1: Post a brief backstory if your OC has one.2: Character design critique and discussion is welcome.3: For SFW content please go to the OC redraw threads.4: This is NOT a request thread. Artist Only. No spamming OC/infodumps for multiple threads without delivering.5: Be sure to thank Drawfrens for their hard work as soon as you can, it's just common courtesy :^)6: Avoid off-topic discussions and DO NOT respond to bait posts.7: Leave all the chit-chat out unless to thank drawfrens. Draw more and talk less.Previous thread:>>6998868
>>7159616our knight friend learns that a wager for leggings or equine comes at a cost when she has neither to offer herself
>>7159678perfect for my interest
>>7160005Fuck you are great, that's really hot.
name Lacy Lanshe sells ecchi custom figmas of her online as well as do onlyfans requests like cosplay dancing
>>7157887Gonna be honest, I don't know what machbanding or colour veining is so you're probably already a better artist than I am. My process is pretty simple though. I set up individuals layers for every aspect of the piece, e.g. hair, top, sclera, iris, lips etc., lay down some flat colours, and then I clip layers on top of them and paint on top, merging them once I become satisfied. I try to keep directional lighting in mind, and colour correct as I go.
Why do people pretend like this?
>>7159820You always want to talk to an audience, even if you don't have one. It's incredibly demoralizing
>>7159862How is it demoralizing when you haven't even worked hard to get one?Can you even justify being embarrassed if no one is there to witness?
>>7159785here's a drawing
>>7160598I SEE THAT MOAI
>>7160687mans has his priorities straight
>Artist has posts having as high as 1k likes, while others are as low as 20 despite them all being the same in technical qualityHow does this happen?Pic unrel
Some communities are hyper autistic and will like whatever you post as long as the right tag is on it. 90% of my engagment comes from accidentally pandering to said degenerates.
>>7160233As someone who does variety content, people are more likely to stick around if you cater to their niche. Whether it be a fetish or a franchise focus. It's less about ability and skill, but moreso about who you're appealing to. Algorithm aside.
>>7160292>why would anyone follow for some generic Makima pulling collar done a million times ?>>7160247That anon is right, you have to make something worth following.I'm a Makima simp, and recently I followed an artist on Instagram because of her.His version is not only well drawn but sexy since she's wearing a lingerie.I'm not sure I'd follow your "friend" tho, his Makima is kinda meh.
>>7160430>THISPeople generally like consistency so you're better off niching down instead of trying to appeal to everyone.I know a /beg/ that pull 1k+ likes every time they post because they're always drawing the same thing (RWBY lesbians)
>>7160233>TFW recent drawings of my OC perform just as well, if not better than my fotm fanartIt's both great and kinda weird.
Why don't anons talk about this more? Isn't it one of the best ways to "make it"?Less competition as only have your countrymen to compete with, or even just artists in your city. Actually able to charge a fair amount because third worlders can't come over to tattoo your clientsIs a scalable business as you can open studios and hire other artists, has an exit strategy so when you get older the business will be able to run itself kind of like a barbershop. Coomer on patreon will stop earning money the second he drops drawing and be irrelevant, plus no pension etcWon't be under threat from AI unlike digital or concept artist etc, so will always be a need for artists especially in countries where lots of people have tattoos like America and BritainIrl networking with other artists, clients and can maybe get tattooed gf, patreon artist is stuck inside house all day and can only network with other coomers.Can actually be proud of the work you do unlike those forced to draw coom to make a living. Before anons say you don't have to draw coom to make a living. all I see is coom artists making it on patreon or pro concept artists.Some of the points also apply to traditional gallery artists. I think it's come full circle to where trad is again the most viable way to make it as an artist, although you can still do tattoo designs in digital so your skills would carry over. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>7159732>>Is a scalable business>No, most of the time not.How does it usually work? Is it like a salon where someone rents their space or are artists usually salaried employees? Is it commission based?
>>7160316(o_O) ...... That's a pretty crazy story anon, I wouldn't tattoo on or near someones vagina, penis, anus.... bewbs is about as far as I'd go, I hate piercings so I'd avoid that risk.Sounds like if I just wear gloves and don't tattoo where you tattoo I'll be ok>>7160286These are cool anon, do you buy clearance meat for practice or do butchers give you bits they would throw away for free?>>7160371from what I was reading the owner rents out the chairs. Depending on shop they charge like 50/50 on artist earnings or they charge a flat rate i.e $1000 per month. Seems like the shop owners earn more if they go 50/50 and if the artist is good and brings in lots of money they seem to negotiate up to 65/35
>>7159254Because most tattoo artists work and here we are a bunch of unemployed looses
>>7160581you're assuming you're going to have enough work to pick and choose. you won't
>>7159254I pursued this for a while. Realized after about 6months that most people who get tattoos are retarded weed smokers. There's some genuinely great tattoo artists out there and I have mad respect for the craft but there's no fucking way I can listen to druggies bitch and moan all day with the health dept breathing down my neck. Might have stuck it out if I lived in a state with less occupational licensing.
