Progress Thread!

>>2344848
what time on each?

>>2344850
Er, guess I should have included that. Between an hour to two hours on each. Used a drafting pencil on old one, used a 0.3mm mechanical pencil on newer one.

>>2344848
so you're getting closer to a photocopier, congrats!

>>2344857
i mean, did you spend more time on the second one compared to the firts one?

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1 year between the two

>>2344897
I really doubt that you tried hard on the top on desu, nice skull tho.

>>2344907
no i swear, that was the best i could do at the time, took me an hour thirty i think

>>2344936
so basically you learnt to use reference? Why are you rigging your comparisons?

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I posted the slightly incomplete one in the last thread, but since I filled the December section I might as well.
So far this year I've been trying to do more figure drawing and imagination drawing since both those areas have been sorely neglected this year, but mostly in my sketchbook so far.

>>2344897
I really dig your latest stuff that I've seen on tumblr, especially the more painterly pieces.

>>2345203

Nosebro, would you fuck off? It seems like no matter what time I visit this board you're here shitposting and being a smug asshole who needs to keep his ego going. I don't think Nile's early stuff stands out as 'rigged' compared to lots of beginner digital art.

>>2344871
to be honest, I spent more time on the first one because of all the shading.

>>2344870
Thanks!

>>2345203
I guess you could say that yeah
>>2345210
Thanks bud, appreciate it
>>2345212
oh tell em'

>>2345210
Damn that's some serious improvement, tell me your secrets

>>2344897
why live

>>2345212
are you trying to hurt my feelings desu ne?

>>2345892

Whoever encouraged you should be shot

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I feel like these progress threads are performance reviews. I only drew 3 things in december = did not meet expectations.

>>2345892

That better be your self-insert generic roleplay persona or I'm going to be very disappointed in you

>>2345210
cool stuff, did you just drew everyday or where you also reading drawing books?

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"king of plateauing" standing by.

>>2346025
Wow the newest one is nice

>>2345892
>age 23
>still drawing that
this is a joke right?

>>2345914
Do not speak ill of my friends.

>>2345976
What the fuck does that even mean?

>>2346149
And may I ask why would it be? A lot of famous artists, much older than me, are drawing similar artworks, and thus all over the globe. Learn some respect.

>>2346163
>many famous artists
Literally no one cares about famous artists. It's more about their work, and if they're drawing that, I don't understand how they could've gotten notoriety.

>>2346167
You're just jealous of my skills.

>>2345968
Possible to get a better res picture of the bottom right severed-wolf head character? It's badass.

>>2345203
Feel free to shit on people using refs (if that's how you feel about it) when you've moved past it yourself. It feels pretty stupid to read shit like this when the only things you post yourself has been pretty bad and could really benefit from properly applying references. My guess would be you shun the use of reference because of some elitist concept you picked up from somewhere and even though your own work suffer from it, you try to get others to follow your thinking.

>>2346163
Dude, you might want to go to a doctor so he can confirm your autism.

>>2346424
Then explain to me why people from this thread all praised me for my progress?

https://www.reddit.com/r/drawing/comments/409vte/keep_drawing_skill_comes_with_patience_and/

You guys on the other hand are just a bunch of trolls.

>>2346616
Enjoy your hugbox, don't forget to upboat all the positive comments.

Don't come back

>>2346616
>pretending to be someone else just so you could get some (You)'s

kill yourself

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>>2346616
baka

>>2345468

thanks bruv, but I have no real secret. Draw regularly, try and experiment now and then, and compare your stuff regularly to your old stuff. In my experience how confident I feel on any given day is a big contributor to how well I do. Looking back on earlier art is nice for a bit of a confidence boost usually.

>>2346010

Mostly drew. I watched tutorials and flipped through books, but I was never too studious with them. I think the only books I spent longer than a few minutes on was a little bit of Loomis and Perspective Made Easy (though I don't have much to show for the latter because I rarely do perspective exercises).
I want to be better with reading more this year, though. I've picked up some Bridgman that I'm working through and stuff. I'd say a lot of my more amateurish mistakes are because I haven't been reading many books, I'm kind of just figuring out my problem areas as I notice them or they start to bother me.

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>Do not speak ill of my friends.

Oh fuck me.

>>2346616

It doesn't hurt that all the ones calling you shit get hidden by the website. Of course Reddit is going to be more positive than 4chan, for fucks sake, the system revolves around saying uncontroversial things and not rocking the boat.

You're taking yourself (and others) too seriously.
Draw what you like to draw, take things /ic/ says with a grain of salt, especially regarding anime (particularly really generic looking anime). And take things reddit says with a heap of salt, while you're at it. If you just reduce anyone who praises you as genuine and anyone who criticizes you as a troll you're gonna be stuck in your own little world.

