>>7885671
WE'RE SO BACK

>>7885671
who are you OP actually? never seen your work before...

Where do I actually begin learning how to draw the human body? I'd love to grind anatomy but I don't think I'm good enough for that part yet.

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>>7885674
I hope you liked the OP pic
This is the first time I've created this thread

>>7885676
i mean the original OP

>>7885676
holy APPEAL

>>7885675
Start grinding figures and poses on /FIG/ >>7884287

>>7885671
i'm glad my shitty owl made it in

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Been a while since I’ve posted, life has been fucking crazy but I’m starting to find time to draw again.

>>7885671
Based effortful OP

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Finished this just in time for the new thread :)
hello everyone!!

>>7885685
Comfy

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Posting ref in a bit, please critique

>>7885675
you aren't allowed to draw the human form until you've drawn at least ten thousand boxes in perfect perspective

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>>7885690

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dont look at the hand..
I SAID DONT LOOK AT IT

are the
>draw a torso 10 different times in 10 different angles for 10 minutes
useful exercises?

Check it out guys!
I finished my first character sheet!

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>>7885697
.. and forgot to attach it
i hate the new captcha

>>7885697
wow, anonie! it looks so good! thanks for sharing, I really like your arstyle :D

>>7885671
Two of my drawings made it into the pic lmfao

>>7885671
>my edit in the OP
LMFAO.

>>7885676
Damn SEXY.

>>7885685
Excellent.

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>>7885690
>>7885692
>ref is a white/asian-looking cute girl
>give it nigger hair
You reminded me of this.

what is so wrong with ballpoint pens and mechanical pencils for drawing?

>>7885725
who the fuck says that?

>>7885725
Nothing.

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>>7885671
they done slimed him

>>7885721
Lol yeah, but otherwise how is it? Hopefully not as egregiously bad as the ones you posted in picrel

>>7885671
Honestly, this OP picture is so fucking genius.
>Medusa with implanted macho head
>Medusa holding pen in one hand, severed head in the other
>Demon-lion-god lamenting in the clouds above
>Owl at the distance, "are you seeing this shit?"
>Chud staring up from below with despondent face, "it's over..."
>Dutch giant holding head along with Medusa, giving thumbs up
>Bald bodybuilder Jojo stand floating and flexing above Dutch giant's tiny head
>Foreboding epigraph behind Dutch giant
>Skeleton DYEL man kneeling at giant's feet and staring up in despair at man's severed head
I'm laughing so much. OP, you're a genius.

>>7885738
I think the back should be a bit more curved; it's too straight.
The mouth and the glasses are too straight; they need to be placed in perspective with the face/head.
The ear should be a bit further down and back, I think.
The hand of course needs working to give it a more realistic shape.
But other than that, it isn't too bad.
It seems that you struggle a lot with perspective as was also the case in your previous drawing. You should watch videos on it, maybe read a book on the subject, and practice more with 3D boxes.
If you have a computer, I recommend you use Blender which allows you to move and rotate 3D models (including humans, body parts, etc.) so you can get a feel for what something would look like from a given perspective. CSP also has a built-in 3D feature, and Krita has a plugin for a Blender layer on top.

OK I've decided I need to work on propotions. However when I'm using sighting to measure lengths and angles, I feel like my drawings are more inaccurate than just eyeballing it.

Is there something I'm missing?

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worse than the other version but experimenting with stuff
>>7885732
so ridiculously kino. thank you for the mafia egil.
>>7885671
>>7885676
literally the best OP this thread has ever gotten, I think. bravo. you're improving a lot and getting a lot more fluid in your figures as well, great stuff.

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1 hour of so-called gestures

>>7885721
Senseichad could take a white girl ref and turn her into a chimp with a huge footlong dick and bowling ball sized balls and it would rival the works of the old masters

>>7885750
holy shit dude im so proud of you from moving on

>>7885741
tyvm anon
>watch videos/ read books
any you would recommend in particular? Another big issue I have is that I can't really tell what the problem is, even when it's pointed out, unless I see the corrected version, and only THEN does it click. Is that just a matter of drawing more and more until I can see it?

