A lot of us did. Once the jannies allowed a guy to rugpull the board out from under me and nuke most of the content going back to near the beginning it was hard to be motivated to continue contributing to it-but I do check in once in a while still.

>>3835 If you're a super novice, but used to dry mediums, you'd probably immensely benefit from learning basic underpainting/overpainting techniques. There are a bunch of schools for how to actually underpaint and what that does, but at the end of the day >the underpaint provides a guide for the overpaint >you should never have to fight the underpaint Once you have a strong underpainting basis you can experiment with one oil painting for indefinite amount of time until it is "right".

>>3837 Honestly these obvious revelations I'm going through right now. I mean, its honestly very fun, but I feel like there is more learning than actual creating and my canvas looks like a shitpickle. Maybe My initial concept is way ahead of my skill level but I want to see it through and a learning experience.

I've never been able to draw for the life of me cause of a broken tendon when I was in uni, but I recently gave the loomis books to my wife and seeing her improve in just a few weeks makes me so happy that creative people like you guys exist as I'm alive on this stupid planet.

Having said that, FWaP is an excellent book, among the best I personally think.

>>6741 (OP) 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.

>>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..

>>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.

Mods, please remove this post. It's a thread that belongs into the comics thread or shitposting thread. Is most likely a bad actor trying to reduce this boards quality. Keeping this place organized is important. thx.

>>6611 I loved that book >>6621 Osprey is a treasure

>>6611 I swear I remember there being something like this but for architecture and medieval villages and castles too but for the life of me I always have trouble remembering what it was called.

>>6658 I remember those as well and I also have no clue. All I remember is they were really cool

>>6353 Dat File name

MOAI

I almost forgot abou this song - would have been a shame.

I hadn't listened to this in a long time. That was a mistake, because it's easily the best album I've found to zone out and do stuff on autopilot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMLzinvl3Ss

And that does it, the first Inktober I've actually fully completed! Not one every day mind you, but still every prompt drawn. I think I definitely learned a bit from keeping with it (not the least how hard it is to actually consistently draw on a more regular schedule) but more importantly what I actually enjoy drawing. It used to be geometric and more abstract forms were my go-to because I felt weak trying to depict a specific subject but with so many different prompts I definitely found it enjoyable throwing anatomy and organic shapes and forms in for variety, and those are things I'd like to focus on improving more (I've only studied plants and animals a small amount and my human anatomy is still really rough). I tried experimenting with line weight and spent more time on each piece way more in the first half of the month, and while I'd like to have kept that up I sort of had to rush to get the rest of these done and so resorted to more freehand 1px sketching, which I've done a lot of in the past. All in all I'm happy with way more of these than I was expecting and it's a relief to finally be done with them all. Thanks to all you other guys for participating! It's pretty engaging seeing what other people come up with for each prompt, and I hope I helped motivate you each to draw more the same way this all motivated me. Happy Inktober!

>>6592 >>6594 Congrats everyone! Glad you were able to finish! I'm still behind unfortunately since I didn't catch up this weekend, but even though I missed the deadline I'm still gonna finish it.

>>6595 I believe in you, anon!

>I think my pic related is more appropriate. >Yours is weird

>>1078 >Bammes roasting Burne U N D Y N A M I C N D Y N A M I C

Utilize layer groupings!

I'm out of the loop; What's happened? I can still access it on my computer. artgain however is gone I think, and I only see one archive for an mp4

>>6471 (OP) Hey anon, you're in luck mediafire.com/folder/5strtvods5gda/Drawgfag_Resources

>>6471 (OP) I have like a gorillion on my hard disk too, but you'll have to be more specific

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0aebc0f02e6c179b62e04c69af3e5adee3abee12&dn=IC-STUDY I saw this on cuckchan, It's about 1TB of size.

https://archive.org/details/atsushiishizakakoichiokawaraandkyokokasaharapresentallaftereffectsstandardeffects Grab 'em while they're hot! Loads of art books and books on how to use art programmes!

>>6442 Thanks man, great resource