i recently rediscovered a passion and talent for drawing, and very recently i've just been drawing and painting on my phone with a stylus
should i do more hand drawn? most my drawing is based off instinct of size and placement, and i struggle to do more complex digital and hand drawn to a lesser extent
general critique
Pencil and paper will not hurt since its more precise and versatile.
If you want to get serious at art see out sticky, I rec you to start with Bert Dodson's Keys to drawing.
>>2357849
phone is probably too small and will give you bad habits. A real tablet might be too much of an investment this early on, so yea basically any writing utensil and paper to get started. All your skills will transfer to digital later if you stick with it. What you use doesn't matter when starting so don't get hung up on materials.
I'm trying to learn how to use colors and how to compose according to lightning. Any suggestons on this?
It is "finished" already (personal deadline), but how could it have been better?
ps: The pose, unfortunally, has to be like this. Crouching with the arms between the legs and looking backwards.
>>2357719
the alien itself is an ok model. I can't say much about that since I'm not a 3d artist myself. what I can say is that from the standpoint of an artist in general, the grass and wall are very lazily done. There's no depth in this, no visual intrigue and the textures themselves lack very little connection. another issue is the light source does not read well. I don't know if we are looking at an alien who was just run down and cornered, because the lighting almost makes it look like its night and people are using flashlights. that being said, its neither dark or light enough to read that way since the flashlights would make it a brighter yellow and the night would make everything else around the scene much darker. This is all in the process since you are learning about these things.
>>2357719
Dover Demon?
>>2357737
The Varginha Creature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMyiH-dFqfs
My uncle has been a artist for about 50 years and I wanted to see what my fellow anons had to say
Excuse the shitty images/ bad angles I didn't have alot of time but theese are a few of his pieces
>>2357712
If I invested 50+ years of my life and my work looked like that, I would have killed myself 45 years ago. tell your uncle hes good like the nice normie you are, and don't tell him any different. Its clear hes only doing this to waste time and money on the way to his grave
Hey /ic/ as of lately i've haven't been to happy with my coloring style as of lately so I wanted to ask /ic/ what are some ways you color/paint your art or share color theory
>>2356984
My advice? don't stick to a consistent coloring style. experiment, and pick the coloring based on the mood of the picture.
>>2356984
do life study on light
>>2358258
and a reason to my barebone critic, you have a heavy case of pillow shading
My art store has a sale and is selling some Senneliers watercolor tubes on the cheap (£3.25)
What are the main set of tubes you recommend I get?
>>2344868
Depends on what your are planning to draw, obviously.
Abstract space-related stuff will likely take blue/purple, women in red dresses will take lot's of red, etc, etc.
>>2344894
For me it would be a starter pack, so the best primary choices of red/blue/yellow to get started and maybe some secondary etc
If you are wanting to do portraits or life painting, Id go for Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber and Yellow Ochre, vermillion, prussian blue,
opaque white, paynes gray, cadmium yellow and a purple, I use purple lake but I think thats a W&N exclusive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTeSvCOFyE
thoughts on this?
>>2347630
I'd like to see him try and draw a human
>>2347630
Autism is a gift and a curse at the same time
How many times are we gonna make a thread about this guy
HE TRAIN FROM CHILD
10k PER MONTH
>tfw fat, broke kv NEE (Training 4 art)
>tfw already fucking 24 yo
>tfw no japanese high schoolers wet for my art and money
How do I catch up /ic/?
Im seriously willing to do anything.
>>2355854
Just draw, like, right now, don't stop.
>>2355857
>Were it so easy
>>2355854
>ilya t-traces all his work!
/ic/ BTFO once again
I'm still not convinced that it's possible to make a decent living as a concept artist or illustrator. I know there's people that do, as there is people who fail miserably. But let's try to focus on the broad strokes of this 'career'...
is it realistic to expect to live a lower middle class life doing this? I remember reading that Dave Rapoza is rich as fuck. Kind of don't buy it. Whit Brachna owns 2 houses? Kind of don't buy it either. On the outside everyone is super happy and successful and doing amazing, but once you talk to these artists 1on1 they give off the vibe that they really are NOT doing too well, despite working their asses off for clients who make millions with their work. And the artists know this, but can't afford to ask for reasonable rates because compition is just so insane. Then there's people 'quitting' the pursuit of art as a career which to me is incredibly demoralizing... Everyone and their mom are selling tutorials and gumroads and spamming fb with self promotion. It all feels so fake it till you make to me.
