/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Welcome to /INT/ - Intermediate Draw!
Please post in this thread if you're above /beg/ beginner but not yet ready for the big boy's club in the advanced draw thread.

Try to reflect upon your art and what you could improve upon. Be self-critical!

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the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.

Essentially, the Dunning Kruger effect explains why incompetent people are unable to see that they’re incompetent.

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>dA /ic/ group :
http://4chan-ic.deviantart.com

>/ic/ Resources/Reference/Downloads/Links:

>General resources :
http://sites.google.com/site/4chanic/
http://sites.google.com/site/artandwhatnot/
http://characterdesigns.com/
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3.html
http://finaltrinity.tumblr.com/post/13163064364/art-references-tumblr-accounts

>fellowBro's books :
http://mediafire.com/?i44dwzkf9j9n8

>Figure Drawing Tool:
http://pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
http://posemaniacs.com

Previous thread: >>4547938

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Many people assume that I'm autistic, and treat me like I'm retarded and don't understand things and that I'm too stupid to operate on their level. It's painful and I hate it. I'm intelligent, and quite capable, but I'm never given the chance to perform or to have responsibility. It's probably because I don't like to conversate and that I'm socially awkward. I understand body language and facial expressions quite well, but I never know what to say in conversation.

I just don't find interest in people, mainly from years of childhood abuse and bullying. I see other people as a source of pain. I get anxious in crowds, I dislike seeing or hearing other people. I've quit many jobs because the way I'm treated by coworkers, I just want to be left alone, I don't care about your music, your beer or sports or television or little petty dramas you've had on your errands, commute or at home.

I usually think people are talking about me, I assume when I hear whispers and hushed voices that it's about me - there's a certain tone of voice people use when talking and they don't want that person to hear. I avoid eye contact because it feels unwelcome, people usually feel uncomfortable around me. I'm tall and good looking but I feel like that only provides an expectation to be let down.

I feel better alone, in nature with the sounds of running water, wind and birds, the feeling of grass and sunlight.

But I can't help but feel lonely. It's a curse, to be a social animal and to require socializing by nature, but to dislike it at the same time.

I have depression and anxiety issues. Sometimes I think I see things. I have two cats, and I can see them sleeping together on the couch. But I'll see a third cat sometimes, gray and thin, running between furniture, just their tail and ears visible or their paws under tables, or a swish of a tail around my ankles, but only for a split second.