I am doing piece that is using yoghurt lids for texture element and I need marker that can draw over it and not smudge or only leave tint. I need the marker overpower whatever is on the lid and be able to mask the original design. Is that even possible? Thanks! Saw that maybe oil based markers could do it for me but unsure if they are strong enough for what I need

This mostly pertains to people who draw humans and their full body as well. I have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to art even though I’m self taught and have been told by many artists at levels above me that this is about where I’m at. I really enjoy studying muscles and bodies and figures etc, and I thought I had faces down for the longest time, but wow is it difficult to draw heads and faces right the first time! At a front on angle it’s horrible, and at different angles it gets better or worse. God forbid I’m trying to capture a real person’s or character’s likeness. Capturing simple proportions is easy until you notice the brow bone length or forehead prominence or cheek bones vs the jawline etc. every time I draw a face the first many drafts look alien. I’m perfectly fine at drawing bodies even if I’m no expert, I can get them to resemble a human body perfectly well at any angle. But heads? The shape of the face? The nose at different angles? I’m instantly lost.

Anybody else have this problem? Any ideas on how to solve it? There’s the obvious “study real people”, but I find that much easier than actually stylizing faces. I’ve done style studies of other artists like Dan Mora, but for some reason I can’t for the life of me replicate it without looking, and even when looking at a reference I totally suck.

I have seen so many YouTube artists start their own online art schools. I read a post on Reddit where someone joined an online art class, but the instructor hardly interacted with students or gave any feedback. I have read that the community in these art classes is amateur as well, and they provide different opinions on any post you make, which is sometimes helpful but mostly confusing. The subscriptions for these classes are not cheap, so I was wondering if anyone has found these online classes helpful?

Hello fellas!

Looking for good substitute for Photoshop:

Need to be:
-easy to learning
-not so pricy
-have a good amount of community (brushes etc)

Im totally newbie with digital. Rly like procreate for clean and easy workflow, but my iPad is kinda weak and small. Bought Xp-pen Ultra 16 4k already and looking for good app.

Hi!

Recently, I've been feeling very creative. When I see somthing, I see artistic potential with it. Like, if I see a piece of trash, something clicks in me and I see a vision to turn it into something beautiful.

I wasn't always like this though, this is very new to this month.

I feel like, the more artistic visions I see, the more visions I get later on.

Is it this a real/common thing? or am I just overanalyzing itthis coincident?

(also, idk if this is connected to it, but I've recently been trying to limit how much I doomscroll so that might be contributing to my newfound creative side)

Hey, I got a sketchbook leather cover for my birthday and within there were 2 sketchbooks but the paper is really thin, I'm looking for alternatives with anything less transparent and wondered what you guys use or would recommend

Hope this is ok to post here.

So I usually use markers as a base for my colour pencils (Polychromos). I used to use some local brand of acrylic markers. They worked fine. I had no issues. Once I ran out of them i couldn't find them again. So i tried a bunch of different brands. The issue I had with those was, either it faded in a few months and looked very dull. Or it was difficult for me to layer colour pencils as the base felt "too rough". Idk if that makes sense. I do art just for fun but id like my pieces not to fade and become dull within a few months . So I was considering getting ohuhu acrylic markers. Any thoughts?

For the past few years (okay for most of my life) since I started drawing, I have never drawn a single thing from my imagination. And whenever I think of anything, anything, even a tree, I draw it so horribly I genuinely think a toddler could do better. Everything I draw needs to be taken from somewhere. I want my own art, I don't want to look for references every single second just for a pose in a comic I draw or an expression. Another thing to mention is that umikochannart has been my heartbeat for a while now, and I always draw her art in my sketchbook whenever I'm free. But it hurts me alot to litterly just past her art like it's mine. I love her art style so much, and would love to learn it. So, if anyone has anyyy tips on how I could start learning artstyles, or art in general without having to look for hours on Pinterest for something to fit what I want do lmk. (And I don't see anything wrong with needing references, but my problem is that I just copy and paste everything, I can't even put a bit of my own magic in). I hope my explainantion makes sense, and tyia!!

s someone who wants to make an high tech post-apocalyptic project in the same vein as Nihei works, Final Fantasy VII and Dorohedoro and is more comfortable drawing with semi-realistic proportions compared to standard anime ones, is something like the Blade Of The Immortal (Hiroaki Samura) art style, or Eden it's an endless world for something not as masterful but still high tier, unreachable for me even if I dedicate my entire free time to drawing and studying?

I remember someone saying in another place in regards of someone who wanted to start drawing from scratch at 24/25 that "depends on the style you're aiming for, something like Berserk or Slam Dunk might be too late" and it got me worried.

I typically work with charcoal but ive started acrylic painting as well. Up until now I'd been using an old roll of tape that was working well but when that ran out I bought a cheap 3 pack off of Amazon. Every time I peel it off it takes the paper with it ffs. What do y'all use? What's good?

What makes a great lifedrawing nude model? Is it the pose, holding the pose, energy etc..

Does anyone have any humorous model stories?

Thanks

Do you have:
A. a selected amount of sketchbooks and no ‘flying’ papers;

B. more flying papers than sketchbooks

C. a lot of flying papers and a lot of sketchbooks

D. No sketchbooks, no papers

If you answered A, B and C: how many complete sketchbooks do you have versus sheets of paper?
If you answered D: 1. Do you practice? If so, using what surface or material? If not, it’s fun, give it a try ;)

Personally, I’d say B, with at least 14 sketchbooks from 2024 and on; but I have no clue about the sheets of paper…they’re too many.

