/loomis/ - Art Gains

>>15665

Got it. I'll keep tagging you as that.

Since I've recieved no objections up until this point, I'll start uploading with impunity.

Next artist will be tagged Leia

drew my OC in a mask to celebrate the kung flu bat plague

>>15663

This Peter Mohrbacher guy makes some good shit.

>>15642

The Jojo guy took a lot of inspiration for his poses from Bernini.

>>15645

forgot pic

Shoddy Practice

Rogue gesture practice

>>15664

Around when I first started back in the day I'd use a early generation Nook which is even more limited-but was still useful at the time.

The Surface RT is really a terrible machine, you can't install any software worth having on it for the most part and it's so slow it can't even open many mainstream websites, but as a book reader and image viewer it's great-and it's "ok" with .mp4 videos even if they can stutter a bit.

Admittedly you can get a pretty decent and versatile laptop from a pawn shop these days for $100 or so, but the small size of the thing really is liberating if you want to study using traditional media and aren't in the position to host a whole laptop and a large pad of paper on the same surface. As long as you know what you're getting into and why it's a worthwhile investment-even if it's truly awful as a piece of general purpose electronics. I've used a Kindle HD 10 or whatever the fuck it was called that just came out a couple years ago and honestly it wasn't much better performance-wise (too slow to open some websites), and was much less user friendly.

>Browsing something's comment section on a how to draw tutorial

<"lads, if you wanna check out some actually useful shit for rookies, check out Burne Hogarth." while implying the material is too complex

Of all the shit you could've mentioned you had to go ahead and say the one thing that's incredibly stupid. Like holy fuck, I love Hogarth's stuff but I wouldn't recommend his books to a beginner ever.

>>15648

I feel the same way about Bridgman being recommended to beginners-or even at all tbh. In my opinion Bridgman's surviving material is a meme at worst and overrated at best-though through no fault of his own. If I recall, his books are patched together from sketches and notes from live lectures which were initially discarded by and recovered by his students, which are now treated as greater than the sum of their parts and with more reverence than they were likely given when they were made in the early 1900s.

Anyway yeah, I think some stuff Hogarth does to make his drawings easier to follow, like the little arrows he often does that trace over the forms allowing you to divide them into smaller and more manageable pieces makes at least some of his work more approachable to less experienced artists. However, because much of his work isn't anything near "true to life" and looks more like Italian Futurism or architecture drawings it's by default material that only people who have at least some experience in what the real thing looks like should even think of looking at.

It's me again. It's been awhile, hasn't it?

This was originally going to be an animation, but I was getting an actual headache from making it. I think it still has a good aesthetic as a still image.

maybe fewer details would have made this more "abstract" but it put them in anyways

Flat colors will have to do, trying to achieve somewhat clean lines took the spirit out of me.

It took me a while to realize this place is up again, but I'm glad. It's such a comfy board.

>>15110

A bit late but thanks, that was very helpful.

Next theme:

SPARK

26th of January

THANK YOU MERCHANT YOU ARE MY GREATEST ALLY!

I'm not a manlet whose insecurities have twisted into a fetish, so large women do nothing for me.

>>15511

There's no rules regarding that; it's a meme to think that you're obligated to do a Frankenstein turnaround-but there's nothing that says you can't do one either for your own reference.

Are there any decent places to post your art in? Something that isn't like twitter which is 90% leftist virtue signaling and 0.2% art. Deviantart is shit and becoming more shit technically, Pixiv is mainly Japanese and kills my browser, Artstation is too serious, imageboards are 99% made up of anal gay nigger tier degenerates.

I'll even take an obscure site that hardly anyone knows about, I'm not really looking to "grow my audience", I just want a decent place to post art in and talk to people who aren't completely fucked in the head and in the dick. Maybe it's just time to finally kill myself.

>>15528

Twitter is a great platform to save your art. I see people going from only having a few hundred followers to having thousands in an instant all the time. The preponderance of gender retards is upsetting but it's just an unfortunate reflection of our society at large-not much you can do about it except hope that people stop going to college and ruining their financial lives and their brains for (((certain people)'s benefit

Almost every platform is worthy from a technical standpoint, judging them by the userbase is a bit too cynical because you just can't control it and you can't hope to change it even a little without confronting it and moving amongst it somewhat.

>>15587

Thanks for the heads up. I actually don't have a bunker account anywhere; someone made a /loomis/ copy on Julay probably long before I realized that site even existed, for example. No harm no foul.

>>15523

>>15525

One thing I liked about the /tg/ drawfags was they weren't drawing at anybody else's direction like so many of us have been persuaded into doing, not ever that I remember seeing anyway. They would more often than not draw something they thought was a cool/cute idea themselves and submit it for the board's well-earned appreciation, and their drawings often became a part of the board's greater cultural zeitgeist.

I feel that specific requests are definitely something to be avoided most of the time. In my case when I was working on my cousin's game I was given mostly free reign so for the most part it was better than honoring a specific, flippant "request", but the only problem was I was still taking part in a dubious transaction wherein several people that were making several times my salary at their day jobs were relying on me to produce work without an understanding of what-if anything-they themselves were doing for free.

Still, in a variety of ways it was valuable experience and it's something you just won't get by drawing anatomical diagrams all day. You have to make personal work regularly and if you don't you're going to struggle to do so just like I do to this day.

>>15545

>Was that Freightmaster part of the work you've done for your cousin?

Yeah that animation was done years ago, pretty much when I first started drawing after a post-highschool decade of playing Counter-Strike 8 hours a day after getting home from my two jobs. Naturally it's pretty bad but I still have a soft spot for it, along with a lot of the other stuff I did at the time.

As unsavory as the arrangement might have ultimately been in hindsight I'd never drawn more "personal work" before or since.

>>15464

lookin like shes about to join the Vengaboys