/sqtddtot/ - Stupid Question Thread

[Anonymous No.6940789]

For stupid questions and questions that don't deserve their own thread.
Post here if you don't expect your thread to reach 100+ replies.

[Anonymous No.6940806]

do y'all use pure black for line? I like using 10-30 because it means I can go darker

[Anonymous No.6940949]

I look at some of the stuff I make now, and sometimes it's reminiscent of stuff I made 10 years ago. Like how knees are shaped or how the eyes and mouth are shaped. I've drawn a fuckton of different styles and copied a fuckton of different art over the last decade and sure my final pieces are unrecognizable compared to the old stuff. Mass improvement. But I wonder, are there just certain things an artist does that they can never shake? Are you just doomed to certain habits forever because your brain just likes to see things look that way? It's not that they're inaccurate or bad, just unshakable for some reason.

[Anonymous No.6940956]

>>6940789
Why are artists so mean? I say that as an artist who grew up with artist buddies. We routinely mocked each other, sabotaged one another, made each other cry and pushed the shit talk so hard one of our homies started crying and then later necked himself for real. I felt terrible about it but I'm still mean nothing has changed. The only people I can safely bully are other artists because they get me, everyone else is like "what the actual fuck is wrong with you you psychopath" art friends just laugh it off.

[Anonymous No.6940969]

>>6940789
any good resources for shape design?

[Anonymous No.6940983]

Probably way too specific, but are there resources for designing neat, intricate, and/or weird gizmos to look like picrel, or is it just something I have to gradually collect enough references from and form my own notes for?

[Anonymous No.6941067]

How do you learn to "add the details"?
In line art I guess it's building up to non-color renders
With rendering I see it as: shapes and value -> edges -> blending -> ??? (polish?) -> finished

[Anonymous No.6941105]

>>6940806
personally I never use pure black, I use a deeper color than the skin tone or the main color of the piece. For sketching I use a dark red color

[Anonymous No.6941132]

>>6940969
https://drawabox.com/#!=drawabox.com-giveback
has some pretty useful lessons to help you get basic shapes down. Let me know if it helps

>>6940983
I haven't found any specific place for references like picrel but I would recommend making a pinterest board and searching under "tech gadgets" or "gadgets and gizmos" and compiling it into a board. There's definitely already some boards that have what you're looking for, I just haven't seen any though.

>>6941067
it sort of depends on what you consider "adding the details," for some people that means rendering, whereas others take it as final touches such as slight highlights, using liquify, etc. As for me, it means final touches, and in my process it falls as the final step.

[Anonymous No.6941203]

>>6941132
thanks but I'm not looking for lessons geared toward beginners like "the skull is just a circle"
I'm looking for something akin to "I have the rough sketch done, now how can I make the shapes look more interesting/not boring?", if that makes sense
similar to this proko video here, but I want more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID8r0OhiYe0

[Anonymous No.6941277]

>>6941203
The sketch is where you develop interesting shapes. If your sketch is boring it's not going to get better as you work on it. Try different sketches and push different elements to more extremes until something pops out. The more you play the more you develop your sensibilities and the good shape design will come more naturally. There's not really a short cut, you just need to be curious and playful and a coherent style will begin to form.

[Anonymous No.6941360]

>>6940789
how I apply what I learned?

[Anonymous No.6941365]

>>6941360
you probably haven't learnt it if you need to ask

[Anonymous No.6941472]

what kind of people would you encounter at a basic art class at your local community college?

[Anonymous No.6941499]

Hey Anons, does a rendered illustration count as rendered if the sketch is still there? We're talking guidelines, stray lines, indistinct blob shapes (like having a shape for the multiple fingers instead of drawing each individual finger).
A friend of mine says, and I shall quote for all you gentlemen and ladies, "I think rendering is about the texture and lighting not about the outline, overly cleaned up work is overrated anyway"

I could post an example that a friend mentions IS rendering, but I know very well is just just my sketch layer with a little more effort put into the "shadows." It is, however, porn.

[Anonymous No.6941542]

>>6941472
This was like 2016 but mine just had average 20-something normies. Like 2 slightly older guys maybe 30-something. One pothead, something who did trippy art. A girl around my age who was cute and we were friendly but she was dumb as hell. The rest were so generic I don't remember any of them. Professor had a coffee machine with fresh coffee for us every day for free. It was 99% /beg/ work but it was fun. Required art supplies seemed like a waste of money by the end though, barely used

[Anonymous No.6941774]

>>6941365
fuck

[Anonymous No.6941784]

I'm okay at drafting, but I suck at painting and edge control. Should I paint with less opacity jitter or something? Maybe stick with solid brushes for the block in phase? I guess what I'm struggling with is finding a reliable process for digital.

Picrel. Not confident in painting over my sketch lines.

[有無ない/umunai !FUN/9xi6UU No.6943454]

What is your favorite feeling given by art?

[Anonymous No.6943705]

you guys ever get stuck on a drawing? I'm trying to draw a naked lady and I drew her body fine enough and it only took me like 20 minutes to draw that part but I can't draw her face or arms for shit and it's bothering the crap out of me.

Should I just take a break and come back to this piece in like a week or something?

[Anonymous No.6943710]

How long should it take to go from stiff construction-based low anatomy knowledge mannequins to intuitively dynamic anatomically correct enough anime characters in different angles if I only focus on figure drawing, intuitive perspective purely by composition and lineart for now? I will study from Villpu's drawing manual (basically copying all the figure inside and putting a lot of them in different angles) and anatomy for sculptors, while always trying to put what I learn from those and timed figure drawing sessions into my more stylized art btw.
More suggestions for successful study are accepted.

[Anonymous No.6943896]

>>6940789
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F_KIMHO9cUE

is this fraudulent? also should I buy these model hands?

[Anonymous No.6943904]

>>6940956
Nigger, what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.6943980]

Whenever I draw I have a habit of going over the same lines over and over again like 25 times and wasting time and energy. How do I just draw a line and leave it?

[Anonymous No.6943988]

>>6940956
They do be saying dem blck ppl do be having lots of estrogen.

[Anonymous No.6943991]

>>6943980
>How do I just draw a line and leave it?
itll happen when you finally realize your arms and hands have a shorter shelf life than you thought

[Anonymous No.6944242]

What‘s a good way to learn anatomy?
Any particular books or videos on the subject?

[Anonymous No.6944378]

>>6940789
Do you visualize the exact specific line you want to make prior to making it or do your lines come instinctually? I've been autistically practicing visualizing the exact line or next few lines before committing them to paper and while it's actually showing some pretty decent improvement it's also pretty tiring and i can only hold a couple or a few limited details in focus at a time.

[Anonymous No.6944412]

>>6943980
>>6944378
I got over this shit long ago by trying to study some of my favorite mangaka's linework. They are usually shit, the lines are wonky and unpolished if I look at them as closely as I do mine. I have come to the realization that perfects lines are pretty irrelevant if you just want a nice drawing and not to show off your skills to potential employers or something

[Anonymous No.6944449]

>>6944412
it was less of a question about pure line quality and more on how much you think about a line as it matches your imagination/intention. Simple example, if i put to paper a horizon line and use a ruler i can rotate, twirl, twist a box in any given position cause i know the reasoning behind why this angle changes, or this side is smaller, etc. But when i try to draw a box in any position from imagination, only going by the vague idea of the desired box, with no on paper reference or external tools; while i can list out all the given reasons for why each edge should be this length, that angle, etc it comes out poorly, like a caricature of the "correct" box even though i "know" the right steps to make the box im trying to make and could had i used a horizon line, vp, ruler. So what i've been doing now has kinda fixed this, by imagining the exact image, the exact lines, how this line is this exact angle/length compared to this one, and seeing it ghosted on the paper as i draw it. Im just curious if this is how others more experienced "see" what they want to draw before they do/as they do because while it's super effective its really difficult to maintain. Still prolly just the tism tho.

[Anonymous No.6944450]

>>6940806
I usually ink in black at first for visibility but then I go back & recolor it to match the piece better.

