New day, new thread.
I am boxman, and am taking requests for nude poses.
If I didn't get to your request, I probably saw it, so just make it again and I'll get to it.
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>>2306366
>>2307374
>trying this hard to be an /ic/ meme.
>>2307374
stop forcing memes
>>2307374
Boxman, I could use some fetal position on back legs up. Thank you!
I've been invited to the local Comic Con near me as an artist with a booth. I'm trying to get my name out there so I'd like to print some of my art into 3 different sizes the biggest being 16x20 and hand them out for free to people who'd like them.
How do I go about starting this? I have a month left until the convention. What printers should I look into buy and what is the average cost of them? I would go to the local FedEx Office store and ask them to print a couple batches but 5 of the 10 pieces I'd like to print are somewhat NSFW pinups, so I don't think they'd like that. Thanks in advance.
Also, what kind of paper should I use? I'm assuming a glossy.
Bumping this, I'm curious about making prints/ getting them made. Sorry I'm of no help, OP. If anyone has an opinion on scanning vs dslr photo of large oil paintings for prints, I'd like to hear it.
Also, I don't think you should worry about the nsfw stuff. Their job is to copy/print, not to judge.
>>2307116
Aside from them giving me the stink eye, if I was printing 1 of the images with is topless and a customer in the store saw it I'm sure they'd raise a stink.
want to be commercial artist
>do 'good' work. work that has elements of subtlety, aspires to be technically proficient, displays skillful use of art foundation principles, tries to avoid mainstream elements, tries to bring some tastefulness to usually cliche and overdone subject matters
make about 2k a year working my absolute ass off, sending millions of emails, replying to thousands of job posts, contacting hundreds of people (ad's amongst those)
>do commercial garbage type work and very low effort porn. treat it like a business making very coldly calculated decisions and moves, completely detaching my ego and person from the work and hiding behind an alias. not caring too much about how i treat fans/clients, treating them and the work as very disposable. doing quantity over quality (to an extreme degree)
Make about 900$ a month CONTINOUSLY without working too hard (6 days a week, 9 hours per day. this is not-too-hard by artist standards, not by real-job standards). popularity snowballs rapidly, can increase comission prices regularly, clients incredibly grateful for me taking their comission, incredibly patient with me when i take about 2 months to finish it, never ask for revisions, always reply like 'wow amazing thank you WOW I LOVE IT' even when it's total trash.
What do i have to do in order to keep the fire burning /ic/ ? I'm so freaking close to jumping into commercial garbage as a full time career. It's incredibly depressing to see high aspirations so utterly unrewarded.
i now got a dayjob in which i make around 1300$ working 3 shifts per week. i have the freedom to do what i want with my remaining time. i either make MORE money, and snowball my commercial-garbage business further, or i keep working on/studying for my more upscale/serious/respectable work but by this point that feels like a waste of time.
fuck this is depressing. it's like you want to be the next kurosawa but people throw money at you the moment you start shooting amateur gonzo porn
well, similar situation here.
painting and illustrations did not cut it for me. Never found inhouse jobs and freelance is shit.
Went full media graphic design. Easy tasks (from an illustrators standpoint) The only really challange thing is comming up with good ideas at times. It pays well and I have somewhat fun doing it.
I paint in my freetime... but not that much anymore really.
>>2306677
I just wanna draw porn, traps comics and anime.
I'm good.
>>2306677
>fuck this is depressing. it's like you want to be the next kurosawa but people throw money at you the moment you start shooting amateur gonzo porn
I know what you mean. Got serious about getting good around 4 years ago, watching Feng and Gnomon tutorials, doing pleb-tier ebin scifi and fantasy. Now this generic commercial stuff makes me incredibly bored and depressed. I haven't even made any money off of it, it just killed my enjoyment of the genre and my enjoyment of painting. Been focusing on figurative fine art instead, and just felt a calm wash over me doing it, but at the same time knowing I won't get any money doing that either.
redline pls
>>2306466
impossible to redline. It is literally perfect
>>2306506
Male ass.
/ic/, can you tell me where I went wrong with the leaves?
Everything in the picture is pixelated/blurry as hell... you definitely want to work bigger. Besides that, the shape of the thing is just sort of lumpy overall. Are you using a reference?
>>2306388
no references. But I agree I need to work bigger.
One more thing, how do I train creativity? I can practice drawing till my hands hurt but how do I train to think of new and interesting things?
its suppose to be sexual in some way, isnt it?
Is it more important for people to browse and check your work in any way possible rather than focusing on getting good to the point people cared?
Yes, if you want to make money doing this.
Check out this guy's Patreon intake vis-a-vis his skill level: https://www.patreon.com/markydaysaid?ty=h
That's how much more important marketing is than skill level. You don't actually have to be that great of an artist to make a good living doing it. Conversely, it's totally possible to be really good and still struggle if you don't market yourself well.
Also, you will probably never regard yourself as "good enough." That's a trap a lot of people fall into.
>>2306333
If you want to sell yourself and your art as its own product, like what patreon artists do, then marketing is more important. If you want to work for clients, then skill is more important.
What am i saying is, is publicity > intrinsic value?
I have a painting whose stretchers are smashed and when I lift the painting the painting twists in half. Should it be thrown away?
>>2306250
Pop the canvas off and re-stretch it?
