/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

People start talking to me because I'm interesting for once

>>3624568
I have money to pay models to work full time and my ex comes back to me

>>3624568
Living in isolation while making the drawings i want and like

>>3624568
have a large enough following so that when I release my videogame some people will be interested or care

being rich

>>3624568
someone makes a subreddit about my original series and I get to go to cons and talk about myself

Being a niche freelance illustrator working with well paying clients. Closest thing to being a fine artist except painting sci-fi/fantasy shit.

just make game

Tanned, rested, and alone. Surronded by enormous piles of money.

Getting to work on painting/illustration all day in my comfy studio or plein air. Basically I want what James Gurney has.

>>3624635

I've got a dream.

Not having to paint or do any work anymore if I don't want to.

>>3624644
the worst answer

>>3624646
post work

>>3624570
FUCK IM SO LONELY AND HORNY

>>3624648

>>3624568
Unrelated but, holy shit that art is good. Kim Jung Gi is amazing

>>3624568
>wake up next to my supermodel wife in my secluded comfy cabin on a cliff overlooking a secret world class barreling A frame surf break
>have a cup of coffee and some muesli before an hour of surf
>brunch of eggs, lobster, caviar, sashimi, maybe some steak
>check emails, respond to one of the companies offering several million for my IP and concept art
>wife and I take my either my custom VR38DETT swapped Datsun Fairlady 2000 or 26B quad rotor RX3 down the twisting canyon road to the quaint village nearby for some supplies for the week and maybe a little plein air (people pay in the thousands for prints of my sketches)
>chat and lunch with my friends in the village
>return home and I’m in the mood so I announce an upcoming stream in 15 on my website
>it sells out $700 a head
>I pretty much tell people to just draw while I whip out a masterpiece in an hour
>read some books and shitpost on /ic/
>late afternoon surf as the sun sets
>delicious dinner with A5 Kobe beef, wine
>whiskey and cuddling with the wife
>relax and think none of this would have been possible if I hadn’t shitpost that Merc WIP.

Being a reliable and notable key frame artist/storyboarder with extensive knowledge in animation and timing. I want to be able to use that knowledge in a variety of animation pursuits, digital, traditional, 2D, or 3D.

>>3624730
Kim Jung Gi has smaller eyes than that. Same hair tho.

>>3624651
You got a long way to go then buddy

I want to wake up every day in my cute Victorian cottage with my many cats. I'd run an animation studio next door, but I'm the director so I just spend the day checking in with the assistant directors and making sure the project is progressing smoothly. The whole staff is like a big family and sometimes we just hang out at the studio after hours for fun. I spend my free time drawing for my personal blog and a few times a year I get invited to conventions as a guest artist.

>>3624635
Your dream sucks.

>>3624651
I'm dumb but aren't you supposed to keep complimentary colors from touching to prevent them from "vibrating" and drawing the eye away from the subject?

>>3624568
blowing my load all over my foot fetish drawings that I do for patreon gibs, all in the comfort of my own home without having to get a fucking job lol

>>3624568
>drawing all day is my only responsibility
>when I'm not drawing I'm either eating, watching anime or sleeping
>make enough money for a comfortable living
>actually live in Japan, have a takoyaki machine and eat that shit daily
>house is next to Kuvshinovs and I take time every morning to taunt him with my superior artwork and my ability to not let chromatic aberration fall out of my pockets every time I hold a pen
>get invited to conventions all around the world
>stream sporadically but still get 10k viewers instantly every time, answer little to no questions and when I do I give cryptic shitty answers for shit and giggles
>get daily calls from my buddies KJG and Ruan Jia asking me for my opinion on their new artworks
>art gets posted on /ic/ and gets shit on by crabs every now and then, join them to shit on my own work for fun
>become obese because I ate too much deep fried shit without ever exercising and die at 55

>work ass off in my room all day
>playing gayme or go outside in freetime
>don't worry about future
>don't worry about social life
>repeat this until die

>>3624603
This

My absolute IDEAL life would be winning the lottery (lazy I know, but who wouldn’t want to win?), buying a house, having my own small studio within said house, and be able to just freely work on improving my art without worry and eventually making money from it. I also would love a cat or two.

>>3624848
>stream sporadically but still get 10k viewers instantly every time, answer little to no questions and when I do I give cryptic shitty answers for shit and giggles
This guy gets it.

>>3624848
>takoyaki
That shit ain’t even that good you weeb

>>3624746
i dont think kim jung gi was trying to draw himself ..

>>3624576
Audibly laughed out loud. Nice delusion idiot.

Being experienced enough for my skill to compliment my ideas.

>>3624568
Drawing my dream comics and being a publicly recognizable celebrity. Also, being rich and eccentric as fuck

Making enough money off my comics to live a decent life. Occasionally take a break to do concept art for games.

