/beg/ - BEGINNER THREAD

[Anonymous No.3468098]

IF YOU ARE A /BEG/INNER IN ART, please use this thread to post pieces for critique or ask for advice. We should not have to make new threads or post in the Drawthread with our fundamental exercises.

Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, do not give up, make someone proud.

RESIZE YOUR IMAGES TO ~1000 PIXELS:

#1)
>screenshot the image and post that instead

#2)
>change camera capture settings to something smaller

#3)
>send to computer and resize in MSPaint

→ →
There's a new (and cleaner) sticky in town! You can see it at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj

TRY TO BE MORE ACTIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME FEEDBACK - many studies are left unreplied, which is a bit sad and can be quite demotivating for the people that try their best to improve, but are left directionless.

PREVIOUS THREAD: >>3464111

[Anonymous No.3468099]

ESSENTIALS:

>>>/ic/thread/3023643
Links to many art books including as Keys to Drawing (Dodson), Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Edwards), Perspective Made Easy (Norling), Color and Light (Gurney), The Vilppu Drawing Manual (Vilppu) and How to Draw (Robertson).

>http://ctrlpaint.com
A website dedicated to understanding the basics and process of digital painting, based in Adobe Photoshop. Library of over 200 free videos.

>http://quickposes.com
Free pose library to practice drawing the human figure (as well as a portrait library). Draw at your own pace or set a timer for quick gesture drawings.

>http://youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Instructional how-to videos covering mostly portrait and figure drawing from fine artist Stanislav Prokopenko.

>https://www.youtube.com/user/onairvideo
Croquis Cafe - Timed model poses.

>http://drawabox.com
Helpful introductory course on the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on understanding the concept of form and thinking in a 3-dimensional mindset while you draw.

>Your local life drawing class
Life drawing is an indispensable tool in your art career. Do not be intimidated based on your skill level - there will always be someone worse than you and someone better than you. Use this opportunity to meet new artists for learning, critique, and growth.

[Anonymous No.3468121]

>>3468098
How do I airbrush? How is it used?

[Anonymous No.3468151]

Been drawing for 3 years now, started digi painting 3 months ago. Finally feel like im getting somewhere. Anyone else progressing well?

[Anonymous No.3468169]

>>3468151
dude

[Anonymous No.3468205]

posted in the old thread but didn’t get any crits. another study, hopefully less wojak

[Anonymous No.3468210]

>>3468205
Not bad, I like the highlights

[Anonymous No.3468220]

How do you do the initial construction when drawing fat people? Do you use a cylinder or box for the abdomen and then attach the gut?

[Anonymous No.3468223]

>>3468220
> then attach the gut
Please clarify.

[Anonymous No.3468244]

>>3468220
Just build forms, if the boxes for the ribcage and hips are hidden, use other forms. The gut will usually be an additional form itself so you can build it with a half sphere or whatever works for your goal.

[Anonymous No.3468283]

>>3468151
there is 0 sense of lighting in this

[Anonymous No.3468288]

>>3468205
post ref

[Anonymous No.3468289]

>>3468283
what do you mean? the lightning is coming right out of his hands

[Anonymous No.3468299]

>>3468289
I don’t think they were trying to say that there isn’t a light source, but the artist has no clue how the lighting affects anything else in the piece

[Anonymous No.3468302]

>>3468289
there is no defined light source
see picture

[Anonymous No.3468307]

day 5. at least ive stuck with this for 5 days

[Anonymous No.3468310]

>>3468307
is this the only amount of drawing you’re doing every day? how long does it take you?

[Anonymous No.3468318]

>>3468310
>is this the only amount of drawing you’re doing every day?
depends how busy i am. i had chores and errands and other things to do all day. so this might be all im doing. i dont fucking know i still have like 4 hours left in my day and still have other stuff to do ffs get off my balls. that and i got addicted to poke mon quest this past week.

>how long does it take you?
i dont really keep track, maybe an hour total including deciding angles and browsing refs for hair and such and cleaning up line work.

[Anonymous No.3468328]

>>3468318
>deciding angles
I thought you did these from imagination?
>cleaning up line work.
What does these look like before they're "cleaned up"?

[Anonymous No.3468332]

if you want to make it, a whole day’s worth of work should def be more than a very simple portrait sketch over and over.

actual life responsibilities are understandable, but I don’t see how your pokemon addiction is supposed to be an excuse for such minimal work desu that just makes it way worse.

[Anonymous No.3468333]

>>3468318
^

[Anonymous No.3468335]

>>3468328
>all these in depth nitpicks for someone whos 'anon'
pls dont track me down and murder me

>I thought you did these from imagination?
well yeah, if im copying from reference i dont do much deciding do it? if its from imagination i have decide, what angle have i not done in a while, can be challanging but not too extreme as to not be comletely unrealistic, what feature shapes have i not tried, etc. all that takes a little time to think about. exactly 5 min actually.

>What does these look like before they're "cleaned up"?
hard to say, think like a mix of chicken stratch and 'thick' lines because that got drawn to close together (ive learned that with portrait and figure too thick of lines can make massive differences when you go back paint it). its worse in some places more than others. obviously i suck at lips so i might spend a lot of time redrawing stuff. i should also add that after i draw the loomis head i draw REALLY simple features, which are then redrawn later, as place holders so i can check construction and proportions and such

[Anonymous No.3468341]

>>3468335
I’m amused that you post your art in a critique thread and then when people start to critique you you make excuses for your bare minimum work and tell everybody to stop nitpicking and get off your balls

[Anonymous No.3468369]

>>3468341
are you saying i should shirk my real life responsibilites in favor of art?

[Anonymous No.3468377]

if it makes you happy ill draw TWO faces tomorrow

[Anonymous No.3468381]

>>3468377
Keep doing stuff only from imagination and you'll be amazed where you're at 3 years down the line

[Anonymous No.3468394]

>>3468381
sounds cool. when do i get to start doing faces in greyscale

[Anonymous No.3468397]

>>3468394
Go crazy with color right now and you might even get featured in the next thread.

[Anonymous No.3468400]

>>3468397
im being serious

[Anonymous No.3468402]

>>3468400
Doesn't look like you are.

