/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Who else spends weeks on end on the same sketch redrawing and get tired of looking at it and just give up, repeat for years and never bothered making a blog?

>>3431087
I haven't drawn in two days.

i'm trash

>>3431087
chunbum's paintings are basically the only oc i actually like on /ic/

>>3431102
I'm drawing for 4 years now and haven't shared a single piece of my work yet.

>>3431121
Same. Want to post something for us?

>>3431127
>>3431121
post something NOW

>>3431087
I masturbated to my own drawing

>>3431164
I was just wondering about this other day. Does anyone masturbate to their own creations?
Thank you for telling us that.

I'm a "professional" but I only draw every second day or so. Being good at this comes easy to me and I know I could be among the top 0.1% but I just don't think putting that much time into art, or anything else for that matter, is worth it, at all. People who draw all day are throwing their lifes away and they'll deeply regret not having lived once they get older, guaranteed. I regret working my ass off for a couple of years to get to a professional level. I could've spread it out over six and enjoyed my youth a little more. It took a while to get my social life back on track too.

Obviously I'm not going to reveal my identity, so don't bother asking.

The shit tastes of the masses gets me genuinely down to the point of desperation

>>3431181
literally you

>>3431171
And this is why the "cocoon method" should not be used regardless whether it works or not.

>>3431171
>having a social life in the first place

>>3431127
>>3431121
same but also finally made a blog, now I feel like I should have waited another 4 years

I now have a following of over 5k but the truth is I make references of popculture shit in different programs and draw over them in photoshop, then I shade as needed, but my lines come from there. I began by copying values too, everything, eventually I moved on to just lines, and now I'm beginning to make original pieces with lots of love.

But my empire is based off of sin.

>>3431192
5k is hardly an empire.. but thanks for being honest anon-kun

>>3431102
>>3431127
is me
>>3431140

>>3431183
>being a popularity=quality retard

>>3431167
I did it once, I usually can't though.

>>3431167
I did
The drawing was just the way I imagined i my head

>>3431171
I draw as a hobby and regret not getting gud a few years ago. I could've been drawing neat artworks now to relieve my stress from work

>>3431087
I traced a few artworks solely with the pen tool on Illustrator and expecting to be good at drawing

>>3431167
Got a boner a few time but I have yet to masturbate to it. It's honestly a superbe feeling already.

>>3431257
>using pen tool
>using illustrator

Unless you're planning on doing logos for a living stop this and actually learn to draw.

>>3431265
I used to have a Bamboo lying around but one day my brother who designs shit for a living (rightfully) took it. And I can't be bothered to draw if it's not digital

>>3431121
1000% this

>>3431087
I’ve been posting here for almost 5yrs and I’ve never read the sticky

I still haven't touched photoshop because render monkey work is scary and autistic.

Ive been inconsistently drawing for a decade and have never read anything about how to draw. i think i can draw not people good, but thats it

>>3432375

>>3431203
is she originally nude anon

tell the truth, because i want to see it

>>3432443
big kek

>>3431106
I haven't drawn for a month. The first 3 days I was trying to draw again was hell, but now I'm good again.

>>3431192
Wait is that story really true?

Sometimes I draw heads that I like and draw the body separately, attaching them later in photoshop. It only ends up looking ok like 15% of the time. I'm trying so fuckin hard to break this habit, I just can't seem to draw things in one fell swoop
On the plus side I've recently started drawing bigger, my old sketches are really tiny and stiff, new stuff is bigger and looser. Not where I want to be yet but I'm trying!

>>3432444
what the fuck

>>3431102
i-is that you?

>>3431087
I became a gayporn artist even if i had a videogame career and can animate stuff.
I...actually can work in a vg-industry doing both drawing and animation of 2D characters.
But sinse im a faggot and a sad one, i decided to leave world of heteros and closed myself in tumblr/instagram drawing nothing but porn.
People on my "Normal xD" - me accounts from the past still post messages saying ""WHERE DID YOU GO ? :(". i lie to them that im busy and return soon
but...idk.
I killed previous self. and just want to draw gay shit and be done with heterofags.

Going to work in a studio finding that some shithead is a homophobe and forcing myself to work with those. or being freelancer and drawing heterofag-crap for heteros like girls with big boobs is fucking stupid.
fuck that shit

Not to mention i gained a new audience and fan-followers on those both platforms quite fast because in my homoerotic art im using those skills i got from being a videogame artist-animator

>>3432537
blog now, draw what you enjoy.

