sigma 6 posted:

sigma 6 posted:

Painting a mural and struggling with the skin. Acrylic glazes can be hard. Especially when we are talking glazes several feet in size. It's above a local bar. I plan on using masking tape and contact paper / spray paint for the mandala.

sigma 6 posted:

Thank you! I love toned paper with black and white charcoal or colored pencils. The paper provides the mid tones naturally.

More work on the mural.

Sharpest Crayon posted:

Don't stop posting but I screamed internally when I read this.

Sharpest Crayon posted:

My hatred for ballpoint pens is purely based on the ink and the lack of control. The pen will sometimes leave a thinner line, meaning you gotta go over it again and now the line's messy. Sometimes you don't get a line at all, just a scratch on soft paper. And then another scratch. And another and ffffff come onnn *draws smudges in the corner to get the ink flowing* goddamnit I can SEE there's ink in there come onnnn ok here we go again.

Sometimes when you're shading the sticky ink comes out in a blob that will smear as you're moving your hand around. The thicker lines you sometimes get stay sticky and smear-able for too long. I also obviously prefer having line width variation. If you like even lines though, the felt tips are so much easier to control if you don't wanna splurge on those mechanical ink pens (which I did, because I loved doing tiny details).

I understand ballpoints are available and cheap and I'll doodle with them if I have nothing else at hand as well, but the idea of actually working with them brings up a cold sweat and a faint memory of paper with squares printed on it.

This is obvs personal preference, you like working with them, you keep doing it.

PortalFreak posted:

I'm trying a type of shading where I take the skin color and darken it/change the hue. It kinda looks like he's either burnt or missing skin

Al! posted:

you can tell by the way i do my walk im a bird

Jake Snake posted:

Hope it didn't turn out too

Hellbeard posted:

Weird West undead hunter.
Doing more watercolor practice.
Watercolors are cool I should really just go over some basic techniques resources but too lazy somehow to make less work for myself. Did you know you can lift pigment while it's wet with some tissue and make highlights?

Sharpest Crayon posted:

This was supposed to be a fat, happy cow with a unicorn horn and then that didn't happen because it looked like a bear and it just went downhill from there.

sigma 6 posted:

Drunk inking is not wise.

Al! posted:

i didn't get to go to art school so id love people to tear apart my hosed up garbage

Wowporn posted:

Yeah this

I'll very strongly consider making a harsh critique thread, I'm not sure what would make a helpful OP but it might not need much since all I really want is specific feedback and not necessarily a big list of resources and stuff

gmc9987 posted:

I'd be less concerned with them fading away like a leaf in winter and more concerned with people making GBS threads up the thread arguing against critiques they received. If such a thread were to exist I think having some clearly laid out, mod-enforced rules that would result in probations/bans for breaking them would be a good thing. Just take a look at the digital art thread for what happens otherwise.

Sharpest Crayon posted:

I prefer the second one, too. The highlights add so much to the form.


Someone requested I draw Fiora the Grand Duelist from league of legends, which I don't play and know nothing about, and the reference pic they showed was a torso contortion nightmare.
I wanted to draw her actually looking powerful.

Sharpest Crayon posted:

I really like how you draw the attention to the senses with the lighting! Hearing's my fave, the eyes get first drawn to the "no fricking way" face and then backtrack to the ear burning.


I can't remember if I said this the first time way back when, but I love the colour scheme, it's like ice-cream for the eyes


Never let it be said that I wasn't willing to improve my art



You'll note that I added in one woman so it's not misandrist, you guys.

Radio du Cambodge posted:

He kept falling asleep during this pose and drooping his head, so the neck/head looks kinda off from the rest

smallmouth posted:

I hire models privately. I started out using model mayhem and craigslist. The latter is a crapshoot, but I've found some of my favorite models there.

Sharpest Crayon posted:

before I noticed that I'm inking into the sketch layer

Hellbeard posted:

Maybe I should glue it to some backing?

