is Wisconsin in winter.
>>5139070
Thanks Anon, appreciate it!

[Anonymous No.5146103]

[Anonymous No.5146104]

>>5146103
Cool

[Anonymous No.5146119]

>>5146104
ty <3

[Anonymous No.5146138]

>>5145235
I feel like the smudge background doesn’t do the subject any justice. The smudge texture on the snake could be replaced too. It’s just my opinion, but I think that powder charcoal or a smooth gradient would work better. The drawings look good otherwise & I like the texture

[Anonymous No.5146143]

>>5144592
Looks really cool anon

[Anonymous No.5146155]

>>5146103
Good sir, do you like drawing ships often? I'm more of a character artist rather than structures and props.

[Anonymous No.5146162]

>>5146155
No, I mostly draw characters too, but since I mostly practice with Vilppu, I have lots of experience drawing boxes.

[Anonymous No.5146393]

[Anonymous No.5146395]

[Anonymous No.5146508]

>>5140537
this is idiotic

[Anonymous No.5147110]

>>5146393
Lacks hard edges, try using a higher opacity>>5146103
Really cool, seems like an illustration from a book of pirate stories love it
>>5145311
Amazing,blog?>>5145235
They look cool, tho you need to learn how to take photos of your art
>>5145221
Very nice line work and colours, maybe the hair is a bit hard to read? Thought it was some kind of cloth,


Gotta say I’m impressed my the general quality of this board, well done y’all!
Anyways here’s my stuff

[Anonymous No.5147112]

>>5147110
Also this an older piece part of a comic, not sure if it was worth posting

[Anonymous No.5147778]

>>5146395
I like the colours

[Anonymous No.5147899]

This was fun even if I'm a bit late for the meme. The nonstop enbie spam on /qa/ has convinced me she's pretty cute and valid after all

[Anonymous No.5148876]

I'm just used to trad art so can't do shit with digital, especially what comes to colors.

[Anonymous No.5149130]

This is the first study that I do of a classic painting ( "Biondina"(1879) Sir Frederic Leighton ), I don't know much about art, I saw it and I liked it and I tried to reproduce it in my own way

[Anonymous No.5149347]

Trying to improve facial expressions and character consistency. Any crits or recources on them would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.5149618]

Thumb is fucking me up. How do I make it not look dumb and ugly as fuck?

Help.

[Anonymous No.5149623]

>>5149130
AI tier painting

[Anonymous No.5150257]

>>5149130
very nice

[Anonymous No.5150285]

>>5139148
More work on this, it's actually about 2/3 of the way done and I'm ahead of schedule.

I know brushes are a meme, but I'm going to switch up my primary brush for a while to see if I can find a good painting texture I like.

[Anonymous No.5150460]

commission for a friend
i need guides for the torso and shoulders, i cant seem to get it right. redline is a bonus too

[Anonymous No.5151327]

Trying my best to do Beth harmon from queens Gambit but smths wrong. Thoughs?

[Anonymous No.5151361]

>>5129339

[Anonymous No.5151816]

>>5151327
You haven' tdefined the bridge of the nose where it intersects the brow ridge correctly, she looks like a neanderthal.

[Anonymous No.5151819]

>>5151327
Also, do some measuring on that right eye. It looks like a birth defect, it's too far right.

[Anonymous No.5152178]

>>5129339
I'm primarily concerned with how this looks aesthetically not technically. what do you think?

[Anonymous No.5152191]

>>5152178
have you done this on toned paper? it's missing the lighter tones, it looks too dark overall, not in a good way, and it's a bit too illegible
the mood is there and I know what you're trying to do but that's no excuse to be sloppy

[Anonymous No.5152210]

>>5151819
Thanks. I'll try redoing the eye but since it's colored pencils it might not be possible. Serves me right for hurrying the sketch before the coloring and not nailing the proportions

[Anonymous No.5152226]

[Anonymous No.5152233]

>>5138383
>>5138388
try watching sycra's value game vid. Then do that but with color. (he says its a two person thing but you can do it by yourself)

i.e.
color - color (try to pick the same color)
value - color (try to pick a color of same value)
color - value (try to pick the color's value)

[Anonymous No.5152261]

>>5140405
you need to be more attentive to the figure if you want to call this a figure drawing. Aside from that, give yourself enough space on the paper so that you aren't morphing the figure to fit inside the page.

