Here's my big fat face, rendered beautifully in oil paints. Now you guys
I keep expecting your work to become more like the work of John Patrick Byrne, James Stewart, or Thomas Hart Benton. You've got all the talent necessary, but pull back in terms of distance.
Do you have any clothes or symbols that might be fun to paint.
>>3117237
>isis
>>3117283
>I keep expecting your work to become more like the work of John Patrick Byrne, James Stewart, or Thomas Hart Benton.
the problem with that is that those artists already exist
>>3117295
no, thats not a problem. dont be an idiot brian.
>>3117237
You look like "comedian" Rich Vos.
its me
>>3117297
Any attempts I make at originality are met with indifference, so I try not to worry about it and just paint. Who my paintings look like is kind of irrelevant. Most of what I do is arbitrary.
>>3117300
Most of what you do is brilliant, but we do see some of the residue.
>>3117299
Woah thats trippy brooooo LMAO SENPAI!1!11!!! WEED LOLOLOLOLOLOL X XD XD XDdDDDDD!!!111!!!!11!!!!!
>>3117306
thanks.
just finished another one
>>3117393
Looks much better. I was thinking what it must have been like to commission John Byrne in the 70's. Then I immediately thought of you. What would it cost to commission you for a portrait or a corporate building? For example, canvas board roughly 18x24"? I've visited your page but haven't checked into it.
I think that commissions should be very lucrative for you.
>>3117237
You're one of the most talented painters I've seen
I've retained your palette. What about brushes, are you particular?
>>3117237
i'm not pursuing the same things you are in art but i respect and appreciate your art even though it's not to my taste.
>>3117421
I've revised this palette since then...
right now it's something like:
Prussian Blue
Burnt Umber
Burnt Sienna
Titanium White
Brilliant Yellow
Naples Yellow
Cadmium Yellow
Vermillion Light
Geranium Lake
Magenta
Royal Blue
Manganese Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Turquoise
Viridian
Pthalo Green
Emerald Green
I don't use all of those all the time, but I have small tubes of viridian, cerulean, and royal blue that i bought just to see what they were like. If I start selling paintings I'll add those permanently to my palette because they are so versatile and add so much to my previous palette.
For brushes, I mostly use acrylic brushes that I buy at Michael's for cheap. I'm not particular. I don't know much about brushes.
>>3117393
>still isis
>>3117393
How are you so fast
>>3117530
They're very rough sketches, there's next to no blending, or glazes. Caricatures essentially, similar to artists on the side of the street. Pic related.
Ten matisse's in a day
One Freud a year
A rembrandt every three if you're lucky
A Leonardo every ten years?
>>3117300
/ic generally doesn’t like art, usually it's the same values/proportions posters and going on about some comic art book from 1950. At best it's "I know everything about strArtmovement and that's why yours is rubbish".
>>3117547
>Ten matisse's in a day
>One Freud a year
>A rembrandt every three if you're lucky
>A Leonardo every ten years?
pretty much.
I did this painting last year and haven't done anything better yet. or maybe not better, just comparable. gotta get lucky. i did that painting in 10 hours. wasn't some huge labor of love, but i got lucky and it came out good. and I haven't done anything better since.
If I can do one good painting a year I'll be happy. the stuff in between often doesn't deserve more than an hour or two of work.
>>3117555
My dad always says if you hit 1 in every 3 balls that'r pitched to you you'll be in the baseball hall of fame. Easier said than done.
i came expecting to see everyone's portraits. turns out it's just the OP's circlejerk. not even sure if it's Brian being attention-seeking faggot again or the anons ITT who came fresh from reddit.
>>3117577
Reddit is better than 4chan.
>>3117596
come now, anon
>>3117511
Looks like a good palette - I'd make a few changes, like throw in raw umber, raw sienna, yellow ochre, and Cadmium Medium red.
Learn brushes. It's not that complicated - you need only a couple types - rounds, filberts, flats, and fans - each type has a purpose, and make some things, like blending, a lot easier. Spend a little on some mid-grade hog or sable brushes, learn to clean and care for them, and they should last you years. Cheap brushes will just make you fight the brush too much - using a GOOD brush is important, so you're not fighting the brush, and your strokes are accurate.