>>7885750
>hundreds of hours of lines, circles, and boxes
>only to have gestures that are prebeg tier
lmao maybe this year you'll make a little bit of progress finally

>>7885750
That's a whole lotta fun right thahr'

>>7885755
>any you would recommend in particular?
I don't really have trouble with basic perspective so I haven't gotten into advanced perspective yet, but some books I've seen recommended and that I plan to read in the future are
https://annas-archive.li/md5/21ab796da3b53ee9b4a1bb2a3bd060bd
https://annas-archive.li/md5/d78225b034921f940dca7eb75fa22efd
https://annas-archive.li/md5/f05b8532a1ef28b0b70d8c6fcc1b1c4f
https://annas-archive.li/md5/567283be360599cbf4958643950b5d10
>even when it's pointed out, unless I see the corrected version, and only THEN does it click
I'm like that sometimes too. In that case you should watch drawing correction videos like those of Naoki Saitou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVsu7ZeJcBM
https://www.youtube.com/@saitonaoki2
>Is that just a matter of drawing more and more until I can see it?
I don't know. I imagine it has to do with spatial thinking. Women in general have lower spatial ability than men, so don't feel too pressured. It's natural that you're having trouble.
Try using Blender as I said: imagine how a given object (like the default cube) would look like if you rotated left for example, and then rotate it in the viewport to see if you were right; practicing like this might help you perhaps.

Is anyone here old or did you start learning to draw at an advanced age?
I started practicing and was having fun and everything, but suddenly it dawned on me that if I ever really learn to draw, I'll be 50 years old (considering it takes 10+ years to learn), and that destroyed my enthusiasm, lol.

>>7885774
the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the next best time is now

I didn't start until my 30s, I will be pushing 40 by the time I'm close to /int/ level, and it's embarrassing seeing my /beg/ work compared to literal children's drawings, but I'd rather that than growing old and dying without ever being able to draw

>>7885772
I've also seen these two books recommended a lot, but basically all those artists said they're pretty advanced, so better leave them for later:
https://annas-archive.li/md5/3e2e65f11188c41a724253b54c268154
https://annas-archive.li/md5/15f791153947632578e0c10cd00c31fc

>>7885772
Thanks anon, will check out the info you posted
>Women in general have lower spatial ability than men, so don't feel too pressured. It's natural that you're having trouble.
Not sure if masterful trolling or genuine, but I'm a guy. Thanks tho lol

>>7885774
If you can push through the embarrassment and inhibition you are golden, they are fake anyway

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>>7885790
very cool!
However I'd up the contrast a little bit.

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>>7885802
I will but i have fix some issues i made a mistake first

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Any tips to improve? I know the proportions are off, but I'm starting to think I might be retarded because even though I measure the proportions are always completely wrong in my drawings.

>>7885814
You probably need a desk easel if you're drawing on a table. Your perspective is being warped.

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>>7885690

>>7885814
do you draw on a flat or angled desk? if you stretch your drawing to compensate for the perspective it's not so bad

you could also embrace the shrimp posture

How does one cure aphantasia?
I have an elephant's memory in things like history and conversations with other people but my studies dont register into my mind at all and when I try drawing from imagination I am met with a blank darkness. Like something is blocking me from manifesting images into my mind. Then I just start guessing and chicken scratching and searching for lines and I hate drawing while fumbling in the dark.
Can this be cured or is there some hack to play around it?

