Guys... I really need your help. I wanna learn to draw in semi-realistic anime style. I have been trying to teach myself for the past 1 year. I tried the coloso chyan, mogoon, ritotuna courses.. but they didn't really help. I can't draw shit now. I wanna master this skill. And i am ready to put in the one.. Please suggest what i should do. Any resources i should refer to anything.Thanks for reading this. Hope you have a good day:)
>>7777582>>7777589>"you have to be pro-tier from the prebeg stage"grim
>>7778621More like>I want to draw like one of the most skilled artists who worked for 20 years in the industry!>have you tried learning the basics first?>NOOOOO I DONT WANNA REEEEEEE WHY IS EVERYONE SO MEAN TO MEEEER
>>7777570FUNDIESFUNDIESFUNDIESFUNDIESFUNDIES
>>7777542Yoneyama Mai has been drawing for two decades now, has been drawing for various studios, has been drawing for 14 hours a day for years and is one of the most prominent modern japanese artists.And you come here, saying you've "tried to teach yourself for the past 1 year?"Come back in 19 years.
>>7777604If you are going to draw so much about it instead of drawing go use AI already and stop being a bother
I feel like I’m getting the hang of gesture, but I still don’t fully understand the energy in poses
>>7776973I always mess up proportions. I was wondering if i should get hampton's course on gesture
Im no pro, but I think you're doing fine. IMO Gesture is just loose notation that helps you capture your idea of how the pose functions to hold the body up in a particular pose. So the problem isnt really about improving the gesture by understanding the energy, its about how gesture is used to inform your actual drawing of the figure. Try to develop your understanding of proportion, form and anatomy alongside your gestures. Your proportions here are pretty good, though i'm unsure if it's just coming from observation or being supported by knowledge too (relative head size for instance). It helps to see poses in real life, or better yet, to do them yourself, if you really want to capture the "energy" in a pose with more detail. You could also use a doll or sculpt some clay on a wire armature (the armature being the gesture). You then understand what it takes to hold the pose up and where on the body the strain is felt to hold it. Your gestures will be more informed then and you'll feel that energy more.Energetic gesture often requires exaggeration, and its difficult to do that well if you don't have some sense of how the body holds itself up against gravity and how the anatomy can be pushed to its limit.Carry on though, doing good
>>7777285a real teacher wouldve charged op 100$ for a critique this good. and they say this board is bad...
vilppu is way better at teaching gesture than hamptonthat is if ur a beginner
>>7777285Not only very high effort critique but an insanely good rundown of what one is actually going for when gesture drawing.
For stupid questions and questions that don't deserve their own thread.Post here if you don't expect your thread to reach 100+ replies.
what happend with BRUSH CSP thread?
is it bad that i'm not bothered to draw without a reference anymore? i hope to be able to draw from imagination someday, but whenever i do, it looks so bad and takes so much longer. so i just don't
>>7779607it's normal if you're self-aware: most things drawn 'from imagination' are remixes of stuff you've seen in the past, through the filter of a lossy memoryinstead of relying on that, you just look things up and imbue imaginative work with real details / information
>>7750465I remember some Anons used to shill a beginner's guide made by comic artist David Finch as a "good place to start for beginner artist" here.Is that still true? I'm getting an itch to learn how to draw again recently.
Has someone tried Leonardo? Do you think it's worth the 40 bucks at its current state? The infinite canvas seems like a cool feature.
I just tried drawing from imagination for the first time.
>>7778429>Man is walking down the street>Ex-wife stops at the intersection, unaware of his presence>Man sees his child in the backseat>The divorce took everything from him>His own spawn so close yet so far away>Ex-wife and child drive away, leaving man to contemplate his existence
>>7777296I can draw f16s from imagination
>>7777296“Imagination” is just free recall memoryLook up benjamin keep on YouTube and then apply those lessons to drawing and you’ll improve
>>7778429I… kneel…
>>7777296Brave.
shit so ugly it looks like a.i. generated.https://www.instagram.com/p/DQWeWFmjDJG/?img_index=1https://www.instagram.com/p/DH6QICfyDno/?img_index=1it turns out it wasn'thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xeKn4hfSAthoughts on this one?
I think this thread was AI generated.
>>7781487your mom generated A boner for I
>>7781494You got pegged by my mom? That doesn't sound like something to brag about.
>>7781487another clanker thread
Do you think the reason no one is making great paintings like this anymore is because it takes too long to make or because they don't have the talent/skills ?
>>7779884>(This is you admitting that the Greeks dealt in what are essentially glorified, if visually-pleasing, cartoons.)This is you outing yourself as a midwit chinaman. >Also, the Greeks and Romans mostly worked in sculptureHow do you think masters like Praxiteles, Lysippos, and Polykleitos perfected their highly advanced proportions?Advanced perspective is only a small portion of what makes classical painters elite. They were master drafstmen first, the likes of which your favorite mangooka artist will never hold a candle to. The amount of nuance in the line quality alone is magnitudes above the greatest jap artist alive or dead. You should heed the advice of >>7779901 >>7779974>your insight is mostly a flawed interpretation of ancient philosophy, and a gross misunderstanding about the practicalities of patronage and means my favorite shotacon artists are just like michelangelo!!!>>7780003Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>7780048>"my favorite shotacon artists are just like michelangelo!!!">if i assume his tastes and i strawman him into a pedophile, my point will have buoyancy!not beating the "inane bullshit" allegations
>>7780048>advanced perspectiveThis is you outing yourself as a nodraw cunt. Perspective isn’t rocket science my guy. It’s certainly not any mark of mastery. It’s a basic bitch fundie. Just because it cripples (you) and 80% of /ic/ doesn’t mean it’s actually complicated or hard.
