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I loving love your figure drawings. They look so effortless. All my figures look stiff. I usually go good with practicing them for about a week or two and then I get burned out or frustrated. 
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Halfling bard named Porthos for a DnD campaign some friends are running.  Did the original sketch while playing and did everything else yesterday while ignoring work.
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Nov 22, 2017 18:08
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Franchescanado posted:I loving love your figure drawings. They look so effortless. Thanks so much! Do you draw from life? I think that’s invaluable.
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Nov 22, 2017 19:05
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smallmouth posted:Thanks so much! I do! But when I try to go through the proper ways, like the Loomis method or how Proko teaches it, they all look stilted, stiff and bad. I haven't had anything click for me yet, so it's an uphill struggle. I've tried to look for classes, but the art teachers of my city apparently refuse to work past 6PM or on weekends.
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Nov 22, 2017 19:22
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ChickenSuit posted:Halfling bard named Porthos for a DnD campaign some friends are running. freakin' LOVE it. I put up a tutorial post about that last painting btw: The Old Country
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Nov 22, 2017 20:20
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Neon Noodle posted:freakin' LOVE it. This is awesome and I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. I find it tremendously helpful. If you do any more, please continue to post them.
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Nov 22, 2017 21:28
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Franchescanado posted:I do! But when I try to go through the proper ways, like the Loomis method or how Proko teaches it, they all look stilted, stiff and bad. I haven't had anything click for me yet, so it's an uphill struggle. I've tried to look for classes, but the art teachers of my city apparently refuse to work past 6PM or on weekends. I've never heard of Proko but I've skimmed a Loomis book and found it way too prescriptive for me, with the line-skeleton frames and ideal proportions and everything. Personally I think that whole approach is super unintuitive and generates stilted drawings because it's adding an extra level of analysis to the observation of the raw figure that sucks all the life out of it. That's my own 2 cents, I'm sure it works for many people since it's such a famous resource but I could never get the hang of it. It's a stylistic thing too of course, I'm pretty loose with anatomy and rarely even try to sketch a model's whole body. I think if the goal is to get vivid and lifelike figure drawings, the only resource I'd recommend is Drawing on the right side of the brain, since it focuses on contours and on observation - the verve of the human body comes from its contours, the realism comes from observation, and you end up sketching a lifelike figure with energy. If the goal is to generate human figures from your imagination, the stick-and-ball proportion-measurement approach might lend itself more to that. But as a basis for drawing from life I've found it totally uninspiring.
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Nov 22, 2017 21:42
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The trick with figure drawing is always to first find the gesture. If your drawings feel stiff and cumbersome, it's because you either haven't found the gesture, or you haven't exaggerated the gesture enough. Finding the gesture consistently takes a long time to get good at, and there's no real solution aside from doing an absolute shitload of gesture drawings. Franchescanado, do you have any examples of your figure drawings handy? It can be good to have a second set of eyes looking at your drawings if you think there's something wrong about them. For me, it's easy to get wrapped up in minutiae and end up missing the bigger picture of why a drawing doesn't work, and having someone else looking at it is immensely helpful.
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Killing it. Here is the WIP on that mural. 
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Nov 23, 2017 06:58
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I wish I had some good advice concerning drawing figures, other than practice. A lot. I don’t use a particular technique, which probably shows. I focus on emotion—I know it’s fuzzy and romantic, but there it is.
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Nov 23, 2017 14:35
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Vermain posted:The trick with figure drawing is always to first find the gesture. If your drawings feel stiff and cumbersome, it's because you either haven't found the gesture, or you haven't exaggerated the gesture enough. Finding the gesture consistently takes a long time to get good at, and there's no real solution aside from doing an absolute shitload of gesture drawings. I'll do some and post them for advice.
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Nov 23, 2017 20:10
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Adding some amber / shadow to the amber ox. annnnd... painting is still not as much fun as charcoal for me. I just can't put the detail down anywhere near as fast.  Also - my photo reference has no feet... er... hooves! sigma 6 fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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Nov 24, 2017 05:09
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sigma 6 posted:
drat, that's looking hella fine. Paint it with duck feet and hope no-one notices. I drew the Marvellous Miss Take (it's a thieving video game because that's the best kind of game) 
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Nov 25, 2017 00:53
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doodling some fake rpg characters. Making color choices is hard when you can't undo them, but I appreciate how drawing with markers stops me from loving around endlessly 
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Nov 25, 2017 06:14
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i made a new avatar for myself and i enjoyed working in the square format so much i did a couple things in that format  
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Nov 26, 2017 00:01
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That bottom lightning one is THE BOMB
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I've been trying to learn Illustrator a little better so I self-assigned some homework this month, where I take a random word generator and make a project out of it. Here's the list and what I have so far. LEMON CICADA BLAST CHALLENGE PASSION FORECAST GREEN CHIEF BACON SHY POLLUTION DEFENDER TROPICAL SPECTRUM GHOST ADVOCATE GARBAGE WINE CHEESE HUT MINER DINER GLOOMY INSPIRATION EGG QUEEN     
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like a cigarette should posted:I've been trying to learn Illustrator a little better so I self-assigned some homework this month, where I take a random word generator and make a project out of it. Here's the list and what I have so far. This came out really well, what generator did you use? I'd love to do the same exercise over winter break!
