Completed [Competition] Art of The Week

[Luft]

Wacom Intuos Pro (medium, large) goes for about £270-£370

got a normal wacom intuos m

have been drawing with a pencil and paper casually and just got into the "lets draw shit on pc" thing

its worth it imo

 

[Luft]

got a normal wacom intuos m

have been drawing with a pencil and paper casually and just got into the "lets draw shit on pc" thing

its worth it imo

adding onto that

@Lemon Cuntcake the one I bought cost around 140€

 

[RGB]

give me opinions

Hello friend, this is pretty alright for a first try.

If you're new to digital art there's a big difference to doing things traditionally. A big part of what makes stuff easier is being able to be sloppy as hell on sub-layers and then just... getting rid of them.

Specifically there's some weird stylistic choices that just don't work out here. If you want to keep them they need to be more refined and pronounced. Things like a beaky nose, bushy eyelashes but barely any eyebrows. The eyes are a pretty generic simple anime style. Everything else works pretty alright.

The big detractor here is the linework itself. A scratchy brush and inconsistent line opacity and thickness make it look very uncertain. Not to say scratchy and messy art is inherently bad. In fact, my own art style is moving towards that, but it's a very deliberate scratchiness in my case. In this case it's pretty clear you've bulked up the jawline to hide the odd shape. That extra padding helps hide your mistakes. I know that because that's what I used to do.

Actually, bit of advice. Thicker lines help hide all sorts of flaws and they're great to work with when starting out.

The big deal of digital art though is you can go wild with it much easier than traditional or SFM. Mess with layers, distortion, tools, drag and drop references, smash in colours, use multiply effects, use custom brushes. Whatever.

Software I'd recommend is either Paint Tool SAI, which is a perfect tool for digital art beginners. It's crisp and clean, only has a handful of simple but effective tools, and doesn't bog you down with a complicated UI, and comes with a built-in stabiliser that'll help hide wobbly lines until you get the hang of using a tablet proper.

After that, I use Krita a lot. It's like Photoshop but actually designed for artists with tablets. When using it I'd recommend the David Revoy brushpack.

Here's an example of actually using some of these tools and techniques unique to digital art. An image I did in Paint Tool SAI, a sloppy sketch built up bit-by-bit by constructing stuff. This was made largely possible by being able to drag over references into the image and work closely with them compared to traditional media.

Start with a scrappy sketch, a vague idea that doesn't have to be neat, because you can edit this out by just hiding your layers

You can use that sketchwork as a framework. No shame in retroscoping your own sketches. Experiment with it as a skeleton, do loads of layers. This lineart here is sixteen lineart layers all edited and put together to make him look just how I want. If I decide I don't like part of it I can click it away without fiddly careful erasing, and still keep it as a backup.

You can even screw around and get creative with effects once you've got that down.

edit: Oh and buy an art glove. It's just helpful if you rest your hand on the tablet.

 

[aphoticDeception]

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@aphoticDeception, I'll guide you to our guide list for more in-depth advices, but here's what I think. First of all, I'd spend a bit more time with posing, a generally good tip when it comes to it, is that you should try to get in the desirable pose first in real life to see how your character should bend and which muscles should he use to actually look realistic. Then, I'd highly suggest you to play with fingerposing and faceposing. as they're so important, that if left unchecked, can literally take you out of the picture and make it look as if no thought was put into your poster. Also, light is generally speaking very rarely pure white, play around with colors and see which fit the picture the most in your opinion.

Thanks for the advice :) However, don't expect much significant improvement because I honestly just like to make funny shit. I will look at these, however.

 

[RGB]

I AM MAKING AN ENTRY THIS WEEK CUNTCAKE RATE IT

 

[Lokinase]

ill be too busy to do anything until new years too, see you in a few cuntcake

also thanks

 

[Cindy]

tfw @Lemon Cuntcake doesnt quote my mspaint art... ;-;

edit: WOW OKAY

 

[Luft]

Hello friend, this is pretty alright for a first try.

If you're new to digital art there's a big difference to doing things traditionally. A big part of what makes stuff easier is being able to be sloppy as hell on sub-layers and then just... getting rid of them.

Specifically there's some weird stylistic choices that just don't work out here. If you want to keep them they need to be more refined and pronounced. Things like a beaky nose, bushy eyelashes but barely any eyebrows. The eyes are a pretty generic simple anime style. Everything else works pretty alright.

