/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4551406
Wow, whoever wrote the OP for this thread made some very compelling points, good job OP

>bla bla bla
you know you can still do and be good at both right?

>digital is soulless!

>>4551536
I am good at both, that's how I know digital isn't art

>>4551544

nah but youre right i dont wanna steer your thread away just pulling the punches you deserve OP

we really are moronic coomtards

but whos fappin to well drawn landscapes at 4am?

look

TRAD- you can feel the form
you can drip drop doop emotions
you can take a literal shit, can it, and call it art

DIGI- this pen is made of plastic
but my soul carries forth with no remorse
so yes ctrl + z deletes all difficulty and saccharine saving the canvas
and you don't really get the nice finished product
but everyone gets to enjoy art finally!
no longer is one painting bound to a rich patron

you're fighting a losing battle OP

the medium is not trash, you and your pocketbook need a cafe job so you can save up money for a goddamn tablet, find out you don't hate/wait okay so having followers isn't so bad

The climate is different too

TRAD appeals
grannies
goth gf
most girls
but you have to meet them in person and non douche-ily bring up MY ART HUH YA IM PRETTY GEWD

DIGI appeals
grannies
goth grannies
most girls
but the girls are actually guys and well we all wank just not to our own shit so i dont feel so weird about drawing someone elses fetish (unless its diapers foo p u )

so just sit back

RELAX

and lets get back to arguing about what actually matters https://streamable.com/ocrp0 https://streamable.com/ocrp0 https://streamable.com/ocrp0

>>4551574
did you just fucking wrote a poem accidently?

>>4551415
fixed

>>4551690
I'm sure your art is very impressive to the teenagers you're grooming

>>4551690
looks good, face looks kind of wonky, that black shadow below the arm, and the breast/falling fabric looks kind of shitty, everything else looks really great though! Can't wait to see it finished!

>>4551724
Not gonna finish it now, thanks a lot asshole

>>4551406
>>4551415
The same douche posting

>>4551834
brian?

Trying the Loomis method.

>>4551589
It does have the flow, doesn't it? Nigger might have missed his calling.

>>4552259
>>4552262
>>4552264

make /trad/ comfy again

>>4552264
This one's cool

>>4552264
What a waste of a mirror

>>4552264
I like the idea

Another oil pastel I did recently.

>>4552235
i swear i thought it was intentional, rip guy.

Help me make my syrup queen


I’m stuck

>>4552834
Sorry, I’m gay

>>4552838
Also some of this gay shit?

I want it to look like this guy is walking through a really lush field of (short) flowers. Not sure if I should put more flower varieties, I tried starting to add grass but I don’t know if it looks terrible or how to blend it in

>>4552834
use more reference? im not really sure whats going on in that midriff.

>>4552863
Yeah you’re right, I painted over it too many times. It’s chunky rolls, she’s wearing a button down, so the chunky ness is concentrated at the seam.
I’m just super sucky at trad, I want to just get this to the point of finishing so I can move onto the next one.

>>4552886
with no ctrl z you want to make sure you know whats going to happen with a thumbnail sketch first. more so with watercolor, where theres no white paint to coverup any mishaps.

>>4552838
maybe

painted this

from 9 years ago
can you tell whats going on in it?

>>4553393
is it a mediocre drawing of Pieta from the side that you found on google images?

>>4553405
yes lol
looks pretty shitty looking back at it. but at least i was only 15 when i did that

>>4553429
Hi akiane

>>4553470
*googles*
there is no fucking way
theres no way a 5 year old can have such a good perception of depth and understanding of how faces are shaped
she has to be faking her age

oil painting.
i dont know if i like it or not

>>4553355

Good for you, maybe mom will put it on the fridge.

>>4553355
love this piece, would like to see more!!
>>4554692
im fucking with it, such gentle colors
>>4554717
stop being a dickhead, your ruining the quality of this thread

>>4551406

On the left I've made the garden too contracted. It will be salvaged when I get the colour of the grass right.

>>4554750
excellent style and concept

Sargent study. The subtleties of likeness continue to allude me. Probably its because I can't be asked to do a non-shit drawing.

>>4554750
Nice you found a neural network website!

Drapery study

>>4555729
>The subtleties of likeness continue to allude me.
For the areas of the face that contain the "likeness", like the eyes, bottom of the nose, and lips, freehand the drawing/painting. That's likeness 101. Freehanding those aspects will lend character to the parts of the body most specific to individual people. You'll never get likenesses by measuring every aspect of the face, some of it has to be done on the fly.

