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>>2269027Discuss art and related topics such as:
-Talk about Art Youtubers
-Ask about art supplies
-Discuss trashy art trends
-Instagram bullshit
-Art theft!
-General Art Bullshit
-Fandom and Shipping Discourse
-AI generated art (do not shill about your ai trained models key words on a prompt do not make you a artist)
-do not post your art to be reviewed here use the designated m thread
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Articles about useful resources for improving one's art:
https://hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learnhttps://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/https://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Tried and true books on perspective, anatomy for artists, etc:
1. Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling
2. How to Draw by Scott Robertson
3. Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre
4. Figure Drawing by Andrew Loomis
5. The Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery JM Bougery
6. Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis
7. Figure Drawing by Michael Hampton
8. Force by Michael Mattesi
9. How to Render by Scott Robertson
10. Color and Light by James Gurney
11. The Skillful Huntsman by Scott Robertson/Mike Yamada/Khang Le/Felix
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Useful youtube channels:
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No. 2313557
>>2313494the outdated painting source is finally gone kek
threadpic is "Afternoon in September" by Frank Weston Benson
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You cannot get any straighter at first glance with these two. They are drawn stereotypically straight.
No. 2314259
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sorry if this has been asked already (I’ve looked through the old threads and haven’t found much) but are there brushes nonas would recommend for this kind of painterly style in procreate? I adore the rendering style of picrel but I have had trouble getting the hang of it on procreate. I use a hand-me-down iPad and don’t really have the spare money to buy a drawing tablet, so I’d like to work with what I have— but all the artists I admire use sai and that’s not available for iPad (unless there’s some trick I’m unaware of). I’ve imported some custom brushes but haven’t yet found anything that can recreate this nice smooth painterly effect. The painting tutorials I’ve seen for procreate don’t produce the look I want.
No. 2314507
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i may be dumb and unknowledgeable about these topics but this just seems petty
No. 2314543
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I am disappointed as many people who know how to draw and even popular artists use AI and nobody realizes, if their drawings did not have a soul before now a lot less
Left is the new drawing, it doesn't even have the ability to trace, what is that lineart?
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>>2314259disclaimer I'm relatively new to digital painting myself, and couldn't find a high enough res image to really pixel peep, this was the highest res file:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/72b64f8e6a29f159eddd806e1ceaa521/14ba220858d15f5a-8a/s1280x1920/8954981a87ffe14defd02d630d968888ab4e3f0c.jpg, but…
I don't really think any particular brush is going to get you the look you want. if you look closely at the linked file around the characters' feet and compare the grass and clothing textures, you'll notice there are least 4 or 5 different brushes being used. the trick is that everything is layered and nothing is a totally flat opaque texture, there's gaps and opacity allowing the other layers to show through (like traditional oil painting), and because the artist is rotating between so many different brushes it helps stop it from looking too digital with perfect uniformity, there's some "randomness".
Secondly, use several different hues of a similar value, even within parts of the picture that should be the same color. Look at any little section of one of the dresses where there is no shading, and notice that it's not just blue, but green and grey and brown and blue and purple, all of similar value and layered over each other. Try using a small zoomed in section as a reference layer on your own drawing and play with the color picker, going pixel by pixel adding all the different colors to your palette.
picrel is the only part where I found a non standard brush texture, where you could try making your own custom brush to recreate
No. 2314967
>>2314963I swear none of you read, i said
at the very least i study 30 min a day. You clearly dont read my posts and are just acting condescending when you dont even know how my art looks.
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>>2314507The rugs were hanged in walls because most of the Russians back in the old days couldn't afford a stove, so having a rug help it to keep the apartment warm, also they worked as sound proof since the walls were thin af. It wasn't only for decoration. Same with the "commie blocks". Be salty AF, Sasha, but please take a lesson on Russian culture first?
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>>2315040So approximately 3 hours per day. Just keep at it. If that's all you're able to dedicate, and I genuinely don't mean to be condescending what I say this, try to cut down on studies that are "tedious shit" to you and do more art you're personally invested in. I learned a lot more about art obsessively drawing fanart for Genshin Impact than I ever did actually taking art classes. Best of luck.
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>>2315096Not that nonna but thank you for the link! I found the ones I was looking for a while. Hope you have good Festivities.
