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[I was a Teenage “JA”-man]

Need my next challenge so bad!!
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(I don't actually want anyone to feel rushed. These are all so great.)

For a second I thought our next challenge was a to draw a chris chan freakout

 

[The Heartthrob]

This seemed fun so here's my entry. I call it "Gorls on a rock wall":

 

[BohemianBorzoi]

I wanted to throw this in since the challenge inspired me. Figured I would take advantage of the theme since wire jewelry is an old art form. Unfortunately I couldn't think of anything farms related that I could incorporate so I went with trying to make a nice woven band instead. If other mediums aren't allowed please let me know. I love working with wire. This isn't my official entry, my first one still is.

Title: A Woven Ring
Medium: Plated silver wire. Sizes 20 gauge and 24 gauge. Ring is a size 7 1/2
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: A style of jewelry dating back to the Iron Age. Found amongst many ancient cultures. I was going for a Celtic look for mine. My main focus was on getting nice lines with no overlaps.
Time Spent: 2 hours.
Art Specific Critique: Sure!

Spoiler: Pics

 

[CallmeCicada]

I wanted to throw this in since the challenge inspired me. Figured I would take advantage of the theme since wire jewelry is an old art form. Unfortunately I couldn't think of anything farms related that I could incorporate so I went with trying to make a nice woven band instead. If other mediums aren't allowed please let me know. I love working with wire. This isn't my official entry, my first one still is.

Title: A Woven Ring
Medium: Plated silver wire. Sizes 20 gauge and 24 gauge. Ring is a size 7 1/2
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: A style of jewelry dating back to the Iron Age. Found amongst many ancient cultures. I was going for a Celtic look for mine. My main focus was on getting nice lines with no overlaps.
Time Spent: 2 hours.
Art Specific Critique: Sure!

Spoiler: Pics

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This is really cool. The swirl for the face of the ring is really nice.

 

[BohemianBorzoi]

This is really cool. The swirl for the face of the ring is really nice.

I really appreciate it, thank you!

Swirls are a lot of fun to do once you get the hang of them. Definitely a bitch a first. They're a really nice way to anchor wire strands while also giving the piece a cool look.

 

[CallmeCicada]

I really appreciate it, thank you!

Swirls are a lot of fun to do once you get the hang of them. Definitely a bitch a first. They're a really nice way to anchor wire strands while also giving the piece a cool look.

You did a great job. And your photography skills are really nice as well. If you want to try make it a little loosely connected to the farms you could say swirl is an Ouroboros which could be like a pregenetor to the Farms because of Nulls connection to 8chan. It also keeps your theme of Celtic imagery. Just an idea though, again beautiful work.

 

[liam dees]

First off, I am disheartened to tell you all that I have been dealing with a family matter, one involving the declining health of a close relative. I don’t have an animation ready and I don’t want to forget to submit to this challenge so I made something in a flash.

Title: The Lolcow’s New Stank
Medium: Procreate - Salamanca brush for Background Texture and Ink Roll Brush for the Linework
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: The Lolcow shambles along the road, blissfully unaware of its putrid stank, and is pelted relentlessly by angry Kiwis with their peanuts. I wrote Old Norse on the top of the image, it means “smell”.
Time Spent: Around 10 Minutes
Art Specific Critique: No (I didn’t give my all for this one, I am sorry)
Permission For User Edits: Yes. This only really counts as a proof of concept
Challenge Feedback: Great theme, got my noggin jogging, I had a great idea too… Maybe I will get it done someday.
Future Challenge Suggestion: A gag comic challenge could be fun!

Spoiler: My Creation

 

[neger psykolog]

First off, I am disheartened to tell you all that I have been dealing with a family matter, one involving the declining health of a close relative. I don’t have an animation ready and I don’t want to forget to submit to this challenge so I made something in a flash.

Sincere best wishes to you and your family during this time. Have been through something similar so sending a big your way.

 

[NaggotFigger]

Spoiler

Progress 2. Adding fancy texts behind the background later. Things are going smoothly so far. I enjoyed hatching Jewsh.

