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[Anonymous No.4100613]

stupid questions / questions that don't deserve their own thread

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[Anonymous No.4100618]

>>4100613
how to ... paint? though?

[Anonymous No.4100620]

>>4100613
Can I make it as a nsfw artist if I don't accept canon character commissions, and basically don't draw porn of canon characters period?

[Anonymous No.4100628]

>>4100618
with a brush

[Anonymous No.4100630]

>>4100620
Yes if you have a really good and appealing style, and can make your own memorable characters.

[Anonymous No.4100632]

>>4100618
learn to draw first, then do greyscale, color last

[Anonymous No.4100639]

>>4100632
i'll try to rely on shading more. thanks

[Anonymous No.4100648]

>>4100618

[Anonymous No.4100653]

>>4100648
Instructions unclear. Blob of paint splat on the table instead of floating in the air.

[Anonymous No.4100682]

>>4100653
Sorry, wrong instruction.

[Anonymous No.4100702]

I saw the Kienan Lafferty’s video about sketch lifting. I understand how to do it and I also know there are faster methods that give the same result but what I don’t understand is the reason why I should use this technique (and the multiply technique too). Why should I use these two techniques when I could just lock the layer transparency and color the lineart?

[Anonymous No.4100771]

Why is this not fun at all?

[Anonymous No.4100773]

>>4100771
Because its a bitch slap to the face showing you how bad at drawing you really are with just a few simple things

[Anonymous No.4100782]

>>4100773
Is using shapes to draw even necessary? I've never used shapes and using them now makes me feel like I have to relearn everything

[Anonymous No.4100852]

How do I draw anime girls being fucked by tentacles?

[Anonymous No.4100862]

>>4100852
Study them from life.

[Anonymous No.4101034]

>>4100613
Why do y'all make art? Do you like it? I feel like a lot of you guys don't so I don't get why you're doing it

[Anonymous No.4101100]

>>4101034
sunk cost fallacy for the stupid ones i guess

[Anonymous No.4101132]

>>4101034
being able to imagine a thing and make it real enough that other people can see it is the closest thing to magic there is IRL

[Anonymous No.4101136]

>>4101132
WRONG
Taking a photo of someone, then redrawing it with graphite to be photorealistic is the pinnacle of art

[Anonymous No.4101156]

>>4101034
It's a forum of escapism, and secretly drawing my self insert fan fiction is fulfilling, because real life sucks balls.
Plus I like to draw cute girls and fucked up shit.

[Anonymous No.4101273]

>>4100613
Pic related seems to imply Design with color and light with Nathan Fowkes is a good first course on color but I couldn't find it, is CGMA Art of color and light a good alternative? Does it cover more or less the same stuff at the same level? I'm a /beg/

[Anonymous No.4101343]

>>4101273
>but I couldn't find it
It's on Schoolism.

[Anonymous No.4101672]

i've lost all my enthusiasm for my own characters and just want to draw self indulgent fanart. how can i fix?

[Anonymous No.4101811]

>>4101672
Understand what is appealing to you in those characters you like, and try to infuse that in your own, i guess.

[Anonymous No.4101927]

I want to try some oil painting alla prima or "wet on wet" much like Bob Ross did. Can I get some recommendations for 1" and 2" brushes? I can't seem to find any beside the pricey Bob Ross brand brushes...

[Anonymous No.4101960]

Best brush settings in photoshop for lineart?

[Anonymous No.4101982]

I'm currently couch-surfing while waiting on housing aid, filling out apartment applications and working 40 hr work weeks.

I've have to limit my studies to about a 15 min figure each night.

Is there something better I could do fundies-wise? I don't want to lose my progress while going through this.

[Anonymous No.4101986]

is hard round a meme, all my shit looks nicer with a square brush but i feel like i'm fraudulent because >muh hard round

[Anonymous No.4101991]

>>4101986
the point to doing these kinds of studies is to not rely on airbrushing and opacity when rendering. As long as you're doing that, you're good. The shape of the brush doesn't matter as long as the edge is hard.

[Anonymous No.4102114]

>>4101960
Lazy Nezumi

[Anonymous No.4102116]

>>4100782
not necessary, no

[Anonymous No.4102117]

>>4101982
Depends on your level.

[Anonymous No.4102148]

How do I force myself to think simpler instead of complex?

Everytime I work on a piece I somehow end up making my picture more complex than what my skill level calls for, and it really kills me because I end up having to delay the picture for days just to understand something. Like right now, I thought of a hand position that was too complex. Now I'm killing myself trying to get it correct. It's very annoying, I just want to push out something sometimes.

[Anonymous No.4102318]

>>4100613
is cgpeers down only for me? i can use the site but the torrents won't download at all

[Anonymous No.4102424]

Im a /beg/ and i started Perspective Made Easy a few hours ago and am a bit confused as of how to approach the problems. Some of them tell me to go stand outside and draw the street (and even a highway??) etc. Is this figurative do i just have to imagine that and draw it. Why are there no instructions? Its the first task and i havent learned a thing yet?
When it tells me to sketch do i have to attempt hard and spend a long time or just use a few lines to get an idea of what its trying to show me? Ive had this book recommended so many times and its honestly a bit sad that it seems to start out so unclearly.
The second half tells me to use my blackboard? who the fuck has a blackboard at home?...
pls some advice on how to approach this as im eager to get started but also want to do it right.

[Anonymous No.4102435]

>>4102148
>>4102148
It's Like exercising a muscle.
after you diagnose what you've actually done wrong, cut off all the unnecessary steps you took to get there.

for example, cut off all of the concepts that led you to fail, Focus on the idea that broke the ice.

[Anonymous No.4102446]

>>4102148
That's actually good. This is the way it should be, you study to aid execution of works you want to do, not study just to study. You'll retain more this way.

[Anonymous No.4102542]

>>4102424
You clearly need to draw it from life. Don't know about a highway, but just stand in the middle of a road and draw it.

>Its the first task and i havent learned a thing yet?
Why are you asking this? I don't know.

>When it tells me to sketch do i have to attempt hard and spend a long time or just use a few lines to get an idea of what its trying to show me?
Do it on a very small piece of paper, with a pen, with just simple lines and very simplified silhouettes for people.

>The second half tells me to use my blackboard?
I don't know, I didn't read this book. If you don't have a blackboard or a whiteboard, then use something else. I don't know what the book suggests this for, but whatever it is you can use digital instead.

>pls some advice on how to approach this as im eager to get started but also want to do it right.
If this book doesn't work for you, try looking for YouTube videos on perspective, also try drawabox.

[Anonymous No.4102639]

>>4102542
thanks lad will take note of all these things as i progress. I dont have the tools to work digital as suggested unfortunately.
I have progressed with the book and there just is a lot of things that make me uncertain of what they mean but i also dont wanna quit it without giving it a proper chance.

Anyone care to explain (if they understand) what is meant in pic related? Im not a native english speaker maybe thats handicapping me here. bottom line is i cant really invision what im supposed to draw here.

[Anonymous No.4102658]

why when im in a deep depression, drawing makes me angry and so upset, out of nowhere, doesnt matter what im drawing, its an awful feeling

[Anonymous No.4102669]

>>4101136
what if you drew cocks in their mouths in the process? (that werent in the source photo obvs)

[Anonymous No.4102679]

>>4101927
theyre called "wash" brushes, iirc. then you search for the type of hair you want, so hog bristle wash.

[Anonymous No.4102699]

>>4102639
Honestly, I'm not sure if this is meant to be done from life, or from imagination. Seems to be from imagination, but I don't see the point in doing that.

[Anonymous No.4102805]

>>4102699
thanks anon

[Anonymous No.4102856]

how long do you think it would take to learn animator basics if you already have a strong knowledge of fundies, movement etc?

[Anonymous No.4102885]

Are there any art books that have exercises and techniques on color and light? I've read the most applicable chapters I can find in James Gurney's book and I'm working through Sam Nielson's Schoolism course right now. My problem is after the first few lessons he gets into transparency and painting all types of weird surfaces. Where I really just need a shit ton of guidance on the basics like how to paint different key lights, fill lights, reflected light, shadows, warm vs cool, and color composition. The exercises I've done where I paint a sphere, "sphere test" are helpful. I just need more shit on that level.

[Anonymous No.4102945]

How do I achieve these kind of lines?

