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/loomis/ Resource Hub: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8r9omk7oj6zjg/loomis_Resource_Hub


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I'm in need of some banners, I'll repost those I got back from the old board
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A warm welcome to all the users who made it back. On /loomis/, we encourage our intrepid artistic users to achieve meaningful results in the fields of art, be it digital, 2d, 3d or in any other form, but we mainly stick to drawings. This thread doubles as the META THREAD for /loomis/, post your woes here
RULES
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>No IRL Gore, CP and Doxing 
>Requests only in the Request thread 
>Be polite to your fellow artist and accept critiques

ARCHIVES OF /loomis/ AND /v/'S DRAWTHREADS 
>/loomis/ Resources 
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8r9omk7oj6zjg/loomis_Resource_Hub
>Drawthread making resources + the OP for a draw thread: 
mega.nz/#F!Suhz0D5Y!BSrBrV1kxK9B5G1SSiJmwQ 

IF THE LINKS DON'T WORK LET ME KNOW, WE GET NUKED REGULARLY
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Hey /loomis/, I hear you guys like to draw and all these kind of stuff?
Please, join us on our doodle adventure here >>>/comfy/13990

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Just a digital archive for my drawings.

(Discussions very appreciated, dont be a troll)
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To live in a dying world
To think in a place of blindness
To wait in a hurrying crowd
To be silent in a bird's cage

To close your eyes in a flourescent passage
I love you. Nothing will hurt an actor on stage.
And I've never seen an actor quite like you
to be able to enjoy simply the act of resistance.
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the masks were on sale
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Lets weld the brittle crystals together and see what happens
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Today's over. You made it. Good job.
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Youre not fading love. Youre just tired.

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If you are a /int/ermediate or /beg/inner in art, please use this thread to post pieces for critique or ask for advice.
DO NOT REPLY to crabs, nodraws, talent debates or howies and instead focus on posted works!

>STICKY:
Completed: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vm4IJpq0Mbvb-Krl5_mJ_m6TsC_qjsaN/view
New collaborative: https://hackmd.io/UMnZVhNITW-T2wZpHw6d0Q
w/ic/i: https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/
Hardcore: https://hackmd.io/7k0XRnIQR6SValR77TDfZw?view

>Want to practice figures?
quickposes.com
sketchdaily.net
characterdesigns.com
lovelifedrawing.com
posemy.art
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>>2105
>for example, where is the knife in relationship  to the shoulder, how far apart the eyes are
When I was drawing this I felt like I kept screwing things up somewhat that ended up stacking up. He looks chubby, but only in the upper body which is weird, and he's leaning back a bit too. Also forgot to color in the knife handle.
Also I just realized I didn't even do the hair shininess, I just forgot.
I really like the look when I use a 2B pencil brush set to maximum opacity, it kinda looks like when you draw something in pencil, scan it and then up the contrast.
Still, I feel unsure how I will ever graduate to doing things from scratch. It almost felt like I was tracing while doing the copying part.
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>>2107
Well I liked it, 

>I feel unsure how I will ever graduate to doing things from scratch. It almost felt like I was tracing while doing the copying part.

one path is copying like you did then, try to do it from memory and to that many many times, each time you will find something new. you are at a stage were you focus should be on pen mileage
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>>2108
First of all, thanks if you're still here!
Still just trying to grind mileage, managed to copy this image twice.
The first one I ended up basically modifying the skeleton into a drawing. Then I did it a second time 3 days later, and then I did it like the Jeff pic instead. I felt really awkward drawing the ellipses freehand, the ones in the initial tracing were done with the ellipse tool. What I ended up doing is that I traced those ellipses, but manually moved them into place on the side. That way I still had to practice a bit on seeing where things go and stuff.
Her right butt cheek looks a bit wrong in the original drawing I think, when I did this the second time I tried to fix it but I dunno if I got that to work that well.
But while doing the second copy I tried to think less and just draw, experiment with a bunch of stuff. I used the eraser quite a bit which I hadn't done before.
Anyway, I feel like I'm finally starting to gain some kind of momentum. I've pirated Proko's beginner's course, I'm gonna give that a try I suppose. I suppose I need to copy some photos as well, as my next step.
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>>2132
good work dude, whatever makes the process enjoyable to you is great. Do the course, post your work and have fun :)

I saw your post the other day at /ic/ thats where I'm usually at, put some kind of mark in your work so I can find it, my posts are easily spotted because they all have that light brown background.
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>>2137
Oh cool, hi! I drew a pear from a photo, it was the first exercise in the Proko course. Been a bit stressed because I have a really important retake on Monday, but I think I'm getting some kind of momentum.
>Do the course, post your work and have fun :)
Mmm, I just really want to have fun. I have artist friends to show the stuff to as well. I hope can manage to feel comfortable drawing things from scratch soon. I want to post stuff on DeviantArt and whatnot even if it's Chris-chan-tier.
>I saw your post the other day at /ic/ thats where I'm usually at
Yeah, this board didn't really take off, I kinda post there too. But I'll continue going here as well, I want alternative chans to live too.
>put some kind of mark in your work so I can find it, my posts are easily spotted because they all have that light brown background.
Well, I'll continue using this really dark 2B pencil brush that ends up looking like I've scanned a page and upped the contrast. And I'll keep the blue construction lines as well. I think that makes everything recognizeable enough.

