>>80923971
Didn't expect a horse cock OP.

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>>80910001
last night's shit. This strain makes it hard to move my arm with accuracy, but FUCK does it lock me in

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ugh, not great but at least I'm drawing again I suppose.

hey im considering finally doing proper muscle anatomy studies, anyone have any good materials they could share? trying to sift through image searches is an absolute pain

>>80925410
Anatomy for Sculptors

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First time coloring without reference. The lighting’s fucked. I just couldn’t get it to look the way I want. I gave up on coloring her body and just went the Homestuck route with coloring shiny black things. Procreate was really fighting me in this one. I don’t understand how any of the tools work. Critique? Help?

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>>80925410
Jenö Barcsay's Anatomy for the Artist is a staple of art classrooms for a reason. It's got illustrations of every bone and muscle of the body to serve as an exhaustive reference guide:
https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=18de420b638ebb790613b953f577fd2c

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Draw this reclining lady.

>>80925410
https://x6ud.github.io/pose-search/#/ is decent for refs

bump

>>80931781

Though still I must pursue the Way of the brush.

>>80927332
Perhaps...

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>>80925410
look for Michael Hampton anatomy book or yt videos, that helped me into understanding better body anatomy

>>80936757
based individual recommending Michael (I always recommend design and invention, very analytical approach to both gesture and anatomy)

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blegh

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Newbie, just had the idea of drawing birds, googled birds, and tried to sketch some, sometimes in 30s, sometimes a few min, without really thinking. Some turned out a bit better than others, now will try to see if I can figure out why.
Next step is wanna try drawing actual birds I'll see outside than just photos

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>>80923971

sorta unrelated, but i just realized i could apply for social services for being laid off and homeless. Man im retarded.

>>80942394
Why tf would I do this if I can use my own mouth?
>>80942815
Fuck man, brutal

Would I make sense to get better at drawing you draw it then why not draw it best from the starting t seems like a waste of time

>>80945582
delete your post; you type like a waste of tax money if not just a shitty baiting esl

>>80945582
nigga what

>>80945582
Are you basically asking "What's the point of sketching? Why not draw your best from the start?"?

>>80945582
Not many people can visualize the final piece before starting. If you can though, then sure, go for it. It's like tracing your hand except you're tracing off your mind on the paper/monitor.

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>>80945582
>>80945754
>Are you basically asking "What's the point of sketching? Why not draw your best from the start?"?
That certainly seems to be the more accurate way to parse the post, though who can say for certain?
To answer the question, you sketch because even seasoned professionals who have done this shit for years to earn their bread make mistakes on a regular basis. Sure, they might be able to do a few recurring poses they're extremely familiar with on a "blind" first go without too many mistakes in proportions and anatomy, certainly not ones that'd easily be visible to the eyes of a beginner, but you give them anything outside of that repertoire and they're gonna do a quick bit of exploratory sketching before they commit to final linework. They know from hard-fought experience that "wasting" a little bit of time on prep work saves a lot wasted time on redrawing significant parts of the entire finished piece because you only noticed how badly fucked everything is when you when you pulled back from fiddling with detail work to look at the bigger picture way too late in the process.

what do you think is the number one thing that holds artists back from achieving high levels of skill?

I like how these turned out, maybe things will work out.

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what brush do i need to get this style, ive tried everything in krita yet can't FULLY achieve it, i know the shading has something to do with it

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>>80947365
nvm I forgot to attach image, its fucking over

>>80947383
Those first two on the top left look a bit off. Good if you were intentionally going for the look of a mannequin dangling from its strings, but needs work if you weren't. The first's main problem is the arms; they're just hanging there limply. Even something as simple as raising the (viewer's) right arm up would make the pose look more natural and dynamic. The second's feet don't match the vibe of the arms; either they should be doing similarly active things to imply a dancing pose or they should be slumped for a pose conveying exhaustion, precariously supported by a single arm. Speaking of the arm, consider raising the shoulder (don't forget to move the clavicle too) and squishing it towards the neck a little, looks a bit uncomfortable as it is now.

Good, clean work otherwise, though. However, as we've discussed a few times already, you're always doing too much construction sketching practice. I get that you've taken a break and need to shake off some rust, but don't get stuck in the ol' comfort zone for too long, now.

>>80936757
I want to plap that pig

>>80945641
Sorry I was high.
>>80945754
More like the idea of drawing the same thing over and over again will result in improvement in drawing that thing.

