How much has your art improved over the years?
>>7954040How the fuck did he get worse?
>>7954041fully rendered and finished drawing/stiff standing pose that likely took him hours if not days vs a sketch that was likely far easier to do and actually has movement to it
>>7954041he still doesn't understand color, shadow and light, but at least he understands line of action nowdefinitely an improvement
>>7954047>doesnt understand x and yyou are braindead
if you think he got worse you're certified NGMI
>>7954112I could also say that he sucks at thosebut it might just be he needs to study some resource that explains them to do betterI do suck ass at color though, because I've studied and I'm still bad at it
2024/2026
>>7954041>permabeg detectedThey always out themselves so easily.
>>7954363nice
I started in September 2024. Im still giga shit but at least i can draw okay-ish anime girls now
>>7954041trannies mad when confronted with the truth
>>7954040None at all. I am fucking garbage and always will be.Verification not fucking required.
>>7954807This is the shit of nightmares. The ultimate bad ending
>>79540402024
>>79548162026Not comparable because I clearly spent more time on one than the other but I’m just glad I got good with skulls because I struggled with them for a long time
>>7954816>>7954818fuck u..
>>7954827Aye man I just worked my ass off . Had to make a lot of stinkers before I even got to the first drawing
>>7954363Very significant progress, work became a lot more appealing>>7954667Good work but the biggest thing that needs work in both imo is the lack of form in the hair. I think it would benefit from it a lot, though some anime styles dont favor it so idk>>7954807Very solid progress, I can see you stepped your anatomy game up. Arms are a wee bit too short though and I think the hair looks too uniform near the bottom especially
Up row 2026down row 2022so slooooow progress
>>7954875Love your dog
20242026
09/24 2hr vs 05/26 4hr>>7955038Frogtastic>>7954875>>7954818Incredible progress
>>7954040january 2026 - may 2026
>>79550784chan rejected the image so i reduced the quality
>>7954875That dog is lovely, great work . I enjoy the simplicity of your stuff >>7955038Great stuff. Looks like you developed a voice along the way>>7955054Very significant progress, I can tell you studied what really mattered. And thanks!>>7955081Good stuff. I like the background on the second one but to be completely honest it looks like a bit of soul was lost here. I think if you incorporate the style of the first with the rendering choices of the second you’ll be set
oh neat another improvement thread? >>7954315(me)>>7954875I think your Shinikawa styled snake improved, and that alleyway is awesome>>7955081>>7955078you were already pretty good but you really improved in those few months>>7955054forgot to say in the other thread but big improvements, really liked the illustration with the clouds in the bg too>>7955038cool textures and maybe its just the angle of the previous drawing but the limbs look a lot better on your current one.
>>7955105Here's the reference for the previous drawing
>>7955097I tried combined these two styles but I don't how to make shit as soulful as when I was a begI was in a different headspace, one that was more depressed and insecure than now. I was going through relationship problems. I still am but just give less of a shit now about that stuff
>>7955137Another one in a similar vein
Okay so since apparently nothing that I'm doing is working can someone give me a tutorial I can actually understand and apply?I've looked at the tutorials and I genuinely cannot understand them or figure them out. I don't know how to break things down into basic shapes nor apply them to what I want to draw. Unless someone explains the exact process to me I'm going to keep banging my head against the wall doing nothing. I tried Loomis, didn't work. I tried IC sticky and gave up immediately. Nothing has worked for me.
>>7955121is that toad legless or is that finger just hiding the knee-section really well, either way cleared up the confusion i had with the first drawing. Still, great improvements all around keep it up
>>7954807Reminder that you can improve but it's limited to your taste and who you study.
>>7955150>>7955150you know, and this is something that people who can make things look good doesnt tell you, you need to actually put effort into stuff to make it look goodshe looks boring, if you take the parts that people pay attention to such as the head, hat and torso, would you say that you warped the proportions of the torso to the head as much as you u did the head to the hat? i would advise you to play around with selecting her eyes and torso and messing around stretching them, also delete the head outline that you kept looping around the bangs, thats just not good
01/25 and 05/26>>7954875Love the dog
>>7954807I feel like this person watches line sensei and did this tut
>>7955274>>7954807They did all of that just to skip over fundies and it shows. LOL!
>>7954807Whoever started the "shade with purple" thing needs to be puréed
>>7955150stop spamming this in every thread retard
>>7955457I would kill myself if this was my progress.
>>7955457real bruh hours
>>7955459>>7955462seething crabs
>>7955467Okay, I can tell you that you havnt improved at drawing feet in 6 FUCKING YEARS. Your hands have marginally improved too. Also look at those fucking knee's on the bottom left. Why are you defining her knee cap that hard with those lines? Your noses is terrible on the girl on the right tool. Buy if you can see these mistakes, just kys lol. You're not serious about drawing or improving. You got to a comfortable level of low /int/ and decided that this is good enough. Pathetic.
>>7955467you're crabbing yourself, anon
>>7955469>>7955474I'm not him but you're flat out lying to yourselves if you think he hasn't improved massively. I'm not reading your no draw babble either. Seethe more instead of practicing crabbies I'm sure that'll get you to his level
>>7955477>Oh you're pointing out obvious errors?>Im just gonna ignore itBtw this is 7 years of difference. 7 FUCKING YEARS!!!!!!!!!Enjoy staying /beg/ then lol!!
