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What hope is there after being told you’re a permaprebeg?
So I picked up this starter kit but I've never really painted before, at least nothing that I didn't throw away afterwards.It might sound like a very stupid question but like how do I paint something, like let's say I want to paint some woods or the sea or some shit, what's my first step in learning how? How do I put colors on that page.
>>7792825Try painting studies in sepia/burnt umber first. This is what my art college had us do to learn painting values. After that you can learn color which is much more difficult.
>>7792825>how do I paint something>what's my first step in learning how? Well the shortest answer is you cant. To paint something you have at least understand values before doing any colors otherwise everything you do is going to be fucked. As to first step to learn (assuming you are not a beginner to art) you have to do value studies, these videos shed some light on the subject:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6gaSJCgBo&pp=ygURYnJva2VuZHJhdyB2YWx1ZXM%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-NhdEPKGk&list=PLH2DDMpMRD5hKAvEATNZPk9SWJkt5Yn6JBut remember that colors come later, like values>shapes>colors>composition etc. Best you find some course or tutorial and follow it. I would recommend Marco Bucci as he is really pleasant to watch and gives out info in easily digestible format, other than that there's that proko course for beginners to advance also teaching everything about drawing/paiting yet its not really advanced as in you will get the basics but also be required to supplement other info yourself if you want to get deeper on the subject matter. All these courses are available online https://online-courses.club/radhowto-seeing-colors-by-peter-chan/Like with color course I'm checking out.
>>7792834>>7792853I'm still a bit lost but I'll try my best, thanksI do have a background in art, but in sculpture
>>7792558>Posterization>Reverse Gradient>Level Correction>Tone Curve>Color Balance>BinarizationAll of these must exist for a reason, but how/when are you actually expected to be using them?
>>7792825>>7792907This video explains it pretty well. His whole channel is pretty good for explain the craft of painting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGMRrpYmsr8If color is too hard right now, just try painting something in monochrome.
why me still can't draw
>>7792558Any recommendation on good books/resources to reference from for fashion on older civilizations? Same with architecture and tools
Do people genuinely work at absurd resolutions, or are they just working at normal res then upscaling when they export?I’ve always shared work at base res but I want to be able to share stuff in higher quality. So, I’m wondering if I need a larger canvas size when I start a project or if I only need to set my export settings higher?Is there a noticeable difference either way?
Is it true you have to be rather talented to be good at cutesy chibi shit?
Why can I copy things that someone else has done almost perfectly, and even do things in their style, but I can't come up with anything myself and my own "style" is fucking dogshit? Am I a fraud?
how do i get the most popular bridgman book?what was the name of it again?
nevermind i googled it all by myself :3
>>7794537>Do people genuinely work at absurd resolutions, or are they just working at normal res then upscaling when they exportmost start at big rez and then downscale>I’m wondering if I need a larger canvas size when I start a project or if I only need to set my export settings higher?big canvas>Is there a noticeable difference either way?Depends.If you only publish to socials and never share raws it doesn't matter too much because everywhere compresses the fuck out of your shit but if you share raws or need the puece for production stuff then yeah it matters
>>7792701None. /ic/ is never wrong about these things. >>7793218Because you’re black.
>>7795607No, just need to practice your imagination deliberately. Like a muscle, your technical skill is probably good, if it's not just replication that you're doing, but you just need to start drawing from imagination more.
How do I blend colors in procreate? Everyone says use smudge that isn’t blending. I just want to blend some colors without taking 30 seconds to turn red+yellow into an orange that isn’t even correct. Photoshop and CSP can do it in brush settings but is seems like Procreate can’t
What is it about the color rendering of 99% of AI images that looks so immediately fake and unnatural looking? After seeing a lot of people over the years get accused of using AI I'm trying to figure out all the ways to distance myself from this look if I'm trying to be more detailed/realistic-ish
>>7796210if people didn't know of image generation, they would salivate all over this slopthe fact that it is regurgitated from a soulless machine from a plethora of remixed images i.e. a fake picture made by a fake simulator; is revolting to any human since it goes into the uncanny valley territory"You just know"
DeviantArt is dead?
>>7792558How I create images like this? How do I draw the smoke and then make it move and stuff
>>7796699>How do I draw the smoke and then make it move and stuffFind smoke/animation for reference, study smoke animation, trace over smoke animation, profit
Why is there no core shadow here?
>>7797383flab
>>7792558How do I grow my X account if my "brand" is to make hentai doujin of seasonal anime?My followers count is still two digits.I'm thinking about making Sousou no Frieren doujin for Winter.
>>7797383There is only 1 strong light source (R) and the reflective light (L) from the water and the wood isn't strong enough to permeate.