No. 2315235
>>2314606Ayrt, thank you for such an in depth explanation, this made a lot of things click for me! I used to love working with colors when I was a teenager and doing traditional art with pastels, but I’ve had a hard time getting the hang of it on digital. this was really helpful (I forget how to insert the little heart thing we have but pretend it’s there)
>>2315096Thank you! I’ll look through these— I previously found some through the procreate forums but most of the artists making custom brushes there aren’t actually at a high skill level and their brushes are pretty wonky. What you’ve linked looks better, thank you nona (vk is a lifesaver generally)
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I really wish Kiyo Kyujo went back to her old method of colouring. Her digital artworks just dont hit the same as her older works, im disappointed
No. 2315405
>>2314507Sorry for late reply but commie blocks and those rugs aren't exclusive to russians kek (the artist is from kazakhstan) pretty much everyone in eastern europe has had some kind of irl exposure to them. Not only that but they didn't disappear after the soviet union fell, plenty of us have never lived a day under communism but still appreciate having our day to day lives represented in art
>t. romanian with family in moldova who's had plenty of experience with post soviet stuff and loves her art>>2314541you'd think they'd know better than to call someone from an ex soviet state russian kek
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>>2315022If you’re practicing consistently and not seeing improvement you might need to focus on learning how to learn. Plenty of people on DAD have years of daily drawings and they never improve because they aren’t actually learning. Skills are like muscle groups and just focusing on one part of the skill will give you diminishing returns and you risk burning yourself out. Picrel was useful for developing my artistic eye and breaking down subconscious patterns in my art habits that were holding me back. I share this out of love nonna because I have been in your place before and I understand how frustrated you must feel.
No. 2315521
>>2315519Thanks
nonny, i remember reading this but i will give it a second try.
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I am struggling so much to come up with an art name. How did you nonnies choose yours?
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>>2315519Ntayrt but this is a great bit of advice, thanks
nonnie! For any painters in the thread, I highly recommend James Gurney's book on light and color theory. Very succinct, easy to understand and covers a ton of topics. Hands down one of the best practical books for the fine arts I've ever bought.
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This came up on my tl and I was shocked to see it had 13k likes because it looks like utter shit lmfao?
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She is just never gonna stop seething.
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>>2315400They will never look the same because they’re two different artists. The first one is even signed, you can see Thores in the bottom left corner.
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>>2315919This was posted already
>>2309722. But yes, she's stuck talking about how she's a
victim on a loop. Now she's vagueposting about someone else tracing her art, she said in the comments that she might actually show something this time.
No. 2316507
>>2316498>it may very well come to that, in due timewhat a massive cunt kek. A perpetual
victim indeed. She sounds insufferable and extremely mentally ill.
No. 2316519
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>>2314507ukrainians are going to be petty and salty about people romanticizing soviet union forever, just get used to it and move on
i know it sounds ridiculous to outsiders but if you lived in the same cultural context you'd understand. you never will though and that's ok. not sure what she tried to achieve by tweeting that in english
No. 2316591
>>2316556yeah a lot more lately. like I don't relate to artists I see irl at all.
I feel like my work is immature compared to everyone else, like I didn't really grow up from liking colorful animals since I was like 6 and feel ashamed for it. things like that
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>>2316556>>2316591I also feel this way. This is what was my biggest insecurity for years. I'd draw a lot and despite having dozens of drawings at any given time I'd really have nothing to show for it. It has pushed me to start trying to make more "serious" pieces recently. I haven't stopped drawing my ocs nor do I think I ever will, but I now try to make art that portrays them more interestingly than "guy just standing there on blank background" either by trying more interesting poses or compositions.
It's still lesser in the eyes of irl normies and trad artists who expect me to paint landscapes and realistic portraits but it's helped me get over not even having anything of value to show people when they ask me what I draw. Something like picrel is simple in appearance and not conceptually complex but has enough appeal that it's not a public humiliation ritual to show around. Personally if I'm not rendermaxxing a piece and keep it lightly cell shaded I add a bunch of texture overlays and it makes it looks more interesting to the eye. You don't have to stop drawing your ocs for people to take you more seriously, even if you enjoy slice of life, silly, casual kind of art. I do those too sometimes and what I realized helped its appeal was to portray it as candid shots of the situations you draw like you'd see in photography. Two friends just sharing food or something can be a very nice image if posed and composed nicely.
I do understand though that it all mostly depends on your art style, and people often don't take more cartoony work or work stylized in certain ways seriously at all, but as tired as it is to bring it up once you grind your fundies you can get over that hurdle. I'll use brujoari as an example here because anons are familiar with her work. She has cartoony art that isn't really anything that would be too hard to execute with some practice but it seems to have enough appeal to people that it got its own show, despite her just drawing silly situations of her ocs doing dumb shit as you put it.
I hope I didn't come off preachy, it is not my intention to be some arbiter of new groundbreaking knowledge because god knows I'm not some art savant either, but this is what helped me become more confident and to improve without really changing my subject matters all that much. Good luck anons!
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