[Anonymous No.4102950]

>>4102945
Hope you have CSP anon

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1739372
https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1721747

almost all of that artist's custom pens are good, try them all!!

[Anonymous No.4102974]

>>4102950
Actualy I do! Can't wait to try them, thanks a lot!

[Anonymous No.4102989]

>>4102885
Look at nathan fowkes schoolism course on color and light. He kind of drags on a bit talking about his days at dreamworks but he talks about all the things you mentioned, gives them context in professional practice and then gives an assignment and his own demo of the assignment. Plus don't forget to check the assignment feedback for other students, he goes into all kinds of neat stuff in them.

[Anonymous No.4102997]

>>4102424
I don't think art is going to be for you. You're spinning out mentally over some pretty basic things.
>Some of them tell me to go stand outside and draw the street (and even a highway??) etc. Is this figurative do i just have to imagine that and draw it.
No. You GO OUTSIDE, and then DRAW WHAT YOU SEE.
>Why are there no instructions?
You posted the actual instructions. Go outside, draw what you see.
> Its the first task and i havent learned a thing yet?
Because you haven't done it yet, you're just sperging online how you don't understand simple instructions.

I'll stop there. You're simply exhausting, mentally. You're losing your shit over simple beginner exercises. Nobody has the time or patience to hold your hand over simple things like this. Art probably isn't going to be for you, if you can't handle simple exercises like this.

[Anonymous No.4103004]

>>4102699
I'm almost convinced you're trolling now.

[Anonymous No.4103016]

>>4100613
What do you think about paid promotion?

[Anonymous No.4103059]

What is something you identify in the art you've vied and liked.

Ex. In pic related the thing in hand is for drawing and maybe even drew the design in the red circle.

For real tho I'm just posting to see if this is virgo

[Anonymous No.4103776]

>>4102997
lol who pissed in your morning coffee

[Anonymous No.4103777]

>>4102997
im clearly not the only person who found them unclear or confusing. And while i did post here for clearance it didnt mean i didnt just interpret it whatever way and do at and move on. You are assuming a lot of things just to shoot me down anon. I can take critique but telling me to quit just cause im a tad autistic about this shit isnt really gonna help anyone.

[Anonymous No.4103784]

>>4100613
Are there any good tutorials for digital painting?
I'm trying to work with firealpaca but I'm a literal boomer who's overwhelmed by all the fancy buttons.
The brushes I've tried to make feel stiff and in general no matter what I do it looks worse than what I could do in mspaint.
Preferably asking for written ones, not videos and even if they are videos, quick ones. I don't want some indian with a biitcrushed mic taking 20 minutes to explain how to press a button

[Anonymous No.4103840]

>>4103784
Ctrlpaint, the gold standard for beginner digital painting tuts
It's probably best to start with Photoshop since it has the most tutorials, but you can probably find equivalent functions in firealpaca.

[Anonymous No.4104078]

what kind of outfit could a mermaid wear that isn't seashell bra? everything i draw looks stupid.

>>4103059
i don't understand.

[Anonymous No.4104086]

>>4104078
A seashell bra is pretty much ingrained due to the little mermaid and I don't think there is anything wrong with using that.

[Anonymous No.4104087]

>>4104078
- Starfish bra
- Nothing
- Jewlery made from seashells and pearls
- Fishnet
- Nothing
- Just clothes made out of some sheer material
- Plate armor

She could of course just wear nothing at all.

[Anonymous No.4104359]

Did the old masters draw/paint from imagination?

[Anonymous No.4104399]

>>4104359
Yes, and no. All the famous paintings you know were painted with using models as reference, but the initial sketches were done from imagination. So, nothing changed, we just have photo refs and 3d now.

[Anonymous No.4104477]

Are there any resources that go over how to shade with pencils, mostly focusing on how to get soft edges?

[Anonymous No.4104703]

Does somebody workout here?
I've had problems with exercising and then drawing, I can't lift my arms or draw consistently. What type of workout should I avoid if then I immediately want to draw after I finish?

[Anonymous No.4105190]

Is art school worth it?

[Anonymous No.4105361]

>>4104703
Anything that negatively impacts the hand, wrist, elbow or shoulder.
Maybe neck and back as well if you have to look at what you're drawing (traditional vs drawing tablet).
You can do squats without issue on days you need to draw though.

[Anonymous No.4105371]

Any tips on how to get out of the afternoon tired rut? Everytime I eat lunch I get super tired and wanna go back to bed. Anyway to avoid this so i can keep drawing?

[Anonymous No.4105508]

>>4105371
Sleep for 15-20 minutes, then get up, drink some coffee and draw.

[Anonymous No.4105734]

>>4105371
go on a walk or read a book instead of going to sleep?

[Anonymous No.4105744]

would you commission a trad artist? asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.4105757]

>>4105744
That's like asking if we would hire a carpenter. Yes, if I need a carpenter's services. No if I don't. Personally, I don't need anything done by a trad artist, so I wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.4105821]

>>4105190
Lmao no

[Anonymous No.4106030]

I want to use this straight line pattern to emulate fabric in photoshop. I'm using the pattern as a smart object with overlay. When I transform warp the pattern to follow the form, it seems like it's using nearest neighbor resampling making it look aliased. I want smoother resampling. I notice you can choose something other than nearest neighbor when you transform a raster layer, but it doesn't give me that option with a smart object. It would be nice if I could keep it as a smart object just so I can adjust it later on if I need to. I tried blurring, but it looks bad. I was thinking maybe there was a way to do this when rasterizing the smart object, but I don't think it gives you that option anywhere.

[Anonymous No.4106037]

>>4106030
Nevermind, I'm dumb and didn't realize you had to change it in preferences.

[Anonymous No.4106042]

What artbook/guide would you recommend for heads/faces?

[Anonymous No.4106096]

is there a good resource online to learn in depth anatomy for artist ? (not a medical one)

[Anonymous No.4106105]

>>4106042
Anatomy of Facial Expression, it's on LibGen. Teaches anatomy of the head and how the face moves in different emotions. Pick it up once you have some fundies down and need more in depth resources.

>>4106096
Learn to draw a skeleton. Then look up the muscular system, and go in to each muscle you see and pull up a few pictures of it showing its origin and insertion. Study major muscles until you know where they come from and go to, then study reality references to view them in context.

[Anonymous No.4106114]

>>4106105
>Teaches anatomy of the head and how the face moves in different emotions.
Wonderful, thank you

[Anonymous No.4106246]

So I'm doing figure drawing again after not having done any for a while. How important is it to get all the measurements precise?

Goal is to draw from imagination, so I'm not sure how useful it is to look for flat relationships, distances, angles, pos/neg space on the reference all the time.
So is it something like you have to do two different kinds of figure drawing, one where you check and measure everything to sharpen your senses of proportion, and another where you use a more gestural + structural approach to train your ability to construct the figure gradually? If so, how would you balance these two to get an effective learning experience?

[Anonymous No.4106258]

What does the word 'orbiter' mean? Is it an obsessive,rapid fan?

[Anonymous No.4106280]

>>4106258
An Orbiter is someone that hangs around another person in order to get closer to them over a longer period of time.
It usually is used for guys that become friends with girls with the end goal being to get them to sleep with them.
I suppose you could see it as an obsessive fan in some way.

[Anonymous No.4106293]

Is it possible to learn to draw using only a tablet?
I'm thinking about buying one because I am ashamed when someone sees my drawings and this way I would be able to draw anything without people seeing it. It's not that I draw some weird stuff, it's because I'm starting and it all looks like shit.
Anyone done it this way?

[Anonymous No.4106295]

>>4106258
The same as artificial satellite, usually for craft orbiting other bodies than Earth.

[Anonymous No.4106302]

>>4106293
Yes it is, but try to learn at least the very basics with pen and paper, just to have a reference point of what drawing is supposed to be like.

[Anonymous No.4106323]

How do you submit art to galleries/exhibits? Do you do it online or show up in person?
And for trad. where can I sell the original?

[Anonymous No.4106336]

Do you think it's bad when there is an obvious influence of another artist in your art? I mean like really obvious.
My problem is, that the stuff I want to draw just simply already has been done. I just can't find an "original" style. All the good stuff has already been done.
I also don't want to draw stuff I actually don't want to draw, just simply for the sake of being "original".