What's your preferred canvas size?
>>715969624inches by 18inches
>>7159696also 2000 x 2000, but that's just because I like the room for putting all my references on the canvas itself instead of using the reference tab
>>715969632x32 is the best
34in x 24in x 34in
I just use the default A4 on Krita.
How many anons here are actually "classically" or "fomally" trained in an academy or by a teacher who belongs to a noble lineage of art? I see so many insanely skilled painters here, who just drop their art in the draw thread and never give advice or reply to any other anons, and it makes me feel like they have access to knowledge that the rest of his don't have. The video courses, artbooks, and advice given in the various stickies of the generals here don't even seem to be able to help a day 0 beginner cross the bridge towards the high quality stuff I see those anons producing.I don't know. How important is it, in your view, to just go and subscribe to a school like Watts Atelier for 2 years and to just not come back to /ic/ until you're really skilled? For those of you who are really skilled, how did you get there?
>>7158625>brent evistonIs he really that good? I have an instinctive revulsion towards him because some anon kept shilling him for 2 years, but I'm open to changing my mind. If possible, could you post your work? (just a sketch is fine) What makes him so much better than other people like Loomis and Steve Huston?
>>7158551I'm not sure an "art institute" counts as formal training because it's useless and I ended up teaching myself 99.9% of the time off books.I heard similar stories from others, including people that went to art college so it's not just bad luck.Nowadays they're more interested in making money than filtering or expelling bad artists so you end up with self-taught artists as graduates.
>>7158636>What makes him so much better than other people like Loomis and Steve Huston?>NTANo way in hell he's better than Loomis or Huston (or Vilppu-sama) Don't get me wrong, he's good, really good but not that good, those 3 are literal art Gods.
>>7158636>>7158680There's a pantheon of Art Gods that teach and Vilppu is the numba one by far, not a single other artist, not even Watts can come close to our lord and savior.
>>7158682Based
Am i doing any good progress?
>>7160569No
draw this in your style
>>7159982you say this but you don't even own rope.
>>7159988we’ll make it out of your own clothes
>>7144140>>7144751>>7152017Coom aside, there are random highlights everywhere except for where the light is shining. They don't look shiny, it just looks like they have severe hypopigmentation. You should really work om light and shadows if you want to make this style work. Do studies of shiny reflective objects and oiled up chicks.
>>7159976My brother in christ, I respect your freedom to express degeneracy, please respect my freedom to tell you to FIND GOD NIGGA
>>7160103Interesting observation. You're right. The problem is though, that I'm aware of that, and I still do it for a bunch of reasons. And some of those reasons are random many times.First of all I work on the smallest resolution possible always bellow 1000px, preferably in the 500px range. That limits a lot the quality of detail that I can add. Sometimes adding light and reflections is a luxury. So I just ad a single dot or line of light to insinuate that all of the skin should be "shiny", wet, oily or a drop of sweat or whatever. Or, hypopigmentation as you said lol. The interpretation of those dots or lines are random sometimes. And I use just two layers of "lighting" at 30% and 70% being white and black(shadow if necessary) That limits the result even more.And lastly, as you can see, many of the elements are mirrored, so I re-use hands, tits, nips, ass-cheeks, and when mirrored the light-shining sources gets mirrored as well, throwing lightning logic and coherence out of the window. So basically, I just adjust -everything- to resource optimization, I don't care. I just want to get it done. As may it comes, it doesn't matter, it must be done.I'm replying all this to make clear that your observations is right and correct. And the fact that I'm aware, and obviously I could do this shit in a different cool and nice style with all the bells and whistles, that doesn't make these fast and crude pics "fine". "oh I could do this pictures perfect, if I want to". No that doesn't give me a "pass", these pics are crude, half-assed and basic. I'm aware of that and you're correct. I do it for fun, otherwise I wouldn't be able to post anything. Better this than nothing.
It is 2024, and AI Art is now mainstream. The normies on Facebook and instagram love it.Almost nobody gives a fuck about "AI art is theft", and corporations like WotC, Blizzard, Disney, Anime studios and art studios are now using AI art in secret. I saw a skinny metro california guy "taking a stand against AI art theft" and it was the most cringe shit ever. Even if img2img is theft, the consumers don't give too many shits.It was a nice run everyone, but the public has sided with AI, it has won.We fought, we lost.Now we rest.
>>7160565Good. I hope they waste their lives on their AI girlfriends and porn addictions and fall into existential despair. If they aren't smart enough to avoid the trap, they deserve to be filtered.
>>7160563>It's clear that he just puts a mirror in front of this boards absolute cancerous state.That's one way to romanticize a psychopathic mental breakdown, sure.
>>7160586You're only admitting that you genuinely believe that everything on the internet is serious business.And i hope for your own sake that you're only pretending to be retarded.
>>7160597Jokes on you, I'm most points of view in every argument on /ic/Lay down and die with me.
