Welcome to /loomis/ ! This board is intended for the discussion of a variety of artistic subjects, with an emphasis on illustration, painting and animation. If you're looking for books, video lectures and demonstrations on these subjects, please see the old /loomis/ resource hub archived at: https://bit.ly/3mW0abp

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Oekaki is BACK, bitches! You see this thread, right? Then stop whatever you're doing and draw something with it right now! Take your time or doodle something quick, it doesn't matter. Just have fun and draw something!

I mean, there's the concrete and formulaic aesthetic aspect of art, and then there's the expression part, the part that gives it life. I think we deserve this. We've been commercializing art ever since we could televise talent, and since then we've been chasing the the ultimate formula for what attracts our sense of appeal. It started with the golden ratio, ended with the revelation that anime characters look like cats. People forgot about the other half of the definition, which was expression. Have you ever heard someone sing, and has it touched your soul? We can dissect what made it resonate with you, the way the voice cracks, the timbre, how the vocal folds constricted and relaxed, and try to replicate it all scientifically. But I don't think we can. It's just too magical. It must be connected to the turbulence and the uncertainties of the quantum fields. You can't rely on your prefrontal cortext for expression, man. You gotta turn that off and go on your instincts, just feel what's right and channel it out, like grabbing ahold of some kind of magic from a higher being and doing what it tells you to do, without thinking. Let the puppet strings take over. Do you use your pencil to "sing" out your drawings? Can you draw without thinking? Does every line need to be planned, and scrutinized? And I don't mean that the strokes should be random, I mean that you should let the higher being take over, and you shouldn't fight over where the strokes should go. The higher being knows better. And the higher being is not god, it's you, it's you without your prefrontal cortex. You can turn that off. It's what freestyle rappers and tennis players do, and it's what you do when you mow the lawn every week for the 900th time. Have you guys watched old cartoons and old western animations? They were made by people who had to talk to humans every single day, whose minds weren't corrupted by this formulaic, meta bullshit that seems to suffocate the sincerity out of most modern interactions. I could feel the sincerity in their fucking psychiatric medical textbooks. The way they explained mental illnesses back then were much more intuitive, much more connected in relation to our humanness. What the hell happened to just drawing? Just looking at life, and not replicating life, not studying life, not forcefeeding life into ourselves, but simply partaking in it, and letting it flow out onto the paper? When did fundamentals becoming a crutch to walk on, and not a point of reference in the back of your mind? We used to draw what felt right, and then used fundamentals like anatomy to supplement our work. Art has turned into a soulless pursuit of aesthetics, and when they fed our formula to a machine and it replicated it, and then we got mad. That's on us. We can only beat the machine by regaining our sense of expression. Go ahead and just draw pretty pictures if you want, but for humanity's sake, have some goddamn fun with it... god. We're more than wires in a box, aren't we?

Geez louise, I wonder if some of you ain't posting your cute girls because no one's made *the* thread for it yet. There's already a cute guy study gen here already... start making boards here, we don't know when our mother site will be back, could be next week, could be 3 years.

Learning to love again Use your post number or the Random Number Generator at https://www.random.org to roll a number between 1 and 999 to play! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZQOlhv9fcY

I don't know how to start a thread I just want to make a place for us to post work of cute boys and men.

What's the edgiest thing you ever drew? Also, edgy art thread.

This thread is dedicated to sharing your own comics, panels or comic/manga related media. This is also a good place to receive comments on your writing, page flow, illustration techniques or style. Feel free to post inspirational material or links and media realated to comic and manga creation. Obviously useful discussions related to comic/manga creation are appreciated.

A thread for people of all skill levels to dump their works-in-progress and studies Old Thread: >>3 Resources: Northern Kentucky University Drawing Database - Marc Leone "the Basics" Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtd6uwNFl9k&list=PLMXbAPr21di-Ox-dmDwL2riWedei1dn9S[Embed] Ctrl+Paint.net Free Video Library https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/ Anatomical 3-D Models: https://pastebin.com/9VgmQQPk Random Figure Poses: New and Improved!

It fucks me up that that the best place to find artbooks is exhentai. I understand how this state of affairs came to be, but it's still absurd.

>What is the purpose of this thread? The point of this thread is to establish for people the foundations of what is required in order to become a great artist. The people this thread is best aimed at are those so-called "experts" wanting to get back to the basics, or newcomers wanting to know how to start their journey towards becoming an artist. >Does the "six steps" mean I will become a great artists within the week? No. The purpose of the "six steps" is to establish a foundation for all art and drawing. You're not going to become an expert overnight because drawing is a skill that you need to develop over time. However, it's pointless to constantly bang your head against a wall for hours on end because that will do nothing except burn yourself out and become frustrated. To put it one way, it's a better learning process to spend 10 days sketching for an hour than spend one day sketching for 10 hours. >So, how does the "six step" process work? All you do is spend 15-60 hours everyday, drawing each successive step of the process. That's it. >What happens if I miss a day You just continue on with the next day as if nothing every happened. Spending double the time is not going to make up for the day that you lost. >What if I just don't feel like doing it one day? If you don't "feel" like it, learn to work through it because what you're doing is building a habit. If you're still having a "hard time", just get out your supplies, and set them up as if you were going to still practice. If you're still not "feeling it", perhaps drawing isn't your thing and you need to find a new hobby. >How was this process developed? Referring to resources that other artists have recommended in regards actually learning how to draw. So, here we go...

This is a thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread. The second such thread, in fact.