[Anonymous No.3468403]

>>3468402
well. i am. okay

[Anonymous No.3468506]

>>3468151
if I'm gonna draw like this in three years then I think I'm not patient enough for this shit

[Anonymous No.3468689]

A wizzo

[Anonymous No.3468697]

>>3468098
It's the first time I've done this kind of painting. So far, it has just been paintings with basic shading via multiply and cheap highlighting via overlay, not until now (pic related). How do I keep this on going?

Also, how the fuck do I paint hair?

[Anonymous No.3468784]

>>3468506
dont worry its a troll from some shitty kids artstation that was posted a while back

[Anonymous No.3468791]

>>3468223
He is asking do you draw a human then attach a fat potbelly to them

[Anonymous No.3468890]

I stagnated months ago and can't seem to improve. My ability to measure is nearly as bad as when I first started. Can I just concede defeat and just draw portraits like an autismo, accepting that I can never achieve likeness? Should I be ashamed for enjoying making these failures?

[Anonymous No.3468910]

>tfw don't know what to draw

[Anonymous No.3468935]

Sorry for the shit quality picture, my house doesn't have good lighting and I can't afford a scanner.

Doing some Proko beans as practice today. Hoping I can be good enough at them soon to work on robo-beans next. I feel like they're helping me learn slightly more about the human body.

[Anonymous No.3468945]

>>3468890

[Anonymous No.3468957]

>>3468689
Still workin on it.

[Anonymous No.3468975]

some gestures i did today sorry about the messy linework

[Anonymous No.3468979]

forgot the last one

[Anonymous No.3468982]

some gestures i did today

[Anonymous No.3468984]

stop allowing the devil to distract you and make you procrastinate when you should be drawing

satan attacks you because you're a soldier of the cross. you can take the sword of the truth of God and attack the gates of hell with your art. whenever you create art in the name of Jesus Christ, every demon screams in pain and that's why they hate you. you're a threat to the devil.

pray to God and ask him for things that are impossible because with God nothing is impossible. ask him to defeat the giants in your life because our God is a giant-killer. ask him to send fire from heaven and he will. ask him to walk with you as you draw and he will. he will give you the power to create great things if you ask him

[Anonymous No.3468990]

>>3468982

I think you miss the pointe of it if you didn't draw the toes

GET IT HA HA HA HA HA
\
also drawing one arrow through the center of the torso doesn't make it good gesture practice, neither does drawing the same thing twice (?)

[Anonymous No.3468994]

>>3468979

the right foot is the strongest gesture here (reminds me of Disney hands) and the arms are particularly flimsy.

I usually start with the head.

[Anonymous No.3468996]

thanks for the critique

i still learning gesture the line was there to kinda help me with the curve to the hips

yeah i was working quick i going to work on studies of the hands and feet as well .

Also i work form different poses as well

[Anonymous No.3469001]

I've been following along Loomis' Fun with a Pencil and reached the part with the wooden doll. Is it best to continue on and do the wooden doll exercises or should I jump on over to his figure drawing book and do some figure drawing exercises?

Pic is my progress so far.

[Anonymous No.3469013]

Well, I drew 250 boxes. What now? I kind of want to keep going

[Anonymous No.3469016]

>>3469013
Move on to the next lesson.

[Anonymous No.3469018]

Trying to work on my poses. Need to get more extreme/varied with them.

[Anonymous No.3469019]

>>3469013

>What now?

now you stack the fckn boxes you bitch

stack them

>I kind of want to keep going

you will never stop drawing boxes, because everything is boxes, and boxes are on everything

NOW START STACKING THEM

[Anonymous No.3469027]

>>3469018

the first pose has no landmarks to justify the twist and the second pose looks like she's sagging her tights (i.e. the crotch is all wrong)

you are symbol drawing tits and ass and you need to learn some basic anatomical landmarks

[Anonymous No.3469028]

>>3469018
What you need to do is draw arms pointed somewhere other than to the side

[Anonymous No.3469032]

>>3469013
>>3469019

Should check out >>3459285 and try to avoid future memes people here will try and make you do, anon.

[Anonymous No.3469034]

>>3469032
>falling for the falling for the meme meme
haha holy shit would someone please pass this guy some water he needs it

[Anonymous No.3469037]

>>3469034
So the beginner thread is where most of you'll hang out at. That explains everything.

[Anonymous No.3469039]

>>3469018

[Anonymous No.3469041]

>>3469039
Why do people always use the shittiest of brushes to red line?

[Anonymous No.3469045]

polished up a sketch. wondering what i cna do to improve. if there are major issues, redlines majorly appreciated.

[Anonymous No.3469049]

>>3469041

Because I'm bad at doing critiques (and also bad at drawing collar bones)

[Anonymous No.3469053]

>>3469037
Calling people crabs just because of some assumption of yours is really rude.

[Anonymous No.3469059]

from what order should i be doing this?

[Anonymous No.3469064]

>>3469059

End with the legs/feet so you can place them under the center of gravity.

[Anonymous No.3469066]

>>3469059
Just feel the balance man.

[Anonymous No.3469067]

>>3469032
Okay what should I be doing then, smart guy?

[Anonymous No.3469082]

>>3468945
is there a good youtube video you recommend on construction? there are several with many views so I don't know where to start.

[Anonymous No.3469084]

>>3469067
>>3469016

[Anonymous No.3469088]

Is symbol drawing just a meme? I feel like drawing exactly what I see is way too hard when you can't draw at all. Real life is very detailed and I don't even know how to use a pencil properly. Isn't it okay to try and draw really good symbols instead of exact reality?

[Anonymous No.3469093]

>>3468369
your pokemon addiction doesn’t quantify as a real life responsibility, friendo. I’m just saying that if the rest of your life keeps you doing the same simple portrait sketch and no more than one hour every day, don’t be surprised when you don’t make it

[Anonymous No.3469096]

>>3469088
>>3468601

[Anonymous No.3469098]

>>3469088
symbol drawing becomes a problem when you keep getting used to drawing an exact symbol rather than abstract shapes that are influenced upon by gravity and perspective and what have you. atleast that's my understanding of why it's a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.3469099]

>>3469088
>Is symbol drawing just a meme?

It's an overused meme.

>>3469088
>Isn't it okay to try and draw really good symbols instead of exact reality?

It's not okay for YOU to draw really good symbols because you're too supplicating. You, as an individual, have to draw exact reality. Everybody else can symbol draw. Or symbol sculpt. Or whatever.