For sketching I just use fun bright colors with each character/object in the piece being sketched in a different color for ease of visibility. If I sketch everything in grey it becomes a huge mess really quickly.

[Anonymous No.6944473]

Anyone knows how to replicate this thing?
I'm not even sure if it's a brush or just a technique while inking

[Anonymous No.6945009]

what the fuck is this
i just want a god damn fucking perspective grid
what the fuck is this supposed to be
i can't take this
i hate this

[Anonymous No.6945016]

>>6944473
it just looks like screentone overlayed on top of rough hatching to me

[Anonymous No.6945027]

>>6943980
try doing contour drawing exercises, it's when you draw something without lifting the pencil. it'll improve observation and confidence.
also when you ink something try using you elbow and shoulder, rotating the canvas to find the angle that's easiest to draw the line you are trying to.

there's also a lot of draftmenship exercises on youtube that are repetitive but that's how you get milage and confidence

[Anonymous No.6945054]

>>6940789
To anyone that uses Krita, what are the best settings/brushes/options i can set to if i wanted to partially mimick the style of Carlos Ezquerra?
Because i hate how flat my drawings usually are and i want to make the brush strokes seem more dynamic and the color shading/blending a bit more interesting.
Or any other tips using Krita is nice, i just mentioned Ezquerra because i think his style is charming.
And chances are some stuff is less about the tools and more about the skill, so maybe i should look into artists streaming/recording themselves using Krita and how they do it.

[Anonymous No.6945070]

>>6940789
Hey guys, 'member Doxy? Doxy/Onta I think. There was a "Kemono Bikini Process" video in one of his YT channels, can't find it anymore. Any one's seen it here? I think the arm with stripes in this little tut image is from the illustration in that video.

[Anonymous No.6945097]

>>6945054
I see you post this often and I'm never sure how to reply. Those brushes are nothing unusual(mostly regular round brush and airbrush on those fellas) but the coloring style is some really 90's-2000s Photoshop type stuff (none of it actually Photoshop-exclusive techniques, just what everyone was stuck with back then and what the style brings to mind) you don't see around much anymore, you'd probably get something out of looking up process videos from that time.
What makes minimal rendering look interesting is usually down to contrast and shadow shapes, former is easy enough to remind yourself of and really gives depth to a composition, latter is a bit trickier but you'd benefit from studying how your favourite artists pick them.

[Anonymous No.6945961]

Tell me some good resources for drawing huge boobs in dynamic situations like squeezing.

[Anonymous No.6946027]

>>6945961
Get a big soft ball like this
The bigger the better

[Anonymous No.6946490]

>>6940789
what do I need to do to become quicker at art? I'm a beg that got sick and tired of literally always doing studies for months on end, so I decided to try making a character using what I've learned. It's tons of fun, I've been practicing and doing mini studies as I work on each part, but this is day 9 and I just have a detailed full body sketch and 3/4s head for the hairdo. Meanwhile I see a bunch of other artists busting out really nice pieces every single day.

[Anonymous No.6946500]

>>6946490
the more you making original pieces the quicker and better you'll be at it. It took me 2 full days just to produce a passable sketch 3 years ago, and now with 2 full days I can finish a full body illustration with abstract bg
also develop your own workflow, going from sketch to finish smoothly without having to going back and forth to fixing stuff

[Anonymous No.6947007]

>>6940789
Should I sign all my traditional drawings and paintings, that I'm planning to sell?

[Anonymous No.6947346]

how do you give your OC names that aren't generic like 'John Smith' but not cringe like 'Jyan Smithu za Demon Sleya'

[Anonymous No.6947986]

Is using stabilization a bad habit?

[Anonymous No.6948161]

Why should I bother with asking my stupid question in this thread instead of making my own thread? You guys don't answer any questions here, while new threads almost always get at least some feedback

[Anonymous No.6948162]

>>6947986
Would you need it if the program weren't picking up on everything and making it look like slight early stage Parkinsons?

[Anonymous No.6948167]

>>6948161
True lmfao, tell em sister!

[Anonymous No.6948168]

>>6947346
"Jyan" is OK as far as OC names go, anon. One golden rule I've observed is that if it (full name or nickname) is longer than 3 syllables, shits fucked

[Anonymous No.6948467]

CSP users who upgraded to 2.X, are there any features that make it truly worth it? Is there anything that got added that makes you not want to go back to 1.X? I'm considering upgrading, but after skimming the changelog I'm not really seeing anything too interesting, so I thought I'd ask in case I missed something.

[Anonymous No.6948481]

>job makes it hard to be consistent
>not enough free time to get enough practice AND get sufficient sleep
Be honest Doc, is it over?

[Anonymous No.6948597]

>>6948162
kinda

[Anonymous No.6948626]

>>6947346
Keep it at 3 syllables or do research on names in various languages and cultures

Also it doesn't really matter, characters in dragon ball are named after food and it's one of the most successful things ever

Superheroes have dumb alliterative names and characters/mechs in Gundam have really random names

[Anonymous No.6948629]

>>6948481
Just keep practicing, it'll take more time but you can make gains if you're consistent and try to identify your shortcomings

[Anonymous No.6948908]

>>6948481
Hack your sleep with "polyphasic sleeping" to go from 8 to 6 hours. Start eating only one meal a day (a big one) to save on cooking/doing the dishes time. Meal prep if you can to cut cooking time even further and if possible do your shopping in a huge batch, once a week, early in the morning (to avoid crowds).

I'd also recommend that you stop showering, but given that we're on 4chan, I'm assuming you already don't this.

[Anonymous No.6948938]

Dunno if this is the place to ask this, but does anyone know a painting that was like a comic about a woman changing in her room or something while a demon/shadow/entity watches over her, then has sex with her while she's naked, enters her, and steals her skin or something?
I tried to draw what I remember it looking like to the best of my ability if that helps any. lol

[Anonymous No.6949259]

>>6940789
Question for /int/s - how long did a good/decent sketch take you back when you were /beg/, and how long does it take you now?

[Anonymous No.6949263]

>>6949259
My figure drawing speed doubled

[Anonymous No.6949264]

>>6949263
that's awesome anon. Have you ever timed yourself?

[Anonymous No.6949306]

how should I learn and what should read and practice to learn decorative art like patterns, embroidery designs, wallpaper designs, and other things that goes on textiles, vases, frames, jewelery, etc, I wanna implement them into my paintings, like something you'd see in nouveau art, or Klimt's mix of patterns and rendered people.

[Anonymous No.6949308]

>>6949263
I misread this post, and thought I read the drawing 'time' had doubled, happy im mistaken. How long does it take you now?

[Anonymous No.6949315]

>>6948938
The Morning Visitor, Dino Buzzati

[Anonymous No.6949480]

Can someone please explain to me how to design stuff like the Lycoris Recoil uniforms? I like them, and their asymmetricality, but I feel like I could never design something that is both as unique and as simple as this.

[Anonymous No.6949501]

>>6949480
alter and mash up existing designs

[Anonymous No.6949693]

What's wrong with these
Why am I not feeling the form

[Anonymous No.6949951]

>>6949693
you are too much of a coward to actually try drawing people so you'll never know what you are missing

[Anonymous No.6949952]

>>6949951
oh i didn't know this thread was also for stupid answers

[Anonymous No.6950201]

>>6949693
a lot of them look 3d to me, some look flat or wonky, you probably need to use a mirror or mirror the photo to see what looks wrong so you can fix it, that's always my go to when something doesn't look quite right.

[Anonymous No.6950301]

>>6949315
Yes! This is it! Good job finding it based on my crude explanation and drawing lol

It's amazing to me how eerie this painting manages to be with so little. Not even words or text, just rudimentary figures and gestures assembled into sequential art

[Anonymous No.6951124]

What do people mean when they call my art "queer-coded"?
Like I've seen that phrase applied to practically everything I don't know what it even means. Yesterday I saw someone call Gaston from Beauty and the Beast "queer-coded" like wtf

[Anonymous No.6951184]

So why is /draw/ so slow? Is the board just too fractured at this point? I feel like we split into more separate generals when the board was more active, and now the divisions make less sense.

