You heard the batman, work on your art.
It's Challenge Time!
>Choose one of these Character Generators
>Take a print
>Draw however you got.
The options are:
>Super-Hero Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/89510407601/the-superhero-generator-is-done-this-is-the-first
>Sci-Fi character Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/89093604316/as-id-promised-earlier-and-was-requested
>Fantasy Creature Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/85948523256/lots-of-you-have-been-have-been-having-fun-with
>Demon Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/90112311445/the-latest-generator-the-random-demon-maker#notes
>Angel Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/93040704852/its-been-a-while-since-i-made-a-generator-so
>Steampunk Character Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/91775089174/a-brand-new-steampunk-themed-generator-its-not
>Mage Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/90586439243/several-people-requested-magic-related-generators
>Elf Generator
http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/97242635567/its-been-quite-some-time-since-i-made-a-new
>>83878759
>batman wants me to continue drawing loli's with smelly feet
Sure thing, bats.
>>83879416
What a coincidence, I am also currently drawing loli feet. Robotic loli feet, though.
remilia scarlet doodle i did in mspaint withmy mouse
>>83879497
>my mouse
For what reason? Once you go tablet you never go back, and I mean never.
>>83879497
WHAT THE FUCK
WHY DIDN'T YOU DRAW NAZRIN THEN, SHITHEAD?
>>83879457
I will never get the appeal of robot girls. You lose all the warmth, softness and sweatiness of the flesh.
>>83879823
Depends what kind of a robot desu, I'm doing the sci-fi challenge at the moment, the best one imho.
>>83879416
>>83879457
you better post this loli feet senpai
>>83879719
i do have a tablet, it acts up sometimes though
it was kinda fun drawing with my mouse
>>83879749
pls do not bully, take your cheese consumer
>>83879719
Not that anon but animating with a mouse is hard itself but I also did some drawing with mouse and keyboard
>>83880601
Thanks anon you're cool. I wasn't bullying I was just saying it would be ideal for you to have drawn nazrin with a mouse for maximum jokes
>>83881105
i was tired as shit when i drew that, i couldn't think of top-quality heehees
that is a really good joke though, even if it's an obvious one
>>83880777
oh yeah, animating with a mouse is harder than a tablet, lots harder
pic related is one of the pictures i drew with a tablet
>>83878759
i cant draw anymore. im full of stress.
>>83881754
Not bad I got start finishing what I started with most of my drawing like draw once then draw it again but when I look at my tablet drawing in comparison of drawing on paper my paper drawing looks better
I made fan art of dawn from dawn of time
>>83881784
What's making you stressed out and please don't say
>Tfw no gf
>>83880034
>>83878803
Well I mean it's a loli. Took some liberties, gonna dump a few other ones.
Alien - robotic, laser gun, robes, braids, bony, helmet, freckles.
>>83882368
>>83878803
Dark elf, stooped, demonic armor, spiked gauntlets, spiky hair, gloves, fangs, increased speed.
>>83882408
>>83878803
Were-cat, bottom-heavy, crystal/glass armor, hatchet/small axe, center-part hair, missing eye, bear, elemental magic.
https://u.pomf.is/cvfqhv.png
>>83882676
2lewd
>>83882328
originally i was going to post a lengthy sob story about why im so stressed. and no nothing related to women could care less.
so here is the short version
Started drawing 2008 after recovering from a work related injury. didnt go to school for it just did all i could to study and draw. had a tumblr. filled out shit ton of sketchbooks with practices, ideas, character studies. even made my own characters.
gradually went back to the workforce. got worried about my art.didnt seem like no one liked it. started comparing myself to others. got the idea that my drawings were too conservative not "progressive" / "liberal" enough. tried drawing trendy shit like porn, flavor of the month cartoons yes even mlp. no one seemed to react to my drawings . doing this for years. job, expenses, my efforts , tore me down. got stressed out and cynical. no one gave me feedback, not even the poeple i looked up to. gave up drawing all together. gave away my artbooks threw away my sketchbooks. closed out my tumblr. this was about a year and a half ago.
Since then I went back to school and study electrical engineering. with the combination of my crappy full time job and school i average about 12 hours of sleep. no breaks. just alot of stress. recently got the yearning to draw again but im petrified to pick up my pencil again. i dont want to feel that feeling of being a hopeless failure again.
sorry needed to vent. im just going to fap and play europa universalis IV.
>>83883786
If you don't want to draw, just don't. If you don't want an art career, don't worry about how good or bad your stuff is or what anyone else says.
I stall every time figuring out how to dress her. I'm simply not fashionista enough for this character.
>>83882368
>>83882408
>>83882449
These are nice. And you've done it all since the start of the thread eh? Boy do I feel inadequate.
been getting better recently but still feel like i'm lacking something
need it too feel more lively or something
>>83884806
I can still see it :3
>>83878759
i would be but its badchris-chan tier bad
>>83878759
been practicing at work. Good thing I can't get fired.
>>83887789
>I can't get fired.
