My relationship is ending in about two months and it's been getting steadily worse for the remainder of it. I worry that it's going to affect my art. Either I'll have a terrible depressive period where I don't draw anymore or I'll go crazy into it and never heal from the hurt. Sucks because I have an art job and I'm worried about it fucking up my work because it's starting to get better pay wise.

>>6868 Try not to let the past subsume you lad. You and your art are bigger than your deteriorating relationship to this person

>>6869 Thanks man. It's just painful because we've been together for nearly three years and we're hard cutting it after the three year mark and we both make art.

>>6850 Very nice stuff anon. Cute Rhinoceress An upward angle from beneath the jaw like that is tough!

>>6849 >>6850 BLOG!?

>>6866 (I was serious by the way, very good work)

>>6859 Very sovlful art anon, keep it up

>>6845 Sequel comic

>>6861 kek

A lot of us did. Once the jannies allowed a guy to rugpull the board out from under me and nuke most of the content going back to near the beginning it was hard to be motivated to continue contributing to it-but I do check in once in a while still.

>>3835 If you're a super novice, but used to dry mediums, you'd probably immensely benefit from learning basic underpainting/overpainting techniques. There are a bunch of schools for how to actually underpaint and what that does, but at the end of the day >the underpaint provides a guide for the overpaint >you should never have to fight the underpaint Once you have a strong underpainting basis you can experiment with one oil painting for indefinite amount of time until it is "right".

>>3837 Honestly these obvious revelations I'm going through right now. I mean, its honestly very fun, but I feel like there is more learning than actual creating and my canvas looks like a shitpickle. Maybe My initial concept is way ahead of my skill level but I want to see it through and a learning experience.

I've never been able to draw for the life of me cause of a broken tendon when I was in uni, but I recently gave the loomis books to my wife and seeing her improve in just a few weeks makes me so happy that creative people like you guys exist as I'm alive on this stupid planet.

>>6675 >the more time you can spend the better That is just my way of getting myself into the rhythm of things. Start off with really small time investments then once I get into it more, I can put more time in. I've noticed if I start out trying to force an hour+ a day learning whatever, I'll quickly start viewing it as a chore and not something that I want to do for fun which will kill it for me.

>>6674 My wife has tried this method for the past two months and the improvements she made is terrific. However, your best bet when hitting an art block where you don't achieve any further improvements is to try and draw something completely different from what you're trying to learn. Like switching from faces to still life for a week.

It's always funny that these hop from drawing shapes into the human figure to me, since I'd rather draw scenes first before worrying about populating them. Will probably start in a few days either way and still incorporate some days of anatomy because of how ubiquitous it is.

>>6772 Thank you I'll check those out, I've been looking at Ernest R. Norlings Perspective made easy book for my studies

Decided to recreate another artist's work and, when all was done, it felt pretty insightful.

>>6851 Excellent studies anon, be mindful of the importance of hard and soft edges at the most minute details and your copies will get sharper and sharper

>new url >drawfie.com Graffitied all over the old canvas with a new url? wtf is going on?

>>6839 some issues with the previous server's ISP, it's hosted here temporarily while it gets ironed out.

>>6840 thx for clearing that up. sounds cool

I hate 4chan jannies so fucking much.

>>6828 you tell me, i swear they were better 7 years ago

>>6828 Then just post here brother

Having said that, FWaP is an excellent book, among the best I personally think.

>>6741 This is rather belated now but I think one thing virtually every resource fails to mention about vanishing points is that the only thing they really do is define which direction something is facing. That is all. Houses are kind of a counterproductive example for demonstrating this since they tend to be built so they align on two axes. You can in theory place a vanishing point absolutely anywhere in an image. This cube, while sloppy as fuck, is technically accurate within this perspective despite having its vanishing point at some random point in the sky because it's facing upwards. Things parallel to each other have the same vanishing point, other things have other ones. The fence has a single vanishing point because it's facing the same direction as the angle of view. It's that simple, my man. Maybe Loomis, like many others, assumed that this is self evident.

>>6796 Good point, and true. While the horizon line is an immutable constant, upon it there will be many "vanishing points" in a given image (including WELL off the bounds of the canvas) and that's something I don't ever see anyone-including Loomis-talk about.

