/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I have come to realize why I'm still /beg/ at drawing after all these years. But it's not just drawing, it's everything I picked up that requires a long amount of practice. I look back at playing WoW in my young teen years on my shitty DSL connection with 1GB of RAM spending long hours trying to get good at the ga---oh wait no I don't think I ever did try to get good at WoW.

See, I would reach end game and then not put in the effort afterwards to do raids or arena or join Guilds that were for the cool, serious boys only. Instead I would just gank lowbies all day. That was enough for me, but why? Because it made me smile. Something I don't do often IRL. Nothing makes me smile IRL. As long as I could smile it was good enough. But the fun ends up getting ruined when the person I'm ganking brings their fully decked, seasonal geared main and spawn camps me until I log out.

Wouldn't it be fun to kill lowbies, not be killed by guards, AND kill the same guy who brings his main for revenge? Never came across my mind. Or maybe it did, but just LMAO'ing at ganking people was enough.

It's the same for /ic/. Wouldn't it be fun to shit on /begs/ and shit on /high ints/ when I get challenged to PYW? It would, but that would require effort. Lots of effort. Instead I'd rather enjoy the laughs I get from shitposting while I continue to "try and learn to draw". Am I really trying though? No, not really. I wasn't even scratching the surface. I have professional drawing equipment only to make myself feel like a pro. Yes I have been drawing things since I was, like, 12, but somewhere along the line the internet provided me an outlet to have lots of laughs; something I couldn't get anymore IRL. No matter what community I joined and no matter the outlet. But now...

the internet isn't what it once was. I still get my cheap laughs here and gaming but it's not as much. I finally at my age want something more. I want to go pro so I can laugh again and shit on /begs/ and pros without fear.

I want to follow Robertsons ,,How to Draw" but with digital. I'm /beg/ and want to learn digital art (I use CSP Pro) but I know that this book is mainly for traditional medium, so will I make things harder to myself by using tablet? I really want to draw machines and architecture.