We're almost done with Q1 of 2026. Have you been drawing?
>>7894637Who got the best head?
well i mistyped the captcha once so i guess not.
>>7894637Of course . Have you?
>>7894637fuck Alvin, marry Simon, and kill Theodore
>>7894637This looks pretty cool. It reminds me of the Crash Bandicoot art I'm working on, based on his Crash Landed design mostly.
Why do I feel my chicken scratching looks better than going on and inking it? I never finish my drawings as a result.
Tried again and focused more on line weights. Tried to vary it a bit particularly for the hair and kept the main outline pretty thick. I think it looks a little less bland.
>>7886585Save the sketch, lightly erase the sketch so that it's still visible, then do a cleaner sketch on top. Repeat until the lines are well defined.
>>7881960You're not wrong, but neither is the other Anon. It's a well known phenomenon that when something is in the sketch phase it's easier for your brain to fill in the blanks and you can often see it as a more idealized version than what it actually looks like whereas inking it eliminates the effect. As you said though ultimately this leads you to figuring out that you need to get better at line weight and variation and ink more conciously because the main reason that the inking eliminates the effect is most people start by just laying down uniform lines across the entire composition rather than varying them for an intended effect
>>7884728This sums it up well.
>>7886585It could be that you just like texture, one thing I do is use the pencil brush for the lineart instead of a brush that replicates a pen, the slight texture and roughness of it reminds me of my chicken scratches more in a way I find enjoyable.
How come Japanese are allowed to make and profit from fanworks but western jurisdictions will assrape you for violating IP laws?
>>7895658Because fuck gaijin.
>>7895658>western jurisdictions will assrape you for violating IP laws?No? Im drawing them just fineAs long as the companies don't sperg out and send cease-and-desist letters, you are not violating any law. Same as Japanese law, tho you can go to jail violating their IP law over there, so be extra careful if you are living there
>>7895892Yeah look at conventions. Tons of fan art prints. The only thing ive ever heard happening was a ghost rider artist trying to sell art of ghost rider at a con or something. But then on the other hand I got a Spiderman sketch from a Spiderman artist at a con so who fucking knows.
>>7895892For example on the Japanese side, Uma companies release their guidelines on drawing fanart on the IP, proof that you are at their mercy, just like the "Western law" you are complaining about. Or worse, because it's a criminal offense there, you can get raped harder
>>7895658>western jurisdictions will assrape you for violating IP laws?ssshhh don't tell him about all the westerners making money drawing porn of marvel, DC and Overwatch characters.It seems to be more of a matter if they detect you and if they thinks it worth it. Otherwise they would nuke deviantart from the face of the internet.The only westerners who will use copyright against you are petty faggots who gets upset when you give their content a bad review.About 12 years ago the developers of a game called Guise of the Wolf, got assblasted over all the negative reviews and copyright strike youtubers to get them down.
all that you need is this, and pc
>>7874676>NOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANNOT USE A MOUSE! ITS ILLEGAL! >hoards art techniques and refuses to share any of them with you to improve your own work or be a team inspiring each other to get betterWanna watch me do it again nigga?
>>7874676I don't like these pads. It's hard to draw without looking at your pen and my hand is too uncertain
>>7874676CSP pro is like £7 a year. don't be such a cheapskate.
>>7895330Being a screenless master race chad is not for everyone, some people ain't built for it.
>>7891963>Only brainrotted zoomers get disoriented using them.TRVTH NVKED FROM ORBIT
Anyone else get a feeling of impending doom while they're drawing and voices in their head telling you that you're wasting your time?
>>7895865>No one chooses to have intrusive thoughts. That's why they're intrusive in the first place.Sounds like you aren't guarding your mind well enough if throughts are intruding.I can genocide all thoughts that aren't in the best interest of my mind, have you tried that?
>>7895882I do not understand what you mean.Is this some form of meditation?I have tried meditation previously but I did not notice any difference.Granted, there are many different forms and I only tried the first one I could find.
>>7895881I really wish I could draw 16 hours a day too, but I'm just too depressed for this.If you like writing tpo, then maybe you should just draw a comic? There you can combine writing with drawing.
>>7895888I personally never thought of it as meditation, I just kept asking myself why I was thinking what I was thinking over and over until I've found the answers, and then eventually found the root cause of everything.I think it's more like debugging and reading how your OS works than meditation.Once you are done reading your OS you can rewrite functions in a way you deem fit or optimize what already works well enough.If you think intrusive thoughts are bad, you can just delete them from ever popping up. >find the cause>find the reason>find why you don't like them>find root source of everything>delete and rebootBut if it's not a life threatening scenario or something your logically percieve as such, you likely can't access admin rights.