>>2346616
haha thank you for making my day holy shit 23 years and you are still drawing that

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oc

>>2345269
the 870 post isn't actually a compliment, because photocopiers didn't learn the forms, shapes, and just copy shit without being able to create shit for themselves.

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>>2345892

Hold the fucking phone.

>>2347078
God it is so easy to push a button and forget about it isnt it?

>>2347087

It's two days old though.

Am I just missing something or is the reddit/imgur combination this effective?

>>2345210
something happened in august, were you struck by talent suddenly?

>>2347133
>were you struck by talent suddenly?

I'm still waiting for the talent-bolt sadly. I'm probably like a lot of other people and just started getting the hang of observational drawing, doing more studies and stuff like that. That was around the time I was starting to figure out value and painting a bit better too, starting in July.

My imagination stuff is still quite weak, though. I did a few in 2015 but most of my better stuff was studies. Lately I've been trying to wean myself off of reference a little and doing a little more stuff from imagination, or at least using reference more sparingly.

>>2345968
holy shit that scalated quickly

>>2345968
I want your blog.

>>2347318
blog here >>2339097

>>2347299
two years was a long time

>>2346380
do you want it with or without the BG?

>>2347357
Well, at least the right pic doesn't want me to gouge my eyes you.

I'd say that's an improvement

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2007-2012: just a oblivious weeb kid who draws for fun

2013-2014: realized that there's no fucking way I can do this for a living and that I'm wasting my time. considered giving it up for a more relevant hobby, like coding.

2016: i can't code for shit

>>2345892

Did you learn from Coope?

>>2347397
I thought I could teach or cook. Turns out I hate kids and my knife skills suck.

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>>2347397
everything takes discipline and hard work anon

>>2347363
with would be okay

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>>2347565
Now you can enjoy all my dirty edges - if any anon knows how to get rid of them let me know

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>>2347397
Well the good news is that you can draw appealing expressions and hair.
Though your clothes folds (especially pants) need more work. It needs to wrap around the thigh.

>>2345491
They're just master studies anon

>>2347567
Awesome, thanks man. Red Riding hood is my fetish.

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span of 1 year

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Give it to me straight, did I make significant progress or nah?

>>2347736
yeah i'd say that's some good process

>>2347736
some improvements here and there. but overall, not so much.

>>2347736

You know, I'm the guy who is like 8 years older than you and started to draw last week, so my opinion might not be valuable, but there's definietly a progress between 2014 and 2015 and I see that in 2016 you focused on values/shading. I like the robotic leg from this year and that gesture study, it's elegant. I can see you maturing with your art and getting better as the time comes by. Also I guess you started drawing faster?

>>2347740
That's a relief then..

>>2347741
Well I cannot say I've been trying my hardest, so hopefully that'll change in following years.

>>2347743
Thanks mate, I guess I draw faster when I draw regularly, I notice that when I come back to drawing after a long time of slacking off, I have trouble doing things I did easily when I drew everyday, speed comes from habit I suppose.

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>>2347514
>>2347581
th-thanks guys

>>2348000
new image saved, he looks so fucking miserable, i love it.

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sketchying some sketch

>>2348023
blog?

>>2348035
the 2015 one looks kinda cute

>>2346171
You have drawing skill of a middle-school girl

>>2347690
kek nice job

>>2348035
>that shit matcap
fucking hell

>>2346616
I can tell you haven't done much with internal anatomy, and it really shows on the way the clothes are glued to the body. You only have a vague idea what's going on underneath.

Perspective is important as well so you can take charge of your shapes, make them do what you want to do, rather than be stuck in a generic boring pose to make things look halfway decent.

Guy... Get to doing some anatomy, perspective, and such. You've pushed symbol drawing to the absolute maximum but you aren't going to go any further with it but polish. Sure, your pic is aesthetically pleasing, good enough to fool people who don't do art seriously, but you need to buckle down and learn if you hope to be anywhere decent by the end of this decade.

>>2348000
the cat in the lower left lol

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>>2344848

>>2348764
This is fucking digusting
go back to tumblr

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I need fucking help

>>2348781
i think you could gather funds to fix your problems by renting her forehead as estate.

>>2348770
>>2348789
>>2348076
>triggered samefag

>>2346616
lol

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>>2348790
bro, i never same fag. i got a reputation to save.
K̶a̶p̶p̶a̶

You can honestly basically assume anytime my name is there theres no samefagging happening.