Is there a handy list of physics and/or related words to keep in mind for animations and more dynamic illustrations? Stuff like weight, gravity, inertia, momentum, etc.
Where did the Drawpile thread go??? Where is Loomis? That's the only reason I came to check this board.
what makes people think artists want to chat with them? fishing for free art or just autism? every week i get some pointless "hi" or "hello" messages
>>7792558any help with necks? im really just starting out drawing but i cant get necks right no matter what i do or any connection with body and head
Should just I force myself to draw when it's one of those bad days of no motivation, bad drawings etc. Maybe this is the right time to force unfun studies?
>>7798962Autism. To the point I considered posing as a jap since they don't seem as chatty and I would have a reason to ignore the weird DMs. Do you reply to those messages at all?
Is it better to stick with a single book or course at a time and work through it from start to finish or is it fine to jump between multiple at the same time?
>>7800580I think it's better to jump between things (within reason). I say within reason because, if you find yourself learning a dozen different things at the same time, you’ll need to slow down. you’re not going to retain what you learn while taking in so much at once, so, chew your food thoroughly (savor whatever it is you're learning) and really try to understand what you're practicing in the now, apply it to current work and move onto the next thing. ideally, you always want to be working on whatever weakness you have at the moment. (read books as you need them, work through courses as the skills they teach become more relevant)only stick to things that really interest you. like a book/course you can’t put down.
any specific guidelines for female clothes that are dark blue or black?I kinda want to make shit up but still make them somewhat convincing when it comes to folds and lighting, and the form underneath
What paint are these? Acrylic? Oil? Watercolor?
>>7801097most likely poster colorhttps://nicker-enogu.com/en/product_cat/poster-color
>>7801117Thanks.Just found the art director's artbook, and yeah, it's poster color.Man, there's something about these old anime background art that is so much more aesthetic compare to today's anime background.
>>7801097>>7801117What drawing software can produce painting as close to these?
>>7803043Almost any of them. You just have to be good at painting.
What is this small canvas with gold borders called and where do I get it? I see mangakas using this
>>7803148It's called a shikishi
Ive been interested in drawing for years but i hadnt drawn for more than maybe 20 hours total in the whole of my life including childhood.Why is that?I also dont like the act of drawing. It brings no joy to see the end result because i suck and the act of it makes my fingers hurt and bores me.In spite of all of this i still daydream about drawing/being good and would like to accomplish it. I just dont think its possible.
>>7803231you're a low iq goycattle slop consumerdreaming of becoming something you're notaccept your subhuman naturethis struggle isn't for you
>>7803235:(My IQ is 104. I think i might have brain damage or mental illness bc i used to be far more mentally active and curious of the world and creative and imaginative even a few years ago.I dont want to be just a slop consumer forever.
Are you less likely to get carpal tunnel syndrome if you're fat
every youtube fag says to practice basic shapes. so do i practice them out of my imagination or do i get a reference with the specific angle and shape i want. i draw with paper and pen.
>>7803555bothhttps://practicedrawingthis.com/3d-models-index/
What is the evolutionary reason asians are so good at art? Genuinely asking
>>7800110i just say hello back, if they reply again i say something like>sorry i'm busy rnthen proceed to ignore them forever if they keep on replying
Does anyone have an official english copy of rockhe kim's anatomy book?
someone explain to a retard like me why the edges of some shadows are sometimes the most saturated part of the art?
>>7804930On skin specifically it is what it says, subsurface scattering. You're seeing light that diffused through the skin and is reflecting back red. It's too dull to show up in the bright parts, but it's visible in the shadows.If it's not on skin, it's mostly a cargocultism. The red layer in old photos would overexpose and create that red glow effect, artists copied it and now apparently forgot why it's there. Now it's just A Thing You Do.
>>7804936to add to this, if it isn't on skin then it can happen to less dense material of a similar composition like a grape or translucent stone for example, anything where there are multiple layers for light to bounce back from, it doesn't necessarily have to be red just a more saturated colour
>>7803580I'm bad at art so clearly I evolved wrong
i am fucking dying trying to do women's heads in pixel artive got a 32x48 grid for the entire body, and so the head (plus hair) has maybe 12x14 space.any good resources or inspiration i can look at?even video games that did women well would be helpfulpic related, a shitty woman, a woman without hair yet and my decent dude
I want my drawings to have that black souls charm, how do I achieve this? I can barely draw a circle rn. books, videos, links to anything will be appreciated. I heard its easier to practice with pencil and paper so im doing it in a more traditional way before I tamper with digitial.
What are fundies, like really?
Does anyone know a thing about self-publishing? Do people even buy digital picture books? I'm working on an ilustrated childrens book.
