explain this to me /ic/?
a white guy working on an intuos pro small, and photoshop, making the backgrounds for the movie Your Name / Kimi No Na Wa.
all of the other artists are Jap, but they too worked on small-medium graphic tablets and photoshop. it turns out you don't need expensive shit or foreign programs even to make Japan's highest grossing anime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89m48hL3HMU
He made it, nice. I wonder if he has a name so we can contact him.
>>3115653
Why does it surprise you they are using photoshop, especially for background paintings? Photoshop is the industry standard for that sort of thing. The only reason to ever use something like clip studio is for drawing, but considering they animate with pencil on paper, they don't need it. Or they do use it for the final lines, who knows.
>>3115664
Some Japanese studios use Clip / Retas for Animation.
My lightest pressure makes a mark that is too dark, while my darkest pressure is not dark enough. How do I fix this? Is it more to do with the program, or my tablet settings? I usually use the 'paint & apply' brush in Clip Studio (basically soft round), and I'm using a Surface Pro 4 (pls no bully)
>>3115411
bump
try another program to see what the source is first of all, sai is similar to csp so just google "prince lupins sai"
>>3115411
Go to File-Pen Pressure Settings, then select adjust by multiple strokes and make some varied lines. That should fix it.
Hey /ic/,
Quick question. Whats the best way to digitize hand drawn stuff?
People have told me iphone camera to photoshop is good enough. I have a DSLR i can use too. Or is it better to invest in a scanner?
Im working on some Tshirt designs and I can draw decently but im a complete monkey when it comes to photoshop/illustrator/gimp etc. (learning slowly)
The main thing is the drawing should be 90% of what it'll look like on the shirt. Im worried about resolution, colors, contrast etc.
Any advice for this?
>>3115245
scanner is best
>>3115245
Scanner. A USB powered scanner is less than $100, or you can get one of those all-in-one inkjet/scanner deals for under $100. A DLSR and phone camera can do the resolution, but lighting will be inconsistent - lighting artwork is very specific and requires a bit of gear to do it right.
Unless you're using color systems and have your monitor calibrated, and scanner and printer calibrated together, I wouldn't worry about colors. Contrast can be controlled by the scanner settings, or Photoshop - I prefer to just dump whatever the scanner sees into a file, and I tweak it in Photoshop - the default settings may be fine for you.
Predicting what the shirt will look like is more about your monitor settings, and setting up profiles that can soft proof screen printing. The scanner/photo has nothing to do with that - you're better off working towards a ballpark goal in terms of color, and let the prepress guys handle color, unless you're speccing Pantones. Generally, if you give the prepress people a printed sample that's the correct colors and contrast that you want, they can match that. If you're just planning on sending files with no targets, get ready for extra charges for several rounds of color correction, or having work that isn't the way you intended.
Getting a soft proofing system at home is a whole nother issue, where you'll have to calibrate your monitor, and getting a decent printer, and setting up everything to print accurately - and learning how to design things within the gamuts of the systems you're working with - like asking the prepress people printing the shirts what their gamut is, so you can soft proof to it.
>>3115245
scanners are bad, don't listen to these people. because they use a huge bright light scanners shine through things that are opaque irl and reflect heavily off things that are quite matte irl. a photo in a neutral ambient light is best. hdr might also be quite useful, depending on the picture.
if you're just doing line art probably a scanner is fine.
i have actually worked digitizing art, just for the ol' appeal to authority
>post work
Can this be filtered yet? It adds nothing to discussion and is a shitposting meme at this point. If we filter baka and senpai, then this should be a no brainer.
>>3115089
I actually think the opposite, if you are giving criticism you should have to post some work, the reason being that a lot of awful beginners feel comfortable giving bad advice for some reason.
>>3115105
I agree. If not that then at least provide a redline/redraw.
I don't mind critique and take most of it, but beginners giving advice to beginners isn't going to end up being beneficial. There's a lot of bad advice around.
>>3115105
I kinda agree but it has gone to absurd levels. Basically any kind of controversial opinion needs work attached to it
>I think digital is better than traditional
>post work
That is just an example but I've seen plenty of retarded shit
How do you spend 10 years at an atelier and fuck up this bad?
>b-but visual library
He couldn't even manage basic perspective for his minion from "an ant's perspective". It seems a lot of his fundies are trash, is he one of those 'fake it till you make it' hacks?
>>3115011
>one drawing out of a million others he has done
Post your work
>>3115011
You get good at what you do. He did only observational drawing so he got good at that. He didn't do anything from imagination and he didn't build any visual library so he floundered.