I changed the sky and dried out some areas of brushwork in this painting. Gonna take a break for the rest of the day and try adding to some of the other figure paintings I've done the past month.

>>4551406

>>4555833

Die Brian

I made a sculpture in my bathroom

this was a lot of fun to paint. Clouds really would have been better with a stiffer paint and it turns out I suck with geometric shapes. Feedback would be great

>>4556159
Your values are great from the thumbnail. I don't have a lot of experience in landscape or oils/acrylics through.

>>4556159
correct the photo color and repost, it's too yellow

>>4556520
I think this is about white balances. Apologies for my terrible photos and lighting.

>>4556565
The composition is a bit awkward since you placed a foreground element close to the edge. Stuff like that makes a piece feel crowded which is at odds with the simple and pieceful landscape you painted otherwise.
In the future either give elements like this some space, or fully commit and allow for something to be so close to the viewer that it's partially cut off.

>>4556159
Not a bad attempt. There are some things to look at, and pay more attention to next time - or to keep working on this.
One: hues. They need more unification - look at the attached photo, see how his are more unified? (Marc Bohne, FYI) That's what this needs - the browns and greens of the ground need just a touch of the blue of the sky to unify it more. A scene like this wouldn't have vivid greens like that, color is more washed out in fading light.
Second, detail. The lack of any detail in the field is jarring to the higher level of detail in the trees. And, the trees could use some more refining, in the closer ones - and some rimlight/highlights at the top. Texture can just be the illusion of it - look at the attached - he's using very loose brush strokes, but is still giving the eye enough data to think "field" and "trees". What you have looks like green and brown snow, or sand.
Finally, invest in a fan brush. The clouds can be saved. let it dry, and add some more layers of paint. Clouds are fun to paint, so give it a shot - these aren't credible, but fixing them would raise the success level of the panel considerably.
You're going in the right direction, just start paying more attention to things like color composition and unity, brushstrokes, and detail levels.

Looking for some constructive criticism on this. It's my first commission based on an Australian convict.

>>4554945
Cool I like the naive style, super nice >>4554945>>4555740

>>4556159
Gross dude

>>4555833
Heavily disagree with this, I'd say face shape is like 95%

How do I learn to paint like this?

>>4557155
learn by doing, failing, and trying again.
its more fun than it sounds.

Been on this for like a week

>>4557305
From life, I presume?

>>4557155
A lot of study and practice, and a lot of plein air to really master values. You'll also need solid draftsmanship and composition skills. This is a really well balanced panel, and he had a great eye for detail.

>>4557317
Of course!

>>4557348
Can you show us your setup?

>>4557305

Coming along nicely! I'm thinking you could go with some stronger and perhaps more saturated darks, just to push your range of value a little more, and a few harder edges (for example on the bottom where the jar touches the table, make that occlusion and cast shadow much darkerthan it is now) it will probably push it to greater heights

>>4557155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWCTl4FHF5w

>>4557365
I agree, but the jar needs more space to breathe around it. Imagine you made a masterpiece and wanted to frame it. That is going to butt up against any frame and look odd.

>>4557385
I'd not really recommend going down the Tischler route. He's lucked out, but most institutions frown heavily on use of so much over-bearing detail in pictures now. They remind me of the type of painting the gramps spends hours pouring over in his retirement, with his teeny tiny brushes.

>>4557387

Yeah, I do agree with your point, but at this point there is probably nothing to do about that anymore other than pretty much repainting it entirely.Which OP might want to do but otherwise I would just consider it practice.

>>4557389

While you make a valid point, caring about what instituitions might think and approve of is what got us into the current year situation where smearing your period blood onto a canvas is considered as the pinnacle of art and the loss of tradition/actual skill.

>>4557389
was just answering the question.
give everything a try, damned to the institutions, but i agree detail should go where the eye desires.

>>4557394
I'd rather AT than smeared blood, ofc, but he might encourage beginners to lean on detail over-use. I've watched a few of his plein air vids, and he is noticeably weak at this; The guy might encourage bad habits, is all.
>>4557390
Absolutely, I have painted 100's of still lives, and still make positioning mistakes all the time. It's easy to overlook in trying to get the shapes etc accurate.