[Anonymous No.4106337]

>>4106323
>How do you submit art to galleries/exhibits? Do you do it online or show up in person?
Usually for large exhibitions you can submit them online for pre-selection, then if they are not declined you'll be asked to show them in person. But it depends on the exhibition. Read the exhibition's website.

>And for trad. where can I sell the original?
You can sell works at galleries, or through sites.

[Anonymous No.4106338]

I've never read an art book completely. Should I start off with Loomis, or is there a more /beg/ book?

[Anonymous No.4106339]

>>4106336
It's okay when you're a beginner (as in, beginning your career), you can develop your style over time later.

[Anonymous No.4106352]

>>4106302
What basics are we're talking about? I did few lessons of drawabox and some book on perspective plus redrawing some sketches that I found and liked on internet.
Also is huion any good? It's very cheap and people on youtube seem to love it (but they probably got it for free so I can't trust them)

[Anonymous No.4106363]

>>4106336
Marshall and Proko on draftsmen podcast where talking about adopting your art parents, saying that you should definitely steal from other artists, but you should pull from multiple places. Take at least 3 primary influences, find different things you like from each of them and mash them up together to eventually brew your own style.

[Anonymous No.4106423]

>>4106352
>Also is huion any good?
Huion is great. I bought a Huion Screen tablet last June and I've had nothing but great things to say about it.

[Anonymous No.4106440]

>>4106352
>What basics are we're talking about? I did few lessons of drawabox and some book on perspective plus redrawing some sketches that I found and liked on internet.
That's good enough, but keep doing simple stuff like this from time to time on paper.

>Also is huion any good?
The screenless tablets are quite good for a beginner, I've tested the one in your pic (I think), and it feels more or less the same as my Intuos Pro, minus the touch controls and the eraser. The materials feel rather cheap, but that's fine for how little it costs in comparison.

I've tested the screen tablets too, and wouldn't recommend them unless you absolutely can't draw on a screenless tablet (and I mean after a weeks of practice, because it does take some time to get used to). They have noticeable parallax, and one of the tablets I tested didn't register light pressure at all. Maybe it's just a quality thing overall, and can happen in any random Huion, I don't know. I don't even know if the problem was with the tablet or the pen. Then again, they cost half as much as Wacoms, and generally aren't that bad. But still, don't buy a screen tablet as your first tablet, except maybe an ipad with the pencil.

[Anonymous No.4106459]

Is drawing sexy stuff (erotic but not blatant porn) gonna get me commissions? I don't even have any account on social media yet but my subjects of drawings feel too scattered to attract consistent fanbase and later maybe set up some shop with merch. Having one style and theme would be more directed towards business. It would be a fun project but I'm also sexually suppressed and barely draw sexy stuff because of that(kek). I kind of want to break out of this chain and thrash my insecurity. I like drawing cute stuff sometimes but making it my main project would be an artistic castration, I'm way too edgy for that, while doing erotic art seems so wild and refreshing. Any serious thoughts and insights welcome

[Anonymous No.4106477]

What's the legal situation of using photos I found on Google as reference for finished works? If I tried to sell a painting that used a headshot or a mugshot as reference, could I be in legal trouble?

[Anonymous No.4106517]

>>4100613
if a /beg/ gives you a crit that's just fundamentally fucking wrong is it worthwhile to explain to them why they're wrong & hope they learn something from the explanation or does that just come off as thinskinned?

[Anonymous No.4106549]

>>4101672
Take the plunge: you get to practice and produce material that people will enjoy.

I rarely do fanart and every dumb sketch I make on the corner of a page becomes a new character in my mind, which makes me want to give them names, backstories, make an entire fully animated 2-cour anime just to develop them.

It's very tiresome, I don't have time to spare on so many characters, and no one but me gives a shit about them unless I put out 10000000 drawings of it and people start to get used to them.

Fanart will just let you focus on drawing and appeal, once the "itch" comes back and you feel like doing your characters, you'll already have made artistic gains and (hopefully) gathered a following.

[Anonymous No.4106582]

>>4101982
Walk around with a notepad and draw on random windows of time you get during the day, use your actual free time to study something new and the random windows to repeat it from memory. You can also use the study time to check what you've done wrong on your impromptu drawings.

[Anonymous No.4106598]

>>4101982
>>4106582
to add on to this, if you have a phone. 3ds etc. you can use pretty much any free moment to work on a loose speedpaint or color study

[Anonymous No.4106616]

I love wlop’s (and similar) style of coloring and want to do something close to that in my own paintings but I just feel like I just overall don’t have an eye for colors. I try to study real life and art and see colors as they truly are but whenever I start to work with a canvas I cannot pick the right colors or the right density, so I end up with wrong values and bad balance.
How should I study working with colors both in drawing and strengthening my eye for them?

[Anonymous No.4106624]

>>4106616
If it's a matter of eyeballing, you can do some training the robot way, making those color picker challenges, trying to guess hues from pictures and checking the answer, master paintings, etc.

But if it's about achieving a good piece, try to make a color sketch very early on, so you're free to experiment with very little cost (making changes is as simple as scribbling a new blob with a brush).
You do have to have something in mind to do this, though. Otherwise, you'll have to use pre-made palettes or look at photographs/other paintings that have the same mood you want to go for. Take notes of color relationships and predominance.

Here's a sketch Vs. finished thing I did from imagination.

[Anonymous No.4106639]

>>4106624
Gotta try some of those training methods. I do some color picking already but maybe I really need to start to shamelessly pick them apart.

Also yours looks really good. I also do the same thing where I lay down some colors in sketch but when I start to actually paint a piece the colors that I laid down, no longer work, so I end up tweaking and tweaking till the end of it. I don’t even really know myself what goes wrong. It’s like the colorless canvas just blinds me for the other colors so I don’t see them for what they are. I try to draw on gray canvas to help me with it but it still happens.

[Anonymous No.4106659]

>>4106323
Contact the galleries/exhibits and ask, they're all different. An exhibition usually has a theme, so they'll have information to submit a portfolio. A galllery will have at least someone on staff who chooses the artists to display, or they lease space out, and it's up to them if they think your work will sell to their market. They're looking for commissions, so you have to fit them and their customers.
>And for trad. where can I sell the original?
Galleries, agents, or yourself. Or art fairs, or flea markets, or online. Saatchi is a good place for that.
https://www.saatchiart.com

[Anonymous No.4106665]

Is it normal to make the biggest improvements from sudden understanding rather than continous grind?

[Anonymous No.4106673]

>>4106665
Yes, it’s like a click in your head and you realize you can actually draw/paint it without ease. I gotten this feeling multiple times but tomorrow you’ll be looking back at your work and realize how shitty it is, it means your eyes have improved in terms of what looks good or what looks bad.

[Anonymous No.4106680]

>>4106665
Thinking of practicing as a "grind" is the worst possible way to approach it. You should be studying and experimenting instead.

[Anonymous No.4106685]

>>4106477
According to the laws, yes, you could be sued. A photo has a copyright, and if your painting is so close that an average person can tell it's from the photo, a judge would most likely find for the photographer.
You generally want to get permission from the photographer before trying to sell anything where it's clearly your source.
Mugshots, depends. Federal mugshots (owned by FBI and other Federal agencies) are public domain. State owned mugshots, not always - I would run anything using a non-Fed mugshot past a lawyer before trying to sell it.
If it's for your portfolio, most likely there won't be an issue. For commercial use...no guarantees, and I'd run it by a lawyer first. Or search out images, like on Flicker, that have creative commons licenses that allow their use. You can also use Google's image search tools to look for images that are allowed to be used, but I've had some pop up that weren't free to use.

[Anonymous No.4106686]

>>4106616
Personally what helped me the most is
>Marco Bucci videos
>limit your gamut
>it's much more important to think in terms of this is warmer or cooler, rather than this is warm or cool
>use more grays and hues of grays
>use high saturation in dark shadows
>high saturation and pushed values can be used to define focal elements
>atmospheric perspective averages saturation and luminescence, dulls everything to gray

[Anonymous No.4106712]

>>4106665
spaced repetition will lead to sudden
understanting(a.k.a the aha moment) but not always tho
one easy way to get the aha moment is to do something not related of what you are studying at the moment, like taking a walk for example
i recommend you reading pic related

[Anonymous No.4106868]

I want to propose a collaborative illustration book. Each artist contribute with 1 illustration, all under the same universe/theme.
The content would be politically incorrect, but SFW.

