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Best Ace Combat etc. Don't let those AC5 players tell you otherwise.
How's this the first time I've heard of Krita?
Seems kind of awesome.
Skimming through your tumblr. My god nutella stealth fighter. This is my new favorite thing on internet
That was the result of some internet argument, when someone on a forum claimed you need to get fancy drawing tools to draw better. I told that individual a good artist could make due with any tool and I could theoretically work with nutella if I had to lol.
homegirl cute.Saturday morning brush pen thing before a busy day of errands and family stuff.
I'm no where near as good as you guys but.. I was looking at the other art thread the other day and wanted to move from doodling on paper at work to trying my hand at practicing every day.
So, I jumped in..bought a 12.9" iPad pro+Apple pencil on Fri!!!
First thing I've ever drawn "digitally", first thing I've done more then doodle in 10+ years! Its not great, but its a start!! Time to keep practicing and learning!
So, I jumped in..bought a 12.9" iPad pro+Apple pencil on Fri!!!
First thing I've ever drawn "digitally", first thing I've done more then doodle in 10+ years! Its not great, but its a start!! Time to keep practicing and learning!
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Yooo! This is dope!! The area round the chest and arms came out pretty nice! Some good fold definition, too!
jesus christ dude your art is incredible. and you have a fuwafuwa avatar. A+.
Dang, some good stuff in here.
Here's my latest piece. Been doing some Destiny themed stuff and learning Clip Studio tones:
Still gotta clean up the foreground and I have no idea what to do with the background...
Here's my latest piece. Been doing some Destiny themed stuff and learning Clip Studio tones:
Still gotta clean up the foreground and I have no idea what to do with the background...
I see some wonderful work in this thread.
A detail crop one of my most recent illustrations, I want to repaint it to be honest lol. Also, some nude studies.
A detail crop one of my most recent illustrations, I want to repaint it to be honest lol. Also, some nude studies.
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Thank you very much!
I really enjoy your art man. It's been motivating seeing you practice and grow incredibly overtime back in the original Gaf thread.
Awesome thread.
Posted this in the Odyssey thread, but might as well put it up here.
Posted this in the Odyssey thread, but might as well put it up here.
Wow, some very impressive stuff has been posted while I was looking away. Those studies are looking fantastic, Somni!
It's a Pentel GFKP ink brush pen, so I'm not exactly sure what kind of brush it is - pretty thin and soft, I'd have to say? I've been sticking to this single pen this time to try and practice with a single tool at a time, and get away from digital automatisms, but I have to admit many of the work done for inktober by others made me miss using lining pens and markers, I'll have to get back to those eventually :-D
(If you meant digital brushes, then it's traditional, so no computer work there, though when I work digitally, I basically use Frenden's Inker Brush all day every day :-D)
For now, here's number 30, almost to a full inktober month - let's just pretend it still is last week!
It's a Pentel GFKP ink brush pen, so I'm not exactly sure what kind of brush it is - pretty thin and soft, I'd have to say? I've been sticking to this single pen this time to try and practice with a single tool at a time, and get away from digital automatisms, but I have to admit many of the work done for inktober by others made me miss using lining pens and markers, I'll have to get back to those eventually :-D
(If you meant digital brushes, then it's traditional, so no computer work there, though when I work digitally, I basically use Frenden's Inker Brush all day every day :-D)
For now, here's number 30, almost to a full inktober month - let's just pretend it still is last week!
Been bouncing around styles lately and started doing more animated cartoony stuff for my daughter rather than more seinen/joe madureira/manga style im used to.
On a Skottie Young kick right now... doing quick little daily comics of my 3yo daughters funny sayings and goofy antics...
On a Skottie Young kick right now... doing quick little daily comics of my 3yo daughters funny sayings and goofy antics...
I'd like Frenden to update his tools to fit in better with the new PS version - it'd be nice if the brushes were in brushes, not tools. But yeah they're pretty rad and make PS far more fun to draw and ink in.
Here's the large version of my profile picture. 4 colour screen print.. edition of 17
Was wanting an art thread. Wanna see what Artsetera got!
This is fucking brilliant.
thank you! <:
started something new today, photo-collage and drawin'
Thanks, Yeah I'll probably do a few more and once I'm done with this round of freelance I'm thinking of starting a sci-fi personal project like I did with my fantasy/Aztec one.
Oh no haha, I still have a ways to get to where I want to be. I just love seeing people develop something from start to finish and your animation and drawing style stand out to me(in a good way!)
Thanks! Keep your posts coming. Let's surpass the post count from the old thread!
I also mainly use Photoshop. Every once in a while I try to go back and use Painter. I always end up going back to PS.
