/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I dont draw.

If you’re old enough to post in this thread, it’s already too late for you to start.

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>>3460426
don't listen to this crab. it's never to late to start. you can become good in a matter of a few years. you could literally start at 40 and still spend 30 years producing art

I drew a lot as a kid from like age 2 to age 13.
Took several years of a break, then began again with a serious mind around age 20-21.

never drew as a kid

started at 24, NGMI unfortunately

>>3460423
Ever since I can remember.
If you're starting when you're already old enough to be aware of how much you suck initially, it's over for you.

>>3460442
I don't think that's true.
You don't see a lot of artists who start late beccause most people don't just suddenly dicover an interest like drawing when they are already an adult.

16, never drew before then other than in art class where I barely passed with E's
20 now

>>3460455
Well maybe it's not over, but it's going to be super hard

A lot of the improvement you would get "naturally" and effortlessly without even noticing by being a carefree child drawing will now come packaged with a lot of self-consciousness about how much you still have to learn and how embarassingly bad you stuff is.

It's the reason why you see so many threads here like "how do I enjoy drawing and studying when I know my stuff sucks?" etc

>>3460423
22, aside from tracing a pokemon once and the obligatory art class I had to take in highschool I never drew at all until I turned 22.

>>3460462
I don't know, I pretty much felt like I have to learn drawing from the very begining as an adult, even though I drew as a child/teen.

>>3460465
then you weren't "into" drawing nearly enough
you were supposed to be drawing but also actvely learning and trying to get better by reading tutorials and shit, posting awful fanart on DA / newgrounds / wherever, etc. I don't mean being a kid who randomly doodles on their notebooks, I mean asking for art supplies instead of toys. it had to be your main interest

if it was like this then you shouldn't be "learning from the beggining" as an adult at all, you already have a foundation

>>3460423

I... can't really remember a time when I didn't. I know when I was very young I didn't much like to draw and preferred sculpting in clay, but by the time I was 8 or 9 I was drawing regularly and I never stopped.

I never thought I would be trying to become a pro at drawing in my adult life. I had a 3rd grade art teacher and he made me cry for breaking his pencils (on purpose, but I said I didn't). He got super pissed and I didn't understand why at the time. I thought I'd have a fear of even drawing from that contribution and here I am.

>>3460423
28. As in, this January.

Ever since.
Discovered LOOMIS at 14.

>>3460423
I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, though I only got serious about improving at around 12 - 13.

>>3460423
since 2011, I just turned 19

>>3460429
>you could literally start at 40 and still spend 30 years producing art
yeah too bad you'll never make a living with it

>>3460551
not really the goal for everyone though, is it?

>>3460423
Depends on whether or not you mean "draw seriously". The timer always resets, currently it's around 24.

>>3460423
do you mean
>the age I started touching pen on paper?
>the age I started making something others appreciated?
>the age I started making something I appreciated?
>the age I started enjoyed the drawing process?
>the age I started to make a habit of time?
>the age I started making money out of it?
>the age I decided to make a living out of drawing?
because each question has it's own answer

>>3460423
Man I don't know, I started drawing as soon as I could hold a pen, my drawings were shit up until a few years ago when I started studying properly and practicing too.

>>3460521
So, you're either underage or ngmi, which one is it?

19-20

>>3460595
Don't be mean to me, this was 15 minute sketch

>>3460595
Don't be mean to me, this was just a 15 minute sketch.

unironically my entire life
yet i'm still shit

>>3460603
>15 minute
holy at this rate with this many years of experience, you should be able to draw this in like 30 sec

>>3460613
why is this so? Samefo rme . andI fe ell ike shit because of it

>>3460617
let's see your art then, Michelangelo

>>3460603
>15 minutes
I also used to lie about the time it took to finish a drawing I wasnt really proud of.
It clearly took longer than that. Look at how trash your line quality is, a person cant "sketch" that in 15 mins when he has no confidence in his lines.

unless you mean just that guy holding a broom, then I can see that taking 15 mins

>>3460621
k just 1 min

>>3460613
Let's see what you got, post work anon

>>3460630
>>3460621
admittedly done in 5 min but still
Leonardo would be proud

>>3460646
Pathetic. This is your average /ic/ shitposter. This should be a meme.