First oil paint

>>4557442
gross

>>4557442
Good attempt, though I notice some flaws.
The dark cloth is too much, it's too dark compared to the rest of the painting and the flowers themselves are too light for a light background.
I like how you did the glass bottle though.

>>4557455
That's not nice. I expect you're Brian.

For you first oil, you've over-reached yourself.
The composition is not interesting, why are there a pile of 'beads'? next to a vase of flowers? Next time just paint the vase & flowers like Manet did. The cloth is unattractive, badly rendered and contributes nothing.

>>4557442
I like your studies on the wall, and the brush set-up. How do you organize your supplies?

>>4557511
I dont, just jammed a bunch of old brushes that someone gave me in a cup

Im really pleased with this one

>>4556984
>Cool I like the naive style, super nice
Yes it's very Emily Carr/Southern Gothic, although I'm not really a fan of Carr it just sort of happened. The shed looks nothing like that but I wanted a funny monopoly boardgame hotel look. It's often better to exaggerate in paint.

>>4557514
Did you receive academic training in art?

>>4555729
I think it looks great but you're right, the expression is absent-minded. It has a terrific porcelain look though

>>4551721
what's wrong with her face?

>>4557538

Kinda...? I took one year in a modern art school, but we didnt draw figuratively, actually I would get ib trouble if I went in a more realist way, thats why I left. Although Ive learnt a lot of cool mix media techniques and used a bunch of mediums, I didnt learn about oils.

Actually I'm the>>4557442,

This was my first portrait in oils, made rigght after that one.
The girl is my GF so it probably looks good because Ive internalized her face...

>>4557544
Storing seeds and nuts to tide her over the winter?

>>4557564
Does anyone have the photo of the girl face all messed up to look like brians paibting??

>>4557524

You should be, it's very nice. I do wish the skin was a bit more vibrant, it gets a little muddy in the darker parts and I think making those shadows more towards red instead of green will make her look a lot healthier. All in all it's good though.

>>4557354
>>4557365
>>4557387
Agreed thank you. Pic is set up

>>4556771
The feedback is very welcome, thank you. It’s too bad the Bohne photos I find are such low resolution since I love his work and he does an excellent job of creating realism without insane details.

I do have fan brushes but I probably don’t use them right. I’ve never taken a painting course so I’m sure my fundamentals are poor. Those clouds were done with the fan brush just spinning it then blending and fluffing with a 2” brush. The white was too wet so smeared unfortunately so they don’t look cumulus at all anymore. You are definitely right about the lack of texture and details in the foreground and I’d love to be able to study a guy like Bohne’s strokes to understand how he is doing this. Maybe you know where I could find instruction on these types of foreground strokes. I’ve been thinking about just a few canvases of nothing but clouds to practice and this may sound crazy but I’ve never attempted to paint over dried paint. Everything I’ve done has been wet on wet. I love being able to complete a piece in one 90-120 minute period and then move on. I get far more joy painting something new than trying to perfect past mistakes.

I’m sure I can do better, and more than all I want to push the realism and emotions of the subject without painting like a perfectionist and spending days on each piece. Bohne seems to paint loose and these look like he should be able to paint them swiftly but he is great capturing that realism and feel.

>>4551721
Brian, please learn how faces work.

>>4558028
whats with all the fat shamers on ic recently

>>4558028
there's more than one face that exists. It's not all sameface western anime face. Faces change based on weight of the subject, age, genetics. Seriously all of you people's attempts at changing the face you all draw the same fucking face, it's really fucking cringe and weird.

>>4558028
your trace of Brian's face has more soul than your "fixed" face... really fucking bizarre how obsessed you digital artists are with Brian. Please go back to the draw thread, where you all draw this exact face over and over again

>>4558078
>>4558082
samefagging galore

>>4558078
ever met with a titty drop that didn't ask to be treated with oils?

i fucking hate brian so much

>>4558113
why

>>4558078
I understand that everyone looks different. That's fine. Your problem is that you stylize without understanding the underlying anatomical structure.

I saw the girl you supposedly referenced. Your monstrosity looks nothing like her. You didn't capture any of her features or her sense of character. You just painted your default marshmallow same face that you always paint. I corrected a lot of your issues with reference to Da Vinci. Somebody you should look up to if you have even a modicum of humility somewhere underneath that Picasso-esque layer of ego you carry around with you.

