Open painting software.
File -> most recent file you worked on.
Screenshot the canvas and post it here. Doesn't matter if it's finished or not.

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7579330
bravo anon, just gotta polish that shoulder!

>>7579330
gmi.
blog?

>>7579291 (OP)
Got finished with a massive autistic infographic for my worldbuilding project yesterday, the full image is way too big to be even uploaded here.

not really a wip but the last work of mine i feel good about

>>7579330
feels like a wolfenstein game
i like it

>>7579330
>800x1154
what sorcery is this

>>7579291 (OP)

This thread makes me remember that most of the time /ic/ is actually just pretending to be retarded.

In Disco Elysium, there's this pseudoscience magazine called "Paradox B" that's mentioned a few times, so I tried designing a cover for it.

>>7579501
This is really nice anon. What’s the name of the world?

>>7579682
I call the setting Mundus Carnis, it is basically a sort of biopunk playground for me to develop and explore various ideas and cool concepts that has grown and accumulated into a weird katamari of a setting over the years.
I mostly post the stuff I draw for it on 4chan and on my deviant art gallery here:
https://www.deviantart.com/screeble/gallery/62271545/mundus-carnis

jokes on you op i had been looking through old storyboard ideas v.v

>>7579689
dude your stuff would look so amazing with a little more defined edges and stuff, the composition and sotry are there so well already

>>7579689
Nice work, thanks for sharing. I’m a big fan of the environments, especially “Outlook.” You planning to make a game out of this?

>>7579703
The one on the bottom right looks like she's wearing a wizard hat

>>7579704
Can't unsee it.

>>7579695
Thanks. I am not sure what you mean by more defined edges? The lineart in it is admittedly a bit sloppy because it was something I drew as a refresher in between the autismal info pictures so I didn't put that much energy into fine tuning all the details in it.

>>7579700
Thanks. The outlook image got kind of abandoned by me at least in terms of coloring it. As for making a game, I doubt I have the capability to make a project like that. My only real skill is the level of artisty you can see in the gallery, and making a game, at least if you are to do it by yourself, needs far more than just being semi ok at drawing stuff. I have dabbled with 3d modelling a bit but I got extremely burned out on it and returned back to my comfort zone of drawing stuff.
Most realistic option for me utilizing this setting is probably a webcomic or something.

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7579736
BLOG

I don't have WIPs if consider em finished..

checkmate

>>7579330
this single image had ic in a chokehold for what seemed like four fucking years. even better is he had so many better drawings too

>>7579768
Can someone *please* tell me more about it? I need to know. I've seen that pic so many times in here already. What does it mean?

>>7579291 (OP)

last canvas i worked on

>>7579712
Had some fun drawing over, im not too good either but here i made the perspective clearer and defined the edges some more by adding contrast and especially to the muzzle flashes as I feel that really does a number on the piece because the cave background is lit up along with the characters, losing all contrast.

Trying to make a collage but idk where to arrange all ts to make it look visually interesting

>>7579712
btw if using clip studio use the perspective ruler, makes things ez

>>7579789
>>7579799
I see what you mean. Lighting stuff is still something I am not that good at. I haven't quite yet gotten the hang of the perspective grid, though I do intend to learn to use it when I am going to make a new scenery picture because it seems to be quite useful tool and just "winging" the perspective as I have done thus far (as in this picture) is both annoying as well as rather lack luster in results.

>>7579802
Yeah no need to rely on a grid too much but it's just good to have as a reminder. I at least may often just forget what angle I'm drawing from otherwise. I think your lighting would improve so much by simply weening off the air brush as it makes everything mushy and robs you of the conscious choice of defining an edge shape. Then to just think of everything as a box. ie. there is a lit up side and a side that's not as lit up and there is a defined edge between those two

I only got gamedev stuff on this so you guys are gonna have to deal with some pixel art shenanigans (i merged the windows though)
I really like my pointy hat flute guy.
>>7579799
Despite the fact that I know 3d software pretty decently, I cannot escape my massive canvas sizes when doing any kind of perspective lineart work. When I was doing a CGMA course on environments, my lineart would be easily 9000 pixels or more.

