Really neat to pop in here after so long and look through all this amazing work

Quote from: Smiggles on March 05, 2020, 12:58:49 AM

Really neat to pop in here after so long and look through all this amazing work

>"I am actually a guy"

knew it

I'm a trans man.

Okay I will update the OP.

I guess I'd just like to pose a question for any art minded person here. Has your own artwork helped you along in your life?

My greatest passion in life is to create. Visual art, and eventually stories as well. That passion is a major contributing factor to my will to live, but unfortunately my chronic health problems significantly impact my drive to practice it and create art like I want to. I haven't given up on the dream yet, however.

While I'm on my day off I may as well post some of my work. Some of it has great personal significance to me, and some of it was just practice.

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damn, i love that second one

Here's my old rainstick from 2016!

Quote from: Spagelo on May 19, 2020, 09:42:56 PM

Here's my old rainstick from 2016!

Yours as you made it yourself?

Huh? I wouldn't be posting it here if it wasn't.

It took a long time, too. I had to do four layers of glaze for every color you see there, and the little clay balls on the inside were beyond tedious. Probably the most fun I had was carving. Looking back, I think I got a little sloppy with some of the glaze, and some colors didn't come out the way I wanted. But people seem to like and I'm happy with it overall, so it's a source of personal pride for me.

Is it obvious yet that I keep hesitating to start practicing bodies?

Every master was once an apprentice. Don't give power to negative thought and let the shadow of the task dwarf the actual task: struggle gives over to strength, and tackling issues will preserve comfort better than putting them off. You have practiced this aspect of your craft to (from my perspective) your satisfaction. Now it's time to practice more outside of that!

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Quote from: Aether on May 21, 2020, 07:11:48 AM

Is it obvious yet that I keep hesitating to start practicing bodies?

Just do it. Start with rough sketchy shapes, and don't worry about refining the image. It's fine if it looks like complete shit.
Just remember, loose and sketchy. Using basic shapes can help a lot too.

It's not actually that I'm too worried about the sketches being shitty. I can draw bodies decently well as long as I have a reference (obviously still nowhere near perfect). It's just that the task of practicing new things in general seems really tedious and tbh depression is really screwing with my motivation to do anything productive, but that's how it goes I guess.

I'm actually going to try to suck it up and commit to drawing at least one full body pose a day. Hopefully other circumstances won't wreck my determination as they have been for a while now.

I may have a workaround for the hitch up. Don't think of it as practice. I'll tell you why.

I've posted a few bits of my work here, and if you've seen them, you may be surprised to know that I personally can't draw for shit, moderate at best. My work is the result of over a decade of experimentation and combining all of my favorite digital mediums together into one piece. I use 3d rendering programs and models, stitched real world photography, and a few custom scripts and brushes I made to distort and recombine all of my images together into one thing. It's all actually a very big process when I get going. Imagine what it was like for me when I didn't know anything and I was teaching myself how to do all of this for the first time.

I learned how to do all of this through practice, of course, but I didn't view it as practice. To me, I wanted to nail the imagery I imagined. Every time I made a new image, it was my chance to push my abilities and knowledge further and get one step closer to achieving my desired result. I think if you start to view it as simply practice, you add rigormoral to the process, which sucks the fun out of what you do. Of course, art is a balance between rigor and fun. When you work, don't think too much of the technical details. Just focus on doing. Making something come alive and captivating. You'll learn as you work anyway.

Quote from: E on May 22, 2020, 11:41:33 AM

I may have a workaround for the hitch up. Don't think of it as practice. I'll tell you why.

I've posted a few bits of my work here, and if you've seen them, you may be surprised to know that I personally can't draw for shit, moderate at best. My work is the result of over a decade of experimentation and combining all of my favorite digital mediums together into one piece. I use 3d rendering programs and models, stitched real world photography, and a few custom scripts and brushes I made to distort and recombine all of my images together into one thing. It's all actually a very big process when I get going. Imagine what it was like for me when I didn't know anything and I was teaching myself how to do all of this for the first time.

I learned how to do all of this through practice, of course, but I didn't view it as practice. To me, I wanted to nail the imagery I imagined. Every time I made a new image, it was my chance to push my abilities and knowledge further and get one step closer to achieving my desired result. I think if you start to view it as simply practice, you add rigormoral to the process, which sucks the fun out of what you do. Of course, art is a balance between rigor and fun. When you work, don't think too much of the technical details. Just focus on doing. Making something come alive and captivating. You'll learn as you work anyway.

Unfortunately my current goal is to learn to draw human anatomy which is basically entirely practice. I don't really plan on doing any fully composed character art until I've progressed more. I've got a ton of ideas to put to paper (or digital canvas) but they're all on hold right now until I have achieved the skill required to execute them how I envision. A little bit of practice everyday isn't as enjoyable as drawing things I am comfortable with but I can handle that much so long as I can just maintain the motivation to draw period. That's my biggest issue, honestly. For a while now I've felt like doing virtually nothing. Not just art. I haven't practiced just about all of my hobbies for months. The only thing I've really been doing lately is sleeping, lurking on forums, and watching crap on YouTube.

Too much of that good shit turns sour. You've gotta open up the windows and let some fresh air in so to speak. The death of anybody artistically inclined is stagnation, whether it be through physical patterns or mental ones. Rock the boat a bit and drag your corpse out of bed, go see something new outside.

Finished product + a poorly done venom figure I decided to give a makeover with a little bit of inspiration from Spider-Man 2099.

I decided to go with red for the visor because I always thought the visor being orange while the rest being red was fucking stupid and made no sense for the colour scheme. Paint became too thick at the breastplate which made it pretty much impossible to do the small red lining without smudging the ever living shit out of the breastplate. Other than that I think it turned out okay