>>3460646
nice one, dude. you really captured the eyes.

Ah shiet, just got meme'd
>literally done in 3
minutes
>sorry I lied about the time

>>3460651
>>3460650
f-fuck you guys...
It's literally perfection
they just looked like this back in the old days

>>3460654
literally nothing noteworthy about this, it's a watered-down copy of the original at best. this is pretty fucking sad, guy.

>>3460660
>being this deluded

>>3460660

23 aka 2 weeks ago

i still haven't progressed to draw anything other than my own face yet

i am scared

>>3460668
>>3460662
>>3460650
>>3460651
So loomis teached me shit. FUCK LOOMIS

>>3460668

>>3460671
>loomis teached me shit
*taught
It's not Loomis fault you're a brainlet. I sincerely hope you feel humiliated and think a bit about what you post from now on.

>>3460679
Just ask some famous artists how they learned to draw. I bet no one says LOOMIS.

>>3460423
Since Kindergarten or 1st Grade basically whenever I decided to pick up a pencil, and surprisingly it wasn't complete shit, (but it wasn't good) that's probably because my father side of the family drew a lot. I have a good sense of spacing, shapes, and directions of where the lines goes. But I didn't know any fundies, stroking techniques, nor why in general certain art looks better than others. I started officially learning the fundies at the 9th Grade, I picked it up fast but it's hard to master.

>>3460695
>ask Loomis how he learned to draw
>he says Loomis

>>3460695
Loomis is pretty high regarded among a lot of famous mangaka and generally acknowledged as a good learning source for beginners.

Also...
>I haven't heard some celebrity mention x, so x must be useless

>>3460695
>Alex Ross

Also Rebecca Sugar did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/2e4t58/table_iama_i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven/

Her pre-SU stuff is visually interesting albeit creepy. Kind of John K/MAD magazine-ish

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZsACh

>>3460662
>>3460668
>>3460679
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwC-rcv95zE

>>3460753
The chad loomis

>>3460462
This is such an excellent point. I bet it's a big part of why most people who are successful started young. It really applies for everything. Starting as a child shelters you from so much of those initial doubts and low confidence that causes so many people to fail

>>3460618
Because you don't do deliberate practice. Practice entails doing things you suck at so you get better at them. You probably draw mostly the same shit, never branching out to something you're less comfortable. I bet you have one or two things you can draw decently but anything outside of that just crashes you because you never practiced the things that you couldn't do, just kept doing the things that you could do.

>>3460423
26. Look at me now.

>>3460423
12. Needed around 2 years to improve in order for my art to be acceptable

>>3460886
Nigga that's cute as fuck

>>3460459
100% same only I started at 18 and im turning 21 very soon

>>3460423
started to draw at 10ish-11, never improved ever since. im 19 now

Uh... 4? 3? I don't remember. If you mean when I started taking it seriously and studying, I think I was around 17. I'm 21 now. /ic/ helped.

25

>>3460886
How do I draw anime?

>>3460423
2

>>3460459
>>3461023
Where are you at now?

>>3460423
12, but I didn't start until I was 20

>>3461148
unironically Loomis

>>3460646
>>3460764
doesn't look that bad for 5min IMO

>>3461155
im >>3461023
pretty mediocre weeb/furfag here, this is about everything I drew this entire year, maybe missing a few that I lost when I wiped my HDD earlier this year.

But honestly, more so than the lost few good drawings I regret only having about 10% of the really shit ones.

>>3461225
>everything i drew this entire year
well there's yer problem

>>3460423
I started drawing in my mother's tomb with my umbral chord, none of you mere mortals will ever catch up to me.

>>3460423
I started when I was 8 but stopped till I was 34. god, I feel lonely, I need a friend.

>>3460462
phew, good thing i have the mind of an autistic 12 year old. gmi boys

>>3461229
what problem? I draw for fun, drawing more than is fun would be putting the cart before the horse.