Today I did another quick one trying to show a bit of an exaggerated perspective. I'll attempt to do some more like this hopefully.
My first and second scenes made with Blender 3D. I need to come back to it. :(
I love this style! Great stuff, SomaXD!
I love this style! Great stuff, SomaXD!
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Oh no haha, I still have a ways to get to where I want to be. I just love seeing people develop something from start to finish and your animation and drawing style stand out to me(in a good way!)
You and me both, then, but wow at what you're already doing! I should try some more exaggerated perspectives, myself :-D
For now, here's day 31, so technically a full consecutive Inktober, but I've got more characters planned so the show will go on!
Looking at the WIP I am probably going to do some cleanup and making sure the forms make sense on the digital inked version. Plus I have to figure out the art for the logo and background.
Mostly I think I need to polish up the figures. Probably need to get some references for the hands and rectify leg positioning to make the man's pose a bit less stiff.
Anyone got any advice on how to do a good simple background and logo? The idea is to make the poster look like a comic cover because it is for a webcomic I am working and a poster for my folks to put up...
Mostly I think I need to polish up the figures. Probably need to get some references for the hands and rectify leg positioning to make the man's pose a bit less stiff.
Anyone got any advice on how to do a good simple background and logo? The idea is to make the poster look like a comic cover because it is for a webcomic I am working and a poster for my folks to put up...
Did a little bit more on this guy today.. still a bit rough, might leave it a while and come back to him later. Fairly happy with him so far tho.
Acrylic
Ink / Watercolor
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I'm not very good. Which I don't mean to say as a means to fish for compliments. Nor do I think I'm bad. It's sometimes pleasant to look at. I just never studied and I don't really practice, so I don't think my art stands against critique very well. Digital in particular is pretty foreign to me.
But that said, it's nice to share it once in a while and it's nice to see the art of others as well.
Ink / Watercolor
Digital
I'm not very good. Which I don't mean to say as a means to fish for compliments. Nor do I think I'm bad. It's sometimes pleasant to look at. I just never studied and I don't really practice, so I don't think my art stands against critique very well. Digital in particular is pretty foreign to me.
But that said, it's nice to share it once in a while and it's nice to see the art of others as well.
That little metroid is nice, it shows the value of using a medium that helps buff the art up.
Practice definitely helps. I got a lot better thanks to getting the right advice and a lot of study.
Practice definitely helps. I got a lot better thanks to getting the right advice and a lot of study.
I really like this style. Nice work.
Tried doing Inktober and immediately fell off when work got rough. Should have stuck with it...
Thanks a lot, very glad you do!
Regarding Inktober and constancy: I think it's important to try and have fun with it, otherwise it's very easy to treat it as "additional work" or yet another project and feel like a failure when we don't complete it (which, in all fairness, is most of us most of the time - it's one of the main reasons why I usually don't do it at all, if I'm being honest), which kind of defeats the original purpose.
I'd say, if you did something, then you can be proud of that already, and if you want to try and do more - either wait until next year if it *has* to be inktober, or if it doesn't, just do more now :-D After all, we have this brand new thread to fill with cool stuff!
Yeah I'm basically going to be putting all my work on my webcomic on here to help keep Artera going haha :)
If it did anything, it helped me shake the cobwebs off and get back to work. I think my biggest issue was time as I'm so out of practice it takes me hours to complete even a simple drawing.
This drawing took me several hours and I ended up staying late to finish it.
You don't need a tablet or expensive pens/pencils to learn how to draw. Starting with physical paper is a good idea though. At the very least you buy yourself a decent sketchbook (draw on a large sketchbook, trust me), a good kneaded eraser, pencil sharpener, and at this point a quality #2 wood or mechanical pencil.
Don't worry about the many different types of pencils just yet. Your focus right now should be: 1) learning how to control your pencil and draw quality lines, and 2) how to roughly translate what you see onto the paper in lines, in proportions that look relatively true to the original image.
This is the essence of learning how to draw. Shading, color, etc will all come later.
So, where to begin? I'm not sure how skilled you are yet. My suggestion for practicing is to find some images you want to try to draw. They shouldnt' be too complex or detailed if you are just starting out. An animal, a video game character, etc. So the idea is that you should start out by trying to recreate images or even things you see in person. At this point, drawing from imagination is not really recommended.
So, with that in mind, here are some things to keep in mind:
- Draw on a scale as large as possible
- Don't concern yourself with all the small details of what youre drawing yet - you have to focus on drawing the big picture first before you concern yourself with small details.
- When sketching, use blocky lines to start drawing shapes
- To start a drawing, it is best to first "describe" what the image with large shapes that form the outline of what you're drawing.