>>4609 >What's the edgiest thing you ever drew? Not sure if this counts, but... >be me, 13ish, early on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend >English class >always good at reading and writing, so my friend and I dogged it at the back of class, talking quietly and generally taking the piss >friend and I are doodling and I do a fairly accurate Fred Flintstone from memory >idea.png >draw a pic of Fred Flintstone naked >He's got a lascivious grin on his face and a massive e-rock-tion >pass it to friend >friend nearly dies >teacher glares in our direction, so we dummy up and pretend to be paying attention to her attempting to teach the alphabet to the class trog >friend grabs the small notepad I'd been using and proceeds to draw a decent Wilma with massive jugs and 80s bush >shows it to me >snigger like a couple of monkeys on nitrous oxide >teacher knows for sure that we're up to something

>>6791 Thanks for the heartfelt chuckles.

>>6525 >>6572 >>6573 The way I look at these drawings is probably the same as my parents looked at my drawings as a child. GO LIVE YOUR CREATIVITY! FUCK WHAT EVERYONE ELSE THINKS! GO FOR IT! IF SOMEONE WANT TO CENSOR YOU! TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF!!!

>>6783 Yes

>>3300 Hey, guys, it's me, again. I can't believe my post is still here. Things have not gotten much better for me, creatively, but I've made a lot of progress in healing, mentally, and I'm making some strides. I've decided to try other avenues of creativity, and to this end, I've been buying materials and setting them aside in order to try Muppet-style puppets, sewing, and terrain building for RPG games. Why am I setting them aside? Because Covid was not kind to my boomer parents and, due to me not being able to work a job, I've ended up becoming a part-time (sometimes much more) caregiver to both of them. Dad's lost the use of his legs due to mini strokes, and my mother either has dementia or some sort of circulatory problem that's wrecking her, cognitively. He's living in a care facility, and she's still living at home, and I'm spending a lot of time between the two places making sure they're comfortable and surviving. In between various old folks appointments, I've also managed to make a new friend via church and my son is engaged to a lovely young woman who is the holy grail of the meninist community. The depression I've lived with all my life is still there, and most likely always will be, but I've learned many tools to combat it, and it rarely has a hold on me for longer than a day or two before it hides itself. Things are too busy for creativity, for the most part (although I still sometimes sketch simple things when the mood hits me), but I'm doing things that matter for the first time in a long time, and that's a good thing. When my parents pass, I'll start using the supplies I've stockpiled more often. Don't forget my warning from before, but know that, though it's taken me the better part of 15 years, I'm starting to claw back some things that allow me to create. It's not what I want, exactly, but I'll take what I can get, and some of these things may eventually unlock my art and writing blocks. God bless, and God speed

>>6792 I find it nice to hear about your heartfelt situation and current viewpoint. Here are some suggestions to aid you in healing and my view point on your situation: Mental health has two sides, the mental and the physical. The modern healthcase system seperates everything and misses that everything is connected and consequently influences everything else. Nowadays the main area to tackle physically in order to heal depression, is to clean your gut, by eating raw foods and vegetables or for starters, reducing the consumption of overly processed foods. The mental aspect requires the establishing and communicating of healthy boundaries. Heal the body by treating it with love. Heal the mind by talking lovingly to yourself. In regards to your parents: As of my current state of knowledge, if they've taken the COVID injection, then they're pretty much already on a short timer. Maybe divine intervention might heal them magically, but it takes the will to live and serve the greater good for receiving a gift of that magnitude. When big government tries to coerce you into taking an injection, don't take it, as they are biological weapons which effects are largely unknows to the masses, besides maybe that it's causing blood clots, which consequently lead to strokes, heart attacks, necrosis, dementia, etc..

>>6734 Wish I knew fam, wish I knew.

>>6739 Alright, time to make my own then, with blackjack and hookers.

>>6745 I would love a Krita fork that just removed any vestige of corporate ai slop that they intend to implement in the future. It is open source after all.

Is it really that good?

>>6194 maybe. I wouldn't know. btw, check this out for JC & FX Leyendecker's art dump for studies. https://www.flickr.com/groups/leyendecker/pool/

>>142 There are scanners designed for books that don't require disassembly.

>>6695 He looks really sad and pain from his elmet. Good job for rendering real sadness and pain.

>>6698 amen

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