Tenure?
bampuru
>>83887812
first, I work for my parents, they ain't gonna fire me (now now, I know how pretentious that sounds). But I also don't steal, and I do my work. I run the register at a fucking gas station, I get loads of free time.
Humbump
>>83890784
>>83878759
My condition won't let me anymore.
I miss drawing.
I'm either doing cooper from interstellar or sunset shimmer from equestria girls so but here's what I gonna do far
New untitled fangdangler comic script (rough)
A successful politician in the liberal party, joel demarco, is secretly a prolific serial killer. He leaves no evidence at all and has never been caught. He is extremely charming and charismatic, and has the support of the city. He becomes the mayor in a landslide victory over his opposition, conservative party leader amber williams. His platform calls for universal guaranteed income, dissolution of borders and regulation of the internet to make it safer, and is incredibly favored in the public eye.
Amber williams spends 6 months looking into the business records of joel demarco, finding numerous cases of sloppy bookkeeping and undocumented property deals. He looked the other way on several overseas land acquisitions, allowing buyers to falsify credentials and not pay taxes. She meets with demarco at his house to discuss these findings. He evades and denies everything, telling her to contact the property buyers herself, and that they are all legit and paying taxes. Amber leaves.
Eileen su, trainee female bodyguard in taiwan, is about to graduate her program and take on her first principal. She climbs dabajian mountain with her class and is branded at the peak with the agency’s symbol on her back. The next week she flies to korea to meet her principal, luna kim. the estranged wife of a korean software mogul who is now stalking her.
Amber holds a conservative party board meeting to discuss the recent election loss. Amber explains that demarco led a highly successful smear campaign against them, even when it came to free speech, their main issue, but nonetheless she has information that could lead to a large scale investigation into demarco’s shady business ventures. The board is sobered by the loss but interested in what she has to say.
I'm drawing memes.
That's all I can do now.
>>83890969
New untitled fangdangler comic script (rough) pt. 2
Eileen and her principal are in israel to meet with an oil magnate. They fly back to seoul without any problem. When they are about to leave the airport, kim’s husband comes from behind and slashes eileen’s collarbone with it. She punches him in the throat, destroying his windpipe and spinal cord. He falls on the ground paralyzed and eileen collapses in the airport, bleeding out.
When amber returns to her hotel room with one of her assistants after the board meeting, the door clerk, her intern and her 2 bodyguards are dead, dismembered and skinned, all over her room. Amber’s assistant throws up. She backs out and walks away, out of the building and sits down. 15 minutes later police arrive, called by her assistant. A detective, Ed, Olson, tries to talk to amber, but she can't hear anything he says. Police tape off a perimeter around the hotel.
Forensic scientists then arrive and go up to the hotel room, where they determine that this may be the work of the killer they have been chasing for the past decade. He strikes only once every 2 to 3 years, and is somehow profoundly adept at home invasion, infiltration and subduing multiple people he is completely faceless, always leaving them physically destroyed with what seem to be a large and varied set of cutting tools. The detective thinks there is a reason amber was targeted, and that the killing was a message, and that she herself was deliberately spared. For some reason this killer is warning her.
>>83891016
New untitled fangdangler comic script (rough) pt. 3
At the police station amber tells olson everything that led up to that night and that she thinks it may be demarco telling her to back off. Olson doesn’t believe that demarco is or is colluding with, a serial killer, but he takes the files amber gives him and lets her go, telling her she will be monitored and protected 24 hours by police due to the seriousness of her connection with the killer. He then gives her the number of a special military level training school in taiwan, advising her to call them “if she can afford it.” Amber leaves the sation in an unmarked car. Olson then discusses the implications of what she just told him at great length with his partner, abraham waltz. They drink coffee and smoke cigarettes in a little room all night, going through the files amber found together and comment on how shady some of the zoning loopholes that demarco is using are.
The killer parks behind the municipal building and uses a key card to get in the door. Wearing a suit He goes to the 2nd floor and goes into the bathroom. He strips off the suit and folds it, putting it under the sink. Underneath he is wearing a plastic suit with a white plastic mask. He enters a large office filled with cubicles. A young man is working at a computer in the far corner of the office, and the killer comes up behind him. He taps him on the shoulder and when the guy turns, the killer stabs him in the face with a long, thin knife, puncturing through his skull. I told you to destroy those records. I told you.The killer throws the guy across the cubicle into the wall, and takes off his mask. It is joel demarco. I don’t usually do this. But i wanted to make sure you knew it was me. I want you to know, while i’m killing you. joel puts the mask back on and takes a boxcutter out, kneeling on the guy’s neck and carving his face up.
Working on choosing colors.
>>83891049
pt. 4
3 months later eileen gets out of the hospital, luna has been relocated to sweden under a different name, and there is a new principal she has been assigned to by the agency.
Eileen flies to canada to meet amber, who is living in a secluded house outside the city under police surveillance. All she does is work out in the house and cook for Amber. Amber tells her that all she wanted was to help people and make the world a better place, and that her life’s dream has turned into hell. Demarco’s smear campaign had silenced her, and now he may have used murder to push her out of the city and destroy her career forever. Eileen tells her she read the documents showing demarco’s dirt in ambers office and that she believes her. Eileen says she shouldn’t give up on fighting demarco, and that she wants to help.