>>4558245
shut up you useless digifuck, go back to the draw thread. You're not respecting the traditions of the Italian Renaissance you're drawing fake academic illustration on a tablet like a fuckface

>>4558245

Brian BTFO

>>4558251

Stay mad, and shit because you refuse any and all criticism. This is why everyone thinks you're an asshole. Also, NGMI.

>>4558251
Man, you should've included the face here.

>>4558259
>>4558280
keep digging that hole

>>4558259
>you refuse any and all criticism.
from people on /ic/? yep

>>4558304
I just think that painting has more potential when it has a face instead of having all the focus on the tits.

>>4558313
When I find a picture with a face that isn’t of a pornstar I’ll let you know

>>4558323
As if people would recognize the faces you paint.

>>4558305

Time and time again you refuse valid points of criticism, so I'm hard pressed to believe you accept any kind of crit. Fuck you, Brian, keep painting your retarded tits, you are never going to be a professional. Good luck when the bank of Mom and Dad runs out.

>>4558372
If you genuinely want me to accept your advice give good advice, but very few of you make a living at art, and have very little idea of what the realisms of what you have to paint to make money are. If you still think you have any control over which of your paintings sell you’re delusional and probably a hobbyist. If my paintings of fruit or landscapes sold I’d just be painting those

>>4558372
yeah I tried talking to this retarded fag as well, it's pointless.
> bank of mom and dad
told him the truth bro

>>4555833
terrible advice. you can't even draw a face, retard

>>4558406
Maybe this can help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfYvGL6-vaM

Good luck with your paintings!

>>4558449
its pronounced neesh not nitch

>>4558474
Can't you see past that?

>>4558406
do you seriously think paintings of female torsos are the only things that sell?

>>4558414
right on bro, fist bump bro, lets fuck these bitches bro hell yeah bro

>>4558545

Paintings of fruit and stillifes sell like hotcakes, but that's with the prerequisite that they are painted well. Brian's shit is trash hence it does not sell, and since he refuses to work on inproving his art he is stuck in the starving artist state forever, until his parents finally kick their soon to be in his thirties son out and he is forced to get a job flipping burgers.

>>4558558
how are you still dogshit after all this time bry guy

https://patch.com/connecticut/fairfield/police-seek-help-in-locating-missing-fairfield-man

Lol

Lol

>>4558558
Hey, I saw your painting demonstration video and you were really funny there. I was literally laughing my ass off the whole time! Keep it up, you earned a new subscriber!

>>4558674
ok

>>4558685
i'm not?

>>4558737
painted meme reaction images, truly original and prolific. I mean you can't just walk down to any highschool....and.....get...

uh oh

>>4558747
OH that makes sense, you think you're good. gotcha.

>>4558757
I am good
>>4558753
it's for a project between me and another artist who does meme reaction paintings. you know i'm seeing a lot of talking in this thread and not a lot of posting paintings, it's almost like you're all squatting in here instead of "grinding fundies" in photoshop, cause you're all loser fucks

>>4558771
god i love you brian

>>4558771
HAHAHAHAHAH DONT TELL ME ITS JIMMY LMAO oh i fucking hope to god its Braindead Brian and Jimmy the Crackhead collabing

>>4558784
it's the good Jimmy

>>4558795
god i love watching you stagnate

Small oil sketch from imagination I just painted, I usually work with gouache which probably shows in the watercolor-like approach in the background

>>4558819
looks pretty good dude i'd like more hue variation in the foreground but not bad at all

>>4558811
I'd say I've been improving exponentially every year since 2011, with a big jump this year and in 2016

>>4558826
Thanks! Yeah I admit I kinda said "fuck it" when I got to the foreground, definitely could've used more love and maybe some extra detail

I'm new to watercolors, normally I just do black/white ink or pencil.

>>4558932
2/4

>>4558935
3/4

>>4558251
Do I need to post an oil painting for you to accept criticism or something?

I have a feeling you think I'm not a "real" artist because you've only ever seen me post digital art.

>>4558939
And 4/4.

I'm a sculptor and filmmaker by trade, but with the lockdown I decided to teach myself to paint.

So, howmadoin?

>>4558942
Do it lol

>>4558943
I forgot about this one.

>>4558950
6/4

Last one I promise. I did all these over the last few weeks trying to teach myself the medium, but also because I've always shied away from color, but I'm finding its not as hard as I thought.