I like drawing mannequins for gesture and not one of you can stop me

>>3431203
But you've shared your work a lot back then? You're mikufag right?

>>3432541
We'll see about that, big boy

>>3432537
... Julian?

>>3431087
I've been drawing for almost ten years (19) and still haven't improved.

It makes me not want to draw anymore, but I still do because I love it.

>>3432649
>19
fuck off agelet

>>3432444
Such levels of intimacy is only between the creator and the figure. In other words, no I won't let you see her.

i'm in a relationship with another artist, we both draw, and sometimes i find myself being too competitive in my head about it. i just want to be better than him sometimes and inget frustrated when im not

>>3432796
that's kinda hot

I hate using reference

>>3431087
>Unemployed for 3 years
>still trying to get an associates degree in engineering
>still havent git got gud

>>3432806
Are you homo? Serious quetion

I've got 40+GB of Watts courses downloaded from last year and all I've finished so far is phase 1 head drawing (even that was kinda rushed)

>>3432796
:(

>>3432833
You know what you should of asked for was to critique it instead of being a degenerate but it's too late for that fagboy.

>>3432836
why on earth would i ask to critique something? id just critique it instead.

but i dont want to do that, do i? otherwise i would have ya fuckin cornball.

>>3432819
no

>>3432843
ouch, shut down, you'll find your perfect artbando one day anon don't worry

>>3431087
i keep drawing stylistically and get lazy when I have to draw something realistic

>>3432443
made my night

>>3432843
Post art of your guy. If I'm better, date me.

Before that post your work as well, I don't wanna date some beg

>>3432806
I'm the same. He draws so little yet improves so much- when I draw for many hours each day and get so little out of it... I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fact he draws cartoony stuff while I want to do more realistic things, but the bitter envy and frustration are still so strong...

>>3432893
same, I usually rub him off to make him sleepy and keep him from spending too much time improving

>>3432836
>should of
Should've* = Should have.

>>3432901
Would have*

>>3432896
hentai of art buddies trying to outcrab each other, escalating to sexual shenanigans when?

>>3432896
LMAO I always tell him he should rest from work and play a videogame with me or sth like that instead of drawing... I'm kinda happy I'm not the only one. Even we're still the worst though

>>3432896

>>3432906
I wish I had an art gf to compete and crab with, it must be nice

>>3432846
ah i mean im not saying hes not, hes great! its a me problem, moreso. i feel super competitive sometimes and i wanna be better than him, but i think that attitude could be detrimental to the relationship... idk. i appreciate the thought still, anon!

>>3432905
>/ic/ makes a hentai comic with this plot when

>>3432954
I want an art bf whos better than me

>>3432966
not at all, if anything it should keep you engaged and pushing you past your limits. While ofc both parties should know when to swallow and admit defeat without being in constant psycho mode, imagine having a normie guy who is just out of the zone, not interested in your hobbies, but passively forcing you to be interested in his, amongst other normie activities. You drive to draw and improve would probably diminish drastically.

>>3432905
screen'd

>>3432988
i know exactly what you mean, everyone i dated before this dude was just like that, didn't know how to draw and had no interest in learning. im probably just worried because I hadn't experienced this sort of thing before. i appreciate your perspective anon!

Want to draw backgrounds to characters, rather than just having them stand in a blank canvas.
Too scared to practice backgrounds.

>>3433002
are you me

>>3433013
Yes

>>3433000
I don't even know how to talk to people that dont draw, prbably why I ended up with him?
>>3432954
It's fun until he/she gets better than you- or when you they do something terrible and they get angry when you tell em as well? Also: if you ever want to abandon drawing for life, you'll be stuck with your partner being in love with it. It's fun but it gets so complicated-

>>3431192
I'm glad you're actually drawing now, tracers are the lowest scum. After you've built up a nice gallery of original work you might want to delete those old images in case someone catches you.

>>3432490
Do gesture drawings. That should help you get into the habit of doing a basic sketch of the whole human, rather than drawing a complete head then a body attached to it.

>>3432649
Have you been studying? Actively teaching yourself? Unless you actually have issues with 3D visualization or something, stagnancy should only come from not actively trying to learn.