Olson and waltz visit the sites owned by overseas investors that were mentioned in the documents. they can find no one to talk to.. None of the property companies answer thier phone calls or emails. Olson watches video of demarco’s speeches, analyzing his cadence and sentence patterns, his syntax, his eye contact, his hand gestures. His confidence. His ability to convince and advertise, his ability to spin narrative. He talks to waltz about this while watching the clips. They speculate on his possibly having a dark triad personality disorder, and how successful psychopaths are usually not physically violent. One point is that demarco never lashes out emotionally, never appears to lose his temper or say things out of turn. Publicly at least, he treated people quite politely and fairly, and this was appealing to voters. His platform was very anti- war, progressive and friendly. Waltz and olson both think that digging into demarco’s past could get them both into trouble, but if there is some connection to the killer, it’s a lead, and needs to be pursued. Olson decides to bring demarco in for an interview.
>>83891101
pt. 5
On amber’s request, Eileen goes to a bar whose parking lot is committing a zoning violation, and asks to speak to the manager. A man named alex comes out and talks to her, saying he is the manager. Eileen asks who the property owner is because Amber wants to investigate the land records, and alex tells her he will get the business card of the property owner. He goes into the back of the bar and doesnt come out. 15 minutes later 5 men in suits come through the door and tell eileen to get come with them. Eileen asks to see ID from them and one starts to decline, but as he is talking eileen smashes a bottle over his head and jams the bottle it into another one’s face. She simultaneously grabs the leader by the tie and shoves a gun in his mouth, taking him hostage and backing out of the bar with him. She forces him to get in her car and drive away. When they are outside the city, eileen gets him to stop the car. Pointing a gun at his face, she asks if he’s working for joel demarco. He says that he is, and he doesnt understand what’s happening, they were only ordered to go to the bar and escort eileen out of it. Eileen lets him go.
In the early morning Olson is woken up with a call from the chief of police. The municipal building is now a crime scene. The head of the zoning division has been dismembered and stabbed hundreds of times by the killer in the second floor office. Olson says he’s on his way and gets another call, this one from amber. She tells him her PI went to a bar on property sold by one of demarco’s subsidiary land developers and that her PI was attacked by men in suits who werent police. Olson gets out of bed and heads to the police station, calling waltz in the car
>>83891311
pt.6
Olson and waltz interview demarco at the police station, demarco’s lawyer destroys them and says they have no probable cause for connecting serial murder to property fraud and tax evasion. They need to get a judge to sign off a warrant to search him, his vehicle or his house, and that will be impossible on the evidence they have. Olson says they can demonstrate relationships between demarco and all of the victims and that he has motive to keep his illegal business out of the public eye by shutting them up. The lawyer tells them they need some kind of connecting evidence for a warrant. Demarco says nothing.
Olson and waltz return to one of the sites owned by overseas investors that were mentioned in the documents and break in. they search the empty building. There is a hidden camera which catches them and the video feed goes to a screen in joel demarco’s office. Olson and Waltz go into the basement of the building and find shipping containers full of naked emaciated women. Walts starts to radio to the police station to report it but before he can finish the adress he and Olson are hit with tranquilizer darts.
>>83878803
I made a robot in a cloak.
>>83891059
she looks cute for an ambiguous animal-thing
>>83891059
Those colours look pretty good. Do you have some variant drafts? Great looking character, at any rate.
>>83891483
This is really cool. It's like that classic ninja look, but a bit abstract at the same time with those mechanical parts. Kinda brilliant if you ask me.
>>83893379
Dayum son!
>>83891366
pt. 7
Eileen died from a Russian holding a AK-47 yelling "CYKA BLYAT" while rushing to B
>>83893704
hilarious and original
>>83893379
guoh?
>>83878759
But Batman, what I'm doing isn't /co/.Unless he was in the comics but I don't read that shit.
Re-designing an old pirate bear character.
>>83881784
Nice Dobson impression.
>>83894373
Holy fucking shit I wish I could do what Guoh does, but no. Suppose I should take that as a compliment in a way.
>>83878759
>>83891483
Now I drew a Demon.
Not finished
Art is dumb.
started a few months back and I'm not sure what I'm doing but I'll keep trying
Been (very slowly) working on this.
Trying to work out a colour scheme.
Any suggestions?
I might make this into a postcard, that's what the red border thing is for.
>>83878759
Batman wants me to continue drawing ship art and naked teenage girls? Ok, whatever you say Batman
Trying to design an OC dragon girl.
2nd attempt.
Thanks Batman
>>83899097
Top notch scales, lad.
>>83900817
Eh... I'm not so sure about her wings ... Also I think her face is too wide.
