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Loomis Feels Thread 2: the New Normal Anonymous 07/13/2021 (Tue) 05:14:38 No. 3408 [Reply] [Last]
Tell me how (You) feel (´ ͡༎ຶ ͜ʖ ͡༎ຶ `) Old thread: >>146 Thread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xbsqZrqgo
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>>7272 You're an odd fella, PJ, however you've clearly shown that you can draw at a level above ground zero and that means you may be able to reach greater heights, yet. You're higher than the first floor, but if you want to stand tall like a skyscraper, towering towards the heavens with no end in sight, you will really have to be disciplined. Do a lot of figure drawing, study perspective-for real, try and reverse-engineer some of your favorite artists' stylization choices or rendering techniques and keep putting out personal work you genuinely enjoy to do on as regular a basis as you can manage or risk burning out. Don't sell yourself short or feel small, you could be a big guy eventually but if you don't proceed mindfully you can forget about those top floor suites, you may never get out of the lobby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW03fyEDeOk
>>6868 Update: we had a fight a few days before my birthday and she decided not to see me. Anniversary is in like two weeks, I think I'm just gonna end it idk
>>6990 Then just draw, if thats what you enjoy

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Drawpile Archive #3 Loomis 04/20/2025 (Sun) 15:38:42 No. 7132 [Reply]
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/Cgsg/ cute guy study general 04/17/2025 (Thu) 15:39:11 No. 6894 [Reply]
I don't know how to start a thread I just want to make a place for us to post work of cute boys and men.
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>>7157 I'm getting some strong late 70s/early 80s manga sensibilities from your character design: even with his face half-covered, your boy wouldn't really look that out of place in a classic anime from the catalogs of either Toei or Sunrise. There doesn't appear to be a lot of artists who are currently attempting to emulate a vintage manga style, so, if your aesthetic predilections keep leading you towards that path in the future, you might already be in the process of carving a distinctive niche for yourself audience-wise. Whatever the case, I think it would be beneficial for you (if you haven't done so already) to examine the artworks made by old-school character designers, such as Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Haruhiko Mikimoto. Having said all that, in terms of critique, there is an issue with the symmetry of your character's facial layout. My advice is that you make sure that both the center of the boy's glabella (i.e., the area between his eyebrows) and the root of his nose (a.k.a. the radix) are properly aligned with the vertical axis of his face. At their current placements (taking into account the orientation angle of your character's head), his nasal dorsum is decentered in relation to his eyebrows and eyes, which in turn makes the right side of his face (from the boy's perspective) significantly wider than the left one, as if there was too much empty space between his nose and his right eye. My suggestion is that, while constructing the face of a character, you provisionally connect the inner corners of the eyebrows with the location of the radix by sketching an inverted triangle or trapezoid. That way, you'll be sure that the area encompassed by the shape in question remains symmetrical and consistent, provided that you also take into account the foreshortening that, due to perspective, is bound to happen at certain angles. https://celcliptipsprod.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/tips_article_body/29c3/2082544/eff5ae2c6075b0ca76e07a27b47bd3a1 https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBRmZDNuAUu6KPT84hoWsILCls1gCJ8aHMTMyhj88Z0ZNAGj8EtqDIBz9G8OlL55_IYibUl8-Y3akP8GrzT_aJSik2fKS9zZzNphA6xMHDVY4855Zce2osl4oy016uEzuYglhXTtyOlk/s1600/structure-of-nose.jpg Another recommendation that may help with the arrangement of your character's facial features is that you either increase the size of his eyes or reduce the distance between them: as a tip, you should keep in mind that, according to conventional proportions, the proper degree of separation is the width of one eye. However, said guideline is often bent or disregarded in more cartoony stylizations, so it really depends on what you're going for in terms of overall design. https://mammothmemory.net/images/user/base/Art/technique/proportions-of-a-face-in-mammoth-art-techniques-7.e7f310e.jpg

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>>7215 Thanks for the help, anon. Funnily enough, the majority of manga I've read is seinen/shounen, but a favorite of mine is certainly Rose of Versailles, whose design sensibilities seem to have somewhat slipped into my work. Thank you for the recommendations btw... I've been meaning to check out Gundam forever, and I think this is a sign I should actually watch it one of these days. Admittedly, I'd been slacking on paying attention to proper proportions/construction, so I appreciate the critique on that as well... sometimes I get so caught up in my work that I focus more on reaching the end, rather than using proper technique, but I think I fixed the problem with the eyes... (They might need to be a little bigger, actually, but that's an easy fix.) Also you helped me realize there were problems with some of the other faces in the page, so thanks for the help!!!
>>7203 Nice work on the figure! The effects are a bit distracting here from getting a clear look but I'd say the forms of some of his accessories could be refined a bit more. Those kinds of items like belts and pouches etc. often pose tough perspective questions that need definitive answers. The good part is though a confident response can definitely improve the overall appearance and appeal of the work. Keep practicing!