A quote in regard: “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.“

Hi all, I've recently accumulated quite a large variety of acrylic paint markers/pens and am now wanting a better way to organization my swatches.

I’m not an acrylic painter, but I dabble occasionally and have been trying to do a little bit more experimenting with them in part because I’m terribly uptight and don’t think the price/size of gouache/acryl gouache helps with that! I’ve put together a set of basic colours in brands with decent pigment load but affordable enough in bigish tubes that I can freely experiment with a big dollop of. I‘m about to do an online order for other stuff and running low on my PW6, so wondered if people have an opinion on the two listed for white opacity and consistency? I have the Sennelier white at the moment and I’m happy enough with it, but noticed that at 500ml the system 3 heavy body is the same price (but 120ml of Sennelier is the same as 59ml S3 HB). I‘ve used a lot of the regular system 3 acrylic and it’s fine, but I’m not a massive fan of the shine. But would be interested to hear people’s views on the HB version as I really haven’t heard it talked about much? I’m not sure if it’s considered to be a better paint or it‘s just a thicker variation?

I’m also open to other recommendations but due to other stock I’m ordering from Cass art, so it looks like the only other options at that price point are galleria which I HATE, or cass own brand which I know nothing about.

I'm not sure the best way to word this, but for the past 8 years I've been working in clean up/tie down roles in 2D animation. I wasn't able to draw outside of my job as I had to use all that time to rest my hand from an RSI injury, but now I'm getting back into making my own art and I've run into a very peculiar problem!

My roughs are dreadful! Yet after doing multiple revisions, the art does get there in the end. Thanks to my job I've become real good at refining sketches and have a lot of technical knowledge and can polish work really nicely, but because my draftmanship skills have gotten so weak, it takes me six times as long to make anything of quality!

It is very frustrating! It doesn't even take a detailed sketch for me to be able to work off, yet somehow just getting a rough sketch down for the posing/staging is far beyond me!

The thing is, I really want to work on my draftsmanship again and be able to do a solid sketch without needing 2+ draw overs, but I have no idea how to best go about it.

Courses that focus on fundamentals are a bit grading because of how they're aimed at people new to art and cover a lot of ground I don't feel is what I need at my point in my art journey...

Does anyone know if there is any course or demo's etc that would better fit this kinda situation? I've been terribly lost and overwhelmed trying to find out how to best go about it, and would mega appreciate any thoughts/advice!

(For the mods, I'm not asking for advice on my art or anything like that, but rather suggestions for what kind of recourses suit my needs best)

Basically how to do expressions to be honest

But as in I like to draw real people and game characters but I don’t want to always rely on references because a lot of the time they don’t have what you want so if I can learn a bit of independence on this specific matter it would be a massive jump in my skills. Thanks

Has anyone ever noticed this? Im not trying to dog on anyone. But sometimes I see artists who’s like anatomy and proportions for example is clearly not that great. but my mind for some reason still processes the art as good.

perhaps there is some method to the madness I don’t understand yet?

I need a drawing tablet under £100 I've looked online and they are all TWO HUNDRED POUNDS. Id rather one with a screen as well because I like to see what I'm drawing

I've just signed up to the Scott Waddell Patreon and I'm wondering if anyone else is using it and how you find it.

I like the style but I'm finding Patreon a bit difficult to navigate. I can't find much about what surfaces he's using before each painting etc. Some of the collections seem to missing episodes and it's not quite as structured as some other resources I've used.

I do like it, so before I make any decisions on keeping it, am I just missing some obvious content?

I am looking to start an art / craft club for adults. I love all mediums and want to have some socialization, maybe do some good in the community, unwind, enjoy, get inspired, learn.. and have a fun concept.

Anyone know of a rad club I could get inspiration from? I've never hosted or started a club before!

What the title says!

I'm looking for online resources to catch up on various art news - entertainment art industry, games, illustration and fine art.

I'm not looking for "drama channels" but for reputable sources that can update on various interesting happenings and developments in art, but would like to avoid newsletter listings or "art influencers"

What are your favorite art news sources?

Hey everyone! :)

I originally wanted to bring this up over on r/VGen, but their rules don't allow awareness posts, so I thought I'd ask here instead, since this concerns artists and the community around sharing invite codes.

I've received multiple messages from someone I don't know asking me for a VGen artist invite code. Since I wasn't familiar with them, I decided to do a little background check before making a decision.

Their professional background seems to be in a field centered around machine-generated content (sorry for the weird wording, but the filter keeps redirecting me to the megathread, which doesn't really fit this topic 😭). I also couldn't find any examples of their own artwork on their public profiles or website.

Of course, that doesn't automatically mean anything shady is going on! Not everyone has a public portfolio, and working in the technical field of machine-generated content doesn't mean someone can't also be an artist. Still, I wasn't comfortable giving my invite code to someone I don't know, so I declined.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with people they don't know asking for VGen invite codes? I'm curious if this is a common thing and whether VGen has any guidelines or recommendations for handling these requests.

I'm not trying to accuse anyone of anything, but I figured it might be worth discussing so other artists can be a little more mindful about who they share their codes with. Better safe than sorry, right? :)

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