>>7170218
eh, don't be so hard on yourself. I like the vibe of this

I think your values are too similar, and you can make better use of negative space.

You'd benefit from some perspective practice too, a solid week of study and you will see improvement.

Look up "10 minutes to better painting" by Marco Bucci he gives tips that can help you immediately too

>>7170218
anon, most artist take 5-10 years to improve. It's not a race, it's a marathon. There nothing wrong with being bad, you are doing better than most people because they either don't draw or quit within the first week.

>>7170218
You clearly have potential. And what anon above said. Don't come to this place for advice, since you're able to draw. People here use their time to do anything but that.

>>7170218
7 hours isnt long. you are starting to realize why most do weeb shit. trace a 3d model or paint over an instathot for fotm anime shit and get praised for low effort by retards or spend days on an actual piece of art and thousands of hours practicing for little to no recognition. youll know you are an artist and see the effort in others. or youll measure all ypur success based on likes and retweets. choice is yours.

i can look at an inked piece of work and know the guy spent a day on a 2x2 square of grass. i know avg person wont even look at it or care. i can look at avg ctrl paint cutesexyrobutts tier "artist" and know they put 2 hours max into the digital sludge they shit out daily. i know coomers will praise that. i dont care. id rather make art. you can set aside that pieceyou are working on and focus on studies for grass and sky and anatomy. you can improve each aspcect over couple weeks of work and come back tot his piece for a redraw and see vast improvements. most wont care. but YOU will know its better. YOU will see the difference.

MA ke her nakid.

>>7166628
There's some talking about the fact that the "God of War" series of games may have that same issue. Kratos already went against the greek, roman, and nordic gods. Can they do the same with christian figures, or hindu, or islam?

About the issue, if the sacred figure of christ, or whatever angel or saint may be, is trapped and possessed inside a physical representation, that would be like idolatry, that blasphemous thing must be destroyed, and the enslaved spirit liberated. So you should be allowed to fight that idol representation and crush it to pieces with righteous violence. That could be a way out to solve the "political issue". I bet these are the kind of conversations that must be happening in the directive board of those companies making games, with a team of lawyers and theosophical experts LMAO.

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Back again friends. This one took 35 minutes to make. I am very happy with how this came out.
Recently, i had seen one of you in a progress thread claiming to toss out a very well done 20 minute sketch. To say i was impressed was to say the least! It only showed how much more i need to grow as an artist. While i think i can draw some subjects reasonably well, i always take a devistating amount of time to get there. So much time wasted on the little details that only matter to me, the artist. I hope in doing this exercise everyday, i become more confident and accurate in my choices. So to make a reasonable with even a slight bavkground made me feel quite proud!
>>7167463
That is a good solution if it must come down to it. If i could, however, i would try to have it be that the player does "kill" them. (Once killed they will turn to ash and blow away back to their chosen destination. For the blessed that would be at heaven's gate, and the damned would emerge from the eternal lake of fire. I think this would allow for the player to feel righteous resentment especially if each holy boss gives an attaboy to the knight once they are killed. The game ultrakill allowed the player to feel a kind of kinship with the souls of hell, and i want something similar, and especially a parallel resentment to the archangel at the end, with satan!

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Hello again friends. In this challenge, I have learned to accept some things for the way they are. A confession i must make, is that I have been commissioned to create monsters (my favorite thing to draw) but my indecisiveness has led me to stall finishing these for months now. While at the moment the work i am doing is for free, i am disgusted by my lack of progess and, at times, skill. In pic rel, the left head has been bothering me FOREVER. I just couldnt properly attach it to the rest of the worm. However, i gave myself an hour to simply do the best i could with the placement and called it done when the hour was over. Now i have to clean up the piece and move on the next part. Perhaps the commissioner can find someone to perfect it? But thats okay, im still learning and will get better. No exercise today, just an hour on this.

>>7169558
BASED Krita chad

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Back again wit another sketch. 25 mins for this one. Pic inspiration: https://youtu.be/eAiVgLgSdu0?si=QJtt21vFuV888A7O
How odd that someone so against ai would be inspired by it. I must grapple with the feeling of it. Lol!
>>7169565
Thank you friend. I have never been called based nor a chad before! But yes bless the folks behind krita, as i would not recomment any other free art program so highly!

there's no point comparing yourself to seasoned pros that have been drawing amazing since they started and made money and fame off their art with MOTIVATES and INSPIRES them to be creative and plus ultra. Drawing as a /beg/ with a tablet for no reward while you fight off thoughts of suicide is not even in the same ballpark as what pros do. Of course your lines are going to be worse.

>>7167997
Holy projection, Batman.

>>7168006
I'm .... projecting that horikoshi is a good artist???

>>7160267
That's computer generated.

>>7160267
Mechanical pencil you dumb noob

>>7169840
Why are you bumping this?

