/beg/ BEGINNER THREAD - just draw edition

[Anonymous No.5228078]

IF YOU ARE A /BEG/INNER IN ART, please use this thread to post pieces for critique or ask for advice.

Use this thread instead of making new threads or post in the Drawthread with fundamental exercises.

POST DRAWINGS YOU NEED HELP WITH.

RESIZE YOUR IMAGES TO ~1000 PIXELS using one of the following methods:
1. screenshot the image and post that instead
2. change camera capture settings to something smaller
3. send to computer and resize in picresize.com

Sticky document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj

Take your time, you can do it!
Previous thread: >>5222856

[Anonymous No.5228085]

coom

[Anonymous No.5228086]

>>5228078
>>5228081

[Anonymous No.5228096]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmSYI6AjFUg

[Anonymous No.5228114]

Oh fuck Chainsawman has 2 left hands what a fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.5228116]

last few times i posted i got critique that my poses were super stiff. What you guys think? (ignore the bad hands, I need to do proper studies on them)

[Anonymous No.5228126]

>>5228090
>>5228086
Boomer eyes version, looking for feedback.

[KILL ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT CRE(...) No.5228129]

I WAS TESTING YOU ALL ALONG AND YOU FAILED YOU FAILED
YOU MADE IT KNOWN
YOUR TRUE OPINION
IF ONLY YOU HAD TOLD ME NOT TO QUIT DISAGREED WHEN I CALLED MYSELF TALENTLESS
BUT NO
YOU DONT THINK I COULD EVER BE GOOD
YOU DO THINK IM TALENTLESS
THEN
I KNEW IT
SHOW ME THE BANANA
NA NA NA NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAEAAAAAAEEEAAAAAAAAAAA
>>5228114
how LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DRAWING?

[Anonymous No.5228141]

>>5228085
yes COOM.
make everyone on /ic/ who hates nsfw seethe

[Anonymous No.5228143]

>>5228141
kinda cringe

[KILL ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT CRE(...) No.5228144]

WHY ONLY ME /BEG/?
6 MONTHS AND NO IMPROVEMENT
AND SINCE I DONT HAVE TALENTAA
NO ONE TOLD ME NOT TO QUIT
NO ONE EVER DID
YOU DO THINK IM TALENTLESS
I WAS TSTING YOU
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HELP ME AND DISAGREE
BUT YOU NEVER DID YOU NEVER DID
YOU NEVER DID YOU NEVER DID YOU NEVER DID YOU NEVER DID YOU NEVER TOLD ME NOT TO QUIT YOU NEVER DID

[Anonymous No.5228170]

WHEN OTHERS FUCK UP
ITS GMI
ITS DONT SWEAT IT
BUT WHEN I DO
ITS NGMI
FUCK YOU SCHIZO
WHYS THAT? HOW CURIOUS? WHY ME?
WHY DO YOU WANT ONLY ME TO QUIT AND NO ONE ELSE?
ITS BECAUSE I WAS TESTING YOU AND YOU FAILED
NO ONE EVER TOLD ME NOT TO QUIT

[Anonymous No.5228175]

shut up

[Anonymous No.5228183]

How do I learn lineart?

[Anonymous No.5228194]

>>5228129
>>5228144
>>5228170
your drawings are getting better. i like the birds in particular.

i posted this the other day and never got any feedback. the rocks in particular look like shit and i’m not sure how to render them in this overcast lighting without it looking jarring, any advice?

[Anonymous No.5228199]

don't enable him

[Anonymous No.5228219]

>>5228129
>how LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DRAWING?
around 2.5 years, you aren't even that bad dude chill, those gains are enviable for just 6 months

[Anonymous No.5228276]

>>5226132
tweaked some things after feedback in the last thread, and tidied this up.

[Anonymous No.5228345]

Nambu

[Anonymous No.5228360]

>>5228276
I get that it's a fetish but those thighs are absurdly large, there's no way a man gets this THICC without any muscle showing or being fat.

also we probably should see some dick since the balloon is transparent

[Anonymous No.5228380]

day 80

[Anonymous No.5228398]

i think it makes sense if the background is black and the light from the screens is blue and theres a lot of glow but i dont really know how to do that... didnt use any refs.

[Anonymous No.5228435]

>>5228360
Duly noted, thank you! I definitely dont have a lot of confidence with legs and ass, I'll work on it.

[Anonymous No.5228505]

Still life. Fuck. This. Shit.

[Anonymous No.5228548]

[Anonymous No.5228550]

>>5228505
Not bad, you're getting it.

[Anonymous No.5228572]

>>5228398
how would i light the floor? i guess thats where im getting really confused. i can imagine that there should be a shadow under and behind the robot and the light should go between the wheels but i don't know where the light should start. any ideas?

[Anonymous No.5228574]

>>5228380
The ear looks weird because I had to drag it down. In yours it looks fine (just drag it down)

[Anonymous No.5228578]

I'm doing it right? I'm gmi?

[Anonymous No.5228598]

>>5228578
Looks okay. Try to get some copy paper and a clip board, lined paper can mess with your perspective.

[Anonymous No.5228620]

>>5228078
anyone have a guide or something for pixelart?

[Anonymous No.5228635]

Best resource on digital inking/linework /ic/?

Haven't drawn for around 10 years and just bought my first graphics tablet three days ago. Been doing the exercises I used to have to do at College and Understand the basic tools in Photoshop but I can't get good lines digitally for shit. When I remove my sketch it all just feels 'empty'.