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Anonymous 04/25/2025 (Fri) 17:46:22 No. 7254 [Reply]
4chan is back up
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Keep your eyes on the prize, lads. Hope you stick around.
poop colors
>>7254 nice try Glowie

Cute girl study gen Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 04:40:56 No. 7107 [Reply]
Geez louise, I wonder if some of you ain't posting your cute girls because no one's made *the* thread for it yet. There's already a cute guy study gen here already... start making boards here, we don't know when our mother site will be back, could be next week, could be 3 years.
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>>7236 Is she homestuck XD
>>7239 No, these are my OCs, but everyone looks off-model as shit cause I also struggle to make comics
>>7229 >>7232 >>7235 >>7236 Thanks for the tips! I'm a bit nervous about it but I guess I can try to draw a simple comic short comic or something..

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Anonymous 12/12/2021 (Sun) 22:10:31 No. 5302 [Reply]
It fucks me up that that the best place to find artbooks is exhentai. I understand how this state of affairs came to be, but it's still absurd.
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>>6986 Unfortunately, yes
>>6986 do not post pictures of your nutsack
>>5302 Anna's Archive hasn't disappointed me yet when it came to finding books, even found some college books there for classes.

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On Requests Loomis 10/13/2020 (Tue) 04:38:28 No. 487 [Reply]
This board represents a very small gathering of artists pursuing artistic self-actualization through a combination of labored study and strategic visual shitposting. We welcome all those interested in discovering the bittersweet struggle of artistic improvement for themselves to take up the pencil, the pen, the paintbrush or the p'tablet to join us on this board as friends. Please understand though that coming here expecting to solicit free or "cheap" work from our community is frowned upon-what you might flippantly spend seconds requesting can represent hours of work informed by years of study or experience to grant. Those enormous tits? Someone cried themselves to sleep trying to get them just right. That perfect dumptruck ass? Only possible through hundreds of highly detailed studies of the pelvis bone, gluteal muscles and the related fat deposits-to say nothing of the impassioned observation of countless references in extremely high resolution at all angles (all done purely for professional purposes of course). A few of us may delight in participating in request threads on other boards on our own free time and on our own terms. Doing so on our own, sparsely populated board however is a totally one sided affair where the artist can expect as payment for their labors a pitiful handful of (You)s, coupled with further outstretched hands anticipating the delivery of more requests. It's nothing personal so please don't take it as such, but as it stands I will not allow requestmaking to find a permanent home on this board-we instead choose to reach out to any such people and invite them to take their first steps on their own journey, to seize the power within themselves to answer their own artistic longing with decisive and well-informed action rather than gracelessly pleading out to we few strangers in the night: >"please help me masturbate" I hope you understand but if you take issue with anything I said-whether you're an artist/regular or someone just passing through-I welcome any further discussion on the subject to be directed to this thread for now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uO9tyyjRd4
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I personally think "art exchange" threads fall under this umbrella to an extent but I'm bumping this thread to invoke discussion on the topic.
I'm okay with these threads, for the most part they are self regulated pretty well. I participated in them seldom but on /ic/ they had a circlejerk problem where there were very much so the very same people giving eachother art back and forth while dominating the thread and ignoring other posters or requests. Maybe a good way to put this is that if we allowed such then we should be "Chummy but not Cummy". It's fine to fraternize and we already do this to a degree. But I have issues with requests not getting filled because people are too busy sucking eachother off. I like making things for people when the requests aren't a thinly veiled attempt to collect free wank material, and occassionally make a random autist happy. I am myself that autist despite being an artist even if I am too shy to ask for things. I think making an 'art trade' thread is a bit better and more fair than simple oc threads since it's already got the expectations coded in the name. In any case request fags are kind of an assumed given as there will always be more people who can ask for things than people who have the ability to create, though trading could be an effective compromise to dissuade the hoards from swarming in asking for free shit. Thoughts?
>>487 Off-topic but if you like that statue, you may like this one. Found in Chinandega, Nicaragua.

