What do your sketchbook pages look like, /ic/? Show us.
>>2680333
it looks like this !
>>2680333
Usually something like this.
bigger sketchbook
smaller one
>>2680421
excellent taste anon Heart of Darkness is an wonderful novel.
>>2680546
nah, i am not. why
How do you keep your sketchbook pages from smearing? Do you use fixative?
>Haven't had a sketchbook since I was a kid
>recently got one and hardly anything in it
>too busy doing digital + companion so no real need to take sketchbook
I really want to draw in my sketchbook but I can't come up with a good reason to do so else than tradition and sketchbooks are cool.
>>2680923
what are you drawing with? even soft graphite has never smeared for me, but charcoal/conte/etc are a bad idea
>>2680978
Maybe he's using a spiralbound sketchbook? Those always smudge everything to shit in my experience. I only use hardbound now.
>>2680961
Yeah same here. I really want to get back in to traditional art in general
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>>2681862
First time here
>>2683212
god this is my favorite kinda thread
>>2680333
I make my own sketchbooks so I don't need to care about anything I make. Love how serious some try to be with sketching, those youtube videos makes it painful.
>>2680509
Is that a Kassan reference I see?
>>2683332
jep, i think the old man.
>>2683323
you know there is some benefit in caring about what you're drawing.. like if you consistently don't give a shit and are just doodling and not figuring out how to refine you won't improve as fast as you could
>>2680333
messy as fuck
>>2683212
his foot is really small, your foot is generally a bit shorter than the distance between elbow and wrist, that's how big it is
>>2683470
Yea I know I fucked up the foot I just got lazy thanks for the tip
>>2681864
It looks like some kind of horrible insect. I love it.
>>2683460
I like yo shit, do you post anywhere?
>>2683460
woah !
>>2680333
Be honest guys
>>2680426
Kim pls
Somebody once told me
How many sketchbooks have you guys finished?
>>2683785
I like penises
>>2680923
I use a binder clip if I'm using spiral bound. I prefer hardbound as it avoids this issue generally speaking
>>2683938
so far this year 5.
>>2683308
blug?
Meh
finished this earlier
>>2683323
So? some people like to think more seriously with there work everyone has prefs mang personally its a mix of both for me
>>2683938
14 and a shit load of printer paper
>>2683468
I recognize your stuff from the eyes alone haha.
>>2683938
https://youtu.be/RSNs1x2EbHM
All mine, all filled up with drawings, all from when I was 15 to 19 (now)
>>2686210
I hate fat people, and stupid people
>>2686218
I hate me too
>>2683451
But this shows clear black and white state of mind. Not caring isn't synonym for not figuring out and improving isn't linear value that depends on your sketches line quality. Sketchbook is the right place to do mistakes and something to laugh at yourself. If you are so obsessed with improving, try traveling and collect some experiences, meet people and see things you shouldn't.
What I mean by not caring is just pages worth of exploring, mistakes and intuitive drawing without any specific goal. I find it easier to do, if you make your own sketchbooks that have no value.
>>2680333
>>2686228
>>2686238
yes, but i would never share it here. I'll post some random stuff, but never my blog/website.
Vrrroooommmm
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>>2688903
I usually just draw on random pieces of paper
>>2689881
Holy shit lel
>>2684462
http://thorvalder.tumblr.com/
Here you go famalam
>>2686210
Post work.
>>2683460
That's fantastic stuff mate! Truly inspiring work. Do you post your stuff anywhere?
I do daily double-page spread drawings in my sketchbook and color them in photoshop.
More (B&W) Work
And some scanned pages I coloured
So, I wanted to start drawing with a pen, not a pencil because I've got that habit of constantly erasing stuff if I don't like it (which is most of the time) and ending up not doing much progress at all. So this is my first try. How is it?
>>2690341
Not bad. Cranium on the dude is looking a little narrow. I'd like to see if you could incorporate some contouring into your hatching to better express the curved nature of the forms you are shading .