>>3433000
no problem, an artist needs another artist as partner, to share ideas, to learn, to push each other.To be fair a lot of artists tend to be rather weird, some even deeply obscure and psychotic, it's all about finding that nice down to earth artist who has his little quirks.

>>3431087
I draw for fun so I never improved for 6 or 7 years but I don't give a shit.

>>3431171
Trent Kaniuga or the Drawabox guy
Either way, you're trash especially if you're Trent because you get your assistant Danny (me) to help on every single commission you get and to make it worse you take all the credit and barely do any real work. Fuck you you balding faggot

>>3433147

>>3433155
Have you seen the before and after thread?

>>3433002
they're actually fun as fuck once you get over the initial hurdles

I can't draw because no one liked or reblogged my recent work yet.
I traced 5 times.

>>3433294
Imagine I am sending you a like right now anon, pick yourself up and get back to work.

i spend more time sleeping than i do drawing. lately, ive spent more time sleeping than even being awake!

I spent hundreds of dollars on courses that I have never went through and hundreds if not in the thousands for supplies that I have no business using and I'm still shit.

>>3431087
i've been holding back a lot of commissions on purpose because i'm very addicted to pornography and i cannot draw a picture without getting a boner. I feel pretty tired all the time, and my arms are pretty much pulverized by the constant urge of fapping, to the point of growing a painful bulge in my wrist. Having your desk in your room with your bed beside it doesn't help either. I think i'm gonna move my entire desk to the living room, but in a corner so nobody can see that i'm drawing smut.

i've been holding back a lot of commissions on purpose because i'm very addicted to pornography and i cannot draw a picture without getting a boner. I feel pretty tired all the time, and my arms are pretty much pulverized by the constant urge of fapping, to the point of growing a painful bulge in my wrist. Having your desk in your room with your bed beside it doesn't help either. I think i'm gonna move my entire desk to the living room, but in a corner so nobody can see i'm drawing smut.

>>3432822
You are missing literally nothing

>>3433340
s-same. oversleeping sucks, you're still tired all the time...

I wasted too much time playing games instead of drawing when I was younger and hate myself for it because I could be so much better. My low self esteem is one of the main reasons that keep me drawing, my main goal atm is to be better than a friend of mine.

>>3433394
i wasted the last 10 years being in absolutely terrible relationships. lost most of my personal belongings, crippled my social life, got into a lot of fights, been in and out of fucking jail, used disgusting hard drugs, drank all the fuckin time, withdrew from my family, all because i didnt want to be lonely and settled for toxic people. here i am 30 yrs old, single and sober, and fighting to finally get my shit together and rebuild my life. dont ever fucking settle for someone. literally wasted 10 years of my life on pure bullshit.

>>3431106
Haven't drawn in 5 years.

>>3431087
I realized that art probably isn't worth it, so I just use my skills to be a hentai game developer.
Occasionally I'll paint a promotional thing, but I can't see doing it every day.

I have a secret rivalry going with several /ic/ regulars.
They will never know about it but one day I will win and on that day I will be done with /ic/

>>3433498
Get out of here Gai. You'll never surpass Kakashi. Except for that one time all your hard work finally paid off and you got to retire for the rest of your life with a bodyguard and everything.

>>3433508
One time is all I need!

>>3431087
im doing studies to avoid my comic project because im afraid to fail

>>3433536
Good job. You're failing by doing studies instead of the project. How does it feel to know that?

It's always the same and it's difficult doing something good

>>3432649
I'm also 19 and I've been drawing for 3 months and have seen a lot of improvement, just work at it man.

>>3433394
>>3433472
That's your inspiration for being good at art tho, that's the basics

I came here to learn how to draw. Now I am mostly just lurking and not getting anything done.

>>3433551
at 19 your brain barely works, you'll get better just by getting older

ps. dont do too much drugs or the above doesn't apply

I exclusively draw with a mouse whose middle button is broken

>>3433036
Thanks for the advice, I will definitely do more gesture drawing. I have a hard time with it, for some reason I can't make my brain understand how to construct a body on top of a single gestural line.

>>3433167
I've seen deviantart. And lack of progression is not what I am doubting.

I dropped uni and now I've spent the last 6 - 7 months drawing furry porn in unemployment.

