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Also the piece is meant to be landscape as shown

It's just scribbles dude

>>2895670
if its meant to be a landscape then its not abstract, you dumb fuck

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This one too.

Première peinture :
Le Chancelier Pierre Séguier, par Charles Le Brun.
(déjà vu au Louvre)
http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/chancellor-seguier-entry-louis-xiv-paris-1660

No idea about la deuxième, though. (Louis XIV?)

>>2895397
cwasont

I would be careful of an overly masochistic mindset. It isn't any more realistic to be overly hard on yourself than overly easy on yourself.

A few things: try to be more concise with your linework; it's okay if you have to slow down. Many times pieces that look as though they were done very quickly were actually executed in a very controlled manner. Even on exercises that are timed I think you'll find that if you slow down and try to become more efficient, that efficiency will make you faster in the long run.

"If you, who draw, desire to study well and to good purpose, always go slowly to work in your drawing; and discriminate in. the lights, which have the highest degree of brightness, and to what extent and likewise in the shadows, which are those that are darker than the others and in what way they intermingle; then their masses and the relative proportions of one to the other. And note in their outlines, which way they tend; and which part of the lines is curved to one side or the other, and where they are more or less conspicuous and consequently broad or fine; and finally, that your light and shade blend without strokes and borders [but] looking like smoke. And when you have thus schooled your hand and your judgment by such diligence, you will acquire rapidity before you are aware." - Leonardo da Vinci

http://www.erikgist.com/ErikGist_WattsAtelierFigureTutorial.pdf

^reading that will be pretty instructive

Remember to draw from life. Try to find a figure drawing session in your area and attend as regularly as possible. It can be easy, especially for a beginner, to misinterpret information from a photograph or from another artist's work. There really is no substitute for drawing from life; that being said there are some things it won't teach you(certain anatomical details, complicated perspective techniques, etc.).

Look up the acromion process and learn how the deltoid wraps around it; reread that da Vinci quote after you've read the Gist booklet.

>>2894535
also expose the side of your pencil so that you can lay down broad areas of tone and use a greater variety of lineweight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJh3KAXWjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJh3KAXWjQ

>>2894699
thank you very much

>>2893945
It honestly depends on what your goal is and what you want to achieve by "grinding" through this book. So before I waste my time making recommendations: What is your end goal and what do you hope to achieve by working through Robertson's "How to Draw"?

>>2893950
Well my work is currently flat as fuck, and as of now I know basic perspective rules but not how to apply them. I'm hoping to get a better understanding of forms, how to draw things from many angles easily, while making them look 3D.

My end goal is drawing figures well - which is why the next book I'm going to be doing is figure-focused (Loomis/Hampton/Vilppu etc). But first I need to understand form.

The book is overrated imo and doesnt explain things well. Its superficial.

>>2892767
with that level of ''skills'' you might as well go for a bamboo or small-ass wacom.

Notice me senpais

This post >>2892776 wasn't very helpful, and I didn't even see the other one before it got deleted.

No one with Huion tablet?

Hello drawfriend

Seriously, ANY cheap tablet will be a good starting point. The cheapest Wacom Intuos will do it perfecly for you.
I say that because even the cheapest tablets have a nice range of pressure levels. Although their low resolution might not be good for a smooth lineart, most artists use an stabilizer for that

>>2890529
They only take H1B immigrants nowadays.

>>2890529
Not as hard as you think it is.

People think it's impossible or nearly impossible to even become an artist. That's good, because that weeds out a ton of people from ever becoming artists. Now you just deal with the people who want to become artists which is a significantly small number in comparison to every other industry. Now of those artists who want to actually work for Dreamworks is even slimmer. Now this is a good thing and a bad thing, because it means you have to be really good or show potential. There's the internship program way to get in or you know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy. Basically it comes down to, you have to be able to do professional level work similar to that of what they're currently able to do. It's actually quite simple and applies to everything. If you can do the same level of work as the thing you want to work for, you probably can work for them.

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And another one I've made

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Aaaaand another

I started making these as cover art for music I'd never make but it kind of drifted away from that after a while

You'll have more luck on >>>/lit/

That being said your poem is so bad I'm wondering if it's some kind of troll. I'll give my opinion anyways.

It's ridiculously literal, without nuance or subtlety. I prefer something in which I can get lost, eg. approach the subject less directly, maybe combining multiple metaphors / parabolas. Suggest to the reader, and let real meaning form itself in their minds. You can still get to the literal emotional heart you want to express, but not so flatly and immediately.

You shouldn't use an extremely short meter like that, it's the most difficult to write in. Basically consider that each line of verse should be interesting in itself, so start with longer meters.

Use a thesaurus.

That "thee" at the end is like the cherry on the shit cake. If you're going to write in a period style, do so consistently. The thee/picnic contrast is pretty hilarious.

>>2895962
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Fuck off my board
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It's fine as long as you draw cute anime girls. If you don't, then please no.

What were you going for exactly? Abstract art is hard. You have to make it pleasing to the eye without particular concrete forms and yet it has to not be too somple.

learn what composition is
every little shape and element of your picture is separate from one another, there's really no unity in the piece, go overlap your shapes and have the elements play with each other, make it interesting

Abstract art works only when you look at it and imagine rubbing your dick through and if it feels nice it's good. When I look at your peice I feel like it will scrape my dcik out and I just want to leave at that point you know?

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Pic related is the shit but I like a good felt-tip (just the generic paper mate flair marker actually works really well)

As long as it doesnt smudge once dry whats the problem with anything? If you're going to put it into PS or Gimp to color anyways?

I just figured I'd need something that would draw lines good enough to be recognized by the program and to hold in colors with the "paint bucket" feature

>>2895824
That's not how it works. You draw it, scan it, trace it, colour it.

>>2895679
I remember your work.
Algenpfleger also drew in ds

>>2895679
Hey I remember that left image. I don't remember who you are though. Nor do I think I've seen your work recently.

>>2895679
Thats actually really high res, holy cow

>>2891119
Define "greatest". Most technically skilled? Original? Relevant? Influential?

>>2891122
Yes these things, Brilliant. Eh?

me

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I heard the touchfive markers are good
Haven't bought a pack myself but I'll order it after I get my switch or something. They're fairly cheap

Just start doing it. You just gotta shit it up real hard for a while and you'll figure it out. The information you read about will click eventually.

>>2895612
Right there with you.

Trying to "render" something through colouring and it's just not working out in the slightest.
Things seem to look okay with lines but as soon as I remove the linework it's a blob of colours, shape entirely gone.
I feel like I spend more time fiddling with the hardness of brushes than I do with actual colouring.

>>2895612
I was thinking about making a same thread. Someone please oh please tell me how you do it.

After three years of working with ink and graphite I got unironically good at most of the fundies, but the perfectionism just doesn't let me finish anything - as soon as I open a digital canvas, my mind goes blank and I scrap everything after the sketch phase.

I envy the weeaboo and furry autists flooding deviantArt with finished works. Even if it's garbage, at least they have something to show for their effort.