Dunning-Kruger; the Thread.

>>4558843
But 2015 is the SAME thing you posted up as a 'new' painting....not repeating yourself, are you?

>>4551415
>>4551721
>>4558843
see??????????

>>4558251
If i FUCKING say FUCK a FUCKING lot it will validate my stupid FUCKING belief that i can FUCKING pretend that im better than i FUCKING am just because i use paint even though half the FUCKING digital artists on this FUCKING board can wipe their ass with me FUCKFACE

>>4559046
No shit Sherlock, it’s based on the same drawing from 2015

>>4559059

Doesn't Brian have his own thread where you can spazz out with him? Don't ruin Trad for it.

>>4558372
This tits there are probably the best ive seen him do. Wish I could say the same about the neck/face

>>4559112
you're exactly the kind of massive faggot who would make their own reaction image. jesus christ how embarrassing

Portrait studies.
Red colors are hard.

>>4559114

Brian always makes /trad/ about his turds

>>4551406
The secret /ic/ discord link is https://discord.gg/vbTmrx
It has to stay hidden or (((discord))) will shut it down. As far as discord knows, it's an Australian Roblox themed server....
.......

>>4559137
Imagine being this mad

>>4559198

>>4559198

Begone cumfarti

Lol

>>4559198
begone cumfarti

>>4559112
>>4559208
Didn't know Maddox browsed /ic/

>>4558251
I see your narcissism is doing well. I hate when i found that I'm posting in a thread you've infected, because you kill all legit conversation and actual art education happening, because it's always about you.
I'd tell you to seek therapy, but unfortunately there is no therapy for narcissistic personality disorder.

>>4559198
begone cumfarti

>>4558932
>>4558935
>>4558939
>>4558943
>>4558950
>>4558957
As someone who also just started with watercolors, all I can say is it definitely looks like you know what you're doing. The colors look decent and your shadows are well done.

>>4559198
Begone cumfarti

>>4558957
Peak soul. I especially like >>4558932 and >>4558939 look like it could belong in promo cards/posters/toys in the 70's.

>>4559112
Wtf how can you look black and white at the same time

>>4559189
Imagine being so inept at portraiture that when you do a self-portrait you get more likeness to a retarded will smith than yourself

>>4559166
Дaвaй дpyжить пpoтив хyдoжникoв-пиндocoв?

>>4558943
Way better than me, I don't have any art education though.

>>4551406
>If you'd like to "level up" your "art skills" in "digital art" please restrict your degeneracy to the digital containment threads, or better yet buy traditional supplies and learn to be an artist instead of an embarrassment to your family.
Have sex

>>4558948
Brian's not gonna learn shit from this. I'm a terrible oil painter.

>>4551406
The /ic/ hidden discord link https://discord.gg/B5QXC2s
It has to stay hidden or discord will shut it down. As far as discord knows it's an Australian Roblox themed server....

>>4560217
What the hell man, how can 4chins side with you against cumfarti now??

>>4560217
so is this supposed to be one of those "teachers learn from their students too" moments? Why are you people critiquing me when you don't paint as well as me. Why are you calling me a dunning Krueger if you aren't even at my level yet? Why are you bragging about selling paintings if your paintings aren't as good as mine? What's the end game? Are you all just crabs that want to discourage someone that's better than you?

I've seen about 3-4 artists that make art on the same level as me and only one of them was an /ic/ regular, and he wasn't even a traditional artist.

I had some colors mixed from playing around, and the only primed bit of paper about to use them on was the failed nude towel lady. so i did a bit more to it.

>>4560260
post dirty socks

>>4560260
'3-4 on the same level as me'. Lol, keep telling yourself this.

Tell me you love me, Brian.

>>4560288
ok
>>4560303
yes

>>4560344
Made yourself slimmer, while you make 'your' birds look fat? Hmmmm

>>4560463
What? My birds?

>>4560484
>My birds

>>4560503
which bird?

>>4560509
im not the one that said it btw

That would be my first impressionism piece, I think.
Sunset was really beautiful today so I just kinda grabbed my paints and tried to draw fast while it lasted. Could be done way better but it was really hectic and I forgot about all watercolor techniques, lol.

>>4558819
Very lovely, I’m trying to do the same thing and really struggling. Do you have any tips for doing nature paintings from imagination?

>>4560686
It looks really good from the thumbnail, so I'd say it's successful as an impressionist piece. I just wish the buildings were a bit cleaner/straighter.

