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i can only speak for myself but it seems fine edit  day 18 TurnipFritter fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 02:04
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TurnipFritter posted:
I like this, he looks a bit like the old guy from bullet train, hiroyuki sanada I like this too! How long did it take you?
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Jan 21, 2023 04:03
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sephiRoth IRA posted:That's really cool! I'm glad you're sticking with it. I have a question about it- do you submit an entire lesson at once? So I can wait until I have lesson 1 done and then sub to the patreon? Yep that's how it works. You also get only one credit to submit per month though so if you think you will be done with the box challenge in less than a month it might be good to sub before that.
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Jan 21, 2023 05:01
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been doing a lot of pet portraits recently, here's a screenshot of one i'm working on(in the reference photo, she was seconds away from yelling at me for working and not petting her) i recently started using artrage and i love it. feels good to get back into digital painting again 
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Jan 21, 2023 17:56
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kiraeh posted:... Cheers, I'm using Photoshop Elements 6 at the moment, but sometimes I wonder whether it's getting a bit long in the tooth. There's no masking (that I'm aware of) and some other programs appear to have more freedom with brush control. It also panics when I want to save a 4k x 4k pixel png for the web, saying it's more than the software has been designed for so it might crash. Those are nitpicks more than serious issues, though. The first two can be worked around just fine and the third has only ever been a warning, never an actual crash. Also been tempted to try out a vector drawing software, but it might be sensible to test Inkscape for free before paying money for any Affinities.
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Jan 21, 2023 19:32
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BoothBaberGinsburg posted:been doing a lot of pet portraits recently, here's a screenshot of one i'm working on(in the reference photo, she was seconds away from yelling at me for working and not petting her) That looks incredibly good
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Jan 21, 2023 20:29
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Spinz posted:That looks incredibly good
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Jan 21, 2023 20:33
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BoothBaberGinsburg posted:been doing a lot of pet portraits recently, here's a screenshot of one i'm working on(in the reference photo, she was seconds away from yelling at me for working and not petting her) Haven't heard anyone mention Artrage in years. I will have to look back into it.
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Jan 21, 2023 22:09
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Spinz posted:That looks incredibly good thank you both! sigma 6 posted:Haven't heard anyone mention Artrage in years. I will have to look back into it. i'm really enjoying version 6, and never would have found it without checking one of the stickied threads here. the oil brush and the paint scraper are a lot of fun to play with, you can get some really good texture going.
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Jan 22, 2023 00:35
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I like this, he looks a bit like the old guy from bullet train, hiroyuki sanada i just grabbed the reference image from pinterest, but it appears that it is indeed a screencap of him from westworld, so i guess it's cool i managed to make him look kind of recognizable 
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Jan 22, 2023 01:54
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It turns out I hate drawing for fun with pen and paper, if only because it's not easy to erase. I did a bunch of drawabox homework today and went to draw for fun and am just blocked
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Jan 22, 2023 02:16
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I’m trying to actually get some art done this year, which is always way faster if I can keep myself sketching/doodling/whatever. My goal for the month is to finish my current sketchbook and a painting for a friend. Here’s a mock-up of the (traditional) painting for my friend:  Recently got an iPad so messing around in Procreate. Mostly needed to sort out the flower & petal arrangements since that’s harder to push around with acryli-gouache. Went overboard but w/e. Sketch I did ages ago (plus one of a future painting of my parents’ dog):  Anyway most of my sketchbook drawings this year have been rough thumbnails and semi-blind contours. Really just need more mileage after not drawing much for a few years. Everything takes me so much longer than it used to!
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Jan 22, 2023 02:22
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Sorry for the double-post but here’s my sketchbook spread for today. Hoping to kill this sketchbook within the week:
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Jan 22, 2023 06:02
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#1929: Our D&D group is going to a fancy party soon and I couldn't resist drawing Siina's outfit for it.
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Jan 22, 2023 17:15
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Shinmera posted:
This is literally the level I aspire to. I just want to be able to convey what I'm thinking to my RPG table. Very nice.
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Jan 22, 2023 18:03
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Crocobile posted:I’m trying to actually get some art done this year, which is always way faster if I can keep myself sketching/doodling/whatever. My goal for the month is to finish my current sketchbook and a painting for a friend. your friend is going to love that painting, what an adorable concept! i feel you re: things seeming to take longer to complete. i have a bad habit that i'm trying to break of abandoning my projects if i don't knock them out quickly enough. Shinmera posted:
this is excellent, i really struggle with rendering my figures in such a consistent and recognizable way from different views like you've done here. makes me want to practice more!
