/beg/ thread

[Anonymous No.4049326]

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 /draw/thread with our fundamental exercises.

Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, or you literally are never going to make it


previous >>4044840
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

READ THE STICKY if you need guidance when you haven't even started.

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

TRY TO 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.

[Anonymous No.4049409]

>>4049326
So I've been working on a series of science fiction postcards that have a sort of Visit beautiful~ and i have an assistant that suggests and insists that far off alien worlds have tall blue clouds and dogs with antennae. And that we should have a recognizable image or template. Like a 50s retro but with our flare. Anyways the other day i finally broke down and told her that just because the dirty kike hippies want to make 50s aesthetic popular again doesn't mean we will do it and i slapped her face then and there. She recoiled shocked and speechless. I told her if she wants it to be the 50s then let's start by me whooping her ass into submission. She naturally tried to run but i pulled her hair and slammed her into the ground repeatedly yelling "Its SPUTNIK! It's SPUTNIK!" while forcing her to look at what i was pointing at, which was a small replica of the Orb of Tornami from my favorite show when i was a kid (Xaiolin Showdown). She cried and i slapped her a few times until she saif okay. I put a cigarette in her mouth and dabbed her bruised and bloody face with a wet cloth and told her "This" (yaling about the cigs) is my favorite 50s aesthetic. Anyways I'm wondering if there's any way to combine cyber punk with steam punk with a 50s retro aesthetic and make it look cool?

[Anonymous No.4049425]

Someone recommended me CSP for the way the brush is handled and I actually really liked it.
So with these I've been trying to emulate that somewhat in photoshop, finally arrived at something decent with the last figure on the right.

>>4049388
>next time I will commit to the reference and halt any autistic urge to modify the model.
I think it's a good thing that you are modifying things, makes you practice drawing from imagination without having to do absolutely everything yourself.

[Anonymous No.4049454]

face ref, body from memory. figuring out how to use photoshop

[Anonymous No.4049475]

>>4049454
Is that you?

[Anonymous No.4049478]

>>4049475
nah, my other half haha

>inb4 faggot

[Anonymous No.4049487]

>>4049478
No you're still a faggot who is not wanted here

[Anonymous No.4049488]

>>4049487
yeah, the 4chan hivemind, suuuuurrrre.

[Anonymous No.4049516]

Another Digimon.

[Anonymous No.4049540]

Please help me. I try to draw portraits from reference but I never get the size and proportions right. What can help me be more accurate?

[Anonymous No.4049556]

here is some comics I've been working on recently

[Anonymous No.4049564]

Has any of you begun drawing with some effort only after 20 years of age? What made you do it and how was/is the experience?

[Anonymous No.4049622]

as far as i'm getting today.. (orange is his favourite colour)

[Anonymous No.4049649]

Hello again /beg/ I redrew my drawing from the last thread tonight because as a famous artist once said "If youve fucked up and dont know how to fix it just do it again you prick"
Its Cheetah from Batman, I hope its better than the last one, but also help. Ive layed my flats but I need to know if theres any major issues before I go on to colour. If theres any advice I can get for block shading or whatever its called that will be nice considering this will be my first ever attempt at it.

[Anonymous No.4049650]

>>4049556
I dont think youre /beg/ at the very least youve got a lot of comittment

[Anonymous No.4049704]

>>4049564
yep.
>drew for fun every now and then throughout my school-life, but not much.
>was pretty consistently failing at everything so despite being shit at drawing that's how I defined my self-worth.
>got overly sensitive, everything that was slightly off bothered me for weeks, a reminder that I was ngmi. I internalised ngmi.
>Eventually I couldn't look at it anymore and I just stopped completely.
>Fast forward quite a few years, worked some shit out, realised school / art / pretty much anything else wasn't my problem, but major depression definately was.
>picked it up again as a hobby.

Was difficult to admit that, I was never very good / put any effort into it in the first place.
Realised I could be teaching this by now if I studied instead of giving myself shit all this time.
So I started studying and just tried to have fun.
Been a while and still haven't quit, so I guess it's going well.

[Anonymous No.4049712]

bodies from imagination ft. the girl of your dreams rejecting you

crit welcome, feedback encouraged

[Anonymous No.4049735]

>>4049326
day 3 of hampton

[Anonymous No.4049737]

Who do I look like, Joey Bananas?

[Anonymous No.4049741]

>>4049516
Something wrong with the character's right (our left) elbow. And the fingers on the other hand.

[Anonymous No.4049748]

>>4049425
Share the brush settings

[Anonymous No.4049807]

>>4049540
Try grid-drawing, then base your sketch lines and shading square by square, then refine it when you're done.

[Anonymous No.4049827]

>>4049326
I'd really like to try my hand at painting. I'm sure it'll sound stupid, but I've been watching a lot of Bob Ross videos on YouTube and I like the idea of oil painting in the wet on wet method. What advise or tips does anyone have to offer? Can I get some recommendations on a brand of paint and/or brushes? I'm not sure if I'm going to be any good or if I'll even enjoy it, so I don't necessarily want to break the bank on the tools just yet.

[Anonymous No.4049851]

Did a 5 min request on /b/ and it felt really good. If this is how commissions feel I wanna get good as soon as possible I'm all giddy

[Anonymous No.4049856]

[Anonymous No.4049858]

>>4049326
Sorry for making a thread earlier just looking for help

[Anonymous No.4049862]

>>4049851
>drawfagging

[Anonymous No.4049878]

got my first tablet and also opened up photoshop for the first time
am i gonna make it bros

[Anonymous No.4049896]

tried another leyendecker study. definitely fucked up on the hair this time around tho.

[Anonymous No.4049901]

[Anonymous No.4049902]

>>4049896
dats amazing

[Anonymous No.4049963]

>>4049856
ref used.

[Anonymous No.4049989]

thinking of applying to Calarts, think i'm in with a shot?

[Anonymous No.4049992]

Whenever I have free time, I spend it all on drawing.

But my daily job is extremely analytical and logic based, and I have such a hard time getting into the "R-mode" or state of mind or whatever, and it ends up taking several hours just gettting there.

Anyone got some advice for this?

[Anonymous No.4049996]

>>4049992
how do you start? drawing i mean.
do you practice stuff immediately?
similar position - I start by drawing something fun and from my head before I get into any practice, it really helps.

[Anonymous No.4050007]

>>4049992
anon don't believe the betty edwards meme
drawing IS analytical and LOGIC based
lmao

[Anonymous No.4050012]

>>4049992
I usually throw myself headfirst into whatever I'm supposed to draw.

>>4050007
Meme or not, the mindset she explains you can attain through her exercises have helped me immensely with my drawing skills.

[Anonymous No.4050026]

>>4049992
>>4049996
>>4050007
>>4050012
what exactly is the meme about betty edwards?
lot of people get lots of help from her book so why is she getting so much hate?

[Anonymous No.4050034]

>don't draw for 2 days
>already back to symbol drawing

why

[Anonymous No.4050062]

>>4050026
hi betty
bit old for 4chan don't ya think?

[Anonymous No.4050069]

where am I going wrong anons?

[Anonymous No.4050076]

I just started drawing guys and it's really fun. I've only done a couple of sketches, and I very much recognize their flaws, but I'm really pleasantly surprised with myself. That said, I'm basically just trying my best to copy a reference after practicing line quality exercises, but it's still fun. I'll eventually learn anatomy and that sort of thing.. good luck with your art everyone!!

[Anonymous No.4050087]

>>4050069
The rest of the head should have just as much contrast as the face, like the neck shadows and parts of the temple/hair. You could also add more midtones to the face, particularly to the eye sockets and the shadow that the nose will have. It's not a bad drawing though by any means, I dig it.

>>4050076
Good luck anon! Keep in mind there will be times where you will get frustrated with your art, but practice and study can only improve your skill.

[Anonymous No.4050132]

>>4050069
ITS DAVID BOWIE!

[Anonymous No.4050168]

>>4050076
good luck 2u2 anon

[Anonymous No.4050186]

>>4050026
The neuroscience phenomenons she insists on have been observed to be absent in the brain; nonetheless in her latest editions she still keeps on purporting them as facts, even though she was proven wrong.
>>4049704
How has your progress been so far?

