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>>2575331
I'll start.
Is tracing over 3d models considered cheating? Or is it "no rules just tools"?
>>2575332
People will give you shit for it and ultimately you'll learn less, but it'll fix shitty anatomy issues at least.
It will probably make w/e you draw stiff and still slightly unrealistic though.
>>2575331
Which is a good site for face/expression references?
Google gives you shit.
is there a guide to pen compatibility between wacom devices?
>>2575607
Literally google search "pen compatibility between wacom devices"
>http://www.peterstock.co.uk/miscellaneous/wacom%20pen%20compatibility.pdf
>>2575632
>>2575607
png version
>>2575632
this isn't a very complete list. neither of the devices i wanted to check compatibility between are on there.
does anyone know if the pens from the bamboo ctl460 and the thinkpad x61t are interchangeable?
>>2575637
That Intuos4 pen looks sexy as fuck in comparison to all the others.
will I ever git gud?
Where do I meet like minded people? Something like a (digital)study group or something
These illustrations show great draftsmanship, and also show great work on composition/notan/color palette.
While this set of skills tend to graphic design, they're great to have ins its toolset.
How does one improve on the illustrative aspects?
Any advice on how can i get myself motivated and to work harder and harder every day ?
>>2575331
Mind sharing some essential/big digital painting cheats? Doing every little thing on separate layer was a big revelation for me so yeah, some essential basic stuff would be appreciated.
>>2576412
Do everything on one layer, as Feng and other recommends. It's closer to a traditional workflow. Keeping everything in one layer allows you to make mistakes that you paint over, adding some grip to the painting. It also declutters your mind, and allow you to focus on the painting instead of the digital tool.
>>2576407
I don't know what could work for you, but what keeps me going is:
>Always be a lazy piece of shit
>Wanting to git gud
>Decide to buy a really big sketchbook
>200 sheets of acid-free canson paper
>"I will fill this sketchbook to impress the normies"
One day I'll be a pretentious fuck and tell everbody "oh, yeah, those are little sketches I made from time to time".
Also I practice daily on printer paper before fucking up the sketchbook.
How do I get motivated to work on commission work? I find myself taking breaks when I (quickly) run out of steam and spend all my time on side shit
Is following the sticky really the best way to start as an absolute beginner?
>>2576419
this process kept me going, getting validation. But with this attitude you will eventually run into anxiety of not getting better. I think working for validation is very detrimental for the process of getting gud.
How do I stop these skinny lines from happening when I'm trying to draw a line? They make it really hard to use the magic tool since the lines are too skinny to the point that the tool will select a much bigger area than intended because of it.
anyone else pissed with how many threads are getting deleted by mods recently?
>>2577318
Which program?
If SAI, set "minimum size" in tool settings to something nigger than 20%.
If anything else, kind of the same.
Make the brush size big enough when you're applying minimal pressure.
>>2577371
>something nigger
I meant something 'Bigger'. Fuck.
what do you call this shit again>???? the red blue thingy
>>2575565
http://artists.pixelovely.com/
>>2577831
chromatic aberration.
also, don't use it.
>>2577831
It's magenta and cyan
>>2577831
That's a goddamn camera lens deffect every photographer wants to get rid of!
Why do these fucking autists add it to their goddamn work? Is this the new lens flare?
Fucking normies.
I've been going through the recommended material in the sticky. I'm doing Loomis' Fun With A Pencil right now. I have been using pen instead based on the idea that it forces you to think about your lines and redraw if you fuck up. I prefer the feel of pen anyway.
The problem is that when I am drawing and building on the forms, the pen can make it kind of cluttered and I can't put in fine details. Is there something I can do to remedy this?
Building a PC, what is important to look for in a monitor?
>>2578060
>Is there something I can do to remedy this?
Stop chickenscratching.
You're using some of the finer pen in existence, so it's not the pen that clutters things, but the poor linework.
The goal of drawing with a pen is to acquire confidence and do great lines, not persevere in scratching.
Don't take it bad, it's great that you follow a proper method, just correct this bad habit.
>>2578060
Try to move your elbow instead of moving the wrist.
Also hold the pen away from the tip.
Practice making long, smooth lines in a blank paper.
Good to see you're doing your Loomis.
Where can I download free PS brushes and tool presets?
>>2577371
>something nigger than 20%.
>>2575331
DOES THE UNIVERSE GO ON FOREVER????
>>2578095
cont.
Will framerate matter when drawing?
Is there any site like drawabox, but only for rendering?
I do 3D models in zbrush and want to texture them I.e. handpainting. The problem is I cannot texture. So I need to learn how to render part of digital art.
What's the difference between the VHS Vilppu tapes and the New Master Academy videos? They both seem to go hand and hand teaching the same subject.
Does he introduce anything different/new in the New Master Academy version?
>>2578682
The video quality of the VHS tapes is abysmal. Vilppu's voice is weaker on the New Masters videos given the fuckin' 40 years that transpired between the two. It's a tough call honestly.
My hand shakes like crazy when I hold a pencil for anything past 5 minutes. Is there something I can do to reduce hand tremors?
>>2578685
time isn't treating old man vilppu well
>>2578135
Helpful, thank you
Is there a difference to what kind of skeletal under drawing method to use? I switch between circles and tubes to blocks a lot, and I don't know if it's just making me worse or if it's helping.
>>2578098
>You're using some of the finer pen in existence
This is entirely wrong. The Pilot Precise V5 is one of my favorite drawing pens, but when you start moving slowly the ink pools up. It's a minor problem compared to the chicken scratch obviously, but rollerball pens can make drawing details much harder than they are with pencils or ballpoints.
