What do you think?
LOOMIS
>>2442552
what is it?
>>2438867
look at that snout
>>2442060
Newmaster academy.
I'm trying to get good at sculpture. What I'm currently doing is copying anatomical casts
Hello /ic/
/dbt/ here.
I am trying to design a patch which will go on the back of my jacket.
Now, I have a design in my head which I want to get embroided. I have found a company which is willing to do it for me as a 1 off (It's usually hard to find anything that does no minimum order)
Anyway, I am struggling with designing it.
Can someone help me?
Do I just give them reference photos and ask them to do it themselves, or should I just send them a final design ?
I'd prefer the final design route.
What's the best file type, art style and referencing method for this kind of thing?
this is the website, maybe you'll be able to tell me what I need to do to get the best result?
I will post images of what I want to make into the patch.
Would this thread be better on /diy/?
apologies if I'm all over the place, slightly drunk and excited to be moving this forward, so i'm a bit hyper.
All and any help appreciated
>>2440787
I don't know how fast this board is.
but a little bump or two for more references.
I want it to be this proud standing winged hussar. With some kind of White and red flag.
>>2440810
What I've been planning to do is to get these images into photoshop and then play with the treshhold to get rid of smooth gradients and therefore be able to embroider it nicely.
Will that be something that works?
>>2440810
It's a really slow board You could probably leave it for a week without needing to bump
Listen up, /ic/.
The sticky isn't as good as it could be, and all this information that would be great to use is split into different places.
We got the google site w-ic-i and the hubpages already, and everyone DOES read them when they come here, right?
But then there is also the book thread, the animation thread, the alternative style thread, the beginner thread, the draw thread, the towergirls thread, and the porn thread, each having their own information pools and links.
The hubpages and w-ic-i don't, and /CAN'T/ update enough to be up-to-date. The only way to keep up all the great information we post for each other is to have us, ourselves, post it.
So why not have a way to do that?
After >>2389472 had the idea for a new sticky thread, I've decided to help and think up of the better way to do it.
So, I present to you, the collaborative sticky:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfDTpLLVl5bWUGWguswKpPFml533luI8-NBd1EGYHnA/edit
Absolutely everyone can edit. You can add anything you might think is relevant. If you see someone post a cool website, and it helped you out, post it in there.
If you found a great reference pack, either name what it is or post a link to it. If you read a great book that you think would help a lot of us, post it in there.
The point is that it will be a collection of what everyone thinks will help. The ultimate beginner's guide to drawing. Because there is no end to this beginning.
BUT WAIT? IT'LL BE CHAOS! Some cool dude will delete everything! Every third word will be replaced by LOOMIS! Ruan Jia will try to shill on it like no one has ever shilled before!
Well, that's why there will be an uneditable, but viewable edition that'll be the actually majorly viewed sticky/guide. It contains a link to the raw uncensored autism that'll be the editable guide. I'll update the major sticky with whatever contribution I think contributes even a fraction to what could be your god like skill.
Everyone is a work in progress.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1edkrSgGzcCybmB5sBR9OWh1_JifPW8EmkLW-kPZxcEY/edit
I’ll be working on to clean this up/simplifiy sections/adding shortcuts/collaborating all infromation from all generals. This will take a day or five depending on whether I’ve gotten in over my head.
I made it so anyone can also comment on any part of this document if you’d like to get messages across faster and more directly to me, but I will read be reading the editable sticky as often as I can between grinding figure studies.
All my free time until this looks good will be go to insuring this looks good.
After that, I’ll read the edited sticky daily, and update this weekly, or sooner if there is some juicy info that I think needs sharing onto the locked version immediately.
If you want to send messages DIRECTLY to me, send them to [email protected]
ALSO USE THE FUCKING THREAD. I’ll shill this only as much as I think it needs to be. This is a COLLABRATIVE effort. Oriented for beginners, since they are the ones that need the jumpstart, but I'm hoping on it being big enough that it becomes a compendium of resources, and a resource in it's own right.
Anyone have ANY suggestions at all?
The more voices heard the better.
Ask any questions here, avoid making new threads for them!