I have no followers or art friends.
Would /ic/ be a good place to try and organize the project?

Pic somewhat related.

[Anonymous No.4106912]

>>4100620
If you're furry, yeah, tons of OCs to go around. If not, take a look at NSFW webcomics like The Rock Cocks or Slipshine. Slipshine in particular looks like it has a neat set up from a business point of view- it has a variety of original stories but you can only see the opening pages before you have to pay.

>>4101034
I think I've said that "less competition for me" line on here at some point. I don't believe that, it's logically unsound and morally disgusting, but it was the nastiest thing I could think of that would work as a response.
Could well be that whoever you're thinking of does like art but was just being spiteful.

>>4105190
No, pic

>>4106517
If you're right, does it matter? Even if he doesn't learn there are others in the thread.
It would probably depend on how you're arguing I guess.

[Anonymous No.4106915]

>>4106868
>The content would be politically incorrect, but SFW
>Pic somewhat related
I hate it already! But you know, fortune, the bold, etc.
Give it a really good elevator pitch ("high concept"/something that immediately makes whoever hears it imagine their own story) and present it with charisma.

[Anonymous No.4107094]

Can I buy a newer pen for an older tablet and get new features?

Huion makes 2 upgraded versions of my Giano tablet. So there's a Pen with better pressure, and one with Tilt, for later versions of my tablet.

If I bought a replacement pen with, say, Tilt support like in the "V2", would it work?

[Anonymous No.4107273]

How do I download all the images in a thread at once, is there some script or extension that'll do it for me super easily? I've done some searching but it seems a lot of the stuff I've found on the surface is either broken or works poorly. For inspo threads and image dumps specifically.

[Anonymous No.4107277]

>>4107273
DownThemAll for Firefox.

[Anonymous No.4107281]

>>4107277
looks good, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.4107322]

>>4101273
This list is horrible. You will fail.

[Anonymous No.4107381]

>>4100628
HOLY SHIT !

[Anonymous No.4107383]

>>4100682
klek

[Anonymous No.4107656]

Does air drumming to power metal with my tablet pen fuck up the inner mechanisms?

[Anonymous No.4107777]

any books on how to draw hair?

[Anonymous No.4107822]

What was the name of that one site that had 3-d models for you to draw in interesting poses. You could select a mood and everything and it would show you some pictures corresponding to this.

[Anonymous No.4108092]

>>4100613
What's a practical way to make complex patterns on warped surfaces?
Pic related.

[Anonymous No.4108119]

>>4100613
is deviantart an ok place to share your art, or is it still a festering shithole for fetishists, furries and 12 year olds?

[Anonymous No.4108212]

>>4105907
If someone DID become proficient without ever developing a style, what would that look like? Why is it bad?
I can never get a straight answer out of these threads. Would it block you from getting good?

[Anonymous No.4108234]

>>4108092
draw the pattern out normally, then clipping and liquify tool

[Anonymous No.4108265]

How do i into digital art and art in general again, ive not drawn for a year but want to get back as i want to do it and pursue an art related course at uni. How does someone start this huge task, and how to improve fastest, i have only a year to get decent at this

[Anonymous No.4108299]

>>4100613
How do I actually draw something?

I've been practicing everything i can, and been doing everything that gets commonly thrown around; simple shapes, perspective, drawing from life, etc. all the "fundamentals" you always hear about.

I've improved in those regards and can more accurately capture things I can see and emulate, but I haven't created any original content, I just don't know how to start. It feels like there's some hidden step between the fundamentals and drawing from imagination, it's driving me nuts

[Anonymous No.4108384]

>>4108212
Style usually forms by itself, or it's intentional choices made by the artist. I knew early on the kind of work I wanted to do, so I focused on developing the skills to try the styles it would require, and by trial and error found the styles that I'm good at, and I think look good.
What are your goals, as an artist? Usually people that don't develop a style don't have a goal, or vision for their work, they focus all on technique, but never work on the expression they can do with the tools of technique.
And, it's not necessarily "bad", as illustrators often have to mimic styles that are trendy, or have a couple of different styles they can apply to a client's job. "Good" is relative - you can be technically proficient, but with no creativity or ideas it's just well drawn. Art is the tools and the ideas, it's a synthesis. A lot of focus here is on technique, which is understandable, but someone who gets to any level of proficiency, and hasn't developed a style yet, just needs to start forming an idea of what to do with that proficiency, or just be a pencil for hire and do whatever style the customer wants.
Make sense?

[Anonymous No.4108390]

>>4108299
Original works starts with the idea. Imagination is a muscle, too, you need to work it out and grow it.

Start simple, like everything else. Come up with an idea, try to create a finished drawing for it. For instance, take your favorite book, and draw a scene from it. Or make an album cover. One exercise we had to do in illustration class was take a phrase, like "don't cry over spilt milk", and illustrate it.
It's common to feel overwhelmed. You can do anything, but there's so much choice you're letting anxiety take over. Pick something, make a drawing. Make it something you're into - a card game design, or a video game cover. Just something. The first one is the hardest.

[Anonymous No.4108463]

>>4108390
Thanks for the advice, I'll give those a try.

[Anonymous No.4108465]

>>4108212
>If someone DID become proficient without ever developing a style, what would that look like?
What do you mean by this? You can work as hard as you want capturing things as realistically as possible and you'd be okay, because if you can master life, you can apply that knowledge to literally anything you put your mind to. You're overthinking it. Just focus on getting good at drawing what you see. You'll naturally start to pick and choose what you like/dislike, and once you have a good visual memory developed from observational drawing, it'll become easier to draw from imagination and your own interpretations of certain shapes or patterns will develop. If you feel like you don't have a unique style that you're in love with, you just need to be patient and study until you find an approach and method that makes it seem effortless to render anything. So basically, DRAW YOU FUCKING FAGGOT. If you don't know what to draw, draw whatever is in front of you or even a picture from your phone. There are literally no excuses. Draw and draw until you're forced to be confident in your abilities. Then and only then will your style find you.

[Anonymous No.4108490]

I I really like being able to blend color and have kind of a "texture" when I paint, I tried Acrylics but they dry too fast for me, is there some kind of alternative or do I just have to nut up and buy oil paint?

[Anonymous No.4108542]

>>4108490
You can buy a "retarder" that you mix with and it will slow down the drying time of acrylic! Still not as long as oils, but a considerable difference.

[Anonymous No.4108579]

What is the difference between figure drawing and gesture drawing?

[Anonymous No.4108583]

>>4108265
Grind

[Anonymous No.4108588]

>>4101034
Because the fun to draw porn

[Anonymous No.4108608]

What did you guys use for the viewfinder and plastic shit for drawing on the right side of the brain?

[Anonymous No.4108611]

>>4100771
same I opted to basically drop it, was kinda neat at first but got old fast and I’d rather read other things that have more benefit or that are more my style

[Anonymous No.4108654]

>>4102885
Color and Light a Guide for the Realist Painter
by James Gurney

[Anonymous No.4108656]

>>4102945
single quick gestural line for each curve/edge

[Anonymous No.4108665]

>>4100613
What are some tips for drawing the chest and stomach area? I'm absolutely terrible at it.

[Anonymous No.4108677]

>>4102885

gurney's books are better just as a reference to come back to for specific concepts rather than a point by point guide on how to start painting imo.

huevaluechroma.com
tonko house schoolism class has lots of exercises. they focus a lot more on diffuse lighting than other courses i've seen.
try to start doing still lifes and plein air paintings every day if you have the time, even if it's just 15-30 minutes doing color or value sketches. get a painting app for your phone, 3ds, vita etc as well and use that to do quick studies of any interesting lighting you come across day to day. that's what gave me the biggest color gains.

[Anonymous No.4108678]

>>4104078
could just draw a conventional sexy bra but made of seaweed

[Anonymous No.4108707]

>>4108092
Your pic looks like it was drawn by hand, but you can use the warp transformation.

[Anonymous No.4108714]

>>4106336
try drawing something realistically and keep redrawing it with more and more iconic/abstract until you find something you like. every style you have ever liked has its roots in the real world

[Anonymous No.4108744]

>>4108384
>>4108465
I know that isn't how it works, don't worry.
I guess my question is, if these threads keep getting made they must be playing on some sort of lingering doubt. What are they scared of?