>>2578060
That's a hard pen to draw with, but it's one of my favorites so I'll spurge out with some advice. If you hold it perpendicular to the page (i.e. pointed straight down), press lightly, and use it like a proper technical pen, it behaves much differently. Only part of the ball touches the page, and it makes a much finer line than when you use it with a normal writing grip. This is the proper way to use technical pens (like Microns and Rapidographs), and it encourages you to draw with your whole arm. drawabox.com and Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching intro videos both explain the motions. Bear in mind this is harder to do with a V5 because you need to get the ball rolling for ink to flow when it's perpendicular.
Also, note that the rolling ball is held in place by three indentations on the nib. The pen is smoothest when one of those indentations is pointed up and away from the paper (when using a writing grip). Conveniently the three Pilot logos above the nib feed divide the pen into thirds, and once you find what part of the logo lines up with the indentations on that particular pen you can hold the pen with that point facing up.
All that being said, just use a plain ballpoint pen. Your chicken scratching is atrocious. Work on drawing proper lines with a tool that doesn't require such autismal focus to vary your line weight.
>>2578698
>billion comments about it on the video itself
>better make sum more on 4chins
Grow up kid
>>2578688
How are you holding your pencil? Loosen up with the death grip. Draw with your whole arm so your fingers and wrist aren't doing all the work. Use softer grades of lead so you don't have to press as hard. Musicians and surgeons sometimes take Propranolol to steady their hands. I take it for high blood pressure and can confirm it also helps to steady my hands.
>>2578095
>>2578174
I imagine accurate color reproduction and size would be the most important factors that would affect painting. I couldn't recommend anything, though.
>>2578164
You'd never be able to reach an edge, so for all practical purposes the answer is yes.
>>2576875
There is no best way.
>>2576709
>>2576407
Set goals, reach goals, reward yourself, repeat. Make goals small enough that you can reach them in one sitting.
>>2576412
Mirror your work often. Start with a small canvas and big brushes. Use massive brushes to make smooth gradients. Honestly just check ctrl+paint. Also, SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN.
>>2576159
Yes.
>>2575332
No rules, just tools. With the caveat that you shouldn't use a computer as a crutch to avoid learning how to draw forms in 3d space.
>>2578770
No death grip, just pointer, middle and thumb on 3 sides. But thanks for the help, I appreciate it.
>>2578775
I should add it might help to try an overhand grip. I got the same advice a long time ago and wrote it off as bullshit, but it's helpful for forcing you to use your whole arm. An 18"x24" pad of newsprint and some vine charcoal is less than $10 and is a great way to work on making big marks without a lot of physical strain.
I'm making my way through Drawabox, and intersecting rounded objects with eachother is a little frustrating. I don't know where I'm supposed to show where one ball overlaps the other.
When using a wacom tablet, am I supposed to not touch the tablet with my hand?
>>2578793
so, your question is where do you make them intersect?
if that's the case then thats exactly what this exercise wants you to think about, try to think about spheres as tridimentional shapes and not circles, you can do this by adding a vertical and horizontal axis to them, thinking of them as cylinders,hexagons or even cubes (you can actually use cubes as guidelines), it will become easier this way.
Hope this actually helps
![slide_34[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sXwFsFk.jpg "slide_34[1].jpg")
Is there a colloquial name for the indent between the eyebrow ridge and the cheekbone?
It's where the zygomatic bone is.
>>2578809
It has a little, thanks. I guess my main problem is trying to figure out the angles of each spherical object that I want to merge with something. I think the sketch on the far right is the best way to show what I'm confused about.
>>2578809
wow I am dumb and placed those guidelines wrong in the second elipse.
>>2578819
oh good thing I did this, it might help you a lot.
try to give a read to scott robertson's book on perspective if you haven't, he actually explains this indepth.
>>2578822
Thanks again, and for the book suggestion! This pic is something I'm trying to reach towards: a bunch of round forms making the overall drawing feel like it has volume.
But yeah, I'll look that up and keep working on it!
Is it a mistake to be learning digitally and not on paper?
>>2578727
You should not worry about it too much.
As that is the sketch phase, do whatever you feel good doing atm. You'll fix shit later.
Remember, sketching is only the way to put your idea on paper. Trace very lightly on paper to make corrections easily.
Anyways, do what you think is faster or allows you to make more difficult poses/angles/whatever.
When following along with a youtuber like proko my stuff always comes out like 500x better? These drawings dont really count tho cause it feels like im borrowing their knowledge of 3d space etc. So if i apply their 'rules' or structure to a bunch of other ideas that are similar i should get better??? sorry if that was confusing
>>2579057
When some fagit tells you: "Go read a book", it does not mean you have to allow the author to think for you.
Watch proko and see how can you apply his notes irl.
My brand new computer and intuos pro are slow with photoshop CS4?? Like my computer is pretty good.
Dual Core i5 2.3GHZ
12 GB RAM
120 GB SSD (and 1TB external hard drive)
Its like photoshop doesnt pick up everything from the tablet? I already disabled windows ink, increased how much RAM photoshop can use etc etc and pic related keeps happening?
>>2579144
btw this doesnt happen with Paint Tool Sai
>>2579144
what about your graphics card
>>2579155
I was told that is doesnt matter that much?
Intel HD Graphics 520
Like why should it matter how the tablet interacts with the program
New to digital painting and I have no idea how Im supposed to set up my canvas?
Like the pixels/cm and stuff? I just want photoshop to run smoothly but I dont know what Im doing
>>2579165
It doent cause any of those chisels like the other brushes but it still slows down sometimes.
Again doesnt happen with Sai at all
How do I motivate myself to draw on days when I just can't?
I feel like I need to sort out my life. Something is stopping me from drawing. Like an invisible brick wall.
