/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2305513

Noooo but it's never finished anon. Only abandoned.

>>2305516
Why?

>tfw 20+ hours on an illustration now and it's only halfway there

>>2306302

>tfw 100+ hours into painting keep seeing new problems
>want to call it finished
>cant
art is hard

>>2306306

Are you Ruan Jia? Post it. I never beleive these assholes

>>2305513
>>2306302
>>2306306
I know these feels.

>>2306306
Post it anon. I am curious.

>>2306322
Why wouldn't you believe it? I've met several amateur artists over the years who put those kinds of hours into single images. Usually it's a case of them not recognizing diminishing returns or them not knowing what they are doing and keep changing things or being indecisive. Spending 100 hours does not automatically make your art good.

>More than 30 hours into an illustration
>It looks fantastic, but still far from finished
>Afraid to lose my patience and fuck up thinking of those Facebook likes

>>2306572
>thinking of those Facebook likes
confirmed for never gunna make it

>another drawing I overall like
>another drawing I know I could have done better
>another drawing that reminds me to git gud

>>2306306
>probably beginner
>100 hrs into a painting
>not 100 hrs into studying

O.O ... anon seriously?

>>2305513
'>mfw I look at something I did a couple months ago and thought it was bretty good

>>2305513
>mfw you finish

>the people around you seem to have way more fun with their art

>>2307075

>dont enjoy studying
>have to do it to get better
>force myself to draw everyday
>its almost never fun

It's all worth it, r-right?

>make art
>normie friends and family say I'm amazing and get a bunch of views and likes
>post on /ic/
>get ignored or told I'm shit
makes me want to sit in a cave and study and not share anything.
I used to enjoy drawing but I think I got too caught up in the attention.

Its not good enough; It's never good enough. My profs always say I need to work on knowing when a piece is finished, but why stop when you know you can do better?

>spend days making an illustration
>gets some notes/likes/favs whatev
>spend minutes making a joke image
>gets trillions likes and favs and shit

just

>>2307082
Are you a beginner?
It's good to force yourself to draw, but you shouldn't hate it all the time. Draw stuff that you like doing or do a mindless doodle sometimes to keep the seriousness off.

>call my painting finished
>post online
>fuck it's a mess. better work on it some more and update it five times

I just foun this and I though you guys would enjoy it. It gave me a heartwarming laugh.

Is it normal to deeply hate everything you create?

>>2307297
It is, but in your case you only need to fix a very specific and simple mistake in your drawing procedure and everything will be good in a few days.

>>2307296
It's not bad enough to be funny. If anything whoever drew it has some decent potential.

>>2307082

Make sure to mix in actual pieces. There's studying theory, there's practical study to apply it, and those are really important. But the REAL application comes when you're actually working on your own stuff. And when you're actually excited about what you're doing, you'll feel it all clicking into place.

>work for hours
>finish
>looks good
>feel great
>...wait a minute...
>mirror it
>FUCKNUTS, KILL IT WITH FIRE

Remember to flip as you go, guys.
God damn it.

>>2307297
is that steve buscemi retarded cousin? Tom Hanks maybe?

>>2305513
This feel is too real

>>2307297
This would make for a great reaction image tb h

>Normal painting
>Stop every X minutes to change song check phone etc.

>Try to smoke weed before a painting session
>Work for 8 hours straight without looking away from the screen, even if the music album finishes I don't notice and just keep working
>In my greatest pieces I've always smoked weed during the process

Anyone? It just makes me concentrate like nothing else.

>>2307395

>not keybinding F2 to flip canvas horizontal and F3 to flip vertical and checking this every 5 minutes

fucking seriously?

>>2307426
I have it to f1 and f2. What do you use f1 for?

>>2307424
Smoking weed has different reactions to different people. For me, I played around with smoking while starting a piece, which IMO is the hardest part. Sometimes it can help get things moving without over thinking it, which I think is critical when starting something new.

I can't say it helps beyond that. When it comes to fleshing things out more, being high is a detractor. I lose focus on the things that need to be done to progress the drawing, and tend to get more distracted.

This is coming from someone who doesn't enjoy smoking a lot.

Try to get good.

Have intense feelings that I'm wasting my time and I will never get good. This keeps on happening every week for once a day.

Anyone experience this?

>>2307426
>tfw traditional

Not that it's any excuse, I've got a big ass mirror right next to me.

