Have a couple of unanswered questions that remained unanswered for a while
> Why would you sketch with something other than black ?
I see quite a lot of professional and big artists sketching using red and blue.
> Why would you work on a non white canvas ?
I get the idea of "white is too distracting, but, then again, I see some good artist working on light brown, light orange and such.
> What's the most important thing in a piece that makes it GOOD ?
Can a piece be good if the sketch is shit, but the render is right ? Will it be otherwise ?
> What's the transition from drawing to painting ?
I usually see sketches being drawn, then values being painted, but I only seem to be able to "draw" the values and colors. What the fuck ?
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>>2678513
read the sticky. that's what it's there for.
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Black gets boring
Muh values
Whether or not you have the fundamentals under your belt
Like a one video watch away
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>>2678525
> open sticky
> ctrl f any possible related word for any answers
> ctrl f values
> "values are important"
> ctrl f color
> "there are many color that can be used"
> ctrl f sketch
> "get yourself a sketchbook"
the sticky is a shit meme
plus if its not on google its not in the sticky
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>tfw your favorite artist follows you back.
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>>2676968
You must have some low standards
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>>2676968
>several artists you love follow you on Twitter
>all I do is bitch and moan when I'm not uploading my single monthly drawing
why are they still following me
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>>2676968
the day Ukitakamuki started following me was a good day.
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What are the best reasonably priced oil pastels?
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>>2675929
idk ask /g/
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>>2675929
I only use soft pastels... but if it helps you I have heard some good shit about rembrandt oil pastels.
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Honestly, the really cheap pentels are pretty decent. Up from that there are the Sakura Expressionist and Specialist, or if you want something softer, move up to Mungyo or import a set of Holbeins from japan.
If you want an artist-grade set that's firmer, I can recommend the CdA Neopastels if you can get them on sale. At normal prices they're way too expensive.
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cat-pun on tumblr.17 years old. how bad do you want to kill yourself /ic/?
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>>2675920
I want to kill myself, but not because of some teenager's mediocre art.
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>>2675920
Go home cat-pun, you're drunk
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I want to make sure I live long enough to surpass this person first.
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How comes that every art pleb out there is a master of observational drawing although it's crazy hard? I never liked it but I feel like I can't continue with constructional drawing if I can't even properly observe and bring reference on paper as it is.
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I guess because fine art school forces you to do it. That's the main reason. The other is probably because it's what the world looks like?
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it's hard but it's very simple, you don't have to do much thinking just being autistic as fuck.
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>>2677318
Drawing 1 really hard on ya isnt it mate?
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Anyone here know how to make an embedded flash video with music? Or failing flash, what alternatives do I have? I have an animated GIF I wanted to add sound effects and music to for a project of mine I'm working on.
I thought I'd ask here first and get recommendations before diving into google searches and reading for hours.
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where do you plan to host?
its easy enough to make but you have to host it on youtube or vimeo or somehwere so you can embed it
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I have a private youtube channel I could use. But I'm not sure if it'll turn my pixel art into a blurry mess.
I want to main this aesthetic if possible.
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>>2672062
source on that animation?
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and there you are fingering your bellybutton
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>>2677829
me on the left
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>>2677829
you mean students or Chinese artist? i hope more Chinese come by they have a nice chalk like style that looks pretty cool. i'm quite tired of this red nose tumbrl garbage
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What the hell are they painting? Those look like still lives, but where are their references?
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can /ic/ help get photoshop on my new computer i used to have it but the method i used doesn't work anymore. can someone help? (dont recommend me the portable version)
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>>2677800
Stop being an incompetent computer illiterate idiot.
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Have you consulted troubleshooting guides or videos?
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Hey guys, I am currently reading Dodson's Keys to Drawing and I am on the section about mapping light and dark areas. I just read this tip and can someone give me an example of his tip? The picture in the book does not really help.
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you can't be serious
>use hard edges for hard edges
>run the pencil back and forth across the boundary line for soft edges (ie use a soft edge)
do you need someone to explain which end of the pencil goes where?
