/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Video's complete bullshit.

[1] Blatantly a makeup vlogger from 0.2s into the video

>This is my second channel all about art. Drawing, painting, you name it! \
> My main channel (Katharine Ward) is for Beauty and DIY

[2] Nonexistent use of any art-supply jargon belies her inexperience / lack of technical expertise
⇒ she wouldn't know how to use advanced tools anyway

[3] Alllll of these in the description, yet no portfolio site.

>Snapchat: kward7
>Twitter - katharineward_
>Instagram - KatharineWard7
>Vine - Katharine Ward
>Vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/iheartvlogging
>Pinterest: katharineward56

[4] Demonstrates thoroughly novice-level drawing technique, if you stick around long enough for that

[5] Actively blaming your tools (as opposed to passively acknowledging their limitations) for your shitty work is a tell-tale sign of noobs and hacks in virtually every field, but especially in creative ones.

> d/ic/k-taters: muh stupid pens >:(
> /p/issants: muh stock kit's stupid sensor / lack of megapickles / shitty glass
> t/3/apots: muh shitty Blender rendering engine

etc.

Is it common practice to posterize your photo references for a basic shading template?

Are there other methods to reliably simplify lighting to basic "value shapes"?

This is a clusterfuck.

Find an organized namefag/tripfag to lead things or you'll just be spinning your wheels trying to get underway forever.

Hogarth's anatomy reference illustrations: what techniques do they use?

All done in this finished style that looks completely different from the rest of the book's sketching.

All monochrome -- B&W or sepia.

I have a physical copy of the book in front of me and I still can't tell whether it's all pencilwork or if there's airbrushing or something involved.

Biochemfag here.

Freelance gd, beginner artiste, drug nerd. Can answer drug q's if you got em.

>>2330061
> if you get good and drunk then take two bronkaid (ephedrine)

Mixing strong CNS stimulants and depressants, aka: "just fuck me up senpai"

This is a great way to find out you have an undiagnosed heart condition, among other things.

Don't do it with any regularity unless you're >>>/fit/. No sterons, completely natty.
Don't do it constantly regardless of how turgid thy member springs with vitality.

>>2330166
>coffee is good to get shit done.

Moving away from coffee toward reliably dosed caffeine (tablets or powder) is step 0 toward regulating your nootropic stack. yujussgottadoit

>Have a few beers, or some other alcohol, if it's creativity you're struggling with.
>Once you know what you're doing, coffee

You're still in "mix ur EC stack with alcohol lolol" territory.

The less dangerous (C) part, sure, but it's still clearly counterproductive to be relying on a depressant to lower your inhibitions when you know you'll need energy shortly.

This is why L-theanine + caffeine is babby's first nootropic stack. Non-drowsy. Synergistic interaction. Caffeine's effects + relaxation, improved mood / calm / etc.

>>2330230
This anon is clueless, but the research topic has merit.

Overall, mushrooms are a HUGE red herring to 99% of people looking for a "creative" cognitive boost. Psychedelics aren't what you really need or want the vast majority of the time, and synthetic "weeknight" psychedelics are generally what you want the rest of the time.

>>2330250

>problem is that your body gets used to caffeine so fucking fast it stop having effect in less than 24 hours, and you have to wait four/five days to actually feel something from it.

>I only get the caffeine high with the first two, after that the only thing I obtain drinking a lot of coffee is diarrhea.

Your shit's fucked up cause you've failed to treat the psychoactive drug like a drug. Tolerance can be fixed.

Question about learning traditional and digital concurrently:

So this is my workstation monitor setup (not my delicate waifu hand in the pic tho, sry).

Bought this Yiynova draw-on-the-screen-style tablet, stuck it on a swing mount.
Mostly got it 'cause imma freelance gd with good theory / knowledge / etc., just shit manual skill.
So I was worried about struggling with a more basic plug-in peripheral model, basically.

What I didn't realize would be a problem: page/canvas rotation.

Traditional technique books all assume you can freely manipulate your surface, but my tablet is too large and its range of motion is too limited to replicate a lot of the things those books describe.

How should I deal?

>>2330841
Oh, right.

Been a few years since I've been on 4chan, still brushing up on my interactions with autists.

>>2330793

Google's cache has country-based availability / longevity restrictions and is, well, a cache. Best case, it's still ephemeral.
And a permanent web archive is the explicit purpose of the Wayback Machine.

So, bad anon, remove thy meme arrows


>>2330796
>paste in *sticky link

>>2330791

>go to archive dot org
> paste in wiki link
> last crawl is Sept 2015

Stop tryna reinvent the wheel, guys.

Wayback Machine is the way and the truth and the life.


http://web.archive.org/web/20150907024137/http://irishopp.hubpages.com/hub/how-to-draw-learn

Like nobody gives a shit.

>>2329540
so this is a sexual thing for you, then

>>2327577
>>2327783
I already took a first stab at mirroring VK to get those resources extricated from that godforsaken threading, but it's an unholy clusterfuck of mixed editions in every language under the sun.

Lots of series can only be pieced together half in japanese + half in english, or 1/3 japanese + 1/3 english + 1/3 russian, or the previous except for 1 outlier book in german...

Also my scraper ran amok and escaped the directory level it was on (i.e. started trying to download all of VK, and got a good ways there before I killed it with fire).

I'll fix the problem and take on dealing with that whole bidnis, but only if imma know anyone's gonna give a shit.

Will you guys actually use less-than-perfect scans of less-than-young-and-nubile-texts in less-than-brilliantly-comprehensible mixed foreign language editions?