>>83902042
I really like her face and expression desu. The wings could be more interesting. Perhaps looks at some batwings and shit and try to add a few more details? Be more confident, it feels like you're not entire sure what the wings should look like in that image.
https://discord.gg/0u5dpTltxNSWFvGI
ART THREAD, COME ON IN
>>83902239
Nothing there
>>83878759
i havent drawn anything in 2 days, cuz ive been playing to many damn games, but today im not playing anymore games, im going back to drawing everyday all day!
>>83903828
another friday sketch, i got sucked in to wildstar and a bunch of other games i have on steam and lost track of time and ended up playing video games all weekend instead of working on my art :/
>>83903858
demon juice sketch, he is from my webcomic i stopped working on cuz i started playing darksiders and the cel shaded prince of persiia hardcore on steam oh and skyrim and new vegas for the pc to
>>83903877
another one from thursday
>>83903903
working on a new sketch of my demon juice characters
left is Ambe L. and right is Emer L., Emers nickname is Demon Juice, thus the title of the webcomic ^^
Working on a Betilla drawing.
>>83892776
>>83893379
Thanks! I probably have some variants somewhere, but she doesn't have any set outfit. I like to try something different with her clothes each time.
>>83905052
Ambe is the golden fire knight and king of demons and Emer his little brother is the green fire knight and prince of demons, they are the sons of Kra Lucifuge, and grandsons of Lucifuge himself the most powerful of all demons irl
>>83905705
bump
>>83895256
I love your lines and sense of softness on the fur. I think the rightmost designs work the best because of the fuller jaw. As for the design itself, it's not particularly "piratety," which is something that I think you could take further. If you are looking for inspiration, I'd look at Aaron Blaise's stuff on youtube. He was one of the animators in "Brother Bear," and has a real grasp on the anatomy and mannerisms of bears.
>>83897649
You got some nice, smooth linework. One thing i would watch out for is the use of lines on the face. Considering how open the spaces between lines are for the rest of the body, it can be jarring to have more lines concentrated in the face, especially around the mouth.
>>83898697
Palettes are tricky. I tend to choose colors that are closer together on the spectrum, with certain vibrant colors used sparingly to add some interest.
https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
Here is a site that can help you understand the different sorts of relationships between colors and develop palettes. Try not to simply copy the colors you see, just use them as inspiration. Practice will make choosing colors by yourself easier in the future.
One quick note about the drawing itself- I like the style you have, but watch out for pillow-shading. Try not to simply shade borders of certain areas. Rather, establish your light source and figure out where shadows and highlights would realisticly fall.
>>83903828
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>>83903903
>>83905052
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>>83907250
Oh my god dude stop spamming!
>>83907250
listening to slipknot and drawing stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUZwriSX4M
life is awesome right now /co/mrads, lol
>>83907318
>oh my god stop staying on topic and working on your art, also stop drawing better than me, the post
that energy you used to cry about me is energy you could of used sketching out something and posting it, but by all means, cry harder anon
>>83907452
>also stop drawing better than me
Whew lad you had a point about staying on topic and keeping thread alive but that is just kek-worthy. That's literally you just trying to stroke your own ego over your below amateur art.
>>83907250
its done i guess, but i can easily turn it into a painting i i wanted to by going over it again, but nah, next sketch i guess...
>>83907955
>implying
>>83908618
if i wanted to*
>an apathetic skeleton demon with short spiky horns and shadow wings. They're eyes are blindfolded and they buy souls
>>83908618
on second thought why not? yolo!
>>83909581
How much time do you spend on each piece.
>>83909581
i think its done now?
>>83909766
different times, its always random, nice dubs by the way
>>83910707
On your next piece, I like for you to try something. Use thinner lines for your work, and avoid using 100% blacks. Instead, try using very dark, desaturated colors for them.
Finally finished my character line-up. Whew~ I still might need to work on the guy with the hat but idk so far. Any thoughts?
>>83911144
i think fortune and fame awaits you friend, if your not a rich and famous cartoonist already
>>83911635
haha thanks man. I just got my first animation job at WB so hopefully I can live up to that dream soon.
>>83911671
? see?
>>83911671
>>83911749
oh wait i get it now, i'm stupid haha
>>83911144
The designs look great, I just feel like with the current state of animation wouldn't do them justice unless you got Gendy to work on it.
>>83912488
Yea i'm trying to develop it into a pitch for Frederator and NBC so hopefully the art style might work for them.
>>83910707
Damn it bones, now I feel like I should have been namefagging too.
Bump.
>>83916138
those are some thicc femurs
Newbie here, this is a ~five minute attempt at cartoony eyes.
>>83910707
bleh
>>83916138
Lol, cool. I love this character design. The curves and hair despite being a skeleton makes this really unique. Do you have a comic or anything? I'd definitely read/watch stuff with your art.
>>83917812
ask me if i give a fuck right now .jpg
>>83895311
You better post the link where you upload ya art, or else Ill get mad.
>>83918244
one last bump from me yall, peace
>>83878803
>http://characterdesigninspiration.tumblr.com/post/93040704852/its-been-a-while-since-i-made-a-generator-so
My beautiful three-winged knight angel.