>>80949661
>More like the idea of drawing the same thing over and over again will result in improvement in drawing that thing.
That sounds more like a statement of fact than a question.

I need to get out of this rut I'm in. Nothing looks passable for a few days now.
Send help

>>80950035
Maybe I need to stop being angry at myself for thinking I’m improving

>>80950255
Why would that make you angry in the first place?

>>80950647
Because it means I sucked before. I wasted time being bad at something. That’s unacceptable. Only stupid idiots do that and stupid idiots are a shame to their parents and so don’t deserve their love.

>>80951173
I hope you realize that's a pretty delusional view of it. It's the idiot's idea of what being a genius is like; only success, never failure because failure, no matter how insignificant, means they were never a genius, duh! That line of thinking has led to many downfalls as people holding this belief desperately try to always appear to be in the right no matter how badly they have to mangle the truth, and by extension their credibility, to do so rather than humbly accept their shortcomings, learn from the experience, and walk away only slightly worse for wear to fight another day.

>>80951552
I never earned my parents’ love.

>>80951969
Some parents make unreasonable demands for what they should have given far less conditionally to their own flesh and blood. Maybe they have their reasons, maybe they're even understandable ones, but they nevertheless failed in their one duty to you when you were at your most vulnerable. That means you have no obligation to hold up whatever end of the bargain they might deem their right to collect from you when they find themselves in need. The world might not be fair, but occasionally, you can get some satisfying payback if you're willing to be a little heartless.

>>80952261
Thanks.

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I did the thing.

>>80952928
I wish I had a dick big enough for Mrs. Brisby.

>>80952928
Just try not to get too much jizz on it

>>80951173
There's a quiet dignity and respect in quitting. Stop practicing. Think of all the time you'll save and all the failure you'll avoid. You'll never be the best anyway...

>>80952928
Did you draw it or did you buy it? This ain't the goon improvement general, that's down the hall to the left

>>80952928
Interesting reference material

>>80952928
You know what? Based ratfucker

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>>80927332
>Ah-ah-aah, no touching. You just sit pretty while I do all the pleasuring for you, darlin'

Well, this got a bit out of hand, but when inspiration strikes, you gotta do what you gotta do. On the plus side, I did finally solve the desk space issue and can do digital somewhat comfortably again; turns out that spare foldable desk wasn't large enough to block off the whole room when I tested it out on a whim a few days ago. I do need to employ a bit more dexterity to get around, but that'll only be an issue on drunken evenings, for which I can just fold the thing back up again. Or when the clean-freaks of the household want to turn the place upside down yet again, like tomorrow. Just gotta be careful not to let it become an indispensable storage surface or it's gonna be a logistical nightmare every time it needs to go back in the corner.

I've had the basic idea for an avian cuntboy character knocking about the noggin' for a good long while, since very few species of bird actually come equipped with peckers IRL, with ducks and their corkscrews being a famously notable exception. Despite this deficiency, and the general tendency towards exuberant flamboyance in the males of many species, I'd imagine anthro versions would still act quite masculine and pursue the ladies like the rest of the lads and probably be better at it than most. Chicks dig pretty boys, after all. But of course, you'd also have your deviants. This fellow here like his girlfriends to be packing the heat he don't. Rarer of a character trait than you might think in this fandom, despite all the genderbendy nonsense that goes on. For some reason, this specific type of pairing is very uncommon. Guess both archetypes appeal to different audiences and there's precious little overlap between them. A bit tragic, really. Conceptually, they fit together perfectly but the disinterest of the masses damns their love to obscurity.

>>80947324
Tied for top three. "Their influences weren't of high skill level in the first place." "They achieved popularity early because their art didn't need to be as good as their ideas." "They find the process of practice art tedious and or get in their own way."

>>80923971
Any good sources of drawing timelapses/streams like houtengeki on YouTube?

>>80955028
I drew it and got it made.

>>80955114
What do you mean?

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Work doodle

>>80958562
We have an Asian guy in this thread?

>>80959189
No, there's just a Daiso in my town. Now I can purchase grorious nipponese stationary without having to wait

This thread shouldn't be this low

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not being fluent in how poses work makes things hard.

Being homeless has definitely taken alot of my mind space. It's definitely fucking with my focus while trying to draw. How do i keep retaining my focus? Should i start focusing on one thing at a time?