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Post your art related woes here.
REMEMBER! NEVER GIVE UP! WE BELIEVE IN YOU!
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>>2070
Focus more on individual anatomy and how to draw certain body parts, especially facial features and hair patterns. Try to avoid shading or coloring until you have the underlying construction. A lot of your lines also look very scratchy, make them smoother and more precise.
Good start though.
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>>2072
>focus on anatomy 

yeah she looks kinda like a lego figure

>scratchy

Cant do much bout that. Hard limit on my pens, they can only write like a 2cm before fading out. Maybe that goes in my shopping list

>try not to shade

(but i didnt) =3=

Thank you anon much appreciated!
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>>2074
in that case you might want to pick up pencils instead just so you can get rid of mistakes
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>>2075
Oh i get it. The "shading" you see Are pencils. I just use pens cause my camera is color blind and i have to change values and whatnot to make it sharper.

I still use pencils i just overlay with a cheapo pen
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yes there is some thing wrong with her. 

I tried to make a like a more realistic and believable courier for new vegas. But some thing is obviously lacking.

(i hate the game so much but i love the story. I would much rather have it as a book)

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How do you feel right now?
Do you want to blow off some steam?
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I finally got over my ass and started drawing after many months and years saying so, only problem:
I HAVE NO TABLET NOR SCANNER AND I MUST SHOW PRACTICE

Still i am only going to practice the things i need for work, that is simple perspectives and 2D facades using de-tensing line work (squibbly irregular lines) in hatch/cross-hatch/circling but i got a bit into the rabbit hole of jewtube drawing tutorials and was newly perplexed at how skilled some people are and how "easy" it looks.
I completely suck at anatomy so i will stick to objects until i get more time, which is fading due to having to learn some warez for upcoming work.
I feel like there's a problem with art and "ugly" art. I'm not sure if I'm imagining things, or projecting the resentment I have to asshole-anons who have mocked me in the past and put me down when I tried to ask for criticism. But even more, I look at youtube artists, and how fucking polarized they are on the subject of Ugly art. On top of this, you have the fucking politically-charged idiots who only have reference for ugly art is low-effort abstract garbage 

The Hater - "Your art is ugly, and sucks, you should be ashamed of yourself"
I have a lot of anger towards this mentality because these are the kinds of people that stifle the progress of artists who are trying to learn. These fuckheads encourage perfectionism, I've been trying for years to emotionally-deal with a stupid little incident that got me fucking wrecked because they thought that greentexting stupid shit would be funny when all I wanted was a fucking critique. I've bitched about that in this very thread and I want to move the fuck on but I feel so fucking afraid of being hate-bombed that I feel like it's not fucking worth doing anything at all, when I wanted to make people happy, and yet here I am getting mocked for showing something I wanted people to feel happy about.

The worst part is, haters are either very-narrow-minded artists who don't exit their comfort zone because it's inconvenient (Ex. Kooleen), clickbaiters looking for easy views and engagement, or asshole non-artists looking for a cheap fucking laugh, or lump bad artists in with the people below.

The Ivy-Leaguer - "You could've done it, but you didn't"
These fuckers are the reason there's a bunch of assholes going around, making edits of people's amateur-ish arts, and scaring budding artists away from making any fucking progress in art.

The fucking club of rich-kids with multi-millionaire-famlies, go to all these "prestigious" art schools where they paint with white on fucking white, make crude sculptures of men sucking themselves off, or just fucking paint splatters with no rhyme or reason. Not even going by their own feelings or what feels best, they fucking just slap some bullshit together, and spend the rest of the fucking time fucking jabberjawing about politics, or whatever made-up symbolism they cobbled-together in their head. Speaking, politicking and fucking "symbolism," is more-important to them than the entire fucking piece, and it's why I get so fucking mad, because the haters who put down ugly art think that every single fucking artist that doesn't make pretty art has the mentality of these retards.

I fucking hate these people, because these fuckheads from families who already had it made are acting like they're so fucking high-class when they make the laziest shit imaginable, and treat it like it's some gift from a god that doesn't exist. "You could've made it but you didn't" sums up their fucking mentality, to the art process, the emotional-process, and fucking everything about it. They either make unemotional, nonsense-abstract art, or it's shock art. They made something low-effort that 'anyone' could make, sold it for hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars, and they rub it in our face that we didn't.

