/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>>2069317
a few months

it doesn't go in hours

>>2069317

such b8

aim higher

this is shit

Two years if you study 5 hours a day.
One year if you study 10 hours a day.

>>2069317
Half a year if you read the sticky and apply yourself.

>>2069320
>implying months aren't composed of hours.

>>2069321
as is often said here:
better than 99% of /ic/

>>2069323
73 days if you study 50h a day

i swear it's always the same guy posting his shitty meme in an attempt to become some sort of authority on /ic/. it's beyond pathetic.

>>2069365
Deal.

>>2069366
I think it's cute, /ic/ needs a few memes to get the dull cleaned out and keep the board entertaining.

>>2069370
What's the point of a guy trying to act cute? He is probably ugly so we can't put him in drags.

Goddamn 3D shotas, nobody loves you.

>>2069320
>it doesn't go in hours

Sure it does. Its better to think

>oh, I have 2543 hours left, lets get to work and make it 2540 today

instead of

>oh, I wont be good sooner than in 6 months.... well, lets play some DOTA today and draw later

>>2069406
no it isn't.

because maybe you should play some dota. you shouldn't be constantly generating anxiety about wasting an hour here or there. it's a long term thing so you should think about it in long terms. it's about management not effort.

>>2069417
You wont make it then. No worries though, art is still cool as a hobby.

Why are people trying so hard to force merc wip guy?

Mercwipguy here...in case you are serious and not a troll, here is my answer: I'd been painting digitally for about 4.5 years or so when I did that image. Did a bit of drawing before then of like Bridgman copies mostly. Within that entire timeframe there were several instances where I didn't do art for months at a time for various reasons (from playing on my national water polo team to having severe and crippling depression). I also was in high school for a good couple of those years so could only put in so much time each day. And I don't think I studied as efficiently as I could have. So all in all, probably it could be done in under 2 years if you study smartly.

>>2069366
I've never posted the image on the board other than the first time it was posted, which was I think a day or two before someone else pretended to be me and made it into the meme it is.

>>2069406
This is just a matter of opinion and depends on the person. Personally, I find thinking in hours like that is counterproductive. From the people I've seen who track their hours religiously and fully follow the whole 10k hour rule, they tend to not improve as much as other people. They see art as a grind and just pump out hours. Better to think a lot and draw a bit than it is to draw a lot and not think much. All these time measurements are guesses anyways since people develop at different rates and everybody learns differently and has different goals and so and so on.

>>2069420
i'm sure the death spiral of anxiety and procrastination will serve you well my friend. good luck with all your artistic endeavours ;D

(but serious if counting hours works for you more power to you)

>>2069406

If you still play video games you're probably not serious about art anyway.

>>2069429
>Mercwipguy here
What do you think of your work becoming so famous on /ic/? Do you laugh when you see the "show your work" followed by merc_wip meme?

>>2069469
My opinion on it changes? Same with any meme, it is funny at first but then gets tiresome when it gets overused, then it gets funny again after some time. And of course sometimes it is funnier than others, it depends on the context. Personally I tend to enjoy the ones where they made some effort to change it--the squished head version, the crab mullins version, that pencil one etc, even the one you posted. Makes it a little funnier somehow to me. Or that guy who 3d-ified it. Probably there are some more I am forgetting.

I guess the only thing I don't like is that it seems a lot of people still think I'm an asshole with an ego and was the original person who posted it as merc_wip. They don't realize the actual story and see me as this giant dick. So when that happens I sometimes chime in and explain the backstory. Not that many people were here for the start of it, and while the original threads are archived it is a bit of a mess to read through them given their length and the anonymity making it hard to tell who is saying what exactly.

I also think that the image is a good way for diverting the argument of forcing someone to post their work. While there is some correlation between your work and your knowledge, not every critique needs to be from a pro to be valid. In the same way not everything a pro says should be just accepted blindly. We should take every comment with a critical eye, and decide for ourselves whether it is legitimate or not.

Hm, other than that, I guess I'm a bit saddened when someone posts it and then a few people new to the board who have never seen it respond seriously. I think it works best when it is a known meme.

And yeah I dunno, it's funny that it's what I am most known for here. I guess that's what happens when you post without a trip--the anonymity means I can't take credit for other contributions I've made here (and I have contributed in so many ways and to a great extent, far far more than most people realize).

>>2069427
Why forcing when he is already in our heart, newfag?

>>2069503
Could you actually post any of your other work? I'm genuinely interested.

>>2069546
Nice try but we all know what you're trying to do here.

>>2069546
Sure

>>2069553
is he the other merc's brother?

>>2069559
Yes, he also has a cousin that lives in Australia

>>2069429

What is the thing below mercwips neck, with the lights?

What do the 3 rubber things on his bicep do?

Whos blood is on mercwips' knife?

>>2069549
>posts animu

>>2069429
>I've never posted the image on the board other than the first time it was posted

I know for a fact that that's not true. But whatever, gonna hide and move on.

>>2069553
>>2069549

Damn you!

>>2069317

so obnoxious how desperate for attention you are

couldn't we make a troll exercise out of painting variations of mercwip

start telling newbies to 1. consult the sticky and 2. reproduce mercwip as an initiation rite

>>2069618
This could actually get some funny results, but it's a bit mean spirited

Has this dude done concept art for Starsector? I could swear I've seen that face before.

>>2069600
Checkedddddd