>>80963271
perhaps you should prioritize correcting your homelessness issue before committing any mental resources to drawing

>>80964116
i am currently doing what i can, but job market is turbo ass where i am, especially for young people. Also i feel like i'd go crazy if i dropped drawing cause i'd feel like im falling behind.

>>80952928
how many times did you go over the drawing? imagine getting it made just to see you forgot to turn on a layer or there's a stray pixel in the middle of nowhere.

>>80943665
Cuz your's always has a cock in it.

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>>80923971

For anyone that draws trad (or even digital) does working smaller work somewhat better for you than larger?

>>80965309
you should ask for help with chat gpt or whatever to phrase your questions. are you asking if there's some benefit to having a smaller canvas while drawing?

>>80965371
You clearly read my question as intended, so my phasing is clearly more than good enough.

>>80965309
trad here: ive not gotten much larger than like a foot per side, but i definitely find it more limiting to draw on my tiny travel sketchbook or phone in comparison.

>>80964269
A lot a lot a lot. This was about a week's worth of work and, with my rough math, about 90 hours.
Totally worth it though. The pillow is super high quality, and the cover is immaculate.

>>80965309
No. My brain is weird in that I tend to always use the whole canvas regardless of resolution, so I work big just so I have crisper lines. I know it can be helpful for some though.

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mmm lineart, still a bit more details to go, does the weight hierarchy make sense?
>>80956033
futa and cuntboy are pretty similar conceptually but they are their fandoms are mirrored, if you go to the cuntboy thread on /d/ most posts are either yaoi or ftm stuff, pretty far from the use people give futa of putting a dick into the image without a man and or femdom. even people here react negatively to cuntboy.
I like how you can fit such tall characters into the frame without too much negative space, i struggle with 7 heads tall, cant imagine doing like 12 like you.
>>80947228
this is some god tier construction ho-ly

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does the arm look okay? theyre not strictly following human proportions, but im not confident in my persona judgement as a result

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>>80965309
I usually work relatively small with traditional, no bigger than A4 paper. I have done A3 pieces in the past (both pencil and charcoal) in art class, however, and there are definitely advantages to working bigger too. It's just that it kinda requires a standing easel and plenty of elbow room so you can draw from the shoulder, so not something you can do comfortably without a dedicated art room.

The big thing about drawing small is thumbnailing. Great for experimenting with posing and quickly sanity-checking if an idea works as well on paper as it does in your head. If it looks to be working in tiny format, it's relatively easy to blow up to full size just by eyeballing it. It is possible to go too small, however; the middle piece in pic related's examples ended up with too much character overlap to make much visual sense of in so small a thumbnail, so I just moved on ahead with making it full sized (relatively speaking, it's still an A5 page I drew on).

With digital, size is much more of a moot point, especially if vectors are involved since those can be scaled losslessly. If you want to thumbnail on a larger canvas, you can just zoom out and by the time you're done, you've got a full-sized sketch ready to go (though the lines are likely to be wobbly and lopsided, so some redrawing will likely do you good). Alternatively, you can resize a small thumbnail sketch and then retrace it for a more detailed rough sketch. And, since scans or photos of traditional pieces tend to be fairly large canvases to begin with when opened on a digital drawing program, you can do easily do mixed media and sketch traditionally, finish digitally. Or even pull a double trick and sketch traditionally, refine linework digitally, then print back out and color traditionally.

>>80966349
>futa and cuntboy are pretty similar conceptually but they are their fandoms are mirrored
I know. Dickgirls appeal to straight men who like cock and cuntboys appeal to gay men who like pussy. Vanishingly small crowds already in their own right, so people who can see the appeal of both are one of the tiniest minorities on the planet. I happen to have a thing for catering to underserved niches, however, so that's perfect for me.

>I like how you can fit such tall characters into the frame without too much negative space, i struggle with 7 heads tall, cant imagine doing like 12 like you.
It ain't as easy as I make it look, let me tell ya. Besides the negative space issues, legs this long are a nightmare to pose in a way that looks even vaguely natural. But when you do manage to wrangle the bastards into proper position, oh boy is it worth the struggle. There's a reason digitigrade legs are the preferred configuration in this fandom.

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stupid catbox is not letting me upload my stuff

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Forgoing lineart entirely to try to learn painting
What do we think?

>>80966972
>cuntboys appeal to gay men who like pussy
And women, anon
Most cuntboy artists are women.

