/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7116482
I just woke up

Sunday is Drawpile day, don't be shy, Towerfellas

>>7064255

>>7064263
I appreciate it, the pleasure is all mine. The turnout we get here is amazing, being able to share front row seats to the creative process of the users here is such a privilege, and whatever effort goes into the thread itself is very worth it.

Old thread: >>6973207

OP collage features work up to our 1-9-24 canvas, thank you to all participants! Look for more work in the next OP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTitPAA2Os

Join artists from all over the world in the Drawpile, the Premiere Cross-Board Collaborative Drawing Event. A 9500 x 9500 pixel shared canvas awaits!

Drawpile Software: drawpile.net/download
Session URL: sigmatelier.asperger.pro

Server is accessible 24/7

A growing amount of sporadic activity can be found throughout most weekdays, official meetup starts Sundays at 5pm CST. Hope to see you there!

Be conscious of the canvas size and considerate of others with the size of your own drawings, make note of your own monitor resolution and magnification. Try to stick to 100-200% magnification-or even higher depending on your native resolution and the relative complexity of your intended work. Read the room, let's try and get the most out of each theme!

Canvas images posted to the thread are .jpg files at 70% scale and 40% quality to meet 4chan's resolution and file size requirements.

For high quality raw .png canvas files, use the MEGA archive here: https://mega.nz/folder/hbAURDBB#htWRoOsPOG30XnMmKV_zNA

>>7058639
The duty of being the liaison has changed hands several times, this most recent iteration it's fallen into mine. Feel free to join any time, we'll be happy to have you back!

>>7058639
The duty has changed hands a few times, in this iteration it's fallen into mine. Feel free to join any time

>>7027229
Took me much longer to conceive than to actually do. I went through a long discovery process trying more complex things until I settled on that. I wish I could be more specific but it was probably a solid six hours once I figured out what I wanted to do. The software itself gave me a little trouble as well. Krita is overall a good program (it has one of the most user friendly timelines that I'm aware of) but when it comes to editing existing frames/drawings it can cause a lot of issues.

>>7027178
I wish I could tell you, this is more of a question you might pose to the Drawpile devs on their discord. According to my host the documentation isn't really user-friendly as of yet.

https://discord.com/invite/M3yyMpC

To be honest if you're a layperson like myself it might be more convenient to use Magma. I'm not a huge fan of it for various reasons but it's very hands off and has a free option.

>>7017819
It'll be alright lad, nothing's over. Every day is a new opportunity to build better habits, it's only with better habits that there comes a greater chance to reach that level that seems far out of reach for now. I'm not near where I'd like to be either, but over the past years I've slowly redirected myself towards better productivity and my work is beginning to show it. Yours will too given time and sincere effort.

It'll be alright lad, nothing's over. Every day is a new opportunity to build better habits, it's only with better habits that there comes a greater chance to reach that level that seems far out of reach for now. I'm not near where I'd like to be either, but over the past years I've slowly redirected myself towards better productivity and my work is beginning to show it. Yours will too given time and effort.

>>7017819
It'll be alright lad, nothing's over. Every day is a new opportunity to build better habits, it's only with better habits comes a greater chance to reach that level that seems far out of reach for now. I'm not near where I'd like to be either, but over the past years I've slowly redirected myself towards better productivity and my work is beginning to show it. Yours will too.

>>7011668
I created the original /ic/ Tower Girls drawing game (inspired by Gatz' artwork) many years ago, at least 10. It used to look like this pic (but there's a handful of even more primitive versions I'd made floating around). I stopped making new threads on /ic/ and participating so much myself quite a while ago. At one point I'd made an art board on Eight Chan "/loomis/" and devoted much of my time there more or less having left /ic/ entirely; I also wasn't able to expend as much time critiquing or commenting on individual pieces like I used to in either case. I'm very proud to see that this thread has continued on without me and gets wonderful art posted to it regularly.

Having returned, these days I maintain the Drawpile thread (https://boards.4chan.org/ic/thread/6973207)), which I'm happy to say has been very successful, and regularly hosts many strong artists I'd met over the years across various websites and communities.

>>6999617
>Do you happen to know the name of him or the artist who created him?

Initially I created him as a joke character in one of the first iterations of the Tower Girls thread I'd made over 10 years ago. "Natti Backsnapicus". He changed quite a bit as time went on of course, now he doesn't really have a name or a specific purpose but has become sort of my mascot/self-insert character; I'm really happy a lot of people seem to enjoy drawing him as well.

>Clout or friendships?
"Likes" and such should rightly feel good, but at the end of the day they're an impersonal bing-bing wahoo number that shouldn't be taken too seriously-or too personally-if you aren't getting many. There are artists you wouldn't believe who either get low engagement or have essentially no social media at all and it'd be my hope that in the former's case they don't let that discourage them.

>"blind spots to develop"
Ope, I misspoke a bit there, obviously I have enough blind spots and don't want to develop any more! Rather I still have quite a few that need to be ironed out.

>Thank you, have a good day and a happy new year, man.
You too, cheers and good luck. Here's to the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awoFZaSuko4

>>6999385
I really appreciate the support. Actually the only picture in that screenshot I'm responsible for is the goat with the hair, the other pictures are from others.

