/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Welcome back banana. Friendly suggestion to try your best to relax into art; hard work is absolutely a good thing but getting into the mindset that you're not working hard enough unless you draw till your fingers bleed etc is not a good thing.

Focus on learning something new each week and also give yourself time to mess around in photoshop, maybe make some brushes and play with them, see what settings the mixer tool can do, stuff like that. It's very important to have fun while painting or to be able to actually enjoy it as well as getting the work done.

I was stuck in a
>MUST WORK HARDER
burn out
>HARDER STILL
burn out
kind of cycle for a long time, but progressing much faster now that I'm just accepting of where I am and enjoying the act of learning and making things. Good luck. We can all make it, but first you must BELIEVE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAQtEs2Img

>>1814594

I really like this piece it is one of the most powerful works on sexuality in modern art

Clearly a metaphor for mans descent into reliance on cybersex, and reminiscent of Odysseus being drawn into Circe's hedonistic prison, The first two frames speak of power to the male who stands amongst his fantasy concubine who wait to please him.

From frame three onwards we see him become increasingly isolated, and his objects of lust become abstract, then pixellated, then ghostly, representing the transition from .jpg to smooth streaming video. He begins to look bored, even resistant in the penultimate frame. Perhaps he begins to realize his fantasy is not heaven but hell?

Finally, as man achieves full virtual simulation of sex, free from the emotion and obligation that women require, and the economics and logistical barriers to sexual fulfillment are finally destroyed, in a nietzschian twist has become a ghost himself, inside the machine, an object, nay a spirit of pure carnality