[Anonymous No.3469103]

>>3469027
Thanks. I'll look that up.

>>3469028
Oh, yeah. I definitely need to start doing that. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.3469124]

I tried drawing a smiling black lady

[Anonymous No.3469125]

>>3468957
Callin' this done.

[Anonymous No.3469126]

[Anonymous No.3469136]

>>3469125
What is it about this drawing that gives it this glaring beginner look? The unrefined edges?

[Anonymous No.3469137]

>>3469136
They use too much black.

[Anonymous No.3469139]

>>3469136
No clue. I've been trying to fix that for a long time and I'm too retarded to clean up the edges. Happens with everything but it's slowly getting better.

[Anonymous No.3469152]

>>3469088
if you never learn to copy you wont be able to learn to create, neither

[Anonymous No.3469154]

>>3469136

Smooth bricks.

Actually you could probably solve it with a low effort brush.

[Anonymous No.3469169]

>>3469039
Thanks for this redline. It helped a lot.

[Anonymous No.3469175]

>>3469064
>>3469066
is it acceptable to initiate the drawing by drawing spine down to foot in one line and then start drawing the pieces? that seems to yield decent results for me but i dont know if that is a bad habit

[Anonymous No.3469246]

Every time I make progress in one field my observation and accuracy skills go back three steps and everything is fucked again, even trying to line up landmarks and negative space didn't save this wreck.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[Anonymous No.3469248]

>>3469246
Keep working at it.

[Anonymous No.3469249]

>>3468098
I've been wanting to get in to drawing for a bit now, but I'm a paranoid person who thinks that everyone will hate it behind my back. Any tips to get started?

[Anonymous No.3469250]

>>3469249
Everyone will hate you behind your back. Just get started.

[Anonymous No.3469253]

>>3469250
Thanks for telling it to me straight.

[Anonymous No.3469265]

>>3469126

[Anonymous No.3469341]

>>3469124
joyful/10

[Anonymous No.3469347]

>>3469246
You probably need to measure more than just lining up landmarks. For example how many eyes across her had is, and how many eyes her hair is from the edge of her head. Or how many head widths from shoulder to shoulder. Then you'll have correct landmarks to work from.

[Anonymous No.3469375]

>>3469246
posted by the man who hasn't finished keys to drawing

[Anonymous No.3469380]

>>3469093
ohh, okay. thanks for the tip

[Anonymous No.3469394]

>>3469125
>>3469136
this is sloppy but I hope it helps a little. You really have to remember to think of everything in 3d, the lightest side of every object should be facing the light.

[Anonymous No.3469410]

>>3469375
Keys is a very boring read so I'm not surprised.

[Anonymous No.3469411]

>tfw got my first tablet in december
>practiced for a few weeks then got demotivated and barely touched it since except to trace over memes and other minor shit
>tfw had i just spent a few minutes each day since then practicing fundies i could be somewhere today

[Anonymous No.3469444]

>>3468098
>tfw your image is OP
Any tips?

[Anonymous No.3469466]

How do I into shading/coloring? specially in digital and animoo style

[Anonymous No.3469468]

>>3469466
One shadow color, one base color and one light color. Add more colors to your liking.

[Anonymous No.3469472]

>>3469136
>>3469139
it is the lack of constuction and dividing the face and body into planes where the muscles and shapes of the body can be seen underneath the skin for instance all the gray on the hand is like a lightly blended halftone. that is just my thinking

[Anonymous No.3469475]

>>3469246

stay positive instead of getting discouraged., you had the potential to draw the face much better rather than two splotches of dark value and some poor features.

your landmarks are superficial and you should construct the form through, rather than placing landmarks on a contour if that makes sense.

a lot of the credibility of this pose is dependent on convincing rendition of the shoulder joint which I am also really bad at

[Anonymous No.3469479]

>>3469246

oh yeah and stop drawing chicks and start drawing old people and buff oily men ...mmm

[Anonymous No.3469506]

[Anonymous No.3469512]

>>3469375
I'm ashamed to say I do actually own a physical copy of Keys, I keep over thinking the first few exercises and never make progress in it

>>3469475
This is incredibly helpful, thank you very much! I'm sorry about the face, I'm still working out how to manage the small screen size on my tablet so I was struggling to zoom enough to draw the fine features while still being able to see the reference.

I agree about the proportions but I can't recall coming across anything about it in my studies so far outside of measuring heads but then I'm unsure of how to utilize that when the figure isn't standing upright or with foreshortening.

I'll think these notes over and try again when I wake up.

>>3469479
Old guys are fun to draw, I just didn't think the general would like that.

[Anonymous No.3469516]

>>3469506
Why the thick neck, anon? I mean I can guess that the answer is you were trying to make it match the head, but usually a stylized large head won't have a proportionate neck (instead the neck will be proportionate to the shoulders; integrating that thin cartoon neck and the head itself will come with experience stylizing things. But now that I've told you, you can at least hard-stop drawing a hulk neck on your cartoon girls!)(I assume you're practicing realistic things too. Only way to git gud at cartoons.)

[Anonymous No.3469530]

>>3469516
Well, I did just go see the avengers in theaters. Thanos is one big hard solid dick of muscle, not to mention his hulking fucking neck. Point is that might've had somethin' to do with it.
But thank you anon, I will take your critique in stride and move forward. Any other suggestions?

[Anonymous No.3469534]

>>3469530
other than 'draw some real people', specifically do some gesture drawings because her pose is real stiff
also, uh
>1623x3080
maybe resize your stuff in the future. I had to zoom my browser out to look at the whole thing.

[Anonymous No.3469543]

tried drawing my friends during math class.
roughly an half hour spend on this.

[Anonymous No.3469547]

[Anonymous No.3469566]

>>3469246
You are bad at measuring

and not like you needed a grid to notice the mistakes, using your pencil to measure would have been enough

[Anonymous No.3469567]

How do I get into drawing landscapes? I'm tired of never having a background

[Anonymous No.3469569]

>>3469566
I always knew I was bad at measuring, I struggle a lot to judge how long the body is or how wide things are but seeing it like that is embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.3469593]

>>3468098
first attempt at digital painting,any tips or glaring flaws?