>>2579172
maybe your canvas size is too big? if it's not a hardware problem you might want to try reinstalling photoshop. go for cs5 or higher, it might run better.
>>2579195
How big is too big?
Also I thought if I pick a lesser version of Photoshop it would run best since theyre all very similar anyway
im going on a roadtrip for a few weeks and id like to try my hand at plein air painting. ive never painted before but im a decent draftsman, is there any pointers to this sort of stuff? im not quite sure where to start.
im using watercolors, if anyone has any watercolor resources thatd be nice too.
>>2579199
depends... how big is your canvas right now? width height and resolution?
they should be the same, but the later versions might be more compatible with your new computer. i dunno man.
>>2579176
Meet people with whom you share the passion, come to the /ic/ chatroom and look for people to discuss/draw art with real-time
>>2579206
Nice set of brushes + 300g/m2 watercolor paper.
Have a nice time.
I've gone through Perspective Made Easy, where do I go from here to learn how to construct figures interacting in perspective?
>>2578823
I don't think there's a timestamp here
>>2579522
Different anon. Jump to 34m 43s or copypaste link.
Here´s my question.
Are there any downloadable packages of pictures for gesture drawing?
I want a .rar full of pictures. If anybody knows, pls share the link.
>Inb4 quickposes.org
I want something that can be accesed offline.
Many thanks.
>>2579567
Gravure model books?
>>2579607
Know any sites to download them?
Any suggestions for a nice simple gallery theme for tumblr? Something that can show a fair amount of work and is accessible, where all the buttons are easy to find.
Some of the themes on tumblr are pretty fucking annoying, tons of good artists have byzantine blogs where you can't even find the like button.
how does one keep a degree of consistency for specific proportion? using head counts works fine except when doing things in foreshortening and difficult angle where things starts to botch up.
Can you join CA.org if you're an absolute fucking noob?
Anybody here browses that site?
>>2579620
I'm in Orwellia, so many sites are blocked, but looking for the Gravure TV magazine I found some on ebook3000.
Good stuff!
anyone got any tips for getting started with drawing hair? Even just the basics rather than getting into it looking realistic
whenever I try it looks terrible and if I attempt easier hair styles it looks like a piece of cloth over a bald guy's head if anything
When do I git gud?
i don't know if anyone has had this problem, but when using digital, i can paint and draw separately but i can't combine them to save my life.
Something about trying to get rid of the lines is really frustrating.
what do?
Okay, call me an idiot, but what exactly is symbol drawing? I see that phrase around here a lot, and I'm really not sure what it means
>>2580181
In a weird way we usually think of objects as basic symbols in our head, and if we're new to art we draw those formless symbols in place of the actual three dimensional structure that make up their form and their relation to objects around them. One of the first biggest steps in improving your art is to draw not what you think something looks like but how it actually is. Usually the best way to get past this is to say "I'm going to draw a tree" and instead of jotting down a rectangle with several overlapping triangles stacked on top of it, you'd go find a tree in real life or if need be, a photo of a tree and you would attempt to draw it out, constructing it's form with three dimensional shapes and things like cross contour lines to help you recognize how it's actually shaped.
Let me know if that helps you or not.
how do i render form like pic related?
>>2580315
Put the shadows where shadows go and light where the light goes. That should answer 99% of /ic/'s retarded ass questions.
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?
I have spacing set to 1% and it doesn't fix it?
>>2580315
Selections, large soft strokes and a strong understanding of form/light.
How different is it to study from a live model vs from a photo in a book/monitor? Is there something that should be taken into consideration if one doesn't have an access to a live model?
>>2580435
Can no one answer my question? Am I doomed?
>>2580435
You might have opacity jitter set up pretty high. You'll find it under transfer in that menue.
>>2580564
or maybe not transfer but I think it's in there. Looks like you've got an old version
>>2578685
>The video quality of the VHS tapes is abysmal.
yeah
fuck
does anyone remember that thread where this guy drew a gray cat furry with a mask and a really fat ass and everyone kept encouraging him to post more? the cat character had a brother and they were in post apocalyptic russia or something
>>2580581
Yeah. I remember. But don't know his/her name, blog nor saved anything.
...If that's what you want.
>>2579176
If you're drawing digital (or otherwise don't need to worry about wasting drawing materials) attack your canvas. Don't plan on drawing anything, just attack the canvas with random lines and shapes. Do it as often as possible. Make it a habit to go through drawing related motions all the time.
>>2580179
Line layer as color burn blending mode, maybe?
>>2580491
A strong understanding of anatomy.
Use the picture as reference, but instead of mindlessly copying, keep the pose and draw the model at a different angle.
Take pic related as an example. Instead of drawing the same pose, you draw her "Side-view", or something else.
That's how you study without a model.
>>2576412
Learn how to use masks. I just discovered Krita's transparency mask feature and it's a huge fucking help when colouring stuff in. You can be sloppy as hell, which means your strokes are more relaxed and natural and still end up with a neat result.
Use mirroring and canvas rotation constantly to check your composition. Mirroring is especially useful and is a feature that makes digital drawing actually better than pen and paper to some extent.
Save time fixing bad proportions by abusing the transform tools. Ear in the wrong place? Just cut it off, move it and redo a few lines. Legs too short? Just lasso them and resize. This absolutely counts as cheating.
Paint with smudge tools. Slap a block of colour down and push it into the shape you want. It's a pretty unique feature of digital painting, but it doesn't feel like cheating so much as just using the medium in a natural way. You can kind of sculpt the picture like working with clay.
>>2577318
Could also be a problem with opacity and/or softness. When you set the curves for your pen input affecting the tool, make sure that the ones for size, opacity and softness start at an acceptable level.
