How do you organize your shadow shapes in appealing ways? What do you look for when you're drawing overlapping folds?
>>7751118can you redline it
>>7751113oh ambient occlusion isn't something i look for but this looks really good, I'll fix up and adjust and post some studies with that in mind, thank you!
>>7751118becos I didn't change anything except add a darker value. did you expect me to turn it into the next mona lisa
This one was mostly in shadow already so I had a bit of a hard time. Maybe I still don't have enough contrast?
>>7751133/beg/ hands typed this post
>There is one thing not to do, and that is simply to drift along with the daily routine, making no extra effort. You will soon find yourself middle-aged, having done nothing more than routine jobs, and being little farther along than you were years ago. The extra effort is the difference between the great mass of mediocre artists and the comparatively small group of very good ones.>And in Art, study can never stop. You will find sketches galore in the studio of the good man, with the paint quite fresh. The mediocre artist's sketches are old and dusty.>I have seen so many middle-aged artists still hoping, whose samples are frayed at the edges, and thumb-marked with time. Sometimes it has been a matter of years since they sat down and actually did something to give their hopes any promise. They are plodding their lives away at something they hate, and doing nothing about it. These are the men who never seem to have had a chance. The truth is, they never seized a chance.- Andrew Loomis, Creative IllustrationRead the fucking Sticky:https://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Recommended Resources:https://hackmd.io/7k0XRnIQR6SValR77TDfZw?viewLets study every day and keep each other accountable! All levels of artists are welcome. Post any kind of study you want: figure drawings, still lives, nature sketches, master copies, even imagination work that you want feedback on. Critiques and redlines are encouraged :D
>>7750489I just paint what I see. I don't follow a specific teacher.
decided to learn chinese ink style a year ago, been practicing daily since.still looking like shit comparing to masters, but the progresion motivates me
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>>7742268Seconding
>>7721556does anyone else have this? it seems to have been take removed...
>>7698670>>Stonehouse Anatomy [CLeaned Up Version in English]I can't access the link anymore. can anyone share it again?
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>>7752097>>Catherine Full Body art bookthank you a thousand times over, anon
Well? Which one is king?
>>7752325Everyone uses Photoshop CS6 from 2012.
>>7752325NTA, I use the pirated version, I don't give a damn about Adobe.
>>7752225get a pirated version of Photoshop CS 24.0 or some old version like CS 20.0 are still a better option, CSP is full of unnecessary shit, meaningless brushes and a lot of multimedia shit that you are never going to use like labels and mannequins and 3D objects, it is inflated with shit filler, although it is true that you don't need to download it, generally people get tempted and full Its software is garbage, it's also slow, Krita is for people who want something light and fast, for drawing and painting it's very good for basic art, but you can't edit your works precisely, you can't add text efficiently, Krita sucks at editing.
>>7752263Absolutely not, because Photoshop can handle well the painterly brushes, while CSP would lag if a simple brush is too big.Also, the most breathtaking art pieces were almost always done in Photoshop, because of those painterly brushes.Sure, now you will say the hard round meme, but we all know that, sooner or later, other brushes get involved.
>>7752328Yeah, Adobe stopped being cool after their CS6 suite. If I ever use photoshop again it will probably be CS6, CS4 at the oldest.
>artist(s) draws traditionally and does great soulful work>goes digital>soulfulness and quality plummets and never recoversHow do you explain this phenomenon? Is traditional drawing inherently more soulful in a way that digital art can't replicate?
>>7752221the later ones feels like a parody, it doesn't capture the soul.
>>7752015>bloomThe problem with modern anime is that it has too much fucking bloom. Everything is so sterile.
>>7752232that's right, we need more blood.
>>7748552It's really just time and budget. Anime looks awful when it airs now because it's under such a time crunch. Which is why they redo large portions of it on Blu-ray releases. Suits want cheaper products faster, so you get shit like on the right.Cheaping out on product is not unique to digital. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGw3oW1vDFk
you guys.. do know that there’s only 3 companies in the world now that produce vinyl paint that makes cels look like that? it used to be 4 but one went out of business recently. regular acrylic/gouache does well though, gouache was mostly used for backgrounds. cels are just a niche hobby now, there really won’t be any large scale projects with traditionally made cels.
why don't you guys push your own styles more? realism and anime are huge here, but it's easier to get attention with a unique style.doesn't have to be fancy. ed roth turned this style into a commercial empire in the 1960s.
>>7749358People just like the anime style because their IQs are low. That's it. End of story.
>>7731021>>7731031Anon do you have your work posted online anywhere? Would love to read some
>>7751811not right now, im still working on the comic. three pages into it right now
It can be tricky to balance appeal and originality, especially with erotic art, but you're right that artists who can pull it off are generally pretty successful.
anime is the opium of the masses
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Trying to find this short I only ever saw a clip of. I'm sure I saw it on the Animation Obsessive twitter but there's just so much media to scroll through. It had a mermaid get caught by a crane and then fell to her death, the next part was pic-related where a bunch of men melded together show up, one of which stepped out from the group and took a photo of the mermaids corpse. It was probably euro, either russian, czech, something of that sort.
