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Thinking of going to art school. Should I make a portfolio first or get to know people? Do you guys have any suggestions?
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>>7774657
that's not an interview, retard
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>>7774176
Bruh this bitch can't draw
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>>7774143
>I'll be honest, Art school's a scam, you can learn most things already by yourself
this, unless you IRL art friends, also art hoes are ok on a lonely night.
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ironically you can only draw well if you love it, so if you have to go to school for it then you don't love it enough to do it in your free time, meaning you won't make it.
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>>7774138
going there for fun? Make a bunch of finished drawings of people.

Want to fight against the grain and have a shot at making culture without connections? I'd rather recommend going to a graphic design school if the latter.

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Have there ever been other examples of full blown western art styles being adapted to japanese animation flawlessly outside of pic related?
Most other TMS's foreign works aren't really directed, storyboarded or feel like anime
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scooby doo zombie island looks like anime
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Little Nemo
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>>7779077
because its also animated by japs, like many 80s and 90s cartoons were. i'm not even sure what OPs point is
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>>7779518
>many
isnt there only transformer
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>>7779523
you dont watch many cartoons. for example, the real ghostbusters and batman TAS were outsourced to japan as well for some episodes, which is very noticeable. sometimes you can even see the names in the credits

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Fuck your links just draw

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>>7781583
idk if youre trolling but its funny, thank you
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i turned a slightly less purple light on :)
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>>7781587
hhh, delightful
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>>7781562
sovl

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>find stash of art from 1-2 years ago
>current art is noticeably worse
>find another stash of art from 4-5 years ago
>art from 1-2 years ago worse then that
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if its not fun, why bother?
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>>7779308
thank you for the art by the way, but i do find drawing fun. what is not fun is that i am somehow getting worse
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It do be like that mr stancel
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>>7779304
pics or gtfo
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>>7779304
Post 'em

Draw cute girls doing cute things with each other, it's that simple.
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Oh I have plenty of these! They're all beg though. But whatever.
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>>7779294
Last one. Sorry for spamming lol
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>>7779294
This one's especially nice, cute couple engaging with each other.

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I made this comic for Halloween.
https://clyphe.com/comics/JunkScientist/JShalloween/jshalloween.html

Ive never made a comic or written anything before, so please please please give me your thoughts on the writing, pacing, whats confusing, etc. Tysm <3
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Junk writing, junk pacing, junk art
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>>7778791
>Ive never made a comic or written anything before
Apart from the other comic on your site?
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>>7778878
>>7778890
Glad its living up to its name

>>7778959
>Apart from the other comic on your site?
Well, sure. This is my second comic I guess. What did you think of either? Were they hard to understand/follow
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Wow I'm an anon and I loved it
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Wow I'm an anon and I hated it

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I'm not going to lie, even though I keep art as a hobby while working full time, I still have this feeling in the back of my head that I'm just coping. I still kinda feel like less of an artist. Like I've conceded that I will never truly make it. Doesn't make me upset but the feeling is there.
Anyone else?
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>>7773864
Maybe this is his work and he's a disgraced inbetween animator
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>>7773852
>I'm just coping
you are
>less of an artist
you literally are less of an artist than you would be if you were putting 40 more hours into it per week
>I will never truly make it
you won't
>Anyone else?
yes, it's quite common
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lets see your art
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>>7773852
The reality of the situation is that being a professional artist is not for everyone that pursues it. The issue here lies in you and everyone else considering art as a hobby to be 'lesser' when in reality neither is more valuable than the other. They're just two sides of the same coin and trying to ascribe a 1/0 value to your time when you're literally wasting it making something that's inherently worthless until someone outside of you decides it's not.

Being a professional artists is more than just drawing and gitting gude, you have to be an entrepreneur and an entertainer. Everything you make is going to be influenced by your superiors or your audience, and anything you draw for fun over profit just goes back round to it being a hobby. So just enjoy drawing for the sake of it and think about how much effort your really want to put in to market yourself.
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become the ultimate hobby artist. be so good that it bothers people that you don't do it professionally.

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Can someone please explain to me how, in the 90s, with very limited hardware and software, these incredible illustrations could be created, and how today, with Cintiq and iPads, many people can't even draw a cube?
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>>7777326
>Extremely obvious pixels
>Dithering
>limited colour palette
>"THAT'S PEN & PAPER!"
Righto.

