Started playing Dredge for the first time last month, and I’m already at the halfway point. Been having a blast with it, I’m a total sucker for ocean horror and it has some cool Lovecraftin stuff thrown in as well. Plus the art is really nice! I really gotta make some fanart once I’m done with the main story. Maybe I’ll do a style study of the game’s art style once I have some free time as well.

I just had the Noclip documentary on in the background for this one, looked really neat the few times I glanced over, definitely something I'll be checking out in the future.

Art style looked very Monkey Island X Supergiant Games

Oh sweet! Didn’t know a documentary was made for this game that’s pretty awesome. I’ll definitely have to check it out in my free time.

And yeah I think you hit it right on the head with the art style, could just be my own bias speaking but I am getting a lil bit of some Mike mignola vibes as well. Mainly due to how funky the shapes are for some of the characters even if it doesn’t have the iconic way he does lines and shadows.

Im honestly excited to finish the game and do some studies on its art style. I really could use it as a small opportunity to experiment with my style a bit more.

Isn't there some program to make a game or some interactive widget of sorts for the games portal of a comic book/graphic novel? Rather than posting it page by page on the art portal, just make it one game instead?

any of you guys ever flipped a table in artistic disapproval?

The closest thing I can think of, is Twine maybe?

Look here in the Newgrounds resources

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/creator-resources/game-dev-resources

I flipped my sofa but had to go to hospital due to a pulled muscle, does that count?

I have thought about it multiple times, but I never do it. Simply because I have way too much shit on my art desk, and I rather not spend my time picking everything up.

I believe you’re thinking of Bando’s Comic Wizard

ng collabs tbh havent been that interesting for me

I don't know, I've always wanted to join a collab, but I get nerves talking to people.

the creature collab honestly is a bit too complicated

you should've warmed up on the armchair first

Bluegrounds returns!

We haven't had a color change in a while it feels like.

Wait that happened before?

Yup! We've had a lot of different colors before . It used to happen more frequently, to the point where people were asking for the normal orange to return.

now after that we might need to change it to pink to make it slaygrounds

Suggestion: I don’t know who’s in charge of writing the rules, but I think it’s been enough incidents that we should really put it in writing:

“No art request threads unless you have a specific twist on the concept, a need to ask for permission (like if the results are going on a commission sheet), or any other reason to not just use the OC Plaza.”

Started taking my 2D art foundation class for my degree. We basically had to cut out stuff from magazines that represented the elements of 2D design or something like that.

Anyways here’s some pics of my poster board. I tried to make it funny since this shit was pretty easy. But I’m not gonna lie this kinda feels a bit useless to me. Especially since it’s college, but eh I’m probably being too negative now. Hopefully it’ll get better as the semester continues

What paper do you guys and gals suggest I can buy in bulk? A sketchbook can be quite expensive and while regular printer paper is very cheap in large quantities, it's simply not suitable for regular shading because it's too smooth of a surface to really hold subtle changes to the shading. What do you suggest?

For general sketchbook purposes I get the yellow Strathmore Drawing sketchbooks. You can also get the Sketch paper pads, but those are thinner paper with less tooth so it might not be what you’re looking for.

The green Strathmore toned drawing pads are generally really good for sketching if you get a white pencil as well.

The unfortunate reality is good paper costs money, and if you’re doing graphite work you are going to want something that can hold it well.

Alternatively you can also get big newsprint pads they’re really cheap, but if you switch to graphite (messier yes, but much more fun and darker darks than pencil) it works well, and you’ll be able to get the same type of studies in.

To summarize all of that: if you’re looking to build skills with pencil go for the cheaper paper and tough it out.

If you want to make finished full graphite compositions, it might be worth it to try out charcoal, pencil tends to be seen as inherently a sketching medium, and you’ll probably constantly be asked if you’re going to be inking or coloring the pencils.

wanted to get these scrunkly cuties if i wasn't broke (they're biohazard plushies i found on ebay)

The first thing I see when I finally decide to pop in this thread:

Bro went the naked man dimension, not what I was expecting to see coming here.

PFFFFF! Sorry for that being one of the first things you got exposed to in this thread lol!

My classmates and my professor were definitely giving me strange looks since I was one of the few people who tried to make their poster boards funny.

You give me something easy to do and there’s an 50/50 chance I’ll make it funny or actually make it look cool. I think we both know which route I took.

I got some charcoal pencils, but why do you say that charcoal is a factually better tool to use?

Yall actually bother with supplies? I only really use whatever school supplies I have lying around

Also, 2nd question, does anyone else here omit the blending stump entirely? For me, it smears and blurs everywhere and I find it ruins my drawing. I don't care for hyper-realistic photocopy like drawings. So I guess I can omit using one? I dunno, it's a tool but wanted to hear feedback if I was shortchanging myself not using one.

Getting your values accurately blocked out is a lot more important than softening some of the edges between them, so yeah, focus on the first part first and try blending after that. If it doesn't look great with hard edges between values, chances are it won't look any better with them blended.

Charcoal is generally much faster than graphite since it's softer, so you can block in forms a lot quicker, this is especially good for doing still lives/gesture drawing quickly. Also a single piece of charcoal is much darker than your standard array of pencils, so you can get really deep shadows, and by smearing/using a softer hand you can still get the lighter values in.

On top of this you have a much larger flat with charcoal sticks so you can get bigger fills in. The downside is, it is much more prone to smears/smudging and getting everywhere. to preserve permanence make sure you have a fixative spray (I just use cheap hairspray).

Also as mentioned, finished pieces in charcoal are much more readily accepted than finished pieces in pencil would be.

I'm not saying charcoal is factually better in every scenario than pencil. Sketching on the bus, or on a lunch break, pencils will take it evertime, same for doing sketches and layouts for ink drawings. But if you're doing studies in a studio environment, or want to do final compositions, charcoal is generally a superior tool (that is pencil adjacent) to learn. But pencil will also do just fine. Charcoal pencils are good to have to get in detail on full charcoal pieces or if you're working at a smaller scale, but when you're working at the larger scales that charcoal is most effective at, the extra cost and loss of variability makes them not as worth it to use.

The only time I've ever used one was in classes where we were explicitly told to use them. Also sometimes for colored pencil they work, but I don't really do that type of blending much with colored pencil. It's a nice tool for if you're doing realism, or need smooth blends, but since you said you don't do that you don't really need them.

By realism, you mean just happens to be or leaning towards realism or did you mean the photocopy realism I was specifying?