/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

let's not forget the selfie thumbnail narcissist

Here's my 1.5 year progress (Start of 2017 to 3 months ago). I started drawing in 2015. I have drawn 43 pencil drawings since 2015. This means I draw an average of once every 25 days. That average is slowly rising as I have been drawing once a week this past 3 months. Drawing is something I never try at but always improve at - no matter how long of time I take off. If I mature emotionally my art matures as well.

Anyways, I posted this in an improvement thread to get the response from an anon saying:

>stop what you're doing, draw from life

Why? My ability to analyze what I am seeing and create has increased tremendously. I find myself utilizing techniques from photo-bashing in order to create the effects from life.

My point: Drawing form life is intensely boring and limiting. Depending on your location, this is intensely true. I am not entirely interested in drawing from landscapes or drawing people in front of me.

Whenever my photo-bashing skills increased, my ability to draw from life increased. (I'd typically just get bored of drawing what was in front of me and fuck around)

>pics related
>Did these 6+ months ago, spent 45 minutes in person with them. Not full attempts by any means.

Why are most people in this thread malignant and dogmatic in cringy ways?

Every year or so I attempt a self-portrait to observe my technical improvements. These are about 1.5 years apart in time. First one does not even look remotely like me, second one is pretty spot on.