>>3461235
>drawing in my mother's tomb
Your art must be twisted.

>>3460423
18 and just recently started (since last 2 weeks and a half) and learning from loomis fun with pencil book. i never drew at all before other than just for projects and shit (drew them poorly too literally like a 9 years old) i praised STEM subjects and despised arts all my life but i realized that was just a retarded way of thinking.
also wanna learn art to express some stuff that are hard for me to put on words or write on a journal or something.

>>3460423
I've been drawing all my life like most, but if we mean seriously, I think sine 5th grade, so 11 or 12? I started to study art around then and even got to an art high school. The most grinding I did was in 2013-2014 after which I kind of lost motivation after my depresso espresso hit. I started to take it again a bit more seriously past 2016 to try and challenge myself.

Well I was drawing when I was 2, but it wasn't until I was 10 that I drew something and I actually started being critical of it. I usually say that's when I started drawing cause it's when i started actually thinking about it critically.

I think there's a distinction.

I've been drawing in some way since I was a kid, started using a graphic pad when I was around 14. I was okay at drawing, but truthfully I don't feel I started practicing seriously til a year ago when I dropped out of college. Bout to turn 20 next month.

>>3460551

I am shocked there is a few hundred people in the country that do live from it, Drawign is a hobby, is like living off skate boarding or rc planes, it can be done, but is unproblable.

>>3460423
Started when I was 3. Quit when I was 10. Started drawing again when I was 28. Quitting drawing was the biggest mistake of my life.

>>3463435
Depends on how you treat it. If you plan to hit it big with creative art, you're right. You're very unlikely to.

That being said, there are tons of art related jobs that are attainable if you work towards them. Concept art, linework assistants, calligraphy, tattoo work, etc.

I've worked as an assistant comicker, more recently a tattoo artist, commission work (inconsistent though) and logo designer. Decided art would be my job when I was 13 or so, and so far it has been.

Can't say i make good money but at least I get by doing what I enjoy. I work a part time job as well to stay afloat though.

>>3463435
Depends on how you treat it. If you plan to hit it big with creative art, you're right. You're very unlikely to.

That being said, there are tons of art related jobs that are attainable if you work towards them. Concept art, linework assistants, calligraphy, tattoo work, etc.

I've worked as an assistant comicker, more recently a tattoo artist, commission work (inconsistent though) and logo designer. Decided art would be my job when I was 13 or so, and so far it has been.

Can't say i make good money but at least I get by doing what I enjoy. I work a part time job as well to stay afloat though.

>>3463531
The key is not focusing on artistic reasons to develop art. If you develop technique to the extent that it can have practical use in job fields, and are good at it, you can find jobs if you look for them.

Not going to sit here and pretend there's a lot of jobs available for that kind of work, but I've been able to sniff them out since i was 18 or so.

>>3463531
>>3463537
also, on topic with thread.. Started drawing at 8 or so, didn't take studying and improving seriously until around 17. Am 24 now, and am an employed artist.

>>3460423
I started drawing more for fun at age 11 and began taking it more seriously at 14.

>>3460423
20. Back then I thought I was getting in late, I'm glad the crabs didn't stop me

>>3460423
17

>>3460668
Somebody turn this into a before and after cocaine meme pls

>>3461225
Fellow furfag here, your art is pretty cute, but you are falling for the snoutless meme

Age 4 to 6 I guess.

>>3460423
since i was a little kid but i only stopped sketching autistic sonic fan characters and started getting serious about improving my art at around 13-14 years

>>3463647
shit taste detected

This is the oldest thing I have saved other than really young childhood stuff. It's a watercolor painting I did when I was 8

>>3460423

I used to draw when I was a kid, but then I became a lazy , joyless fuckwad when I was 13 . At 17,when that got better, I took on drawing again. That was a year ago, and I didn't really have as much time to practice as I would've liked this past year with the uni entry tests and other stuff,but I think I'm progressing well enough.
I'd post a pic of mine, but I'm a dumb phoneposter and I can't send any of them because they're too large.

