Questions & Answers Thread

What's a good resource I can use to learn watercolors?

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Do you free hand all your ellipses and circles?
I've been thinking of buying some templates, pic related.

What is the best art software for beginners who are making the transition from paper to digital art? Preferably with a nice simple UI and maybe some preset brushes.

>>3107866
I like clip studio paint. The defaults are nice as is but there are some good brushpacks out there.

>>3107864

No rules, only tools.

But relying too much on tool´s could stagnate your improvement to a certain degree.

>>3107866

Clip studio paint as mentioned above or Sai.
Altough I´d recommend starting with Photoshop if you want to do industry work.

>>3107864
I hear it's part of the Making It Box™

>>3107863
Experimenting by yourself is the best thing you can do. A good resource covering colors for example is "Making Colors Sing".

Can I get some resources on traditional inking? I understand the importance of line weight and making confident lines but there's gotta be something else I'm missing.

>>3107913
Do you have the pdf?

Should I leave my gf so I can fully focus on my art, it's not that I don't love her but I'm more in love with working to git gud than her and I'm not sure if that's a healthy relationship.

>>3108021
100% yeah

>>3108021
Learn to balance your life, holy shit dude.

>>3108021

Just get a huge loan and quit your job dude, lol.

>>3107631
why mention me?

>>3108185
why not, your name isn't trademarked

how can i study the way lines wrap around a sphere? the loomis "north pole" thing doesn't work for me

Disregarding the community, what are the best sites to find/post art nowadays?

>>3108345
Deviantart, Artstation, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pixiv

What was used to paint anime/manga before digital? I know watercolor was used a lot for anime backgrounds, but some stuff doesn't look like watercolor. Did they use gouache at all, or colored inks? Alcohol markers?

does anyone have that image where it says the difference between drawing symbols and what is actually there?

>>3107631
Looking for good hair rendering tutorials.

how do i draw feminine looking hands? i'm always told that the way i draw them looks masculine, even though they look normal to me.

>>3108786

Male fingers are more boxy/square and females are more slender/pointy.

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What would you say the texture on this metal is?

It's not quite polished, not brushed...I can't put a name to it so I can search for similar textures for studying.

>>3107866
I found SAI -> Krita -> Photoshop to be a very natural and easy transition, although I was pretty bad when I started SAI, and I just moved on as I got better and needed more tools.

Is it helpful to learn programs like Indesign if you want to become a character designer or a comic book artist? My parents want me to learn graphic design and get work at a printing company. But I really want to learn proper art fundamentals and try to get things like comic books published or design cool characters for a living. Indesign and other programs are kind of interesting to work with, and you can do some cool stuff with it. But I feel if I work for a printing company, it will mostly be layout work.

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>>3107631
do anime girls have skulls? they look like blobs of flesh with facial features painted on

>>3109163
No, you stupid, they're just drawings.

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>>3109163
Look at him, he's stupid!

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what is the difference between playing to your strengths and giving up on improving yourself?

>>3109206
Nothing because they're both the same thing. Playing to your strengths is giving up on improving yourself.

How do you guys use references? For example if you're doing a study of a face at some angle, do you construct it and try to "rebuild" it to try to make it look like the picture (loomis), or do you just copy what you see (keys to drawing)? I'm always confused what I should focus on while doing photo studies, if I just copy it straight off I feel like I'm not learning much, is that right?

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>>3109257

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>>3109163

>>3108838
could be dirt or dried blood of your enemies
also, reflections. it's not super polished, but since its metal it still reflects environment

>>3109261
so uhh, what's the final product look like?

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Call me a fool, but how does commission work? Especially on paypal. Do you use your real email id or what?

when practicing perspective do you use a ruler? when grinding this shit should I be doing it freehand? how do you make sure shit is accurate if you have points that exist beyond the paper?

>>3110341
Obviously you use a ruler, how else are you supposed to draw straight lines? A protractor? Work your way up to freehand slowly, but realize accuracy and patience is better than messy and lazy. If you have points beyond the paper, you get more paper and tape it to the original paper. Now your paper is suddenly extended.

>>3109206
The goal? And probably the reason. You can play to your strengths and improve on your weaknesses as well. If we understand strengths as areas you have some sort of inclination towards (already a certain level of proficiency, you like doing it), playing to them doesn't mean stagnation, but improving where chances of success (like reaching a high level) are heightened.
No matter which path we'll take, it will likely also require skills of us that we consider weaknesses and you can and probably should improve on them too. But why ignore your strengths if you have them?

>>3110341
I always wondered about this, then I realized that going digital solves it all, perspective grids <3

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>>3110354
If you wanted to draw a box really far away but zoomed in (or through long focal length lens) in this method, you'd find for the points to fit in a single page, the box would be miniscule or you could have a lot of pages...

>>3110341
It would depend on how far what youre drawing is. Very close up to the observer you should start using curves to denote a 5point(?) Very far away you can approximate a one point(front facing) or parallel with acute differences(sideways etc).

you can generally get away with just a horizon line and lines that look like they converge,. something like top right in pic attached is all you really need for illustration/painting- unless the focus is on perspective

Which raises the question if whether or not practicing perspective rigorously is that essential- thinking of life drawing, plein air or even still life. youre never close enough to whatever youre drawing to draw it in an extreme angle and when drawing still life <1m away binocular vision is retarded. realistically you have to frequently close your non-dominant eye to get an accurate drawing/painting.
Am i preaching a valid point here? Im just irritated at looking at drawings with extreme perspectives that dont consider how close/far the person looking at the image is- generally an eyesore on a laptop screen at normal sitting distance..

>>3109296
jesus how horrifying

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Is there somewhere public I can torrent New Masters Academy content? Does cgpeers have any If I ever get around to registering?

does anyone know how I can rotate a single stroke on a line work layer in sai?

