So I went to Japan for a month and did 3 freelance projects for a visual-K store (drawing designs to print on the clothing).
Upon leaving, the owner said he'd like to continue working with me through email, and he gave me the specs for 3 more illustrations he wanted.
I get back to the U.S. and complete the very basic sketches in a week and email him. It was how I was working with him in the store: I'd make the basic sketches, and he'd tell me what changes he'd want and I'd make them, then ink.
I emailed him May 20th and haven't gotten a reply yet. What would be "proper" in terms of emailing him again? I've heard it's normal for people to take a while to respond when it comes to graphic art work??
Also, this business is only ran by him and his wife, and they are both rather old, operating it 6 days a week. So I'm trying to factor that in, too.
Wait another month, after 3 months, it's likely too late. 90 days is when e-mails are auto deleted generally.
Aside from that, do you speak Japanese, anon? How do you do freelance work in Japan and then just come back to U.S.?
Give him another week, do it before July. E-mail errors happen plenty, especially for old people. He might've missed it entirely.
also post you're work
>>2547913
>>2547917
Thank you for the advice. So I guess I could wait another 2 weeks combining these two suggestions?
As for how I got work there...it's kind of a "luck" story. Literally, all I did was walk into the store. The guy liked my outfit and he randomly asked me if I drew and if I had a sketchbook on me he could look at. I showed him, and he wanted me to draw some things for him. I speak very basic Japanese. I attempted to write my email both in Japanese and in English, but I am pretty sure I probably fucked up big time with the Japanese. Though at least I tried? When I was in Japan, barely any westerners even said "thank you" in Japanese or asked if they spoke English.
I had to come back because I am legally only allowed to be out of this country for a month due to being a NEET on SSI. I'd rather no show my art, because 4chan reasons. Sorry.
Has anyone on /ic/ actually made it big? I'm sitting around 14 watchers and it's a long stretch.
>>2542126
Ah fuck me I didn't even see the dick when I grabbed the pic.
>>2542126
Overwatch fanart mixed with nazi latex uniforms, dickgirls and anal?
Is this what /ic/ wants to become?
what
>>2542126
This is fucking retarded, even by Shadbase standards
I can't find anything on this guy from his pre-Disney days.
Did he seriously come straight out of a public liberal arts college, move to California, and then start animating for Disney after working as a tour guide for them for a little bit? He went from an internship to a supervising animator in a little over 5 years. What was in that letter he got from Frank Thomas, the willpower and skill of a thousand old men? A wish granting incantation?
This man is the hero we all need. I wish there was more information on him. What an inspiration.
>>2539915
Post his work. I don't know why he's an inspiration.
>>2539919
Pocahontas, Lilo & Stitch, Chicken Little, Bolt, Tangled, and Zootopia to name his most popular stuff.
I just mainly want to know what the fuck was the quality of his work that he was able to go straight from college to Disney.
>>2540024
I had an animation teacher who got picked up during their 90's Renaissance. He said during the 90's, it wasn't as hard to be an artist/animator and get picked up by Disney because they were aggressively looking for people. Remember it was still recent that Don Bluth took their remaining good artists and ran and they had to start training all new people and re-assigning department heads. They almost couldn't find ENOUGH 2D animators just to meet the requirements they needed to pull off stuff like Atlantis. A shit ton of fucking art went into a project like that. Then you have to take into account Dreamworks and Warner Brothers as 2D competitors, Pixar was starting up and looking to re-train 2D artists into CG. The aspiration to work in animation was not nearly as big as it is now.
But now, everyone and their grandmother wants to work in animation. The application process is so goddamn competitive, you have hundreds of aspiring artists graduating every single year who want to work in animation. And since feature film has shifted to CG, 2D animators must resort to being storyboard artists or character designers, which means those positions are filled to the fucking brim with applications.
Basically, it's about fifty times more competitive now to get into Disney than it was in the 90's, which is saying something because it was still a big place to be working at. He didn't do anything special besides being at the right place, right time. Like Pete Doctor.
How do I make flat colors look good? What type of inking/lines look good with flat colors? Please help me /ic/ I've got 4 days to complete an assignment
inb4 tumblr pic yes that's where some artists post
>>2547900
You won't get much specific help unless you actually post your image that you are struggling with.
If you are really stuck you can colour pick off an image that has the palette you want. Flat colours can look good on almost any inking style btw.
>>2547900
well if pic is related, dont make the lines black but a darker value off the colors they are attached to works well I think.