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Jan 22, 2023 18:50
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Jan 23, 2023 00:17
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those pet portraits are absolutely amazing. the hyperrealism has just enough of a cartoon edge to give them loads of personality. this is a wonderful thread, everything posted is a joy to behold.sephiRoth IRA posted:I like this too! How long did it take you?  
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Jan 23, 2023 09:56
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 sephiRoth IRA posted:It turns out I hate drawing for fun with pen and paper, if only because it's not easy to erase. I did a bunch of drawabox homework today and went to draw for fun and am just blocked Sometimes I just make some random scribbles and then it kind of starts to look like something and that gets me started. I also have 2 of the Sketching From The Imagination books (https://store.3dtotal.com/collections/sketching-from-the-imagination) which I like to look through to get inspiration and copy some techniques. I understand that Drawabox tells you to split the lessons 50-50 with drawing for fun, because when I've focused more on the lessons for a longer period I've noticed that it gets harder to draw for fun and to figure out what to draw. It's in the drawing for fun you will realize that the Drawabox lessons have an effect though! I also draw in a cheap A4 sketchbook because that makes me not care about making mistakes and not being able to erase, I just start with a new sketch. My goal is to fill the sketchbook rather than make perfect drawings on every page. A failed drawing is also considered practice 
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Jan 23, 2023 15:12
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Drawabox is really hard. You'd think ghosted planes would be more straightforward but damned if I can't draw a straight line.
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Jan 23, 2023 18:22
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CitizenKeen posted:This is literally the level I aspire to. I just want to be able to convey what I'm thinking to my RPG table. Very nice. BoothBaberGinsburg posted:this is excellent, i really struggle with rendering my figures in such a consistent and recognizable way from different views like you've done here. makes me want to practice more! Thank you both! I'll probably be doing other party members soon. My part of an art trade with Nag, his character Tiny Toni. The first painting I started to really hate, so I had to abandon it and did the second one to try and make up for it.
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Jan 23, 2023 20:02
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Sitting Here posted:Hello artfriends! Is this same thread still working for everyone? Any opinions on a 2023 title? Wow, I posted this and then went into a time capsule of work chaos for a couple weeks. Anyway, I'd absolutely support an inspired thread regular stepping up and making a new thread. It's not as though this one is on fire, but it's something that used to happen yearly if I recall correctly. For now I'll just change the year. I'm also completely open to other feedback via PM or in the chat thread--I know people mostly read out of their bookmarks so apologies for using threads like this to communicate boring mod things.
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Jan 24, 2023 00:29
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 My awareness of perspective and where things should be is starting to pick up. Like on the guy with the axe there, more of his face should be showing on the other side of the ax. Many many more sketches to go but hopefully if I look back here I'll see improvement in a year. Seeing other people's homework on drawabox has also helped, because I got really frustrated with the ghost planes but I need to realize that it's practice, not supposed to be perfect.
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Jan 24, 2023 03:53
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Seeing other people's homework on drawabox has also helped, because I got really frustrated with the ghost planes but I need to realize that it's practice, not supposed to be perfect. Yeah, that I think is why practicing drawing is a bit harder than practicing other skills for some people: You're creating something every time. If you practice an instrument it will sound crap but as soon as you've played your crappy notes they're gone and you can forget them and go again. You're just playing a song over and over, nothing is created, you're just practicing! But when you draw something for practice you create a thing that will stare back at you, showing all the mistakes you made and it will be there until you actively throw it away. It's like if every time you practiced your instrument, you had to record it and put it up on Spotify.
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Sitting Here posted:Wow, I posted this and then went into a time capsule of work chaos for a couple weeks. Anyway, I'd absolutely support an inspired thread regular stepping up and making a new thread. It's not as though this one is on fire, but it's something that used to happen yearly if I recall correctly. For now I'll just change the year. I'm also completely open to other feedback via PM or in the chat thread--I know people mostly read out of their bookmarks so apologies for using threads like this to communicate boring mod things. Alright, I've made a new one: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4022541&pagenumber=1#lastpost
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Thank you! See you in the new thread, artfriends 
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