>>3117714
i actually have yellow ochre thats the one i was forgetting. Cadmium Red is too expensive, but I'd have to use it so rarely that it might be worth it. Raw umber and Raw Sienna idk. It's much harder to mix Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber so those are the ones I'd take if I had to pick from the 4. I don't want my palette to be much bigger than it is now.
>>3117714
and what makes me not want to get good brushes is that I don't have a place i can buy them in person. ordering brushes online seems sketchy.
>>3117721
Just order good brands, there's nothing wrong with ordering brushes online. Read reviews, and see what ones people like. Good brushes are important, I can't stress that enough. You don't have to empty your bank account, mid-grade brushes are fine to invest in.
>>3117725
why is everyone on i/c an asian girl?
>>3117727
any advice on good brands?
>>3117731
confirmation bias
>>3117731
Christopher Poole's love of comics from 12 years ago?
>>3117555
I hated you all the way, Brian, but I actually like this.
>>3117731
You just see asian girl in everything.
>>3117879
why do you need seven lines to draw a simple ear shape?
>>3117989
You meant to ask the original artist?
>>3118033
Because my way of holding a pen is uncommon and I can't properly make long srtaight lines or curves, so instead I do more tiny lines. I learn to hold the pen this way in my childhood and I cannot learn another way now (I could but it will be as easy as learning writing from scratch)
>>3117772
right? it's so fucking good. and i sold it for $600!? if i still had it i'd be entering it in shows and shit and getting 1st place.
the worst thing is when you do a really good painting you're like "well i'll just do that again". doesn't work like that.
>>3117555
I mean, how hard can it be?
>>3118133
Leonardo did a Leonardo a day. So apparently not that hard.
>>3118081
Whenever I do something that I'm happy with I am convinced I got lucky and if I try another one, I'll confirm that it was just luck and that I have no skills.
>>3118081
You did well on the $600,
Where are you going with your art though? Isn't this painting part of an overarching personal manifesto?
>>3118175
Some people draw it out meticulously then colour it in (that Scottish bloke, does lingerie art, nicked the people on a beach with the umbrella )
Expressionism seems to pile it on in one go, very dramatic
People like I suppose Titian or Rembrandt or loads of others sketch it out on canvas , use many layers and let it develop away from the original sketch (as seen with x-ray studies)
Sometimes a good under sketch helps, sometimes it needs to be thought up all over again with a new coat.
Otto dix eventually did his later work in one single coat, first and only attempt. He was quite good by then.
>>3118188
I tried pencil, it always damages the paint I found. You can also make a sketch, pin prick around it then lay the master sketch with tiny holes on a canvas and put a layer of charcoal dust over it leaving a fine imprint on the canvas. I think Holbein tried this.
>>3118175
my glasses are about -8
>>3118190
i tried charcoal for a little bit. I think the drawing underneath doesn't matter so much for the way i paint because my underpaintings are so muddy and vague that it doesn't matter if the graphite or charcoal mixes with the paint. Not sure if that affects the archival quality of the paint, but whatever.
It just always stuck with me when van Gogh wrote in a letter later in his life that it's best to just "attack the canvas" with paint right away and not worry about preparation. At the point I'm at with drawing it can help having a guideline for more difficult perspective heavy and drawing heavy paintings, but I'd like to get to the point where I don't need any underdrawing. A lot of that comes down to just being confident, and not necessarily your drawing skill, but then again drawing skill is mostly confidence.
>>3118197
Understanding handling of oil paint helps, I recently was painting a carpet. I was layering up colours, changing it as I went. In the end the layering, tweaking lights and darks wasn't working (stumbling over it, all sorts).
I went over the whole thing again with one thick-ish coat with slight turps to make it semi-liquid and it worked.
Doing a whole painting (portrait or landscape) in one go, one coat about 2-3 mm deep is possible.
Depends what you're emulating.