>Colors
Color theory
>Inking
Translate the form, not lines on paper
ITT: 10/10 artist
>>2547782
Sure, there's lots of basic issues with this, but at least the artist is clearly pushing their boundaries and trying something different. I'd be interested in seeing their work in another 5 or 10 years in the hopes that they continue to pursue their own aesthetic while filling in the gaps of their technical skills.
Or you can be a dick and make fun of them.
>>2547787
You must be new here.
>>2547787
Nice totally reasonable response, shitlord.
Could you design better starters?
The top one looks kinda badass.
>>2539660
I prefer the last red one. Something very elegant about a panther.
I'll try though.
>used to think cat had best design and seal worst
>final forms seal is best and cat is worst
I was trolled.
>Doing a digital drawing.
>Start shading/coloring/line work/etc.
>Looks pretty decent and actually beginning to feel prideful.
>Turns out it's on the wrong layer.
>Have to redo a massive chunk.
>mfw.
I work mostly in one or two layers for basically this reason. When I was using multiple layers it was infuriating, and it was distracting to have to regularly stop and make sure my layers were in order.
Nowadays I generally have a foreground and background layer, and generally use a lot of temporary layers then merge them down pretty soon after using them. I lock layers I don't want to merge into by accident.
I tend to paint rather than do detailed linework, though.
>>2539726
>open up sai
>computer blades
Cut open my face
>>2539726
Sketch looks better then that final product.
I'm going to be working at a job over the summer that gives me two hour breaks and weekends off but otherwise I've got no time online and no time on a tablet.
I wanted to know what type of materials do ya'll use so I could purchase some before I leave on my job.
Pic related, gonna buy some Prang's for color sketching.
it kind of depends on what you prefer and what art you make honestly.
I personally would take a multi-media sketchbook, micron pens, a white gel pen, something to color with. I guess colored pencils in your case, for me, those take too long to color in large spaces, so I use markers. Prismacolor markers blur your ink for sure though. it can have a nice affect if intended.
Or you could use good ol' pencil and eraser. I dislike anything lighter than 2B. A kneaded eraser is really fucking helpful too.
Buy all the things. A few sketchbooks and a pencil wrap with some graphite/color pencils, brush pens, markers, and a technical pen/rollerball/fountain pen/whatever the fuck you like. Maybe a small box with some watercolors or gouache and a waterbrush. If you're carrying stuff to work every day a big box of color pencils is probably going to be clunky.
Colored pencils are extremely time consuming. I prefer sketching with a pencil then doing line work with a pen and finishing it with markers and details on top with colored pencil.
Your lines wont run if you use the right kind of ink with it. Most microns and Fiber Castell inks are not dissolved by the alcohol. The markers give you a very quick way to lay down brilliant colors and then you can do detail work with the pencils.
The biggest down side to this is the cost. Markers, pencils, and paper with a smooth finish are expensive.
When or how do you get over dissatisfying drawings/sketches????? Like the ones that really irk you. The ones you wouldn't dare show. The ones that nag you all day and night.
>>2545554
Draw it again.
>>2545559
/thread
Do a hundred more. Do a thousand more. Just keep drawing.
Most will be shit, that's a fact. But eventually they'll all amalgamate into a grey blurr.
The only ones you'll truly remember are the good ones.
You think studios are full of perfect, faultless art? No, they're full of trash. But they're absolutely filled to BRIM with trash.
You only see the good.
You'll also get better and they'll be less trash. Your trash will become another person's goal standard.
Can looking at too many nude men make you gay? I'm 25 and never felt anything but straight or been in a relationship or had sexual relations with a man, but I'm worried if I start drawing male nudes from reference I might turn gay. I know that's not supposed to be how it works, but I think about other things I didn't like at first, like coffee or beer when I was young, or even more recently graphic novels and black and white movies.
I don't have anything against being gay, but I guess I do; I don't want to be gay. Will looking at naked men a lot make me gay? I don't know if something will "move" if I'm at a private life drawing session with a man.
>>2543906
if you turn gay from watching nudes you were never fully straight. Its 2016, go collect your fag privilege you cis scum
>>2543906
Yes, you will catch the gay. Great men like Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Leyendecker all were converted by the power of the male nude.
>>2543906
You can suck a juicy cock without being gay, you know.
your favourite vidya artists?
>Yōji Shinkawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouI8KXTdzhI
>>2547290
that man is an ink god.
