If I want to transition into an intuos, will I lose the ability to draw on traditional paper? I'm afraid that I'll learn digital only to not be able to get used to looking at the screen and drawing/ as opposed to drawing on the same surface
>>2875640
>he still draws on paper
>>2875640
No witchfag
Post some of your work though
Do you draw cute witches
>>2875643
I'm an animator, here are some of my sketches.
Is the secret of being a good artist going to school?
Look up probably 98% of the most iconic artists in history, and you'll find they all received schooling of some sort - either as an apprentice with an established painter or going to some traditional school thing.
Something tells me books and youtube tutorials wouldn't cut it.
>>2875510
No, the secret is having fun.
It's not a secret that getting a (quality) education in art is a boon. Don't let /ic/ meme you into thinking instruction serves no purpose, this board is masterful at taking a sensible premise ("Art school costs too much, and there has never been a time where you could educate yourself more easily") and warps it into bullshit ("Art school is 100% useless!").
If you're disciplined and keep yourself accountable, self-teaching is sufficient. There are enough artists without formal education to demonstrate it's obviously possible. The plethora of resources available today is mindboggling. What school offers is:
A) Direction. You get told what you need to produce, you produce it. If you're taking a class on perspective, you'll be instructed on perspective and then told to do perspective exercises, and if you don't, you're wasting your time and money.
B) A system of accountability. It forces you to do something, even if you'd rather not. This can mean strengthening fundamentals you might neglect when accountable only to yourself.
C) Feedback. If your instructor is somebody whose work you admire, then their advice will be of far, far greater value to you than that of some anonymous fuckwit on /ic/ who for all you know has completely different taste, goals, etc. Or perhaps hardly draws at all. A good teacher has been teaching long enough to identify what's wrong, how to tell you what's wrong, and how to fix it. Many very skilled artists can't do that, being a good artist and a good art teacher are not necessarily the same.
D) Networking. You meet people, some will go on into the industry, some instructors already have experience in the industry. If they like you, they'll gladly help you.
F) Documentation. Some people might not say the piece of paper at the end is worth as much as skill, and they'd be right. But if you want to work abroad, you often need some sort of documentation. If you graduated from Calarts or something, it might also catch someone's eye.
>>2875518
And since I ran out of space, I'll add the conclusion: All those things are great, none are required. You can make do without any of it, if school is too expensive and you have the drive.
You can also take lessons without necessarily "going to art school". Most people who have taken lessons tend to agree it helped them reach the next level, if you get a decent instructor it will be likely to help you overcome a plateau where you're struggling but don't know where.
give me your art stores full of glorious stock, art materials that are HNNG in quality
in terms of digital, maybe nice tablets, nice desk set ups, cool brushes
you know shit that artists glee over
make me wanna draw
>>2875031
Go to the porn thread, you shitter.
>>2875031
consumerist porn.
what makes me want to draw: museums, galleries, actual drawings
>>2875031
https://youtu.be/5-b2q3jQ414
Because we should not have to make new threads or post in draw threads with our fundamental exercises.
Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, do not give up, make someone proud.
AVOID asking unrelated questions, there is a question thread for that.
RESIZE YOUR IMAGES TO ~1000 PIXELS:
#1)
>screenshot the image and post that instead (I recommend ShareX)
#2)
>change camera capture settings to something smaller
#3)
>send to computer and resize in MSPaint
→ →
There's a new (and cleaner) sticky in town! You can see it at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj
>Thread study: Try to draw/paint the opening or any other following images.
Feel free to post your original works as well if you're trash.
TRY TO BE MORE ACTIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME FEEDBACK - many studies are left unreplied, which is a bit sad and can be quite demotivating for the people that try their best to improve, but are left directionless.
OLD THREAD: >>2870906
Have been painting for about 8 months, in oils, how would you rate this painting of a canal lock?
The main things I think I need to add is shading to the water under the bridge, but there is also something wrong with the cobbles on the left that I can't quite put my finger on.
Come on tell me how shit it is
>>2874340
have a reference pic?
How many years will it take me to achieve this level of mastery?