Previous thread >>7115012If you're looking for a place to practice and post all sexual works, from simple pinups with exaggerated proportions to explicit pornography, then this is the right general for you. Both Eastern and Western styles are welcomed, and encouraged.>Rules & Guidelines1) All forms of cartooning styles are welcome; submit and receive feedback from others.2) Please resize your images below 1000x1000 before posting.3) Share your knowledge, any tips are certainly welcome for all beginners.4) Do to not be afraid of asking for critique, please be specific on what help you need.5) Remember all GB3 related content such as LOLICON, SHOTACON, FURRY pornography, FURRY and BESTIALITY are banned on ALL boards, including red boards, except /b/ and /trash/. DO NOT post that content here.6) DO NOT reply to AI bait posts. Report and hide, then let the janitors and moderators deal with the problem.>Community Resources>>>/ic/courses>>>/ic/artbookComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>7157917>>7158782>>7158821>>7159578Holy samefag
>>7153675
>>7160441Holy schizo. meds, now. faggot.
>>7160500Whenever this faggot posts there is immediate dicksucking to his incomplete sketches. Either collective shit taste, which isn't unlikely either, or samefag.
>>7160493Why so much pornography here?
Join artists from all over the world in the Drawpile, the Premiere Cross-Board Collaborative Drawing Event. A 9500 x 9500 pixel shared canvas awaits!Drawpile Software: drawpile.net/downloadSession URL: sigmatelier.asperger.proServer is accessible 24/7A growing amount of sporadic activity can be found throughout most weekdays, official meetup starts Sundays at 5pm CST. Hope to see you there!Be conscious of the canvas size and considerate of others with the size of your own drawings, make note of your own monitor resolution and magnification. Try to stick to 100-200% magnification-or even higher depending on your native resolution and the relative complexity of your intended work. Read the room, let's try and get the most out of each theme!Canvas images posted to the thread are .jpg files at 70% scale and 40% quality to meet 4chan's resolution and file size requirements.For high quality raw .png canvas files, use the MEGA archive here: https://mega.nz/folder/hbAURDBB#htWRoOsPOG30XnMmKV_zNA
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The canvas has been cleared, the MEGA folder has been updated. Thanks for joining! See you again soon
New theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1sTF8Z5kUg
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What are some things/aspects of art that no one (including this board) is really honest about?
>>7158664A lot of truth and wisdom here. Natural artists draw out of compulsion. Outsiders will say they're gonna get serious about drawing, but don't. Artists will say they're gonna quit, but then end up coming back promptly
You don't need to draw the right line or put down the right color or have all the rendering physically accurate. Being confidently wrong is as good as being painstakingly correct
>>7158664You know what? Fuck you. I've been lying on my bed procrastinating all day, but I'm gonna practice my drawing now just to spite you. I'll create beautiful things, learn how to have a great time doing it, and prove your elitist arse wrong. Go play in traffic.
>>7160604Lol how is that elitist? It's literally the opposite of artistic elitism. Did they say "you must be x-level at y-skill before you make it. You must grind 10k hours in volumetric shading and 100k hours in perspective before you can like your drawings. Etc. Etc." ?
>>7160604nta butYou can do both, you can enjoy the process and also draw to spite/1 up people and compete
Post facial expressions.
theres a lot of members of a certain group of people, which as of May 2nd 2024, will not be mentioned in accordance with U.S. Bill H.R. 6090here
bump
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>>7155530>>7156754>>7159775how hard is it to just resist the impulse to type things, this is nothing. These posts are filler
heres some random episode from a telenovela
pyw
>>7159593blog? really cool
>>7160275>>7160161thank youI recorded the first few hours of me drawing it, thought it'd be cool to post the sped up video but the file was too heavy for 4chinzhttps://files.catbox.moe/3hcj3w.mp4
>>7160161Thanks anon, very nice work on yours as well (great tits).>>7160456Thank you anon, it's https://www.twitter.com/kalidibus
feel like she should have a gun
>>7153674
long story short hire a artist for a commercial work told not upload anything online till the official release and the fucktard post shit on patreon and gets pissed when I chargeback.
>>7155846Learn to prompt. Don't waste time with artists.
What you need to do is let people use their imaginations.Just draw a simple outline your subject, and one's imagination will fill in the rest.This is an example of the NYC Skyline. If you squint, you can see the Statue of Liberty.
>>7155846That's prob more to do with people with no work ethic/everything is "fair use" crowd being employed>>7155861promptards are honestly are gonna do that more T B H. I swear I wouldn't trust a person who only experience was prompting before anything prior to not fuck up in some wayThough you prob need to am in group/studio who can be trusted more so than relying on randoms
>>7155861Learn to kill yourself. Don't waste our time.
I'd guess he thought Patreon wasn't public enough to count. You'd be surprised how quickly people think "Ehhh, I know I've been warned but THIS platform doesn't count" when handling sensitive content.I used to work for the aerospace industry , there was at least a data breach a week just because people thought "double ended encryption" meant you could just share classified shit on Whatsapp when the dedicated server didn't work fast enough.