>>7805393Abstractly, skills required to accurately represent arbitrary 3D objects on a 2D page.
ive studied fundies, drawn for fun, copied. yet i still cant draw ANYTHING after a year. its always le simple shapes and i cant do ANY of them, i draw something that just barely resembles a shape, and dont get me started on anatomy. when i copy, the end result is something that's barely recognizable. when i draw for fun i get a rush during the moment of drawing it then see the end result and seethe. i have NO sense of perspective despite everything. what the hell do i do at this point? am i legitimately retarded
>>7806000>am i legitimately retardedProbablyDraw a cube, all sides the same size, add a light source and shade it. Post the image.
https://hackmd.io/7k0XRnIQR6SValR77TDfZw?viewI've just read through the hardcore guide in the beginner thread. I still don't understand what everyone in the screencaps means by "copy" and "study" references. Are they literally just putting a reference on one side of their canvas, and then drawing and trying to emulate it on the right?
>>7804083I have looked around everywhere for years, still nothing, and im in private trackers. best we got is mtl
>>7806011Depends on what you are studying. Sometimes your goal is to copy as accurately as possible, to train your observational/accuracy skills. Other times you are focusing on color, so it doesn't matter as much if the proportions are off a bit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kfK46nruKM
When will the cute anime girls appear in this book?
>>7796210Trying to apply this type of STEM-y autistic line of inquiry to something so subjective as art is your first and biggest potholeThe machine relies on the input, it can't experience things like the famous "feel the form" memeIt's always 2 steps behind actual humans and will remain that because it's nature is fundamentally contrary to its goalsThere's no one size fits all explanation, it's nature will always show through one way or another, no matter in how small of a detailIf you still find this a somehow super interesting dilemma I think you should just quit art and pursue something strictly autistic like shader programming because you clearly dont have the right mindset for this art thing
I'm going to try Strattera next month since my previous medication didn't do anything for my ADHD, does anyone have any experience with it? How did it effect your art? I really don't want to take Adderall because it's a hassle but I also don't want to be stuck in this frozen-retard state and have my art struggle at a snails pace for the rest of my life.
What's the best flow work for drawing and painting lots of detail without making a mess?
My favorite Japanese artist started playing around with AI, it's ogre.
>>7807624I’m taking it right now. It’s really good honestly. It’s helped me to commit to a specific piece/drawing, when I usually stop in the middle to do something else. Your experience may differ but it does its job.
>>7808119start from general, big shapes, and do multiple passes adding more and more detail each time. If you watch any drawing video/speed paint, you'll see this. It'll get to a point where the image looks "done", yet there's half a video left. and every few mins you'll keep going "ok that surely is done right" but more gets added.
what general should i post in for help on digital painting
>>7808465this one or /beg/ should be fine
I would ask this on /gd/ but since it's slow as fuck and I need an answer asap, I'll ask here.My friend wants me to make some illustration for her cafe. Kinda like pic related.She needs them in vector or something she can use to put in her menu. Would it be a good idea to make it on Illustrator or Photoshop/CSP?
>>7808591>vectorUse illustrator or affinity designer
Not exactly art but how do you guys deal with damaged spirals on sketchbooks? I was rummaging around my boxes of stuff the other day and pulled out two blank ones but stuff was o n them and bent the rings out of place so now the pages are real difficult to turn
>>7800580Only stick with the book if it matches your current skill level. Otherwise, don't push yourself through it. If you find that it doesn't match where you're at, find a book that does.
anyone know what happened to the /drawpile/ threads?
Do you use photoshop’s stroke path for clean line art?
/beg/ maxed out. Trying to build a nice travel watercoloring kit.>>7809585 #>KJGThanks, I'm wondering which brand he used. The ones I've tried so far have poor watering control and the hairs come off very easily.Looking at pictures of his tools AI identified one of them as "Derwent Waterbush" so I might try these out, unless anyone here has any experience with these and can recommend something more specific.
Would it be a bad idea to make a Render-Monkey General? I noticed a lot of the threads here focus heavily on anatomy, and that's already my biggest strength. I want a thread that focuses on value studies, texture, and learning color theory because that's what really gives art soul.
>>7810015sounds like the old /study/ general, we can bring it back
>>7810015Seconding
>>7810015While I agree this would be nice, I can only see this going badly. Rendering is kind of an on-off switch that you either get or you don't and is notoriously hard to meaningfully explain. And the /beg/s that think they get it because they watched a Marco Bucci video will implant brain parasites in anyone who makes the mistake of giving them the benefit of the doubt.