>>83918071
Thanks! I've actually been thinking about trying a comic with this character, but writing has never been my strong suit. For now, I just kinda stare at the "How's your Webcomic?" threads.
It's been fuckin' months and bones still hasn't stopped spamming the shit out of these threads.
I mean the rest of you guys are great but god damn is it easier to focus on the negatives. Meanwhile here I am having to start over because my fundamentals are SHIT.
>>83919741
What do you need help with?
Specifics makes things easier.
>>83919763
I feel like I have no actual grasp of construction or something associated with it. I need to do more observational drawing as opposed to just knoodling around. I cannot convey the shapes I want well, nor can I twist and turn them as I like, nor can I really show them moving in a 3D space as I like. I draw very oftenevery day, that makes it more frustrating because it becomes obvious as fuck I'm in one of those DA-style ruts
I'll get back to you tomorrow with some scanned stuff. That'll make things more clear.
>>83919888
Alright, I'm looking forward to it!
>tfw all you want to do is write, but most artfags are artfags in the first place for the sole purpose of wanting to draw what they write
>nobody wants to work with an unproven writefag (perfectly understandable, since most are steamin' hot garbage, but I'm allowed to whine)
>the only way to prove yourself is to write a book, even though that's writing of a completely different medium using different tools to accomplish the task- at the end of which no one'll read the book anyway
>mfw
Sorry for the rant, but my keyboard is busted, so I can't even do real writing to vent. Had to type this by copy/pasting single letters. I'll go ahead and fuck off.
>>83920062
Do fanfics, no matter how cringy it sounds.
Then hopefully after a few years you build up a fanbase that will like whatever shit you write.
>>83895311
What he said >>83918310
>>83920062
Writing is a hard sell which is why may artist/writers exist. It's hard to show off your writing because no one reads shit anymore. It's easy to show off a drawing or two but not so much something written unless the person likes to read random shit.
As for that last bit about the only way to prove oneself as a write is to make a book is bullshit.
You have many way to stretch your writing muscles. Like short stories, novellas, scripts, as >>83920354 mention fanfictions, many of these are different formats but there is a great learning experience in changing a short story into a spec script or a sketch into a novella. Having to stretch a story or condense it.
The biggest advice I can give you and as well to artist is: never feel like you're obligated to show anyone your work or write/draw for an audience.
Write what amuses you and just put it aside, then move on. If you get hung up on posting shit online or showing things off you can really fuck up the process of learning.
>>83878803
>Fantasy Creature
Got a normal human. This is pretty fun though.
>>83919597
>baumgarter.png
Well, I would love to read it! Let us know if you ever do anything with her!
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>>83891059
Blog? Or I am blind and I missed it.
>>83921588
dabble-too.tumblr.com
>>83921698
Bless.
>>83920982
>>83918310
epictones.tumblr.com and epictones.deviantart.com. If you're more interested in the porn, that's hardtones.tumblr.com, but it's been a bit sparse recently.
Gonna do something dumb and post my own film on 4chan but y'all here on /co/ are one of the reasons I decided to study animation in the first place so I might as well show what it got me.
https://vimeo.com/171365328
>>83922329
>https://vimeo.com/171365328
Wow Man. Fucking STELLAR. Top NOTCH. I can't say enough good things about this. The character imagination, the tripiness. It would be right at home in like...a late night Adult Swim animation.
>>83922503
Thanks so much I really appreciate that.
>>83916138
is this the character from that porn game?
Wanted to do one of those boxing poster thingies
Finishing up my first draft at re-designing this character from when I originally drew him two years ago.
>>83923267
that is wonderful
>>83923267
You lost a lot of energy in the linework in the last one but I like your final color scheme
crap from a decent bit ago.
Got to figure out something new to work on now however.
>>83911144
Nice.
I like hat man's face. Maybe you could give him a more vibrant top to match his general outfit, or some patches or something on his vest? His shirtwear is just seems kind of baron/toned down in comparison to the rest. Also maybe give the little girl socks. I dunno, just tossing ideas.
Bamp
A Rough draft of A Classic Harley Quinn I'm currently working on,Im still learning body proportions
Dumping some work to show you /co/
>>83924862
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>>83924890
Dont know why that flipped. Anyway thats it for now I dont want to steal the thread or anything
>>83924812
Shit wrong pic
>>83924918
>>83924812
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiWmkJpEsA
>>83925013
Deconstructing another artists work is a good exercise.
>>83923668
This looks great friend! The lighting is cool but maybe put some bounce light on it to give a bit more form?
And thanks! That guy in the hat, I figured since he's heading to boarding school he have some boring uniform, but I guess I can try to find a way to pump it more.
Got in some very flat colors. Next is coloring the linework, then shading!
>>83920062
I want somebody to write for me so I could draw desu, but I guess I'm not good enough for anyone yet.
>>83922329
Super cool, spotted Lain. Could you tell me about all those effects and how did you go about creating them?
Bump
>>83926402
I wonder how those blue lines will work when you get into it.
>>83884806
wardrobing is always difficult for me when it comes to designing characters.