The big detractor here is the linework itself. A scratchy brush and inconsistent line opacity and thickness make it look very uncertain. Not to say scratchy and messy art is inherently bad. In fact, my own art style is moving towards that, but it's a very deliberate scratchiness in my case. In this case it's pretty clear you've bulked up the jawline to hide the odd shape. That extra padding helps hide your mistakes. I know that because that's what I used to do.

Actually, bit of advice. Thicker lines help hide all sorts of flaws and they're great to work with when starting out.

The big deal of digital art though is you can go wild with it much easier than traditional or SFM. Mess with layers, distortion, tools, drag and drop references, smash in colours, use multiply effects, use custom brushes. Whatever.

Software I'd recommend is either Paint Tool SAI, which is a perfect tool for digital art beginners. It's crisp and clean, only has a handful of simple but effective tools, and doesn't bog you down with a complicated UI, and comes with a built-in stabiliser that'll help hide wobbly lines until you get the hang of using a tablet proper.

After that, I use Krita a lot. It's like Photoshop but actually designed for artists with tablets. When using it I'd recommend the David Revoy brushpack.

Here's an example of actually using some of these tools and techniques unique to digital art. An image I did in Paint Tool SAI, a sloppy sketch built up bit-by-bit by constructing stuff. This was made largely possible by being able to drag over references into the image and work closely with them compared to traditional media.

Start with a scrappy sketch, a vague idea that doesn't have to be neat, because you can edit this out by just hiding your layers

You can use that sketchwork as a framework. No shame in retroscoping your own sketches. Experiment with it as a skeleton, do loads of layers. This lineart here is sixteen lineart layers all edited and put together to make him look just how I want. If I decide I don't like part of it I can click it away without fiddly careful erasing, and still keep it as a backup.

You can even screw around and get creative with effects once you've got that down.

edit: Oh and buy an art glove. It's just helpful if you rest your hand on the tablet.

cheers for all the advice

After that, I use Krita a lot. It's like Photoshop but actually designed for artists with tablets. When using it I'd recommend the David Revoy brushpack.

krita is actually what I use to draw as it is what ive been recommended to use before i even started drawing virtually

cheers again xoxo

 

[RGB]

cheers for all the advice

krita is actually what I use to draw as it is what ive been recommended to use before i even started drawing virtually

cheers again xoxo

These brushes are highly recommended, he even gives you a mini-tutorial in that link as to what each brush is best used for and how they look in practice

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article319/krita-brushkit-v8

 

[Elan]

Wacom Bamboo (discontinued) goes for about £50-£70, good for beginners
Wacom Intuos Pro (medium, large) goes for about £270-£370
Wacom Intuos Pro Paper (medium, large) goes for about £323-£413

I use a Wacom Intuos Pro Medium, any of the Intuos Pro range are great for any level of artist. Easy to use, but also good quality.

Don't get knockoff shit, I used a discount Ugee tablet for a year and my art quality dropped significantly cos it wouldn't calibrate properly but I was deluded into thinking that it was better just cos it had a screen (it was not).

@Lemon Cuntcake

I dont really have much to compare it to, but i picked up an intuos 3 for a fiver and that works pretty well.

 

[Piggo]

the fuck is this swearword doing here bud

Canon app in the world thats portrayed in the modern combat pics, its based in a world of great ethnic involvement and conflict i.e context

 

[Sil]

@Lemon Cuntcake It's a Pigeon I cropped out of a white background, pasted onto a background I found by typing "Vaporwave", when a change of hues and making it all look snazzy with the Oil Painting tool in Paint.NET

: )

 

[Dicknose]

 

[Gabby]

This is too real tbh

 

[Dicknose]

This is too real tbh

sorry

 

[>Luna]

whats up fellas

avatar of myself for my twitch/youtube socials

im aware that the left eye is a bit janky but after my eyes are BLEEDING from working on this for 8 hours ill fix it another day lolé

 

[Luft]

whats up fellas

avatar of myself for my twitch/youtube socials

im aware that the left eye is a bit janky but after my eyes are BLEEDING from working on this for 8 hours ill fix it another day lolé

>comparing my "work" to this

 

[cns - he/him/his]

was gonna add lighting but i liked the aesthetic of no lighting

 

[Sil]

was gonna add lighting but i liked the aesthetic of no lighting

fun fact.

the background bit with the lines is actually very similar to an interesting Optical Illusion, with a unique effect of being able to last several months after only a few minutes of exposure.

This is called the McCollough Effect

 

[Deleted member 332]

Doomer