Traditional Thread

[Anonymous No.4146134]

Post traditional art you've done, kick back, put your hands behind your head, and watch the thread slowly slip down the catalog.

[Anonymous No.4146136]

>>4146134
Make sure you sage all the posts in this thread so it dies quicker

[Anonymous No.4146145]

gouache 11x9

[Anonymous No.4146147]

gouache 11x9"

[Anonymous No.4146149]

Oil fingerpainting 14x11"

[Anonymous No.4146152]

india ink 11x9"

[Anonymous No.4146153]

oil on canvas 24x18"

[Anonymous No.4146154]

oil on canvas 36x24"

[Anonymous No.4146160]

>>4146145
This is the best one because you limited your color palette. Sunsets are pretty but there’s also a lot of beauty in the flat light of a blue sky. Don’t try to inject majesty into all of your work because it tends to make them overblown. Simplicity often has much more merit than complexity, and enhances the parts that you would like to draw attention to.

[Anonymous No.4146189]

>>4146145
>>4146154
idk anything about painting but these 2 are best

[Anonymous No.4146288]

painted this. way past the point of caring if people "get it"

[Anonymous No.4146930]

how do you guys take photos of your work?

[Anonymous No.4147506]

Does anyone know the best way or transferring a sketch on to a canvas to start painting?
I used to use graphite to sketch on the canvas but it made my colors murky.

[Anonymous No.4147511]

>>4147506
I’ve started sketching with charcoal directly onto the panel. Drawing is still really hard so it’s super messy (pic related)but it disappears with my oils. But these are just exercises so there’s that. Gonna try charcoal transfer( trace initial drawing, rub charcoal onto back of tracing paper, transfer) Then I might use India ink to fortify lines afterward. Not sure.

[Anonymous No.4147518]

why is all traditional art so boring?
can't you draw cute girls traditionally?

[Anonymous No.4147522]

>>4146288
>way past the point of caring if people "get it"
>i've given up
fix'd

[Anonymous No.4147543]

>>4147522
Ok crab

[Anonymous No.4147561]

>>4147522
Kek

[Anonymous No.4147564]

>>4147543
Holy fuck this is terrible. Just goes to show people who make "abstract" paintings do so to hide how fucking bad they are at making actual art.

[Anonymous No.4147583]

>>4147543
Art is a communicative medium. If other people don't 'get it' you're just masturbating.

[Anonymous No.4147588]

>>4147583
That would make sense if the art people “got” wasn’t anime porn

[Anonymous No.4147602]

gouache
>An Al Essa retainer of Sheikh Mazaid at the door of the Sheikh's mudhif, at Saigal, on the north-west edge of the Marshes.

[Anonymous No.4147622]

>>4147564
Brian actually has some pretty good landscapes and some great still lifes, along with some pretty impressive figure drawings. He just also has his head up his ass and might be schizophrenic or something

[Anonymous No.4147698]

>>4147602
Overdid the details of the belt when the attention should be on the face, but theres some good stuff there your colors are nice

[Anonymous No.4147722]

>>4147622
>>4147543
this is good figure drawing?

[Anonymous No.4147730]

>>4147722
Painting isn’t drawing you absolute degenerate. I could figure draw anyone on this board into an early grave

[Anonymous No.4147780]

>>4147730
>I could figure draw anyone on this board into an early grave
Show some if you've got it.

[Anonymous No.4147798]

>>4147780
Don’t mistake my lack of available models for a lack of figure painting knowledge. As the other anon said my still lifes are kino because I have longer than two hours to do them

[Anonymous No.4147802]

>>4147798
>because I have longer than two hours to do them
thanks for the giggle m8

[Anonymous No.4147805]

>>4147798
you would be valuable 300 years ago

[Anonymous No.4147839]

>>4147805
I’ll put this comment in the next OP image

[Anonymous No.4147840]

only ever use trad when my tablets not working really.

that and trad print.

1 of ? , a study for next post

[Anonymous No.4147842]

>>4147840
lino.
2 of ?

[Anonymous No.4147844]

>>4147842

[Anonymous No.4147845]

>>4147844
3 of ?

4 of ?, lithograph, with colour layers.

[Anonymous No.4147851]

>>4147845
5 of ?,
inks a few years back

[Anonymous No.4147854]

>>4147851
6 of ?
more of the same

[Anonymous No.4147859]

>>4147854
7 of 7, i feel as if i have bombed the thread, i will post more upon request.

[Anonymous No.4148817]

Don’t you die on me

[Anonymous No.4148838]

>>4147859
Really like your stuff man, keep it up

>>4148817
Same here, looks great

here's a little bit of my stuff

[Anonymous No.4148841]

>>4147730
>>4147798
>>4147543
are you that faggot who draws those terrible meme portraits?

[Anonymous No.4149012]

>>4147698
thanks for the critique. I went in with some pretty dry gouache to see what I could do.

[Anonymous No.4150010]

My submission to a local contest. Black white and green shades only. 24x20”. There were a bunch of kids at the gallery when I dropped it off. They loved it. Haha. Not sure about the adults though. There were about 75 entries and some were really good.

[Anonymous No.4150012]

>>4149012
Really good bro.

[Anonymous No.4150051]

>>4150010

Nice work, my dude. Really like the colors and the mood.

[Anonymous No.4150149]

>>4147730
>painting isn’t drawing

Lmao this brainlet hasn’t read Alla Prima

[Anonymous No.4150389]

>>4147798
>>4147730
There are people here far better than you will ever be. The only thing they lack is your hubris.

[Anonymous No.4151067]

>>4150389
ok

painted this outside tonight

[Anonymous No.4151290]

Small thing I did today because I couldn’t work on my two other things cause they are still wet and I NEED to be painting as much as possible. This is the first pass. I’m trying to keep with the practice going from big to little. It’s still a mystery to me if I’m learning anything or not so I’m just gonna keep painting I guess and fix some panel surface issues (absorbency) and then continue on with exercises in the book I’m going thru.

