/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2993444
>Does six years of drawing count?????

Problem is that it isn't six years of studying but six years of doing the same kind of thing.

Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. Practice the same thing over and over and you'll get quicker but not better. That's why you need dedicated practice, to apply the stuff you learn and drill it into your eyes, hand and brain.

Plenty of people gave advices already so I won't parrot the same.

> Pic was done by a 3 year old girl

>>2991195

Talent does exist but only a few pro would be found to be really talented and most of the people making a living out of art would be found average and just went there through dedication, some connections and some luck.
We could find hundred of "meh" or "ok" artists who are successful like >>2990987 said.

I made some search to what would qualify as talent in the arts, for some reason, the number of kids with a talent for drawing is vastly inferior to kids with a talent for music or mathematics but those kids exist anyway...

... and most of that advantage is unnecessary for adults, even thoug it's totally cool to have the spark and ligameme, of course, but you can do without:

> They learn more rapidly in the domain.
> They are intrinsically motivated to acquire skill in the domain.
> They make discoveries without much explicit explanation (from a teacher).
> They often do things in the domain that
ordinary hard workers never do - inventing new solutions, thinking, seeing, or hearing in a
qualitatively different way.

So let's say you're not talented. Big deal, means you were shit as a kid and now you have to read books instead of self-learning through some divine inspiration and it will take you twice the time. Still doable, and what most people are doing, it's not different from having a normal IQ, that's what most of us have and we go by just fine.

> Drawing from a 3 year old kid

>>1962221
Autistic child, savant with ability to draw detailed animals. usually horses. Savant are people that do extremely well in one are but usually severely handicapped in anything else. Picrelated is her drawing when she was 3 btw.
If that's the definition of talent then it's just a proof that this word should be used very carefully. How many good artists are there? How many of them can be applied this term "talented" on? Even then savant are usually don't have any innate abilities but rather an extreme fixations. There is this savant, painter, he just can't stop painting, just can't stop. If that's really what >>1962218 defines as talent then I have a very great news for those, who think they weren't born "right". Half of the savant are born autistic, other half have some kind of nervous system injury or disease. A couple people got their abilities by being in accident or severely bitten in the head. The catch is "ability" is random, good luck.