O-okay...

>>7579814
Where's the wrong if your pc can run it :p

>>7579820
I think its a boomer thing I can't get over. I use it for isometric figures though because I have an absolute ton of them and it is not feasible for map out the perspective on something like 1200 frames of animation total when its getting shrunk down 95% anyway.

I want to learn zbrush though.

>>7579824
3D is pretty cool, I did the donut a while back but haven't touched blender since. For a manga project I was thinking to at least plot the environment in blender so I can just fly around and choose angles

>>7579291 (OP)
>Doesn't matter if it's finished or not.
It matters to me, but here ya go.

>>7579829
>>7579826
nice

>>7579810
Admittedly using the airbrush for lighting is largely due to what I am just used to and how relatively fast it gets to results that to my eye are "good enough" but it is pretty apparent that if I want to improve I'll have to learn how to do proper lighting.

Ok

>>7579291 (OP)

It's what I have for tonight.

>>7579837
You can try using lasso like this. It's really fun and makes for easy soft to edge transitions

>>7579860
wow I love the earthy tones and pitch black

>>7579882
thank you, going for renaissance christian saint paiting vibe

>>7579886
lol that might be what you were going for but this is all i see https://www.youtube.com/@GAM_0

>>7579843
your stuff is so all-over-the-place after all this time and not in the abstract-skillful way

>>7580058
Fair, I'd say i have been stagnating. Don't know how to push past it.

>>7580078
Not that guy but maybe try long master studies? Like 4-6 hours? Or maybe new subject matter like landscapes?

>>7579291 (OP)
It's a thumbnail- I don't really like it, but I want to see if I can take something I don't like to a finish... Studying anatomy traditionally today, so I'm not going to work on it.

>>7580095
Taking something you hate and trying to make it good is a great skill to have. I see what you're going for in the composition I think a solid value structure being laid out first would help immensely.

>>7580103
>value structure

You're absolutely right about that. I'm trying to move from "character in void" (ngl I started with the one character and built up around her )and forgot about that simple composition tip thanks!

>>7579860
Can I have the full pic of the landsknecht you're using for reference?

>>7580078
>>7580058
stagnating and being all-over-the-place are separate things.

also who is this? is there more to look at?

are we saying that anon is messy with execution in an unflattering way? can you name some of the elements that are conflicting?

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7580263
had these too actually

>>7579291 (OP)
Last thing I drew was with my phone on the train

>>7579291 (OP)

yo

>>7579291 (OP)
Very early but I have to commit to the OP command.

>>7580566
sex

Her birthday was almost a month ago...

>>7579291 (OP)
o fug :DD

>>7580169
low res found in google images, i'm using it more for the vibes

>>7579774
definition of soulless

this thread brought out all gmi's

>>7581104
blog s'il vous plait?

>>7579774
you'll know what it means when you get to /int/ level

love threads like this because they push me to try harder so i can kick your asses >:)

>>7579774
Whenever somebody gets too smug about their skills, people just say PYW (post your work) in order to show they are full of shit, since their usual response is either silence or refusal to post anything.
One time a guy replied with the merc-wip.jpg pic and somehow easily impressionable beglets embraced it as their regular pic to post whenever someone asks them to post their work.

Just as retarded as you'd expect from 4chan.