WOW we got a bunch of egomaniacs here. Why do artists suffer from such delusions of grandeur? The average STEM kid is 10x smarter and more rational than any of you. What the hell is wrong with half of you? If you wanna take art seriously you should do it as a side hobby, like Leonardo da Vinci. He was a scientist first, master artist second. It's a much better route than the ones you are all taking, which will lead to disappointment and despair. You have been warned.

>>3625029
but what if art is literally the only thing that makes me feel happy and fulfilled and that taking any other job makes me feel like dying all week.
its not like you need to be a superstar to get a job into an animation studio either.

Like right now, making illustration for advertising, except i want normal working hours and not 2 hours on one day and 16 hours on another. It's destroying my health and making it impossible to plan ahead. I'd like to get hired by some really good illustration agency that gives reasonable turnaround times and good rates (even better if it could get the quoting part out of the way for me). I wouldn't even mind earning less than now. I would give up half my earnings for the least bit of security and clarity in my professional life. What i'd like to keep is this line between what i do professionally and for pleasure. I would hate doing my personal projects to become an obligation

>>3625058
On days where you have a lot of free time you should paint stock nudes in typical positions and environments and other items so when a demanding job comes you have a library of resources to slap together. This might not work depending on what you typically produce but it’s what a lot of concept artists that rehash shit do.

>>3625065
I'm not a concept artist but yeah i do borrow a lot of stuff from my other comissions (dollar sign icons, world maps, character in a headset kinda stuff). On days when i have a lot of free time i make up for the lost hrs of sleep. Lately i've been so busy/lazy i had to hire a cleaning lady to clean my one-bedroom apartment

Having enough resources to draw and paint all day.

>>3624962
meanwhile people in the thread literally saying they want to win the lottery

Able to make about 30k a year from people directly funding my art and survive

>>3624570
This is actually one of the main reasons i'm into art

I don't have to draw anything I don't want to and people buy my shit enough so I can pay my bills

>>3624848
Now this is a dream life i want

>>3624568
i earn enough money to get by drawing whatever i like

>>3624568
I get to wander around in the mountains painting epic landscapes like Frederic Edwin Church

>>3625349
ARE WE BACK

>>3625350
Yes

>>3624962
>>3625102
>be me

>win lottery or otherwise come into money through no merit of my own because there's none to be accounted for

>take care of parents and brother

>hire suits to start non-profit investment bank that functions like "gofundme"/"kickstarter"

>hire labcoats to start non-profit that pays NEETs and other economically distressed groups for their sweet, youthful blood to be used for life extension and other medicinal purposes

>corner the banking market by channeling a mysterious near-eastern distant ancestor

>use ceremonial position and celebrity in one organization to help crowdfund my bi-weekly blood transfusions from the other

>live for 300 years, defeat the globalists, end world poverty and get out of /beg/ at the same time

NO DREAM IS TOO BIG (except maybe the getting out of /beg/ part)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8L9dvH02Pk

Kim Jung Gi's Life. He legit makes hundreds of thousands selling sketchbooks. Plus he looks like he actually has fun drawing and doesn't stress over any thing art related

>>3625391
>He legit makes hundreds of thousands selling sketchbooks
Proof?

>>3625399
100 dollars per book and he's got hundreds of thousands of fans. Not hard to connect the dots.

>>3625450
You know that authors are lucky to get 5% of the total MSRP of a given book, right? Same goes for art books. He may have hundreds of thousands of fans but it's doubtful that one in a thousand actually has one of his books on their shelf, too.

>>3625492
He still makes a lot of money. He goes around the world drawing murals and getting paid hundreds for mere sketches. Kim Jung Gi is living his best life

>>3625375
The hero we need. Take my blood, God Emperor

>>3624568
I'm drawing porn and cool concept stuff for a living and working on art direction for other people's indie games and maybe even triple A games one day.

>>3625450
>>3625399
>>3625492
$100 x 100,000 x 5% is still $500,000. Granted, I don’t think he sold 100,000 copies of any single sketchbook but he has like 12 sketchbooks and half are sold out so he’s making some good dosh on doodling alone.

>>3624818
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Where did you hear this shit?

>>3625029
STEM as a magic ticket is a meme.

>>3624637
James Gurney is living the fucking dream.

>>3624568
Didn't Manet or Monet have a studio on a boat?

That'd be breddy dope. Paint memes on the ocean seas.

>>3624568
I want a stable office job to start with. I would not be able to hack it as a freelance artist, at least, not yet. I wish there were illustration jobs where I could come in to the office and just make storyboards, mascots or logos from 9-5. I don't like how most artists have to scrounge for commissions and shit.

Middle Class income. Not rich, but not so poor I have to live in a ranch or studio apt struggling to pay groceries and or rent every month. Would be nice to be rich from my work, but we'll just see.

