/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3825835
Finally did a drawing today... after 3+ weeks of depression/apathy. Feels good.

>>3825835
Trying to sleep and it’s not working.

>>3825839
i know your pain

>>3825840
Same, fucking can't sleep. Waking up every 2 hours overthinking thinking about something I probably won't remember in the future, and don't even feel like I slept for the 2 hours. My schedule is fucked so much and I cant even try to unfuck it. Sorry for the retarded vent.

>>3825835
My shoulder is still sore after doing hours of Drawabox on Saturday. I'm really not sure what to do with my time until it gets some rest.

>>3825835
My tea is too hot. If I start drawing right now I might unconsciously sip it and burn mu tongue. So I decided to browse /ic/ for a while.

good ol' liquid shits
probably bad street food.

>>3825835
I can't stop playing Splatoon and watching YouTube. Don't even browse 4chan as much anymore.

>tfw wageslave

I just want to draw

People who draw on lined paper are worse than hitler

At work, 3 more hours until I get home.

The drawing I'm working on has a nice face but body is kinda fucked and I know I should do some studies but then I realize how many things I need to study to get good enough to make everything in this drawing work; I got discouraged.

>>3826042
baby steps anon, one thing at a time.

>>3825987
Same.

>>3825835
Because I'm fucking busy.

>>3825835
i am... stop distracting me

>>3825835
I'm not a fucking machine who draws all day.

>>3826209
ngmi

I woke up and have to earn a math degree I don't want

>>3825835
I am waiting 'till dusk, when the night fairies come out to play.

>>3825835
I just finished a commission and sent it off to the commissioner and now I'm thinking about making myself a protein smoothie or some tea.

>>3825835
I gave myself a concussive head injury and really hurt myself about 9 years ago and haven't painted since

>>3825835
I accidentally stabbed myself under the nail of my index finger of my dominant hand and can't draw right now without significant pain.

I try and complete atleast one sketch a day.

This is what I completed today and yesterday.

I've been doing this for 6 months.

I cry and then lie to myself that I can make it.

>>3827608
1. Read the fucking books

2. One sketch a day? NGM

You're just wasting your time at this point. Either do it seriously or don't expect any improvement ever.

>>3827608
1. Actually study the fundies. Read the books, watch video courses

2. Only one sketch a day? You're NGMI if you continue like that.Treat it like a second job or don't expect any improvement.

>>3825835
I'm sick :(

>>3827608
Honestly I say this with no maliciousness but you're clearly not taking any advice that's readily available for free on the internet. I'm amazed that you've been doing this for 6 months.

Hell, even watching Sinix's Anatomy Quick Tips or his self portrait would put you miles ahead of where you are now.

Im sad an unmotivated and poor and cant find a job and im frustrated and i want to die im sorry

>>3827658
>>3827629
>>3827619
Honestly guys I probably needed to head this. I do draw a lot more during the day but it's mostly just fuck around doodles. Hopefully this'll make me re-prioritise my time.

>Sinix's Anatomy Quick Tips

I'll look into it.

how do i become as obsessive at drawing as jimi hendrix was at playing guitar? i tried taking paper and pencil to the toilet but my poops are fairly quick and I was done before i drawed anything

I have this dream that one day I want to get really good at drawing. I look up to pretty much anyone that has drawn for a couple of years, and I want to be like them. Despite this I don't actually enjoy drawing. Well, I do occationally. But going through books feels like an absolute chore and I get discouraged after a week or two, but I always try to get into drawing at least once a year thinking "this is it, something is going to click and this is the time i'm going to really get into it". I don't really understand it, but I am ngmi and that is why I am not drawing.

>>3827726
The better you get, the more motivated you will be. By the time you're 50 you'll be drawing every day.

>>3827670
take longer poops or draw faster

>>3827670
Eat more mexican

>>3825835
Cause I'm pooping.
>>3825840
>shining a bright light in my face will make sleeping easier!

>>3829615
It unironically does help.

Is this really an issue here where you cannot draw because of your fragile little fee fee's? Grow a fucking pair.

>>3827629
>Actually study the fundies.
I bet if I asked people what fundies are everyone would give me a different answer.