[Anonymous No.5152263]

>>5152261
scratch that. You've just measured incorrectly. Your perspective and proportions are wrong in the legs

[Anonymous No.5152280]

>>5152191
yes, its toned paper. I was planning on adding white pencil later, but I got to a point where things were about to go wrong, so I stopped everything. I will do more on this later and post again. thanks for the crit

[Anonymous No.5152288]

A dog collection I'm doing for my gfs room. Thinking of making a series with the dogs name in the back

[Anonymous No.5152300]

crit please,

where do I even get an art buddy irl. Most artist i know are only into copying and drawing realistic faces

[Anonymous No.5152309]

>>5152288
Looks good man, are you using color pencils on this one?

[Anonymous No.5152326]

>>5152309

Yeah. I do most of my dogs in colored pencils, its overall my most used medium. I like the rustic strong feel it gives.

urs is watercolour? I think it would look cool if u didnt leave the pencil lines - it would vibrate more. I usually avoid watercolours cause i find its a very unforgivable medium.

[Anonymous No.5152333]

[Anonymous No.5152386]

>>5152326
Yes it is, im thinking about using color pencils with watercolor on my next work and i still have some unused gouache paint I bought during the holidays.

>>5152288
Did you use an eraser for the highlights on this one?

[Anonymous No.5152400]

>>5152386

I really like his expression. It feels somewhat blurry on the mouth tho, too wet paper maybe?

You have many watercolor soluble pencils! I actually use those often. They work as colored pencils and you can dilute em in water if u want.

I used a white pencil for the highlights - I erased too but mostly to repaint with white over it. That's one of the reasons I used green paper - to get that bright white on the top.

[Anonymous No.5152412]

>>5152400
Yeah it was too wet because i was trying to get the color right. What brand do you use for your color pencils btw? Im currently using fabercastel.

What papers do you also use? Im thinking about buying velum but i still have two empty sketching pads lying around.

[Anonymous No.5152853]

>>5144506
>>5144516
>>5144557
>>5144609
thanks senpais. I will do better

[Anonymous No.5153269]

[Anonymous No.5153397]

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[Anonymous No.5153550]

>>5129339
red line me
i know that i’m doing a lot wrong but i can’t place it

[Anonymous No.5153872]

>>5152300
I think you should draw the body before any secondary forms first. The legs and neck look a bit wonky

[Anonymous No.5153877]

>>5152333
The right girl looks fine, but the one on the left looks like she's super stretched out horizontally. Honestly if you just use transform and squish the width a bit I think she'll look fine.

[Anonymous No.5153880]

leg study

[Anonymous No.5154632]

>>5129339
cool video game bad guy

[Anonymous No.5154800]

>>5135186
looks sick!
got a link for the brush??

[Anonymous No.5154833]

>>5129339
Old and so many mistakes but hey whatever

[Anonymous No.5154850]

>>5154833
Here’s a closeup of his face to alleviate the reflections.

[Anonymous No.5154854]

>>5139477
Do you have a twitter, patreon etc?

[Anonymous No.5154949]

[Anonymous No.5155107]

>>5144497
holy kek

[Anonymous No.5155117]

Pencils and a Little bit of Photoshop

[Anonymous No.5155127]

>>5155117
I like this, I like this quite a bit.

[Anonymous No.5155217]

>>5154833
That suit must’ve taken a long time

[Anonymous No.5155310]

>>5154949
Well done anon. RIP the King is dead.

[Anonymous No.5155491]

>>5147112
>WASENT

[Anonymous No.5155508]

[Anonymous No.5155592]

made an eldrich type seahorse abomination. any crits on it would be good.

[Anonymous No.5155814]

[Anonymous No.5155844]

>>5145311
A person this time, still trying to figure out how to shade people/if I even SHOULD shade skin at all. It's not coming to me as easily as I thought.
>>5147110
No blog unfortunately, as you can see I am still gitting gud and I'm not comfortable to start one yet.

[Anonymous No.5155959]

I was working at a guys place a drew a picture of him on the wall

[Anonymous No.5155961]

>>5155959

[Anonymous No.5155964]

>>5155961

[Anonymous No.5156025]

Trying to find joy in drawing, again

[Anonymous No.5156032]

[Anonymous No.5156152]

>>5155217
Not really actually, once I figured out a way to render the texture I cleared it in 3 hours. The face took me the longest actually lol

[Anonymous No.5156211]

>>5154833
not anon but I noticed that the face was the weakest part even though the cloth was advanced which is so counter intuitive for me

[Anonymous No.5156332]

>>5156032
God damn this pops.
Blog?