>>7169511
I almost never tell "artists" irl that I do art because of just how significantly I am better at it than them.

>>7169855
its the best thread on /ic/

congrats you're an asshole. Get some social skills. If someone is clearly much worse than you you just compliment them and don't show yours unless asked you autistic moron

>>7170388
and to do it to someone you work with every day is super duper double nigger stupid. You just traded a small moment of smug nerd pleasure for the rest of your time working amiably with someone god how dumb can you be stop taking social cues from 4chan

>>7170309
no, we already argue about this many times, is the same as cellphones. In phones yes there are shitty models really cheap, all can make calls and do the core part, but in the middle range we already reach a point were all the devices are of the same quality, and the differences are just in the competitive part were brands give or sacrifice some aspects to add to anothers, then you have high tier devices were all of them are the same but they have some, particular, extra, that is not relevant to the core demand, and make a difference, really specialized products or just a bun of extras to pretend.
With drawing tablets is the same but you have just one key core aspect and nothing more, the drawing part, and that's it. We already reached a point were all the devices work good to draw like, since a few years ago, more than a few. My particular opinion... from like, since 2018 more or less, any device after that of the big brands are good, any, I'm not even talking about the drawing part but all the aspects of the devices, because if you talk about just drawing well.... you can draw perfectly with zero problems with devices from like 2014 or even further back in time. The bamboo wacom is from the 2009-10 and works perfectly.

With screen devices, yeah, anything starting around 2018 is good, from apple, wacom, huion, xp-pen, xencelabs, samsung. Of course you can't say the same from some cheap rebrand products or the ones that are specially, specially made to be cheap and short live, like i dont know... ugee, or parblo, even those are
functional, you know... the cell phone analogy.

>>7170309
Have a 24r. Screen is somewhat dimmer with the pre-applied screen protector, colors are good but imperfect.
These non-laminated screens have some deep parallax, setting up calibration helps significantly but it limits you to be the same seated position every time when drawing with the same screen tilt. Not too much of a problem for me since I set it up in a way that encourages good posture. But it is something to keep in mind.
Tilt pressure goes wonky transitioning around the horizontal, as shown in that one video in the drawing screen thread.
Got a couple dead pixels but not too distracting. Calibration is weird around the extreme edges of the screen, but I don't find i typically draw there. Calibration is also strange around the left half's upper middle. Not too bad, but noticeable.
If these are the things you can accept, go for it. But if you're looking for a perfect device, save up for a better brand.

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>>7165476
Sorry, I just noticed that, in my advice concerning symmetry, I linked the wrong post. I meant to link this one >>7153669

>>7165689
I totally wasn't expecting the subject matter of this one. Ironically, I think that a dragon being used as a mount would have taken me by surprise a little less.

I really like the flowy manner in which you drew the hair of your characters: the somewhat whirly arrangements of their strands blowing in the breeze are quite pleasant, and they subtly but effectively communicate a welcomed hint of vitality in an otherwise dormant scenery.

Also worthy of note is the level of three-dimensionality achieved through the painstaking amount of detail involved in your construction method, a most-desirable trait that has come to be expected from your work.

On the subject of the main feature of this piece, that's quite a girthy sauropod... perhaps just a bit too girthy.

I'm no paleontologist, and I hardly ever attempt to draw animals, so I'm mostly going by my memories of conventional depictions of dinosaurs and dragons, but I get the impression that your sauropod's torso might have come out a little too corpulent in relation to its legs.

https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/puertasaurus-sandow-4big.jpg

Of course, one can only make educated guesses regarding the complexions of these long-extinct creatures, but, judging by the following article, the bodies of sauropods in particular might have been akin to those of imaginary hybrids with elephant-like torsos and elongated, hippo-like legs:


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>>7163298
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>>7164818
thank you for your insight as always. made some adjustments but honestly I don't know if they helped lol. the eyes still feel off to me

>>7169678
>made some adjustments but honestly I don't know if they helped

They definitely did, in my opinion. I can notice that you chose to raise the outer end of the foreground set of lashes instead of lowering that of the furthermost one, and I think I can guess why: you didn't want to sacrifice Alessio's original foxy expression by de-emphasizing the curving of his eyes, and, by extension, the upwards push of his smiling cheeks. In any case, the gist of my recommendation was to double-check the symmetry of both sets of lower eyelashes, a piece of advice that you followed rigorously and to good effect.

Just make sure to raise slightly both the crease of the furthermost upper eyelid and its corresponding eyebrow. By adding a few extra pixels of vertical width to the area in question, specifically until the levels pertaining to said features are in parallel alignment with those of the eyelashes and the mouth, Alessio's facial balance would be technically irreproachable.