>>7955477do you even know what crabbing is lmao
>>7955469Anon i think you might be retarded
>>7955497I asked WHY. Learn to read you fucking nigger. Because it looks fucking ugly. Also thanks for proving my point. Your KNEECAP does not look defined when its bent like that. Only when the leg is straight and flexed does it look like how you drew it. Fucking /beg/Go head, bend you knee and tell me the muscles above it are still defined. It doesnt because your kneecap BENDS AROUND DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! You can even see it in your own fucking "gotcha image" the muscles on the right leg become LESS DEFINED as the knee BENDS. /beg/ ALERT!
>>7954040I have never meaningfully improved. My hand-eye coordination is much better, but my actual drawing skill is still more or less where it was when I was three years old. I'm still stuck at the "grasping the basic concept of drawing" phase.
>>7955506Could you post some knees that you've drawn?
I guess he can't post those knees
>>7954040>How much has your art improved over the years?not much
>>7956362>>7956392soul - soulless
>>7956362there's definitely improvement, I love your new lineart and color choices
>>7956392awesome progress Casy
>>7956329Guess not kek
my almost 10 years progress.Let the nodraws come
I lost something when iScribble finally shut down. I didn't really start picking up drawing again until 2023, and the majority of my work was in charcoal. I feel like I'm slowly recapturing my groove in digital art and will return to looser and more creative work over time.
I need to start working on the 2026 version
>>7955459lmao you're retarded this is clear improvement.
>>7960995This, 6 more years and he'll be well on his way to almost be out of /beg/
>>7960992Kiki went from a boy cross dressing to a sexy little witch I would like to marry. Good job anon
>>7960992I remember that thread. Glad you're still doing active!
>>7960992elegant darker on dark color for the hairi like that kind of thing, like in maid portraits(art isnt mine), this is not the first painting i think about when i think maids but its an anime artist and its pretty striking so its the one i am posting...
>>7960835in two and a half years of drawing somewhat regularly, I genuinely haven't improved at all
>>7960992I miss you so fucking much.
if you don't feel the improvement, you should try different styles. maybe you just have process blindness
>>7961873I've tried multiple styles and techniques, even switching mediums. It's helped for speed, removed a lot of barriers to regular practice, and a lot of things besides actual improvement. I've been consistently awful the entire time. I'm not ready to give up yet, but it's really demotivating to look at my older works and not see any real difference in quality.
>>7954040it's honestly pretty hard to say how much i've improved because i have a tendency to go back into older artworks and revamp them to match my current artistic standards.but here's a ship i made a year or so ago versus what i'm doing now. since then, i've learned to be more comfortable making my own floor plans without copying existing layouts from other artists. i do this by tracing boxes on top of vertical and side profile images of ships, but i prefer to have front views as well for width.i also learned how to add gradient shading, but i limit it to stairways and slanted walls because it can't be fixed later. i've also been more comfortable playing around with transparent holographic displays, rounded segments, diagonal items, more detailed floor plates, and overall much larger vessels (albeit at a smaller scale).
>>7961751show us something to compare it to!
>>7954040it's like a 10 year difference.
>>7954676wrong anon?>>7954370
>>7963134no, the trannies are definitely seething at that post
>>7963091
2020 vs 2026
idk how much i've improved. I don't really do significant study outside of opening pinterest and copy whatever. I do like copying Yamamoto Souichiro's work the most though. >>7963352Nice.
>>7954044This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xURlT84IpcY
>>7955436this isn't even that, cuz if u notice the midtones and darkest shadows are just the base color but darker, the purple is an attempt at depicting ambient/bounce light but because it was copied from a tutorial devoid of context its not rooted as a choice with any logic behind it, so it looks off, because there's no background elements (or implied background elements) that would give off that slight purplish hue to the planes facing opposite to the light
>>7963363you've improved plenty
>>7954040Some time around late June/early July last year vs now
Actual begs getting sauced up in this thread with compliments, meanwhile better artists get majority negative replies even in this thread. /ic/ is such a joke.
still drawing the same people>>7963352cooool c:
>>7963841text was meant for this one oops
>>7963825Artists who have already "made it" probably do not need as many affirmations as those who are in the middle of/those who've only just started walking the hard path of getting better. That shouldn't be an issue.
>>7955469>>7955506nice job buddy, you seethed all over the place BAKA
>>7963841>>7963842I don't see much progress.Have you done any exercises in that time?
>>7955457Amazing backgrounds but you need to work on more individual girls, your girls have fucked up knees and jagged not appealing faces, if you worked on that you would be like a god
The characters on the white paper were made when I was 14 and the yellow paper ones from when I was 18.
>>7954040Not much, I think my mindset holds me back the most because I draw primarily for fun and my own ideas over any aspiration for financial or public success. Definitely better than I used to be tho.
>>7964845Yellow paper ones look like they'd be great for a newspaper comic strip or for elementary school materials and newsletters.
I think maybe I was trying to rush through them to practice speed or something back then but Jesus Christ I didn't remember these being so cringy
>>7960992Kiki changed her life after trying out mewing
>>7962607I recommend blind contours, grinding shapes and forms for two weeks, and constant Memory/Cognitive Drawing (active recall) for you, anon.What causes begs to stagnate is by not focusing on certain key fundies (gesture/flow, line quality, simple anatomy, values) that allow for the jump from symbol drawing to thinking in 3D and doing the required work:>blind/pure contours>continuous line drawing>grinding shapes and forms>breaking down references into shapes and forms>negative space drawing>drawing upside-downThe trick is to do these exercises but with something you want to draw: either something from life or something fictional. Take your time.
