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>>2371389
It worries me not. I look at art because I like to see pretty stuff, or for strong storytelling, not to be told for the 2500th that I should care about women rights and and fight against the reptilian illuminati government. Memes rarely give me that "Oh god that looks gorgeous" or "I'm feeling so many emotions right now" kind of deal.

>>2371389
Blog?

>>2371408
take a step back

>>2370018
You'll only be able to paint as well as you can draw. However, an encouraging spin on it is that painting is simply drawing with color.

The rules of value, form and hue still apply.

Try a 2 color painting with a warm and cool hue, identifying form and shadow and getting a feel for the medium.

>>2370018

You are probably not as okay as you think.

>>2370129
This. You're probably bad at drawing. If not, it just takes practice. Study values, colors and general technique.

It's not cheating, it's limiting. If you can only draw a pose in front of you, how the fuck will you ever make a creative composition?

good luck making a fucking comic book or something.

>>2366196
I agree that it is limiting when it comes to composition, you're at the mercy of what you can do with the model and lighting, or the photo. But to be fair if you're going for a certain level of realism not having a reference can be limiting as well.

I'm not saying it's impossible to make things look realistic without reference but it's at a much lesser degree than someone who uses reference. Take someone like Frazetta who worked from imagination, his illustrations are great and obviously he had incredible knowledge of light and the human body but even then you can tell they are designed from imagination right away.

>>2366191
Regardless of what /ic/ says the majority of professional artists use reference. Everyone on here thinks that using reference means sitting there and making a photocopy then changing a few details but that's not how you use it. You come up with your idea and find reference to help you add believability, whether that's rendering and texturing, posing, coloring, whatever and that's applicable to hyper realistic art as well as the simplest cartoons. Even once you learn your fundamentals, reference will always be a valid tool for enhancing your work and the more you use it the more you'll be able to do without relying on it. Using reference also doesn't mean composing an entire picture out of it to copy, so you won't always be referencing everything in a picture anyway if you're going about it right. Using reference has been the industry standard for a long time and /ic/ needs to let go of the false belief that using reference = copying, and great or pro artists don't use ref.

>>2365561
I wish my penis was for sale, this is so unfair.

>>2365561
that clown is unable to draw, make an intelligent social commentary, or even choose an original title.

>>2365637
>luis quiles
he reveals The Ugly Side Of Society In Controversial Illustrations

Your post doesn't warrant separate thread. Delete it and post in Beginner thread or wherever.

>>2372349
-_- i seek to obtain actual "feedback" - not merely inflate the ego of "thread dynamics" ... if you truly believe in this "master thread" sort of concept, perhaps you should take it up with 4chans webmaster and get him to implement it as a rule.

until then i will make use of the functionality that allows my art to recieve the most feedback as possible: aka: having it be in its own thread -_-

it makes no sense to obstrusfucate the location of my art by burrowing it into an irrelevant general on a slow board -_-... regardless, i intend to be utilizing this board as it was intended; each artpiece gets its own thread. -_-

>>2372348
-_- nice bait -_- OP -_-

>>2371695
>shiggy

>>2371695
>Im freaking out

hokay grandpa, maybe call up your computer geek grandson to help google the issue for you

>>2366511
How about instead of wasting time and talking shit you actually draw something.

>>2366517
this

>>2366511
alcohol. seriously that thing will make you go lazy

>what's the most important thing to capture?
'the gesture'

Basically the idea is to get a readable mark that tells you exactly what they were doing when you captured it. While there is an art to making really appealing gestures, the appeal isn't the end goal for most. The end goal is usually having an understandable mark that you can build off of later, preferably one that captures (or as some people say, exaggerates / animates) the motion of the pose.

The pictures you showed aren't that appealing, but I think they're perfectly functional. If you were trying to draw a figure drawing later on without the model, I think there's enough information to create it from if you had a decent understanding of anatomy.

I think the big thing is getting the hang of finding a good line of action. Many poses you can capture it in one or two lines and then build on it from there. Usually for me I try to find one for the torso and then try to depict the chest and hips with two circles along that line (that sort of 'bean' method), and I find it's easier to build the limbs and head from the torso rather than build from the head.

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>>2373414
>what's the most important thing to capture?

Line of action (in red), think of the shape the figure creates (blue), flow (every artist has a their way of doing it so study them all and develop your own way of doing it)

>>2372475
Buy a wacom intuos 3/4 if you can find one. I have used graphite back then and it works well. I really don't know anything about the bamboo lines though.

>>2372475
if for drawing, never go for the small options, never

It depends on your skill level of course.
You don't nessecarily have to go for a Wacom.
I have a Medion tablet that has about the size of A4 and it works well for me.
Huion doesn't seem too bad.

btw a good playlist to paint to high or not XD

https://youtu.be/YYYJDalKI9E

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You have to be 18 years or older to post here bud.

>>2373371
I'm 18 don,t worry...
and i was just reaching out to see if someone had similar interests. Didn't mean to cause any harm :)

>coleur

you can color it with gouache

>>2371589
you can use basically anything
marker
guache
water color

depends on how much of the line do you want to retain it's crisp look

>>2371589
i cant give advice on color, but i just wanted to say that drawing is p cool

Pretty based desu.

I want Ilya to stay a punching bag though, I like shitting on him.

>>2366194

no idea what any of this is about. can someone sum up the drama/gist ?

>>2366226
Guy who literally only draws cute girls has mental break down and decides not to draw cute girls anymore

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>>2369566
Don't go getting a league of legends tatoo you faggot.

>>2369566
pseudo greek pottery/chinese scroll mixed with basic flash animation style.

>>2369566
Ukiyo-e?

>>2372719
Work on your outlines.
Work on your size proportions.
Work on your depth....
Well, pretty much every fundamental.

I like it tho, it's not a masterpiece, but i like it. What is it for? A decoration?

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i painted the street my parents live on

>>2368414
I can barely tell what that is except for the road and two trees. The rest is just messy dots and lines. Sorry for being harsh but thats exactly what it is.

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doing some random shat