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[Egan_BW]

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Who fucking cares about my art. Therr's so many actual artists here now....

I feel like I already yelled at you for this kind of attitude.
The only way you'll get to be as good as these insanely skilled people is by drawing. It's like grinding in an MMO.
Now make more arts for me to look at or you're fired. >:|

[TheBiggerFish]

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Who fucking cares about my art. Therr's so many actual artists here now....

I feel like I already yelled at you for this kind of attitude.
The only way you'll get to be as good as these insanely skilled people is by drawing. It's like grinding in an MMO.

This too.

[Guardian G.I.]

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Well now, that's some hella painting you got going there! Also, nose mode engaging: the nose is a bit long. :U
I suspect that this might be why the chin is shorter, since the distance between nose and mouth is absolutely perfect otherwise. Secondary nitpick for glory: Neck is a bit too long. And for the final and absolute smallest nitpick i have yet to make this year: The eyes are ever so slightly misplaced in relation to the source.

However, i think it's only fair that i also highlight some things that i really like. You absolutely NAILED the hair, almost down to the last wayward lock, and the shirt is looking mighty fine too.

Thanks for the comments, man! I've overlooked all those issues when I was drawing the sketches - I should check the accuracy of the proportions more next time.

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I really should stop sharing my art on this thread.

The actual artists who matter I guess?

Check out this great video by Matt Kohr.
More important motivational stuff can be found here in the section "Theory and Mindset".

[Itnetlolor]

That was actually good to watch. I needed to hear that. Especially with my freelancing, and the feeling of being overwhelmed with certain tasks that discourage me, like logo design and such (or making an overall style for companies (stationery, business cards, brochures and the like)), and comparing my skillset with the final products of others that have done their work. On the plus side, it's mostly boring office crap I work with helping produce, so at least it's no big deal; but you know how companies roll.

Spoiler: A good potential reason for some of my creative dry-spell (click to show/hide)

Basically, the most practice in design/rendering tricks is taking on vectorization tasks, where I convert raster images to vector (they pay fine, provided I get the jobs). But the real money is in making original logos and content for people, which puts me on the spot on creativity within a small margin of time to work with, with one of my *favorite* tasks of research and original development (to avoid trademark BS; thank goodness for reverse image searching, just in case I step on a landmine with my creativity. You must keep in mind that there's no such thing as an original idea, and some people can potentially become even greater assholes with the law on their side (it's not as much my client's ass on the line, but rather my own for apparent plagiarism sans awareness, even if I DID do the pain-in-the-ass research beforehand, and it turned up absolutely no results. Like they would give a fuck about that. I have no influence, so I'm just a bug to them in that regard, guaranteed to lose if a legal battle were to ensue. Fine, take my 50 bucks payment, but don't press charges and multiply it by a few grand just because a single feature is too similar, or because I used #FF00FF as a central theme because it was appropriate for the job at hand's theme, or because I was working with sprites).).

In the case of professional design, the clash of no originality combined with the legal minefield of accidental plagiarism and legal BS is my main demotivator to take my career to high professionalism (living well isn't worth the inconvenience of that). I'd rather pay the rent, buy some beer, and leave it at that. As shameful as it would sound, I'm not ashamed to not want to be creative at a professional level, especially with corporate-level stuff. Not with that kind of risk ahead of me. Last thing I want is a lawsuit because I was doing my job as I was told by my client.

I think when I applied for classes, I should've taken a Graphic Arts degree, instead of Graphic Design. Oh well, at least there are tutorials to learn some neat tricks I can apply. Personally, I want to be paid for having fun (art for art's sake, and for myself, more than others). Not making crap for other people.

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Thank goodness I'm a US resident then. But still, don't underestimate the ego of an asshole with money to spare.

[TheBiggerFish]

Itnetlolor...I'd think that if you were in the US, the whole "independent creation" thing in copyright would cover your rear, legally, because you quite obviously didn't intentionally copy someone's work.  Of course, if you're not in the US, that's probably not quite true, and either way I'm no lawyer...

[Tawa]

Might I recommend scaling it up in your image editor, rather than on the forum? This would probably look beautiful if it wasn't so blurry.

[TheBiggerFish]

Might I recommend scaling it up in your image editor, rather than on the forum? This would probably look beautiful if it wasn't so blurry.

...Yeah.

[Egan_BW]

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[hops]

This is unfinished but since I was told to put it up....

[Gentlefish]

Oh gosh that penguin hood is adorable. I love your style, Cinder.

[Arx]

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Finished, probably.

E: whoops, thanks NJW.

[NJW2000]

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Finished, probably.

~

[KillerHP]

Some update.Though its a tad big so we cant see all the details.Also , it may look a shuttle , but its an actual transport ship.

Feedback , appart from the part that its missing furnitures and its crappy pixel art?

[Comrade P.]

Feedback , appart from the part that its missing furnitures and its crappy pixel art?

I've been in Abu-Dhabi airport once (on my way to Singapore), it was a palace of luxury in the middle of the desert, with large expanses of desert everywhere around it as far as eye could see.

This pic kinda reminds me of it because of how large the expanses of nothing are on the both sides of spaceport. Pretty cool.

[Arx]

It's very flat, and the image is very large for what it contains. I'd suggest expanding the image as you work rather than starting with a massive canvas. Also, there seems to be a lot of dirt with nothing actually there, which is basically the same problem.


For Cinder, and everyone else thinking about giving up:

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: 50 pounds of pots rated an “A”, 40 pounds a “B”, and so on.
Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

 — Art and Fear - David Bayles and Ted Orland

Draw stuff! Even if you think it's crappy stuff.

Also, looking at some 'draw it again' artworks can be really inspiring. For instance, this is from an artist I follow on tumblr:

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(naariel.tumblr.com)

Three years isn't that long, but the difference is astounding. Don't give up, even if you think you're producing absolute shit (which, specifically aimed at Cinder, you aren't). I couldn't draw at all two years ago. I'm still not that good, but I'm a hell of a lot better than I used to be.

* Arx puts the profanity back in the cupboard.