/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2704151
First you will spend time on "finished pieces". They will be enjoyable to make, but always disappointing. You will grudgingly do some studies to improve.

Then you will have respect for the studies and in between "finished pieces", you trudge through some of them diligently.

Next you will notice the direct correlation between your studies and the improvement in your "finished pieces". You will dedicate more time to studies than "finished pieces". Some of your studies are coming out better than your early "finished pieces".

You then will put off "finished pieces" more and more often. You'll have a backlog of projects you meant to do because you're too engaged in studies. You will post in draw threads, and your 20 minute crayon sketches on toilet paper will look better than the "finished pieces" you see people post from phase 1.

Eventually there will be nothing to distinguish your finished pieces from your studies but the amount of time they took to complete. Your studies will be like music on a page, and you will spend only as much time on them as is necessary to convey what you'd like to.

You know how Sargent, Mullins, Fowkes, etc works look sketchy and masterfully loose and every scrub wonders what brushpack they use? It's because their finished works ARE studies. They are almost always working at the boundary of their abilites.

I wish I could draw like this