>>7885814
yah i'd say main issue is the proportions. if you measure out the right guidelines but don't keep them visible under what you're drawing sometimes you can fuck them up anyway, so be sure to keep them visible as you go!! the biggest impact it's had is on the midsection of her face (i.e nose, cheeks), you've made that as well as the top of her head too long.

smaller issues: use a guideline for where the eyes/eyebrows are too. you can see that you've placed the left eye and eyebrow up a bit too high on the face. the face as a whole also looks a bit narrower than the referece, probs cus of the proportion issues.

otherwise, great job on the lighting!! esp with the bounce light on the side of her face :D

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are there any glaring issues with this slop that i have created (minus the hands and the obvious placeholder head)

>>7885792
Kek, no problem.

>>7885671
Heads in perspective warmup

>>7885824
That's not aphantasia. You need actual specific things to build something, or anything. You say that you read, okay, your brain is full of inspiration, BUT, it's like you're a car, your tank is full of fuel, but you don't have any wheels. Get it?
You need basic and complex shapes stored in your toolbox, and you need to learn those shapes (poses) a million times to be able to call them up whenever you need them for your mental idea to become a visual one.
Start grinding basic figures on /FIG/ >>7884287

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>>7885836
Forgot pic wtf

>>7885824
drawing from "imagination" is just a fancy way of saying drawing from memory. even if you can't envision anything, if you remember how things are drawn in different angles, you'll be able to draw "from imagination". if you don't have a mental library you won't be able to draw from imagination.

for example, you might have a part of the body that you're very familiar with drawing, and you need less/no references to draw that part of the body in the pose you want. that's because you have a big mental library for that body part.

on the other hand, there might be a body part you really struggle to draw and need lots of references for it. that's because you don't have a mental library for that part built up yet.

there are 2 solutions: 1 is to simply draw more, trying to include parts you're uncomfortable with in each drawing to build up your mental library. 2 is that once you have a decent mental library, is to draw an image from reference, then draw that same image from memory, to get used to drawing from memory alone.

we'll all get there asp!! stay strong anon and keep draiwng

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the little face giggles in the mountains
>>7885676
looks great, also i loved the op
>>7884898
hhihhi thanksies :D
>>7885823
stunning

My biggest problem for the longest time has been the inability to draw backgrounds. It's like I hold what I've already made in so high value that I'm afraid to ruin it.

>>7885844
ok

>>7885820
>>7885826
>>7885817
Thanks. I'm aware of the distortion that comes from drawing at a desk and I even tried to account for it and look at the drawing from above but it didn't work. I guess having a desk easel would make it better, but I find them really uncomfortable compared to drawing on the desk. I guess shit's hard.

>>7885676
Great work!

>>7885851
always really like your draws, great stuff hitting the end of your current sketchbook, that’s always very refreshing

>>7885725
I don't know. Ask the voices in your walls who told you that was an issue in the first place. Ballpoints are great.

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Rate my honds. Critique please.

>>7885750
Suggestion- try switching to a program with an animation timeline. CSP, Krita, Drawpile, Tahoma2D, Pencil2D, it doesn't matter which. I used to use layers as digital sketchbook pages for years before switching to Krita and figuring out that using keyframes was thousands of times better for it. It's way easier than hiding and unhiding a hundred layers to switch pages, it's keyboard shortcut friendly, you can have multiple layers on the timeline (so you can put templates in the background for example) and the whole shebang can be exported into a folder neatly ordered and labeled. For your particular use case, you can either export the pages as a video or hit play while you're screen recording so you don't have to flip through the pages manually to show them to /beg/.

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>>7885836

>>7885868
Like 5-6. Get better at drawing the cylinder in space and study the muscles and bones of the hand

I'm struggling really hard at "finding the boxes" when I don't have the clavicle as a reference point

>>7885880
Pyw

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>>7885790
What's up with the nasty ass corpse colored fingernails? The nail bed should at most be slightly more saturated than the skin of the hands, not significantly darksr and gray.

>>7885878
Mm, indeed! I haven't studied the hand in depth yet. Thank you.