[Anonymous No.5228648]

How the fuck do I make my characters feel more 3d and expressive? I can't even do faces right most of the time

[Anonymous No.5228651]

>>5228648
Practice quick gestures RE Vilpu

[Anonymous No.5228652]

>>5228648
that hatching doesn't go well with anime brosqui

[Anonymous No.5228659]

>>5228194
I think the shadow in the bottom rocks are way too dark, it looks like a 100% black which is something you don't want in your painting.
I did a quick paintover as a total beg to painting, I just changed the black to a ~95% purple and smoothed all the shit, it doesn't look good but it looks better I guess.
maybe fucked a bit too much the edges so I put some studies i did a while back which capture a bit more the feeling of rocks.
also the light blue on the top side of the rocks looks weird, I tried to darken it but I don't know if it fixed anything.
maybe this is a dull crit but I just wanted to say something because I think it's a dope ass sketch I hope you'll consider finishing, I especially like how you painted the transparency of the water. God speed anon

[Anonymous No.5228661]

what is this fuckin 2001 space odyssey slit scan mumbo jumbo shit. I just wanna draw fuckin cool dragons and warriors and fuckin spaceships and shit. im not here to fucking LEARN you nerd im here to DRAW

[Anonymous No.5228680]

>>5228572
Lighting shit in perspective is hard, try making some diagrams from easy views.
that one is shit, but that's the idea.

[Anonymous No.5228685]

>>5228085
>>5228380
Not /beg/

[Anonymous No.5228690]

>>5228685
I don't think there might be two illustrassions that scream /beg/ more than these, don't be fooled by some shitty rendering and a bit of coom

[Anonymous No.5228702]

>>5228085
For some reason I find it very repulsive, and no, I am not gay

[Anonymous No.5228705]

>>5228648
Either line weight or way more hatching to indicate shading and not just what's metal and what's wood.

[Anonymous No.5228720]

>>5228680
thank you friend. i really appreciate it

[Anonymous No.5228723]

what are good beg books for anatomy or drawing the skeleton

[Anonymous No.5228769]

>>5228078
This is just a sketch, what do you guys think needs to be fixed or rethought?

[Anonymous No.5228779]

whats wrong with my anatomy

[Anonymous No.5228789]

Aye, finally did the damn thing, some things I've noticed though:
First, even when I draw by the silhouette, I don't know where to start, I've found this problem generally worsen when every drawing I finish looks disproportional.

Second, I really find myself frustated when I try to draw enrichment shapes, the different perspectives from my eyes makes the shadows and highlights from various directions blend and make the thing a mess, will try to position the object further away next time to see if it solves the problem.

Anyone else with these kind of problems and any tips too?

[Anonymous No.5228798]

>>5228789

for beverage containers you need to use 4 point perspective

[Anonymous No.5228799]

>>5228789
For information sake, this is my project 1 - E from the Keys to Drawing book. Yes, I'm still in that book and I will try to finish it this year, hopefully.

P.S: The reason I've done a plastic bottle instead of a tinted glass one is because the only tinted glass bottles in my home are cold, as they are constantly condensing the air around them, they change properties when I'm drawing, so I went for that one instead.

[Anonymous No.5228811]

>>5228798
Thanks for the tip, anon, but I'm not going to cheat Bert Dodson by... uh... having knowledge.
I will put your tip on my notebook for when I have a moment to draw from my imagination though, so there's that.

[Anonymous No.5228812]

>>5228799
How long have you been doing it? That bottle is more than fine for what the book asks of you, it's not meant to teach you photorealism.

[Anonymous No.5228813]

>>5228799
here is another picture of my can, maybe this well help you seeing it rendered from two angles. this isnt my best work but this piece was part of a commission series i did for LEGO and i didnt have much time.

[Anonymous No.5228816]

>>5228813
one more so you can feel the form of the can

[Anonymous No.5228818]

I abandoned Drawabox for months. Do I start over from the beginning or continue from where I left off?

[Anonymous No.5228820]

>>5228812
Thanks for the compliment, I reckon I might have spent 30 to 40 minutes drawing it.

[Anonymous No.5228826]

>>5228813
>>5228816
>>5228798
I'm slowly realizing you are trolling about that 4 perspective beverage container tip...
Maybe...

[Anonymous No.5228827]

>>5228820
Like the book says, don't worry too much about proportion or complex shading right now, it's just teaching you to get rid of symbol drawing. For more accurate stuff you will need to practice different techniques.

[Anonymous No.5228841]

>>5228548
Thanks guys

[Anonymous No.5228844]

>>5228826
yeah dude please dont follow my advice i was only trying to make you laugh

[Anonymous No.5228847]

>>5228685
No, dude. Absolutely /beg/. Especially the one with the huge retarded butthole lips, god.

[Anonymous No.5228862]

>>5228574
You made it look decent, wow.

[Anonymous No.5228881]

>>5228572
Imagine the ground is a mirror, and draw the reflection of other stuff

[Anonymous No.5228967]

>>5228798
based

[Anonymous No.5228985]

Just trying to get good at drawing bodies/heads first. how does this look so far?

[Anonymous No.5228992]

>>5228985
here's the rough sketch I used

[Anonymous No.5229005]

Jesus the brain power it took to keep comparing lines positions tired me more than I thought. I tried to draw blindly but it's still hard. What are some easy warm up exercises that I can do to improve blind drawing?