[Anonymous No.4050197]

trying something new with lighting. any critique is fine

[Anonymous No.4050214]

>>4049748
Sure.
In Shape dynamics, size control is set to pen pressure with a min of 10%
In Transfer both flow and opacity is set to pen pressure with a min of 0%

Also messed around with my Tablets pressure sensitivity making it a bit firmer.
Did that a lot before but it didn't really change much by itself, still felt like I was drawing with some sort of ink pen.
So while this isn't perfect it's a lot closer to what I'm used to with Trad medium.

[Anonymous No.4050219]

i havent practiced drawing in years and i quickly sketched this face ... it feels like my proportions are way off for some reason but i genuinely dont see where exactly it is

[Anonymous No.4050222]

>>4050219
you got his head straight and his brow straight when it's on a slight slope downwards and left, and his head is slightly tilted & turned.
constructing will help you, instead of drawing contours.

[Anonymous No.4050224]

>>4050222
ive always fucked up when drawing shapes and then faces around them, ill give it another shot though thanks

[Anonymous No.4050230]

>>4050224
Also forehead is quite higher, nose is too wide at the base

[Anonymous No.4050232]

>>4050230
i now see that he is facing a completely different direction i really fucked up lol

[Anonymous No.4050234]

I'm trying drawabox. Just finished the superimposed lines exercise. Drawing the long ones is hard as fuck.
Questions:

- How did I do?
- Should my hand be floating or is it ok to rub it against the paper even when drawing from the shoulder?
- It's recommended to draw for fun instead of grinding on the exercises. Should I be trying to draw realistic stuff or even cartoony shit is ok?

>>4049858
Post the reference picture so people can see what went right and what didn't.

My guess is that you should have shaded the entire skin and that you went too light on the eye lashes and brows and too dark in some of the shadows.

>>4049963
>>4049856
This person died of neck injury.
The arm holding the sword has a weird forearm.
There is something wrong with the person's right' shoulder or torso.

>>4050197
Is it a boy or a girl?

>>4050219
It doesn't look like the picture on the right but I think the face looks real.

[Anonymous No.4050235]

>>4049622
any comments? drawing his body was a challenge, having no reference, but i am well pleased with how his face came out

[Anonymous No.4050236]

>>4050234
>It doesn't look like the picture on the right but I think the face looks real.
im not sure if that a compliment or not lol, thanks i guess

[Anonymous No.4050264]

>>4050069
I think you're doing fine, I could intantly parse it as David Bowie so you've got the likeness down which is something a lot of beginners struggle with.

[Anonymous No.4050271]

>>4050235
You can see how disproportionate it is by looking at the thumbnail, hes like a bobblehead

[Anonymous No.4050277]

If having confidence while sketching is so important, why do the teachers of such school of thought use chicken scratch to draw their pro art?

[Anonymous No.4050285]

>>4050277
Who?

[Anonymous No.4050287]

>>4050285
I was watching a stream from the guy behind drawabox and there's clearly chicken scratching in the sketch. Sure not as much as a beginner but it's still there.

[Anonymous No.4050296]

I'm too indecisive to pick a course/an order of courses to watch to learn from (coming from 0). Someone make the decisions for me please, thank you.

[Anonymous No.4050322]

>>4050296
Keys to Drawing.
Have fun~~

[Anonymous No.4050325]

>see NMA
>download huston's beginner figure drawing vids
>slowly go through the lectures
>reach the old master analysis
>"What the fuck Steve I didn't see that"
>reach the first demonstration
>"Fuck Steve slow down"
Think I'm gonna just pay the shekels and take CGMA's online courses eventually.

[Anonymous No.4050327]

>>4050325
>old master analysis
i bet you skipped that

[Anonymous No.4050329]

>>4050327
>i bet you skipped that
You know what's the worst part? I didn't skip it and still felt lost. Just going to make my best attempt at the assignment and move on.

Have you tried the videos and lectures yourself?

[Anonymous No.4050331]

>>4050271
are you assuming he is tall?

[Anonymous No.4050356]

Efficient ways to get rid of eraser shavings on desk?

[Anonymous No.4050358]

still struggling and surviving. used a few references this time.

[Anonymous No.4050372]

Still almost too embarrassed to post the shit from when I started drawing again.

>>4050186
>How has your progress been so far?
Depends on how you look at it.
Don't have any lofty goals such as becoming an industrie professional.
Just been trying to draw with a Bob Ross "I Believe it can bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart"-mentality.
Filled a couple of Sketchbooks that way.
Always pretty much exclusively worked on my figures, so compared to my other stuff they're pretty decent (imo)
Have a look at >>4049425 and >>4050214
Been trying to branch out lately and get into other things mostly portraiture.

[Anonymous No.4050379]

>>4050329
>Have you tried the videos and lectures yourself?
yeah. i suggest reading his book as supplementary should help a lot.

[Anonymous No.4050434]

>>4050219
i think you have a decent foundation construction-wise, so if you push the values more you can make it pop a lot more.

try darkening some of the values a lot more around the areas that are in shadow (i.e. the eye sockets, the area under the lip, the area under the nose)

[Anonymous No.4050443]

>>4050287
Post his drawing. Chances are your understanding of what chicken scratching means is incorrect.

[Anonymous No.4050454]

Do you guys like it? It's supposed to show off the clothes and well, they're quite shiny. Those red pants might be a bit too much though but I'm confident on the rest of the picture

[Anonymous No.4050464]

>>4050322

Looks like a good suggestion. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.4050508]

Question repeated from /sqt/:
Some guys here told me that I need to "better understand the form". What can I do besides DrawABox to achieve this?

[Anonymous No.4050511]

I feel like I'm close to leaving /beg/ but there are some small aspects of anatomy or form that I can't get down, even though I'm pretty sure I do understand how everything connects everywhere in the human body
I think my gesture is fine though

[Anonymous No.4050521]

>>4050511
To leave /beg/ means to make the transition from prinarily learning to primarily doing. It's not about the quality of any one work or attaining any one piece of knowledge.
Would you be ready to start taking commissions from people? If not, you're still /beg/.

[Anonymous No.4050542]

>>4050443
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/460312325

[Anonymous No.4050554]

>>4050542
I'm not going to sit through a 2h drawing session, post a screenshot of the actual drawing.

[Anonymous No.4050557]

From imagination then from reference. How am I doing d/ic/ks?

[Anonymous No.4050560]

>>4050508
First figure out how to draw and shade from any angle cones, cylinders, spheres, eggs and cubes. Then take construction courses for the figure or the head (I will never not shill Steve Huston). You will learn how to simplify bits of the body into the characteristic forms I mentioned above and how to carve out or drape on the actual human bits. Then practice practice practice.

[Anonymous No.4050562]

Man, all of these actual drawings and portraits getting help, but my borderline furry porn doesnt get any advice. Fuck this gay earth

[Anonymous No.4050586]

>>4049989
This particular drawing is okay, but we'd have to see a bunch more of your work to gauge your capabilities to see if you could get into calarts. This drawing is basically profile and pretty simple to do well.

[Anonymous No.4050589]

>>4050277
Chicken scratching is a meme. Most of the people on this god foresaken retarded board are obsessed with memes.
Does your final image look good? Yes? Then nothing else matters.

[Anonymous No.4050590]

>>4050589
Does mine look good though? Stop ignoring me. Oh yes and I'm not saying which one. You'll have to wonder. Forever.

[Anonymous No.4050591]

>>4050589
Agree, chicken scratching is fine if it works for you, if your finished product is good is all that matters

[Anonymous No.4050593]

>>4050454
Its not abysmal, but man these colors are fucking horrible jesus, use less clashing neon bullshit and give this image some saturation before I critique it further

[Anonymous No.4050601]

>>4050557
draw more confident lines. don't try to "discover" the line one millimeter at a time, actually look at your reference and then draw the line in one confident stroke

[Anonymous No.4050606]

>>4050601
Definitely something I struggle with. I kinda like the look of feathered lines but it's a crutch for sure. Thanks for the feedback.

