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One tough as nails baby.

And that app seems awesome. It was annoying as all hell when I was out traveling. Trying to post using my phone and imgur. This seems much easier. I would like to add though that for those of you who use Tumblr then dont forget to tag your stuff with "RedditArtistNetwork".

I'll totally put together a tutorial'ish thingy real soon! It's a super fun way to work and it goes pretty fast once you're into the groove :D

It's basically a variation on the workflow of Long Pham or Kalen Chock with a pinch of photobashing for speed :D

Well /u/MeatyElbow I didn't see that it was your day. Hopefully I will have time to make something meaty!

Until then I did happen to make this free font that I would love all of you to download and play with!

Water Color Pencil horse

I am slacking at work today Start of Deadpool watercolor for friends RL cakeday

Where my pen and marker peeps at?

Lately, I feel like I could be getting more out of my drawings than what paper I currently use. I use Strathmore Mixed Media Visual Journals. Not sure if these are the exact ones, but I'm wondering if the graininess of the paper and suboptimal blending is holding me back...

Anyways, anybody have recommendations for my next paper pad?

Thought all morning about this assignment and then I saw some Japanese Toy Design on my daughters wall. Thought it would be nice to try out a Scooby JToy version. Done today, lines with markers colors digitally.

I do, but they haven't been updated in 5 years or so.... so it's all oldish work. Best place is probably my flickr.

Planning on setting up a tumblr and/or redesigning and updating my website though.. I reeeaaaally should heh

And thank you :)

Strangely relaxing to draw in profile. Nice break from worrying about angles. (ref, somewhat NSFW)

Thanks :)

This is all on the computer (I use FireAlpaca and an Intuos4), I do my sketching on one layer in some obnoxious colour then reduce the opacity on that to ink above it on another layer. The rest is pretty standard layers below the outline for shading etc.

The handy thing about FireAlpaca are the guides you can setup to make drawing all those parallel or perspective lines easier (This tutorial shows how)

I like it!

In terms of software, you could check out [GIMP](gimp.org), which is a great free alternative to Photoshop, or something like Krita which is an amazing free, opensource painting/illustrating program used by the likes of David Revoy in his webcomic Pepper and Carrot. It's less about the software and more about the artist though, so if you're comfortable in MS Paint, don't be afraid to stick with it until you feel like moving on to something like the programs people throw around!

I sort of cheated for the moment, I drew this a bit ago, but through the day I fully intend to finally finish it.

Edit: So I'm thinking about doing it again, but this is my first ever real attempt at watercolor! (I tried doing wet paint over wet paint and salt, thinking maybe bigger brush, any tips to help, I would love to be able to watercolor...)

[](/critique) The good guy, Ghandhi It's his b'day today. A total bad ass sometimes looks like Walter White to my eyes. I screwed a bit when compared to this reference.

But hey, this one for world peace. ☮

Comments and critiques are welcome.

I am working on quite a few side projects, including a comic. BUT I have been out a scanner for nearly two weeks. So no comic sneak peek today.

I'm illustrating articles for EN World En5sider magazine. Here's a sample page I painted displayed on their Patreon.

I have no motivation to continue coloring, but I really like the bike itself. I may do more, but for now, this it is.

my webpage

You would think considering I've seen arms literally every single day for my entire existence I would be able to figure out how they attach to a body. Xena Warrior Disney Princess

~~Mr. Snowman, at your service.~~

Edit: My bad, let's hope this one works.

Hey guys, I recently released an Android app on the Google Play store called RSketchDaily. It's a really simple tool that lets you take a picture of your sketch, upload it to imgur and post it to today's thread in just a few taps. It's free and has no ads! :D

I'm looking to get people to use it and hopefully provide some feedback / feature requests / bug reports if they find any.

I use a handful of particular brushes, yes. I use Krita (it's free) and it has a brush called "Sketch_wires" found among the "Sketch" brushes. I modified that one and created a couple of brushes that vary in opacity and behavior. For this particular drawing, I used three brushes in total—one that turns dark almost immediately, one that has a surprising range in value (my favorite), and one that has a very low opacity unless you press on it really hard.

