I did an meme eye-Pyramid for the first time paint
on serious note I painted it on sketch paper no primer with oils. I take it that it will eventually crack/peel away.
To practice can you use special paper for oils? so you don't have to waste canvases when practicing.
>>3093501
Just prime the paper. Get some gesso, and stop wasting paint.
>>3093501
You can definitely use oil on paper but it should be primed. Then again I practice all the time on paper without priming and if its good paper it I've never seen any degradation when it comes time to clean out my closet and triage my work over the years.
Any weakness of oil on paper would be due to the lack of rigidity in the sheet versus a board or canvas. Not the primer/gesso so much.
Please ic help.
1) i have a picture of a cartoony character with black outlines
2) i need to make an outline of magneta colors because that cartoon character will be cut...and i guess magneta colored lines should be done for cutting machine that detects magneta? eh...i dont even know
SO THE MAIN QUESTION - editor sent me this message of what should i do but i guess im too dumb because this message is too complicated...im not sure what i should do exactly...
>What if you use the black lines and make them magenta and let the inside colours of each part go outside for about 2 mm?
what did he mean?
>>3093183
also he explains everything by using "mm" while i understand stuff in Pixels form...
>>3093183
Just color the outlines magenta and then color outside the lines ~2mm
Just eyeball 2mm
>>3093185
mm stands for millimeter just look up how many pixels one mm is
How hard is the entry test to an art school?
ask Hitler
Depends. To be safe though, you gotta be able to draw well AND explain the meaning behind your art piece. It can't be a half assed meaning, although post modernists might like that irony. You gotta show how well you draw and how deep your aesthetic understanding is.
>>3093166
Hitler was an amateur architect, not an artist.
What would be a useful languages to learn, taking into account career prospects. Chinese seems useful and there are quite a lot of chink artists around. I'm sure game studios would like it, but I doubt chinese studios hire western artists very often. I was also looking at russian, because it's close to my native country and has a good academic art tradition, but not too sure about work opportunities there.
Anyone have opinions on this matter?
>a useful languages
>inb4 hehe how about learn english first retard
>>3093133
Not /ic/
>>3093133
Japanese for these sweet untranslated textbooks.
Hey guys I'm new here. Sometimes I make some rather simplistic quick drawn, drawings based on feelings. I was wondering if they are interesting and whether or not you like the style or if it looks silly.
>>3092926
boring, poor technically and very shallow in its core. I guess you must be 15,16 years old or something below.
>>3092926
cute
>>3092926
You'd be a prodigy in kindergarten.
I got sevreal big charcoaldrawings. (100x120cm iirc)
whats the best way to store them?
Should i just stack the drawings with paper inbetween each drawing after i fixated them?
>>3092143
yep that's how you do it
Have you ever thought of just paying to get your posts on Facebook/twitter advertised? It's not that expensive.
Though you look kinda silly if anyone you know happens to find out.
>>3091336
The instagram rates and returns are good for mobile games.
Ive been involved with that system a few times and the return on investment is worthwhile.
I guess the difference with art is that you arent looking for clicks to sell a cheap product quiet often there is no product or the barrier for a customer to purchase the product is higher.
Such as purchasing your prints from a store , which is more difficult than purchasing an app.
Instagram is definitely something i can say works because of how the ad's target an audience who very often don't realise its an ad when they see it. Due to ads looking like a regular post
The reason paying for ads is a bad idea is because they cause spikes spikes aren't consistent so you have to keep throwing money at it . if you stop you're going to lose a huge chunk of followers or whatever coming in
>>3091336
I know a girl who promoted her fb page ( I saw it as an ad), and her page jumped from 160 likes to 1.1k over a few weeks.
She was a mediocre sakimi wannabe, and quite the attention whore. Pretty pathetic imo. If numbers is your goal then go for it I guess. But be warned you might reel in low quality followers. The posts on the aforementioned girl's page gets like 10 likes despite how many people follow the page.
Normally lurk /pol and /ic silently... But just made a youtube show, so it's about time i contribute instead of just leeching.
Are there other youtube animators out here? Got some advice? Is this shit even funny?
https://youtu.be/fch15_WUOhw
/pol would not approve.
>>3090665
>Is this shit even funny?
Not by any stretch. Pretty cringy though. The bottles look pretty cool, but that's about it.
>Got some advice?
Stop smoking weed, take autism meds, and stop being ironic. Calarts influence is the pinnacle of animated cancer. Refine your vision or just stop, you probably just have no talent for this kind of stuff.
>Are there other youtube animators out here?
Tamers12345. He's really good. The comedy feels very natural, the jokes are funny, the characters are all memorable (and by all I literally mean every single one of them, even the background characters and the artist himself), and the art direction, even though a bit raw, is absolutely original. The rawness only adds more comedic value and idiosyncrasy. Maybe you can take an inspiration or two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNedFHhOh7U
>>3090676
Thanks! Never meant to make "art" but the feedback is good. Will check out recommended.