Old thread - >>2417577
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/kVkkdzaX
New WIP Sticky: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfDTpLLVl5bWUGWguswKpPFml533luI8-NBd1EGYHnA/edit?pref=2&pli=1
-- i have been lazy/busy/hey a game i like got patched must play though it again
ill go through the last thread tonight if you didn't get your crap answered if i got anything ill try to help.
Ok so
My friend is giving me plenty of shit about this one. He maintains that the bag/head looks disproportionate.
Your virdict, /ic/?
>>2432615
I don't see it, it's a scare crow, how is the sack on a stick disproportionate?
the only thing that i could say in favor if it being disproportionate is how big the buttons are for the eyes, and how small buttons usually are, and even that's stretching it a bit. there are other issues, but proportions isn't one of them.
>>2432441
Hey /ic/ which loomis book should I start on first? Also what are the exercises I can do with loomis? Do i just copy the plates he has and redraw those until I get better? Honestly dont know how to use loomis.
>yfw March Madness is back
>yfw drawing while watching college basketball for 3 glorious weeks
My body is ready.
How do people draw and watch shit at the same time? I mean, that means either you're slowing down your drawing by periodically looking up, or youre missing most of what's going on on the screen.
>>2444625
What is listening.
>>2444658
Not the same thing as watching. Uses a different sensory organ.
Why is "gettin' good" considered such a chore?
A challenge, yeah, but it seems to me that too many people stress out about their art's progress to the point they either call it quits or have a breakdown about it.
Why isn't the quest to get better considered more of a fun journey? Why do we stress starting from an early age? Why can't art be a good, fun discipline for everyone without everyone bursting an ulcer for not being a Picasso?
I feel like all these things just add more stress to the lives of people who really don't need any more of it.
Pic not mine.
>>2444267
Ego investment probably
People who draw tend to be a really sensitive and emotional bunch. A lot of self-comparison, a lot of self-esteem complications, all kinds of stuff
I honestly recommend getting punched in the face, really hard, just once. Sign up for boxing/mma class, get in there and get cracked up
After getting my grill knocked off in the ring, the challenge of getting better at drawing pretty pictures seemed a lot less of a big deal in comparison
>>2444267
Because they don't have the spark and so aren't gonna make it
Fuck your weak ideology; I choose to live vigorously.
Inactivity is death!
This changed my life on drawing hands
I'm about to change your life even more
*unzips dick*
Neat
>>2440123
What's inside your dick when you unzip it?
Right so a friend of mine is trying to figure out the color of this characters hair. Think you guys can pick a favorite. Suggestions accepted
>>2441042
all of them are shitty color palets desu senpai. dont make your own threads.
What about the rest of the character, the environments they'll be in, any partners of supporting characters?
Also, either cover the eyes or don't your "friends" midway is annoying.
>>2441046
Nowhere does it say he can't make his own thread.
>>2441046
Nosebro don't make your own posts and kill yourself.
What is everyone here opinion of drawing porn of real people like actresses/actors etc? I have a client who would like me to draw an actress for them in a sexual situation. Normally I wouldn't do it but they are offering $120
>>2435913
who is this testicle receptacle
I've drawn a girl the commissioner had a crush on, IIRC she was in one of his classes. I just asked for private commission fee and never posted it.
I don't see a single problem with it. Some people have some kind of moral thing to not draw a real person?
Ok so I'm having this problem, for some reason it just doesn't look like the original material can someone please explain what I'm doing wrong
here's my quick sketch
>>2442166
And here's the original pic
Why do most artists, like, artists you meet in real life, never even consider study from books and such but are fine with going to art school?
>>2442035
Because that is mental approach that prevails in society. I learned more from books and studying other artists than my friend who went into art academy.
Also it is worth nothing it depends on art school. There are few really good ones that will really teach you the trade and not sell you modern art shenanigans. But do you really want to risk it, with huge chance of art school being a scam, when you can learn from books, internet and from studying other artists?
Art is also a lot about connections, which are easier to make in school. You meet professors, many of whom work in the fields you're interested in, you get internship opportunities through the school, and you get to meet and connect with many of your peers which will help you in your career. Also, if there's a particular artist who is a professor you want to study under, their personal, in person feedback is invaluable.
