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As far as I can tell from translation software, Before is after 10 years of drawing on his own, After is same artist after just 1 year of private schooling.

>>2545670
ching chong wing wong ding dong

>>2545690
>Before is after 10 years of drawing on his own
fucking hell

>>>/b/

Lol this is great. Looks to be inspired by pixel art.
Need sauce.

>>2545993
seen this so many times, but this is the first time i noticed the "ebin" on the bathroom mirror.

How the heck do you get to some of these rooms? Are there doors we can't see?

>>2546960

What do you mean? This illustration is very good use of lighting and volumes with a color palette limited to red side of color wheel (with occasional yellows and violets).

What is worth noting is that artist uses light everywhere: you have not only direct lighting on arms but also reflected one from bedsheets, you have light enhancing volumes on the face and even fucking mirror in the back.

It takes skill and quite a lot of it. I don't think you can see any tutorial that teaches you all of that except books on color and painting like Gurney one with velociraptor on the cover.

>>2546960
holy fuck MY DIIIICCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK

Sparse use of black in the figure. All the colors are warm. Limited palette of select colors inbetween yellow and a warm violet from a color wheel standpoint.

If you are working digitally you can probably get a similar effect by using a few color overlays.

>>2546744
Look up BJ Betts. He has a couple of books about lettering (not calligraphy) that are really great.

>>2546747
Thanks so much anon!

Callygra`hy is more /gd/
go to briem dot net and get the fix your hand writting book
later get the art of calligraphy by david harris

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I wouldn't say being able to trace somebody else's drawing and turn it into flat colors makes for a "minimalistic drawing".

The signature at the bottom makes this even more hilarious.

>>2540477
thanks for the cringe summerfag

>>2540489
first post, OP gets rekt

>>2546892

>'What's your budget Mr' ?

>>2546892
>A wild faggot has appeared >>2540730

>>2546896
You know this has been your dream. you should be paying me.

>>2546143
You are shitposting here, that means you have time to lurk. You may sacrifice shitposting, but you will earn art. Good luck, for your own good, I hope I don'wont see you again.

>>2546143
>engineering student
sorry you just don't have the spark

>>2546143
no, I started at 19 and have gotten much better than I was, although I'm still not very good, progress is progress, and some day I will be good if I keep at it

Moose/10

needs more loomoose

>>2545345
nice
>>2545365
nice

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>>2545531

>>2545543
McKekkles

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>>2545547

By gaining experience so you can automate a lot of tasks or do them more naturally.

It's a process you'll have observed if you ever had to do a bunch of the same stuff (five forest paintings, or five shots of a character's face), chances are the first piece you did took a lot more time to do than the last ones. This also applies to your art in general.

tl;dr: practice more.

>>2542633
That's called practice my friend.

>>2542633

Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent. Whatever we do regularly becomes engrained in our brain and then our brain will automatize it to make it more efficient. Think of driving: you're not always thinking about every little things, you just drive. It's ingrained in you.

This is how some people are able to draw things on the fly. It may look good but for them it's still in their comfort zone. They've done hundreds of similar or harder drawings before so it's like a second nature to them.

I've noticed that artists will often have a greater economy of stroke when they get older, like if they instinctively knew the "minimum" necessary to make it, while a younger artist will polish it for hours until he gets it right. Maybe after so many trials and guesses their brains have been rewired to automatically sort out the best choice. This one is just a wild guess on my part though.

>>2528022
spread your butt

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>>2528025
not for you, not for any guy actually

>>2528022
Is that you in the pic? Maybe some other anons will need some ref, but you might need to be patient. Not sure how many people will be making requests right away. It would be neat to have someone muscular helping out, so good idea.

>>2542962
Don'r be a teenager.

>>2542962
Actually try for once.

Draw from life.

Have better composition instincts.

Have a non shit imagination.

Use a smaller brush.

Be active when you interact with the world. Pay attention to details in books and movies. Look around you. Be interested in light, shape, and colour. Explore visual ideas. Look at good paintings.

Make a collage of things that inspire you.

Express yourself. All you're doing with your painting is "being an artist". It's worthless. A heart and a skull? Simplified cartoon men? What the fuck were you thinking? Is this supposed to be good? Turn your fucking brain on.

A high-quality OC Donut Steel type of character.

>>2542675
name is lame, but the artwork is nice to look at. i think they work in gimp too.

>>2546176

Martin Freeman as Watson. It's pretty obvious since one of the other stickers is Cumerbatch/Sherlock. Up your popcultural game nigger

>>2546186
Well, I've thought about Freeman too, but it didn't quite convince me. Also, there's no Benedict Cumberbatch in the same sticker pack. But I guess it really is Martin Freeman as Watson. Thanks mate.

>>2546204

http://stickersgram.com/s/famous-characters/

I found him in there after a reverse image search from your pic. I agree the likeness isn't spot on for Martin though.