FUCK! I kinda figured it was best that I have no teacher due to the likelihood of me being stubborn and not listening but now I wish there were somebody looking over my shoulder and telling me what to do.

[Anonymous No.4151315]

>>4146134

[Anonymous No.4151318]

>>4151315
I'm a retard posted the wip version.

[Anonymous No.4151687]

I wish to abandon the line, for forms are the righteous path.

[Anonymous No.4152687]

>>4151290
You might consider some sargent moving forward on this.

[Anonymous No.4152691]

>>4151687
I do like it anon.

[Anonymous No.4152797]

>>4151067
painted the moon again tonight

[Anonymous No.4153023]

>>4152687
Dude sick af. Worked 5 hours and ended up in almost the same place as I did last night. Lol.

[Anonymous No.4153026]

>>4152687
This pic probably more viewable.

[Anonymous No.4153032]

>>4152687
Dude, sick af. I worked for 5 hours and ended up in the same place basically as I did last night lol.

[Anonymous No.4153036]

>>4152687
Dude cool af. Worked but really didn’t get anywhere.

[Anonymous No.4155606]

Breathe, damn you, breathe!

[Anonymous No.4155614]

>>4155606
the dream is dead. Anime won.

[Anonymous No.4155813]

>>4155614
smoothed some of this out

[Anonymous No.4156293]

>>4155614
you can do anime traditionally

[Anonymous No.4156306]

For the painters, what makes for the best palette?

[Anonymous No.4156312]

>>4155614
FUCK ANIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.4156315]

>>4155614
FUCK ANIME!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.4156363]

would you give up your individual art to be part of a movie machine empire?

[Anonymous No.4156369]

>>4156315
I thought this was a toe

[Anonymous No.4156524]

>>4156369
Well that’s encouraging:)

[Anonymous No.4157454]

Charcoal

[Anonymous No.4157466]

>>4157454
Very nice

[Anonymous No.4157472]

>>4157454
Like a fucking BOSS!

[Anonymous No.4157492]

>>4157466
>>4157472
Thanks anons

[Anonymous No.4157493]

>>4157492
I liek towtols
(Hi-liter)

[Anonymous No.4157494]

>>4157454
>>4157492
These are really good anon.
How long did it took for you to get to this level?

[Anonymous No.4157496]

>>4157492
nice. i really hate drawing with charcoal tho

[Anonymous( No.4157503]

Some life drawing

[Anonymous( No.4157504]

Pen and ink stuff for to

[Anonymous No.4157524]

>>4156306
What are you painting in?
Acrylic you can go from a wet paper towel in a Tupperware up to space age sponges in specifically designed air tight containers.
For oils glass is top tier for a stationary setup.
Any light wood for held pallets. Season it by sanding gently with fine grit sandpaper then use a rag+oil and let dry, repeat a few times before using it. Reapply as necessary if your coating gets damaged, you can tell because wood fibers will start being fuzzy on the surface.
Gouache/watercolor literally anything that is smooth enough and won't absorb water.

>>4156315
Your lighting isn't consistent. Think about where the light is indicated for the wall vs the stairs and what kind of geometry/lighting angle would cast that shadow on the stairs.
Try sketching this scene in 3/4 perspective real quick and adding the light source.

[Anonymous No.4157564]

painted another night sky

[Anonymous No.4158788]

>>4157524
Yeah the top is not really even started. I’m just doing this as practice to get used to oil. The top of the wall is kinda distracting, my apologies. But I did work a little more on it.

[Anonymous No.4158816]

>>4158788
love seeing the progression on this one
keep going anon!

[Anonymous No.4158883]

>>4158788
Lookin pretty good

[Anonymous No.4158885]

>>4158788
if you don't mind my asking how long have you been doing art for, sir?

[Anonymous No.4158942]

>>4158816
>>4158883
>>4158885
Wow guys. I really appreciate the feedback and encouragement. I’ve been painting, well, trying to figure out how to start since August. I tried painting a foot about a year ago and some kind anon told me to take a year and learn to draw. I still struggle with drawing to the point I almost hate it. I hate that I hate it. I gave up on my last drawing and decided to do something with simple shapes and cool values and try to learn how to apply oil paint.

[Anonymous No.4158950]

>>4157564
I wrote a lengthy post to this but I was banned once again for no reason. The colors look good, I think it would look better if there were not as many random strokes making random value changes in the sky. I think it takes the emphasis off the great colors of the moon and brings the sky too forward instead of letting the moon be dominant. Other than that, dude, keep these night paintings coming. And your last couple of podcasts were pretty funny too.

[Anonymous No.4159074]

wip. acrylic. tips?

[Anonymous No.4159103]

>>4147564
There’s nothing «abstract» about that painting

[Anonymous No.4159254]

>>4156363

It would mean I get to paint all day and be paid for it so yes. I want nothing more from my life.

[Anonymous No.4159782]

>>4147859
>>4148838
Blogs?

[Anonymous No.4159834]

>>4146145
>>4146147
>>4146152
>>4146153
>>4148817
>>4148838
>>4150010
>>4152687
>>4157454
>>4157492
>>4157493
>>4157503
>>4157564
Neat

[Anonymous No.4159846]

>>4152687
damn anon
i wanna into light like u

perspective on the last few stairs could use some work but it doesn't distract from the beauty of your render

[Anonymous No.4159852]

>>4159074
There's an obvious problem with the facial features. They look too clumped together and flat, size ratio with rest of the head is off. They don't blend well with forehead/side of head.

[Anonymous No.4159877]

>>4146134
I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. It’s just some stupid high fantasy frog fuckery. Any anons want to take this off my hands? You don’t even have to pay me. I’ll pay you to take it.

[Anonymous No.4159883]

>>4157524
I never was told to put oil on my wooden pallete. My art teacher never told me. Reading up on that makes so much more sense. Thank you!

[Anonymous No.4159936]

>>4159846
U havin a giggle m8?

[Anonymous No.4160026]

painted a nude

[Anonymous No.4160064]

>>4159846
im sure singer appreciates you opinion.