>>7581716
Oh. That makes more sense

I was copying much better painting and got annoyed with my skills

>>7581733
i love this

>>7579782
Love how you do faces and expressions
>>7579868
Cute nostalgic anime vibes
>>7581678
This is adorable

>>7580672
:D

currently working on this

>>7582474
How do you get good at shading wrinkles
>paint tool sai
Oh my god Im talking to a literal GOD

>>7582579
battle network is always a win

>>7582611
ah well mostly just understand 3d forms and how they interact with light, that will help you with yuor edges while painting (hard edges and soft edges)
also paint a lot of clothes and do studies - for example this
https://youtu.be/9rObeBEBkUE
- this might help, i watched his skin painting video to learn how to render

also i would recommend playing around with sculpting software like z brush or blender, it just helps you manipulate forms i guess? not really good at explaining stuff
fucking around with 3d helped me understanding light, materials and shit like that
hope this helps

>>7579617
nigga thats nuts,

you releasing it anywhere?

Shpace Shpip

>>7582611
What has the software do with anything in this case?
You can render that kind of drapery in SAI, CSP, Photoshop or any other paiting software you are used to. What am I missing?

>>7582738
>>>/aco/8827234

>>7581658
https://x.com/cheenmachine2

i am going to kill myself in the next week

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7582626
Yes.
I wish the shoulder cannons had better concept art though.

>>7582941
eh, it's not worth the trouble. just do what you want to and don't care about the consequences you'll always have your exit there if you end up like Vitaly

>>7582941
Why, faggot? I remember that lady from the powerlevel or pyw thread. You have some great rendering imo.
If you really must end it all, do a cool self portrait of how you're going to kill yourself first.
Leave us something cool before you meet your maker

>>7582967
i have no money, i practically live in my moms basement. i understand that i am a weight as a 23 year old, so i try my best to nit be a load, i get out of my house once a month and work as hard as i can. im still told that im a dead weight on her, i have two siblings who have achieved a lot and studying on scholarships internationally. id rather be dead anyways. no one will miss me except my girlfriend anyways, and shes long distance so she'll be fine. stole from my mom today for the first time, bought a bottle of alcohol and cigarettes as a final goodbye.
i plan on killing myself soon, no one will miss me except her. and i'm sure she'll be fine without me

>>7583016
>I'm out of the house once a month
>I work hard
Do it faggot, this isn't therapy hour for self depreciation.

>>7583016
Or you could like, get a job.

>>7582941
I'm interested in your notes do you have them written down in text?

>>7579501
>Layer 259

>>7583085
Show your layers, tough guy.

my most recent file is confidential animation work, have a doodle instead

>>7579291 (OP)
currently working on an oc

>>7583085
Shit ads up m8. Each of the dudes are on their own folders, while their colors and what not are in subfolders of their own that house different layers of colors for different parts. This is all so it is easy for me to move them around and to manipulate individual color layers independently. THen there is also the reference layer that has tons of shit, and the concepting layers. Each of these infopictures I have made are constructed like this and easily have layers counting in the hundreds.

>>7583122
Qt

>>7579291 (OP)
Relearing CSP

>>7583155
Mi vieja we.
Do people really find that weird trope regarding thighhighs attractive?

>>7582777
your peanuts drawing are great

>>7583046
>get a job.
Shh! That word is offensive these days!

>>7583016
get a job. it's definitely not too late. even just a small part time, so you can assist in bills and not worry about being a burden. otherwise if living with your mother is unbearable, live in a car and hang around cafes or libraries to grind.
if none of this is possible, i don't see how you aren't able to find a niche to make money on, while just ignoring your mother's whinging for a good while. you're clearly high level. as you should know, skill needs to be paired with good business strategy. figure out what sells and how to promote it. and don't give yourself shit by comparing yourself to siblings, success is self defined unless you're a drone. killing yourself is not an easy feat. only the completely hopeless like those living in a war torn shithole or have chronic pain and high med bills may consider it. you are far from any of that. count your blessings and give at least one last good shot

>>7579291 (OP)
Somehow missed this thread
Working on a piece for an art trade

>>7583122
this is so good

>>7585597
This is great. Love the hand construction.

