the meaning of life and other such nonsense

[civic rock]

Figured it'd be nice to try my hand at a dedicated section.

[tawdry pelican]

Cool hatching! Gives a lot of texture & detail to the piece, looks neat

[indigo plaza]

Ohhhh penitente, que osas venturarte en tierra santa

[civic rock]

Thank you! I like messing around with that sorta thing. It's not yet close to the German expressionism pieces that I often use for inspiration, but for now it works well enough for me.

[civic rock]

I'm honored that you've even commented on one of my pieces :0

[indigo plaza]

It is great, you should feel honored in the fact that u good

[civic rock]

You're just one of my three favorite artists here and you're insanely skilled imo

[past rivet]

Reminds me of the texture of wood for some reason

But very gud drawer

[autumn flax]

same

[civic rock]

While this isn't typically the result of my line shading, the more fluid and round lines I used this time are probably the reason it looks that way. Woodgrain is one of my favorite textures to draw and to look at, so I'm not complaining. :]

[civic rock]

A 4x4" Elphelt doodle I did a while back

For something that took me about 10 minutes in all, I'm surprised it doesn't look absolutely appalling

[civic rock]

Should I use watercolor with this piece, or leave it be as a pen-only piece?

[past rivet]

you mean elphelt

[civic rock]

Shoot you're right

[civic rock]

What should I draw next... 🤔

[civic rock]

WIP

[civic rock]

Not the happiest with this one, but practice is practice.

[civic rock]

When studying anatomy and muscle structure, what sort of resources do all of you use?

[tawdry pelican]

line-of-action (.com) is good for learning to do quick poses from photos. You can also take the mode where it's not auto timed & draw at your own pace from the references. Both nude & clothed models, so you can choose what applies to you better

I haven't used it in a while & honestly I'm not that great with anatomy or muscle structure yet. Maybe having some training / practice sessions would be good

Also if you have the chance, doing life drawing lessons or courses would be good. Or just look at the people around you & draw them quickly too, that's one way to hone quick drawing skills. You can always add more on top of quick sketches

[tawdry pelican]

• I like this. Your hatching style is really cool. You said above that it's meant to replicate the look of a wooden grain / texture? I can see that, very nice :D

[civic rock]

It's not really meant to replicate that texture, but I do like drawing that kinda texture so it makes it easy for me.

[tawdry pelican]

Oh yeah, fair!

Do you use ink fineliners or such + watercolours with the coloured one? Or how do you usually work on the lineart

[civic rock]

I'm not sure what an ink fineliner is (I've barely taken any actual classes on art) but I usually just use pencil and then Faber Castelle pens

I tend to use whatever's available to me, not really one to look at art supply labels

[tawdry pelican]

I think the faber castelle pens are either small nib markers or fineliners tbf

Unless it's a brush tip pen

Fineliner just means that the pen is made for making fine lines lol, they usually got sizes in millimetres

[civic rock]

Faber Castelle have special brush pens

[civic rock]

Faber Castelle pens use mm yeah

[tawdry pelican]

You don't need to care about the branding or labelling for them much to be honest. As long as you enjoy the process or get out what you wanted to create. I just like hearing & reading & seeing how other creatives make their creations and sometimes hear the 'why' of it too, though personally I just draw things because I like drawing, it doesn't always have a big meaning or purpose to it

[civic rock]

While on one hand I appreciate deep meaning in art, I oftentimes feel like that sorta thing can feel very pretentious when explained. I draw to express myself and just let people interpret things the way they want to. As for my process, there wasn't really any for the above piece, considering it was a very small one with very little forethought other than "Steam engine"

[indigo plaza]

If all important artists have something in common is how they don't speak about the meaning of their art

[civic rock]

Better that way I'd say

[autumn flax]

googd

[civic rock]

Googd

[civic rock]

Might be a little while until the next piece while I try to focus on my writing

[civic rock]

A rare attempt at digital art

[tawdry pelican]

Cool, very neon

[civic rock]

Honestly smoke is such a fun thing to draw

[civic rock]

Working on someone's Cyberpunk character

[civic rock]

Another WIP

I'll get around to fixing the crown soon

[civic rock]

Beep boop

[indigo plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/jidion-new-hair-hairline-haircut-gif-17300094049299519720

[civic rock]

This is another person's Cyberpunk character, just as the last one was.

[arctic perch]

ELPHELT VALENTINE

Where is the finished product

[silent basalt]

Where is Dani!? Did Dani die!?

Dani is fine, in good health and working on a big project.
3vil released an official statement on reddit <t:1720117604:R>

Matched: "dani", "where"

[civic rock]

I never ended up doing anything more with that doodle, considering it was a doodle in watercolor class

I might draw some GGS characters again soon though

[civic rock]

WIP

[past rivet]

holy fuck its bmw

[civic rock]

That's a new one lol

[arctic perch]

That's what I call a man of his words

[arctic perch]

Though, he looks too manly

[civic rock]

Darn it's like I'm a Greek sculptor

I'll try drawing her more feminine

[autumn flax]

I like the style

Clean

[autumn flax]

I think the mouth Could be smaller then

Maybe the nose could be a little less pronounced

[civic rock]

Thanks

[civic rock]

This is my personal favorite so far

[autumn flax]

Yea it's awesome

[civic rock]

I think you're right, I didn't really think of that as a possible fix actually 🤔

[civic rock]

One day I might be skilled enough to take commissions lol

[arctic perch]

Hmmmm

It's either the nose,the mouth or the head/chin shape

[arctic perch]

Maybe try taking some free offers as a practice how to handle a commission or something

[tawdry pelican]

Brisket 👍

[past rivet]

broccoli 🙏

bracket

bucket

[arctic perch]

brisket needs to be more feminine

[civic rock]

I mean if that's all it takes I've been doing that for years

[civic rock]

Working on a full body drawing

[arctic perch]

Is the reason for this phrasing, is because you feel you're not skilled enough to make satisfying products?

[civic rock]

Yes, that's what I meant.

[arctic perch]

jema

jerma

[civic rock]

What about Jerma

[arctic perch]

Reminds me of Jerma

[civic rock]

I had to look up what he looks like cause it's been too long since I've seen him lol

[civic rock]

Not much time to draw these past couple weeks cause of college so all I've got is this little doodle

Also did a little cartoon man a while back and didn't post

[civic rock]

working on pixel art shenanigans

[civic rock]

The paladin on the horizon has only one goal: to preserve life in all it's forms.

[indigo plaza]

🙏fire stuff u posting man

[civic rock]

🙏 thanks man, I've been pretty uncertain about my art as of late since I've tried learning digital art

[indigo plaza]

Very nice

What u usibg?

[civic rock]

Procreate

Still don't quite know how to do half the things I see people in their digital art, let alone execute it. Still, it's been fun!

[indigo plaza]

Oh, me too

[indigo plaza]

(idk how to use procreate much either)

And I have been using it since 2018

[civic rock]

I mean you're still a total wizard with it though

I've been following your thread for a while now, you've got some amazing stuff. Those videos have also helped a ton tbh

[civic rock]

Been a while

"Only a fool would pursue such luxuries"

[civic rock]

This one's gonna take a couple days tbh

[civic rock]

Might leave it here

[civic rock]

They say understanding how to replicate a style is vital to cartoon work