/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6548008
That's a pretty good drawing for 4 months!
I think the problem that everyone in this thread has is the carrot and stick of modern life.
The carrot is all the pleasant distractions or even other things that you are objectively better at doing than art as a beginner. The stick is the pain and frustration that comes with being bad at something for the first months or years.
What people forget is that art making was literally a craft taught historically in the same way that smithing or welding was. If you have ever seen the crazy stuff that beginner welders make or fail at you would laugh your ass off.
Imagine if every welding beg wanted to become a 6 figure mechanic at Boeing within the first 6 months of starting to learn. For some people on this board the expectation is probably even more ridiculous.
Essentially any able-bodied person can be taught to be a welder. There's varying degrees of "talent" ofc; some people just "get it" faster than others, but everyone will get there with practice in the end.
I belive that people who quit learning to draw simply have other things going on in their lives and treat art as a hobby at best (nothing wrong with that ofc!) If you are already going to school to study engineering and trying to do co-op placements and working part time etc. then coming home and spending hours on what would have historically been someone's sole vocation is just too much. It's not your fault for giving up.
All that being said you kind of have to be a little insane to succeed at art. This isn't something that you can half ass and if you want it badly enough I think you can find a way. Plus learning is fun!