My grandpa passed away last night after battling a very aggressive battle with cancer. I didn't know him well, but he loved making these custom paint by numbers and he must have had the patience of a saint to put in the detail he did on these things. So for another artist's style, I chose to mimic his paint by numbers kind of approach in a quick landscape. Here

Thank you! I use a water based ink Sumi, Karetake ink. I got a bottle 2 years ago in my Inktober Art Snacks box and I've still got tons left.

This was kind of rough, but I sketched a few random objects that were on my desk today. SO hard not to pick up the pen!

Mini stapler, glass of water, makeup brush, and my phone charger plug thing.

I'm reading "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" too, and this is a part of it, so.

You're totally on the right track, check out Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis for some great info on drawing faces! :D :D

Happy Sketching!

taking my new indigo blue col-erase pencils for a spin.

Wet girl

On a side note i really don't like these moleskine sketchbooks. This is the last time i use them.

I'm facing some questions about myself (how generic) and wondering as I grow older that I am losing my enthusiasm for everyday's magic ... Do you guys feel the same sometimes? ... Anyway this drawing came up this morning while thinking about stuff like that.

Here's a quick one of jerry douglas who is hands down the best dobro player around...

here is a song I like

I drew two today. The one of the police bike was sabotaged by my Geordie language skills and then I drew on it even more.

Here's an A1-A1 but I'm not even sure if that's the name.

Sorry about the dropbox link.

Other half of the logo i posted eariler this week

Find them both on dribbble!

The Yellow Wallpaper has always been one of my favourite short stories, and this is how I imagined the wallpaper looking

haha :3

And thank you! I saw the tutorial in here on painting still lifes a couple of years ago, and I've tried to build on that technique (i.e. I'm too lazy to do the fully rendered, 5-hour ordeal) once in a while since then :)

It's super rewarding and almost feels more like a puzzle than a painting. It's mostly just staring and subject, trying to deduce what's actually going on with the colors :)

Yes. Usually I keep the line art in it's own layer above everything else so I can toggle and fade it as i like. At some point, once I'm fairly sure that the confidence and energy from the sketch has been transfered into the colors, I pretty much turn it off and work the rest of the way without it.

Also all Photoshop, mostly with Kyle T Websters brushes! :D

I used Krita to do some digital art with a mouse.

I'm going to put some ice on my hand now :p

Not OP, but if you are just starting out I HIGHLY recommend the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. I went through it myself and its phenomenal how much good it can do for you. The book is specifically written for people starting out as well.

I haven't read Keys to Drawing so forgive me if my interpretation is different. That being said I use outlines more as a composition tool, done super roughly to begin with so that I get my bearings scale wise. Then I go on to do basic 3D shapes (ala Loomis, Hogarth) and build a more accurate outline around those. Excluding the times where you do an outline for some kind of specific exercise of course.

So to take your example I might draw a rough circle and some boxes to represent leaves, move them about until I like the composition then start adding the petal shapes inside those guidelines.

First off, great work!

>How can this look more realistic?

The main thing that strikes me is the proportions are off, from Looking rather than Seeing, if that makes sense? That causes the head feel cartoonish, since to some extent you are drawing the symbols of head parts rather than what you actually See. Do you have the reference available?

I'd recommend grabbing a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. From there, or at the same time, work through Loomis' Fun With a Pencil (guilt-free, free pdfs!) for head-construction. I'm working through Loomis' books right now.

Good luck, and keep it up :D

Wow, thank you very much! Yes, definitely looking for a critique/advice! The adjusted version does look so much better. I've been looking through Andrew Loomis' books "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" and "Drawing the Head and Hands", but I haven't started seriously drawing and studying from them, I think because it seems a bit overwhelming.

I think I'm skipping too far ahead, when I should, as you said, study and master proportions first! Thanks again for the photoshop and advice, it is helpful and encouraging!

I'd also love to continue with 'serious' lesson-type prompts on Saturday. Not necessarily figure drawing, although that would probably be something a lot of people want to spend some time on.