How am I supposed to set up a ko-fi or any sort of tipjar while staying anonymous? I just want to stop being a useless piece of shit and get some sort of passive income without doxxing myself.
>Want to take art a lil more serious>Decide to buy some books like morpho and the TACO stuff>Realize idk how to fucking use theseDo I just copy the drawings till it clicks? Use them as references?? wtf do i do
>>7810432yes, copy everythingif you feel like challenging yourself, turn the forms in space
>>7810435is there anything i should be looking out for or thinking about while doing or just copy til it clicks
>>7810486that depends on your skill and experiencein the beginning, focusing on proportions and accuracy pays off the most
How lewd can I get with my Pixiv/Twitter banner?Can it be something kinda risqué like pic (nipples, practically nude, tiny bikini in the case of a female character)? Or does it have to be 100% safe?
>>7810015Are there any resources you or other anons recommend for value studies and color theory? (I think) I can at least draw like a middleschooler but my rendering and colors look like something from a crayon eating preschooler.
is there any downside to using a multiplayer layer to shade/add shadow?
>>7810770It's pretty bad for composition because your values precipitate out of the big groupings and things stop looking cohesive.Also, doesn't account for highlights. If you want to do it, overlay is usually better because you can do highlights and shadows on the same layer.
I’ve been drawing for 7 years and I’m still a permaprebeg should I KMS?
Colors vary on different screens but things seem squished laterally when I view it on my phone. Is this just my brain playing tricks?
How do I avoid permabeg hell? I don't want to waste the next year
WHERES THE COURSE SHARING THREAD
What's a good place where I can ask artists for help with specific things and not general stuff? I'm willing to pay money if that's what it takes
>>7804936you can see it on opaque surfaces old paintings from before colour photography too, idk why but it looks good.
>>7792558Where exactly do I post my "art" for critique here? I'm beginner so it will be crap like lines and boxes, but I'd like to know if I'm doing them correctly.
>>7812225I'm curious if you have an example. I feel like the impressionists would be the ones to do it, but I've literally never seen it done in an actual historical painting.
>>7812267in the beginner thread, /beg/
>>7812350Found it. Thank you.
>>7812272i cant find one desu but i know ive seen it. think its either a lighter underpainting coming through with the shadow painted ontop or maybe like colour leakage from a really saturated dark shadow
>Finally happy with the sketch.>I’ve been working on this for almost 4 hours. Is it even worth continuing with a piece at that point? It’s already taken too long.
>>7812484idk anon you hit a checkpoint do you want work on something else and return later or keep going until the render monkey appears and what you liked about it fades
>>7812495Why would i return later it’s already taken too long just to get a sketch it’s objectively a failure how long should the sketch take?
>>7812484what's the rushjust take a break and keep going
>>7804930herehttps://youtu.be/UnxLy71xuPk
>>7812543Apart from application, basically this entire video is bullshit.
>>7792558Give me a watercooler thread pretty please?
>>7812484I know what you feel, but if it's not complete, that would be a shame.I took much more than that after scanning and attempting to paint.
what's the point of H pencils if you ended up shading stuff with B anyway?
>>7813254Good for making light marks that are easy to erase or won't show up as an underlayer. The lead is harder so they stay sharper for longer or if you need a fine point for details. Less smudging too. More common for handwriting that reason.
>>7813265thanks, there's 6H pencil in my box and I've been tinkering with it for a while trying to figure out how to use it, guess I'll try to sketch stuff with H pencil from now on
Hi! does anyone know what mode they used to get this orange glow effect on the train in this example? I'm guessing they used airbrush but i cant replicate it. Even in the lowest opacity, im unable to get similar results.
genuinely how do I escape pic rel? I constantly want to draw but when I sit down to draw it's just the same anime girl standing there
How's /ic/ doing? Haven't been here for years; has there been any drama lately?
Is it a bad idea to create characters in MMORPGs that you're going to use for later at some point? As in the character belongs to someone else actually? I've got a great idea for the ultimate character and don't want to waste it.
My family doesn't support my artistic interests. I need ultramarine blue pigment but it's not available here in my country so I have to import a single piece of schmincke tube from Taiwan, Japan or France. What should I do?
how to make a chart?
>>7813646Just crabs and begs everywhere. It’s a shithole.
>>7813297Soft Light or very low opacity Screen I assume
is there a recommended book or a image database with facial expressions?I'm too autistic to do it from my head alone without reference.