>>2688904
I think there is something black growing under my skin. I can feel it deep in my guts and in my head and can feel it flowing through my veins. I can feel it breathe and it presses up against my lungs until I can’t breathe and it breathes for me. It feels like a writhing black hole inside of my stomach. Maybe if I prod it enough or if my skin cracks open or if I vibrate too hard I might shatter and collapse into it. Sometimes I worry that my peers can feel it. I worry that they can see it oozing out of every orifice and pore and that they can smell it like tar and that when they get close they can hear the sound of barking dogs in my head. It makes my jaws open when it’s mad or scared but it doesn’t ever scream or talk it just makes me gag over and over and over. Sometimes when I cry it calls me stupid and foolish and it’s all my fault and always has been and there’s no changing anything. I can’t help but think that it’s growing bigger and I don’t know if I should be scared or relieved because it might grow so big that it pops through my skin and leaves me be and all that I’ll be is flesh and bones and clear light.
All advise welcome
>>2690903
ok.
>>2692886
Start drawing some basic shapes. If you knew very basic perspective, how to draw a cylinder, how to draw a sphere, and how to wrap a cross-contour line around them, you could've nailed that drawing. As it is it looks shit because you don't understand any of those things.
how do i draw like u guys
tell me what u did to be like that
idgi
>>2692886
i liked it for some reason.
>>2693400
i'm diggin this. how long have you been doing art?
also blog?
>>2693410
on and off again for a decade now.
>>2933099
posted in /p/. been photographing for about a year and wanted to understand perspective and comp more. my 3rd drawing. first 2 were shit. this is too but better
>>2680923
As long as it's at least sold as an an artist's pencil, the graphite should smear far less. Also keep outside pressure low.
>>2693429
I know, I know. There are enough rose and tribal designs in the world already.
>>2686521
Vroom vroom
Mostly weeaboo or otherwise stupid shit.
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>>2694259
Good job to the person that made the mushroom
Fart art
>>2695263
More farting
Ug
>>2695271
This is cool. Is this part of a series?
>>2695293
>>2695293
blog?
>>2695276
Part of a book/comic I'm writing, yeah. Nothing really finished yet
>>2695293
Do you have a social media- Twitter, Tumblr, etc?
These are a bit old but I'm not bothered to scan new pages et.
>>2695489
Whoops, resized
>>2695499
>>2695500
>>2695501
Last one
>>2695502
I like your textures man, but varying line weights would help a lot.
>>2695519
I completely agree that drawings look better with varied line weight, but when I'm doodling I don't really mind, I'm just drawing for fun. I really only use it when I want to get serious.
>>2695599
that is a horrific mind set
I posted them in beginner thread for feedback, but they came from my sketchbook so ill put them up here aswell.
1/2
>>2695664
2/2
>>2695660
> you're not allowed to doodle for the sake of doodling
>>2696003
bit of a giraffe neck going on there.
>>2690888
dude this is realy dope
Some more pages from yesterday
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>>2680923
Cheap hairspray is a great fixative.
>>2680508
holy shit, that's good imo. is it pencil?
>>2696856
Old materials from sketchbooks.
1/2
2/2
Put some pages together.
I'm just a begginner
>>2680923
I made the switch to hardbound sketchbooks and so far no smearing has occured.
Thanks guys!
I love these types of threads
>>2698457
I don't because it just reminds me how shit I am.
study
>>2681882
blog ?
Trying to do this more, it's fun
>>2698520
I just draw mushrooms cause I think theyre cute.
>>2683938
36 if you count the copy paper as the same thickness as the sketch book. Its more like 18 though I guess since I mostly only sketch on one side since smudging.
I think its been about 3-4 years since I started drawing seriously. So about 12 books a year? 1 a month? 60 pages, so 2 pages a day? On average I guess. A little bit of effort everyday all adds up.