Do you think some kind of "beginners journey" series on Youtube would be interesting? I don't think I've seen someone doing this.

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What Photoshop brushes are you using for sketching?

>>3111182
Whatever you like more. Seriously.

>>3107631
can I have full OP pic? or a blog?

> Clip Studio Paint
> Used selection tool
> Oil brush, color not selected keeps smudging over
How do I prevent this?

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PRICING QUESTION -

I want to buy a traditional piece from a certain artist and have them mail it to me. The piece in question is a 7"x5" fully-colored sketch with a flat-colored background. Their adoptables' autobuy prices go for $300-500. I can't find their commission prices. How much should I offer in exchange for this piece?

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>>3110341
>>3110385
>>3110610
Dunno what it's called but it looked something like this

>>3111344
90 degree ruler and french curves

>>3111331
from which manga is that

>>3110319
whenever i commisioned someone, they'd email me a 'query' or whetever it was called for the amount they wanted me to pay, i'd pay it, then theyd start drawing it. we used real names

>>3111421
it's from the mangaka who draws blade of the immortal

>>3109296

do you have more of this?

>>3111450
hiroaki samura.

what are some good hand stretches/warm ups to avoid any injuries when doing long sessions?

How do I get facial features to line up with a reference I'm drawing?

It seems like every time I go to draw a picture of a face, I experience feature drift. Eyes too far apart, mouth too far from the nose. Shit's frustrating.

>>3112512
look at the whole head as a one shape, and then put a blob of form (oval, round, whatever, it can be as disfigurated as you want) on where you want to draw the head. The point is to have about the SAME PROPORTIONS as the head, and NOT OUTLINE

afterwards draw on top of that shape the head. None of the edges of that shape have to correlate to any of the final lines of the drawing or to be be any kind of construction guildline. The shape is just for you not to drift away on the page while putting details in.

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Are there any good exercises for training your eyes to truly see your art? I'm getting tired of looking at my picture, thinking it looks great, than flipping it and everything being distorted to hell.

>>3112441
google images has tons of carpal tunnel infographics

This isn't exactly an art question but more about the board itself.

Is photorealism the only acceptable way to go?
Are anime and stylization actually bad?
Should I take /ic/ seriously?

I shit you not, /ic/ has slowly been driving me away from my dream of becoming a cartoonist for videogames and I'm not really into photorealism. While I think it's awesome and respect the ones who do it, I also think it's boring and not for me.

>>3113026

Where on earth did you hear that from. Stylization isn't bad per se but you should hone your technical skill to make better cartoons. That does not mean attend an atelier in the chinese mountains and render a forearm at 60 day intervals. As far as I know, majority of this board doesn't want to be in the fine art world.

>>3113026
no, no, /ic/ is a resource for artists, use as see fit.

>>3109296
is that kotobuki tsukasa or masami obari on the left? fuck, i hate their work in the 90's with a passion for how infuential they were, espetially obari. at lest kotobuki (as nori-haru) redeemed himself with the chun li doujins a few years ago.

What's better for sketching in your opinion, pencil or pen? I feel like I heard somewhere that pen is better because it forces you to think about every line you put down. But then with pen I feel like I can't do construction because it will make the finished sketch look way too messy.

>>3113026
get a backbone man. i dont know if you can see how pathetic it is to take 4chan seriously. most of the time people are just memeing or venting here.

know what you like, pursue it.

I've been wanting to make more dynamic line variations while inking my drawings and have been studying comic/manga artist for a while now. The overlap I've been seeing is that almost all of them exclusively the use the G-pen for fine line work. My problem is, I fucking hate dip pens with a white hot passion and was wondering if any of you guys know of a better alternative to constantly having to switch out pen thicknesses and re-buying microns as its a pain in the ass.

>>3107631
While holding my arm out, to measure a reference, my arm gets tired after awhile. Should I start working my arm out? or will I get used to it?

>>3114471
You get used to it. When I started that shit made me tired too and it's a total what the fuck because you would never expect drawing to make you physically tired.

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how long should you practise value painting before moving onto colour? i keep trying to do colour work but my lack of ability keeps halting me, and i'm not sure if that's a forever thing or exclusively a beginner problem

>>3114031
i like very bold pencils, and not rubbing anything out. it depends on what sketching style you like, something very precise or something very forceful.

>>3114616
I'm a beginner and I was able to move on to color after understanding value enough to produce three-dimensional looking studies. Although since my values are the greatest, I have to move back and do value studies anyways, so in the end it's up to you. I found it fun to play with all the colors though with the knowledge that value will help me out with them.

>>3114371
You could try a Namiki Falcon, shit's expensive though. The only other option is to try inking with brushes.

What do you hate about dip pens so much?

hello! I'm new to /ic, so sorry if that's a frequent question.

how and where do i find people interested in buying comissions?
I know networking is important and that if i had the ability people would look for it, but how do i -start-?

>>3111344
It's called a t-square

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What's a good resource for human stock photos? I've downloaded hyperangle, but I'd like to get a better grasp on more standard views before thoroughly studying it. Is bodies in motion worth the subscription or are there better alternatives?

does /ic/ have a discord?

I realized I tense up my entire right side when I draw, or even use my dominant arm at all.

currently trying to draw using my arm just up to my shoulder and preventing neck from moving or posture shifting while drawing

totally different experience but im also realizing im not as tired. give it a shot bros.
if you are prone to pressing down hard with writing utensils like me you might have the same problem.

>>3114898
>weightlifting and bodybuilding are different sports
didnt know that
so basically one uses steroids and the other doesnt?

>>3114898
https://www.posespace.com/posetool/models.aspx

I use this website a lot for studies and reference. If you're looking for more dynamic poses, https://senshistock.deviantart.com/ is a good resource too.

>>3114926
also for that matter, i have some fucking gross knots in my right shoulder

>>3114932
Weightlifting is about strength. Bodybuilding is about aesthetics.

