i heard that smoking cigarettes is a good way to steady your hand for detailed work, is it the nicotine or the other shit in the smoke that gets the job done?
also general art hacks thread.
things you do to improve your drawing such as substance and or tools.
please mark this thread for deletion if its too of topic.
I drink lots of bleach to calm my nerves. You should try it too, OP.
>>2369651
A lot of adult/hentai artists work with a small buttplug in their rectum. Sounds weird, but apparently it gently stimulates the prostate and increases focus
>>2369651
Smoking cigarettes is a great way to smell bad, waste thousands of dollars a year and destroy your health; it's not good for much else.
You should probably practice instead op (search Dynamic Sketching on youtube). If your hands are still really that shaky after practicing those exercises for several hours every day for 3 months you probably should just learn how to use vectors instead of raster digitally or paint like Pollock instead of Rembrandt
Anyone using Clip Studio Pro here?
I ve been having problems saving my 3D models as female characters. They get saved as female and male tags...
Tried searching google but nothing came up...
I am really puzzled...
pic related
left is the pose i made and right is the saved pose.
>>2367961
don't use 3d model .. OP
you will not learn anything
>>2367965
Well its a good way for me to learn poses and body structure.
>>2367961
Simple. Put a female model and drop the pose on it. The pose just have "male model" as default.
What does /ic/ think of clutch pencils? I always see the Staedtler mars technico recommended, but what does it offer over other brands?
Also general pencil thread.
>>2367817
i literally use these to draw my comics
>inb4 wah u use german tools no fair theyre expensive wah
i collect made in germany art utensils because of their rarity and status. I'll do fine with made in timor leste pencils and inks. its your skill that decides if youre a good artist or not
Mars Technicos are what I chose because they're sold everywhere. All the other brands I've seen are only available in specialty art stores.
Staedtler is a reliable brand. Them and Pentel are my two favorites.
>>2367817
Koh-I-Noor Toison D'Or 5900
Nuff said.
Mine on the right
Thoughts?
need more midtone
Shadow should be closer at the sides and farther at the back with the light coming from that direction.
>>2367013
you don't really know what you are doing.
I read the Sticky but I'm still confused on what 'starting' means. I want to be a digital artist but the Guide makes no sense. Does it want me to buy some books and do exercises? Or what? I just want to learn how to do Digital Art, not read books.
jesus if you want to make artt just fucking make art it's not some secret process fucking christ
Then don't read books.
Just don't come crying to us when you've been drawing for three years and start to realize that people are making the same progress as you in a third of the time. You'll be sitting there reinventing the wheel because you can't be assed to spend a few hours a week actually investing in your improvement.
You're not special. You're going to make the same stupid mistakes everyone else does when they start out. The point of the sticky is to direct you towards resources that address the most common things artists must learn.
"I just want to learn without knowing what I'm doing or investing a single cent in my art career"
Lmao @ OP
Thread #14
Previous Thread: >>2333756
Bring us your roughs, your storyboards, your pencil tests etc. Talk about industry, schools, the hopelessness of it all, how we all gonna make it etc.
If you're gonna post animation that isn't yours give source or state that it isn't yours.
Keep shitposting to a minimum. Don't feed the trolls.
>Stuff you may find useful, books basic program tutorials etc
https://mega.co.nz/#F!3p8CwQZD!DR2mC-kw0TyQQ8Uw3T6JYg
https://mega.co.nz/#!TdclgBqS!QWLS9f3ogerhJDfxCYPv_yFKRR11tP_IC0eaA4sEwug
>Reference stuff you can find with a simple google search
http://www.referencereference.com/
https://vimeo.com/groups/aniref
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvspTjApofA2Yg3i10gTdQ
http://www.rhinohouse.com/
Japanese style animation tutorial: http://listeningside.net/a_side00.html
Stoyboard & composition: http://www.floobynooby.com/comp1.html
>Play YT videos frame-by-frame
http://rowvid.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-plus/?src=search
Lastly, if you've got some good animation resources, contribute!
pd: copied from the last OP; i'm not the OP from thread #13.