I think the sky is much better than average for me. The colors I think are basically what I was going for, though slightly greener trees might have been a little better. The shoreline sucks unfortunately and really subtracts from this trying to look like a river. Finally I think the sandbars in the center of the river came out better than last time I painted a similar scene. Sandbars are a bitch to look flat against water, rocks in water are much easier to place. Lastly I think I overused the fan brush and should have used anything else for foreground highlighting. Critique would be great and appreciated.

>>4561191
Color corrected version

>>4561191
Take a look at your values. Convert this in PS or a drawing app to greyscale. You have the same values in the center of the sky as you do in the ground plane. That's competition for the eye - if you want to make the focal point the sky, lighten the values by tweaking the blues towards a higher value, to offset it from the ground more.
Composition-wise it's okay - you're dividing the panel with a black line right across the center, but that can work if done right - but it's the foreground where it kind of falls apart. It's hard to tell if it's sand or water we're looking at. And, you're using black too much, it deadens and muddies it all. I would use more of the same blue in the skies in the darker values to unify, and to get away from black - black appears very rarely in real life, and you should always use dark values of color for shadows. Color will always be dramatic, and the contrasts between them.

Random spatters don't read as 'clouds" - you, as an artist, can refine and edit the shapes to be appealing and dramatic - and that's just practice and observation. I take cloud pictures all the time for reference. You're getting a bit better, but the random scrapes of shapes aren't working. Clouds are influenced mainly by wind, so remember to try and build the 'flow" of the clouds, and use brush strokes to indicate what direction they're moving in.

Also, watch guys like Chuck Black and Andrew Tishler on YouTube. You're at the 'blocklng" stage with clouds, you just need to learn how to refine them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETa5aR0vpGg&t=4208s

something I did in watercolor and conte

>>4562041
I'm spotting a cruise/cargo ship sailing past a city skyline
Very beautiful anon I love your execution.

>>4562105
thanks anon, much appreciated

>>4562105
Isn't it a multy-jaw giant monster attacking military base?

>>4551536
Fuxk off Amawu frog poster.

>>4551574
You don't even know what your talking about fuck off.

>>4562624
fight me fuckhead

>>4559198
begone cumfarti

finally, a thread worthy of this board

>>4559198
begone cumfarti

>>4560899
Honestly, do lots and lots and lots of studies. When I started out I used to kinda hate reading that and the whole "build a visual library" thing because it sounded so time consuming and I just wanted to be able to paint imaginary environments right off the bat, but that's really the only way to do it. Do studies from photos, master studies of old paintings and modern ones you like, even of concept art if you're into that. Eventually you'll get comfortable enough with different environments and it'll become much easier to draw them from imagination.

Also use reference! Even when painting from imagination, it doesn't mean you shouldn't use references for your colors, or textures, or composition, or whatever.

>>4563188

>>4563582

It's good you named it strawberries.jpg because they are pretty unrecognizable. Also, learn about edges man.

>>4563590
begone cumfarti

Underpainting

>>4562618
could be both, also this all appears to be inside of a room

>>4563582
sold a painting today

>>4564039
>that thigh
you're just yanking our chain now right?

>>4564046
>this reply
why are you gae?

>>4564046
No, his narcissism and mental issues are real. Note: it's never about talking about art, or helping others with tips, or critiques, it's LOOK AT ME ALL THE TIME.

That's why i don't bother responding to him. There's no point. He's not part of any community here, he's just using this forum for whatever mental masturbation he's engaging in. Nobody here gains anything interacting with him.

>>4564056
You guys are like little schoolgirls leaving passive aggressive notes hoping I read them. Stop LARPing as an artist and pretending I don’t read replies, it’s so feminine

>>4564056
I hate that every /trad/ thread is ruined by this attention whoring faggot. If you take out Brianshit these threads are some of the best on /ic/

>>4564124
That's why i generally avoid any thread his mental illness starts appearing in - by that point, there's nothing worth salvaging - much like this one.

Hopefully he'll take his condition to /pol or /tv like he usually does when he's not getting enough attention here.

>>4564124
>sketchbook thread

>>4564158
If you want me to leave just paint better than me

>>4563624
Nice

>>4564184
thanks anon, I'll head there. hopefully colored media are also welcome

Shared the bottom one the other day, but I made a few more oil sketches on wooden coasters. All painted from imagination, I'm trying to work on more interesting compositions, lighting, and conveying scale.