>>3829616
>shining a bright light in my face and completely fucking up melatonin release will help me sleep
Read
A
Book

>>3829620
there's a list in the /beg/ sticky that gives a decent consensus. any differing opinions will be some quibbling over autistic details like putting something in the secondary category instead of tertiary

my wrist hurts

>>3825835
I'm recovering from a general anaesthetic I had this morning. Having a bit of trouble seeing straight but I can't sleep right now because I've been napping most of the day.

>>3825835
haven't drawn for a long while and i dont wanna start cuz ill be shit and i cannot take it

>>3825863
Same here. What should i do? i don't have a routine

10 hours are enough.

>>3825863
>>3829773
>not sleeping well
>fucked up schedule/routine
>overthinking to much
do you guys have any motivation for anything?When no could be that you've depression. Maybe talk with someone close to you about that or unironically search professional help

>>3829658
stop masturbating anon

I have to write my grad thesis...

>>3825835
>not drawing with right hand and funposting with your left hand

>>3829784
Yeah. I've got shitton of shit to do. Though, it got reduced, and weirdly enough I overslept yesterday. Hopefully I can fully get back to work to tomorrow tho

Hollow knight and alcohol withdrawal day 2

>>3827608
Why the fuck are you drawing symbols on top of construction, do blind contour drawings for 6 months instead of this shit.

>>3830644
There is nothing wrong with drawing symbols

>>3830644
I regularly feel like I do things without understanding why

Getting ready for work.
I drew 7 hours last night. From 10:30 to 5:30 this morning.
I didn’t want to stop.
I felt a little obsessed last night.

>want to get better
>watch youtube video for gesture drawing
>Guys explaining it's importance while drawing a nude model
>Girlfriend looks at screen
>"What kind of disgusting pornoshit are you watching!?"
>Lose all motivation to draw

We once got into an argument because she stated that if something had nudity in it it was porn. Now it's if anything has a hint of sexualisation it's porn.

Granted that shift happened after she found out I was cheating on her (online thing, trap from different county), but still, how much loyalty can you expect when you tell someone 'If you leave me I'll either kill myself and/or take our son back to America' (I'm Australian).

Jesus fuckin christ. Kills any motivation to do anything with my life.

>>3831162
>she stated that if something had nudity in it it was porn
>take our son back to America
Why think americans nudity=porn? What does gf think about nude statues in public places?

>>3831162
Sounds like a very toxic relationship mate.
Rip

>>3831170
>What does gf think about nude statues in public places
I 'won' that argument by bringing up Michael Angelo's 'David'. She sort of grumbled and gritted her teath (audibly) after that for a bit and didn't say anything else.

She also thinks that most of europe is a degenerate hole for their casual attitude towards it.

>>3831171
You have no idea cunt. I love her but it's the love you have for an old friend that you've been through a lot with. She wants unquestioning love, loyalty, passion (for her) and romance. It's not going to happen.

I'm sure she would have left me years ago if she wasn't deathly afraid of being forever alone. That fear has only gotten worse since we had a kid. She also feels that any relationship after your first 'true love' makes you a whore so there's that too.

Anyway now that I've ranted and gotten that off my chest I feel better.

>>3831209
I feel bad for the kid you two degenerates spawned more than anything.

>>3825839
Im right there with ya.

>>3831209
>Sticks his dick in crazy
>breeds with crazy
You deserve everything bad that happens to you.
Either dump the crazy cunt or give up on everything until she eventually snaps and kills you anyway

>>3831209
Doesn't sound like you love her, much less even like her as an acquaintance

I’m losing motivation and I’m not happy with my art. I can do quick meme drawings but I can’t get myself to improve and make long term projects

I want to study anatomy but I've been scratching my head at it for the past couple of days. I have all these muscle and bone diagrams and what not but I have no idea of what to really do from there. I'm just copying them right now but I don't know how to apply them to my own art

Every fuckin time im doing a drawing i see and nitpick the errors or faults present and it makes me want to restart the whole thing again and again and simply abandon the draw and move on to the next.

I cant take it, i just want to draw something for fun.

>>3825839
Proud of you anon

>>3827670
You don't need to obsessive to be able to draw.

