Beginner Thread
Because we should not have to make new threads or post in draw threads with our fundamental exercises. Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, do not give up.
Do not forget to PLEASE RESIZE and crop your images before uploading them. 1kpx is fine.
→ → → → Before asking "what should I read/view/study/learn," Read the fucking sticky, it's there for a reason: >>1579290 → → → → → → → → →
Questions go in the QUESTION THREAD
This is for posting studies & getting critique.
>Thread study: Try to draw/paint the opening or any other following images.
Feel free to post your originals as well.
TRY TO BE MORE ACTIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME FEEDBACK - there are many studies left unreplied, which is a bit sad and can be quite demotivating for the people that try their best to improve, but are left directionless.
Respect those giving you advice and if you suck know that you'll never make it™.
Old thread: >>>2336422 → →
>>2341131
>>2341133
>>2341134
>>2341136
box practice
For too long this kind of pose tormented me, but today i tried to tackle my enemy.
Other than anatomy can I get some critique on this please?
>>2341139
The stomach looks to long on the top right one and on others it looks like you are bending the rib cage. The forms look pretty good otherwise.
>>2341145
youre adding line thickness to cover uncertainty but youre not carving them after wards so you end up with needlessly thick lines at random places.
>>2341149
>>2341148
Thanks, i am still having trouble to understand how to draw the form of the the rib cage.
>>2341153
its BECAUSE your line are bad that they NEED to be thin. If you dont choose your lines you basically have multiple lines and your brain chooses the best one, this is the reason paper sketches look better than actually drawing. Choosing your lines lets you confront your mistakes
holy shit, i am shit
>>2341158
eyes are shit check this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6-bCgRmcko
>>2341160
mate, the entire thing is shit.
But thanks for the link.
>>2341161
>>2341161
no shit as me bro, but Check proko's channel it will make the whole thing easier for you.
By the way how do i get this level?
>>2341163
any how do i get to X level is useless. If you want to reach a certain level the steps you can take are infinite, but the steps that you should take are few and similar. If you draw long enough youll draw in a style that you like even more than this.
I think everything really comes back to learning form anatomy and gesture. You can learn to paint later on. Just keep drawing, in all likeliness youll never reach his level because you dont have the same amount of time to invest.
its always a trade off, yes you learn more from studies, but if one study means you dont want to draw for the rest of the day, its better to draw 20 animu girls.
>>2341163
Eh, it's still shit to me. I'm mostly just trying to get my fucking anatomy and hatching done right.
I can see the shapes of the shadows but it's so hard to figure out which ones are significant enough to copy.
>>2339306
When tilting or twisting the torso think of what is pulling, compressing, overlapping and from where this is all happening.
In order to help show a twist it is necessary to first establish the direction in which the major forms of the torso are facing in space. To simplify, use the box form to help you find the perspective and give orientation to what is in front and behind. Vilppu better demonstrates this process of thinking.
How do I into female body construction?
I am trying to make something photo realistic for the first time. I'm using manga studio, and I really dont know how to sharpen up these values, they look too blurry.
This is a work in progress but I feel stuck because I cant get the sharpness I want.
>>2341195
let go of softbrushes for 4 months
>>2341197
By let go I assume you mean do not use at all?
I also assume this will force me to be more precise instead of relying on the ambiguous shapes soft brushes can create.
Know any good resources on gitting gud with a watercolor brush? Thats the kind im using along with a soft airbrush (which ill stop using for now).
Thanks for the advice bro.
Just got an Intuos Medium (dream of my life, can't believe it's in my hands, feelings etcetera). Updated the drivers, set stuff uf, and Photoshop does this circle trail bullshit. I know it's been fixed before in threads here but I didn't bother remembering it back then, because I didn't have a tablet. What do?
Also how do I get used to a tablet? good ol' "draw a fuckton"? because I like that way, but there must be a smarter one.
>>2341212
peter han exercises, check out his video on youtube. he has drills for drawing straight lines, curves, circles, etc.. its meant for pen and paper, but I used it to get used to my tablet, which is also an intuos medium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDNDOKnArk
>>2341215
Man, I watched that video a while ago! now I'll put it in practice again then, thanks a lot!
