What are you working on?

What are you working on?

>mfw stuck at work and eager to go home to color my comic

Killing myself.

>That realization that you've never improved in years no matter how many times you try and how many tutorials and books you read.

I just want to look at my art without cringing at it.

I made it a few days ago

Had a dream of a scifi comedy novel called The Dish Ran Away With The Meal.

About a distant future where humans live as basically servants for some alien race, which isn't too bad considering they were first taken in by the aliens to be the main course in cookbook recipes. A few centuries and a human rebellion later they live as second class citizens and are treated like crap (but hey beats being treated like shit).
Young human boy Presley (named after man from the ancient satellite video 'Aloha From Hawaii') is so sick of his dead end life on this planet that he's willing to risk it all by stealing the family's flying saucer and going on a cross galaxy trip to see Earth (maybe even get sanctuary there if they're cool enough).
Blue Brother's level highjinks ensue along the way and in no time the saucer is on the most wanted list and it seems like the whole universe is after them. And Presley better hope that the universe catches him instead of grandpa, cause grandpa brought a cooking pot with him to prepare the boy's punishment.


I mention all this cause I know deep down I won't do anything with this idea. So on the slim chance any of y'all wanna use it more power to ya.

Interesting how a bit of bags under the eyes makes any western drawn Asian girl make me.think of Noodle.
Or maybe I've just been hanging out in the Gorillaz threads too much.

Good job, user. Shit looks cash

I'm not working on anything but I've been steadily practicing drawing every day as should you, Batman.

Working on my story in a novel format first before jumping into visuals. I dunno, don't want to have some stupid plot hole or rush into the project like I did at first and have shitty writing floating around.

Working on my webcomic

I'm half tempted to do something whilst at work. got some down time for a change. Although if I up load something, it's going to be fucking huge because of my phone camera.

i'm just wrapping up my drawing 2 class. I fucking hate colored pencil now. It takes a decade to do anything. And if you fuck up, it stays. Oil painting is way more fun. If you screw up you can just wait for that shit to dry and experiment.

post your art! I won't cringe. Here's something I'm working on. I wanted to make something really busy, as weird as that sounds. I'm gonna redo the lines though, for some reason the density was low and it looks bad when I color it in.

any details friend?

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I don't think i could write comics, though i would like to write one i just take too long on art and am limited in what i can do with art (mostly scenic stuff). My strengths as a writer are prose and am best when i am describing something. My only chance of ever making a comic is a poetry comic.

Actually, come to think of that lots of my poems would work good as comics cause i use a ton of nature metaphors. Well, don't know what i came to this thread to say but now i have something to think about.

I've tried writing comic scripts, but they're the least fun format to write ever. If I could draw it would be way easier. I guess I'm just going to go back to prose and screenplays.

Very good, user.
Would follow.

I think I just came up with the dumbest and worst villain motivation ever.

Which is?

I am working on a comission for a friend to draw Pinkie Pie and Twilight pics as gifts for other friends.

...This may be a bad place to bring that up.

Committing evil acts because he wants to get caught and punished.

>police detective has an obsession with a certain serial killer (who might or might not be dead at the start of the series) and spent two decades trying to catch him.
>gets superpowers which only drives him over the edge further (being extremely powerful still doesn't get him any closer to his target)
>starts committing atrocities that make said serial killer's acts look small in comparison, hoping that justice still exists in the world and he will get what he deserves.
>he can't kill himself or go easy on those who fight him because he believes it's the easy way out and he wants justice to prevail

Thanks a lot

That sounds pretty cool, user. It would work as a mini-series or an OGN. Maybe a one-shot. Dont know how much story you could wring out of it, but it's a fun take on a cape story.

Wow I really like the profile on the middle pic.

Writing a comic that I'll pitch to Image, then Avatar, then Dark Horse.

Basically it'll be a mashup between the back and forth dialogue and slapstick comedy of Bottom and the continuity and foreshadow heavy storytelling of Bojack Horseman.

I am currently wrapping up issue 3's script and have the outline for 4 ready.

Good luck user!

Should I actually fall for the Loomis meme or is there something else that'd work just as well?

I will need it in this industry, and thanks user.