>>83916138
sup dabble
this is a design for a knight type character I'm working on for an animation
>>83920062
have you thought about doing a cross between a book/comic? I know how dumb that sounds, but hear me out. Instead of panels and dialogue boxes, you have a page or so of text, and a big picture to accompany it. Might be a good place to start. That way you could write some, show it to artfags, and get their interest, all while having the product that needs the art.
>>83928317
wouldn't be hard if they become a hindrance, it's rather easy to manipulate line color if it's on a separate layer and all.
![Eva-and-Sadie-400x400[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0fhHQ4V.jpg "Eva-and-Sadie-400x400[1].jpg")
>>83928840
Picture books have an even bigger "for kids" stigma than regular comic books.
Aside from that it's not a bad idea.
>>83928725
What up
What program are you using for animation?
>>83929244
toonboom. I was using a (pirated)flash at first, but the smoothing tool pissed me off too much, and then I tried toonboom's brush tool. It was MUCH easier to work with. I'll pay for the 20$ a month license, pricey, but I can pay for it now that I have a job.
>>83928975
fuck stigmas, as long as the story is sound it'll be good. Hell you might make it into a new trend rather than webcomics. Give it a shot.
>>83929401
Flash was/is garbage to work with. You still have people who swear by it but it's bad.
>>83929401
Gotcha.
I've been using Toon Boom Harmony essentials, and paid the one time flat rate.
Do you have a more complete drawing of the knight?
>>83930200
Kinda, it's a bit scratchy tho cuz it's on my sketchbook
>>83930200
Also I will sketch him again so hold on tight
>>83927946
I like her desing.what is she supposed to be dabble?
Just wanted to get back into the swing of lining and coloring stuff.
>>83930200
Sketch ended up looking a bit more dramatic than I intended but it kinda works
>>83931750
You got a tumblr/deviantart?
>>83932096
yotomoe.tumblr.com
>>83931750
Very nice, I love the hues you used and the color of the highlights! One thing I would watch out for is the center of gravity- her left side is leaning out a little far. The quickest fix would be to simply rotate the drawing a bit!
What sort of personality does she have?
>>83932079
This is a nice design. However, you need to keep in mind animatability. Simplify. Each lines you use to createll your character is a line that you will have to animate.
After you settle on a design, try to create a turnaround. Draw the character from the front, back, and both sides profile and 3/4s. Keep your proportions consistent and use guidelines. This will help you understand how the knight will appear in an animated space from any angle. But don't get ahead of yourself- be sure to finalize the design before attempting a turnaround.
>>83931647
Honestly, I have no idea.
I started off just doodling a bunch of random expressions, the went in after and gave some of them heads. The one expression the became Reese was oddly wide, so I had to think of a design that could contain it. She just kinda grew from there.
>>83926552
Yeah I included her since that was a big inspiration. The effects are kinda complicated. Backgrounds are mostly animation of watercolor paints and glycerine on sheets of glass over a light table, then taken into after effects and turned into 3D planes to build the spaces. Some of those were also datamoshed to create some more digital texture. Then there were some other things I did by running images of walls and fabric and wood through audio editing software to corrupt them and turn them into those flickery colorful glitch things. And the swirly blue stuff at the end is just pointing an old VHS camera at a tv screen and recording the feedback it produces.
>>83932927
Yeah I kept the fact that I have to simplify it in mind. Most of the designs I have cooked up are before I do all that. The Knights design is actually a lot more simple than it looks. I'll have a turn around for him soon
UUUUURGH, is drawing intersecting forms supposed to be this hard?!
>>83933795
This is pretty good though!
Just keep perspective in mind. Sets of you lines should be roughly parallel. For example, the bottom edge of each block closest to the viewer should be nearly parallel.
Realism isn't as important as being able to consistently be on model. Fite me
>>83933871
Thanks for the reply! I've been trying to draw stuff with a sense of volume to them for a year, yet I still can't merge two organic forms together! Decided to start from the beginning with blocks.
>>83933902
Depends on what you are creating, but generally, I agree.
>>83933902
Being consistently on model is part of realism.
>>83933996
You should try really using perspective.
>>83933996
Well, if you do have a drawing of two more organic forms interacting, I'd live to see one!
>>83934037you've got it the other way around. Realism is a part of staying on model, but it's by far the least important part since it's just an aid.
Copying styles is more important since style flexibility is important for tweeners and by far harder to learn. Too much realism beats that shit out of you.
>>83934043
Thanks a bunch for the replies!
The frog pic is something I drew a long time ago, but hate because of how flat it looks, and most of the folds and creases was me guessing. I dunno how people that can draw fat do it!
And the right side is me trying to intersect some spheres together, but I end up overthinking what parts overtake where and if what I'm drawing makes sense.
>>83933795
just use perspective lines brah
>>83934277
First off, that is some excellent line weight on that frog.
Second, for things like those spheres, draw the shapes one over top the other. Place full shapes superimposed over one another, and outline where they connect. You should be able to see through your shapes before you clean up.