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>>2676391
>you can't be serious
Yes I am, and based on your answer, it seems you don't really appreciate what Dodson is saying here. Let me outline below.
>use hard edges for hard edges
Dodson says to stop the fill-in strokes at the boundary line, which I completely understand. What I do not understand is running the strokes over the boundary line for soft edges. Wouldn't I be making a new hard edge based on my strokes over the boundary?
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>>2676467
Take a pencil and find out, idiot.
Spoiler alert, the answer is no.
Krita lands an interview with the esteemed Danny. Why aren't you this good yet?
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I started reading that interview expecting it to be a terminally ill kid so I'd come back and call you a faggot, but it turns out it's literally just a furry version of the average d/ic/k, except with more balls.
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>>2676181
What the fuck are they doing?
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>>2676181
This was a joke interview right?
Post your nsfw, critique work and so on.
Furry is not allowed. LOLI IS NOT ALLOWED. This thread is dedicated to helping anons improve their erotic drawings and paintings.
Do not start flame wars.
Do not reply to shitposting.
Stay on topic.
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>>2666332
Blog please?
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>>2666408
BBC I'm using your artwork to practice digital painting.
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>>2666408
She's a rabbit not an owl :^)
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Why is it that you always can tell whether a drawing was made by a chink or not?
I've been analyzing pic related for forever but I can't figure out what makes them so distinctly eastern looking. Even though the character designs are western and all.
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>>2669935
>Even though the character designs are western and all.
lol.
Literally all 80s cartoons were animated by TMS, you raging faggot.
As soon as american studios took over the animation looked like furaffinity dogshit.
From gummi bears to rescue rangers, everything was animated in japan and it shows.
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>>2669935
the shading still looks anime-like
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>>2669935
chinks always cel shade, and their lines are much sharper and straighter, not a whole lot of round shapes in their art.
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Hey guys. I've always had difficulties with working with multiple issues at once. Doing composition, costume design, anatomy, rendering, color and all that shit at once feels really overwhelming to me as I'm still a fucking n00b at everything so I'm trying a new approach where I split the workload into parts.
I want to do an Illustration of a Marvel character called "The Shocker" with some new design elements etc. and I want a bad ass pose. Here's what I've come up with till now.
I made the costume design with Alchemy and Photoshop and I did the composition work separately in Photoshop (the crappy BW pic). The idea is to do a striking illustration of the character for my portfolio. If any of you kind and talented fellows could give me some pointers with the design and composition I'd be fucking thankful. FOREVER.
Oh and also... If there's anybody who's slightly worse than I am at doing this shit I can totally give you tips or paintovers on your stuff too.
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>>2674729
>I want a bad ass pose
Then why did you do a really static and boring and generic one? Do some thumbnails or get in front of a mirror and act it out.
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>>2674737
I actually tried a bunch of poses. Including the one I have on the pic... I also did a bunch of thumbnails. I just thought that I needed the character to look strong and ready for what ever. I dunno. I know it's fucking generic but you know... I want to get work so I didn't think that having a generic pose would necessarily be a bad thing. If you have any tips for better poses I'll fucking listen to you though!
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>>2674729
80% of learning this shit is failing and then fixing it in the next project, OP.
General>specific.
Lrn2thumbnail. Thumbnails are the fwbs of the art world. It gives you everything you want in the picture without the commitment. You can design 20 of them, pick one, blow it up, and paint over it.
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I remember not long ago there was topic made showing off amazing sculptures. Anyone got images they can share displaying some great sculptures?
Nude ones if possible.
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always been my favorite, for more reasons than one
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>>2674592
I remember in the Khan Academy video on this one of the lecturers mentioned how the Barberini Faun was discovered after Michelangelo died, which was too bad because he would have loved it. Made me kek.
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>>2674596
>painstakingly carving drapes to censor your ideal man's wang
can we ever compete?
How'd I do /ic/?
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>>2677587
>what are /beg/ threads
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>>2677587
/beg/
but otherwise pretty great
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You've made it anon, congratulations.