>>3114939
Thanks dude.

>>3114812
Develop a social media presence. Draw fanart for a popular IP to get some eyes on your art. Try to befriend popular artists, they come in handy when your commission post needs a signal boost.

Porn (especially niche fetishes) and furries are the most lucrative. If your art isn't that good yet, focus on talking to people and developing a friendly online persona. My art isn't the best but I have longtime followers who continue to commission me simply because they like me.

Furaffinity is your best bet if you want to make real money on commissions. Tumblr is a good place for exposure but everyone there is broke. Many artists undercharge, so potential buyers tend to be resistant to fair compensation.

Good luck.

>>3114962
good post anon

how do you recommend leaving no trace back to your real identity when working and generally being a member of furaffinity

im not against it, i just dont want it to complicate my future. I know a lot of normies who like my art.

>>3114962
>befriending popular artists
Avoid being pushy. Best thing to do occasionally talk to them on twitter over a shared interest but otherwise do your own thing.
>>3114976
Separate names, give false personal information, don't share art you've shared elsewhere. Don't cross streans, basically. If you wanna go the extra mile modify your art style some, like mixing up the brushes you use, common colors, and so on.

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I don't know if this is the best place to ask, but anyway...

Why is Picasso regarded as one of the greatest paintors of all time when all his paintings are shit from a technical perspective and have no meaning at all? I mean, Da Vinci and Michelangelo's are beautiful, great and try to convey some meaning, but Picasso's looks like random drawings from an autist, how the fuck is he so famous and well regarded? No trolling, just genuinely curious.

>>3114986
nobody likes picasso anymore, it was a different time. kids idolize him for his bohemian lifestyle, nothing else.

Some anon once posted a download link for a cracked DesignDoll 4.0.0.9 but the link is now dead. Does anyone still has the crack?

>>3114986
What meaning do the technical sketches of Da Vinci and Michelangelo convey to you?

>>3114986
At least try to read about him before you type something as stupid as this.

I can't live this lie anymore

I need to learn how to draw the head once and for all

What do i fucking do

>>3114986
personally find his work very very appealing tho im picky with what i like, technical side isnt great but the appeal clearly there and appeal is always subjective.

>>3115120
Draw heads!

>>3115120
try to view the head as a 3-dimensional object. also, >>3115122

>>3114962

Thanks for replying!

hmm it's really hard to approach people like this..and i don't have the best personality, so maybe should work on that! noted

about nsfw, i kind of like drawing those, but maybe it doesn't fit with my current stuff. maybe should make a parallel account?

just got out from my day job, and it would be nice to at least cover my rent to survive.

>>3114986
the jews

I have an Intuos small and my pen pressure on Photoshop stops working every time I move out from PS to another app.

Does anyone have this issue? I can reset the service but this always happens with PS CC 2017

>>3115160
just solved it by disabling hardware acceleration

Is there a way to get wacom tool id to switch brushes in cs6? Apparently there used to be an official wacom plugin for older ps versions that allowed this but they haven't updated it in years. Are there any there any 3rd party plugins or work arounds that re-enable this functionality.

>>3114651
It's mostly because I'm impatient and hate waiting for the ink to dry. Also the upkeep with cleaning the damn nibs and making sure they work. I can't seem to get them to consistently work no matter what I do.

Also I wanted to know if anyone has experience with the school g manga pen because that seems like a good alternative to dip pens from all the things I've read

>>3115287
>It's mostly because I'm impatient and hate waiting for the ink to dry. Also the upkeep with cleaning the damn nibs and making sure they work. I can't seem to get them to consistently work no matter what I do.
DESU these are all pretty easy to avoid. There are good quick drying inks and working left to right(or right to left if you're left handed) will keep you from smearing lines. Cleaning nibs is pretty easy depending on the ink used, but a quick alcohol bath and all the ink should wipe off. If you're having issues getting them working, there can be a couple of problems, from misaligned tines(aka cheap nibs) to not having removed the oil coating they come with(passing it through a flame or cleaning it with dish soap).
>Also I wanted to know if anyone has experience with the school g manga pen because that seems like a good alternative to dip pens from all the things I've read
It's not. It has very little flex and is prone to breakage if you try to flex it a lot.

>>3115160
>>3115191
i had this problem.
how did you disable hardware acceleration?

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how come my bucket tool wont completely fill this?

>>3115463
photoshop a shit.

>>3115463
any antialiased lineart will do this, this isnt exclusive to photoshop
there is a trick to work around this by using magic wand and expanding selection
or just working bigger so that when you shrink artwork it disappears

>>3115463
the brush has a soft edge. the fill tool will only fill up to the edge of where the brush has drawn and because the edge isn't opaque this will happen. you need to select the area with the wand, expand the selection by a few pixels, fill on separate layer and the merge the layers.

Are there any good practices for drawing people in perspective when the camera and the subject are really low to the ground?

It seems practically impossible to grid anything below a certain HL height.

anyone got resources or some keywords to look for in getting started with coloring your work?

Most color resources i've read mostly talk about how colors work with each other but I'm mainly trying to figure out how to pick the right value or hue that works with the other colors in the drawing instead of just picking random values and it looking like a mess.

>>3115344
Edit->Preferences -> Performance

There you will find the check box for this setting

I think it is actually labeled as "use the video card for hw acceleration"

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Why is nosebro called nosebro?

>>3115645
He used to redline (although he still does) people and put terrible noses on them.

>>3115646
Thanks friend

>>3111173
someone please help me

>>3111173
>>3115666
lasso tool then transform? I'm on CSP but surely SAI also has that.

Is there a way to invert the pen tilt for scattering in ps? Currently you hold the pen upright for max scatter and as you tilt the pen it scatters less. This seems like it's the opposite of how it should work.

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>>3115646
Where do you get your nosebro trivia from?