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>>2346616

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnart/comments/40ngsf/i_feel_like_practice_isnt_enough_anymore/

Fucking reddit lel

>come to this thread thinking I'll find good and new advice on how to get better gains or improvements faster

>see people going from where I was when I was age 9 far past where I'm at with age 22

>they're doing it in in less than a couple years


I seriously enjoy drawing so much less when I realize my learning rate is borderline retarded in comparison.

>>2348851
a lot of these are cheating and nit picking if it makes you feel any better.

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>>2348860

It doesn't because their results show regardless of embellishing.

I seriously think I may be autistic and I'm just a savant at not seeming autistic.

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>>2348851
>>2348882
What's your situation anon?

>How often do you draw?
>How long would you spend drawing at a time?
>How often do you study the fundamentals?
>How much work is based on reference and what are you actually learning from drawing to drawing?

>pic related are things I've done of a computer exclusively 1/2

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>>2348890
2/2

>>2348882
that's actually pretty depressing

>>2344897
What brushes?

>>2348892

Please don't go down the tumblr nose route. Every fucking amateur is doing it now.

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>>2348890

20-120 minutes a day since age 20

pencil sketches for figures and landscapes are usually less than 30 minutes a page - completely filled.

I probably sound stupid but "fundamentals" is not only ambiguous but also subjective

only 30% is reference, and many days I'll just draw stupid stuff without reference or copy from my books.

>>2348897
Yeah.

>>2348900
you draw everyday??? wow... ima get depressed.

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>>2348899
Noted anon

>>2348900
I think it's great that you're spending so much time practising a day but to be frank you're wasting you're time if you continue approaching it like this.

They're called fundamentals for a reason. If you wanna be a good artist they are absolutely essential.
Based on what you've told me and the drawing you've shared it's really clear that your lack of fundamentals is really holding you back.

It's not enough to draw things from your head all the time and expect your skills to improve, your process becomes "inbred" and you pick up more and more bad habits.

Next time you sit down to draw, hold an object in your hand and look only at that object.
Draw the object without lifting your pencil from your page, only look at the page when you're finished.
Keep doing blind drawings until you have a better understanding of how different areas of an object relate to eachother, your life drawings will very quickly begin to improve.
And do a bunch of theme. Not just one or two. Be prepared to draw a lot of shit. Don't be too precious about it. Waste as much paper as you need.

>pic related roughly how a semi-sucessful blind drawing should look

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>>2348906

I'm a security guard I have nothing but time on my hands.

>>2348908
where did you learn about this?

>>2348908

What exactly does this exercise help with?

>>2348911
Blind contour helps you to start really observing things and to get you in the habit of looking at your subject more than your paper.

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>>2348900
>>2348908
Eventually you'll get better at blind drawing because you'll understand the relationship between positive and negative space, so then you'll be able to draw things you see in fine liners without it looking too squished/disproportioned (and without having to rely on dark/sketchy marks to disguise bad line placement)

I learned how to do these two things in under 2 months, I'm no expert by any means but it's a pretty fuckin big help.

Moral of the stroy is fundamentals are really really important and you'll improve so much faster once you at least understand the basics.

>>2348910
Internet mate, it's pretty useful

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>>2348913

>Sketchy linework is the result of sloppy line placement

aaaand my mind is blown, not even joking.

>internet mate, its pretty useful

no amount of information is useful if you don't know what you need to learn.

Looks like I'm going to have to completely relearn drawing. Thanks for the back and forth.

>>2348917
No no if you're working with layers sketchy lines can be helpful, but if you're working on paper and most of your lines are just a mass of scribbles where lines should be it usually means you had no idea where to put the line in the first place

>no amount of information is useful if you don't know what you need to learn.
How about you start with the links on the sticky? >>1579290

Don't be discouraged anon, you're clearly quite creative, but maybe you'll benefit from taking a different approach to drawing.

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How's my first attempt with acrylics? Think I can work towards a career in game design or art?

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>>2348923

>>2348923
>>2348925
Colouring is ace but the proportions are very questionable

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>>2348919

Basic shapes
Anatomy and construction
Light and value
Perspective
Colour
Composition

Hmm looks like the only thing I've been getting better at is constructing. I thought that sticky guide was going to be the same stuff I've already heard until I found the above list.

>>2348927
Thanks. It's her leg and chest =/ and his head hug, I was already too far in to fix it so I finished it for the experience really

>>2348764
I actually rather like the nose and hair on the new one compared to the old. The hands are definitely better too. I even like the way the jellyfish lights her shirt up on the right one. I'd say definitely an improvement.

