Progress Thread

>>2913191
So immensely jealous of this persons progress. I would love to know what/how they studied.

When will we get 4xiszero's updated one man?

>>2913197
The character from the late 2015 line is cute.
I wouldn't mind to seeing some porn of him.

>>2913198
barcode is my husbando in my head............

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Progress is slow, I've been trying to break away from too much photostudy / reference dependence.

>>2913299
Why did you delete this? It looked really nice to me.

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reposting here because the last thread died. Progress is a little slow but i'm hoping to rectify this in the future.
(1/2)

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>>2913372
(2/2)

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2014-2015

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2015-2016

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2016 and some 2017

>>2913301
You wouldn't happen to still have the reference for the early 2016 skull would you?

>>2913429

I don't, sorry.

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>>2913429
I also really liked the ref so I image searched it. It's from this guy http://hjoranna.deviantart.com/
he's got different lighting and angles too hnnng

>>2913526
Thanks dude

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i got better at rendering

>>2913734
>>2913737
Both of these are inspiring as hell. Great job, both of you.

>>2913737
>that /fit/ barbarian qt
hnnnng

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>>2913191

6 years i'll never get back lul

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mangaka of ajin posted it on his twitter if anyone interested

>>2913737
Cool, rendering is way way better. Design is improved in some ways, but oddly in other ways I feel you made things more generic on some parts. For example for the knight, the original had a nicer breastplate shape, and I think the fat space marine legs worked well on it as it's something a bit different and helps keep the design in that nice slightly stylized place, whereas the new one the legs are just like off a generic existing old armour. Personally I preferred the studded straps hanging from the waist too, but maybe if you made the gold strands on the new one more interesting and graphic is could work equally well. Even the gauntlets before were nice to have that mix of leather and metal, and makes him seem more like a functional brutish guy instead of a fancy knight in expensive armouur. The new gauntlets are fine but again seem to be just taken from some existing old boring armour. Otherwise on that one things like the helmet and pauldrons and sword are better.

For the girl at the end, I know they are two very different characters, but again I can't help but feel you were doing more interesting design in the first one. The second is ultra generic bikini babe. First one is nice in that it's a woman wearing some interesting shapes and that isn't showing off her body like in every other fantasy design. She also seems to be a skilled fender which is a more interesting design that a massive oversized sword.

The Marine at the top obviously is improved in every way. I think it could maybe use some simplification of the values and lighting (better organization) as it's a bit muddy at the moment, but overall it's pretty cool.

Out of curiosity, when were the ones on the left done, and the ones on the right?

>>2913916
I'll just talk about the middle one cause the other two were a request and a commission so I didn't really design them.

Basically the shift was because I wanted to have a more practical armor design that could actually function, so a lot of the overall design is pulled from plate armor ref, and then I mixed in some designs from Roman legionaiires like the overlapping pauldrons and skirt.

I'm fairly OK with it being kinda generic since he's just supposed to be a baseline infantry guy

First column was 4 or 5 years ago, but I'd say most of my progress has happened in the past year

>>2914282
> I'd say most of my progress has happened in the past year
What kind of practice did you do/hoe many hours a day? What did you do differently than the previous 4 years? Pretty solid progress so I'm just curious.

>>2913815
there you go

>>2913191
tableguy, are you here?
how did you progress like this it's so fucking cool

>>2913194
You're never going to make it, Dickbutt

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>>2914400
Last summer I started doing some photo studies, mostly portraits. I painted like 3 20 minute portraits and then an hour long environment or portrait. It taught me how to really look at an image and break it down into how I could paint it. Once I learned, I could just start rendering whatever I wanted using ref, and doing that enough leads me to being able to do it from imagination. I still look at a lot of ref if I'm unsure of what I'm rendering.

Before last summer I didn't really do any studies at all and kinda just drew and painted until I thought it looked right, which more often than not wasn't right.

I actually don't practice as much as I should, spend maybe an average of 15 hours a week? Hard to say because some days I don't draw at all and some days I'll draw most of the day.

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updated with a fuckton of stuff

2014-now

>>2913197
you worked on lone digger?? how was that experience, i liked it a lot

>>2914581
Sweet. Sounds about right, thanks for the response and awesome progress.
>>2915634
I think he said last thread that he just liked the music video and did some fan art.

>>2913198
Wow! This is really inspiring.

These threads are so motivating

>>2916819
Yeah
>tfw stuck in anime phase for years
>still haven't started doing real studies
>mindlessly doodling every day
>if I put 2009 art next to 2017 art it'd be slightly better but nothing impressive

I want to have one to be proud of by the end of this year.

>>2916867
What kind of anime you do anon? You draw sexy girls? Or briskly guys?

>>2916872
Guys, mostly? I like drawing some muscles even though I never studied them.

>>2913815
Diathorn pls teach me my dude

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regressed

>>2917599

What happened to you in 2017?

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I know I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know how many mistakes are there and how to fix it.
I guess it's time for me to temporarily stop drawing cute girls or 2hus and start spamming my works with real people instead.
Help.

>>2917599
Come on dude, you´re one of my favourite Artist ever since i found you on the promotion thread.
You gotta stay focused

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i gotta get my shit together

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:'(

>>2918340
oh god my diiicckkk!!!

>>2917762
>I know I'm doing something wrong
yeah, you're drawing animeshit

>>2918340
CHAIKA

>>2917599
2017 is your best year
great composition and color. Keep it up, fisher

>>2919048
T-thanks for the constructive feed back... ;_;

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>>2913191

>>2919231
So, how many isis execution vids did you watch just to learn all that?