I want to get into digital painting/ rendering. (I've barely touched it though). (In terms of digital stuff I have like 90 scraps, 1% of which is me sucking as at rendering and the rest is sketching) I think the most genuine inspiration I have is when I go on walks and listen to music or whatever, or just go outside. I always imagine like a digital painting with like cool perspective and composition and stuff. Too bad I keep making excuses. I guess I'll start after school ends. I've got final exams and stuff, so I've been drawing a lot from porn references recently and feel really shit after I take my wank afterwards.
I feel like my obsession with porn is really fucking up my grades and making me question why I do art.
Hopefully I will make good vibes/ feels art in the future. I just need to commit to learning painting and stuff.
Any of you sketchbookers have any advice on how to get away from just pencil drawings? I'm feeling like no one really likes non coloured stuff.Or do you guys all feel satisfied with just sketching?
>>2695268
Kind of creepy but I like it.
>old doodle unrelated, fucked up her body and gave up lol
>>2699939
aaaand its upside down. rip
>>2690894
is that markers or pencil? what kind?
>>2690341
Anatomy will be the death of me
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>>2681860
I love your stuff man, especially the little comics and colours you do.
>>2683785
Blog?
>>2698305
I like it man, those whales are cute as hell. Blog?
>>2693353
Grind your fundies, spend more time trying to learn the general form and study stuff more, look at it longer and all
Read art books, watch videos, whatever tickles your fancy, just learn from those who are better than you
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>>2701374
started doing this thing where i go through my sketchbooks and repair the designs ... i do some more on the pages but mainly fix the old ones ... as much as possible.
>>2692956
yeah i like the mix of script and sketches too, to be honest i dont like negative space , so i just write random stuff. like these i put lyrics of death metal/ slam music. the text is just super fucked up shit haha
>>2699958
It's a fountain pen and then I use a waterbrush pen with a little bit of ink dabbed on it for value
>>2701376
heihachi!
Great stuff, bro.
Studying feet today.
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>>2696391
yeah this actually works
Critique my sketchbook pls
>>2683214
Nnnnnnnng Berserk
>>2683458
I like you, anon.
>>2683785
The penises are not bad drawn and although your picture is not my cup of tea I guess it would be some people's
>>2686221
Get fit while you git gud
>>2686285
not that anon, but may I ask why?
is it for the implications of 4chan?
>>2688904
You look British, of from the UK at least.
>>2684591
How is this style called or this type of stylizing letters and how does one go about learning to do it?
some of my work, from argentina
>>2704732
wanna be tattoo artist, ed hardy extreme couture lettering.
>>2683308
Very clean, a big fan
>>2683451
Eh, their mindset is sketching isn't where you're trying to improve, and I can get that. No problem with what they're doing.
>>2695268
very cool. what did you use on the top one?
>>2700721
What have you read on shadows? It looks sick, wish what you've done would be discussed
Wow
>>2705029
Fucking phone
>>2705032
I feel like I've already uploaded all my drawings
>>2705053
>that left arm
What the fuck were you thinking?!
>>2705203
It's a failed attempt at foreshortening
Yeah oops
>>2705053
Was this your reference?
>>2681860
I have a super old 1940s ish textbook called frontiers of psychological research you should really look at. It has illustrations I think you'll like, if I find it I'll post some pics.
>>2683458
I want to see that banana closer.
>>2697828
Very good but work on that line quality, and try a different pencil 2b or 3b for quick sketch
>>2701953
Very nice colour choice anon and crisp line work. It reminds me a little of vintage French comic art.
>>2705003
I haven't read anything really. It's just very simple, minimalistic hatching. I try to limit it because I tend to layer it so much that it's barelly legible
>>2706322
(I count this one as a sketch because it's more just trying to get a feel of oil painting, rather than a normal artwork.
pls no h8)
>>2706343
Sadly, I've been neglecting my sketchbook since classes started, but I doodle my classmates in my notes and do some recall as well.
>>2706643
Japanese traditional clothing?
>>2707899
omg u're like picasso
>>2707939
so its shit ok . then how about this. its a work in progress so be honest.