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How’s this so far

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+T-Rex muscle study

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>>7885886

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>>7885888

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i'm so used to drawing and seeing women that when i try to do men i feel like i can only produce twinks
this is so hard and vexing

>>7885888
>>7885891
Mighty quadriceps and sternocleidomastoids.

>>7885886
Looks good to me.

>>7885894
Good eye, they are a bit bigger than need be. Thanks for the crit.

>>7885895
Okay cool, thanks

>>7885893
Use specific lines for each gender. Longer, curvier ones for women and larger, wider and rougher ones for men

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My first couple attempts constructing a figure from reference. any weak points to prioritize?

4B lead is really difficult to use holy shit

>>7885693
Her torso's a bit... long, innit? Made her look like she's one of those long cats, legs are also too short due to the torso mix-up. Nice colors and feel to it though.

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>>7885918
Kek, you're right. I deleted half of her torso to see what it would look like. NTA btw.

I feel like I should draw a lot more to improve quickly, but it takes me a lot of time to do barely decent-looking drawings, so I'm worried that if I try drawing more the drawings will be too low quality to elicit any improvement.
What do you guys think? Should I just spam shit until improvement or continue the slow and steady way?

>>7885925
Don’t rush your drawings but understand that every drawing, no matter how long it took, is making you better. Slow and steady wins the race. Just try to keep producing and you’ll be fine

>>7885926
Alright, fren. Thank you<3

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*DJ Khaled voice* anotha one

>>7885927
No problem, fren. We’re all gonna make it

>>7885936
autismcore

>>7885925
Never sacrifice quality for anything, espeically when ur still learning. Otherwise you end up like most anons here, half-assing all their work because it became a habit.

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Some facial muscle studies for practicing facial expressions
>>7885941
See you get it

>>7885918
yeh, I made a mistake in the inking and the upper torso ended up looking bigger

>>7885944
You're right.

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Sonic doodles

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>>7885948
First batch done

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More drawings. From ref/memory. Hand bones are fun to draw >>7885974

>>7885882
I know i have to fix it tonight
Im suck at drawing good hands

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>>7885671
How beg is my drawing?

>>7886022
Pretty good, proportions could use work and hands are too big

>>7886022
I like it

>>7886024
Ok thanks, can you point what besides hands needs to be worked in terms of proportions?

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Can someone explain the light source/ value pattern in this to me?? I don’t get it at all

>>7886035
Upper torso is a bit too long. Arms are a bit too short too, the humerus ends about right next to the bottom of the rib cage and the hand is just below the pubis bone. Thigh isn’t long enough either, it has a lot more muscles than you think. Lower leg seems about right but it could be like an inch longer and it wouldn’t look wrong. Just study the bones really

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Wanted to try hatching, and also making it look like it was a paper idk it came out good

>>7886039
Did you draw the lines yourself?

>>7886045
the paper lines? no I used a png from google

>>7885970
>>7885974
Really good, actually.

>>7886048
Thanks anon

>>7886047
Ah okay, interesting

>>7885970
I like these lol. The one with the wings is my favorite

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>>7886004
The hands themselves are actually pretty good, you just make some odd color choices. IIRC all the work I've seen you post has the same kind of dark, grayish nails. Nails are a little more pink/purple, but they don't contrast with the hand very much at all.

Your colors might improve overall if there was a context of background atmospheric and direct light color for you to work with. Pure white makes it more confusing to choose proper colors, esp. skin tones. Marco Bucci's videos on ambient light color are very helpful in this regard.

>>7886038
Ok thanks. Now that you mentioned that stuff i can see it more clearly

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>>7886060
No problem

>>7886022
Wanted to add that I really fuck with the way you drew the face here. Saved it for future study, idk how to put my finger on it but it’s very nice.

>>7886022
Nah, /int/. Very good face. The back of the head needs enlarged by a sliver, I think.

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>>7886079
Clothes r hard

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>>7885974
Actually Pawellian, unstoppable negative gains maxxing, keep going anon you can do it.

