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I too want to see what people use/set-ups and such. I'll post mine after dinner :^)

No really.. I'm having nachos!

>Never post

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a cheap roll of paper dispenser with a mirror i designed for looking at hands and my head.

cheap as fuck toned paper and white paper . endless studies.

Yes. Its great practice for anatomy too.

>>2682176
Use a different account

Your efforts will always be spent better on building a real career, and none of the embarrassing anime porn you make will be useful towards building that.

>>2678512
Famous fine artist where any shit doodle will sell for ludicrous amounts of money and I have perfect artistic freedom because of it

Work at Disney/Pixar.
That, or be able to earn at least a couple thousand through Patreon every month to fund my personal projects.

I've been thinking about it a lot lately and have no idea. I just want to work on anime stuff I guess. Cute things.

If not, be concept artist because designing is cool.

idk i just know i paid $20 for the kindle of the book of kells and it fucking sucks. shouldnt have watched the movie while doing so many whippits

>>2684199
You mean manuscripts?
I think people would pay more for authentic-looking pages

>>2684215
sure, call them manuscripts.

I think they fall in line with a graphic novel.

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Also, I had a hard time to find the exact fonts, and the ones I could identify cost a lot of money so I took the closes free ones I could find and tweaked them as close to the original as I could. I'm very bad at editing things to look "beaten up", the original is supposed to look like WW2 propaganda, That would have been fun, but I really aimed for that new look, as I would not have had a chance to make anything good had I tried to make it look worn out.

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The result, printed on a pretty thick (compared to regular A4) paper (A3). I think it looks pretty good, and I think she (my friend) will frame it, as that is what she said she wanted to do.

Also, I'd like to roll it up and keep it in a tube, is that a good thing to do or will it fuck things up?

>>2683255
If you use PS you can use the touch functions. 3 fingers swipe left does undo
3 fingers swipe right does redo
3 fingers touch, rest, then swipe lets you go through your history.

>>2683255

AutoHotkey is still the way to go I believe. There's probably some reddit thread on how to set it up for SP4 specifically.

I personally need to change my Eraser button to undo and right click to color picker, I've just been erasing etc and using normal button selects and it slows my workflow down dramatically. You could also get a bluetooth keyboard and use that for commands on your non-dominant as well.

A little tip for surface pro though, and I have a 3 so unsure if 4 fucks up but the digitizer on mine malfunctioned after a year (deadspots, pen acting weird, shooting around the screen randomly). I'm unsure what caused this but keep up with your warranty just incase.

>>2683263
>>2683255
also, there are hotkeys built in photoshop for alt, ctr, shift

Maybe it depends on the kind of crayons?

Is it possible to ask good questions on /ic/?

>>2681374
You could work with the priciest and highest quality tools but if you're a shitty artist you won't make anything from it. The point: Tools don't make the artist so yes, crayons can be a great medium if the right person wields them.

I would try and get your hands on a DVD by Daniel Greene called "color the Daniel Greene method"

>>2683335
What are you trying to get out of this exercise?

I thought the point of making color charts was to understand how paint mixes (in particular the mixtures you can get with your own set of paints). Even disregarding differences in opacity and staining of each paint, and the idiosyncrasies of specific pigments that will cause them to mix differently than a similar color with a different pigment would, you are still dealing with additive vs. subtractive color. Paint doesn't act the same way light does.
I would think it'd be a pretty pointless exercise to do digitally.

>>2683335
>making it digitally
I think you misunderstand this exercise. It teaches you how to mix paint and also teaches you how and what color you can get from this pallete.

It also serves as a handy guideline for you when you need that one color but can't remember how to mix it, you just whip out your card and check.

I suggest doing all color studies traditionally, since digital makes colormixing pretty much useless.

>>2681899

Good idea but I think it's good form if you start

>>2681899
I very much recommend going out into nature once a week to do a plain-air. It sounds old fashioned, but the difference is drastic, it really helps you understand landscape in it's layers and forms instead of just memorizing diagrams 'n shit.