Everyone cringes at their art user, I hate everything I do. It's cliche advice but just keep drawing

noice

I like the bold lines user

you got my interest with this user

you can try checking out vilppu if you're not really feeling up to having fun with a pencil, but loomis is a good meme to fall for, one that I obviously haven't used enough

Nothing, because I feel like I'll never make it

Horseshit! With an attitude like that you just rose your chance of failure to 100%. Not even Howard Chaykin or Jack Kirby started off as legends. They were nobodies. Hell Kirby was a failed animator, but they kept working until they found somethimg that resonated with their audience.

It's a long, difficult, nigh-Sisyphean task, but if it was easy then the rewards it offered would be worth less than a carny prize.

Even Andrew Dobson managed to achieve something, and he is a jackoff. By giving up before you even started you are saying you are less willing to win than a jackoff.

Don't give up, user! Don't you fucking dare!

>thinkin' bout making a webcomic with my skype friend
>he's going to be illustrating and co-writing, me being the main writer
>its just another stoner furry sol comic a la habits/cheap thrills etc
>havent written a word
>his art is mediocre cresting on decent
>also hes a younb gay neet living in argentina with a crush on me as well as crushing depression
Ive tried writing but i hate half the shit i end up putting down, plus this drama bullshit is draining.

working on digital art in general

im writing a story and should get to a comfortable spot within a month or two. By then I want to shake the rust off my experience in drawing with a tablet

Getting comfortable with a tablet after like 8 years without one.

Also trying to put together a more coherent set of character designs for the webcomic/comic/thing I've been wanting to make since I was in middle school. I thought a character with a sack for a head would be interesting to draw, and I was wrong.

Design critique?

If this were a fighting game, who would you main?

I'd main the pale catgirl ninja lady, with my secondaries being the four-armed tribal girl and the vaguely spiritual lolita getup girl with blue eyes. I like lithe rushdown characters, and two of those girls give me major Darkstalkers vibes. The rest of the characters aren't bad at all, but I don't get the oni guy's boots, and the Van Helsing guy looks like he stepped out of some other series altogether, like he's some time traveler or major outsider.

chainsaw hand arsenal man for sure. He speaks to my inner, carnage loving child.

this might be too Sup Forums but I do want to start animating some melee combat for a fan project I'd like to mess around with.

Problem is it's with Nintendo characters and I don't know if I'd attract dmca nonsense.

Vanhelsing guy legit needs a redesign, same for the Kamen rider.

The rest just need sone touch ups. Oni guy is like half demon, so those are more his legs than boots.

He'd probably be my main as well, out of the one's I've drawn thus far at least.

Chainsaw Guts over on the left

lightsaber man

A book staring these two.

Separate scripts for conlangs for elvish and dwarfish in a comic I'm working on.

Also a series of short stories all one page long.

id be the lazy person who just replaces every letter in the alphabet with a symbol

whats it about?

I'm working on a 4 page Korra porn comic I promised some user back in october.

These are just storyboards and do not represent the end product

If you wanna be the tricky kind of lazy, replace every letter with a symbol, and then put a simple cypher on em, or write em vertically or in boxes or something. Turns a lazy alphabet into something crazy and weird.

I have the exact same problem. I've been drawing for so long, but no matter how much I practice, I never seem to improve. And I know I'm not just being hard on myself, because other people have also told me my art is terrible. It's extremely frustrating.

Or you could be an absolute madman and try to create your own language, period.

It's still lazy because you're just doing a 1:1 of the latin alphabet sounds values.

Look at pic related, no two scripts are a 1:1 in terms of what each symbol means.

I did that once. I decided that I wanted to use the whole Korean letter-block system thing for words, and then make it so that your read the symbols in each word clockwise.

Then I made it so that the whole thing sounds like crazy mongolian swedish.

That was a fun time. Never has making a species for a game of Stars Without Number been more absurd, or more useless.

Every time I read that I cringe, some retard trying to sound deep lmfao

The one on the left was cursed to become a beastperson and exiled as punishment for accidentally killing her brother. Having lived as a hermit for years due to her fear of people, she accidentally poisons a mobster who shows up at her place and, out of fear of retaliation, goes on the road to escape being killed, additionally seeing this as the push she needed to find her father, who has been missing for years by the beginning of the story.

The woman on the right is a thief who attacks her early in the story. While she defeats the thief in a fight, she believes it was a fluke. Learning that the thief is on a trip back to her homeland, she offers to keep her fed and help her get back home in exchange for protecting her and helping her find her father along the way.

The two travel across the country, occasionally encountering more mobsters or getting into trouble, even eventually becoming friends with each other.