Seeing a dedicated fanbase blossom from the universe I am designing. Hosting Q&As with fans on the internet and Comic Con.

Well I'd love it if I dealt with my self esteem problem and just got comfortable with calling myself an artist.

Impostor syndrome too strong, sometimes it feels like standards are just dropping all around and people are aging and dying off so spots just need to be filled.

But whatever.

>>3624568
Can I just give you some real advice to you anons? Even if you're all from tumblr or facebook or reddit or 9gag or whatever normalfag hive you originate from. Because I sure as hell don't detect anybody from before 2013 here and it reeks of secondary behavior.
This will only work if you have a currency that is highly valued and has international purchasing power like the USD.
Go look up some directory that compares cost of living for cities around the globe. Pick one of the lowest cost of living ones where the exchange rate gets you to most currency. Maybe some hovel in Budapest or Nha Trang or Ahmadabad. Or Kharkiv even. Romania if Internet's super important to you. Move there and freelance online. The dream is achieved.

Finish this bastard painting.

>>3624568
Owning land, having a qt wife who cooks for me and shit, making a living off of patreon/commissions/art jobs, and having 2 sons.

>>3624568
>I draw something
>Not even technically good but normalfags like the concept and "uniqueness" of it.
>Get millions of dollars
>Retire early and spend the rest of my days shitposting in public and posting political opinions that you're low key not allowed to express because they would make you unhireable.
+ Lecturing porn artists on the anatomy of my fictional species and writing my own TVtropes page so nobody fucks it up. Also no matter what I'm going to pretend it took no effort at all and I was just naturally talented to bully the shit out of NGMIs

But honestly if your dream of making it doesn't mean even more drawing and work you're not gonna make it and that's why I'm not gonna go anywhere any time soon.

>>3629595
>tfw know an artist like this who is actually decent and a good human bean

>>3624568
alright imma tell you faggots something that you may take interest in, nowadays people like materialistic things like subreme and shit, you want to make money? then paint Benjamin Franklin smoking a blunt with a supreme/gucci collab sweater and sell it to hipsters, ez fuckin money man i swear

>>3624743
>Eggs and fish for brunch

Right now the dream just to match my dayjob earnings with art.

>>3624570

Be a professional photographer, work with a company, get to use those photos and research for world building and background paintings in games, movies and TV Shows.

I get paid to travel and do research for a company with other groups of photographers. I can send out pictures online and all the extra stuff can be used for extra ideas and finalizing our worlds.

I get the option to talk about stories and people that don't fit the mold of the status quo and I get to talk about them in my work.
I also get a small workshop of my own that is also like a miniature studio and I get to sell my work on the streets and passer-bys.

In my off time, I have the option to learn how to play piano, study music, play and research assets in computer games for extra knowledge, I get to sleep with women and go swimming and surfing offtime. My privacy is respected and I don't have to answer to anyone, and I get to debate with a knowledge in philosophy.

I also get to go fishing and drinking and get to be myself without having to impress anyone. Pure relaxation until I have to paint out the chaotic stories in my head once more, and return to travelling again.

>>3624568
overdosing on drugs bought with my last pennies witch I could have used for art materials instead

>>3630897
non-meme answer: known by a group of people, having my animation work out there for people to find and be mesmerized by it. If they would throw money at it it also wouldn't hurt I guess. Oh yeah, also shrooms and a couple of big tiddie goth GFs

be able to afford a life of seclusion while pursuing a godly wife who doesn't mind living in a log cabin in the woods with three or four children.

have my own workshop/garage and use it as a studio. Live in a 20-25ft camper inside the studio(tow it outside on sunny days). Have that fallout-esque/50s-esque fake white picket fence with pink flamingos and other bullshit lawn ornaments. Plot twist: workshop resides on land big enough for me to build a decent-sized house that would accommodate a family of 6. It all resides outside the city so I can still drive to town if I want to, but won't have to deal with city life. I still live in my camper even after I built the house.

I have the motivation to actually draw.
I don’t ask for much, God.

>>3630956
This, desu.

One where I actually know what I want to draw and how

>>3624568
Being able to draw whatever I want good enough. Right now I'm nowhere close to that.

President Trump awards me the medal of honor for anime porn

>>3624743
>art fantasy is 1% doing art

I'm both happy with the skill I have while still consistently improving and discovering things about art.
I make enough to live comfortably.
I'm paid to do projects I find interesting.
My career social circle consists of people I can communicate with if not actually enjoy their company.

AKA a delusional fantasy.

Making and remastering video games collaboratively online.
Doing that from my own home, separate from the world, without having to worry about anything or ever feeling in need or want, having everything required for the job.
Being free, stress-free, happy/content and not feeling like I'm being made to do things I don't want to do or being forced to be someone I'm not.
Also finding a wife and settling down to raise a family.

