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I don't think I press hard with my pen but I'm replacing nibs every other week. Is Amazon the cheapest place to buy them in bulk?
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Switch to flex nibs. They last forever.
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>>2800700
You can buy the standard black nibs for very cheap in bulk on Aliexpress.
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How rough is the tablet surface?
If it's a new tablet they often give it a bit of texture and it acts as sandpaper for nibs
After a few months of drawing it will be worn down and your nibs will last forever
Have you tried using spaghetti as nibs?
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What do you think of Karl Kopinski art?
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So I really really need your help /ic/. I'm in a hard phase of my life, I'm a uni student and in few years or even less I will have to start working, I will have way less time to draw. In the meanwhile I still have to study a lot of shit and I can't waste my time. Can you give me a complete course or a good drawing program? (ex. read this book, do this exercise tot times, read this other book, do this, etc.).
I'm a beginner, I want to get into digital art but want to be able to draw almost evrything from characters, to landscapes, to comics etc.
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Harold Speed's books are a good start
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>>2800568
"The practice and science or drawing", are you talking about this? Should I read something else from this author?
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Having a job isn't a necessarily a problem But I would suggest just Buying all Kinds of books for just information and study in drawing as you said. Find meet up groups in your area take your time to go to those if you have them. also take time to do blind contour drawing EVERY WHERE YOU GO it truly does help. You will see crap drawings at first but I would say after doing it 100 times you will see definite improvement in your seeing skills and imaginary skills as well. trust me on this.
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Is this board more oriented toward anime and the likes? I've never seen any paintings really, but I've only been going on for several days.
Also, I feel like I'm at the skill level I need to be to start selling but I'm not sure how to market myself. Any tips or pointers besides the obvious?
No clue if I should post more of my stuff, this is a scrap painting. They're both studies of my face, but the bottom is several months afterwards with better paint.
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I MEANT THE TOP. THE TOP IS SEVERAL MONTHS AFTERWARDS WITH BETTER PAINT. I lied ok? Okay cool.
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How's about you read the draw thread you nigger?
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>>2799859
I don't wanna. :(
Does /ic/ have a place to draw digitally together, like an iScribble room or something?
If not, why won't we start something?
IS doesn't work for me currently but this one looks ok http://www.anondraw.com/
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>>2799270
I like these sort of sites, but they lack some of the technical tools /ic/ might require. I suggest /ic/ concocts a Drawpile server
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>>2787123
I actually do like some of the work that he puts out, but when I remember that he's just a hack it makes me enjoy it a lot less.
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>>2787142
>Sukablyat
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Churches, Religion and the Artist: What is your perspective? 2017-01-01 10:49:09 Post No.2799820
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Churches, Religion and the Artist: What is your perspective?
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In terms of "gitting gud" I like the tree of life because each sphere represents some attribute, like mercy, perseverance, love, hate, wisdom, understanding etc
i think in order to be a good artist one must posses the technical training, but also lead an interesting life. This is a lot to ask of a person, especially with how intensive one can be in technical training.
Which is why i think it is good for the otherwise chaotic creative to allow himself some order, some guide, submission to a religion if only so he can be enabled an interesting life without having to detract from his studies. We as artists create, in some sense we are like god.
So i think it is good to have religion to better understand yourself and your creations from the perspective of creator, and as a mortal, using some systemic means.
For me Zen and Kabbalah primarily dictate my artistic direction.
I am also culturally Russian, so i have a of interest in orthodox Russian iconography. I was raised Atheist and never went to church and didn't have much interest in religion until i studied philosophy in college.
For those of you who went to church when you were young, what was your upbringing like, wanting to be an artist? do you relate god, the church and art?
on pic related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha
>[The Poem] is famous because it is simultaneously a perfect pangram and isogram, containing each character of the Japanese syllabary exactly once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah)
>Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (infinity)[3] and the mortal and finite universe (God's creation).
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>>2799820
>culturally Russian
the fuck does that mean
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>>2799820
Take your meds.
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The tree of life shows the emanation of reality from God, you stupid faggot.
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The /ic/ guide to making it 2017-01-01 01:04:27 Post No.2798993
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The /ic/ guide to making it
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Is it a meme or is following this the best way I can make it? Will studying these books until I die make me Da Vinci?
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>>2798993
If you can't sit down for a bit and consistently work on some foundational drawing books, then you won't even master one let alone a myriad of things da vinci was able to do.