Comfy cool introspective youths

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Working on some character sketches for my story

I never went that far, but I did create some basic structure for a language I did for a novel me and my friend wrote.

Remove yourself from existence, Navi scum.

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The aforementioned missing father.

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Working on it captain! So far it looks like a crappier ONE web art but I'm getting there.

Also where's super girl?

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Plotting and designing my superhero webcomic that probably won't ever get off the ground t b h lol

IS THAT A

Outside of my Psychology papers

I'm working on a sorta Berserk-like story with a Princess who lost her kingdom is the sole survivor and and now wanders the wastes hunting monsters.

nice

>I'm working on a sorta Berserk-like story with a Princess who lost her kingdom is the sole survivor
lol I have a story idea like that that I want to work on this year (most likely not in the same context as yours though)

just some furry porn

nothing interesting really

I've had fifteen years with no improvement. It's fucking terrible. And seeing people who can draw makes it even worse.

bump

Someday we'll be able to create what we see in our minds.
>Good luck, bros

Is this also a Donut Steel thread or is it just art related things

>mfw I take 3, 4 month long breaks from practicing and come back better somehow

Sick, conlanging is my thing. Tell me about your langs.

why do I suck, guys?

I've started to do some drawing over the past few weeks but I feel like I can only do so much by myself, what are some solid books that teach you the fundamentals?

Does that read as an open mouth, or an upper lip to you (question to all)?

You're fine. Make your nose bigger.

I know what you mean man. I always try to maintain the attitude that skill is 1% natural talent and 99% hard work, but it's hard when I've been practicing almost daily for half a year and still can't draw anything that doesn't look completely fucked. I still like drawing things for people and taking requests and such (hell, I've even done some cheap commissions), but when I look at the things real artists make and think how I'll never be able to get there, it's very disheartening.

You lucky, lucky sumbitch.

looks fine to me

Honestly it's not that bad, like sure it's not perfect but I've seen things on air that were much worse. Keep it up boi

a garbage animatic about something i imagined while hearing some background music from a video game

i have a lot of music videos/scenes like that floating around in my head that can actually be strung together into a story like that heavy metal movie or something

Post art

Most of my art is kind of weird and niche (I take most of my requests on /d/ and /trash/). This multi-breasted LoL character is one of the less weird things I've done.

THAT'S DOPE

It's a start. I like your coloring. I'm currently in the process of learning to draw. Still a beginner so you shouldn't feel that bad user. Keep trying

If you're JUST drawing all the time, you're not gonna improve. I'm sorry, but you wasted your time.

Practice alone won't take you anywhere, that's a disingenuous lie and you fell for it. People who get good with time "keep at it" because they do more than just doodle incessantly, they study, they experiment, they constantly go back and forth finding new inspiration, reference, and approaches. Practice is meant to cement and speed up a process in your brain, it's useful to make your skills -stay- at a level and develop an expedite work flow, but if that process is mediocre and flawed it will only give you mediocre and flawed work anyways, and it can even risk making your resistance to actually learning and improving that much harder, old dog, new tricks and all that.

Pick up a fucking book, do exercises of things you assume you already know, identify and define your weaknesses and seek advice. If you are not improving no matter what, the problem will almost always turn out to be that your bases are weak and you need to unlearn a lot of bad technique.

I'm working on a long form cape comic.
I completed the first 23 pages worth of art this morning, although I may redraw one of the pages.

I have a robot. You guys like robots right? Tips on coloring would be nice too.

That's cool as fuck, user. I like the style a lot.
Cute. Construction colors obviously work pretty well for what you're going for. Maybe through in a bit of black here and there. More stripes. A sort of fade on the saw arm to show wear from use.

I bet you drawn Futa Soraka haven't you?!

Pick a goal and achieve it. You don't have to overthink or hate yourself for not being prepared. Just choose a job and put forth the fort to make it happen.

I have a story in mind but I've been feeling uninspired so I tried to practice my drawing but I need solid tutorials on basic drawing techniques via video. Anybody have suggestions?

Because you learned symbol drawing before life drawing, a common problem in this age.
I have the same problem.

How does this suck?

>that probably won't ever get off the ground t b h

No reason to stop trying.

drew this last night.

A relatively tame R34 piece featuring 3 NAKED girls from Jak & Daxter games.

Yes, there are anatomical mistakes (mostly revolving arms).

>looking through my art from last year and realizing I'm regressing
Ugh
>reading through comic pages from 5 years ago and realizing my writing is also regressing
UGH