[Anonymous No.6951187]

>>6951124
stop caring what some mentally ill terminally online legbeards think about your art, faggot

[Anonymous No.6951191]

>>6940789
are nma’s live classes worthwhile? i’m split between getting a bodies in motion sub or upgrading nma while it’s cheap
>>6951124
it’s a safeword for being horny for 2d but in a heckin valid progressive way, not like those filthy weeabo perverts

[Anonymous No.6951193]

>>6945961
get an oppai toy

[Anonymous No.6951471]

gonna ask the annoying question - can someone please whitepill me on why i should even bother drawing anymore? AI is only going to get better and better and powers that be have clearly decided to run with it with all the AI shilling I've been seeing. Even if it can never be as good as real art, normies can't tell the difference and corporations want what's fast and cheap. What's the point anymore

[Anonymous No.6951481]

>>6951124
tl;dr
>character acts/looks like a fag even though they clearly aren't

[Anonymous No.6951486]

>>6951471
Do you want approval from normie cattle so they can say to you
>OMAGAH UR SO TALENTED WOW
when they don't even mean it and just say it to feel validated as nice people?

Or do you want to visually express yourself and have fun with a pen?
Fuck pills
Fuck normies
Draw.

Also having a hobby you can pursue in earnest and with the goal of getting better for the sake of learning a skill and apply yourself is good for you.

[Anonymous No.6951487]

>>6940806
I use this weird red one, I'd like for it to be more brown but I always forget to find the color.
It's okay for most things but if I have black/dark flats then I color those parts of the lineart black

While on topic anybody got a nice warm brown/red color that I can use for most things? I've seen it sometimes, often in anime drawings

[Anonymous No.6951493]

>>6941203
not him but follow the big/medium/small design principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluGXgpdJj4 also consider this book - good composition and shape design go hand in hand

In general just look at successful concepts, this design "rule" is used in everything from big composition to details in clothing. There isn't any specific resource for this because this is a skill you gotta develop and use to dissect and learn from existing designs. Like look at concepts of environment/props/costumes from a game/movie/still shots/keyframes and dissect why it's good. Shape design is always a big part why and plays into good composition.

[Anonymous No.6951496]

>>6940956
what the fuck bro? Nobody normal does this this isn't an artist thing - unironically cut off every single fucking person in your life who's like this and bring flowers to your friends grave every year to remind yourself what human filth looks like and to avoid it at all costs

[Anonymous No.6951499]

>>6941360
>>6941365
>>6941774

Do an excercise 3 times, then apply it to an example completely different from what the instructor used. If you can do it you learned the concept (for example if it's a render tutorial with a human character, you do it on a door or something)

[Anonymous No.6951502]

>>6941499
He is wrong with his opinion on overtly clean work but most illustrations are indeed, paintings. So no construction visible but some artists do like adding a few select ones as a style statement.

Professional art wise- illustration is the most "prestegious" and coveted so it's the best you can humanly make it (so def no construction lines or anything)- think DnD artbooks, magic the gathering half-page illustrations or splash art

[Anonymous No.6951506]

>>6951486
You're right really anon, I just get too depressed at the thought of devoting lots of time to learning and stressing when I won't get anything out of it at the end because I can't use it to make my life easier (like getting a job doing art instead of shitty 9-5 office work).

[Anonymous No.6951520]

>>6943896
>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F_KIMHO9cUE
bro just use magic poser or something

[Anonymous No.6951522]

>>6945009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L6ZBjOS48M

[Anonymous No.6951527]

>>6949480
It's costume design and a discipline all on it's own. Apply basic design principles (big-medium-small) and look at a lot of costumes (theres a costume design tab on artstation)

[Anonymous No.6951533]

>>6951124
It's something thats overtly used by terminally onlines but it is an actual practice in older movies and cartoons where you couldn't have any gay characters so they used to be "hidden". Like act/be queer but if anybody asks they're totally straight and have some random off-screen wife who isn't mentioned ever again except for establishing that they are straight.
Gaston is absolutely not queer coded but some characters like for example sherlock and watson in the series SHERLOCK. If you watch it you'll see a LOT of very questionable interractions that wouldn't occur between friends and if one of them was replaced with a woman you'd totally consider them romantically inclined.

As for what it means for your art they could be just bigots who call all men/women not hyper masculine/feminine queer and project their own wants on your art. As your here asking, they clearly are not queer coded because that's done intentionally

[Anonymous No.6951542]

>>6951533
in case anybody cares it's actually a pretty interesting practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdtbQhAKFSI

[Anonymous No.6951608]

>>6951533
Mucho texto, >>6951481 already summed that up pretty well

[Anonymous No.6951621]

>>6951608
>they clearly aren't
sure

[Anonymous No.6951630]

>>6951621
let's be honest, "queer-coded" is tossed around by terminally online retards and is slowly losing its meaning, some of the characters accused doesn't even show the signals like Gaston

[Anonymous No.6951684]

>>6951471
Ask yourself this: Why do you want to draw?

[Anonymous No.6951818]

>>6951630
yeah, that's pretty much what I said >>6951533

[Anonymous No.6952231]

The upper stroke is how the soft brush looks like in my CSP and the lower is Krita. I've been fiddling around a bit with the Krita version but I haven't been able to make it look like in CSP. Anybody know how?

[Anonymous No.6952239]

reposting from /beg/ thread:

how useful is copying bridgman twice? i feel somewhat confident in my anatomy practice already but I'm having trouble posing figures dynamically especially distributing weight properly on the legs/feet in perspective - which I'm currently working on by doing geometric figure studies and then rotating them arbitrarily. does bridgman realistically teach you construction better than loomis and the above?

ive done hella master studies from Robert Hale's anatomy book, and it's made my observational drawing and rendering much better but hasn't really lent itself fully to teaching figure construction (maybe my approach to studies is wrong). was also considering going through the dynamic sketching 2 course from video general, since its focus is construction/perspective.

[Anonymous No.6952288]

>>6952231
Have you changed the mask type to soft in the brush tip settings? There is already a default airbrush. Go to see its settings

[Anonymous No.6952302]

>>6952288
Yes, it's set to "Soft" and iirc the brush is based on the original Krita soft brush. Here's the same brush two times, soft stroke with stylus on the left and just pressing and dragging with my mouse on the right. It doesn't feel like a proper airbrush and I'm not sure if I accidentally messed up some setting when I first started using the program.

[Anonymous No.6952414]

>>6952239
>copying bridgman twice?
With how few people actually went through this, you probably should make a proper thread out of this.

[Anonymous No.6952452]

>>6952302
Now I can't access the PC. Anyway, on the right of the mask option, is there a curve you can edit?

[Anonymous No.6952464]

>>6952452
Yes, there is. I've been playing around with the curve for probably an hour in total but I just can't get it to look like the CSP airbrush

[Anonymous No.6952873]

>>6952239
>posing figures dynamically
figure study dynamic poses? if you can construct already and have some knowledge on perspective and anatomy it shouldn't be out of your ball park
https://www.pinterest.com/wkdaldlvkfl/dynamic-figure-drawing-reference/ maybe this?

[Anonymous No.6952901]

>>6952873
yea thats what ive been doing - and then i rotate the figure in space with my bad construction. seems to be a good study to grind construction.

[Anonymous No.6952902]

>>6952873
thanks for the list ill work those into my gestures and try to do some longer studies

[Anonymous No.6952957]

>>6952902
check this out too https://artres.xyz/references/ there's a "sports" category

[Anonymous No.6953244]

Am I supposed to reply to comments?

[Anonymous No.6953281]

>>6953244
-if there is nothing constructive being said, ignore it
-if somebody gives you a compliment engage with them, express gratitude
-make your comment roughly the same lenght as theirs
-valid and constructive criticism should always be greeted with gratitude
-move work requests to DMs not public

And ofc goes without saying refrain from bullshit like political discussion

[Anonymous No.6953364]

>>6951124
>They told me my stuff "looks gay"
>What did they mean by it?!
lol.