[Anonymous No.5229016]

>>5228985
Your whole figure looks like the body is facing left whereas sketch appears to be facing right. Try some gesture exercises. Also - consider using the head as a unit of measurement as you go. This looks like a 5 minute drawing when, at this stage, you should be so focused it takes 30 minutes even to "sketch"

[Anonymous No.5229041]

Do you guys have any tutorials for shading on digital ?
Not the general theory, I have some for that, just what king brush do you need, how layer modes work, that kind of stuff.
I'm bad enough without getting fucked over by the software on top of it.

[Anonymous No.5229055]

what can you tell me about the foreshortening and perspective here

[Anonymous No.5229095]

>>5228078
Yesterday I started with Proko's fundamentals. My goal is to draw a few realistic portraits, and I have 3 months.

Pic related, Day 1.

[Anonymous No.5229097]

>>5229095
Day 2.

[Anonymous No.5229099]

never got feedback on this.
>>5227271

[Anonymous No.5229102]

>>5228199
shu shu schizo, go finish your courses!!!

[Anonymous No.5229103]

>>5229041
Scott Robertson has a bunch of pretty interesting demos in youtube

[Anonymous No.5229107]

>>5229099
arm and leg proportions are wonky and inconsistent, when doing this try to do a full body every time and factor in proportions. the breasts don't really adhere to any form, they don't sit on or wrap around the ribcage.

keep drawing, do a shit ton more, then do a shit ton of studies too and take notes and bring that back into your imagination figures. don't wait for feedback on just a handful, there's a lot more mileage to be had and with observation you'll figure out yourself where things are going wrong

i will praise you wholeheartedly for drawing these from imagination though, many people get stuck copying refs and don't have the balls for a long time. you've breached that wall. keep going and refer back to reality to ground them

[Anonymous No.5229112]

>>5229103
There are hidden videos from his perspective book too. I think there is a link in one of the pages of the book.

[Anonymous No.5229113]

Hi der I'm the dumbass who has been practicing 25+ years(unbelievable), this is my recent artwork:
>>5228219
Also, why is he deemed as bad.
I'm the worst artist here btw.

[Anonymous No.5229174]

What image size do you guys go for?

[Anonymous No.5229181]

>>5228548
Not /beg/

[Anonymous No.5229189]

>>5229113
>practicing 25+ years

If true find another hobby.

[Anonymous No.5229197]

>>5229174
Doubled of real picture size on monitor, because thin lines looks better when they are scaled down from thick then when they are drawn thin, sketch in 50% scale and line/details in 100%. Maybe only my soft issue. When I uses another soft and won't think I use 3000x3000 with fit-to-screen for sketch and 100% or 200% scale for details. When I draw for fun or quick studies it's always real canvas size on monitor in pixels because it's not supposed to be zoomed.
I hope you only curious and won't try to repeat my strange practices.

[Anonymous No.5229205]

>>5229174
A4
300dpi

[Anonymous No.5229209]

>>5229189
Just waiting for the Cancer my nigga

[Anonymous No.5229213]

>>5229113
Fucking how
Did you sit down to draw once a year?

[Anonymous No.5229220]

>>5228659
thank you for the crit and the paint over! i will work on it again soon and post it

[Anonymous No.5229227]

>>5229213
Nah everyday, including weekends.
Too stupid and realized how crap it was way too late my nigga.
This happens when you "grind fundies" and your brain doesn't memorize jack shit.

So to sum it up, if you are a goofball like me, don't draw, no, DON'T DO ANYTHING IN LIFE SINCE IT IS GOING TO SUCK ANYWAYS.

What can you expect from a fatass that hasn't gotten laid yet and is rotting with Autismbuxx?

Fellow art failures, if you don't see progression like me, don't waste your time, life and money in something that isn't yours simple as that.

Inb4 You haven't studied anatomy, perspective, loomis,bla,bla,bla

[Anonymous No.5229246]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cHk4i0nkj0

[Anonymous No.5229256]

Why yes I'm permabeg. How could you tell?

[Anonymous No.5229257]

>>5227839
>project based goal
well, I'd like to be able to contribute to save the princess threads if that can be counted. Other than that do you have an example?

[Anonymous No.5229266]

I want to learn to create classic fantasy style art but all my painting attempts in CSP come out looking overly smooth, predictable and digital.
Do I need to shell out for higher quality brushes to get good texture and variation or am I always going to be playing second fiddle to traditional?

[Anonymous No.5229267]

Why yes I'm permabeg. How could you tell?

[Anonymous No.5229282]

>>5229246
noice

[Anonymous No.5229283]

>>5229267
kek

[Anonymous No.5229312]

has some issues, but what you guys think?

[Anonymous No.5229324]

>>5228680
very messy but this is my attempt.

[Anonymous No.5229326]

>>5229097
You are drawing shitty symbols. Stop drawing symbols. Stop skipping basics.

[Anonymous No.5229330]

>>5229174
A4 600dpi which is scaled down to 300dpi before applying screen tones and adding text.

[Anonymous No.5229363]

>>5229312
it's perfect

[Anonymous No.5229369]

>>5229197
>>5229205
>>5229330
Thanks
>>5229197
>>5229197
I just noticed that even going 3000x2000 often leaves me no room for fine details

[Anonymous No.5229420]

pain.

[Anonymous No.5229453]

>>5229420
what happened asanagi copyfag, this looks like shit

[Anonymous No.5229463]

Goblins

[Anonymous No.5229464]

>>5229453
I've always been shit dunno what you mean. Probably still better than anything you can do.

[Anonymous No.5229481]

Are there any good tutorials on how to vary pen pressure on tablet? I'm really struggling on figuring out how to incorporate this into all of the arm movement and stroke speed stuff.