[Anonymous No.3469630]

>>3469246
lel how did u fuck up the shoulder that hard? if u were strugling that much you couldve just duplicated the other shoulder and moved it over

[Anonymous No.3469796]

>>3469411
Man would you just start already. Just do it

[Anonymous No.3469862]

I've been trying to learn anatomy but I'm struggling with proportions and several other things. I feel like my drawings turn out much better when I'm drawing a live model than with a reference picture. I really want to improve but I don't know how to go about it exactly.

[Anonymous No.3469871]

>>3469862
please dont use that ugly deviant model

[Anonymous No.3469948]

>>3469871
I realise the lighting is kinda bad... But I don't see anything else that's bad about the photo or model.

[Anonymous No.3469961]

how accurate is this

[Anonymous No.3469964]

>>3469862

[Anonymous No.3469973]

>>3468697
Done.

[Anonymous No.3470000]

Do I have to learn drawing and get somewhat decent in it before i do painting? Do I for instance have to learn fundamentals and anatomy?

I have no problem in spending the time learning this, I just want to know if i really have to learn it if my end goal just is to paint.

Thanks guys

[Anonymous No.3470012]

>>3469013
https://drawabox.com/lesson/250cylinders
you can actually grind 250 cylinders now if you like this sort of thing
I also recommend looking up uncomfortable's critiques on various lessons in his shitty subreddit and comparing yourself to people he passed, I think you will be both disgusted and pleasantly surprised

[Anonymous No.3470014]

>>3470000
>construction
>anatomy
>lighting
>color theory
that's probably what you need to understand before trying to paint a half decent piece
Complete beginner myself though never painted before.

[Anonymous No.3470017]

>>3470000
you have to learn to draw in order to be a decent painter
that doesn't mean there aren't value studies, landscapes, and bowls of fruit you can paint right now

[Anonymous No.3470018]

delivered on my TWO portraits for today. and guess what? im not even going to stop studying today. i did twice my usual load so i will be expecting twice the amount of (you)s, it's only fair

[Anonymous No.3470019]

>>3469136
the hand holding the staff

[Anonymous No.3470020]

>>3469593
this is pretty good, except the bottom of the apple is flat. and the shadow should be very dark close to the bottom of the apple. But I have a feeling you drew this from a photo: an apple is a pretty easy object to get and it's always better to draw from life. A photo is already 2 dimensional, the real challenge is figuring out how to make something 2d from 3d space

[Anonymous No.3470021]

>>3470018
(you)
Seriously lay off the drawing every line in though. It looks uncanny. Also that chicken scratchiness.
Keep it up

[Anonymous No.3470027]

>>3469973
Finnish. Tips?

[Anonymous No.3470030]

>>3468982
raise the shoulder that's away from you and match the angle of the stomach contour line
the figures flow well enough that you can read on in whatever book you might be doing

[Anonymous No.3470038]

>>3470018
I thought you were going to color them in? You slacking already?

[Anonymous No.3470080]

did this for fun, but incapable of much else.

[Anonymous No.3470198]

it hurts

[Anonymous No.3470204]

>>3470198
Very gray.

[Anonymous No.3470225]

[Anonymous No.3470242]

I don't know what color to make the clothes. Help pls

[Anonymous No.3470243]

>>3469512
>I'm unsure of how to utilize that when the figure isn't standing upright or with foreshortening

[Anonymous No.3470256]

>>3470080
Is Trump climbing out the window to play with his friends, or vaulting over a window to escape his enemies?

[Anonymous No.3470306]

>>3469375
>>3469410
im currently readings keys to drawing, can I simply skip to the exercises ignoring all his observations about the artists, their drawing styles etc or are they really that important?

[Anonymous No.3470322]

>>3469543
I like your style. It's cool. But I don't understand that table. Is it really that bent?

[Anonymous No.3470372]

"OH FUCK NO! ITS A FURRY!!" We've all heard the jokes.

Just looking for critique.

[Anonymous No.3470380]

[Anonymous No.3470407]

>>3469566
how do you use your pencil to measure anyway?

[Anonymous No.3470408]

>>3469088
Drawing exactly what I see is easy for me now. construction is hard af

[Anonymous No.3470410]

>>3470020
you are correct and thank you, I was worried it might be pointless to do the apple references from a photo but I think i learned a lot. Next one will be from real life!

[Anonymous No.3470432]

>>3470408
>construction is hard af
It's just boxes and cylinders bro.

[Anonymous No.3470468]

Going through Noah's Art Camp now, starting with some compositional studies. I tried to keep them loose and limit the values used to 3-4, but I still feel like i'm going about this in the "wrong" way somehow.

[Anonymous No.3470469]

>>3470468
Ref

[Anonymous No.3470479]

>>3470468
https://www.youtube.com/user/marcobucci/videos

[Anonymous No.3470482]

>>3470468
Just keep at it. You've just begun and any experience is good experience. You'll begin to see patterns and such things as you keep doing studies. That's what Noah intended, but you have to put in the work.

[Anonymous No.3470489]

>>3470482
I've done photo studies before, but master studies feel strangely intimidating before. I'll definitely keep at trying, though. Thanks for the encouragement.

[Anonymous No.3470529]

>>3470322
its like a cut in half tree trunk, so it looks kinda weird, but I also tried doing a bit of a fish eye drawing

[Anonymous No.3470580]

>>3470027
Structure. You don't know how the nose is formed in 3D and therefore you can't translate that to the canvas. Pick a specific light source and paint me that nose in 3D. Try again until it looks decent. Then apply this to the other features.

[Anonymous No.3470721]

If I say my hands feel dumb when holding a pencil and trying to draw would anyone know what I mean?

[Anonymous No.3470777]

>>3470468
under every good painting is a good drawing, even if the one who painted it jumped straight into paint. focus on your drawing ability first and your skill to render will catch up and you'll be less lost as you are here

[Anonymous No.3470782]

>>3470721
Ditch lacquered pencils and buy a 2mm with a grip.

[Anonymous No.3470790]

>>3470256
That's like, the magic of art, man. You see like, whatever you want, dude.

[Anonymous No.3470812]

Doing digital and started drawing a dream I had last night how is this looking?

[Anonymous No.3470825]

I feel like my eyes and brain aren't connected, my brain gets overloaded with the details and my eyes are like crooked rulers when they measure things.

Back to keys I suppose.

