>>2510670
Drawing from life you convert a 3d object (binocular vision, and you can walk around it too) to a 2d representation. Drawing from a photo you take a 2d representation and turn it into another 2d representation. There's a whole different level of understanding you will get from life. Not to mention that photos distort reality in many ways differently than your eye sees, from lens distortion to exposure ranges to colour intensity and variety.

Any method of construction is meant as a tool to help break down...
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>>2510687
This
Plus life drawing is a good way to meet plebs whom are interested and motivated about the artist process.

On top of what other have already said, life drawing is a great way for me to to work really hard for a few hours. At home I have a lot of distractions, but during my life drawing sessions I am completely focused on my drawing and get a shit load done in a mere 3 hours. It's great.

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Well, for starters, Hentai-foundry is probably the best place to post first. They only take what they deem "quality content". If they deny you then you know you're still shit and need to practice. Once you post a few good things, they will greenlist you allowing you to post freely without the go ahead from the mods. The positive of HF is that there isn't a ton of traffic, and the new stuff is posted right on the front page so everyone sees it. If you're good, you'll get followers in no time.

This one is obvious: but tumblr. I recommend doing...
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>>2508864
when i said "traffic" I meant, "posters" so your stuff won't get drowned out TOO bad.

>>2508854
Wow, very informative, thank you. I have a question though, what amount of followers is considered good enough to move on to tumblr? 1,000? 2,000? 30,000?

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>>2507012

>smug voltaire

I almost thought I was on /his/ for a moment.
>artwork
>and
>critique

>>2505249

If you are truly good enough you work will speak for itself but connections won't hurt.

>>2505251
>>2505249

Keeping in mind that all these people who say "get connections" seem to forget that people who are working in the industry are bombarded all day long by morons looking to use them. Unless you have something to offer them back or to distinguish yourself from the throngs of cock munchers who msg them (a.k.a. some sort of artistic skill) you're not going to get far. People know when you're just trying to stroke their dick to get something...
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>>2505249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XIiLCHmxA

is this what u want to work for anon

>>2504712
Who is this character? What is his personality and role? What are you trying to show with your design? What society is he a part of?

It's hard to crit a design without context. Thinking more on who your character actually is will help too with your design choices.

Just looking at it out of context I will say it feels a bit generic at the moment. The shapes are all similar sizes and the silhouette have lots of little jutting things. How can you simplify things? How can you bring more variety in? How...
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>>2504716
Woah I was not expecting such a complete answer. Yeah I need to think more before drawing random shapes... Thank you!

>>2504712
Are they all supposed to have the exact same silhouette?

Why are the mouth, eyes and nose where they are?

Because you didn't read the sticky.

>>2510640
I didn't read the sticky?

explain yourself

>>2510644
There's a sticky at the top of /ic/, it contains links that cover the basics and more for beginners. Read them, because it contains much better feedback for you than any anon will bother to give at this stage.

Once you're aware of stuff in the sticky you can come back here and ask for feedback, but right now the drawing you posted is plagued with the same mistakes ten million other people have made and nobody will bother to critique it for this reason.

People won't bother not because they're...
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an ecstacy fueled gangbang

>>2510767
Drawing furry porn just to pay your rent

>>2510773
>>2510777

not a fan of either

anything else?

>>2505676
Your cartoon note taking looks more fun to look at and expressive than the anime shit on the left and that's coming from a huge weeb. Maybe stop drawing anime and learn to draw correctly?

>>2505676
I like the bottom one.

>>2505677
lmao yeah im learning actual anatomy, been practicing with hampton's book and drew those Loomis dudes but Im trying to find my style, didn't really meant for it to look anime-ish

rip. did you do any regular hand warm up exercises before this happened?

>>2509879
Yeah, I'd seen a doctor a few years before about hand pain and he wrote it off as tendinitis. Since then I've made sure to stretch every day, but apparently it didn't help.

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>pain in your wrist/hand, though primarily on the pinky side and in the 4th/5th fingers

i've been starting to feel this for days recently and was wondering what it was

http://kodyboy555.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

This guy?

>>2509024
you're my fucking hero man, thanks

Oh god this guy, yeah i'm pretty sure he is literally retarded and autistic.

>>2509740
What does your friend like? What type of apartment/house do they live in (what style decor do they have already)? You probably can pick it out better than we can for your friend. Personally I would choose the one on the left because it is a bit more interesting to me and less like hotel lobby art. But that's my own personal taste. Also if you are on a tight budget, maybe don't buy art? I don't know the price on these, but typically paintings are not worth buying if you have no money.

>>2509747
About 35 bucks each. I was surprised to find them this cheap. They are both 56x38 cm.
He lives in a dorm. Enough said, I think.
I'm actually leaning towards the left one too. I think it's fashionable.

>>2509754
Just get him a scott robertson book, he'll be able to draw better that those both paintings.

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>>2507160
Too easy.

>>2507216
looks preettyy accurate to me desu

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ok tried to be accurate

>>2507216 kek

>buku

It's beaucoup (and it doesn't make any damn sense in this context in either case fampai)

Anyway my man

>My question i guess, is there a place to pick up really good 2D animation lessons/ books

Richard Williams' Animator's Survival Kit

Preston Blair's animation books and AMB Animation Academy (https://www.youtube.com/user/eubasaban) on youtube are some of the better resources out there for the 2D pipeline.

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>>2510141

im sure theres a proper use for it but its phrase said in the south a lot. im from louisiana,so i assume my entire dialect stems from butchering grammar.

and thanks. i just picked up Richard's book this semester but havent been able to practice much cause of school and work. Ill look into the other one.

I am not a professional artist and I don't work in the industry so i am about to talk out my ass.

Scad and other over priced art schools are a huge waste of money. With that being said I still think having a mentor is essential to getting better. I would find a local mentor and learn from them. It shouldn't be too hard to find some one better than you if you arnt in the middle of no where or already amazing.

>>2508602
What is your ideal goal for your art? What does your stuff look like now? How self-motivated are you? What school are you talking about? How good are you at negotiating with your parents? How much of an issue is money?

It's hard to give advice without knowing the full picture here.

Get a job. College gets you nowhere. If you want n art job, you need to just draw what you want to sell until you're good at it. If you can't study on your own you're another lost cause. go to the military, then get a job as a public servant.

>>2508610
Concept art. Decent, not professional lvl I still have a lot of work. Decently, been drawing 6h a day for almost a year now. School of textile and fashion design. It won't end too well if I don't go to a collage (they believe you can never get a decent job without a diploma). Money is a big issue, we are pretty poor (but schooling in my country is basically free).
Sry for not providing more info

As long as it is decent I don't see an issue with western anime drawing. A lot of my favorite porn artists are western. And there are just as many bad japs as there are here.

>>2505477
It's not an issue if you learn proper fundamentals. I used to get told constantly not to draw anime and that I never learn. I relented and took life drawing and other drawing classes. Now I go back and forth between anime and more western styled things all the time and nobody ever gives me flack about it. In fact a lot of times it seems like people really prefer my anime influenced drawings. Not sure how I feel about that.
tldr git gud and people won't say shit

>>2505477
>but I dont understand why anime can be seen as a "lesser" style to western cartoons

No one sees it like that other than maybe a handful of weirdos on /ic/ who are unhealthily obsessed with hating anime, probably because they were really into anime when they were younger and are embarassed of their cringy weeb past. That and tumblr landwhales who are obsessed with drawing pretty girls as ugly as possible.