I'm going to ask the dumbest question asked so far.There are several stories written down in my notes, stuff for writing a comic/manga of them.I've been drawing casually for 10 years now, and I'm nowhere near good or appealing.That's where the dumb question gets in.If I want to draw a comic/manga, should I train by drawing comic/manga?Alternatively, what would be a good restart point to do that?-And another: what does it mean if when I look at my drawings most of them are of wildly different styles and skill levels from each other?I feel like I have no control over how well or what I draw.Is that due to the severe lack of fundamentals? Do I just not understand what I'm doing and so cannot replicate it at all?I was trying to pick something representative out of my drawings folder, but it's all too wildly different from each other to make for an useful sample unless I pull the entire folder here.
>>7814826You need a course to study how to make manga. Go into the archives for the video thread that was up recently (It fell off page 10) and look for the course on Coloso by the author that wrote Mushibugyo. For the second question, that is a good thing to have. They said in the animator's survival kit that eventually draftsmans should be able to copy someone else's style, this is especially useful for doing inbetween animation.
>>7814836It asks me for 200$ or to get a premium account on a download site if I go through the psdly. Other piracy sites didn't have it. Even torrent searcher engines didn't find it. I can't safely put 200$ into a course right now. Do you happen to have it?
>>7792558How's Krita as a drawing software? Is it worth learning?
>>7792558I know this is stupid but I’m looking to commission album art for a prog metal band. Thinking abstract/esoteric paintings maybe. Any kind anons able to steer me in the right direction where to look and purchase? I’ve checked out Behance, any other suggestions?
>>7815105Find artists you like on twitter/Instagram/etc. See if they have "open for commissions" or similar in their bio. or DM them and ask. Let them know it's for album art so you can get the proper copyrights to the image so you are allowed to reproduce it.
What are some good wrist exercises?I've tried a few I saw online but the cracking is still horrid and it keeps feeling tense
>>7815144*to clarify, this is over the span of a week
>>7815144>wrist exercisesI don't know because I don't use them. Lower your pressure requirement in your tablet driver. Heavy pressure is the number 1 thing that causes hand fatigue. Also don't try to draw super perfect lines, this can also cause tensing. Use every tool available if you need that sort of precision like stabilizer, precision mode mapping or specialized software. If it doesn't go away I think you need a longer break.
How do I draw eyes in perspective, regardless of the shape you use?I have other doodles if needed
>Make fan characters>Never post them>constantly go "hmmm maybe I can turn them into their own thing down the line, I won't share these just yet">Never happens because I don't make any substantial projects or stories>Brain constantly on the verge of exploding because of said fan characters and wanting to share them but also not wanting to embarrass myself, especially if FC's end up transforming into their own thing and people see it happen in real timeWHAT do I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do I actually get commissions? I'm still not very good at art, so I thought making my drawings cheap would help, but I got nothing. Any advice? picrel is my art
>>7817215Make interesting art. There are a billion people who do big tit anime, most of them better than you, there's no reason for anyone to pay you to do it. You're not going to get commissions unless you offer something better, not cheaper, than everyone else. People who buy commissions are almost never interested in cheap, it's a luxury product and luxury sells on brand identity not price.
Hey /ic/I'm a newbie and I'm trying to redraw/clean this doujin I like. So far all the speech bubbles and sound effects had simple single-color backgrounds that I could either fill or redraw with my low level of skill.However, there are several pages with these (pic rel.) half-opaque bubbles that also have this annoying slash pattern all over them and complex backgrounds. It would take me ages to clean these with what I know now. Is there an easier way to do these? Just looking for some tips & tricks I guess.
>>7817199Just do it. I have a separate account for ocfagging because I don't want to associate my actual account with it.>>7817217>People who buy commissions are almost never interested in cheapI am because I'm a cheapo who loves getting 30 dollar comms from random nips on skeb, but you're right that he has to offer something that appeals to me in the first place before I even think about wanting to open my wallet. It doesn't have to be super good or unique, it just has to look nice.>>7817218Just frame your text so it covers up as much jp text as possible then draw over the rest to minimize your workload, there's probably a better way.https://quicksandscans.wordpress.com/resources/
>>7817217>>7817232But honestly, I don't want to go into extreme fetish to find my niche.I honestly just like anime girls of all kinds with huge breasts and femboy/twink. I don't think I could stomach drawing extreme stuff Also, I do like really cheap commissions, like 15 for an entire piece with multiple characters, full color. If I want, I can make a drawing like this >>7817215 in a couple of hours
>>7817234I meant I do really cheap commission
Is there any painting software that uses OK Lab color picker as default?
>>7815144Buy a Spinner Gyro Ball (also called powerball, no relation) and look up some excersizes with it on Youtube.
>>7817276Gyro BallSounds like something a person would shove inside their butt just to end up in a Whang video
Whats the general opinion on using filters to hide bad artist syndrome?Is it ever a good idea or is it just a bad habit?
