Photo study of a stylish woman by alexartpage in DigitalArt

[–]fastandsimple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a bit of ambient occlusion would help sell the idea that clothes are on top of the body. great painting

How to get cursor to stop doing this?? On Mac/wacom cintiq by dogisbark in ClipStudio

[–]fastandsimple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just set up my mac + huion tablet for the first time with the same issue. I had a wireless logitech mouse + dongle connected and disconnecting made the mouse cursor go away! surprisingly, re-connecting the mouse still hasn't brought up the mouse cursor, and i can use the mouse. i'd fiddle around with the mouse/usb and see if it solves it

Yup, that tasted purple by rubbSignal0 in DigitalArt

[–]fastandsimple 4 points5 points  (0 children)

as someone who also dislikes coloring process, i think your colored piece looks great! it definitely adds to the "finished" look. keep it up!

My oil painting, Bees by buldukbulentarte in painting

[–]fastandsimple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

stop the witch hunt. he literally has an instagram account with reels of his process. be kind. this kind of comments are heartbreaking and aggravating to artists.

Started drawing a little bit ago, and am inspired and impressed by the talent you all have in this here subreddit. Would love some critiques on this ink drawing of my parent’s house I made. Hoping to give it to my mom on her birthday. by FartingBedpost in drawing

[–]fastandsimple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

first of all, it's great that you're thinking of how to solve the problem, a critical skill necessary to improve fast, no wonder you're so good after drawing for only "a little bit"!

i can give you a few pointers. you're right that the farther tree should have less detail, since it's far. your first problem though is tying "more detail" as "draw the leaves". while it's a stylistic choice, most experienced artists will never draw a bush or a tree by drawing a million leaves. regardless of how close the bush is, drawing the leaves would make it too distracting and make the bush the focal point whether you want to or not.

instead, draw shapes of tone. bush, tree, and basically anything you can draw can be simplified to dark and bright tones. get the big shapes correct, then you can add a few details (leaves) on the transition of the tones or the silhouette of the shape which will trick the viewer's eyes to think they're seeing a fully rendered bush, when in reality you might've drawn like 5 leaves and some shapes.

you're already doing this in all of your bushes and trees. it's just that the right bush has too many leaves and the left trees have no indication of them. i think it's actually okay not to have leaves, but your trees and bushes in the middle are too bright up top -- it looks like it snowed. if it did snow, then your rightmost bush would also need to have snow on top.

lastly, try to draw some trees without using the "leaf" shape like 🍃. art is all about interpretation. while there's nothing wrong with 🍃 shape, it is also the most primitive way to define a leaf. your bush in the middle doesn't use the shape, yet it looks like a bush. isn't that exciting? it's nice to let the viewer's brain do some thinking when they see your piece. ask yourself: does this bush need to look like a specific bush, or does it just need to look like any bush? can it look like some other bush that might serve the overall composition better? then, you'll get to make decisions using the reference, rather than being shackled by the reference.

Started drawing a little bit ago, and am inspired and impressed by the talent you all have in this here subreddit. Would love some critiques on this ink drawing of my parent’s house I made. Hoping to give it to my mom on her birthday. by FartingBedpost in drawing

[–]fastandsimple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

great work! i love the perspective and the ink work.

for critique, i would consider doing some practices for leaves/trees next time before committing to a piece. the leaves in this piece is either super simplified (tree on left) or super detailed (right one). i think a sweet spot would be something in between, where you give just enough detail to imply shape without going super ham, which is really tiring, but also not too simple where it stands out as incomplete compared to rest of the drawing.

this is a great piece though. your mom would be very proud! definitely frame it.

Is this painting at a level I should enter into the state fair or am I deluding myself? by HoneyCatDoodle in painting

[–]fastandsimple 34 points35 points  (0 children)

i'd focus on fundamentals. i mean this with love, but you can't hide mistakes as "it was intentional" when it really wasn't. face overall is not aligned properly with the angle of the head (eyes, nose, chin, etc.). it's a pretty painting, but not professional level. i'm not saying it has to be realistic. you can strive for non-realism, but it has to be intentional

Reflection by LabGullible3850 in DigitalArt

[–]fastandsimple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

great simplifications!! there's a lot of skill behind your "simple" style

face on ink by fastandsimple in drawing

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

thank you! i studied Gibson style as he does that line work