I'd be interested in assignments that challenge my habits and thinking more than my technical skill. Gesture drawings are a great start for that. Other thoughts: The lessons out of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Or media suggestions, like 'paper collage with limited palette- only use three colors or shades of paper', with a reminder that McGuivering is Kosher: newsprint, receipts, cardboard, all is fair game. Or (this one would be particularly hard for me) use the biggest, bluntest marking utensil you have to draw a landscape. A sharpie, a big fat brush, or a wide charcoal pencil.

I only joined this subreddit a few months ago, so I hope I'm not suggesting things you've already done! But I think the prompts and format are a lot of fun, and it has really helped me both loosen up and draw more regularly. (My drawing time had taken a serious hit when I got full-time employment.) So, thanks!

A cute monkey

Using Let's sketch - learn to draw

I might get downvoted for this but I wanted to mention that Düdle is on Kickstarter right now and could really use your support! Please consider supporting this project - you'll get a copy of this super fun party game! Thanks guys!

Thanks :) Yeah, it's less versatile than a regular brush -can't really put down washes and more difficult for mixing- but works great for laying down basic color. It's also a lot of fun to use.

It works great with cakes, and I make my own from dry tube paint and pans. Planning to become even more stealthy by hiding them in an Altoids tin... then I can apply to be a watercolor ninja ;)

Obviously, it's your piece, so you're free to take or leave my suggestions... but if the stippling on the figure, and the scene focuses on drama of her connecting (or her disconnection) from her reflection in the mirror... I'd think about the walls being visually simple. So either bare, really minorly shaded, or repetitively patterned or textured (like really lightly marker-shaded tiles).

But since the drama is on the figure, in all honesty, you don't HAVE to do anything with the walls. That can be a creative choice you make. I've always been fond of styles that combine really detailed shading with areas that are blank/white. (Doing that would give your piece an evocative aubrey beardsley / japanese wood-block print feel.

I do indeed, and thank you! I have a tumblr which I am kinda slow to update at times (but I put progress gifs and unfinished/wip stuff there) and my instagram. :)

Too BLOODY HOT! like devil's butt hole after curry!

Total of 40C degrees today. I also drew a ruder version of this but didn't post it.

Oh dear. it's now 9:45 and it's 30 degrees.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Good job, I say! Recreating a master painting in one day is a surefire way to end up frustrated. At least it is for me, haha.

Very cool to hear you're trying out the mixer brush as well. I know the Kyle T Webster set has a few oil-like mixer brush presets. Maybe some of those could point you in the right direction in terms of settings and textures?

Haha, sorry for not getting back to you before now! Glad you found it :D

As you probably saw it's the Kyle T Webster set, mainly the gouache brushes from there, and I recently picked up the Jonas De Ro brush panel for some of the effects here and there.

I'm using photoshop with some custom brushes by Kyle T Webster.

I also use a program called Lazy Nezumi to make my lines a little bit smoother, but that's only because my tablet seems to have some issues with drawing smooth lines in CS6.

Thank you!

I am trying out new set of "natural" brushes. They are kinda neat, only pet peeve is that they go under the tool preset category. So I cannot easily choose them from my brushes list, behind the usual Wacom pen quick key.

i use this website here and mess around with it until i get a general cover of what i like

i was a little intimidated by the alternative theme and thought of passing on today. but i gave it a shot anyway and it ended up turning out alright. first time for everything~

Thanks! I use Krita, which is open source! You can download it here if you want to give it a try: https://krita.org/en/

Krita is incredibly good, I just love the brush engine! The brushes are mostly just the default ones, though I modify them based on what I want to do with them in any given project. I think I also installed Deevad's brush pack and something called Cazu's brushes? They're all from Krita's own resource download site.

Almost all of my paintings are made using either Intuos 4 or Intuos Pro, which I have in my own studio. I've sketched some of them at work using a Wacom Cintiq, but I prefer sketching and painting with the Intuos.