>>3118205
God those master copies people do at museums seems so fun
>>3118173
LMAIO XD
conveniently did one today
>>3118190
A great many artists did that - fresco artists used this technique to get an outline onto the wall, prior to painting. They would make a cartoon (the origin of the word), which was sheets of paper glued together to the size of the wall, transfer the rough outline of the work onto it with grids, then pin prick the outlines, place it on the wall, and blew charcoal dust through the holes. Michelangelo used this technique, as did DaVinci with the Last Supper. This is the kind of stuff apprentices did in studios, studying under master artists - they'd prepare the wall, transfer the drawing, grind the pigments, etc.
>>3118341
I've tried it before
>>3118205
It's ironic that you would tell the other poster to understand handling paint, because I don't think you quite understand it yourself. The rule you should follow is "fat over lean", or "Thick over thin" - your base layers should be thin, so they dry faster, then use thicker paints later on. Your approach sounds like a brute force, instead of mixing colors properly on the palette, or using proper glazing techniques. 2-3mm? On a realistic, traditional technique painting? You're wasting paint, that's entirely too much paint, especially for one done in one session, and will be a nightmare to get it to dry. Putting anything on top of that much paint, either more paint, or varnish, will be a fucking nightmare, as well.
>>3118197
Not having an underdrawing is a nice idea, I guess, but where did you get the idea that it was not necessary, or a goal to reach? I would guarantee you that the greatest paintings in the world had something underneath. I firmly believe that the foundation of a great painting is a solid drawing underneath it.
Check this video out - you don't have to do a fully rendered and perfect drawing, but the drawing is the blueprint to the painting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce7leNdACKk&t=313s
I feel you've grabbed onto an unrealistic and unecessary goal, that will hurt you and lead to more failed paintings, than will help you. I'm really puzzled where ideas like this come from - in over 30 years of art, since college, I've never heard anything like this set forth as the goal of the painter, to not needing an underdrawing. Even just a couple of lines to indicate horizon or basic shapes is better than just stabbing at the canvas and hoping for the best.
>>3118367
it's more that the more I make mistakes the better I'm getting, because it means I'm doing something more difficult. I still do a light underdrawing with paint to get general shapes, but for the most part I like improvising during the painting. In theory the more clumsy paintings I do without an underdrawing, the easier it will be to execute on larger scale, more planned work when I'm ready.
If the paintings come out the same everytime, and it's no effort for me, it means I'm not learning. If I do a bad painting it means I have something to improve, so I'd rather do the hardest things all the time, than the easiest things and they always come out good, but the same.
>>3118360
1.5mm? 0.8mm?
I like to get a coat thick enough to cover the weave of the canvas, either many layers thin thin thin little less thin little less thin little less thin slightly thicker try a glaze another coat
Or as I read a little while ago getting it in one sitting which is beyond me but I might be able to one day.
With other paintings I do work with less delicacy, dobs of paint, scumbling, smearing thin raw paint over thick build ups, dust over with a round
Sometimes with a flat and raw paint.
>>3118375
I can imagine some of Cezzane's were painted immediately.
>>3118393
Cezanne wasn't much of a draftsman. Most of his paintings seem to have been executed over lengths of time of building up and expanding or decreasing outlines.
For as much of an artist's artist Cezanne was, unfortunately most of the public's knowledge of art is about van Gogh, which is endlessly ironic, but if you hope to make some success in the art world right now your best bet is copying the techniques and habits (maybe not so much the style) of van Gogh's work. It's a reference point that anyone with cursory knowledge of art can connect to.
>>3118396
They're people that go to the football so we won't worry too much about their fondness for Don McLean tribute acts.
>>3118398
thats quite the sentence
>>3118429
>making art for people that don't like art
>>3118441
i dont think that's for people that don't like art. there's some people that just don't give a shit about painting. but the lion's share of introductory art buyers and sellers understand a van Gogh influence more quickly than they understand a Cezanne or Picasso influence.
>>3118453
>Is this Basquiat worth $110m? Yes – his art of American violence is priceless
Sad isn't it?
>>3118453
what? i think people can recognize the influence of fucking picasso lol, next you'll be saying that people don't know about warhol
>>3118783
is that ear a joke?
