/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4771967
>is anyone else too depressed to do anything other than drawing?
I wish, fuck you asshole

>>4771970
my life is falling apart (havent studdied for my yearly uni entry exam in moths im sure ill fai) and my art still sucks

>>4771967
>he has ideas for art
please fuck yourself and die

>>4771979
>he has ideas for art
wdym ideas are everywhere

>>4771967
based and gmi

>>4771967
What? Artists lying about depression for internet brownie points isn’t real?

>>4771967
yes.
doing new things is too hard honestly. i barely watch movies or play vidya anymore. i don't talk to anyone. i just draw because it's the only thing i know how to do.
>>4771979
>4771993
stop waiting for ideas to come to you and put yourself into situations that force you to be creative anon.

>>4771993
>>4772011
you dont realize that to me everything in the world is boring as shit

>>4772014
doesn't matter, stop trying to have good ideas and just take any idea & run with it as far as you can. just think laterally and then revise what you end up with. try to determine why it's boring. to recognize something is uninteresting requires to to have a notion of what would be a more interesting outcome.

>>4772014
you're boring as shit, that's why you can't draw.

>>4771967
I've come to realize in the past 3 months that the world is a complete shithole, and the overseers of my country (usa) don't give a single fuck about my well being, and will gladely kill us dead is it futhers their own goals while pretending to be hapless victims. All of them. Because of I've abandoned all hope being able to live a comfortable life unaffected by someone else virtue signaling and selfness, and have turned inward because at this point art is both my salvation, and fighting chance out of this hellhole. Fuck my stupid ass friends that support anarchy because they chosen to be sad failures, fuck this bullshit pandemic that costed me my fucking job, fuck social media, fuck riots, double fuck this election, fuck everything. I'm going to work ass, and I'm gonna fucking make it and when i do I'm getting the fuck out of here. I've finally had enough and the burning rage for this planet I has empowered me take my life back into my hands and GIT FUCKING GOOD.

>>4771967
I’m not depressed, I’m just too lazy to do my other hobbies. I keep drawing because I feel like I have momentum. New hobbies will have such a steep learning curve, and I’ll lose time drawing.

It’s a guilty pleasure. It’s a drug. It’s my vice. I’m addicted and ashamed. My family and friends ask me what I do all day, and I tell them I am drawing. They always ask to see my drawings, but I don’t show them because I draw anime tiddies and I’m a grown man.

I have a secret life. I feel like a degenerate. I’m on /ic/ for 12hrs a day fishing for (You)s with fresh drawings. I’m interacting with pedos and anons who are half my age. Drawing is a cruel mistress that brings bad company.

I wake up in the morning, craving the day’s drawing session. I need my dose of drugs. I can’t draw on the weekends because I have social obligations. I get bad drawing withdrawal. I get antsy and grumpy, I talk about drawing with friends, but quickly change the subject when they ask to see my work. The lust grows, and by Monday I have so much pent up frustration I have to binge draw a bunch of boobs and butts to quench the thirst.

I sneak away any chance I get to put pen on paper. I ask people when they will be busy, so I can get alone time with my mistress. A quick study, just for 10minutes, but it turns into 4hrs of gritty sketching, strewn pens, paper, ink, and erasure shavings. 40 tabs are open with references. My camera roll is filled with WIP photos taken at rakish angles with the tools framed in sexy poses.

My life has lost all purpose except to feed the hunger for drawing. I guess that makes me depressed.

>>4772059
wdym

>>4771967
I wish I was one of those weirdo's who play WoW or zoomer shit like Valorant and Fortnite for 12/h a day. At least those depressed guys usually have lots of online "friends" to talk to, drawing doesn't give me that.

>>4772491
videogames are for children. you are literally solving problems that are designed to be solved. gaming skill is not impressive to your grandma. but art skills are impressive for everyone.

>>4772491
be careful on what you wish for

>>4771967
i'm to depressed to do math & programming. When it happen I draw instead and I do some gardening and intense cleaning. I post on /g/ 8 month per year and I post on /ic/ 4 month a year.