Ever since I got a drawing tablet I've been religiously using blend tools. How do I stop relying on blend/blur tool so much?

>>7886102
Thanks anon, im always at it. Just looked him up and ran into this and now I completely see why people think I’m him lmfao

https://pawell2418.github.io/

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Am I doing the gesture drawings in right way?
It does not look flowy like other gesture drawings.
I thought I need to see whole body at once to do gestures I only see half the body. Am I doing it right?

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>>7886110
Doing a very good job of capturing the overall shapes and forms of the larger masses but not such a good job with the gesture part. Try to have more flow

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>>7886110
And something I enjoyed. (I know its not that good)

>>7886114
Thanks for advice! How can I get better flows? I don't think I get it. Maybe I can try to see the whole body at once?

>>7886114
Ok axis of the body, Spine, draw in short time. It took like an hour to draw those 8. Gotta go fast.

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>>7886116
Identify the line of action and go from there.

>>7886117
Don’t rush anon

>>7886106
do a challenge like 100 portraits with only the hard round brush or something like that

>>7886114
what book is this from

>>7886050
Thank you. It started as Rogue The Bat

>>7886126
“Figure study made easy” lol

https://files.catbox.moe/kj430k.pdf

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You

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>>7886134
The guy she told you not to worry about

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Mario doodles

>>7886136
You have to be 18+ to post here.

>>7886125
I still don't really get the method for using hard round, I know you alt pick the in between colors to blend but I can't make it look good

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>>7886129
never heard of this guy but he seems pretty good
thanks

>>7886143
God forbid someone has a doodle page

>>7886149
Does reading comprehension also not start until adulthood?

>>7886148
No problem. It’s a solid book, the perspective and construction bits in particular are very good

>>7886143
>>7886150
Pyw

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not sure if i'm feeling this one... i think i chose too hard of a subject. probably should've gone with a frog. a toad like this is very warty and kinda overwhelming me

>>7886159
You've been working in this for several days. Meanwhile senseichad has sucked at least 15 dicks in that time and could have drawn over 100 photorealistic frogs

>>7886159
With the other anon, you have been working on this way too long. You could’ve done like 50 frogs by now. Just get this out of the way and get to the next drawing.

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Any of you know a resource that can teach me charcoal drawing but in Photoshop. I want to make stuff similar to this. Portraits and bodies (even though that's more of a general matter)

>>7886159
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6FN5jL1SC2o

>>7886169
i agree i guess i just get anxious finishing drawings sometimes so i end up just chipping away at it too slowly

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Aahhhhhh this is so boring. I want to DIE!

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>Finish a drawing
>Feel pretty good about it
>Start another
>Suddenly every single skill is gone
I know consistency is something that can only be trained through repetition, but man few things make me lose momentum as much as this. This is my cue to go back to studies and stop bitching.

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wip.
I'm tempted to leave it without coloring

>>7886196
Really good anon. Great line work

>>7886201
I wish I could render like that? Mind telling me how you learnt that skill?

>>7886201
why her vagina so smal?

>>7886208
She was built to serve shotas.

>>7886202
Thank you
>>7886201
Really nice perspective

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>>7886203
I'm not that advanced, but basically you overpaint part by part. You start with a cell shaded sketch in grayscale and then you add stuff on top, including gradients and more values until you are satisfied
>>7886208
:(

>>7886212
From the perspective of a simple beg I'd say you're advanced if not a high int.

>>7886208
Hasn't tried bbc yet

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>>7886212
also it is very easy to adjust stuff on the go (compared to just drawing line art) since every part is its own layer so You can transform and move shit, go wild

>>7886212
Great stuff

>>7886203
learn simple cellshading first, then learn about soft and hard edges.

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How do i make the eyes not look like utter dogshit ive been procrastinating severely due to not wanting to look at this shit

>>7886235
Is that a gun she's loading with a cube? Deepest lore

>>7886235
I think you should simplify them, they're more detailed than the rest of the face.

and the lady with the staff is at a fucked up angle that rarely looks good, maybe just cheat and turn her head a bit

>>7886235
The eyes look fine. Do you mean the ones in profile?