[Anonymous No.6953418]

>>6940956
In person, artists are pretty chill. Rare will one be a dick. I know I've met a few. This is the internet however. Free access for every whack job protected behind a screen. No one can punch their lights out. I'm sure many of those mean remarkes are from anons or burner accounts on forums who don't draw at all. Tho, on forums, there are also complete assholes, but they're easier to avoid.

[Anonymous No.6953422]

>>6940956
Wtf? Literally no art group I’ve been in has done this. Shit attracts shit.

[Anonymous No.6953424]

>>6951124
It’s kind of funny how the chest shadow just appears on her. Wonder if they forgot to color some of the previous frames in

[Anonymous No.6953537]

how bad is feathering/searching for the line? where you place multiple lines to get the drawing out, then maybe you go back in and carve it out to look neat again later? It's generally looked down on but even if I try to go slower and consciously only make single lines, I can't get the same effect of form or as accurate proportions

[Anonymous No.6953541]

how bad is searching for the line? where you place multiple lines to get the drawing out, then maybe you go back in and carve it out to look neat again later? It's generally looked down on but even if I try to go slower and consciously only make single lines, I can't get the same effect of form or as accurate proportions. I don't think its the same as chicken scratch but maybe it is?

[Anonymous No.6953756]

>>6953541
Just lower the opacity and make a cleaner sketch on a new layer. I do this like 3 times to get a final sketch. Emphasis on sketch, not lineart

[Anonymous No.6954233]

>>6940789
about to do my first oil painting, can anyone suggest to me what selection of pigments ill need for this? inspiration courtesy of AI image generating.

[Anonymous No.6954638]

Do big internet fanbases that come, go, spam their favorite media of choice all over the web and last for a few years like what happened with MLP/Homestuck/Undertale back then even exist anymore?
All I've seen since 2019 or so is the usual new meme fotm piece of media that's only relevant for 2 months before being forgotten quickly.

[Anonymous No.6954653]

>>6954638
I guess not. What was the last one to last more than a year?

[Anonymous No.6954684]

Does anyone know of robot characters that look like this? Im afraid I'm accidentally copying from something without realizing. Mainly referring to the hoodie + cyber eye thing

[Anonymous No.6954703]

>>6954638
like much of everything else tiktok popularized hyper-fast consumption and everybody else follows suit.
I was and still am in a niche, old fandom and it's obvious how more and more fans (esp younger ones) hop fandoms

I can't explain it exactly but it's obvious it's because people have no patience with sleepy older fandoms so it's always a dedicated few that keep them alive until something interesting happens and the zoomies come flooding back to participate
So yeah anyway my fav powerpuff girl is Blossom

[Anonymous No.6954712]

>>6954233
is there a better board to ask for classical art advice, you guys seem to be more into illustration which I respect but this is far from my home board

[Anonymous No.6956203]

>>6954712
Probably best to start a new thread for it but most people on here are into digital art from what I've seen so not sure you'll get a lot of traction

>>6954703
pretty based more of a buttercup fan myself

[Anonymous No.6956311]

>>6954684
Made me think of Ivara from the Warframe game at a glance, but it's not that similar

[Anonymous No.6956343]

>>6954684
Not really

[Anonymous No.6956351]

>>6954703
>>6956203
Blossom is worst girl, please post bubbles she is best girl

[Anonymous No.6956391]

i hear artist must share art, am i less of an artist if i dont share? how do i know if i want to share art?

[Anonymous No.6956394]

>>6940789
how bargue plates can be helpful to an artist?

[Anonymous No.6956452]

>>6956203
based taste
>>6956351
fine but your wrong

[Anonymous No.6956465]

>>6956351
>>6956452

[Anonymous No.6956467]

>>6956452
>Watermarks...watermarks everywhere
How to instantly disregard a piece.

[Anonymous No.6956480]

>>6956467
it's a cool style and I saved it sooo... disagree

[Anonymous No.6956565]

Would anyone happen to have a link to the full version of Design Doll? It's a pretty neat program, but not being able to load any models you've edited is a bummer.

[Anonymous No.6956738]

Why do I want to make things more finished without working on them longer?

[Anonymous No.6956786]

Is there any form of A.I. art threads on this board? If not, what board is the most closely associated with people sharing A.I. art tips n tricks etc

[Anonymous No.6956800]

>>6956786
only shitposting & bait threads, try the generals on /g/

[Anonymous No.6956812]

>>6956800
ace thanks

[Anonymous No.6956815]

>>6956786
nigger there are several dedicated AI art threads on several boards just not this one. Fuck off already.

[Anonymous No.6956818]

>>6956565
Nevermind, I found a working version.

[Anonymous No.6956842]

how can i start getting into drawing landscapes/backgrounds/whatever? i'm not a total /beg/ i just got way too into my comfort zone of drawing people and need to branch out. any artists with good tutorials for that sort of thing? thinking along the lines of some of the mini tutorials eyecager/amber blade jones has put out

[Anonymous No.6956869]

>>6956842
Jordan Grimmer on YT

[Anonymous No.6956871]

>>6956842
The opposite of mini, but this series is really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMMo1v594Y

Ian Roberts stuff is good too.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTgTPo6lUhlXQaxZXhrh6pqYz6Is4V3e4

[Anonymous No.6956937]

Can you jerk off to your own work?
Asking for a friend.

[Anonymous No.6956940]

>>6956937
Ask Robert crumb

[Anonymous No.6956969]

>>6943705
Get a reference picture of a woman with the same body language and pose you want or use a 3d model. If you still struggle, toss the page and draw it again. Sometimes you need to start over so your brain can look at the problem fresh

[Anonymous No.6956998]

How often do you guys post on social media?

[Anonymous No.6957156]

>>6941132
Thanks anon. I usually think of it as rendering but it's cool to think of it as final touches relative to the process (I have no idea how to use liquify though)

[Anonymous No.6958002]

>>6956311
>>6956343
thank you!
I hadn't known about Ivara, you're right the design is reminiscent but not by too much thankfully. Glad there's no obvious lookalikes I'm accidentally copying!

[Anonymous No.6958149]

>>6951499
thanks anon

[Anonymous No.6959215]

I am a beg. I know i'm not supposed to know how to draw everything, i know that, but why do I feel so bad when I can't draw something from imagination? Like a pose. i feel like a failure whenever I can't just pull something out from my head

[Anonymous No.6959334]

open source collage creator? the one everyone uses? sorry if this is the wrong thread.

[Anonymous No.6959339]

>>6956818
where? rut?

[Anonymous No.6959352]

>>6958002
Reminds me of Ghost from Ant Man 2

[Anonymous No.6959817]

I stopped using twitter because my work always got ignored, and when I switched to instagram and tiktok, I got much more noticed, but I'm a fucking disgusting twitter addict and wanna go back. I have 4.5k on insta and 3k on tiktok, rookie numbers sure but am wondering if I'll be able to get any of my followers there to follow me to twit? Feels like you need to be on twitter to actually make it but the lack of interaction is really discouraging.

[Anonymous No.6960687]

>>6959817
what's the point of worrying about it like this? Just make the account, share it on your other socials, after that who cares.

[Anonymous No.6960877]

>>6959817
I’m the same way, I just like Twitter and the artists I follow are there. I also had better success on IG (40k followers) and TikTok (4K followers). You can promote your Twitter on IG and TikTok but probably only 1% of those people will follow you elsewhere. I mean why would they, especially if you just crosspost.

[Anonymous No.6960898]

what is the purpose of drawing comics, even worse, drawing them for fun?

It's tiring, it's time consuming. It's viewed as an "inferior" form of art, you spend days for something that will be consumed in merely a few minutes.

it doesn't make sense, it should be a complete waste of time

and yet why can't stop myself from thinking about making them all day

why do i love them so much

[Anonymous No.6961361]

Hey there. Welcome to my schizo post.