>>3825835

>>3831767
Lol, I read the thread as "What are you drawing?".
RIP

>>3831771
Egos tend to read things incorrectly just to make themselves feel important. The bottom button would have made way more sense, btw.

I do when I'm bored but messy stuff on my phone. I still suck. Don't even know anatomy or properly apply shadows. I should practice a lot more.. and stop wasting so much time on videogames.

>>3825835
because im posting my work
>>3829784
im not either of the guys you replied to but i have the same problem essentially. i often think for an hour or two before i actually manage to fall asleep. it's not depression, im incredibly motivated to improve and draw pretty much 80% of my free time (not hyperbole). the closest thing that could come to depression is a feeling of inadequacy knowing my work is not up to par with my vision because i am not good enough yet
pic related took way too much time to do, and it doesnt even have any highlights or whatever other elements i don't know anything about.

i was looking into different methods of rendering and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayluqFK2wUU
never thought of working a sketch straight into a render all on the same layer, gonna try that when i wake up.

>>3831781
I sense salt, anon. Are you okay?
Why would I delete a post? If I can showcase my art by mistake, so be it. Nothing of value is lost. I hope people aren't too concerned about server space or something.
Also, maybe seeing some stuff being done will be good incentive for anons in here to get off their asses and do some work instead of feeling sorry for themselves.
*ducks*

>>3831767
Blog?

>>3831835
what the fuck happened to the right hand? and what is UP with those god damn shoulders, lol

if you're going to post shit for anons to get off their asses to draw something, at least make a half-baked effort to finish your own work, faggot

>>3831835
no one asked for your self-importance.

>>3832454
Shoulders will stay as they are, sorry anon. As for the missing hand, it was a heavy machinery accident. But I'm sure you figured out that on your own, cause you seem really smart.
>>3832457
Go back to drawing and stop crying anon.

>>3832512
The butthurt is real with this one...

>>3832512
Stop crying about your self-importance, faggot. No one asked you to self-impose yourself as some inspirational savior. But in typical fashion, once you start getting your work critiqued, you lose your fucking mind. You ego is weak. Your skills are weak. But go ahead, self-medicate and pretend that you're here to inspire with that scrub-tier work of yours.

>>3832512
Make this thread about you and your bruised ego and prove me right, I dare you.

>>3832531
Oh yeah, I'm destroyed lol.
>>3832537
I'm not here to inspire because of how my work looks like lol. I said that maybe showing that someone is actually drawing will give people motivation to do so as well.
How the hell did you got that from my post is beyond me.
That's not even that good of a drawing lol. Wtf?
>>3832541
Oh boy, we have a badass here.
Please, keep going and derailing the thread. Your attempts at making a big deal out of nothing are magnificent.

>>3825835
Also, I'm not drawing cause I am dealing with angry people in this thread. FML.

Stuck at the register at work, cant do shit

>>3825835

See, I want to keep drawing but I keep taking codeine and I don't know why. Anons, pls help.

>>3832512
Do yourself a service and get the fuck out of this place. You're actually drawing, unlike most burned-out shitposters here who just bring others down because they suck.

Every argument here is time you could've spent drawing.

>>3832558
Thanks for proving me right, faggot. lol

Spent all day drawing at work and while hanging out with friends at a cafe. Meeting interesting guys and talking to beautiful women who were also drawing. Why aren't you drawing?

>>3832761
Because some of us have bills to pay, and we can't sit around pretending to live without consequences, snowflake.

>>3825835
I think I have seen the reference here.

Yes, is very bad but whatever

>>3832799
It's got more personality that this shit >>3831767
so be proud about that.

>>3832802
kek

>>3832802
Thanks!

>>3832807
Now watch, that other artist is going to try to make you feel like shit as it defends its art. And you're welcome, anon. Keep drawing.

Because I prefere to sleep forever than waste my time drawing lines on a fucking paper.

I want to learn how to draw but every time I try to start I get so demotivated because I suck that I just stop.

>>3825835
Beacause I work all day, come back home tired AF and lack any energy/desire to draw anymore, and whenever I actually manage to gather the strength I create something that looks derivative and with aweful proportions and anatomy. it's killing me, slowly but surely.

i am but i hate it
i dont know where my life went so wrong

>>3825835
I could easily get an extra 2 or more hours of drawing in a day but I spend it playing fucking gay games withsome friends it's so dumb idk why I keep at it.