[Anonymous No.3470839]

I drew for about 5 hours last night. I traced and filled in the dark on this image for warm up and practice. Basically I was just hoping to practice using my pen and trying to accurately fill in the images shape without deviating as much as possible. Essentially It was like a coloring book I guess.

[Anonymous No.3470841]

>>3470839
Then I sketched this trying not to use a reference to practice mentally picturing the image. I noticed there were many spots where I was basically just guessing and I couldn't picture the anatomy correctly. I need to find an anatomy book and study it. I'm also trying not to draw based on landmarks though so... Idk I know it's not accurate/good but its the work I did last night and I'm going to share it anyways.

[Anonymous No.3470842]

>>3470841
Then I tried to shade it and got it horribly wrong.

[Anonymous No.3470846]

>>3470839
Interesting but you really shouldn't "study" anime if you are trying to get good at art. Drawing anime should come after learning the basics of human anatomy and realism. Anime is just a style and it is not accurate to real life human anatomy. You'll be a lot better at this kind of art if you get a grasp on how real human bodies look instead of just copying how anime bodies look. Most anime bodies are not proportioned correctly (look at her breast placement. Way too low on her chest. And her furthermost arm looks as if her shoulder has been dislocated. Real bodies do not look like that.) You will pick up bad habits if you don't study human silhouettes and instead learn from badly proportioned drawings. Sorry for the rant

[Anonymous No.3470851]

>>3470846
What if I just use the cute anime girls to practice shape and color and then use real girls to practice anatomy/shading/drawing from reference. Like can I use anime girls for practicing shape and color if I turn the image upside down? Getting to fill in anime girls as a warm up gets me to sit down and start drawing every day. I don't want to learn bad habits though and am willing to practice correctly in order to achieve the ultimate goal of being able to draw girls I find are cute so I can prove to everyone that thicc waifu's are trash and that thinn waifu's with b-cup boobs are master race and have the best human figure, chiseled from the mind of man to be perfection.

[Anonymous No.3470853]

>>3470825
/beg/ here. Looks good to me. Good luck

[Anonymous No.3470861]

Drew some anime, rate?

[Anonymous No.3470870]

>>3470861
You asked me to rate but I'm going to critique instead.
>on her left arm I think her shoulder is sticking out too much and I think it's drawn like it is because her arm joint (where it meets the torso) is up too high and needs to be thicker.
>You''re either showing too much of her face or too little of her neck and the top of her left shoulder. If she's looking over her shoulder like that we need to see more of her neck and shoulder because she's not like an owl where she can just rotate her head.
>I think her thighs need cleaner and straighter lines, specifically the lateral left thigh line is weird.
>If you keep hiding hands and feet you'll never get better at drawing them.

[Anonymous No.3470896]

How in the actual fuck I get good at drawing hands?!

[Anonymous No.3470897]

>>3470861
Nice and thick. Draw bigger though. I see you struggle with more of the details.

[Anonymous No.3470900]

What do you think of my art?

[Anonymous No.3470903]

How is this supposed to help? It looks complete shit and disproportionate. Is construction just a troll meme?

[Anonymous No.3470904]

>>3470903

[Anonymous No.3470905]

>>3470904

[Anonymous No.3470906]

>>3470903
>>3470904
Yes, just never use construction and draw the way you want to. You know so well after all.

[Anonymous No.3470913]

>>3470906
so what did i do wrong? i followed the fucking tutorial and it's trash anyway. should I just keep drawing trash and pray it ends up good?

[Anonymous No.3470917]

>>3470080
to play hehe

[Anonymous No.3470918]

>>3470913
Yes.

[Anonymous No.3470970]

I hate being so bad that I eventually make some shitty lines that look halfway decent, and end up pacing around because I'm so afraid of ruining it and destroying my confidence boost.

[Anonymous No.3470996]

>>3470918
I can't tell if you're trolling. anyway I tried cleaning it up and it just looks so wrong to me.

[NoseBro No.3471006]

>>3469475
jesus christ what a mess, its a miracle that helped him in any way.

[Anonymous No.3471042]

I tried to test myself to see if I'm retaining information that I've been going over. On the left, I tried to construct a form without a guide or reference. On thee right, I was trying to find and "fix" the mistakes I did on the left.

I still have a long way to go. Sorry for the shitty lighting, the paper was too big for the scanner.

[Anonymous No.3471047]

>>3471042
most things you've actually made worse

[Anonymous No.3471051]

>>3471006
Go be a useless oxygen waste somewhere else

[Anonymous No.3471076]

how dose my image look?

[Anonymous No.3471086]

>>3471042
You messed up the proportions, the nipples are supposed to be about a head to a head and a half from the chin, and the navel lies a head lower, and the woohoo/popo lies another head lower.

Also you added more things but you didn't really "fix" anything. When you fix a drawing you use a reference so you fix it correctly instead of making new mistakes.

[Anonymous No.3471093]

What do you guys think? I made the OP too. I think I did much better with this one.

[Anonymous No.3471095]

How is construction supposed to help? this shit looks awful

[Anonymous No.3471098]

>>3471095

[Anonymous No.3471099]

>>3471095
You uh like, erase the construction lines after.

It's a highly advanced technique

[Anonymous No.3471103]

>>3471076
I like the art-style but you seem to struggle with the form of the propportions

[Anonymous No.3471105]

>>3471093
Is a little better yeah

your clothings look awful though.

Are you learning to do pen and ink?

[Anonymous No.3471107]

>>3471099
I've been told here not to erase construction lines so thanks for the conflicting advice. anyway, everything is off and disproportionate as fuck. how am I supposed to do this shit?

[Anonymous No.3471109]

>>3471105
Yes. I'm not really sure how to even do clothes so I just did something so it wouldn't be a big white space.

[Anonymous No.3471110]

>Anon, you did not forget to use retinex this time, right?

[Anonymous No.3471114]

>>3471107
I'm sure you've misunderstood and that they mean not to erase it while the image is still being constructed and then erase it while cleaning the image up or rendering.

I'm not quite sure why you're blaming construction though, I can't see how it would make your drawings any worse unless you don't know how to use it correctly in which I would suggest studying one of the many figure drawing books in the book thread.

