/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5023639
Your brain gets used to seeing something the way you want to see it. Use an actual mirror to look at your art as you paint, or if you're in PS, just set a shortcut to flip.

>>5023658
Literally draw a circle and work up from there, taking a long time to actually understand what you're trying to do. Eventually that circle becomes an elipse, one of the more difficult shaped to pull off in a still life. You need to draw things to get gud, but you also need to develop your motor skills to keep up with your understanding of shapes and forms.

>>5023787
Most of them are jerking off and posting here. Some of them have a schedule to break up their drawing into specific sessions with goals and objectives in mind. You can work on imagination stuff to warm up and move to study and go back to imagination as a basic idea. They could also have a developed curriculum that they're working on. There's a number of recommended books on improving at art. It's actually very easy to give yourself a classical drawing education, if you have the work ethic. Most people do not.

>>5023103
Go outside to a place and paint. I like to plein air paint in the evening as the sun goes down. You have to work fast and you get one shot to get things right. It's hard and you learn a lot.

>>2461295
i know that feel

>>2449370
not doing art was the hole in my life, i fill that hole by doing art.

My only gripe was it took me this long to figure out that art is what i wanted to do.

>>2443862
I had a brief discussion with my drawing professor once. He knows that my greatest interest in drawing is to simply become better at drawing. There is far few other motivations. He asked my why I felt like I had to get better and why I was chasing an idea that has no solution. He asked me what my end game was, he wanted to know why it all mattered to me.

I told him that I only want to be better and that is all that matters. I enjoy pushing myself harder every time and seeing the progress that I get out of it. I told him about the magic of the dunning kruger effect. I told him every soul crushing lesson that I've happened across.

His reaction was "but why bother, if there is no end to it, isn't it just masturbatory at some point."

I replied "yes"

If doing the work doesn't give you pleasure then why do it. Who is going to pretend like they wouldn't rather be drawing or doing something else. Why not pick what you're going to draw if it's going to make you happy and draw more. Embrace that drawing can get you laid once in a while, and you will have the french girls to draw. Don't be so uptight, we're all perverts man.

>Be on senior year of art school
>thematic based programs
>Life drawing like a motherfucker
>Professors are impressed and confused with my progress
>I'm having crazy success with work
>All my life i've been a shit student
>Bullshit my way through highschool and three years of college
>Little did they know that I've been on the grind
>grinding for years
>Teaching myself what others could not
>At apartment grinding till midnight
>For the last three years..
>told to come up with a theme
>For the last three years..
>And now I will have no theme
>All I will have
>Is got gud drawing
>And that will be enough.
>Because drawing was my dump stat

>>2153209
Wooosh. Here's the reference.