>>7886235
You're at a point where you're still a beg but you're starting to grasp perspective.
Learn head construction and how the eye fits inside the skull. It would make things clearer

>>7886212
I love it when /adv/ niggas come here to humblebrag and dunk on honest /begs/, ya'll niggas are almost as bad as the ai jeets from /g/

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>>7882971
PAGE 12 DONE! I was divided about this one, I didn't liked it at first, but now I think I do like it... I dunno..
>>7884898
>maam you've been on your a game recently, nice stuff
Thank you so much Deer bro!!!
>>7884642
>7884644
>7884647
I loved these! I hope to see more rough comics and storytelling in this board
>>7884576
Thank you Repaint! Big Fan!
>>7884151
>i love him <3 nice work
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
>>7886235
COOOOL!!! The eyes are okay, you can give them subtle thicker eyelashes, but this look nice.
>>7886196
You're doing AMAZING work right now, all that grinding really paid off, now your talent is unchained out in the wild
>>7886182
Vehicles are always cool to look at and to imagine the little guys in the interior, like those big lego themed toys.
>>7885843
Found the willykwong!
>>7885676
Amazing OP anon, that was a real throw back to OG standards. You're a real one.

>>7886190
Same...

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Sketch

>>7886270
impressive

>>7886171
bump

Man, anytime i go on here i feel bad about my art. I guess i really should try studying more.

>>7886298
same

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does this looks better? i think i fucked up the muscles on the left arm, but overall im quite happy with this, just need to touch up some things + add the ear. he doesn't look much like a twink anymore i think and it's my first time trying to do linework on something that isn't chibi
>>7885897
okay, i tried applying that and made it more straight than curvy, althought i'm sure it could be better; regardless, thank you
>>7885902
pardon my ignorance but what do you mean by posture? i rather like the demure/melancholic pose since i think it fits the nature of it and im naturally drawn to those things

can anyone recommend me a artbook to copy?

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I notice my gains take a dip when I try to do more complicated sequences and shit

>>7886318
You just know a child made this on their phone in their grade 9 history class.

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Butts grinded

>>7885837
>>7885841
Okay I guess I will keep grinding

>>7886320
Go back to twitter and discord you freak. There are no kidz for you in this ancient god forgotten millennial site.

>>7886320
stfu pedo

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>>7883918
Did I do better there with this study shit? Just the skull on the aurochs here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs#/media/File:Copenhagen_Aurochse.jpg

>>7886323
>>7886324
Lmao look at these pedos trying to keep obviously underage posters here for their own goonfuel

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It never occurred to me that I could use my laptop's touchpad as a tiny graphics tablet.
Here's a Loomis head I made with it. Kek.

>>7886326
I wouldn't be so sure. Nowadays there seems to be too many people who seethe unbelievably hard at the mere existence of children.
The mere insinuation that the anon might be a child sends them into rage mode as you just saw.

>>7886330
He's just a nasty no draw weirdo. This place is a millennial cemetery. Youngsters are far, far away from this god forsaken barren land. Kids don't draw anymore, they want high tech environments, like X, Youtube or chat platforms like Discord, etc. Most grown ass people draw like shit, most can't even handwrite. This board will remain as one of the last places of people drawing any real art. I hope jannies keep the AI slop virus out of this board. Another reason why you won't find brats here, no AI sloppa.

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i don't understand color or light at all

>>7886270
brush? i like this

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>>7886144
no blending at all
make it look good with only hard edges so you can get over the crutch of relying on blending too much. save it for the edges that really need it later on.

>>7886340
Ty!
https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1687935

>>7886039
Where can I masturbate to more of your work?

