/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7016064

Hey D/ic/ks,
Recently I've been having trouble figuring out what to do next.
I had this master study of this old master painting I was working on but it was so mediocre and everything I did seemed to do very little or even make it worse.
And I was stumped is basically the point, I was trying to draw and at one point I was like 'just draw something, anything, you can do that right?' that's how stuck I was.
But tonight I had a little self discovery and I thought I might share because imo it could help a lot of beginners here.
I saw this picture of a nicely done character and it wasn't too nice but it was much better than anything I'd done ever.
And after really checking this whole picture out, zooming in and seeing a brush stroke here and there that I was having trouble with or whatever I had found I had learned a lot.
My work was improving suddenly.
Now I think this is because when looking at a master's piece and trying to compare it with your work is like comparing a bug with a human, I think to understand better would be to compare a bug with a small rat. Just as comparing yourself with a master would be so intimidating and there's so much to focus on and change. Really everything needs improvement when you do a master comparison with your own work.
But if you compare your work with someone who's just a little further down the road than you, you can see the obvious differences and the obvious requirements to fix those differences. It's a little bit less to chew in a nutshell.

TL'DR op's a faggot but I hope I helped.