is it possible to git gud naturally without following any particular guidelines from a book or study? just by drawing in high frequency do you naturally show better skill, or did you stop and realize you were making the same mistakes over and over, and decided to follow some steps from vilppu/loomis/bridgman/whatever?
>>2362267
100% yes.
>>2362267
yes. You just need to look a lot at life.
>>2362267
>is it possible to git gud naturally without following any particular guidelines from a book or study?
Define "study." Because if you're paying attention to the forms and shapes of people while drawing them - that's studying. Just paying attention to how everything works and comes together is study.
If you mean "without drawing real people or real life" then yes, but it's unlikely, and way harder.
> just by drawing in high frequency do you naturally show better skill, or did you stop and realize you were making the same mistakes over and over, and decided to follow some steps from vilppu/loomis/bridgman/whatever?
How are you going to correct a mistake if you don't recognize it's there? How you correct it isn't so much a problem, because the results are what matters, but without stopping to look back at your work and see where you fucked up you'll just keep making the same mistakes over and over.
Broke out the colored pencil
That's pretty solid my nigga. Much better than your oil work, at least on a fundamental level. White people are easy mode though, I want to see you try your hand at a nubian subsaharyan queen next time my family member
Thanks
>>2361335
How much do you consider framing?
The head being cut off at the top feels unintentional.
Hello /ic/
>tl;dr: what girl or woman’s face would you use as a source-model for a drawing of Lady Justice (pic related)
I am going to make a large scale drawing of Lady Justice for my father (he is a lawyer). I pretend to use the classical pose of one hand holding the scale and other the sword (the scale higher than the sword, meaning that first there comes the trial, and only after it the punishment).
However, instead of a greatly athletic and Greek-profiled figure in a dress I will make a frail and skinny naked girl, meaning that Justice is not heroic or all mighty, and that she constantly fails, like we, humans (who are ourselves, in the end, the substance whose breath and vote gives body to the abstraction of Justice). I will also make her eyes open and without a blindfold, but they will be in that blue-milky-white color of blind people.
I plan to do the work with charcoal, white pastel and graffiti pencils, and use color only in the milky-light-blue blind eyes of the figure.
I would like some help on this topic, however: what girl or woman’s face would you use as a source-model for a drawing of Lady Justice? I don’t know what features would look good on her.
>>2358889
it will be shit
>>2358896
We all have to start somewhere. I will do my best to make a good work.
>>2358889
Audrey is always a good choice
>What is the point of life-drawing when you can do construction?
>What is the point of construction when you can do life-drawing?
When painting a still life, should I worry about shapes and proportions (think the Picasso drawing exercise in Betty Edwards' book) or interpreting what I have in front of my eyes and construct it with my knowledge of perspective and rendering?
I do the later but want to get into traditional media portraiture and absolutely everybody swears by life-drawing as the answer as if it was the key to gettin gud, but for me it feels akward and I feel like it won't have a long-term impact in my progress.
Opinions?
>>2354980
What's the point of pissing in the toilet when you can piss in a cup?
>>2354983
Your zen wisdom is too advanced for me. Please enlighten me.
You're a fucking retard who's literally too stupid to make it
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>>2361694
Who photobashed the OP pic?
>>2361701
Rover
>>2361701
Looks like it was Helio
who is "our boy" if we were to have one.
who is the most successful artist to be born and raised via /ic/?
post your pick ITT.
>>2356789
clearly mikufag.
>>2356791
Delete this.
Tehmeh
/endofthread
what does /ic think of this fluid druid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkSbSqMRw8
i like her watercolor tutorial. I still suck at watercolor though
Just finished a book cover. Criticism is much appreciated.
Perfect. Dont touch a thing. Especially a mouse or a keyboard.
nobody is stupid enough to fall for this one m8
0/10
I like it.
Don't listen to haters, you have your own style and that's good:)
Starting to learn digital painting. I'm about to look into some of the ctrl+paint paid videos after seeing some of the free ones, but if I'm gonna start investing money into this, I want to make sure I'm using the best online resources possible. Are there any better alternatives? are gnomon, fzd more focused on advanced stuff?
I'm guessing they all focus on photoshop - would the techniques be equally applicable to manga studio? It's the only one I own legitimately
Fucking cgpeers nigga
>>2363457
our dear anon here is what you might call mr legit. you see he likes to be mama's good boy
just youtube that shit
Hey /ic/,
I'm working on this thing. I haven't been able to paint with a computer in a while. 5 years, actually. I'm really excited to get back into it. If you guys have any advice or critiques, please, let me know!
Yes, you can't paint for shit.
You should watch tutorials of people painting, if you have spare 15 bucks right now go to gumroad and get the zedig tutorial and both of dave rapozas tutorials.
Watch them, take notes, think about what they're doing and why, and THEN try to paint and post your progress here.
Care to offer any formal analysis regarding this work?
that shit is batman
Nice "Batman But We Ran Out of Room for His Ears"
As a learning process, is it okay to copy?
If you aren't just training yourself to be a human copy machine, yea copying someones art to try to understand how they got certain effects, or copying a reference are both totally reasonable
>>2362884
This + mileage, for an absolute beginner doing 100% copies of other drawings is a good way to get yourself to learn and you can train making confident lines. Make sure to mix it in with your other exercises though once you are semi competent
Yes.
Most people tend to call their copying "studies" but there are tons of people who just duplicate a reference or art they like.
You can learn a lot from doing it, but as someone who's pretty good at copying from reference right now and still garbage at drawing from imagination, I can assure you that getting good at one doesn't mean you'll be good at the other. Practice both. Lots of studies, if you're critical, will help inform your imagination drawings and build you visual library though.
Is there any point to having a pen name as an artist these days? Or should I just go with my full name?
Seems like most of the big shots in art just use their real names.
porn
With the street art/ fine art crossover I'd argue the pseudonym is still going strong.
depends. if you don't have a marketable name it's useful. my name is almost the same as a celebrities name, minus one letter, so googling mine autocorrects to theirs..
if you can search your name on google + art and there isn't anyone else there with a substantial following, use your own name (unless it's embarrassing )
Marker thread?
Seems like a lost art; I love seeing product/architectural renders from the 70s/80s/90s, and as an Arch student I'm trying to become proficient in using these kinds of drawings in my work.
Did these sketches before the previous render; I like markers for their 'punch' in delivering solid areas of color & definition in a very gestural way.
>>2362416
Sketching, drawing techniques for product desingers by Koss Eissen and Roselien Steur
Perspective Sketching, Freehand and Digital Drawing techniques for artists and desingers-
Two pretty neat books about exactly what you want and both have great marker drawings, check them out.
>>2362419
Forgot: Second Book is by Jorge Paricio
everyone knows 1,2,3 point perspective, but how does /ic/ deal with distortion?
my drawings are always distorted ;^)
What's there to deal with? You choose camera placement, that gives you distance between vanishing points, then lens and slightly curve perspective with ps fisheye filte if needed.
>>2362340
I try to understand this field of view business.
Would it be accurate to say that the face to the left would be what you'd see in real life if the person sat as a model for you, and you would only see the perspective of a face to the right in real life if it was a giant "attack of the titan" size person?