>>3832812
It's ironic how you are trying to do the same.
Why do you need to be such an asshole just because you feel threatened by better artists?

>>3831767
loooooove that sketch. Blog ??

>>3831162
>>3831209
BPD?

>>3833535
Yep.

Just like my mother had when I was growing up.

>>3831304
Love is a complicated thing my man and just because you love someone doesn't mean you want to spend your whole life with them, living in a way that deprives you of a life with meaningful choices of your own.

>>3831219
>I feel bad for the kid
Ain't that the truth.

>>3833557
Ofcourse.
Mentally ill people should all be mercifully euthanized.

>>3827608
anon...I...

>>3831162
Both you and your misssus sound like self absorbed cunts.

>>3825835

>>3831162

ur gf is insecure but if you're cheating on her with traps online then wtf do you expect? i dont doubt she was psycho to begin with but you cultivated the crazy. and put a baby in it.

>>3831767
i love this

need the name of your porn blog

>>3826008
Bro, leave me alone, I'm poor. I don't even like it. Just something I've settled for.

>>3831162
>trap from different country.
I mean, good taste but kill yourself

>>3833396
Why do you need to be such a pussy just because someone called you out on you shit, faggot? Is that skin of yours so dainty that you can't take a fucking critique unless it's shoved up your ass? The only one acting threatened with every response is you. Get over your own dick in your ass and shut the fuck up.

You, a better artist? Don't make me laugh. I'll call REIQ a better artist before I laugh you in to the list.

>>3833396
>>3833497
>>3833934
Nice to see you haven't disappointed me in making this all about you, faggot. Bring on the next reply of you bitching like Brie Larson, bitch. lol

>>3833990
I was with the other guy till I saw that 'maybe my artwork will make someone get off their ass and feeling sorry for themselves.'
You can tell he's a self-important cunt who projects his view of the world on others and gets mad when people see things differently. You can also tell he's just a retard who thinks he's more impactful to others than he is.
The people he'll 'inspire' will draw regardless of his existence, and the people who feel sorry for themselves will continue to regardless of his existence.

It's weird how one statement can reveal how so many stupid points of view.

>>3833990
PYW.
Newsflash, you wont.

>>3833916
Yeah. I was looking for this one.

Bump

I think i fucked up by trying to study too much and be to perfect, and now I can't even really think of anything that might be cool to try and draw

>>3825835
I literally just finished spending like, an hour and a half, on one drawing. I rarely finish stuff outside of my main project.

>>3833997
Yeah, it's some self-absorbed faggot who thinks that his work is like the second coming of Jesus. All I had to do was make a few comments on his work for him to lose his shit and expose him for the self-centered dunning kruger he is.

I want to design a female character, but have no clue how to start

>>3835688
PYW.
Nesflash, you wont.

>>3825839

How did you start drawing again? I've been feeling depressed lately and my drawing practice has suffered quite a lot from it. I want to feel good about drawing again.

>>3825835
i drew for a couple of hours pls let me sleep

>>3825835
I'm at the gym

>people spent time shitting on someone (and thinking about it for days) in a thread about mocking people who aren't drawing
jesus. i think this board might be genuinely bad if you want to improve.
granted, i haven't (and i won't) read into the "argument" but this board is fucking silly

>>3825835
Because every time I pick up my pen I just realize i'm so shit at it that I lose any will to live.

Some collage i done

>>3825835
because I just finished my 2nd day of 6 hours per day, feeling pretty good about myself. You can do it anon's just push, we are all gonna make it.

>>3833140
I for one am glad that your life went wrong somewhere

I hate that I feel this way
I don't know where my life went so wrong

By the way I'm interested in similar circle based drawings. How did you get good at drawing circles?

>>3831209
what were the warning signs you ignored, what would you tell a pleb to look out for?