>>80968146
Been meaning to try my hand at a lineless piece myself for the longest time. Just might go ahead and actually do it soon, got a piece or two in mind already I'd like to try it with.

>>80968154
Women's genital preferences tend to be quite flexible to begin with. It's the emotional charge of a given situation that really gets their motors going, which is why their usual preference for smut is the written word rather than visual media; easier to delve into the heads of characters when internal monologuing and narration are unobtrusive parts of the proceedings.

https://litter.catbox.moe/yw54t44uvifan1j7.jpeg

>>80968635
Cute, billy looks young now, good work on that. I would recommend you to do another finer sketch pass before the final LineArt pass so you can get smoother lines and maybe put in more detail

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pretty proud of this one I did for someone on aco.

>>80974982
not bad, you have potential

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>>80976339
Posted this because I wanted to try drawing in complimentary color contrast. Here's my drawing using it, how did I do?

Where did everybody go? It's quiet

>>80980546
I'm in a bad slump myself, so I'm living vicariously through your guys' progress

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How does this look if I may ask? Anything of note?

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Drawing a binturong, can anyone tell me if the head looks off or if it's alright, so I can proceed?

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Paint Tool SAI tests, I havent drawn anything in a worryingly long time so im shaking the rust off. Is the beginning of the year just a time when every artist takes a break or something? noticed this thread has been a little slower than usual

>>80979459
I think it looks very cozy! sadly I don't think im in much of a place to critique color but I did want to let you know that I think you're doing a good job

>>80980546
struggling with motivation/discipline, sorry amigo

in other news i'm considering picking up drawabox again, i dropped it after the arrows lesson

>>80983513
I know that feel
Constant fatigue + lack of motivation and passion is a pain beyond measure

>>80980546
I'm in working mode, posting stuff on my twitter/stream so I don't have time to schizo and or blog post

>>80980546
I had work.

>>80983627
give us a sample

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>>80983796
I mean you guys already know who I am, or at least some of you do.

If you want to do a smooth kinda realistic rendering, do you have to use very thin lines or even lineless? I like my LineArt but i'm trying to learn rendering, seems like they take from each other

>>80983946
nah you can use any type of line quality as long as it's stylistically sound for what you want to go with. If you want realism in the sense of a Riot Artist, then yeah ditching lineart will most likely be your path, but if your more interested in a sorta cartoony/western style of realism then I've seen painterly stuff done with hard thick outlines.

>>80980546
Struggling to get a single drawing out the door currently

>>80979459
The shadow on her sweater might be too red. Also not big on the snow. I'll put more work into it.

https://e621.net/posts/5669026
anyone know of a similar line brush to this on procreate ?

i give up. Art just isnt for me

>>80980546
I've got a string of IRL obligations to take care of this week which require moving between towns several times, and depending on how they go, there might be more obligations to follow shortly. Just when I was getting into the swing of things again, too. This kind of shit always seems to happen right when I do, like fate has a personal grudge against my artistic ambitions.

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>>80986445

Do you guys practice/study multiple times a day, or do you just on big multi hour study session?

>>80987439
You mean focused eat-your-vegetables type studies? Weekly at most, then work on whatever drawing I'm on once a day (2-4 hours straight) if I can.

>>80983828
I don't know who you are, so socials?

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>>80987439
I just draw whenever i feel like drawing, no preassure; no rush. Just letting the mind go wild with taste and that’s how it works for me

>>80983828
I like this, cute.

>>80987439
I draw about once a day on days I work. Two or three times on weekends.

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>>80989143
I go by Zamoshvik

>>80986445
It's okay, it's an acceptable conclusion, lots of people have given up, myself included at one point. There is no rush, just comeback when you can truly dedicate yourself to the annoying grind that is.

>>80990596
Thank you, it was a commission, it performed better than expected, but not as well as another piece I posted at the time. (Pic Releted) Honestly I was done during my growing pains so I thought worse of it, but it's actually one of my best performing pieces in a while. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though as much as I might think negatively of my own art I cannot escape the fact that people love big tiddy milfs

Up up and away

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>>80979459
Revision, and page 10 bump

GET BUMPED!

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I’m just tired of this one now and her torso is completely fucked up a total waste of 4 hours I KMS

>>80994682
I remember seeing your WIP of this, just curious how long did it actively take you?

i need to lock in

>>81001981
Stop being homeless first

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>>81002072
Nah, I'm not the homeless anon.

