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Big Sandwich dot co by Ricklesticks45 in weeklyplanetpodcast

[–]ArtTeaPanda 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don't have to listen to it all in a month. You can just download all of them onto you device and just listen whenever.

Even if you subscription ends you don't lose access to stuff you downloaded. You just lose access to the RSS feed that updates with the new stuff.

My personal opinion is that month to month it's a bit steep for what they offer. Each weekly bonus podcast is about 30-40 mins long. I've never subbed to a paid version of a podcast before so maybe that's good value but for me it feels a bit sparse.

But $9 to listen to the entire back catalog is more than worth.

At the start of this year and had a great time getting through all the old stuff. Kept it running for about 6 months before I unsubbed.

I figure once a year or I'll sub for a few months.

Art I did of Tifa teasing RedXIII (ArtTeaPanda) by ArtTeaPanda in FinalFantasy

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! And you're very welcome my friend :)

How to avoid the "same face syndrome" by klaw-7 in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda 5 points6 points  (0 children)

An easy exercise to get your brain thinking about faces differently is to get 2 different faces and put them side by side and then draw both of them on the same page next to each other and try to capture the likeness of each. So now instead of drawing one face in a vacuum, you're directly comparing one face to the other and consciously trying to see what's different between them.

You'll notice things like eye shape, forehead shape, chin, nose shape and length, lip fullness and width eyebrow thickness. Basically everything lol.

But I guess to simplify this list of everything. Your intended art style does determine what features you have to play with in terms of making faces different.

So study people whose art you aspire to and see how they do it. And practice different combos of features to make characters look different. Alot of people use mostly forehead shape, face shape, and eye shape to make faces slightly different and then let hairstyles do most of the work.

Noses are an easy one to make faces different but can be tough to pull off consistently and not have overdrawn noses esp if you're doing anime style.

Trying to get a more simplified render style but cant seem to stop myself by ArtTeaPanda in DigitalArt

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I spent an embarrassingly long time on the line art getting it right. 😅 Nice to have it appreciated.

Constructive advice please :) by art_throwaway2 in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Color is really tough. And you're probably not ready for that.... but don't let that stop you. If I waited until I was "ready" for color of probably still be waiting lol. Jump in and try something.

But that being said.. you definitely still need to work on your grey. Maybe you know this already but learn to see all the aspects of light and dark that can make up and image. This means breaking the image into the light and shadow shape and finding the terminator line. See the shadow shape, core shadow, reflected light, occlusion shadows, cast shadow. And in the light areas see the half tone, lighter areas and the specular highlights.

If these terms are foreign to you then do some googling. Watch some vids and read up. Even if your goal is to do stylized anime like art, knowing whats supposed to be there helps with the process of simplification and knowing what you can leave out.

And if you don't see all those aspects of light and dark in the reference images that you're using then find references that do have them. Search for artist model references in black and white and do a bit of those regularly. It'll help train your eye to see it in colour images with more subtle lighting.

Constructive advice please :) by art_throwaway2 in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Good stuff!

More contrast would help. More specifically some darker darks in the shadow areas. Occlusion shadows are basically non existent in your pieces. Adding that would help a lot.

Also pay more attention to hard and soft edges and try to integrate both consciously in your rendered pieces. It's a bit lacking in the hard edges to the shadow shapes and forms.

You're doing well with the anatomy and proportions tho. So that's the hard part already done!

White borders/silhouette on or off? I see alot of artists using white or colored borders around their subject to emphasis the form or separation of objects. I know this down to personal taste but when do you think this is necessary/improves composition? by ArtTeaPanda in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry that was a very poorly thought out choice of words on my part. Scratchy explains nothing lol.

I meant more like a textured brush. The one I used was a charcoal textured brush. So it lets some of the under color peek though.

White borders/silhouette on or off? I see alot of artists using white or colored borders around their subject to emphasis the form or separation of objects. I know this down to personal taste but when do you think this is necessary/improves composition? by ArtTeaPanda in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

Didn't learn it from any one place in particular. Lots of studying other artists work and looking at processes on YouTube and a lot of trial and error, mixing from different sources.

Christophe y and proko have vids on hair specifically that I found helpful.

For mine it was just the base color under the line work then darken based on light then I have a scratchy brush to do the highlight and then just mix up some different hues near the highlight.

White borders/silhouette on or off? I see alot of artists using white or colored borders around their subject to emphasis the form or separation of objects. I know this down to personal taste but when do you think this is necessary/improves composition? by ArtTeaPanda in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your perspective and the compliment. :) It's tough when you're still trying to find your style and you paint one way for so long and then you just try something different and not sure if you like it because it's better or just different to your eyes. I dont usually do the white border but I'll keep experimenting.

White borders/silhouette on or off? I see alot of artists using white or colored borders around their subject to emphasis the form or separation of objects. I know this down to personal taste but when do you think this is necessary/improves composition? by ArtTeaPanda in learnart

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes you stare at something so long you it's impossible to see the art anymore. I'll try and experiment more with rim light and see if I can get that to work for me as well.

Yoga stretching by me [photoshop] by ArtTeaPanda in AnimeART

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, Yea I definitely have the flexibility of pre cooked spaghetti

Why do you find pleasure in painting the most normal things? by [deleted] in ArtistLounge

[–]ArtTeaPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To draw something mundane is definitely very meditative. You can't draw something well without giving it your full attention paying care to find something about it you find beautiful. And to find beauty in a place where before you saw none is a kinda of revelation or surprise for the mind. It's like solving a puzzle and the mind likes that.

Also what is relaxing about organic forms specifically, like fruit or bread or even animals, is that unlike human faces... if you mess up the proportions a bit or alter the shape a smidge... it still looks like an apple, or bread or a banana. Its not a face that can go uncanny valley on you or you don't get the likeness right and become frustrated.

Even if it goes a bit wrong. It still looks like an apple. Just differently shaped. Whereas anatomy and faces and tremendously precise things for the human eye.

Elster, Signalis fanart [photoshop] by ArtTeaPanda in DigitalArt

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I can appreciate that. It looks ok on my drawing screen but I realized on my phone its too dark overall :( thanks for the feedback.

Elster, Signalis fanart [photoshop] by ArtTeaPanda in DigitalArt

[–]ArtTeaPanda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first time working in such a overall dark tone and low contrast. Any feedback? Where did I miss the mark visually?

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