I'm confused about the usage of shapes and forms. Why is it called shape design and not form design? Why do people recommend to build up a drawing using shapes? Shouldn't you be drawing everything with 3D in mind in the first place and to look like a 3D form and not 2D shape, because it would make a drawing look flat otherwise?
Where do you get talent.
>>7751821Because good 2D art is built up of complex 2D shapes with their own logic and language. 3D isn't even close to the pinnacle or even what's enough to have good 2D art, otherwise just tracing photos or blender models would produce good looking art. Simply following basic 3D principles isn't enough and produces cheap looking art. Any developed 2D art style has its own way to convey space via its shapes, designing the shapes is the hard part.
Should i buy a ruler?
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every course teaching webtoon has a woman with the same exact voice I swear to god
>>7743192firefox doesn't automatically download shit it thinks is a virus, click on the file in the download panel and allow download. if you hate the feature you can also just go into about:config and disable the feature altogether.
>>7752301Alternatively cut out the middleman and just grab the torrent off one of the torrent sites.
Is Krenz really that good ? I hear everyone talking about him
>>7752320Yeah he's good if you wanna be a xerox copy machine...which is actually what's needed early on in the art journey.
I draw straight porn so I don't have to furiously masturbate to the reference every ten minutes
>>7752135Jerk off
>>7752135I have a small phone and don't scroll for hours ln end
>>7752167Being bi is suffering.
I don't get wrist pain because I don't have little bitch tendons
Post /ic/ essays.
>>7752037How does anonymity change the fact that your art is shit? Are you one of those retards who says “PYW?”
>>7752043>afraid to criticize>don't act like a bunch of faggots>but do it anonymouslyHypocrite.
>>7751965art is suffering
>>7752063I understand that you’re bitchy because your art sucks. Go to a discord hugbox, then.
>>7751908Imagine being this dismissive of naive art. Why shouldn't a child's drawing be art? Does it not evoke an emotional response in the viewer? Sounds like art to me. Why should the basest of amateurs make you so defensive? If a child's drawing being considered art is such a powerful thing that it would totally devalue the very concept of being an artist, well then it would almost seem like art is a bullshit concept to begin with that came after the fact
What painting dog is this from? I like...
what was the game this was from again?
>>7750494video games?
>>7746000it's cute this guy paid mad stacks for a painting and chose to get painted with his dog
>>7746000His hand looks tiny.
>>7751903pretty sure I recalled the painting dog from a game
Post blogs (X, instagram, pixiv, etc)
>>7740907Dropping all my work and life drawings herehttps://www.instagram.com/billythomasiii.art/
why you self promoting on a dead board in the first place
it's free
https://x.com/Yvme146861https://yvme.newgrounds.com/artI draw comics and deltarune brainrot and dinosaurs mostly
Bump. Its nice to see people in these threads I'm not following yet
is there much benefit to learning the manga "style" if you already study realism? like, does drawing manga help with mastering fundies?
>>7733533Jesus Christ... westerners can't create anything remotely good, can they? It's like a curse or something
>>7751378These are the only ones I follow for now but MickeyMegaMega I think is called is very good for learning body parts and has an extremely good foundation on 3D forms.https://www.youtube.com/@saitonaoki2https://www.youtube.com/@hidechannel2https://www.youtube.com/@ChommangTry to finish what you have and don't go searching for many resources, I tend to stick to 1 or 2 instead and finish them then move on to the next.You got this anon, good luck!
>>7752269>checked this thread again at the right timeThank you for the links, anon!Is it a better practice to study drawing realistic body proportions before getting into anime or are these Youtube channels good for somebody who is just starting out in drawing in general?
>>7752271Study both, the books have the semi/realistic version and then goes into anime. That's what I've been doing. But just get into just drawing whatever you want first and following the materials. Worry about what happens next later.
>>7752280Alright thanks!
itt post art that you like
Hisashi Eguchi (mangaka of Stop!! Hibari-kun!, character designer of Roujin Z, Perfect Blue, Sonny Boy anime) was caught tracing a fashion magazine for his Denny's commercial art. Denny's Japan has issued a statement that they're investigating the matter: https://dennys.jp/pdf/251004.pdfThis is a huge scandal, especially from an iconic illustrator/mangaka like Eguchi. Stop!! Hibari-kun! was so big in 80s that Akira Toriyama decided to end Dr Slump early (and he came back with Dragon Ball). It's also kinda ironic because so many people try to imitate his arts and sell fake Eguchi illustrations and merchandises. Original accusation:https://x.com/milksalz/status/1974350658951393488
>>7751358>>7748286¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just as long as you know you're not a an artist kek
>now they're defending tracing, even for paid artworkYou're not much different from AItards, you know?
>>7747461at least it's not AI
>>7752200its not tracing
>>7751375They are one to one. You're blind.