>>2578815
You mean the temples?
How do I get better at not skewing my drawings so I don't have to pull out my mirror a hundred times every time I try to draw on paper?
>>2581104
I heard angling your canvas / pad helps.
>>2581104
Sometimes when a drawing looks a bit off I flip the paper and try to draw the same thing at the back. Then I put it up to the light and compare the two to see where I went wrong or which parts look ok/better. Then try not to make the same mistakes next time.
I'm poor and a little stupid
If I torrent/pirate some animation program, and make my own animations from that program, then sell my animations to clients, will I get in trouble?
How the fuck do I use Krita? I'm completely new to digital art and tablets and all that and I have no clue what I'm doing.
My friend wants to become a storyboard artist and is asking for my advice on how to start. Besides the obvious fundamentals like anatomy, gesture and perspective, is there anything else specific that I should emphasize to her on what to practice?
>>2581298
this thread might help >>2563594
I recently reinstalled photoshop and I think I'm forgetting something.
I used to use flow a lot, but now when I try the setting does nothing. Pic related, same brush at 100 and 20% flow, no difference whatseover.
How do i train my eye to be so god tier, that it can find the flaws in my work as easily as it finds the flaws in other people's work?
Self critique is best critique or so they say/
>>2581679
Practice.
Seriously that's all their is to it. You need to sit down, stare at your (or someone else's) work, and identify flaws. If you need some more specific advice I'd say try and put the flaws you find into words, just going "this looks off" and not actually diagnosing the problem is less helpful. You can also practice by critiquing others.
Obviously this requires knowledge, it's harder to spot an anatomical flaw (besides really obvious ones) without knowing anatomy.
>>2581679
Most basic way to do so is just rest. Leave your drawing and do something else, come back later after lets say 5 mins. Point being while drawing, you get too used to it and miss mistakes. If you are working in digital art, flip your drawing horizontally, works with the same concept, your brain will think of it as a new shape instead of the previously one that you got used to, giving you new criteria.
>>2581639
i might be wrong but i'm pretty sure flow only works on texture brushes
>>2580225
Alright, I think I got an idea of what you mean. How does it pertain to the human body though? Circles and boxes (i.e, circle=head, box=body)?
There's an image that gets posted here often about how bad art college's can be. Can anyone post it, I want to show a friend.
>>2583081
THis one?
https://i.warosu.org/data/ic/img/0025/31/1464064643043.jpg
>>2583108
That's the one! Thanks familia
I seriously can't figure out what this brush is for. I've found it (or almost identical brushes) in a few different artist's brush sets, including one where the artist only shared 7 brushes total, leading me to assume he/she ACTUALLY USES IT, but haven't seen the artist use it in any of their work.
What the fuck would you use it for? My only guess so far has as a weird calligraphy brush because it's angle-locked, but that doesn't seem likely either.
(bottom left is the brush itself blown up)
Does anyone have tutorials or videos or whatever about nature drawing? Trees, rocks, etc?
I can't seem to construct or see shapes when I look at those things, thinking in cilinders and cubes etc works for the human body but I can't seem to get that skill translated to natural things.
>>2583367
Check the book thread friendo
>>2581189
That's a pretty huge subject, but for the most part it works like photoshop so most photoshop tutorials will give you some idea.
The very basics:
Everything you draw is created on a layer. A layer is like a sheet of glass you can paint on. If you don't paint on part of it or erase what is on there, you can see through to the layers below. You can rearrange them by dragging them in the layers toolbar.
The main painting tool is the freehand brush. Once you have selected that, you can paint with it. Change it's properties by selecting one of the preset brushes (fifth button from the left in the upper menu, just below File, Edit, etc) or tweak them in more detail with the button just to the left of them. If you edit a brush and want to keep it, write a new name and press 'save to presets'. If you don't give it a unique name, the box will say 'overwrite preset' which you probably don't want to do.
If you want to draw precise lines, use the Assistant Tool. Open the tool setting box and select ruler or spline. Draw the line you want, then change to freehand brush, tick the Assistant box and set the value to 1000. Then draw along the assistant line and you will get a precise line.
Pretty much just fuck around with it and if you can't figure out how a feature works, google it.
>>2583346
high-level trolling m8. It's for autists who think 'muh brushsets' will help them paint just like their idols
>>2583346
if you want to use if for textures , looks pretty good
>>2583411
sounds like you just don't know how to paint
>>2583541
I feel like you're answering a slightly different question than the one I asked.
I've stumbled upon this brush a few times now, and I've never seen an artist actually use it. This brush is a long diagonal line with a locked angle, so your results will vary dramatically depending on which way your brush stroke is going. The stroke it produces is practically mechanical (an opaque textureless set of lines - no pressure sensitivity for opacity or size or anything), but if you wanted that mechanical stroke, why not just use the line tool? If you want a brush for making this mechanical look quickly, why lock the angle?
I've had this brush (at the top of the pic) for a long time (I can't remember whether I got it from a pack or made it myself). It uses the exact same brush as the one I'm asking about (bottom of pic), but it's not locked and is a dual brush. You can see that it gives similar results no matter the angle of the stroke. It also has pressure set to opacity, so the hasty white-to-black gradient only took a couple of strokes. The brush I can't find any purpose for on the bottom took several times as many strokes and the quick gradient still looks like shit.
I don't know why I keep finding this brush, it doesn't make any sense to me. (Before you ask, none of the other brushes in this pack I just found it in were using it as a dual brush)
>>2583572
it honestly looks really good for mechs or robots or something. try sketching with it, or doing thumbnails, it looks like its more for early concepts than finished renders.