HTML/CSS are pretty straightforward! I recommend learning it if you have time and plan on doing creative web stuff, just because the basics don't take long to learn and you can do a lot with just a little bit of knowledge. Making a full site from scratch might be difficult but editing an existing skin/template shouldn't be too bad.

I think codecademy has some lessons, if you're interested.

its the tombow "fudenoske" brushpen, i order them from amazon here. its meant for caligraphy but i find it really good for linework, would recommend!

Based on what I think is the reference there are a couple of things I found overlaying them. You're right the eyes are too close, to fix that move the right eye out a bit and move the left edge of the nose further left. That gives you more room to get the nose right, makes the head turn more obvious and so on.

(I thought the eyes were too big at first, but no, they just sit under the brow more than most, there must be a fancy word for that)

Both things I catch myself doing all the time, I keep thinking that the distance between the eyes goes down as the head turns. Which isn't wrong but I overdo it for the slightest turn.

If you're working digital you could overlay the reference at the sketch stage. Then you can move forward with the correct layout. Just be sure to think about what caused the issues, it's easy to change everything else and miss the root of the problem. (make notes on a separate layer)

And I assume you're using some kind of system to layout the features? Over the usual 5 eyes stuff I like the Loomis method for drawing the head. (from Drawing the Head and Hands)

I really like this art style. This is actually my first time on this subreddit. I've never really drawn before (I made it like two chapters into Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and that was some years ago) and have thought about trying to get back into it but maybe digitally? Is that even advised? Would there be a guide for absolute beginners getting a drawing tablet? Sorry I just unloaded all of this onto you.

Here's my February album so far!

I would really like some critiques and helpful advice on any of the drawings. A few (like Hellboy and Paul) are unfinished still.

For reference, I am TOTALLY new at drawing. I picked up a pencil about a month and a half ago, read through The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and went from there. All of these were done in the last two-ish weeks. So, I guess go kind of easy on me, but point out glaringly obvious flaws in technique, please! I'm still doing a mix of styles and trying to work out what I like best.

PS - the Astronaut sketch looks MUCH better in person. The camera flash added gaps to the values that aren't there >< I'll try to get a better photo up to replace it.

The best way is to look at real humans and draw them as you see them. Drawing what you actually see is difficult (brains are liars)... to learn that I recommend the techniques from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Andrew Loomis has some good pointers on drawing the head in perspective, check out page 35 of &quot;Drawing the Head and Hands&quot;

Karma stacks up

This sketch I want to do more with. Technical exercises in perspective as well as the creative aspects of karma leaking out from the ledger. Also ambigrams are amazing. I was just looking for a fancy 'K' idea and came across this perfect representation of the word. Title lettering based on an ambigram from Nikita Prokhorv

I haven't got time for theme, but I have some live drawing instead (between 1 and 15 min per pose)

Pumpkin Lady, source

Aw, this is nice to hear! :) No, I don't have an Instagram. I have a Dribbble but I only post a fraction of my works there... so I guess SketchDaily is my only platform haha!

Sounds ambitious but i am no stranger to it. WLOP did it before, boi i can't imagine the possibility. Your link to Croquis Cafe is also an important ~~assets~~ reference to me, that's going to help me a lot when i draw a human figure. Thank you so much for your time and reply.

Sketched my rainbow bracelet thing.

It's one of these.

Quick sketch of my friend Igor that I did on the weekend over a lunch break:

quicky sketch over lunch

Haha, I feel the same. It's so tough coming up with something realistic and not insanely complicated. This works so well, though!

Not that I've tried applying it, but I saw a couple of fantasy character design tutorials recently that really spiked my interest :D The character stuff over here and the visual library/armor stuff over here

^^I ^^just ^^couldn't ^^resist ^^throwing ^^the ^^links ^^out ^^there ^^now ^^that ^^you ^^mentioned ^^it ^^:3

Thanks!

Uh, it's a mix between the Kyle T Webster gouache brushes and the Shaddy Safadi brushes. They go surprisingly well together :)

Haha, it's too awesome for it's own good. The soundtrack is probably permanently stuck in my head by now.

