/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3825139]

Which exercises had the largest impact on your work?

[Anonymous No.3825141]

Only ever drawing in perspective and finishing things

[Anonymous No.3825145]

>>3825139
God I need more Proko meme images

[Anonymous No.3825148]

The more I tryhard the better the results. I improve every time I do my best to take my time and lay down the lines as perfectly as possible.

[Anonymous No.3825162]

>>3825139
i never payed much attention to proko, i just went to NMA instead.

[Anonymous No.3825169]

>>3825139
this is daily for me
draw circle and ellipses in rows
2 sections of croquis cafe
draw 5-10 heads per day

[Anonymous No.3825172]

>>3825148
This. Aim for your best every time you draw, you'll improve. Also drawing forms, perspective, and observation and by extension, imagination. Also not blindly following whatever artguy #42069 says without thinking if artguy#42069 is making sense or not(he might seem reasonable but potentially has just a bunch of conclusions without any premise). The last one is a huge time saver, but pretty much common sense.

[Anonymous No.3825181]

Being a good top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYYBbh9DpnQ

[Anonymous No.3825186]

>>3825139
Shading basic forms (cube, cylinder, sphere, torus) and drawing wrapping lines around objects.

>>3825148
This. Be a tryhard and go slow.

[Anonymous No.3825189]

>>3825181
don't meme this, sinix is awesome

[Anonymous No.3825200]

>>3825148
>>3825169
>>3825172
>>3825186
post your work, tryhards

[Anonymous No.3825221]

>>3825200
I'm this guy >>3825169 and have been drawing constantly for 7 months now
and I'm actually pretty laid back and not being tryhard at all

[Anonymous No.3825224]

>>3825221
watch proko's video on shading. you need it

[Anonymous No.3825246]

>>3825141
care to expand on this?

[Anonymous No.3825248]

>>3825246
Have you ever gotten that sense while you are drawing that you are actually working in a 3D space? You start thinking in terms of forward, back, up down, closer further etc. basically as soon as I lose that mindspace I stop and revisit construction to see what’s going wrong.

[Anonymous No.3825257]

>>3825139
Only accepting criticism from people who post their work

[Anonymous No.3825287]

>>3825248
I'm not that skilled... how do you learn to get to that place? Whenever i attempt perspective through dots and grids and shit I find myself going nowhere

[Anonymous No.3825299]

>>3825200
I don't have anything to show other than /beg/ studies. OP asked what had the largest impact on work and I answered.

[Anonymous No.3825333]

>>3825200
Nope go fuck yourself

[Anonymous No.3825358]

>>3825287
Just keep banging your head against the wall until it happens. How to draw and Hampton both put me in the mindset initially.

[Anonymous No.3825379]

Thinking before making any mark on the paper.
Economizing lines.

Bonus track: understanding which characteristics makes the art of the artists I like be unique.

[Anonymous No.3825628]

>>3825139
using black paint on skin tones

[Anonymous No.3825739]

>>3825139
Dynamic sketching, Scott's mirroring curves and maybe Vilppu's talks on gesture

[Anonymous No.3825741]

>>3825139
I've never seen this one, fucking kek

For me it was looking at reference and setting it aside to draw from construction.

[Anonymous No.3825756]

>>3825628
great movie.

[Anonymous No.3825798]

plein air is a masterclass in speedpainting and focus. it probably teaches you the mindset of painting better than anything else i've tried

>>3825287
try to think of objects in terms of the simple primitives that comprise them. then practice rotating them in your mind and drawing from each of the different angles. another thing you can do is to draw the object and then put in imaginary mirror in the scene at any arbitrary point & draw the reflection. you can keep adding mirrors until your brain overheats

[Anonymous No.3825821]

>>3825139
Masturbation.

[Anonymous No.3825826]

>>3825821
True, they didn't say it had to be a positive impact.

[Anonymous No.3825834]

Doing construction on everything in Hyperangle

[Anonymous No.3825846]

>>3825379
I'm exploratory in my gestures and build off of a squiggly rough-in. Relatively confident lines after that blocking in space though. Is it still a mistake to start with that quick energy focused gesture?

[Anonymous No.3825884]

>>3825826
But masturbation had a lot of positive impact on my art.

[Anonymous No.3825969]

>>3825846
its more important to be loose rather than quick when it comes to making underdrawings. make sure you're being deliberate in your shapes and really analyze your pose, making adjustments for silhouettes and clarity. so slow down and think harder, but stay loose and think of your whole drawing; don't get fixated on certain parts so your drawing doesn't get stiff/awkward. the point of slowing down and thinking harder is to help you visualize things in your minds eye better, so eventually you can draw straight-ahead on the page just using a visualized pose in your imagination as the reference or initial sketch. its more approachable than you think, but like any skill it requires constant practice and maintenance.