[Anonymous No.4050615]

Fucked up a lot of stuff on this page

[Anonymous No.4050624]

>>4050593
How about this? I wasn't sure if you really meant to saturate it more but I just tried to balance it to not hurt the eyes

[Anonymous No.4050629]

>>4050331
No, short people dont have gigantic heads, scale it down. Outline it nicer too, it looks squiggly and rushed.
I'm assuming the eye bleedingly high saturated orange isnt going to be the final background color

[Anonymous No.4050634]

>>4050624
Man that is already so much easier on the eyes. Mirios face is really off, looks like he has downs syndrome, try and align the face properly. The bright neon highlighter smile is painful to look at, why dont you make clouds in the shape of "smile" or something instead of what looks like piss on your canvas

[Anonymous No.4050652]

>>4050508
To understand form you have to F E E L the form first
*page tear*

On a serious note. Scott Robertson's How to render video course has helped me tremendously in understanding perspective. With a basic understanding of perspective I'd move to anatomy. Vilppu, Hampton, Hogart or even Proko are all fine. Avoid Loomis though.

[Anonymous No.4050657]

4rth day since i started drawing. I've read the sticky, done a bit of Loomis and now im copying from /s/. Any advices ?
>>>/s/19045115
>>>/s/19045515

[Anonymous No.4050728]

Let's see if I can do this everyday.

[Anonymous No.4050798]

Pyw

[Anonymous No.4050810]

>>4050629
i mean, it was pretty rushed i guess. and i'm keeping the orange, it's his favourite colour! i'll have another blast at the thing in ps

[Anonymous No.4050846]

>>4050629
adjusted it a bit.. not the outline though cos i had to merge the layers

[Anonymous No.4050866]

>>4050542
I'm convinced that digital art is literally cheating. Look at that jar after 5-6min or so. He can just ctrl-z and redo it whenever he wants it.
If this was traditional art the paper would be filled up with shitty lines all over.

[Anonymous No.4050867]

>>4050562
Serves you right.

[Anonymous No.4050868]

>>4050615
Very nice Wojak rendering at the top right.

[Anonymous No.4050880]

Is there a thread or place where I can look for a certain style to try to emulate? I look on artstation mostly atm but it’s hard to find one that speaks to me

[Anonymous No.4050883]

Why does /beg/ hate furries again?

[Anonymous No.4050889]

>>4050883
Everyone hates furries.

[Anonymous No.4050900]

how do I learn to draw? I'm so scared to start

>Loomis
Okay but I don't know how to draw eyes/noses/face details

>figure drawing
Okay but I don't know how to make shit into shapes

>draw a box
OKAY BUT I CAN'T FUCKING DRAW A BUNCH OF 3D BOXES LIKE YOU CAN.

Why am I so shit and pathetic? What am I doing wrong?

[Anonymous No.4050908]

>>4050846
Merging the layers was a stupid idea. In future, save the painting as a psd or sai or whatever to work on the layers, when posting on 4chan, resize the image by going into resolution to 1000 pixels or less and then save the image seperately as a png.
I cant perform miracles I'm afraid, but keep this, I suggest drawing smoother lines over the image on another layer

[Anonymous No.4050909]

>>4050889
>>4050883
Yeah, on that topic, help! >>4049649

[Anonymous No.4050911]

Posted an older wip the other day, Started working on the BG recently. Thoughts so far? I'm a little iffy on the shadow for the tower.

[Anonymous No.4050944]

What are some artists who are kind of like this style. The artist for this one doesn’t have much work I can use for references.

[Anonymous No.4050948]

>>4050900
How do you learn to write? You write. You literally learn to draw by drawing, how many times do people need to be told this

[Anonymous No.4050964]

I just got this. digital drawing pad 2 days ago and I just fucking suck

[Anonymous No.4050975]

>>4050944
thats league of legends style. check any concept art for league champs for reference

[Anonymous No.4050977]

>>4050557
Drawing a singular eye in a blank void is easymode, it’s not a good gauge of skill or progress

[Anonymous No.4050982]

>>4050911
Bumping this with a slight self critique (aside from what I said about the shadow ofc): I feel like whenever I make a BG or landscape type of drawing, my brushes (especially for surfaces, and ESPECIALLY especially surfaces that are meant to be smooth) are really messy, and whenever I try to add texture to something (e.g. the dirt) it just seems too "paint-brushy" and not the right kind of "rough" or texture I'm trying to convey.

[Anonymous No.4050984]

>>4050975
They have a lot of different concept stylists though who each draw differently. So it’s hard to gather resources from the ones I like.

[Anonymous No.4051001]

How do I look for / decide on a style.

[Anonymous No.4051007]

>>4051001
You dont, you just draw things the way that you like and that becomes your style of drawing

[Anonymous No.4051008]

What’s a good bit affordable drawing tablet with a screen?

[Anonymous No.4051014]

>>4051007
But how do I start then? So far I learn with references and what not?

[Anonymous No.4051013]

>>4051008
HAHA affordable with a screen. None of them. If youre drawing as your career, pay the minimum of $300 for one, if not, get a pad tablet like the rest of us

[Anonymous No.4051015]

>>4051013
300 is affordable I meant between 300 and say 500

[Anonymous No.4051016]

how do you cope with the fact that you suck? i fail at everything and just seem to get worse. it's hard to even start drawing.

[Anonymous No.4051019]

I am the Chicken of my Pen
Eggs are my Tempura and Ink is my Shit.
I have etched over a Trillion Lines,
Unaware of Approval,
Nor aware of Critique.
Withstood Crabs to create many Drawings
Yet my Shoulders will never feel Anything.
So, as I Pray--
Unlimited Scratch Works

[Anonymous No.4051022]

>>4051014
You start by learning how to construct things do you can draw things from memory, your style develops with time, just draw for now
>>4051015
you flexing on me? get a cheap wacom from ebay or something, wacoms are the only trustworthy tablet company
>>4051016
learn construction, start at the basics, you big baby

[Anonymous No.4051023]

>>4051016
Get an art friend that sucks too so you can motivate each other.
If you're an absolute beginner and don't know what or how to draw, just follow along a video course or something. You WILL get better.

[Anonymous No.4051027]

>>4051022
Not flexing just a late life drawer with money.

[Anonymous No.4051064]

>>4051022
Do wacoms with screen come in that range? I can only find expensive ones.

[Anonymous No.4051084]

Recently used some copic maker brush set and wanted to try it out, came out pretty bad as multiply layer didn't really work with them. I'd like some advice on coloring stuff digitally (using CSP) as that's been my biggest issue so far.

Any /crit/tuts/advice welcome.

[Anonymous No.4051092]

C&C
Help me out with this composition?

[Anonymous No.4051106]

I drew this today. Trying to work on form.

[Anonymous No.4051111]

Here's my really bad attempts at 60 sec gestures any advice and please dont link the proko vid I've seen it 3 times

[Anonymous No.4051120]

>>4051092
Add something on the foreground, maybe some tall grass on the left and right to frame the piece. And maybe add some clouds or something in the sky.
Also your perspective is wrong you drew the birds like you eye line is in the middle if their body but the horizon line is way above the birds

[Anonymous No.4051138]

>>4050911
>>4050982
Bumping this once more.

[Anonymous No.4051140]

I tried rendering one of my sketches to see if I could make something that looks good, long story short I couldn't but it still impressed me, like when your kid scores a D- instead of an F on his math test
Left is the original but I felt it was washed out so I upped the saturation drastically. This could be a more efficient way of learning anatomy that just doing a bunch of sketches cause it forces me to think about the forms. Anyway it looks to me like her right side of her pelvis is missing or something, I'm not really sure where I messed up. I'd appreciate if anyone could tell me how I can improve too, color wise, anatomy, etc.

[Anonymous No.4051144]

>>4050964
Could you draw before you got the pad?

[Anonymous No.4051145]

>>4051120
I was thinking that the background was uphill, I will frame it, thanks

[Anonymous No.4051147]

>>4051016
If you don't already, exercise, eat better, and go outside more. If that doesn't improve your morale then you're gonna have to try and force yourself to get some more guts some other way.

[Anonymous No.4051176]

>>4050900
As some above have already said, her teories are bullshit but Betty Edwards' exercises are legit helpful and a good way to start if you have 0 experience, you should try them anon.

[Anonymous No.4051205]

>>4051144
Barely, I just had so many ideas for comics. Thought itd be good to teach myself digital art and do concept art until I actually got decent. I suck so much T.T but am now reading sketch and howtos atm

[Anonymous No.4051219]

>>4050984
You can try Wildstar for a little similar style. But it is more colourful and over the top. Check Cory Loftis on artstation.

