/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

gf don't want me to draw coom, what should I do bros?

Is there anyone of noticeable skill alive today that has started on later in life - teenage years, even? I started a few months ago and I’m 19, I can’t help thinking about how literally every modern good drawer and artist worth their salt started when they were 3 or 4 years old, and here I am at 19, objectively young on this board but still almost 2 decades of daily drawing behind. Are there literally no late bloomers in the industry today? Is it over?

How do beginner artists deal with being unable to draw what they want for their first 2 years of learning? I just finished a list of books etc. I need to finish before I can even begin to make my own stuff that isn't complete garbage. It's Aguri's guide mixed with some other stuff, even then all of this is just basics. From my experience I know that I can't do shit as long as I don't learn everything from all of these books.

>Erik Olson Perspective sections 1-10
>Scott Robertson Basic Perspective Form Drawing
>Watch all of CGMA 2011 workshops throughout the term
>Sketching The Basics (series of books)
>Michael Hampton Figure Drawing
>Anatomy for Sculptors
>Scott Robertson How to Draw
>Scott Robertson How to Render
>James Gurney Color and Light
>Designing with Color and Light with Nathan Fowkes
>New Masters Academy Animal anatomy lectures
>The Art of Urban Sketching
>Watch The Techniques of Feng Zhu and Concept Design DVDs
>Fundamentals of lighting (advanced lighting) with Sam Nelson
>Scott Robertson How to Design
>Start drawing

I feel very unsatisfied with the feeling that I have to suffer for 2 years (at best), how do you people cope with the fact that you can't make good stuff that you can show to people in 2 fucking years? And no, I don't want to draw anime.

I agree with you guys and thanks for tips and criticism. I have been neglecting the actual studying for so long that I feel very embarrassed, like I know that I can't draw anything from imagination and I have to do all that stuff like >>3143616 said but I thought that I have to get better with seeing things by doing >>3143492 and shit. I mean it's important but at the end of the day I can't really do anything except copying some photos. Was it a waste of time? Obviously not, because I am better at seeing in comparison to my beginning but I lack so much actual skills that I need in order to even begin creating stuff I want to do... I have to reduce myself into nothing when it comes to my ego so I can start anew I guess. I felt good when I finished a piece and it resembled somehow the subject but it's nothing to what I have to do now.

I feel like shit for being so behind.

HELP ME /ic/ HELP

so I've been awful about drawing in the past couple of years. I've degenerated to bad cartoon sketches of the same expressions and handful of adorable animals.

how do I go back into art? How can I make myself great again? I don't know where to start. I want to get good so I can draw cute girls for a living.