Should I start with Keys to Drawing or Loomis?
When coloring in Photoshop is there a quick way to fill in an area in line-art?
Generally, I select the area, select>modify>expand a few pixels and then fill on another layer.
Going three buttons deep for the expansion's tedious, though. Is there a better way?
>>2583849
Use custom actions and a custom hotkey maybe?
Windows->Actions->New Action
It will ask you for a hotkey and then it will start recording what you do. Hit the stop button when you are done. You can now repeat that action by either hitting the hotkey or hitting that action in the action window.
I've created a lot of hotkeys to save time rummaging through menus.
>>2583855
Perfect, I'll check that out. Thank you.
>just now getting into art a month and a half before I begin medical school
How fucked am I? I feel like I could get really good at drawing anatomy I guess
If I draw first on watercolor paper before stretching it since I use a lightbox, would the stretching affect the proportion of the drawings too much or just neglect-able?
I want to start drawing horror comics but i'm not really sure how to make it look like an actual comic/manga.
I'm used to using lots of colors and i worried it will turn out looking very cheap tumblr style.
I think Junji ito uses traditional pen and paper but is there any programs or tutorials that could give my comic a professional look?
>>2584046
I am having troubles loading any animated gifs or ugoiras on pixiv.
normal images do load just fine, but whenever I try to watch a gif, it just endlessly loads. I see a grey disc loading animation.
anyone else experiencing this? am I doing something wrong here?
>>2584046
you can get a professional look in basically any program. learn your fundamentals kid
>>2584073
Do they even use gifs? I think it's just series of pngs played by some program or something
Enable JavaScript I guess
>>2584425
you can upload both - a series of png images or animated gif. javascript is enabled, but it's not working.
does anyone of you experience the same?
Where the fuck can I find inkbottles (ie without buying online)?
>>2583864
First-year med student here. Depends on the medium and subject and artstyle, of course. I've done about 30 full pencil drawings this year, but haven't even completed a single full pen and ink yet (they take 80 hours+, celtic art).
>>2583864
Drawing anatomy is how Loomis got started, if I recall correctly.
>>2584046
>professional look
get good
![L1063574[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/naQkLYK.jpg "L1063574[1].jpg")
Is there any huge difference drawing on a flat table vs 45 or so degrees?
I see things like pic related a lot with watercolour, where people do a few layers of single colours to reach the final product.
Is this the "proper" way to do watercolour, or just an option? Because every time I try it, it looks fucking horrible. I'm much more comfortable just mixing to get the colour I want. I do layer a bit, because that's part of the medium's charm, but strictly adhering to it in such a methodical way with such pure colours completely fucks with my head and is just so goddamn unpleasant - I don't want to paint with a single colour for 5 seconds then have to do something else for like 5 hours so it gets bone dry before I'm allowed to paint again, you know?
>>2583946
Try it with something small and see. I wouldn't imagine it'd be noticeable.
If it doesn't work, you can ditch the light box and use carbon paper instead if need be. Place it between the sketch and w/c paper and trace over the sketch (ideally with red pen or something, so you can see where you've been and know when you're finished).
If you want to preserve the sketch, you can put a layer of tracing paper on top of it, or trace it with something that won't leave a mark (eg a stylus, but this has the drawback of not knowing if you've missed a spot), or trace a print-out.
And sans carbon paper, you can also DIY it with a graphite stick to cover the back of the sketch/print out/tracing paper with graphite.
Hopefully answering a bunch of questions you didn't ask kind of makes up for not knowing the answer to the only thing you actually wanted to know.
>>2584583
In art stores?
If art stores in your area don't have any try some supplies store at some mechanical engineering university
I'm trying to find who's the author of a certain painting I found at a garage sale a few years ago. The painting is very similar to this, two ships shooting each other at sunset, the flags are red and blue unlike this painting, the overall resolution is much lower than this. In the bottom-left corner of the painting there's a sign but it's almost impossible to read:
>DE. tfaotras
is what I believe it says, but I can't fine anything related to this. Have you ever seen anything similar?
I drew this and have no clue where else to go, I'm a beginner and can't draw hair. Any advice, anyone want to try and fill in the spaces?
Are drawing gloves really worth it?
>>2584797
Look at the sticky.
>>2584737
This is the easy way to do watercolors. The proper way is to use as few layers as possible
>>2584833
>The proper way is to use as few layers as possible
Could you elaborate on that at all, or namedrop some artists/resources?
Does this mean I might be on the right track by mixing while I work and painting in few sessions, or that I'm leagues behind by failing easymode?
>>2584797
Honey, you can't draw anything, not just hair
>>2584737
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gf5DniwaIyU
>>2584763
thanks, I already use tracing paper but it's just a hassle compare to lightbox.
I want to create simple but aesthetic backgrounds like pic related and how no idea where to start other than 'overlay some noise'.
Any help?
>>2580315
What >>2580482 said is right but I'd also add that what really helps sells these sorts of renderings is ambient occlusion. AO is different to shadows as it's where light has trouble getting to rather than where light is blocked by something.
Notice on those drawings there's lots of little areas that are very dark where two or more forms meet. AO is what creates the feeling of forms being close together and touching, as light has trouble getting into the cracks.
My question: Does anyone have good exercises for building brush economy? Should I try to paintings with limits like 30 strokes or something?
Will I be able to place lines wherever I want for clothes if I just placed the values at the right areas and making it look nice and not random?
I've been trying my hand at pinups, and have been finding that my style's coming out in the same exaggerated vein as Alex Ahad and Guezav. While I'm personally okay with this, do you think art in this vein might be considered sexualizing minors, or does the art reach a point of abstraction so they simply become stylized adults? Pic related isn't mine, but is an example of what I'm trying for.