[Anonymous No.4051245]

>>4050214
Thanks man. I've never tried CSP. How is the brush engine different?

[Anonymous No.4051303]

>>4049326

[Anonymous No.4051308]

So, mega dumb fucking question, but what photoshop brushes do you guys use? I know using a specific brush doesn't automatically make you a pro, but I feel like what I am using isn't similar to what you guys are using at all. Pic semi-related but not really.

[Anonymous No.4051317]

>>4050657
Here is my generic advice for you.
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/2
Follow this lesson really quick and learn not to chicken scratch. Other than that I guess you're on the right path. Pic related, it's a bit outdated but it helped me immensely.
>>4050728
I like these! I'm going to study from that book too.
>>4050511
I love these too. I wish I could do shit like this. They're beautiful. What resources did you learn from? Are these from reference?

[Anonymous No.4051373]

>>4051317
Does it show you how to do smooth lines? That’s always been a crippling issue of mine.

[Anonymous No.4051388]

brand new and think im gonna do drawabox, what are some things i should pair with it?

[Anonymous No.4051401]

I'm learning pixel art to make my own games, what do you think of my enemy? I think I screwed the perspective on the tail but I'm not entirely sure how. I asked my non-artist roommate and he said the perspective looked fine so maybe its just me?

[Anonymous No.4051431]

>>4051401
>>4051401
You probably want to make the tail a bit more oval, maybe reducing its width by 1-2 pixels just to suggest that it's a cylinder in perspective. The wrapping lines near the center of the translucent tail "tube" are also slightly off and work against the form (they should be closer to each other).

[Anonymous No.4051443]

>>4051245
well i've only tried it out a little bit so it's mostly first impressions, might be colored by the novelty of trying out something new.

but...
the first thing it does is ask you to make some lines with varying pressure and calibrates your pressure sensitivity based on that.
I feel like the brush strokes don't layer as harshly / messy, as they've always done for me in photoshop.
It responds well to the tilt of the pen, allowing you to use the side for softer and wider strokes, a bit like using the side of a pencil for shading (guess that depends on the tool you use)

Just download the trial, try out a bunch of tools and make up your own mind.

[Anonymous No.4051452]

Bit stylized, obviously. I'm going for a more comic-book feel.

I'm still really shit at getting a likeness, clearly. But other than that, feedback?

[Anonymous No.4051468]

https://www.betafaceapi.com/demo.html
and post result

[Anonymous No.4051475]

>>4051373
There is literally no trick to smooth lines except practice. If you're doing digital then you can use a stabilizer or the pen tool if you can't get the results you want any other way. That's it, there's nothing else to learn.

[Anonymous No.4051476]

>>4051452
His face is definitely off somewhat but I don't know enough to explain why. Like it got squashed/flattened a bit.

[Anonymous No.4051494]

>>4051452
The shadow under the chin is a big black hole in the center, drawing all the attention. Nothing else in this matches that lighting - either continue dark shadows across the whole figure, or reduce it so it's not overpowering the face.

[Anonymous No.4051504]

>>4051494
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense. I'm always very wary of using big sections of black for shading, even though that's the style I'd love to go into. It's a mental thing, I think.

[Anonymous No.4051549]

I've asked before emin the last m /beg/, but no answer. How important is it to grind through the fundies? Is improvement that much better than just drawing what you like?

[Anonymous No.4051558]

>>4051549
Do both.
If you're never happy with drawing what you like, start grinding.
If you're getting sick of grinding and drawing in general, start drawing what you like to remind yourself why you started drawing in the first place.

[Anonymous No.4051560]

>>4051549
from a confirmed NGMI who's asked every question about drawing there is; the idea isn't to grind fundies, but to work on areas where you struggle
if you want to draw what you like that's fine, but look at what you did wrong and then work on that, just not obsessively
so basically: draw what you like > analyze mistakes > fundies > draw what you like again > analyze > more fundies

[Anonymous No.4051626]

>“the metaphor for gods and goddesses and whatever we’re dealing with…”
>“can I just see that as a tube?”
shiiiiiiit

[Anonymous No.4051641]

>>4051558
>>4051560
Thanks. That's actually really helpful

[Anonymous No.4051667]

>Drawabox

[Anonymous No.4051678]

>>4051667
???

[Anonymous No.4051703]

body work still

[Anonymous No.4051712]

>>4050624
When are you going to start taking time to fix those atrocious hands?

[Anonymous No.4051745]

>>4051703
make that bitch's booty clap

[Anonymous No.4051775]

help with her arms

[Anonymous No.4051790]

[Anonymous No.4051794]

>>4051790
this is true and it hurts me deep inside, and what's even more painful is that it's true for practically every hobby in existence
you get better at riding bikes by riding, you get better at writing by writing, you get better at typing by typing, you get better at running by running and drawing by drawing

I wish I could get better at drawing by not drawing and putting effort in but here we are

[Anonymous No.4051795]

>>4051790
Sadly a bluepill

[Anonymous No.4051797]

[Anonymous No.4051799]

ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS
DAILY REMINDER UNTIL YOU START PRACTICING WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PRACTICING TO GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GET

[Anonymous No.4051801]

What's the best way to git gud after developing technical knowledge? I feel like I've transitioned beyond being a beginner and have a sound grasp of the fundementals, but lack the experience to start anything significant and I can't think of what to draw most of the time.

Is it as easy as just picking something to draw and doing 50 of it?

[Anonymous No.4051804]

>>4051317
Fucking shill.

[Anonymous No.4051807]

[Anonymous No.4051812]

>>4051801
Leanardo used corpses for reference material. I suggest getting a job a morgue.

[Anonymous No.4051816]

>>4051799
>>4051807
what's this from?

[Anonymous No.4051821]

I looked for local private drawing instructors with college degrees and their art wasn't very good at all.

[Anonymous No.4051839]

trying to get Adobe Color Themes working on Photoshop since Coolorus ran out and I'm not paying for that shit
any idea why it won't let me use the colors on the right? it's stuck to the normal Photoshop color mode

[Anonymous No.4051862]

>>4051816
the famous artists course
it should be in fellowbros book collection
it's lesson 2
If you practice what lesson 2 teaches, until you get a good hang of it, I mean truly, you win
you go straight from beginner to upper intermediate
straight from level 1 to level 10

[Anonymous No.4051870]

This is how you draw a cat.

[Anonymous No.4051895]

>>4051821
That's not surprising, if they were any good then they would just make a living doing art rather than teaching it. You don't have to be an art god to be a pro, lots of random shitty people online still make at least some money from it even if it's not enough to live off of.

[Anonymous No.4051905]

>>4051775
nevermind i finished it

[Anonymous No.4051944]

critique?

[Anonymous No.4051945]

>Keys to Drawing
>Drawabox
>Peter Han
>Loomis
>How to Draw by Scott Robertson
>Famous Artist Course
>Ctrl+Paint
>Hampton, Vilppu, Proko etc
>traditional vs digital

there are so many fucking options, I spend more time thinking and self-doubting more than drawing

[Anonymous No.4051956]

>>4051944
Disgusting subject matter and poor execution.
Would probably look leagues better if you didn't have gradient shading.

[Anonymous No.4051959]

>>4051945
So you know the problem and you know the solution, what is stopping you?

[Anonymous No.4051969]

>>4050325
Do it with him, it takes a while for you to see form in a human body that in rral life is made up of one single big organic form. If you're having trouble with form you should try drawing forms in space more, just draw literally whatever you like and you'll get it, the human body especially faces are stupid hard

[Anonymous No.4051971]

>>4051959
I'm a wimp and unironically addicted to 4chan, I've spent every waking day on here for nearly a decade, full-time NEET that would rather procrastinate than do anything productive
I've spent so much time here that I get deja vu looking at the catalog sometimes, because I've seen the combination of a few OP images multiple times

last thing I did was this 2 days ago; I know I've got to work on construction and form and a ton of other stuff but I'm never getting around to it, I'd rather just do some shitty drawing like this and put in barely any effort because it keeps me feeling good whilst never pushing me outside of my comfort zone
I'm NGMI and nothing can change that

[Anonymous No.4051972]

>>4050557
Draw the eye on the face as an entire bust, how else are you going to know how to connect all these different forms

[Anonymous No.4052026]

>>4051388
Scott Robertson's How To Draw

[Anonymous No.4052033]

I still dont get painting or drawing

[Anonymous No.4052038]

>>4051971
I won't be able to convince you but I just want to say that giving up before trying is the saddest thing you could do.