>>3115035
So if I just wanna draw cartoons I should practice that way way more than observational drawing?
You're telling me the /ic/ life drawing meme really is just a meme? I should draw cool cartoons all day if that's the only kinda art I wanna make?
Why did you started drawing lewd drawings /ic/?
>>3115004
Everyone wanted to do it but only produce DA-tier shit, so someone had to step up to the plate.
>>3115004
need to save up for a car and lewd sells faster than non-lewd
as soon as possible.
Study thread y'all
Don't you all get bored of drawing flabby old women. Time to take a break to study the beautiful nature around you.
Texture here looks interesting
Part 2, orange more visible
Do you think professional feedback is critical as a beginner? Should having a teaching/mentor be a requirement or you're doing yourself a disservice as a self-taught artist?
>>3113838
yes. it's very important. you can kid yourself that you're doing just as well without one but it's wayyyyy less effective studying on your own, even with the internet.
>>3113838
>Do you think professional feedback is critical as a beginner?
Yes, as long as you don't get mad easily with their criticism. (Young aspiring artists problems include having a condescending attitude)
>>3113838
Professional feedback might be useful if you happen to get a time machine and get a professional from 60 years ago. Professionals nowadays don't teach you anything useful except where to find the gradient tool in Photoshop.
is art school worth it?
i wouldn't know but I did watch this one video about some guy's opinion on it after getting his degree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=741QcPO04As
>>3111313
It depends on the school obviously but a lot of them don't give you much* other than class environment + clear assignments. If you feel like you need that push then it might help you
*If you're going to a good school you're also getting connections.
is even calarts worth or shit?
Is this guy the biggest troll in art history?
Or do you have to be good to 'get' his work?
Be honest. This is an anonymous image board.
>Be honest. This is an anonymous image board.
honestly, you are retarded
>>3109581
Cool your ego. We are all anonymous on here. No one is going to shit on you for not going with the flow.
>>3109572
No the biggest troll is Duchamp. At least Picasso made art. Its like calling Schoenberg a troll. No, the real charlatan was John Cage, someone who never proved competency and infested musical academia with a bunch of wanky multimedia ideas. Like Schoenberg, Picasso was a master who transcended the boundaries of orthodoxy by conquering its traditions.
I want to make a cartoon for the sake of practice, but at the same time I want it to be a thing of its own, just bought Toon Boom Essentials, and I am having mental constipation as far as ideas are going.
Any suggestions /IC/ ?
>>3115751
Don't force an idea for the sake of an idea.
>>3115755
The dambdest thing is that I have some ideas ready enough, but none that I could properly execute at my curent skill level.
>>3115755
Also I'm trying to think up a comedy cartoon that doesn't involve body horror, because that's what I keep going to.
So drawing street caricatures on the streets for money is all about flattering women and teasing men, is it not? I can use any and all essential lessons, hitting the streets in 1 hour.
Whenever I pass by these artists at theme parks and such, I often feel bad knowing that this is just a step for them and they probably want to be doing something else. How much does being a caricature artist pay anyways? There's also the fancy name artists and the face painters.
>>3114555
I got my shit together, working in sales, just finding a way to make moar money in the weekend. I just need basic advise, I have no trouble putting the show together and getting the money in my pocket
>>3114554
i think just try to get a fair likeness mostly, on more than one occasion i've heard people complain that the picture doesn't look like them, or that they and their friend both got a picture done and they look the same.
i think if you try to flatter women especially you're in danger of missing.
>/ic/ will unironically refute this.
Protip: You can't.
>>3113961
Why would you need to be able to do noses before bellies?
>>3113963
those aren't bellies, those are anime noses
>>3113961
Are these anime noses or anime navels
How the fuck do you deal with procrastination? It drives me crazy because I can't fucking defeat it no matter what
>>3112793
selfmutilation. once you miss a few fingers you dont want to loose the rest.
>>3112793
create a schedule and stick to it, if you won't plan your day the day will plan you.
>>3112793
Limit your daily time online. Half it to start with.
2 questions:
1. what is a good way to organize what skills to practice in a routine and what should I learn in what order?
2. I'm using a Wacom ONE small, is that bad? I have big hands
>>3109768
>2. I'm using a Wacom ONE small, is that bad? I have big hands
no. i have a small wacom, and i made my way into freelance with it.
>>3109769
really? that's cool! also for a beginner, what should their practice routine look like?
>>3109771
first 20 minutes: warmup with DAB and fundie training
remaining 5 hrs and 40 minutes: grinding whatever you need to grind