/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Look. I know the usual "you shouldn't look for instant results" shit but I don't care. We have maybe 5 years left on this planet before massive depression or apocalypse and I'm nearing 30. I don't want to die as a mediocre artist. I've drawn for most of my life but it's shit. Yes I compare myself to others, I don't give a shit about whatever ad hom you want to throw at me. Yes I want fast solutions. Yes I want a shortcut. Time is running out and I can't afford to waste a decade getting gud.
Is there anyone here who has seen fast improvement? What do you think helped you the most?

>>6758807
Unironically quit.
Art is insanely unrewarding. There's a reason people are flocking to ai. Nobody wants to bring 2000 boxes or copy every fugly bridgman figure. If you didn't start as a kid and were mentored it never began for you.
Anyone who is an artist has to be insane. There are no art jobs, very few people here can even get a decent online following yet the gaslighting continues.
Just quit. It isn't worth it.

I will never be Asian

>posts art on deviantart
>1 view and 0 favorites because it is not anime and not a fanart.
>gets a llama badge wtf.
>posts art on /ic
>at least 1 anon out there likes it.

seriously, where to post art other than deviantshit but brings the same positivity as /ic?