[Anonymous No.4052064]

>>4051971
Why not call your isp and see if they can block 4chan

[Anonymous No.4052074]

First time posting and asking for critique
Practicing anatomy, posing and finishing drawings ._.

[Anonymous No.4052076]

>>4051971
It only takes 72 hours to break a habit. Clear your browser history, remove all favorites/bookmarks/URL suggestions leading to 4chan and other "rabbit hole" websites on your PC and phone and simply don't use them. Even if you don't want to draw, do literally anything that isn't F5-ing threads for new replies. Read books or watch TV shows or anything to get your mind away from the internet.

[Anonymous No.4052095]

drew some booty

[Anonymous No.4052167]

>>4051452
The face is pointing in a different direction to the skull

[Anonymous No.4052168]

Kinda fucked up last pose but I think I'm doing okay.

>>4051317
>I like these! I'm going to study from that book too.

Thank you anon. Good luck with your studies.

[Anonymous No.4052185]

>>4051667
very organic

[Anonymous No.4052186]

>>4051799
>>4051807
>draw the fucking owl

[Anonymous No.4052187]

>>4051801
If you have never "drawn anything significant", then I promise you that you don't have a "sound grasp of the fundamentals".

[Anonymous No.4052189]

is there a good guide for doing this sort of thing? deconstructing a reference by tracing it a bit

[Anonymous No.4052196]

Drew some jesters, but I feel like everything is very off, besides the male's hands and the female's body being too long, what do I need to work on?

[Anonymous No.4052213]

>>4052196
Everything? What did you expect to hear. You don't have an understanding of perspective nor anatomy or form.
Drawing fun things from time to time is fine and all but don't neglect your fundies.
This applies to like 70% of the post itt that ask for critique.

[Anonymous No.4052217]

>>4051388
Haven't tried this but maybe you could start by drawing from life but instead of drawing what you see you draw the imaginary boxes that would contain the objects, with the right perspective/orientation of course.

[Anonymous No.4052218]

>>4050964
Tried again. Took me too much effort to actually get something worthwhile (ie fucking 4 hours) which tells me drawing good lines with practice beats drawing shit lines and fixing them, and to test your colors to see if they work well together before dedicating time to coloring shit. Or so I think. Basically just need to read/practice fundies like mad.

So, uh, whats a good way to practice colors/coloring besides doodle n color it? I know, no shortcuts...

[Anonymous No.4052242]

Is it possible to do this feehand?

[Anonymous No.4052246]

what level is this

[Anonymous No.4052274]

>>4052218
Oh dear, 4 hours? Its incredibly disproportionate. Theres one huge fatal reason why it looks awful, and thats because instead of constructing an anatomically correct body with normal proportions, youre just drawing a bunch of shapes together that you think are what body parts look like. Spend those 4 hours on actually structuring a body, look at guides on how to do it and use references.

[Anonymous No.4052280]

My shitty attempt at a tumblrina style

[Anonymous No.4052292]

>>4049326
daily fundies practice

[Anonymous No.4052324]

>>4052280
Very cute in my opinion.
>>4052218
You need to use construction like >>4052274 said instead of just drawing the entire thing as one. Look, I am still a beginner too and I am horrible, but I am going to try and help, so take my advice very lightly. Draw the waist as like a cylinder then attach the legs to it realistically. Draw the chest as a cylinder or box. Imagine how the character inhabits 3D space. Draw the parts of them in proportion to each other. Like one of the arms is just higher than the other in your picture and you also drew the skateboard as being straight on with the viewer even though he'd be holding it at an angle if his arm was leaving his body outwards towards the viewer. You need to draw the construction under the character and imagine them in 3D and shit. Start doing it now so it'll be easier later. Read a book.

[Anonymous No.4052344]

>>4052274
>>4052324
Thanks guise. Construction and fucking practice anatomy need to be my mainstay. And >>4052324 I get ya, I knew the skateboard was super bad and didn't know why. I'll try to practice tomorrow and post progress, mayhap try to draw a different character with better perspective/anatomy

[Anonymous No.4052401]

>>4051111
Make sure there are internal marks in the contours that show the gesture. I had a tough time realizing the difference of contours and gesture at first too. Make the head draw the gesture of the spine, legs, and arms (pretty much a long axis of the cylinders). Try constructing at the same time as gesture too, after you make your lines for the spine flesh it out into whatever form you want to use

[Anonymous No.4052405]

>>4052246
Level 2 billion

[Anonymous No.4052414]

>>4052405
okay, so level 2
thanks

[Anonymous No.4052416]

>>4052246
/beg/. I'm not joking

[Anonymous No.4052543]

>>4052167
So THAT'S what it is. Yeah I see it now. Others have expressed that something's off but neither I nor they could put a finger on it. Good catch.

[Anonymous No.4052544]

>>4052292
Neat

[Anonymous No.4052547]

>>4052242
It's not impossible, but it's obviously gonna be tough.

[Anonymous No.4052627]

I need help with the line arts... and other things.

[Anonymous No.4052630]

>>4045680
>>4045854
heres my study. hows my symbol drawing

[Anonymous No.4052650]

>>4052627
I thought your pic was fucking lanky for a split second

[Anonymous No.4052671]

>>4051476
Is this better? I know I fucked the glasses up.

[Anonymous No.4052672]

>>4052671
Dammit.

I meant
>>4051494
not
>>4051476

[Anonymous No.4052677]

>>4052630
Good job, can't meme.

Be careful about initial proportions though. You stretched it out initially (it seems) and then everything else had to be stretched to match that so now your thumb is hilariously long.

Otherwise, well done.

[Anonymous No.4052730]

Attempting the PSG style with some creative liberty.

[Anonymous No.4052798]

How the fuck do you draw faces? This is so frustrating, I keep trying but they all look like they crawled straight out of the uncanny valley. I can't even get them to look in the same direction as the references. FUCK.

[Anonymous No.4052818]

>>4052798
Keep practicing. Keep constructing. Go over any lessons you've read/watched. If you haven't seen Vilppu or Huston courses you're missing out.

If you check out Huston's Constructed Head Drawing (I think it's video course thread) there will be quick assignments where you draw from reference and various angles whatever face part you're working on. After you do that, watch him do it and try to replicate what he's doing while he's doing it. So that you can learn what you did wrong.

It's all a matter of practice.

And also don't be afraid to erase and redo your lines if something isn't matching quite right.

There's nothing anyone's gonna be able to say other than "practice more" and "watch/read more lessons". Not unless you pyw so we can tell you what exactly you did wrong.

[Anonymous No.4052819]

[Anonymous No.4052820]

>>4052818
I'll check out Huston's lesson on it. Should probably clear my head too instead of dwelling on it. Thanks for the advice.

[Anonymous No.4052855]

>>4052074
Since I have no experience in form and anatomy, all I can give you is this:
You should practice mark making (see https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/4/homework)), even if just as warmup. The visible chicken scratch is making your drawing look worse than it should be.
You could also cleanup the drawing before posting on /beg/.

-- bad criticism starts here --

* Either the head extends too far back or the hair is lacking volume.
* I am having trouble understanding the perspective of the torso.
* I believe the waist is too long.

Show the primitive shapes you used to draw the girl.

[Anonymous No.4052869]

any advice? i've been trying to use gesture, anatomy and form, but it looks flat. can't seem to understand volume/proportions, even though i've been observing and studying for the past couple of weeks.

[Anonymous No.4052877]

>>4052869
You need to pay more attention to the forms. I hate to use the "symbol drawing" meme but I think it applies the most here. For example, if you look closely...

Top Left: She doesn't have any pelvis. You pulled the groin area too high because you were trying to impose perspective where there isn't any.

Top Right: Her tits aren't that high up above the upside down U shape of her ribs. Her neck/shoulder area has also nothing to do with the reference.

Bottom: You flattened the gesture and then changed the angle of her head and moved it higher because your brain told you you should be able to see her chin. Her left arm isn't pushed as far back as it should be. And you killed the thickness of dat ass. All of these are because you didn't transcribe the gesture curve and twist correctly in the beginning and then it doesn't match what your eyes are seeing.

