/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3732213
I quit drawing two years ago. I'm slightly less depressed than before.

>>3732213
I just draw what I like. Art is also about having fun y'know.
Just sit down comfily, while watching or listening to something you like, and draw whatever goes through your mind. Try doing like Kim Jung Gi or these masters you maybe watched, who draw with absolute confidence. Imagine you're as good them and complete an entire page without erasing a line. It's always fun.

>>3732224
Lol at that pic

>>3732224
Isn't drawing haram for good muslims like isis?

>>3732301
they're naughty muslism that follow drawabox tutorials

Grinding is my break. Using my imagination is whats exhausting.

>>3732840
well stated.

>>3732213
i like how nasty and vulgar this whole scene looks.

>>3735457
I believe it's intended to be humorous.

Its not enough for an artist to think of ideas. An artist must think of the different ways to make ideas. To think about creativity. My go to method for creating ideas used to be to sit or lay down. Then meditate on how i feel about myself and about the outside world. Then i would get visions. And if i liked them then i would write the vision down in explicit detail or do a small sketch.
I love painting and art. But my head is filled with fog from depression a lot. Some days ago i sat down and try to force myself to think of ideas and i just couldnt think of anything.
So i started researching poetry.
I like painting and poetry. So my mind was blank when it came to visual stuff. So i said fuck it and decided i wanted to be a poet instead.
So i did a few days of research, read poetry, read how to make poetry. And then i came upon an idea in poetry. In the poetry world the idea of "sentiment" is frowned upon, i was reading about this and a type of poetry called imagism. The idea being. not to capture your own emotions, but to capture a moment as it is. Then a light bulb went off in my head, holy shit. it was like all the fog dissipated. That was it. How could i be so selfish. Then i started to research the idea of aesthetics. The philosphy of art, what gives people pleasure. My new view of art. It isnt about how you feel, but what feelings you can evoke from the audience. and what are the best aesthetic characteristics one can use to achieve that in order to make the viewer feel the feeling of the sublime.

So yeah, paint an emotion. not your emotions

>>3732840
This is best modus operandi, I wish I could follow it more, though.

>>3735562

great read, mate. I agree mostly and I think people and probably the majority of wacom bitches on /ic/ read absolutely nothing. professional literature on art is paramount, if you want to further your own artistic research. otherwise you end up repeating old concepts, old ideas that others have reached a hundred times before you and you trick yourself into believing that it's something novel.
I read a book on aesthetic and someone, maybe Derrida, has put poetry right at the top, because without any detour, it directly speaks to a person in the purest way possible and in the most accessible way as well. on that list, architecture was on the very bottom. now i don't believe in these rankings, but good poetry is really something that catches on.

as for inspiration, i think that it is beneficial to dig into every art subject. look at movies (Fritz Lang, Kubrick, Bergman), listen to more difficult music (Conlon Nancarrow, György Ligeti, KH Stockhausen, Pendereccki) and reading classic literature (Kafka, Dostojewsky, Joyce). to me, roaming in other fields is the most inspiring thing.

>>3735749
I like poetry because it is easy to learn, and its cheap. You just need a pen and paper maybe. Unlike painting where you have to buy art supplies constantly.
Although i still love painting.

A thing i always do. My mind is blank when it comes to painting, so ill do research on poetry, or film, or photography, or some other art. Really gets the noggin joggin.

Like its such a stress reliever to say for a moment. You no what, fuck painting. Im going to be fucking bukowski or some shit.


Philosophy is something really great to learn about too. Derrida came up with that idea called hauntolgy. Its already been applied to music. I have been thinking of ways to apply it to painting and poetry

>>3735757
i'm reading up on hauntology now, pretty interesting subject so far.
i had a really shitty month and one evening, i just sat down and wrote a short story for 4 hours straight. didn't even stand up or drink something. when this kind of mood hits you, you need to really fall into it. i don't really show my texts to anyone, before i do like 5 revisions and i don't think too much of it to begin with, but it's there and maybe some day, it finds a place. selfpublishing is easy these days.

>>3735768
hauntolgy is a really interesting concept i have thought about for a long time. And i had been wondering how to apply it to other arts. Photography and music seem to be the main arts its been applied to.
I was thinking how to do this with painting. And i thought that it would have to be in a painting style that calls attention to itself. Also the subject matter would have to be something that is haunting. some sort of lost future. Like a postcard of a landscape, but the postcard is from nazi germany, so there is something that haunts the viewer who has that knowledge of its origins. Or about moments before trauma. Like a moment before someone is murdered.

>>3735781
LMAO
Can you get more clichéd than that?

>>3732213
Use your imagination

>>3732224
did you draw that? I like it

>>3732213
Theres this anime girl I always rely on when I feel like Im not improving and lose confidence in my skills
I sometimes make her say good supportive messages
Im such a pathetic faggot