>>3460764
don't be so disparaged so easily
keep practicing

>>3460426
>he didnt watch sinix's sketchbook series

16. Should i have started earlier?

>>3464957
youre gonna make it, anon
I started at 7 or so drawing dragons and shit, stopped around 13, picked it up again at 16. Never offically taught anything though, and only started doing fundies recently. Am 19 and my art is very average but i keep trying. I wanna make a webcomic and draw ducks

>>3464957
Thats pretty impressive for an 8 yr old.

>>3466285
>>3466383
surprise bitches it's me

in 7th grade I got in trouble for trying to draw porn

Since I was born. I'm not a prodigy but I have been drawing for as long as I can remember and even before I fucking remember because people have told me that I had been constantly drawing at such and such age. Only started to take it seriously when i became a teenager though so basically about 13 years old. I'm also retarded though (I don't understand the whole don't use th R-word thing - frankly I don't give a shit because I'm not a soft pussy) When I say retarded I mean so literally, I have asbergers.

>>3466416
Yikes.

Have been drawing as long as I can remember. But really, I have only started practicing and getting serious with my art for the past 2 years

I doodle in class a bunch but it was hardly any good practice. I probably got through a few beginning levels so I didn’t ever have to look at my art and be entirely disgusted. Mostly it was just heads and terrible bodies.

At 21 I started getting serious. I think I have drawn every day since then trying to build up my anatomy and gesture. More recently I have been working on perspective. This is the last thing I have drawn.

>>3460423
22

>>3460423
Drew shitty since I was 4 until I was 16.
At 16 I was still shitty but started taking it seriously and trying to improve
22 now and I think I'm slightly better than mediocre but I've improved a lot in just the past year and hope to keep that shit going.

>>3464755
yo this is pretty rad my dude

Since I had memory
Here is a nose I drew after looking at one of those "How to sketch" books at 8 or something. Below is a Spongebob literally 2 pages away on the same sketchbook

>>3460442
I remember doing random studies from posters in kids' magazines I had, just for the fuck of it- without even knowing what a study was, when I was like 6-8 and I 100% remember hating the way most of them looked.

>>3460423
I've been drawing my entire life

>>3460646
>knowingly makes fun of art infinitely better than theirs
>posts their shitty drawing in retaliation anyway
balls of steel

>>3460423
I;ve been drawing since i was 13!! I have improved so much since then i want to open a youtube channel and a patreon!! keep practicing!!

>>3474263
also if you like this, let me know bc its for sale

>>3474263
>>3474265
lmao

>>3461225
>Katia Managan
I'm not a fan of furries but you're ok with me.

Been drawing for most of my life, but desu it wasn't until the end of HighSchool that I actually started learning the right stuff and actually started getting better. Everything before that was mostly trash.
Of course, I screwed that up by being a lazy, wishy washy bastard, but hey. For all you late bloomers out there, you can learn how to do it too.

early as possible

the problem was that i got really frustrated with my own work iany time i drew something n highschool and never tried to improve myself/got lazy.

now that im starting again im mad that i didnt actually keep drawing in those years.

>>3460423
When I entered HS I started copying anime
Then lost 4 years of my life because of ponyfaggotry
When I started college I discovered /ic/ and read fun with a pencil
Then I lost motivation and just drew in ephimeral bursts, been doing the same until today

Been copying Japanese cartoon since 7.
Discovered Loomis when I was 18.

>>3460455
this
you get exposed to drawing from an early age, so if you like it youre generally going to find out at an early age unlike say hiking or playing a guitar

ofcourse it can always happen then you dont like it as a kid but learn to love it later, thats rare though

>start 'seriously' drawing at 15
>5 years later still shit
REEEEEEEEEEE

Seriously drawing at 26. I've doodled on and off here and there. It's been a year. I'm gonna try to make it.

>>3474263
>>3474265
Oh dear.

23
25 now.

>>3474305
>>3475682
I dont understand why you guys think its ok to laugh at me, im just trying to have fun and share my art in a positive way. Post some of your own art, I bet your too scared. This is one of my favoarite pieces, and is probably better than anything u guys can do. I had someone offer to buy it

>>3460439
>>3460487
>>3461145
Wow, I actually that I was the only guy here who started late.