>>2345210
Pretty nice improvement, seems you progressed pretty quickly between June and September. Anything in particular that you realized? I like that Grima Wormtongue especially.

>>2347736
Definitely progress comparing first row to just about everything else, I think my favorites are that arm and the self portrait in terms of technical ability. I also like how some of them are so stylistically different.

>>2348900
>>>2348897
fundamentals are NOT ambiguous or subjective. they are clear skills that you have to learn if you want to get good. it's clear you haven't given enough time even learning what they are. you NEED to spend the time learning these an you will see a lot of fast progress in your work. if you really have nothing but time on your hands, you should work to be putting a minimum of 2 hours a day and move up from there

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>>2348950

Now that I know for certain what they are, I'm not so frustrated.

I still feel a little dumb that I've put so much effort into something with no clear objective in mind. An art school [digipen] told me they respected my discipline but my structure was shaky, now I kind of understand what they meant.

This has been a load of help. I owe you /ic/

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2015 progress

>>2346048
thanks mane

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>>2348817

GIVE UP DOING ALL THIS SPACE MAN FANTASY BULLSHIT YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME

you're all sort of doing the same thing, you've all got your little working out lines and it's all a bit kooky and wacky and spacey

GOOUTANDLIVE! go on!! run! be free...


eh?

Why do you all have guidelines and full circles showing?

"so that

when the people

that are not nice come

and say things

and , we did the lines and

read the

book


DONT BO(ther!! get it wrong! fuck these people !!! seriously!!! itsonly so you can all be told off , that's all it's for

get it wrong! go on!

>>2349099
>>2349106
>>2349115
So where do you get your meth?

>>2348937

I can't really think of a specific thing, since I was trying a lot of little things as I went, but that was around the time I'd decided to work on getting better at value and using it to show form. I also started realizing it was easy to fix many problems by just keeping things in one or two layers and painting over, rather than using a ton of layers and trying to be too precise. It made me a little less wary of making mistakes and I stopped scrapping my bad drawings so much because I felt more assured that I could fix them over time.

>>2347397
I read this in Jeff Dunham's voice and now i'm laughing like a retard in the office.
Thanks.

Just do studies after you see something off and you'll get there.

>>2348911
>Someone didn't read the sticky.

No. Seriously. It's from Dodson's keys to drawing. You should read it.

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>>2346616
>My art is good! REDDIT says so! Respect me!
I wasn't gonna pick on you, but since you insist on being a faggot, here's a nice reality check.
You're not good m8. You're just an upvote slut who let the attention get to your head.

>>2346616
As a former redditor (yes I am ashamed), let me tell you: that place is probably the worst one in all of the internet to ask for critique.

>>2349356
Use reddit for delicious ad rev and nothing else

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>>2348898
90% of this and a basic chalk brush for the textures

>>2349381
wtf are you doing? opacity and flow both turned on. youre a fucking retard.

>>2349070
Good job man. That's some great improvemnt.
You got a blog?

>>2349400
I am indeed a retard, your point being?

>>2349070
man could i get a close up on that august red sketch? id like to see it.
also blog?

>>2349400
post work fag

>>2349465
>>2349541

let me enlighten you kids
when you have your brush selected and the maintool bar is displayed(opacity and flow at certain percentages). ok, when you turn on transfer and set opacity and flow to pen pressure. this is what photoshop is doing.

What ever your Opacity and flow is set to on your maintool bar. Transfer will vary the flow and opacity percentages if say you have it set to 50% opacity and 70% flow. it wont go further than those and only inbetween, so youre jittering the opacity and flow percentages at the same rate when its basically painting like opacity. no wonder your shit looks digusting. paint with one or the other, not both.

>>2349099
Yeah instead focus on drawing fat naked ladies on couches
100% better

>>2346616
are we comparing reddit dick sizes? cause i think i win.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/3z1dtg/my_art_in_2015_traditional_media/

but reddit is pretty terrible compared to /ic/. if you get a successful post it's just a bunch of "great job"s and a few "anything for sale?" or "prints?" that never actually lead to you selling anything. at least in my experience.

yesterday the top post in the art section was a drawing of david bowie someone did on a post-it note in mechanical pencil. so... that kind of says it all doesn't it?

>>2349629
with that being said I did get 5 more likes on my facebook page from that reddit post. so i win.

>>2349683
You don't need to include everything you ever made

>>2349616

b-but it's ARTISTIC

>>2349317
holy shit thats cringe inducingly autistic.
>the picture, not your comment.

>>2349683

7 years and you are still drawing muscle loli destroying cities...no words...no words...

...but there's visible progress at least...