Even Mullins seemed to very carefully try to tell people 'better go do something else with your lives guys' in the recent events/interviews.
Then however there was one anon who posted a screenshot of his e-banking where apparently he had a client pay thousands of € for a single gig. That gives me hope...
But still overall my future financial prospects as an aspiring pro artist look REALLY bleak (to me). Please tell me it's not that bad guys...
>I'm still not convinced that it's possible to make a decent living
>I know there's people that do
answered your own question now fuck off.
>is it realistic to expect to live a lower middle class
depends where you live duh
>>2352322
> I remember reading that Dave Rapoza is rich as fuck. Kind of don't buy it. Whit Brachna owns 2 houses? Kind of don't buy it either. On the outside everyone is super happy and successful and doing amazing,
Why would they lie about how much they make just to encourage thousands of aspiring artists to compete for their jobs if they have trouble making a decent living? Are you stupid or something? If things go bad for you, you try to discourage other people from becoming potential competition.
> but once you talk to these artists 1on1 they give off the vibe that they really are NOT doing too well
How many of these artists have you talked to 1 on 1? My guess is, the "vibe" you are getting is just them being annoyed with your stupid as fuck question. "How much money do you make???" is basically on the same level as "what brushes are you using??!!?".
I never went to art school, what did i miss? pic related, my "best" drawing yet
Since no replies, is this "beginner's thread" material or "drawing thread" material?
>>2351964
Depends what your trying to acheive.
That's pretty cool, I like it.
>what did i miss?
Nothing.
How big of a deal is ego with getting better at your art?
I've found that some of the worst artists in my class have some of the biggest egos around and are incredibly touchy if you give any kind of advice, actually, most art students I know are like this to some degree or another.
On the other hand, most professional artists are humble to a sometimes disingenuous degree, I'm not sure how much is genuine humility and how much is just to avoid looking braggadocious.
In my view you have to come to terms with considering your work as mediocre or average at some point early on in your progress or you'll never be able to see what's wrong, and consequently, never make it.
In my opinion, It's not about their ego. It's about their attitude. Everyone has to have some flaws and mistakes. It's unavoidable; no matter how skilled they are. and there's two ways of dealing with this. either work hard to improve, or ignore it.
That why most of pros always tries to see criticism as... well, criticism. because their main focus is to improve. not reinforce their feeling about their problem. however, some people just fail to see that. they react emotionally, cuz that's exactly how they convey their flaws.
The more humble (i.e. beta) you are, the easier you take it in the ass when it comes to critique. You git gud in attempt to stop the d/ic/ks blasting your boipussy.
Its really just a way of dealing with it [social experiment]. Either ignore everything or succumb to the mighty d/ic/k (following which you baptise yourself with the sticky and turn into a humble, obedient cumslut). 'Post your work' is also a device used by those who feign ignorance but never get good. Pick your poison
>>2349137
too true
A bonsai card, I miss him some much I can't write
>>2357314
Are you on the right board OP?
Hi, Could anybody translate this? I guess it is chinesse but i´m not sure. It will be a great help. Thank you
>>2357234
This has nothing to do with Artwork nor Critique.
Go ask Work Safe Requests, or maybe Int
How is it /ic/?
Bad
Do you ever "embellish" a portrait by getting rid of acne, scars, uneven pigmentation, etc... I don't mean anything too noticeable, just small touch-ups?
>>2356660
Your goal should be to capture the likeness of the model, not a snapshot of minute surface details - especially acne which varies day to day.
Minor imperfections would have to be very prominent and defining to warrant inclusion in a portrait, and even then it seldom improves the piece.
>>2356660
That makes sense, anon.
I'm asking because I got a commission from a woman in her 40s that I'm acquainted with enough to know she's self conscious about the slight droopiness on her cheeks (because she's a bit on the chubby side) and two semi-dark spots on her face.
I'm very conflicted on this.
How do I get better at comic booking /ic/?
Related page I did.
I'd read more of that.
>>2355522
start by resizing your work before posting it online
