/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

i've been doing it solely as a hobby since i've started and do some small commission work on the side. about to take out a fuckhuge loan for game art school though.

Although I am practicing and studying art 10+ hours a day, I don't have any plans on making a career out of it. It's merely an insatiable passion.

>>2095523
>about to take out a fuckhuge loan for game art school though


well you are kinda heading on the competitive path

>>2095527
neet?

>>2095520
So far it's still a hobby for me, a damn serious one. I don't plan on doing it as a job, but rather a very enjoyable "Plan B" just in case, but better if just hobby. I plan on tackling a big career about something else, the hardest part of it is deciding which career. That is actually a huge problem for me, I'm about to finish school and I still have no fucking idea what I'm going to do. I've been having the top grades in my class, and I really don't like being egocentric, but sitting down to study doesn't look like much of a problem compared to actually picking something I actually like more than "eh, I don't know, maybe". As I said, no idea yet.

Whatever, ranting about careers instead of art here.

>>2095545
wait, you like drawing more than pursuing other studies (at this point) and you'd prefer studying something else because it's easier for you?

>>2095534
I just moved from San Fran to Portland and don't have a job. However, I do have decent savings so I'm just gonna chill for a few months and focus on getting good. Before the move I worked from home, so there was a lot of time to be drawing then as well.

When I wake up, I literally start studying immediately. Tend to lose focus/burn out around evening time, but then make another study session push for a few hours after the sun sets. Dreaming about drawing is an every night occurrence.

>>2095556
why do you care about getting "that" good if it's not going to give you access to money?
aren't you already at a level where you can bring your ideas and creations to live and according to what you wanted them to look like?

>>2095548
Because I'm too much of a pussy to take the risk of trying to build an art career, whether that involves getting popular enough on the internet, or get an enjoyable art job where I live,or whatever. Like I said, art is Plan B, it's already something I study because it's really fun and I can be a big artist without a degree, maybe if I happen to be popular on the internet I would quit studying and dedicate my full power to art,

Also, I don't know if I "like" drawing more than other studies,I'm fascinated by many other things but I just can't seem to identify with any of the careers related to those awesome things,I can't look at someone and say "yeah I want to be in that guy's place!", every time I google to solve this I get tired and think "this suck, I suck". I need some guidance. Or an extremely lucky day.

>>2095563
you don't need luck if you take choices and act according to them.

>>2095568
You're right buddy. Before the year ends, I have to take the choice, it's not easy but it's not something I can just avoid.

>>2095558
I'm not quite out of beginner level yet, even at 8-14 hours a day for nearly 6 months. Still learning anatomy, honing line control, and internalizing perspective rules/form. I need a lot of work on color theory and properties of light. So no, my skills cannot yet bring my ideas to life successfully. I expect it to take years to get to the level I want to be at, which is for all intensive purposes very near to a professional digital concept artist's level. As for money, I honestly don't care about that stuff. All I care about is having free time to spend how I wish. As long as I have enough $ for that, I'm happy.

>>2095586
You got a tumblr?

>>2095629
No, a very recently started sketchbook on CA is about it: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=316506

Probably will start a tumblr soonish though.

I'm working in computer science academia and drawing takes my mind of things, which helps. My best ideas come when I eat or draw.

>>2095586
I Agree about all of it.
>my skills cannot yet bring my ideas to life successfully
This too, at least making concepts like sketches and saving them for the future while trying.

What I see often is, the people who swear it is just a hobby are crazy afraid of their hobby and will avoid it like the plague until "motivation" arrives.

>>2095638
Nigga, you're doing it wrong. Don't start soonish, don't start tomorrow, start now! Like right now when you read this post. The sooner you start, the better since every moment counts in amassing a following. There's no skill level requirement AS LONG AS you are improving and judging from your CA, you are

Guys guys in reality things are really simple. What you need to do, regardless of wether you are a hobbyist or an aspiring professional, is be me.

That's right. Unfortunately if you are not me, things aren't looking too good for you. I don't really think there's much that could make up for that handicap. You could try your hardest to become me, and that might get you halfway there. But if it all possible, just be me.

Then you'll make it no doubt.

>>2096245
You are very unfunny

>>2096251

That's not true. I know you chuckled.

>>2096237
Dalai Lama: There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.

I went to art school and I'm always trying to get better, and I'd like to do well with my paintings, but I don't try to make it my main career.
Instead I focus on office work in creative organisations. I'm a good office worker drone, and when it comes fine to it I need the stability of regular work hours and a paycheck I know is coming.
Painting is my passion, but I gotta eat.

I just liked to doodle a lot back in school, never really grew out of it and bought a few sketchbooks. I realize I'm nowhere near the level I could potentially be but at the same time drawing is a pretty good brain exercise for me. I've been in the navy for about a year now and it's a great way to pass the time when we're underway.

>Middle of high school
>Get into art as hobby.
>Didn't really draw too much and just drew for fun.
>Fast forward to last year of high school
>Realize I have no idea what I want to do once I leave high school also super shit grades
>Art is the only thing I really care about that can be made into a career
>Find /ic/
>Realize I'm shit
>The quest for git gud begins

Now I'm NEETing in hopes that I'll eventually get good enough to live off freelance illustration or something after I move out.
It's tough staying motivated to actually study as opposed to playing video games all day, but I've been seeing some improvement so far (both in actual skill, and ability to motivate myself)

>>2095520
I've been replicating images ever since I was a little kid. I never traced because people give such shit about it, so I practiced endlessly until I could hand draw a near perfect copy of a source image. But I'm not skilled at drawing OC and I frankly don't care to... I like inking and shading, taking a rough sketch and bringing it to completion. Technical work.

I have a small collection of awards and ribbons from local art shows. But I eventually stopped entering because even though my submissions were done completely by my hand, they were still drawn from source images. I felt bad winning over artists who submitted their own OC - my work may look and be beautiful, but where would I be without those other artists laying it down first?

Met Mike Choi once at a comic con and chatted it up at his booth... showed him my work book and was told my lines were good enough to go pro inker if I cared to train for it. That was pretty cool!

But work is always still work for me - and working in comics especially is known for deadlines and demands, rush jobs and stress. I never did care for the thought of bringing that kind of pressure to my pleasant hobby. I draw because I like to, not because I have to.

My roommate is like that. They do art as a hobby, but when they are working on a piece they refuse to do anything that resembles household chores until they are done even though I'm the one with the actual deadlines. It pisses me off.

Also, they are good enough to pursue a career, but doesn't want to be bothered with deadlines. Then again I kinda consider them to be a huge coward as well so I think that's a huge reason for them keeping it as a hobby even though they have no problem taking commissions from people.

>>2096237
>>2096302
I appreciate the wisdom.
http://foxdit.tumblr.com/

I'll keep up with it from here on. Cheers

I want to be an animator, but everyone keeps telling me I'd be better of in a field involving math or law.
I know that I'm exceptionally good at those things, but they're not what I want from life.

>>2096262
No, youre just a faggot

Too many people want a salary for what amounts to a personal hobby and I think that's unrealistic.

>>2096788
Dont you have any friends?

>>2096907
i think if you polish up it could be sellable. i'd buy some print or shit from you if i had money
you deserve it

>>2097078
Who use tumblr? No.

>>2096907
Ah, anon you are still here. Haven't seen you in a while, but then I am not around as much these days. Recognize your work anywhere.

>>2096788
Nigga, you should spend time drawing from your imagination. I say 50-50. 50 studying, 50 imagination. You don't want to be that dude in the improvement threads that spent 10 years to be a photocopier but when it comes to imagination, it's DA tier

op here, proud of me thread'