Fuck these people. They're the reason the haters exist and why learning-artists who make ugly art are targeted by haters.
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>>1781
I have the same problem as you regarding people who don't really care about critiquing and just want to put you down to feel better about themselves. Ignoring them is hard, especially since I can tell you think like me. It's about filtering between genuine critiques, unnecesary praise, and unwarranted insults. It can be hard to put down that knee-jerk feeling of "YOU'RE WRONG" whenever someone has some valid criticisms. What you need to do is just ignore the crabs in the bucket, find some people that will actually give you real critiques, and listen to them for advice on how you're progressing.
You're gonna make it.
Everything feels scary and everything hurts. I just want to like, be able to draw at least as good as some autistic emo kid on DeviantArt in 2007 but even that will probably never be.
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>>2057
We believe in you, Anon!'''

NOW PICK UP THAT PENCIL, LAD

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Does anyone have some quality resources for making 3D stuff? Also, general 3D art, I guess.
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My advice would be to install flatpak, and flatpak's version of blender or swap your packages to the unstable branch if you're on a debian-based distro.

Debian is so iron-hard-stability-focused that it's packages are often years out of date.
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>>1780
turns out i'm retarded, i installed HIP from my package manager and it just works (was looking for ROCm packages instead of HIP, which is what blender uses for acceleration) even though it's one version below what Blender says it requires.
amd is still nowhere near as good as nvidia with cuda, sadly
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>>1788
>amd is still nowhere near as good as nvidia with cuda
Yea that really sucks.
Still going with amd in my future new build though. Nvidia is overpriced.
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>>1968
>Nvidia is overpriced.
In what world? I got an "equivalent" Nvidia card to replace my AMD card and it runs better, cooler, and quieter (and isn't as big and heavy) for only about $30 more than the current going price of AMD, all at the cost of having a slightly less streamlined and more hands-on initial setup experience in Linux.
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>>1969
I honestly have not used my GPU for any new games. It's a 5700 XT (roughly equivalent to a 2070) and I only use it for my three monitors, gamedevving (in 2D), and maybe running Blender once a year. Otherwise it's all for old games that run without issue.
I also think raytracing is a buzzword and not worth buying a behemoth of a card for.

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how to draw upside down??? i literally simply flipped it but it dont look exactly what i usually do the other way
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it looks ok but not what i imagined when its flipped...possibly also cuz i used to have a single picture i use as reference for being v good...and its now gone and i cant seem to, reproduce it strictly from, faint memory
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I need a pick me up to understands this
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Be more specific, are you drawing from a reference that's flipped upside down? Are you trying to draw a figure laying flat and viewed from an upside-down angle?
Try to draw this image as it is: upside down. Recreate the drawing as best you can, without flipping your paper/canvas right-side up until you're finished with the drawing. This will help you see individual parts in more detail.
I'd also recommend going through this book in general for a great starter on how to draw.
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>>1974
exactly. except i did it from memory too. without reference. it worked easier not flipped. also everything i learned just do not, flip right away. like, almost, but incomplete.
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>>1978
Try doing it from a reference and see how it turns out.

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In which infographics are posted. Some might work for you, some might not.
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>>730
Something similar to that last pic
Anyone got a tutorial on the basics of drawing a human body?
>inb4 meme tutorial
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What kind of: 
>Software 
>Hardware 
>Style 
>Tool (i.e. Pen and Paper, Stencils...) 
Do you use to make your art?
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>>1752
Congratz Anon! Cherish it. It's a good tablet, and it's what I first cut my teeth on. Cheers.  :D
>>1752
I also bought my second tablet, first one was a Huion Giano that was big and felt nice but died within a year (if you scroll back up in the thread you can see me complaining about it). Bought a small Wacom and am waiting for it now.
Is there a good guide for transitioning from drawing on pencil and paper to drawing with a tablet, specifically for Krita?
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>>1790
There's nothing to learn about tablets, you just need to use it for some time to get used to it.

Learning Krita or another program is an entirely separate topic from tablets. For drawing the most important thing to learn is shortcuts for moving/zooming the canvas and changing brush size. I tend to disable the tablet buttons and use keyboard shortcuts, my most important shortcuts are (some of them are probably not defaults):
- X = toggle eraser mode on/off
- Alt = color picker
- Shift + left click drag = change brush size
- Space + left click drag = move canvas
- Ctrl + middle click drag = zoom canvas in/out
- Shift + middle click drag = rotate canvas
- 0 = reset zoom
- 9 = reset rotation
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>Software
 ibis paint x
>hardware
 Phone, paper
>style 
 Where?
>tool
finger for digital.
pencil or pen for paper and camscanner to make em digital :]

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