/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>Begins to draw out a request for an anon from /trash/
>Spend about a week soley on the construction of the image alone
>Some other anon fulfils this request before me everytime, shading and all
WHY THE FUCK AM I SO SLOW AT DRAWING?

>>3464954
I'm 33. I'm gonna make it because I have no option to fail. I gotta make it within a year and a half.

So I'm getting burned out reading through so much bullshit miscategorized as art instructionals, books, and tutorials. I am trying to understand what painting IS, but so far all I've seen is "how to paint a vase", "how to paint a portrait", "how to paint shadows", and other crap that explains nothing. It's almost like those kids books of how to draw animals and it only explains how to draw a specific singular image of some animal, but it doesn't explain the theory and idea of drawing. In the same way I haven't found anything good that explains how to actually paint, like a universal theory.

I realize that most artists are failures and so therefore the art industry has to push out mountains of horseshit to keep people buying useless garbage and having everyone falling for the "years of practice" meme, but this shit is not the way. You don't need years of practice if you have understanding. At most you will just need brain-eye-hand coordination, but the average person isn't far off from being able to develop this. We learned how to write english letters and sentences, right? Same thing, except because we had UNDERSTANDING, it didn't take YEARS ON END to learn how to WRITE FUCKING ENGLISH.

Is there somewhere that teaches how to paint? The guy at Ctrl-Paint does paint, but he doesn't know how he is doing it. He doesn't understand what or why he is doing what he is doing. And this is the case with many people on Youtube, they give all these examples of painting, but none of them seem to be able to abstract the process separate from their examples.

Is there anyone out there who knows and understands?

PS: "Understanding light and color spectrum" isn't how to paint. It's physics and is completely irrelevant to art.

>>3442188
Draw an undercase "y" inside of an uppercase "G". Do you see it? Just remember "Gay" when you see ears.

So I can draw lines, but how the hell do I digital paint? When I start painting over the lines, the lines become covered, then pretty soon I have blobs of paint and it made all the linework pointless. So I've been trying to just skip linework and straight jump into painting, but it's just all smeared thick paint lines and it doesn't have the accuracy of linework.

How do I escape this catch 22?

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