[Anonymous No.4160163]

painted the moon again tonight

[Anonymous No.4160729]

No template and pastebin on the OP?
Any suggestion about buying canvas? Are aliexpress rolls of canvas ok or garbage?

[Anonymous No.4160737]

>>4160729
not really sure what makes garbage canvas roll. I bought a roll from an ebay seller in my country, but it wasnt crazy expensive. triple gessod, good weight. still a visible texture and slight roughness though, which I have mixed feelings about.

[Anonymous No.4160862]

>>4160737
TRIPLE gessoed?!? That thing must weigh a ton

[Anonymous No.4160874]

>>4160862
well, triple primed. pretty heavy though, yeah. makes me wonder how much of what i paid was an included shipping cost.

[Anonymous No.4161539]

>>4147844
Looks great! Wish I could draw like that. My drawings always end up dirty looking and crappy. How o you get them so clean looking?

[Anonymous No.4161912]

hardground/aqt

[Anonymous No.4161919]

>>4158942
>since august
>you can paint *that*
what the FUCK am i doing with my life
i think i've finally gained enough courage to commit sudoku now

[Anonymous No.4161921]

drypoint

[Anonymous No.4161925]

>>4161921
I'm sorry but no art is worth putting my neck out to look at.

[Anonymous No.4161946]

>>4161919
Want me to tell you my secret?
Not really a secret but here’s what I did..
I drew, sightsize, the eye plate and 3 faces from the other plate (Bargue Plates) the one profile face plate with like 15 or so face profiles.
I stood back, looked, then went up to draw from memory.
I did the eye plate and the partial face plate till I got them perfect, meaning line thickness and everything. I watched The DaVinci Initiative vids on how to do them but I stood up and did them sightsize walking back and forth.
Then I drew, from life, a white iPhone box, white bowl, white ball in a still life setup from life in a shadow box. It sucked. Did it again. Made myself get it right. Values/ shading perfect. All this sightsize.
Then I bought a plastic skull off amazon and put it into my shadow box and drew it 3/4.
The proportions sucked. Turned it profile and spent about 4 months getting it right. Drawing every day between 2 to 7 hours, mostly drunk desu due to my back pain.
I still suck at drawing but now I can see. I understand values. And now colors and temperature are falling into place. My next painting will be focused on painting light.
A metal jug on the same book I had the skull on.
Working on the drawing now.

[Anonymous No.4161953]

>>4161946
P.s. I suck at drawing because I don’t keep a sketch book and never do fast drawings or sketches. I hope to change this in the future but idk. That step/ archway was obviously simple to draw due to the shapes and the fact that I drew it from photo reference. But even drawing a book 2 feet away from me, getting the angles right and the length of the lines right still stumps me. Maybe because I’m not doing my new drawing sight size. I’m standing at the drawing board/easel and remaining stationary so I can do the same when I paint. Comparative measuring/drawing is, I think, less limiting than sightsize, but sightsize has helped me see and be my own critic. Anyway....

[Anonymous No.4161954]

>>4161946
Good work anon. I remember your previous efforts.
Just a word, don't underestimate the difficulty once colour/hue and saturation get into the mix. Deciding where to make choices in changed with those, as well values choices, will make your work a whole world more difficult. Take your time with the value stage.

[Anonymous No.4162042]

nothing quite like a painting to make you feel like you suck and cant get anything right.

[Anonymous No.4162088]

>>4147543
The face is good but the body very much is not
What's happening with her haaaaaaand

[Anonymous No.4162234]

>>4157564
The colors of the moon are amazing

[Anonymous No.4162414]

>>4161954
Noted. I always get excited and pumped and a little full of myself till the next time at the easel:)
But what I was trying to get across is that by sticking to a drawing till completion, I learned tons...... probably the main thing was the NEED for the drawing to be right before the picture/ painting can look good at all.
I’m amazed at people who have been painting for decades who still haven’t taken the time to learn values, how light works, the importance of it to the readability of an image. Color is seductive and whispers that it will make everything alright and it will fix it all. It’s funny and I just thought of this.... take your typical abstract expressionist MFA today and they will paint a figure or a landscape with about the same results as granny who who never learned to draw but has been painting for 30 years. Only difference is color usually. At least that’s what I’ve seen. Well and pretentiousness:)

[Anonymous No.4162582]

a bit less than 2-hour study of a small turtle at me local zoo.

its a reasonable size

[Anonymous No.4162617]

>>4162582
Bravo! Too bad he was hiding!
I bet he thought u couldn’t see him:)

[Anonymous No.4163202]

>>4162617
Maybe he was actually posing

[Anonymous No.4163303]

went over the face and kept stuffing it up and went over it again like 3 times. this is literally the best i can do.

[Anonymous No.4163325]

>>4163303
Nope. You can do better. You di as I have done in the second pass. Wanting to put paint on everything again. Pay more attention to you values and be more strategic with your paint.

[Anonymous No.4163327]

First lay down of paint. Gonna refine when it dries.

[Anonymous No.4163366]

>>4163325
I feel against the wall in what something should look like and how well I can replicate it. Back to grinding.

[Anonymous No.4163539]

>>4163366
Work only from life for a while. Make a shadow box and put a baseball or something simple and white in it. Have a strong, single source light only hitting it. Draw it perfectly. Render the light and shadow perfectly. Take you time, a month if you have to. Then come back to painting.

[Anonymous No.4163573]

>>4163327
Screen memory

[Anonymous No.4163617]

>warm colors bring forward, cool colors receed
why did it take until a soft pastel video to hear this tidbit.

[Anonymous No.4163683]

>>4163327
>Gonna refine when it dries.
Try to go a la prima. Once you realize how easy it is to paint wet over wet, you won't put up with the slow pace of wet over dry painting any longer.

[Anonymous No.4163824]

>>4163573
Dude fuck yeah! I listen to the Sasquatch chronicles a lot while I paint and some of the confessionals. That is what I’m going for. I going to try to make the eyes a little larger and try to do something to it to make it a little less like an owl.
You have any ideas? It’s gotta be subtle.
Oh, BTW, never been abducted, but have seen a “tic-tac” up close, like 12 feet above my head.

