/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3035661
i would absolutely agree with you, if it were for an artist at your own level "never give up" Anon, because you are at a level in which you can focus on certain aspects to get better at because you have enough skill and knowledge of fundamentals to work with in order for someone to give you advice. True advice that will stick with you and register.

OP is not nearly in this boat. Hell he's not even in the fuckin' lake.

Using a whittling metaphor, you've got your stick and knife already, anon, and you've been whittling away at your stick for some time already. OP however, doesn't even have a stick yet. He's just got a knife and he knows how to make the knife cut things, but he has no idea how to make the knife carve things into shapes and into something of actual value.

In more jargon terms, OP is just another symbol drawing fag, and you're a decently skilled fag (if that is your drawing there). You have fundamental understandings. OP doesn't. So you can cut the sentimental "they just need intuitive advice" bullshit and hand holding, because it actively holds back people like OP. Someone at the skill level of OP doesn't need someone to hold their hand, they need to know THE VERY BASICS first, and that doesn't need hand holding that needs actual effort to pour into studying it. Because it's exactly as it's described. BASIC. If OP can't master or learn BASICS on their own without "intuitive advice" do you think they're going to learn the medium level things? Don't kid yourself-- because if they can't they won't ever make it; period.
OP needs to be spurred like a horse into pursuing actual knowledge because he quite clearly knows NOTHING except that dragging a pencil across a paper, similar to how other people drag their pencils, makes somewhat similar images. That's it.