[Anonymous No.3471122]

>>3471109
Nice

I recommend reading these 2

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=1c09122efbceca77067d211155a71de6

https://vk
.com/doc366484900_459259147?hash=90bae477ccd23c27fb&dl=1ee39ca87de5c22bf3

[Anonymous No.3471142]

>>3471122
Cool thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.3471200]

How do I get good at drawing hands?

[Anonymous No.3471202]

>>3471200
You know how. Draw them a lot. Instead of asking how, ask why.

[Anonymous No.3471225]

Gesture drawing for today

Did the classroom mode on the line of action website

30secs -> 2mins -> 5mins

[Anonymous No.3471233]

Been in kind of a rut recently and trying to figure out areas I need to focus on most. Suggestions?

>Recent sketch

[Anonymous No.3471254]

>>3471233

Stop trying to draw stylized characters until you have the basics of construction down, and if you must draw stylized characters at least make sure everything is proportionate. The shoulders were an obvious issue that should have been noticed before you posted - try flipping your drawing to get a better idea of what you're doing

[Anonymous No.3471284]

>>3471107
Obviously you erase the construction, how many finished pieces do you see with construction lines? I mean, you only have to have seen portraits before.

[Anonymous No.3471356]

>>3469862
Take comparative measurements first, don't just start by drawing

[Anonymous No.3471359]

>>3470018
Normally I would tell someone "keep it up, you're bound to improve", but

[Anonymous No.3471361]

>>3470372
Nice expression

[Anonymous No.3471365]

>>3470903
>>3470904
Study some Asaro heads, it will help you represent the planes of the face better in your portraits. And everything you do right now will look like shit because you are shit and you don't know what you're doing yet, don't blame it on a technique.

[Anonymous No.3471367]

>>3470970
Just accept that you are bad and ruin it already, it's the only way you will learn.

[Anonymous No.3471386]

what's the difference between Asian eyes and Caucasian eyes? I can tell them apart, but I don't know the key differences between them.

[Anonymous No.3471391]

>>3470842
The hand that is closer should be bigger than the one in the distance. The feet are a little broken but it seems this pose is too difficult for you. Learn perspective and construction as well as how to shade things in order to make them look 3d, then go for such difficult poses.

[Anonymous No.3471399]

>>3471284
I actually tried to but didn't do too well. I think I draw separate areas decently but I don't connect them well and it ends up looking different from want I'm observing, if this makes sense.

[Anonymous No.3471448]

>>3471086
Thanks for advice, looking back it looks like I tried to make everything "fit" on the page which fucked things up more. Yeah, I'll work off reference and place the figures better on the page rather than letting them disappear off the edge of the page next time.

[Anonymous No.3471481]

>>3469124
The nose seems a little flat. Do you have a ref pic?

[Anonymous No.3471482]

>>3469375
Reading keys currently, what chapter is he ignoring?

[Anonymous No.3471533]

>>3471076
you should work on your color choice. That blue for the pants is alarming my eyes because its so bright and saturated. You want to find a balance in colors when you choose them. I know your not aiming for realism, but look at the color choice for clothes. All the colors are fighting for dominance. It's like those websites for kids that choose bright saturated colors for everything and it makes you turn away in disgust or literally causes pain in your eyes. Tone down some colors. Not every color should be this saturated. Look at this video to see what I'm taking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LhcNbFMkTw

[Anonymous No.3471588]

>>3471359
im ingraining the rules of construction and expanding my visual library.

>>3470038
i said no such thing

>>3470021
like the iris and hair? yeah i see what you mean.

so i need need real critiques with these. im pretty sure theres so issues with the construction on the face but i havent actually studied this angle much to begin with so im having a hard time telling what, if any. as for the figure, that based off the panel below. my intent is for the blade to be pointed somewhat towards the viewer with the far elbow being extended straight out and the closer elbow arm being straight up and down if that makes sense. NOT swung like a baseball bat, but like a foreward thrust with the hilt being more horizontal

[Anonymous No.3471589]

I've been working on this for a few months now, nearly finished! Oil on paper.

Is it ok?

[Anonymous No.3471597]

I've been reading Fun With a Pencil, by Loomis and I find it great so far, I really at the beginning and I've been practicing a lot of 'heads'. Thing is, my characters always look bland or have the same expression, I try to drawk cheeks without actually knowing how they work. Can you guys recommend me any materials on facial expression?

[Anonymous No.3471605]

>>3471589
is pretty lright

[Anonymous No.3471608]

>>3471597
It depends

What do you wanna draw?

Cartoony, moe-ish or realism

[Anonymous No.3471619]

>>3471608

Realism.

[Anonymous No.3471623]

>>3471122
>I recommend reading these 2
>https://vk
.com/doc366484900_459259147?hash=90bae477ccd23c27fb&dl=1ee39ca87de5c22bf3
Nigga i can't read that

[Anonymous No.3471636]

>>3471619

To understand how muscles work I recommend you to study foldings and wrinkles ( >>/ic/thread/S3349311#p3351538 ) plus memorizing the measurements ( Like pic related. Just google head measurements for artists or something, print em and pin them next to your desk for reference. After some time it will become second nature to remember them and you won't even need to look at them ) and some of the bones and muscles ( I would recommend just to memorize the ones that people forget the most like the zygomatic bone. The ammount of people that draw characters without the exterior side of the eyesockets is incredible, like their ears and eyes wanna fuse togheter )

[Anonymous No.3471637]

>>3471623
nibba is 90% pics
You can follow it easily and comprehend instructions even though you don't get ching chong

[Anonymous No.3471640]

>>3471636
Thanks anon. That's really helpful. Also, as an complete beginner, I've start doing the lessons at drawabox.com, but maybe I'm trying to learn to much at the same time? For example I need to also study basic human anatomy and poses, should I just focus on something first and then move on to the next thing?

[Anonymous No.3471643]

>>3471640
Yeah, take it easy.

if you are studying those I recommend drawabox first and fun with a pencil second

[Anonymous No.3471651]

>>3471643
Okay, thank you!

[Anonymous No.3471739]

>>3469013
Pretty begginer tier question here. When you started drawing cubes, did you use a ruler at all or just freehand until your lines straightened up?

[Anonymous No.3471745]

>>3471739
don't use a ruler, that's the point

[Anonymous No.3471747]

>>3471745
Thanks, Im not using one but my lines arent anywhere near as straight as his and I just wanted to make sure I wasn't skipping out on something.