[Anonymous No.4163827]

>>4163683
Yeah I hear you. I’m going to try to work on it tonight while it’s still wet. I was up till 5 last night working on it... well this morning.

[Anonymous No.4163860]

>>4147588
love this

[Anonymous No.4163936]

>>4163327
Nice, I love barn owls

[Anonymous No.4164485]

Charcoal

[Anonymous No.4164521]

>>4163824
Your enthusiasm is unexpected, but charming.
Right now it kinda looks to me like the eyes are concave rather than convex. I think that could be a cool effect if you pushed it further. Maybe put some slight folds or wrinkles on the twist of the neck so it looks like feather textured skin instead of actual feathers? Those might be too obvious, not sure how subtle you're going for.

How big was the tic tac? I'm jealous, I've never experienced anything out of the ordinary

[Anonymous No.4164652]

>>4164521
I wondered about your comment about my enthusiasm for a bit. I was excited someone got what I am trying to portray, not the phenomena itself. It was about 18/20 inches tall or so, and about 12 or so inches in wide. A cylinder. I was at a party, walked out of a short kinda hallway leading out of an open patio into a parking lot and noticed a bright light above. In my mind it thought, when did they install a streetlight right above this building? Boom! From being stationary, it shot out, parallel to the ground, about 15 feet away, like paused and stuttered, then blinked or went out.
I saw the same thing, along with another person, about a month later, shooting in a parallel line about 200 feet above the street, in a straight line and then do the same thing, stop on a dime, stutter, then blink out.
Did a little more. Not as loose. Gotta refine some lines that strayed (head).
Still got more to do to the eyes. Yup I am, or thought about, making the eyes seem like black pits sucking in.

[Anonymous No.4164665]

>>4164521
P.s. I also thought about somehow incorporating skin like texture to enhance the idea of deception put forth by the false memory.
Pss. I also screwed the background. I’ll probably sand it and go from there. Thanks for the suggestions and for looking.

[Anonymous No.4164919]

>>4164652
>wondered about your comment
Ha ha, sorry if it was strange but i promise there was no hidden connotation. I'd been reading a lot of bitter negativity in other threads, so I got a bit of whiplash. Thanks for sharing your experience, that's really neat. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

[Anonymous No.4165140]

>>4157496
>>4157493
>>4157494
Thanks
About 4 years but desu an average person could get there noticeably sooner by studying basic perspective, (you'll need to be able to do 2-point competently) dexterity, and form rendering. I don't really paint so you won't "need" it but it'll help you a lot. Think of painting as "drawing with paint" and drawing as "painting with ____" Prismacolor markers are great for tone (exercises too).

Treat practice like a workout. Do targeted work for a dedicated amount of time. NOT ADHD sporadic 10 minute segments, loosely connected by wherever you were thinking of at the time. No, you don't need to do it all day, but you can if you want you. You probably don't need to until 2 hours a day isn't enough.

Master studies, copies, etc are a must. If you want to learn more than 1 thing in a lifetime, you have to get it from someone else. You might as well get your info from someone skilled.

Don't be an idiot meatball like me 5 years ago and try to draw things from your head without having studied or memorized them at all. Also, watch process videos to save time and get better ideas. Whether or not you are, your competition is.

[Anonymous No.4165260]

Just posting so I can get it on my phone. Did do a little more.

[Anonymous No.4165329]

>>4165260
Are you painting from a photo?

[Anonymous No.4165331]

>>4164485
I assume this isn't finished yet?

[Anonymous No.4165652]

>>4165329
Kinda. Using mostly the reference but trying to, not make it my own, but add the idea of a false memory.
The reference is a painting by Luke hilestad. I’m not gonna post it cause my painting is embarrassing comparatively.

[Imagine the smell No.4165853]

>>4165140
Looks like she's farting.
Proportions are fucked and your masses are poorly defined.

[Anonymous No.4165947]

>>4164485
You are copying without understanding the underlying structure

[Anonymous No.4167490]

>>4146930
cameras Id say.

[Anonymous No.4168732]

from a recent commission

[Anonymous No.4168827]

Starting with all my dark values.

[Anonymous No.4168846]

Garden of the Autry Museum. Gouache on Paper.

[Anonymous No.4168849]

>>4147798
whats the source for this drawing?

[Anonymous No.4168998]

[Anonymous No.4170311]

charcoal n ink

tried to be cool w/ sacred geometry

[Anonymous No.4170322]

I Sketched a laundromat. I'll probably clean it up and paint it later.

[Anonymous No.4170330]

Nice photo retard

[Anonymous No.4170361]

>>4170330

lol ty

[Anonymous No.4170366]

>>4170322
where do you start your sketches?
Do you determine any horizon lines or just get straight in to it?

[Anonymous No.4170379]

>>4146288
that cube on the bottom right has no place there. it gives an illusion of space when everything else is abstract. also, I think it is better to paint the whole canvas, so that the glaring white is not seen from the sides, as seen on top. just paint that 2 cm or so of the sides as well and it will look more proper imo

[Anonymous No.4170393]

>>4170366

Honestly I gridded this out digitally to make sure the perspective was correct and then drew over it on a lightbox.

I like doing it that way because I can focus on adding detail and character without constantly checking to make sure if my perspective is correct.

[Anonymous No.4170619]

[Anonymous No.4171258]

I painted this thing. It started as a robot but ended up as a lizard thing in a suit.
Any feedback? I'm pretty new to watercolors and I'm not really sure how to approach subjects like these with them. How to define detail and control tone and how to fill in areas of color without them overflowing, bleeding into other areas. It's done on an A5 paper. Should I work bigger for details, it it impossible to define them on this scale? Should I use Ink or maybe strong pencil drawing? Any other tips would be appreciated. I hope it's okay if I post this here, /beg/ seems to be mostly digital oriented.

>>4170322
That looks fantastic! Absolutely love the dirty used vibe the place gives off , all the little details.

>>4168846
I like it! love the vibrant colors of the grass in the sun and the bushes in front of the rocks..