Many incredible artists have become regular contributors to the drawpile in past years. Bear, Kusu, Nug, Road, Fumi, Stussy, KO-and more recently Alt, Veells, Hpargonohp, Yerbamane, mmm, Da Joy, Mahrie, Hip and many others I'm forgetting who nonetheless deserve a lot of respect on their name. It's a lot of pressure trying to keep up, but I'm as determined as ever to find my niche.

Having so many great people in my circle is much more valuable to me than having even tens of thousands likes on Twitter or whatever. Still, I have a lot of blind spots to develop in my work and going forward I'm confident this is going to be a big year for me, and I hope it is for you as well. Let's make it happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WO7Tgy7UBo

>>6998872
While I'm not the host of the Drawpile itself (that duty has changed hands multiple times), I'm the OP, founder (at least on 4chan; RIP Harb) and retainer of the Drawpile thread going back several years (here's what remains of the archived Drawpile canvas files: https://mega.nz/folder/hbAURDBB#htWRoOsPOG30XnMmKV_zNA).). I consider having helped bring so many disparate and powerful artists into one place a great privilege, and to see the Tower Girls thread still going after so many years since I'd left and continuing to inspire art is an honor.

This board isn't all bad now and never really was, but it's very important you try and limit the attention you give bait and gossip threads because the mods-if there ever were any-aren't going to do it for you. Try and use it for its intended purpose. Be generous with your own knowledge as you accrue it, with resources or inspirational material you've discovered, and hope others will reply in kind. That's when /ic/ is at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvqxm8lWQyA

I've been on this board on and off for a long time, and when I first found it I was already well into adulthood. I'm getting old, man.

I started the Tower Girls thread, I created anti-art school infographics, I've done a whole lot of autistic shit and have just been quietly entrenched in this community for as long as I can remember-but the fact is I never made it, myself, on my own terms or by my own standards.

I spent the past year and a half doing a lot of figure drawing, up until that point it was just anatomy studies and stuff like that, aimlessly for years on end. Starting, stopping and starting over-often from near 0-over and over again. This year I need to keep the progress and consistency going, I need to commit to hard perspective both for inorganic subjects and the figure, and finally work towards my true goal of animation. It was a very long time coming but I think I'm nearly ready. There's just so much to do and learn, but that's one of the things that makes art so appealing.

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

Thank you guys for your patience, I hope you all had as eventful a Christmas and holiday season as I had. I expect we will have normalized activity levels again soon.

>inb4 this picture is sideways for some reason

Alright guys. So, unfortunately even after the driver install on a mostly fresh copy of windows things haven't improved from my initial impressions. Going into this I was ready to call this a Great Leap Forward for this kind of tablet, the new Intuos 3 maybe even, but I can't in good conscious recommend this thing.

>You are not able to control the wildly inconsistent Sleep Mode feature through the driver software and contrary to what I believed tapping the surface isn't the cure-all I'd thought it was
>still experiencing cursor freeze regularly
>inorganic, rapid changes in stroke direction
>not going to bother with the remote hotkey thing because something like that isn't "remotely" important

Competition is good. Wacom has enjoyed what is essentially a monopoly for many years, and this design on its face with its modest footprint, larger active area, uncluttered, minimalist design and durable (at least moreso than the Intuos Pro) surface had the potential to represent a major improvement to this long-neglected tablet format, but this isn't the world-beater it could have been. The truly smart elements of its design are hampered by weird inconsistencies with its performance that are too significant and persistent to ignore.

You ever visit a website and it says something about some meaningless, arbitrary "certificate" having expired and your browser won't allow you to access it without jumping through a dozen hoops? I think that just happened to the Drawpile-not 100% sure. We've got our man on the case but he won't be able to get to it until tomorrow evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmX9uJBVWH0

>>6980221
I've got the Gen 2 XLW model coming in the next few days. I'll keep you posted when I've given it a once over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIpXwY6FV3k

>>6976023
Not something I've run into myself. I would say that my stylus is normally at a 70-80 degree tilt most of the time in a neutral "writing" grip, the stylus continues to be read by the tablet at close to 20~ degrees if I hold it weird/like I would a graphite pencil (obviously you can't draw with it like this but it's still being tracked). I'm not sure under what circumstances this kind of issue could manifest.

Tilt "the feature" isn't worth any consideration whatsoever-but your stylus should absolutely be able to be "tilted".

>>6976097
Build up your line confidence with the Dynamic Sketching exercises (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaif0PpNMas)) using a mechanical pencil or a felt tip pen. Tooth or grit is a feature with diminishing returns for the artist (but compounding returns for Wacom et. al.). It has an okay "feeling" initially, but asymmetries in the surface quickly begin to build up. This throws off your line work as the stylus meets greater resistance on one portion and less on the next. I've been using the more recent Pro model a bit lately and it definitely reaffirmed my low opinion of that design choice, so I'd urge you to reconsider improvising it.

>>6973623
When people who don't know any better are led by paid influencers to believe that the concept of a "beginner" tablet is a valid one, and that a beginner tablet means one that's smaller, far less accurate to the movement of the hand, far worse for the health of the wrist, and will make the user's first forays into digital art as cumbersome and unwieldy as possible I can't help but agree.

However, a large format tablet isn't like that at all. People need to understand that they're making a multi-year investment and proceed accordingly. Thinking "what's the least amount of money I can get away with spending" has never been the right way to go about it if drawing is something you care about at all, but it seems to be a tiresomely common one.