Post digital illustrations that you consider to be so mindblowingly, absolutely ceiling-hittingly cock-hardeningly good, that they sit easily above what 98% of artists would ever possibly be able to achieve. basically shit that is just the best of the best of the best.
if you post mullins and the usual suspects try to be selective. try to post even their work that is their very best.
:^)
>this thread is now forever tainted, get fukd.
>art in this thread
sometimes he's hit or miss, but this one is a masterpiece
>>2520349
well with the exception of one edgy faggot who couldn't resist the urge to ruin everything by posting magarbageij kuciara, i'd say we're off to a good start.
>>2520349
I've been looking at a bunch of Theo Prins stuff latey. Dude is fucking crazy good.
>>2520542
/thread
I am a tasteless pleb who cant paint, but I like Dave Rapoza, and Brad Rigney, but if I can only post one picture. I have to choose Feng Zhu
Eh I was only gonna post one, but this thread is moving slow so ima go ahead.
Brad Rigney
>>2520529
Wow, he has improved lately. Haven't really looked at his stuff in a long time. I like that it's less off "muh random brushtrokes" going on here.
>>2520634
>>2520640
oops those aren't digital
>>2520548
>posting anything from sakimi
>>2520777
>>2520778
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>>2520794
this one's really weak anon.
Most of this thread is actually good except like 2 pieces and two trolls. No Jaime yet?
>>2520550
>I am a tasteless pleb who cant paint
you just proved it
>>2520570
He's been fucking awesome for years. He's a true genius, on pair with mullins
>>2520814
Pleb confirmed
>>2520822
His older stuff was too impressionistic for my tastes. Too much random shapes. These speak to me so much more.
>>2520349
>>2520787
dudes insanely good
>>2520542
EVERYTIME XXXXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LOL HAHAHAHA
Do people actually buy prints of this shit and put it on their walls...?
Fucking wow
>>2520836
uhm, no, not usually. Are you retarded or how did you even come to that conclusion?
>>2520837
Shut your face whore
>>2520836
no but I can honestly see a true connoisseur commissioning a skilled painter or even the original artist himself to create a traditional replica.
![igor-sid-80hr[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Ejl9VkC.jpg "igor-sid-80hr[1].jpg")
>>2520777
at least post this one from igor.
![sergey-kolesov-do-not[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vQ8OqQp.jpg "sergey-kolesov-do-not[1].jpg")
>>2520836
i bought this one, pretty gud
>>2520434
man that gives me the willies
>>2520822
>He's a true genius, on pair with mullins
Theo is definitely one of the best around, especially in the last couple years he has really exploded in quality and originality. That said, Mullins still has a few decades experience on him and is way way more versatile, and it really shows in his art. I'm excited to see where Theo takes his art over the next few years/decades though. His stuff has a very unique quality to it.
>>2520971
This guy's got a bunch of good shit.
>>2521277
>>2521283
>>2521287
>>2521295
had to put a loli
>>2521295
edges look like some serious photobashing to me
>>2521308
Of fucking course they do.
They always fucking have to.
>>2521310
did you just return from raping that litle girl?
then what's so great about the picture?
>>2521310
It's perfectly possible to paint a forest without photos
>>2521308
There is lots of cases where the bg looks just a bit too detailed as well, and in a pattern that looks like a photo.
Honestly who gives a shit though, the image looks good and that's all that matters.
>>2521317
This.
That being said, if you can paint it all I'll be even more impressed.
>>2520552
>>2520434
>>2520971
>>2521283
Damn, really good.
I'll never be this good.
>>2521317
to it's not that great. the composition's fine. I like the highlight of the female's head. but considering how central she's the picture, there are some weird flaws with the legs that distracts me.
>>2520434
I´ve seen this a million times and fuck it´s just so good, I´d love to support sergey in some way or another.
>>2521338
He's got a patreon
>>2521287
soooooooooooooooo fucking tasteful in values/temp dear god
>>2520645
hard to believe that the same guy drew this, this nigger's getting lazy
>>2520778
you can even see the original photo underneath, what the fuck dude?