>>3433785
I don't believe you

>>3433786
You want me to post my work to prove it?

>>3433789
Yes.

>>3433790
I aim for a more cartoon-like style (having an interest in animation and all) but I try to study on the fundamentals as much as I can in my free time when I'm not handing out resumes.
Please no bully.

>>3433789
I want to hear more of how and why you dropped out of higher education to draw porn for autists, also work

I dropped out of highschool and I just turned 18 recently.
'tis a lame confession since I'm already successful in living out of drawing but the former statement still makes me sound pathetic lmao

>>3433796
Post a drawing

>>3433795
I went to uni in September 2017 to study animation. At first I was excited as Hell to go to uni, to make new friends and to become something I always wanted to be: an animator. By the time uni started it was nothing like I thought it was.
I had gone to college previously (Brit Bong uni and college are two diffrent things) and I fucking loved college. Uni on the other hand was a lot different in the wrong areas. The way that we were learning wasn't prefereble. I reckon I would've enjoyed the course a lot more had it feel more like going to work as opposed to being told for 3 hours on what to do and "just doing it" in whatever time you have.
The worst part of it was moving out into the accomodation. I never did anything like this and this experience wasn't all that good. Long story short the accomodation was ass and not only was it just not prefereble but it was impacting my diet and my work, since all I had with me was a shitty laptop that couldn't even run any animation program.
After dropping uni I spent nearly 3 months of just doing nothing. It wasn't until February this year that I started drawing more, but I have not animated anything ever since I dropped uni. I want to but I don't know where to start at this point.

After the first few months of dropping uni I had not put much thought into it, but recently I've been having thoughts at night of "What if Istayed"?

tl;dr: Uni life was not for me and I don't know what to do now.

>>3433813
You start by putting pen to paper. That is what I do when I dont know what to do.

Just put pen into paper and move it.

>>3433294
For me it's the other way around, when I feel unnoticed it drives me to draw, and I'm usually lazy as fuck.

>>3433813
What was so bad about the accommodation?

And why didn't the university have computers for this?

It sounds like you just went to a shit uni for this dude. Which uni was it?

>>3433844
I think he means his life, anon, not his drawing.

>>3433536
but anon, you should get real failure out of the way quickly so you're not an old fuck failure

>>3433813
wow. i'm too sexually repressed to draw porn, but i had much the same experience with an animation program.

>tl;dr: Uni life was not for me and I don't know what to do now.
see if theres any animation meetups near you. see if there's any companies. see what their crewmemebers have in their portfolios. set yourself some tasks to have something for a portfolio. maybe even take some evening classes or sometihng

>>3431167
I think I'm doing it with most of my faps by now since I mostly want to draw my waifu being directly or indirectly lewd.

>>3433152
I'm neither.
Are you ok?

>>3431087
I've never worked hard to develop my own style, just emulating whoever I think draws the best little girls. The very first was Haga Yui, and now it's Tsukushi. My goal is to deceive naive anons into thinking the original is posting, or to be scolded by senpai. But I only lurk.

it's 2pm and I've just been watching shit and drinking too much coffee, now I have to calm down and actually draw something.

still another anon says
>>3431291
2000%

also i love cats to death and all the cat pictures here are slowly killing me.
you see I can't get another one because i wouldn't be able to give them the stable life they'd deserve for the 18 or so years they'd live.

it's been 6 years of meowy abstinence

>>3434028

I simultaneously know I'm a talentless hack and how great I am. I draw exquisite things in my head and don't dare try to actually draw it.

>>3433002
My feelings to you.

>>3431087
I've made my own sketchbook over 2 years ago. Drew its cover, but never really used it.

I can't draw anything without beratjng myself to tears while doing it.

I made some great drawings tonight

I don't even draw

>tfw want to go to an (((art school))) but rarely draw, perhaps because of "muh perfectionism"

Also, this: >>3434176

>>3431171
I call bullshit on this. Even if you spend 8 hours on drawing a day (if it is also your job), there is plenty of time to socialize. What the hell are you doing at the usual working hours, when all normal people are having a job and life? Do you really enjoy life every fucking hour of your life?

>>3431087
i havent drawn properly for a few months since getting into uni

>>3436634
I didn't draw for en entire year after I got into uni + job.