Where do you find good animal refernces for your drawings?
I wish there was an Wildlife Booru or something like that.
Going to post some I have mean while
Photobashing / matte done well, is it a plus or still a hack skill to have overall?
>>2826329
hack, because you cheated to do it.
i start to like my work..
did i comunicate a felling?
>>2824551
stop making a new thread each time for this shit, you already made one
>>2824571
but i if the old one is gone, what should i do..
>>2824551
why would you do that to you wall
How do I improve my design and aesthetic senses?
Learning fundamentals is pretty straightforward, it was broken down almost scientifically and it's very logic. But what about aspects that a bit more subjective and taste dependent? How do I make something look pleasing? How do I understand what is beautiful and what is shit?
Design is the same way, it was broken down almost scientifically and it's very logical.
Depends on what you're designing though. But just searching design should like pop up a ton of results.
http://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/principles-of-design-process.html
Maybe looking at this course outline will help you a bit.
>>2824534
What do YOU like? Start there. Collect a bunch of paintings (or drawings or whatever) that speak to you and try to analyze exactly what you like about them. The point is to refine your own taste not to acquire a new one. Unless you have some form of head trauma you shouldn't need to be told what's beautiful.
>>2824562
Pretty much this.
I like Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott too. Why do I like it? Hmm lets see.
It's relatively loosely handled, not too smoothed out, you can still see brush strokes. I tend to prefer that. It is mostly just the head and hand where things tighten up, helping reinforce the focal point and not become an overly-tight, over-rendered mess. Contrast in detail levels.
This image is also pretty simple, in a way. If you reduce it to its very basic abstract composition, it is a white triangle on a black background. He has made sure to offset the triangle from center. The triangle (girl) is kept separate from everything else through value contrast. Her head is the point of the triangle, arms the sides, this is common, easily leads us to her face. The quilt more or less extends the arms of the triangle, creating more mass leading to her head. The lines of the grass and trees in the background on the right lead to her face also. The bit of sky in the corner forming a triangle pointing us in towards her.
This piece is pretty colorful, at least compared to my garbage, and the average digital fantasy painting which so often has that monochromatic heavily color-graded effect. How does Waterhouse pull off colorful harmony? One trick he seems to be employing is to reuse colors throughout the image. The red and yellow of the quilt shows up again in her dress, hair, face, the foreground grasses, the background stairs and trees... The blues in the quilt are similar to the dark green trees behind her and the lip of the back of the boat, and highlight on the water. There is a spot of the blue on the horizon over on the right too. Colors reused, dabbled all over.
I've always thought the way the plants were drawn emphasize her expression. The chaotic mess of shapes for the grass in the foreground. The vertically streaking of the trees in the background, looking kind of like paint running down the canvas. Dreary.
Do you /really/ believe art is subjective, anon?
>>2823104
yep
>>2823104
Ja, art is subjective, although general consensus exists. Just like genes, 99% of population on earth is born with legs while the rest aren't.
Do you really think that art only means good art?
Tips on promoting/marketing yourself through social media? I mainly use tumblr/instagram but want to know if I can expand (mostly digital art) onto unknown sites. I recently found an account on instagram that regrams for a dollar. I checked random followers and a majority of them are legit, with consistent likes so I thought to opt for it. Any experiences with services like this/are they worth it?
>>2824107
look custom waifus, who ever they are, they know how to attract plebs on social media with their art fast
Tell me what you think about my art.
idunno, needs more loomis
>>2825213
pretty cool if from imagination. If not, bland. im no expert on dog proportion, so lets wait for the furries to come in
>>2825213
looks like a photobash so I don't think you made this without trickery or tracing..
Book recommendations on designing clothing or outfits?
>>2824920
just look at clothes on amazon
>>2824920
fashion tv
I want to find outfits similar to what melania wore.
Hey, I use a Graphire 4 and my laptop force updated to Windows 10 with no restore points, my tablets pressure doesnt work now too because of this, hellpppp
bump again
>>2823589
reinstall drivers, usually works for wacom
this is my art style, and i like it simplistic but im sure that its good enough
>>2823414
would be passable for some online comic 4 panel strip but you need to better control your line weight and what parts should be more thick or thin
since Brian is creating shitposting threads that are not getting banned by the mods because i guess they are art related, i thought id give it a go too, because seemingly this is totally fine on this board.
>to shitpost but if its art related im above the rules.
the theme of this thread is: art anything goes.
>>2821031
here is another really good art painting piece.
>>2821033
haha look guys a doge painted with many colours of the rainbow, very good tech skill in this one, i like it alot.
i hope one day we will all be able to achieve this unique and original look.
>>2821037
i want to be able to achieve this level of form portrayal, the way the light bounces from the glasses is just wonderful.
is it possible for a single person to make an animated movie?
>>2818024
Yes, Walt Disney made Steambot Willy all by himself
I hear Cenoroll was made by one guy. It took him stupidly long to do it.
>>2818024
if you're skilled in all required areas, yeah
it'll just take a long time. one of the required skills by the way is management and planning and all that stuff. you could be great at animating but shit at planning and turning your movie concept into something organized and workable
>Headaches
>Stress
>Fatigue
>Lack of sleep
>Eye strain
>Hand strain
>Lack of concentration
>Etc.
Overcoming these issues personally (if you even have them at all) when studying or grinding through work.
>Break intervals?
>Having a day off from studies?
>Relaxing?
>Etc.
You shouldn't have any of these just from drawing or painting. Use common sense, take a break every hour to stretch and clear your focus, stay hydrated, hold you pencil/brush comfortably, you shouldn't be tense in any way, get proper fucking sleep and exercise, etc.
You don't need to kill yourself to study art, it's fucking stupid. You shouldn't have any of this shit going on, you're not doing some psychotic workout regimen.
If you're not staying healthy and fit, and getting enough rest for your brain to take care of itself, you're not going to progress as well. You're training your body and mind to do something, obviously you want to take care of these things so they can perform to their greatest extent.
hobbies mane do something you have no desire to become better at
i know as an artist everything feels like work and is a forced effort to always get better.
this is where your symptoms are coming from, work is supposed to be challenging, not a death sentence.
So for me personally? im tone deaf and know for a fact i suck at music. which makes it so fun to play piano or guitar.
swim
run
dance to that embarassing jpop you like
suntan
eat something delicious
cook something awful and bad for you
write
take a break from the constant self criticism and /ic/'s verbal battery so you feel rested enough to actually digest what people are trying to tell you is wrong with your art, so you can learn and actually become better.
>>2824577
>some people are so bad at art on /ic/ that their drawings make them physically ill
I am really confused /ic/. I have been told here that the first thing I have to learn is measurement and hand control. That makes a lot of sense, since you have to train your eyes and your hand, basic stuff. But what then? What is the next step? I just dont want to do everything at once, I want to move forward from one thing to another. I can copy faces relatively good but thats really it when it comes to my skills.
>>2823021
What do you want to do next is the question you should ask yourself.
But if you still don't know, then tell me what you want and I'll give you one way.
>>2823025
Well, I want to be an illustrator who focuses on characters. So should i go with full but basic anatomy first or go with doing each part of a body separately like heads?
>>2823034
What kind of illustrator are we talking about here? Like kids book cover? High fantasy? Sci-fi?