Mechstuff thread. Mechs, robots, robot girls, weapons, armour, vehicles, military, engineering, transportation, scifi, etc. Post 'em.
>>8028691Do you have a blog?
>>8044116nah
>>8045898Looks like a dragon Hollow
>>8045905I remember wanting to draw like Kubo when I was a kid
How are you supposed to improve your accuracy?
>>8049816close your eyes and imagine yourself drawing precise straight lines and curves, do this exercise 10 thousand times until you can draw a line perfectly straight.
>>8049926Or just go through drawabox and save yourself the trouble
>>8049935Drawabox isn't free
>>8049816By playing video games
>>8049921>without measuringyou cant, unless you have a photography memory, and even then you still need your hand to have decent muscle memory to coordinate. the point is, it all boils down to your visual library+hand coordination, which you have to train first by doing that measuring shi tons. in a sense you'll know if you're a genius or a dumbo by how fast it'll took you to at least grow some sense if things is off or not just by looking at your scratch.
>What is this?CRAB is an OCT where artists submit their OCs and participate in a three-round tournament where they are pit against an opponent to fulfill a prompt's task over the other. There are three rounds and thus three prompts that an artist must fulfill featuring their OC facing off against another OC using the theme and prompt as their guideline for content.>How many people are participating?40 people assorted into 8 teams with waitlisted contestants for spots that open up in-tourney due to dropouts or sudden departures.>How long will this take?From May 17th to Aug 29th.>Random art battles?CRAB has had animations, VNs, DOOM.WADs, and more submitted as entries in the past, that's where the 'random art' comes from.>How does this work?Main organization is done on Discord but it is not a requirement if you want to stay thread-only, however you do have to host your entries on catbox or other image hosts to be voted on by other participants. Every voting round will have a provided list available with links to read every entry as easily as possible.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>8045439Absolutely demolishing the dance floor from the other side.
Off the dance floor, peasants! Power couple coming through!
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Previous Thread: >>7984957If you are a beginner, please use the /beg/ general.>>>/ic/begPost your current drawing here and give constructive critique to others! Don't take anything personal!Please make sure your posted image is clear, downsized to around 2000 pixels wide, rotated to the correct orientation, and that any unused space is cropped.If you want critique on a drawing from the previous thread, you can delete it there and repost in this one.>/ic/ Resources/Reference/Downloads/Links:>STICKY:Completed: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vm4IJpq0Mbvb-Krl5_mJ_m6TsC_qjsaN/viewNew collaborative: https://hackmd.io/UMnZVhNITW-T2wZpHw6d0Qw/ic/i: https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
it's BEATDOWN time
>>8052717YAMERO!!
>>8052595Really cool
>>8053377Woah
>literally dreading the fact that I have to draw after workThis is probably why I never improve
>>8053052Because I want to make money
>>8053349you must be mentally retarded if you think drawing is a good way to make money
>>8053052Gaming is too expensive for a third worlder like me, need to find some hobby that's affordable
>>8053349You picked pretty much the worst possible way of doing that
>>8053349Why did you pick the medium that literally created the phrase "starving artist"?If you want to make money get into a trade, strive for a six figure income and sell options in the stock market. You'll be able to retire in ten years if you're frugal, don't have kids, and don't live in a country that's going to collapse.
Why You Should Copy Anime:https://i.imgur.com/zNDsyF0.jpgNaoki Saito: https://youtu.be/8jsZGeaWkhE?si=6HZIvG9Bx3y9qoHs&t=12Hide Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTY4AtphBe8PSqfXT4qfxwdbLgSK0XZ9vAnimeShijuku: https://twitter.com/animesijyuku/status/1717415459778347358Krenz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKqIJcIUCw**Strive for quantity AND quality.**Anime Studying:>Copy anime references exactly and draw them from memory. Use illustrations, screenshots, anime figures, 3D models, etc.>Don’t copy recklessly. Use construction, color theory, and other fundamental concepts to rehearse a drawing process that you can later easily manipulate for original artwork.>Post all of your anime studies. Post even when you’re told not to. Create an art community that actually draws and improves together instead of just talking about it.>Number your attempts and link to your previous posts.>Critiquers should lead by example by posting their studies.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>8051284There has literally never been a time where it wasn’t like this
Fucking dumbass mods
>>8051069I'm not pedro wtf.
how does one do this
i die (and also changed my bg color from the weird dark purple for once)
who are your professional artist inspirations? people with art books published, you know
>>8052940gay shit taste
>>8053009this but unironically
>>8052745Only with art books?Akihito TsukushiRyota MurayamaCarles DalmauAki YehuoKamome ShirahamaYoh Yoshinari
>>8053009I've seen what you people cheer. Your boos mean nothing
>>8052750What a dumb take. Sam Kieth, Mike Mike Mignola, and Bernie Wrightson were all influenced by Frazetta but went three completely different directions from that starting point
I can only draw if I use little construction-worker men to help me out. Where I place them gives me a better sense of space and perspective.
Just some construction-y type stuff as I'm sketching tonight, less little guys too, the one at the front is like the overseer or something lol
>>8053227This is the funniest beg thread I've seen in a while.
you know what if it works it works. I may be lolling, other's lmaoing, but if it makes you better, you better do it.