>>3115672
yeah that was what I assumed too but nope, the best I have figured out to do at the moment is to set an anchor and deform it to rotate it but it's not very effective.

>>3115811
wait really, no lasso tool?Gimp has a lasso tool and its free.

>>3115813
yeah there is a lasso tool but it won't select a stroke in a line art layer unfortunately

>>3115718>>3115645

i dont even know what a nosebro is. I been seeing it alot here on 4chan, making long arguments with anons. Whenever i google nosebro i get 4chan gossip threads wondering if hes just a shitposter with no talent or if their actually good. I cant seem to find a blog and if I do I wonder if thats actually them. Ive come to the belief that anyone here can be a nose bro, even me.

>>3115814
you can always redraw that line stroke.

>>3115816
It's more that I'm using it for lettering and applying the letters to a curve so just redoing them each by hand isn't very practical as they get too dissimilar.

Is mspaint good enough for a complete beginner starting out?

>>3115856
Fuck no, at least get gimp

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I was wondering if someone could help me find an artist. Sagas293 (pic related) takes heavy influence from them. The help is appreciated.

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So, if I want to get good at drawing the human body, I just have to keep drawing from references and go to life drawing sessions when I can (they're only once a month in my city). And eventually I'll understand how the human body works? And get good at it?
Everything looks so misshapen and lumpy when I do it... I wish I could go to life-drawing classes more often.

>>3116121
Obviously.

anyone using Krita?
I'm trying to make an oil and a pastel brush, but I really don't know what I'm even doing or looking for in the brush options.
I experimented and got a few that I really like, I'd say pure coincidence, but they're still not what I'm looking for.
Anyone got some experience?

>>3116121
when did those military books get nudes. mine dont have nudes :/

>>3116416
someone posted a link to the super pose books in the archives
that's where i got the picture

>>3116121
do plenty of figure drawings from imagination too.
That will help you to process the info you get from studies.

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How to do "serious" studies?
The word intimidates me, and I'm never sure I'm doing it right, especially when the people who post studies here are already skilled.

For example, in the case of anatomy studies, the only thing I have to do is copy from a reference to the best of my ability while thinking logically of how to construct the body and trying to get a grip of what I am actually doing and then try again?

>>3116450
>and then try again?
that and do it from another angle
you don't want to just know how to do something from one perspective, you want to develop a 360° understanding of it

>>3116450
Relax, it's just a word. "Serious" study to me means doing roughs for a commissioned work, or a final painting. It's just saying it's focused work.

One of the biggest hurdles for beginners is intimidation, and one thing you should work past as soon as possible. It's your paper, your pencil, own them, don't worry if what comes out isn't perfect. Everyone - me, you, everyone here - has produced a less than optimal drawing. Most students make a lot of mistakes, and go through stacks and stacks of paper. Anyone who tells you differently, don't listen to them.

>>3107631
When setting up a paypal, for taking commissions, should I set it up as a business account or personal?

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>>3116073
looks like skullgirls to me. what do you like about this style?

>>3114923
That would be nice.

Why is it that sketchbook paper makes my shitty sketches smudge, but normal printer paper doesn't?

>>3117021
Cause sketchbook paper is high quality as fuck which allows you to shift your values around unlike trashy printer paper which won't even let you erase a line.

Does anyone know good shorthands for drawing chainmail?

I've tried to find paintings to study but a lot of the ones I found they literally just render out all the links. It seems massively time consuming. I've tried making a brush that does it for me but that also looks really artificial.

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>>3116073
>>3116815
I was able to find the artist I was looking for. It was Gashi-Gashi. Recently, I had seen some sagas293 art, but couldn't put my finger on who I remembered doing it before. I like some of Gashi-Gashi's work because it looks unique, is heavily stylized, and has vibrant colors. I also like Skullgirls's blend of cartoon-y and anime-y look. There are also a bunch of distinct character designs too.

If my drawings are tilted to the left, does that mean I'm naturally lefty? I've always used my right though.

>>3117173
No, it just means you draw tilted to the left and should stop doing that.

Are there any perspective tools for Photoshop CC aside from Lazy Nezumi that let you snap your brush to a ruler/vanishing point?

>>3107863
I like Zbukvic's book. "Mood in watercolor" or something like it. That and Alla Prima even though it's almost entirely about oils.

How badly am I fucking myself over by only drawing women and thinking of women as the default human body? It doesn't help that all the anatomy books I'm looking at show the female body first. But men are so ugly.

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>>3117377
most anatomy books show men first. you reading some kind of anime books?

>>3117320
autodesk sketchpad's full version has a tool for this

>>3117107
look up comic characters with chainmail like red sonja, big barda, captain america (sometimes) and granny goodness, to see what is usually done

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so if i had just one guy, my image would be unbalanced? What if I just want one guy there though?

I'd have to change the angle or what?

>>3117377
i too think men are ugly and rarely draw them. i started by only drawing women as well, and i didn't think the transition to learning men too difficult when i tried it out from ref and then after that i knew the adjustments i needed to make. they are just more bulky and boxy and utilitarian looking. also key bone differences and fat distributions in certain places.

you should still do them occasionally though. just to keep yourself refreshed on it

>>3117845
logically you'd change where the fulcrum is right? so the one guy 'weighs more'

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How to paint metal on sketches? Overpaint plz.

>>3117377
draw bodybuilder ladies and twinks

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>>3117377
>men are so ugly
seriously, masculinity is the height of aesthetic. if you cant understand this then there is no point in being an artist anyway.

>>3117898
This

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>>3117862
Metal is very reflective of its environment, the reflection is squashed and stretched depending on the form of the metal object. On a cylindrical shape there will be stripes high in contrast because the environment's reflection is squashed with the form turning. The more a form is turning or the smaller a cylinder, that is the faster the planes of a form change, the more squashed the reflection will be and the 'stripes' will be thinner. Also check out some ref of different metal, the more polished it is, the sharper will be the reflection etc.