Most popular way to estimate a rotated cube by 22.5 degrees is to proportion the side faces 1 to 3. Using trigonometry it's easy to show that the correct ratio is 1 to 2.41.

If it's acceptable to be so much off I propose the following approximations (with the correct ones in parentheses)

15 degrees - 1 to 4 (1 to 3.73)
22.5 degrees - 1 to 3 (1 to 2.41)
30 degrees - 1 to 2 (1 to 1.73)

Do with this newfound knowledge as you will.
Disclaimer: all of this goes out the window if you use different focal lengths and introduce distortion.

[Anonymous No.6961372]

Total beginner here. I want to learn to draw basic cubes, balls, 3d surfaces and eventually 4d objects like Kleins bottle. Is there some good resource to learn from.
Is this from a book or did you make this >>6961361 ? More like this would be helpful.

[Anonymous No.6961540]

>>6961372
Draw-a-box

[有無ない/umunai !FUN/9xi6UU No.6961603]

>>6961372
>>6961361
Scott Robertson - how to draw
Rotation of cubes, circles, mirroring and many more. In perspective

[Anonymous No.6961607]

>>6940956
If you read everything in the voice of Christian Bale. It's not that bad.

[Anonymous No.6961717]

I hear that using Loomis isn't very good for construction lines when wanting to draw anime-esque art, I know proportions are going to differ, but are there good approaches to shapes and construction lining for anime styles?

[Anonymous No.6961872]

What is the difference between /i/ and /ic/?

[Anonymous No.6962000]

>>6961872
/i/
>has fun
>draws
>sovl

/ic/
>complains
>argues
>malds

[Anonymous No.6963531]

>>6940789
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZ3eL5X7Rw
How do you tackle black fur? I'm not really understanding how it works

[Anonymous No.6963941]

How do I pirate photoshop?

[Anonymous No.6963958]

>>6963941
google redditgenpguides
it has links and instructions

[Anonymous No.6963976]

>>6963941
Monkrus is easier in my opinion. all the adobe suite in one installer no need to patch or move files around. w14.monkrus.ws

[Anonymous No.6964440]

how to get this high res low res look?

[Anonymous No.6964447]

>>6961872
/i/ - draw for fun
/ic/ - draw to improve

[Anonymous No.6964571]

Is 20 too late? I just have a sole ambition to make this comic idea in my head so I can set it free, I can only do mere doodles as of now.

[Anonymous No.6964574]

>>6964571
yeah if you start even one day after 18 years old you have no chance

[Anonymous No.6964592]

i draw like big baby and wanna draw like big man

someone recommended me Peter Han's dynamic sketching 1, so i'm gonna try that. what else is good for a chronic doodler?

[Anonymous No.6965275]

Is it odd to just not use reference all that much? I draw in a cartoony style and only very occasionally will I look up a type of person or face to remind myself of things but generally it's just off the dome. How common is this?

[Anonymous No.6965292]

>>6965275
common. I only use ref occasionally, like a dtiys thread.
however, drawing from ref expands your visual library, so drawing off the cuff gets more varied and interesting. I should do it more, like practicing animals I like etc.

[Anonymous No.6965736]

Hello anons, I'm an /int/ animetard who freelanced for a bit in the past. If i opened a yt channel for shit and giggles what kind of content should I focus on? What is the yt art community missing in your opinion?

[Anonymous No.6965777]

>>6965275
no it's actually the default - and it's a bad habit, referencing from real life gives you the knowledge and inspiration for designs, you can't make good designs from a modest visual library or other peoples designs

[Anonymous No.6965781]

>>6965736
I stay as far away as possible from the "art community", it's literally drama but with an artistic flair. If THAT is what you want then play the social game and be a snake like everybody else - dogpile on the baddie of the week, start shit etc.

[Anonymous No.6965799]

>>6965781
Oh no, let me explain myself: I want to make videos for fun while trying to be somewhat useful to a small community, so I was wondering if there was anything anons wanted to see more of. There are so little study videos from people who actually are decent at art so I might explain my breakdown process when studying other artists and such. In the end I mostly want to learn how to edit videos and get back into a good drawing routine though, so I'm not chasing followers nor views.

[Anonymous No.6965829]

>>6965799
Ooh ok lol, I was worried you were mentally ill to want to acually be part of something like that for a second.
Sharing knowledge is the single best way to give back to the proverbial art community and make connections. My personala dvice is that people need different things at different stages of growth. I'm at a stage where process videos are the most valuable but a beginner might need step-by-step. I think it might be good to show how to study other anime and manga as an anime artist. Like anime master studies
Here check this guy out for research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4TqEWNjdX4
He makes vids on topics as he learns them so that's useful for both him and viewers, might be the kind of thing you'd benefit from too

[Anonymous No.6966149]

Is there any rationale to how nips arrive at such obtuse character designs? I'm not a character artist myself but I thought about searching for an explanation out of curiosity.

[Anonymous No.6966177]

>>6965736
Animation/motion comics type stuff does really well on YT, otherwise you can livestream drawings or do tutorials

[Anonymous No.6966187]

>>6964571
No but if you really wanna get good you need to focus on improving and believe you can, this type of self doubt is only gonna stump your growth

[Anonymous No.6966531]

>>6960898
>it’s viewed as

Didn’t ask for whoever’s opinion that is.
Not looking for their approval.

I’m doing it because it’s fun and I personally want to see my ideas come to life.

That’s literally it.

[Anonymous No.6967758]

Will tracing the reference help me to improve? Or i should never trace if i have improving in my head?

[Anonymous No.6967956]

I've been looking at brushwork videos lately and I found this one, it's about how to get your brushwork to look more realistic and references Craig Mullins and Greg Rutkowski for that kind of look, but his demonstration in Photoshop simply shows him using the mixer brush while sampling a patch of canvas texture (with color) from a picture, something about it just feels off... is it really how you get this look? is there another alternative that allows me to have more control over my work and not to depend on just taking swatches from a photo?
https://youtu.be/Lc5sSt293eI?t=2852

[Anonymous No.6968015]

>>6967758
It won't help you because your brain would be doing none of the work just mindlessly following lines.
Learn to measure and draw things accurately

[Anonymous No.6968148]

Where do you draw the line between a monochromatic and an analogous color scheme? It's probably pointless to obsess about distinctions, but even so I can't remember any illustrations that use exclusively one hue with no variations, so unless it's a concept removed from figurative art altogether I feel it does beg the question.

[Anonymous No.6968175]

>>6968148
For monochrome in something like photoshop it would mean picking a color on the color strip and picking any value/saturation from the value/saturation box.
Analogous would be picking that same color and one next/near it on the color strip.
If you're practicing this you can keep that general idea, no one is gonna revoke your art license if you go off a little especially with the analogous approach (for example using red, orange and some yellow for your painting).

[Anonymous No.6968263]

Is the New Master's Academy discord a good place to join? Do you have to pay?

[Anonymous No.6969555]

For a while and tried to use reddit (I know) for a while for the digitalpainting/drawing subreddits to see if it would be worth the time. But there's something really wrong to me about posting a single piece and making your own thread about it. Reddit format doesn't seem suited to artists trying to grow and get critique and post work frequently for feedback.

Where is the best place to post and get feedback to grow your skills? Unironically I think a mix of /ic/ and some discords are probably the best bet.

[Anonymous No.6969579]

>>6969555
I don't have an answer to your actual question but I agree, all the r/learnartformXXXX subs are just people posting their work and you really have to dig to find any tutorials of use.

[Anonymous No.6969644]

>>6969579
I just find it really cringe to make a whole thread dedicated to one shitty study

[Anonymous No.6969728]

I'm afraid to draw again on my digital tablet, years ago I bought it thinking that my drawing skills were going to get better [spoiler] it wasn't.
After tormenting myself with every draw for quite a while, I put down the tablet and focused on just drawing in traditional. Now that my skills level up yo high beg, I know I can make good drawings in digital but i have fear.
Any advice? My anxiety sets in and I decided to continue drawing trad for another hour instead of picking up the damn tablet and drawing.

