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If your skills were better the ink and pencil would look a lot better. There's no way to make the eye you drew look smooth or correct.

There are specialised pencils which produce blacks almost as strong as ink, but generally speaking ordinary graphite will always look light and shiny compared to ink.

I'd recommend moving to paint if you want to go beyond pencil without going digital. Modern paint is convenient enough that everything else is basically just too much trouble.

Contrary to what most people on here are likely to say, I'd also say going digital is a perfectly valid next step. Digital painting offers some opportunities to develop your skills that traditional work doesn't (rapid mirroring and rotating of the image and quickly undoing mistakes train you to see errors better than traditional methods, in my opinion).

>>2598114
very constructive, thanks...
>>2598125
Thanks for the input. I'll be looking around for some new hardware then, and maybe go digital.

>>2597270
FAQ:
Something's broken, what do I do?

>The site is currently in the alpha phase of development and is being built around us as we compete so sometimes things go wrong. If you ever need any help send me a tweet @LavaFlake or shoot me an email [email protected].

What do we draw?

>Whatever you want. At this point there's no required topic so draw your heart out. Make sure you submit at least a half hour of work or you may get a low effort warning.

What's a low effort warning?

>The goal is to get people to draw every day by turning it into a competition. The low effort warning system is to prevent people from posting last minute, quick sketches when they're feeling lazy. If you receive a warning and it happens again within a month you'll be eliminated.

>This rule has been the cause of a lot of concern amongst newer artists so let me reiterate: this system is to police low effort content and has nothing to do with the quality of the work. New artists are more than welcome.

What happens if I'm eliminated?

>A new Last Artist Standing challenge starts every week. If you get eliminated then get it together and rejoin next week.

How can there be a new Last Artist Standing challenge every week?

>This is a way to let new artists join in and to allow re-entry for the eliminated. Every week a new challenge is started. If you joined on week 1 and make it to week 2 then your daily submission counts for both the first and second Last Artist Standing. If you get eliminated then you're eliminated from both challenges and you'll be able to rejoin next week.

Will I have an advantage if I join later in the week?

>The winner of a Last Artist Standing will be the artist with the longest streak. If you join on day 1 and last until day 85 then you'll have a streak of 85. If there's only one person left in the challenge when you're eliminated but they joined on Day 7 then they'll need to continue on for another week. If they're eliminated before then, you win.

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>STREAMERS
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Streamers, please let the thread know when you're streaming so people can join the "fun".

How can I tell if the way I study is good?

>>2597135

Oh and it had a lot of colors like skin tones and greys I wouldn't have expected.

They're kinda like Sharpies. I wouldn't say they blend much, not that I've tried very hard.

the mark-its were my go-to markers when i was budgeting years ago. imo they're slightly better than sharpies, but some of the colours appear much more dark than the cap suggests. a small handful of markers did dry out a lot faster than others in the same pack, so i guess watch for that.

for what it is & the price/amount, they're not really that bad if its the only thing you have on hand

>>2597051
Just use the personal account, you idiot.

>>2598132

but is says that personal has limited "merchant services". If I pick personal account type will I still be able to receive money? From my understanding it is only for buying stuff and sending money. not for receiving.

I use a business account. Suits just fine for commission needs. You don't need a company for it.

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>>2592749
Still in progress. Be honest.

Kirby is shaped like a friend to be honest, family.

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I don't think I did this right

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Nailed it.

Raise the contrast by eliminating a large portion of the gradients and/or refine the lines and make it less curvy using sharpened and slightly exaggerated angles.

>i do tattoo commissions all the time, be prepared to tweak it and discuss your work with people who either have no real idea of what they want and/or how to articulate it

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>>2597962
Well I don't have idea too of how to make this things works. I have never worked on a tatoo before and I don't even consider myself a decent drawer lol.
Anyway, he was thinking about something tribal, so I tried this way. What do you guy thinks? Looks better?

>>2597970
Well, your friend would likely have a differing opinion of it than us, but since you asked, Smooth your outlines and make the flow a bit more accessible. Try not to over do it, but also play around with it until you have a design that quickly registers to a viewer that they are looking at a fox.

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Olivia - One of our cats in the style of Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting, the Mona Lisa

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Pandy - One of our cats in an Art Nouveau style dreaming of a gold leaf Ashvata tree, a golden globe and a psychodelic crow

why are you doing this? do your think your father deserves his hard work to be posted on this godforsaken website?

>>2597049

I like it. epic. nice.

>>2597049

Does he like a Passage to India by EM Forster. My OC Asmanos Aricia does and would like to be your OC's enemy (he is a rebel so he likes his enemies and hates his friends so being an enemy is good)

>>2597049
You managed to draw the DeviantArt autist's OC template better than the autist itself, gj OP

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was depressed for a long time. Now 25. Wonder if i'll ever get to a proffesional level.

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I am reasonably happy with the progression, but still it's not what I want.

>>2577608

Keep working, then.

>>2596638
I have no idea but I've seen a few really cool things similar. They're on my pc rightnow im posting on mobile. Trends to be satanic stuff that gets all those right spots though

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>>2596638
not relevant to anything you wrote, but this is the original photo

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>>2597409
here's a larger version

free hand dude, it's good training yo

>>2597802
>I would imagine the answer is yes practicing free hand, helps develop lining skills

Yep, when you can't draw straight lines its hard to produce anything of value. Drawing freehand will help you develop the ability to draw straights. Happy drawing friend.

>>2597804
>>2597806
Thanks guys

blog?

nice photobashing faggot

better than 2% of /ic/

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i made this shit

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fuk no erasing

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<10 seconds

come at me

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eugh