>>7895890Not that I'm in any position to give advice on drawing but I believe that drawing 16 hours per day (to improve) doesn't produce compounding results. Violinists, for instance, recommend practicing for only 3 hours per day (Itzhak Perlman) as anything beyond that produces diminishing returns. Thus, anyone claiming that drawing for 16 hours a day (to improve) actually works would have to have this claim scrutinized rather than taken at face value. (Are they actually learning during all those 16 hours as I attempted to or are they just drawing what they already know for nearly all of it?) I tend to find that many professional artists give very bad advice that only hurt your progress as a beginner. At least that has been my experience. All of the helpful and actionable instruction I received were typically from artists who were good but not professional or considered "the best" at drawing.Perhaps comics is what I need to steer my attention towards. You may be right. I personally don't read any comics, however. So this is hard to justify. Just like how I don't ever publish any of the fiction I wrote because I read very little fiction myself. I will consider it however.>>7895901That seems like a brute force approach. I do not know how effective it would be but I will try.
How to make designs thats both sexy and scary?
>>7887917Good question desu.Idk, try to make her look sexy but at the same time like:- She is sexy (This is the most important thing to keep in mind as if you do not it is eazy to lose it if you are not careful)- She wants to kill you/would not mind killing you or is in some way not to be trusted. Maybe even an element of "won't kill you immediately, might toy with you or even have sex with you".- She would not have a difficult time to kill or maim you at all. (The means don't need to be obvious but they can be)- Apply whatever principles of horror design are outthere while keeping her attractive.Monster girls are a good place to start albeit you would want to make them more scary looking. Should give you a general idea of where you can go wild with modifications and where modifications can make the monster loose sexyness.Simply adding a deerskull to big boobs doesn't really work because the deer skull is kind of a boner killer, it's also a rather lazy approach and doesn't really blend the 2 concepts togheter.Scary sexy designs are difficult to pull off as you do lose a lot of the "ooh look how gorey and ugly this creature is oohhh it's gonna kill you on the spot" or "ohh look at what fucked up creature this human just like you and me transformed into... ohh this could be you and it might be contagious" on which scary designs usually rely on. (btw yea, signs of disease are also a boner killer for obvious evolutionary reasons)
>>7887917If you want to draw scary things, you must first learn to draw realistic. Otherwise it's not believable enough
>>7888873Ok
>>7888233Thats notbscary
>>7887917You just did
We had a successful thread for Black History Month so let’s do it again for Women’s History Month. Celebrate women and their contributions to art in this thread. Who are your favorite female artists? Favorite pieces depicting women? Please, no coomer bait. We have /salt/ for that.
The only female artists I like are all Japanese. Otherwise I don't care about women at all. Women are narcissistic hypergamists, ie whores. Not sure what nature was thinking when it created these conceited stupid animals.
>>7895721not sure how the left did this but actually pretty unique designs compared to the cod/wow slop that you are into
>women history thread >moids and trannies rage baiting and arguing with each other overcan't make this shit up
>>7891734>not a single redheadwhy humanity hates them so much? Do people really believe they have no souls?
>>7895878>spicy whitehow many flavors of white do you need kek?
what is a good hairstyle for a long haired male mad scientist who still does basic hygiene but otherewise doesn't really care about his look?
>>7894830>long hairedIMO, scientist is a pragmatic creature. The best choice is bald. Hair won't get in your eyes, and not a single hair will fall into the test tube, or genetic chamber.
>>7894830>what is a good hairstyle for a long haired male mad scientist who still does basic hygiene but otherewise doesn't really care about his look?if we go purely practical bald makes the most sense, if you wanna emphasize the mad aspect, go for balding on the top, but long at the back, if you wanna be more "grounded" a lot of people on stem have shitty ponytails and frizzy long hair
Have you watched the video this channel made? The guy spent months making quite a few. Just type his name into YouTube and you'll find it.
>>7891373video name (All Your Base Are Belong To Us - 25 Year Anniversary Remake)
>>7891373I HATE THIS STUPID FORCED MEME
>>7895700What you say!?
>>7895705You heard me.
I've got 1000 pages worth of sketchbooks. I want to finally learn how to draw from imagination and go from the left side of pic related (my actual art, some from imagination, some from references) to the right (drawing without references and with minimal guidelines, like Kim Jung Gi or Peter Han is the main goal).How should I spend those pages? What exercises should I do exactly to get as far as I can on this journey?
>>7894818>His video course is pretty much the same as what Draw A Box guy offers and /ic/ loves to clown on himnigga literally half the video you posted is literally derived from dynamic sketching, actually this guy literally has a video that's basically just "do dynamic sketching", wtf are you even talking aboutDynamic Sketching is the progenitor of DAB, not the other way around, and Peter Han can draw just fine. DS is literally just construction in its purest, most primal form. It is De Wae. If you see someone that's learned how to direct draw from imagination (esp. in ink) they have almost certainly learned from DS or someone else that's learned from it. Han didn't even invent it, really. It's so low-level bare metal fundamental to drawing itself that someone would inevitably be bound to invent it from first principles in any timeline, like mathematics.DAB guy's problem isn't that he learned to draw boxes it's that he never learned how to make them feel alive, imbue them with motion and emotion. He never learned to play and really express himself. He learned and did in a way that was very stilted and rote and impersonal. His object and mechanical drawings are light years better than his character art but even they suffer from soullessness. The whimsy and fun of his chonky cartoony vehicle designs are just mechanical imitations of what he observed from others as being "fun" and "whimsical", not really something he felt and developed within himself. Constructing is a fundamental pillar of drawing, you need it, learning it on an intuitive level literally changes you and how you draw forever and it feels like magic, but it is only the tool with which you express yourself, and if there is nothing there then it will show. Approaching learning with curiosity and playfulness is key.