No one is trained to make these things technically speaking or see history painting as the highest possible achievement in painting.in this case the subject is a national legend and it wouldnt really have any meaning in the current gay democratic societies because people dont really know the legend anymore and dont feel the need to assert themselves as a newborn nation with an old history. In the case of Roman and Greek stories that also used to be popular subjects they seem to have been relegated to popular culture nowadays and there is no elite reading Homer/Ovid/Livy/Virgil etc. So if an artist decides to paint these subjects its not because there is a current cultural demand for it but simply because the guys of the past did it or because of the artists own personal obsession.Aside from that many artists prefer to paint things they can observe themselves, such as daily life of peasants or whatever, instead of making up a composition for an epic legend. Of course the wrecking ball of modernism fucked everything up, especially after ww1.
>>7781445>roman and greek>gay democratic societies
Japanese art from 1750
>>7777586two butts
>>7777584>>7777586>>7777587>>7777587>>7777592Average permabeg
>>7777592The primitive x-ray, the yellow pervs
>>7777637tis cavernous
>>7777584Ugly bastards are timeless
How can I make this Francis Bacon basedjack look more abstract in MS Paint? The paint bucket is too solid
>>7777675Ok i just discovered the other brushes
>>7777675use different colors for shading and different brushes like you said
How do i make my linework not...Not whatever i am doing, i don't like how it ends up
>>7780612clean it up for one, it's pretty messystudy lineart from artists you like to see how they tackle the same problems. depends on the style you are going for.
>>7780617I think its kinda indecision what causes this. Like a lot of times the legs and the outfits and the expressions i didn't really decide exactly where they were or what they were, so i kept erasing and redrawing and erasing and thickening the lines to make it less obvious
>>7780635Do a sketch first, do another sketch to clean it up if you're not happy with it, if there are more ideas that pop up do another pass, do it as many times as needed, it can be messy at the start and then you tidy up as you go, but don't use your lineart to figure all this out at once, it will only make things harder on you and likely cause a lot of inconsistencies with your lines, also when using lines is good to think about it on hierarchy terms, what's the most important thing on your drawing? You can simply apply a big to small logic, and maintain it throughout the entire drawing, your hatching is looking too big and it isn't helping in describing the form of your characters or planes of objects.Also this is a very busy piece, be patient with it, there's no reason to think you'll get it done anytime soon, I'd forget about that and think about how to go about each step, thinking about the composition, the sketch, cleaning up the idea with convincing perspective and proportions of the characters, thinking about the objects themselves and a general idea of the lighting, applying some texturing without overdoing it, big to small, simplify where it's needed. There are many criteria that you can apply in your drawing, while scanning everything on each step and making sure you've accounted for all elements in the image. If you need an idea of how to go about it just see how other artists solve these problems, inking in general is a cool medium when it comes to design, you can technically break some of the rules as long as your piece is cohesive, try playing with screentones or using various cross hatching techniques for either creating values or patterns.
>>7780655I think it was rushed, i didn't stop to think where the light comes from. Ive managed to make things like these more clear
What should I focus on now if I want to draw cartoons like this? I’ve tried courses like Drawabox, and they’ve helped me improve my line confidence, but that’s about it
>>7773939Study anatomy
>>7773939draw cartoons. keep asking yourself why something does or doesn't work (either when you're drawing or analyzing someone's work). don't slack off on fundamentals. understand shape language and what makes appealing shapes
Isnt drawabox about perspective?
you draw what you like
Exaggerate everything! Make parts bigger or smaller! Everything! Shape language is something that can definitely help you with cartoonish styles :)
general critiques for my artwork to make it look more pro?https://imgur.com/a/cRNzjJm
>>7780836work on consistency, readability(silhouette), and shape hierarchy. Kyle Ferrin came to mind as someone you might want to study for pro work in this whimsical style.
>>7780836Work on shape/silhouette design, play around with different edge thicknesses and add more contrast in your tones (like in picrel, I think its the best, even if its an extreme example)It's cute but too much pastel tones kinda blend together and leave nothing for the viewer to hold on
Draw less abstract blobs and try doing some actual anatomy and perspective.
>>7780836Do some still lifes and learn how to make objects look more 3D.
>>7780836Cute stuff. I like it as it is. Though those last ones without contours don't look as good as the others.
Why do people like this perma/beg/?
>>7778588Because he killed Hitler
>>7778588in honor of the double; if you train your art skills like you would a muscle, you will permanently be bad, because art is not a muscle, it's a process of figuring out what works, breaking through bottlenecks, not chasing the burn.
And then people are surprised why this /beg/ got rejected from art school
am i correct to assume those lines below the arm is the teres major and the latissimus dorsi?
>>7780524to sell product
>>7780524same reason he's naked if i had to guess
>>7779537Out of all girls you could have posted, you post Varavara?
>>7780524There's not a time where someone post about this manga that isn't a page with naked characters.
>>7780778It’s basically porn with a side of plot
The quote existed at first.
>>7780138Whomst?
Inspo-Thread
>>7776088>hows this?Ugly, to be honest.
My most recent study. I used the Basic Opacity brush from Krita which technically has a little bit of feathering, but it was the closest I could find amongst the default brushes and I didn't feel like making a new brush.
>>7779565cool work anon, what do you mean by feathering?
>>7779567It means the edges are blurred aka not a hard brush
>>7776088segsy