>>2349317
I find it more cringy that he idolizes Egoraptor tbqhwy

>>2349730

It's not like it's the only thing he does. I think most of us have a subject matter we return to a lot. His might be a little... unorthodox, but hey.

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>>2349403
>>2349530

Thanks guys, i have a deviantart which i dont update often. i share my drawings daily on an art irc channel (#artbuddy, freenode server, for those which want to join. Keep in mind that we are a hugbox).


Blog: http://zoochie.deviantart.com/

>>2346616
KEK
E
K
back to leddit

>>2349317
>I'll usually just doodle a quick thing or too every night. That, or it'll be a 12-hour session on one piece that I'm excited about.
does this mean he spent 12 hours tracing that?

>>2345968
I started making a "serious effort" around the same time as you. I feel like a fucking dilettante now. Thanks for the inspiration.

>>2349683
embarrassing starts desu, didnt even know it was possible t o improve when you start that way. Most people just end up plateauing at that level for some reason.

ive actually been looking for the reason for quite some time and have done a lot of make-shift research into the people who draw like image 0,0 and 0,-1

do you have any idea how you escaped that style? Any tips on how to stop drawing like that ( i call it crutch-style btw). I'm legitimately VERY unironically invested in your response.

>>2346412
i dont shun references, i do my references and will never post something i reffed on. I shun using an old, bad, cherry picked work and compare it to your new best referenced work.

I wish I hadn't torn up my sketch book when I was younger... I was making some progress (still garbage but I was getting shading down).

You Anons give me hope, the amount you improve is amazing!
Thank you
/qq over

>>2349597
Thanks

>>2349597
I didn't understand shit and am awful with brushes, could you please explain a bit more?

>>2349683
More Gardevoir pls fambo

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This was at like... 16?

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>>2350183
And at 21. At least I'm not fumbling about like I used to.

>>2350184
Ugh, but you're still biting your nails. No progress.

>>2350198
You do know this picture was taken like in February of last year right? Kek

>>2349070
We got a virtuoso over here. Nice job, anon.

>>2350184
Nice, I like the sort of pseudo-50's illustration style that you're developing. Reminds me of advertisements or something. Really good progress.

>>2349995
Is it just physically impossible for you to make a post that isn't fucking retarded?

You're a full-on bad, yet half the time you feel the need to try to advise people on drawing anyway. Just shut the fuck up, go to the beginner thread, and don't come back for another 6 months.

>>2350085
He is saying that what you have set for opacity and flow on the main, top bar (that's where it is in photoshop, at least) is the maximum that pen pressure will go to. So if you have opacity and flow at 50%, you will never go above 50% no matter how hard you press.

>>2350215
thats a sick reference to be honest

but im legitimately doing research into this phenomena so i really would like some info

>>2350184
Did you copy that out of a book called "Art Fundamentals"?

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was lurking for some references, but heck why not

>>2350239
I really don't know to be honest, there isn't really a -single- event but triggered it but just happened over time, discovering 4chan and in turn /ic/ compounded with the depression and disappointment from school together with the burning desire to git gud, draw nice things and not be a blazing fagget, I suppose.

>>2347462
good job m8

>>2350436
what aboot 2015-00

>>2350436
>her boobs grew

what's your paypal i want to throw you some money

when are you going to do her naked

>>2350503
dec 2014 is pretty much that

>>2350559
she was always meant to be a curvier character, but i wasnt so good at conveying that

one of my resolutions is to draw more tiddy pics, so...

>>2347462
You give me hope, my work looks similar to the picture on the left.

>>2352686
lol

>>2352686
I think the right is the best. Still shoujo but has a nice balance. I can't really tell which one is the new one desu.

>>2352730
>>2352731
;_;

>>2350446
noted, I notice a lot of people within that level tend to not accept criticism, reference very hard from other work and making slight changes ( such as color). Did you do any of these, or something else peculiar before or after the style. Or maybe changed a habit within the time span that you left crutch style?

>>2352736
you're not bad, its just theres no fucking time scale, the styles are difference, the right one uses different gimmicks. Was there improvement: probably. Was it big, not really.

>>2349683
cancer

>>2349683
Your anatomy is still awkward, I don't know how you achieved it but you manage to fuck up shoulders every fucking time.

>>2350331
I used it for practice. It really helped me a lot on different facial expressions and the like. Unfortunately all last year I couldn't really get art done because of the job I had out on the road, so that's the one I posted because it was most comparable to the earlier self portrait.

