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>Work

Planned to start making a webcomic adaptation of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, but ended up drawing yuri femdom hentai again. I wanna kill myself, wow.

It's Friday.

>>2820970
OP got this figured out. We should all spend our life savings on lotteries.

But maybe I don't wanna make cartoons.

Your comparing two different things... But your right people on here are delusional.

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Here's the dwarf one
should I kill myself and give up drawing as I'm complete shit?

>>2820713
Clean up the lines and use reference for the girls face.

>>2820713
>>2820714
>be this good
>have to whine for attention
Perhaps

Venous brian

>>2824632
She got one before Kim jung gi. /ic/ must be pissed

>>2824662
>/ic/ must be pissed

She's apparently had this wiki entry since august and this is the first time anyone has ever heard of it, so no, not really.

>>2824197
Loomis' fun with pencil. I was finally able to draw a face decently with only a day of study.

Draw what you see not what you know

>>2824197

Loosen up.

Also gesture/proportion > anatomy. This is something I instinctively knew, but I was in a huge art block at a point where I was drawing super stiff figures and pieces due to focusing heavily on anatomy. I'de go as far as to say most things are more important than anatomy, but that's debatable.

Learn the Russian Academy way, it literally looks like Ruan Jia.

>>2822784
What guides should I download from cgpeers about that?

>>2822783
1. git gud
2. copy his style

>can't draw
>have ugly as fuck face
>have to look at face to draw
>make a terrible drawing of my already terrible face
>die inside twice

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>>2811176
>post your mug

>posting my face on mongolian image board

sure.

>>2811181
Aw cmon anon, dont beat yourself up
Im sure you are not that bad

>>2824610
trash

>>2824711
well, i mean, it can be used as a trash... id rather say this is a free piece, give it to someone who wants it for free. that's this art's reason.

i love threads like these because people like OP end up getting triggered and defending their shitty art

i got my popcorn dude lets go

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Don't you have to be over 18 to post here.

But I'll bite. You probably drew this guy the best you could, in a cartoony style with a large head and modern day fashion sense (except the ripped jeans.)

Learn anatomy if you really wanna learn how to draw. Not how to draw a human anatomy graph but general shapes of the human body in various of poses.

Sure, if you want a cartoony style that's fine but even then you still need to have good fundamentals - ex. the hand that's blocked by the other hand is short as fuck and tiny in width.

You have experience in drawing heads, I can tell - but the main issue is that you'll need to learn how to do it properly with view angles and perception. Otherwise, not bad for a 12 year old doodle.

>if you're not 12-16 then I should advise you to never post another drawing until you learned everything I said. Even if you're 16 that's kind of going past the point where scrappy doodles are acceptable.

>>2823851
Looking great, OP! Don't listen to >>2823886, it's your style right.

Im 19 sadface
>>2823890
Thanks, but, >>2823890 was right, and he gave me what i asked for, maybe a little rude way.
Sorry for my bad english, i only now the basic

>>2822178
hideous.

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>>2822178
love it

>>2822178
Really awesome stuff. Love most of it, kinda hard to tell if the newer Gorillaz material is all done by him still or not though.

I should add that I have done a couple life drawing classes with the nude figure. I understand why it's important.

But I just don't love how much time and devotion it takes to even remotely be OK, let alone good.

I do enjoy drawing from imagination. Cubes, shapes, quick figure sketches... that kinda stuff is kinda fun. But I know that won't help me get truly good. No idea if most people don't like life drawing or if this is even remotely normal, or if I'm really just not cut out for art. Again I'm open to all opinions. I just don't wanna keep wasting my time.

>>2822964
If you love drawing enough to keep doing it as a personal choice, i think you'll be fine OP.
I don't know how long you've been drawing for exactly OP but i'll say that if you've been doing it for 1-2 years you've only begun.
Your love for your craft "matures" or changes over time as you spend more time in it and liking things that you previously didin't is natural.

I'm assuming you are a hobbyist? Or maybe an aspiring comic artist.

>But I just don't love how much time and devotion it takes to even remotely be OK, let alone good.