[Anonymous No.3471751]

>>3471747
Then you're gonna want to practice making straight confident lines.

[Anonymous No.3471758]

>>3468945
Fuck, this actually describes me. I'm becoming better and better at drawing accurately, but it seems it's never enough. Should I just start learning construction or keep practicing?

[Anonymous No.3471784]

Ground zero beginner in drawing, my first drawing I did for 6 hours ish, can I get some critiques? These past few days I literally follow the first few pages of Dodson's Keys to Drawing which said that I should draw what I fucking see first and foremost before considering any knowledges/perceptions combined with looking at anything as literal combination of shapes and colors while disregarding my overall impressions of anything

[Anonymous No.3471796]

>>3471784
Yes. Draw just what you see. You get it.
However, anime style itself is symbol drawing so I don't think you'll get much from drawing it. Try something with more complicated shapes, angles and details. If you're able to draw from life, do it.

There's some decent images itt you can try drawing
>>3470905
>>3471098

[Anonymous No.3471828]

>>3471784
Do you have a blog or contact? You look like you have potential.

[Anonymous No.3471835]

>>3471365
whats the best way to go about studying them? should I try to copy them from many angles?

[Anonymous No.3471838]

>>3469964
>30 sec drawing
>block out the form first
literally ngmi

[Anonymous No.3471839]

>>3470243
this is by far the hardest page in the entiry book
and it's in the fucking beginning.

[Anonymous No.3471851]

>>3471839
That’s why Loomis introduces it first.

[Anonymous No.3471879]

>>3471796
Thanks dude will do. I'm interested in life drawing too but I still can't get my head around converting the colorful reality to black and white only color schemes lol
>>3471828
Assuming if this isn't baiting then no. Also no such thing as talent in my opinion dude, I treat drawing like I treat music, if you suck at the fundamentals/basics then you just suck and you should grind/asking tips, nothing in between

I'm pure beginner in drawing but for example like when a square is supposed to be angled at 45 degrees with length around 1:10 compared to another shapes in a painting, then just draw it like that. I suppose that's the point of life drawing isn't it? The music equivalent is that when you press a note, if that note doesn't sound as good and clear like when it's being played by an experienced player, you just seek what's the cause and fix it by grinding/asking tips

Subjectivity only exists in non fundamentals/basics stuffs in my opinion. I just treat that cute animu girl in cold blooded way by drawing those so many small shapes as close as possible to the original lol. Just my 2 cents

[Anonymous No.3471935]

>>3471533
thanks for the advise anon. how does it look now?

[Anonymous No.3471939]

>>3471935
Looks worse desu

[Anonymous No.3471941]

>>3471386
academics please respond!

[Anonymous No.3471944]

>>3471941
That's an obscure reference

And the difference is the eyelids and eyebrows

Try toying around with em

[Anonymous No.3471959]

>>3469411
I am you but 4 years have passed since and I am still struggling to get motivated. Don't be me.

[Anonymous No.3471969]

>>3471589
I'd feel pretty ashamed if I did this but you gotta practice to get good I guess.

[Anonymous No.3471970]

>>3471935
stop polishing a turd and read the sticky

[Anonymous No.3471975]

>>3471959
I am you but the tablet was a huge investment of a Wacom 24hd cintiq and I thought my calling was art but now its been over 3 years since I withdrew from college and im depressed and use this clunky monster to look at ic and think about squandered talent and wasted time + play video games to escape

don't be me

[Anonymous No.3471976]

>>3471935
oh, its doodletones

The anatomy is very awkward, the human body isn't made of perfectly curved outlines. But the pic is done already so anatomy aside you could push the color values a lot more. Pick a light source and add contrasting shadows to emphasise it.

[Anonymous No.3471979]

>>3471935
It's objectively very poor and no amount of color harmonizing will cover up your lack of practice and knowledge.

[Anonymous No.3472007]

>>3471386
the levator aponeurosis of the eye connects to just the tarsal plate in asian eyes instead of the tarsal plate and the eye lid. so when the muscle pulls back on the plate it creates a crease, whereas in asian eyes the skin wraps under. also the epicanthal fold.

[Anonymous No.3472096]

How badly did I fuck this up? Done from imagination, some Loomis basics loosely applied.

[Anonymous No.3472101]

>>3472007

Is this from scott eaton’s course?

[Anonymous No.3472110]

>>3472101
yes, the portrait course

[Anonymous No.3472112]

>>3468098


thoughts? anyone is welcome to share first thoughts.

[Anonymous No.3472126]

>>3472096
You already fucked up by trying to use just your imagination.

Use a reference and you wont have to ask.

[Anonymous No.3472135]

>>3472126
Having to find references for every drawing kills the magic of drawing for me and just leaves me feeling like a copier instead of a creator.

[Anonymous No.3472138]

Any tips for painting cities? It seems like I either need an amazing line drawing or to go much more abstract with the grouping of shapes. I'll see a landscape or photo that I took and want to paint but I get lost in all the details and colors.

When I try later tonight I think I'm going to do a lot of value studies to play around with the idea more.

[Anonymous No.3472184]

>>3471233
The body looks a hundred times better than the head. If you copy that blatantly from references, at least use one for the head as well.

[Anonymous No.3472189]

FUCK, i still can't do anything from memory, I forget that shit 3 days later. No wonder I'm a high school dropout

[Anonymous No.3472214]

Feedback please.

>>3470372
Composition isn't great. Centered and the various elements fight for attention imo.

[Anonymous No.3472222]

>>3472214
believe in yourself a little more i can feel your painting yearning for that sweet love we all give to our work but all in all 5/10

[Anonymous No.3472224]

>>3472222
first post on this board and i get quads

bow to me your king

[Anonymous No.3472232]

>>3472224
>>3472222
Check'd

[Anonymous No.3472233]

>>3472189
use references faggot

[Anonymous No.3472266]

>>3468098
I used to draw years ago, but I've been out of practice for a long time and forgotten nearly everything.

Other than working through drawabox and Keys to Drawing, what should I practice to get back into the swing of things? Are there any recommended "practice routines"?

[Anonymous No.3472273]

Did Vilppu ever do any videos on perspective? I really like his teaching method and books on perspective are a really dull read.