You still got a way to go, but keep practicing and keep deeply comparing and analysing what you did with what your reference shows. That's all that matters.

[Anonymous No.4052896]

I've been doing drawabox exercises in my lap as that is the only way I can draw from my shoulders. All desks and tables I have access to are too high for shoulder movements.
Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.4052911]

Still /beg/ tier but I've been working on gesture recently. Trying to make more confident lines quicker. Critique?

[Anonymous No.4052920]

>>4052877
thanks. do you think tracing and outlining forms would be a good idea to break out of my symbol drawing? if anything, ill definitely try to break down the form better and maybe not use the same lines.

[Anonymous No.4052929]

>>4052920
I'm not a big believer in tracing.

For gesture issues, after I've done my studies, I trace the reference then overlay it with my own drawing. Mistakes become glaringly obvious.

To avoid symbol drawing just pay more attention to the detail of the things you're drawing and match where the lines end and what the angles are not where you think the lines end and the angles are. It takes a while to break the habit and there's a few resources that walk you through breaking down things into abstract shapes instead of "eyes" and "ears" and so on. But more importantly, just keep practicing the forms and drawing what you see.

[Anonymous No.4052936]

>>4052855
I started with this sketch but as I tried adding colors everything started looking completely off

[Anonymous No.4052947]

>>4051667
he even let you out of lesson one ?

[Anonymous No.4052949]

>>4052911
* Draw the entire bone / reference line instead of splitting it. Draw it even if it's hidden behind something.
* The torso is rotated but I can't see her sides.
* Waist *MIGHT* be too small.
* I think her right arm (the one hidden behind the torso) is longer than her left one (could be just the perspective ofc).

[Anonymous No.4052951]

>>4052949
>* Waist *MIGHT* be too small.
Meant to say too long

[Anonymous No.4052953]

not asking for critique, but does anyone have resources like high quality zoomlines/speedlines?

[Anonymous No.4052957]

>>4050900
so keep grinding the boxes out
if you're too frustrated or can't, trace on occasion, and if even then you don't want to, then no one has anything of subtance to say to you on this board.

[Anonymous No.4052961]

>>4050900
FAMOUS ARTISTS COURSE LESSON 2

[Anonymous No.4053035]

>>4052951
Thank you

[Anonymous No.4053048]

>>4052869
Hope you can read my shitty hand-writing.
>i've been trying to use gesture, anatomy and form, but it looks flat.
You need more time understanding gesture, the figure I picked as an example is the most expressive of the ones you tried, yet in your drawing it's the least expressive.
Gesture is a pretty abstract concept, which makes it difficult to learn. It's also not articulated very well most of the time, so listen to a bunch of people.
I used to do gestures for 1-2 hours every day and it still took me more than half a year until I felt like I properly understood it. So don't beat yourself up about it.

In regards to anatomy, if you're talking about painstakingly grinding the skeleton and muscle-groups then bin it for now.
Focus on Anatomical landmarks that have a large impact and are visible on the surface. Such as, how the breasts / pectoral hug the ribcage, the clavicles, the triangle of the sacrum, what the knees actually look like, the "wings" of the scapula, etc.

Really break down the forms (cylinders, spheres, boxes) I don't really see any of that.
Learn how forms overlap and how they move away/ towards the viewer (foreshortening)

>>4052911
Like the other anon said, pull your lines through even if they're hidden behind stuff. Otherwise it happens quite easily that something is disconnected and floats off into the ether.
Seems to me like you forgot a line to indicate the side of her torso, leaving you with that tiny looking ribcage.
Could use some form indicators / cross-contour lines.
Looks like you struggled with that right arm, it's okay to start with something simpler. like a long noodly line for the entire lenght of the arm, to get the flow right and then you can build on that for something more.
But that's mostly nitpicking, you're doing okay anon, keep it up.

[Anonymous No.4053050]

What should I draw today?

[Anonymous No.4053063]

>>4052196
You need better gestures for your jesters

[Anonymous No.4053088]

>>4050900
>OKAY BUT I CAN'T FUCKING DRAW A BUNCH OF 3D BOXES LIKE YOU CAN.
drawabox starts with you drawing lines and squares. if you are too shit you can redo the exercises.

[Anonymous No.4053090]

>>4050900
why would you draw 250 boxes, if you COULD actually draw a box?

[Anonymous No.4053102]

[Anonymous No.4053109]

Thought my torso/pelvis boxes placement was weak, so I focused on that.

[Anonymous No.4053120]

what level is this?

[Anonymous No.4053125]

>want to get good at drawing so I can draw men in order to lessen the damage done by feminism
>get uncomfortable whenever I study male anatomy
rip...
>>4053090
>why would you draw 250 boxes, if you COULD actually draw a box?
to humiliate newbies

[Anonymous No.4053128]

>>4053102
I actually really dig it, just work on your fingers my dude.

[Anonymous No.4053133]

>>4053102
We have a wine made of sugar cane here in Brazil that we call Pinga. The world famous Caipirinha drink is made by combining pinga, sugar and squeezed lemons.

[zage No.4053163]

>>4053120
level 1

[Anonymous No.4053169]

>>4053163
okay, thanks

[Anonymous No.4053172]

>>4053133
Portuguese bros sure are weird... Thanks for imparting knowledge though

>>4053128
my Achilles heel has been exposed. Thanks though, anon, I'll be sure to work on them more from now on

[Anonymous No.4053180]

>>4051905

[Anonymous No.4053188]

How do you practice line weight?

[Anonymous No.4053202]

>>4053188
Do this for like a week. Feel free to skip Step 1/4, but only if you can survive Steps 2-4.

Step 1/4: Make a line. Then make the same line with line weight however you think the line should be. Repeat over and over for different lines intersecting, overlapping, hiding behind, curved and straight.

Step 2/4: You find a picture someone made with good line weight. You recreate it by paying special attention to the line weight.

Step 3/4: For each line you drew ask yourself: why is it that he did the line weight this way?

Step 4/4: Try to recreate from memory the drawing you just made, paying special attention to the line weight. When you're done, compare the two. Don't worry about whether it looks the same... just make sure that the line weights are the same and that you understand WHY they're the way they should be and WHY you didn't do them that way from memory.

[Anonymous No.4053205]

>>4053202
Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.4053206]

>>4049326
Tear me apart you literal bags of dicks.

First person to say I'm symbol drawing gets a cookie.

[Anonymous No.4053209]

>>4053206
I obviously took liberties with the hair. I can't draw hair for shit. I'm working on it.

[Anonymous No.4053221]

>>4053206
You drew her nose too downturned.
Jay Leno chin.
Eyes are too large and too spaced apart, and the keystone shape in the middle of the browridge is too wide.

It's alright on a technical level, but the mistakes add up and you failed to capture her likeness (which, admittedly, is fairly difficult, so you shouldn't beat yourself up over it). Keep practicing.

[Anonymous No.4053222]

>>4053206
how about you learn proportions first

[Anonymous No.4053234]

>>4053222
K, friend. Let me try to learn proportions without drawing things and posting them for critique. Oh no wait, that can't be right.

>>4053221
Thanks dude. All perfectly good points. Appreciate you taking the time.

[Anonymous No.4053236]

what do you think bros

[Anonymous No.4053241]

>>4053180
The anatomy is bad but I like it. To be honest I think you could even get money for it if you are good at shading/coloring.
Good luck.

[Anonymous No.4053243]

>>4053234
I'll rephrase.
Face is the most complex part of human body, and human body is complex as fuck, consider learning proportions on something simpler

[Slowfag No.4053298]

This is what i have drawn over the last year more or less, thoughts?
i know ive got a problem with relying on the same sort of angles, and i suppose i should go back and read some more loomis, but is there anything specific you think i should do or work on?

[Anonymous No.4053312]

>>4053048
Thank you, very helpful. Giving me the hope that I'm gmi

[Anonymous No.4053355]

>>4053298
the main thing i hate is how stiff most of them are, though it gets better towards bottom
don't skip your daily gesture warmup, practice hands and feet, try more poses, angles and interactions and start coloring them already

[Anonymous No.4053363]

I want to do digital drawing, but I've been doing traditional for so long that its just more comfortable, should I move over now, or wait till I've got my fundamentals down before making the switch?