>>7817234>I honestly just like anime girls of all kinds with huge breasts and femboy/twink.And I'm telling you that is incredibly boring. You like drawing cars with wheels, not exactly noteworthy.
>>7817232Thanks for your thoughts, I already have a separate account for the specific interest but haven't been comfortable yet with posting my other fancharacters on it. I've reblogged related works I made of the source material from my main blog though, but I don't think it's something I should stress myself out over- I probably won't ever get anything done or express myself if I do.
If I have below average art skills but want to get into art, would Blender or Aseprite be a better place to start?
Any advice on getting back into drawing after ten years? Fundamentals and my old work are still very clear in my head as things I can pull off but my muscle memory has gone. I fear I may need to go the way of the /beg/ again
>>7792558Anyone with good suggestions for books on composition and color?>the stickyNot for basics, I was thinking more about ones from RinoTuna
What is THE Conte pencil?I hear a lot of atelier and academic larper mentioning the Conte pencil. But what exactly is it?Conte a Paris sells a lot of different pencils, lead, coal, pierre noire... but which one is THE one?
>>7818441Not necessarily. 3D art, pixel art, and digital art all have a learning curve both for the differences between traditional art and the software itself. What's your end goal? What kind of art do you want to make?
>>7818621It’s the fusain one that Watts atelier popularized. It’s a charcoal pencil. The pierre noir is compressed charcoal pencil and you can’t erase that.
>>7818729Thx, anon.I have a pierre noir, its not quite charcoal, it has a bluish tint and it's very fatty.
>don't share art>feel immense urge to share it, so strong it consumes me>share art>constantly think about making pieces specifically to share themWtf do I do, I want to make art for myself but whenever I draw something good I can't help but want to share it, only to get stuck in this cursed loop.
>>7818879Sharing is fun but make sure you catch yourself before your ego takes over it.
Where do I post my furry artwork if /fag/ is archived right now?
>>7798962i dunno but i've met some of the most deranged people on the planet by responding to themi have my DMs locked down on X now for a reason
>>7819067just wait for the anon to make the threador make the thread yourself
>>7819067made a thread just for you anon
>>7813297CSP has a mode called 'add (glow)' that does similar glowy effects
>>7818722for both I want to make character art. My first "milestone" for 3D i'd like to try to make a low-poly character model of Felicia from Vampire and for Pixel art I'm not as sure for my milestone but I'd say probably just making a character artwork and having them and the background move for around 10~ frames.
Anyone know artists with similar style to this pic? This guy only has 5 works posted ever but I like the style alot
Why is thinking while drawing so tough? When I'm not drawing I have a bunch of poses and scenarios in my head. When I sit down and try to consciously hold them in mind while drawing, my shit looks better, but it's so hard to hold onto those images. Do I have a disability?
>>7819289I've been practicing by just thinking of what "goal" I wanted to achieve in the next few minutes in terms of what I wanted to depict on the canvas, rather than trying to actively think of something in the midst of putting pen to paper. It's very hard to think while drawing at the same time, since you're giving your brain two different things to do, so think of uh, thinking as a separate step from drawing.
>>7819289Have you considered carrying around a small sketchbook? Being able to do a quick sketch when the inspiration hits you will probably save you a lot of effort later when you can work on it more.
>>7819289it's a skill you have to practicevisualization is way easier when you are daydreaming. being able to visualize in a way that helps you draw is 100x harder.
>>7812484recently i have just finished something that took me 60hrish and i had fun and learned a lot, i rarely "finish" something so i'm glad i made it through to the end :)
>>7819289I think you just don't realize just how malformed your daydreaming visualizations are. Your brain is very good at filling in the blanks and convincing you that you saw a thing when you only ever got a hallucinatory feeling. When you try to interrogate that feeling the illusion falls apart.
>>7819247redlight
Is the Gerome bust thread gone or what?
>>7819776yeah it died
I inherited a Huion Kamvas 12 from someone. Reading some posts on this board, it seems like Huion drawing displays are a compromise in some way? Is it a big downgrade in quality compared to actual good products?
>>7820250build quality is a bit worse but stilt usable, it's fine
Anyplace i can go to draw with fellow anons? Are there any drawpiles or magma sessions hosted regularly in these boards? I wanna draw with others.
Feel like the quality in my art is really bipolar as of late. It's like in one drawing i can have a solid idea and just lock in and execute it pretty well and in the next piece its just see what sticks kind of shit that only looks meh at most. is there any way to like develop more consistent quality or am i just gonna be fucked 50% of the time?
>>7820250If by posts on this board you mean the tablet thread that's been taken over by the wacumguzzler who hates chinkshit I'd recommend you ignore it.