[Anonymous No.6969924]

>>6969728
Open up a canvas, and start playing with the brushes, not even drawing, just see what they do (try to have a good contrast with the canvas to fully see them first, then play around with opacity and flow and brush presets to your liking), then start slowly but surely connecting those trad techniques into your digital ones by picking the brushes that get you the closest.
Look for traditional approach and techniques that can be emulated in digital if you are nervous, but watching something like this would be good enough to get you started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LroqHa24o-Y&ab_channel=MarcoBucci
https://online-courses.club/digital-brushwork-techniques-marco-bucci/ - (it's not necessary to watch this but he goes a little bit more in depth with demonstrations of how he introduces and thinks about brushwork in his process)
There are refined and more specific ways to get that trad paint/pencil/x look but I'd avoid going in depth yet and first focus on freeing your mind of the burden of getting it right, just allow yourself to play around first with no big commitment behind it other than curiosity.

[Anonymous No.6969934]

>>6969555
Try DPS discord by Hardy Fowler

[Anonymous No.6969937]

>>6967956
>is it really how you get this look?
no, mixer brush was introduced over a decade after these artists learned how to paint in PS. to make it look like greg or mullins you need to be proficient with hard round brush first. It's a certain amount of finessing the textured brushes after that, any pro brush pack will do but I'd recommend Jaime Jones brush pack for starters. (or hell, greg's brushes?)

[Anonymous No.6969941]

>>6968148
Choose one to dominate and the others should support it

[Anonymous No.6969943]

>>6968148
>>6969941
Monochrome for ref. Pretty self explanatory - 1 hue, varying saturation. Analogous is multiple hues (2 or 3) and their respective saturation

[Anonymous No.6969946]

>>6968148
>>6969941
>>6969943
For your reference on the difference between hue and saturation.

[Anonymous No.6969948]

>>6969941
>>6969943
>>6969946
Pretty cool, what is this from?

[Anonymous No.6969953]

>>6956203
Buttercup would NOT wear that.

[Anonymous No.6969971]

>>6969953
She is, in fact, like other girls anon.
Tomboy/=not wanting to be hot or a man

[Anonymous No.6969976]

>>6969948
https://class101.net/en/products/6005415c84406c000dc4f720 you can find it for free too. Tbh she is the first person whos style of explaining really clicked portraits and color for me. Highly recommend this

[Anonymous No.6970153]

>Getting into perspective
>been freehanding all the straight lines
>they look like shit
>take a break after getting frustrated
>watch some vids about placing characters in perspective
>each time the artist uses a ruler to draw out the scene for the character
am i a fucking retard or what

[Anonymous No.6970157]

>>6970153
Nah but at rhe same time it's one of the absolute lowest priorities for you to do. Rather learn perspective first and then peactice freehand shit - don't do both at the same time. You won't make a straight line faster freehand unless you got it down so hard you can do it in your sleep so jist use a ruler

[Anonymous No.6970183]

>>6940789
I NEED AN ANIME FACE GUIDE PLEASE

[Anonymous No.6970204]

>>6970183
これは日本絵画家の秘密です、大事にしてね

[Anonymous No.6970207]

>>6970204
忘れてたw

[Anonymous No.6970251]

>>6970207
I CANT READ ALIEN

[Anonymous No.6970256]

>>6970251
But that's how you know this is coming from a legit indigenous anime artist who isn't a westoid.

[Anonymous No.6970339]

Ultimate stupid question: How do you politely push back on someone who wants to overpay for art.
I made something for a friend and he sent me way more than what I originally asked for. Nice problem to have, but I don't need the money and now I'm nitpicking all the little problems in the piece.

[Anonymous No.6970341]

>>6964440
Draw a picture.
Save it at a way smaller size.
Resize it to the higher resolution.
?????

[Anonymous No.6970346]

Will using 3D box models to figure out my perspective be bad for my long term skill? Should I stick to drawing horizon lines and vanishing points from scratch?

[Anonymous No.6970385]

>>6970339
Just accept it and move on. Next time invoice him via paypal or something
Don't be overbearing around money in whichever way, it will come across as disrespectful even if you have good intentions. Correct it at the next opportunity not this one

[Anonymous No.6970390]

>>6970346
No, 3d is an absolute requirement in professional pipelines esp so for environmemt artists. You can unironically forget about getting hired if you don't know basic 3d. Learning perspective and 3d will allow you to quickly build great things, just one of the two will produce a sub-par result. Just work through blender fundamentals 2.8, blender 3.0 basics course and blender 3.0 doughnut on youtube. Practive 3d twice a week

Do. Both. ~ <3

[Anonymous No.6970420]

>>6970385
It's good advice man I appreciate it. I don't want to come across as disrespectful. It's just we're talking like 7x the price so it feels like I'm doing something wrong if I don't push back on it, but I'll think on what you've said.

[Anonymous No.6970499]

What makes something a /beg/ trap?

[Anonymous No.6970595]

>>6970390
>>6970346
3D is a tool.
Modelling is a tool.
Sculpting is a tool.
Prompting is a tool.

[Anonymous No.6970605]

what does /ic/ think of /gd/? I visited it today for the first time in years and it's extremely cursed and filled with bait AI panic threads

[Anonymous No.6970619]

I've started to realize that the issue I have with my art process right now is the lack of near-instant gratification. I'm slow as shit even just lining. It looks great but then I lose steam moving onto coloring and rendering and the joy I had in the first place is sucked dry by the end. When I switched lineless rendering thinking it would solve my problem, it's the "ugly" in-between phase that kills my energy instead. Genuinely wondering if I should either be rewiring my brain to just accept my slow ass pace or try finding methods to get quicker (like practicing brush economy or learning to use tools like gradient maps?). I actually don't even know if i'm going the right way about getting faster. I feel so stuck.

[Anonymous No.6970659]

Does /ic/ feel extra shitty lately to anyone else? I know there's a lot of shit threads and shit replies normally, but the quality feels like it's gone down and the board has slowed to a crawl.

[Anonymous No.6970765]

>>6969971
You wouldn't get it
T. Actual tomboy

[Anonymous No.6971118]

>>6970659
I think it's normal around this time since it's peak commissions period

[Anonymous No.6971258]

>>6971118
Makes sense actually

[Anonymous No.6971362]

>>6956391
Henry Darger literally never showed anyone his artworks. He became posthumously famous after his landlord was trying to empty out Henry's room

[Anonymous No.6971425]

>>6970420
It's okay to push back to show that you think it's too much and he is being too generous but if he AGAIN insists then drop it. It's simply bad form to argue over money and the last thing you want is to get into a "u, no u, u!" around it. Give him an extra sketch next time as a thank you if your feeling guilty, but accept the payment
Also review your prices if they are the price of a big mac have more respect for yourself like your friend does

[Anonymous No.6971427]

>>6970595
>Prompting is a tool.
had me in the first half not gonna lie, prompting is useless and not in any professional pipeline. You should be able to come up with generic, "badass" ideas on your own otherwise you wouldn't get the job. Everybody else polishes and finishes the design that was handed off

[Anonymous No.6971428]

>>6970765
t. adult tomboy
yeah, yeah I would

[Anonymous No.6971431]

>>6971118
why is it peak comm period? because of the holidays or?

[Anonymous No.6971659]

any open source software for organizing reference images using tags? also any good reference websites?

[Anonymous No.6971671]

>>6971659
Allusion, PhotoQT (normal) or Hydrus (extremely autistic)
For reference sources you're probably better off cobbling it together bit by bit as you run into things that might be useful than mass-downloading but try stock sites like Pexels and Pixabay. A lot of older illustrators' morgue files were composed of magazine clippings and these fill kind of a similar niche.

[Anonymous No.6971682]

>>6971671
thank you anon, these look great, i love you

[有無ない/umunai !FUN/9xi6UU No.6971736]

>>6971659
Digikam
>>6970605
It's very slow

[Anonymous No.6971796]

Redpill me on morpho. I’m looking into improving my figures so I can come up with more varied poses quicker without having to rely on 3D or refs. Pic rel is some figure study. Would morpho help or should I just continue doing studies?