>>2328980
Comin your way whenever this goddamn upload finishes.
In your faaavorite ebook format, the 43MB djvu!

there it is:

http://www.mediafire dot justlikemymixtape

/download/4ef9aif09o9gh9z/Juliette_Aristides__Lessons_in_Classical_Drawing_%282011%29.djvu

>>2329459
Gonna haveta be more specific than that, since that name refers to more than one large-ass download and people always mislabel both (all?) of them.

>>2329803
New to the board, unfamiliar with its particular linking likes/dislikes. Better to err on the side of caution to keep posts sticking around.

That and trivially breaking URLs leads DMCA-bots astray without doing much / if anything to impair humans tryna get their pirate on.

>>2324277

Here's Mastering the Craft of Painting.

http://www.mediafire dot mixtape /view/abahq2531gh5ab1/Mastering_the_Craft_of_Painting_%281985%29.pdf

>>2329117
Can't remember who it was atn, but I saw some reasonably well-known drawing instructor mention just resting his palm on a terrycloth.

I'm using one of these ridiculous pinkie gloves 'cause it came with my tablet. The real use case is reducing friction / gaining some fluidity for larger motions, IMO, not to keep the surface clean. I say that as a very smudgy lefty.

>>2329351
My reply was my way of nipping the internet tuff guy bullshit in the bud, not an invitation to whatever this weirdly insecure peacocking is supposed to signal.

Not here to talk about your dull little fantasies of supremacy or pretend to be impressed by vainglorious shitposting. Talk about art or shoo.

>>2329234
I studied biochemistry, among other things. Let's not do shitty insinuations about scientific illiteracy.

More advanced and/or state-of-the-art considerations are irrelevant here. No benefit to an audience trying to work out the basics of navigating between color spaces, plus few-to-no regular Joe printshops set up to handle higher-end / specialty jobs without passing on huge costs to the client.


>>2329241

Those profiles are for particular commercial printing processes + materials you might happen to be working with.

Some profiles are more generic than others.

GRACoL is a widely supported standard for sheet-fed processes.
The various SWOP profiles are likewise go-to choices for web-fed.
FOGRA shows up more in editorial printing and europe / germany in particular.

If you don't know why you'd use a particular profile, you shouldn't, because it's N/A.

>>2329145

If you wanna see pretty much every intersection from this figure in action, one of my own old projects is a good example.

It was a super shitty/rushed group thing I did all the work on, in a group w/o anyone else who had art/design background.

The files for print ended up getting run through the worst series of color conversions possible because of a print shop employee who didn't listen to my color profile instructions, resulting in a hilariously dismal-looking final print.

This copy I just simulated going through that will give you a rough idea, though it was far worse in print.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/rkgz758p36f18m1/sRGB_to_AdobeRGB_to_Coated-GRACoL-2006_%28CMYK%29.pdf

Anyone who tries to tell you RGB <=> CMYK doesn't matter is either a scrub or a print shop employee trying to get you out the door faster.

This is the simplest gamut comparison graphic you'll ever find, and much more immediately useful for grokking where the incompatibilities are without trying to deal with the visual clutter of the like 15 goddamn color spaces they always cram into these.

Wherever RGB's gamut extends a good chunk further, most significantly for any colors / color palettes with a strong emphasis on one particular RGB component value, your CMYK conversion for print's gonna come out looking muddier / lower contrast / more muted.

That and your blacks will suffer.

The easiest way to think of the RGB / CMYK comparison, imo, is this: their acronyms are antonyms.

Additive primaries == R + G +B.
Additive secondaries == C + M + Y.

Subtractive primaries == C + M + Y.
Subtractive secondaries == R+ G + B.

So:

RGB => strong in the additive primaries => weak in the additive secondaries (CMY).
CMYK => strong in the additive secondaries => weak in the additive primaries (RGB).

It also works for the blacks, in a bit more convoluted sense:

Relative to primaries, additive secondaries means more additive mixing => closer to white.
Relative to primaries, subtractive secondaries means more subtractive mixing => closer to black.

But the subtractive secondaries are R + G + B, and CMYK is weak in them => "weaker blacks for CMYK"

Whereas the converse "weaker whites for RGB" is a nonphysical statement, because mixing pigments (CMYK) can only ever get you monotonically further from white (mixing light can always can you black -- just mix nothing).

So we can say both of these things at the same time without contradicting ourselves:

CMYK => weaker blacks
RBG => lighter / brighter values overall

Not my work. Just saw it online somewhere.

Can someone work through how the perspective here got so fucked?

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>>2327640


pdfjpn is a bogus host.

I've taken a random sampling of downloads from across the site and they're all bad.

They're not just *broken* downloads -- they're not proper archives at all. Low-level inspection shows they're just filled with noise.


I haven't bothered to look into it enough to see if they're trying to unpack anything malicious, but this many fake archives in one place is a serious throwback to some old-school malware techniques.

So be on the lookout for decompression bombs and such, and just go ahead and blacklist pdfjpn from your search results (if you have google's extension for that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

>>2325024
Like this?

http://rasterbator.net/

>>2324809

Put two other siterips up within the past couple days as well:

Pose Maniacs (figure drawing tool) and the Web Gallery of Art (masters collection).

Lemme know if you want the mega links to those. Don't wanna spam links otherwise.

>>2324737
Here you go:

https://mega dot nz/#!mQ0zUSwb!N-5_lkysaPcCipPMuI8aAR6jdlMGBqIabY6HfBkfj_k

Unzips to 1085 MB.
Includes all the practice tool content for people + animals.


I gave up on IDing the animals and putting them in a taxonomy.
Fuck that, the source is too messy and incomplete to bother.
Nobody but me cares anyway, and I gotta go to a thing.

Still got most of the way, in case anybody... benefits... from... phylogenetic stock photo organization...