its 2 am and i cant sleep because i keep thinking about how unhappy i am with my art over the past week so i might as well post a ramble here to maybe get some advice now that its all fresh running in my mind
I finished picrel a week and a half ago and (beside the background which i was decently lazy on) i feel like this is just the peak of my skillset atm and theres three things im very unhappy about.
Making sketches since then have only frustrated me more about these three specific points, like the suisex i posted today or the okayu korone meme earlier this week
1. Shading with hard lines (eg clothes) how do they work and how do I make it look good? I never have the confidence to use a hard line when shading and when i do it never ends up looking very cohesive (eg: watame's dress)
2. Proper directional shading. I still have no clue how shadows actually work I just kinda depth shade and learning where to start with proper directions is daunting as fuck so I keep putting it off, does anybody know of a good resource? jumping in the deep end googling "directional shading guide" is just not helpful
3. I simply don’t like my style. I want a more paintery look (like
https://files.catbox.moe/9n6k42.jpg) OR a more plastic look (like
https://files.catbox.moe/zccvac.png), I’m too much in the middle atm. Especially when drawing faces when i try to commit to either of these styles they just end up looking awful.
>>31537918and funny that this post is here now as well, ties in well to the third point. yea i dont fucking know what brushes to use really. if i want a more paintery look like the catboxed kronii theres definitely a ton of brushes i would need to get and understand but idk where to start.
this post is probably too rambly to get any real meaningful feedback out of but i really would appreciate any help or directions on where to go next, love ya drawthread chu