>>4108299
>direction
Here, illustrate this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqU7W8LdRd4

>halp (comic)
if you don't know how to begin chapter 1, do chapter 3- common writing tip.

>halp (art)
If you right click on your desktop you can make a .txt file, write ideas down as you come up with them. I do it for carving and I find it works quite well, it's surprisingly hard to come up with shapes that can fit inside a branch.
If you genuinely can't think of anything then make a reference of something famous. Pieta?

[Anonymous No.4108754]

>>4106336
idk where it was but mullins talked about how he saw himself as a method-painter & just tries to do things like the classical artists he admires would've

[Anonymous No.4108766]

>>4107094
Hardware wise maybe. Driver wise prob. not .

[Anonymous No.4108819]

Where can I find an interactive 3D color system, like the Munsell sphere? The few I've found so far are really useless

[Anonymous No.4108836]

>>4108677
That book still has no scans huh?

[Anonymous No.4108870]

Would it be better to learn on paper or a digitizer, or is it really just down to preference?

[Anonymous No.4108923]

>>4101034
I want to draw sexy anime girls riding on mechs

[Anonymous No.4108937]

>>4104086
>>4104087
thanks, i'll try these

[Anonymous No.4108939]

>>4101811
>>4106549
appreciated
guess i'm drawing self indulgent garbage for a few

[Anonymous No.4109157]

>have to get a job sometime soon
>think I'll have very little time to divide into drawing, working out, reading, etc
>lose motivarion because I feel I'll never get good due to not enough time/motivation to draw while wageslaving
how do i escape this

[Anonymous No.4109159]

I just started a job with someone for a fetish porn comic. The comic has 12 pages. They were originally offering $50 per page, but we agreed on $60 per page. So in total it would be $720. I was just given the first payment for half of the pages... $250. That's only half of $500, not $720... that would be about $41 per page. Even less than they originally offered.

How do I bring this to their attention and remind them that we agreed on more...? I hate to have to do this and I don't know how to say it, but there's no way this job is worth that.

[Anonymous No.4109168]

>>4100613
how to render? I don't really understand the question myself, just are there basics to rendering?

[Anonymous No.4109186]

>>4109168
If only someone wrote a book explaining that particular question...

[Anonymous No.4109191]

>>4109159
>for a fetish porn comic
>How do I bring this to their attention
"Hey faggot that's not what we agreed on"

[Anonymous No.4109202]

>>4108870
IMO paper is better to start the fundamentals cause it registers your mistakes and improvement. Using digital you might delete the drawings you don't like/ctrl+z all the time and get frustrated without perceiving the improvement.

[Anonymous No.4109276]

>>4100613
hey im having a problem with krita. my color wheel is acting weird and I wonder how to reset it. really need help cause I cant color anymore and I tried to reinstall krita and I still having the same problem :(

[Anonymous No.4109280]

>>4100613
Why aren't you supposed to color pick in painting studies?

[Anonymous No.4109357]

Maybe i'm using CPS the wrong way but when ever i do my lineart it looks shit i don't understand, right now i'm using autodesk sketchbook and it's so much better wtf ??? maybe i'm just retarded

[Anonymous No.4109364]

I don't know why I'm having so much trouble. I want to have a pen like this in an art program besides drawr.

It's basically just the pen set to like a half opacity, and the more you colour onto it with the same pen it gets darker and darker.

I use drawr for digital painting http://drawr.net/
and that's what this has. I haven't such luck trying to imitate this in other art programs like AZ painter or SAI. I've used layers, but shouldn't have to since drawr doesn't use layers at all. Drawr is going to be ending soon so would like to be able to paint like this in another program

[Anonymous No.4109388]

>>4109364
Isn't this just a flow settling

[Anonymous No.4109394]

>>4109276
Maybe you set something weird in your settings?

[Anonymous No.4109398]

>>4109364
Just use opacity jitter in Photoshop or set the brush to multiply if you dont want to use pen pressure to control opacity.

[Anonymous No.4109400]

>>4109280
Because the colors in your reference are the result of blending other colors and yours will not look right if you don't learn to recognize colors by eye and learn to blend colors yourself.
You make a gradient from two colors, not the seven million you could pick from the original.

[Anonymous No.4109402]

>>4109364
You just described it. Just set the opacity to half. Try other blending modes if you want it to get infinitely dark.

[Anonymous No.4109439]

>>4109364
https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/brushes/brush_settings/opacity_and_flow.html

[Anonymous No.4109490]

>one year after tumblr purge
>2k followers on twitter
>~150 on newgrounds
What the fuck, I just checked tags and I can't find my own art, I'm sure I was scouted but when I click the link it says that user haven't scouted you, and I cant even tell if its true or not

[Anonymous No.4109500]

>>4109439
thank you this one worked (I've never used Krita before so I'll play around with it. Right away it was able to do what SAI and others couldn't that I had)

[Anonymous No.4109634]

>>4109394
I still have the same problem. how do I completely reset krita. tried uninstall and reinstall and I still have the same problem. dont know if krita has crashed or something

[Anonymous No.4109641]

>>4109634
https://docs.krita.org/en/KritaFAQ.html#resetting-krita-configuration

Also, ask on the Krita forum.

[Anonymous No.4109740]

what are the fundies again?
perspective and what else?

[Anonymous No.4109749]

>>4109159
Man up. It's business, not personal. Address it, and don't start work on anything until it's resolved.

"Hey, we agreed on $720 for the final cost of this, and I asked for a 50% deposit, will you be sending the rest of the deposit later? I will start work once I receive it."

Doesn't have to be drama, even though you know it will be, because he's being shady from jump. This is why we have contracts, that spell everything out, agreed on and signed before any work is done.
You're not the first person to have to go through this, we all learn it. Most people will always try to rip you off, you have to always be on guard and politely call them out, until it's time to not be polite. No, it's not fun, but my dude, it's your time, your effort, your talent. Fuck this dude. He pays, or he doesn't get his fetish porn. You have to tard wrangle those dudes, which is why I've never even considered entering that world. (I know a couple people who do other kinds of work in the fetish world, being a cheapskate seems to go hand in hand with fetish, it's bizarre.)
Stand up for yourself. Nobody else will. This isn't your fault, he's trying to rip you off - develop a thick skin when it comes to your business, you have to.

[Anonymous No.4109951]

>>4108542
I tried some out, it's perfect! Thanks a lot

[Anonymous No.4110133]

What's up with Pixiv artists posting several unrelated images in one submission? Is it some faux pas to release them all as separate works at once, or something?

[Anonymous No.4110371]

>>4109740
read the sticky

[Anonymous No.4110378]

What's the meaning of this image?

[Anonymous No.4110383]

>>4110378
Blind people are pedo's that people ignore.
People will only care about a crying child if his clothing matches their clothing or hair colour.

[Anonymous No.4110423]

>>4110378
no love (indifference), blind love (true love), superficial love (based on looks and wealth)? That what i got from it, kids os just an easier subject to deliver the message with

[Anonymous No.4110608]

did rolf harris paint his own paintings or hire someone to do them for him?

[Anonymous No.4110701]

where to look to learn jewellery design?
not the making part, only the design

[Anonymous No.4110765]

>>4110701
Don't a lot of big brands have like 3d models to view them ?
Think of stuff like Tiffany or Swarofski but each brand has it's own designs.

[Anonymous No.4110839]

>>4110608
Why would you think he hired someone?

[Anonymous No.4111124]

>>4110701
Most jewelry designers I know taught themselves. Jewelry is more fashion than art, really. I guess you could just study different styles and eras?

[Anonymous No.4111129]

I feel like my rendering and general flow of drawing is ok, but my proportions and perspective is lacking. What method would be the best to practice this? With emphesis on not making figures too stiff.

[Anonymous No.4111175]

>>4110378
are you sure that isn't some kind of anime fanart?

[Anonymous No.4111180]

>>4110423
What if the kid smelled good? Kind of like the equivalent of being visually superficial.

[Anonymous No.4111181]

>>4107656
Get a seperate tablet and do a stress test.

[Anonymous No.4111500]

Anyone know any good books on how to render in pencil? Or what methods are best to practice to get better at it? I use a blending stump but that only gets me so far.

