Percy Teatwillow posted:

yo these are really cool and i love the texture on em

deep dish peat moss posted:

I'm working on something that's 4 times the size of my usual pieces (16"x20" instead of 8"10"!!!)



Since I don't have the patience to write a graphic novel (which is what I've always wanted to do) I'm trying to work in some graphic novel type elements into drawings, i.e. in this case the paneling and repeat locations but in future pieces hopefully something along the lines of a visual storyline or somethin'

deep dish peat moss posted:

ok I finished this

deep dish peat moss posted:

ok I finished this

Gluehead posted:

i met snow at a restaurant once and i was like 'man, informer is a really good song!' and he just looked up from the bowl of french onion soup he was eating, mouthed the words 'gently caress off' and then he gave me the finger twice with boths hands, then crossed the two fingers to make a cross and aimed it at me

deep dish peat moss posted:

ok I finished this

deep dish peat moss posted:

Thanks everyone I am sticking with the theme but experimenting a little. yesterday I did this 8"x10" with like 99% brush markers which is a change for me, there are parts I really like but I'm not happy with it overall because I can't not see it as balls and a floppy dong lol, it was intended to be more like a quadripedal animal

deep dish peat moss posted:

pixaal posted:

I saw this the intended way and now can't unsee the spoiler in 2 ways one the balls are detached and on top the other it's a more artistic dong with balls in the right spot. Or maybe it's a stylized guy with his dong out no balls it's pants and a head

I need to look at the details now instead of the overall shape

deep dish peat moss posted:

Dang I think this came out pretty cool. I need to re-scan it at some point because there were cat hairs in the scanner

deep dish peat moss posted:

I just got a tripod and easel for taking art photos and they arguably look better than scanned for posting online to show off your art, depending on what you want to do with the images that may be better. People on social media or art posting sites tend to find the image more interesting when there's a slight bit of physical context in the background and it's just nice seeing the piece organically in its natural environment. Scans are better for printing or for cropping for digital use for sure, but if you have a modern phone you can use the Google Photoscan app to scan with that - just be prepared to have very steady hands or be handy with tripods/easels/etc.

$20 tripod and $10 tripod phone clamp:
raw from camera:

corrected (or "corrected" I am an amateur)


$400 scanner:
raw from scanner:

corrected - as a point of reference this one is closest out of all of these pictures to the real color of the drawing, which is almost the same as the phone's raw photo (I have a Pixel and Google's in-house phones do lots of AI-based color correcting automatically)

overcorrected similar to the phone "corrected" photo:


I scan at 300 dpi for print and an 8"x10" is comparable in actual image size to a picture from my phone's camera. I would say the phone's camera is more representative of what it looks like in real life too since it gives context for the size and shape as well


Also I have been learning that if you want your art to become popular online you have to do more than just share it, you have to tell people your story so they have some kind of emotional attachment to your work. I hate it. But including bits of the space where you work in the background of photos is a good way to contribute to that.

Sid Vicious posted:

ugly aliens in charcoal

deep dish peat moss posted:

Sid do you wnat to do art for my game

here's a mock up

Sid Vicious posted:

more spooky october art

Epic Prison Guy posted:

i hardly post here but i like art so

edit: I use blackletter ink pens and they're actually kind of expensive it's sort of getting on my nerves. Do any of the ink goons here like a certain brand they can reccomend? my biggest thing is that I hate SMEARING and I like a pen to have the size it say which with these blackletters it's been less and less accurate

Epic Prison Guy posted:

Sorry, this website is kind of dumb, removed my picture

Epic Prison Guy posted:

i hardly post here but i like art so

edit: I use blackletter ink pens and they're actually kind of expensive it's sort of getting on my nerves. Do any of the ink goons here like a certain brand they can reccomend? my biggest thing is that I hate SMEARING and I like a pen to have the size it say which with these blackletters it's been less and less accurate

deep dish peat moss posted:

I have gone through a whole lot of different fineliners and black pens to see how they all work

Smearing is easiest to avoid through paper choice in my experience. It depends on what you're doin' exactly and what kind of drawing you like and what you want to do with it but I am a big fan of Legion papers. You can get a sampler pack of small pads of their papers for pretty cheap, this one is all of their Stonehenge line which is made with watercolor in mind and therefore very absorbent, so it should minimize smearing. But it's also a thicker, heavier paper more like construction paper so keep that in mind.
https://legionpaper.com/artist-pad-collection

They also have a line of treeless paper called Yupo that I absolutely love for many things (it's the only 'paper' that liquid chrome actually works on!), but it is entirely non-absorbent and therefore will smear like crazy unless you let it sit for several hours to dry

Not what you're looking for because these are super smear-y but I really like Marker pads like these from Canson:
https://en.canson.com/artist-series/pro-layout-marker
It's a very thin very non-absorbent translucent paper that just looks great w/ black ink, and if you use markers (of any kind, not just copics or whatever) they blend so incredibly well because of it being translucent, it's amazing.
They in fact smear so much that drawing on them taught me how to be careful about smearing so (it's just unavoidable sometimes though)

Pen-wise one thing I've noticed is that pen quality seems to vary from lot to lot, sometimes I buy a pack of pens that I usually love but they all dry fast or have brittle nibs that break or whatever, so YMMV, but I would suggest Pentel Pointliners, they're very light which makes them feel kind of 'cheap' but they're not cheaply made, the nibs are good, the sizes are consistent, and most importantly for your purposes they dry fast and have minimal smearing - I use them specifically because you can go over them with alcohol markers with only the most minimal smear. I tend to have minimal smearing with Microns too which are like the go-to workhorse of fineliners and black ink pens, they're the best bang for your buck and very cheap, there's nothing they're bad at and overall they are above average at most things, you can get them anywhere.

But maybe also try out acrylic pens like Posca, I love drawing with black poscas and it's a much deeper black than you'll get out of ink pens, plus acrylic dries super fast and therefore doesn't smear like ink does. The only real downside here is that they don't get any smaller than 0.1mm and you need to pump them occasionally (just push them against something to depress the nib) and shake them to keep the ink flowing.

Here's a deep dive into different fineliners including side by side comparisons in different situations which I found very helpful, it's where I found pointliners:
https://www.pullingers.com/what-is-the-best-fineliner-pen

Staedtler pigment liners (NOT the triliners which feel very cheap and have weak flow) are probably my favorite fineliner overall and do well with smearing (but not with copics), as well as having the most durable/well constructed pens and sturdiest nibs imo.They at least used to be much more expensive than the competition but maybe that's because I was getting them individually at an art supply store instead of in packs from Amazon

I have literally hundreds of pens, maybe even thousands at this point, someone send help

e: Also drawing in a dry environment helps with smearing! The faster the ink dries the less it will smear. Turn on a fan or something if possible.

Epic Prison Guy posted:

heres 2 more

Macnult posted:

i really like the linework on that second one