/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4486450

- PSA Cont. -

Drawing from life will always be the express route to getting gud. You may not like it, but it's what peak effective learning looks like. It is boring and a good amount of the time, you will not enjoy what you are doing. This is all part of it. In the end there is no excuse that you can make for your own failings because in emulating real life, your reference is real and definite. you can't fall back on your style or your technique for excuses. In the end, you will be a mean green drawing machine and you will not want to go back to drawing your Chinese cartoons because you will experience a religious enlightenment in higher art. Your inspiration will come from god tier plein air painters or the classic academic drawings of past masters. You will grow as an artist and as a person. You just need to step outside of your comfort zone and admit you're not just bad, but terrible.

Deliver yourself from degeneracy and mediocrity. Draw from life. Maybe even one day, a qt3.14 will ask you to draw her like one of your french girls and you will do it. And then you will do her.

But first. Draw your still lives. Pay your dues. Leave the anime behind, you won't need it where you're going.