Could you have designed a better Joker, /ic/?
I don't get why he has a tattoo of HA HA HA but everything else is great
>>2065475
I would played safe with a pale green haired dude, he looks like a Deviatn Art OC
>>2065477
>"Damaged" on forehead
>great
Alright. Where the fuck do I start. I'm a beginner
I read the sticky, and lurk a shit ton and apparently the sticky is "useless" or "inefficient"
I've been jumping between Drawing from the Right side of the brain and Loomis because people can't make up their mind and I cant either.
And now I hear Drawabox com is where I should really start.
Where the hell do I start. What books should I follow in what order? Why does everyone point me in a different direction to start?
Seems like you're lost, anon
Remember, no matter what kind of advice you're given, if you feel lost or overwhelmed - just draw. Draw whatever, draw something new, draw something you want, just don't draw something you're used to drawing before. Drawing enough will show you your own weakspots - if you're passionate enough to improve, you'll know where to start. Improvement is a steep slope, though - once you find out you're weak in something like the arm and start practicing it, you'll start falling further and further back until you root your problems in the fundamentals. It's a steep fall we take to get our fundamentals up to speed, and it takes months to years, but the framework is worth it and it'll be with you for the rest of your life. There really isn't a better way to improve your art then to improve your fundamentals: Form, perspective, values, anatomy/gesture, composition, etc...
Read Perspective Made Easy, do drawabox, download torrent containing Dynamic Sketching with Peter Han and Figure Drawing with Hampton. There, that should last ya 6 months.
>>2076356
>Dynamic Sketching with Peter Han
^^ this is a very good one for absolute beginner
Also OP what I did when I was a beginner was I did a series of "tests" to gauge where I was at and what I needed. Out of all my beginner experiences Id say the biggest hurdle and thing that made things better for me was understanding perspective and drawing objects in 3d.
When I started understanding that, I could construct better without things and body parts floating all over the place, things could look solidly placed on surfaces and not look "off", I could do proportions in perspective properly, and could determine faces/angles for light so I could shade as well too.
As much as people like loomis, I found hampton much easier to understand and his shapes/color breakdown methods were super helpful.
People, animal, places, machinery, clothes etc.
Post requests, post your collections, post resources etc.
As promised, resharing some of my own reference collection, resized the parts so hopefully it'll work this time.
Female nude reference:
Arranged by angle of reference and the general pose (2.25 GB, 4,556 items)
Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/f8u76w2wzl4duze/Female_Nude_Reference_1.zip
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ujcqln8k83pkzne/Female_Nude_Reference_2.zip
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/download/s34f1s7go07d15t/Female_Nude_Reference_3.zip
Part 4: http://www.mediafire.com/download/vxpa9etykqfacp9/Female_Nude_Reference_4.zip
Part 5: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ryy7184eksaegac/Female_Nude_Reference_5.zip
Part 6: http://www.mediafire.com/download/d31ip7o4a8k1dz5/Female_Nude_Reference_6.zip
Part 7: http://www.mediafire.com/download/jc3kpxcj4tt0z5c/Female_Nude_Reference_7.zip
Part 8: http://www.mediafire.com/download/pi1ng6478jf8d4r/Female_Nude_Reference_8.zip
Female Face Reference:
Arranged by angle and hair length (197.4 MB, 1,383 items)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8s0sk6at8gd5138/female_faces.zip
Hyper Angle:
From the book "Hyper Angle", a series of black and while reference photos of two asian models in a variety poses and angles (63.6 MB, 606 items)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bwbkoa92du091zb/HYPER_ANGLE.zip
Just a poll.
How old are you?
When and why did you start drawing?
What do you do besides art?
What is your goal?
>>1991905
>26
>want be pro
>nothing (eat, sleep, ocassional friends, gym)
>be best in world
>>1991905
age? 26
serious drawing go? 2 years agoish
what else do you do? nothing
goal? to make more art
>21
>2 years ago because it's fun
>cycling, music, video games and laboratory work
>git as gud as gud can git
>Make comic set in Japan
>Tumblr attacks you for cultural appropriation and fetishization of Japan
>Cancel comic
http://strangestarcomics.tumblr.com/post/112581281801/note-on-mahou-shounen-breakfast-club
How do you deal with the tumblr crowd as an artist, /ic/?
please explain full background of this, because this sounds ridiculous and I am about to rage.
who's attacking the artists and how? why?
are sjw behind this?
You don't. No seriously, I think it would be better to ignore those kinds of people. If your art is 'offending' them, they don't have to be fans of your work and there is not point in trying to pander to people who only gave a shit about you because you offended them. If you let them get to you your work will suffer, and why? Just to appease some strangers on Tumblr?
You will never please these kinds of people. If you do one thing right, they bitch about another. You're the artist, don't let other people tell you how to make your art.
Also, Really sucks for those artists, they actually canceled their whole webcomic just for some retards?