>>7579505
Lum my beloved

I played a typing game and my shoulder is just fucking killing me I haven't been able to do anything since then
last thing i was doing was med's map chapter 3

>>7582474
HAND OVER YOUR BRUUSHESSS

>>7590973
This won't make you improve in the slightest.

water is good if I dont want to draw legs....

>>7590973
You can just copy it on what is shown on the screen. It's a round brush with 50% density, maybe some setting tied to tapering as well. But as round brush chads do he likely just adjusts it for what he needs. git gud

Months late to the golden bikini thing, but I wanted to see what I could do with an older wip I had, and I've been stuck on it for a while.

I'd only just doodled the idea. When I get to it, it's going to be an elf fucking with some trolls.

this is the most recent wip i got

>>7592077

Here's a new one lol. First time trying to draw an action scene with background. I'm clueless

>>7593804
Wrong one

>>7585126
blog?

>>7590973
I used basic round brush that defaults with sai "watercolor"
"ps pen" and alike are just round brushes and "Patapata pen" is also round brush
I use CSP as main but hard round brush stays same everywhere

>>7582941
these notes reminding me of the notes you always see on whiteboards in videogames

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7579291 (OP)
konosuba coom

>>7579291 (OP)
wip

>>7595628
Based

>>7579501
Wow. I want to know everything, I love fictional aliens

>>7579843
absolutely sick my man. Keep up the good work.

>>7581733
take a break from painting and work on your draftsmanship

>>7583208
thanks!

>>7596966
you probably need to do a double-take on the guys
the nipples in particular

>>7579654
>most of the time
>pretending
maybe like 30% of the time at best

>>7581716
>impressionable beglets embraced it
it was mocked relentlessly for his squareass head

>>7599430
This is beyond my point. Retards around here would be capable of mocking even Michelangelo.

>>7579768
It also mogs 99% of current /ic/

Drew this today

My wips are always super messy

>>7604174
Bubblebass, what are you playing on your steam deck?

>>7604176
Probably a dating sim

>>7604174
But very soulfull

>>7604228
That's a very nice compliment, thank you anon.

>>7603907
Its funny because mike was the 4channer of his days. He hated everyone from raphael to da vinci

>>7604294
For that to be true 4channers should be actually good at drawing.

>>7604174
who's the cutie on the right

>>7604375
I really like Bubble Bass....

>>7604388
would you share socials? the art is really cute

>>7604392
Sure @BigPenny_ is my twitter though 98% of it is just Spongebob related.

Popillia for my Newgrounds where I post more than just sponge

Apparently, 'twas this.

>>7604030
Gave him a companion

starting a new piece

Thinking about what of my old work would make good tshirts. This was made from a texture done for building in Second Life.

Just a lot of tweaking on this brush I've made. Finally got it to a point I really like.

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7582941
>having so many thoughts from overthinking that you can only sit down and try to shift through your own mind to sort it out so you can finally scratch that inch inside your brain
I know that feeling and it's as exhausting as it is consuming.
I sincerely hope you can get amphetamines cause shit has made things much more bearable for me.
>if you're still alive (i hope)

>>7582941
Good. Net positive for the entire world.

>>7605791
blog

>>7605791
unbelievably based

>>7605936
@bbcchanart

>>7607076
what did you study?
how much time did it took?

>>7599211
yea

>>7607111
Loomis: Successful Drawing
Scott Robertson: How to Draw
Both for perspective study.

Proko's Anatomy Course for anatomy study.

I've been drawing seriously/professionally for 16 years now, but I've been drawing since I can remember.

>>7596326
Nice. Cool ass character.

>>7605534
holy

>>7607241
>I've been drawing seriously/professionally for 16 years now, but I've been drawing since I can remember.
it's over

>>7607264
Why?

>>7579330
fpbp

>>7607241
how does successful drawing compare to FWAP and figure drawing for all it's worth?

>>7607959
No idea. I never read any of those.

>>7608331
maybe this is pretentious but would you still recommend scott's how to draw even after his whole NFT schlock?

