Don't forget that age isn't an excuse either. I see too many people being like "LAY OFF BRO IM ONLY 15 LOL"

OP is a fag.

more sticky ? more sticky.

>>954199
Ohh you think you're scary /ic/

sticky this please, mods

>>954224
No, don't. We have enough stickies as is. And we especially don't need one that's a wall of text.

>>954199
>Survival guide

What the fuck is this, a teenage drama?

This >>954199 followed by info on books etc; threads NOT to make ( a la our current sticky)... Let's just say that would be more helpful to new comers and/or everyone else, than anything I've seen stickied the last 5 years on here.

no need to be stickied if people keep bumping it like this.
>>954235
Don't know how long you've been on /ic/ but yea, it does seem like a teen drama board from what I've seen, just like the rest of 4chan

bump for this >>954236

Books By:
Andrew Loomis
Burne Hogarth
Gottfried Bammes
Michael Mattesi
Eliot Goldfinger
Charles Bargue
Kimon Nicolaides

Resources:
http://lovecastle.org/draw/

Those two b& stickies should be deleted, they just pollute the front page. Make this a stickie instead.

Also, to be more on topic, /ic/ is not for requests, and especially not free commissions. It's not our work, but your tattooist's to design your tattoo.

>no one cares how much time you spent on it
I do. Given enough time, anyone could draw perfection. Time is an essential part of the process. I want to know how much time it took because then I can give pointers towards how to speed up the process. I mean if somebody posts a picture of a stickman and says it took them an hour to draw it then there's obviously a problem. It's just essential information that can tell a lot about the process, you know? But obviously it shouldn't be used as an excuse. But that's given: no excuses!

>>954241
http://www.posemaniacs.com/

Also; Porn.

Another thing I want to say:
As an artist becomes better, they becomes less protective of their art. Worrying about getting one's copyrights violated and being defensive of genuine criticism is a sign of weakness common to many no-so-good artists.

You know you've become pretty damn good when it doesn't fucking matter if /ic/ throws your work out with a single 'sucks' reply and a 404. A true artist will try again, only to become better.

Books for Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?yui2vm6nc98m2

>>954241
Paul Richer and Harold Speed have great books too.

bamp, /ic/ deserves better stickies.

Obligatory.

If you want to make this a sticky, at least make it short and concise, as well as too the point. no one likes reading blocks of text.


i'll make an example in a bit.

>>954532
if you don't like reading text, why use words at all? It's an image board, I hope your example is all images....

>>954542
I love reading dude, but I hate it when people don't know how to write. When you write, you have to be sure to space stuff out and get to the point, especially so if you're on an image board.

You have to present information in a way that's easy to digest and doesn't have people grumbling "oh fuck, another wall of text".

Just my opinion really.
> I hope your example is all images
And now, this is just silly, even if I do present it as an image, it'll still have plenty of text. It's not so much as not liking to read, but more that I dislike the way it is displayed. Graphics really have nothing to do with it.

bamf

>>954556
This is for everyone who is considering seeking critique or input from /ic/, this is just my laughable attempt to help out people who have no idea what they are getting into.

1. Beware of Trolls. They mostly post threads about bad artists on deviantart, trying to incite mad or make themselves feel better about their own artistic stagnation. They should be ignored.

2. If you post art, be prepared for people to call you on all your fuck-ups. No, must of us don't care if you're 15, autistic, "took just 10 minutes" or whatever else you use as an excuse as to why your drawings suck. Instead of getting mad at critiques and defending your work, accept the critique and try to see where it's coming from, try to learn.

Resources
http://www.icrit.org/resources.html

The above link pretty much has all of the things you need to start drawing.

http://lovecastle.org/draw/
A random pose viewer. Good for gesture drawings.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yui2vm6nc98m2
Art books for download

http://www.mediafire.com/?dsn7j5bhaeuts
References collection.

>anything anyone want to add?