"Post your Art" Thread

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"The Decline of the West"​
 
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Imagine being good at backgrounds, I wish I could.

Not that I don't try but I'm still an absolute amateur in the backgrounds department.

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Probably one of my best ones, and as anyone with a working set of eyes can probably tell, it's only attraction is it's kinda pretty, the perspective is wonky as hell. Ha ha~ Guess I'll just keep trying!

I haven't done much art lately, been too busy playing into the evil Gacha machine for Digital Waifu validation.

poopnigga295 said:
The "art" here looks autistic.
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Welcome to the party, pal. I do hope you'll join us and post whatever art you produce that you could hope to claim isn't autistic.
 
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Rendered my Lincoln (mostly). Admittedly I got lazy since it was like 3 AM, but I'm still pretty proud of it, given its only my second shaded portrait ever.
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Here's some assorted sketches.
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Your style is very pleasing to the eye! Even just the characters standing in the first one feels really dynamic.

Also wow, it's been a very long time since I've thought about Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
 
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Bizarre Monkey said:
Imagine being good at backgrounds, I wish I could.

Not that I don't try but I'm still an absolute amateur in the backgrounds department.

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Probably one of my best ones, and as anyone with a working set of eyes can probably tell, it's only attraction is it's kinda pretty, the perspective is wonky as hell. Ha ha~ Guess I'll just keep trying!

I haven't done much art lately, been too busy playing into the evil Gacha machine for Digital Waifu validation.


Welcome to the party, pal. I do hope you'll join us and post whatever art you produce that you could hope to claim isn't autistic.
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a top tip for getting good at backgrounds is to literally just eyeball the backgrounds from shows you like. Doing open air studies of landscapes is great too, but there's nothing wrong with doing studies of photos either. Just remember to not put too much effort in otherwise your work will lose all of its soul.
also do lots of 2-3 value thumbnails to help figure out what something will look like. I've posted an example below for what to do to make a good thumbnail. The most important thing to remember with backgrounds is that each BG has its own set of foreground, middleground and background, and that as you get farther back into the picture, colours will get less saturated and have less contrast. In foggy areas this effect is usually even stronger.

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Str8Bustah said:
a top tip for getting good at backgrounds is to literally just eyeball the backgrounds from shows you like. Doing open air studies of landscapes is great too, but there's nothing wrong with doing studies of photos either. Just remember to not put too much effort in otherwise your work will lose all of its soul.
also do lots of 2-3 value thumbnails to help figure out what something will look like. I've posted an example below for what to do to make a good thumbnail. The most important thing to remember with backgrounds is that each BG has its own set of foreground, middleground and background, and that as you get farther back into the picture, colours will get less saturated and have less contrast. In foggy areas this effect is usually even stronger.

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Cheers! I'll be sure to try this when I do my next big piece!
 
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Celandine said:
Sorry to ask but did you traced this or used a base like in many other of your pieces? The pose and the clothes are obviously traced from someone else, you never drew folds on clothes before but the first time you do they are almost perfect (well, it would be better if you would've used different brush-size for them) and the line-art indicates that you have no clue what is what just blindly drawing over what you think you see. The other pieces were obviously made using bases, since the body proportions are miles better than the art itself (and again you never draw folds on the pieces where you use bases, those make it obvious you didn't draw the body itself and it also looks like the outfit was drawn/painted on the character, not the character wearing it).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be mean or have a "hah, gotcha!" moment, I think it's fine to trace art or use a base when you are a beginner for practice hell even I did the same when starting out but the difference is that wouldn't post those online. But since you do post them I'd suggest crediting the original artist you got the base/trace from otherwise it might come back to bite you in the ass in the future.
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Yep, I actually did trace, and im sorry for not crediting the artists (for most of them I wasnt able to find the og artist). The program I use is not helpful at all and whenever I try to draw, it gets messy. Trust me, I dont trace all the time and I sometimes feel guilty when I do. All of the ones I post here are just for fun and I dont do any tracing on my actual serious art. A lot of the stuff I post here is also old from when I was still learning how to draw bodies, I apologize if this offended anybody and the next time (or if I ever do again) I use a base, I will try my hardest to find the OG creator. But thanks for the constructive criticism! I suck at clothes folds honestly XD
(Also, hope this post doesnt come off as im a jerk or whatever, I just want to draw for fun. Im a decent artist but I dont do it for actual profit, just at random times for fun with friends. In all reality, im a writer and a gamer, and should probably stick there- okay also hope that doesnt sound like im saying: "wah im so bad at art wah wah wah." really I just want to have a fun time and I hate saying something and then sounding the opposite way qwq SO im SUPER sorry if im coming off annoying this is not intentional)
 
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Bought clip studio today as it was on an insane sale. Gotta say it's taking some getting used to after simple ol' sai, but I can already see the halo of potential. Currently im just working out brushes, what works for what, etc. etc.
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So here's my very first thing I've made with it. The anatomy is wonky as hell but i just wanted to try out brushes so I'm not worried about that.
 
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Bought clip studio today as it was on an insane sale.
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I have a tip for line art!
If you do it on a vector layer, you can adjust the lines to your heart's content without having to erase anything. You don't even have to use a specific kind of brush, just whatever you would use normally. I don't suggest coloring or shading on a vector layer, though.

Here's a video that talks about it more.
 
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