>>7608331
The chick lying down looks weird. It kinda feels like you used a reference that was standing upright and just tipped her over. Particularly with how the boobs hang.

>>7608332
I had no idea about that. To be fair I don't care.

>>7608386
I didn't use a reference.
I get what you mean.

>>7579291 (OP)
filling this sheet with practice doodles
I think it will be complete after one or two more

i dont like it

>>7608460
how do i achieve your level

>>7608504
I described some materials I used in this thread
>>7574003
>>7591861

>>7608542
maybe unrelated but is there a trick to hard round brush i'm failing to understand?
pic related is a study i did (mine on the right, i draw faces too long)

I hate perspective and perspective hates me

>>7608574
I think this looks a regular hrb
You can try setting the opacity by pressure to make smoother lines like in the image on the left
If you are using CSP you can also try changing the Hardness of the brush so that the lines don't look so jagged.
About the face I think it is very close to the reference, try to keep the proportion of eyebrows, nose and chin the same if you think it is too long.

I drew this while in Leipzig for the first time spending time with my artist chick, I lost my wacom one pen somewhere in her room and I've had to switch to traditional. If you ever find yourself in Liepzig the west side, you guys need to visit Boesner, they're a Art equipment emporium, amazing stuff there.

>>7608765
really cool

>>7608765
Do you think this is your blog or something?
Let your art, which is good, speak for itself, you absolute dumbass.

working on portraits lately

working on redesigning an oc.

>>7609490
holy peak this is so cool, I love the warm colors

>>7609504
thank you. it took me a while to pick them out

>>7609490
very cute style, do you have socials?

>>7609230
I may be a dumbass but I personally enjoy blog posts on /ic/. It's a window into the most interesting people on 4chan, cool kids hang here.

>>7610370
>cool kids hang here.
LMAO, holy fucking projection and delusion.

>>7610401
You seem very negative to positivity, you don't have to be angry anymore anymore anon. You can let it go. Also using lmao unironically is a very millennial vibe, but that's okay I guess.

>>7610401
get a loada this loser

>post your work

post how many people you have been kind to this week

>>7610412
>using lmao unironically is a very millennial vibe, but that's okay I guess.
I prefer to be negative to positivity instead of lying through my teeth like you do.
If you really think that's okay, then why are you pointing this out in the 1st place and why did you use the phrase "I guess"?
I called out your BS previously and I'm calling it out again now. Dishonest people like you are the worst.

>>7611320
instead of dragging others down to your level of bad vibes and whining, why not try to elevate yourself into thinking more positively? what do you have to gain from being angry all the time?

>>7611353
I'm not angry even when I'm writing these posts, let alone all the time. The defense mechanisms you people use are hylarious.

>While those autists above me are fighting about whether /ic/ is for tumblr level blog posts...
here's my latest WIP for the summer!

>>7582941
>words words words
how bout fucking drawing man

>>7610101
thanks. I don't have any socials as of now though

>>7593812
Taking a little too long with this one. But well, I've always been slow...

not any kind of work but just a scribble of stuff i was holding

Grey scale is confusing as hell to me

>>7612859
I like it tho, hes fancy

>>7612863
Thanks, I’ve been trying to make him look fancier, more like the stuck up cunt he is

>>7612859
I’m almost finished, however I can’t figure out what color to make the trees and grass, it’s pissing me off
No green look right

>>7611320
>>7611361
>everyone who's not depressed and angry is lying through their teeth

You actually need to talk to someone man, that's not healthy and is at best edgy teen joker shit. Please post your work I want to see if the edge has spread to your drawings, it can be fatal to gettin' gud.

semester ended, gonna draw a lot now

>>7613334
>Please post your work
More defense mechanisms. Replying to something that is clear trolling tells more about you. You're precious.