Life drawing actually helps you get good more efficiently (when done correctly) since the reference is actually already in front of you. There is less room for mistakes, making the usage of your time more efficient = therefore smarter practice.

>learning art for the right reasons.
There is no right answer for this anon. Your reasons are just as good as any other person's. It's normal to want to do things that you enjoy doing.
For your situation though, you just have to ask yourself whether do you like the idea of getting good (I do, and I draw because of this) or do you like the art of drawing (I also do, but sometimes I just want to bury myself in a hole). Just be honest with yourself.

E.g. I love singing but that doesn't mean I will take vocal lessons or try to get a 'right reason' to do it. I enjoy it, therefore I will do it.

>>2822343
Paleoart is fucking cool and interesting. I doubt a theropod as big as Spinosaurus was THAT fuzzy but that's the cool thing about paleoart is you can put your own spin on the creatures you're depicting. One thing I would say is the foot closest to the viewer should be turned towards the viewer ever so slightly, it looks too in lin with the other, looks like it's right behind it. Other than that I would maybe render it a bit more but good stuff! Any more you'd care to share with us?

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>>2822365
Thanks, and yea i definitely did kinda go wild with the feathers there, and i definitely appreciate your comment on the foot because i probably wouldn't have noticed myself.

Here's a better one, a Concavenator, although the arms (or arm) are FUCKED.

I'm also working on a Ceratosaurus but that's not reached a point resembling something presentable.

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Very underrated genre

>>2821225
>is it actually a good plan to follow though?

It's a start. It'll take longer than one year to get good, but once you settle in the groove of doing work on a regular basis, it gets easier.

As the pic tells it, attend life drawing classes. This will be your back up in case you ever get lazy about your own practice and will spring you back.

>Ryder's book

I don't even know why that's part of the list. Attend life drawing, preferably something that isn't based on quick 5-minute poses. Ateliers tend to have longer poses (months of the same pose). They'll teach you how to do all this.

I'm not a fan of Ryder's method of blocking in either but never mind that. Otherwise it's a decent overview of the atelier life drawing and rendering system, but useless to beginners.

>human photocopier

Realism isn't about photocopying in the slightest.

>Also is Framed Ink going to be useful to me that early on

I would start with Jack Hamm's Drawing Scenery and the Arthur Dow's Notan book. Leave Framed Ink for later. Understanding tasteful and interesting composition takes longer to develop, so give it time.

What will help take you further is to practice while looking at art that resonates with you at each stage of your practice. If you're working on composition, seek out landscape and scenes that give you pause. Look at how the artist chose to do a particular thing that you're working on. Ask "why does this work in this setting?" and try to answer it by applying it yourself in a reduced form.This is how you develop the aforementioned understanding. It's trial-and-error with confidence.

>>2821225
>any other recommendations on colour books

Alla Prima is a classic and Richard Schmid is a humble teacher.

Also to add to your list if you think you can manage: do either 3D modeling (hard surface and organic) or ecorche sculpture at a local school, or both.

>>2821225

You can swap a couple of these books.yPersonally the framed ink booktisn't going to be useful me.

Also the last book is an art book sntdoesn't have exercice in it. You can swap that with an art book you'd enjoy and copy from it.

Apart from that all good books for your first year :) you should do a blog and put your progress ;)

>>2822726
just dive into it
there is no fast way

>>2822726
hours of training per day
step on it nigga

>>2822726
Try drawing some shit, faggot.

>Step 1: Draw from imagination.
>Step 2: Critique your work, find out what's not working. If you're a beginner and everything is wrong just pick something at random. Also read some Loomis.
>Step 3: Do studies related to that shortcoming.
>Step 4: Repeat.

>>2825868

I'd suggest trying out Autodesk Sketchbook. It's pretty good if you just want to draw without much advanced stuff.

Comes with pretty limited brushes, go on there blog and download all the free sets and fuck around with them. Most of them are shit, but you'll find some that are pretty great.

>>2825868
I can recommend Krita, Paintstorm Studio and Clip Studio Paint.
For more traditional feel - Corel Painter.

What do y'all think of Sai?
Seems very versatile to me.