>>3117898
lol, and with a >this, what a sad world

>>3117898
gay

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how do i git gud at this kind of thing

>>3117946
copy it over and over
look up pictures of cats on google and copy them too

>>3117898
men are fucking hideous.

>>3117992
all of your kind will be gassed

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>>3117992
how dare you

>>3117377
>>3117992
The human body is a beautiful thing. All those curves of muscle and fat, it doesn't matter what gender what you're drawing is. Stop being plebs, men are as beautiful as women if drawn right.

>>3117954
I don't mean drawing cats I mean simplying things into shapes and stuff

>>3118076
By drawing it over and over.

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what tools are used in the creation of this form of art?
is it ink+brush+pen?
it was done in 2002

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does anyone else get mildly overexcited when doing a gesture drawing? like the way the flesh overlaps on this >>3118003 really makes me feel passionate


>>3118202
the artist is probably adrian smith since he was the main warhammer guy. or someone with a similar style. pretty sure it's a digital brush made to look like charcoal

>>3118076
Most people that work by simplifying just do it intuitively. If you know how something is shaped in real life odds are you'll be able to figure out what forms you'll need to draw it. Unless you're deconstructing it into some sort of in-depth step-by-step (only worthwhile for teaching or something you'll draw a lot of, see: literally any how to draw anatomy book) that's all you need to know.
Beyond that it's just being able to draw the forms that you're going to use, so practicing perspective, ellipses, curves, basic shapes etc.

is there a good tutorial for using a digital blending tool?

>>3117321
Thanks anon this was really helpful.

i've 2 questions:

1-how much is pen tilt is important in drawing? I'm a weeb so most of my drawing will be anime stuff. and i'll use it in 3d, hopefully someday animate.

2- is huion h610 pro a good choice?

>>3107631
So Hamptons "Figure drawing: design and invention" just arrived. I've worked with it before on my computer, but I was just wondering if I should work the book with reference or without, starting scratch from imagination?
I'm assuming I should do both, at first concentrating on reference, then after a chapter trying from imagination. Thoughts/suggestions?

>>3118899
1. Not at all
2. Sure why not

Anyother Drawing programs I should be looking at a beginner? Right now Im using Manga Studio

>>3107631
I have a plasma tv

Is it a bad idea to use it for drawing, as in the danger of image retention, burned into the screen?

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How do if I fix my chicken scratching and how can I make better lines?

>>3114371
Could always mod a fountain pen with a g nib. Jinhao X450/X750 and some other ones are pretty cheap, and the Noodler's Ahab can be eyedropper converted. You might have to go with titanium coated g nibs (like from Zebra) if you don't want to deal with changing the corroded nib that often.

>>3119798
I've tried this and it doesn't work. None of the feeds match up well with the g-pen nib, so you can't get the nib to sit properly, unless you want to get into feed modification.

>>3119308
>starting scratch from imagination?

Don't do that, that's retarded. Use reference..

>>3119840
Not even with adjusting the nib with pliers and/or heat setting? Granted, there is always some variance between pens (especially with cheap ass chinese pens like the Jinhaos), so some will be trickier to mod compared to others. Did you try to consult with online guides & videos to see if any of those help?

What's the round brush equivalent in CSP?

>>3119874
I also would like to know this.

The faded brush or whatever would be the spray can I think.

>>3119869
I didn't want to use heat because I don't want to fuck up the tempering of the nib(it's small and will heat very quickly, it's very easy to fuck up), but no, I've not looked at online videos. Just by trying I could tell the shape of the nib was such that it wouldn't sit right on the feed, and trying to force it into the barrel ended with the nib splitting down the middle.

>>3119881
This video has a bit less bullshit than most others I've found, but it seems a bit straightforward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0p7zQtvHA
This dude mentions putting the nib into a cup of hot water to help soften it if you don't want to risk using fire. I tried this method after having already fucked around with a few of these mods already; it's alright.
What is the exact pen that you've attempted this with, though? Admittedly I have had more success with both the Konrad & Ahab from Noodler's, but the Jinhao X450s I messed around with did okay. There are flow issues with the latter if you rush through the process with both non-pigmented & pigmented inks. You'll have to "start it" with twisting the converter a bit or shaking the pen (w/cap on) slightly, or continue to tinker with it until you get it just to your liking.

It is all out of convenience, sure, so it won't be as "cheap" compared to actual dip pen tools. When you get it to work after all of that hassle though, it is fuckin' awesome.

>>3108242
+1

Hi qna, bit of a personal problem. I have drawn for about 5 months trying to remain consistent every day.

I noticed over those 5 months that focus and anger go hand in hand with me. I think a long time ago when I was in uni, focusing on one task for long periods of time could feel good. But since then, I've noticed that I don't really enjoy focusing on anythign anymore. I get angry. I somehow naturally think of people who have left me or wronged me or blah blah. Particularly an ex of mine who dumped me last year. I don't know why drawing does this.

It's made me not look forward to drawing altogether, and I'm even starting to believe that it's just not for me.

What the hell's going on?

>>3119965
blast some music

>>3119965
You should see a therapist.

>>3119971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9P9Rc9VTHA&index=9&list=FLrKGURCRBnZZJD2HB3VZF4g

got this on repeat. it is helping.

I have also been meditating just to get my head away from dark places

>>3119972
i wish man.

>>3119965
You need therapy, not art lessons.

Not kidding. Get help.

>>3120116
is it really that serious?

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I haven't drawn in 6 months and I noticed that I am much happier and productive when I am not drawing. I've gotten to a point where I can only draw or look at other people's art if I am intoxicated or drugged, and even then it doesn't help. Drawing somehow draws all the darkness to the surface and avoiding art and music altogether has helped suppress it, no matter the urge to go back to the arts.

