>>3629
Thank you. Now, about the method... are you really supposed to do the same thing from the very beginning, which is looking at a target picture and trying to imitate it as closely as possible by eye? Or would it be better to start with direct tracing and after some time move onto imitation by eye? Or maybe some sort of hybrid where you try to imitate sections by eye, and directly compare them with the target picture and fix major fuckups before moving to the next section?

>>3630
Don't just trace. There's no point where you'll be "good enough" to start copying by eye. Howard has suggested tracing AFTER you copy by eye, if you're really off the mark. I think doing it all in one go is better than sectioning things arbitrarily. The drawing exists as a whole, not in neat divisions. As you draw something, keep the other parts in mind. That's how you keep things proportional and with the correct gesture.

I realized that for my purposes I need to learn some SD, and if anything that would have more priority than general art. Has Howard ever talked about SD in his Patreon videos or whatever? Is it easier than general art? Can it be learned before general art or is that unadvised?

>>3632
If by SD, you mean chibi, I can't recall him mentioning it specifically. What I think though, is that any otaku art style is going to share the same principles. If drawing chibi characters is what motivates you, just go for it.

>>3304
>>3304
>Computers in the 90s had keyboards, real ones.
You can plug in a USB keyboard to your phone (with the appropriate usb to micro-usb adapter I guess). Or use a bluetooth keyboard.

>They also had screens larger than your hand. So you could actually see what you're doing
Fair, but this isn't a limiting factor. With how large phones are these days (and their resolution) you can still manage to work on things. I'm not saying developing on a phone is going to be a comfortable experience, but it can be done if you're willing to put in the effort to find creative workarounds.

The rest I do agree with, and if one is going to do software dev he should at least learn how to google rather than asking people for help.

Getting a VPS might be a nice idea, you can do what the person right above me recommended to have a better experience with logging into the ssh server of said VPS. It would cost maybe about £3 a month? And you may have to learn how to use a Linux distribution of your choice for said server.

Hope this helps.

>>3616
>£3
Where?

>>3617
Privex's cheapest option is $2 per month. You only get a ipv6 address, but that can be worked around with this:
http://v4-frontend.netiter.com/

This pose was difficult. Something definitely went wrong, but I'm not sure what exactly or why. I don't know what I'm doing with shading either.

Portrait of Johan Liebert.

I think this one came out better. The torso is still too long proportionally and I don't really know how to shade the back.

>>2357
woah

>>3526
Taking a quick look at a live instance, jschan does not have expandable thumbnails or allow deleting posts without javascript. It does not have embedded youtube videos, or themes, or editing posts at all. You can add your own css, but this also requires javascript.

edit: ogai also uses css to limit the size a thumbnail expands based on your screen size, so you don't have to scroll or open the image in a new tab to see all of it. I've never seen another imageboard engine do this.

Post edited on 27th Dec 2023, 5:26pm

>>3526
Never heard of it, but wow, that's actually pretty neat.

Added code block and shift jis support.

I've given up on the SVG idea because the firefox code reviewer assigned to that bug still hasn't approved the fix. Worse though is that links accessed in an SVG are added to your history, so if you maximize an image and then press the back button, it'll minimize the image instead of actually going to last page you were on.

I've instead added a context menu to images using JS. I know it's weird using JS as compensation for not using it, but people who have it disabled altogether wont be affected by this, and those who do have it enabled, are now affected less than before. So it seems like a win-win.

Post edited on 5th May 2024, 6:56pm

>>3547
look nice, at least to my untrained eyes your stuff is already at the level of popular pixiv artists.

>>3547
>That's really nice. Are you just starting to learn drawing?
Thanks a lot. No, I used to draw as a kid, but kept going on and off, sometimes with year-long breaks in-between. But I am starting to try colouring. Nice Flandre, by the way.

>>3547
That's a cute flan drawing

>>3547
I'm glad it helped! "Just draw" works more if you're a beginner like me and don't know where to start. I think it depends if what you want to draw is something that forces you to practice or if you get into the habit of drawing what you're used to but it's fun nonetheless. I'm going to try drawing something other than portraits regularly again after I finish cleaning and rearranging my room. Cute Flan, by the way.

>>2775
LBRY

>>3519
What is your website anon? I won't comment about it.

>>2775
Literature goes onto my personal website on Neocities. Art right now is mostly on Weasyl but I plan to move it to my website at a later date. Games go on Itch, can't put them on Neocities sadly.

>>3461
I can... almost vouch for Weasyl. Most of the stuff uploaded there is DeviantART-tier but it makes up for it with its user interface that I think is the best I've seen on an art site. Don't expect any engagement though.

>>3461
I think that what site you choose to upload your stuff to should be based upon the functionality of the site as opposed to reception; what's the extent of it's tagging/searching capabilities, how much of it is gated by account-usage, does the site compress your work or have limits (if so how much), privacy aspects etc. Nonetheless, if you are using the site not merely as a means for hosting to link elsewhere but for sake of visibility (whose purpose is indeed lacking) then proceed with your criteria. However, regardless I think you should also choose another site to mirror your work with quality as the priority. I don't know personally which sites are browsable that offer lossless galleries, if any, but optimally it would be both, if none can be found then at the very least upload all your works losslessly to a filehosting service perhaps periodically in an archive, or maybe MEGA, or consider hosting your own simple html site on a free hosting service such as neocities (only really a feasible option if the quantiy is low).

>>3532
Was pleased to see you can upload .swf there, though I didn't find any interesting ones. Odd that there's no svg (according to the faq) though considering.

>>3533
>Any thoughts/criticisms?
AAAAAAAAAAAああああああああああああ

I'm not really into poetry. It requires effort on my part to not skim through. The mention of urine laced tap water, and sports-drinks felt odd. I think I get what you're going for, a dreamy, nonsensical atmosphere, but it still feels inharmonious to include stuff like that and name drop Greek tragedies in the same text.

I just thought up a nightmare scifi scenario I'd like to ask if you think its spooky enough before fleshing out the idea. The hypothesis I'm basing my idea on is that after humans go into space and live in low/zero gravity situations the physical penalties for obesity are reduced and the fatties are able to grow to enormous sizes without being crushed to death under the weight of their own hideous mass. After a few generations the fatties have evolved bodies more in line with their excess nutritional intake and as everything else about them grows, so does their brains. The fattest of fatties grow super smart and conquer humanity completely, possibly eating a lot of us in the process and eventually enormous space whales the size of planets rule the universe an thats how it all plays out in the end. Fatties win bigtime.
What do you think?

>>2827
delete this right now you baka

Old thread, huh. I never did realistic noses, I would just add little triangle noses to images to make people laugh.

>>3527
unlike op's picture, those triangle noses actually look cute

>>3220
I suddenly remembered this thread, thought it was a neat idea and wanted to post just to come and see a post vaguely claiming it seems dangerous.
Anyone have any idea why it would be dangerous?

>>3249
I can't think of a way it'd be _dangerous_, although I suppose in the worst case it might allow someone in the real-world to learn that you are a poster on TC, but they'd need to have another sample of your writing tied to your real-world identity to compare against. It might also allow someone to forge your writing, but unless that can be linked to a real-world identity it seems useless as well.

So in short I don't see how it could be dangerous, although that being said as a paranoid person I'd still hestiatae in terms of opsec to upload anything that could undeniably link with real-world identity.

>>3250
Oh right. I was thinking it was due to feeding algorithms and AI even more data.
Your concerns are more reasonable though, thanks.

>>2859

>>3250