Hello, I am interested in picking up sculpting to supplement my studies, I think it would be very beneficial for visualising form and memorising anatomy. My budget is workable, though I probably wont make anything taller than 20 inches because of storage.
Does anyone here have experience sculpting with physical media? Suggestions on beginner materials (clay, armatures, tools), books, tutorials would be appreciated. Sculpts welcome (yours or not). How do you store/preserve your sculpts in between long breaks and after finishing them? Do you fire or cast it?
just get basic clay, it's dirt cheap. best price/performance ratio. just make sure you get clay without chamotte, unless you plan to fire it. i would advice against it though. you have to hollow your sculptures for it, and it's a hassle, also you would need access to an oven. plaster cast is the way to go in my opinion.
storing a sculptor is easy, you just water it with a spray bottle and then cover it with a plastic bag. you have to re-water it like every two weeks, though.
youtube has quite a few tutorials just look for "portrait sculpture"
>>2529693
http://floobynooby.blogspot.ca/2010/08/3d-maquette-tutorial.html
>>2529721
thanks, can you approximate the size of that sculpture and how much clay you used for it?
Rate this crest pls
>>2537649
Pig seems disjointed from the rest of it. If it were sitting on top of the tower maybe some kind of meaning could've been interpreted there.
>>2537658
The wild boar was to replace the crown or a helmet, but i agree, it might be better if it was on the tower.
Btw i am gay vegan
Some shitposter a while ago talked about anatomy books rather than drawing.
Does someone have a recommendation? Some book that I can use for drawing.
Or is there any good drawing book that also specifies things like muscle, how flesh moves, how muscles contracts and shrink, etc. That stuff.
Sticky has nothing.
Anatomy for the artist by Peck
>>2537526
>>2537522
Not a book, but the Proko anatomy course. How more specific do you need to be than learn what exact ribs the serratus anterior inserts to? He covers all that technical stuff while having a focus on the forms.
He uses a lot of 3d animations and footage of live models in motion to illustrate muscle deformation. That shit is most definitely not covered in any medical anatomy texts.
I've been meaning to start a web comic for quite some time, but I'm facing a few struggles:
>1. Writing
While I have over 12 stories and literally hundreds of OC characters, none of them are complete story-wise. I have beginnings, events during the stories, and endings, but I'm not that good of a writer so I can't seem to connect events or add interesting "meat and potatoes" and I want to avoid uninteresting filler. When I do write, things are too visual as I feel the need to explain every little detail about everything, and I can't seem to make dialogue flow together.
>2. Planning
Because of #1, I decided to do comics (and because I love to draw), but in the past when I've tried, I couldn't seem to plan panels, layout, etc.
Are there any resources that will help with writing dialogue or just writing in general that anyone would recommend as well as a guide or something that may help me to understand comic planning (or whatever it's called)?
>>2535117
>writing
go to /lit/ not /ic/
>layout and visual storytelling
Scott Mccloud
Eisner
>>2535123
>/lit/
>writing
Please, that's like telling someone to go to /ic/ for art.
>>2535143
no, it's like going to /ic/ for writing.
Rate my poems
I made two poems all by myself, both are based on real stories
Utopia is coming to town
Today im high
I dont know why
My heart pumps happiness
But some things are still crappyness
I want to change the world
Make it a better place for you and your wife
Your children and your future grand children
The only thing that is necessary
Is to do something functionary
We need to gas the kikes and remove the kebab
Together lets make a better world for you and me
For Gandhi and for the homeless children
For Jesus who died for our sinful nature
Lets share this message of peace and love
Because soon it will all be fun
Childhood memories
I look outside my window
I see happy children playing outside
I smile because it's been a while since I saw that
Everything in this world seems so bad lately
I enjoy this special moment
I look again and I see something awful
A group of muslims rape the children
I become numb again
I become numb because I see this discrimination
This invasion and genocide of my people
I feel the rage start inside of me
My blood pumps furiously in my body
My face turns red
I hear loud screaming
I look outside again and I feel relief
The muslims were driven over by a tank
Thank you Trump
Wow. A poem made of /pol/ memes. My kids would love it. In fact, the first sentence my daughter ever said to me was: "this is an illustration board, fuck off to /lit/"
>>2537333
Whoever said art can only be leftwing was wrong, am i right?
I mean if this isn't art, i don't know what art is ;)
>>2537339
while poem can be art, this board is named wrong, it's focus is illustration, with very little traditional sculpting
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This thread is meant for artists who might want to try to make anime works in-between their studies. It is strongly recommended that you use this thread in conjunction with learning the elements and fundamentals of art. You can also discuss the visual elements of various professional artists as well if you keep it relatively articulate and civil.
Submit your drawings, receive feedback or critique others! Share your knowledge and remember to thank those who've critiqued or red-lined your drawings. Most importantly, rock on more shoujos!
>Fresh off the boat? Get back on the boat and read THIS:
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-draw-learn
https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/
>Proko
http://www.proko.com/videos/
>Ctrl+Paint
http://ctrlpaint.com/
>Hitokaku Index
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zm5s-nkmr/
>0033
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=59317
>List of active livestreams
http://livestreamstatuslist.appspot.com/
>fellowBro's books
http://mediafire.com/?i44dwzkf9j9n8
>Tutorial/Reference Collection
http://pinterest.com/characterdesigh/
>Japanese Tutorials
http://iradukai.com/
>Figures
http://reference.sketchdaily.net/
>Pose Practice
http://www.eggazyoutatsu.net/eng/atarichan.html
Remember the words of our good friend Glen Vilppu: “No rules, just tools.”