If you're that scared of the tumblr crowd then post your work somewhere else.
>>2002460
White girls in college, the first and only line of defense for Japanese cultural posterity
Can we get a creepy/dark art thread going?
(I will dump what I have)
little head-biter guy
I'm bored and there's a storm here so Tutorial thread?
>>1955355
2/?
>>1955356
Would anybody like a new reference thread?
Nudes
Non-nudes
Environments
Feel free to post anything reference related
>>1942939
Fucking blew it with the first picture
sorry about the thumbnail.
Alright, I was directed here from /co/
I'm looking to create an MSPA comic, which means it needs to be aliased
However, someone told me that I don't improve, that I can't learn where the mistakes of my works are. atm I'm just brainstorming in pic related.
How bad is this?
How can I change my thinking so I can learn from mistakes?
OR do I already improve?
left one is 1st test, 2nd one is the newer one, i'm trying a 3rd picture now
If you must know, it's about Halo ODST, you know, like Prequal is about the eldar scrolls
you could say it's fan fiction
>>1948004
moopdate
>>1948004
git gud
>>1948029
;_;"
Because we should not have to make new threads or post in draw threads with our fundamental exercises. Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, do not give up. Practice makes Perfect!
A friendly reminder to do wrist exercises and take breaks as you practice to avoid getting CPS.
http://www.eatonhand.com/hw/ctexercise.htm
http://wnyptot.com/articles/info_education/carpal_tunnel.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUyMNyrOHJQ
Previous thread: >>1937059
>>1940460
Wow a lot of participents this week
can you explain how do I paint like this? >>1939817
I just don't understand how to group values and use the brushes ;_;
oh god the version I only got to work on for an hour is in there (。_ 。)
So today I want to come here to make a thread for all those artist who cant draw or something. So this is going to be a thread for beginners who cant draw something other then a stick figure.
Also to let you know, im too lazy to get up and use my other computer that has adobe flash CS5, so instead im going to be using Paint.
So to start off, lets this thing
>pic related
>>1922349
So step 1
To draw the body, make this shape with the head and tail.
>>1922351
Step 2
Color fill the body then add two (less or more) black (or any color) stripes on its tail.
>>1922354
Step 3
Add the eyes and mouth.
Depending on what gender it is, give it eyes with the pupils being any color you want.
Also the mouth can be anything you want.
Post animation, talk animation, discuss animation here.
>>1910668
So you have open new thread, posted animation some other guy did just for the sake of discussion?
Looks like you are trapped by /ic.
i'm sure you are one of those who just admire others and don't draw by themself
>>1910674
Mate it's just the thread picture. Never did I claim that I made it, it's only for inspiration. Lurk more newfag.
>>1910668
I WONDER WHERE THEY GOT REFERENCES FOR ALL KEYFRAMES
ALL ARTISTS USE REFERENCES, WE ALL KNOW THAT
![29iht-melikian29-picA-articleLarge[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Lv1fhy6.jpg "29iht-melikian29-picA-articleLarge[1]")
Hello, What is contemporary art?
I plan to take an admision exam on a fine arts academy and they want people to show 10-15 works and explain a few to the teachers. Most people are rejected because they produce "boring baroque style" or works not corresponding to this era. (surrealism, impresionism)
If you can recommend some books i would be very thankful, otherwise posting some artists or art.
I ony went to a contemporary art gallery once and 90% of the works there were portraits with vivid colors
I also wanted to reproduce some glitch art in a canvas and call it art... gee
Well, i found that the themes are mostly the same but what has changed is the style it is presented, but the only real references i have are of some specific movements in wikipedia.
I really love that you get to have so much freedom in what you can express but i'm really confused about the esthetics it follows
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art#2000s
Glitch art won't work. It's too unaesthic and not organized enough
Do something like lucien smith or Oscar Murillo
>>1903539
this is probably one of the worst places for contemporary art. the people here have no clue about important art.
with that said look up works by:
jeff koons
damien hirst
ai wei wei
bill viola
olafur eliasson
kehinde wiley
marina abromavich
andreas gursky
yinka shonibare
theres too many to list but these are some important artists off the top of my head
also check out artist who have been in the Saatchi Gallery
not all of these people work in one medium and that seems to be important in art today as well as concept. Don't let this place make you think drawings of bullshit will get you anywhere.
Here's the deal, pick some shit out of deviantart or tumblr or whatever, post it on the thread, and the challenge to others is to redraw it but make it better. Post your results.
I'll start this shitshow off.
>>1894828
haha i like this thread idea. i'm off to hunt some terribad deviantart shit.
i like this idea. but im willing to bet a lot of people are self conscious of their art skills and therefore posts in a 'make this better' thread will be scarce
>>1894835
no matter how bad you are, there's even worse people out there whos work you could draw better. no need to be self conscious, especially in a thread that is mostly for fun.
![minjun_execution[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lJfe34u.jpg "minjun execution[1]")