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like a cigarette should posted:I've been trying to learn Illustrator a little better so I self-assigned some homework this month, where I take a random word generator and make a project out of it. Here's the list and what I have so far. Wow. So good. Googling Illustrator now.
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Theokotos posted:This came out really well, what generator did you use? I'd love to do the same exercise over winter break! https://randomwordgenerator.com/ I've been wanting to do more graphic design and Illustrator was proving kind of tricky for me to learn, so I'm trying out a bunch of different things and just looking up techniques and tutorials as I go. So I just hit that generator a bunch of times until I got some combos I thought I could work with, and I think it's personally been a GREAT way for me to make myself learn things.
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Nov 26, 2017 04:02
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Nov 26, 2017 07:00
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I wanna reach inside and pet it. Who's a good monster? You are! Phoenix borb 
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Nov 27, 2017 00:58
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Anyone got recs for people who stream/record themselves drawing? I like to watch people draw and am a little tired of the sycra/istabrek/other super MTG concept art style people who stream all the time but dont know many other illustrators worth watching
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Nov 27, 2017 01:46
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https://www.twitch.tv/ladymazur streams semi-frequently and is extremely rad.
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Wowporn posted:Anyone got recs for people who stream/record themselves drawing? I like to watch people draw and am a little tired of the sycra/istabrek/other super MTG concept art style people who stream all the time but dont know many other illustrators worth watching I don't seek any out, but I stumbled on a guy named Oabnormal who is very chill, a good artist, and frequently overrun by his many adorable cats.
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do people actually watch drawing streams????? i streamed with aseprite a couple of times but except for the couple of buddies that wanted to watch i don't think i had anyone drop in. is it one of those things where unless you game the system nobody's even going to be served up your channel?
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Al! posted:do people actually watch drawing streams????? i streamed with aseprite a couple of times but except for the couple of buddies that wanted to watch i don't think i had anyone drop in. I mostly only watch streams archived on YouTube since you don’t need to catch them live, I’m not good at that
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Nov 28, 2017 03:07
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Al! posted:do people actually watch drawing streams????? i streamed with aseprite a couple of times but except for the couple of buddies that wanted to watch i don't think i had anyone drop in. When you search through a category, Twitch shows you the most popular channels first, so if you have no-one or only a couple of people watching, it's difficult to get noticed in the sea of other people doing the same thing since you need to scroll alllll the way down to find the stream. This means that you've got to be streaming at the time when someone searches, as well. I've been streaming for a couple of years, and when I'd get all the regulars in at the same time, or a sudden raid from another channel, I'd also get a lot more new people dropping in. However, few of them would stay and I've usually only got the few regulars dropping in. I honestly did not think it was something anyone would wanna watch, but I've kept up the habit because it means I've got a dedicated time to drawing. Wowporn posted:I mostly only watch streams archived on YouTube since you don't need to catch them live, I'm not good at that You know Twitch archives the last 16 streams anyone's made if the user has the option enabled? When you go on a channel that's not on, it should also show you the option to watch the last stream. Look just under the "try prime" text on the twitch banner, left of the icon of the person whose channel you're on. Click the "videos" link and see the endless glory of non-interactive joy.
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Nov 28, 2017 12:45
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I'm making block print and watercolor Christmas cards
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Davedave24 posted:I'm making block print and watercolor Christmas cards yet another soldier in the war on catmas
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exmarx posted:life drawing Whoa looks like a badass life drawing sesh. the drawings themselves are a little scratchy but it kinda works. Here's some of mine  
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Nov 29, 2017 23:08
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 non-burton christmas gothic  i love korby
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I liked the earlier iterations better but I have to finish it up in a matter of a couple days.  Super nice lighting here Sharpest Crayon. sigma 6 fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Nov 30, 2017 |
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