>>7614598
disgusting talented rat, i bet you had no problem with your tests either

>>7612283
soul

>>7614598
sai chads

>>7614901
Bruh there is no talent, i grinded a lot thats all, so much i injured my right hand, these days drawing with left. I feel serious skill issue, tests went bad too, life hella shit

>>7614901
lmao were you the one who would get mid grades even if they were serious? just sudoku and terminate your genes already

>>7611463
Nice

>>7614598
using two perspective grids like that is smart I have to try that

Long way from done. I'll change composition a bit and fix giant head down the line

Working on a little scene

Mobilefag moment

>>7605597
yeah, i still breathe.
i had a conversation with my mom, i told her, i do the best to take care of her,
i told her that i understand that i contribute nothing money wise, and it must be stressful to her that i don't, but i do my best to help- her with her medical and psych issues.
when i was in college she was severely depressed, had trouble breathing, sleeping has diabetes and suffered through psychosomatic pain in all over her face.
i have all but cured her of these things.
her facial pain is minimal, her diabetes controlled, she can sleep well, breathe, does not cough throughout the night, and begged her into getting on psychiatric medication for the things i could not help with by myself.
i also help her run her business better, and talk to her about things eat her inside her head.

and that if she thinks I'm only a weight on her shoulder, i can hide in my room and never bother her again, and if its not enough, i can kill myself.
that i have been depressed practically since i was born, and it would not be much of a task for me to end myself.
i also told her that she doesn't even bother to notice how i am doing, even though I'm constantly trying to help her.

in hindsight, i never deserved the shit i got, i wake up every day, grit my teeth and try as much as i can to be a good helpful human being.

she didn't apologize (Asian mom) but did realize that she was only being an asshole to me, because other unrelated economic issues had her extremely stressed.

everything around me has been falling down and i have been feeling like a bothersome existence, someone better off dead.

i also talked to my girlfriend and told her that shes constantly trying to fit me in a box of a good boyfriend, and that I've been told to change so much that i don't feel shed ever love me if i was being purely myself. etc etc.

>>7582941

in short, things have been better, i communicated my issues with everyone, they understood.


>>7605787
i don't think it would be a net positive, anyone killing themselves is never a net positive (with the exception people that hurt others)

7611759
notes are about trying to understand my autism and adhd to be better equipped in dealing with it, so a net good.

>>7605597
100% agreed
i have been on methyphenidate, though not amphetamines, they only make me angry.
i don't think medication can help me much.

Aswagandha is great for executive dysfunction tho. please do try.

>>7583083
sadly i don't, i was trying to understand how to be better equipped with autism and ADHD, and comparing it with what the pharma complex tells you the issue is.

>>7583012
This is actually only my 3rd-4th attempt at painting.


i have abandoned drawing for a while, will be back on my grind now
--> abandoned drawings -->

Wtf is this? Fucking therapy hour?
Stfu and just post your shit, not your life issues, get a damn therapist.

>>7616184
Progress, trying to map the general areas of light and dark in a rough fashion. Lighting is still something I am kind of figuring out.

>>7616972
surprise, surprise, people who cant finish their work are also mentally unwell.

>>7617399
>people who cant finish their work are also mentally unwell.
Then maybe, just maybe SEEK THERAPY.

Working on this

Im rendering with one hand

>>7617529
The lack of sharp edges upsets me

>>7617539
Yeah I tried to harden things up a little but it's still eh. Probably just gonna move on.

>>7579621
What tool do use use to blend in newest Sai version?

>>7579330
>>7579768
Not to compliment merc_wip, but the gaming industry is at such a low point I'd rather have that than most new AAA designs.

>>7605791
wow. im lucky to have found this one! loved the other 2.

>>7607076
thank you for the blog. love your art.

Started this a few days ago but got bored

>>7616038
Finished it

>>7624661
You should focus on studying and improving anatomy and perpective.
Right now you're polishing turds.

>>7624674
You should make finished works at any skill level, no matter how good or bad you are. Just grinding studies without producing any work is a permabeg NGMI recipe.

