Why You Should Copy Anime:https://i.imgur.com/zNDsyF0.jpgNaoki Saito: https://youtu.be/8jsZGeaWkhE?si=6HZIvG9Bx3y9qoHs&t=12AnimeShijuku: 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.
>>7955726By fucking copying the original?
>>7955726I tried
>>7955806>I triedAnd that's what mattersNow keep trying to improve
Random anime girl
Stop recommending drawabox Nobody likes it and it just burns out beginner artists Beginner artists shouldn't even care about taking any "courses" whatsoever until they've been drawing for at least 6 months You'd be lucky to even learn something from drawabox. The whole thing is needlessly tedious and forces artists to do something they don't understand because the jeet owner thinks that somehow helps them
>>7953197Yes, it looks silly doesn't it? All those boxes seem like way too much right?But, if you draw boxes FIFTY percent of the time you spend drawing and you draw a couple of hours a day you can easily recreate this in a week.
>>7948941Not wanting to spend hours on drawabox does not mean you have trouble drawing boxes. Therefore the entire premise of your post is wrong.
>>7948539I'll agree if you are completely new you shouldn't touch this even by chance as said you going to burn out and start hate drawing.
>>7948539The problem is that people who want to learn to draw are failing at the very first step - inspiration.People who are good at drawing aren't good at drawing just because they simply wanted to be good at drawing, they are good at drawing because they had ideas they wanted to put to the page because they were inspired. And by drawing their ideas they got wanted to get better at drawing the stuff they like and had fun doing it.If you ever end up doing rote bullshit like drawabox you missed the point. Same with loomis heads or random generic anime heads.
>>7956032Probably true. Most of my jumps in improvement are from going all in on a drawing I am passionated about. Almost as if all practice is useless but I still think it's necessary at least as a warmup.
How does /co/ feel about tracing 3d models when making artIs it cheating
>>7953169No rules only fools and their 'tools'.
>>7947512I don't think its cheating but I don't like how it looks most of the time. Most 3d traced stuff always feel kindof stiff
It's not cheating, but if you can referencing real photos is better.
>>7953169use ai and trace it!
At least this thread has me understanding why all the chink gacha slop feels the same even with exaggerated and cluttered designs.
Does anyone else completely despise this guy? He's a pretty popular artist but between every relatively alright drawing he posts is dozens of victim pieces of his blob persona "confessing" to his stunning bravery and virtue in the face of his numerous unfortunate life circumstances, and his fanbase eats this shit up and thinks hes the greatest most wholesome artist on earth who unfortunately has severe imposter syndrome and lives in vietnam.
>>7955318He was raped as a kid lol.
>>7954603This and he's a massive hater and bitter about popular artists. Knowing this, seeing his profile feels odd and I can't genuinely start to like even his normal art
>>7955869I havent seen that, just his obviously self obsessed little ol me persona
Is this the ticket for us aspriring third world artists? To pander to the lowest denominator and play victim using cutesy artstyle?
>>7956000and make sure to speak in english translationese
I got one of my humor comics on the front page of plebbit and got zero followers to other platforms despite putting my handle. that site is fishy as hell…
Something you gotta understand is that these people are on reddit because they don't want to go to other sites. You not going to get a following outside of reddit out of it.
>>7953416should have made the cavemen pepes
>>7953416>Reddit is uselessFixed that for ya
>>7953416Better than on here. At least there are more than 1k people that bothered to look at and upvoted your art. On here I've been posting my drawings for years and only got replies a handful of times.
>>7953416You also posted in a very large sub.I posted some fanart in a "niche" (lmao 500k members) sub and got I think 500 likes on a post with no engagement or comments at all.My best guess is reddit just stays on reddit, since they have accounts, where as when I find an artist I like here, I want to know their socials.
I'm a forever beg with a 3 year portfolio
>>7950968lowkirkenuinely you'd be fine if you got a drawing tablet, you can probably get a decent one from ebay for like $80 or whatevershitty pencil + a4 paper is probably holding you back since you cant layer whore, mirror, etc etc
>>7955229No growth, but at least he is good, and probably he can do better by actually trying to do a longer project.There are several people that don't reach this level after a decade... If ever.>>7955118>>7950968Faggot, you made it already. Now do something more complex.
>>7955341I do believe this was around 3 years ago >>7955397I fail too hard at trying so I avoid more complex stuff
>>7955437Don't you have a screenless tablet? Go, do a bigger project, and color it.
>>7955808I won't fall for the digital jew. Here I show you my last big drawing
Do you think it makes a difference if I 'study' my fundamentals on paper or digitally?
>>7954835I think it's probably better to study on paper, as you don't have an instant un-do function, and therefore have to be more attentive to what you're doing, and that's just one of many small cheats that you can do digitally that could hamper your studies (should you use them).That said, studying digitally now and then isn't bad, because you don't want to become rusty at drawing digitally and end up having wonky unconfident lines.So I guess I'm saying; why not both?
>>7954835not really, that's what makes them fundamental.but "doing the real thing" helps, so use the medium you actually want to use.