[Anonymous No.5229505]

request from /a/, critiques are welcome

[Anonymous No.5229508]

>>5229505
the calfs seem really thick, it's more akin to what an overweight person would have rather than a skinny animu girl.

[Anonymous No.5229515]

[Anonymous No.5229528]

>>5228078
Oh wow didn't think I'd be seeing my drawing used for this thread

as for today, just drew something again

[Anonymous No.5229532]

>>5228114
leave beg

[Anonymous No.5229553]

>>5229505
droopy eyes other than that nice and polish

[Anonymous No.5229564]

reds are from reference, i think the rest being from imagination are not looking that, the big one at the bottom is the worst imo

[Anonymous No.5229567]

>>5229505
Blog?

[Anonymous No.5229572]

>>5229227
shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.5229796]

>>5228078
should I be drawing every day or should I take breaks some days? what's better for improvement?

[Anonymous No.5229861]

>>5229312
Honestly really like it.

[Anonymous No.5229900]

>>5228769
all of it

[Anonymous No.5229909]

>>5229227
please show me more of your work
i am so fascinated

[Anonymous No.5229931]

I drew a thing I think

[Anonymous No.5229973]

>>5229532
Where does one go after leaving /beg/?
All the other generals seem too good for me

[Anonymous No.5229974]

>>5228398
>>5228572
Why don't you fuck off from the BEG thread, intnigger?

[Anonymous No.5230001]

>>5229974
>>5229973

[Anonymous No.5230030]

[Anonymous No.5230032]

>remember life sucks
>draw to forget and keep the gun hand busy
>remember I can't draw for shit

meh, at least it's more fun than alcoholism or Netflix

[Anonymous No.5230087]

>>5229505
beg here, I think the eye are a little too far apart

[Anonymous No.5230092]

Nambu

[Anonymous No.5230109]

>>5230092
Quality post. Keep drawing Bart's other girlfriends.

[Anonymous No.5230117]

>>5229312
lower leg makes no sense. upper arm too muscley

[Anonymous No.5230148]

>>5228114
blawg?

[Anonymous No.5230154]

What is the best way to practice drawing in perspective? I learned all kinds of perspective and I can draw well all kinds of cubes. But drawing in perspective grid always feels off. Should I draw from reference? And if i should use what kind of reference should i use?

[Anonymous No.5230204]

>>5230154
Drawing on the grid is for architects and people with styles so realistic you'd notice straight away if the perspective was anything but. It feels off because artists have been cheating with perspective for so long you start to question it when it's actually right, you've probably never seen real perspective except on 3D models or technical drawings.

Take spheres : people think they're immune to perspective, because "duh, no sides", and just get smaller the further you get from them no matter. they'll start cringing if you use anything other than 1-point and draw them stretched as they should.
or the side wall in pic related : perspective on the planks is technically correct but a ton of anons on /co/ screamed when they saw that and called the artist a hack the other day.

[Anonymous No.5230285]

>>5228360
>tfw I'm a man
>tfw when I'm super thicc even tho I weigh 55 kg
how do I cope?

[Anonymous No.5230304]

why is it that I can 1:1 most things with reference but without it I draw like I'm 4

[Anonymous No.5230336]

>>5228635
try messing around with the brushes and sizes, worked for me

[Anonymous No.5230344]

>>5230304
I feel there's less things that can go wrong with refs. Sure, sometimes you fuck up proportions, angles or shading, but you usually don't start guessing shit and drawing arms with a dozen extra muscles, faces with anime tier googly eyes and such.

I did this thing today, and while almost everything is wrong, without ref that lady would have 3 arms, a giant ass, and one of her breasts would be bigger than her head because I have no fucking idea what a naked woman actually looks like.

[Anonymous No.5230352]

>>5230344
You can't even copy proportions from a reference, long way to go, boyo.

[Anonymous No.5230370]

>>5230109
Bart is for lisa only and lisa is only for bart

[Anonymous No.5230414]

>>5230148
Sorry mate, I'm too much of a bitch to have a blog

[Anonymous No.5230424]

>>5228085
where are the clavicles? also she's missing a lot of her pelvis.

[Anonymous No.5230426]

>>5230370
Maggie x Moe when?

[Anonymous No.5230443]

Should I change my sketching method if I spent significant time on the draft of poses like this, and then draw the clothes and faces on another layer entirely? During drawpiles with more skilled friends this just slows a me down a lot compared to others but I am scared of my drawings looking like a 10 yo drew them on school if I don't use construction

[Anonymous No.5230484]

>>5230443
Just keep drawing until you don't need these guidelines

[Anonymous No.5230565]

>>5229508
>>5230087
>>5229553
Will keep in mind, Thanks.
>>5229567
Dont have any social media but thanks.

[Anonymous No.5230575]

>>5230426
That would be insanely sick... Will do

[Anonymous No.5230590]

>>5230117
>lower leg
yh I noticed, the lower legs are a bit too long, and the part where they cross isn't well done

>arm too muscley
no such thing

[Anonymous No.5230652]

The average touhou weighs 180 pounds.

[Anonymous No.5230654]

HOT DOGGA WHOOPS

[Anonymous No.5230656]

>>5228661
quintessentially ngmi

[Anonymous No.5230661]

>>5230654
THEY FUCKED HER BRAIN OUT

[Anonymous No.5230679]

>>5229900
what about it is bad rn anon?

[Anonymous No.5230692]

remember: life is suffering, so choose your suffering well.

[Anonymous No.5230700]

how does this look

[Anonymous No.5230718]

how this look

[Anonymous No.5230752]

does gesture practice help with eyeballing proportions better or is there something else I should do for that ?