>>83934917
I'll try that right now. I tend to overthink what I'm trying to draw, to the point where I draw contours around everything, so maybe this will really help!
>>83919067
did anybody miss me famz?
>>83935880
anybody??? lol
>>83935902
this one was a reference drawing, i would post my reference but i delete my reference after i study it
i got the pic of her in these poses from one of these threads earlier this year/last year so the artist who drew lord dom in these poses is probably still around and can post her version if she wants(assuming its a she)
Barely touched my tablet in 3 months, 'cause classes ran me ragged. So trying to pick it up again to, well, questionable success.
Trying to make new brushes. Most successful one was the vine/fern brush that's wrapping around the tree. I feel like I'm close to another breakthrough.
Base shading in!
>>83939118
Looks fucking fantastic! Love seeing some Rayman stuff, I adore that series.
Alright, here's the finished version! Just going to add a quick background then call it done!
>>83939337
Thank you!
Bump, don't wanna see my favourite thread but I ain't got nothing to post yet, haven't drawn in almost a week.
In attempt to keep the thread alive, here's a Mei I attempted to resketch again, after I failed the first time when I was drawing her for my bf.I still suck
>>83939914
That looks just absolutely gorgeous, Dabble.
I drew my co-worker a few weeks ago.
Also, I'm going to a place soon that has virtually no internet, which means that I can concentrate on doing the exercises from Loomis' Fun With A Pencil book.
Thank you for offering to wait for me, mister Dabble. This is an imgur album of some stuff from this past month.
http://imgur.com/a/psKmg
There is stuff from more recent days, up to today, but I have been wrestling with a bedbug problem, and after finding one in my sketchbook a little while ago I'm nervous to bring it outside the room where I've established control over the bedbugs into the un-infested rooms where things like my scanner are. I think I caught it early, fingers crossed.
TASKETE
I drew a face.
>>83943365
>>83943371
>>83943382
Okay, you seem to actually have a fairly solid grasp of proportions and foreshortening, especially in that above-the-collarbone torso drawing in your third picture. You have very loose linework- this isn't a bad thing at all. It give what you draw a much more organic appeal than it may have otherwise.
I understand that part of your frustration lies in the feeling that you aren't improving, and based upon these drawings, I think I can guess why. While none of what you are drawing is bad, not much of it is new to you. Each of these pages is filled with arms, legs, torsos, and the occasional figure. You are obviously feeling comfortable with these things, which is why you new to find something else to work on, something challenging.
When you practice, try to work on something new. Look critically at your own work and evaluate it. if you don't feel comfortable drawing something, that's the thing that you should be zeroing in on.
Another thing- try to see a few of these sketches to "completion" per day. What you have here is a foundation with nothing built on it. Draw faces! Add clothes! Accessorize! Anything you can do to push yourself.
I laud you for drawing every day. It's something I've been trying to do sinceBojackand it has helped me enormously. If you are interested in this sort of drawing, take a look at Michael Hampton's "Figure Drawing: Design and Innovation." It's one of the best books I've found on the subject.
Keep it up man! I can tell you've got talent. If ever need help, just ask. I usually lurk in these threads, or you can message me on my Tumblr at dabble-too.tumblr.com. Hope this helps.
>>83943944
Thank you very much.
I do try to look at all of my work critically at all times, similarly I've been kicking myself for not completing things for quite some time.
Clothing, faces, etc, or objects that aren't just people I often feel unsatisfied with. I feel like I make them very "mushy" or rounded, or else just generally distended in a manner that makes me feel like they're doughy rather than crisp like I'd like. I also need so work on defining hands and feet, because in drawing them to "completion" they often are disproportionate or otherwise distorted (e.g. hands are, for me, consistently too big, feet have toes which always feel wrong).
You would not know how many god damn pages of arms and legs I've made. Christ.
>>83944051
Well, if you aren't happy with the way things like clothes and objects, then that's what you practice on. Try to draw fewer "things" and spend more time on each "one." Look at other people's work. There's nothing wrong with emulating a style- you can gain a deeper understanding of their approach and incorporate those methods into your own. Practice is pretty much the surefire way to get better. I know I keep saying it, I know you know it, but it's true.
>>83944272
I will try to do this, I have avoided it on the logic that it would be turd polishing for me.
I do try to "copy, cheat, n' steal", but only rarely. I suppose I should do that more too.
Heres the cover to a comic I've been working on
Bumping with what I think is literally the first sketch of Reese. It's hideous.
Late-night bump.
bumpin for moar
can you post comics here or does that stuff stay in the hows your webcomic threads?
>>83948870
as long as it's art with panes and not just a worded script
>>83949189
panels
>>83878759
Death of the Endless in the DCU.
>>83950611
>>83950625
Death is my Waifu.
>>83950634
>>83950640
>>83950644
Kinda looks like Elaine from Seinfeld.
>>83950649
>>83950655
>>83950661
>>83939914
This looks rad.
>>83950667
>>83950676
Dream with sand.
