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I just started drawing and editing on photoshop and i've created an instagram account to post some of my art. Thought some of my MMA bros might like some of it. any criticism or support is hugely appreciated. If you want to roast me I will also accept that. PEACE

 
Cool .. Illuminate confirmed?
 
Jedijiujitsu said:
I just started drawing and editing on photoshop and i've created an instagram account to post some of my art. Thought some of my MMA bros might like some of it. any criticism or support is hugely appreciated. If you want to roast me I will also accept that. PEACE

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How high were you when you drew that?

what’s the tonality ad symbolism there supposed to be signifying?

it looks confused to me, I’m guessing random stoner art?
 
I'll give you a soundtrack for your art.

 
Looks cool, but like someone asked, is there a meaning? I can’t remember specifically but there was a famous dark artist from Europe , much of his work had haunting imagery from WW2...he was adamant that his art had no real meaning, it was just art..
 
All seeing eye and an upside down pyramid.

You a free mason ts?
 
If you want to improve this smorgasbord of cliches, ts, you could start by adding a bit of contrast, like a white edge around the red blobbetyblop stringithingies, to separate it properly from the black background.

Oh, and less is more. Aim for simplicity, especially if you want to go the 1950's comics route.

The only good thing in that drawing are the purple cloud-ghosts, imo, and they're only good because they are funny.

GL.
 
Your individuality is your currency, so definitely stay cautious of any critiques that affect your voice and what you feel like painting. That said, you know that feeling of having the image in your head, but when you hit the paper (or digital canvas) it doesn't quite come out as good? All that is is lack of skill set. Lack of tools. You wanna corner your visions and print them out from your brain, you gonna need to up your fundamentals. It's a boring grind at first, but those effortless quantum leaps afterwards are well worth it.

Drawing is, effectively,about understanding shapes, so pick up Michael Hampton's book "Figure Drawing, Design & Invention", it's the GOAT anatomy book. Breaks the body down in the most simplest forms possible. I've redrawn it cover to cover multiple times and every time I pick up something new. Then there's Andrew Loomis books - https://www.alexhays.com/loomis/ all available here for free. The Head & Hands one is the one I started with, personally. Excellent artist & teacher. From there on start learning about compositions (shit like rule of 3rds). If you gonna fuck with colors, you'll need to learn color theory. I recommend this playlist: It's a severely underrated tutorial. Extremely bare bones and straight to the point.

Keep making your personal pieces, but upgrade yourself. I'm not saying to follow rules, I see these as tools. You wanna fish - get a boat... that kind of thing. I draw weird shit, but I've studied the standard way as well and my weird shit now looks much cooler than the meandering weird shit I drew before. And the stuff you wanna learn the least is most likely the stuff you should tackle first. But remember that intensity beats extensity, so just start somewhere and claim little victories a long the way. Also, if you wanna mess around and try and bamboozle people with symbols and stuff - I recommend you go way back and study paganism as well as Prisoner's Cinema - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_cinema A lot of these symbols like the Celtic cross, star of David, swastika - they have a much richer meaning and history than you can possibly imagine.

Lastly, 2 things - when you're learning this shit, try and think of it as a musical instrument. Like you're learning notes. In music, playing a guitar, when you fuck up - your fuck up vanishes instantly, but in art - that piece of shit you drew is right there haunting you. So don't think about it, don't look back. Just jam it out and move forward. And, dude, these quantum leaps in skill that you're in store... this probably won't make any sense, but here's the best way I can describe it:

You're a beginner, you have 1 point worth of skill. You look around and you see a great artist who's at 2000 points. You wanna be that good... Then you really push yourself - for 3 months you draw like a mad man... you're focused, you're on it and 3 months later you're at... 2 points. What? "2 FUCKING POINTS?! After 4 months?!" - Yes! "Does this mean I'm gonna need thousands of months to become great?" - No! These leaps in skill work like 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256 and so on. It's a weird growth and extremely deceptive. And the more you learn, the more the Devil will be in the details.

Yeah and... not to bum you out - this shit takes so much fucking time to get good at. Where you think you'll be in 2 years, you'll probably get there in 8 or 10. That's if you're above average in focus. And if you wanna do it professionally - you gonna get you shit pushed in bad at the start. Bad vision, carpal tunnel, shot to shit back, bad neck, spider veins, staring at a shiny screen all day making use of your phone, watching TV & playing video games an extra misery you'll consider avoiding, then there's weird working hours (if you don't get to work in a studio, but even then it can get weird), people who don't understand art telling you how to do things better, bizarre social life and relationships... I've done art and grueling construction work for a living - construction was mentally way easier. And you get to interact with humans instead of waiting on yourself to print out an image that you've been staring at hours on end.

Anyways, good luck, bro.

P.S. Here are some art channel recommendations to bathe yourself in:

https://www.youtube.com/user/novacolonyshow/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/architectus777/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/marcobucci/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/reiqws/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL/videos
 
Jedijiujitsu said:
I just started drawing and editing on photoshop and i've created an instagram account to post some of my art. Thought some of my MMA bros might like some of it. any criticism or support is hugely appreciated. If you want to roast me I will also accept that. PEACE

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You desperately need to study great art more. Your art reminds me of a poem written by a guy who hasn't read much poetry, but he thinks he knows how to write poetry.
 
