/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Now that dust has settled, why were grifters like loomis and bridgeman shilled so hard on this board?

>>7112840
buy my books, video courses, branded merch, artworks, brush presets ...

>>7110487
I'm sure if you buy more books, your art will automatically magically improve ....
>fell for the "buy my book" artists

>>7103182
it's the artists pyramid scheme. "my method is t. best evah"
/beg/s want to believe that there are actual shortcuts to what boils down to hard mental effort.

>>7098783
>i fell for the snake oil sellers
have fun wasting money, my dude(tte)

>>7069737
>When you do studies, instead of constructing, just lay in what you see directly with a ballpoint pen. Eventually, you'll memorize those shapes and drawing will no longer be a struggle: you'll know directly where to put everything beforehand. No more struggle, no more sketching, no more bad drawings.
a very rare, but very true statement. strange.
it's not promoting any "art cooking book" of the likes that Proko, Bridgeman and Loomis are selling. what is this? could it be that this is actually good advice without the intention of SELLING you shit that has absolutely no guarantee for improvement like a 5K live video course?

I wonder if Proko is actually regularly posting here to sell his absolute shitass cooking recipes for construction.
at this point, I truly believe that /ic/ is being used as promotion for these snake oil sellers. Occasionally someone shares zip archives, but they are often incomplete, hence some of you anons will actually officially buy their products.

Did /ic/ fall for these door to door vacuum salesmen? totally bamboozled

>picrel
>this construction book will turn you into an artist fr fr! no cap

>>7098444
>So to trace you need to have asian jeans, why is this shit so gatekeeping
i'm not even asian and i dunno wtf you are on about. I've got +10 years of exp, never in my life have i resorted to snake oil sellers like Loomis (picrel) and learned it the hard way, which is the best way. no one except microplastics in my brain can take that skillset away from me and i waste zero time on drawing spheres and boxes. the best diet for any artist is life drawing, urban sketching, getting good in trad.
literally the entire dogma of /ic/ faggots is based on snake oil sellers like Proko, Loomis, Bridgeman; downloading endless GB of video tutorials and becoming a basement dweller. lack of social skills that inevitably comes with this process is basically poison to any aspirations of making it in art related fields, as connections with real human beings, fellow artists and art handlers is the key to developement and a decent career.
/ic/ dogma is creating basement dwelling chronic masturbators that will spend all time of the day in front of their screens, spending thousands of dollars on worthless materials and pro software because they believe it will improve their skills.