[Anonymous No.5156495]

>>5156332
thx bruv ig pineapplemikel

[Anonymous No.5156520]

[Anonymous No.5156524]

>>5155961
I like this style, reminds me of some Korean artists I follow on Twitter

[Anonymous No.5156531]

[Anonymous No.5156533]

>>5156531
Neck. Flip canvas.

[Anonymous No.5156536]

>>5156531

[Anonymous No.5156542]

>>5156536
what happened here?

[Anonymous No.5156719]

>>5156542
This is a canvas flip but the head has also been rotated.
So it's weird.

[Anonymous No.5157541]

Fan art for Going Under.
I'm adding the base colors by now, so it's kind of messy, but what do you think about the composition?

[Anonymous No.5157548]

>>5157541
Holy fucking shit, the colors are all fucked up. Im working on CMYK for printing and it looks horrendous when posting it here. Don't mind it please

[Anonymous No.5157622]

Any critiques?

[Anonymous No.5157669]

>>5155117
amazing, blog?

[Anonymous No.5157835]

>>5157622
Too much soft edges, try using a harder brush

[Anonymous No.5157837]

>>5157835
Also try not to shade with white and black, it makes the painting look muddy

[Anonymous No.5158181]

>>5156524
Thanks. that sounds interesting have you got any links for them?

[Anonymous No.5158247]

Character design practice. Where could i improve?

[Anonymous No.5159645]

[Anonymous No.5160852]

This is just a think i thought up yesterday. It's going to be a deer (maybe a baby deer crouched into the grass) looking into the darkness of the brush behind it and I'm going to try to put zillions of bugs and other creepy crawlies all over under the leaves and barely visible in the brush.

[Anonymous No.5160972]

>>5160852
I'm basing my critique on the assumption that you're replicating the feeling that is conveyed in pic related.

deer doesn't have weight (front leg doesn't look like it's supporting weight).

deer is not in the focus of the viewer, compositionally bad (deer doesn't have to be in the center, but it's too far into the background for the viewer to transpose themselves into it's perspective).

bugs under the leaves is overkill, and would lead to clashing concepts, the main concept is the terror that is conveyed from the dark bushes. Putting creepy bugs under the leaves gives an "out" for the viewer to focus on those instead of focusing on the dark bushes. Notice how in pic related there's literally nothing to focus on but the dog and the dark door, the viewer has to confront the idea that the painting is conveying, and has no where else to "run".

[Anonymous No.5160991]

>>5160972
I was going for that originally, but it's too generic so I'm shifting gears

[Anonymous No.5160998]

>>5156211
Hey I’m the op. Yeah the face is hot garbage haha. It was for an assignment based on texture and rendering so I bashed the face as fast as I could so I could then work on the suit.

[Anonymous No.5161002]

Finished this last night

[Anonymous No.5161183]

>>5156520
very pretty

>>5149130
nice art style and cute girl

[Anonymous No.5161641]

>>5161002
blog?

[Anonymous No.5161911]

>>5158181
The line quality in the first one reminds me of @cha_cha_9_9

I thought there were more but I guess it’s just one

[Anonymous No.5162140]

Starting to getvthe hang of people, need to draw more.

[Anonymous No.5162182]

[Anonymous No.5162190]

>>5144497
you are not ready to be painting stuff like this

[Anonymous No.5162199]

>>5144497
the gay elf with the white semi-mohawk makes this as gay as possible, and you're gay too
it's gay/10

[Anonymous No.5162242]

Not really recent and kinda unfinished

[Anonymous No.5162285]

>>5162190
what should I be painting senpai?
>>5162199
you should see what I'm working on now then

[Anonymous No.5162672]

>>5162285
less complicated compositions

[Anonymous No.5163133]

Beg here, been drawing some simple characters as part of me trying to draw more of the stuff I want to draw rather than just coursework. I don't know anything about rendering and don't really have plans to approach it much yet.

[Anonymous No.5163293]

>>5162285
Your painting's not as bad as they make it out to be. You're clearly challenging yourself and whether or not it comes out as a success it's good that you're trying. Keep at it.

[Anonymous No.5163366]

>>5161911
thanks for replying I think this guys stuff will help me understand a few things

[Anonymous No.5163404]

Trying to do something different than normal. I rarely place figures in an actual space. Trying to give weight to the character through interaction with the environment in this, I did bother detailing the environment too much in this since it really was only meant to be a practice drawing, I just took it to completion (mostly)

[Anonymous No.5163546]

Someone make a new thread

[Anonymous No.5164166]

>>5129339
idk where i went wrong

[Anonymous No.5164438]

>>5164435
>>5164435
>>5164435
>>5164435