>>7894818Wait up a minute, actually, you even included one of Peter Han's drawings in the OP image, the one in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TG86GIxE0A . That's why it baffles me that you're dismissing the Dynamic Sketching course. I mean, how do you think he does what he does??? The Dynamic Sketching course teaches the core philosophy and basic fundamental skills that underpin his work and ability to draw directly in inks the way that he does. DAB guy learned and based his course off of it, sure, but what you're witnessing is the phenomenon of the horse not drinking from the water it was lead to, or maybe that the horse itself is sickly, not that the well it drank from is poisoned.
>>7894818>>7895565I forgot to say that I do agree that the Dynamic Bible is almost next to useless for learning and is more a brief manifesto of philosophy than a book for teaching the actual method. He did rewrite it to be more in depth recently but I don't actually know how good the new version is.
>>7894801I drew this for ye op. Drawing from imagination is a very different skill and rendermonekys and classicalfags cannot comprehend this. Hope it helps
>>7894801Literally me...Although I am not as good as OP, I would like to draw like the image bottom right.Seriously. How do I do?
Iris - The Internet Girl
>>7891279Boring.
>>7891279Does she do something?
Hey Anons, can you share some OCs so i have something to draw? :)
I can't stop drawing rat girls help me.
AHHHHH!
>her name is BAZOOKA and she has a smirk and fangs and shes DEPRESSED but she wears a bikini and i want to FUCK her and shes PINK and GAY and shes APATHETICi think im too old for this place
Can you retard post art in the oc threads >>7873935 instead? Op is never coming back to this thread.
>>7895461>>7895464blog????????
How to draw cute mascots?
be female
>>7891377Pepe is cute. Draw pepe in your style.
>>7892324
>>7891377>>7891404I'm no pro either, but I know enough to know this guy's on the right track. focus on circular shapes because they imply softness and roundness that is essential for anything cute. it's the boba kiki thing. you also want to make sure your mascot is something a five year old could make a reasonable approximation of (see anpanman, kirby, even mickey mouse follows this for the most part). I made this guy in a few minutes following those principals. for good measure I also threw in an aspect that kids would like, a chocolate chip cookie for a head, and made his favorite ice cream chocolate chip cookie dough because implied cannibalism is funny to me.
Sorry for the late reply. I was drunk when I made this thread and forgot about it lmao>>7891404How can I improve at drawing ovals? I've noticed that a lot of mascots have an elliptical head instead of a circular one.>>7892236Goober energy... >>7892324Pepe kinda cute ngl>>7892590Cute little fella! Yeah, mascots need to be simple. There’s nothing worse than an overdesigned mascot.>implied cannibalism is funny to meIt's always funny!
I recently bought a tablet after drawing traditionally for most of my life. I use Krita, and scan my traditional lineart to shade and color in the program.I've mostly been experimenting. Here is some recent stuff.
>>7894380
>>7894381I draw a lot of gore, so these are my sfw pics for the most part
>>7894382a good sampler of things I've tried
Why do you zoomoids all draw the same ugly shit
>>7894378>Recently transitionedSo brave and beautiful, preach sister
Do you guys use action figures/toys for drawing reference? Which ones do you recommend?
>>7892092Only good "figure" is a dildo you can suction to your desk for help with perspective and I'm not kiddingIt's functional
>>7892235Post proof
I go on Magic Poser Web.
>>7892092Guess I'll be the first person to give real feedback here. Yea, they are quite helpful. I used the S.H Figuarts one for a long time. Very helpful and much faster for getting the idea of a pose out. Helps you to visualize something in your head or understand a perspective relatively quickly with much less effort than having to finagle with a 3D program (which is also useful). However, if you are a noobie I will add a big asterisk to the recommendation here. Because they are hard plastic with joints, they do not move the same way a human does and so the joints especially can create some funky inconsistencies. It's important to not try to copy the model 1:1 because then you'll be copying the inaccuracies as well (more accurate if you get those silicon TB League/Phicen type figures). That is where using a 3d model is more useful, if you want/need to understand how muscles move/look when they bend to create a highly polished piece. Even people like Adi Granov and Paolo Rivera use those tbleague/phicen dolls because they mimic human flesh more realistically. So long story short, yes definitely recommend, just be mindful that it has its limitations.
>>7893260Useful. Thank you