Davedave24 posted:

like a cigarette should posted:

More practice at graphic design and Illustrator stuff

I've actually been thinking of trying to go for my master's in graphic design and am trying to get portfolio-worthy stuff together for my application so...I am trying very hard.

Spinster posted:

Pieta

Radio du Cambodge posted:

This is my ex-girlfriend's pussy

Arbor posted:

sigma 6 posted:

This made me laugh.

Tried adding a protectorant (laquer) over the mural and it ended up smearing the linework on the tanks behind the ox. Why would laquer melt ink? WTF? Sooo much repainting I have to do... ugh.

Spinster posted:

Messing around with Android Note with a picture I drew. ( is this ok to be here and not in digital?)

Sharpest Crayon posted:

Come on, the digital art thread has moved on and matured a lot since those times, and you're allowed to post a lot more than robotits now!



For example, robot asses and vulva mounds.

sigma 6 posted:

a hole-y ghost: I am trying to be more consistent in 2018. If I can't be a great artist, I can be at least consistent... with the idea that I will get better (hopefully).

Sharpest Crayon posted:

I dunno if I've mentioned this before, but to pick up speed, I played a lot of doodle or die. http://doodleordie.com/
For me it was a great way to get varying prompts, and since your artistic options are super limited, you just focus on conveying the essence of what you need in a picture as fast as possible.
I mean, you CAN still make insane efforts for throwaway stuff like "happy carrots" or "scary pumpkin" (and people do), but that sorta defeats the point of doodling.
I tried to make every picture fun, and tried to take offensive prompts as mental exercises in delivering what's asked and not what's intended.

Sharpest Crayon posted:

I'm going to 100% disagree with you on this. There absolutely is talent, or if you'd prefer: individual differences in ability. I mean, you don't even need to find a differently abled person to find someone who's abilities differ from yours. I have friends who hear "math" and their brains flip out and run away hiding, who will look at a job that requires hand-eye co-ordination and get it wrong every single time, year after year, but sit them with a bunch of strangers and they've made 5
...

Spinster posted:

To add one note to the innate talent/work comments: You also have to have the will and dedication to stick to one thing. Any artistic thing I can do reasonably well right away, and then improve exponentially for a bit, but instead of refining that skill into a truly high level I always move on to something else, some "new" aspect of craft because the thrill of learning/doing something new is such a RUSH.

It's a problem.(I have so much art stuff I may be found dead someday, suffocated by supplies.)

sigma 6 posted:

Sorry to disagree vehemently but ... "Consistency is just a boring inevitability of art that comes with doing it a lot"... is SO wrong.

Consistency is the artist's GREATEST skillset. Consistency is where skill is born. gently caress talent. There is no such thing and I am tired of people trying to defend the idea. Sportsball players aren't born with the their sportsballs. Musicians aren't born with their instruments. There is no such thing as talent vs. consistency and focus. If you are bored by your art, you are doing something wrong. If you are bored by somebody else's art then look at yet another person's art for inspiration. If you can't find inspiration / art from life - I can't help you.

Some days it is very hard to create anything at all. This thread and daily practice is a way to overcome malaise and hopefully get better over time. Having said that, art that I am happy with usually takes more than just a few minutes or hours to create.

Neon Noodle posted:

DIP PEN
DIP PEN
DIP PEN

sigma 6 posted:

It is interesting to me that you are referring to style.... since that is something I think only really develops with enough practice / consistency. As in... artists are recognizable by their idioscyncracies / style after enough time.

sigma 6 posted:

Particularly interesting because it can be both good and bad. Good because many beginning artists try to develop their style through practice. Bad because some stylistic choices may become bad habits which are hard to break out of.

sigma 6 posted:

Sooo... start setting personal time limits on my work. If it takes more than 3 weeks to get something to sellable quality maybe it just isn't worth it (?)

sigma 6 posted:

Always felt that style should develop in the pursuit of realism but that's me. Rates and determining how much time something takes are two of my weakest skills.

sigma 6 posted:

Does anyone have any recommendations for a really good book on graphic design or design principles? I have a few great anatomy books but nothing on design principles.