Archived threads in /ic/ - Artwork/Critique - 333. page

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FAQ:
Something's broken, what do I do?

>The original developer of the site has taken a leave for quite a while, originally due to medical reasons. Progress on the site is almost non-existant at this point. You can try contacting him at @LavaFlake or emailing him at [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?

>Your streak will go back to 0 and you will have to start again. No other penalties.

How can there be a new Last Artist Standing challenge every week?

>There is no week system anymore, instead new users are given "streaks" based on the number of consecutive days you can submit without getting eliminated. (token losses do not reset your streak)

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.
there. kick rocks.

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This is a list of anons who stream once every blue moon, this list will be updated as we move forward, if you wish to be included please post you name/stream profile.

>STREAMERS
VSOCK: twitch channel: professorsugoi

https://picarto.tv/N4F

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Streamers, please let the thread know when you're streaming so people can join the "fun".

You can also hang out with the community on the official discord:

https://discord.gg/atc5REB

This is a library of resources some users have made for the community. Please give it a look:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3GiCtv0swalbDRCN1FYNVExWk0

>Intermission
Please compliment or give crits to your fellow lassies if you have time to spare, even if it's only one person at a time.
Lassies like to feed on mentions and attentions.

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sorry I was busy drawing I forgot and let the thread get buried

I have failed... again

>>2944322
Yes. Me like tattoo and car tuning. WHat about you?

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>>2944322
Yeah dude! Check out my new piece that I got! Cool huh?!!!

>tattoos

>>2948900
Cute anime girls

>>2948901
this

>>2948900
Draw yourself waiting for 5 like anyone with common sense in 2017

>>2948452
Proko doesn't chicken scratch you retard. There is nothing wrong with ghosting and going over your lines. You are not meant to draw everything from a single stroke.

It's ok to do it when you're sketching because no one is going to see those messy sketches anyway. It's only practice, you're building skills.

When you're doing a final piece it's important to be able to or at least make it seem like you're drawing clean curves and lines in one continuous line. Roberston for example ghosts it over until he gets it right, sometimes he draws curves bit by bit, but what's important here is the result; it looks like clean, it flows, it shows form.

>>2948452
I think a lot of them do actually use it though? Look at Proko's life drawing and the only thing you can say is it looks very controlled. Scott Robertson same thing with his designs.

Also keep in mind that teachings and things in practice may not align perfectly, since the taught approach is more of an ideal or a good way to think about it. Having cleaner controlled lines is generally something you want to aim towards, even if you are not always doing it due to time constraints or some other reason. Also without practicing those things like ellipses and clean lines, Robertson would be doing way cruder linework than he does at the moment.

Also some teachings are designed in ways that may seem concrete or like how things "should" be, but really it's just shown that way to counteract some common bad habits of beginners, and in reality it's not actually as concrete a rule or approach once you are advanced.

>>2948308
>draw people in subways or cafes so they will stay relatively still for a few minutes at least
>think like an animator, just get a loose interpretation that captures the gestures
>work on a few at once so that if someone moves you work on another, and often the first person will return to the original pose after a while, then you return to that drawing
>just keep doing it for a while and you will slowly get better at it

Thanks for the input. Will do.

Don't worry too much about capturing exactly what you see, if you someone walking, just go ahead and begin the gesture as quickly as you can and then observe them to learn the details of their form and clothing to layer ontop of that

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Water color 2! Really messed up the hair here.

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Color Pencil - 1/4

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Color pencil 2/4

Conman

alcoholic

>>2940589
Sexy boy

>>2941258

>undertale

newfag? art trade thread by itself wouldnt be a bad idea though.

>>2948954
Its a humours gif of throwing money at someone
Get off your high horse and post your com prices

>>2948955
>questions your choice of gif
>get off your high horse
ayy lmao

We have a blog shill thread already, newfag.
>>2941258

>>2948908
Kidding me

>>2948908
Amazing dude! Better than 98% of /ic/
Definitely gonna make it.

>>2948091
To be as good as proko

>>2948091
To learn how to draw

>>2948091
wat is his name agen ?

>Is there any theory behind approaching art like this

It's just contrast - not of contrasting values or colors, but of level of detail.