[Anonymous No.4171286]

>>4171258

>Absolutely love the dirty used vibe the place gives off , all the little details.

Thanks, when I started adding the details I was wondering how one earth to make a laundromat visually interesting. They're such boring, sterile places normally.

>love the vibrant colors of the grass in the sun and the bushes in front of the rocks

Aw thanks. I'm trying to teach myself Gouache so that I can start painting stuff from my imagination soon, but it seems like it's a better idea to paint from life until I master the medium.

[Anonymous No.4171338]

just finished up this self portrait. any one else enjoy /oil/?

[Anonymous No.4171344]

>>4171338
oops

[Anonymous No.4171347]

>>4171338

[Anonymous No.4171356]

4chan isnt for fucking trad.
go to reddit or some hole in the wall forum from 2005. not 4chan.

[Anonymous No.4171401]

>>4171356
This post is peak reddit, go back..

[Anonymous No.4171658]

[Anonymous No.4171748]

>>4171356

[Anonymous No.4171894]

>>4171658
Really nice, like the colors and the eyes look alive.
right jaw is lower than the left half, necks to thick and the angle the boob line indicates massive chest beefers, but only a crab would see the flaws.

[Anonymous No.4171999]

how would you guys "simplify" this wall right here? Can I ignore all markings and just texture it with different colors when I go over with watercolor?

[Anonymous No.4172168]

>>4171999
Nice digits.
Def ignore the texture/plants etc. Your picture will lose focus of the big shapes otherwise. See how Seago simplified.

[Anonymous No.4172254]

Still working. I may have screwed myself on the background. Gonna let dry and move to an impasto phase once I get some putty or something in. Not sure what to use.

[Anonymous No.4173101]

hnnnnngrnnnn

[Anonymous No.4173188]

is this where i can post my shitty sketches since the sketchbook thread died

[Anonymous No.4173493]

>>4173188
I stopped making them because I feel there is redundancy in regards to these threads. In the old days the Sketchbook Thread blanketed traditional medium pieces as well.
The board has fallen long ago by being overrun by the plethora of generals; segmenting the usergroup as did the Tower of Babel humankind.

[Anonymous No.4173621]

>>4173493
Ah, makes sense. I just like these threads to post and see some loose work.

[Anonymous No.4174440]

[Anonymous No.4174821]

Some self-indulgent nonsense I'm drawing.

[Anonymous No.4175073]

working on this character, I need to buy eye beads

[Anonymous No.4175077]

How much do background art cells sell for from shows? There is one I want to see if the person who made it will sell it but dont know what Iwould offer.

[Anonymous No.4175386]

>>4175077

Are you looking for an animation cel or a background?

[Anonymous No.4175403]

>>4175386
Sorry that was a bit of a confusing way to say it. It is background art used in an animation.

[Anonymous No.4175418]

>>4175403

Well, looking on Ebay the prices for animation BGs seem to be all over the place.

Some are as little as 10 bucks, and some are several-hundred dollars.

A lot of the BGs seem to come with an animation cel as well.

Really, I can't give a guess as to the value of the piece you want to buy unless I have more context.

[Anonymous No.4175425]

>>4175418
It was used in a TV movie that aired once or twice then never again and was lost until a couple years ago. The Electric Piper.

[Anonymous No.4175611]

So this is lowkey the new sketchbook thread.

[Anonymous No.4175612]

>>4175425

Hm. Offer $50 as a starting point if that's within your budget, then negotiate from there.

It's a pretty unknown movie, so there won't be a huge demand for such a thing.

[Anonymous No.4175638]

>>4175611
always was.

painted this

[Anonymous No.4175960]

>>4175611
yay

[Anonymous No.4176583]

>>4175612
I just started out by asking if they have interest in selling it at all first.

[Anonymous No.4176628]

>>4175638

For a moment i legit thought it was a decomposing corpse or something

[Anonymous No.4176635]

>>4176628
Yeah the colors are kinda disturbing.

[Anonymous No.4176639]

Still working when I get the time. Probably order some impasto medium this weekend. I sat and stared at this thing for longer than I even touched it with anything. I’m wanting it to be visceral so I’m hoping impasto will help me with that. I’m kinda excited at least I found a great black that dries overnight. Prussian blue, raw and burnt umber, and alizarin crimson. And obviously it can be adjusted to warm or cool. Or as neutral as you want. It’s awesome. Not a new thing to you guys at all I’m sure but I’m stoked. I use a little Michael Harding dammar glaze medium and it’s ready to be painted over the next day pretty much.

[Anonymous No.4176693]

>>4175638
Is that an aubergine?

[Anonymous No.4176731]

did this plein air

[Anonymous No.4177219]

Posca markers and gouache on watercolor paper.

[Anonymous No.4177552]

isnt abstract weird? some guy figures out to use a window cleaner on his piece, and now you cant see an abstract painter without one of those window cleaner things.

[Anonymous No.4177645]

>>4177552
Is that a thing?

[Anonymous No.4177753]

>>4160026
finally finished this

[Anonymous No.4177916]

>>4177753
drew someone I know

[Anonymous No.4177928]

why do we settle with drawing what we see?

[Anonymous No.4177952]

>>4177753
Looks really good from far away. No, really. The thumbnail looks almost like a photograph to me.
But in full-size, the black outlines seem a little out of place.

[Anonymous No.4177983]

>>4177928
Because drawing is all about seeing.

[Anonymous No.4178104]

>>4177952
I'll try my best to fix some of those issues, I'm willing to do one more pass at some of the background elements and stylistic stuff

[Anonymous No.4178134]

Hello I'm
>>4171258
I'm new to watercolours still, I was wondering which size paper (If applicable )do you guys paint on?

[Anonymous No.4178169]

>>4177952
alright I think its done now

[Anonymous No.4178255]

>>4178169
I did the stomach. now its really finished

[Anonymous No.4178272]

>>4146147
I've never used gouache, should I?