[Anonymous No.6971979]

The more I learn, the less I feel. It's become a problem because nothing inspires me any more. When I look at anything all I see is parameters. I can put them together in original ways and usually people like the outcome, but it's completely empty to myself. I have no idea what to do about this.

[Anonymous No.6972005]

Does the rendering process/working with color make anyone else dizzy

[Anonymous No.6972155]

does ADHD effect your drawing ability at all?

[Anonymous No.6972593]

Can you guys help me find a twitter artist? I turned his post notifications off because I didn't realize you good turn off retweets
Pfp kinda sorta like picrel but it's better. Little gray dude thing(?) with blue eyes
I follow like 2500 people so it's impossible for me to just scroll back through

[Anonymous No.6972668]

>>6972155
It affects your ability to finish pieces

[Anonymous No.6972672]

>>6972668
what about your ability to start pieces? when I started drawing I drew a ton but nowadays it takes a lot of effort to start a new drawing even though I do still enjoy drawing

[Anonymous No.6972674]

>>6971796
damn dude, what's your process for drawing the figure? or where did you learn cuz i'm mirin those shapes

[Anonymous No.6972818]

What app should I use for drawing on a phone?

[Anonymous No.6972822]

Why I can draw a portrait but my anime faces are wonky?
Also there is a retard proof guide somewhere for tablet sensitivity settings?

[Anonymous No.6972954]

>>6940789
when learning from a book, is it better to copy every example exactly or try to create your own drawings while using various examples as references?

[Anonymous No.6973455]

How do i get good at colors + painting (digitally)
I have been drawing since 2017 and i can draw pretty well but colors have always been the absolute bane of my existence
Does anyone know any tips or a basic guide/book?

[Anonymous No.6973487]

Pixiv question:

I have 31 drawings of this character.
Would be nice to just use the gallery feature and upload everything at once, but each picture has a text description that I think adds flavor and is worth sharing.

Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.6973505]

>>6949306
I recently wanted to draw lace and all tutorials I could find were about what type of pen to use, or what material to draw on, or how to find patterns to copy.

I feel like every decoration-maker is just a happy doodler combining patterns she's copied before.
So after watching a few timelapses of people just having a lot of patience and doing repetitive doodles, I gave up on tutorials that teach any "logic" and instead started copying things, trying to find the paterns on either the positive or the negative spaces of the patterns.

Pic related was what I came up with; it looks quite nice from a distance, but if you zoom in it's wonky.
Doesn't matter, most of the time.

If your desired shapes are more perfect/geometric, remember you can draw the interior of it and then use filling options or copies to create a hollowed-out version of the pattern.

And if you want to expand your "vocabulary", start doodling. Try to include some sort of decoration in all your new drawings and eventually you'll get it.

[Anonymous No.6973510]

Anyone else lose their CGPeers account from inactivity? If you ask on their IRC will they just give it back?

[Anonymous No.6973712]

>>6953424
Based immune to propaganda anon.

[Anonymous No.6973735]

>>6951533
This all ignores the basic reality that drawing Gaston fanart in the year 2023 smacks of faggotry, and labelling things "queer-coded" does too.
So basically anon just wanted to post about how some fag was flirting with him (because he liked the attention).

[Anonymous No.6974125]

What do the professional mangaka do about wrist pain? Just cortisone it up?
t. have wrist pain

[Anonymous No.6974380]

Do I need to learn figure drawing etc if I want to lean a more cartoonish style like pic related?

[Anonymous No.6974405]

>>6974125
The proper thing to do is exercise your arms since RSIs are less likely if your arm muscles are in good shape. Same goes for exercising to avoid posture and back issues.

[Anonymous No.6974647]

>>6940789
Who should I give my money to, New Masters Academy or Artwod

[Anonymous No.6975040]

I'm having trouble drawing creatively from imagination, I have a very loose fragment of an idea of what kind of character I want to draw but when I start trying to draw I start drawing a blank (no pun intended) and I can't get anything down. Also it's like I'm afraid to make marks. Anyone dealt with this and how did you get over it?

How do you prompt creativity and get in the zone?

[Anonymous No.6975237]

>>6972818
Ibis paint x or CSP if you dont mond a sub

[Anonymous No.6975239]

>>6973455
Anthony jones tutorials for painting (you can find them for free) and study color and light book.
Alternatively just take a painting class on schoolism or something

[Anonymous No.6975240]

>>6975040
I mean, you have to ask yourself if it’s the original design you’re struggling with, or the mechanics of drawing itself.
If you sit down with a blank piece of paper and you try to draw an existing character design in an original pose/setting, can you do that?

[Anonymous No.6975242]

>>6975040
You need to figure out your painting before starting it. Thumbnails, sketches, list out words vaguelly related to the idea/mood/vibe and figure out the composition and go from there. Start with a plan first because half baked ideas produce half baked work

[Anonymous No.6975243]

>>6975242
Oh and ofc grab a couple of refs for every element in your piece

[Anonymous No.6975283]

Sh-should I make a new account?
I haven't even reach 1000 followers yet.

[Anonymous No.6975487]

>>6974380
you should learn how to draw/rotate/render basic shapes and such mostly, i don't think anatomy would be too important when it comes to styles like the one in your pic

[Anonymous No.6975551]

Why do artfags always use brown or black for the guy? why is there never just straight black/white? team boobs are the only ones i've ever seen doing blck/white
are hentai artists really all brown immigrants and white cucks? are there no normal artists anymore?

[Anonymous No.6975553]

>>6975551
Stop being such an insecure whitoid.

[Anonymous No.6975563]

>>6975551
I have asked myself this very same question and even told other people why there's always a brown hand. I believe it may be how it adds contrast, say it was a white hand laying on a white girl there's not much going on as opposed to a white hand grabbing a ta/brown girl then all of the sudden the white hand becomes more than just white it's a conquistador going on an adventure pillaging village after village reaping its rewards of exotic pussy.

[Anonymous No.6975591]

>>6975563
not even real because look at all the girl x girl art and that is not brown on white
pic related makes your argument invalid

[Anonymous No.6975600]

>>6975591
since i bet the arm will be called out I'll use a different picture

[Anonymous No.6975755]

>>6975551
coomers are so braindead
because the artist is unskilled (as evident by the porns abhorent quality) so they need different skin tones to differentiate the characters and they always want the woman pale

[Anonymous No.6975861]

how do you go from copying peoples art to making into your own thing?

[Anonymous No.6976243]

>>6975861
Draw from life, if you practice using photos and from life drawing, you'll pickup properly fundamentals which will help you create believable artwork, eventually your brain will naturally create shortcuts or simplifications which are unique to you. If you practice copying people your work will just be a shallow imitation of them unless you do it mindfully and try to deliberately take specific things from them and mix and match with other things you like.

[Anonymous No.6976260]

>>6976243
I've drawn from life but the issue was I unintentionally drew them too close to life when it wasn't the style I was trying to go for. I'm trying go for a cartoony style but my copies ended up looking realistic. Same deal with drawing people, I ended up getting "anime girl head on a real womans body" syndrome with my art

I could copy other artists fairly closely to what they did (I even got accused of tracing someone elses art when all I did was reference it) but same issue, the copying was too close and it pointless just to recreate someone elses art. thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try to take several different references and mix them together and see how that goes

[Anonymous No.6976457]

I feel like one of the main reasons I draw is to impress someone or get some kind of validation.
I've always been envious of the people who draw for the sake of drawing, but I just don't like it enough.
How do I become a better person?

[Anonymous No.6976459]

>>6976260
Could you post some of your work? I feel like you have an interesting issue that most people don't have. Usually it's that they can't do realism and fall back on cartoony simplifications as a crutch where as you have the opposite problem being too realistic lol would be interesting to see. Btw what cartoony styles are your favorites?

