/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I've been trying to get into art seriously for years now and every time my determination fades away within two weeks. Every time I do the exercises, spend hours a day practicing straight lines, boxes, and curves before moving on to drawing still life, and it never sticks. I'm still practically an absolute beginner despite the dozen-something false starts I've got under my belt by now.

The thing is, I know what the problem is. The problem is it just isn't fun. It's not fun copying things all day, and it's not fun drawing boxes all day, but the reason I want to learn how to draw is to supplement my writing, which is my main hobby. I'd love to be able to draw things from my own writing, but that just seems impossible at my level, and every attempt to draw from my imagination has offended my sensibilities on an instinctual level. Yet, because I can't draw anything I'm actually interested in, I can't maintain any interest in it, so I just get discouraged and quit, and because I get discouraged and quit, I can't get any better at it. It's a classic Catch-22.

So I'm left here wondering if my psyche is just so incompatible with drawing as a hobby that it's a fruitless endeavor, or if there's some peak on this mountain where I'll eventually gets so good at drawing boxes I'll be able to construct something half-way decent.

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People actually making an effort to paint le happy fat video game skit man as a maniacal racist is too surreal for me. Seeing it on /ic/ is only adding to the Twilight Zone vibe

Talent is not a meme, hear me out.

At first I too was thinking that "talent" is meaningless in a way that it's not that important compared to hard work. But after months and months of drawing and getting no real progress I started to think, that there are indeed some things that determine our potential. Then I just stopped drawing for a month because I was tired of seeing constant failures and now when I want to go back to it again - I literally cant draw at all. What's the fucking point of learning when you forget everything anyway.Talent is way more important than you think, unfortunately.