[Anonymous No.3826023]

>>3825139
blind contour drawings

[Anonymous No.3826045]

>>3825181
whats the correlation between the photo of sinix and gay sex? im confused, is sinix gay? kek

[Anonymous No.3826056]

Whats the fastest way to improve body anatomy ?

[Anonymous No.3826064]

>>3826056
get a gf to pose naked for you all day long

[Anonymous No.3826065]

>>3826056
Learn it

[Anonymous No.3826067]

>>3825628
holy shit I thought you died and was getting worried

[Anonymous No.3826068]

>>3826067
>and was getting worried
By that you mean celebrating with champagne?

[Anonymous No.3826071]

proko is obiousy shilling himself. MOODS deleter proko treatds

[Anonymous No.3826078]

>>3826068
never understood the hatred he received to be quite honest

[Anonymous No.3826084]

>>3826078
he derailed everything single thread he posted by flooding it with rants and empty replies. He'd create multiple threads per week as his personal blog and would reply to every critique with denial and dumb assumptions. "Oh you think grids are bad and I shouldn't mix straight black in my skin tones? You probably never painted in your whole life, you dont even know what graphite transfer is, you bozo. Also time is entropy, its just a meme bro I'm pretending to be retarded etc etc.".
And he'd attach one of his paintings as a ""reaction"" to every single post which made it more obvious it was him posting and got him more attention, basically avatarfagging.
I wish he'd go back to his trip so we could just filter him out

[Anonymous No.3826131]

>easy mode
SS + GOMAD
>hard mode
rope hangs to failure

[Anonymous No.3826174]

>>3826131

SS just gave me a big ass

[Anonymous No.3826177]

>>3826084
you know what you have to do
at least we can get rid of him for 3 days

[Anonymous No.3826259]

>>3825224
Which part? The part about how you need a solid underlying structure before you move on to shading?

[Anonymous No.3826261]

>>3825139
Draw with my arm. I honestly thought I already did but turns out I wasn't.
Now I can actually draw for hours.

[Anonymous No.3826266]

>>3825139
For drawing, farmer walks and wrist curls are the best for building the strength and endurance. Helped me draw a lot longer without getting cramps

[Anonymous No.3826451]

Working traditionally for BIG GAINS

[Anonymous No.3826465]

>>3825221
Face needs work, but otherwise good stuff anon

[Anonymous No.3826661]

>>3826056
learn some then
draw from model all day long

[Anonymous No.3826679]

Started a year ago and improved a lot. Still beginner obviously. I wish I didn't post most of my work to friends otherwise I'd show better examples. This is just a page of me fucking around. Never said I was good, just answering OPs question.
>drew outlines of people
>when drawing gestures, made sure to look for relationships I could use
>getting out of comfort zone
I just don't post them because they're worse than pic related and it's mostly experimenting with things I've avoided until now.
>accepting being bad in order to push through.
>using pen and not erasing
>experimenting with tons of weird shit
>keys to drawing doodles and exercises
>contours

On the surface it looks like all I do is doodle but I do practice a lot. Though i draw a small amount of time. 20 minutes on average by myself. Maybe up to an hour. On a good day or with drawpile I usually go up to 3 or 5 hours.

[Anonymous No.3826703]

>>3826679
For reference here is a notebook where I first started. Maybe a few noteooks into it. Was going everyday, even if I didn't want to, I doodled one thing.

[Anonymous No.3826709]

>>3826679
It's full of chicken scratchy circles, attempts at replicating perspective tutorials, line practices, etc.

[Anonymous No.3828337]

>>3826023
Do you recommend truly blind contour, where you don't look until you're done, or the semi-blind sort where you stop moving the pen and look down to make sure you're not utterly fucking up and about to go off-page?

[Anonymous No.3828391]

>>3825139
>Which exercises had the largest impact on your work?
leaving my basement with sketchbook, walking around city and beyond and drawing everything I see

[Anonymous No.3828413]

>>3825139
When I was introduced to overlapping lines.

[Anonymous No.3828418]

>>3828413
I honestly think that if you have to be "introduced" to stuff like this, you don't quite have what it takes.

[Anonymous No.3828455]

>>3828418
>>3828413
WTF is overlapping lines?

[Anonymous No.3828489]

>>3826045
well he does sound gay

[Anonymous No.3828628]

>>3828418
>speaking from a perspective of someone who never had to think anything of it because over time they picked it up subconsciously after tons of practice but won't admit it because they don't even remember not knowing and they are too dumb to consider that people don't know what they themselves know.

The absolute state of /ic/