>>2521425
Them Patreon bucks push you towards quantity rather than quality.
The vast percentage of people who support his Patreon and youtube wouldn't have the eye to even see the quality difference between those two pieces, and that's not even his best piece to be quite honest.
He's also busy working on other things too as far as I know, he talked about some book on his deviantart, which I imagine is where his biggest effort is going into, not these 1/2 day youtube vids he shits out.
>>2521277
Pretty shit desu.
Why isn't she bleeding? Or is it supposed to be some kind of a Monty Python "just a scratch" thing?
>>2521277
LOOOL fucking kek
>>2520548
The most economically successful anyway.
>>2521303
>100 yards stare
usually it's not bad, but here it is
>>2521503
are you blind? you might want to reconsider your time spent on an art board
>>2520349
I'm aware that /ic/ doesn't like the whole "anime" art style, but I still really like this one
>>2521880
its ok if you like it, but did you read OP
>>2521881
Yea I read the OP
>>2521886
> mindblowingly, absolutely ceiling-hittingly cock-hardeningly good, that they sit easily above what 98% of artists would ever possibly be able to achieve. basically shit that is just the best of the best of the best
>>2521880
The problem here is not that it's anime, it's that it's amateur shit. Are you an absolute beginner or just blind? What you posted could be done by at least 50% of /ic/,it's really shitty.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Mullins shadow handling. I know he makes them lighter then the usual artist does, but I just don't get how he makes it work.Everything just works perfectly together, the light shadows and costrasts.
damn you mullins.
>>2521940
It'd be arrogant of me to say I completely understand it, but I think color and value are always relative to each other no? You can make really light values look dark depending on their relationship to other values.
Something else I'm thinking is that you can control the "exposure" of the image; so if you make the lighter forms less detailed and attention-grabbing you can get a wider range of values on your shadow side.
Maybe, I dunno.
>>2521886
all it takes is a look at pixiv to find a fuckton of anime artists who do a lot better, even mainly sticking to the 'cute girl and scenery' trope
>>2521982
Damn that sorolla ish one is pretty neat
bump
>>2520349
>>2520836
Most of this shit in this thread sucks, but I run my own prints of whatever I like to put on my walls.
>>2524671
you have shit taste desu
>>2524650
this shite film had such nice art
>>2521880
this person has never seen sunflowers in real life have they.
I don't even think they have seen a photo of one. It looks like they just sorta went off a rough description.
>>2520826
That grass brush is so cheap.
>>2524812
Yeah it really ruins an otherwise beautiful work. I don't know what that guy thought while using that shitty brush.
>>2524837
I know both paintings and it looks bad in them both
>>2524897
it's an overpaint. The dude painted over a photo, it's very visible.
>>2521325
not with that attitude
>>2524684
Nope, by sucks, I mean it's all formulaic, hackneyed, boring ass shit. There isn't a single image in this thread worth saving, which is pretty fucking sad. It does show why /ic/ is such shit, though, I mean look at what these plebs consider "the most mind blowing digital art".
>>2525354
So who creates mind blowing digital art in your opinion?
>>2521873
>tiny trickle of blood
>whole are missing
are you retarded? you might want to reconsider your time living in general and end it. Even the most fucked up tard knows more then a little piss stream comes out when you get an arm chopped off
>>2525360
I honestly can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'll check my HD see if anything stands out.
>>2525360
Here's some:
This due to the orchestration and rendering.
>>2525360
This too. Wouldn't call it "mindblowing", but it's pretty top tier.
>>2525360
And this
>>2525360
And this here
>>2525360
Fuck it, one last one.
>>2525360
Going through DA now.
>>2525360
This guy.
>>2525452
Shit taste and butthurt, all in one :^)
Nah I kind of agree, a bunch of those read like typical but well rendered fantasy art. Not really stuff I would call cream of the crop or whatever 98% bullshit number op pulled out of their ass.
>>2525370
That wasn't what you said, idiot
>>2520645
desu it looks like the characters were cropped into the background
>>2520426
>>2520429
>>2520829
>>2520971
>>2521191
>>2521205
>>2521287
>>2521832
>>2524365
>>2524666
not to say the rest are shit, but these ones all impress me personally.