[Anonymous No.6976478]

>>6975861
you can't design something that's already designed. You need to styleize from RL reference, not other artists work
>but the issue was I unintentionally drew them too close to life
then get to work and start designing not mindlessly copying. When your fundies are better you can dedicate way more brainpower to design instead of just making it look good

[Anonymous No.6976481]

>>6976457
actively make the choice every single day to not act out on those emotions and actively focus on getting better (if not for the sake of art itself, just do it for profit or fame - ain't nothing wrong with that)

[Anonymous No.6976517]

What is the easiest way to animate?.

For a series aiming to quantity and not animation quality in this case.

[Anonymous No.6976553]

>>6976517
Probably something like this where you create a library of 2D assets and just move them into place. Separate the head, then depending on expression, drag in different eyes and mouths, and body poses. It's much quicker than flipbook style animation where you have to draw each frame over and over. What I mean is 4:30 in this video.
https://youtu.be/l3C96qjFpYc?si=-weemZBGq4uAdrLY

A second option depending on what you're doing is Blender. Making 3D models can be harder and more involved than just drawing but once it's done, it's done. The animation side is much quicker though because you just have to move and morph the character around and that's why the industry has gone that direction.

[Anonymous No.6976657]

Who's that eastern european painter who paints those nudes of the thick women? He paints himself with them and he looks like R. Crumb a little bit and the girls are the type that Crumb liked - really tall and thick, broadly built

[Anonymous No.6976769]

>>6975237
Thank you anon!

[Anonymous No.6977045]

>>6940789
Should i boycott every compagnies that didn't help me during my art journey ?

[Anonymous No.6977089]

>>6976553
Ty anon. Saved.

[Anonymous No.6977338]

>>6976459
all my real life drawings were on my old pc. I only have studies of other peoples art on my new one. they weren't meant to be studies but they ended up that way cause I'm bad at differentiating atm

[Anonymous No.6977363]

>>6977045
Why though

[Anonymous No.6977816]

>>6977363
Should i consume plastic shits and futile movies made by communities promoting the meritocratic illusion and concepts they don't embody?

[有無ない/umunai !FUN/9xi6UU No.6978298]

In Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson
Author besides measuring advise to make 3 blind drawing and gesture drawing.
Question is should i make them all on separate sheets or on one for helping me in measuring?

[Anonymous No.6978310]

>>6964447
>draw to improve
Lmao
More like "draw to get bitched at"

[Anonymous No.6978326]

How do I stay up drawing all night? Asking for a friend.

[Anonymous No.6978377]

How do I benefit by copying a bunch of art?
Can someone point me to a good resource for an absolute beginner?

[Anonymous No.6978407]

>>6978377
Copy art, draw it from memory. Now you've connected some neurons together regarding drawing that thing. Repeat to strengthen that path in your brain. Try it with something simple at first, a favorite cartoon face for example. After drawing it from memory, look at what you got wrong(overlay the drawing with the original if you can) takes notes(write them down), then try that process again, copy, then draw from memory keeping in mind the notes. Improvement is guaranteed. Don't expect perfection or good results, just look for improvement.

[Anonymous No.6978539]

How would you go about breaking down and studying something like this piece for the purposes of learning how to color? I've put in enough time drawing figures and even rendering but I just need the coloring skills to really move up. I'm really lost on how to proceed. Videos about color theory aren't really clicking since it all feels a bit subjective.

[Anonymous No.6978784]

>>6978539
either trace or redraw the image and then go through and try replicating their entire painting process, manually picking the colors yourself instead of using the eyedropper. alternatively, just skip to eyeing the colors without recreating their image, and put all of the colors onto a page so you can see them all lined up next to each other. play around with the ones that grab your eye and then you could make a new piece of your own from that palette. if you like it then its doing something right. there's no shame in taking colors from others

[Anonymous No.6978827]

you guys ever use AI as reference? how'd it go?

[Anonymous No.6978835]

>>6978539
just color pick or pick colors that you think look similar to train your eye, and redraw it before drawing something new.

[Anonymous No.6978844]

>>6971118
>>6971431
Nah the fuck it's not peak commissions period. Demand has really taken a nosedive. AI chased away most of the permabegs and people are possibly working more hours than drawing nowadays to pay the bills.

[Anonymous No.6978901]

>>6978827
I've been paying for Midjourney for the past three months and so far it's only helped me out with backgrounds and palette picking. It is absolutely useless for character art no matter how good it looks at first, every time I've tried to deconstruct generated work for references, it always falls apart and I waste more time fixing it than just drawing from scratch.

[Anonymous No.6979073]

>>6976260
>"anime girl head on a real womans body"

uh thats all of what anime is

[Anonymous No.6979375]

>>6978784
>>6978835
Thanks a lot! I think i'm getting it and seeing where this artist makes their rendering choices on top of what I already kind of know. Hopefully I learn how to apply this stuff afterwards.

[Anonymous No.6979432]

How do I get out of sketching figures hell?
Every time I think of all the time it takes to make a completed piece I just lose all enthusiasm.

[xXx_MoaiP0st3r_xXx No.6979475]

>>6979375
Great start, looking forward to seeing what you make with your newfound color abilities

btw do you have any other work that you've posted?

[Anonymous No.6979489]

>>6978827
No, I tried but you quickly realize it just churns out popular shit that you already have baked into your mind from it being popular for years online. And since it can't do any tehnicalities right either it's just a waste of time

[Anonymous No.6979561]

>>6978784
>>6979375
good stuff anons

[Anonymous No.6979628]

>>6979073
sure you could argue a lot of anime is like that but I wanted to stylize the body a little bit. I didn't want to just copy a real persons body and draw an anime head on it

[Anonymous No.6979652]

>>6979475
>btw do you have any other work that you've posted?
I mostly lurk because I don't want to be recognized so I don't post more than copies and studies and the occasional redline to help people. I appreciate the support!
>>6979628
If you're at a point where you're confident with anatomy, you should start doing studies of anime art and see how they simplify the body. Animators are the best to learn from, whether it's their rough sketches or anime screenshots, you can get a sense of what they emphasize or leave out for the simplicity of the shape/form.
A mix of copying those artists and simplifying figures yourself from photo reference will help you combine the head style to the body. You'll find your own shorthand eventually that will suit your tastes once you've studied enough.

[Anonymous No.6979671]

how do i slow down my brain
i get so jittery when im gonna start to draw

[Anonymous No.6979678]

>>6979671
xanax

[Anonymous No.6979821]

I'm confused, are you supposed to use the opacity pressure when doing lineart or only size pressure?

[Anonymous No.6979853]

>>6979821
Depends what look you're after? If you want extremely solid, single stroke ink lines that are sharp and precise then don't have opacity pressure. But if you prefer to build up your lines over each other and/or rely on your lines to not be completely solid for the colors underneath to show through then one with opacity will be what you want. The latter feels more like doing lineart with a pencil than a g-pen traditionally. If you're asking this though then you should try lining something with both and see which suits your process.

[Anonymous No.6980443]

Do you really need to learn perspective before anatomy? Is it plausible for a hobbyist to learn both at the same time? Every resource seems to put perspective first but I don't want to draw a bunch of buildings and boxes

[Anonymous No.6980452]

>>6980443
You'll start learning anatomy and then realize you don't know how to turn those parts and the figure itself in a passable manner or know how to place them on the floor. Even as a hobbyist, if you want your drawings to not just be stiff and floaty you need some knowledge of perspective. But no one said anything about you having to perfect it before starting to draw everything else. Rudamentary one and two point (maybe three point) is enough to get you started and if you don't want to go beyond that it's fine. It's better to learn it a bit now alongside your anatomy practice.

[Anonymous No.6980650]

>>6980443
One of the hard things about drawing is that requires multiple skills at the same time.

In your case, between perspective and anatomy, it's worth the getting the basics of perspective. You don't need a 100 hour course, but at least knowing what is an horizon line, and a vanishing point is required.

Study at most until 3 point perspective. You will see that knowing the 2 point perspective makes easier to understand many things like the human head

[Anonymous No.6981341]

>>6956818
Where?