/ic/: "i draw korean is easiest" -Anonymous No. 2515707, 05/08/16
flowers are hard, who's got some flower tips
>>2531082
Draw them until they're easy
>>2531092
dang, the answer i didnt wanna hear
ok
hey /ic/ i'm an up-and-coming artist that focuses on digital abstract pieces. i was hoping you could critique my work.
my work is a social critique of the judgement of taste. my work challenges what art theorists believe and if they are right to believe what they believe.
i am unique in one regard; my pieces are deleted after they are shared, i share an image to an online forum for them to enjoy and if the work is worthy it will live forever digitally, it is commentary on the meaning of art. no other artist is doing what im doing.
Yeah, yeah.
Yawn.
>>2537098
Go away
>>2537098
Nice meme friend, I will put this one in my meme folder.
Could someone please see if anyone has (and is willing to sell me) one of these weird Jack Chick posters? They no longer have it on the site.
>>2536782
That's a lot of swiped art in one picture. But pretty charming nonetheless.
>>2536786
You should see the comic.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNlzkCO29bk
>>2536790
That's a pretty bitchin' song, dude. Radical.
Lets say I give you a problem to solve. You don't know this but this problem will take the average person 40 minutes to solve.
5 minutes into solving this problem you feel you are nowhere near close to figuring it out.
Then I and a few other people appear at the 10 minute mark and tell you that this problem will take the average person 3 hours to solve and to keep going and you'll get it eventually.
What do you think would happen? Here is what I think would happen. You wouldn't solve it in 40 minutes. You would take much longer than usual just because of this new expectation you choose to believe.
/ic/ We need to consider how detrimental to improvement it is when we spread the idea that it takes a long time to get good at drawing and we need to consider how much it is holding us back. If you are sitting down today drawing and trying to figure out and understand what to do to improve you are going to improve much more slowly if you don't think you are capable of coming to conclusions anytime soon that would be a breakthrough to you. Because other people told you it takes years. Because other people told you improvement is slow and told you this is extremely hard.
The answers you are looking for to improve are closer than you think. The insightful breakthroughs you've wanted to fix every problem in your drawing are just around the corner.
You must start believing it does not take long to get good. It is necessary to know this for you to become good in the first place.
>>2537097
Well personally, I think I'd solve it in under an hour anyways. In fact, it'd spur me on because I like to feel better than other people, so I'd push myself to finish it as fast as possible. Though, I guess most people aren't narcissists that like to feel better than everyone else, so yeah, I know what you're getting at.
I think that the theory is good, but you don't consider time frame. You forget as the years go by, but most people can comprehend a few hours. So you'll perpetually be thinking, "Oh, it takes so and so long, it'll be fine." in art, while the puzzle time frame is too short to be meaningful.
TL;DR
I like the idea, though the anecdote isn't equal.
>>2537097
It doesn't take all that long to become decent/good at art. It takes a fuckload of time to become amazing at art.
I think you are very right
But if we are analysing how language distorts our expectations in that particular case, i'd say "getting good" also doesn't reflect what we really are trying to do by our artistic enterprise, "good" being subjective and not really meaning anything and stuff.
the idea "it takes a long time to get good" is probably just a global attempt at lowering our standards out of laziness and lack of drive while keeping the feeling and achievement and worth
Whats the name of the effect of this image?
>>2537046
Damn this effect looks familiar
>>2537046
It's the scan line effect
>>2537046
horizontal lines
is it better to do values and grayscale for a drawing then it is to just jump into coloring?
wasn't there just a thread about this
>>2537068
I don't know, but now Im intrigued by OP.
>>2537061
I mean, greyscale will help learn shades, patterns of light and fabric/materials better but there are some things color can do that greyscale can't. So do both and see what feels better to you?
Frida Kahlo never made a good painting in her life...
She is only famous due to her association with people such as Diego Rivera and loved by stupid art school feminist vegans because she didn't shave her arm pits moustache or eyebrows.
Lol you sound like a hater just trying to start a fight. Nobody cares about your unpopular opinion. Go away
>>2535297
He's right though. People only talk about her because she was ugly as fuck "on purpose". She painted like a middle-schooler.
So, I've been at this whole "drawing thing" for a while now. And I feel as though with each step I take, I am losing the track even more. I would love to seem like a professional at this stuff, but...
Yeah I'm not even gonna beat around the bush here: I'm shit. I'm looking up to broad horizons and I'm hoping I can turn into something that isn't shit.
>>2534989
"in need of loomis"
its not just a fucking meme, dummy
read the sticky
read loomis
jesus christ
Condense your shit drawings.
>>2534992
I know it's not a meme but it's more...
"I need to know how to not fuck up with other peoples' opinions."
So I guess I need more than one person who knows what they're doing.
Sculpting Thread
>Current Projects
>Future Projects
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>Favourite Artists
Pic related current one day build
There's a board for this anon >>>/3/
I'm sculpting with clay sculpting
>>2534062
show work pls , im also working on clay
First Step edition
Because we should not have to make new threads or post in draw threads with our fundamental exercises.
Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, do not give up, make your mom proud.
AVOID asking unrelated questions, there is a question thread for that.
Visit the usual "Artbook Thread" to find your desired books. (Or look in the new sticky)
Do not forget to PLEASE RESIZE and crop your images before uploading them. 1kpx is fine.
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There's a new sticky in town! You can see it at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfDTpLLVl5bWUGWguswKpPFml533luI8-NBd1EGYHnA/edit
>Thread study: Try to draw/paint the opening or any other following images.
Feel free to post your original works as well if you're trash.
TRY TO BE MORE ACTIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME FEEDBACK - many studies are left unreplied, which is a bit sad and can be quite demotivating for the people that try their best to improve, but are left directionless.
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