>>7954835Learning to draw is a cumulative process where you build little by little and put everything together in your final artworkHaving only pencil and paper simplifies things, allowing you to focus more on what matters and learn more easilyStarting digitally is a big leap suddenly, many things appear on the screen, options, brushes, layers, setupIf you are an absolute beginner, like level 1 or level 0, go with paperIf you are an advanced/intermediate beginner, use both
>>7954835If you want to practice something general like form or shading, it's less about which tool you use, it's about you focusing on the aspect of the excercise you want to improve at. If I try to copy complex shapes for example what I want to train is my brains ability ot visualise and understand the form. It doesnt matter if I draw that form with a huion or finger paint, I still learn how to understand form. Getting better mechanically at using a real pen/a tablet is something you should practice either on it's own or just get as a byproduct of grinding fundies unless you're the kind of beg that has trouble with drawing a straight line. Try to think about what the excercise you're doing is supposed to teach you and try to mostly focus on that aspect to learn effectively. Like the point of drawing boxes for example is to expand your brains 3D model library with boxes from all sorts of angles until drawing them becomes automatic, it's not supposed to teach you how to keep your lines straight and pretty.
emergent thought structuresi talk to god
Reminder this ‘schizo’ not only traces prompt slop but he also vocally defends doing it btw
>>7949356Same, I have still to read any word from him. Welcome back!But why don't people with threads like these just post in /i/?
>>7949445i lik the little dragon looking head on the top left
>>7949553I agree this would work better on /i/ where people essentially blogpost on their threads, but /ic/ has a bigger audience and attention is a helluva drug
faithsemiotic_structurecan be reducedis sufficientbabytalkoversocialized human parodies
Do any art hosting/community sites exist on the deep web? And have you posted/gone onto them? (Pic not related)
>>7954366nice try fed
>>7954366I'm having a hard time coming up with a piece of art that is depraved enough to be hosted there.
>>7954366The dark web is just shit that doesn't come up in google search. There's millions of blogs and forums that are entirely benign and sfw in there.
>>7954366There's a kabaal of cp drawers in the depths
>>7955648And on twitter
After everything that happened, are you starting to realize, you were a bit harsh with it?
>>7955774DA went to absolute shit the moment they got rid of this design. It was perfect, everything was sorted so well, and it genuinely was the best place for art.Everyone involved in ruining that needs to die. DA was loved, but its current state deserves all the hatred and disgust in the world.
>>7955617I left during the mass flagging of nsfw posts. There's also that AIslop dream something that they offered which were inferior to locally hosted SDXL lmao. >>7955774Damn this brings back memoriesEclipse just isn't as fun lol.
>>7955774take me back...
I still like it, but mainly because smaller art communities always trump the big ones. I like how most people on the site don't treat it seriously and just have fun with other artists.
Sheezyart finally won
General dedicated to posting and discussing art of either:1. Manmade objects, vehicles, tool, weapons etc. (of any kind and any historical era, as long as they fall in the ballpark of "technology") and fictional derivatives of such2. Objects,vehicles, creatures etc. that aesthetically fall into the visual space of mecha/robot/artificial/cybernetics etc. regardless of level of realism.Helpful to mention the level of realism, if any, you are taking into account in the art.
>>7717291yet another schematic i'll only finish halfway.
>>7950371I'm pretty bad at it too, pic related. What does your stuff look like? I don't really plot anything out exactly, I try to eyeball+freehand it, probably shows lol. I suppose it also depends on how accurate you're trying to be. I usually try to think in a mix of 1) general style I want to go for + imitating artists I like 2) trying to think out how it would actually work (even if it's fake/impossible/whatever), "form follows function" type of stuff, referencing details from real machines, scale, etc. I find the 'smoosh 3d shapes together' thing only really helps for very basic blocking out and maybe plotting out shadows, beyond that it's not very helpful.
If you can't feel the form, you'll forever be a permabeg. Why haven't you taken the thicc form pill, anon?
I started out a turd polisher manga colorist. semi-mastered rendering before realising I didn't know how to draw.Now I struggle to feel the form with llines, but I can when I render/paint. My process is literally the spongebob circle meme,
>>7955616that sounds some cunt I saw on x who posts speedpaints of child porn
Why do I feel like I've seen this exact thread before
>>7955879These devine words must be passed down from time to time so the permabegs can have a chance to make it, anon.
recommend me a good and short perspective book
>>7954385I don't understand. a single Pinterest image is enough to teach you 1,2,3-point perspective, why do people need a 200-page book to talk about it??
>>7954660Emphasis on "short"I drew a few large objects and they look fucked up compared to each other. I want to know if there are practical rules to fix that.
>>7954385Perspective made easy
>>7954788>Emphasis on "short"There's Perspective Drawing for Beginners be Len A Doust. I haven't read through it myself, but it was only about 50 pages or so, so it should be quite to the point.
Perspective for Comic Book Artists by David Chelsea is unironically your best bet. Great, informative book, and entertaining, not hard to find.
Post some inspoArt you likeArt you loveArt that inspires you
>>7953550Sakimichan of his era. Glorified pin-up, under guise of whatever the popular subject is at the moment.
>>7954706Wow that really is nice
>>7954706what's her flow?
Gustave Doré
Recently I bought apple pencil to my ipad after being finger artist for years I totally cant draw on it, when I keep my hand still the sketch is still shaky and the applepen is sliding from the screen, why is that? I wanna be smooth artist but its just no use, even with stabilizer I cant draw a straight line, I wont even mention the detailsI dont get how every ipad artist can draw smooth artsI'm thinking about staying finger artist on my phone or maybe I should buy a screen protector if it does anything
>>7955847Back when I used ibispaintX I would plug my drawing tablet and add lineart or color a handrawn sketch I made. I had an adapter that could plug into my phone.
>>7955847do zoomers really prefer being digital artists rather than going traditional?I never even thought about becoming a mouse artist when I was a kid
>>7955855finger digital artists*
>>7955848I would do that too, every artist with cute artstyle i know was using ipad, I thought drawing on it would be similiar to drawing on phone, I didnt expect it to lower my ability to draw that much. This is my first day so i'll try to master it
>>7955855Most start out trad like anyone else, but digital art tools are so widespread now that it's easy to switch to digital early.
