/art/ - Drawing, Photography, Painting

how do you draw caustics, reflections and refractions thru bubbles realistically? i dont get how it works

i recall there's how shadows are planned but i cant seem to find anything on reflection orrefraction or caustics… especially underwater ones or even raindrops

any tutorials? thanks

what can i do THIS MONTH(in a month) to net me fifty thousand dollar(in subs, traffic, etc) portofolio with art? note the NET as in PROFIT

You like icons? I don't get this one: The Holy Martyr Christopher, seems like sometimes they give him a dog head.

Just finished batch 1 through the various steps of grit and polish.
Turned out to be quite a disaster.
I intentionally set out to tumble shitty rocks to see what would happen, and they ended up shitting up some nicer ones that I lumped in through the grit transfers.

My unit is a dual container tumbler which means there are I can run two batches at once. However, due to some rocks becoming too small and hence discarded, merging the batches allows the opportunity to begin another one. So some of the dark black creek rocks mixed with what I assume is some kind of quartz. Some of the quartz has black specs on it because the black rocks rubbed off onto them.
Guides suggest to match up hardness, but I'm not a geologist. It's basically a lesson similar to laundry or society.

Anyway, I've got a load of jaspers going which came with the tumbler, so those should turn out nice and shiny. I also broke up a rock stolen off a state park beach and tossed it in a batch.

Also have a hobby drill press now and poked some holes into some. We'll see what happens.
One thing you won't notice from the photos is the touch. They're remarkably smooth, almost smoother than the granite slab countertop I photoed them on, also probably a bad idea for photographing the rocks. Oh well.
It's a pretty fun passive hobby. Once a week you play in some water and see rocks develop.

I thought it was kind of funny. There's one rock in there that looks basically like any old creek rock like nothing happened to it. However it's incredibly smooth.
Anyway… there's my post.

as titled. maybe pencil or wax crayon. i use HB pencils but they glossed too much under light so they scan terribly, so i need something less glossy but not graphite as theyre smudging…
any brand/ name recommendatyions?

something that makes grey in multiple shades, dry, and smudging, not smearing not glossing.

draw anything

looking for books on drawing, everysingle type of things?
like an encycopedia or something?

Totenkopf skull

Who here has ever done some sort of art show or public presentation, like a theater play or public reading? Interested in hearing your stories if you got any, here's mine:

>Be me in middle school
>For English we gotta do a reading at the school poetry fund raiser thing
>"The more you read, the more extra credit you'll get"
>I'm borderline illiterate so this would help a lot
>Decide to read E. Allen Poe's The Raven
>Never practiced, never even fully read it, just thought of it the day of the "Night"
>show time and I get scared
>Read the entire The Raven, slowly and in a monotone voice, for an entire crowd of people
>It was so boring that even the parents gave me shit about it for weeks
>Still got the credit. Worth it.

I've had more positive experiences, but that is the most memorable one I can think of lol

what would be the most KINO thing to do as a debut one-shot comic manga thing for you to jumpstart your art-comic-manga career thing? something to grab like… a million readers overnight?
like…. just magnetically pulling them to your site with a single image?