Does anyone know any books or tutorials to develop that 1930s Fleischer style animation from the golden age?I've managed to find one pdf that feels like the 1930s equivalent of "draw the rest of the owl"
>>7814441pls
>>7820552I've got a Wacom (2nd, the first was screenless and I had it for a decade), can confirm it's good quality but their drivers are absolutely atrocious.I'm the kind of guy to just work on it till it works but for everyone else I'll say get anything else.
>>7820635https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QwrVUnZogThis person has a series on the inkblot / rubberhose cartoon look. A video on hands, another on feet, body types, eyes, etc. They're nicely styled and point out a few key recognizable features of those cartoons. Certainly not exhaustive, though.
>>7820768Thanks a lot that's great. Even if it isn't exhaustive it's a nice starting point.I'm really surprised how few resources there are on the style, given how long it's been around even if it has fallen out of favor several decades ago.
why do some drawings look better when you start coloring and lining the sketch? I saw an art piece recently that was kind of flat but when the artist started doing the colors, the flatness wasn't nearly as noticable as it was when it was just lines
I tried doing an art exercise. Halfway through I became aware that the proportions were all wrong and could no longer correct it. I flew into a blind rage and started hitting and biting myself as 'Birdbrain' played on loop in my head. Is this normal?
>>7817246I don't know of any where it is the default, but Krita can do it with a plugin: https://krita-artists.org/t/extended-color-selector-picking-color-using-your-favorite-color-model-selector-shape-rotation-and-shortcut/138820
95% of waking time is spent sitting drawing or otherwise doomscrolling. I shall be so good in 5 years, but what will be my future health complications
>>7792558I know this is AI but I was wondering how can I paint skin that looks soft and iridescent like that. I love skin with subtones but it always lead to my character looking like a corpse
Are there any free alternatives to Pinterest?
>>7822202stupid gooner ai shit
>>7817246Not yet, still barely implemented in shit. Photoshop JUST added it for gradient claculations, so in 10 more years it'll pop up somewhere. You can use Krita's Specific Color Selector turned to Lab for now and proof with grayscale
>>7792558Got a weird situation.I want to start art, but my current social medias I made when I was like 15 went relatively unused sine like 2014. I want to revive those (a lot are still there) and use those accounts. Would there be any consequences of reviving old social media accounts that all use the same username for the purpose of art after basically having them abandoned for a little over a decade for some of them?I made those accounts after having a want to be a youtuber and needed extra accounts but abandoned the idea after seeing what people were putting on Vine. I want to use those accounts for art now.
>>7822795Why not make a new account? If it's been that long I doubt 99% of your old followers are still around anyway.If you just want to use those accounts then just make sure you didn't post anything retarded in 2012 so underage faggots can't dig out 15 year old posts to harass you with.
>>7822573Is pinterest not already free?You could just use things like Danbooru or gelbooru sites
>>7819231As someone who doodled in school, then did gamedev and his own pixelart and dabbled in blender Honestly they all kinda pull from each other - I'd suggest drawing normally on the side and focusing on Blender though Blender has such a higher entry point / learning curve than pixel art and regular drawing - yours could focus on that and in a couple, maybe 3 years be good enough for indie project stuff Basing this off my own experience working with others in that space
Is it possible that the reason I get frustrated sometimes is because I’m just drawing wrong?
>>7822995It could be that or it could be that you're trying something too difficult.Usually what keeps people doing something is that they enjoy it and they can see improvement so it's like a positive feedback loop. If you're doing something too difficult you don't get any enjoyment because you see no improvement and it just leads to you getting frustrated, and it's more like a negative feedback loop.It's also worth drawing something you actually want to draw so it stays enjoyable.
>>7822925>Why not make a new account?despite all the time that passed I still like the username used for those accounts. They take me back to a happier time too.>I doubt 99% of your old followers are still around anyway.I essentially don't have any followers but if I did they are probably bots.>If you just want to use those accounts then just make sure you didn't post anything retarded in 2012 so underage faggots can't dig out 15 year old posts to harass you with.I didn't make many posts to begin with so I should be okay. But I have plans to delete my Discord account as I used it as a teen and may have said some damning stuff.
What canvas size do you guys generally use?
>>78233063000x4000 or 2250x4000Anything bigger than what you’re going to save it as, really. You want to downsample for the free antialiasing. Non-integer multiples are ideal.
If you make hentai doujin and share them on Xitter, would it be better for the reach if I make them in Japanese or in English?
>>7814441PLEASE
>>7823725Just post twice, retard.