[Anonymous No.5230772]

>>5230752
>is there something else I should do for that ?
yes
https://www.dorian-iten.com/accuracy/ aka brague plates
If you practice for 2 hours every day in one week you will notice that your accuracy has improved

[Anonymous No.5230784]

Self portrait I did last night. I'm quite pleased with it actually, especially since it's the first I've drawn in almost a year now. Think I might get back into it, maybe even take up painting, never done that before.

Any thoughts?

[Anonymous No.5230786]

>>5230752
might be just me, but drawing figures with negative spaces also helps me with proportions

[Anonymous No.5230814]

>>5230784
As a /beg/ I can't see any issues

[Anonymous No.5230823]

A very simple retarded drawing I made a while ago.

[Anonymous No.5230833]

>>5230784
draw bigger and use less whitespace

[Anonymous No.5230887]

Started out doodling a couple of months ago and am now taking a course. How am I doing /beg/?

The red part is my sketching, but I dislike the brush, it's too thin, anyone got any brushes they recommend for CSP? I want to do a sort of pencil like brush but I can't find any that suits my desires and I'm just using G-pen plain.

[Anonymous No.5230905]

>>5228085
>>5228661
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ju1y3UwSKk

[Anonymous No.5230989]

>I am the terror that flaps in the night!
>I am the shitposter who desperately needs more Loomis!
>I! AM! ...taking a break from my fundies for a Darkwing marathon. These pencils suck.

[Anonymous No.5231099]

A lot more low-effort than many of my other drawings but I thought it came out p cool.

[Anonymous No.5231101]

>>5229113
Not posible

[Anonymous No.5231225]

>>5230887
>the CSP store has 1339 pencil brushes

the fuck, anime was a mistake.
Can't you just find one that's close to what you want and tweak it yourself with the brush engine, there's probably a size option somewhere along all the stuff people barely use because they're afraid of breaking something.

[Anonymous No.5231258]

>>5228114
Your gondola makes me want to fuck you intensely.

[Anonymous No.5231270]

Work in progress, don't cum yet

[Anonymous No.5231322]

>>5231258
You know what the requirements to be my gf are.
I'm not picky though, a brolita is good enough.

[Anonymous No.5231327]

[Anonymous No.5231342]

>>5230887
first change px to mm for brush size
try using a brush without any anti-aliasing
and use google to find the most 'popular' brushes for clip studio

[Anonymous No.5231350]

>>5231327
Blog?

[Anonymous No.5231352]

>>5231270
>don't cum yet
too late

[Anonymous No.5231414]

i'll never be good

[Anonymous No.5231418]

>>5229909
I have more but its cringier RFLMAO
Thinking about releasing it into public domain after I die of cancer (Provided if I ever get cancer).
Gonna post a thread when that happens named: "25+ years of trash drawings" or something along these lines.
I sometimes feel like "The Room" director but cringier and goofier.

[Anonymous No.5231420]

>>5231414
You and me both, but I like how expressive the eyes are.

[Anonymous No.5231455]

>>5230575
Please post here.

[Anonymous No.5231474]

>>5231322
>>5231322
>>5231322

[Anonymous No.5231494]

Any feedback would be appreciated. Just got back into drawing. Watercolor for first time

[Anonymous No.5231518]

am i doing it right?

[Anonymous No.5231520]

I'm scared I'm stagnating, tell it to me straight /ic/

[Anonymous No.5231613]

>>5231414
beg here, I tried fix it using liquify but now she looks like a kid. don't be discouraged, anon. faces are one of the hardest things to draw.

[Anonymous No.5231640]

>>5231613
the problem is that the eyes aren't properly set into the eyesockets and there isn't enough cheek to stop it from looking too flat

have a skull for your efforts

[Anonymous No.5231645]

>>5231270
i like her paunchy belly. is this from reference?
i think the value on the ribcage is a bit too dark

[Anonymous No.5231663]

>>5231520
it's hard to tell what you're even doing here man. post some other work you've done. and my suggestion just from this is to use a thinner brush with pressure line weight enabled

[Anonymous No.5231665]

>>5231520
don't worry about stagnating when you don't even have skill to stagnate with.

[Anonymous No.5231670]

>>5228505
I think that without the outlines it would look better.

[Anonymous No.5231684]

>>5228635
It will always feel more empty without the sketch. That's what your colors and shading is for.

[Anonymous No.5231695]

>>5228648
>How the fuck do I make my characters feel more 3d and expressive?
imo just choose better poses. this pose is inherently flat and don't represent any emotion in particular

[Anonymous No.5231697]

>>5228818
start over from the beginning is the safest bet, but you probably will just drop it again if you do that.

[Anonymous No.5231704]

>>5228881
wait, does the perspective in mirrors, works as it was a window?

[Anonymous No.5231711]

Do you guys have a 'goal' beyond leaving /beg/? Is it money? Pure skill?
I hope to build my forms well enough to create a webcomic that I can be proud of.

[Anonymous No.5231713]

>>5230833
ty that's good advice. How's this?

[Anonymous No.5231721]

>>5229312
not sure about the ass, it is too flat and wide, not sure if her pelvis would fit in the space left

[Anonymous No.5231722]

>>5229931
you did

[Anonymous No.5231733]

>>5230030
pretty nice, the tail don't taper consistently, and that arm doesn't look connected to the body

[Anonymous No.5231738]

[Anonymous No.5231739]

>>5231520
what your doing wire framing which is ok, you can keep using it if you feel comfortable with it

[Anonymous No.5231759]

>>5231711
i want to be able to design original characters and draw them

[Anonymous No.5231763]

>>5231520
Topkek

[Anonymous No.5231767]

>>5231711
my goal is to be able to make good art for my games.