And since we're at it, what's your experience with this beauty? anything I should keep in mind for the future? I was wondering about the nib, specifically, since it doesn't come with new ones (...I hope no Intuos Medium does, otherwise... fuck.) and, in my position, getting them will be harder and more expensive. Does the spaghetti thing actually work?
>>2341225
OP was also asking about how one could get used to a tablet in the second paragraph.
>>2341225
Worked wonders. Now I tried to download the Pressure Curve Tool from the sticky and it... neutralized the pressure sensitivity, apparently. I'll just re-install the drivers and see if it's alright tomorrow morning, maybe that'll also fix the "Drivers not found" window I kept getting when trying to open the properties, even after updating them it let me for a few minutes then the window came back.
A tablet is suffering. I least I don't have to worry about the brush thing.
>>2341133
Ugh. Trying to do a face a day to get the hang of facial features..
Why isnt this better?
>>2341407
The perspective is non-existant (the Lumberjack and the tree stump don't seem to be standing on the same ground plane).
Anatomy issues aside, though, your biggest problem here is that that pose doesn't look believable at all. It's awkward, off-balance and with a weird gesture.
Grab a stick or something and swing it around in a chopping motion. Then try to stand like the lumberjack in your drawing. Note the differences. Reference images are good too, but nothing beats actually acting out the pose with your own body.
>>2341410
Just for the record, it's supposed to be like a running swing, so he's not actually standing. I've tried posing myself in the past
>>2341434
>it's supposed to be like a running swing
Irrelevent. Watch any movie with knights and cavalry and you'll find there is not a single sword, axe or halberd being held like that either on foot or on horse.
If that's your idea of a natural pose I'll hazard you were that kid that ran like Naruto in middle school.
2-3 minute thing in class. I'm just throwing it up here, but critique if you want.
>inb4 only crayons avaliable
>>2341434
>it's supposed to be like a running swing
>>2341410 here.
I got that it was supposed to be a running swing and that he's supposed to be like this cool lumberjack that like chopped the tree with one hand while running. I totally understand what you were trying to do.
It's just that -and take no offense- you didn't do it well.
As I've said, the pose is awkward. He looks like he's falling down, the twist of his left hand and the position of the axe are wrong and his right hand and arm are doing god knows what.
>>2341442
Being restricted by what people are able to do in film is not necessarily relevant in a fantasy-scene. Additionally, it is not irrelevant when I'm trying to figure out what you meant.
>>2341455
Thanks, that's why I posted here :) I'll try to paint over in photoshop
>>2341454
what
did you just cut out an outline of your hand?
i'd say your anatomy is wrong
Any good tutorials out there on how to value in shapes?
I know I'm garbage but I've been doing Loomis for a few days now and I'm not sure it's helping. I still don't know how to create a proper face since I don't understand how a face works.
Should I just quit and look at some anatomy books?
Also, I know my circles are shit
How am i supposed to hold my pencil starting out? If there's no single good answer, does anyone have any sites they feel give a good rundown of different techniques?
>>2341485
Any beginner book like keys to drawing. Remember that values are shapes too.
>>2341505
Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMC0Cx3Uk84
>>2341501
>a few days
why are you giving up now? those faces aren't bad. don't attempt to run before you can walk, no matter how much you want to or think you can run
Took a couple of hours to draw and isn't the best, but I like it.
I wish I could speed draw to a decent quality though. Just think of a concept and crank out a full body sketch in 10-20 minutes. How would I go about being able to do that?
>>2341136
Oops, forgot to flip.
>>2341450
good enough to fap to/10
>>2341527
Noble effort.
You gave him an extra toe on his front right foot though?
>>2341501
go through prokos video on heads and facial features. and get good at the simple stuff like volume, form and construction before going into adding detail
>>2341515
Thanks buddy
Silhouette practice/basic anatomy. Pretty much the very first scribbles I've done that weren't DA-tier skinny boys with anime eyes.
>>2341523
It's more that I'm not sure doing this will teach me how to properly form a face (cheekbones and chins). He doesn't really explain how to place facial features.
I guess I should mention that I've been drawing for years, but really only by copying stuff I've seen. This is my first time trying to really learn how to draw from the mind. I'll keep with it for now though.
>>2341554
I'll check it out.
what am i doing with my life
totally ripped off a character from Framed Ink after a halfassed study because I dig the garb. Ironically completely ignored composition (sorry Mateu-Mestre).