[Anonymous No.4111504]

>>4100613
Can someone send me some simple coloring tutorials because once I finish a drawing I want to shade it or use a Copic brush and give it some life

[Anonymous No.4111530]

*Made a thread for this but I figured I'd post in this thread and the anime study one as well for more opinions

I am a beginner artist so this may be a pretty dumb question. Do artists that make stylized art like manga (the more realistic kind) usually base their characters off of real people? Take pic related for example, do you think the artist based this off of someone? Or is it possible to invent a character this detailed without any real life reference? Just something I've wondered about. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.4111534]

>>4111500
>https://archive.org/details/sketchingrenderi00guptuoft/page/n6

[Anonymous No.4111843]

>>4110839
watching his bbc painting programs they try to cut around his painting as much as possible, film it from weird angles, and just not include much. then it will jump back to his canvas and theres much more there than before, hell say finished, then turn to the camera to monologue about the topic of the episode.
its weird.

[Anonymous No.4111857]

>>4111530
Depends on the artist. Your pic is not very detailed, has a standard pose and standard lighting, and a pretty generic face. Refs are usually used for lighting, clothing, complex poses and such. If the artist has a lot of experience painting faces then it'll be easier for them to just paint something like that from imagination.

[Anonymous No.4111864]

>>4111530
You build a visual library from things you see, and your imagination utilizes your visual library to combine/alter things to make something new.

Same thing that applies to costumes applies to faces, artists often create faces from features they're familiar with, although as with most things references make them look more believable. Not references in the sense of drawing from the reference directly, but using the reference as an informant of realistic shapes and forms.

[Anonymous No.4112038]

Any tips for slowing down? I tend to go too quickly and end up overlooking correct proportions and volumes.

[Anonymous No.4112063]

>>4112038
uhhhhhh any tips for eating my food i always swallow without chewing and i choke a lot uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh any tipppssss??????????????????????????/ any books i could read on not being a retard uhhhhhh


that's you

[Anonymous No.4112076]

>>4112063
fuck off retard, it's a legitimate question. go away if you're not going to answer questions in a shitty question thread.
>>4112038
practice contour drawing with just a pen. even better, do blind contours, because you it will force you to slow down and really look at what you're drawing. just keep doing that until you get a feel for making every stroke purposeful and deliberate.

[Anonymous No.4112079]

>>4112063
>lmao just draw what you see
One of the most important things I've learned while drawing is that your brain gets in the way often. If there are tricks you can use to sight size correctly, then I'm just wondering if there are tricks to develop patience.

>>4112076
I've only done a couple of blind contour drawings when I first started, but I guess it would be a good thing to try again. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.4112404]

i recently ordered a wacom small tablet but im having second thoughts about it because of the small workspace it has for my wrist. it might cause me to have a carpal tunnel syndrome. should i have gotten the xp-pen deco01 instead?

[Anonymous No.4112555]

>>4112404
Wacom is a pretty good brand though so it's not like you bought something shitty.
The most important thing to remember is to make strokes from the shoulder, that way you wont get carpal tunnel.

[Anonymous No.4112656]

Is dbz a good animu to watch while learning a bit about anatomy? The anatomies drawn seem to be technically correct to my eyes (muscle placement and attachments and so on) but as i said i'm just a beginner.

[Anonymous No.4112671]

>>4112656
watch it if it is fun, for no other reason. dont try to learn anatomy anywhere other than a textbook

[Anonymous No.4112728]

>>4112656
DBZ has pleasing muscular bodies but probably a little on the animu side as far as being technically correct.
For example look at goku's shoulders when fighting freeza in SSJ1 form, they're huge.
All popular shonen anime does this simply because big chunky muscles are more pleasing to look at, so pick one you enjoy watching/reading and try and copy characters and poses or make new ones (we really need more muscular saiyan women).

[Anonymous No.4112795]

Whats better cute horror art or creepy horror art?

[Anonymous No.4112866]

>>4112795
depends on target audience lol

[Anonymous No.4112905]

How do you guys do layering? I'm not sure how to refine each layer and increase the details.

[Anonymous No.4112938]

what network network is sc an abbreviation for?

[Anonymous No.4112940]

>>4112938
i don't mean soundcloud btw

[Anonymous No.4112956]

Anyone have that small chart of essential artbooks?

[Anonymous No.4113040]

>>4100613
How should I go on about practicing? I keep drawing faces all day, feels like I'm doing no progress.
Also, what should I draw? I just sketch all day and when I try to actually draw something my mind goes blank.

[Anonymous No.4113103]

I struggle to draw more than once a day how do I do more

[Anonymous No.4113108]

>>4113040
You have an entire world to draw. Draw a toaster. You'll learn something, period.
Have a concept. If you can't think of one, make a cover for your favorite book. Not every artist is an author. A lot of artists illustrate ideas of other people. The classical painters tried to illustrate concepts from philosophy, or historically important moments, or just myths. Go get a book on Greek or Roman mythology and do an illustration for it, or translate one into a comic format. It'll be good exercise for your brain.

[Anonymous No.4113109]

>>4113040
Finish the sketches draw bodies to go with the heads
When your mind is blank draw a head except to the best of your abillity create a character with all the studying you've been doing

[Anonymous No.4113236]

>>4112656
it's a good starting point to copy if you want, but
>watch
you ain't gonna learn shit without doing.

[Anonymous No.4113505]

any tutorials or books on portraying the very weird lighting on plastics, metals, glass, things like that?

[Anonymous No.4113568]

>>4113103
How long do you draw in that one period ?
Maybe break it up into smaller periods so you dont burn out too much.

[Anonymous No.4113582]

>>4108707
I was also hoping to find out how to do it by hand as well without going insane.

[Anonymous No.4113589]

>>4100613
which perspective books would u recommend to a noobie at it

[Anonymous No.4113593]

>>4113589
I would reccomend: Perspective Made Easy. I've linked the pdf. It's public domain.
https://www.pdfdrive.com/perspective-made-easy-e18826682.html

[Anonymous No.4113612]

>>4113589
how to draw

[Anonymous No.4113617]

>>4112905
That looks horrible, you have to learn how to make proper lines first.

I personally use a hard round brush with opacity/flow set to pressure, I start the sketch with its size big and I make it smaller as the sketch progresses and I make the details.

[Anonymous No.4113630]

>>4110378
It's like the guy who painted that don't want me to understand anything. He can render but he gave gigantic contrast of color and detail on stuff that I suppose should be irrelevant. Or it might be about many different characters and everything is relevant. I'm legitimately curious about how can somebody draw well but mess up composition so bad

[Anonymous No.4113642]

What should my pen pressure curve look like to make it so I have to put lots of pressure on the pen to have it draw with 100% density

[Anonymous No.4113665]

>>4113642
Also known as "The NGMI Curve".

[Anonymous No.4113792]

Hello fellow ngmi fags, how important is perspective itself?

[Anonymous No.4113835]

>>4113792
very

[Anonymous No.4114480]

>>4113792

[Anonymous No.4114534]

>>4113792
In what context?

Art is illusion. We're creating the illusion of reality, in 2D. Sometimes we need perspective to give a scene or object the visual cues for the observer to define it visually how we want or need them to. Other times, we can bend or break the rules to fit our narrative and intent. Does it need to be accurate to .0001 percent? Of course not. Do your objects and scenes need to be credible and in the ballpark for accurate perspective? Very often, yes. Can you use things like forced perspective? Yep.

TL;DR: pretty important, most of the time. Just learn it. You don't have to be a master at it, get the basics down.

[Anonymous No.4115682]

How do I find good references for the poses I want to draw? Are there any good sites for that sorta stuff?

[Anonymous No.4115926]

Anyone know what software is being used here? https://twitter.com/Inkune1/status/1100830891557961728

[Anonymous No.4115929]

I lost my stylus for my Wacom Intuos tablet; is there a cheaper alternative than the Wacom stylus? They seem really expensive.

[Anonymous No.4115968]

does anyone else feel personally attacked by their own drawings?

[Anonymous No.4115974]

>>4115929
>Reply
Nope. Wacom tech is patented, and only Wacom stuff works with Wacom. The Chinese tablets use a slightly different tech than Wacom, because of it.
Just sell some recycled cans and bottles and scrape up $30 for a new one.

