/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2567552

Honestly, I think instead of a "leaderboard" type deal, a "level up" system, where you gain 'experience' based on your participation in challenges and LAS streaks could be nice. It gives newcomers a sense of progression (because bang, the earliest levels are the easiest to get), even if it is artificial and arbitrary. And you can still have the leaderboard of highest levels in that case.

I remember that when websites had something quantifiable, be it as trivial as forum post count/reputation or voting power in Newgrounds, it just made me more motivated to get started to see numbers go up.

>>1999664

> when you said freshman, do you mean freshman in high school
i fucking wish
oh my god i feel so fucking old
i just want to draw cartoons, fanart and OC fantasy shit with appropriate competence before i'm old enough that it becomes creepy

I've never been so serious about improving in so long. I want to get good enough before my youthful abandon disappears for good.

I'll look into Vilppu, yeah. I have a really nasty habit of chicken scratch and I tend to use graphite pencils strictly, though I have dabbled in charcoal a little. Maybe charcoal pencil would be an appropriate intermediate medium.


>>1999668

I will be as honest with myself as I will with you.
I did not practice much at all.

Maybe like, two hours daily for a week before I burned out from stress, fear, procrasination, or whatever excuse I gave myself.

I have never been more serious in a long time. So far, I've practiced daily for about two weeks now. I'm going to keep going. I'm gonna make up for lost time.