>>2341596
she's got the down's
>>2341605
shook an extra chromosome into the soup while fucking with the eyes in transform I reckon
Doesn't look as good as I wished it would, but for a beginner, my first drawing on the tablet and my actual first drawing since 10 years or so it's not that bad.
Still have quite a way to go, but a good critique would surely help!
first time tried to do anything realistic,Even though it's not that great learned a lot about blending and colour and skin.:)
is this shit worth digitizing?
Fish wip.
Books or vids, which do you prefer? Are certain subjects better in books or vice versa?
>>2341772
Books are better for explaining abstract concepts and going in detail on things but if you want to step-by-step some happy little trees you may as well watch a vid
>>2341586
Try to focus on getting longer, more confident lines.
>>2341772
i think people who promote books dont realize the sunk cost of reading for 4 hours. Of course you get more than in videos its also more structured and more logical. I think there are pros and cons to both.
>>2341751
it looks like a dick wtf anon hahaha
but nice man,crosshatching could be better though
>>2341810
thanks, just started doing crosshatching so it's very messy but someday i'll be good at it.
Something from yesterday, trying to get back in the swing of things.
Referenced from a book.
>>2341903
Fuck me. Here's the proper resize..
If the orientation is still fucked I'm sorry.
>>2341045
Pencil and paper is all you need.
Also, don't forget your eyes and brain.
today's nothings
shitty whale.
After studying how an artist does their monochrome and cross hatching, I'm think I'm starting to understand the process.
>>2341960
whoops forgot the pic
>>2341756
thank you, i will start it from 0.
messing around with charcoal, how am i doing for the beginning of the year?
this one was my warm up
>>2342076
>>2342079
>>2342080
>>2342082
>>2342083
>>2341524
get into the habit of doing construction.
>>2341961
Yup that's a good start. Keep going :)
Does anyone even find Proko's shit useful? I have watched some of his stuff and he assumes a lot of knowledge and goes by quite fast.
>>2341586
bruh stop feathering your strokes and also look at your own body. No one's hands have a perfectly curved arc between their pointer finger and their thumb
>>2342255
I wouldn't rely on the dude just because free shit like that is pretty minimal on purpose, but the drawing the head stuff helped me work out some of the kinks in my head construction. You're better off with books and paid or pirated video lectures.
>>2342258
nah he's not a jew.
just watch his videos a couple times each and let yourself absorb the knowledge.
>>2342273
i watched his "how to improve faster" video and it was just clickbait. All he says is if you make a mistake, correct the mistake, don't ignore it and then repeat the mistake. That's good advice alright. But the video is 7 minutes long and the other 5 minutes is him redrawing his gesture drawings
>>2342255
he pretty much covers everything you need. the videos are fast so you can revisit them and not have to go through a 1 hour video like vilppooo
as long as you go through all of the exercises and spend a lot of time on each one, you will get good
Overwhelmed with the amount of material to study, I decided to pick art books and copy all illustrations provided, starting with Bridgman's constructive anatomy.
Will that help me establish at least a portion of the necessary visual library to progress to figure drawing and whatnot?
>>2342084
On the edge of thread graduate.
>>2342302
if you copy without understanding why it was drawn that way it will be pointless
Anyone find a lot of art books not really helpful? I enjoyed some books however I only read like 10-20% of it. I feel like a lot of art books have a lot of unnecessary information.
I find stuff like pic related way more helpful and interesting as it focuses on one subject with diagrams and gets straight to the core parts. Of course they can't go into detail and you'll need to study/actually draw but I find videos also fill that niche to a degree too.
In Loomis' Fun with Pencil book, I still use the Ball and Plane method and I like how he shows different results if you try different stuff but I feel like his stuff has little direction, he shows you the finished product of a topic of study and then just tells you to try it out without further instruction.
I also found the potato head stuff at the beginning of the book dumb. He's teaching you how to draw highly stylized cartoons right off the bat without telling you how to form a basic head.
Hey guys, I want to learn to draw (I'm really fucking horrible, I basically do not know anything) and from what I've gathered knowing the actual correct human anatomy to start is a must.
https://www.udemy.com/anatomy-for-figure-drawing-and-comics/
What about these tutorials? I'm pretty fucking adhd and following a course gets me in the right mood to start. Anyone has any video course to recommend otherwise?