>>7886338
ok pedo

>>7886253
Insane how fast you make comics

>>7886339
I don't either, but this looks nice, Anon, it has appeal

>>7886344
NTA but thank you for sharing too (both your drawing and the brush)

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I drew a few more honds. I think I'm seeing improvement.

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>>7886359
Ref 1

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>>7886359
>>7886360
Ref 2

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>>7886359
>>7886360
>>7886361
Ref 3

>>7886364
What's that hairy ball on the ground?

>>7886369
Kek I see

>>7886357
thank you

>>7886364
hit him with [redacted]

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got my tablet like 2 weeks ago

>>7886387
You better be laying...

Any advice for someone whos drawing for the first time ever? Never liked drawing after being a kid but I want to get into it anyway because I want to draw people

>>7886391
aside from the stuff already in the OP, of course. I'm just asking for stuff that helped you guys

>>7886391
Don't forget to give us an update when you quit in a week.

i want to fucking kill myself how can i go from okayish figgies one day to forgetting how to hold a stylus the next?

>>7886391
Draw poses, simple, not detailed, use light pencil strokes, you need to memorize those silhouettes and basic figure shapes. Your brain will fill the blanks with time. Go to /FIG/ and do what they do: >>7885921 >>7885979 >>7886219

>>7886401
thanks homie

How often do you get angry enough to delete everything you’re working on it’s about every two weeks for me. Usually I can’t draw for a couple of days afterwards.

>>7886422
I don't know, I complete stuff within a day usually.

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>>7886422
bad drawings are part of the jorney and should be preserved
I like looking at my really old stuff like picrel because it gives a feeling of progress

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>>7886240
I sometimes feel like im out of shape. Like imagine drawing was like having muscles and because i spent like a month not exercising the drawing and doing other things, or even just drawing from imagination without having spent like a week before doing figure drawings its almost like i forgot everything

>>7886443
You seem to be in quite good shape buddy

>>7886361
Why is there crusty cum stains on his shirt?

>>7886434
What's your art look like now?

>>7886451
>>7885676

>>7886455
Really nice progress, how many years apart is that?

>>7886449
That's Noah "Imma super model" Bradley most probably, search him up and you will know why the crusty cum stains

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>>7886458
5 years since I don't have talent and moderate adhd

>>7886461
I feel your pain

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Thoughts so far?

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>>7886471

>>7886471
jurassic kino

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+ Patella studies

>>7886473
Thanks anon lol. It’s the one I’m having the most fun with, I love the shapes

>>7886461
Rein you are super good at this I hope I can draw as well as you some day

test

>>7886478
thanks bro
we all gonna make it

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I'm so fuarking proud of my progress bros
I legit can't believe I drew this

but I'm still so bad at rndering skin, I don't know how to render anything properly

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wip

>>7886509
AWOOOOO

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>>7886509
WAWAWAA

>>7886509
Sexy

What's 4chan board if I want to learn how to use a music tracker? Sorry, I know this is offtopic

>>7886530
/mu/

>>7886530
there's a music production general on /mu/

>>7886530
>>>/mu/prod
>>>/g/dmp

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Study from a sketch I saw on twt, really like how the artist drew their anatomy so tried to emulate that.

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>>7886443
i assume all the empty space will be filled up with speech bubbles?

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I switched to digital a year ago and now I feel like a retard every time I go back to trad

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>>7885671
How do you get this level of rendering/shading? I only really do two tone shading, it looks like it takes weeks to do illustrations like this and too many layers. Is it in the brushes or layer tricks used?

>>7885827
Hmm I don't think so.

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I haven't drawn anything interesting lately so here's an old piece just to contribute.

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>>7886596
The hardest part of doing rendered pieces is the time it takes really. If you tried it yourself you'd get the hang of it quickly.

wow this thread turned into a hugbox post-ai back in my days you would get called ngmi for posting something short of mona lisa

>>7886610
What do you think about my drawing>>7886591

>>7886611
better than anything I could ever draw

>>7886528
cute!