>>81002172
Sorry i assume anyone who talks like a zoomer is him

>>81002506
Well you know what happens when you assume

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Can i get some feedback on this wip rendering? trying to go further than cel shading.
>>80998813
>>80979459
I like the color theory! very cozy, i feel like your snow revision looks a lot more like snow than smoke, but also makes much more visual noise and distracts from the figure.
>>80994682
I find your style very interesting, the techniques look a bit like Korean comics to me but the inspiration seems very western, a nice mix. of course you are also very good at a technical level to begin with.

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>>81003314
for context, im trying to apply what i did for this study, doing form shadows, cast shadows, reflected light and then ambient occlusion in different steps and layers, ill blend the cast and form shadows when i know they are good to go.

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>>81001679
I think it was like 6-8 hours?

>>81003314
Hmmm Korean, I do read a lot of manwha but I've never pushed myself in that direction. Again I did believe that this was one of my weaker pieces as a drawing. Although I'm able to make a completed piece it feels like it lack cohesion within this drawing style/color style. Like when things focus on inks and linework it tends to look good and when things focus as a whole on painting, it also looks good, but this sorta in between point that I'm in right now for color feels like it lacks order.

Since this picture, I feel like I've gotten closer to the direction I want to be in, but still need some work in some areas. His a commission I'm working on.

>>81003881
The juices look great.

>>81004148
Ah thank you thank you, I've been trying to improve my ability to creating liquid without requiring colors. Truth be told I think I'm relying on gradients too much apart of my process.

I also need to find a new way to shade my backgrounds. Funny enough I haven't been practicing too much art lately outside of the general focus of trying in the way that pushes me closer to a more 'Anime style" I've moved over to learning C# so I can like, make a game or something in the future.

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drew a cat mom

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Started to actually buckle in and practice some of this muscle stuff. Immediately hit a wall and couldnt really find the right resource I was looking for. oh well, tomorrow ill have a better idea of what I need.

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tired; about to sleep wanted to end the night good this is relatively fine i guess but i cant figure out whats wrong iwth it no reference or at least not many

>>81004555
Anatomy for Sculptor and Michael Hamptons "Designs and invention" along with tracing over the muscle groups of muscular real life people so you can get an idea of where they are and their general shapes is your friend.

>>81004782
Your work is extremely stylized to it's fetishistic nature, so there isn't anything I can really say about how it looks or it's anatomy or anything like that. I can however mention that your line quality is quite nice.

Still I must follow the Way of the brush.

>>81007623
That's pretty cool.

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Been practising using landmarks and underlying anatomy for constructing the figure. First attempt was total piss but the 2nd attempt it started to click. I'm starting to understand analysing the body better. Still got a long way to go but I think this method for drawing a figure is much better than what I did before.

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Trying to do perspective. Rough start.

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>>81011458
You're doing a very good job. just try to keep a wider profiling for the torso shape (Specifical for the Tifa one It's fairly thin) and the pelvic box should probably extend all up to probably like.. under the navel. You should also look and try this with some really skinny people so their skeletal structure is far more exposed.

That transition from the midpart to the hip is far more noticeable but this woman just has a really defined pelvis

i could use some words of encouragement

>>81015124
Watch this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dg8w6gk4cE&pp=ygUWNCBhcnRpc3RzIHBhaW50IDEgdHJlZQ%3D%3D

>>81015124
mush
hooshta

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>>80923971

>>80976339
I'm stupid, what's with the purple and green, and how did it help the red?
>>80979459
>>80998813
Not bad, very cozy.

>>81015124
No matter how much you fail, I am.very proud of you for trying

>>81015124
i want to, but can you be a bit more specific? (pyw)

>>81018577
>I'm stupid, what's with the purple and green, and how did it help the red?
The purple and green cubes were just other examples of using similar colors for shading.

>>81019444
Weed anon. Or ig homeless anon now lol. Things have been rough, as well as midterms are coming up so i have more shit to do/work on. On the positive, i did get a job that starts in a couple weeks, so homeless anon no more maybe. I've just been stressing at art, thinking "maybe I ain't built for this", and explored that headspace for a bit and tried figuring out why i even wanted to start drawing to begin with, what my goals were, if they were even feasible for someone like me as well as if they were worthwhile. Funnily enough however, i didn't miss a day of drawing. Probably just beat that daily urge into me. The other messages are helpful though, thank you.

