/loomis/ - Art Gains

>>16483

This might sound stupid, but what I mean is I've been studying the planes of the head and doing portrait drawings for months now, but I still can't grasp the form of simple anime characters very well. Their features are too soft and vague. The head is not just a pointed sphere, there aren't just two or three planes. There are multiple angles from the cheek, jaw, and the chin. Anime character usually have almost no chin, a diminished nose, and the brows are often not where they're supposed to be. I'm having a hell of a time making sense of it. Where the hell is everything supposed to go? I have yet to see a good break down that goes far enough into what I'm looking for. It's all just "draw a circle, decide on an axis and put this here, that here, and that there". I can do that, but in practice there are finer points that doesn't cover. It doesn't give me the whole picture. If I tried to paint it, it would not look correct. I guess I'm expected to " just experiment LOL" until I get it.

>>15796

Come join me over at: http://nanochanqzaytwlydykbg5nxkgyjxk3zsrctxuoxdmbx5jbh2ydyprid.onion/oc/

We'll create a new community over on the Tor network.

I'm posting there and normies haven't found it yet.

>bought a matte screen protector for my ipad

>it makes hideous squeaking sounds whenever i draw

I'm not a murrican so I only see riot information from social media.

I've been trying out this Pillowfort website to post art in, and it's alright so far. I feel like a lot of porn artists who had left Tumblr for Twitter some 2 years ago are going back to a website with less restriction and more control over the content (Twitter only allows 4 images per post and has restriction on the number of characters in a message).

I hath returned, and i've gotten some more. The latest comic I read was The Eternaut, a very excellent book, and as far as I can tell one of the first entries in the post apocalpytic/survival horror genres.

Now compositionally The Eternaut is not all that complex. The panels are square and there are rarely more than 3 per page. Now many artists would want to make the character designs simplistic and easy to draw as in Tintin, López uses an unusual amount of detail and lines to make the characters stand out. This works really well, as by the end of story the characters are exhausted, beaten, and shellshocked, and the gritty line work emphasizes this. There are often pages of characters talking, and López simply shifts the viewpoint around slightly. I find that when illustrating long conversations, it seems tedious to draw the characters over and over in basically the same place. If you alter the angle a bit, zoom in or out, and make sure the characters expression changes appropriately, it should be interesting enough. If that fails you could just draw a silhouette, or zoom way out and show text bubbles coming from the building the characters are in.

Drawing in black and white can be a difficult challenge so that the characters dont get lost in the back round. It is especially impressive how detailed the back rounds are in The Eternaut, yet it always felt clear. It appears the best way to do this is to make sure the focus of the panel is much brighter or darker than everything else. In The Eternaut, a detailed back round might appear only 2-3 times per page, and I think this saves time, but also makes the page seem less cluttered as a whole.

Now because of this fairly standard layout, there are a few pages that break the pattern as in the second image, giving a very strong effect.

Ive also been considering that when reading a comic, the reader cannot stop himself from seeing the who page at once. Therefore, an artist should give thought of each page as a whole, and think what exactly the goal of that page is. Special consideration should be given to resolving issues on page, or leaving them to the next. A reader might be tempted to skip panels if he sees the resolution on the bottom of the page, but i'm sure it would feel artificial if you did this too oPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

We are back at again, now with content.

This is an exercise I did recently; I took a scene from Blade Runner: 2049 and decided to adapt it into a comic form. The idea here was to practice utilizing panels creatively to communicate the story, then use the film as reference for everything else so I could focus on design. I really like this scene because how many significant emotional beats it crams into a small series of events. I think a good comic should have 1 beat per 1-3 panels. Tell me if you think I communicated the story well enough, and what techniques you liked or abhorred. Here is the original scene: https://youtu.be/3TjyGmvNBfM

I think any artist can learn a lot from film cinematography, but film has many things in common with comics, but for two major differences. Film has control over sound, a which is a big loss for drawn mediums. We try to fix this with sound boxes, but I have mixed feelings on them. I like them more as visual representations of a sound, than the effect of reading specific sound effect. The biggest is control of time. In comics, we are limited to showing very specific moments of time. Film communicates a vast amount of information in a few seconds. Comics main advantage is the reader can spend as much time looking at any given panel, meaning you can add as much information as you want the reader to discover without being cluttered. The hard part is you have to be extra judicious when choosing what moments you want to show. Its also tempting to copy "shot reverse shot", which is good in film because the viewer needs to quickly tell who is who through many quick cuts. But in a comic, I think its best to avoid showing the same angle more than once if you can help it.

In my continuing comic "homework" I read V for Vendetta. One thing that stands out about it is the total lack of sound FX or internal thought bubbles, that helps with the gritty feel of the story. The horrible dreary coloring really adds to the atmosphere, with almost every page uses just 1-2 colors, a very effective technique. Helps differentiate from very colorful superhero comics. On a meta level, I think its a interesting example of how you CAN write a story about Mary Sue protagonist who exists onPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>15464

lookin like shes about to join the Vengaboys

>>15464

Looks like lewded up Winx Club, but I admire that type of style, since I might be considering studying that type of Italian anime style too also.

Nice double post. Dumping some old shit I don't think I've posted before.

I like those drawings. One of my favorite painters is Carl Gustaf Hellqvist because his old world in old times scenes are interesting to look at.

>>16404

The tower reflection is cool.

Additional Information: I just failed that God damn captcha four times in a row.

>>15981

>>15941

>>16050

I am surprised I have inspired anyone.

>>16157

>is there someone being crucified in the top left of wave mountain?

It's a fruiting plant. It's inspired by the Buddha's hand citron.

It's very deep, probably.

how it feels to insomina

FUCK

>>15037

But the first two examples were 3dpd that had 'natural' breasts. Circle tits are uncanny because they resemble symbol drawings, as well as them not making sense because tits are suppose to be more oval like. Even small breasts aren't perfectly circular, you can still see a bit of elongation or curve in them. Also the nipples are more apart/towards the side, if the tits are that large.

>>16177

Posting in threads that literally got bumped by a spammer after 3 years of inactivity is GOOD, redart!

…not really I guess-I just relished the excuse to talk about my art deco robo waifu again

>>16178

Well, in that case, I WASN'T going to show this, but:

1. If she was a guy, let alone human, this would've been safe to show since the 90s and why deny equality now? AND

2. I made this in 2012, waaaaaaaaaay before Lil-Area made it not only okay but full-on fucking sexual.

Portia Gibbons and Julia Goldburger.

Some original characters, two from grade school and two from college:

The Pie giraffe

Mr. Poliwag rip-off (don't remember his real name)

Pontiasco

Alfrute Il Pire

This is dangerously cancerous.

haha

>>15971

>>16013

What other boards have an active drawthread? /v/? /monster/ has (had) drawfags if the amount of content being upped to the new booru is any indication.