I got some little painter guys to work also. Eh, it doesn't really work for paint :). I need some other way for color, a similar sort of cheat (you know instead of actual hard work ehe)
>>8053385
Figure drawing is a fun and good way to get better at drawing humans.Some free resources:https://quickposes.com/en/gestures/timedhttps://www.quickposes.com/enhttp://reference.sketchdaily.net/enhttps://quickposes.com/en/gestures/randomhttps://www.characterdesigns.com/non-nude-photo-indexhttps://www.lovelifedrawing.com/tutorials/https://app.posemy.art/https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/hands-feet-practicehttps://www.rkgk.org/Might as well check the archives and active /ic/ threads for references:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I work a labor job, and my body gets wrecked. I think that physical tiredness strips the sensitivity needed to draw good figures, even for days after with rest. It depresses me so much. I smoked some weed for the first time in a while and it let me feel it again. Obviously not saying it's some wonder drug for artists, it's pretty shit if you want finished results, but when you feel that failure anxiety melt away, it's cool to witness that despair/blocked mental state to just flowing as a sudden contrast. Normally I'd have to scribble with a tight grip for a few days to get that feeling back.Thought Id share.
ExtendedHonestly, these other ones are without weed, but to get this kind of flow for me is super difficult normally, its like a once or twice in a month.
>>8052901just get up earlier and then draw, problem solved
Today's warmups
last one died. Doodle Thread of Doom n Gloom
Sketched this out, it was a relaxing draw. bonus points if any of you get who this is
Getting inspired takes more effort than usual lately, but I'll keep going.Eitherway here's a doodle/remake of "Alpha Phi" by Louis Morris.Done with crayons..
>>8051596
>>8040961>>8043407>>8046435>>8051596>>8051728More of her, please.
I found this book that contains a bunch of gun poses. On the cover, there are two drawings, but I have no idea who made these. Therefore, I wanted to ask if someone here knows who this might be and where I can find more, because I'm very much interested in the specific stylization used here, and would like to study it as much as possible. I know it's a long shot, but maybe someone knows it or speaks Korean enough to find it?link to the book: https://gofile.io/d/Hj7ADzXXOther than that, what are some similar stylizations? I mean where it's slightly toned down instead of the humongous rounded eyes and shit you usually see in manga. I know Fujimoto, specifically in his oneshot "sisters" has a somewhat similar style, but who else?
>>8048233kys
Thank you for all the excellent recommendations in this thread, gentlemen.
>>8048226you are a racist
>>8051291based
>>8047976definitely not him but somehow first thing I remember was 0 0 3 3's works. Might want to check him out on pixiv.
This is a nice piece of art
>>8050132Why can't we hate kikes AND mudslimes? I'll never understand channers going pro-Israel to own the libs
>>8050235I am not trying to own the libs, I simply think that muslims are probably worse than blacks.Anyway, you have to admit that homosexuals siding with islam are so stupid, that if I didn't see it I'd not believe it happened, and yet it looks the common thing. They own themselves.
>>8050235Mossad agents
>>8050235$7000 checks
That piece by Helena. L is more interesting
>no man you need a giant cutout black cardboard thing with markings on distance and shit, a flat plastic board marked with directions, twenty different pencils, ten different types of colored paper, a specific eraser, a mirror in specific size, a giant notebook, and you need to spend twenty days drawing your hands before you can draw an ovalWhat the fuck? I wanted to learn art because it was supposedly the cheapest and most accessible art, "basically you only need a pencil and a page and that's it" but every single /beg/ book or course is the same fucking shit, you need to spend a month getting all the materials and doing basic shit exercises before you can even begin. Bullshit.
>>8053139But translation of sight to symbols is a natural tendency of the human brain. Isn't that why you need to draw shit upside down and such
Only if you're a so-called "connosieur".Basically you can use things from micron pens to crayons to art (or at the very least begin arting)Everybody works differently.
>>8052930Betty "short end of the shtick" Edwards.
>>8053223kill yourself, boomer
>>8052930>Artist on the cover is literally named boomer>First drawing and three months progress mogs 95% of /ic/Zoomlets and millennials on suicide watch
Add something to the image above you and repost. Keep single contributions small; repeat contributions encouraged
>>8052471fork
>>8052474Yeah fork that shit baby.
>>8052805thats real art right there
>>8052805
how hard is it to do this? like how long would it take me?https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/apple-girlington-971778ab93f74e65bcc5d58689bc74e0
>>8052425making a model like this would take me a week at best to do. there's barely anything to this because it's using two shades for each color in the texture. most of it is flat color space so it would be easy to build the UVmap and draw shitty aliased lines across it. the hardest part of the whole thing is probably getting the hair right because that has to be specifically laid out as cards to look good.idk wake me up when you wanna make an actually complex model.
>>8052557You have to realise that A - the process is a lot more methodicalB - you will use base models and iterate on themC - a month of 8 hour work days is a genuine lot of time D - you can get a lot of references from the modlers resource and simply modify existing models E - low poly is the idea here, so heavy details aren't required, a flat cube with a thumb extruded for a hand, is fine, an extruded cone for a dress is fineHonestly the hardest part will be texture mapping they aren't asking for a fully animated, rigged animation with facial expressions. Its a static stylised low poly girl model
going from drawing to 3d is hell i hate it here
>>8052425For simpler low poly models, it might be worth trying out blockbench, rather than diving into blender -- which is far more complex.It's probably also a good jumping-on-point for learning 3D.
>>8052425maybe 6 months if you are talented