>>2585452
Everything can and will be sexualized nowadays my dear tumblrite
>>2585452
Most anime characters do count as "minors" by definition but you're right there's a kind of abstraction to it. There's often not much difference between a 13 year old and an 18 year old. If you're worried about the gubmint or people giving you shit you can add a disclaimer that says all the characters you draw are intended to be over 18.
Be careful about what series you draw from through, some have overzealous fans that will hound you. But that's for tumblr shit like SU most weeb stuff is free game.
Are there any particularly good videos on inking and lineweight? It's a constant weak spot of mine and I just can't seem to get the hang of it. I just want to do small comics at the moment, but I want to get my inking down before starting anything.
I have two examples but one of them is pretty "lol" tier in terms of writing.
>>2585527
And this is the other but it doesn't have as much variation in the line weight. Hopefully somebody can help me though, I've studied inking so many times and can never seem to make it work.
Again, please forgive the joke. Some people seemed to like it but I've also been told it's not that good. If you guys wouldn't mind looking past it and judging it off the lines for critique, I'd appreciate it.
>>2585520
It wasn't on my personal moral grounds, it was more on the moral grounds of potential viewers. I don't have any compunctions regarding such work, it's more just a "will I get blacklisted from legit projects if my porn account is ever connected to my SFW account".
>>2585522
Yeah, I kind of realized recently that, with Japan's age of consent being 14 or something, that nearly 90% of all h manga is technically against the letter of the Canadian law. It would be ridiculous to prosecute everyone in my country who accesses hentai, but it's still a bit sketchy as a Canadian producing stuff that's visually comparable to stuff legally produced in Japan.
I don't know how much fanart I plan on doing of western stuff, but yeah, I'll watch out for that. Thanks so much.
>>2585527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zl5NnEAyU
Does anyone have any experience using Crayola's Air-Dry Clay? I can't figure out how to paint it without it looking all lumpy and streaky.
>>2585578
Hrm, I've seen that one before but I decided to rewatch it in case there was anything I missed... I wonder if some people just can't into inking. I can never seem to balance the lines right and there's just do many things to account for when inking that I usually get burnt out after one figure. Maybe I should find an alternative.
>>2585677
Inking is something you just get better at as your drawing skill increases. It's a lot easier to ink if the underlying drawing is actually good.
>>2585680
Then perhaps it's time for me to throw in the towel when it comes to cartooning and lineart. I've spent years on this sort of thing honing my foundations with life drawing and learning formal design. If I'm still having this rough of a time with it I might need to look for another medium.
>>2585688
Don't pussy out
Is doubting of self-passion for art common for a beginner ? In these days i want to start work hard but probably the fact that when I try to make something from imagination it sucks and I lose self-esteem is stopping me. Fuck
>>2585958
yeah most of the time in life when you try to do something it doesn't turn out as planned. who knew!
if you get discouraged so easily then it means you don't want it so much
what kind of process is required to get this kind of look? i know theres some kind of texture on a majority of the pages and filters but esp the linework i cant find a brush that gives me that look.
>>2586022
which is the better drawing software?
>>2586036
Better for what? Want streamlined basic software, without X features that you are not going to use in the end anyways? Go for Sai. Want additional features and a bit more Photoshop like? Go for Clip Studio Paint Pro. Also when you are a cheap-fag, it is on sale for like 16$ every 2-3 month and if you want to go professional you can always upgrade to the Ex version, which helps a lot in making multiple site comics.
I'm kinda dumb, but isn't it illegal to do commissions of anime characters and stuff like that?
Is it just not really enforced?
>>2575331
How essential is it to keep practicing with only one grip? Right now i'm using the underhand grip when drawing with a charcoal medium, but when using ink i'm stuck to using the tripod grip.
Should I practice my tripod grip also with my pencil so the skill transfers to ink pen holding?
>>2584701
well about 45° difference, give or take
>>2585956
Problem is that I'm coming up on 4 years and I just don't know if my improvement justifies continuing on. I'm a little old to be keeping at this. I'm unemployed at the moment and a lot of my time goes to art but now I'm worried it may not be a realistic thing for me. What's worse is that somewhere along the way I pretty much forgot what I wanted to achieve with art in the first place.
Pic related was my skill level when I began, and I don't really have anything terribly good to show for my skill level now considering I just got out of some pretty degenerate stuff art wise.
I'm not trying to pussy out, but I wonder if it's a realistic expectation for me to get better when after four years of work I still can't ink correctly and make some basic mistakes.
>>2584046
CSP is what kool kidz use these days.
GIMP is free.
>>2583797
Keys to drawing, then Loomis construction and anatomy study.
>>2581154
They will never find out unless you tell them.
Get rich and famous and buy your license.
Just fucking do it.
>>2586439
kek'd
A couple years ago I watched a drawing video of this quite old, presumably Asian, man teaching about drawing (for the purposes of architecture I believe).
The man was super energetic and his approaches were quite simple, but the video was still very motivating.
His face was not shown on the video ever.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? I wanna find that video again.
>>2586575
A small detail of the video: He told that using a credit card as a ruler is much better since you always have one with you and it's super fast.
another detail: he joking told always stop your lines with a separate dot, as if you're ending a sentence.
another detail: he said that a real artist lets their lines cross over each other instead of connecting them neatly (for example when drawing a square)
>>2586584
Yes! Thank you
>>2578823
Awesome critique
Is Fun with a Pencil worth the time? What do I get in the end if I go through it?
how do i shade sheets like on a bed? it's so fucking hard
>>2579144
under shape dynamics try setting angle to rotation instead of direction.
>>2586022
>everything must be digital
It's just a standard pigment liner.