[Anonymous No.5231768]

>>5231713
major improvement don't forget to redefine the features with a sharpen pencil but do it carefully assuming you have decent knowledge on clothes, face, etc

[Anonymous No.5231796]

[Anonymous No.5231798]

>>5228078
Can I get a redline on these legs?

[Anonymous No.5231816]

>>5231645
Thanks, ref is my gf

I agree, thanks for the input

[Anonymous No.5231819]

>>5231711
Earn enough money to pay bills so I don't have to go back to work when the stimulus check and unemployment money dries up.

[Anonymous No.5231827]

What is the best way to make a scanned layer into a clear layer? I have been using the wand tool, but it is taking out an uneven amount of grit, and it is causing those weird shapes in the background. I am using a v39.

[Anonymous No.5231904]

HOW DO I STOP SMALL HEAD SYNDROME?!?!?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.5231938]

[Anonymous No.5231966]

Might as well post this here too
>Look at pic related
It proves that you CANNOT draw from life without first being able to stylized something first!

People are seething over at my thread because no matter how many times I ask them to prove me wrong, they cannot because i am right about this.

You cannot make a face look good WITHOUT stylizing it (unless you paint it or give it realistic shading that takes hours).

This is why beginners draw like pic related. It's because they dont know that they HAVE to stylized. You have to.
You can't just jump into drawing from life. It's a waste of time.

You have to first learn how to stylize what you want to draw before you can actually draw that thing from life.

Feel free to provide any counter examples. I'm willing to debate but I won't take seriously any gaslighting comments.

[Anonymous No.5231970]

>>5231904
lasso + resize

[Anonymous No.5231974]

>>5231970
how do I do that on paper?

[Anonymous No.5231978]

>>5231966
they need to learn how to use line weight and tone.

[Anonymous No.5231994]

>>5231978
>Line weight and Tone
That's stylizing!!!

[Anonymous No.5232007]

>>5231966
>when life is just all render monkeying

[Anonymous No.5232016]

>>5231966
I thought they already teach this in observational drawing;
never directly copying but grabbing the gesture, essence and the appeal of the figure and putting it on the page.

[Anonymous No.5232022]

>>5232016
not him but everyone gets confused and go full retarded like the schizo

[Anonymous No.5232031]

>>5232016
>I thought they already teach this in observational drawing
What???
How is this common knowledge?
I learned this from Robert Beverly Hale and it only now just clicked for me.
It made me realize that I have been doing everything wrong and that I was completely wasting my time drawing from imagination and trying to figure things out 'by chance' when I literally could have just observed another artist and how he draws specific things.

[Anonymous No.5232033]

>>5232031
I meant to say "life" not "Imagination."

[Anonymous No.5232120]

Pls help with angle eyes

[Anonymous No.5232131]

>>5231904
The forehead is about a third of the face. If your character is bald, the distance between the jaw and the base of the eye sockets is half of the skull's total height

[Anonymous No.5232140]

[Anonymous No.5232144]

texture analysis is dumb and i don’t want to do it

[Anonymous No.5232216]

[Anonymous No.5232222]

>>5232144
Based

[Anonymous No.5232350]

[Anonymous No.5232354]

>>5232140
Are you the guy who drew this?

[Anonymous No.5232359]

>>5231796
beg here, I think you are focusing too mush on the outlines, see >>5228705 how the lines go inside and overlap each other, that helps to describe the form better

[Anonymous No.5232386]

>>5231966
real life don't have lines, so in a sense you can say that draw with line is a stylization. but the type of stylization that people tell you to not to do if you are a beginner is distortion of the anatomical features. I personally don't agree tho. I think it is fine as long it is very abstract, like fun with pencil does. but if it is something more subtle you are just crippling yourself. it is much easier to learn to place the eyes in a real head, for instance, because it is easier to see the mistakes.

[Anonymous No.5232392]

Starting reading abatomy for sculptors a couple days ago. focusing on the torso since I have a habit of squishing the model.

[Anonymous No.5232402]

>>5232350
Incredibly based

[Anonymous No.5232403]

>>5232392

[Anonymous No.5232477]

Critique?

[Anonymous No.5232512]

>>5232477
I thought her nose was her mouth at first. It’s cute though.

[Anonymous No.5232529]

>>5232512
Thank you! That's some really good news. Do you think this one looks better though?

[Anonymous No.5232533]

>>5232477
You don't strangle people with only your hands, you lean on them to crush their trachea.
Try it on yourself, squeezing your throat does jack shit compared to just pushing forward with your elbow.
Of course you can go for the arteries, but the other person passes out in a few seconds and that makes the rape less fun.

[Anonymous No.5232555]

>>5232533
Oh trust me, I know that lol. But if I post something that's actually hardcore people will snap out on me which I just really dont wanna deal with, yknow? So I gotta draw "consensual" blood deprivation instead

[Anonymous No.5232568]

coom

[Anonymous No.5232572]

>>5232568
Atrocious. Did you trace the tits? They look half-decent unlike the rest of the drawing

[Anonymous No.5232580]

>>5232572
Can you redline it? I know it's bad but i don't know how to fix it. And no i did not trace it.

[Anonymous No.5232582]

I don't know why I practice so much when all I do is absurd cartoon fanart on /co/, but whatever, I clearly need it anyway.

[Anonymous No.5232586]

Not sure how clear the shadows/parts of the actual fountain are, any thoughts? I know four colors limits it a lot but I'm trying to learn around the restrictions.