[Anonymous No.4178313]

>>4161921
Nice

[Anonymous No.4178350]

>>4176731
i really like this, how long was it? as an opinion i think you could play with a bit more of textures, and colors in the grass

[Anonymous No.4178495]

5x7 oil

[Anonymous No.4178519]

Staedtler Pigment liners and Copic Markers on Bristol Board.

[Anonymous No.4178579]

>>4178255
Was it a model or a photo?

[Anonymous No.4178605]

>>4178255
Dude. I love it. Incredible.

[Anonymous No.4178759]

>>4177552
>>4177645
Gerhard Richter started using it and everyone saw it made a nice effect and copied him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6EluMNR14

[Anonymous No.4178810]

>>4178579
it was a photo which really freed me up to work on it more. I never have a model for more than two hours, this one I could just keep working on.
>>4178605
thank you!

[Anonymous No.4178824]

>>4178759
thats a biggun'

[Anonymous No.4178877]

Charcoal pencil

[Anonymous No.4178909]

>>4177753
Looks really great

[Anonymous No.4178927]

how do I improve on portraits?

[Anonymous No.4179231]

ended up doing more to this

[Anonymous No.4179235]

>>4179231
It's actually much better when you can't see the face.

[Anonymous No.4179270]

>>4179235
It's actually much better when you can't see it.

[Anonymous No.4179275]

>>4152687
This might be the most captivating piece of stairs I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.4179730]

>>4178927
more shadows less line, you're trying to do this in-between where your heaver lines are there to indicate a shadow, and you have this fear of not having a container shape, it's okay to imply a shape,

[Anonymous No.4179837]

>>4179235
>>4179270
of course; heads hands and feet are difficult. torsos are a cakewalk

[Anonymous No.4179898]

one of those seemed like a good idea at the time sort of deals, 8" Diameter oil

[Anonymous No.4179928]

>>4179231
brian do you do this stuff on purpose

[Anonymous No.4180286]

>>4179837
>>of course; heads hands and feet are difficult
Not for me, they aren't. If you can't paint those parts of the body well enough, then don't subject people with eyes to your dismal attempts on here. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.4180320]

>>4180286
They are pretty much objectively more difficult than other body parts, don't be an idiot

[Anonymous No.4180351]

>>4178495
So this looks like you mixed ivory and titanium to get your grays (or equivalent). That gives it a really cold and dead look without any vibrance whatsoever. In my opinion you should never do that. At the very least mix two colors to get your grays. As you are not perfect you will have some variations in hue which makes the painting so much more interesting. Usually people use Burnt Umbra and Ultramarine Blue to mix dark blacks. Mixing in more umbra will get you warmer blacks, mixing in more blue will get you colder blacks. Even when your original is black/white, it really helps to make your painting pop to use slightly colder shadows and warmer highlights (or the other way around depending on what you are going for).

There are also some errors in relative values, like you overemphasizes local contrasts and lost track of the bigger picture. That makes the whole thing look flat, like a relief. I believe this may have something to do with you not having enough control over the values while mixing, i.e. your colors are too strong. Maybe premix some shades of gray before putting it on the canvas.

Beyond that, be more economical with your brushstrokes. You seem to be going for a rough kind of look. If you want that, you need to be way more deliberate, i.e. really think about the different shapes and surfaces and put in color accordingly. Right now you are very inconsistent with your brushwork, sometimes it looks very linear, I see some hatches, sometimes it looks like you moved paint around after it was almost dry, sometimes it looks like you are glazing. That looks kind of insecure and confused, like you weren't sure where this is going ahead of time.

[Anonymous No.4180352]

>>4178759
It is very hard for me to imagine that there is any way to judge the quality or expressiveness of this.

[Anonymous No.4180358]

>>4178927
Compare them to the original and observe your systematic mistakes (and by compare I mean, really take your photo, layer it on top of the original in Photoshop or whatever and go back and forth). You look like you use a lot of clichéd shapes for the eyes, nose and mouth, which makes it look more routined and technical, but also less expressive and accurate. They tend to look like comic characters rather than actual humans.

[Anonymous No.4180377]

>>4176583
they said no

[Anonymous No.4180589]

>>4180320
Yes objectively hands/feet/faces have more planes in them etc, and are harder to represent in a way that is not sloppy.
But what has that to do with your attempt, which has none of these body parts anyway?

[Anonymous No.4180597]

>>4180589
I'm not the guy who painted that

[Anonymous No.4181153]

>>4180589
Since you need things spoonfed; here idiot:
'He painted the easy bits and hid the difficult ones.'
It's obvious he know this by his response. Shame these threads are so full of shit. Someone bring back the sketchbook thread.

[Anonymous No.4181281]

>>4181153
show us what you have made

[Anonymous No.4181334]

Inking before I do a watercolor layer any thoughts on how I should do the upper foliage since I finished the bottom? I want it to look nice but I need this done in the next four days to submit to an art exhibition and I don’t want to kill my self drawing a dense jungle trees

[Anonymous No.4181336]

>>4181334
It’s a pretty big drawing

[Anonymous No.4181365]

brian what size you do paint at?
>>4181153
you can bring it back yourself. you dont have to wait for someone else to do it first.

[Anonymous No.4181377]

>>4181336
Its a very nice drawing. I wanna do paintings just gotta study.

Still life.

[Anonymous No.4181385]

>>4155813
loving that shimmer

[Anonymous No.4181391]

>>4181336
It's really nice.
>>4178495
Also nice but listen to the other anon they know what's up.

[Anonymous No.4181394]

Still life in charcoal. It was for class.

[Anonymous No.4181396]

>>4181394
Jesus fuck.

[Anonymous No.4181401]

>>4181394
I might be retarded.

[Anonymous No.4181618]

>>4181153
I don't care about this waffle. It's still a shit painting with shit technique, & it exemplifies 'muddiness'.

[Anonymous No.4181648]

>>4181401
So the proportions are really off by a lot, but I guess that is obvious to you, just looking at it. Getting that right is just a matter of consistent practice, so keep practicing.