Also all Photoshop! Mostly with the Kyle T Webster brushes :)

Yes. All Photoshop :)

A couple of lines regarding the exact approach: I start with a very loose line art layer and after that I paint in the individual shapes on their own layers underneath. I'm focusing on clear and "flowing" shapes rather than accuracy. After that I just use clipping layers on top of the painted shape-layers and go wild with big, textured brushes (the clipping layers ensures that the silhouette stays the same). It's a really neat approach when focusing on colors and stylized forms, imo :)

Also, while certainly not 100% necessary, I find it easier and much more fun to work with these brushes here. Especially the gouache set there.

Thanks a lot! :D I was just noodling in-between stuff at work, using a Pencil brush in Photoshop for the rough look, trying to be economic and focus on the gesture with the lines :)

That's some awesome mech design :) I think the not perfectly straight and vivid pen lines really lends itself to the style. Almost as if it was something out of Machinarium or something :D

https://medibang.com/picture/eq1911301145141390011675537?cpi=002

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Your's is way better haha. I'm better with graphite, but I'm trying out digital art so I thought I'd give it a whirl

My absolute favorite ones are these brushes by Vivibrushes, I do most of my colouring with them. Then also these charcoal brushes, which I mostly use for highlights and textures. Hope this helps :)

Aw thank you! I wish I was that good at colors with markers or watercolor haha. I mostly use these brushes by Vivi and these charcoal brushes.

I use a couple of gouache brushes from this set (which is very awsome, but sadly not free) and these for the background

A demon attacked the meadow

[Meadow that inspired]

https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-draw-horses-details-step-by-step/

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great link for horse drawing tutorials

Thanks!

It was drawn digitally so I didn't really use any "materials" XD. As for the tools I used:

My drawing tablet: Huion GT-190

The software I used: Krita

Brushes I used: three modified brushes based on the "Sketch_wires" brush in the "Sketch" brush engine

Welcome! I think you captured her smile perfectly.

I never recommend my own software because it's ancient and terrible, so I will recommend Photoshop if you have money or can get it in other ways. Otherwise, I heard Krita is a good, free, open-source option.

I do think that whether or not you're used to the software has a bigger impact on how drawings come up than what the software is, itself. I've seen people do amazing things in Microsoft Paint. So as long as you pick something and stick with it, you should be fine. :>

Memrise is great for memorizing kana/kanji/vocab, but since it's on the computer, you're gonna want to fit in some pen and paper practice yourself (which is just a matter of writing something over and over again).

/r/languagelearning and /r/learnjapanese are other great resources!

If you're a gamer and you want some way to practice reading hiragana/katakana once you know them all, see if you can find a ROM for the Japanese version of the original Pokemon games for the gameboy color. They're completely kanji-free, and if you can read the hiragana then you can use something like jisho.org to parse the vocab. (The later Pokemon games might work too, but I haven't checked.)

https://drawception.com/panel/drawing/Jk02zoMxLq/drawfirst/

I keep coming back for a day and disappearing. I'll try to post more often from now on.

Your use of line is great. I'm not sure if you know this guy but just in case check him out for some more inspiration for what you can do with heavy linework:

Sergio Toppi

I like him, although i don't like that his head doesn't lean forward like the bust, always have trouble with stuff like that.

wheres your dignity

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I had this book https://www.amazon.fr/Morpho-Anatomie-artistique-Michel-Lauricella/dp/2212139144 as a reference but I don't have it anymore and yeah, it was a great help, I should rebuy it when I can.

Thanks for the advice, anyway!

And thanks for the cake day!

! do it!

I am very much an amateur just sort of... doing whatever. I am a huge supporter of the idea of "AH WHATEVER, do what makes you happy" laughs.

https://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Newton-Cotman-Colour-Sketchers/dp/B00004THXI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1517883166&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=windsor+newton+watercolor+set

the palette i'm using. I'm a COMPLETE amateur with watercolor, honestly, so these paints are student grade, not artist/professional, but I don't have the experience to know better. they seem fine to my untrained hand, and are cheap enough that i dont worry about "wasting" them. Someone more experienced could probably suggest a better palette but my concern was more "I want to not be stressed out about making mistakes with a+++ price supplies," so thats what I went for. (I did pop out the white and squeeze some payne's grey into the pan to replace it though)

I'm not even using the right sketchbook for them laughs i just like seeing colour as i flip through the pages. Watercolour is such a cheap medium. If you're into it, I definitely say heckin do it.