I realise some things appeal to me more than others - overall illustration > technical drawing of architecture, mecha, etc
looking at what >>2525381 thinks is "the best of the best of the best.", I can also see the kinds of things that appeal to him - character-based fantasy art with a clear focus. These aren't bad exactly, but I was wondering how does one actually go about improving their taste and build an appreciation of the finer subtleties that make a piece genuinely top-tier?
>>2525808
>how does one actually go about improving their taste and build an appreciation of the finer subtleties that make a piece genuinely top-tier?
Get better at painting yourself and look at more artists from history, and not just the famous people
>>2525381
>acting all high and mighty
>muh taste is better
>''what are these shits u guys post ?''
pls kill yourself omfg , i taught you will post some cool shit
>>2525386
Nice action, but I think the bikinis look too modern, would be better if the women were just nude desu.
>>2524671
what do you run prints with? I've been interested in doing my own printing, since I only otherwise have access to kinkos and I can't find any specialty printers in SE Michigan. One would think photographers would have some capabilities, but no.
>>2525808
>how does one actually go about improving their taste and build an appreciation of the finer subtleties that make a piece genuinely top-tier?
Read 'concerning painting' by kenyon cox and look at art history and why painters painted what they painted, what informed their subjects. Most of the stuff in this thread is lame because it has medium-high tier execution (as far as the entirety of painting goes) and the subjects are informed by the current commercial landscape: videogame and movie concept art is pretty much what sells and what is informing these works. Even if this stuff is genuinely what the artist is interested in, (s)he is interested in it because (s)he spends most of their life behind a computer/tv/movie screen consuming these commercialized stories.
Contrast this with artists of old, who, although they made paintings to sell, the subject matter was informed by experiences of living their life- getting out there into the world. Because their work is informed by experiences from their individual, one-of-a-kind life, it is inherently more substantial than the works by these digital artists, who are all informed by the same commercial media from the last 30-50 years- media which was designed to appeal to masses.
>>2525404
>>2525404
kek orange/blue. This isn't even good as far as commercial work goes.
>>2525413
a nameless hooker vs a nameless androgynous knight standing in front of a door that appartently leads to endless abyss.
>>2525435
le silent hill 4 spoopy hotel aesthetic
>>2525399
Okay I got it now, you're trolling.
>>2524650
good painting, but sargent and money covered all the ground this does far better.
>>2524666
again, this is good, but by no means great. It's some simple story of a nameless monster thing in a nameless alien place that's the same as all the other nameless alien places.
Pic in this and
>>2526023
are examples of medium-tier traditional painting that blow almost everything in here out of the fucking water. That's not to say that digital isn't potentially just as good, see:
>>2521916
as an example of digital work that's actually almost hanging in there with the old greats.
>>2526029
>>2526029
shit forgot pic
>>2526023
I worked at a print shop and just do poster prints of whatever at cost, and mount them on foamboard. I print my only work that way to sell, too. It tends to run about $0.30 per 10x12".
>>2526038
lol what
fuck no dude
>>2526343
>grass is pure green
This guy is not good at painting.
>>2526352
...grass actually is green you knob
>>2526354
Oh yes, and the sky is blue and shadows are black, right?
>>2526362
>>2526358
post the link
>>2526357
The sky is blue most of the time due to Rayleigh Scattering and is only not blue in exceptional cases like extreme smog or during sunset/sunrise. Shadows are simply an absence of light, so they can be black such as at nighttime or on the moon or in certain indoor settings.
You are being intentionally obtuse though to say an artist is bad for using green to paint a subject whose local colour is green. Yes, he used a really saturated green, and most artists will shift that a bit towards yellow or dull the colour a bit, but if you have ever spent time outside you would know that sometimes grass or other plants can be shockingly green at times depending on lighting (typically when backlit slightly and perhaps more at certain times of year like spring). And even if it was outside of the realm of reality, who gives a fuck. Is John Asaro a shit artist because he paints things the "wrong" colour?
