Double Taps
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- May 6, 2020
Ahhh, love is in the air, or was at least for a brief moment. What better way to celebrate the communion of 2 souls than with a corporate psyop to get you to buy overpriced gutrot and flowers that will most likely wither away within a few days. Why not make everyday a day to value your partner or whatever? Oh well, and no, you cant have the gold necklace back if shit doesn't work out.
Happy Belated Valentines day, everyone! Many of you heartthrobs have had your annual comeuppance, but what about the little guy? This challenge goes out to people who maybe spent Valentines alone, like a true Ralpha male. I think it would be pretty cool to make a candygram, card, or token of admiration for people that take the brunt of life solo. Besides, its not like being single is weird or anything, why isn't there a Singles day? China has one, yeah ,its Nov 11 and is supposedly an even bigger psyop that rakes in all the dollary doos. Enjoy the chalk I made especially for you, it's not much but it's something.
As always, lolcow themed tokens of affection are at to your discretion, a couple examples: Buy April Imholte another shitty love tattoo/Valentines shaped zannyberries for our boy Ralph/Send a ribbon tied potato or sack of bones to JFG. Some basic normie suggestions: Candies, chocolate, Valentines cards, might I recommend a stuffed animal/plushie? Maybe even jewelry, kiwis are worth it, pony up some Au or Ag for a homie, Jewsh collects it after all.
I dont know how many noticed but the challenges will no longer be "technical", I will just be including some practice material I do before I start working on other stuff, and kind of go through some of the thought process or things noticed. These are some ideas for you to work with, nothing fancy, done with an HB faber-castelle pencil.
The rough you see are 3 images drawn quickly. One of my weaknesses is I draw really slow or spend too much time on certain aspects, akin to perfectionism. So recently I've been doing timed drawings where I can only spend 15mins on each, You can see each kind of has something different going on. I'll do my best to dissect any kind of meaningful information from them for others who might be too shy in participating due to worrying about the quality of what they might make.
1. Stuffed kiwi: I tried to make an interesting pose, didn't spend enough time to fix the feet but managed to get some ok shading and lighting. It's probably the most simplistic out of the 3, so easiest on the eyes?
2. Box of chocolates: Perspective came out slightly better than the card, had too much going on trying to get detail on the different chocolates and the 1 empty slot. Busiest of the 3 but probably could have used more time towards shadows and cleaner lines instead of the box shape/angle.
3. Card: It feels like the worst out of the 3 although the contrast with tones on the kiwi symbol seem strongest. The perspective isn't great but the card shadow and symbol kind of helps pull away from how botched the card itself looks.
Let's be honest, they all suck lmao. It does help me see where I spent the most time. Hope you got a laugh or learned something from it.
As for Kupid, I wanted a more dynamic pose, but the scope of detail I wanted would have taken forever.
Proper Thumbnailing!
As you may have seen, some of my posts have been edited by a moderator due to poor thumbnailing, these have made the scrolling experience a bit of an annoyance for some. To better illustrate, check below. If you dont plan on thumbnailing, post your submissions within a spoiler tag as an alternative. Images that take up a full scroll wheel rotation is kind of chonky. Dont worry, thumbnailing still allows the user to zoom in when clicking the image after its brought up so we can see all those details up close.
Making the image smaller is better for everyone,
Submission Format
Title: Name of your submission
Medium: Did you use a pencil, pen, a program. If so what do
Challenge Name: Valentines for Loners
Description: Tell everyone what's happening in your piece! Doesn't have to be long unless you crafted some lore rich detail for it.
Time Spent: If you choose not to share, be sure to log it for yourself somewhere or on the back to track progress.
Art Specific Critique: Yes/No (If yes, you may include intensity like harsh* or light) Harsh may result in being called a faggot and/or nigger*
Permission For User Edits: Yes/No/Please Ask. Other users might have some tips to share about your work that could help you improve.
Challenge Feedback: Too bland? Was it specific enough? Share you thoughts on how the challenge felt.
Future Challenge Suggestion: If you have an idea for an upcoming challenge/theme/genre, feel free to include it.
The Results Are In!
Try Something New
Expand your arsenal of tools. I've recently picked up speedball ink dip pens to try at some calligraphy or drawing like in the days of old. Never hurts to go outside of what you're familiar with, you might even want to include it in your future works at some point. So if you were pondering getting a new set of colored pencils, charcoal, acrylic paints, etc. Get something small and see where it takes you.
Hope you guys enjoy, may the week end swiftly!