>>3833990
how could you be such a woman. You could have just ignored the post but you decided to be a whiny drama cunt. I bet you watch drama youtubers don't you?
>>3832802 is an insult,
>well atleast it's better than that other guy.
Hope you see you've got a shit personality. Whiny cunts like you that complain everything are truly the worst thing on this board and online. Instead of ignoring anime/illistrat threads you make a big deal while being equally if not more annoying. fuck off to drama island where you can watch reality tv, gossip, & polish your nails, faggot.

I want to draw, I have my pencils and my sketch book. But I want to go outside and draw something. I know where I'd go and what to draw and I have the perfect spot in mind. This will sound dumb, but I can't get over the fact that people will pass and see a guy drawing with a big sketchbook. I just don't want to be perceived as a creep/ weird person out in the cold drawing. This would be my first time drawing outside, which is probably why I'm thinking like this

>>3840333
Well, I discovered /d/ and proceeded to spend too much time on it in my formative years.

It's been downhill ever since.

I also kinda blame my friends for planting some seeds.

I've always fixated on things. This includes the time in 3rd grade where my two best friends first mentioned the existance of 'dickgirls' (only in anime we thought at the time). I couldn't comprehend the concept at the time and they never actually got around to showing me so I fixated on it. I honestly think that if I saw it I would have just been able to say 'eww' and not have given it another though.

Fast forward a couple decadesish and I'm at a place in my life that I feel I have very little control over. I think this has what has lead to me wanting to fuck small helpless things, as a way to assert control. Don't get me wrong I abhor any form of rape so when I say helpless that's not what I mean.

Somewhere along the way I also got into furries and xenophilia. Probably should blame /d/ for this.

Anyway in short, traps are a gateway drug my man.

>>3839745
Utter shit

>>3840451
real artists are extravagant enough to not give a fuck about that shit.

>>3839745
It's hideous, but showcased in the right place it could sell for maybe €200

>>3832799
You are using the wrong tools, for starters. Cheap thick black felt-tip pens yield bad results for line art. Use 1mm and thinner for details.

>>3840451
>I can't get over the fact that people will pass and see a guy drawing with a big sketchbook
They're just passing by, whatever they think of you they'll forget a few moments later. You're always going to be in your own company so don't let those who occupy not even a fraction of your existence stop you from doing something you enjoy.

>>3840451
Well, you're wrong. As an artist, by default you're creepy and weird. They already expect it, so you might as well live it and carry around a giant sketchbook to draw in the cold. Wouldn't be any stranger than any other artist that they don't know.

>>3825839
Odd that we had a pause at the same time

>>3825835
Reminder to
stop playing video games

>>3841554
Also, reminder to stop hoarding books and infographics and start drawing already.

Broke my pencil out of rage

got used to drawing on a surface pro 3, then that broke and i got an intuos pro small and painting without seeing as i paint is meh. waiting on sugar mama to get her $$$ so she can buy me a cintiq. its been months since ive painted anything

I need to work on values and compositions.

>>3825835
Art wasn't my hobby and never applied myself to it. Growing up as a kid I only jacked off to various crude drawings and as I progressed I just appreciated everyone for their hard they put into my sick fantasies. It wasn't until I turned 21 that I wanted a better life and I saw that artists were cashing in autism bucks so i said "Heck, if it's that easy I'll just give it a try" and boy was I wrong. As I dipped my toes in the waters of the art field it only got harder on me because I other people did the same thing, I didn't last long because seeing younger people that were better than me brought me down and got me depressed. Thinking that I wouldn't amount to anything I just went back to work where I would just make money than having to start all over from something that I was never good at. Buying things like the mobile studio pro, cintiqs and badass gaming laptops(alienware) also didn't help(I failed for the better hardware make you better meme)so I kind of went back and forth on art and I even tried hiring a tutor from here where i would pay him 250 a week. He was a great tutor and knew his stuff but I just didn't apply myself too much, that being said I was in a journey to find true happiness; Money, girls, family, sex and trinkets didn't make me happy so I joined the marines in the December to better myself and hopefully these 4 years will help.

>>3841554
Why should I stop

>>3832654
It's because you're addicted to codeine.

>>3844532
Anon is beginning a fun journey

>>3832654
get help irl. opiates are fucking vicious.

i'm pissing my life away by shitposting on 4chan

>>3843450
but you still draw on paper, right?