/dpd/ - Drawing, Painting, and Design

>>359

I totally agree. And I will do that. I'm just unsure wich direction would be interesting to do that with. I'm kinda hesitant between the maiyan, knight, shaolin monk and the viking/barbarian one.Since I like all those ideas but obviously can't make all of them.So Im kinda looking around for some input to see what's interesting to people so i can push more in that direction.

>>410

looking good here. Be careful with your neck on the bottom left for the faces.jpeg. The shoulder/trapezius is too low/zebra neck.

I really dig the pyrite. Looks like a pretty good way to practice form as well. To challenge yourself you could try to light it with a single lightsource maybe?

I really dig any humanoid creature designs in general, so you got me good there. Your hands are pretty wonky though, especially on the guy on the left. I would recommend some studies eventually.

>>507

The grass is kind of pulling the eye away from everything else. You could change the hue so it's more blueish, same darkness. The figure will still read in this scenario, which is probably what you want.

>>276

Sounds interesting. For no cheating, you could include things like no warping/distortion tool, no auto-tone/levels/filters. Do you want to make a new thread for each challenge, or keep them all in one thread? At least for now it seems collective threads would be better, since we're not going to see any 404's for a while,.

>>449

The whole thing of rolling for a random number doesn't work so well on a board where the number of posts per day hovers around like 2. It becomes pretty darn predictable what number you'll get.

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>456

We have dice now

Under options in posting, there's dice controls on the bottom.

>>347

Just to clarify, what are ban-able offenses? Perma-bans?

>>357

Unreasonable, intentional, and repeated shitposting/trolling will get the user's posts deleted, and they will be banned for 3 days.

Repeated moderate-intensity shitposting in one thread will get a user a 1-day temp-ban, and their shitposts will be deleted. Repeating this offense will raise the temp-ban duration by 1-day.

Spamming, posting that is not board-related will get you a 3-day ban. If a user repeats this offense 3 times, perma-ban.

I don't really want to use perma-bans on posters that can potentially contribute. And if someone is toxic enough to earn temp-bans over and over, they're probably going to be able to avoid perma-bans anyway.

>>361

In about a week i'll be more active since exams are over.

I think discussion threads should be allowed mate, they help clear things up for beginners/shite artists like me.

That said, they'll need to be moderated. Things like, "omg Picasso was shite his dad painted for him why dont i have talent" posts are pointless and i hope they dont have a place here.

>>412

Good to hear! Yeah, I'm going to allow discussion threads now. Just don't start useless threads =^)

So, my exams are over. @BoardOwner, did you remove me from Skype? I was going to ask you a question, mind re-adding me? -Ja, from SaltyMango/MR

(You recommended a brush set to me a while ago that i loved and can't remember its name).

>>399

When you're transitioning between planes like that, I would have it slightly darker at the terminator/where the light side ends, just as an effect to help the form read more.

This is the 4-value simplification thing, right? It can be tough to know which value to choose. But I think it's a good idea to choose what will help the lighting read better. For example, in the first one, have the hair on the top of the head be the 3 value instead of the 4 value, so that it be more understandable that the hair below is in shadow.

overall I like the eyes in the second one way better. The gradation in the eyes you added in the first one i don't think really helps.

In the second one, as I said I really think the eyes are well done. The lips may have been better with a darker value, though. I do think you're overdoing it with the generic highlights on the chin and the cheek. The forms and surface are different there than the nose, highlights/specular reflections happen a lot differently there if at all. Though overall a solid simplification in the second one; another thing you could have done is use the 4 value for the cast shadow or occlusion shadow under the chin, but I think it works the way you have it as well.

>>404

Thanks for the critique, anon! I'll grind out a couple of studies and attempt this again. 4 value simplification is a bit difficult, but it's worth trying to master.

>>283

Yeah, it's been really slow lately…partly my fault. I'll get it going again on the weekend, and maybe I can post a thread over on permanoobs. And with school coming to an end soon, I'll be dedicating time to drawing/painting and the board.

>>284

Yeah with the end of school people are probably busy in their final weeks. Hopefully things will pick up after that, especially if you are more active and we maybe get more active threads with stuff going on. Like the robot thread seemed to get a bit of traction (at least when first posted).

>>278

Ahh!! Thank you so much!

You've definitely made it look better (and I obviously like it more with unified values). I think I will try out this darken layer myself as a way to 'soft-reset' my pictures if my values/highlights are getting out of hand.

I didn't realize how the proportion of the eyes/pupils can make such a huge difference. It definitely does a huge amount in changing the structure of the face, and the likeness.

A lot of things are running through my mind when I'm doing these studies, and especially doing it in 1hr makes me think about the essential things to do. I was thinking to myself "what would this person look like in real life." Half-way through I started to see form, and planes, a lot more than usual.

However, turns out I made it worse than the photo, because I lost the local value as you said. But you've given me a good tip for that.. and that's to not do that!

I'm going to do some more of these soon, trying out the things you said.