/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I don't know what to think.

4chan has been talking like niggers ever since this shithole was founded, and I have always been 100% against it, because what starts as ironic, devolves into post-ironic, then into normalcy.
And here is the result, bunch of niggerbrained people post here thinking they're in good company (which they are, in a sense).

Therefore, I see the opposite happening as maybe a good impact to offset this.
Instead of niggerfying our place, we're 4channizing other places

Cancerous? Definitely. I respect rules 1 & 2 to this day, despite being non-canonical.

But it's still an interesting phenomenon to watch. 4 years ago (maybe more, I'm getting old), when 4chan started using the word "based", which is niggerspeak to begin with, we could see dozens and dozens of newspaper articles calling it nazi dogwhistle, white supremacist lingo, what-have-you, because it came from 4chan.

But it gradually became more and more used by edgy people, and now, suddenly, EVERYONE says it. I'm seeing all sorts of normalfags, trans-flag-bearing "people", speedrunners, you name it. They're all saying "based" all the time now.

Same happens with lots of icons coming from here, smug pepe to me officially "died" when Katy Perry posted it, but the process happens on many fronts; he went from Nazi icon to everyone loving le epic green charming frog.

There is no conclusion to my diatribe, let it be known I hate brown people and that it is very hard to define where channer culture begins/ends, or whether this spread, in 2022, is still a cultural threat to imageboards.
It's certainly cringe to see 12yos yelling BASED or saying "it's a meme, you dip", but oh well, everything has its life-cycle, Evanescence and Linkin Park have outlived the cringe and gone back to nostalgic/cool for many people.

These anons are on the right trail >>4632141 >>4632153
(I'd like to ask for examples of "good art with unsuccessful elements" though, to me that'd just look soulless like concept space marines or Sakimishit).

The very fact that you are asking makes it counter-productive to your goal of having soul, OP.
Soul comes from a conviction we have that the author was having fun while drawing and not only technically struggling.
By trying to FAKE soul, you take away the fun and lock yourself into the calculating cage.

You need to allow your brain to enjoy things, even if they look bad. Half (maybe it isn't 50/50, but the principle stands) of your art journey should be improving your skill, the other half improving your "creativity", which is basically fine-tuning your aesthetic sense, your taste.

The moment you're invested in making a single drawing work, you've lost the battle. Whenever you feel what you're doing has no soul (unless it's a purely technical study, then it doesn't need one), take a step back. Grab a second sheet of paper and doodle ideas. Roughly, quickly.
You will make a lot of bad drawings, but you're not trying to make a good drawing, you're trying to scavenge ideas that could be used on the real deal.

But you're not doing that mindlessly, just as an obligation. You have to do that with things that interest you. Some hairstyle you enjoy. Some stupid idea you had (Why not see how it looks? It's just scrap paper), a theme you want to explore more, so doing studies from Pinterest or some shit.

The more you keep flexing your taste muscle, the more your art will look like it has something new to say. Because it probably will. Right now you're shooting yourself in the foot by trying to follow a cake recipe without even having the same ingredients at hand.

>>4631915
As expected from the uptalking single-mothered zoomer, a parasite to the ecosystem who adds nothing of value, only saps our nutrients cause xyr vegan diet doesn't provide enough.