Man I just want to get good.

The negativity I get after making a absolutely horrible drawing is insane.

I'd sell my soul and a kidney to be great at this.

>>3475738
Guess this is just a sketch, but did you start with Loomis, B.Edwards, copied an artist ?

Maybe I just fell for the "you don't need talent to get good" meme.

at 17

31, ngmi and I don't give a fuck. Just filling in the time until I die.

>>3460646
embarassing but you got balls kid

>>3475815
Okay well this is a critiquing board so I better actual critique.
First off, learn anatomy before you jump to painting. You're focusing a lot on polish but you need to learn how to actually draw/paint first. I mean by looking at these paintings you seriously need to dedicate a few months to just learning how to draw people, because as of now they don't look like people, they look like hideous goblins.
Look at this painting here >>3474263 it looks like her head has been put under a hydraulic press, it's squashed vertically, and also her ear is a couple of centimeters away from being on her neck.
The body just looks like fleshy mass with baby arms coming out.
All I can say is, just learn anatomy, I mean seriously it looks bad.
Now this one >>3475815 it's a bit better but still pretty bad. Her face is really crooked, her mouth and jaw aren't aligned with the rest f her face and now her ear's too high up.
As for her hand, just google "Scary Movie 2 Hanson".

You have to know where you're posting sweetheart, if you just want a friendly hugbox where everyone will say you're good then post your shit on facebook (I'm guessing you already have), but if you want constructive criticism and want to improve as an artist (which you desperately need to) then post on here.
I got laughed at for my first drawing I shared on 4chan too, but for the following 2 years I practised to make sure I wouldn't get laughed at again, and I haven't. My drawings are now met with praise and get reposted quite often, I mainly draw stuff on /v/.

>>3477131
And yes I know the standard for art isn't as high on /v/ as it is around here, but I also post on here occasionally.

oh man, i started as far back as i can remember. probably around age 4-5. my parents introduced me to comics like garfield and calvin and hobbes and even before i understood what the strips meant i wanted to create my own.

i'm 20 now and definitely not a comic writer anymore but i'm still absolutely infatuated with cartooning and animation.

>>3460423
I‘ve been drawing since I could hold a pencil but I‘ve had some long breaks during school. In late 2014 I started drawing to be good at drawing. I‘m a hobbyist and pretty satisfied with where I‘m at now.

>>3474341
Top right looks like a cool dude

>>3473840
>>3476826
stop pretending, it's not that bad for five minutes. pyw if you think you can do better

>>3461258
The secret to making friends, is to be friendly

>>3480778
bullshit i'm uber friendly and have non

>>3461258
r u a gril

I always liked drawing, but it was when I was 12 that I started drawing more because I liked Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z.
I'm okay, but I'm crazy slow at finishing a picture. Then again, I'm slow at everything I do. I'm practically a tortoise without the shell.

>>3480778
bullshit I'm mean as fuck but have tons

>>3460425
Fpbp

>>3460423
So what do you guys think Alex Hirsch fucks like?

>>3481324
No way, you prolly have internet friends at least

At an older age than I am now.

>>3481504
i was gonna say, 'woah howd you render that anon, that looks so real!'
but then i realized its just neck fat

>everyone started really young
I am 19 and just now picked up an interest in art. is it really possible to become any good?

>>3481805
please help i am scared. i know it is stupid to bump your own reply but i haven't really done much of anything until my age today. i want to be able to make beauty

>>3482099
Youll be fine as long as you draw/paint consistently, Make it a habit, and that's one really tough battle won.

>>3460423
Started around 9 and left it at 15 when I compared a drawing from the beginning of my first sketchbook from 4th grade and my most recent one.
Take a guess.
They were the same piece of shit.
Of course my self esteem was under sea level for a few weeks and just decided to leave it completely.

Now i'm wanting to pick it up again at 20 to see if I actually go somewhere this time, not expecting much though, just wanting to illustrate some stories i've been working on.