>>7624942
>Just grinding studies without producing any work is a permabeg NGMI recipe.
That's exactly what I was doing when I first started my art career. I made it, so your theory doesn't hold water.

>>7624969
I don't disagree on the fact that is a good approach to finish artworks, even when you are in the beginner stages of your development.
However your thinking is flawed. Grinding fundamentals is very much productive and going through a certain sequence of learning can speed up your progress a lot.
Also, not coloring or rendering something, doesn't mean you can't produce any work. Line art alone can create finished works.
I'm talking from personal experience btw. I went through the phases of grinding fundamentals in the general order you are supposed to study them and managed to make it just fine.

>>7624942
I don't disagree on the fact that it's a good approach to finish artworks, even when you are in the beginner stages of your development.
However your thinking is flawed. Grinding fundamentals is very much productive and going through a certain sequence of learning can speed up your progress a lot.
Also, not coloring or rendering something, doesn't mean you can't produce any work. You can create finished artworks with line art alone.

I'm talking from personal experience btw. I went through the phases of grinding fundamentals in the general order you are supposed to study them and managed to make it just fine, contrary to your recipes for NGMI permabegs.

>>7624981
The mindset of only grinding studies, until you are allowed to do a finished work is very much counter productive. If you are never coloring or rendering, you are never going to learn neither coloring nor rendering. You can't make finished work with just line art if your goal is to do a finished colored painting. I don't believe that you were only doing studies and never produced any work for fun, until you got to a high skill level. You were most likely doing both. You will not convince me you spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours just grinding studies and never though of drawing something else just for the hell of it.

>>7624942
This. Don't listen to the study edgers that never finish. Just do the process over and over until it becomes second nature. Finish everything you can. Only stop and redo it if it is fucked beyond repair.

>>7624981
Can you show us what your finished work looks like now after the grind?

i use the grid method

>>7625029
Random pick.

i spend way too long on that hand man

>>7625069
Nigga

Trying to `Copy Bridgeman'™ and doing rather poorly.

>>7624942
I thought its common sense to do both?

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7624942
>You should make finished works at any skill level
Not that anon but no, you really shouldn't.
Just literally grind studies until you're not total dogshit. That's what every single artist in an atelier does.
Do finished pieces occasionally to test where you stand, but they mostly are a waste of time and effort.

cool beans. I should do this professionally.

>>7625243
Looks photobashed.
Still fantastic.

>>7625212
>Do finished pieces occasionally
So you completely 100% agree. Why did you post the rest pretending you don't

>>7625138
Where do you think you are?
I feel like 90% of /ic/ have turbo assburgers and don't even really want to draw and just see it as a strategy to make money. Hence the insane autismal learning approaches
>I should spent 5 years grinding loomis heads and figgies until I can reproduce any anatomy book from imagination, only them I am allowed to draw
Except they burn out and create gorillion samey threads and shit up board with
>I want to learn to draw, but I don't want to draw, how do I force myself to draw for 12 hours a day? I hate drawing btw

>>7579291 (OP)

>>7625004
Completely missed this post.
I've been drawing since I can remember and I always preferred pencil draftsmanship to coloring. Coloring has always been an enemy to me. I meddled in it from time to time, but more out of curiosity than anything.
Once I started taking art seriously and pursuing random jobs I had to start incorporating colors into my art. That's when I realized my fundamentals were pretty much beg level and all that was holding my art afloat was a pretty good sense of appeal.
I was lucky enought to still be able to get gigs even if I was faking it, however I also started studying art seriously for the first time in my life (about 13 years ago) and I followed instructions from art books that all had a pretty orthodox and conservative academic approach to studying.
I started with the basics in a certain order. Still life for perspective, figure drawing for anatomy, gesture practice and croquis for dynamic poses and line confidence. At that time I finally realized that what I was coloring in the past was so fundamentally flawed that made all those attempts a complete waste of time. With better fundamentals my coloring work improved tremendously in a very short time span. During the period I started actually studying art I made the biggest leap in progress of my entire life.