You also have access to extensive resources, this way you can try out many things without having to invest a lot of time and energy and money on equipment you may never use. also useful if youre into the traditional media. Many print studios for example wont let you use their equipment unless youve had prior training.
It's easier to go to school really, then self-teach. You have in-person guidance from people in the industry/more skilled. You have structured classes. You're given assignments. You get live feed-back from professors and your peers. You have access to a ton more resources than on your own (and facilities to house those resources and instructors to help you use them). You can make connections. You're basically dedicating several years to studying art full-time, as opposed to on the side while you work/do shit.
Doing this book right now, do the view finders have to be the exact sizes they say? or does it just matter than one hole is bigger than the other?
>>2443737
throw that book away... bert dodson keys to drawing better
>https://mega.nz/#F!2RARFaLA!VTiQb6eRXfV4V6mYQ6FJTA
>>2443737
The only thing that matters is that the aspect ratio of your viewfinder matches the aspect ratio of your drawing. If your height//width ratio differs, your drawing will be all sorts of fucked up. Also post in the questions thread in the future.
>>2443744
>looking through list of docs
>Vicarious.mp3
Nice.
So I found an atelier and a lot of their students have really good work. The problem is it expensive, but I can afford it as I work full time and it only weekends.
Are atelier a meme?
Is the sight size method good?
Will I be able to draw cute anime girls with classical drawing skills?
Pic related is one of the tutors work.
I drop out of an art course as we didn't do any drawing and instead was doing modern art garbage.
It's actually one of the unique spaces where you get useful training at art. But it's expensive, so take use of their knowledge intensively and train at home. Don't stay there too many hours, as you're gonna pay for working on it yourself.
>>2431889
your greatest asset is having a teacher to guide you in the right direction. help you right your wrongs. if i didnt live in the middle of buttfuck nowhrere id try to go to an atelier.
If can afford it, well yeah, go for it.
Good afternoon /ic/, never-lurking first time poster here. This is probably going to be a more lengthy OP than you guys are used to, but I can't think of a better board to go to.
I get that most threads in here are painting/drawing related, but I'm wondering whether anons can entertain the idea of discussing subjects ranging from conceptual discourse and relational aesthetics to performance, installation and appropriation of found object/raw materials, personal items, etc.
I'm a BFA (Hons.) Alumni of City & Guilds of London Art School, graduated from the Painting Department in 2008. Half of my graduation show contained sculpture/installation.
I'm a multidiciplinary artist, having produced a number of exhibitions, both solo and curating for group shows, been published twice (poetry) and been running a studio in two different locations for the past 14 years. Predominantly I work in painting and installation, but I see the studio situation as a performative vantage point for relational work, and have adopted Bruce Nauman's approach to art making.
I am also a devotee of The Metamodernist Manifesto
(cont.)
Pic related, it's one of my sculptures.
The studio I've had for the past five years has been part of a project, operating on the boundary between reality and fiction, where I've been posing as a gallery-runner who's continuously working on getting his venue up and running (my studio is 200 square meters with a store-front, on a high street,) gaining some renownment among other gallery workers and the director of the local art museum, and seen as an asset by many in the local art community. In addition, I've been advertising commissions, given secret tutorials at the local art academy, was a board member for a open studio fair, and the past year I've been tutoring amateur painters in my studio.
The time has come for me to move out of my current studio, and I see this as a logical point to finalise the project, moving the content from a commercial website and presenting it as a work of art on my portfolio website. To summarize, I've created a whole situation surrounding my artistic practice, occupying space rather than showing much "real" work. Now I want to transform what most people have believed to be a failed artist-run gallery space and studio, and reveal it as a demonstration of a real-world institutional critique piece, centered around the building that houses my studio, with strong notions of personal doubt and avoidance when forced to confront the bastardized art world of post-modernism. I want the audience to adopt the work as an attempt to cast light on the problem our culture is facing when artists who found themselves interested in art for the sake of producing magnificent paintings, end up making incomprehensible gender-issue bullshit, void of aesthetic beauty, due to their formal marxist education.
Any thoughts?
Pic Related, it's my studio during an exhibition of sculptural photography by a local artist.
Been painting for 10hrs, too tired to think.
But I love you
Great work, but even though /ic/ is for art, the board is mostly populated by people who do representational art.