>>2307248
>mfw

>>2307433

Rare use can't reveal it

>>2305513
This used to be me before I started taking art seriously. Every drawing or painting I did I hated. Then, after a few months of drawing every day, I drew something I actually liked. Never felt that before. 8 months later and I like most of my work, and I am making some pretty decent money from commissions and prints. Also I decided to skip this semester and am putting in about 10 hours a day, which is easy, because I am always working on a commission so I am actually getting paid to get better.

>>2307082
It should feel like homework, but you should still enjoy it as a challenge. Don't just mindlessly "study." Give yourself goals and challenges. I almost never drew vehicles and machines, so once a week I would find a bunch of references and take notes/copy ideas from really good work, then spend a few hours applying those notes to drawings and finishing one or two. Did the same for things like anatomy and perspective. I took a sketchbook with me everywhere, so between classes or when drinking with friends at a bar it was life drawing time.

>>2307471
There have been a few times when all I do in my free time is watch tutorials or discussions between professional artists. Threw away trying to have a love life. Steam has sat unopened for months. Up until 3am drawing and my drawing arm is starting to spasm from fatigue, and I get this really sick feeling in my stomach because I put so much into getting better and I still suck. Almost have tears in my eyes because I feel like I'm trying so fucking hard and I am getting nowhere, and no one around me has any fucking clue how much work it takes and you can't just go around telling people that you almost cried like a little bitch because of ART. So I choked that shit back and just kept going because I realized that it is 100% up to you, and only you to get it, and even if you do cry like a sensitive bitch, no one is going see it. The only thing they care about is if your work is good, so just keep fucking going.

>>2307248
The world of entertainment has never been "fair" unfortunately...

>>2305513
>Spend minimum of 60 hours on painting
>Finishing it becomes agonizing
>Realize it's a piece of shit
>Give up 90% of the time
>Miraculously finish something
>Literally too embarrassed by how shitty it is to bother uploading
>Haven't uploaded a finished piece in 6 months
Finishing a piece makes me feel worse disappointment then just giving up on a piece. Seriously starting to doubt whether or not I'm gonna make it senpai.

>>2305513
I have tried, but after months and months of no progression I just started to hate drawing. You cant expect someone to learn when it doesnt bring any fun or joy.

>>2306088
theres always several hundred more hours of rendering to be invested

>>2306306
what you need to do is just call it quits and try again,cause that only makes polished turds and stresses you out more than it should.
if its for practice,scrap and start another if not start over.
no matter how much tweaking you do it wont look as good as you had pictured it

>tfw I've been studying shit for 2 years now

>literally have never finished a painting, did only excercises

>haven't improved at all

>too anxious too actually start a painting and see that I am still shit

>>2307395
i dont get it,what does mirroring reveal?

>learn new things
>completely forget everything that I learned before it

Fucking hell. My memory is so fucking shit and there's too much to learn.

>>2305513
all three are me when i feel "done"

>>2308341
a lot.

>>2307248
>>2307623

It's not "unfair". You guys just don't understand it well enough and suffer from feelings of entitlement.

>>2307248
>>2307623

>>2308365
is right, but i'll try to explain this in a nicer and more thorough way because i keep having to reiterate this for friends:

the joke image you made is instantly appealing to much more people because it's designed to be quickly digested along with instantly conveying a positive emotion (laughter) in a way that people like sharing (laughter is communal, even on the internet).

the type of person who enjoys a well made and thoughtfully crafted illustration is a lot rarer than someone who enjoys jokes.

jokes (or anything that seems to be much more popular than your finished work) can bring eyes tho, and sometimes they stick, so don't discount the rampant popularity of seemingly low effort work. until then, keep grinding and improving your illustrative skills [field of dreams quote]

>Implying it's ever finished
>Implying I don't lose interested and ditch it 30 minutes in

I just can't be fucking assed anymore.

>>2307248
At least you get something from your work, prick

>>2307512
The lighting on your explosion, and the volume of it in general, is beautiful, sir.

> I empathize

30+ hrs in on this beast, and the last 10 have mostly been occupied by my staring into the page, not sure what mistake to make next.

>I would love some input, though.

>>2308861
Mistake made successfully.

>finish drawing
>it looks weird
>redraw it
>it looks weird
>redraw it
>it looks weird
>scrap it
>spend 3 weeks drawing cubes
>cubes are fun
>haven't gone back yet