I know it's only a matter of time until I can't take it anymore.

>>3119874

If you mean like SAIs it would be the a watercolor brush but you'd have to download it. Also from what I tested CSP goes from dark to light in opacity too subtly compared to sai (probably because you need a very dark line when working with comics) so you have to change dens to a very low number to get the equivalent of a lighter mark on the watercolor brush in CSP.

Do I need proof of purchase in order to claim the warranty of a wacom product.

I'm looking to buy a discounted cintiq pro on eBay. The manufacture date is still in the range but I don't know if I will be covered in case things go wrong. The seller doesn't know about wacom warranty too

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Should I be giving up on a piece as a beginner? Whenever I finish a sketch and go to do lineart I can see all the problems with my anatomy, and it makes going forward impossible. I supposed it's good to be able to see my mistakes, but it's frustrating to see my mistakes and not be able to fix them.

>>3120453
You'd be better off asking Wacom that, not us, especially as that is country-specific in terms of laws.

>>3120187
Stop trolling with this shit, it's pointless. Go to /b/ if you want to troll.

>>3120143
Yes. What you are describing is irrational, not how a healthy person acts.

Get help. Worry about art later.

>>3120580
youre right. somehow i heard my mother in your post. thanks mom. you always know how to remove the burden from my shoulders.

>>3120571
If you can erase, then by all means.

>>3120571
Well sometimes it's worth giving up and just moving on to the next one, but in other cases it's definitely worth trying to redraw the sketch and fixing all the mistakes. Use references if you're unsure how to. Doing this frequently is a pretty good way to improve actually.

>>3120575
It would be an US purchase. I don't live there but I have a service that sends me anything from US to my country. In case I have an issue I can send it back through this service too.

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Very important question, at least to me:

If I have predetermined linework, I can render the forms, add secondary lighting, rim lighting, and naturally feel out the 3dimensionality of the shapes.

But I cannot for the life of me put linework down myself.

I seize up and feel like every subtle curve of a muscle better be pixel precise or it's going to throw off everything, and it makes me feel like a paradoxical fellow because I thought the hard part would be rendering, but I can sort of get it down once I have a preestablished outline/edge to work off, but when I'm doing lines i'm erasing, redrawing, erasing, overshooting, zoomed in too close, it's art purgatory where i'm stuck in the initial sketch phase.

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Has anyone used Flash (the animation program) to make still illustrations?
What is it like? Where can I find flash tutorials to render and color?
Recently I saw some promo art for the Dofus movie (A spin off of Wakfu) and the artist on the description said he made the pictures in flash and I found that very interesting because of the possibility of making illustrations that look like still frames of animation.

I did some porn commission for someone, and a bit after it was done and I sent it they chargedback. Obviously they don't respond.
Has anyone gone through this shit before? Can I get my money back or will paypal give me shit for using it as a way to charge for smut?

>>3121065
Flash is basically a subset of Illustrator, it's vector art with animation, tweening and other tech slapped onto it. If you want to do that kind of art, Adobe Illustrator is the king. There's also Corel Draw, Inkscape, and if you're on the mac, Sketch.

Flash as an artform is not really recommended. Back when I did Flash, I did my SVGs outside of Flash, in Illustrator, and imported them.

Besides, Flash is being deprecated (replaced) by Adobe Animate. But you're still better off using a real illustration program for vector art.

>>3116760
You're doing business, aren't you?

>>3117107
Ya think maybe why most of them render it out? Hmmm?

>>3117320
For straight lines, just hold down the shift key to constrain the line to an angle in increments of 45 degrees. There's a free plug in that lets you change that, but I forget what it's called, I don't use it.
Also, if you're using the brush tool, and click on the beginning point of a line, then hold down the shift key and draw the end point, it will draw a straight line between the points - it's great for drawing perspective lines.

>>3117992
Not gonna make it.

Well, maybe you will, if you finally escape puberty and get over the whole "boobs" thing, and can look at the human form without sexualizing it.

>>3121134
So flash is vectors? Interesting, I was interested in vector art anyway.
Where do I learn to make vector art?

>>3121188
Yes, Flash is vectors. Or, more specifically, SVG file format, or Scalable Vector Graphics.

I learned Illustrator by just using the app, since version 1.0. I won't bullshit you, Illustrator has a steep learning curve, but it's an incredibly powerful program, once you master it. You can try some YouTube videos, I can't recommend any because I've never looked for any, or, if you have the funds, I use Lynda.com for a lot of personal training - I buy a yearly plan there, and use it for all kinds of stuff. I'm sure their Illustrator videos are top notch.

>>3120579
I aint trolling.

>>3121204
But how does inkscape compares with Illustrator?

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Which of these is the best to outline my drawing with? (I will use watercolor later)

Could someone link me to that Japanese online drawing tool where you can train your perception of angles and foreshortening?

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what kind of settings on a brush should i use to get lines like this? I really love how they look

>>3121856
Just git gud at line weight and drawing in general. Patience.

>>3121856
MODS

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semi-beginner here. I started with Loomis but a lot of drawfags told me it's better to start switching to Vlippu and practice gesturing (my stuff is really stiff, example here). Are there any image guides for him or will I have to stick to videos?

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>>3121857
Get out of this board.

>>3121856
Play around with Scattering anon

>>3121734
Of that is watercolor paper use the pen with the biggest tip

>>3121926
I don't think Vilppu has made any books
Remember to draw from life

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>>3121856

>Dat leg

amateur here who doesn't want to splurge for a full on tablet, any good software or applications I could use on my ipad for drawing and whatnot?

So I have no idea why I practice drawing. I appreciate art but I have no desire to create or do anything with the skills. I just practice drawing. What should I actually try to do with said skills? I think I'll get better if I actually try to create something.

>>3122030
The irony is a tablet is even cheaper than an ipad.