- Rough sketches come first, polished work comes after. Don't try to do it all at once!
- For a while, your drawings wont look exactly like what youre drawing
- You will get better!
Hope this helps.
Holy shit, wow. I appreciate this very much but you misunderstood me, hahaha. I was asking for advice on coloring tools, whether to use pencils, markers, or something else. Although general advice is appreciated, of course!
I've been drawing for most of my life, but I kind of stopped for most of college and high school. Thankfully, I find myself very motivated these days thanks to Persona 5 and the anime Re:Creators. Especially Re:Creators. My art's just nowhere near where I want it to be yet, but I'm very, very slowly getting there. After doing inktober for the first time last month, I wanted to get more tools to work with, specifically for colors, to try out new things and add some more dimension to my art. You're right about not needing great tools to make great art, but they're really helpful too. I've seen lots of amazing fan art that are just line art, so I know colors aren't necessarily needed, but I think of it as compensating for the areas I'm weak at until I get better at those. And, well, I want to do colored stuff.
I do tend to have a problem drawing on a large scale, though... I recently transitioned from a notebook to a sketch pad because said notebook's full now, and I found myself making incorrect proportions and the whatnot due to all the space I have now. So I'm kind of rolling back and just making smaller sketches per page.
Seriously, though, I really appreciate the reply and the effort you put in it. I feel bad about it, hahaha, but thank you so much for the reply!
As for my art, well, here's some of the ones I did for inktober that I actually liked:
My favorite's the second one. I posted it on the Persona 5 subreddit before, so I got some feedback there and am now aware of many of my mistakes with it, hahaha. Though I'm sure there's a lot more I haven't noticed...
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Aha! I missed the coloring materials part and thought you wanted advice about how to improve, my apologies.. You are quite decent at drawing yet, nice work. Well still, I think my advice still applies to any artist who is trying to get better at drawing. I'm decent at drawing but I still am trying to master my own advice every time I do figure drawing.
Anyway, since you seem to like to use ink pens then I would certainly recommend watercolors. Watercolors and pen and ink go very well together. You will see many professional illustrators who essentially do pen and ink work and then paint over them with washes of watercolor paints. The classic Arthur Rackham strat:
If you decide to go this route, you'll need good watercolor paints and brushes (Winsor Newton Cotman line will supply both of these), good watercolor paper (get that Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper), and if you need to, upgrade your pens. I don't know what kind you use, but personally I know the Sakura Pigma Micron pens are great quality. And of course there are plenty of online tutorials that will teach you how to use watercolor.
Hope this helps!
Ooh, much appreciated! I've actually been quite interested in water color lately! Didn't know they work well with ink, so that's good to know. It's gonna be a whole new thing to learn, though, so I'm not sure if I could afford to spend that much immediately... Might settle for water color pencils for the meantime, I guess? Still, exciting to think about, haha, so thanks!Aha! I missed the coloring materials part and thought you wanted advice about how to improve, my apologies.. You are quite decent at drawing yet, nice work. Well still, I think my advice still applies to any artist who is trying to get better at drawing. I'm decent at drawing but I still am trying to master my own advice every time I do figure drawing.
Anyway, since you seem to like to use ink pens then I would certainly recommend watercolors. Watercolors and pen and ink go very well together. You will see many professional illustrators who essentially do pen and ink work and then paint over them with washes of watercolor paints. The classic Arthur Rackham strat:
If you decide to go this route, you'll need good watercolor paints and brushes (Winsor Newton Cotman line will supply both of these), good watercolor paper (get that Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper), and if you need to, upgrade your pens. I don't know what kind you use, but personally I know the Sakura Pigma Micron pens are great quality. And of course there are plenty of online tutorials that will teach you how to use watercolor.
Hope this helps!
Although you requested mainly bursh settings tutorials I have to say that digital painting comes mainly down to having a fundamental knowledge of art, just like traditional painting. the tool, in this case the brushes, are mostly irrelevant.
Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh but I notice this myself, when I'm stuck with painting I look for the easy way out. Oh if I only had those brushes that the painter used I would be as good. Often times I find the brushes after a long search and then... I play around with them a few minutes but they don't fix my problem.
Long story short I recently discovered this 10 Minutes Video Series by Marco Bucci that really opened my eyes.
Nice illustration. :) I really like the dynamic, contrast and colors. I hope you don't mind me giving you a little tip though?
You did well in the exaggerated perspective, with one exception: You didn't paint the head in the same perspective warp as the rest of the body. For that reason the head sticks strangely out.
I booted up Photoshop real quick and put Ryu's head in a more fitting perspective for you, I really hope you don't mind:
If you open both images in different browser windows and click back and forth, you can see the difference quite well.