Discuss and talk of bizarre artists, I'll start
There is this pixiv user that has no username and no info on his profile. He drew somewhat regular stuff with characters all the way in 2008 until 2014, where his work then morphed into extremely bizarre and surrealistic paintings.
About a month or two ago he suddenly posted a drawing of one of his characters that hasn't been seen since pic related, a piece from 2014. There were tons of shocked users in the comments saying 'Welcome back' and such.
When I checked his page again today, said piece was deleted.
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=53928
Things happend Anon,ive seen some artist with good and moderately awsome works just fucking delete everything from their social media and went dissapear into the abyss in a blink of an eye.
The reason may varies,but i think its just personal stuff that they need to delt with.It is of course sad to see sth like this happend to a fellow artist or so you admire but hey thats life,nothing is fair.
>>3090995
>nothing is fair
This. So fucking much.
Beksinski got stabbed to death over like $100.
Giger had a bad fall and died from the injuries.
Those are just the biggest names in bizarre art that I know, I'm sure there have been other less known folks who had worse shit happen to them.
>>3090462
OP here, turns out the image wasn't deleted and just made private; luckily I saved it
16/6/2017
Any one here uses tablet/cintiq alternatives?
>Huion
>Ugee
>Artisul
>Yynova
> Others
And if you have, please give your opinion on it and if its worth it or not, and if you also own a Wacom, please do a comparison between the two.
>>3088502
Been using the Samsung Slate with Windows 8 for a few years. Love it, but it gets a little after image sometimes. I'm probably going to move to the Surface Pro when my current one bites it.
>>3088502
Ugee. M1000L
Very good, never had issues. Very cheap with nice tactile macro keys.
I broke mine and in need of something less than 80 bucks. What's the best choice.
How does one get noticed on social media? It always feels like no matter how much I try to pander or how good the art I post is, people always gloss over me and flock to another artist.
Pic unrelated.
loomis
>>3085865
you should post your work so we know "how good your art is", you know there is a lot of people that think his art is very good and is not so good as they think.
Also, should post the art of the other artist that people flock into, so we can compare.
>>3085865
Be original, if you art is good but "inspired" by someone else you will always be a shadow of that person, its better to be unique even if it turns your art more shitty by your own standards
Also be likable, interact with people and be proactive, return follows and follow people with similar interests as you
And be active, consistency is the key of life
If one wanted to draw dinosaurs as a personal pursual, where would be the best place to look for up-to-date information on dinosaur anatomy? I have a basic understanding of tetrapod anatomy, but there are obvious trends in the morphology of many dinosaur illustrations I see (e.g. theropods having bulbous, sometimes ostrich-like legs; though I'm sure people aren't just slapping bird anatomy straight on the dino; the anatomy has its own character).
I would like to know the "why" behind dinosaur anatomy and how much artistic license I have when it comes to drawing dinosaurs for fun (with a degree of accuracy and believability).
I'd also like to make this thread available for anyone to post paleo art and natural science works.
>>3092776
Relevant video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW7uyD0hfqg&list=PLaCDmykyjVw_B983AQ2iGuZOA3ZLJ8Sry
>>3092776
You're looking at a foundation of paleontology, biology, specifically reptiles, and following the work of the top guys in the field, like Speilberg and Co. did for Jurassic Park, like Mark Crash McCreery. The good news is, there's a lot of artistic license, because so little remains of dinos except fossilized bone. You can follow the work of the top paleontologists to see what they think, but they don't even agree with each other a lot of the time.
>>3092776
t-rexs look a lot more like chickens these days eh
i wonder if they wouldn't be even more chickeny if people hadn't initially thought of them as lizards
i am very new with digital drawing pls help
>>3092773
values, study about it.
>>3092773
Block the values in like if you were painting traditionally and then refine.
Do portrait studies in greyscale for a while and then, if you feel like you're ready, try doing studies in color
These channels helped me with digital painting:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ctrlpainter
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsDxB-CSMQ0Vu_hTag7-2UQ
https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign/videos
Thoughts on crankyconstruct's work?
>>3092768
Looks typical for a westerner trying to draw anime.
>>3092768
This image reeks of daddy issues.
>>3092768
The way he's looking at her all innocent like.
>"Oh Wowie I'm so oblivious, I haven't the slightest clue"
The way she's looking at him all seductively
>Oh I'm sure you know what I want little boy
The way he's drawn to be smaller than her with the addition of oversized clothing to hide any semblance of masculinity.
The way her body is drawn to be deliberately sexualised
For goodness sakes it all just reeks of some parental abandonment issues.
>And then on top of that it's just more western anime crap.
0/10
I have been having trouble with my art for awhile and I really need Critique. Can you hook me up with some art help, please? i wrote this on beg but i got nothing back.
Start by studying basic human anatomy. Most humans have at least one leg, typically as many as two.
>>3092738
Everything is pretty fucked up to some level, but it's not absolute shit. Have you been going through the books in the sticky enough?
blog? im really into non-legs humanoids. Also, i like her hand, its almost like she trying to make the nazi gesture but her fucked arm don't let her do it. Such a pain.