>>2342427
go read a book or watch a video, anatomy isn't worth much if you can't draw the figure.
>>2342420
Well fun with penicl like the name says is centered around fun, and to get people excited to drawing.
>>2342438
So... I should... learn how to draw figure? Don't you draw figure from... the anatomy? I'm actually confused here.
>>2342446
It's stupid advice, disregard it
If you learn anatomy of course you'll always have good knowledge of proportions and correct positions of the body. Combined with some gesture drawing to get a feeling of movement and weight you'll quickly learn to recognize your mistakes and complete most poses you want
>>2342451
I mostly want to draw M-MUH weeaboo garbage, but I recognize that fundamentals are really important. I'll do just that then.
>>2342451
yeah and how are you gonna do anatomy if you don't even know how to construct the figure, do gesture drawing, know how to draw forms, proportions some basic perspective etc?
fuck off
>>2342464
are you retarded?
all those things go hand in hand with anatomy. do you really think that if you learned how to draw and understood the entire muscle mass and skeleton of a human body you wouldn't know how to construct a figure, wouldn't know proportions, wouldn't know how to draw forms?
my god
First time on /ic/ hoping to get critique and tips to get better. Here's the first of two pictures I've been working on the past 2 days
>>2342511
Second one, still in the works
>>2342517
pls listen to this guy. you lack fundamentals
So I am currently reading the book "Drawing with the right side of the brain".
Pic related is the first face the autor wants you to draw with the learned abilities.
My question is, did I do anything wrong? Something I didn´t do good enough yet?
I think that I am drawing with the right side of my brain, but I don´t really feel it.
>>2342710
Brotip: Distinction on the left and right side of the brain is pseudo-scientific, various areas of brain fire more during different things, but it's not left-right distinction and you are always using your whole brain unless you shitpost on /ic/ as I do this very moment.
Just do exercises, don't focus on text.
>>2342739
I'm an idiot. I mean I don´t feel like I am drawing with the right side. I am just drawing. Looking at what I am drawing. I just know that I am not supposed to draw symbols. I also don´t know if there is a better way to learn how to draw than this book.
>>2342778
Would like to know too if I should learn from the book or just draw what I want.
Send help
>>2342894
blog?
>>2342894
You should draw the whole picture.
>>2342908
what?
>>2342923
that's exactly my problem, i always end up enlarging my drawings too much. how do i fix it?
>>2342926
hes being a sarcastic prick for no reason
>>2342930
Just try over and over until you get a feeling for it. Just look at what you want to draw and look at your paper, look at the lines. Look at how big you draw each of them. I am a beginner like you, I try to explain as good as I can. Maybe someone else can help you more.
Hi, I don't draw very often but I do a bit. Everywhere I read that adult humans are eight heads in proportion and teens around seven. What happens to me many times is that my drawings tend to hover around six heads (or six and a bit) and I read that six heads is for characters below ten years old. Ignoring the flaws that come from my lack of experience, many of my character drawings look pretty much like teens. Is there something inherently wrong with six heads proportion when drawing teens? Does it look okay to me because they're just standing, they're manga or because I am being indulgent with myself? Do they look wrong (proportionally speaking) to you?
Also, any recommendation for these specific cases?
Sorry for the quality of the pic
Is this good for a composition?
>>2343025
women are around 7 at peak. only good looking perfect men are at 8.
You're drawing anime anyway, you can do 5 if you want.
you need to anti up from construction to form, your lack mass as a couple of key areas ( legs,neck) and you need to do some gesture since your poses are very stiff.
>>2343034
do you like it? compositions are very subjective. make sure to not go full black when you actually draw it though.
>>2343043
Thank you very much.
About the lack of mass, is it an issue with the character on the left or does it apply to both?
>tfw starting to use loomis methods subconsciously
its happening
>>2343067
yeah it started to happen to me too. i practiced loomis heads on and off and never really liked it, but then much later found constructing them a lot easier, and found it easy to think of them that way
>>2343067
>This is one of them. Actually this was the book Frazetta famously claimed to have gone through and copied the drawings in one night as a teen.