Is the painting going to collapse when it comes off the stretchers?
I'll need a special staple gun that I don't have.
I wonder if the whole thing is going to crack in two.
>>2306263
What medium is it?
ITT: versions of mona lias thread (can be your own)
>>2305967
typo - don't care
>>2305967
fuq just found this
>>2305971
BUTTERFACE
is it a meme to say you dont practice that much?
I ask really great artists how often they practice and they always say they never practice.
Its bullshit, r-right?
They might have different ideas of practice than they assumed you do. Any great artist does art either a lot or for a very long time. No exceptions.
>>2305908
I'm a really great artist, I practiceD. But the skill remains no matter how long you fuck around. I take more time thinking about my ideas than actually creating them. (not gonna post my art because holy shit fuck you)
To add on to what >>2305912 says, I think that a lot of pros don't "practice" the same way beginners do. Like people on /ic/ will do photo studies and copy out anatomy books and watch video lectures on colour and stuff. But once you reach a certain level you've already done those basic exercises for a number of years and know how light and anatomy work and how to paint and observe things. At that point those exercises are not as useful.
Personally I have basically stopped doing studies the last year or two. I'll still do them on rare occasions, but honestly if I have time to paint for myself and not a client I would rather spend it doing creative work than a study. And with the creative work I can still learn--I'll focus on other aspects of art though like composition or storytelling or design. Of course using reference will still teach me things too if I run into a problem. If I find I need to learn about, say, materials, then I don't need to paint a study of it, I can simply google it and look at various images and then go into my painting and apply that in the area I was struggling with. Same for any other aspect of art, same with master paintings, most of the time I don't think it is necessary for me to actually copy it out. I'm at a point where I can study it through just observing and analyzing it carefully with my eyes.
Also I think certain exercises are kind of stupid to grind at, like spending an hour drawing circles and stuff. It's better to get good at drawing ellipses by using them in an actual drawing. So do some vehicles and draw the wheels out. You'll get more mileage and experience that way than drawing pages of ellipses. Maybe at first they won't be great, but it adds up and it is a better way to learn I think.
So I paint a lot but I don't "practice" a lot, if that makes sense.
![tumblr_m7dp9z08Pd1qjweypo1_1280[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S20uWAh.jpg "tumblr m7dp9z08Pd1qjweypo1 1280[2]")
Why exactly are artists paid so poorly? Is it because the field is completely over saturated? Or is it because there isn't enough demand for people with drawing skills?
Option C: Most artists undervalue themselves.
Over saturation, under selling artists, and cultural shifts which put the arts on the backburner.
>>2305900
aside from entertainment value that only people with money can afford, the rest of the world tries to survive it's daily life without the aid of something so useless.
Does anyone have any other cheaper options that let you actually draw on the ravlet screen?
*Tablet.
I apoligize for that.
>>2305815
Try Huion, they have the same but in lower prices.
>>2305826
There are many different types of Huion tablets. I need a more specific model name than that. My budget is $450.00
Tell me what is wrong. Give me some advice.
>>2305563
It dosen't look like Ben Affleck.
>>2305632
/thread
>>2305563
>Grid
Don't do that
Review the mona Lisa /ic
In terms of popularity and impact, greatest painting ever made. How much do I personally like it? It's pretty good.
Better than 98% of /ic/
>>2305433
>98.1%
ftfy
What sort of routines do you generally stick to?
-Spend 2 hours looking for ref. Fap to nudes.
-Drawing for 20 minutes, get frustrated. Fap to stick figure.
-Break for lunch.
-Look up tutorials for another hour.
-Resolve to just pick something and draw.
-Fap because you're going to die alone.
-Get into the mode. It's dawn. This looks great. Finally broke through. Pick this up again tomorrow.
-Bed time. Fap thinking about ex from years ago who got someone new within days of the breaking up while you've never had so much as a right-swip on Tinder.
-Wake up. Excited to get back to that drawing. Look at drawing. Clearly the work of an epileptic pool noodle.
-Use tears for lubricant for fap.
-Rinse repeat.
>>2305377
- Drawing for 5h/day
- 1rst hour trying to draw from imagination what I've learned the day before.
- next 4h: Anatomy with a lot of repetitions and exercises to know what is fixed on the mind.
I use one app with a Pomodoro timer without the long break, only with small 5 minutes breaks every 25 minutes. It works to me. My focus is OK.
All my notifications are off, no text messages, no phone calls, no music, no computer, to try to focus better.
>wake up
>turn on computer
>eat
>multiple ideas comes to mind
>try to draw one
>3 hours or more to finish it
>scan it
>try to color it in photoshop
>4 hours or more
>be completely shit and ruin it
>it's already night
>eat
>go to bed
>browse 4chan in phone
>2 hours
>my hand hurts
>stare at the obscurity and think about my future until I'd fall asleep
>wake up
>dip hand in ice water then warm water x3
>study 30-40 minutes
>watch youtube 10-20 minutes
>sip coffee
>continue study
>repeat till 3 am
one of my nieces dropped my tablet during thanksgiving or some shit like that and my ps brushes wont stop rotating like a fucking retard in a hurricane
ive tried reinstalling but shit wont work
view local services
double click wacom professional service
stop
then start again
>>2305138
>retard in a hurricane
I lol'd
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