>>3122034
Ipad was a gift from parents a few years back.
Later, a relative told me the only reason they gave it to me was because they opened a bank account and didn't need another one.

>>3121933
Ahhh that's what I was looking for. The broken quality of the lines. Not so much the weight. That was pretty self explanatory....

Thanks anon

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why does CS6/Wacom keep doing this to me.
>pressure randomly turns off every few lines

>>3122576
if you alt tab out and back into photoshop it'll remedy it for a few minutes. For a more permanent fix I think lazy nezumi comes with a patch that helps

>>3110747
>Does cgpeers have any If I ever get around to registering?

yes

>>3115120
burne hogarth's head drawing book

>>3116121
also study anatomy. (this should be obvious but nobody mentioned it)

>>3119965
you might be depressed.

>>3120571
i would say continue. try to push as far with the piece as you can. since you are a beginner and cant draw that yet your next drawings will presumably not be that great either. are you going to stop at the same place with those too because of anatomy or whatever? i do not think that is a good way to go about it. this way you will probably get to learning the next steps, like shading or whatever, in the next year

>>3121926
>>3121950
vilppu has a book it is called Vilppu Drawing Manual.

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how long does it take to wrap your brain around values? i can draw gud, but values are kicking my ass

>>3122030
i mean is it an ipad pro or just an ipad? if former, procreate.

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Is there an /ic/ discord that isn't full of furries?

>>3122668
keep doing it and it will click. make sure to always organize your values with the shapes though, and big broad strokes helps

>>3107863
buy good quality paint and paper and try it out. Look at different water colourists, the medium (media?) can do lots of different things. Rough sketches, light built up work right the way to very close to realism.

>>3107864
yeah I draw freehand, try the plastic tool, it can't cost too much

>>3107919
try these from Winsor & Newton

http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/discover/tips-and-techniques/inks/three-ways-to-make-an-impact-with-inks

http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/discover/tips-and-techniques/inks/preventing-bleeding-of-calligraphy-inks

http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/discover/tips-and-techniques/inks/understanding-the-quality-of-inks

>>3108786
Study from real life, maybe check out some renaissance Madonnas?

>>3115120
Go to a life class and grind it out, working from what you can see is better than books

how the fuck do i construct the human body

>>3123465

lol just think about boxes

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>>3107631
how do I get better at pixel art. I want to make a super small resolution game but my sprites don't look very good

>>3124160
get graph paper, doodle something and then lay the pixels over the grid, that trick has worked for me at least. Or try drawing normally at a low res and then lay the proper pixel work
Also you're using 9x9 grids when all old system were 8x8

>>3124286
honestly i think my issue is more getting in the detail to make it look believable

>>3124160
Is that 2D minecraft? Demo when?

>>3124291
never

>>3124289
Don't be concerned about details in pixel art, each pixel is worth something

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>wanna draw lewds
>not good enough

should i do it anyway? wonky frankentits and skewered looking dicks

>>3124620
there is a market for poorly drawn lewds

How many of you actually made a career out of art?

>>3124781
This is mainly a board for beginners and intermediates, few are pro.

anyone got good resource on 4 point perspective?

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>>3124620
Same
>Feel bad because my skill is not good enough for lewds
>Be tempted to enter the fetish market
>See good fetish stuff, feel discouraged until I git gud
>See mediocre-bad fetish stuff actually having a following and traction, feel motivated

Would it make good practice?
I'm talking about transformation stuff with ridiculous proportions and fat furry.

I have a Bamboo capture around somewhere but without its pen, so, I was thinking if I could get the replacement pen or just buying a new intuos

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I'm too poor to buy a drawing tablet, so I mostly doodle on my phone - I primarily use is Sketchbook Mobile Express. The problem comes when I want to import pictures for tracing, there's always the negative space left behind (see pic related). Are there any Android drawing apps that have the import ability without leaving gaps like this? What else can I do?

>>3123278
thanks anon. it's good to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

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How do I paint from a preset palette/swatch? Do I mix the colors like in traditional palette or do I go up and down the rgb square to get the additional colors I need?

>>3125769
If you don't know, why are you using one?

Since you're an idiot, obviously the bright colors are highlights and the dark ones are for shadow. You can obviously mix if you want because digital can do anything. You're better off just learning color theory and then playing with colors in different light instead of using something you don't understand.

Does anyone know the exact O-Ring needed to use on a Noodler's Ahab? The one on mine had snapped during maintenance, and the one sold from Noodler's is grossly overpriced for just the single o-ring. I bought a couple of 6mm OD (so 4mm) x 1mm ones as suggested from some forum after googling it, but that shit is quite small even when stretched - unfortunately it seems like a bust so far with getting it onto the pen. Going to keep looking in the meantime, but wondering if anyone from /ic/ had fucked around with something like this.
Should I just bite the bullet and get the direct shit from the company instead?

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Not a question, I thought this was hilarious.

>>3126806
tradfags never learn.

>>3125769
You're overthinking it. A digital palette can be a place to start, to mix with others, or to be applied as is. It's a way to keep certain colors pure, so you can go back and reference it. It's same as painting with paint - I can squeeze out some raw umber, and use it straight - or I can mix some white and use that. And then go back to the pure raw umber.

When I digitally paint, i set a layer in Photoshop as "palette", with my swatches, and lock it. I can reference it for pure color, or mix colors on another layer and use that. Or, if I'm blending, I'll use the option key while brushing (eyedropper tool) to pix up mixed colors to push colors in a gradation.

You can do whatever you want, to get the color you need. Swatches just retain the original, pure colors you're starting with.

How to draw the head tilted backward in weird ass perspective. Like seeing the neck visibly and all.

Got a full time job on a AAA well known studio. They make photorealistic, photo bashed art and I lean more towards stylized, hand painted fantasy art.
Is it worth it? Spending maybe years working with a style that doesn't appeal to me or won't be useful in my portfolio? At the same time I need the experience to apply later on to studios that work with themes and styles I like more.