Damn, I'd love to hear that straight from the Frazetta's mouth. Considering how much faster I've gotten at drawing I think I might be able to do that as a challenge. I'm old as balls so it's not as impressive in that context, but it seems like it'd be a good exercise.
>>2342930
If you notice you can't fit the entire picture, start over. There are many ways people can fit a picture, making mental notes of proportions, grids in your minds, etc.
>>2343075
I think you missed your thread.
>>2343075
wrong post in wrong thread, looks like
>>2342930
Drawing too small doesn't help either. Same advice applies in that you should start over if it's way too small.
>>2343025
stop. drawing. anime
>>2342930
Just measure a bit before you start. It'll get intuitive after a while, but to start you can go "this image is x many heads tall so I should keep that in mind when I draw the head."
if it still goes off the page even with you drawing the head measured (or whatever part of the body you choose to start with), you've been drawing all your stuff out of proportion anyway.
I blocked out some time to practice figure but a new Half in the bag just came out so I tried to draw Mike while I was watching it instead.
Trying to shade hair, is this at all right?
Im sorry if It's rotated, the icon and picture isn't rotated but when I upload it it somehow does it.
>>2343034
fixed for u senpai
>>2343222
Are you a 14 year old girl?
>>2343331
I was lazy, and since I was only interested in rendering I thought this way would be more efficient.
>>2343221
WHATS WRONG WITH HIS FAAAAACE
>>2343451
>I was lazy
This is how you don't improve. You learn twice as much if you worked from a reference and did your own linework of a real person and tried to render real hair instead of 'rendering' a colouring in book for girls
>>2343480
A part of the cranium is missing.
>>2343485
You don't need to state the obvious, I normally do that. It's really not that I was "lazy", it's just that this is way more efficient then drawing multiple heads and different hair. Especially since I'd normally default to what's in my comfort zone and draw the hair that way. I could easily do my own linework, but that's obviously not the point of this exercise. I'd like to know how I did on this one before I move do doing something original.
Critique pls
>>2343503
Body proportions of his right side (viewer's left) seem a bit fucked, especially the hand looks short near the shoulder. And I think head doesn't have good proportions with the rest of the body.
I'm absolute beginner though drawing worse than you, maybe others will be more constructive.
>>2343487
+ the features are too big and flat
hi
im completely new to drawing digitally
basically started yesterday
any tips and opinions appreciated
>>2343573
LOOMIS.
>>2343601
How do I hands?
>>2343619
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkCxLdAocE
Download this pack: http://senshistock.deviantart.com/art/50-Hand-Challenge-Pack-244-Hand-References-348847368
Draw at least 50 of them, then continue drawing them but also mixing in hands from imagination, or at least the position from a reference image but from another angle.
i looked at loomis books and tried drawing some figures in perspective, how did i do :3
>I have no idea what I'm doing lel
>>2343693
you can't even critique this type of stuff because you didnt study, you just copied
>>2343723
If by copy you mean tracing, no.
If by copy you mean referenced and redraw the thing from pictures on my computer screen, yes.
>>2343692
Use a harder brush, nigga
looks like everything is out of focus
>>2343729
yeah you just copied, anyone can copy. You copied the original art but you don't understand why everything is so.
>>2343693
Get Pokemon art academy then come back and read the sticky.
is there any good exercice to get rid of those chicken lines?
>>2343740
make a subconscious effort to put more confidence in your lines?
>>2343730
can you tell me if the perspective is right?
>>2343222
So can anyone tell me if this is correct at all?
>>2343796
It's pretty pointless. If you want to study hair you do it with real life references with established light source and proper values. Those pictures don't even involve drawing hair shapes since they're predefined already.
Critique? Why does it look blurry?
how do I hair?
>>2343848
thanks, it isn't watercolour though, it's digital, greyscale then colours on an overlay layer above
>>2343859
you should install corel painter it haves the best watercolor in the industry
anyway take a look at this pic by Samura just laid out the hair by direction
using the brush carefully
>>2343480
>>2343487
>>2343535
part two im gonna slit my wrists
>>2341939
>>2343868
eyes still seem a little too big to me but it's definitely improved
Hogarth's anatomy reference illustrations: what techniques do they use?
All done in this finished style that looks completely different from the rest of the book's sketching.
All monochrome -- B&W or sepia.
I have a physical copy of the book in front of me and I still can't tell whether it's all pencilwork or if there's airbrushing or something involved.
