I found this chinese artist named zhang dazhong (zero personal info about him online btw), how do you even get this good?
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FUCK AMERICAN SATANIC SICK MURDERERS. Long live to the brave people of Vietnam.
>>8044947the fuckno way those stalks and roots were painted
>>8044947Like any other reason why people can draw a good thing: reference. How do people draw something so realistic? Reference; how do people paint and render thing meticulously? Reference; how do you draw something so fucking bad and awful? Lack of reference. Its all reference at the end of the day, reference, reference, and reference, all reference, your mind can only conceive or visualize ideas but not to the atom of details on how it works, you need a visual information: a reference, tons of reference. Artist job was to reinterpret that reference, the color reference, the composition reference, the shape reference, everything is all about reference
>>8044947Idk I don't find it that impressive, and even though >>8044989 is retarded it does all look like photo copies to some degree
just trace the photographs
>>8044947just put the right blob of paint in the right place. easy.
>>8044947Basically just the same thing as photorealistic Walter White pencil drawings.Completely uninteresting from an artistic perspective
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>>8045035>Basically just the same thing as photorealistic Walter White pencil drawings.>Completely uninteresting from an artistic perspectiveI disagree. This isn't "photorealism," where every pore and strand of hair is delineated. Some of the backgrounds and even figures (see >>8044952 for example) are handled in way that is painterly and almost impressionistic. Yes, it is heavily reliant on references, but that's true of a lot of esteemed art. Norman Rockwell took photographs of costumed models and worked up his paintings from those (although not as slavishly as you might imagine). It's likely this artist follows a similar procedure. He still has to decide on the subject matter, theme, posing, composition, color, etc., none of which are considerations for the Instagram graphite human Xerox machines.
What medium is this? The figures themselves make me think watercolour, but the other elements make me think otherwise.
>>8045038>BWC>>>/x/
I'll post more
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>>8045119>>8045117>>8045116>>8045115>>8045114Look at these poor commie girls! They're absolutely starving for white cock, we must liberate them!
Gyatt indeed. Good thread.
>>8045072Despite being very photorealistic, these paintings have a lot of SOVL, how exactly do you achieve that? How do you capture the essence of a person and a moment into a painting?
>>8044947Comunist poor shit
>>8045114OP here, I drew this one as a reference then shamelessly used the color picking tool for the values & colors, whenever I try to do realism it always comes out looking comic-bookish at best, I know I shouldn't use such heavy outlines but even if I soften them it still doesn't look as realistic, is the key to just keep rendering for hours until it looks life-life?Also how do I figure out colors and values on my own?
I've always found realistic art fascinating, because these people pump out hours upon hours on something magnificent.What do they draw/color from imagination, though?I've never seen a realistic artist do both.
>>8045259You should not use outlines at all
>>8045316james gurney does both
>>8045357Doesn't he use models for his paintings?
>>8045349I think I found a sweetspot, I erased most of the outlnes and left the important ones, I also kept on rendering and it looks better now, don't know if it's my monitor or the fact that it has a white background but her skin looks purple to meI'll keep rendering until I'm satisfied with the result or when I get bored
>>8045401ok I got bored already lol but this was a good exercise, not nearly as photorealistic as I wanted it to look but oh well
>>8044947>>8044949>>8045115>>8045119I am INCREDIBLY erect does anyone know where asians socialize other than costco
>>8045537I like how women are portrayed in these paintings, this is how women are supposed to be admired, the modern gooner shit is brainrot
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>>8045167what is SOVL?
>>8044989monkies can copyso what do artists do?
its just a japanese school girl uniform modded to be a 50s chinese communist "sexy" outfit.doesnt survive much scrutiny.
how are people falling for the most obvious AI
>>8045664It's /ic/ , people don't draw seriously here anymore aside from some very rare anons. Par for the course , really.
>>8045664>>8045668The fact you cannot tell these are not AI proves you aren't a artistAI muddies too many fine details, none of these have any small fine details out of place, no matter where you zoom in no extra or odd button placement, properly structured guns, no spots where clothes are melting into eachother, 0 problems with fine finger and feet details eithercope, some artists are really good
>>8045685china has whole villages selling copies of paintingstrad is LOL WHATEVERthats not even news, shit is like 30 years old by now
>>8044947>how do you even get this good?Copying from photos is pretty easy, tons of people do it
>>8045693all render fags do itall bargs fags do it
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>>8045688>china has whole villages selling copies of paintings>trad is LOL WHATEVERHuh, why aren't they also doing painted copies of digital works?... really makes you think.
>>8045693Ok so do it and post it
>>8045620Something that's goes above and beyond the established consensus of "appeal". When you can't explain why something attracts and gets a hold of your interest and curiosity. It's the traditional concept of "mystery". You can't pull away from it till you explain what's the mystery behind it, and why it allures you. And when that something loses that "mystery" and gets "explained" it loses its magical power over you as well.
>>8045259Americans really uglify everything they get their imp hands on, huh? Demons are unable to create beauty
>>8045259>>8045401>>8045523work on shapes and the edges between them, it's where you capture virtually all the geometry of the subject. You're even on track with selectively erasing your linework, but try to direct that sensibility to defining edges with the paint itself. currently its all pretty uniformly blended so it looks flat.
>>8045038whites give off jeet vibes these days since their countries are shitholes and their race is super cucked
>>8045868Are you upset you can't get your dick wet?