Regarding your discomfort with Alessio's eyes, my best supposition is that it might have something to do with the current amount of distance between them: provided that you intend to follow the proportion guideline of "the width of an eye" as the degree of separation, the distance between a character's eyes in a 3/4 view should encompass, at the very least, the foreshortened width of the furthermost one. In other words, unless your stylistic choice is to depart from said guideline, the eye furthest from the viewer in this portrait of Alessio is a bit too wide to accurately convey the general perspective of his face.

My suggestion is that you attempt to narrow down slightly the width of the eye in question by "squishing" it, just until the distance between both eyes is broad enough to contain the furthermost one.

Apart from that, I would suggest that you accentuate the presence of Alessio's testicles, given that their current size is a bit too understated, even for a prepubescent boy.

>>7154575
Mayonaka no Yoruko-san. Serialized H-manga.

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>>7153111

faces are hard

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Artists says she's saying "kimoi" (disgusting).

>>7146329
literally no one has eyes like the bottom ones

>>7146314
This guy is the most demonic human being I've ever seen in my life. Something about him is so subtly yet severely off that I can't even look at these photos for long.
If man was made in God's image, this is what man would look like without even a shred of God.

>>7164925
/thread

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>>7164921
>just practice for 5 years
You just need a few months, 1 year to see if you have aptitude.

>>7164925
>It's the same with bodybuilding, marathon runners, health junkies
It's not, those benefit you long term, specially old people. Drawing is ultimately useless.

>>7167760
>try animating then
>NTA
Animation is even worse and less fun, specially trad 2d which is boring as fuck.

>>7166548
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

>>7169878
Dave Gibbons, literally the artist from the watchmen, has made videos about how to do paneling using clip studio paint.
Here's one of his webinars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIT42n84dIE
I don't know if he does paneling in that one.

>>7169890
Why is Allen Moore getting all the praise?
Dave Gibbons is the man with the vision, craft, and talent.

>>7169921
Moore wrote and created it and probably drew the storyboard

>>7169878
damn the coloring is great in those Watchman pages. coloring in most contemporary US comics is so dogshit.

>>7169921
Dave Gibbons got/gets a shitload of praise for Watchmen, dude. They're both highly lauded for the project because both of them brought their A-game and made something really memorable and compelling. And John Higgins did the colors, by the way, so don't go ranting about misplaced praise.
>>7169931
He wrote the script. A famously detailed and meticulous script.

>>7169958
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Qh4Cu5ecM

>>7169958
that is not a painting

>get off from work
>strong desire to make use of what little free time I have to draw

>be neet
>choosing to draw instead of sitting and staring at the wall is an impossible task

in one scenario you're going from working to having fun. In the other scenario you're going from doing nothing, to working.

Finally a job opening that I've been waiting for popped up and it's at least 100k/year. The perfect day job. There's no reason for these bastards not to give me the role with the experience I have.

>>7158942
This. It is impossible for caffeine to "give you energy", all it does is make you burn through the energy you already have a lot faster. Sleep, nutrition, and staying in shape are what actually give you energy.

>>7158942
yep, that's the thing with caffeine. If you sleep like shit it would be the worst thing to drink. You end up even more tired and you'll lose focus quite easily.

>>7158646
you're telling me, I do CAD and my brain is already melting by 4 (I get off at 5) and then on top of everything I need to find time and the will to do something creative

>>7170858
I had some guy assuming me to be from spain for no other reason than him liking the gardevoir I drew once. And on his profile he was ranting about how "Latinx" -people or whatever are just generally better at art and that it is senseless for him to draw because he will never be as good. Apparently these people are a thing.

>>7165437
What if I told you the character designer for Teen Titans was asian

>>7165627
Cause westoids except for Italians are soulless

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>>7169441
>my reaction to this information

New thread: >>7171087

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>>7169771
The vast majority of it was pure shit, and I say that as someone who is open to AI. There are some good ones (picrel), but I find they're the ones that don't try to look human-made.
The big issue, as I had said earlier in the thread, is that AI images are just kind of boring. It's (usually) Anime characters in undynamic poses being 'cute' or 'sexy', and that's if they're not the overly glossy realistic homunculi humans that AI often churns out.

I wish AI image creators would lean into what the AI can do, and make something that's so technically complicated and over the top that no human artist could, or would, create such an image - but they're too busy churning out coom slop and going on /ic/ threads to try and convert people to ever actually make anything that interesting.

>>7169885
>The vast majority of it was pure shit
Wow you just described the experience of opening up /ic/

>>7169985
lol, weak AI faggot, why don't you proompt some thicker skin?

>>7165871
>Probably why AI ero/hentai looks the best
most of the time it absolutely mangles nipples.

>>7168828
it can barely string together concepts, you have trouble tardwrangling it to even make a character eat a sandwich while making a slightly annoyed face. it gets boring even for my porn addled brain