Sketches - Studies - Drawing - Illustration - Painting - Concept Art
Welcome to the hottest traditional and digital 2D art thread in town!
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Post your sketches, your studies, your work-in-progress art and your finished pieces!
We'll take a look, critique 'em, maybe do a paint-over if you're very lucky, and help you feel at home.
All skill levels welcome.
Things that might belong elsewhere
You can post this stuff here, but you might get more attention and better critiques in the appropriate big threads:
Graphic Design - The Graphic Design Thread
Photography - Photography
3D work - 3D Art
Forum background requests - Background Request v1
2D Animation: we'd love to see them, but their main home is here - General Animation V1
Want to get better?
Post in this thread! We like to see your stuff, tell you what you're doing right, and what could be improved on.
Also check out the 2D Drawing and Painting Sticky for a bunch of useful resources for your art journey:
The Big Digital and Traditional Painting and Drawing Tutorial Sticky
Previous threads
Creative Work Megathread
2D Digital Art chat thread
Thread Highlights
Post one of your most favourite artworks (created by you) below and we'll chuck it in here.
All skill levels appreciated! This thread is about progress, not being the very best.
I'll use these to populate the thread banner, too.
It's that new-thread smell.
@postal , can you close the 2D Digital Art chat thread for us please?
I'll open it up with tonight's doodlerinos.
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I've been trying to get into vehicle design. I'm quite a beginner at it, but it's fun. Also I'm super glad this thread got to stay!
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I bought a small watercolor set and wanted to paint some flowers to get the hang of it. Unfortunately I went overboard on the inking which ended up taking a lot longer than actually painting the thing, but I am very happy with how it turned out. It's on 9x12 watercolor paper, inked with a brush and waterproof ink then painted with watercolors.
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Might as well post this again, since the old thread is getting canned
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These are rad.
Have you read Scott Robertson's book 'How to Draw'? The entire first section has a super comprehensive guide to these sorts of perspective heavy industrial drawings. Definitely a good thing to weave in between your just for fun drawings
Yes! Scott is one of my biggest inspirations and I very much respect his drawing methods. I've been practicing how to use his techniques lately. I'm quite a fan of his book, and this" technical drawing" in general. It's very logical and makes a lot more sense than other material I've read.
Totally not inspired by Proxygreen
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Fire in the Plains...
Doing some concepting for my next environment, pen scribbles and some pencil stuff down the bottom.
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Man I ain't done anything in such a long time, only in the last week have I actually got back into Photoshop.
Little something before bed, long day of getting older and people feeding me cake.
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Also, holy shit, this is the first time I've submitted an image on the new forum, that was slick.
@Maloof? You still after highlight artwork stuff? Where are you wanting it posted if so?
Sketched this today for no apparent reason
(Mitsuba chan from Kimi no na wa)
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Decided to sketch a bit today as a break from animating.
(turns out it's bigger than expected, is there a way to thumb this?)
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https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/010/437/230/large/igor-chiang-kimi-no-na-wa.jpg?1524437937
Colored and finished with this piece.
Hey lovely folks I'm doing drawabox.com (lesson 4), drawing arachnids. I can see that this isn't very good but I don't see well what I could improve. I'd really appreciate any CC!
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isn't it uncomfortable to draw over the creases? I would just draw on single page
Yeah lol it was
Your cool plant drawings remind me of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
Good thing this thread still exists. I love going through them.
have a huge load of trash doodles I made this month. shouldn't there be something I can use to thumbnail the images?
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Scaraby boi. Going to share these not every day but maybe like once a week from now on
fuck my shit up with de critiques famalangs
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first attempt at rotoscoping.
you have some good style foundation, but these are uninteresting to be honest. if you shifted your sensibility away from the "trash" stuff and did some storytelling dealing with serious subject matter you could make a name for yourself
These are great, Im really loving the hands on all of them for some reason.
I wouldn't say it's super soft. It's super cute.
The focal point of the image should be the sharpest point to draw in the viewers eye.
I think you just need to clean up your edges a bit. Maybe think about how different materials have different surfaces which effect the edges. So softest is the hair, then you have the bunny ears and clothes then you have skin.
Also I would darken and saturate the shadow around the jawline. Plus hair along the right side of the face just to really make the portrait pop more.
I got a Huion tablet (1060 Plus) and I am in love with it, I've been playing around with CSP and having a blast with the advantages (and disadvantages) of digital versus pen/pencil on paper.
Recently started doing hands and ever so slowly doing anatomy.
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A berserker from that sci-fi/fantasy universe I'm writing, with a fucked up arm.
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guard of the heart
a sensitive knight lady