>>2347736
That astronaut drawing is fantastic

>>2352879
some people around that time told me "don't copy others, you will only learn from their mistakes", so I stuck to that until recently that I realized I could actually learn some things from looking at how others drew. I think the desire to git gud pushed me out of it more than anything, to be honest. i'm nowhere near where i would want to be yet, but i am trying my best
>>2353292
explain
>>2353293
i focused on arms/legs alot more, i'll pay more attention to those. thank you

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2011 was the earliest I could dig up desu

>>2353385
Doing pretty good on color. I'd work on perspective skills a bit more though, some little things in your more recent one are off kilter in where they're positioned in space.

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Damn this is pretty long in the end.

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Started drawing a little over a month

am i hopeless or is there some improvement?

>>2353527
bretty gud progress

>>2353527
That was a pretty big fucking jump from summer to summer

good job getting serious anon

>>2349770
You're really good, this gives me a lot of motivation

>>2347059
The old one is better.

>>2353527
Damn nice. how many hours a day?

>>2353565
i dont see the improvement desu. Why the fuck are you trying to find improvement within a single month on things you barely worked on.

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>>2353802
wat do then?

>>2353715
~30 minutes i can't get focused for long

>>2353846
you compare larger periods of time, or you draw more

>>2345544
If it gets you to drop your fucking nametag, sure. You cancerous piece of shit.

how do you lunatics draw with such thin lines.
nice work though

>>2353908
>>2353527

>>2353846
>that pic

Sticky

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two paintings of the same girl, 3 years difference

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>>2353924
cucked for 3 years and counting

>>2353875
wow my feelings are hurt, i think you might have affected my name tag as well :(

>>2353848
wait wtf, why are you responding in my place ?

>>2353715
thank you. depends if I'm tired at the end of the day if not I can slide in an hour before sleep, I don't draw most of the week days though, but i'll put in at least 3h-4h a day in the week ends. I'm on full blast durring holydays and that's when I really feel my progress.

January 2015
Scrawlings of a non-functionally autistic 3ed grader tier
mid 2015
>bad beginner thread tier
Late 2015
>poor but no longer "jesus christ read the fucking sticky" tier

>>2353924
this->>>2353952

>>2354053
>>2353952
ive known her much longer than 3 years. i haven't stopped wanting to have sex with her until recently, but i'd still like to do a nude painting of her I'm sure her body would translate into a great painting ( I'm still probably not good enough to do it justice so maybe in a few years)

>>2348930
her foot looks way off but its pretty decent keep working on anatomy, proportions, and foreshortening

>>2348035

I've seen a few of your other stuff too, I really emjoy looking at it.

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>>2344848
This was mid December 2015

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>>2355581
From today

>>2355582

Awesome pic. Great size. Your lines look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakin' huge, solid, thick and tight your lines can get. Thanks for the motivation.

>>2355611
... I know it's still pretty bad, my proportions need work and I'm kind of neglecting the forms during the shading process but I feel like I made progress, right? I'm not really sure how much to expect from drawing seriously for a month or two

>>2349683
c-could you post that one girl in the 2015 section with the squid looking hat and the dark clouds in the back? I like it

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>>2344848
Dont anally rape me

>>2355627

I was being sort of sincere, there is some improvement in line quality and a bit more thought given to values. It's noticeable improvement assuming you spent the same amount of time on each and aren't cherry picking, just do it 10x longer and youll really start to notice

>>2355663
Oh, well thanks then! Will do

>>2355654
Why would I do that? Do you have a pre/post image to compare that one too? :)

>>2355582
Definitely some improvement! That nose, for example, is way better than the first image. The left cheek is really good too!

>>2347072
I didn't think it was meant to be a compliment, but given my intention for that month was to become better at drawing from reference, saying I am closer to a photocopier suggests I succeeded, regardless of how pejoratively their intention.

Drawing from reference requires you to be able to dismantle what you see into basic forms, simple shapes, and proportions. If that person honestly believes that a person is learning nothing from such efforts, they probably don't understand how learning works. The movements, pencil control, muscle memory, proportioning, visualization and other skills necessary for drawing from reference easily translates into other areas of art.

Its not creative, but it wasn't suppose to be.

>>2355654
is this all painting? looks like there's some collage in there. if that's not collage, great job op. even if it is, i dig what's going on here.

>>2344897
Nice, man. You got a blog?

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my progress was limited because of my hand eye coordination..i cannot draw on Gtablets without screens on them xD but i did say was :) heres a before image, and soon an after one, and yes i realise this image is utterly horrible

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>>2357220
heres the recent image i promised to show

>>2353527
I like your nomad princess, dude

>>2355654
Did... Did you just cut out people from a magazine and throw them on the canvas?

>>2357278

This is the type of stuff they do in modern art schools, no kidding.

