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>>2376024
>Has anyone been through strong depression and art blocks?

Every artist ever. Take a break. A short one, but a serious one. No drawing/painting/sketching or doing anything art related for ... say 2 weeks. That should help. It won't solve any problems but will clear your system of some anxiety that creeps up on you when holding a brush.

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sorry about that anon. whenever i'm in an artblock i try to ease myself into painting again, and it'll flow as naturally as before. works different for everyone, but maybe you could take a break & travel or something like that, just to return with a fresh mind. figure out which direction you want to take your art in etc. good luck & hang in there!

>>2376024
>Does anyone understand me or have any advice? Has anyone been through strong depression and art blocks? General art block threat then..

Diagnosed Major Depressive Disorder here. I've taken lots of meds, done lots of therapy, and gone to support groups where I talked to a lot of people with similar issues. Loosing interest in things you once enjoyed is a symptom of depression, but you really didn't provide enough info for me to perform an armchair diagnosis.

Different people respond positively to different things, and without knowing more about you I'm hesitant to offer specific advice. Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are two things you can look into and try to apply to your life from your own home. Meditation has helped me to learn what sets me down into a dark spiral, and there are a lot of guided breathing meditations on YouTube.

Who the fuck is that nigger?

Some nigger named, Frostfire, he has a dank youtubes and Twitch.

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>>2375028
it's good, it actually teaches quite more than just drapery too.

I'll say michael massen's book is better, it's really very scientific, boring to read and the examples aren't exciting that makes you want to draw but the principals he teaches is very solid and you can learn to analyze and design how a fold works and know why and how these folds happen that makes up the usual 7 types of folds that most others teach. but it's still very boring to read.

>>2375028
This was one of my favourite books when I was starting out. It's very modest in how it presents itself, but it teaches figure drawing and drapery very clearly.

>>2375028
She taught my workshop at AAU. Really awesome old lady. The book is great as well.

is there any way to get these brushes?
From
grutbrushes dot com
They seem to be very organic
or do any of you guys know about a better organic brush pack?

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>>2373438
hah I'm not sure if it's common or not but I use this exact brush set. Short of a few instances I've never needed anything more. Frankly a hard round with dual brush gets the job done every time. Also the cloud brushes in this set are super helpful.

>>2373574
never understood the point of copying like this. youre not learning anything besides how to copy that presise style on these precise paintings. if youre interested in actually learning, do a normal still life and try to actually innovate and think through what youre doing

or adapt this style and do your own painting with it. use it as a refernce, but straight out copying these doesnt serve much i think.

i think youre achieveing very little by these.

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"The Confused Academic"

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"Stranded On Cripple Creak"

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"Trailer Park Maintenance with a Masters"

>>2368989
I wish I could help, but I like spending a little coin on some nice supplies.... Supplies ain't even that expensive.

Clipboard + stolen printer paper... EZ

>>2368996
I was looking for slightly better than a ream of printer paper but cheaper than a $15 moleskine

>>2369002
check dickblick.com

>>2365005
any links for where I can get this book pl0x? and perhaps links pointing to some further reading on using munsell colors, aside from wikipedia

bretty gud

>>2365005
uh, photoshop, everyone works with sliders, and its 16bit, adobe rgb, or lab if your monitor can go the distance.

I don´t know if i missed something on your post.

Surrealism takes creativity
Realism takes skill
Photorealism is a waste of time

>>2373202

generally, and this goes toward all art, if i look at it, and cant tell what the fuck im looking at i dont like it.

if i look at art and i, as someone whose skills suck all kinds of dick think i could legitimately do equal or better work, i don't like it.

what i apreciate in art is skill, not a story or a message, raw fucking skill, now if that skill is pushing a message or a story, all the better.

there are some exceptions with needing to know what the fuck i'm looking at, and also some exceptions to skill, but by and large they are the rules.

it's what i have a disdain for modern art, conceptual art and the like, while even heavily commercial art i can enjoy.

as for >>2374467 photo real isn't a waste of time, but copying a photograph perfectly is, well... at least small scale copying a photograph is.

I remember the last time I went to our states modern museum. They have a room for surrealism, and I felt like I needed to shake a layer of dust off my shoulders. Surrealism has had its time. Dalí was a really talented painter but the motif world of the whole movement is just... After that there was the cubism room, as if things couldn't get worse. The things that stood out in their collection was some Matisse and Klee and a few other things, like the Soviet propaganda posters. But my point is, surrealism really is dead and I feel like there isn't much point in discussing it anymore.

>>2362178
Is there a program that generates thumbnails of video files at certain increments?

I want to do some color and composition studies from movies but I don't want to have to sift through every single scene.

if i wanted to design clothes per say would i focus on figure drawing and the main basics or should i focus on the clothes itself ? also what are good books focusing on the design of clothes ?

How the hell are Adult Coloring Books a thing nowadays?

Combine different animals/bugs/plants/objects together. Easy.

>>2374517
Can you post some characters you have done with that method?

>>2374540
This is how most designs are made.
Look around you......

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>>2367379
Draw yourself in the mirror to failure. Multiple angles. H lead pencil. Try not to erase; put down confident lines and ghost them to find the right placement.

And don't forget that all those soft features lie on a solid foundation that is the skull.

>>2367379
post your work

Nobody can tell you much if you refuse to post examples.

If you're already aware of what you're doing wrong, try to practice those factors in isolation. If your feature placement is fine, do some studies of just the features. Draw a bunch of simple heads and work on the jaws, etc. Do a full portrait on occasion to apply it all at once though.

>>2375222
have you tried not making your own threads

>>2375222
The whole thing isn't a joke?

The body form is atrocious. Learn the basics. The rest will follow.

>>2373904

I'm pretty sure by now conceptart.org is used almost exclusively by the uttermost newest of wannabe newbies. and blackspot.

I lol so hard whenever I see the (516 users browsing here) (3712 users browsing) (2 million users browsing the entire forums currently)

Sure thing Jason, sure thing.

Yeah, I'm frustrated with CA for purging everything as well. Haven't been back ever since.

I actually have a few folders on my hd containing (partial) CA SBs of people like wes burt, marko djurdjevic (sp?), janaschi, appleflinger that I saved off here (there was a thread to share art folders), but i don't know if i can be assed to find a place to upload right now.

If someone has any I'd like to have it too. :O CA had some great sketchbooks, but only the latest pages are alive the rest met oblivion.