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>>83950686
I know /co/ can be a harsh critic but here's a step by step of something I'm working on
>>83950695
Nice.
>>83950698
>>83911749
What actually goes into becoming a cartoonist? Do you need a degree or does the art speak for itself?
>>83950787
Not that guy, but... when I applied to Disney, they were looking for an art degree. But some studios, such as Titmouse don't mention anything about it. But of course, nothing's stopping you from trying cartoons on your own.
> I did nothing but draw at work today
I'm really not mentally mature enough to be working at an insurance firm, /co/
>>83950787
Yeah it good to have a degree (but I only recommend going to art college just to network/collaborate (of course there are always other ways to do that though). But if you got those friends in the industry, you're in a really good start. Their words + art + your personality in the interview is what really gets you the job.
>>83952169
What this guy said.
I think it's just Disney that does the whole "let me see those GPA" stuff.
>>83950787
>>83954157
Same person:
I should also mention that when you get into the industry you don't just get a badge that said "Cartoonist" (unless your career is in comic strips) There are multiple sections in a animation team There's BG design, BG paint, character designer, prop designer, storyboarding etc. the list can go on. After years of working and pitching ideas, THEN you can be the "cartoonist" or in other words a creator of a show IF your idea gets picked up. You're more likely to become a creator on CN if you've been working as a Storyboard artist for years. Honestly, if you want to be a "cartoonist" the best way to do it, is just by doing your own thing and publish it which ever way you want.
Im practizing painting, but it will take a good time.
>>83954157
>What this guy said.
>I think it's just Disney that does the whole "let me see those GPA" stuff.
Disney does it just to further filter possible applications since they probably get hundreds of day. If any Tom, Dick, or Jane could submit, they might get thousands a day.
The idea of having a degree is that you decided art was more than just a hobby, you went through the discipline of attending a school for four years, and it's a semi-decent substitute for recommendation.
Of course that's the IDEA of it, we all know many people graduate art school with shit tier skills. It's really just suppose to deter random deviantART artists applying.
Would this be fine to put in my uni portfolio? Trying to get in the animation department. I've also got 2 pages of figures, 1 page of character designs, 1 oil painting and 1 charcoal landscape, 1 page of faces and some other stuff.
Bump.
these threads have been pretty lively recently
feels good, man
>>83959652
W-what? I literally made it because I hadn't seen it in a long time, according to the archive I think the last one was months ago.
>>83950713
>83950695 here. Thanks homie. I appreciate it
>>83960478
One of the problems these threads tend to face is a lack of a standard OP like the "How's your Webcomic" threads. There have been a lot of these threads over the past month or so, but they die off fairly quickly since the title is usually something along the lines of "You know the drill" or "Batman demands it."
>>83878759
holy shit is this thread still going????
made up some new random characters, might make a webcomic out of them or atleast a super short story or something, i dont know yet
Been a bit of a dry spell and I'm working up my control again. Simple line exercises for now. Not looking forward to all the anatomy stuff.
>>83895256
From a design standpoint, the one on the left is the most interesting for me. The sagging snout gives it a personality none of the others have, whether it was intentional or not. And like >>83907316 said, see if you can manufacture some interesting traits from real references.
>>83942468
>>83943365
>>83943371
>>83943382
Basically >>83943944 said it all, you're in that awkward stage where you have obvious talent but it's not coming out how you want it to. Diversify, do thirty second sketches to hour-long ones and everything inbetween. Play with composition, experiment with organic and inorganic. You just got to hit that next plateau.
>>83932927
She's a mature, aristocratic sadist scorpion, who views people below her as negligable. She has a very close and dominant relationship with an ant.
Also yeah, she does lean too far to the left. Also, I keep messing up her proportions. She's supposed to be shorter than that. Just a tad.
>>83961466
making weird ass cartoon drawings today... what are yall doing? lol
>>83960743
I see, makes sense. Have a demon boy.
Practiced drawing figures. Made this guy out of one.
I don't like shading.
>>83950737
No one has commented on any of my stuff. I thought it was good. Is it because I don't use a tablet? Are we just supposed to post OC characters? Here's OC.
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>>83963797
Kinda OC.
>>83963815
This just cause I like Star Wars.
>>83962765
new strip: >>83963910
>>83963778
It looks like something a fairly creative high school student would draw when they were bored, but nothing worth commenting about. Everybody's done this type of stuff at one point and you're not really showing anybody here you want to challenge yourself. Do stuff you're completely uncomfortable with doing and show us that you take what you do seriously. It's obvious you can do better if you really tried, you got the basics. Until then, don't go complement fishing. And I'm really sorry if this comes off as shitty, I just wish somebody would've told me a little earlier. Not that I would have listened.
>>83963815
Cool design anon but your facial spacing could use some work. Eyes nose and mouth should be a little higher up the face
Just a quick thing.
>>83963778
I can comment in about 15 hours after sleeping and my graduation ceremony. I trust you to keep the thread alive meanwhile.
>>83963940
bampuu
>>83952278
Did you have anything that you needed to get done that day?
BUMP