[Anonymous No.3472319]

>Make a drawing and ask someone qualified to critique it
>Get hot and heavy when they bash you for everything you
So this is art huh

[Anonymous No.3472327]

>>3472266
gesture drawing+drawabox/dynamic sketching bible draftsmanship exercises+value studies+practicing making 9 value scales

[Anonymous No.3472336]

It's Sagat.

[Anonymous No.3472340]

>>3468098
i think im good enough to not be a beginner right?

[Anonymous No.3472344]

>>3472336
Whoa! I can't believe I'm meeting Sagat.

[Anonymous No.3472346]

>>3472327
Thanks! You're the best, very much appreciate the recs (also its helping me remember the exercises I used to do like value scales and gradients.)

[Anonymous No.3472349]

>>3472346
>>3472327
Where can I find the "dynamic sketching bible draftsmanship exercises"? Thanks!

[Anonymous No.3472350]

Can't draw clothing details to save my life. When I try to add them it just looks worse.

This is my attempt at a skirt. Look and laugh.

[Anonymous No.3472355]

>>3472336
tiger uppercut/10

[Anonymous No.3472371]

>>3472350
My god, anon, have you actually tried to look at an actual skirt and draw it? The solution to your problems is literally on the first answer of this thread. Read and aply.

Pic related is my shitty attempt. It's not hard.

[Anonymous No.3472377]

>>3472349
the first few pages of peter han's dynamic bible
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/444273000/dynamic-bible-by-peter-han
see the picture with all the lines and ellipses

[Anonymous No.3472384]

Do i suck?

[Anonymous No.3472385]

>>3472350
there are seven types of clothing folds by the way
hampton goes over it, vilppu goes over it, just throw in a few clothed figures in your daily gestures and you'll get the hang of it

[Anonymous No.3472386]

>>3472371
My dude even your attempt isn't even properly following the form of the skirt and how it wraps around the waste.
I think you should take your own advice and actually look at what you're seeing

[Anonymous No.3472391]

[Anonymous No.3472393]

>>3472384
Not really.

[Anonymous No.3472394]

>>3472340
ehhh, its still as bad as I am and im definitely a begginer. I'm gonna say no.

[Anonymous No.3472396]

Sometimes I feel like all of you don't want to improve and you don't want anyone else to improve. I'd never trust advice from here.

[Anonymous No.3472397]

>>3472340
if you leave /beg/ now, you will forever remain Illastrat-tier
it's up to you

[Anonymous No.3472399]

>>3472384
Nah you've got potential do some studies on facial features like the eyes nose and lips, and learn how to construct them.

Also you don't have to draw every single strand of hair, blocking it out into a single shape and using shading and lighting will be easier if realism is your goal

[Anonymous No.3472402]

>>3472391
https://drawabox.com/lesson/250cylinders
read this to understand why your cylinders look bad

[Anonymous No.3472409]

Whatever happened to that Miku poster? They were very activate when I used to browse this general.

Did he make it?

[Anonymous No.3472413]

>>3472409
He’s in the anime thread now.

[Anonymous No.3472414]

>>3472386
I drew that in less than 3-4 minutes so the anon could see what he was doing wrong. I know it's poorly drawn (if you look closely, you can see I literally wrote "shitty attempt"), but the issue here is simple and there was no need for an elaborated drawing. I'm sure that anon got the idea.
You can draw a better one if you want.

[Anonymous No.3472420]

>>3472397
i think im really good and could probably start doing commissions

[Anonymous No.3472430]

>>3472385
>your daily gestures

You mean just daily drawing exercises? Sorry, not really in the know. Got bit by the drawing bug again but I don't know shit and I'm fucking years behind. I never graduated beyond doing doodles and never for the life of me figured out clothing or shading.

[Anonymous No.3472432]

>>3472430
Here's the kind of shit I'm capable of. Kooky, ugly, uber-stylized close-ups of heads and shoulders.

[Anonymous No.3472449]

How would you even begin to draw this jumbled mess? It is way too chaotic I get lost in all the details and can't relate anything to anything. Is there something I can't understand drawing things like this?

[Anonymous No.3472454]

Who can I turn to to understand how mouths/lips/jaws better? I want it to be my strength when I finally step into animation without rotoscope

[Anonymous No.3472457]

>>3472449
Take your time and draw everything. Not everything takes one hour.

[Anonymous No.3472461]

>>3472457
But how do i stop myself from getting lost? Sometimes I will try to draw something like this and not have any clue how big to make a shape I can vaguely make out and where it should be

[Anonymous No.3472467]

>>3472420
thanks for the laugh my nigga

[Anonymous No.3472469]

>>3472461
Use measurements like plumb lines.

[Anonymous No.3472470]

>>3472266
>>3472327
>>3472349
>>3472377
Here's a link to the full pdf of the Dynamic Bible:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/5sz5bj8uuzz3mdb/DYNAMIC+BIBLE+by+PETER+HAN.zip

[Anonymous No.3472475]

>>3472469
So basically just git gud? There is no technique?

[Anonymous No.3472481]

>>3472475
You will get better at measuring angles and lengths by internalizing the manual methods. Like how artists can construct a body in their mind but only put down the contour on paper.

[Anonymous No.3472511]

Rate / critic

[Anonymous No.3472516]

>>3472432
I can sort of do funny faces and "funny" bad bodies but everything is lacking in detail. I guess I'm going to have to grind drawing arms and legs for years on end? Not looking forward to that but I gotta put the work in if I want to get anywhere I guess.

[Anonymous No.3472650]

>>3472516
>I guess I'm going to have to grind drawing arms and legs for years on end? Not looking forward to that but I gotta put the work in if I want to get anywhere I guess.
Looking forward to reading about how that went.

[Anonymous No.3472685]

>>3472681
>>3472681
>>3472681

>>3472681
>>3472681
>>3472681

>>3472681
>>3472681
>>3472681

[Anonymous No.3473143]

>>3470242
I SHOWED YOU MY SHROOM, PLEASE RESPOND

[Anonymous No.3473691]

>>3470242
I like it, the angular face is at odds with the roundness of the mushroom theme.

[Anonymous No.3474456]

am i on the right track

[Anonymous No.3474769]

>>3473143
white seems to work fine for the shawl or cloak thing shes wearing, maybe add a pattern to that in another light tone, as for the gauntlets and skirt what about a darker tone?