[Anonymous No.5232595]

>>5232529
It was actually better where you had it before. I was just being retarded is all.

[Anonymous No.5232603]

>>5232568
The proportion errors are pretty glaring. Look up existing art of Uzaki and note how many heads tall she is, how thick her arms and legs are, etc, and compare it to what you have.
I will give you credit though because you’ve already gone beyond the people who only draw 30 second gestures and floating Loomis heads all day.

[Anonymous No.5232611]

>>5232580
uzaki's forearm seems to be going straight to her elbow, you probably should add some sort of arm shape. plus her hand is shit for various reasons, have some Hogarth explaining proportions better than I would

[Anonymous No.5232627]

>>5232595
Oof, wish you said that before I lined it. Oh well, lining is my favorite part and I dont wanna stop listening to music.

[Anonymous No.5232646]

>>5232603
>Look up existing art of Uzaki and note how many heads tall she is, how thick her arms and legs are
Uzaki is something like 6 heads tall, anon seems good on that one, and I don't think we can just expect coom to be accurate to the source material so much. If you want them thicc or to make one of them smaller because that pose would never work otherwise, just do it.

I mean, do it, understand you're doing it, and try not to fuck up otherwise, but at some point saying "fuck you mom, it's my style" should start working.

[Anonymous No.5232651]

>>5232568
Use references next time. There’s no reason Uzaki’s outstretched arm should be that bad. Just point your phone at your own arm and take a picture and see what it looks like.

[Anonymous No.5232693]

>>5232120
the eyes are balls which sit in the sockets of the skull. Eye lids are themselves 3D objects.

[Anonymous No.5232735]

>>5232693
That’s good info to know, but by itself it won’t help anyone correct their face drawings.

[Anonymous No.5232736]

>>5232735
no, you're right. it's more accurate to imagine the face as a bunch of 3d objects

[Anonymous No.5232775]

>>5231966
turn your picture into a black and white image
now instead of drawing lines, shade with the pencil the shapes you see

[Anonymous No.5232783]

rate the loomis

[Anonymous No.5232872]

reminder to tackle a subject appropriate to your level
https://youtu.be/22XYoenU-0c?t=638

[Anonymous No.5232879]

>>5232872
How is iphone more difficult that the steam engine?

[Anonymous No.5232888]

>>5232879
see the video: tolerances, and the fact that everybody knows what an iphone looks like, but few people can spot mistakes in a train design

[Anonymous No.5232890]

Tonal matching from Keys to Drawing

[Anonymous No.5232897]

any crit welcome

[Anonymous No.5232898]

>>5232879
His Logic there is that noone really looks at steam engine nowdays, so if you change or mess up some details it will not seem wrong to the viewer, while phones are something we interact daily with and if anything is off it will be noticed conciously or subconciously by the viewer.

[Anonymous No.5233026]

>>5232872
noice, I was trying to find this again

[Anonymous No.5233036]

>>5232783
05/10 - her skull looks a little small for the size of her eye and it is unfinished

[Anonymous No.5233038]

[Anonymous No.5233048]

>>5231520
try to spend more than 3 seconds on the figure

[Anonymous No.5233054]

>>5232897
pretty nice, my only nitpick, is that the pose/expression/composition is kinda boring.

[Anonymous No.5233059]

>>5232897
not beg, but very cool

[Anonymous No.5233064]

>>5232897
ok now leave beg

[Anonymous No.5233077]

>>5232898
Maybe that works on cats or other complex things but most people will accept any sort of rectangle with a black dot on top and the Apple logo as an iphone, the same way a pentagon and five sausages makes a hand. People will say "wow, you can't draw hands for shit", but not "wait, why does that character has half a dozen snakes stuck to his arm ?".

[Anonymous No.5233115]

>>5232890
Using the side of your pencil rather than the tip will give you more control over the values which allows smoother transitions, softer shadows and you won't have a scratchy texture. If you compare your picture to the photograph you can see that you screwed up the values of the lower background section under the chin. They are supposed to be darker than the values of the hair and there should be a visible hard edge between chin and background. Top part looks good, value-wise.

[Anonymous No.5233121]

My character looks unnatural and stiff, what can I do to fix this?

[Anonymous No.5233128]

>>5233121
silly

[Anonymous No.5233130]

>>5233128
s-s-s-s-silly?!? what??

[Anonymous No.5233132]

>>5232897

You're not /beg/, anon. Time to post in /int/.

[Anonymous No.5233177]

Did some polishing, but how is the poop underneath?

[Anonymous No.5233178]

>>5232897
great job, now get the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.5233186]

>>5233177
i don't understand how it's possible to learn rendering before you learn how to draw. wtf how does this happen?

[Anonymous No.5233191]

>>5233186
Rendering's a lot easier than everything else, that's how.

[Anonymous No.5233218]

Anyone know how to achieve full opacity in one, full pressure stroke of the hard round brush? It's scaled laterally to the max and it still won't apply full opacity when I hold down to max pressure
Using krita btw

[Anonymous No.5233254]

half drunk drawing, is it even worth it?

[Anonymous No.5233263]

>>5233218
Turn opacity pressure off.

[Anonymous No.5233264]

>>5233218
you should literally be able to do it with any fucking tablet with the default pen pressure settings, if you cant get a proper stroke down then its your shitty brush settings, or a shitty program. or your tablet is chinkware

[Anonymous No.5233269]

>>5233264
Who pissed in your ass this morning? God damn, calm your tits.

