/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4303987
an absolute meme who wanted to be a concept artist. couldn't draw, couldn't paint, but kept talking about it like he knew what he was doing. went to art school, didn't get any job after. stagnant for years, made shitty photobashes, completely dropped off the face of the earth then would pop back up talking about how he made massive breakthroughs in art but he still sucked. then the most recent arc is he figured out drawing and started hawking a $60 gumroad tutorial about unlocking the secrets to drawing and mentoring other artists for like $600 a month when he isn't even an artist. he completely sucks at having any sense of design or good taste. he gets mocked for posting all this "knowledge" and self-help stuff when he's clearly ngmi since he's been at this now for like 8-10+ years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2gcXMH98wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=741QcPO04As
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzoy3oKlh4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR62FWwuPH8
https://www.instagram.com/volenck/

>>4237733
>Regardless I will continue, I'm just afraid that I'll hit a road block without realizing before it too late to realize.

Yeah, you will. That's what art is about. There will be plateaus, even the best artists hit plateaus. When that happens you work your way through it by challenging yourself with new and different ideas, and trust you'll get past it one day.
I'm not going to lie, this is a weird fear to me because I've always drawn regardless of the prospect of failure in the future. I wanted to draw for the sake of drawing. Why are you drawing right now? To get good someday? Ask yourself: is that by itself a powerful enough motivator to sustain a prolonged interest? Because that's what it's going to take. The whole "journey not the destination" cliche is real.

VolenCK strikes me as a guy who has no artistic ideas. He's drawing, but not really engaging with the world of ideas, or with the raw material he references. He's hoping for that day when he'll be good enough to do the original work he always wanted to do, instead of seizing at it at every opportunity right now. Why else would he draw a "monk" in this insipid fashion and post it on his ArtStation?

Imagine how Mike Mignola would draw a monk. More interesting, right? Mignola is good, but does he strike you as a once-in-a-generation artist skillwise? The man himself admits he was shit tier at the beginning of his inking career in comics. But Mignola has ideas.

Nurture your ideas as well as skills. Draw the things that seem too ambitious, and learn from you failure. Experiment and never become too satisfied with you a good result for too long.