[Anonymous No.4116128]

Any good resources to start learning light/shadow and rendering fundamentals?, besides doing still lifes of course.
Is How to Render good for a beginner in this topic?

[Anonymous No.4116263]

Are these actually useful?

[Anonymous No.4116349]

>>4112938
i think it stands for snapchat. lol who tf handles work through snapchat?

[Anonymous No.4116704]

How is drawing on a 2 in 1 laptop?
I need a laptop but I also want to use it for some simple 3D and 2D art and I'd like to get a 2in1 so I don't have to buy and carry around a separate tablet, but are they significantly worse or anything?

[Anonymous No.4116707]

>>4113593
thanks it is a really helpful book makes it look easier.

>>4113612
really unhelpful save it to u.

[Anonymous No.4116779]

i vaguely recall hearing someone say 'saturation' is a photoshop invented term. is that right? traditional painters call it chroma i think.

[Anonymous No.4116810]

>>4116263

Yep. I make them all the time. Framing is a legit technique.

[Anonymous No.4116818]

>>4116779
Saturation is a photographic term. Photoshop, from it's earliest days, was a digital darkroom. "Dodge" and "burn" are terms from the darkroom, too, where you'd physically adjust the film.

[Anonymous No.4116824]

>>4101034
It gives my highly functional autism a run for it's money and sates my innate desire to master one thing in particular. Variation of hobbies was never something I could do well in life, so drawing became more of a lifestyle than a hobby. In the end, I don't have things I like to draw. I'm not very imaginary of a person. But the idea of Mastery appeals to me obsessively.

Now I'm just hoping to get a chance to finish my comp sci. studies and get a break from my programmer job. It drains the life out of me. I just want to draw all day

[Anonymous No.4117276]

Where can you find cute and or provocative poses?

[Anonymous No.4117373]

what should I supplement with Keys to Drawing? I've considering skipping to the midpoint exercise and moving on since I've stuck on that book for nearly a year now, also how do I restate without it feeling like I'm petting the lines?

[Anonymous No.4117751]

Is it possible to tell with the naked eye whether a piece was made using real watercolors, or digitally? I've been trying to tell whether this artist's pieces were made in photoshop or irl and then scanned but I can't (I don't draw or paint myself).

Size is too big for the board, I uploaded an example to imgur: https://i.imgur.com/B6JPxWe.jpg

[Anonymous No.4117783]

>>4117751
Me again. I've managed to see a pattern in the paper meaning it's a repeating texture so at least that part is digital. I guess the rest also is.

[Anonymous No.4117850]

What the problem with same face? Why do people hate it?

I understand that realistically there are different faces in the world.

[Anonymous No.4117853]

>>4117783
I think that's watercolor paper it tends to have a texture to it. Look at the edges and notice how they darken. I assume that's real watercolor.

[Anonymous No.4118376]

>>4106293
what? just put the drawing in the trash. Are you looking for justification to spent money?

[Anonymous No.4118697]

> r/redditgetsdrawn full of shitty snapchat filter pics and bad angles
> pinterest is usually low-quality

Anyone got any good reference megas?

[Anonymous No.4118701]

>>4117373
Once you can copy a reference to reasonable accuracy with correct proportions and shading, move on. That's all the book teaches you.

[Anonymous No.4118738]

>>4100613
Is freehand drawing a good way to get started and build up fundies?

[Anonymous No.4118851]

Hey /ic/, I have been trying to remember the name of an old art app for a few days now.

It was pretty big on mobile devices back in like 2010ish or around that time. In the app you could draw and paint etc, but it also had a built in social media platform where you could share your works, view other peoples stuff, comment, follow etc.

I'm pretty sure the app is no longer on google play or the app store, but I remembered its existence recently and wanted to follow up and see what happened with it. Was kinda how I got into drawing and stuff.

The only other relevant info I can think of is the logo. It was something along the lines of a color wheel/rainbow spiral that converged into the point of a pencil. Other than this I am drawing blanks (no pun intended).

Thanks for any help.

[Anonymous No.4119010]

I want to stream my drawings. But when I draw I don't see any comments people post to my stream, because they're hidden by my drawing program in fullscreen mode (my laptop is small and working fullscreen is the most comfortable).
Is there any way to avoid this? Some plugins to let me see just the chat from picarto.tv? Or should I just bite the bullet and stop working in full screen?

[Anonymous No.4119012]

>>4100613
I’m on Newgrounds. If I want to go back to being “unscouted”, is that possible to do?

[Anonymous No.4119014]

>>4115968
You usually wouldn’t unless you’re a masochist?

[Anonymous No.4119015]

>>4119010
I've seen artists use their smart phones to check the comment sections. Because their computer is either out of the screen (I watch trad painters) or probably doing what you are doing.

[Anonymous No.4119020]

>>4119015
That's a great idea! Thank you so much, Anon!

[Anonymous No.4119023]

>>4118738
Yes, it is; the more time you spend freehand the better.

[Anonymous No.4119228]

>>4118851
guy who posted this here.

after extensive research, digging up some old email accounts, downloading and checking my itunes app history, and for the sake of closure;

I found the app. Drawcast. Turns out, it is still alive and kicking, but only on apple devices. Also it is now a hot bed for sjw propaganda and the likes. It is quite sad how far it has fallen. It may even be Tumblr 2.0

[Anonymous No.4119312]

Retarded question here, unironically what does pyw means. I'm kind of new in this board.

[Anonymous No.4119314]

How the fuck do I approach hands? I REALLY want to learn them, and have been trying to draw them but I don't know how to properly construct.

What's a RECOMMENDED video/book/whatever to get the ball rolling? Please /ic/ I need help

[Anonymous No.4119318]

>>4119312
it means post your work

[Anonymous No.4119320]

i've pushed everybody out of my life, never had any friends, art friend. im a massive douchbag online telling ppl to kys lol and shit posting so much. at what point do you give up on trying to be a better person?

not an incel becasue ive never asked a girl out or tried to date. i wouldn't want to hook up with anyone now anyway, in this mutty society. everybody smokes weed and prays to jesus. at what point do i just stop trying to be a better person?

this is art related because i cant get followers being a douche bag all the damn time. irl im different but online its like im some kind of demon. and ppl get the wrong idea about me and my art.

[Anonymous No.4119321]

>>4119318
Thanks I feel even more retarded now

[Anonymous No.4119611]

>>4117751
That's probably real, the way the paint dried is pretty hard to recreate digitally.

[Anonymous No.4119959]

is it worth it to upgrade from small digital tablet to a medium or large tablet ? and should i go for xp-pen or wacom ?

[Anonymous No.4120033]

I typically pull alot of all nighters to finsih specific drawings. Is this a normal thing for an to artists do?

[Anonymous No.4120284]

How long should I spend on a single drawing? I tend to spend too long on construction

[Anonymous No.4120409]

Help me out, anons. I keep having a rough time placing things on a face without ref. Look...

> draw circle
> eyes along some horizontal line

Now I start having problems.

> how far up are the eyebrows?
> if I split the face in thirds, I get hairline/nose/chin, but how am I supposed to split in thirds if I don't have the full face yet?
> I've done full video courses for both Huston and Vilppu ... it looks like they magically guess the height of the face then divide it in thirds. How?

With ref I can kinda figure it out after a few iterations, but I only realize something's wrong without ref once I'm in too deep.

This is so hard.

[Anonymous No.4120414]

>>4120409
I meant hairline/brows/nose/chin. Question still stands, but I wanted to clarify, I guess.

[Anonymous No.4120417]

>>4120284
Do some timed live figure drawings. Those 1 and 2 minute drawings are beast to help you break out of the "too long constructing" habit.

[Anonymous No.4120442]

>>4113630
My biggest issue is the woman in pink (or whatever color) that's in the foreground. I'm pretty sure she's not part of the story being told but she pulls so much focus.

Otherwise, yeah, there's 3 stories here. The crying hobo kid being ignored, whatever the fuck's happening on the bench, and the other crying kid who people care about because they don't look like a hobo.

Maybe the woman is part of the left-most kid's stpry, in that she's ignoring him but she's not properly composed. She's too disjointed spatially to be obviously part of that element.

I think the point the artist is trying to make is that we often ignore other people's plight just based on what they look like. And the man in the middle doesn't care because he's blind.

But honestly, it just looks like he kidnapped that girl and is smelling her hair. Pretty fucking weird way to make a point.