[Anonymous No.5233296]

>>5233269
One of my favorite porn videos is of Charlotte Sartre getting anally pissed in by a bunch guys.

[Anonymous No.5233303]

>>5233121
Too many straight angles.

The pose suits the cartoon style, but there should be an opposite force to kicking the door open. Upper body leaning back a little more than it is. The back arm is very unnatural, possibly too long for the rest of the body.

[Anonymous No.5233311]

>>5233303
Let's see you do better then. I think you're just mad I mad something good in beg.

[Anonymous No.5233315]

>>5233311

Topkek, either take the advice or don't.

[Anonymous No.5233365]

>>5233311
Not him and /beg/ as fuck, but whatever, I'm trying anyway

[Anonymous No.5233377]

>>5233121
post in /int/

[Anonymous No.5233380]

>>5233365
Mine is better

[Anonymous No.5233394]

>>5233186
Truth is, the game was rigged from the start

[Anonymous No.5233396]

>>5233394
kek'd

[Anonymous No.5233402]

>>5233121
>>5233311
>>5233380
>how to I fix my art, bros
>fuck you, you'll just jealous of my skill
can't make this shit up

[Anonymous No.5233421]

>>5232897
The hand on the pommel feels off. It seems like she's resting the weight of her right side on the very bottom edge of the hand instead of her gripping/resting on the pommel with the center of the hand. or my eyes are broke

[Anonymous No.5233426]

>>5233402
>Can't make this shit up
You literally can though, this is anonymous and those faggots aren't me.

[Anonymous No.5233443]

I made this aberration, and while it does not look good, I love it for some reason.

[Anonymous No.5233465]

>>5233426
>those faggots aren't me
holy shit why is /beg/ like this?

[Anonymous No.5233466]

>>5233402
What?
OP here, Don't jump into assumptions, anon

[Anonymous No.5233472]

>>5233303
What do you mean too many straight lines?
I used to naturally do slightly S curves every where I could, but then I saw Herny on Twitter (Pic related) and kinda wanted to enbrace the straight lines, I just don't know how, I think

>>5233377
You think so?

[Anonymous No.5233484]

I'm starting to able to casually draw stuff like this from imagination after around a year of study, it may not be much but I'm so happy man

[Anonymous No.5233487]

>>5233472

Gimme a minute or two. i don't use digital but I'm gonna try red-lining on paint.

Basically the only S you can really make out on the character is spine to back leg, but you've had to make up anatomy/perspective in order to make it fit.

[Anonymous No.5233488]

>>5233443
How did someone with superpowers end up with withered wheelchair legs?

[Anonymous No.5233490]

>>5233488
Good question. Great question, actually

[Anonymous No.5233495]

>>5233488
Because she flies around everywhere and her leg muscles atrophied

[Anonymous No.5233502]

>>5233177
Anyone else wanna chime in on this before the thread dies?

[Anonymous No.5233507]

>>5233121
You should exaggerate her pose a bit more:
- stretch out that leg with which she kicks open the door (maybe even a bit higher)
- make her arms swing to the side with clenched fists (shows more force)

[Anonymous No.5233514]

>>5233472
>>5233487

I hope that helps.

Basically the upper body is very stiff, particularly obvious with the arms. But then the pelvis has to be huge which you can get away with, but you've had to break her legs to get them into their current position.

With the Herny pic you've posted, you'll see that the spinal S-curve is still prominent even though it's straight, but the clothing adds curvature. You've accomplished that with the lower half, with the flow of the skirt looking good, the anatomy is just a little too broken to be masked.

that's just my opinion tho.

[Anonymous No.5233520]

>>5233443
See >>5232872

[Anonymous No.5233558]

>>5233520
I was planning on taking a break from making finished drawings and focusing on practicing anatomy, perspective and some other things.

I always see people saying drawing hard pieces help, but based on your advice, it seems it would be better to stick with simple things for now. Is that right?

[Anonymous No.5233570]

>>5233558
Finish your drawings, just tackle easier subjects than the human figure. You will still practice construction, perspective and light, just on a different set of things.
Finishing something easier is also great motivation, as the end result will look nice despite its flaws.

[Anonymous No.5233594]

>>5233570
But I'll never learn how to draw complicate things, no?

I genuinely want to know, so I can improve a little bit faster. Also, thanks for the patience.

[Anonymous No.5233606]

>>5233594
The point is not to keep drawing easy stuff forever, but to use it as a way to build up the habit of drawing without too much pain.
Once you can draw say, a beetle, without major mistakes, you'll know you can attempt a harder subject.
The idea is to ramp up the difficulty, not to avoid it altogether.

[Anonymous No.5233608]

>>5233606
Understood. Thank you!

[Anonymous No.5233609]

>>5233484
Quick colors

[Anonymous No.5233647]

>>5232897
is she secretly unscrewing the pommel?

[Anonymous No.5233651]

new thread
>>5233649
>>5233649
>>5233649

[Anonymous No.5233726]

>>5232897
got a nude edit?

[Anonymous No.5234444]

>>5231722
thanks

[Anonymous No.5234515]

>>5228078
how do I sit down and practice. i've just been avoiding drawing until I just decide I don't have enough time so I'll draw for fun instead. I wanna just run my imagination free.

[Anonymous No.5235309]

>>5229326
A bit better?

[Anonymous No.5235561]

>>5235309
looks the same to me, read "drawing on the right side of the brain" by betty edwards.

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4E0D69FDAF9784CF2ED50F56EDFD5B75

[Anonymous No.5235619]

>>5235561
I appreciate the suggestion, mate.

[Anonymous No.5235647]

what is wrong and where i can better?