Guys I did some big abstract work... my version of Pieta theme

>>4564249

the thing that seems to miss in all of them is contrast/focal point.. If you make your contrasts stronger all of them will improve by miles instantly.

>>4564124
>brian posts work
ok
>someone critiques work
ok, its ic
>someone insults brian
um
>brian takes bait
oh boy...
>complain thread is ruined
heres an idea, skip the trolling part and the thread wont be ruined.

>>4565034

It gets pretty hard to ignore cumfarti if every other post is him. His sole talent is shitting up /trad/ with his garbage.

>>4565053
just ignore him like you ignore the stuff that isnt his. easy.

Just a pencil drawing

did a landscape at dusk last night

First time trying to paint a wave. The foreground foam came out pretty good but the wave itself seems a little weird.

>>4565332
That tangent between the treeline and the clouds is absolute chaos

>>4565332
Wave edge possibly needs a little bit more irregularity and chaos but the main problem is that lacking distinction from the water behind it in elevation, it just drops off so it's formed like a cliff rather than builds up and falls.

quick lifedrawing

Study lifedrawing

>>4565445
you're making outlines instead of representing the form around the edges

>>4565066
no, fuck you. having to filter out every other post is annoying and ruins the thread

>>4565447

You're talking out your ass

>>4565472
Shut up crab it’s a critique go back to beg

>>4565479
calm down bro. Skulls at an early wip
I will try to accent the shape around the edges

>>4565479

It's a critique that is completely off in this case. Go back to /beg/ yourself.

guys can you not, its very hard to filter out every other post.

>>4565493
>>4565472
>>4565490
you need to understand "outlines" not as a line you put around an object to separate it from others, but as the completion of the form receding into space. It's just as much part of the form as everything that's "in front" of it. And people that say outlines don't exist in nature are just being pretentious, anywhere the form on an object recedes in space it becomes darker in value, photography has just misguided artists into thinking somehow light can eliminate the completed form of an object.

>>4565528

Shut the hell up Brian you can't draw your way out of a wet bag, you are in NO position to give that skull dude crits, try to learn how to paint yourself first you gigantic fucking faggot holy jesus yes i'm mad

>>4565533
Lol

He is absolute shit at both creating and critiquing art. A true cancerous lump on this board.

He is absolute shit at both creating and critiquing art. A truly cancerous lump on this board.

He is absolute shit at both creating and critiquing art. A truly cancerous lump on this board.

>>4565552
Stay in your containment thread

>>4565528
>complains about outlines
>posts drawing with meandering, randomly weighted garbage outline
what did she mean by this

>>4565561

>>4565561

That's our Brian Comforti

>>4565445
These are pretty good, has decent style to it as well. What range of pencils are you using?

>>4565554
!!

>>4565567
!!!!!

>>4565567

Brian can you get a tripcode so I can filter your posts? Thanks in advance.

>>4565445
The lowermost skull looks like the back of the head is somewhat small proportionally

>>4565572
I do not use pencils.
This is a mixed technique:
sepia pencil
brown pastel
oil charcoal pencil
black ink
white tempera

I know this is a strange set. But I'm bored to death with one material ...

>>4565554
this is masterful... blog?

>>4565588
>I do not use pencils.
I mean graphite pencils
Simply put, I use only soft materials.

>>4564968
Yeah I've been trying to push for that more and more but I still have a way to go as a lot of them tends to look kinda flat no matter what.

I tried to be more conscious of where I add more detail, value, and shape contrast, but I'm still having issues with getting darker vs brighter areas.

I'm doing these alla prima and without using black (a mix of raw umber ans phtalo blue makes up my darks) so maybe that's part of why it's making it so difficult? Or maybe I just need to work on my values..

>>4565588
That's an interesting combo for sure, but it works so

>>4565677

Maybe try burnt umber and ultramarina blue as another chromatic black, although raw umber and phtalo blue works too, it's good you don't use a black straight from a tube. I think it's more a matter of not grouping your values together. Bill Perkins has some good lessons on NMA on it, maybe those will help. Anyway keep it up, your work is already quite nice.

>>4564124
Brian is a piece of shit.
His art will never sell and he will never be successful.
Will live with his parents until he dies.