My main advice has to do with composition and being more aware of your motive. Right now the overall texture of your drawing is very muddy and same-ish. There is no sense of layers in it. You clearly have a background and to foreground objects in your setup. Try to make sure that there is a clearer sense of separation between the two, even if that means you have to exaggerate your values a bit. Make sure it is clear what is the focus of attention and what doesn't really matter. See pic, it's rough, but that is what I mean. Simply by moving the values in the background and the foreground further apart, there is a clearer sense of spatial arrangement.

[Anonymous No.4181857]

>>4181648
Thank you for the analysis. Yeah i never deepen the darks enough in these. I'm always mimicking the natural light.

[Anonymous No.4182110]

>>4181618
YOU EXEMPLIFY MUDDINESS

I painted a skeleton man

[Anonymous No.4182166]

Posting here cause it got lost in /beg/

Would anyone mind giving me some tips on how to make my art more appealing using only graphite? I'm studying fundies occasionally when I get time, but more than that. Adding full color pieces really isn't my thing currently, though I like accenting with colors. Any feedback would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.4182185]

>>4182166
Yeah good to have u here. I know that feels. The digital side of this board seems to want to and sometimes does excel in constructive drawing and the like, but seem to have no idea about how light behaves.
Draw some stuff perfectly from life in a shadow box.

[Anonymous No.4182525]

Eyo Brian/oil painting people:

Will it fuck up the paint film if I use a hairdryer with low heat or no heat to speed up drying time? I painted a thing on board but I need to ship it in a week and a half. I didn't use any solvent and it's like 90% titanium white, so that shit isn't gonna be dry to the touch by then if I just let it go all normal-like.

>>4182166
Youre doing well not to mess with color for a bit. The #1 thing that will give you a jump in appeal is using shadow shapes to define forms instead of lines. You can use both, but your work will be strongest if you can use shadow alone, that way you can use line only where it is most appropriate. Copy a few bargue plates with sight-size method, spend no less than 5 hours on each. Also draw bigger, work on 12x16 paper.

>>4181334
do two trees and then just do sky+clouds entirely in watercolor if you need it asap. Looks fucking stellar.


>>4182110
cute I like it

[Anonymous No.4182532]

>>4182525
Heat doesn’t dry oils the same way it dries acrylics as far as I know. You’d be better off just letting it dry on its own and try to apply less next time, especially something like white oil paint. The pressure from the hair drier would probably move the thick paint around and alter your painting anyways

[Anonymous No.4182534]

>>4182532
nah it's painted super thin. I'd need compressed air to move the paint, and even then it would have to be right up on it.

Ugh I want this thing drrrryyyy

[Anonymous No.4182542]

>>4182166
Shade using different grades of softness. Look up textures you can do with graphite and apply it to parts of clothing or background. Draw big so details aren't lost.

[Anonymous No.4182962]

>>4182525
All my old oil painting books from Victorian times advise placing a canvas to dry near an open fire, so who knows. I do place mine in direct sunlight, the oils dry by curing, so get them to dry up as fast as possible. I almost always use a fast drying white unless painting flesh, as TW takes a lifetime to dry.

[Anonymous No.4182997]

>>4182525
oil wouldnt be oil if it just dried like that. your saucepans would all be fucked. better to describe it as curing than drying.

[Anonymous No.4183128]

>>4182532
>>4182525
>>4182534
>>4182962
Oils dont dry by evaporation they dry by oxidization with the air, heat wont make them dry quicker. Try using a little Liquin or other fast drying medium or underpainting with Acrylic next time

[Anonymous No.4183266]

>>4183128
>>4182997
right, but if I increase the quantity of air it's exposed to (fan/hairdryer) it should oxidize faster, right?

[Anonymous No.4183275]

>>4183266
It doesnt work like that, you just have to have to wait and be patient.

In theory heat could speed up the reaction time but your really playing with fire and could ruin the painting or make the surface unstable for further layers.

Upto you anon. Personally I would just give it a week and make sure your next layer is fatter than the one you are painting over to avoid cracking.

[Anonymous No.4183276]

>>4183266
>>4183275

Some light googling:

https://www.sarapaxtonartworks.com/how-to-make-oil-paints-dry-faster/

[Anonymous No.4183289]

>>4182962
>All my old oil painting books from Victorian times
What books are these?

[Anonymous No.4183303]

>>4150010
Rivulets in the frame appear to compliment the piece. Do you have a website?

[Anonymous No.4183519]

>>4183289
Stuff like Speed, Collier, you know...the classics.
Can't recall which one said it, it might have been in Alfred East.

[Anonymous No.4184158]

Wanted to see what I could do under two hours.

It's not very good, but I need to pick up the speed, so I've got to do more quick studies...

[Anonymous No.4185554]

Some spooky traditional photography for Halloween. I spliced negatives together.

[Anonymous No.4185651]

[Anonymous No.4185880]

[Anonymous No.4186760]

[Anonymous No.4186931]

Painted my office. Gouache on Watercolor paper.

[Anonymous No.4187071]

>>4186931
Looks like an office “complex” off Sundance.

[Anonymous No.4187089]

>>4187071
It's in one of those "corporate centers" that are nothing but glass and concrete office towers and generic corporate restaurant chains.

[Anonymous No.4187096]

>>4186931
literally pam from the office

[Anonymous No.4187364]

>>4187089
I threw the reference out to see if it is the same place.
Anyway, I like it. Good job.

[Anonymous No.4187369]

>>4186760

[Anonymous No.4187380]

>>4186760

[Anonymous No.4187383]

>>4186760
>>4187380

[Anonymous No.4187541]

>>4146288
Looks like shrek

[Anonymous No.4187544]

>>4157454
Fucked up an arm lol

[Anonymous No.4187547]

Real art

[Anonymous No.4187840]

Painted this from memory

[Anonymous No.4187855]

>>4187840
Glad I don't live in your head, then.

[Anonymous No.4188251]

>>4187855
cool

here's an oil painting I did

[Anonymous No.4188257]

>>4187840
loomis

[Anonymous No.4188591]

>>4188251
Your values and drawing in general is improving for real.
But my question for you big B is this:
What power do you possess that makes all the girls just flop out their tiddies for you to draw?

