/loomis/ - Art Gains

More mushrooms, but now in digital. I do not know how to eliminate the metallic effect of the yellow mushroom.

I still don't know how to paint very well

>>16236

Reverse image search turns up these from the same artist.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in my bunk.

Drinking bleach.

>>16239

That first one is either a furry edit somebody made, or somebody paid RB to draw their fursona in there. I've seen it before and it was originally a human, pic related.

RB hates furries. They used to be in the furry community 20-something years ago (RB is like 40 or something) and drew that kind of art casually, but over the years drew less and less of it until they became actively hostile towards furries five or so years ago. They stopped doing commissions because of the weird shit furries paid them to draw.

Results.

Thanks to the herculean efforts of our local chad and a touch of work by the rest of the regulars, the canvas got filled up before the scheduled event.

Is there anyone out there who can suck all the fun out of art for him before it's too late?

>>17133

I'd advocate for keeping both relatively current on both for at least a week or two.

>>17135

Not too much going on today.

The week leading up to the event was quite busy, though.

>have been running an average of 18 miles a week for the past six months

>doing at least the "Day 1" dumbbell exercises from the OP

>in the best shape of my life (not saying much)

>still depressed and unproductive af

Still worth it because of the looming civil war though

>>17127

>>17127

>>17134

chomp

NO LONGER UPDATING

Check thread on 8chan.moe/loomis/

>>17105

Yeah I think I'm not alone when I say I've had just about enough. The front page showing stuff from days, sometimes up to a week or more prior is nothing new and it's one of those things that could very well keep someone from posting to begin with seeing as it makes the board look (even) dead(er). Both that and not being able to make threads owing to some error or another in general on a fairly regular basis have been something I'd dealt with personally so I've been left wondering how it might have been affecting others.

Over the past day and across something like a five hour period I'd been pain-stakingly porting over much of the better content (content that, if not technically refined, is at least evidence of someone's struggle for artistic self-actualization) from this board over to https://www.8chan.moe/loomis (up next, archiving highlights from the drawthreads if not their entiretey, selecting some of the more detailed and valuable critiques to archive in their own thread, as well as some of the miscellaneous stuff like making a thread for anon's comic series and the "weekly drawthread" cards as many of them were pretty clever and had some effort put into them by their creator).

I appreciate 8kun for allowing us to reclaim a home here but the technical issues have unfortunately been significant and persistent from the beginning-enough so that it's a wonder that we've been able to hold on to what little activity we have. Decentralization is ultimately a good thing, the 8kun board isn't necessarily going anywhere and can function as a redoubt should anything happen to 8chan.moe or the other backup board on anon.cafe; having more options does nothing other than help facilitate this small community's longevity. I held out hope that all the technical issues would eventually simply vanish but, foolishly, I'd kept on hoping and eventually I think something like an entire year had slid by.

I will be making an official exodus sticky on sunday, at which point I should have ported over everything I'd felt warranted it and then some. Thanks for your contintued patiencePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>17107

>finally starts migrating off this worthless buggy site

>.moe rn (right now)

JUST

Looks like it's back up. I'm pushing back the formal migration proceedings to next Sunday and in the meantime we'll see what happens. Given what several have said in the past I'm sure others are eager for this and will probably begin posting there much sooner and that's just fine; I'll be monitoring both boards for the foreseeable future while I migrate some of the content as well.

>>17101

Iris Scanner? Or if you prefer the flat one, Canon scanners are alright. I have access of the bigger scanner that can scan a A2, so yeah.

That feeling when your camera picks up the drawing as a face :)

The lady is stylized but how should I render her? I can make studies on fundies but for some reason, when I try to apply the knowledge, I hit on the stone wall. I tried looking for references on instagram but none of the photo in her pose looks photogenic with nice balance of light and colours to imitate.

>>17099

I am not sure what program you are using. You could download GIMP for free.

Here is an example of how I play with light sources. Take your image and darken it. Then use something like a Burn/Dodge tool and play around with where you think the light would hit depending on where you want your light source to be. Also draw simple figures. A small (4inch) featureless figure can go a long way.

Keep drawing :)

These where the things I produced so far. There's a card game too, but I don't know much about tabletop simulator.

>>16773

Speaking of all that. I got a Gumroad from an artist I really like a while back, Wakfu's art director (xa-xa-xa.deviantart.com) and the fact is it's just totally useless for the most part. It's nice to watch someone draw and you might pick up something here or there, but it really seems like a lot of the artists you'd want to be taught from can't teach worth a damn and a lot of the artists who can techncally teach and communicate well you wouldn't want to be taught by anyway. A background in traditional sight-size or comparative measurement, color theory and so on is probably as good as it gets as far as that goes because it's objective and mechanical. The rest is just drawing on your own and relying on the natural development and progression of your own creativity and intuition-two things which the truly stand-out artists seem to have in spades because they spent countless hours naively drawing people, places and miscellanea for fun both in their youth without a shit given about perspective, anatomy and so on.

I got good in less than one year (roughly nine months) by doing 4+ hours of practice each day. I would often vary it. Ex: an hour of sketching without reference, an hour of drawing from reference, an hour going through an art textbook and doing its exercises, and then an hour of going through video tutorials, etc.

Where study materials are concerned: I used NDRSB, Vitruvian Studios, Loomis' books (especially Fun with a Pencil), ALLA PRIMA by Richard Schmid, and some others odds & ends.

A good thing to do when you're doing longform, highly detailed portraits from reference is to work in cycles of correction. Do a few hours, take a picture, and use editing software to overlay it on the reference. This will help you identify mistakes. Correcting mistakes is one of the best methods for learning anything quickly, and it helps you get better results early on. This is NOT the same as tracing. You're looking at a review of your mistakes on a screen–you still have to correct freehand. Don't bother tracing unless you're doing it as a speed exercise for muscle memory or something like that.

Picture related: A portrait I drew about eight months in, having started from zero. I've been going for about a year and a half now, so I can do a little better than this, but it's perfectly possible to achieve results similar to pic related in a very short amount of time. Just keep grinding it out!

black metal

Could someone help me on how to handle PayPal without failing?

I plan to work with NSFW illustrations, and I do it all under one alias. I do not know how to do it. Is PayPal the only option?

I have read in many forums that it is very easy for PayPal to lock your account, not to mention the fact that PayPal requires a bank account or a credit card in order to handle your money. I have neither.

I don't know how some NSFW artists do it. Apparently they can work without any problem and earn income through their commissions, even when patreon and paypal are hunting and punishing those who work with things like that.

>>16899

It's usually best to invoice the client so you can control the transaction better. Don't say it's NSFW, porn, furry … whatever on the form. Mark it as digital goods or service and keep the description to a basic "illustration" or "art commission." At the very least, don't let the other guy label it "Misty from Pokemon takes Were Garurumon's knot," that's what gets you auto-checked by PayPal.

So when I'm doing cel-shading, is there any general rule as to when I should be decreasing the Value more than I'm increasing the Saturation, and increasing the Saturation more than I'm decreasing the Value? Both of them look right to me, so I'm not sure if there's a situation where I should do one or the other.

And another question, I'm trying to shade something that has multiple colors that aren't separated by lines, is there any way I shade them all with different colors on the same layer without having to release my pen, or am I going to have to bite the bullet and separate them on different layers (pic related - the white/red ball) or shade them all using a Multiply layer?

Both examples were done in CSP for context.