>>3118794
>>3118855
is that a condition or something? your ear looks small
>>3118855
you're in for a lifetime of "ear looks small" critiques on your self portraits
>>3118896
godspeed, earchan
My second self portrait. It's a little chicken scratchy and the hair is messy. Plus the lips and eyes arent really well done. But it sort of looks like me so I'm pleased.
I'm thinking of lightly toning the paper for the next one so I can use more the value to get the lips and eyeballs right.
There's a long way to go
>>3118855
~the man with the ear of a baby~
>>3117721
Rosemary's brushes. Ivory and Evergreen ranges.
>>3117714
i have lots of cheap brushes, they're fine really, i wouldn't say i have to 'fight them' unless it's 'fighting to stop the brush part falling off after a few weeks' lol
i'd much rather put that same money into something else like paint or board
>>3120069
If you've never used good brushes, how do you know what to compare the cheap ones to?
>>3120115
i have, i have some good ones too, i do think for watercolors good red sable or whatever is way better, for like bristle though i can barely tell the difference between the finest hairs from the finest part of the finest hog and whatever the cheapest organic ones are
There's something not right with it but this is getting to be as close as it'll get. Leave to dry , the very light dusts of colour to shape the face, but no more to the actual shape , features or profile.
Start the next one......
(Apart from the mystical symbols to go still)
This is from like, earlier this year or something.
>>3122035
I've got one just like it,
>>3121893
The eyes and nose are perfect , I'm always getting the lips and chin wrong. I think it's because I'm changing the position of the viewer in the top and bottom half, in the frenum it is drawn at a wrong view point. Nearly there.
>>3122111
Oh yeah? Maybe we're twins. Unless you're talking about the style of painting. I dunno.
>>3122035
>Akirel is good looking AND good at painting
>>3122370
Oh good grief
come on thread! dont you die on me!
>>3118074
Thats an excuse. If you cant just draw a fucking ear in one line youll hold yourself back forever. Just try it. I hold my pen in the most retarded way possible and I can fucking do it. You want to know how I hold my pens? I grip the center of the pen with my middle and ring finger. pretty much like pic related. stop making excuses anon cos youll never improve like that
New portrait!
>>3123239
More work to it.
very quick digi paint
>>3123253
Online hate crime
>>3123237
i hold my pens like this too lol #retardgang
>>3123242
You're really good
>at wasting materials
Your DK is severe anon
>>3122035
stop using mixer brush, Gantz
>>3123253
i think i hate all american women
>>3123191
it's not too late to six proportions, tinyhead.
the pose is gay though, i would scrap it altogether
>>3118783
>framed
>didnt take off glasses for portrait
>actually painted glass distortion
>eyes don't look in the same dorection
>framed
>>3118330
you look distorted to the right
>>3118205
what is a nun doing here posting on this g
odforsaken 4chin?
>>3118193
another manchild fell for the beard meme
>>3121893
art is not for you and you're too old
>>3123552
was looking at george grosz paintings and liked the big hands and distorted proportions. not so much that that inspired me, just a good reference point for you, the viewer, of how i like to paint. if you're interested in seeing someone else who paints like me.
It's me.
>>3123576
I can't get that chin right, I've scrubbed it off again
>>3123607
Without the logo, it ruins it . Bridge of nose please.
>>3123255
>>3123547
I thought it was a cute style used...
>>3123660
Can you post a drawing of what you actually look like? Not the stylized stuff? I'm sure you're very pretty but you seem to be over compensating a little lol
>>3123191
the arm seems to be short.
>>3123546
Why not?
I don't really like using it anyways, and I don't think I've used it in a painting in the past year. But I don't see why it matters.
>>3123559
How is he supposed to draw himself when he can't see :(
>>3122035
Why do you look like a korean drama actor or something
>>3124162
anon, please use your head. he took a photo of himself. he really didn't need to see/use glasses to take a photo.
if he was drawing from a mirror, then you would have a point, but since he isn't looking straight in the portrait, it is obvious that he used a photo.
>>3123660
it's like you are vanity personified
white women, i swear
barbie dolls obsessed with looks, all of you
>>3124167
You're only young for so long, anon.
Give me 10 years to age and then you can be less insecure.