I think the point is for it to be bad. It's a learning exercise. I'm going through "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and it's one of the earlier exercises. The hand drawing I've posted is one of the ones you do before the lessons start so you can see how far you've come when you finish.

Thank you!! ��

I got this one ( Winsor & Newton Cotman Water Colour Sketchers Pocket Box https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004THXI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_KBmWybAG7PBYK ) from Amazon. It's tiny but perfect for my first set I think ��

Haha I am glad you paid attention! Yeah they are the same markers as yesterday - not my usual copics actually but a cheaper brand I wanted to try out! They are simply called "coloring brush pen" by "Koi", and come in a nice box of 6 pens! I really like the gray tones you can achieve with them (even though they dont seem to blend as nicely as the copics)! Here is a Link if you want to check them out!

Thank you very much for commenting! Glad you liked it! :)

These guys. I will say that I have tried tube paint (in my beginner's class), pan paint (a small set I bought years ago and never used, but pulled out to try after class), and these pens, and the tube paint is the best by far, but the pens are okay for messing around with. I found the pan paint a pain in the ass to use - it's an older version of the compact set shown here and I found it very hard to mix the paint in the lid (and I don't have room for a lot of art supplies at home or even on my workspace, which is a tv tray and my couch :P), and the paint cubes tend to stick to the brush and pull out, and the paint gets all over each other as they're so close, and yeah, just really really messy and unsatisfying. The brushes fall squarely in the middle. Not nearly so pleasurable as working with tube paint, but not nearly so frustrating as that pan set.

Check out this book. I picked it up at Half Pricce Book Store for like $6 and it is phenominal. I have an issue with drawing people as well. I had to move away from my comfort zone of drawing nothing but cartoons recently and this has been a big help.

Water would have been a good idea!! No water, just wasn't liking how the pen was creating lines and wanted to finish up. These are the pens I'm using, the ink runs really well so it was easy to use my finger to spread it around.

Well, watercolour pencils in the Candle one! These bad boys specifically. I also use GraphMaster or Letraset ProMarkers Markers in that one and the Character one, which are great for blending :)

yea me to so far... thinking about getting some Staedtler 308 SB6P Pigment Liner Fineliner's though as they seem to be smaller (in nib width)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004L87XRA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Thank you!

I just got some of these They come in 3 different sets, I like most of the colors and they seem to be a bit more opaque than the ones I use most of the time which is This set

Edited cause I'm a dum dum

I use a brush pen. It's a neat tool. It allows for sketchy stuff like the dog I did, and you can slow down and do finer lines. I'd recommend buying on eBay, since you can get them in bulk. The only downfall is that the ink goes quick. Thanks for the feedback!

After a bit of research I got this one the other day from Amazon, the Huion H610Pro.

Kinda love it, but I'm comparing it against a bamboo I played with years ago when I was like 14.

My bf has a cintiq with a display driver (screen) too that seems neat but I don't think I need to shell out that much.

I'd say I got off pretty damn well for less than $100.

That's what I'm thinking! As long as I have my laptop then I'm pretty much set right? ...would something like this bet good enough to start out with? Or does price really matter with these things?

Still doing a daily practice. I've been working though the watercolour exercises in Jean Haines' watercolour book

Entrance way

It's a Moleskine 2015 Daily Planner Extra Small. I got it on Amazon here but they're temporarily sold out.

Responding a touch late, but you should definitely hit up /u/hbabaran and see if you can help collaborate on the RSketchDaily app that's already on the Google Play store. Their app also handles automatic uploading to imgur and posting to the appropriate thread, but I've seen it have issues pulling the correct day's theme/thread before, so you might make for a good helping hand.