[Anonymous No.4053377]

I just truly realized that I have gorllion things to learn digitally on top having tlearn the fundies
Also I can't tell which screen between my tablet and my pc has the right saturation please tell me if the colors are all wrong or something

[Anonymous No.4053403]

>>4053298
Looks like legoman

[Anonymous No.4053410]

Posting another wip of this, been working on it off and on past few days. Liking how it's coming so far but I'm a little iffy about the shadow of the tower. Thoughts/critiques so far?

[Anonymous No.4053416]

>>4053206
>art in the nickname
Fucking yikes. what's next, you're gonna make some epic copic marker drawing of iron man?

[Anonymous No.4053429]

>>4053206
Unironically what do you want us to say? You're doing an amazing job at doing portraits? I'm thinking them being "stylized" is an excuse; You ARE symbol drawing. Many of the key features of the portraits are lost because you draw an interpretation instead of what's actually there. The nose, libes and eyebrows all fucking shit. Apply yourself.
>Hair is hard to do
Agreed, but this girls's hairstyle has clear shapes, apply yourself.

[Anonymous No.4053443]

The more I work on fundamentals the less I want to put them in an actual drawing.

[Anonymous No.4053452]

is there a good book that just has practices and isn't a history book

[Anonymous No.4053454]

Please critique, thanks.

[Anonymous No.4053459]

>>4053454
I'm blind now.

[Anonymous No.4053465]

>>4053410
If you are doing a mountain keep the perspective in mind. If this mountain is taller than us we will need to be looking up at it so the circles of the weird building should be curving upwards. The windows and doors too should be open upwards.

[Anonymous No.4053467]

>>4053454
It is nice but please use a darker color for the lineart next time.

[Anonymous No.4053470]

When drawing digitally, are there any guidelines for canvas size?
Also, should I zoom in/out when drawing small/big details?

[Anonymous No.4053472]

>>4053459
>>4053467
Will do, sorry about that

[Anonymous No.4053503]

>>4049326
I think I'm losing my mind, why does Bridgman offer like no instruction?? What are all those bumps in the stomach area? Rectus abdominis?

[Anonymous No.4053505]

I want this to look harder but I dont want to ruin it overshading or something.

[Anonymous No.4053515]

>>4053465
You mean the circles at the "tip" of the building, or have the separate parts of the building redrawn to be more like your red lines? Also it's a tiny bit hard to see what you're trying to convey with the triangle thing I did on the far left; should its hole be thinner at the bottom and the top more "square" showing a little bit of the top surface?

Also side note, the door and window do look a lot better how you did it. I'll definitely keep that in mind along with everything else.

[Anonymous No.4053558]

>>4052168
>>4052292

looks nice but why are you on /beg/?


quick charcoal sketch.. been ages since i've drawn properly. nice to get back into it.

[Anonymous No.4053561]

>>4053558
because i started a month ago so i assumed im still beg.

[Anonymous No.4053563]

>>4053561
your line confidence seems out of place here but i guess it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.4053571]

How does one memorize this construction, enough to rotate it in 3D space?

[Anonymous No.4053575]

>>4053563
im trying hatching for the first time while memorizing the basic planes of the figures kinda like this.But yeah my line quality is still really bad

[Nosebro No.4053579]

>>4052819
bro youre almost there, I love you so much bro. Add me, I'll help you fix it and explain with SS.

[Anonymous No.4053580]

>>4053515
Sorry if it is hard to see because of my shitty lines.
From the picture I got the impression that we are looking upwards to hill slope, so the horizon line should be under below possibly even off the the picture frame under it. By that logic if you look at the little diagram I supplied you see that on the horizon line the circles are just flat but the more you move up and up the more they start to become larger and larger ellipses the further we look upwards or downwards. If you intended the eye level/horizon line to be on the house then it is my mistake.

>Also it's a tiny bit hard to see what you're trying to convey with the triangle thing I did on the far left; should its hole be thinner at the bottom and the top more "square" showing a little bit of the top surface?
I assumed that is like an upside down triangular shape formation (At least that was my guess that it is not a flat surface since this is a hill slope) but since it is even higher up we are seeing the underside of the to side of it. Which is not visible on yours but the two diagonal sides are clearly visible so logically the top side should be similar.

[Anonymous No.4053582]

>>4053579
begone impostor

[Anonymous No.4053586]

>>4052074
Cute!

[Nosebro No.4053587]

>>4053298
>>4052961
leave beg

[Anonymous No.4053590]

>>4053575
>Started a month ago
I don't believe you.

[Anonymous No.4053591]

>>4053102
tried experimenting some more, not the happiest with my results so I'll post it while the thread dies

[Anonymous No.4053602]

>>4053590
that one is not mine im trying to emulate that style

[Nosebro No.4053616]

>>4053582

[Nosebro No.4053620]

>>4053591
what great talent, what great lesbianism!

[Anonymous No.4053627]

>>4053620
stop projecting your homosexuality onto others, nosebro. it's very cringe.

[Anonymous No.4053628]

>>4051971
Also full time neet of 9 years.
Also useless. Once was addicted to here.
30 minutes a day every single day. Start there. It will get better, believe me. I only spend 20 minutes here before bed now to wind down. Even quit vidya.

[Anonymous No.4053631]

>>4053590
>anon is a recursively self-improving AI

[Anonymous No.4053635]

Is there a tool that pumps out a random set of poses(models in underwear preferably) for me to sketch so I don't have to google everything for practice?

[Nosebro No.4053639]

>>4053627
i wonder what your local priest thinks about top-right, sinner.

[Anonymous No.4053644]

Two days ago someone posted this >>4049275 and I decided try to draw it after I finished the first part of drawabox' lession 1.

[Anonymous No.4053645]

>>4053639
I wonder what your local women think of your baby penis, loooooser.

[Anonymous No.4053647]

>>4053645
feminine penis bullying in this thread please

[Anonymous No.4053649]

>>4053635
https://www.quickposes.com

[Anonymous No.4053657]

>>4053649
blessings of gains upon you my friend

[Anonymous No.4053704]

>>4053645
Ask your mother

[Anonymous No.4053716]

hand attempts

[Anonymous No.4053723]

>>4053312
"Believe that you can do it, cause you can do it"

[Anonymous No.4053725]

>>4053716
you forgot the fingers

[Anonymous No.4053750]

>>4053725
given I did it thrice it should be obvious I was focusing on the area before the fingers.
I guess I should have stated "palm" construction attempts

[Anonymous No.4053778]

Youve got to be fucking kidding me. Youve deleted my post, of a drawing I posted to /ic/ because its anthropomorphic pornography? It is a drawing I created to be critiqued by the board that is intended to critique drawings. How about you delete all of the threads relating to the "post your process" which has "furry porn" and the other threads in relation to how "furry artists" make money from patreon. Fuck you whoever deleted my post, how about you talk to me yourself? You power abusing bitch. If "anthropomorphic pornography" is only permitted on /b/ then how about you take a good long look in /trash/ cunt.
Get a real job you bitch, instead of making these threads impossible to access by people who want to improve their artwork.

[GoogleSearchFag No.4053783]

>>4053778
Yikes

[Anonymous No.4053784]

>>4052218
Sorry guise, posted in /dad/ cause I'm fucking blind >>4053688. Kinda want a critique on my construction? Main things to improve?
I'm this fag >>4050964

[Anonymous No.4053793]

Rad and Fitz attempts, did Fitz without the block-in method, since he's mainly a sphere.

[Anonymous No.4053834]

bought my first pigma micron last week and I'm trying some of the things in Rendering in Pen and Ink but i don't know what I'm doing aaaa

[Anonymous No.4053845]

>>4053558
I feel definitely /beg/, only book I've read is the one by Huston. Currently trying to work with Hampton, and since I'm mostly posting exercises I don't think I could post those somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.4053848]

>>4053580
Late reply, but basically I made the house first then decided to do a BG around it so technically I made the house the horizon line, even tho I never intended to do a BG when I first started

[Anonymous No.4053861]

>>4053579
Unironically don't add this guy. He's horrible.

[Anonymous No.4053878]

Just finished this, figured I'd post after posting some wips for a while.