Okay, just got my drawing tablet and I'm working on gestures.
How do I improve on gestures? Like the pictures I see here are very defined lines and curves, mine look like retarded robots even when I have enough time to add to the first lines they don't seem right.
I'm doing 90 second timers between pictures, should I be taking more time? How do I simplify the arms legs etc etc into 3 lines like I see a lot here?
Please note this is the first time using my tablet, and i'm just beggining as well. I've practiced for a few days on pen and paper.
>>2343957
Watch Vilppu's lecture on gesture. My understanding of it improved massively after watching it.
>>2343988
Where would one find this? My internet is horribly slow at the moment, sorry.
Also I am reading and practicing keys to drawing.
>>2344002
Book thread has a mega link to libraries that also contain videos.
on phone so cant crop sry.
how does the drawing look guys? i have painted and drawn throughout my life but only now have i decided to start training.
>>2343945
I think that stuff is all charcoal, you can get that kind of very smooth gradient with it
>>2344020
you're missing some mass on the hand fampai its okay i guess enjoy the journey though.
>>2344020
When a line looks wrong and I can't instantly spot it, what I do is make a conscious effort to check its angle and it instantly shows where I made a mistake. Apply that to relationships between forms in space and you won't end up with an unfixable mess you've spent too much effort on.
>>2344012
I can't find anything in the book threads here, i'll probably download it when I get home though. Thanks for the tips though.
>>2344059
https://mega.nz/#F!2RARFaLA!VTiQb6eRXfV4V6mYQ6FJTA!GFYQiIqA
A lot of Vilppu videos in the Videos folder.
>>2344063
Thanks bromosexual
>>2344020
Negative spaces. Angles and spacial relationships between forms.
>>2344087
your contour redlines on her face are incorrect, although the sketch of the face is truthfully somewhat warped
the rest is valid
>>2344134
your critique of his critique is lacking in depth or spatial relation. the rest is valid.
>>2344134
Indeed, the line seems to imply an incorrect perspective. I was actually trying to simply show that the tilt of the head is wrong with the T-line (1 line from the keystone to the chin and the other line roughly indicating the eyebrows), rather than to indicate wrapping lines, but the result is fairly sloppy. I should have done better.
>>2344148
By the way, beside the things you posted, is there anything else i can work on? Are my lines, shapes etc decent aka am I going in the right direction?
>>2344162
you can stop asking questions and start over god damn you. You're at a level where progress is super quick so stop asking questions youre wasting your time
Same guy as >>2342710
Can you recommend me any good sites to learn colouring with coloured pencils? I can´t find anything. Would appreciate it
I wanted to draw a storm trooper but even my stick figures don't look very good. What should I be practicing? Just keep copying photos and you eventually get good?
>>2344191
Wow your right man. I put away the photo and now my drawing i 20x better. oh wait its not.
Loomis is complete garbage, how did the LOOMIS meme start?
>>2344195
Loomis is also an umbrella term for fundamentals, and your fundamentals suck so go practice.
>>2344195
> these lewd figures vilppu draws
How do her eyes look in profile view? Can anybody make a sketch?
>>2344230
Kill yourself already
>>2344230
nioce
>strong aspirations as a teenager to git gud
>would draw almost everyday with many ideas/subjects I enjoyed spending time with
>after graduating, the pace rapidly diminished
>currently draw twice a month and it's essentially the same thing over and over
>very depressed that I've never reached my goals as an artist
>unmotivated and lost the willpower to study and git gud
>feel too old to grind each day to make up for all the years I've lost
Why does it have to be like this? Why was I unable to make it work?
This continues to be a giant source of anguish in my life.
I need help.
>>2344338
You're depressed. Talk to a therapist, not an imageboard.
what do you think of mr frog.
I think his front legs are too far forwards
>>2344338
have you tried sacking up?
>>2344338
Stop bitching and start doing.
>>2341745
Fuck no
i love drawing
>>2344369
hell yeah motherfucker
>>2341914
Bottom lip should be darker than the upper lip
Reworking an old sketch and doodling. Enjoying doing these quite a bit.
>>2344264
Papa Vilppu just wants to prepare you for the inevitable path you will take.