I hate how /ic/ loves to use one insignificant nitpick about something they put an iron rule on, and then blow it out of proportion to say an entire piece or artist is worthless.
>>2526357
>>2526384
That's nice, but this thread is for advanced painters. Not good or average. Zapata isn't shit, I quite like some of his pieces but he's far from advanced. He's a good intermediate. That's about it. His use of color is really underwhelming and rather one dimensional. He's a amateur compared to the likes of Theo Prins and Sergey Kolesov.
>>2526399
Oh I actually agree with everything you say here. I just wanted to shut down the line of reasoning that using green means you are a bad painter which is what >>2526352 implied. Zapata is a solid pro but far from the best of the best. Though I'd say almost every single image in this thread is pretty far from the best of the best.
>>2526385
>>2526029
omg you are such a big fucking fedora master
>>2520420
>2520420
Aspire to be better! Daily work.
I'm easily impressed.
Also, there's a painting that's mindblowing for me but I can't remember the name. It's an art school and there's lots of paintings hanged around the walls, all of them greatkly detailed. I think it's post-renaissance and the scene looks a lot like School of Athenes by Raphael. Anyone knows which one I mean?
This.
surprised noone posted this one yet
>>2527027
and a personal favourite. the thumb works so good and everything in this piece is so balanced. really like it.
>>2527088
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>>2527098
topkek first people don't bother to ensure it is top notch work that is posted, and then after being called out they stop posting digital paintings
>>2527104
this desu
>>2520434
besides being amazing, there's something about this that's unnerving and kinda spooky
>>2527111
>there's something about this that's unnerving and kinda spooky
Gee, I wonder if it's because there's a giant mythical half-human creature being hunted
>>2526976
>copy pasted helicopters
How lazy can you be? They alone make the piece 10x worse.
>>2527098
man, that tree is filled with buttplugs
>>2527117
I love this one, I wanna cum on that water reflection.
>>2527194
What the fuck man
>>2524365
>>2527201
what can I say, I like art
>>2520434
Fuck me the values and textures are so perfect it looks real. That boat and sea floor. Fuck.
keep it digital guys
>>2527252
keep it high res guys
>>2527283
At least someone is posting some god-tier stuff finally.
>>2527745
from were do you know I didn't already
[spoiler]you are right, I didn't[/spoiler]
>>2527283
I wish I could post true high res images. This one is just some shitty jpeg with artifacts. the actual image has close to 50 mb.
>>2527924
here and
>>2527924
nice. artist?
>>2527937
mullins :^)
>>2521940
>>2520349
First CG artist is the best one.
>>2527977
oh duh, thought it looked familiar
>>2521982
oh my, name of those artists?
chinese nobody coming through
Where the fuk is updates?!Where the fuk is old works?!! WHEREREEREREERFERFERRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>2520349
>>2528421
good one
>>2521287
Hey guys am I right in saying this is just a green filter or does the artist have an amazing sense of light. I edited this image
>>2528391
fucking ace. i honestly think he got spooked by us. i think he got spooked by /ic/ and those threads were people posted side by side comparisons of the master paintings he would borrow from. he got nervous and now keeps his work under lockdown and probably only lets clients see his galleries.
>>2528421
your shit doesn't belong here irakli
>>2526385
This scares me, delet it
>>2530026
>i think he got spooked by /ic/ and those threads were people posted side by side comparisons of the master paintings he would borrow from
As the guy who posted those I hope that's not the case. I think he just is busy with work and taking care of his wife and kid. He has no reason to post online for marketing either since every art director already knows him and he has a lot of steady top clients already. Plus he had already stopped posting things and stopped being active online by the time those comparisons ever were posted, and it's unlikely he ever would have come across anything posted here of all places.
>>2530020
Yes - they likely played with the hues to make it more green at the end.
I like your edit a LOT better, too.
>>2530020
There might be some minor colour adjustments they did at the end, but probably it was mostly painted that way. Looking at the rest of their work they tend to be a fan of a green cast to the images. I wonder if it is just taste or if they are slightly red-green colour blind because the reds and greens are a bit heavy-handed in some images.