If anyone's wondering where the OP clip is from, it's from a pretty nice short animation called 'Pinched', by David Vandervoort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LlUmhF6Da8
MEH. Working out some roughs in Storyboard Pro. Wish this program wasn't so dang expensive. Just trying to get a feel for the software right now.
https://youtu.be/-QNiDcYIKGM
workin' on some game anims
getting the idle right has been super tough; i've tried a buncha diff poses but they're really hard to get done right so i tried to go for a simple bounce i guess. just a rough thing.
i know about the flickering heads during the run, im gonna redraw that whole part.
crit? 24 fps in flash
no because it's absolute shit and you dont know how to draw
>>2371930
H0ly ShIt anon thats impressive!!!1!!!
t. tumblr
Post your best cyberpunk art
>>2371779
photobash.
Are ARG's considered Art?
ARG in thumb ^ https://youtu.be/FbmFqm7MrLM
learn to paint values with grayscale first and quit studying anatomy for the shake of anatomy, learn to draw form, then values, then color
>>2371622
Alright, so grayscale first, then color. Where do I go about learning that? Any book or video suggestions with heavy focus on it you can point me to?
>>2371609
Wow, that colored lighting flash app at the bottom is real neato
>>2371639
get NMA videos, there's good lessos to that, if you want to learn quicker, don't try to copy values, just focus to design contrasts to make ilusions of depth
Is there a way to increase your creativity? I've been doing so many academic style drawings lately that I feel like I can't do anything unique or memorable.
When I sit down to draw something "fun" as a break from yet another study, I end up drawing some banal monster, knight or other unoriginal crap.
What can I do to get out of this rut? How does /ic/ flex it's creative muscles?
a practice i always enjoyed was to get two people to give me the first word that came to mind, and to incorporate that in to a drawing. i think brainstorming original ideas takes a matter of stepping away from what you're used to and instead inventing on a conceptual, symbolic, and linguistic level. you could always pen down some words and figure out how to best portray them in a design sense.
also, i really dig the brushwork in that pic. if it's yours, how did you achieve that wash of colour? it's really nice.
Read books
DM for /tg/ games
>>2371404
I wish it was my work. It's Yoji Shinkawa.
Any of you guys use PS CC torrented or cracked?
I think it's time for me to upgrade (currently on cs5.1) because there are a couple of absolutely frustrating bugs that I would hope to be able to deal with that way.
Thoughts?
>>2370881
Yeah I have cracked cs6, everything works great.
>>2371071
Download link ?
>>2371071
i just installed it and it's absolute shit. retardedly slow. i think i'm gonna be up the next 2 days straight trying to get this pos to work smoothly.
Grand Prize
>You drew everyday for a long time, longer than anyone else. Congratulations. You are the best
Rules
>Update every day at: http://www.lavaflake.com/draw/
>The deadline for submissions is 00:00 GMT each day
>You should spend at least 30 minutes on each update
>Miss a day and you can make up for it the next day with a double post.
>Miss another day within a month and you're eliminated.
>Progress updates are ok but they will be policed like other submissions
Entry into the third challenge is open until Saturday at 00:00 GMT. People who join after then will be entered into the less awesome Last Artist Standing # 4
do tokens respawn at the start of the next month no matter which day you used it?
>>2370252
That's really cool. I love that rusty bronze-y color.
And yes I know bronze oxidizes, I'm just saying it's a color something like rust or bronze.
The more obscure your image host, the better you are as a human being.
It's just science.
:Make a Zen Garden like the one pictured:
#Done in order to build line confidence & to encourage you to not go back and constantly fix things.
#Make whatever parts as detailed or simple as you want
#Enjoy yourself!
Example of a simple MSpaint one vs the detailed one above
>acquaintance asks me to do a logo for him
> goes over telling me what he wants the logo to look like
> tell him I'll do it
> wait for him to ask me how much it will cost
> too awkward to mention I want to charge him
> couple if days later pass
>"hey how's the logo coming along?"
> Me: "just In sketching stages right now. Did you need it at a certain time?"
> Him "nah not until May or June but I figured if it was done already I could show some people at this game tournament I'm hosting in Feb. But take your time."
> Me: "ok"
> still no discussion of price has been brought up
Granted, doing art for people at this point is not my main source of income but I'd also like to be paid for my efforts.
How do I bring up that I'd like to be paid for this, especially at this point? I'd still like to do the logo since I have a fun design for it, but I hope he doesn't get turned off by me asking for him to pay something. Since he's an acquaintance and this logo is only for some video game event he's hosting, I probably wouldn't charge that much, maybe like $30-$40, but I still don't know how to go about it.
Your own fault fucko
>>2370465
Do the logo with no effort.
>>2370465
"Hey mate I am really having a hard time with your logo, I have to much stuff to do so I might drop it unless you pay me some money"