>>2347357
Still want to gouge my eyes.

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>>2357284
>this is the type of stuff they do in modern art schools,
>just throwing whole photos from a magazine on top of canvas and painting a poor landscape around it
>pay thousands to learn what you did in preschool
This makes me want to get angry, furious, but I cannot find the strength to do so under such massive disappointment.

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Here's some of my progress. Should really work more and hang out on the internets less, lol

>>2354114
i thought that >>2353924 was your mother.

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>>2357854
no you didn't. this is my mother

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>>2355639

>>2344848
I wish I drew so I?d have progress.

>>2349683
can you post the bottom two in the middle. The two giant girls

>>2357975
Stop being a faggot and draw, fuckface.

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>>2358688

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>>2358688

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A year of drawing my ass off every day.

>>2358731
wtf is that first pic katawa, holy shit

>>2358760
Something i drawn for a "Rider" challenge on a certain imageboard. Git second place after some pro since everyone loved it. It was about a year ago,

>>2358731
Faces got worse tb.h

>>2358725
Tbh thats pretty goddam cool senpai

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>>2349683
>muscle lolis
I like the cut of your jib.

>>2358764
I still have no idea how to combine WEEB faces and rendered bodies.
I don't like gaijin cartoonish faces like Sakimiprinz and the reast of DA top guys, i'm trying to go like Pixiv giys do but i'm not feeling it yet.

>>2357313
So this is what regression looks like.

>>2357180
Ye thank you, Nilefar.tumblr.com

>>2358978
are you on neet bux if you dont mind my asking?

>>2358979
Attending school and living off of my parents hard work for the time being

>>2358722
>>2358725
thank you senpai

>>2358983
what are you studying cent ¢π ?

>>2359007
Regular high school with an addition of 3d modelling, animation and a little bit of art.
Why these questions though?

>>2359048
well ¢π, since I'm your clone i got curious about you as human.

>>2358725
jesus you have really bad taste

>>2359213
kinda uncalled for 2bh famillion

>>2359217
>ic
>only give insults when called for.

>>2359217
muscley children in jumpsuits stomping through cities? it's definitely not good taste. seems like he learned one thing to draw and now he's scared of doing something different. the guy doesn't have a fanbase it's not even like he's pandering to success he's just drawing ugly shit and pretending it's working.

>>2359233
sorry man but i just draw what i like when i have free time. don't get to draw giant fit qt lolis at work lol

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>>2359337
>don't get to draw giant fit qt lolis at work lol

I do. Well not fit like yours but I'll get there someday.

>>2359233

I'm not into giantess stuff and I still like his stuff. He obviously enjoys it (and probably gets off on it), so you're just butthurt for no reason.

>>2359341
damn, mad jelly. well, it's not like i dislike my job, i draw a ton of other subject matters and am exposed to a bunch of art styles, so i'm happy.

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>>2358794
Why?

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Top isn't the same character but similar enough I guess.

>>2359890
Eyy good job, there's noticeable improvement. Keep it up

>>2345968
good progress and good documentation.

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that feel when you can't distinguish any change in the past 4 years.

>>2348770
>internally facepalm for labeling something innocuous with the oft-invoked tumblrina tag

>>2348890
>>2348892
>fat POC zero-definition-noodle-jointed ugly horse-faced narrow-eyed cartoony stronk wymyn
>hipster faggot nose blush with elbow/knee/fingers/foot blushes to surely follow

well shit.

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>>2359999
Nice quads.

>that feel when someone says you've gotten better but you can't see it yourself

>>2353527
>going from animu cancer to strong fundamentals and good concepts/art
nice work man, keep it up.

>>2357313
your figures are really really stiff man, put down the anatomy books and focus on gestures

>>2358731
Not very impressive for a year of drawing your ass off, but you've improved a fair amount.

>>2359048
S-Sorry anon but how old are you?
I need to know how many years of my life I spent being shit and not practicing enough compared to you.

>>2348925
Very nice. My only criticism is the bodies don't appear to be casting off into perspective correctly.

I like the coloring+shading.

>>2362753
See my blog>>2358978

>>2361886
Thanks, getting at it currently

>>2349683
you were in the military right?

>>2363311
Yes

Seeing all this progress makes me ashamed I wasted my December and January break on Video games. I haven't drawn in months.

I need to get back into it and improve my art.

Want to be a Concept Artist one day.

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>>2364534
Don't remind me anon.

>>2364534
you should seriously consider storing those away or even selling them . if you want any chance of getting pro you can't waste that much time, and from the sound of it, you can't work with it in moderation

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1/2

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>>2364715
2/2

>>2353527
holy shit that's pretty damn inspiring. any particular resources you recommend for getting good at figures/ anatomy?