I don’t see anything distasteful about your obvious struggles with your own sexuality. I wish you well.
 
This looks like HERESY to me, the Emperor's light will banish this and all darkness
 
add me bro
 
90 50 said:
How high were you when you drew that?

what’s the tonality ad symbolism there supposed to be signifying?

it looks confused to me, I’m guessing random stoner art?
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yes completely random lol im literally brand new to this, started last week. just trying to figure out tools and shapes then i'll try dive into making anything thats actually good

Leonard Haid said:
You desperately need to study great art more. Your art reminds me of a poem written by a guy who hasn't read much poetry, but he thinks he knows how to write poetry.
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yeah man i understand that, i've always loved cool pictures but ive never actually followed artists or learned anything about the process until very recently. just need to put more time and effort in, cheers!

Herwald said:
Your individuality is your currency, so definitely stay cautious of any critiques that affect your voice and what you feel like painting. That said, you know that feeling of having the image in your head, but when you hit the paper (or digital canvas) it doesn't quite come out as good? All that is is lack of skill set. Lack of tools. You wanna corner your visions and print them out from your brain, you gonna need to up your fundamentals. It's a boring grind at first, but those effortless quantum leaps afterwards are well worth it.

Drawing is, effectively,about understanding shapes, so pick up Michael Hampton's book "Figure Drawing, Design & Invention", it's the GOAT anatomy book. Breaks the body down in the most simplest forms possible. I've redrawn it cover to cover multiple times and every time I pick up something new. Then there's Andrew Loomis books - https://www.alexhays.com/loomis/ all available here for free. The Head & Hands one is the one I started with, personally. Excellent artist & teacher. From there on start learning about compositions (shit like rule of 3rds). If you gonna fuck with colors, you'll need to learn color theory. I recommend this playlist: It's a severely underrated tutorial. Extremely bare bones and straight to the point.

Keep making your personal pieces, but upgrade yourself. I'm not saying to follow rules, I see these as tools. You wanna fish - get a boat... that kind of thing. I draw weird shit, but I've studied the standard way as well and my weird shit now looks much cooler than the meandering weird shit I drew before. And the stuff you wanna learn the least is most likely the stuff you should tackle first. But remember that intensity beats extensity, so just start somewhere and claim little victories a long the way. Also, if you wanna mess around and try and bamboozle people with symbols and stuff - I recommend you go way back and study paganism as well as Prisoner's Cinema - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_cinema A lot of these symbols like the Celtic cross, star of David, swastika - they have a much richer meaning and history than you can possibly imagine.

Lastly, 2 things - when you're learning this shit, try and think of it as a musical instrument. Like you're learning notes. In music, playing a guitar, when you fuck up - your fuck up vanishes instantly, but in art - that piece of shit you drew is right there haunting you. So don't think about it, don't look back. Just jam it out and move forward. And, dude, these quantum leaps in skill that you're in store... this probably won't make any sense, but here's the best way I can describe it:

You're a beginner, you have 1 point worth of skill. You look around and you see a great artist who's at 2000 points. You wanna be that good... Then you really push yourself - for 3 months you draw like a mad man... you're focused, you're on it and 3 months later you're at... 2 points. What? "2 FUCKING POINTS?! After 4 months?!" - Yes! "Does this mean I'm gonna need thousands of months to become great?" - No! These leaps in skill work like 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256 and so on. It's a weird growth and extremely deceptive. And the more you learn, the more the Devil will be in the details.

Yeah and... not to bum you out - this shit takes so much fucking time to get good at. Where you think you'll be in 2 years, you'll probably get there in 8 or 10. That's if you're above average in focus. And if you wanna do it professionally - you gonna get you shit pushed in bad at the start. Bad vision, carpal tunnel, shot to shit back, bad neck, spider veins, staring at a shiny screen all day making use of your phone, watching TV & playing video games an extra misery you'll consider avoiding, then there's weird working hours (if you don't get to work in a studio, but even then it can get weird), people who don't understand art telling you how to do things better, bizarre social life and relationships... I've done art and grueling construction work for a living - construction was mentally way easier. And you get to interact with humans instead of waiting on yourself to print out an image that you've been staring at hours on end.

Anyways, good luck, bro.

P.S. Here are some art channel recommendations to bathe yourself in:

https://www.youtube.com/user/novacolonyshow/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/architectus777/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/marcobucci/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/reiqws/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL/videos
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Dude this is cool man. thanks for taking the time to write that out. so far in my tiny experience everything you said is true. it's like entering an entire new world that you pretty much just suck at. The first day i drew something and scanned it onto photoshop i literally said to myself "ok today i am the worst artist on the planet so just mess around and see what garbage comes out" was kind of freeing removing all expectation to learn.

for sure its only time put in, i remember in art class at school like 11 years ago some guy came in to show us this epic drawing he made, and we were like oh wow whatd that take you like a few days? and he laughed and said it took him 8 months. he said when people asked me what i did last year i point to this. that was mind blowing to me and really made realize how important patience and time is. Like when you first start drawing you spend 30 minutes on something and you think "ffs why isnt this epic yet" its so silly when you look at it like that. of course its not epic give yourself 10 years practice than an 8 month canvas. then itll be epic.

ty for the links too i will dive into that stuff after work. peace!
 
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