/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4330868
I thought my posture was bad
and then i started drawing

>>4165463
What are you talking about, he’s perfect.

I've been learning Japanese for 3 years.
About 2 weeks ago I took a mock exam and scored enough to (barely) pass the highest proficiency level, JLPT N1.

The catch is I don't feel any more confident now than I felt 1, even 2 years ago. I'm still a clueless gaijin guessing at oogabooga speech and Chinese scribbles, the difference is I can subconsciously understand more at the end of each sentence.

The point of this little report is talking about skill perception. I think what helped me with Japanese was having specific goals: to learn X thousand words; to go through 1 grammar book, to watch this anime without subtitles.
When it comes to art, there is just this amorphous blob of "learning how to draw", and even when the blob is smaller, "learning anatomy" is still foggy as shit.

And here I am - feeling like I'm lost, but knowing more Japanese than some people who go to university to learn the language, all on my own.

Art is 99% output, though, so unlike language learning you can't just watch a movie and feel accomplished. You have to produce the movie yourself, and production is where most people falter in language studies. I myself can write a bit of broken Japonski, but most people on or above my level don't even dare doing it.

Bunch of random thoughts, hope they give someone some insight.

>>3361728
>>3365319
Only download pirated software that's based on a keygen. No .dll, .exe, or .reg
Download the actual software you want to pirate directly from the vendor to your host machine. Usually you can download it as a trial or something.
Install Virtual Box and create a virtual machine.
Download the keygen in a virtual machine.
Remember to disable networking, shared folders, and peripherals (like USB) access in the virtual machine before running the keygen.
Run the keygen and write down the key.
Rollback the virtual machine to before you ran the keygen.
Enter the key you wrote down in the copy of the software you installed on your host machine.
Congrats you have successfully pirated some software without much risk of infecting your computer with shit.