>>2681915
sure, doing plein air paintings is great, but I don't see how this is an either or situation, especially if you do plein air paintings once a week. If this happens do be your plein air day and you are just getting ready to go outside, feel free to come back and do these studies at any other time during the week.

Have you rly studied anatomy? All the bones, muscles etc. Just curious.

Stop fretting and start practising. Drawing from imagination after drawing from reference a lot is paralysing because you're used to reference, but just get over it and practice drawing from imagination.

If the shit you did untrained was better, unless you've got some degenerative disease that has literally made you dumber than you were at the time, you'll catch up and surpass that standard very quickly.

/ic/ over-prioritizes anatomy studies. They are not that important.

>>2683036

Its not bad, just be observant the entire time and try mentally process things a bit more instead of just copying, and seek other forms of information like books or videos.

Going outside to draw is also a great idea, you can learn a lot about light and colour from still life or plein air painting.

>>2683036
The problem is if you just copy the 2d shapes without understanding the structure. If you are drawing in an analytical way (constructing, understanding the planes, light sources etc) then it's fine to draw from photos. Just beware that photos are not the exact same as how our eyes see so they will have issues with lens distortion, flattening things, value compression or exposure issues, far less colour information, overemphasis of texture and detail etc.

The best thing to do of course is draw and paint from life when you can with still life, self portraits, plein air and life drawing, but then use photos as well to help with subjects you don't have access to.

Drawing and painting from life are usually better side it sidesteps photographic setbacks and it also forces you to translate 3 dimensions into 2, rather than copy 2d to 2d.

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>>2683046
Example of different lenses affecting the visual appearance of form. I can't find it online but there's a James Gurney example in his Color and Light book on page 170 that clearly shows how photos don't capture colour very well.

>>2682955
If you saw it 10+ years ago, maybe I'd understand, but 3?

>>2683010
Yep, 3 years ago. It stood out to me.

>>2682955
to me it has a vaporwave-y, nostalgic, otherworldly (in an escapist sense) quality you get like with those covers of niche visual novels. it could belong in this video (pretty graphic): https://vimeo.com/75534042

to me the colors are kinda ugly, and theoretically shouldn't work, but i think it actually adds to its affectation of strangeness that's curiously intriguing

>>2681687
Keep drawing dude, i think they look fun. Maybe try to make some comic?

>>2681687
As of now: Uninspired, lazy, and mediocre. However, if you actually knew how to draw you could develop it into something real and appealing. Get to the sticky!

>>2681687
Lazy and unattractive in many ways. You need a *lot* of work, but keep at it. Don't try, go no where, try, and you'll get good one day. Make sure you're enjoying yourself in the meantime.

The only way to draw digitally is with the tablet, so of course you have to use it, but learning on paper isn't wrong either. You'll get good at both.

>>2681423
Either. Transitioning from paper to tablet will take time either way. I personally use a mixture of both. I like doing exercises and studies on paper with traditional materials (like charcoal but I got obsessed with conte crayons recently especially on grey paper) but when I sit down to finish a piece I prefer to do it digitally.Especially because i'm really heavy handed (My teacher was flabbergasted how I made a super hard pencil look like a 2B

I recommend getting comfortable with paper first. If you aren't a painter then when you get more comfortable with your traditional work you could make the switch to digital and practice painting like that. I personally have used my traditional drawings and scanned them into my program which is super helpful. Having a good grasp on the basics is important though, start small and build up.

Learn to draw from life familia, then your issue will vanish.

>>2682288
Johnny bravobobo-bobobo-bobobobo

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use some caricature like features but don't over exaggerate them as much if that makes sense.

pay attention to things about them that stand out the most like hair styles, shape of their face, distinct marks like freckles or moles, how their mouth looks in the "rest" position, ect.