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>>7886596
"Tahraart" on Instagram draws similar to this and he has a handful of timelapses uploaded maybe you can check that out

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>>7882065
hang every nigger who says to "draw for fun" instead of doing studies
>>7886584
kino
>>7886339
>i don't understand color or light at all
your attempt looks decent to me still, cute cat(boy, hopefully)

>>7886591
From what I've seen, digital art is EXTREMELY forgiving, so it's natural that your drawing will be all sorts of retarded if you draw with the same habits.

>>7886600
Cute

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>>7886596
it's color theory and hue shift abuse. Playing with saturation alot. But what gives this feeling is just added noise.

>>7886630
yes it's a boy. thank you

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escargot

>>7886631
Not him but it is. Digital has insanely OP tools like liquify, transform, infinite layers, undo history, etc that trad has absolutely no answer to. Digital's workflow allows you to attempt significantly more ambitious drawings than you'd be willing to attempt on trad.

>>7886635
I'm not that guy but thanks for demonstrating this because goddamn is the difference some noise makes genuinely staggering

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Gestures

>>7886665
Grim...

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>>7886605
I see you have good taste .
Some would call it oldfashioned.
But it not that old, it has only been....
..oh my God

>>7886665
Kino

>>7886665
Thank you for serving as living proof that grinding cubes will not teach you anything than cubes

>>7886665
For a complete beginner with no experience drawing, you did really well!

>>7886676
He's technically not, tho. He's been at it for a year, but it's taken him this long to move from lines and boxes to this.

I’ve quited drawing

>>7886680
Look up anon. It's the joke going over your head!

>>7886680
Do you have a guide about where people should be, skill wise, after a year/two years/etc.? I would like to see it.

>>7886686
Shit, that's what I get for being too literal, kek.
>>7886688
I don't, nobody does, but everyone knows if you only draw lines and boxes for a year nothing will come of it. Like, what did the anon expect would happen?

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Are the texture and colour of these accurate?

>>7886696
I don't think so. The leather one seems too fuzzy and the metal one seems too speckled, I think. Which metals are a light green? Oxidized copper is a darker green

>>7886706
I was going for a bright geen light, then used purple on shadows for contrast but yeah, I don't feel too confident about it.

>>7886710
It does give me the impression of a ceramic or gemstone like Jade, so it's not like it's bad but I still think you should reduce the speckles on it.
There are many resources on the internet for leather and metal textures, so don't complicate yourself too much by doing everything from scratch.

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>>7886696
your matte looks more metal than your metal

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I'm gradually going through the TACO point character drawing book
with every single one of these I realise just how incapable I am of drawing a head from any angle, so I'm looking forward to that section soon

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Dood, how in the world is this one of my better original drawings despite me just using scribbly lines. Also i still have no idea how to do shading.

>>7886731
Rendering is overrated. Look at Kim Jung Gi, he didn't give two shits about rendering.

>>7886746
>Kim Jung Gi
>Gentic outlier
>Probably has photograpic memory
>Asian
Literally the worst example on a beg/int thread.

>>7886731
its not good at all, youre comparing zero to zero

>>7886731
Paige-esque

>>7886725
do u have this book in japanese or english?

>>7886746
Name a single drawing of KJG's that people remember.

>>7886746
>Rendering is overrated
Too bad that it's the best stuff has always a bit of rendering
>Look at Kim Jung Gi
Unwatchable clutter

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>>7886757
Easy

>>7886672
>cubes
but he never drew actual forms, just flat shapes...

>>7886760
based
the upper-left portion says
>listen..
>it's only for once!!
>KJG is a pervert
>..a pervert!!
>you get it?!

>>7886760
If gooning is good for Kim Jung Gi, then Gooning is good enough for me. I made up my mind. Thanks Sensei wherever you are.

>>7886769
we exist to ejaculate (preferably in vaginas to procreate) so how can gooning ever be seen as something bad

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crit?