/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>2019
>Tell myself I'm going to learn to draw for real this time
>quit because I'm not good enough

>2020
>Haven't drawn anything since over a year ago
>Realize I'd be less shit if I had just drawn

How do I escape this cycle?

>we're all gonna make it

>NOOOOOO!!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST START LATER THAN ME AND RAPIDLY SURPASS ME!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!! IF YOU HAD TALENT YOU WOULD'VE BEEN DRAWING NON-STOP SINCE YOU WERE A TODDLER!!!!! YOU'RE CHEATING!!!! IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!

The frustration of envious non-talented failures is delicious.

>>4538124
I thought you said you were leaving. Guess you lied and still lurked seething.

HAHAHA

I drew myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the gains
The only thing that's real

The pencil tears a hole
A crab behind the page
Try to erase it all away
But I can't erase my cage

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everything I draw
Is a means to an end

And you could have it all
My cement mixer wrists
I will let you down
I will make you pissed

I wear this crown as a front
Upon my chair of art supplies
Full of Dunning-Kruger thoughts
And Twitter alibis

Beneath the stains of time
The drawings disappear
You have already given up
Yet I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everything I draw
Is a means to an end

And you could have it all
My cement mixer wrists
I will let you down
I will make you pissed

If I could try again
A dozen years away
I would lose myself and draw
Live in the mountains and go insane

FUCK WATERCOLOR
I CAN'T AFFORD TO SPENT 5$ ON A SINGLE SHEET OF PAPER

ANYTHING LESS THAN 100% COTTON CAN'T HANDLE REAL WET TECHNIQUES
fucking garbage ass medium

>>4281858
NOOOOO
REALISM IS THE ONLY WAY, STYLIZATION IS EVIL
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>*gunshot in the distance*
>*silence*

>learn a bunch of shorthands and symbols to make the kind of art I like
>decide to get out of my comfort zone and draw something else
>skill back to below /beg/ level
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm so fucking retarded. For the last 10 hours I have been redrawing a single portrait because I thought I was getting the proportions wrong but all along I was getting them right, just checking them wrong.

>>4024577
damn do you really need a lightbox, can't you just use the semi transparent paper animators use?

Also, does anybody know what kind of paper they use? I'd rather just hole punch the paper myself instead of buying super expensive hole punched animator paper

>>4009725
>>4009723

let me do a greentext
>i have 2 instagram accounts 1) gamedev and old normie jobs i had for years 2) GAY PORN ACCOUNT - i became full time porn artist that draws huge cum-dripping COCKS
>i know one artist from and old account and find him cute and i kind of worked with him (colored few of his comicbook pages few years ago)
>i woke up and started browsing instagram inbed - liking his new pictures (i dont usually do that but i didnt visit his inst-account for a fucking YEAR - he has so many new drawings) and photos where he looking cute and with his manly beard
>i get up and to to shower make coffee and think of downloading his gallery into my artists folder
>while doing so i keep liking his new pictures
>HOW SUDDENLY I UNDERSTAND THAT IM DOING THAT FROM MY PORN ACCOUNT!!! (i have normal account on phone and porn on PC)
holy fuck i feel so ashamed i can kill myself
i tried to unlike pictures but i liked too many

im not even fucking joking - i actually did that.
I knew that someday this "accounts swapping" bullshit will cost me something.
I cant fucking imagine how he will look at my account filled with gay porn after knowing me as clean artist (and finding out that i like men of his type)

>lines are complete shit again today
old good 4h warmup coming up before i can draw even okayish looking cube

But I can't fucking do it, all my drawings are shit compared to some artwork I'v seen online. I just want to end it!

>>3711686
WHY CANT I DRAW THIS SHIT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I JUST WANT TO DRAW SOME CUTE ANIME BITCHES FUCK LOOMIS

>>3696823
“POST YOUR WORK FAGGOT YOU PROBABLY SUCK ASS WHICH IS WHY YOURE SUCH A CRAB”
>gets absolutely btfo
>REEEEEEEE WHY IS EVERYTHING A COMPETITION WITH YOU FAGGOTS I DONT EVEN CARE MY STYLE IS DIFFERENT AND I WAS GOOD WHEN I WAS 8 YEARS OLD

>>3547019
>its true
HO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FUCK TALENTED PEOPLE FUCK THEM

>>3438435
STOP IT YOU STUPID WEEBS.