He didn't have 4chan to shitpost on but he had plenty of curiosity to figure out how shit works.
Now get to it lad
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>>2798999
Well, uh, normally I'd wait for other replies but those trips are too overpowering 4 me. Thanks lad.
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>>2798993
>"Force" after Hampton
Fucking meme'd.
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Challenge: Draw a head every day for 30 days. Thread #2
Pick your own starting date, but once you start, don't stop. If you skip a day, make it up with a second drawing the following day.
Let's do this, /ic. Let's enhance our understanding of the human/animal/robot head.
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>>2770496
Good work OP
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d11 dying
why does imagination suck so badddd
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Quick sketch from imagination. Actually done to try new brush.
If you have a DeviantArt account, get the fuck off this board. You are a fucking lowlife who can't take criticism and lives in a bubble, with 5000 million other retards and doesn't deserve to breathe.
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if you're on 4chn ur a fagget desu
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Art seriuz business
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>>2800479
why 5000 million? isn't that just a billion?
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Guys, I'm tired and I'm looking for advice.
There's so much to fucking learn, and the more I learn, the more aware I am that I don't know shit.
I'm tired of studying books and grinding studies so I can one day do the stuff I want to do.
I've been at it for a year or so of actual studying, and I'm spent. Whenever I'm off doing something else, I want to draw, but I no longer derive any pleasure from practice, and I am not good enough that I feel I can commit to drawing even semi-professionally.
I don't go out, I don't play video games or watch movies or tv, I just work and draw, and lately I've been turning into a plant whenever I tried to sit down and draw.
How do you keep things fresh and diverse?
I've been thinking about starting a blog or something, but I doubt I'd get much feedback and it could just depress me.
Are there any active communities with themed "contests" or challenges that I can participate in and have competition to run against and learn from?
Yeah, we have /las/, but it's just drawing whatever, and it's pretty half-assed from what I've seen.
Or you know, whatever advice you can spare.
What do you do to not kill yourself?
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>>2800238
Draw what you want to draw and learn to draw it well. That's the trick to getting good. If you can't find anything you want to draw, then drawing isn't for you.
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>>2800242
>If you can't find anything you want to draw, then drawing isn't for you.
That's not the problem, not crying because it looks like shit is the problem.
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>>2800246
Use reference(very important), take it slowly, don't rush the drawing. Spend as much time as you require on a single drawing. Learn to draw in lines only before rendering, then learn to render in black and white before doing color.
A trick to making good beginner art is to draw directly from a photo reference and add your own touches. This is how some of the popular artists do it. E.g., get a photo of a naked man, then research some armors or clothing and add the armors on the naked man.
Spend enough time fleshing out a single drawing, then it will look good.
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>canvas size doesnt matter
>not telling you that you need to paint in high fucking res in order to render anything that isn't pixel art
how big of a canvas would you need to paint something like pic related?
also any advice on doing something like this in my lifetime would be gud.
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>>2800539
something like 8k * 14k
don't start at full res though. start smaller so you can comfortably block in shapes and masses without your computer exploding or your autistic impatience being triggered when the brushstrokes drag across the canvas at 1px per second.
you go full res only after you have a fairly nice level of blocking in achieved.
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>>2800567
you are a saint, truly.
i'd been sperging out trying to paint shit like this on a tiny canvas.
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How to really improve your linework? What guide/book helped you the most?
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i don't know any but i;m sure you can find it here
https://vk com/topic-4918594_27696136?post=17980
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>>2800282
good linework is something you master with practice. this is the only way to improve it. mileage. no book will make you better at it. only practice will.
it's time to stop trying to cut corners and actually start to draw, anon.
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bump
bamp
BAMMMMP
Line work.
:D
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>Applied to multiple animation universities
>THey all want to see my portfolio
>mfw I have no portfolio
What the fuck do I do now, They want to see it by tomorrow.
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just draw some character sheets and probably gestures, you're applying to learn animation there, and not to work as an animator
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What are some examples of animation universities
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>>2800425
where did you apply
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What does /ic/ think of wlop?
http://wlop.deviantart.com
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not polished enough, seems very unfinished
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>>2799731
slightly above ryky level garbage
every time i see his garbage drawings on dA i just get mildly irritated because it looks so fucking cheap and crappy.
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>>2799731
meh