>>3124251
it's true, white women age really fast
they look 25 when they are 16, and 40 by the time they are 25
bunch of old hags
Digital
Pencil
Ink
Acrylic
>>3124308
not the artist
from the tone of your reply it seems like you're just a stupid pathetic scum, show the board your art.
>>3124308
This isn't a critique thread.
>>3117237
I'm still a /beg/innger, first self portrait.
>>3124163
I have no idea?
I'm uncomfortable as fuck of my own looks and couldn't bear to see my own face. Fuck me I'm jealous of you all.
>>3124297
You are good. Finish the eyes please, less wacky as well thank you.
>>3123660
Sorry, yes very cute
>>3124449
ahhhh you're so cool, you remind me of Casandra from dragon age
>>3124483
did you just assume my gender?
>>3124489
I'd fuck you peen or not desu.
finished the underpainting
>>3124546
nice
>>3124546
I like the expression you used and your ability to paint your personality there
>>3124255
i sense mudskin jealousy
>>3124332
that's a dwarf
>>3124546
elbows and shirt folds are too rushed. gettin better.
>>3124546
What on earth will you do with it ? You're going to have loads of nutty paintings of yourself.
>>3124665
the international portrait contest held by the Portrait Society of America. Or at least, I hope so.
>>3124255
of course we're vain, everyone wants to be us. blacks and asians bleach their skin, lighten their hair, put in blue contacts because we have what you don't. If u get wrinkles, who cares? fill that shit up with botox, eat right, move around, and youre good to go.
that said, that girls self portrait is still stupid because it doesnt display any objectional skill, just muh style
It's up in my neighbourhood community centre
>>3125057
I highly doubt that's you. Provided it is you, that's a wonderful painting.
>>3125057
Too many Big Macs
Oil paint
>>3125263
hope this is proof enough
>>3125273
yeah, youre right. put on a lot of weight the past 3 years. trying to lose em now :(
>>3125260
looks good. could use some more defined darker shades on the flesh. but looks p swell.
>>3117299
DUDE
>>3124546
Brian, you suck
>>3125057
it's very lovely ~
>>3125436
oh jeez, thanks! I think I could've done the face better, though. But I'd have to say I'm pretty happy with how the folds turned out.
Here is my big fat face, but in frog form
>>3125486
its on A3, and they sized it up.
biggest I've done is like, 2.5 meters-ish tall? and like a meter wide. done around a year ago. pic related.
>>3117237
From a couple weeks ago :v
>>3125412
holy shit why though? delete this post youre underage its a bannable offense.
>>3125523
I'm not underage lmao.
I just come on here to improve my digital art bc it sucks, and I want to improve my rendering skills.
>>3125496
i think the biggest i've done is 48"x64", and I ended up just painting a big smiley face on it.
I will say though, you should try to learn to paint from observation in mirrors. those exaggerated facial features are more difficult to accomplish in obsevational self portraits, but with practice it's not actually that hard, and it's more fun than copying a photograph if you get good enough at it.
>>3125535
ch/ic/ks are coming out in force in this thread, holy shit. where my beefy boys at?!
>>3125540
love the glitchy/chromatic aberration-esque effect. no idea how you get that traditionally.
also yeah, i should probably try that. i used to draw my left hand and feet, never bothered looking in the mirror. struggled with dissociative personality disorder last year so looking in mirrors was very hard for me. (weird i know) Now I'll probably be alright with it but I feel like I've kinda moved on to digital, cartoonish works? Or is it better I stick to realism? I keep reading posts that i should just stick to it.
>>3117299
your anatomy is the first thing you should fix, if you try to draw realistic humanoids.
also why does he have naruto eyes
>>3125560
>love the glitchy/chromatic aberration-esque effect. no idea how you get that traditionally.
I call it "glare from artificial lights cause the paints still wet" technique. All the pros use it.
i think you are getting too caught up in the ideas of what "realism" means. Look at any great artists like Picasso, Michelangelo, van Gogh, or Ingres and you'll see their work isn't realistic. They idealized what they were looking at. They took what was in front of them and made it into artwork. They weren't just drawing things according to nature, they were filtering it through human preferences.
Many female painters did the same thing too, although there's something "snake eating it's own tail" about women idealizing their own image, but Alice Neel tapped into that through her portraits.