>>4771967
I'm too depressed to do anything at all, but sometimes it's too much to even be able to draw.

>>4771967
All i have been doing this year is drawing my OC. I wanna practice and get good but i feel too depressed to study and i get demotivated when i draw anything outside of my comfort zone.

>>4771967
imagine her caught in the web of a giant spider

>>4771967
I wish I could have the strength to do stuff. I just sit or lie around and do mostly nothing, sometimes I can't even focus and think, even though I can imagine well there is no "fuel" left to even daydream or whatever so I pass the time playing vidya games, which can give me some emotion or looking at the same websites, at times even this requires too much strenght to do. My creative drive has almost completely dried up in constant anxiety, I try to draw and my hand has no strenght, used to make a lot of art in the past you see, painting, sculpting, even some miniature buildings etc. Now the sadness coming from my social inadequacy has turned into bitterness, I'm stuck feeling empty, pissed off or mildly suicidal. All good that is left is the rare blessing of passion or mania.

I draw as an escape with my overbearing loneliness. Also when I feel inadequate because I got caught up comparing myself to 14yo filipino artists again, I try to draw to feel "productive"

>>4772648
>>4772667
Can't be much worse than being stuck in your head 24/7 and drawing just to keep myself from thinking too much. I wish videogames gave me the same escape.

>>4772781
I find it discomforting to be in the fog of drawing and being vaguely conscious of the passing hours

>>4771975
I wish you the best

>>4772648
Based

>>4772806
Shit.

>>4772014
No personality, boring as shit, and can’t draw too? Might as well kys and hope for better stats.

>>4772059
Shut up bitch, sit down and give me my big Mac with fries.

>>4771967
I'm too depressed to do anything period. I set a rule for myself that no matter what, I still have to draw every day. I've only slipped up a handful of times since the pandemic started.

>>4773936
yep can relate

>>4772725
draw other people's ocs

>>4771975
>im sure ill fai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYGFwGhHnA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVY5gla0FNQ
You don't have confidence in yourself
You should do automatic drawing every day
Once you have the confidence that you will achieve your goals no matter what.
You will improve too quickly(weeks)
Do not spend all day on the computer, that is affecting your confidence and perception.

>>4773936
>since the pandemic started.
When they said quarantine in my country(February), I had a panic crisis, and to stop thinking about that, I started to draw every day (6-7h per day)

>>4771967
whomever drew this is a fucking retard why did they pick the same colours for the girl and the bear like its a mindfuck

Have you ever tried doing anything about your depression?
Swear most people here just say they're depressed and feel like shit but aren't doing anything about it, just engaging in escapism until they fall asleep

>>4772025
what anime is this from?

dudes you need vrchat

makes me feel loads less weird

>>4777624
Do you use a headset or just use mic?
I thought about getting a headset just to chat with some people so I don't feel crippling loneliness all the time and to develop my social skills somehow, is it worth it?

>>4777624
I used to play vrchat but it made me anxious as fuck. I dont know why but its way easier to interract with people irl.

>>4771967
I’m too lonely and horny to do anything.

>>4777454
Clinically depressed people usually can't even get the energy to get better. It's called psychomotor retaration, look it up

>>4777454
Sometimes peoples' lives really are shit and no amount of medication or therapy is going to make it better.

>>4777454
i tried drawing

>>4771967
Yea, I did this a lot when I was younger growing up in an abusive household.

>>4777434
i meant fail in a non art uni entry exam

>>4771967
>too depressed to do anything other than drawing?
god i wish

Yeah, I use drawing as a way to escape from my insecurities of the real world. I'm pretty sure I've always had some kind of Maladaptive daydreaming issue as a kid, because I would always dream up fantasy stuff to escape.
I don't want to say I'm depressed exactly, since I have been clinically diagnosed before, but it's more of a "I feel really sad and unwanted right now, at least I can draw to distract myself from it for a moment."