>>8045664I searched and there are pre-generative AI posts about this artist, you are retardedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/vthlw/zhang_da_zhong_red_guard_spring_2005/
>>8045726think about what?
>>8045857i blended the colors more and added some shadows, does it still look as flat?
>>8046418Definitely less flat, yeah! there still could be more work done for values at this point, like her face and palm should be brighter. Also some texture work as well but those are more like finishing touches.
>>8046418the colors arent the issue, your observation is. before you even contemplate doing the fun stuff you should sketch out your outlines better. dont jump the gun, i know colors and shading are more fun, but you gotta do the hard part first. and since youre digital, erasing and even just placing items correct is easier. even the line of sight is wrong by just a minor mistake. the devils in the detail my lovelies
>>8045664its onry because OP is poosting extlemery row lesorution
>>8044947can you link to his site or social media?
>>8046619>textureis there any type of brushes I can use for that?>>8046755>the colors arent the issueactually there was a color issue lol, her skin looked sickly pale because it was lacking orange, now it looks better. I definitely need to improve on colors and values>even the line of sight is wrong by just a minor mistake.I noticed that too, in the original she's looking upwards slightly more, but I wasn't aiming for a perfect copy, I just wanted to practice realistic painting, mostly colors and values>>8046762I searched everywhere but couldn't find any official accounts, hell I don't even know if the guy is still alive
>>8046982>just wanted to practice realistic paintingwell, the realism comes from the correct forms, angles and placememt. folds, anatomy, gravity, gestalt. the rest is just extra. slight changes will alter any sort of realism. as i said, next time put more time into the sketch before doing the fun stuff, it'll pay off down the road. its like a church with a good foundation.
>>8046991You're right, also it still doesn't look as realistic/good as I was hoping lol, I wish I was a NEET so I could illustrate all day
>>8046994at some point just put a bow on it and move on to the next painting
>>8044947>how do you even get this good?stop drawing anime girls and learn practical art skills
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>>8045537Unironically, despite the meme, universities, assuming you’re American. There’s a surprising population of Chinese men and women that come over for American degrees or American work experience on research projects. They mostly go unnoticed unless you frequent university work sites and amenities, as being in a foreign country for profit they mostly stay with their own and don’t go out often. Had a roommate from Wuhan in college, postdoctoral researcher there for American research credentials and he clued me into a lot of this. They even have apps for finding other people from China in their local area, he mostly just played overwatch in his spare time but every weekend he’d go out or invite friends from the area whose names I couldn’t pronounce. Anyway, they’re far from home, unconfident going out, work all day to make the stay worth it, and have at least a better shot than average of considering a white guy to date given that they’re willing to stay in America. In short, it’s trivially easy to show them a good time as long as you can break into their circle. They actively want to practice their English on you and are dying to hear your opinion on commonplace things because it’s a completely different perspective from where they’re from, you’re exciting by default. So long as you’re good with being the token American connection it’s a breeze.
>>8045167you see him, you see his soul, you see his longing for military maoist waifus. paintings captured through his eyes, eyes that see an alternate world.
>>8047276Yep, I'm moving on to this one >>8044950let's see how it goes
i have no opinion on these reallybut holy shit he invented the formula for new coke.
>>8049334i'll continue tomorrow if I have time
>>8049395I'm getting the impression that you aren't layering your values/working from dark to light as much as you should be. Either that or you're blending too early/too much. You need to commit to blocking in the shapes of your darks/mids/lights, and only sparingly blending where the edges between them are soft. Also there's the element of precision that will only come with practice. Fwiw my skills are around the same level as yours, and I recognize a lot of the same issues I have with my own art.
>>8049631>Either that or you're blending too early/too much.Yeah as I render I'm noticing that I shouldn't be blending the whole thing like I'm doing, I'll try to "fix" it by painting sharper contrasts on top
>>8044951>tfw no tree PLA gf
These are all 1000% a projection they painted over btw
>>8044947skill wise this is amazing but realism sucks...
>>8051411>realism sucksIt doesn't when you stop being underage
>>8051452naw, its kinda meh. you can do all the cool light color space composition shit that makes a good painting without having a hardon for realism.
>>8051646Well im 30+ so i say it again... realism sucks, why do you think anime is so popular ? Simple style and allows over expressions and great for writing stories... realistic style would be impossible.
>>8051716uh... comparing art to the popularity of anime just doesnt make any sene
>>8051716any pretending anime/manga art is anti-realist....thats just weird
>>8051716Any serious anime/manga artist is heavily trained on realism, Katsuhiro Otomo just to name an exampleWhenever you stop using realism (aka literal reality) as a base for your art and switch it for anime, for example, you'll develop a shitty, self-cannibalizing art style like the countless ones we see today, nothing will top realism because it is the foundation of art and the best manga and anime artists would agree with me
>>8051852life is the foundation, not realism.ftfy
>>8051716>>8051726yeah, most anime is pretty realist-ish wtf guy?
>>8052249Abstract art sucks, also bump
Remember that these women would kill you if they knew you owned a rosary. Communism can rot in hell
>>8057042wtf I love communism now
>>8057042remember these women are fakejust like capitalist womenthese women would kill you if you owned a rosary, because they are immoral capitalists.Communism will make a heaven of earth.
>>8057659lmaoRot Front!