>>2343221
Hey anon, I just wanted to brighten your day a lil bit. I recognized Mike from the thumbnail before I even read your post. Keep working at your drawings, you are awesome!
>>2341136
I'm too burnt out for this I need to stop for the day.
>>2343222
Kek anon, I have the same sheets for my bed.
>>2344525
95% of your picture should stay in the 20-80% value range. Why is the close tree the same colour as the far tree?
>>2344527
i was trying to make the trees somehow special, as if they were characters
>>2344525
How do i get gud
I just want to draw warriors and monsters
and beautiful women
>>2344594
Well each point of your list requires a lot to learn
>>2344594
Draw from reference and really observe what you're drawing. Think about how the forms of things wrap around and bend. Measure angles and proportion. It's not a crime to use reference, especially for improvement.
Here's the first and so far the last grid drawing I've ever done, only have been drawing for about 5 months. looks pretty great to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>2344676
Not sure why the orientation of the pic is off, but whatever
I like the information in loomis' head and hands book but I feel like he never really tells the reader what exercises to do? Do I copy him? Do i try make my own version? A lot of his drawings appear in the book without much text to describe the details, like these skulls. He kinda just talks about them in general but never goes really in depth on how to draw it. Of course this information can be inferred by looking at the picture, such as the shape and general size of eye sockets, but I feel like text would be really helpful.
fuck im trying to loomis from imagination for the first time. i feel like i have what looks like a decent in proportion female statue head. i really would like to give her some slimmer feminine features especially the nose. please help.
>>2344345
holy shit nigger this hit me hard
/r9k/ here
>>2344545
thanks, that will be useful!
How can I even compete
>>2344911
Go watch the Proko videos on heads and you will see remarkable advances in 2 hours as long as you follow along
>>2344532
thats deep anon
>>2344724
thats loomis for you. If you don't like his stuff then look elsewhere. Also go look at the ball and plane method or whatever its called in that book. The one where you cut off the sides of a sphere and use that to draw the jaw.
pretty much this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EPNYWeEf1U
>>2344924
its not, but is the only thing i could think of
Is it common practice to posterize your photo references for a basic shading template?
Are there other methods to reliably simplify lighting to basic "value shapes"?
>>2344973
Eh, not worth it. Really you just need to learn to mark out a line where any shadow is. Then when it's a hard edge you keep it and when it's a soft edge you blend it later. Do shit like this.
>>2344973
>squint your eyes
Why do you think run jia is da best
How do you draw a leg from this angle?
>>2345011
Use the same downwards angle as the torso
>>2344984
ayy!
>20 hours of vilppu to watch through
jesus christ
>>2345022
if watching long ass videos isnt your cup of tea then don't. There's no point in binging on a long video and learning nothing
as for me I can't stand walls of text and 1 hour videos, that's just not how I learn. I learn best when the point is condensed into a short bite (Like a 5-10 minute video) so I can get the basic idea and then explore from there.
Is it ok to be off but (in my opinion) capture most of the gesture in a gesture drawing? The drawing on the right is shit, was kind of an odd pose but on the one on the left I realized the non-bent leg was too long and the head isn't at the right angle.
Didn't really want to spend ages fixing it as it's just for practice and I would have to erase and redraw a lot, it would just look messy.
>>2345022
Btw, even Sycra in his "how to draw" videos said that he watched stuff like vilppu on x1.5 and x1.75 speed because it takes ages for him to say anything.
>>2345032
The gestures don't need to be perfect, but usually if they're not accurate it should be because you pushed the pose further, not that you didn't push it far enough. Adding detail will usually stiffen it a little.
Also your gestures are following contours a bit much in my opinion. While there isn't necessarily a 'correct' way to do gesture as long as you capture the pose quickly, I'd suggest you try and focus more on finding lines of action and using c and s curves to your advantage.
>>2345032
I think you should focus on drawing the spine instead of the contours. You don't have to erase just get more paper.
>>2345038
Is that you leems?
r8 my drawing
>>2345070
6/10 bretty
>>2345066
I don't understand what you just said, but I guess I'm not.
Just some doodling / practice
Just got this tablet and i'm trying to get used to it. I also just started drawing like a few weeks ago.
how is this? What else can I do for practice?
>>2345066
leems would advocate going at 3.3x speed with video speed controller
Besides im a tripfag.