[Anonymous No.4188648]

>>4188257
looks nothing like him. and im sure its a she.

[Anonymous No.4188710]

>>4188591
i just browse gonewild and look for the girls who aren't completely obnoxious, so it creates the illusion that maybe they would've sent the photo to me.

[Anonymous No.4188715]

>>4188710
gonewild usually cuts out the faces. not that ive been trying to do the same thing or anything.

[Anonymous No.4188726]

>>4187840
remember harder next time

[Anonymous No.4188749]

>>4188715
I paint the ones with the cut out faces too. you just need a better eye for what's appealing, it's not always the people with upvotes. most men have shit taste in women. only takes one visit to /s/ and seeing the "Small saggy boobs on middle aged women" threads and a bunch of guys going "GOD THATS SO FUCKING HOT" to be like holy shit other men are animals.

[Anonymous No.4189407]

>>4188749
oh i dont go by upvotes, i have some ripped archive collections, warts and all (too many dick pics to bother deleting). or so i would say, if i wasnt me, but im a functioning male with a gf so that archive is not needed.

[Anonymous No.4189478]

Ive just started painting with acrylics recently, would appreciate any feedback on these hand studies I did

[Anonymous No.4189767]

>>4188251
finished this

[Anonymous No.4189901]

>>4176639
This really is incredible, great work


>>4158788
>>4158942
I really love this too, glad I decided to visit this board and thread, great job

[Anonymous No.4190564]

working on this right now and would love some feedback on what i have so far

[Anonymous No.4190595]

>>4189901
It’s so crazy when I get discouraged I get a pick me up. Thank you so much. I kinda am stuck on some things and am waiting on some impasto medium and some lead white that has crushed leaded glass in it. I’m also not sure how skin-ish or leather-ish or feather-ish I want the thing to look. I’m wanting an effect that I’m not sure how to pull off. Wish me luck.

[Anonymous No.4192351]

>>4187364
Thanks! There are a bunch of other offices and towers around there I'd like to paint. Lots of clean, modern lines.

>>4187096

You're like the third person to reference that episode at me. Had to go look it up to see what everyone was talking about.

[Anonymous No.4193015]

>>4192351
I saw the tree/bush and it looked westernish:) I really like how you dealt with the light. I feel it!
Now this is a posting just to copy to my phone:)

[Anonymous No.4193699]

I GOT MY FUCKING MEDIUMS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
GOT A BEAA AND A JINT AND 7 HOURS TO PLAY!

[Anonymous No.4193790]

Amateur hour . Self taught. Done with acrylic on canvas. Shows a place of meditation. Attempts to capture the impression the location leaves rather than recreate exactly. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.4193792]

>>4193790
Proportions and perspective are off.

[Anonymous No.4193793]

>>4193790
Also, would appreciate tips on taking photos of paintings I do. I always get a glare or shadow when I try

[Anonymous No.4193795]

>>4193792
I know. But I committed to what I had and made the best of it for the allotted timeframe.

[Anonymous No.4193869]

>>4161539
practice

[Anonymous No.4194175]

Something unfinished that I haven't worked on for a very long time (years).

>>4147845
This has a beautiful texture to it. And your sketches have lots of character.

>>4155813
Thumbnail is really nice because the colour and values are well chosen. Wish it wasn't so sloppy.

>>4157454
Nice sense of form.

>>4186931
This has such a great feeling to it even though the craft is not so good. People don't appreciate the depressing beauty of sulfur lit office parks. Reminds me of Hopper.

>>4189478
Needs more hue range. Digits 4 and 5 on bottom hand are too big, digit 3 too small.

>>4190564
Stars/moon and figure are competing for dominance, moon in bad place compositionally, get reference for figure. Clouds should be somewhat behind and maybe in front of parts of figure for depth.

>>4193793
Try to use natural, diffused light. Interior space lit by daylight can work as long as sun is not shining directly on it. Hold the piece in front of you at various angles until you can't see the glare. Don't use flash or interior lights.

[Anonymous No.4194827]

oil on paper

[Anonymous No.4194831]

>>4194827
Nice!

[Anonymous No.4195556]

>>4194175
>even though the craft is not so good

I think some of the problem with me and gouache is that I'm scared to go thick enough with it. I'm still thinking like a watercolor painter.

I need to look at how traditional Anime BG artists handle buildings with large/flat shapes. I know they're using poster colors not gouache, but the effect is very similar.

[Anonymous No.4195617]

>>4195556
Gouache is tough. I think it would look great if you took this as a study, did a more precise drawing, and painted neatly over that, keeping the same colours and values. But sometimes a study just stays a study and doesn't have to develop into anything.

[Anonymous No.4195619]

>>4195556
Careful changing the level of transparency, though, you'll lose the grainy effect and the feel of the picture will actually change a lot. Might be good, though.

[Anonymous No.4195630]

>>4195556
keep in mind the thicker you go the harder it will be to layer on top without mixing with whats underneath.

[Anonymous No.4195675]

I've heard that artist make what they feel because it is a form of expression. What could be said about this I've just made I don't know for sure, all I know is I'm feeling a lot lately.

[Anonymous No.4195679]

>>4189767


>>4188251


>>4189767
Nicely done

[Anonymous No.4195697]

>>4195675
That you're an angsty teen edgelord.

Not bad for a beginner, though, keep practicing fundamentals.

[Anonymous No.4195738]

>>4195697
You have critiques? Please share

[Anonymous No.4195929]

>>4195738
There is nothing to critique.
It looks like what all 14 year olds doodle on their school notebooks.

[Anonymous No.4196525]

>>4195929
Lol what about it gives the impression a 14y/o drew it?

[Anonymous No.4196998]

>>4147730
>Lines/10

Nice light and shadows there, faggot

[Anonymous No.4197611]

>>4196525
Juvenile subject matter
Amateur technique

[Anonymous No.4198328]

>>4197611
Do you have any technique advice?

[Anonymous No.4198330]

>>4198328
There are no shortcuts, you'd have to do the same as the rest of us; draw after the masters, following their technique.