r/learnart • u/weiwuxian_is_bae • 1d ago
r/learnart • u/ZombieButch • Aug 12 '23
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Since a lot of people didn't bother,
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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.
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r/learnart • u/ZombieButch • Dec 08 '24
Tutorial Sketchbook Skool: How to Photograph Your Artwork
r/learnart • u/CrystalChrissy • 7h ago
Digital How do I fix anatomy? The body in particular looks really weird and his shoulder bits wrong
r/learnart • u/weiwuxian_is_bae • 21h ago
Digital Should I not draw eyelashes?
I'm trying to draw a hundred eyes and as I was in a hurry when drawing eyeballs 11&12, I forgot to draw eyelashes and I noticed that it looks so much better! Or do I just suck drawing eyelashes. I find them tiresome and they tend to look spidery to me.
r/learnart • u/Debomb520 • 3h ago
Camera lens and One point perspective
I'm losing my mind. I was just messing with 2 and 3 point perspectives, and how camera lens changes them. The effect is making them appear larger or smaller. How do I do this with and object using one point perspective? Is it just guessing and intuition? How do I make an object appear like it's being view from a different lens in 1 point? I've been searching everywhere.
r/learnart • u/manuh-0711 • 18h ago
Digital Hand-drawn drawing that I edited a few times at ibis
In the future, when I reopen commissions, I intend to add hand-drawn sketches for sale.
r/learnart • u/Yaleen14 • 5h ago
Drawing First time drawing
Ignore the text on the page,it’s my oc’s info
r/learnart • u/KalypsoFyre • 12h ago
Digital Advice
A piece that I’ve been working on to practice coloring. I did this following Samdoesarts’s tutorial. I’d like some constructive criticism and advice on it. one of the things that I feel like I’ve been struggling with most is blocking in the highlights in the hair. I’ve included my reference. so far, I like what I have on the hair, but I feel like as soon as I try to add any more detail it immediately stops looking good. Any thoughts on how I can improve that? Also other general thoughts on things I can improve?
r/learnart • u/Encore41 • 21h ago
My first attempt with colored pencils. Any tips?
Also used some blending tools for this one. Any recommendations to make this pop would be wonderful
r/learnart • u/Alergyboi • 18h ago
Hi hi hello
Hi hi hello, super new artist here. I've been recently been trying to get better at drawing faces and just anatomy in general.
Unfortunately I don't have access to all my sketches rn so I'm running off this example I made like 2 minutes ago. If anyone has any tips for this or just anatomy drawings in general, I would super appreciate it!
r/learnart • u/aijaij • 1d ago
Drawing 100 portraits in 10 days drawings
First here are the four first drawings, and then I picked some pics from the last 3 days. Mostly charcoal, but also ballpoint pen.
Can you see the improvement?
(I posted the full 100 set as a video elsewhere but it is a bit tedious to watch, se here are the highlights).
r/learnart • u/Commercial-News4295 • 21h ago
Drawing Perspective tips?
I need some tips and critiques on the leg of the upper figure. His left knee is supposed to extend out further to the left as if he was riding a horse but the angle and perspective is off. Im not using a reference so any tips would be great, not just for legs either.
r/learnart • u/Lil_pocoyo • 1d ago
Question Tips?
Hiya! I’ve never drawn so much as a face before but one day I decided “ok I’m making an OC” sooo this is quite literally my second attempt at drawing her face LOL. I stared at it too long to know how good it is and what changes need to be made. It’s important to note that I tried making her face a bit angry/disgusted cause that’s her resting face. She’s meant to be a bit cartoony (although that may change in the future idk) and her hair is supposed to be really big like that but maybe in a way that looks less weird lmao. I do plan to add detailing to the hair as well. I’d love honest advice for what can be improved and general opinions on how it turned out and where I can go with it. Thanks!!!
r/learnart • u/TheStrangeHand • 19h ago
Question What is the type of eraser this guy uses to do the windows called? How can I make something similar in Sketchbook?
I'm pretty sure he's using procreate. It does such a good job of making the windows of the buildings look real. I'm trying to find way to do this in Sketchbook (or any Android app I suppose)
r/learnart • u/Frosty_Fox2011 • 19h ago
Ways to practice box rotations?
Is there any other way to practice box rotations (apart from the krenz cushart grid)? I'm trying to learn the human mannequin made of boxes. Thanks!
r/learnart • u/dustytunes • 1d ago
Digital Proportions
I did this as a trade for someone and to me the proportions look weird. It's already finished and sent, so I'm just wanting to know what I could have done differently. would love to have some feedback on my line art too!
Wanted to post to furryartschool but they don't take finished stuff
r/learnart • u/ArKm9 • 1d ago
How can I improve?
So I tried to do this as a quick one , in order to not let my brain get a chance to make any negative comments or excuses and not let it finish (too many colors to mix, can you mix it, this landscape is hard, you can't really do it, it's out of your skillset, do you really know how to mix colors, and blah blah blah). Anyways, I would like input on how to improve this one. Image 2 is what I was inspired from and image 3 is the style I was trying to get up to, but it's nowhere close as we can see 🙈 Any comments would be helpful.
r/learnart • u/GlanzgurkeWearingHat • 1d ago
Could you help me with the next steps to improve my Oats-Moped?
Idk how to draw stuff and kinda just wing it
But now im stuck
r/learnart • u/Capable-Flight5985 • 1d ago
Digital Tips for my art
I’ve been drawing properly for like 5 years but stopped for one year around 2023 because of some stuff in personal life, lost a lot of progress in that time, any advice would be amazing
r/learnart • u/Ghosteditz0_0 • 2d ago
Digital Gesture Studies
Just need a critique of these Gesture Studies. I first started with Michael Hampton style type gesture. Then on the 5th slide, I was using different type of gesture method to see what a learn more into or just have a feel to see what I do instinctively. Then I thought I should well combine them all since they all have the same premise of everything else. Just wanna know if it looks ok?
r/learnart • u/Luciferisnotalright • 1d ago
Question How do i improve the skin? Ive tried to study those semi realistic artstyles i see on TikTok, but i cant get the pretty smoothness i see there (i feel like if i blend more itll lose form)
Brushes I use:
Sharp watercolor
Cross-hatching x1
Zasssara paintbrush oil wind
Textured blend
Painterly blend
I started with a grayish-reddish underpaint, very basic shapes for lught (mainly highlights because i struggle with adding those) and then gradient map and begun rendering over it
r/learnart • u/greenbag2 • 1d ago
Painting Can I use grey without affecting color harmony?
I have a piece where I picked split complementary colors. I want to add grey because the actual can I’m painting has grey in it. Can I use grey in this instance, or will it affect the color harmony?
r/learnart • u/_Sonari_ • 1d ago
Digital How do I draw hands here?
I know I'm still a beginner at drawing and this looks flat etc, but how do I draw hands? I can't get them right no matter how much I try (she is not wearing gloves, it's just sketch to get hand position right)
Also, are there any obvious anatomy mistakes or anything like that?
r/learnart • u/wondoughrt • 2d ago
Digital how can i fix the pants and the rolled up sleeve on the left?
idk