>>7773935
Speaking of pen & paper, every kid had those back then, did that mean they'd pick them up and draw and become artists? Just because all phones and computers are capable of having art programs, doesn't mean every person, most people, or even what could be considered a decent fraction of people, will download them and use them.
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>>7774547
this guy's art is some next level shit
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>>7779147
Pee Why FUCKING Double U
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>>7779147
>>7779153
Oh wow I had a total autism moment and didn’t realize that “next level shit” was a good thing.
Sorry anon.
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>>7779153
>>7779154

Is there a single example of anime/manga characters drawn in a more realistic western style that's actually appealing? I don't think it's impossible, I've just never seen it done succesfully.
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>>7775438
Yeah i never got the horrible proportions that coom artists give to the characters in their fanarts lel
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>>7775378
As a kid I was forced some mornings while getting ready for school to watch sailor moon because my dad liked it. Only when I became an adult did I actually take time to properly watch a season or 2. I didn’t watch the whole damn series, though. It’s mid. I like Precure better.
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>>7778924
also if you mentioned you watched sailor moon or ppg as a guy you were called gay so yeah so your comment can only be directed to women and im sure women did actually watch sailor moon. i member the girls back then were all over fruits basket, too. it was a cult like twilight.
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>>7775092
Half the time, it's not even realistic, it's just comic book proportions/anatomy. For example, your picrel is is no way representative of the vast majority of 14 year old girls (except in capeshit).

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I'm thinking of using November to storyboard one or two of those videos that play in my head whenever I listen to a particular song or another. Like nanowrimo but sketching. Anyone wanna join me?

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It's fucking shit. why did you let me do this, cardboard isn't right for this.
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>>7776989
Seems like you're doing fine. Before going further, you might first attempt a simple cardboard cube. Wrap, spackle, sand or otherwise finish the cube as you intend to finish this piece. You can gauge the effort involved and see if you want to do the same with this larger work.
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>>7776989
The cum fortress
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>>7777452
Made from cum cement.
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>>7776989
is that a dick?
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>>7776989

Do people still spend money on commissions? Is it worth it to put yourself out there or is the oil drying up and there isn't enough demand to make a livable wage as an artist anymore?
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>>7771438
I still commission artists to get art of my ocs and haven't touched ai stuff once. Pic related. I know quite a few people who still do as well.
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>>7771438
Why on Earth would I pay for a drawing?
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>>7777716
why would you pay to have your car fixed?
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im literally shitposting on this shithole site for the first time in years, procrastinating my own personal work before i start one. The reason i stopped coming here and forgot about this place completely is because the majority of you are functionally retarded and just say stuff and ask stupid questions instead of drawing.

it isnt 1400. youre not and are never going to be good enough to make a "livable wage" from commissions. you have to diversify your revenue streams with prints, commissions, gig work, collaborative projects, merchandise, maybe a patreon or twitch or have an ongoing series supplemented with ads and issue sales.

the roundabout answer is "yes" people still spend money on commissions you fucking idiot and if youre asking if its worth putting yourself out there youre already too fucked up to commit to it. Imagine asking about demand in an era where people are lapping up generic dolls, random animes can have hundreds of thousands of fans baying for custom produced content and there are a bazillion hobbies that require creative application.
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The main site I got commissions from was ArtistsnClients and I can't access it anymore. Anyone got any ideas where I can find more that isn't twitter?

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>How to draw anything!
>Learn construction and perspective to draw what you see!
>How to draw a head / body
>Use this process with very specific guidelines, proportions, and techniques to get the head angle, jawline, etc correct
Why can't you just reference a model's face and draw from construction?
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the redpill is anatomy doesn't matter at all. Its form you need to learn. Mastering anatomy will not make your art better, it will only allow you to draw realistic boring figures. Most people want to draw more than that so you have to abstract the anatomy in some way. Might as well learn the abstraction and symbols alongside the anatomy.
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>>7774678
but [generic art youtuber] told me symbols are bad?
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>>7774678
>Mastering anatomy will not make your art better, it will only allow you to draw realistic boring figures. Most people want to draw more than that so you have to abstract the anatomy in some way
Anatomy informs the abstraction. Yes, you will want to abstract to make appealing stuff, but you can't abstract what you don't understand. If you only learn symbols you'll only ever be able to draw those symbols, but if you learn how it actually works you can create your own symbols that actually look good. So unless you only ever want to do mastercopies, learning anatomy will be helpful to your art
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But is there not some form of “standard” or base level you need to study or reach when starting out
This whole just draw thing is wildly too vague
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>>7773551
the difficulty spike between 1st and 2nd is so huge...

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heres a link, wanted to share my design :))
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DQegcNlDVW3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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how to draw hair? I want my character to have a messy ponytail hairstyle but the hairs looks crudely drawn even if i reference from life.
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>>7772941
Just keep trying.
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>>7772941
did you ever see a drawing of hair that looked good to you? try doing that.
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>>7772941
here is a simple step by step guide I made like a few months ago for a friend. While I've gotten better, the general principles still apply.


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