 

[Anonitolia]

fuck, I finally fixed my drawing tablet (partially; the stylus is still fucked so a good half of my usual drawing habits are now untenable) but there's only 2 days left lol. Time to rush

 

[Double Taps]

fuck, I finally fixed my drawing tablet (partially; the stylus is still fucked so a good half of my usual drawing habits are now untenable) but there's only 2 days left lol. Time to rush

I don’t have an animation ready and I don’t want to forget to submit to this challenge so I made something in a flash.

You can always just post it in the next round of submissions at some point, dont stress it.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

Had to rush the other details, as have other things I need to do work/personal related, but ended up doing this to the wire due to being ill most of last week. I tried inserting this as a thumbnail, but it would only upload a completely black image, so not sure what was going on with that, sorry.
Title: Celtic Knot Slobbermutt
Medium: Clip Studio Paint, using the default ink pen options provided.
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: The Slobbermutt has woven into himself and is chewing his own body in frustration. Is it due to the sites many attacks as of late, or because he is without cheese? Historians shall ponder on this for decades to come.
Time Spent: Couple of hours, spread out due to being ill.
Art Specific Critique: Not for this one, thanks, I know what the issues are and would have fixed them if had the time.
Permission For User Edits: Not for critique reasons, no, but I don't mind anyone wanting to treat it as a coloring book page and give it some color, or add stuff into the blank sections etc.
Challenge Feedback: It was a fun challenge, if I wasn't ill I would have done much more with it, but it allowed for a lot of creative freedom and I've loved seeing everyone else's contributions and ideas.
Future Challenge Suggestion: Maybe one where you draw an inanimate object for practice with shape, shading, lighting etc.

Spoiler: My Picture

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

Challenge day tomorrow, what could it be?
I thought I'd share an amusing sketch I did today that shows the importance of perspective.
My little buddy here Bruce had his left arm angled slightly behind him.
I drew what I could, and as a result have given him a tiny gimpy left arm.
By the time I noticed it was too late to try to make major corrections.


So, to artists here (and there are so many of you!) what would have been the way to fix this? Obviously superior technique, that's a given.
But how to draw something behind without it looking tiny and gimpy?

Actually embarrassing, this is high school stuff.

Scribbles on sketch/critique welcomed.
Thank you in advance frens.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Challenge day tomorrow, what could it be?
I thought I'd share an amusing sketch I did today that shows the importance of perspective.
My little buddy here Bruce had his left arm angled slightly behind him.
I drew what I could, and as a result have given him a tiny gimpy left arm.
By the time I noticed it was too late to try to make major corrections.
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So, to artists here (and there are so many of you!) what would have been the way to fix this? Obviously superior technique, that's a given.
But how to draw something behind without it looking tiny and gimpy?

Actually embarrassing, this is high school stuff.

Scribbles on sketch/critique welcomed.
Thank you in advance frens.

I'm not an expert but I'm wondering if it's the joints, particularly the elbow joint. The forearm is drawn like it's partially obscuring it, which gives it the illusion of leaning towards the perspective when it should be bent away, maybe.

 

[NaggotFigger]

It's done. I'll move to mobile to complete the description later.

Spoiler: + Timelapse

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Title: excogitator maori avibus (Google Translated, since lazy.)
Medium: Clip Studio Paint EX
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work + Hatching texture (stolen from Georgio, just because.)
Description:
"o illustratio operantis
quia percutit fortitudinem suam
emundat enim peccata et horror
lucebit enim super orationes et populum suum
elegiam enim concludet haeresim, nirvana enim adducet ad suos
illustris enim excogitator est sanctuarii
oro ut null luna!"
Time Spent: 2~3 days
Art Specific Critique: Yes (not an egomaniac, so I'll take it.)
Challenge Feedback: Cool idea.
Future Challenge Suggestion: Personally, I'd like to see a challenge where Kiwis draw their favorite users/characters from any series with the Slobbermutt on it.

E.G: I'm considering working on Raiden and Fujin, Liu Kang and Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat with the mutt on the picture as a celebration art for my T&H title.
E.G 2: insert your favorite user + Slobbermutt.

It's a test to your capability to look at other users' avatar's references, or your favorite characters' reference sheet/official art, and convert them to your style.