>>2575331
so what is the best brush to ink in clip studio paint?
i suppose is one of the inking ones but this is the first time using the program( have always used photoshop)
whats the official stance of finished study paintings? are they art or not? i do a bunch of studies but not much from imagination so it feels really awkward showing people things i copied from reference and calling it 'art'? but then again a lot of famous art is just paint shit from real life very well. i just dont know
what do you assign to your tablet hotkeys? is it weird that i don't really use them at all?
>>2588248
depends on the program I'm using, using the hotkeys can potentially speed up your workflow, but it's not necessarily weird if you never use them
mine are set to
brush tool
switch colors (whatever it's called, default is x hotkey on photoshop)
eyedropper
new layer
merge down
flip canvas horizontally
scroll is set to toggle between
rotate canvas
scale brush size
>>2588248
I have mine set up so I could use a away from keyboard laying on my bed. so I have save, New layer, backstep, lasso, alt (for color picking), brush, and erase. scroll is zoom in/out and brush size
Just opened "The Natural Way to Draw", and my first impression is that this thing is totally useless without a live model. Am I right or can I use pictures as substitutes?
Anyone know any other courses or good videos to watch to become a pro at digital painting besides the ctrl+paint series?
Opinions on the new masters academy? Is it worth it to pay like 200 bucks a year to get the videos?
https://www.newmastersacademy.org/subscribe/
What's a good book to learn how to do backgrounds? I know nothing about how to do backgrounds and settings outside of the people in them.
How does one tell the difference between good and over-rendered art? Specifically on digital artists who try to replicate god-tier artists.
>>2585250
Anyone?
Even just help with what to google?
how common is it to start a dialogue of comic with "So, tell me again, you said that ---" or similar? Is it even usable?
what is the best free resource i can find for understanding how light works and incorporating it into my drawings
What does it mean when people claim your drawing is traced but it isn't? I am still waiting for the digital pen tablet I ordered online and tried drawing using mspaint and mouse instead.
>>2589125
90% of the time it means you're probably lying.
>>2589120
Setting up still lifes and doing studies of them.
>>2589129
Well, it does kind of look traced, since is used just mspaint and I can't do the normal strokes using mouse. In hindsight, I should have video captured the process. What capture software is best to use?
>>2589150
open broadcaster is decent and free
How the FUCK do I make a cohesive, unified palette?
All that seems to happen to me is I try to get the correct color, and I usually mix using all of my primaries, even if it's just a little bit. But it all looks so sterile and flat, I don't get it.
Why is like 80% of the work on this board digital?
>>2589179
digital is superior to physical media unless you're making a one off piece that you intend sell in a gallery or something.
What is better? A drawing pad for PC or a drawing tablet?
why do i want to draw the face of every bald person i see
>>2589175
Mixing all your primaries gives you greys, so don't do that for all your colors. It helps to think in terms of color temperature, or the degree of difference BETWEEN colors. (Cooler colors lean towards blue, warmer colors lean towards red or yellow) It's not about what color something is, but what color it is compared to all others around it.
>>2578095
/g/ here. Mostly what you're going to want in a monitor is an ips panel (in plane switching). ips panels have better color representation and can be viewed at 178° angle and still be accurate to color. At the cost of speed (Higher bit color depth use higher bandwidth) and price. Most Professionals and content creators use ips monitors. Also I'm new to /ic/ and studying art but I would make a safe assumption that resolution is also a important factor. Personally I own a 27UD88 (pic related) . It's a great 4k ips panel monitor but I haven't gotten into digital art that much yet at the skill level I at. Hopes this answers your question.
Okay so my question
>I haven't gotten into digital art yet
I'm not sure how I should start digitally or when I should.
I have a tablet but it was mostly for osu when I got it. it's a Wacom intous small version(old model). Is this good enough to start with or should I pick up a bigger different one?
18 yo beginner here
> best pens for sketching?
> how does one gain confidence in drawing folded arms?
> how hard do you personally press on the paper while drawing?
> do that many people upload their sketches to their computer and color it there?
>>2589415
Thanks bro. Looks like I'm gonna find me some Sakura microns
What do I do if my artwork is being stolen and used online without my permission?
I make wallpapers, and I don't expect everyone to give sources on my images when they post them somewhere else, but I've found places where people are blatantly making money off of my work.
I mean I wouldn't mind it too much, but I feel like my rights are being trampled over. I barely see any money from my art, and other people are using it to generate business and even sell the art.
I guess the best I can do is ask them to take it down, but is there something I can do to keep it from happening any more?
I mean jesus, my shit is being eaten up online, but I barely have a trickle of anything on any social platforms I post it on.
If I do work good enough to steal, shouldn't I have the relevant amount of followers and shit?
tl:dr people are stealing my art. How can I stop it?
>>2589458
I know it sounds like a case of
>OC DONUT STEEL
but my work is being used for commercial purposes without my permission.
The license that it was posted with says it's not for commercial use.
Is my rendering/ understanding of form good enough to just start making pieces, or should I improve more?
Also, could someone please give some kind of rundown on what brush combinations to use for line art in sai? The pen tool in the vector layer menu? I see artists whose lines look decidely more painterly, but no matter what combination of settings I use, they either look too artificial, or too sloppy. I understand that variable line weight is a big part of it, but I just can't figure it out.
Trying to get into ink and stuff and got this the other day.
What do you guys think are the pens used in the picture ? I could imagine 2 different sized standard ink pens (looking at the fingers/cheeks line thickness) or one of those Pitt pens from faber castel.
