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I keep having to remind myself to loosen my pencil grip when drawing, and I still end my drawing sessions with hand pain and sometimes shoulder and arm pain. It sucks because I can't get better if I can't draw. Pls help.
>>5245495Take breaks often and do stretches for your shoulders and wrists. Look up carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, and shoulder tendonitis stretches. At the very least you should do them every 2 hours.
>>5245495the only thing that works for me is using obe of these and draw less for a couple of days, sometimes weeks.
>>5245499Do you use this the entire time you draw or outside of drawing hours? I read to wear it during sleep.
>>5245495Does anyone here use a standing desk? Does that help?
>>5245504only when I draw.
Tattoo general thread I guess, any other tattoo artists in here ? Or apprentices? Or just ask me something I guessPic related it’s a tattoo I’m doing in progress
>>5245481How do you become an apprentice
>>5245500yes, if not, then do all tattoo artists use the same lion reference?
>>5245506Yeah sadly, I mean people come with those references and cant be talked out if it cause you don’t want 1200 bucks walking out the door
>>5245537kek you'd think someone would take a little more time to find a more unique ref for something they're gonna have tattooed on their skin for the rest of their life.how long do these kind of tattoos last anyways? doesn't all that detail smudge later? or has tattoo tech improved since then?
>>5245503Pretty much study up on styles learn the lingo, learn some basic dermatology, study the history of tattoos, pretty much study every aspect, get a solid portfolio of work that resembles a style you might wanna be known for, then find a local artist that super talented don’t settle, and get some work by them then build a relationship with that artist tip them,talk .share a photo or two if you bring up the topic of your art, just do it casually and not right away, pretty much don’t go in begging and acting like a twat it’s annoying
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>>5245384We'll all make it.
>>5245400Raven eye
>>5245137maybe a couple of months, no studies yet, only messing around with loomis since last week
>>5244742>construct a gridYou mean like draw a second rectangle and use its centre as the other point to define the line? Or would that be cheating as well, and you're supposed to just eyeball it?
a friend of mine is insisting that I put this up here and ask for critique and I don't know why. Tell me what is good/bad I guess?
>>5243485>"i have a fine art bias"
>>5238413What the fuck is this garbageIt was like twenty years ago last time I've seen shit like this
I haven't had a chance to go over this nearly as much as I want to due to having been inadvertently away from home for the past two days so at the moment these feel like band-aid fixes. I'll try to do more with it soon as I can.
>>5238413The only reason your friend told you to post on /ic/ is because he hates you.
>>5238413looks like the cover of a how to draw book
How to draw chubbies
>>5245386complain in other threads then not the one made for fat chicks
This is the only "chubby" that matters, palTake the bloatpill
>>5245418Post more bara references I need to get better at drawing this bloated body type
>>5245449just google bloatlord and people of his ilk should show up (kyriakos grizzly is what he goes by)
>>5245418>>5245451Anything like this but female?
I really admire artists who create simple works which still convey everything needed. I think this requires far more talent and skill than someone just mindlessly reproducing a photograph.
>>5245466Could you imagine that piece as a mural for a community center?
>>5245460sneed
>>5244357I agree anon anyone can make realistic and have it look good, but it takes a true master to use simple shapes to create form. (picture related)
>>5245433>>5245454Proof the education system has failed us
>>5244357Like this op?
Digital is better than traditional as a learning tool. Digital allows you to check your work for mistakes quicker and more conveniently than traditional. Undoing mistakes is also much faster than erasing, making it so that you fail more in a shorter amount of time, which leads to you getting better at drawing.This is why you see so many zoomers who are so good at drawing.
>>5245394The one on the left looks like smudged vine charcoal to me
>>5243060I'm surprised nobody immediately pointed out both of these are digital
>>5245511This looks like a dead giveaway to me
>>5245517they arent. there are just tons of people like you who think youre seeing past some sort of bait and want to look smart
>>5244024>>5243772Pyw
There's nothing wrong with chicken scratching. I'm going to chicken scratch and you can't stop me.
NOOOOOO!!! STOP IT! YOU HAVE TO DRAW WITH YOUR HECKIN SHOULDER ANON!
>>5244900faggot zoomer
>>5240607Chicken scratching has more human soul
>>5244900I draw with the shoulder and I chicken scratchWhat now, bitch
>>5240607looks like I can't stop you from being shit thengood luck with that frogposter
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>>5245508Don't get him started with this shit he's already sperging out when people mention 15.6" laptop screens lmao
>>5245475Thanks again. Any basic precautionary measures to take to prevent fucking up a laptop's battery life? I don't want to accidentally end up leaving my HP plugged in for too long or making it too dependent on those extended batteries.
>>5245508>They're JapaneseNo they're not moron.They are 100% chinese, founded in japan. Use all the same internals and manufacturing plants as Huoin.
>>5245524>HQ is in Japan>They have to adhere to stricter Japanese build regulations>Must be registered as Japanese to employ Japanese government subsidies > but they're somehow 100% Chinese Retard, pyw
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>>5243849Fluently.And you also have to be very skilled, and likely willing to relocate.
how much more time does coloring add to the manga making process?I want to avoid it if possible, because atm its taking me like 4 hours to color one page and I'm sure I'm not doing it right, but if I were to practice and learn the proper workflow how long would it take? Especially for detailed pages with backgrounds
>made Shueisha his bitch and does whatever he wantsHow can one man be so based?
>>5243965>Fluently.That's pretty obvious
i made a short 7 page manga just to see if i could but deleted it the next day after it was finished. not out of hatred or anything i just had to get it out of my system but it was pretty fun maybe i'll keep doing them if i stop being lazy one day which i doubt.
>how to make lines blend with the underlying color
>>5244516Take it easy, the artist just didn't figure out the hand needs to be held out a lot further for the effect to work, so it looks wonky.
>>5244516>where the fuck is the hand covering her pussy coming from?That’s your hand anon, you are putting your girly soft fingers over her tight little vag
>>5244516I think the idea is ram's finger isn't touching rem's breast, however the perspective is off >>5243819notice how you can draw a straight line from the tip of her finger to the tip of her reflection's finger to the reflected camera lens.
>>5244516still works 10x better than anything you can draw. cope
>>5244516I saw it as a doorframe at first lel
post image tutorials
>>5245391>>5245364stuff like this reminds me that I really ought to be playing with clipping layers more
>>5245364The anon reasing this is imagining how good this tongue would feel in his ass.
DRAW THREAD: Weird Ostridge EditionPrevious entry >>5223187Post the artwork you are currently working on and provide constructive feedback to others.NO CRABS ALOUD
>>5245322This is good.I don't think you should abandon your previous idea completely though. I could see it working well if you wanted to develop a stylization that went for really extreme colors.
>>5245452I think I might bring that forward hand further out from the knee, right now they're tangenting just a bit. Looking good aside from that, though!
Finished this tonight, gonna post on my page tomorrow.
i find it extremely difficult to stick with one art style. maybe i have add but i want to draw like everyone else
>>5245476Like this? I also reduced the size of the hands/feet a bit. I have a tendency to draw extremities too big, I dunno why.
Draw this in your style
>>5240602
>>5245285The blonde still looks worse
>>5245323It's so depressing that she doesn't have any kids. If she was my wife I would ceaselessly pump her up to the point that she'll feel like a human inflatable
>>5242415>inb4 someone replies 'fuck off'