>>3126848
Sounds like your first job, so you don't have much of a choice anyways.

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>>3126831
Ah, that makes sense, now I hate to tast it by myself
Thank you

What difficulties is there to switch from digital to traditional?

>>3126924
erasing your muscle memory to press ctrl+z on the paper

>>3126933
Erasers tho

>>3126924
A tablet isn't as precise as any tool you can hold in your hand, when drawing digitally you will feel like you are missing a joint in your arm.
Digital media isn't empirical so actually using the tools and configuring them has a lot of guessing in it.
Techniques specific to digital will confuse you a lot at the beginning

>>3127147
My guess was that you can kinda find equivalent to trad techniques in digital like blending? Probably some others, I suck so I wouldn't know.
But my main thought was that fundamentals wich are the most important transfer to any medium, like I'm pretty convinced someone that's good will be good anywhere.
I think I was wondering what specific techniques in paint, drawing/inking or any other technique, would not really exist in digital and would ask more learning to someone that only draws digitally. Not sure if clear, ESL.

>>3107631
is using stabilization good

>>3127206
It's the default
Every computer has a stabilizer for your cursor
Only reason you would remove it is if you're playing OSU or a game that depends on your mouse

>>3127160
Trad techniques never have a 1 to 1 digital equivalent, its always a thing of its own.
But the fundamentals are the same, always.

>>3127208
>Every computer has a stabilizer for your cursor
nani? how do i disable it?anyway i was meant the stabilizers in the art programs like cps or sai.

>>3127223
its okey, you can't do the sames lines you do in traditional cuz of the lack of friction.

Even then if you needed perfect lines in traditional you use tools like rulers

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what's this position called?

trying to find references for an illustration. i thought it was piggyback, but that's not it.

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What are the required drivers to make a Wacom Bamboo work? I used my tablet on my old laptop and it worked fine but now that I'm trying to use it on a new pc it just doesn't seem to detect it properly. Pen touch isn't detected and movement is barely detected
I think I had the install disc but lost it

>>3127385
Mounted doggy-style

>>3127514
not quite.

Anyone with a recommended tablet setup that reduces hand cramps?

I don't understand how much work I "should" be doing. I know that everyone is different and all that but I have no frame of reference at all. How many hours a day? Doing what?

If it wasn't obvious I'm a beginner. I've been mostly drawing lines, boxes etc.

>>3127622
As much as you can anon, but try to keep it mindful is better having 2 hours a day of focused work than just mindlessly drawing all day.

Doingwhat ? depends on what you want. If you want to draw the human body then you study the anatomy of the body and do figure drawing.

>>3127545
Use your shoulder more ? do streches, try not using your hand for other stuff( your phone, your mouse, etc)

I'm honestly losing some fun and confidence in drawing because I can't trust my eyes anymore.
Even when people say things like "your anatomy and perspective is completely off" it frustrates me so much because I can't see those fundamental errors.
After a few days have passed, I am more able to pick up on the inconsistencies and disfigurations, but I still can't believe it always takes that long for me to see my work as it truly is.
Does this ever get any better, and what should I do?

>>3127456
Look up your model on Wacom's site and maybe there will be drivers

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I am having a difficult time understanding how to determine the placement of reflective highlights on objects. I am able to "fake it" but would like to know how to actually predict these shapes. Does anybody have advice?

>>3128293
You just need to understand the physics behind it. Those are specular lights reflecting the lightsource itself, so you just gotta know where your light source is in comparison to you and half the angle. Every plane in light reflective enough with that angle with have a specular highlight.
Need a visual guide or do you get it now?

>>3128293
Mastering Light and Form Dorian Iten, you'll get it.
I'll try to search for the part you need.

>>3128293

Look up anisotropic highlights. 3d graphics have a lot to teach in this area since most of light's behavior has been mapped and codified

Learning digital first and I have kinda noticed two ways people make stuff. They either draw lines then color them in or they paint colors in slowly till you magically see the shit. Should I be picking one of these to learn about or just do what ever the fuck I want as the situation demands?

>>3128300
I do not understand what you mean by halving the angle between the viewer and the light source. A diagram visual guide would be incredibly helpful. Thank you!

>>3128303
>>3128321
I will look into both of these things, thank you.

>>3128323

How do you want to paint ideally? Do you have a favorite artist?

there is something that just misses the target when it comes to me understanding the process of getting better at drawing.

I just dont understand it. If i practise, will I eventually be able to draw however I want, whatever I want?

Is it something that I cant see until later? Does practising literally change the brain?

I guess it just baffles me that the future me can be drawing things the me right now would weep with joy over.

>>3128329
>A diagram visual guide would be incredibly helpful.
Ok. Gonna use this as an opportunity to learn the vector tools.

>>3128349
You want to do something you don't know how to do, so you learn how to do it. What don't you understand.

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>>3128372

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>>3128329
OK, this would have been a lot faster if I just drew it by hand instead of autisticially trying to figure out how to make vectors with perfect angles, but at least I know how to use use them now.

Arrows indicate the direction of the light source. Highlights appear where the planes are angled so they reflect the light source to the viewer. The line intersecting the path of the light is supposed to be the image plane and the last diagram is supposed to visualize how you have to take perspective into account.

This might sound like a stupid question but...how do you approach drawing rain?
I know it depends on the style and techniques but what are some rough ideas to approach this with whatever method?

>>3129800
Just draw lines with disconnects and also puddle effects.

>>3129801
Yeah I guess. Probably also play with thickness and size of the drops/lines for distance

Does anyone remember the dude who said he treats human body as a height map, drawing lines where there are steep slopes?
He had some real nice patterns on the female body and I forgot to put him into my inspo folder.
Pretty please