>>3624568
Havin a nice studio; minimal , not too fancy, but elegant, like a hitman game. Worrying more about realizing the idea than about the FUCKING FUNDAMENTALS.
Not having to draw cute girls in erotic poses like ALL THE FUCKING TIME

Sometimes go out with hot girls ,draw em and then fuck em.

And above all supporting my mom from the bank I make

>>3626950
If you're a brainlet it won't help you. Which is why most of this board does art, not smart enough for STEM despite what their parents told them.

>i think i'm a musician first, but since i've become more proficient with artwork i guess a little bit of both, but especially for art
>create something good enough to inspire someone else to create something of their own.
>reach near kgj levels of draftsmanship
>make some iconic album artwork
>perhaps get involved in a triple A thing at least once at some point in my life

>>3624568
My ideal artist life is making enough to live and then dying of old age and going to Jannah

>>3625391
He suffers physical and mental pain if he doesn't draw in a day. He literally needs to do it to survive. Like eating.

>>3631196
>And above all supporting my mom from the bank I make
ur a good wholesome boy anon

>>3624568
> Rich
> Make money by posting art online from home
> Home is in a remote area so people no people
> Still close enough to civilization so it isn't a total pain in the ass to have internet, buy food, etc.
> Become hermit/recluse that people get excited over when I decide to appear at cons or contracted by a game dev to make concept art and all that.
> Close enough to nature that I can go hiking every day and take photos

>>3624568
Work a low stress physical 9-5 non-art job, write & publish comics online (discussed by fans, where I can read) and share my weirder cartoon pin-ups with my patrons.

>>3625145
Then you're wasting your time. People are easily impressed by mediocre art. The only one you should try to impress is yourself. Also less friends is more time ou could spent on drawing

>wake up at 6:00 a.m
>take a shower, breakfast, mourning routine.
>8:00 a.m start working
>12:00 p.m take a rest and do lunch
>2:00 p.m start working again
>5:00 p.m finish and go to the gym in (my hipothetical) car
>7:00-8:00 a.m arrive at home and do dinner
>maybe watch a movie/go out or something
>10:00 p.m go to sleep

>mfw when 2 gud 2 be true

make enough money drawing shit I like to not have to worry about a damn thing with my wife

>>3634690
This

>>3624568
I don't want an "artist life", it's just a side-hobby desu

>>3624568
Living in a little cabin somewhere in the north of canada. No one around but nature, have nice disney tier relationship with the animals while i quietly go insane.

>>3624568
Living somewhere in the woods in America. Smoking joints, shooting guns, drawing and painting to pass the time.

>>3624568
realistic: some form of job in animation, be able to afford to live near boyfriend so we can cuddle

unrealistic: make enough to pay off my mother's debts, fix her house, lift my father out of poverty so that maybe he'll stop drinking and i can handle being around him, be able to support boyfriend so he can finally have free time to play video games and draw, see doctor about my chronic exhaustion/random jolts of severe pain throughout my entire body

oh, also find out the magical combo of pills that makes me not think everyone i love and care about secretly hates me and only tolerates my existence

oh, and somewhere in between all that i get to work in animation in some capacity

>>3636517
You have a shit tear bf. Lose the zero and get with a hero bb ;)

>>3636523
Hamds of the ladies mine kiddo

>>3636523
he's kind, understanding and compassionate
on top of that he's incredibly cute and also way smarter than me, a much better artist, makes more money than i'll most likely ever make, and is much stronger than i'll ever be, both physically and mentally. but he has such little free time and his job is so dangerous. i want nothing more than for him to get to sleep and draw more. also to finally get to play botw while i lay between his legs playin some dumb gacha game on my phone before passing out because i'm probably never gonna fix this chronic exhaustion thing am i. and then somewhere in between all that i get to work in animation in some capacity, etc, etc

>>3636562
please no, i need my hamds to draw ;-;

Having a nice little apartment near a city with a boyfriend and a cat and getting to draw comics and illustrations all day, supporting us with my art.

>>3625039
>taking any other job makes me feel like dying all week.
that's how everyone feels, you're just complaining louder than the rest

>>3625513
bullshit story

Are any of you anons dreaming of drawing a manga/comic series? I think it would be great.

>>3624568
Becoming decent enough to take commissions. Drawing on my free time to supplement the income, might as well get some money from my hobby

>>3636503
Hell yeah, brother.

>>3624568
Work as an animator anywhere but San Francisco. At the very least I would like to have a nice apartment or a small house where I can work on animations and practice fundies. A cute GF or wife would be nice no matter how much of a pipe dream that feels like

>>3624568
Have a full time job doing something else, while making 1-5k extra a month by selling my art.
Honestly, I'm not really in this for the money. I just really badly want to be able to see something in my head and create it on the "page".