The guy in the video is talking about specific Greek forms and proportians. Like 3 ribs visible between the breast muscles and rounded edge of the rib cage...Were can i find more info about that?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAmN8QalwZI
>>7823380>Non-integer multiples are ideal.Could you explain to a stupid in the stupids thread onegai
How the hell do people draw characters accurately, I study the same character 10000x but it's always off.
>>7824810oh man i feel this one so hardbut it’s also really, really rare i see fanart that feels like they’ve fully caught the essence of the original, though many of them are very close.i keep trying but like pretty much any learning curve, you find out the closer you get the more nuanced the things you’re missing become, and with each often subtler layered increase in skill you suddenly become able to recognize the issues your previous layer of skill, and so on, ad infinitum.but i love this character and their world too much to mind this process.but yeah. i feel you, anon.
>>7823306I start sketching on 8000x8000, than crop and do the line art in 5000 width and after that I downscale it to 4000 width for color, light and shade. Then I downscale it to 1000 width for the final image.
>>7824810You know the answer.Starts with an F
>>7824948Faggotry?
>>7824904Thanks for your sentiment, it's comforting to hear from others with the same struggles.>>7824948Yeah yeah I know, but it hasn't been going well for me. I don't know how much I can keep at it when it feels like I'm just bashing my head against a brick wall.
>>7824810Which character are you talking about
>>7792558I don't think I know how to observe. When I try copy studies I see drawing for 4 secs then lay line, see drawing for 2 secs then lay line, continue. But I realized people watch refs for over 10~15 seconds when they start copy studies. I tried drawing lines to measure angles and distance but I don't feel I am doing it right. What should I try to observe when I do copy studies?
>>7824973-904 here. um, would..you be interested in trading sketches of each others’ characters?[because this is pretty interesting]>over email, if you’d like to? i’m kinda embarrassed to, here.If not, no worries at all
Is building my own reference and gluing it together a bad idea if I want to use it for drawing? Made pic rel from office supplies.
>>7826284I can't tell what that's supposed to be but if it works for you then why not?
do i have to play street fighter and warhammer to be good at art
>>7826695why do you say this
>>7826712people that play yhem are really good at art
>>7826284Silent Hill 3 subway level is pretty spooky
>>7826713chinese are also really good at art so you should've been born chinese if you wanted to get good at art. sorry anon it's over before you even started.
>>7826871i can play sf and warhammer right now though if i have to unlike being chinese
>>7826873nta but unironically yeah, you should try finding games or media you enjoy, I've noticed people who are in some sort of community that involves a game or a media tend to draw more and be more passionate about the things they draw which leads them to getting better faster since there is an emotion tethered to their work.lots of studies say that emotions heavily influence how fast/deeply you learn something, and I mean that's pretty intuitive, it's easier to learn about things you care about than ones you don't.
>>7827082I kind of asked that ironically, didn't expect a really constructive response, appreciate it anon.I'll be more passionate about my interests :D
>>7792825You watch pic related. This isnt a meme answer. And if god forbid you hate his voice mute it and just watch him lay paint on canvas.
>>7797383You see theres this thing called the SUN and its light rays are so powerful and spread so fucking far that its light is bouncing off of everything that it fucking touches. This isnt a studio with the windows shut and your professor turns on one lightbulb that creates a clear and distinct light source where an obvious cast shadow can be created, the suns rays dont work that way. Hell thats half the reason why people tell you to mix in colors with your shadow instead of just using pure black, cause in nature light is still having some influence over the shadows(unlike in a studio where if some fucker has the right lights they could make that bitches shadows close to black
After talking with some people I am worrying that the colors I see on my desktop are very different to what others see (and it's already different to what I see on my own phone).At some point in the future when I get a new monitor, are there some specs and user settings I should consider to minigate color disparity as much as possible?
>>7827215Use one of those color calibrators on all your devices to make them have accurate and more similar colors. But you can't really control what others are seeing on their screens.
this new post capcha is gay
>>7827623that's not a question
>>7827623Anon failing the IQ testSeriously though, it is awful
>>7827732I honestly don't see the problem, they're pretty simple and take about as much time as the previous letter/number string ones.
>>7827738It takes a bit longer, and requires a lot more manual inputScroll bar, type thingvsScroll bar, scroll bar back to find the thing, click nextScroll bar, scroll bar back to find the thing, click nextScroll bar, scroll bar back to find the thing, click next
How do I do arms and legs?
How do I get used to using a screen?Like, regardless if it's an ipad, samsung, actual wacom or screnless tablet to a monitor, I can see the pixels and it's annoyingI don't know how else to explain it. Like with pen/pencil. it's a drawing. With digital it seems like it's just shitty due to it being pixelated even with a canvas of like 10000*10000 and 3000 dpi. I can't get past the fact it's not as good to me as paper