 

[Oliver Onions]

So, to artists here (and there are so many of you!) what would have been the way to fix this? Obviously superior technique, that's a given.
But how to draw something behind without it looking tiny and gimpy?

I couldn't find a good example (which doesn't help shore up my point) but generally when I want to draw a pose I'm not confident in or haven't done at all before I'll look up photo references of real people. Even if you're going for more stylised work using an actual human as your basis helps keep your anatomy grounded.

You can also find a lot of 3D model sites that come with preset poses but also let you manipulate the model however you like, but I find them very hit or miss.

Is tomorrow also the deadline for the current challenge? I'm almost done with mine and I don't want to be late.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

But how to draw something behind without it looking tiny and gimpy?

While you're right there should be a technique to draw anything, a question is, why attempt such an unnatural pose? It would make more sense if he was holding a spear or something...so it's probably wasted effort to draw this pose.

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

I'm not an expert but I'm wondering if it's the joints, particularly the elbow joint. The forearm is drawn like it's partially obscuring it, which gives it the illusion of leaning towards the perspective when it should be bent away, maybe.

Great point.

I couldn't find a good example (which doesn't help shore up my point) but generally when I want to draw a pose I'm not confident in or haven't done at all before I'll look up photo references of real people. Even if you're going for more stylised work using an actual human as your basis helps keep your anatomy grounded.

You can also find a lot of 3D model sites that come with preset poses but also let you manipulate the model however you like, but I find them very hit or miss.

This is good advice, thank you. I'll do this.

Is tomorrow also the deadline for the current challenge? I'm almost done with mine and I don't want to be late.

I don't know if it was meant to be today/tonight or tomorrow.
I'm sure whatever is fine.

While you're right there should be a technique to draw anything, a question is, why attempt such an unnatural pose? It would make more sense if he was holding a spear or something...so it's probably wasted effort to draw this pose.

That's a good question. One should master the simple poses before being a buffoon and attempting challenging poses like this.
The answer... I really don't know.
I'm retarded.

 

[GhaeicSD]

I'm glad I managed to get this out in time. I'm disappointed because I had another idea that I wanted to do, but maybe that could be used in another challenge when I get better at drawing. Because I'm on a digital medium, I decided to place some restrictions on myself to force myself to get better at the more mechanical aspects of drawing and not rely on the easy, digital options: No fill tools, no auto-smoothing, no shape tools, no select tools to correct mistakes (I allowed moving entire layers to make more room), and no texture brushes. This pretty much only leaves me with some basic brushes, opacity and size sliders, and the color picker.

Spoiler: Submission

Title: A Sacrifice to the God of Agriculture
Medium: Krita + XP Pen Artist 12 2nd Gen for drawing. GIMP for effects + layout.
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: A mural found inside an ancient Kiwi temple, depicting a ritual animal sacrifice believed to bring about strong and abundant crops in the next season.
Inspirations: The layout and concept is based on Aztec murals of their own Gods. Some attributes such as the color palette and the more rounded shaping were inspired by North American Indigenous art. The God's tongue specifically was inspired by depictions of the Rainbow Snake from Australian Aboriginal folklore.
Time Spent: About 3 hours start to finish. 5 hours if you include me fucking with the tablet to get it to work well.
Art Specific Critique: Yes, intensity at the viewer's leisure.
Challenge Feedback: This was very strong starting challenge for this thread. Please try to keep all future challenges as open ended as this one. It makes it much more fun to plan things out and decreases the chance that some people will step on each others toes by doing a similar idea, so to speak.

Final Image with Background:


Isolated Image (Higher Quality):

 

[Sekhmet]

Title: Null vs the Kiwis
Medium: Clipstudio on a surface tablet
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: Null is always raging at his Kiwis and the kiwis are screeching back. A tale as old as 800ish years ago from the various reference ages of the images used.
Time Spent: Several hours, dunno how many.
Art Specific Critique: Go for it, I am trying to improve after stagnating for many years. I've never really used digital before either.
Permission For User Edits: Have fun with it!
Challenge Feedback: None, this was really fun and creative.

Spoiler: Refs

Spoiler: Drafts and Sketches