It's a nice painting though.

[Anonymous No.4120446]

>>4120284
As long as it takes to finish it. Don't obsess on time when you're learning, especially if you're not in a classroom. Efficiency is a product of mastery. It's normal to be slow, starting out.

[Anonymous No.4120452]

>>4120033
Sure, if you're in a groove, go with it, as long as you're not screwing your life up doing it. Back when I was trying to grow my illustration freelance work, I'd pull all nighters to make deadlines. It happens.

[Anonymous No.4120457]

>>4111843
I know you didn't ask about Bob Ross but it could be relevant. Anyway, I saw somewhere a while back that Bob Ross would make 3 paintings for each episode. One while recording, one for the "finished product" and the other I forgot why.

So that might be something to consider in your case. Maybe they're cutting around the painting and those sudden jumps in content is because there's more than one painting that he's made and they're switching to and from.

[Anonymous No.4120764]

>>4100613
Just started taking a digital painting class. Does anyone know of any good books or youtube channels to follow that can help me improve for the class?

[Anonymous No.4121109]

How do I stop drawing so small when I do traditional? I always do my sketches so small that the inked result looks like trash.

[Anonymous No.4121205]

>>4108299
why did you start drawing in the first place??
>>4110701
take a jewellery apprenticeship.
>>4121109
get larger pieces of paper and draw bigger? Maybe do a small thumbnail first if you're anxious, then blow it up on another sheet.

[Anonymous No.4121329]

I have 1 USB-C/TB3 port on my laptop

How can I run a screen tablet AND my monitor to it without lag?

[Anonymous No.4121345]

I’m not good at copying, but im good at studying and doing studies of the object via drawing it from multiple angles and drawing from imagination is much easier than just copying. What the fuck is this anons.

[Anonymous No.4121360]

>>4121329
don't use a MacBook

[Anonymous No.4121374]

Is it weird that I don't respect people who photobash some elements, throw some shit on canvas with textured brush and they call it "painting"

[Anonymous No.4121447]

>>4121360
It's not a MB, it's got lots of USB ports but the only display output is a single USBC

[Anonymous No.4121599]

Is this a good tablet? The Huion kamvas gt 191.
In b4 you say "Go WiTh WaCoM" I'm a poor fag $300 is my max. And I want to be spoiled with a screen tablet. And no one is selling used screen wacom in my area for under $300. There is one guy selling this for $300, I hope to talk him down to $275, because it's out of the box.

[Anonymous No.4121623]

For colour studies,is it best to put the refrence image in grey scale,try to mimic the values,and THEN take into consideration saturation and hue? Or is it better to do all 3 at once?

[Anonymous No.4121659]

>>4121329
If you're drawing on the tablet I don't think you'd have to worry about much lag through a USB port.
I don't think a video cable introduces much lag either (it's connected to the laptop motherboard in a similar fashion)
Is the screen broken on the laptop as to why you need to use a different monitor ?
I'd suggest as short as possible cables that you can still work comfortably with.

[Anonymous No.4121745]

>>4110133
Its faster than posting one by one and they just don't give a fuck actually

[Anonymous No.4121920]

Where’s the video thread? Don’t tell me it’s forbidden or some shit.

[Anonymous No.4121966]

>>4121599

it has a terrible contrast and the colors look bad and washy
i recommend getting XP-PEN Artist16 Pro

[Anonymous No.4122186]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLEIo-GVOVk

When did you guys stop believing the "don't use the default soft brush" meme? For real, I've been struggling with painting using only a hard brush, but then I see a video like this one and start doubting everything I've heard.

[Anonymous No.4122528]

>>4100648
>>4100682

[Anonymous No.4122566]

How can I improve my lineart skills? I can make pretty good lines in isolation, I mean I sometimes catch myself drawing from the wrist but the point is I can make good lines. the problem comes in when I actually have to start inking, following my final sketch.
My lines always seem dead, and in addition I constantly mash undo trying to perfectly go over that one beautiful curve I have in the sketch. I've tried a huge number of different brushes, small, large, opaque, sensitive to pen pressure etc. but it seems the problem lies with me. I seriously cannot make a picture that seems lively or appealing to me when I'm inking. Might be because I just trace my sketch but isn't the point of a sketch to serve as a base so you know where to put the lines?

I'm starting to think I'm just worrying too much about nothing. I mean I love other people's linework even when it has very obvious imperfections, but I can just never forgive myself when I make a mistake in my own.

[Anonymous No.4122569]

>>4122186
Use a hard edge opacity jitter brush (preferably a square one) it does 90% of what other brushes can do. All you need is opacity and pressure.

[Anonymous No.4122636]

>>4122186
Dont use soft brush isnt a meme
Most of beginers are using it for everything because they don't know that shadows, rimlights and other stuff can have hard edges and their works become smudge and shitty

[Anonymous No.4122668]

why can't western artists into magic? nearly all of them think it's arbitrary or resort to copying existing designs. there are hard rules built into color. it's not exactly impossible.

[Anonymous No.4122701]

Which book in the sticky is the best for a /beg/ like me to learn 3D form?

[Anonymous No.4122763]

>>4121599
I've been using it for about 2 years now and it's good. Cable plugs could be placed better, but it doesn't matter. One weird thing I've encountered is I have two styluses and I notice that the tablet picks up pressure differently on them even though they're identical, like one is more sensitive than the other.

>>4121966
Colors and contrast are fine. You may have this easily fixable issue with NVIDIA drivers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwr5p2c4Pd8
I had this as well, and haven't had any color issues a couple of months after getting it. Driver updates probably fixed it permanently.

[Anonymous No.4122965]

Do all display tablets require being plugged in, or do they make some you can take with you places?

[Anonymous No.4123398]

>>4122763
Thanks for this I had just bought for myself as a self birthday present. Comes in today I'm excited to get back into digital art.

[Anonymous No.4123447]

I would like to twitch stream my drawings. I don't have anyone in my chat yet but I might eventually. The problem is that I don't like to talk much and tend to be very quiet. Do I have to talk to be successful with twitch?

[Anonymous No.4123909]

Someone in class saw me drawing, and wants me to draw a picture of then and a celebrity.
I have no problem creating this drawing for them, as I think they are nice, I enjoy the process, and can use the practice.

At the same time, one could argue I'm doing shit for free that I really shouldn't, but then again it's like; I honestly don't mind, and I already draw celebrity portraits for practice from time to time.

It feels like such a non question but I need to ask— is it bad for me to do work like this for free if I literally do not mind?

[Anonymous No.4124058]

>>4122566
Can you post any examples of your lineart?

[Anonymous No.4124071]

>>4124058
Here's the most recent ones that I put a lot of effort into. By effort I mean I spent actual hours doing these, and it doesn't look like something someone put that much time into. It's stiff and the line weights are almost all the same.

Every other attempt up until this point has just been me meticulously going through the same process of going over my sketch, it's a complete chore.

[Anonymous No.4124557]

>>4100613
So if I want to have multiple art accounts, NSFW and SFW, do commissions without them intermingling I have to create multiple business paypals?
Is their anyway for money to be sent to me by using one card that doesn't show my name? Because lets say i want to make 4 art accounts all with commissions

[Anonymous No.4124615]

>>4123909
First work free if you like the request/person, but if they request multiple works, or bring friends to request stuff to you, you really should charge at least for your time.

[Anonymous No.4124663]

So basically my culture uses an alternative calendar where new years is on 9/11, the twin towers 9/11. If I made a 'happy new years!' tweet would I get some backlash?

[Anonymous No.4124947]

>>4124663
do it in your own language so amerifats cant understand it

[Anonymous No.4125107]

When you go to a community figure drawing class, are a lot of /begs/ there too or will everyone be better than me?

[Anonymous No.4125127]

>>4124615
yeah, this is what I was thinking. I'll do this one because I can, but if they asked for more I'd just be a working horse for them, ty for the input

[Anonymous No.4125134]

HOW DO I CLEAR A LAYER IN PHOTOSHOP???

In every other program its the backspace key, in photoshop it just deletes the layer...

[Anonymous No.4125478]

>>4124071
Looks fine to me, don't let /ic/'s soul/soulless memes get into your head too much. Do you have any artist goals in terms of lineart? Doxy might be a good one to study if you want to improve more.