>>4566005

Your markmaking is lovely. The neck is a little offputting to me though, lightly implying where the sternocleidomastoid sits and the suprasternal notch will make it look a bit more natural imo.

>>4559198
begone cumfarti

why is brian so hated anyways? first trip to trad

>>4566042
nevermind. what a miserable person.

>>4566042
Shitty person.
Thinks his art is perfect. Shits on other artists.
His art doesnt sell. Blames everything but himself.
Lives with/off his parents.
Big coomer.

Time to move on

>>4561198
>>4561191
This is beautiful bro

>>4566005
How big is this?

>>4566005
her jaw is nonexistent, the planes of the nose are flattened out, eyes too large, neck too thin, mouth too small, and ears too high up. And I'm not sure why her hair is "spiky" like that. You seem to not have a good understanding of proportions, and in spots it's hatched but in other spots there's no form at all and it looks like you tried to flatly apply the texture of the pencil. Overall a bit confusing, not sure what you were going for, back to the drawing board I think

>>4566101
Looks alright so far, keep going.
Will probably look better when you finish it.

>>4566108
thanks! is >>4566077
yours? It's almost there I think, maybe a few more hours of work and it'll be almost halfway done

>>4566088
The sketchbook is 9×12. So smallish I guess?

>>4566077

Well done my man!

>>4566101

Everything is flat and the colors are a discordant mess

>>4566101
I don't think I need to be critiqued by you on how faces work when your art looks like this.

I have difficulty controlling charcoal tones efficiently. But I still draw on a much higher level than you. Know your place, Brian.

>>4566205
Dude don’t make me put you in the dirt like I did skull guy

>>4565778
Thanks! And I will check that out, yeah values are a constant struggle, I've gotten better at it since starting out but I still have a way to go lol

>>4566205
100 hours in paint.
kidding, I just dont want to waste actual art supplies.

>>4566205
Wow it’s really hard to draw Western animu girl #62731 I see why all the people at your high school thought you were really talented, anon! I’m sure you’re completely capable of drawing from life, or even drawing a second unique face to this sameface that everyone on /ic/ draws as well

>>4566211

You got your ass handed to you though you talentless hack, you arent putting anyoneninto the dirt with your non-existant skill.

Irises in a ditch, late morning. Feed please and happy Mother’s Day.

>>4566321
I feel like the on the left-hand side could use a little more detail because as is it looks like a mess of strokes.

Otherwise it's looking good imo. Happy mother's day to you too.

>>4566294
>you talentless hack
hack implies anyone likes my work, instead nobody likes it so I keep doing it. maybe if more people liked it i'd stop, but the salt fuels me. I'm not even doing anything lol, i'm just scribbling shit and you guys are like REEEEEEEEEEE so it must be pretty good XD

>>4566362
>I was only pretending to be retarded

Drawing my dog.

>>4566380
>I was only pretending to be a bad artist
damn you showed me

>>4559198
begone cumfarti

>>4566263
That's not what animu looks like. This is.

>>4566479
LMAO who fucking cares XD

>>4566489
You apparently don't know what things are.

So, really. You should care.

>>4566415
Begone cumfarti

>>4566506
what does that even mean? that's where crits of me have gotten, I don't "know what things are"?

You guys know that the more you engage with the retard the longer he's going to stay right?

>>4566605
Yes and im glad because i love brian and his dirty socks

>>4566605
He isn't in university and he doesnt have a job.
He will be here no matter what, even if it's just him posting pics and commenting with no responses.

I think im done with trad.

>>4566628
I’m an artist, that’s my job

>>4566605
I think I've finally put in my 10,000 hours on painting, I'd say I've completely mastered the mediums of drawing and painting at this point. This is a cause for a celebration not a time for crabbing. I made it!

>>4566661
How many paintings you sell?
I mean anyone can claim to be a artist, my 11 year old sister is a artist. Probably sold more art as well, bunch of weirdos buying mlp drawings.
You still live at home, you still dont sell any art.
There are preteens out there more successful than you.

Finished.

>>4566699
never once in my life did I care about success as much as gitting gud, who cares about how much money you make if you're not so good at art it makes everyone hate you?

>>4566699
if you think followers and money are what's going to make you better at art you're ngmi

>>4566567
You apparently think this >>4566005
is anime because you don't know what anime looks like. Your criticism of the proportions indicates that you don't know what faces of real people look like and your art only lends itself further to that end.