>>3482132
Recent one >at the time
forgot that

>>3481805
>>3482099
Yes it is possible anon, you're a being capable of learning anything you choose in life. Anyone who hasn't had a lobotomy could make good art. It just takes practice, dedication and willingness to learn.

>>3461258
I b ur fren

(cute art tho)

>>3475738
Going to have to second that request. What's your learning method?

>>3460423
maybe 6-7 but i just drew bad stick figure drawings you know the usual bad looking kid art that you see type of stuff and from there i never stopped

>>3482099

Van Gogh started at 27. There's your proof.

I don't remember not being into drawing. I drew constantly as a kid, to the point that my parents bought me a nice wacom when I was like 12 and didn't know how to truly appreciate that shit.

I always took art classes when i was in shool but I never was as serious as I should have been because I was into dumb anime shit and suck.

>>3475738
Blog?

>>3460423
Since I was about six years old. Mainly tried to draw dinosaurs, cause they were the shit. Worst part though was that I wasn't very talented, so most Brontosauruses or other long necked dinos ended up looking disabled.

4 months old
Drew perfect circles and Mr Potato heads on the wall in permanent marker.

was drawing some pretty shitty doodles all my life and now that im 19, ive decided to do this shit seriously because i was an insecure (still am but less) bitch younger

>>3461180
ironically unironically, or uinironically unironically?

>>3460423
I'm yet to start taking it seriously

>>3460423
Ive drawn for as long as I can remember I didnt draw people in detail or close up till very recently

Perhaps an odd question but how many of you consider yourself weird? If youre being honest with yourself. So not a 'im weird but i function in society and have a social life' but actually weird, crazy guy in town type of weird

>>3474263
can i get some actual GOOD critique on this? :)

Does this look decent? Areas to improve on? feedback needed

>>3477131
>>3486544
You already have, this critique was excellent. You need to work on your anatomy and form, it's bad enough I don't want to pay attention to the piece.
And be more specific when asking for critique. Ask a general question, get a general answer. (most of the time)

>>3486532
Yeah I'm a zoophile and all that shiz, but I function pretty well, have friends, job, relationship (well, it's complicated hahah) so guess I'm not what you're looking for. Wbu? And why do you ask? Curious about correlations between artists/4chan browsers and social position?

>>3460423
Ive been drawing since i was 4 but i didnt actually start being passionate about it till middle school.

>>3460551
Neither will you though

>>3477262
I like this a lot.

>>3460423
An incredibly young age

>>3460423
I grew up in a religious family, and my parents would take me to church every Sunday. It would start with an hour long meeting, and in order to keep us occupied, my mom would always give me a pen and paper to entertain myself.

I've drawn for as long as I can remember, but I started to really take it seriously when I was about 14. I still remained in a cringey phase until recently, I feel, after having spent about a year consistently drawing almost every day for at least 30 minutes.

Now I pay attention in church, though.

>>3488478
Sacrament meeting?

>>3475815
if you think you can sell that piece of crap as moma shit, then neck yourself

>>3460425
13 until 15 or 16 then came back to it at 24

2-3, started taking it seriously around 7-8.

I drew my first chicken scratch on paper and walls with crayon and color pencils when I was 3-5, can't recall anything when I was 6-7 though, while at 8, I drew my first lewd which I recall drawing them secretly after watching Snake Lady (Thai movie) and that Spider Lady/woman that rapes men (80s/90s movie). My drawings are mostly about ancient egyptian because I was so fond of it during that time, so it was pharaoh and the queen making out and I do include x-ray vision on where the penis went to. (no prior anatomy knowledge, but based on observation and innocent imagination). Skipping again, that time when I was 13, I doodling comic about my senior perfect body (because I saw him shirtless). A whole notebook dedicated to him lol. Learn programming when i was 14 and that become my newfound passion. It was flash/vb. I realised I'm bisexual when I was about 16, and when I found a classmate (a girl) that draws yaoi (and she told me about Aarinfantasy), quite good using pencil color medium. In my early 20s, I didn't draw as much as I wanted to, but more on the programming side. Some lewd flash games probably made by me somewhere around the internet, idk. A new project is planned.