If you really enjoy observational work don't worry about if it's realistic. I found that when I started honestly trying to draw what I was looking at it looked less and less like life and more and more like art. It just takes a lot of grinding and drawing what I see that helped me get past that "I need it to be realistic" mode of thinking.
Best way to grind is what you said too, draw your hands a lot. They're the most helpful thing to draw that's always available.
>>3125573
sorry about the rant, that thread with the art school guy who paints memes from photos got my riled up. He was like "I can already draw photorealistic from life" and I almost went off on him about photorealism not being what makes great art.
>>3125573
kek
and yeah, it's alright. Will look more into Alice Neel.
Also what are you using for that smiley-face painting? Oils or acrylics?
I've used both quite a lot but I can't really tell for that pic. Looks more like oils though.
>>3125586
it's oils, I'm looking at a lot of Picasso lately. He was obsessed with dry brushstrokes.
I'd say alice neel is a good reference point for any contemporary portrait painter. She's more or less still the blueprint for what modern portraits should look like (following the traditions of the artists i listed before like van Gogh and Picasso), lucian freud be damned.
>>3118783
>>3118855
Man that's pretty funny, no offense, of course.
>>3125412
Well your portrait was great. I'm not really in a position to criticize but the teeth look a bit off. Would love to see you post more work.
Good luck on losing weight! Remember that sleep is your best friend. Sugar is your worst enemy.
>>3125607
wow, /ic/ is a lot friendlier than i remembered. thanks anon!
yeah, i agree, i got super lazy on the teeth, heh.
>>3125607
actually now that i think about it i probably drew my teeth like that because theyre really fucking straight. like, i have close to no canines. i love bread (thats why im a fat ass) and i wasnt a big fan of meat.
>>3125626
my front teeth are straight in the same way, but the bottoms of mine got chipped off in an accident when i was a kid, so they're half fake. Are your teeth just naturally like that?
>>3125631
yep. my friends find it creepy.
>>3125638
you got dem lil baby teeth
>>3125652
>I just don't eat meat much.
you'll never get a boyfriend with that attitude
>>3125658
wow.
okay well what if i'm gay
>>3125617
Hey, you're a lot friendlier than I expected.
>>3125626
I knew that would be the case actually. I've met a few people with a similar issue. It's a condition called "bruxism". The flattening of your teeth is due to excessive grinding of your teeth. This could be caused by poor mouth posture or eating methods. It could also be caused by anxiety. Either way it's something you'll want to look into getting corrected. It will help you sleep and therefore, lose weight as well.
20 minute portrait in a tiny space of my notebook, didn't wanted to spend much time on it.
It's been a while since I've done one of these.
>>3125667
i have no gum recessions nor abraction, they're just.....really really straight i guess.
this is so weird i thought this was normal and my friends just had sharp teeth because they loved meat. what does a normal person's teeth look like then?!
my whole life is a lie
>>3125686
>what does a normal person's teeth look like then?!
It's like anything else everyones different. I have a friend who's mouth is smaller than normal, so she actually has less than 32 teeth. There literally wasn't room in her mouth for all her teeth to grow in.
>>3125673
you should sharpen your pencil a bit more. before i enlarged the pic i thought the drawing was weirdly distorted and slanted. but now its bigger it looks pretty normal? have u tried using other kinds of pencils? like 4b and 6b. they help a lot
>>3125686
You don't have baby teeth. Even midgets who have underdeveloped bones still develop full teeth. The shape of your teeth is due to the tips literally being scraped off by grinding. That picture above depicts severe gum recession and abfraction on all of the teeth. Recession occurs usually above the front teeth but not always on every tooth.
Normal teeth look like pic related.
That is not "normal people teeth". It is NORMAL TEETH. They could belong to a deranged person. You could be a lovely person, with poor teeth.
Your teeth are that way as a result of another problem. It is also likely that the grinding is occurring in your sleep meaning it will disrupt your sleep. That very well could also contributing (not causing) weight gain.
I don't want to be positive about this particular issue because it is not a good thing at all. it is not a quirk. It is a symptom of a detriment to your health.