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mods no bannu thank you

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>>2917762
>I guess it's time for me to temporarily stop drawing cute girls or 2hus and start spamming my works with real people instead.

More like
>1. Do some real life studies, LOOMIS, study your senpai's work, post in beginner thread
>2. Apply what you learn from those to your qt 2hus and other work
>3. Repeat the process til you git gud

>>2919258
>3. Repeat the process til you git gud
I've been casually doing #1 and #2. I guess I should put more effort in #1 from now on. My real life studies are no problem, I just prefer not to post them on /ic/.
My only problem at the moment is #3.

Whenever someone's around, I drop whatever I do on the spot and pretend to act like a normie. I think that takes up a lot of my time which could've been used for gitting gud, especially since I always forget to continue whatever I was doing until the next day comes. Or probably because I'm just a lazy fuck. I guess I'll do as you say and put some more effort into learning.
Thanks anyways.

>>2919255

I'm both impressed by the skill and at the same time wonder how does it feel to draw gay and bisexual scaly sandwhiches/threesomes for 5 years.

I mean, I wonder how your daily life looks like. How you look like, how do you live.

>>2919325
gabe is weird and gets paid to be weird. sounds good enough to me.

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I only chose drawings that were not directly from reference.

I can draw humans too now, but I haven't been doing any paintings of them.

>>2919964
>no humans
Not "not gonna make it"

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>>2919968
I've been working on sketching people from imagination lately. All I have on the computer are digital studies.
I have some old human drawings shamefully tucked away in my sketchbooks, so I could make a progression of those.

>>2914581
more, please

>>2919224
Nice one anon.

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Not gonna make it at this rate...
This years the year to get serious

>>2919231
2017?

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I literally want to kill myself because of my art

>>2913193
>I gave up on drawing from imagination and became a photocopier

>>2920846

I I were you, I'd just put one end of a tube on exhaust and second through the window and run the car while sitting inside, waiting for CO2 to do the trick, but you probably don't have a car.

Btw 2012 is best year. Going digital was a mistake for you.

>>2920846
Use that depression for fuel. You should strongly re-evaluate your colour and value choices - shits holding you back.
>>2920964
Helium would be an advisable alternative.

>>2920964
If you think 2012 was the best year then your opinion really doesn't fucking matter on any subject ever.

>>2920999
I looked at a ton of colour and value tutorials and all but I just don't 'get it'. I wish I could but something really doesn't click with me on that stuff.

Any recommendations?

>>2919255
Hey gabe! Huge fan

>>2921005
tutorials and infographs are not really enough. That's just a color wheel with some notes. One thing that helps is sampling color schemes from photos and other works you like.

But if you want a whole book on the matter, Color and Light by James Gurney and David Hornung's "Color"

>>2921058
Any links where to download? I don't wanna buy something not knowing if it'll help me or not. I've read mixed reviews on this board about that

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>>2913191
>used for OP
now I feel weird updating mine... Next time i'll cut down on 2017

>>2913238
i copied lots of drawings from favorite artists, the distribution curve is on the right

>>2914460
ya i am here, but I don't understand your question

>>2921798
I've been following your progress since almost the start, you stopped improving 2015 desu

>>2920858
>I gave up on drawing from imagination
I do sketch from imagination when relaxing, but I know that imagination drawing is just muscle memory, everything I can do from imagination is because I've drawn it a gorillion times from life or image reference. Another time I use it is when putting ideas down quickly, too.

>became a photocopier
It's my first year painting and doing studies is a really fast way to get used to new instruments and techniques, no regrets, they've helped me a lot.

I hope no one falls into this sort of trap, if you want to stop drawing in circles and stop wasting years of your life, learn how things work in real life then do studies, they help you put the things you dream up onto canvas.

>>2921798

Do 50 objects challenge.

>>2921861

I think he's more shittalking how you're presenting your progress, comparing an anime drawing from imagination and a photo study isn't very accurate as a measure for how much you've developed.

>>2921831
>2015
That 2015 imagine inktober was my peak. But I think I can do better. Recently I've been inconsistent in my drawing habits.

>>2921872
What is that?

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Pls no bully

i really really like your angel oc at the very bottom left, m-may i draw her?

>>2922576
derp.
this was meant for you >>2922598

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>>2922600
Oh gosh, anon, totally!

[spoiler]I'm really flattered you like her <3 [/spoiler]

>>2922425

>What is that?

Design an image with ONE strong focal point with at least one figure or animal that tells a visual story. Include 50 different recognizable objects in your illustration.

1. You may not count items that are attached to the interior or exterior of a structure such as flooring, lighting, cabinets, signage, roofing, windows, shelving, fencing, trees, etc. If you need tools to take it out of a room, out of the ground, off of a building you can’t count it.

2. You may repeat objects like candy canes or heart boxes but only count one of them in your 50.

3. You may not count parts of an object, i.e. a cupcake has 3 parts: cup, cake, and icing but you may only count it as one object. A person is only one object - you can’t count each article of clothing they are wearing...however if they are carrying something in a pocket, on their shoulder, or in their arms you can count it.

4. In order to be counted your audience must be able to identify each of your 50 objects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vX-J5ADXdc

Do complex illustration. You have skills, but usually use pretty simplistic backgrounds and composition or none at all.

I think doing this would help you challenge yourself because you kinda look like you stagnate.

>>2922576
more studies...

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Every year I think the next year I will not disappoint myself... Every year...

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>>2922770
I have been doing studies, though probably not as many as I should be doing, and they're not nearly as good as I'd like them to be. I spent the last few months doing a bunch of live animal studies for a project. Human anatomy studies I definitely need to work on, though, all mine still look like complete crap.