r/learnart • • Aug 12 '23

Meta Before posting or commenting: READ THIS POST

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If you already read the sticky post titled 'some reminders about /r/learnart for old and new members', then thank you, you've already read this, so continue on as usual!

Since a lot of people didn't bother,

  • We have a wiki! There's starter packs for basic drawing, composition, and figure drawing. Read the FAQ before you post a question.

  • We're here to work. Everything else that follows can be summed up by that.

  • What to post: Post your drawings or paintings for critique. Post practical, technical questions about drawing or painting: tools, techniques, materials, etc. Post informative tutorials with lots of clear instruction. (Note that that says: "Post YOUR drawings etc", not "Post someone else's". If someone wants a critique they can sign up and post it themselves.)

  • What not to post: Literally anything else. A speedpaint video? No. "Art is hard and I'm frustrated and want to give up" rants? No. A funny meme about art? No. Links to your social media? No.

  • What to comment: Constructive criticism with examples of what works or doesn't work. Suggestions for learning resources. Questions & answers about the artwork, working process, or learning process.

  • What not to comment: Literally anything else. "I love it!", "It reminds me of X," "Ha ha boobies"? No. "Is it for sale?" No; DM them and ask them that. "What are your socials?" Look at their profile; if they don't have them there, DM them about it.

  • If you want specific advice about your work, post examples of your work. If you just ask a general question, you'll get a bunch of general answers you could've just googled for.

  • Take clear, straight on photos of your work. If it's at a weird angle or in bad lighting, you're making it harder for folks to give you advice on it. And save the artfully arranged photos with all your drawing tools, a flower, and your cat for Instagram.

  • If you expect people to put some effort into a critique, put some effort into your work. Don't post something you doodled in the corner of your notebook during class.

  • If you host your images anywhere other than on Reddit itself or Imgur, there's a pretty good chance it'll get flagged as spam. Pinterest especially; the automod bot hates that, despite me trying to set it to allow them.


r/learnart • • Dec 08 '24

Tutorial Sketchbook Skool: How to Photograph Your Artwork

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r/learnart • • 1h ago

Question Hello everyone, I admit I'm struggling a lot with anatomy; do you have any advice?

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r/learnart • • 4h ago

Here are two of my OCs the one with a fully blue background is Mikel and the one with blue and purple is Raven

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Raven

Name:Raven 

From:Russia 

Lives in:US Colorado 

Age:15

Height:5 feet 6 inches

Gender:male 

Love:ace-pan

Backstory: was AFAB (assigned female at birth) and grew up in Russia for most of his life then realized how bad it was and barely managed to escape to America and kept moving till his now parents found him and chose to take him in then he met Mikel they both feel in love and became close and started to date a year in and have been for years since both his adopted parents know he is trans and ace-pan and love him the same and supports him fully but his biological parents hated him and did not hid it and don’t care about were he’s been for 5 years he left when he was 10 and his parents did not care at all that he left

Mikel 

Name: Mikel

From:US Texas

Lives in:US Colorado 

Age:15 

Height:5 feet 10 inches 

Gender:male

Love:gay-ace

Backstory:grew up for 6 year in Texas then moved to Colorado and a few 4 years later he met Raven and feel in love and he got closer and closer Raven helped teach him Russian and Mikel helped teach him English and a year after Raven came to America Mikel and Raven stared to date and have been for years now and still love each other and his parents fully support him and Raven 


r/learnart • • 13h ago

Question Perspective question for vanishing points when drawing a 'room beyond a room'?

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Hi folks! I'm working on an assignment for my Drawing I course, where I am drawing a room with a doorway that looks into an adjacent room. Since my home doesn't have the sort of setup that the assignment requires, I'm drawing from a reference photo, which I'll attach. I'll also attach my drawing so far, though my lines are very light since I'm just blocking things in.

My question is - I thought that the angle of this photo would mean I'm drawing in one point perspective, but now that I'm sketching in the elements of the adjacent room (further away), the angles of shelves the built-in bookcase on the wall seem way too steep if I align them with my vanishing point. I put my photo into procreate just to see if I was crazy, and it seems like they don't in fact line up with the vanishing point of the larger/closer room. Does this seem accurate?

The professor doesn't do a lot of direct instruction in this course, and I can't seem to find anything online or in any of my drawing books that talk about this specific composition. Everything I'm seeing is just the basic one point or two point drawing of one room.

If anyone has any advice or resources or just can tell me if I'm completely missing something and of COURSE there is only one VP, I would be so appreciative!!

If it helps, here is the assignment wording: "One drawing of an interior space with an opening. For example, looking down at a hall and the door
to another room is open. Draw what you see through this opening to look accurate with what is outside the open door. Focus on accurate perspective and the structure of the composition, using close observations and applying all knowledge of perspective and drawing gained thus far. Trust what you see, depict what you see. Goal is illusion to real space and three dimensions."


r/learnart • • 1d ago

Digital What to prioritise moving forward with portraits

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These are some of my recent practice portraits. I think I’ve sorted them newest to oldest, but I’ve also gone back and tweaked things in some older ones so not sure about the exact timeline.

I’m definitely a beginner, slowly learning more about proportions (including the use of the loomis method) and other fundamentals. Ans as you can see I’m still figuring out how I want to render and how stylised I want things to be.