Shitposting Thread #1 Anonymous 04/08/2021 (Thu) 23:26:15 No. 2303 [Reply] [Last]
Let off some steam, Bennet
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What can man do that a neural network can't? Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 02:36:37 No. 7020 [Reply]
I mean, there's the concrete and formulaic aesthetic aspect of art, and then there's the expression part, the part that gives it life. I think we deserve this. We've been commercializing art ever since we could televise talent, and since then we've been chasing the the ultimate formula for what attracts our sense of appeal. It started with the golden ratio, ended with the revelation that anime characters look like cats. People forgot about the other half of the definition, which was expression. Have you ever heard someone sing, and has it touched your soul? We can dissect what made it resonate with you, the way the voice cracks, the timbre, how the vocal folds constricted and relaxed, and try to replicate it all scientifically. But I don't think we can. It's just too magical. It must be connected to the turbulence and the uncertainties of the quantum fields. You can't rely on your prefrontal cortext for expression, man. You gotta turn that off and go on your instincts, just feel what's right and channel it out, like grabbing ahold of some kind of magic from a higher being and doing what it tells you to do, without thinking. Let the puppet strings take over. Do you use your pencil to "sing" out your drawings? Can you draw without thinking? Does every line need to be planned, and scrutinized? And I don't mean that the strokes should be random, I mean that you should let the higher being take over, and you shouldn't fight over where the strokes should go. The higher being knows better. And the higher being is not god, it's you, it's you without your prefrontal cortex. You can turn that off. It's what freestyle rappers and tennis players do, and it's what you do when you mow the lawn every week for the 900th time. Have you guys watched old cartoons and old western animations? They were made by people who had to talk to humans every single day, whose minds weren't corrupted by this formulaic, meta bullshit that seems to suffocate the sincerity out of most modern interactions. I could feel the sincerity in their fucking psychiatric medical textbooks. The way they explained mental illnesses back then were much more intuitive, much more connected in relation to our humanness. What the hell happened to just drawing? Just looking at life, and not replicating life, not studying life, not forcefeeding life into ourselves, but simply partaking in it, and letting it flow out onto the paper? When did fundamentals becoming a crutch to walk on, and not a point of reference in the back of your mind? We used to draw what felt right, and then used fundamentals like anatomy to supplement our work. Art has turned into a soulless pursuit of aesthetics, and when they fed our formula to a machine and it replicated it, and then we got mad. That's on us. We can only beat the machine by regaining our sense of expression. Go ahead and just draw pretty pictures if you want, but for humanity's sake, have some goddamn fun with it... god. We're more than wires in a box, aren't we?
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>>7105 More than just being hivemind, the entertainment "industry" at large doesn't like taking chances on things anymore, it really exists as a game for somebody to try to make money from. The knowledge is not the poisonous thing. The poisonous thing is the executives that are going "okay great, that other thing worked! Let's do that thing again!" The natural human tendency is to move forward and try to be better. But what the industry just wants is for the industry to make MONEY better, not push forward the MEDIUM. The talent doesn't want to create the next mediocre superhero movie. They'd rather be working on new IP, working on things that are ambitious and might not succeed because of that ambition. Anything besides something that was manufactured by analysis to be as likely to bring in revenues as possible.
All because of Cuckcartes and cartesianism
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>>7111 What is the alternative? Draw like an Egyptian?

/aether/ - Art exchange threadren shikanon 05/18/2023 (Thu) 08:58:39 No. 6481 [Reply]
There are a few drawthreads here, but no place for art trades/exchange. So I made one! I'm a hobby artist myself also looking for a few trades to get back in the grind. My most prominent character is Gabriel (red-haired boy) and his girlfriend Larissa (purplish hair, deadpan but kind) Anyway, feel free to share your characters too =)
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Cool work anon, always nice seeing someone working with a physical medium like pen and paper.
afaik you only make “art” to get free art, your half assed attempt with 0 intention of getting better or trying is gross

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 10:37:50 No. 7117 [Reply]
/ic/ was raided by sharty it seems from here >>/a/27391
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>>7124 It's never been part of the common vernacular anywhere I'd posted but think of it like a "gem" of a post, with the opposite being "coal". I think it's their (soyjak party's) original parlance.
that's cute
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its true, nothing but falseflag ragebait garbage made by shartyniggers being posted over there

Edgy Art Anonymous 10/08/2021 (Fri) 13:24:58 No. 4609 [Reply]
What's the edgiest thing you ever drew? Also, edgy art thread.
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>>4609 when I was 11 (32 now) I drew a picture of goth Bart Simpson because I thought it sounded bad ass
>>7099 11 year old you was right that sounds based

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Drawpile Archive #2 Loomis 04/19/2025 (Sat) 16:26:00 No. 7049 [Reply]
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/ldg/ - Loli Drawing General Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 00:44:13 No. 6953 [Reply]
>Keep it to 2D Anime/Cartoon characters only. Also, no need for catbox cuckery.
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>>7156 how about no
lmao, you tards are free of the "evil jannies" on the four and you STILL get slapped here with a bump lock.

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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread, Thread Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 15:34:22 No. 7001 [Reply]
This is a thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread. The second such thread, in fact.

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Anonymous 07/25/2023 (Tue) 03:09:13 No. 6489 [Reply]
How to define artstyle, content, that will gain some hundred thousand traffics, sales, on interwebs, pixiv, DA so on? what are the summary, of the criteria, maybe in numbers?
>>6489 i have seen artists that seem to be new get a lot of love online i have also seen amazing artists get no love online i feel like sometimes its just a matter of how your work resonates with people

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