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>>6758 More >>6767 >>6768 Thank you both >>6768

>>6651 That's the plan. Got a piece of mahogany just big enough to cut in half, glue together and turn into a guitar body (plus squashed headstock depending on if I do an extreme cutaway (picrel). Would like to have a go at a 7 string 26.5 inch scalelength guitar, but finding exact measurements to start with the body (rather than placing the bridge after having a completed neck) is proving difficult. Might have to sneak a ruler into a guitar shop. I could start with the dragons, might have to. If that means nothing to non guitarfags it's because I don't know what I'm doing.

>>6652 Righteous

>>6599 i think most anons still cling to the good old days and still trying to make ic work despite being dead for almost 10 years at this point

>>6811 Doesn't look bad to me, just add a little more detail/hatching maybe

Good job everyone who participated. I tapped when I saw the mono-thematic prompts.

Good job lad, yeah the prompts this year were pretty cringe ngl

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..

currently practicing perspective

>>6770 Good work, keep workin' Look into Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching videos and do the exercises to help your manual dexterity better. Also I'd recommend nothing short of a large-size tablet so there isn't that huge disconnect between what you're seeing on the screen and what you're doing with your hand

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

>>6340 AI is only an issue for stupid gay illustrators. And I'm being very specific when I say illustrators, because they are soulless faggots that only create stock images. Artists need not fear AI, since, like anons say, its about the creative process as a hobby and also the fact that if you are creating art professionally no AI can replicate a human because AI is homogeneous. Even if it is trained on your works it will only ever be able to create a middle-of-the-road derivative of you. But you alone can create a new and unique artwork.

>>6764 this is not mine if someone assumes

>>6764 I don't like AI because of the intention behind it, which is to further disenfranchise working artists (intentional) and demoralized those with the potential to become such (perhaps unintentional). I also feel it is an attack on artistic endeavor itself; the AI artist is deprived of the satisfaction of true creation and in its place he's given the spiritual equivalent of a graciously specific google image search. The content generated itself I am totally ambivalent to.

>>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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>>6672 Awesome to hear, Chad. Good to see you're still around, healthy and healing.

is the drawpile server down, I can't access it?

>>6684 Nah it's up man. We did an update recently though so maybe it was just bad timing

>>6674 Anon, I hate to say it but he said 15-60 hours. An obvious exaggeration, but the more time you can spend the better... unless you feel like you're just spinning your wheels endlessly.

>>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.