/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3512803
>the person that made this thread is not an artist

I don't know about the current OP but you're at least half right about me. I try but I'm not a good artist-I haven't made it yet, might not ever. My progress has admittedly been dreadful if there's been any at all and I have only myself to blame for that, same as anyone else in my position.

I made this thread initially because I thought the designs were cute, there were a lot of them and because they were made by a fellow 4chan user. An evolution of the "draw your own wizard" mspaint roll thread. I thought having something to participate in would benefit myself and others, and I'd always stressed that the drawing could be more about the concept than their representation on the image.

Ultimately I ended up spending a lot of time critiquing almost all the pieces submitted, but very rarely participated myself, and the point in my maintaining the thread had become muddled as consequence. That went on for about three years, and after deciding it was time for the thread to evolve (I used my ability to insert OC characters into the image as a metric for my own progress) I became frustrated with my predictable stagnation and abandoned it, and to a large degree /ic/ as well. Though in fact, I had little reason to leave. Critiquing took little time, and one of my biggest problems remains the fact that I'm so gun shy about finishing anything and accepting the consequences for it. I could still find the value I'd originally sought in this thread if only I'd start using it as I'd intended from the beginning.

tl;dr - I'm sorry lads, I've failed you and I'd failed myself, but this thread is pure! Thank you for keeping it alive this whole time.

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