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>>2364717
That cheek was bothering the hell out of my autism

>>2364760
how long between each of these?

>>2364767
A week or two?

>>2364794
> progress thread
> a week or two

That's not how it works you retard, come back in a year or more.

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>>2344848
8 months difference

>>2364850
Not my fault I'm not as slow as the rest of this board

>>2359890
blog? i want to jack off to your characters

>>2364859
wow you're next level delusional

>>2364851
thom yorke?

>>2364851
nice!

>>2345210
Probably a stupid question, but how much practice per day? On average?

>>2364877
Self portrait. Thanks tho...

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Could have done a million worthwhile things with my life. Instead I spent 3 years learning how to paint pictures on a computer. Just fucking lol.

>>2357969
Tentacular

>>2365230
cool to see you posting still though. you end up getting a normie job?

>>2364911

Between one and three hours on average, I suppose. I have days where I don't practice at all and days where I go like six hours, but I try to at least do a drawing a day as an ideal.

>>2365230

Btw, in 3 years you could have learned few programming languages, machine learning and become data analyst working on how to help people with cervical cancer or work on something like human genome project. Also earn top bucks for most of it and do competitions for fun (and potential big profit):

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

>>2360015
thx
>>2364759
thank you.

Alright, got a lot of shit for doing this but whatever. I basically started studying the muscles of the body through various online medical websites, or ecorchés. I basically kept drawing ecorchés until I learned all the muscle placements, where every muscle connects on what bones etc, even the deep layers.
Then I started looking at live models or various pics from life, and ONLY looking, never drew from them directly. basically, I hid the pics, and tried to reproduce the pose with the knowledge of muscle placements I aquired before, starting with the skeleton, then the muscles and eventually the skin. as of today, the only big studies I did from pics are those unfinished statue and woman. result is I can draw every pose from imagination, maybe not the most realistic or "traditional" but the semi realistic style was what I wanted to achieve anyway so it fits me perfectly.

>>2365320
that's a pretty shitty way to look at it. I also quit pursuing becoming a professional illustrator after a few years, but I find the skills a learned valuable for all creative things as illustration encompasses a bit of everything. it's a useful tool and a fun hobby even if you decide to pursue a different field. I actually just started learning how to code and in a week I learned a shit ton more than when I was a kid bashing my head against programming books with 0 results. I find learning one skill on your own helps you learn how to learn a lot.

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a-atleast I'm getting more patient this year
ahahaha
haha
ha

>>2365365

I'm just trying to make him feel bad, shush. Are you really expecting me not to shit on him or rub salt into his wounds when I have a chance? Don't deprive me of that pleasure! What's the point of being sensible and telling him "hey, I do art to be more creative and as a hobby and I think it helps my engineering designs that I do, so don't self-flagellate without a reason! Things that you have learned will not go to waste!"

I mean, that would be just awful. I can't do that, I have to tell him that his composition and construction is awful and should gb2loomis before trying to render this piece of shit that he calls his art.

>>2365311

Yeah but I quit after 3 weeks lol. Don't see myself ever living the normie life, I've grown addicted to learning and 'making' things. I can get by atm from some sources of passive income and the ocassional freelance gig. The gained time from not working a dayjob is just so much more valuable to me.

>>2365320
>>2365365
That's funny, I sense a pattern here. Currently also learning python. In the long run I'd love to end up working part time as a developer while doing my own stuff on the side.

>>2365376

all good :*

>>2365373
really original poses anon

>>2365406
nice. I think we quit around the same time, but I'm still doing interviews for normie jobs. I'm hoping when I land one it boosts me a bit like it did for you, but I never landed any freelance gigs. probably stuck doing shit jobs forever

>>2364875
Eh.
https://twitter.com/TheGoldenSmurf
Barely got back to drawing my OCs since a few weeks though, so there really isn't much for now.

>>2359890
What were your studies?

>>2353527
>>2353984

> 2014 to 2015

WHAT?
ALL THAT FROM ONLY 3h-4h a day on the weekends?

If it's not too much to ask, could you describe your practice regimen? Both as a beginner (2010-2012) and during your more self-sufficient era onward?

>>2365320

It's kind of funny, because I've started doing art because over my college career I learned that I fucking hated programming.

>>2366612
ok, you still there ? don't really want to write a long ass stuff if no one is still here.

>>2367998
I'm not him, but I'm interested.

>>2367998
i too am interested..

>>2367998

I'm still here!

>>2367998

oh god please tell me you didn't leave