>>2874136
just keep doing everything /ic/ tells you :^)
>>2874136
half a year max
If sycra has multiple personalities, how do you know you're not sycra?
have you ever raised the bar too high for yourself?i have, and this drawing has weighed down heavily on me ever since i made it
>>2873138
Honestly the only thing I find really impressive about this drawing is that there aren't any smudge marks
I'm too lazy to crit, but other than the assembled junk on the floor, most aspects of this drawing are really shoddy. The tubes and screen are totally flat and look like rough sketches, the robot doesn't look like it's even the subject of the drawing, it's muted and the entire composition seems to work against it. I'm glad you feel proud about it but you can probably do much better in 2 months just grinding some fundamentals and studying composition. You'll look back in 2 months and wonder why you set the bar so low
>>2873138
Nope, not yet. I haven't gone that far out of the comfort zone. What size paper is this though?
>>2873145
Also OP to answer your question, I seem to raise the bar each time I grind fundamentals. Especially if it involves any part of the human body. I'm deathly afraid of drawing anything below the neck, other than maybe the butthole, of which I have arcane knowledge of.
have you paid fealty to your god today, /ic/?
thanks much mural man
thanks much mural man
thanks much mural man
Piss and moan thread
tell us all your woes and irritations /ic/
>avg
>skype
>non wacom tablet driver
>discord
>timemanic
>java
somebody please kill this op
art is really, really hard, and i don't feel like i'm improving and it makes me sad and mad
>no desk
>have to draw on the floor hunched over my sketchbook
>drool on my drawing like the slack-jawed mouthbreathing troglodyte I am
>for some reason think it's a good idea to remove the drool with my own tongue
>lick the paper and get a mouthful of ink
title says all, find more of my shit to criticize here:
https://twitter.com/fizzle030/media
well my first criticism is that I don't get the joke of the comic, and I can't tell if it's racist or not
>>2878181
i assume you remember video stores having a porch monkey section in them?
>>2878171
Few places where the words crunch together, making it hard to read. May be worthwhile to push hatman's expression a bit further towards sardonic in panel 2.
Writing overall could use a bump in quality. I get the joke, but the delivery falls flat. Then again, who the fuck am I? No one, that's who.
Can the real me be you?
Can the real me the one telling me what to do?
Can you be the one giving me decisions to choose?
Did the fake make me look a certain way?
Did the fake lie to you in a certain way?
Did the fake made you cry that day?
You saw his face?
You liked what he had to say?
You should’ve stayed away?
Should I hold no excuse?
Should I said duces?
Should I hold responsible to all the problems I’ve concluded?
Is it a mask we all wear?
Is it an idea we all share.
Is it a look that you and me cared?
But what if what you see isn’t me?
What if that person isn’t who he claims to be?
What if that nice guy is actually shitty?
This is the mask I wear.
Do you dare to take of this mask and share.
Opinion?
Makes me not want to live really.
But I'm still here.
And I'll still be here until I get all my hugs and praises.
>1
I'm taking a Chinese art and art history class guis
and i need either an app for doing chinese calligraphic stuff or the right brushes
>2
i have a tablet as well and figured i'd ask:
how can i get the third line?
I'm using sai and the intuos tablet in pic related.
is it just not possible?
>>2876789
Use clip studio paint
>>2876789
Combine 1 and 2 obviously. 3 is a brush with 0% minimal size and slightly lower density.
Any more artist like this? This has a cool Rick and Morty feel to it I dig.
I draw my stuff traditionally and color it digitally with a mouse so its mostly solid colors for me. Can you get good doing this.
>>2876763
>Can you get good doing this
You don't need to be good if you have a cohesive style, but it sounds like you just want to try and copy other people's styles.
Also look up James Stoke.
>>2876763
Check out pop surrealism
>>2876763
>This has a cool Rick and Morty feel
It used to be on this yt address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQOFp1X7VDI , but it's been removed recently.
Hel, please.
*Help, please.
>>2876561
>tfw didn't save it this whole time and now it's gone
>tfw Feng saw it and removed it himself
>>2876561
find a large work surface. Plot 2 vanishing points off your page on the horizon line and get to work, whats so hard about this?
Learning perspective is about making the fundamentals click, i think a lot of the digital hacks make this process more difficult.
help,who this
>>2876542
Google things Gerhard Grimm. I don't know how accurate that is. It looks at least inspired by German Expressionism.
thx you lot, first i think h.p grieshaper or aldo patocchi, but its not
no one ?