I'm sure some people can take great benefit from this kind of approach, while others not so much. I think it's mostly a matter of being able to motivate yourself. For me the motivation was my continued and fast progress during that time. Other people need to have fun with it in order to avoid burning out, etc.
Just sharing my personal experience.

>>7625004
Completely missed this post.
I've been drawing since I can remember and I always preferred pencil draftsmanship to coloring. Coloring has always been an enemy to me. I meddled in it from time to time, but more out of curiosity than anything.
Once I started taking art seriously and pursuing random jobs I had to start incorporating colors into my art. That's when I realized my fundamentals were pretty much beg level and all that was holding my art afloat was a pretty good sense of appeal.
I was lucky enought to still be able to get gigs even if I was faking it, however I also started studying art seriously for the first time in my life (about 13 years ago) and I followed instructions from art books that all had a pretty orthodox and conservative academic approach to studying.
I started with the basics in a certain order. Still life for perspective, figure drawing for anatomy, gesture practice and croquis for dynamic poses and line confidence. At that time I finally realized that what I was coloring and rendering in the past was so fundamentally flawed that made all those attempts a complete waste of time (except for improving my eye-hand coordination of course). With better fundamentals my coloring and especially rendering work improved tremendously in a very short time span. During the period I started actually studying art I made the biggest leap in progress of my entire life.

I'm sure some people can take great benefit from this kind of approach, while others not so much. I think it's mostly a matter of being able to motivate yourself. For me the motivation was my continued and fast progress during that time. Other people need to have fun with it in order to avoid burning out, etc.
Just sharing my personal experience.

Haven’t painted or drawn in almost a month—this was the last thing I did. Gonna change that today.

>>7579291 (OP)
started last night, trying to build up my tolerance for longer work since I always give up too early and never polish.

>>7624942
this

>>7627788
Nice work anon, do you have any socials?

>>7627788
more done, just need some tweaks here and then a big focus on the face, ahh the daunting

>>7627789
fryerwameZ but im inactive rn

>>7628151
frogot to post the complete one, here's a link since I don't wanna take up another pic
https://x.com/fryerwameZ/status/1940226316135194733

>>7625069
Ah, it's bbchan... you know, you especially shouldn't speak about grinding studies. You never really did it. You bitched about it, deemed studying irrelevant because people were commissioning you, and quit very early into each fundamental. You only have surface level knowledge of any one fundamental.

Most of what you've ever done is stubbornly plowing into illustration making on top of a poor fundamentals foundation. Turd polishing. You do the very thing you advise against. You'd do well to grind some more, or stop speaking like you're some experienced draftsman.

If you wanted to prove your point as some artist who knows their shit and has made it, you should have showed us your best most complete and masterful fundamentals studies, as well as your best work. But you just picked something random? It's because nothing stands out as great and everything is equally flawed.

Man, after all these years, I thought you'd have improved more by now, too. What's going on, man?

I'm permabeg. But at least i have fun :')

idk what this is

4 left to go

Give it to straight bros, am I gunna make it?

>>7642541
You need more stabilizer or steadier hands!

>>7642552
yeah I'm literally going in blind. Also using a used tablet I got cheap.

>>7642565
try drawing the lines faster too, that much wobble shouldn't be happening unless you are going super slow and shaking

>>7642573
Youd be correct, I though slow and precise would work since using a tablet feels wonky

kill me

trying to draw everyday now

>>7633008
Having fun is how you learn to use your tools.

New wip being wipped!

>>7642579
Look at the end point of where you want the line to go, don't follow the tip of your pencil with your eyes. Trust your brain to handle it. And as the other anon said, be swift.
You can make it if you want to. Nothing intrinsically disqualifies you, big dog.

>>7642552
>>7642573
>>7644451
already seeing improvements thanks bros