>>3125703
She should see a dentist if she's worried. I'm sure you're right about what you're saying but professional opinions are always good too.
>>3125703
>>3125711
okay then time to visit the dentist
>>3125694
It's was somewhat sharp, but the space was pretty small so after a couple of lines the tip got big, the way I draw is also very shade-based, I don't try to focus too much in linework when it comes to portrait and instead I try to make everything about the shading. Maybe a bad habit, I'm not sure. I've heard drawing in small spaces can also be a sign of insecurity in your drawing skill, I can also see that.
>>3125404
Wow, how did you manage to capture such a character-revealing expression. It looks very naturalistic and unrehearsed.
>>3125713
Yea, sorry to ruin the mood for you. I wouldn't want you to suffer because of something like that though so I need to point it out.
Anyway, this is getting off topic
>>3125673
p-please don't beat me up
>>3125458
the rarest pepe
This isn't a self-portrait but it's a portrait of a close friend of mine. This is essentially my style as a whole (although I seem to have some serious trouble drawing myself [due to what must be insecurities with personal appearance]).
In any case, I haven't had the drawing properly critiqued before so any pointers would be immensely appreciated.
>>3123242
I prefer the earlier attempt. It looks like some deranged puppet from Team America.
>>3125836
Great patience with the pattern on the robe, but there's no terminator line on the left shoulder? Is that intentional?
Good job overall.
>>3125836
are you a high school student?
>>3125857
Yeah, it was intentional.
I'm not entirely sure why I decided not to do a terminator line on [his] right shoulder. I have two theories as to why not:
1) The terminator line on that shoulder was enormously distracting from the point of emphasis. I vaguely recall trying to draw it and then deciding against it.
2) The reference picture had light coming from the back of the robe in such a way that it annihilated the terminator line entirely. As such, I kept to the reference pic's example and avoided the terminator line on the shoulder that had had light reflecting on it.
It may even be a combination of both, but as far as I can tell, those are the two schools of thought that led me to the final decision.
>>3125868
No, I'm 26 and I drew this when I was 25. I've taken a grand total of 5 drawing courses (two of which were repeats) in my collegiate career, and now I am in pharmacy school. In other words, I wanted to be an artist but then decided that being a poor elitist wasn't the best life for me and decided to study hard rather than to focus on practicing drawing.
testing out this small wacom tablet i bought on ebay for $46
new to painting and I hate the medium, but by god I shall master it.
I'm struggling with smearing and making a mess. My process is dipping the brush in painting medium and then mixing several colors into it and making as few brushstrokes on top of each other as possible. If you can see some obvious practical mistakes I'm making, other than drawing, I would appreciate the help. I can't understand how you can paint so clear cut and not-messy...
>>3125507
cute
heres this finished
>>3127576
>Still an ISIS piece of shit
>>3127757
>Every disagreeable political statement is /pol/.
Dude, seriously? People are tired of you and people like you. Just shut the fuck up.
>>3127759
so you say /ic/ is the place for comments like:
>Still an ISIS piece of shit.
?
>>3127762
Any place is for any sort of comment. You wanna talk about fascism? Stop letting social media tell you what shouldn't be allowed. If you don't like it, too fucking bad.
/pol/ isn't the end all be all in anything political you personally feel is wrong.
Half the shit on this board doesn't belong, but here we are.
I'm done. Now you can go back to ass kissing shit artists.
>>3127769
I'm not saying that I find the comment to be wrong, its just not art critique. So f off, my man.
>>3127769
>hurrr rdudr i'm making an statement against the media by calling a decent artist ISIS because he looks from the middle east god I'm so smart XDDD
Fucking kill yourself faggot. Post your portrait so then we can call you names, it's not even about racism, it's about you being a faggot shitting on people that actually do what the thread is supposed to be, take that shit to /b/ or /trash/.
>>3127772
Your assumption on everything being /pol/ that you find "WAYCIST" is wrong. YOU fuck off, you little liberal arts, social media slave faggot.
>>3127605
you should've seen me post-breakup with my ex where i literally looked like a terrorist
>>3127790
Personal thank you for shaving and taking care of yourself
>>3125404
ah, a fan of John Larriva?