[Anonymous No.4053901]

The ghosted planes exercise is not easy

[Anonymous No.4053914]

did i draw a figure right? no ref used

[Anonymous No.4053918]

day 8 of hampton / proko studies

[Anonymous No.4053927]

Hey, here is a bunch of heads that I drew as a sort of, "draw a ton of variations of heads" thing. What do you guys think? I feel like my best ones are the ones where I would use a Cylinder as a base, like in the bottom right and the one labelled "Cylinder 2" and "Similar Concept".

I would draw a cylinder first, then a line at two angles across it to sort of "seperate the planes". This is most noticeable in the bottom right one. Tell me what you guys think.

[Anonymous No.4053939]

>>4053750
>taking the bait like this
anyway trying to construct palms while ignoring fingers would be like trying to construct the lower torso while ignoring the upper torso.

[Nosebro No.4053940]

>>4053861
im a nice guy!

[Anonymous No.4053958]

>>4053878
I don't fuckin know dude
Try not to pick a huge number of colors for a scene, in fact try to limit yourself to two colors for a while. An incredible landscape painting can be done using nothing but orange and blue (every desert scene ever).

[Anonymous No.4053960]

>>4053958
sorry everyone, forgot to resize it

[Anonymous No.4053967]

>>4053940
No, you're not. You're horrible. You're toxic. You drive everyone away from you. The server you run isn't conducive to a proper learning environment. Your art isn't even that good. You are a blight on this already horrible horrible community and you only make it worse. This is my last post as I really don't give a fuck and know you feed off of this attention like a fucking 14 year old who constantly needs to be validated by how many "haters" they "dab" on. You're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.4053973]

Does this look off?

[Anonymous No.4053979]

>>4053958
Goddamnit, the way you recolored it looks so much better lol, although I was kind of going for a "Neverhood" type look with a bunch of different colors.

[Anonymous No.4053993]

>>4053429
Thanks for the honest feedback. Of course I'm not doing an amazing job :) I'm still trying to a) get a likeness while b) apply the style and achieve a balance between detail and simplification. It's a learning process because it's way easier to avoid symbols when I have more varied shading and rendering options available. I know my stuff's shit because otherwise I wouldn't be in this shithole. But I need the critiques, so thanks for that.

>>4053416
Not a bad idea, anon.

[Anonymous No.4054000]

>>4053914
how about use a ref, use more construction. it looks like you just drew the contours of a body without thinking of the motion of the body. it lacks S O U L

[Anonymous No.4054003]

>>4053927
I'm at this point too. I don't think the cylinder actually adds much, since you only need to draw a circle and a jawline, so a cylinder is just wasting your own time, and will make the face look flat. The fact the majority of these look very flat suggests i'm right.

[Anonymous No.4054005]

>>4053914
Don't do detail for detail's sake, because then you end up with ribcages that are too short on one side.

[Anonymous No.4054008]

>>4053716
Are they paws? Human hands aren't so bulbous.

[Anonymous No.4054010]

>>4053571
You've got two arms. So if you need to draw super accurate muscles, just look at your arms and see what they do in different positions

[Anonymous No.4054015]

>>4052292
I hope you don't mind if I steal this to improve my own.

[Anonymous No.4054019]

first time posting, just picked up a pen and a sketch book. am I picasso now?

[Anonymous No.4054043]

>>4053571
That doesn't help with breaking it down into simpler forms, my muscles aren't that well defined.
>>4054010
Only had a front view to go off of. How bulbous aren't they?

[Anonymous No.4054050]

>>4054019
Do it again, but go slowly, and look at each individual line carefully before you draw it. This drawing is like a puzzle, you need to think about it.

[Anonymous No.4054067]

>>4054005
lol good catch
>>4054000
i used this if it helps. not the exact pose/angle put pretty close

[Anonymous No.4054072]

>>4054067
Use real life refs, then you'd get accurate anatomy.

[Anonymous No.4054095]

>>4050591
I know that there are some animators in Japan who chicken scratch. Also the guy who does the Kirby game art does a lot of chicken scratchy stuff in his free time.

[Anonymous No.4054105]

>>4054072
so anatomy aside is the pose proportionate/gesturey etc

[Anonymous No.4054108]

>>4054105
It ok, you just need to practice lots more. There isn't anything amazingly wrong with it, but the hands, rubs, hips, head and neck are all so slightly off that it adds togehter and looks a bit bad

[Anonymous No.4054118]

Fucking finally. Made myself through the sticky, gonna start gitting gud.
My first goal:
Practice this every day >>4052292

[Anonymous No.4054121]

>>4052280
Yup, that's tumblrina, hence why it is shit, but you aren't shit because you did it so well

[Anonymous No.4054127]

Tried copying a timelapse in order to try out digital painting for the first time. They didn't bother putting down linework and measurements down so I didn't wind up doing it either. I really should have though, just look at the fucking eyes. Is digital painting mostly just paint, blend, paint, blend, repeat to refine things?

[Anonymous No.4054180]

>>4054127
>Is digital painting mostly just paint, blend, paint, blend, repeat to refine things?
thats how all painting is though "blend" is a bit of an overly specific way of saying "render"

[Anonymous No.4054183]

>>4054127
It looks good so far bro keep going!

[Anonymous No.4054229]

>>4053628
Get a fucking job.

[Anonymous No.4054238]

>>4052324
>>4052280
kek thanks

[Anonymous No.4054239]

>>4054238
fuck I'm retarded, second reply meant for >>4054121

[Anonymous No.4054370]

>>4053355
okay thanks for the feedback
>>4053403
I dont really see it personally but you are not the first one to comment that

[Anonymous No.4054448]

holy FUCK willow charcoal such a fucking bitch to use.

[Anonymous No.4054452]

on photoshop, how much smoothing is too much smoothing?

[Anonymous No.4054509]

I am starting to think maybe you can't draw cars without like... Measuring and using rulers and construction lines and shit. I wasn't trying to make it photo realistic. But it's too narrow and it looks like a child drew it. If your perspective isn't absolutely perfect with cars they look absolutely retarded newspaper comics tier pathetic. And for the love of fuck, cram your scott Robertson books up your ass.

[Anonymous No.4054512]

>>4054509
Ngmi

[Anonymous No.4054525]

>>4054509
>cram your scott Robertson books up your ass.
How about you actually read the book instead of playing with your butthole.

[Anonymous No.4054537]

>>4054509
>cram your scott Robertson books up your ass
Whew lad, what happened?

[Anonymous No.4054554]

>>4054448
You could use the right pic in horror comics.

[Anonymous No.4054557]

>>4054509
You don't have to use rulers, but yes you need to measure and use construction lines.

[Anonymous No.4054564]

Is it bad if I practice a bit of anatomy/gesture/construction/etc as a newbie studying drawabox?

[Anonymous No.4054587]

>>4054564
no, if you feel like you want to challenge yourself go ahead, but don't avoid going back to studying the basics and don't get discouraged.

[Anonymous No.4054612]

Decided to draw a character I designed for a class a few months back. I used a gesture line but obviously I erased it. I think the pose seems a bit stiff somehow, and the hands seem a bit off thus far. Thoughts?


Also how to I make more interesting cartoon mouths?

[Anonymous No.4054626]

I've recently started drawing again and I want to know from someone else's perspective on these two drawings.

[Anonymous No.4054628]

>>4054626

[Anonymous No.4054634]

revisiting gesture since i am very bad at it. heres hoping this will let me "see" something and progress to my goal.

[Anonymous No.4054735]

>>4054734
new thread

[Anonymous No.4054882]

>decide to start drawing today for the first time in years
>draw a circle
>it looks like this

should I just give it up?

[Anonymous No.4054907]

>>4054525
>>4054537
Only people who haven't read and learned from those books recommend them. I guarantee you haven't. If I'm wrong, tell me you learned from those books and post a drawing of a car you made.

[Anonymous No.4054908]

>>4053973
I never thought of this in 3d. That's really interesting.

[Anonymous No.4055098]

Is this head too small? Or have i been staring at it too long? Also I need to shorten the smaller fingers I think. Tear my work apart!

[Anonymous No.4055850]

Complete /beg/ here, but aside from continuing to work on my lines and circles at the moment, how can I continue to practice working in character concept? I can’t draw objects very well but I feel like I’ll be lagging if I don’t work on gesture and proportion meanwhile.

[Anonymous No.4056272]

haven't drawn in years, i don't know what it is but i like it, it was fun maybe i'll draw something again