>>2589458
>>2589470
Consult a solicitor about it? See if they can refer you to someone who specialises in internet business or just intellectual property law in general, and ask them what your options are. They're likely to ask a big boy fee for their services, though, but if this is something you're serious about and this is becoming a problem, then you'll need to get it out of the way.
Are blind contours really beneficial?
>>2575331
Is there a software/method to bulk download images from a blogspot blog?
I am in my mid 20s and I don`t have any proper experience with art, beside some bad attempts at fanart. I would like to try my luck in it but I am afraid that I am basically too old. I mean people at my age are already industry pros.
I also don`t have money for fancy stuff I only can have printing paper + hb pencils and I have a small Wacom tablet with SAI to use.
Can I make it if I work hard enough or I missed my window of opportunity?
>>2589931
>luck
there's no such thing as luck when it comes to drawing.
also, it depends on what you want out of this, is it solely a hobby or do you want to acutally put the bread on the table with art?
>>2589931
You're absolutely not too old. You're young.
In five years five years have past whether or not you have been drawing, so might aswell draw like a madman for those five years.
>>2589933
Mostly because I want to have my ideas down on paper / in digital painting. I want to have my tiny mark on the world or at least make the kind of content I want to see.
I wanted to do art since high school but I had some things stopping me from doing it, also the educational system was anything but helpful for that.
On the other hand I will sound like a manchild but yeah it would be really nice to do art and get money. I honestly doubt I could make it up to that level, I mean if I was working on my craft since I wanted to do it I would be like awesome for sure.
But yeah my past troubles pretty much made me burned out on normie money making options but art is so far away and I am really not that smart to learn it fast, I am sure.
>>2589935
That is true.
Kind of a stupid question, but here goes
I've been listening to Feng Zhu's design cinema a lot lately, background noise while drawing. But what happened to episode 67, it's gone. It was apparently a 100k subscriber special. Why'd it get taken down? I don't suppose some autist would have the episode saved by chance they could share?
>>2590069
hey I'm one of these autists!
it's a special with Ben Mauro, who does what Feng does usually but painting over a 3D scene he set up quickly, and he discusses with Feng over the merits of 3D.
It's 583m and my up connection is 50kbps however... what would be a good way to share, that could possibly be interrupted (connection is very shitty)
whenever I'm studying a photo, I think I'm drawing mostly the lines of the contours instead of the form itself.
I get all riled up about the proportions, size, and angle of each line instead of using that to draw out the forms.
Is there a speedpaint or video out there where a guy draws using form instead of relying on contours?
>>2590109
Form is planes, planes are defined by contours or values.
Smooth (roundish) plane transitions are defined by smooth value transition.
When you're with a pen, it's faster to draw a plane by defining the contour of one unit of uniform value rather than fill the whole plane.
Translation: It's not about drawing lines, it's about your ability to visualize.
>>2590103
>hey I'm one of these autists!
You're a beautiful person
Try mega.nz to upload it. Alternatively, you could make a .torrent file of the video, upload the torrent to a pomf clone (like mixtape.moe) and then people could just download that, and even if your internet is really shite it won't matter. Just make sure your upload speed settings in your torrent client are configured to share the file freely.
How do you paint over a sketch like this?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHPncEtg1a5/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHVSaDgga_1/
I googled it and some people were talking about fixative or gesso. Does one work better or worse when it comes to graphite and charcoal?
How do I fix this? Scattering is turned off, as far as I can tell.
>>2590347
>brush tip shape
reduce the spacing
>>2589944
So, you have a job and would just like to learn to draw besides than and wouldn't mind if it gotmire serious after a while? Sure, you can do that. Just keep in mind that it takes roughly 10'000h of practice untill you get to master levels in ANYTHING. You can now decide on your own at what age you want to reach it. Depends on how many hours you are willing to put in per day. And thise hours should be spent doing productive learning.
For example: if you practice for 2h every day, it will take you 14 years to git gud. You can drastically cut that down. If you put in 8h a day, you will be there in 3.5 years.
>>2590372
But keep in mind you don't have to be a master to have a lot of fun, get laid, or even make money with art. It's takes discipline to get good no doubt, but there is no reason to intimidate yourself with some made up 10k hour rule that the author himself states is for mastery at the peak level of the craft, which isn't a whole hell of a lot of people's goals.
This is an inked sketch, in the process of being cleaned up.
My question is, which tool or brush is best for adding additional lines?
The brush tool's anti-aliased look doesn't match the look of the rest of it, however the pencil leaves dull edges where i'd like sharp ones, such as the tips of the hair.
I also plan to modify the line weight to better fix proportion and alter some as well.
Are there any art/drawing related apps you like/use?
How do I get good at costuming?
Are there any good books for different clothing combinations, or am I just going to have to sift through a million reference photos (which seems like a legit option atm)
I'm horrible with fashion in the irl, so I can't rely on personal experience. And I'm getting sick of drawing naked chicks (i swear I'm not gay)/men.
What do you guys think I should do?
>>2590598
I'm interested in this too. Especially of there are some good books on how to draw fabric/clothes and how to compose an outfit.
How do you deal with having literal OCD as an artist?
I know people groan at people claiming they're a "perfectionist" but it's a serious problem I have to the point where I can't draw anything without having a fit about it not being "perfect".
I'm not an amazing artist by any stretch, and am predominately a hobbyist but this shit has plagued me my entire life and it's beginning to take a toll on me mentally and is sucking all enjoyment I used to get from it.
Like becoming legitimately stressed out and angry because I can't commit anything to paper (or tablet or whatever) because I can't get over a goddamn circle not being perfect even though it's a dumb sketch no one will see anyways.
I'm probably just being a dramatic faggot who just needs to "draw more" but I didn't know if anyone else has seriously had this problem and found ways to cope with it.
