/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6698730
>tfw your art is escapism

I have an obsessive aversion toward developing any sort of unique or quirky style until I'm good, as to not learn the wrong way / use the "style" as a crutch. Even though I've made a lot of progress, I'm still no where near that point. Thing is, it makes my work have a sort of generic look as of current. Am I going about this the wrong way?

>>4707168
I enjoy and am grateful for every little progress I make.
Just wish it happend faster.

I used to be such a crab on tumblr (ran two bad art blogs), and now I feel like shit because I got sucked into a stagnation vortex where I didn't grow vertically (as in technical competence) much but instead horizontally (as in picking up art history and like, the basics of several media). I just want out of this guilt hell so I can grow vertically again, I wish I knew how to atone, I wish I didn't have this sense of terror every time I set pencil to paper (or pen to tablet) because I am my biggest critic and biggest crab...

>>4504832
If you don't like drawing then don't do it, drawing is very hard to learn and practice, if you don't have the basic love for it you won't last long.

If you really want to learn how to draw however you can try by starting out drawing things you are interested in and love, take it easy and don't be so hard on ur self, keep doing it till it stops being something new and you get used to it, keep your expectations realistic, that should help avoid disappointment when something you draw doesn't work out.

If even then you don't feel the love for drawing then give up (loving drawing is loving the process btw not the outcome, anyone loves the idea of making good pictures but don't like the process, if this is you then there isn't anything you can do)

>>4474289
>tfw now you have no friends and still no gains