It works well because the "noise" of the crowd is very well juxtaposed next to the flatter, simpler values of the foreground and distant ruins.

Just like contrasting colors, lineweight, values, etc, contrasting levels of details can be another technique used to direct the eye around a composition.

>>2947945

That kind of simplification is often referred to as "indication".
To indicate something is to give the impression of something. A common use for this term is material indication but it can apply to anything, ofcourse.

>>2947809
Do that if you want to draw for normies. Do Loomis and boxes if you are drawing for yourself.

>>2947809
What if I told you not every artist cares about impressing normies? It's all about what your goal in art is and people have different goals.

If your goal is to be one of these countless casuals who draw weebshit to feed of normies admiration, do what you want to do.

If your goal is to work for Riot Games making splash art, impressing normies with your casual art is the last thing you think about.

As for appeal, its a matter of taste. I can see why people would find art like in your pic appealing, but personally that's not what I'm interested in.

>>2947809
So construction and gestures really are memes

[cont.]

2. Spreading of Misinformation/ Deliberate Disencouragement
Be it due to a lack of knowledge or the overestimation of oneselves abilities, there is a lot of half-baked advice on this board; Critiques that try to impress with academic language and the mentioning of names, but ultimately lack in content. I am unsure if these persons just indulge in showing off, or if they genuinely want to help others, but in the end their advice is not constructive and in rare cases even harmful for the artist.
While a critique can be written in an attempt to mock the artist, the critic, as they bear no grudge against the artist, has no motive to disencourage them from drawing. This, however changes, when the critique is disregarded by the artist - be it for legit reasons or not. In this case, the artist will ask to see the critic's work, which will either result in a spiteful bashing of said work (regardless of their quality), or the critic claiming they do not need to show off technical expertise to help out with their observation and theoretical knowledge on the field of illustration.
A way to prevent the "show your work" dilemma and spread of misinformation would be the introduction of identification tags for this board. This way it's up to the artist wether to accept a critique or not, without explicitly asking for ones work. It will also prevent the spreading of misinformation to a certain degree. Furthermore ID tags will most likely regulate spiteful posts in general, thus we will have less gossip threads and less anons posing as other artists for /ic/ to bash them.

What are your thoughts on the introduction of identification tags for this board?

https://strawpoll.com/x5wbsz7

>>2945901
1. Could you have made this thread without the /pol/ influence? With this alone you have just singled out you're part of the problem.

2. It's just one person. Half the board is aware of this person and their style of trolling.

3.
>Furthermore ID tags will most likely regulate spiteful posts in general

This has been discussed already. A poll wont change this. If it gets enough negatives you'll just claim someone stuffed the ballots like last time. The people all for IDs are secretly the shitposters themselves.

The stickies already provide valuable resource. Nobody is misinforming anyone.

>>2945905
>The stickies already provide valuable resource. Nobody is misinforming anyone.
There's a ton of misinformation on /ic/ though. But I think a huge amount of this is not actual trolling but just ignorance and blind leading the blind, so you can't really fix that too easily.

If Art is making you feel terrible because you can't tolerate your current skill level: you should consider if Art is something you actually want to pursue or whether your actual appetite is mastery of a skill. If your passion is being good at Art then that is irreconcilable with your current opinion of it, and perhaps if it is mastery of Art that you want to achieve: you could try another more non-representational hobby such as conceiving music or writing literature, as both indirectly feature the facility to create visualization to some capacity

But if you're certain that you want to be an Artist: I can tell you anecdotally that it helps to become consistent, and to start with exchanging your current, seemingly hectic schedule for something more manageable might be a useful start. Consider making a syllabus for your Art, or maybe vowing to draw for a certain amount of time every day. Anecdotally: being more consistent has rejuvenated my capacity for enjoyment of visual experience (and also helps me feel less indolent); I'm sure it would for you too

Also: stop using Youtube to watch intensely structured Media, and instead consider using it to listen to music. Find a genre that you really like and listen to that. Alternatively: go outside and sketch en plein air; take no devices with you

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>>2943370
Thanks. This can actually help me
I plan on making myself study at a library, feel like I'm less likely to procrastinate in an environment like that

>>2943381
What do you draw? Anime?