You've left the nose ambiguous, where are your nostrils? add a bit more details to the shadows and highlights to really let the piece pop. I like the color pallet too.
Do not leave your mouth a straight black line like that again, its very ameture.
>>3127790
>post-breakup with my ex
what happened bruh? did you get cuck?
>>3127862
no but she tried to stab me once. things were a little tense after that
>>3117283
The fuck r u talking about leave
>>3117291
>>3117393
*calls interpol*
>>3127873
never stick your dick in crazy
>>3117555
That painting is trash
But an a for effort I guess
>>3118855
Baby ear
>>3121893
Art is not for you quit before waste our time and your money
>>3123191
Faggot faggot faggot faggot
>>3123191
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0vxkutwSMab
>>3127914
i'm so wet
>>3127892
still the only girlfriend ive ever had. kinda soured me on relationships so ive just been painting in hopes i can be rich and marry a model that wants me for my money.
>>3127988
>painting for material reasons
ngmi
>>3127988
damn bro, I feel u. I remember after my first break up. Just wanted to become more successful than her. Show her how big of a mistake she made. She's more successful than me to this day.
>>3128067
same. my ex had a new boyfriend within a year (who im assuming she hasn't tried to stab yet because they're still together)... guess she wanted to get all the crazy out of the way while with me and now she's normal
>>3128074
>and now she's normal
untill you see her face in the newspaper under "crazy woman murders boyfriend".
>>3127790
you look good unkept tho
>>3128074
>new boyfriend within a year
lol
mine found a new one within a week
>>3128114
mine found a new girlfriend while still dating me
lol
>>3118074
>(I could but it will be as easy as learning writing from scratch)
NO, IT'S NOT
This excuse got me riled up internally. its not even that difficult. We've all been taught how to hold a pencil for writing.
Instead of seeing a problem and giving up at least try the solution.
you look like a shoe bomber
>>3128381
Start all over again (:
>>3122035
I though you were a girl this whole time
>>3129235
Miserable looking ain't he
>>3117237
I hate this beyond words
>>3130021
Hello Doge
...
>>3118855
i have 2 friends that are like you, after that never said "the ear is too small" on someone's creation
>>3125686
>baby teeth
>>3125260
you look like hitler
Hadn't done one in years so did one for this thread. It's strangely nice but now I can feel the parts of my face that are lopsided.
>>3130885
NICE NICE NICE NICE NICE
How do you normally start your artwork? Do you draw the circles first and line in porpotions or make a siloutte?
>>3130910
this was the sketch I started with. It's less accurate to the selfie I was using, but for stuff that's going to be heavily painted off a ref sometimes I just try to get the basic feature placement down and fine-tune shapes better with the colors. I usually just make a layer right on top of the sketch and start painting over the lines.
I guess I usually start with a very loose shape of the face and mark in generally the placement for the eyebrows, lower eyelid, bottom of the nose, and middle of the mouth. Once I have those the rest build off them.
>>3118855
amazing
>>3130885
melania?
I suppose this counts.
I do shit doodles on soc sometimes, heres one.
I really need to get back into more traditional stuff.
So hard to just draw though, easy to just dick around.
im not as cool in real life, i just wanted to draw myself as a private detective after watching angel heart
>>3130021
Hail doge!
>>3130910
ur a qt
>>3127576
last time i was really active in this board you were reluctant to change the angle of your self-portraits. now look at you, raising your hand and shit
>>3125543
too busy over the porn thread
>>3132433
Oh god why did I put that last part it's fucking cringy.
>>3129235
I get that a lot.
I'm gay
>>3132492
no you're not.
>>3121893
shading on chin and jawline
>>3131716
I don't see it.
>>3132789
more value shifts in the ear will help
>>3132631
you're thinning the paint too much. I'm assuming you're doing it with turps. ease back a little. you still need to paint, right now you're basically painting with water
>>3132819
I'll try. I've been using paint medium. oily, stinky stuff.
Chalk and charcoal over rough pencil lines.
>>3128109
no he doesn't
>>3130026
post work
fk texturing tho
>>3127790
You look fine don't listen to trolls.