>>2547290
How does he have such an abstract understanding of light and form that he can use a brush to make such a detailed face/person? It starts out looking like random lines and strokes but at the end the form is unmistakable. How to develop this skill? What do you have to study to be able to do this?
Also, I've been wanting to start using brush pens just to see what I can make, but I heard that using them can lead to bad habits forming. How true is this?
noriyoshi ohrai
rip
>>2547290
can't wait to see what he does now that he doesn't have to only draw bigboss over and over again
Grand Prize
>You drew everyday for a long time, longer than anyone else. Congratulations. You are the best
Rules
>Update every day at: http://www.lavaflake.com/draw/
>The deadline for submissions is 23:59:59 GMT each day
>You should spend at least 30 minutes on each update
>Miss a day and you lose a token, FAQ is the first post.
>Miss another day within a month and you're eliminated.
>Progress updates are ok but they will be policed like other submissions
>Please wait until page 9 to start a new thread
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>Please refrain from drawing sexual encounters with under age humans ;^)
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FAQ:
Something's broken, what do I do?
>The site is currently in the alpha phase of development and is being built around us as we compete so sometimes things go wrong. If you ever need any help send me a tweet @LavaFlake or shoot me an email [email protected].
What do we draw?
>Whatever you want. At this point there's no required topic so draw your heart out. Make sure you submit at least a half hour of work or you may get a low effort warning.
What's a low effort warning?
>The goal is to get people to draw every day by turning it into a competition. The low effort warning system is to prevent people from posting last minute, quick sketches when they're feeling lazy. If you receive a warning and it happens again within a month you'll be eliminated.
>This rule has been the cause of a lot of concern amongst newer artists so let me reiterate: this system is to police low effort content and has nothing to do with the quality of the work. New artists are more than welcome.
What happens if I'm eliminated?
>A new Last Artist Standing challenge starts every week. If you get eliminated then get it together and rejoin next week.
How can there be a new Last Artist Standing challenge every week?
>This is a way to let new artists join in and to allow re-entry for the eliminated. Every week a new challenge is started. If you joined on week 1 and make it to week 2 then your daily submission counts for both the first and second Last Artist Standing. If you get eliminated then you're eliminated from both challenges and you'll be able to rejoin next week.
Will I have an advantage if I join later in the week?
>The winner of a Last Artist Standing will be the artist with the longest streak. If you join on day 1 and last until day 85 then you'll have a streak of 85. If there's only one person left in the challenge when you're eliminated but they joined on Day 7 then they'll need to continue on for another week. If they're eliminated before then, you win.
This is a list of anons who regularly stream, this list will be updated as we move forward, if you wish to be included please post you name/stream profile.
>STREAMERS
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Streamers, please let the thread know when you're streaming so people can join the "fun".
Lava, can we get a little icon or color or something on the community challenge list to show which ones we've joined and which ones we've submitted to?
https://youtu.be/NdtnvFgELLc?t=7m41s
Can someone identify those pens there other than the Rotring, Hi-tec-c and Staedtler felt-tip pen? Also what kind of sketchbook is he using?
>>2543231
It doesn't really matter. U won't get his skill/line quality by using his stuff.
>>2543234
Everybody knows that, I'm curious on what he's using
>>2543235
7:30 mark in the video u sent
What's a good paper to use with alcohol markers that won't just suck up all my ink? I'm using a Canson XL mixed media pad right now but I want to know if there's something better out there.
Also, general marker thread.
>>2535690
i know there's papers in arts stores just for markers. i havent had the chance to try one just yet. though i'd really like to. most of this is literally on printer paper lol
all my traditional stuff is currently done with markers/ink.
I'm using bamboo fiber paper for that and I fing it great
>>2535790
I hate you even more now.
Also, If you're going to get paper, I suggest you get Rhodia notebooks, but make sure they don't have grids/dots. It's really smooth and has almost no bleed for a heavy handed pleb like me.
Are there some interesting /ic/ related art communities that focus on getting gud?
I know about the /ic/ irc but thats filled with stagnant people who constantly ask for advice and for people to look at their pics but never improve.
>>2548292
>thinking your lack of gains has anything to do with /ic/
kys
>>2548293
>this is how easy it is to trigger some people
nice reading what you want to read, autismo.
i only asked for art communities with good members and complained about the amount of stagnant waifufags in the irc, didnt even imply that affects or stops my progress.
There's the sketchbook section of conceptart.org, but its a little dead. There's not many large free communities dedicated to improving skill
Oh I just realised I misread your post. There used to be an /ic/ deviant art group but that slowly tapered out of popularity.