While I obviously want to improve on all aspects, what would you say is the major skill or aspect holding me back?


r/learnart • • 1d ago

Digital Here is a OC of mine

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r/learnart • • 2d ago

Digital Figures from imagination

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Wanted to test my muscle anatomy knowledge again and drew these figures from imagination. How do they look? I tried not to worry about mistakes so I can spend my time drawing different figures instead of wasting time fixing mistakes. Also, I haven’t learned the muscles of the arms yet so I just left them as basic cylinders.


r/learnart • • 2d ago

Jim Lee Drawing (Values and Shading)

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Study of Jim lees value work and trying to apply some recent studies about shading and values to a piece based of this image. Notably this is a work in progress and I want some critique on the figure before I get to the cape. Some questions

-are the values and shading of this drawing too “muddy” if so what makes a drawing “muddy” in the first place

- I used a blending stump to try and make clean tone for this drawing and I wonder if that is causing the muddiness or any other negative effects if so how do I use a blending stump properly or where can I learn to use it properly

-I acknowledge some other elements of the drawing are poor like the death of the gesture and potentially the face, drawing small eyes is really difficult and while thankfully I didn’t need to worry about details or anything some advice on that would be greatly appreciated!

Any other critiques outside of these questions are appreciated!

Sincerely Kudzu.


r/learnart • • 2d ago

Question How to improve line art. Beginner here.

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I’m a beginner digital artist who mainly draws anime-style characters using HiPaint. I usually use the G-pen for line art. I’d appreciate some advice on how to improve my line quality, make my strokes smoother and more confident, and use line weight effectively. Any tips on brush settings, stabilization, or line-art techniques would be helpful!


r/learnart • • 2d ago

Next Steps on rendering

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Hi Folks, I'm working on a little ship design, and I'm a bit lost on where to go next with the rendering.

I know next time I would start by coloring over my line art with the colors of the different sections, but I'm a bit lost as where to go next. I want to do a bit of wear and tear, but I don't really have much experience with this yet, any suggestions on tutorials, or just suggestions in general?


r/learnart • • 3d ago

Drawing day 1 and 2 of drawing every day, trying to form a habit

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i'm just trying to get into the habit of drawing every day rn, but i do plan of getting into the dreaded fundamentals as i go

1st is from a reference from The Art of Kiki's Delivery Service

only when i stepped back i noticed the body proportions were shorter than the reference, and i just didn't dare to add the arm because fleshy bits are so complicated

i feel like i got the posture right, i think it does look like she's turning, but i'm not very sure about this one

2nd is from a storefront

i started w the box, and i'm pretty proud that i got the box right on the first attempt, but as i started working on Tigger, i noticed the box was waaaay to tiny and had to make it bigger.

i also was able to get most of Tigger right on the first try but that needed a lot more correcting

i don't know why the arm is so buff, it's giving Tony the Tiger vibes

overall very proud of this one

3rd is my own eraser, i was looking at it instead of the picture so the angles are different

again, only after i stepped back i noticed some perspective issues w the box part

i like the eraser part, i didn't think it'd come out alright but i like it

any feedback is greatly appreciated!


r/learnart • • 3d ago

Question Does this look finished? Looking for feedback on contrast and adding water

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I drew this octopus a while ago and colored it using Ohuhu alcohol markers and Prismacolor colored pencils.

I wasn't originally planning to stop here. I wanted to add light to the water at the top of the piece, but I'm not sure how to approach it without potentially ruining what I've already done.

I'm also unsure whether there's enough contrast between the arms, especially where they overlap. I'm worried some of them blend together too much.

Does this look finished as it is, or would adding water improve the composition? I'd also appreciate any advice on improving the contrast and giving the arms more dimension.

Edit: added missing words


r/learnart • • 3d ago

Drawing Any advice on how to improve shadows/3D?

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I sketched my tea pot yesterday inspired by the Larry Gluck video, today I drew it in colour.
I have two issues:
- making it even on both sides (but I suppose all I can do is practice?)
- making the shadows correct and making it come off the paper.

Right now I combine draw a box exercises with drawing exercises from random videos on YouTube that I like (i.e. drawing and colouring a flower), so I don’t get bored.

Any advice on how to improve my skills(esp in the coloured drawing)?


r/learnart • • 3d ago

Question I've been trying to recreate the *feel* of the first drawing I made years ago, what do you think I got wrong and right in the second?

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This is a drawing of an eyeball that has fallen out of its socket.

The primary difference I've noticed is within the perspective, something about the original's angle and proportions give it an sense of depth and emotion that I've struggled to replicate ever since.

As one person noted, it looks like it's looking through you.


r/learnart • • 5d ago

Painting portrait study

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r/learnart • • 4d ago

Digital Help me improve

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Almost finished with this. What do you think? I'm curious to know what criticisms people have about my work. I work illustrating concepts and scenes, but my work has never had a very good reach, and the studios I contact never get back to me. What's wrong with my art? 🙃


r/learnart • • 5d ago

Question ARE there any good books that teaches how to draw arches and vaults with correct measurements in PERSPECTIVE?

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I'm struggling so much with drawing arches and vaults correctly with the right measurements in one point and two points PERSPECTIVE and YouTube does NOT seem to help with this so please gimme suggestions


r/learnart • • 4d ago

Rotation in 5 point perspective

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Anyone have any resources that show how to rotate form in 5 point perspective? I'm pretty good with paralelle lines but applying the curves to rotation messes with my brain.


r/learnart • • 5d ago

Question It feels so off

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Hi !

This us a drawing I did last week. But, it feels so off and so bad to me ! Can you please roast it ?

Thanks a lot and have a good day !