>>2683458
Well I like it, I'm taking it for futures inspirations. Keep up the work. May want to dray face looking at the left side too.
>>2689883
Some good stuff here,
You put some work into faces and chests. But look at the other piece of art here, you need to keep practicing. Try learning how to shade it, or how the lights affect drawings.
Keep it up.
>>2693391
Messy, but I like the style. Please continue.
>>2693400
Nice stuff here, I wonder how it will looks if you put all your energy on one drawing though.
>>2708273
>1000x1208)
Love the heart (no pun intended),
not the kind of stuff I'm used tobut I guess this must be good practice. Do you plan of doing a whole character one day ? I'd like to see your style.
>>2707488
One nice looking panda !
Hope you're doing other exotic animals too, you're doing good.
Will post more if people are interested.
>>2708376
i do it on and off this ones takes while to finish but i show you this one
>>2684591
You a tattoo artist or at least aspiring to be one ? Because the sketchbook of this tattooer buddy of mine is filled with phrases in different styles, like the page you've just shown.
>>2708381
I'm interested. Post something a little higher res too pls. That one's hard to see.
>>2708381
Yeah do it hombre
>>2688903
Your stuff is nice but that CHEEKI BREEKI's arms are bothering me more than it should. They're way too short. Also
>Stock too square
>Upper receiver not found
>Too thin for an AK mag
>No trigger guard
>Hand guards aren't split
>No fuckhueg safety lever
With love, a /k/ autist.
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>>2708451
Sorry don't have any larger pictures on hand. I'll try to take some in a bit.
>>2708432
More?
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>>2708544
tried sending it from my phone (4mb limit) had to resize it in the computer.
>>2708454
yeah i know probably took 10 mins on that guy. i did the 2 girls before and got lazy on him, didnt fix shit.
>>2708636
sorry the preview had it faceup
Stuff from my most recent sketchbook
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>>2708515
what tools do you use?
>>2680508
How do you prevent that amount of (graphite? Charcoal? ) from smudging all over the page in front of it and becoming an unintelligible mess?
>>2709073
A Blick Studios 4B, from this set:
http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-studio-drawing-pencils/
It's become one of my favorite pencils for all-around use, great smooth transfer and it doesn't smudge too badly.
>>2685442
Very fucking nice
But I hope you use some form of fixative, otherwise you might as use a Smudginator 5000
>>2680425
It's a comic book story board ? why making this smalls as fuck ? I can't fucking see anything !
>>2689936
they're shit
>>2683470
tfw you have small feet, I'm an adult wearing Size 6.5 shoes (u.s shoe size)
>>2709247
oh god, you actually searched
why
>>2681882
I'm in love
Talentless abstract schmuck
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>>2710133
dude what the fuck is all this shit
>>2710140
A pen moving in my hand because it feels cathartic
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>>2683460
How is stuff like this made? Does he know exactly where to place every single line? Or does he do construction first with pencil and then erase that? This absolutely baffles me.
>>2680333
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>>2683460
AMAZING
>>2692886
Learn perspective.
>>2710669
Lol I used to draw old guy heads on dinosaurs. Fuckin aye
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>>2710612
Lol sorry. I don't even post my sketches in my blog.
>>2710190
Normie faces
>>2704542
i bet is because 4chan has the reputation of hacking and raiding so it's understandable
>>2710999
maybe you should ,blog?
i am not sane
but its an assumption
hoono's
>>2706343
that's really good. I've been too intimidated to try oil paintings, I've never worked with them before
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>>2710999
damn that's some great stuff, especially the fantasy stuff is really nice
>pic related is mine
I know I still need a lot of work but I figured I'd contribute. ignore the filter
Just uploaded a massive dump of images.
Here's the link so I don't spam the thread
http://jamilsart.tumblr.com/post/151826296323/woah-massive-sketch-dump-failed-inktober
recommend me some sketchbooks?
i don't wanna use shitty mart ones anymore