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Work was actually busy tonight so I didnt get to do as much as I wanted to but I can kinda see the vision now.

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Does this look muddy?

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>>80582743
Sidetracked for days but it's completed

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>>81022706

>>81023814
Didn't expect to see a Reformation of a Deadbeat Noble characters in here, but I guess it checks out.

>>81020106
>I've just been stressing at art, thinking "maybe I ain't built for this", and explored that headspace for a bit and tried figuring out why i even wanted to start drawing to begin with, what my goals were, if they were even feasible for someone like me as well as if they were worthwhile.
And what conclusion did you come to, or are you still evaluating?

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Hello, Simski here.
I like this community so sorry for not having checked in on you guys in a while. I saw some post speculate that I sorta got chased off after making that Maga Pecan animation, and partially you're correct that what I intended to be a silly shitpost for fun got WAY more intense hatred than I could have imagined. Likewise I've also tried to keep a lower profile online because of some issues I've had with cyberstalkers recently (aside from that one guy on /v/ that thinks single every poster that dislikes crash 4 is me I think most of them have fucked off by now)

Though the biggest reason I haven't really posted here in a while have just been that as a primarily TDM animation oriented artist most of my struggles these days are so niche that I don't know if I could find help for them even if I asked, and in some other cases (like this animation) I couldn't really ask for help because I wanted to keep the idea a secret until I was finished.

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>>81025880
Anyway right now I'm first of all making an attempt to actually finish one of my old abandoned sfw animations, the hope being that I could maybe get it done before valentine's day (but don't count on it).

Also my friend gifted me Hello Kitty Island Adventure for Christmas and I've been pretty hooked on that, so here's a silly little WIP animation of Piano I drew 2 days ago

>>81024591
ive still been evaluating.

up

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>>81026992
Hm, I remember when I was talking to you about your goals and told you times like this would come. You gotta take your breaks when you can nigga, find OTHER artist you admire, goals closer to yourself that you can achieve. Every artist needs success and if you never feel like you're doing anything beyond practice you're gonna start feeling some type of way.

>>81025880
Not much of an animator, but I gotta respect doing every frame by hand along with the colors. Don't know who you are, but AC work is some of my most guiltiest of pleasure so it's lovely to see you around

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>>81028412
it's a fundamentally different mindset. I understand what you're trying to say, but my mindset isn't from attaining small levels of success, but whether or not i feel like what i do is worth doing. My successes are offset from the fact i dislike who i am and what i think i can achieve, which makes things murkier, and probably means i need to think about myself personally.

>>81028639
No crime in taking the personal time required to find yourself. Take as long as a break as you need. Just know that this shit isn't a race, you aren't anymore or less of a person. Just take it easy, especially in your trying times.

>>81028639
So are you just saying you don't believe in yourself?

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>>81028680
I can try to think during downtime, but i don't really do "breaks". Feels really weird to take a break cause it opens up alot of random free time

>>81028688
essentially yeah

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>>81028412
>Not much of an animator, but I gotta respect doing every frame by hand along with the colors.
Thanks. Yeah doing the shading between frames is a real pain in the ass because it's damn hard to get the airbrush consistent. Which is why most of my animations skip that part, but occasionally I want to put in the extra effort. I mostly draw Pecan, but I've been trying to branch out a little more lately.

>>81025880
You have some other opinions that I'm sure scared people off of you (me included) but that's neither here nor there. Artist to artist at least, hope you've been doing okay dude.

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Idk how to feel about this. It looks a good and the person I drew it for loved it but at no point was the process for this enjoyable. It was such a miserable slog the entire way. I need to work out a different workflow

>>80926772
Carapace implies that lighting is coming from the right but the clothes imply that it's coming from the left. That's probably why it looks awkward. The shape implied by shading around her tummy also seems to look concave, rather than something that would fill the dress.

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Does anyone have refs for the head from behind?

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>>81033333
You definitely don't do it like this
Bump

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Locked in on this one.

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not been proud of my output recently, every time I say "im going to force myself to draw" I just dont. it's all on me really, I know I'll pull myself out of this at some point but it doesnt feel good seeing the lack of practice tank my art quality yknow?

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>>81037326
A Sonic hand is just a normal human hand right?

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Had somebody quit at work so I could only really do these.

doodles today
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