/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5239541
Xeroxing requires patience but it's not hard at all, you can do it at any age with little to no drawing experience.

>No late 20's /beg/ will ever compete with people who have been drawing their entire lives.
depends on how long the latter’s life is, if you know what I mean

>>5239551
t. actual retard who never attempted it

>>5239541
It’s not a competition anon. Draw if you want to, don’t if you don’t. If your goal is to make money you should have chose basically any other career no matter what your age is

>>5239676
Ok he was wrong to say it’s not hard at all, but it’s still much much easier than creating quality original works.
The point is that there’s nothing particularly impressive or unusual about that progress pic. It’s what you would expect from someone who had been drawing for four years.

>>5239691
Why is it always water face, Walter white or Morgan freeman. What is the connection???

>>5239676
I did something akin to right in like my first week, it's literally just tonal matching.

>>5239709
No you didn't, lying nigger

>>5239716
you are confirmed ngmi

>>5239541
In terms of elaborate technical skill, you'll obviously lack behind someone who has dedicated all their life to it.
But having fresh ideas or being unique is generally considered way more important than craftsmanship. Van Gogh started pretty late in his life and he became a widely admired and influencial artist after he dedicated about 10 years of hard work to it.

>>5239717
pyw or fuck off

>xeroxes morgan freeman
i'm a artist now

>>5239702
Because they make for good and relatively easy greyscale subjects.

>>5239716
Learn your fundies, start with Keys to Drawing because you will be doing exactly what OP's pic did in one of the early exercises. It will take longer than 30 minutes to make it as convincing but there are no secret grindy skills required here other than patience and very basic observation knowledge.

>>5239723
>start with Keys to Drawing
Stopped reading here, I read it twice a year ago and learned fuck all, just another "draw the rest of the owl" book that retards here recommend to clueless newfags to crab them.

>>5239723
>start with Keys to Drawing

Hey bro post it in six more threads

>>5239724
Absolutely not so. Keys to drawing is a great book for teaching observational drawing, which is an utterly essential skill for further development. If you say you didn’t learn anything from it after reading it and (I assume!) doing all the exercises, then that’s your own fault and not the book’s desu.

>>5239724
I hope you're baiting because failing to understand the book just means that you didn't break out of symbol drawing and didn't understand it at a very basic level.

>draw the rest of the owl
You can draw literally anything from observation if you know what you're supposed to be doing.

>>5239726
These threads only exist because people lack simple knowledge and in /ic/ lack of observation knowledge is the most blatant since so many people have their head stuck up their asses and think they will learn to draw by grinding loomis heads, don't skip steps if you want to learn anything in life.

>>5239724
Considering it's focus is on observation and contours for a lot of the book you clearly didn't read it well enough. Try again beg

>>/ic/ flabbergasted at the parlor trick of simple observational drawing
This board never ceases to get a laff outta me.

>>5239744
>trick of simple observational drawing
Which no one on /ic/ has ever proven to be able to do but everyone always says how easy it is. Funny how that works.

>>5239702
>Why is it always water face, Walter white or Morgan freeman. What is the connection???
Because the noise and grime hides mistakes. Drawing a normal white face is much harder because tiny mistakes are more obvious.

>>5239751
>Which no one on /ic/ has ever proven
Nobody good will ever "prove" anything to a loser like you who might follow them back to their social media

>>5239813
Yeah keep pulling excuses out of your ass rather than owning up to the fact that you can't do it, bitch nigger

>>5239751
Every time I post my graphite cast studies to prove that point you guys ignore me

>>5239856
I’m curious, genuinely pyw sir

*crickets*
Wow sure didn't see that coming

>>5239676
t. actual retard who never attempted it

>>5239907
T. Actual retard who will never be a woman

>>5239879
Here is my latest masterpiece.

i started when i turned 20 and now im almost 21 and i think i improved at a good enough pace where id essentially catch up to most by 30

>>5239541

takes like 5 years if you practice right. its not that long.
10 to master.

>>5239676
t. overpriced printer

>>5239541
>If you're not good by your early 20's
>you're
>you
Are we speaking about you or are you dragging us all in this bucket of crabs? Speaking on behalf of the Hivemind, we can achieve pretty much whatever we want no matter how old we are. I'm afraid this is just you.

>>5239932
,’:/ anon...

>>5239541
Go draw now.

>>5239730
I can vouch for the book when it comes to drawing from observation. I started with it 6 months ago and I can make an okay sketch copy from eyesight or an image using contours, but I'm still terrible at basic construction and drawing without a reference.

>>5239744
>>5239932
Is this the same guy?

>>5239751
>>5239932
I'm flabbergasted for sure...

>>5242772
No and the second guy did it wrong, how the fuck do you idiots fail to do one of the earliest assignments in Keys? It's just patient tonal matching that should by all means look as close to the original as possible.

>>5239541
yes, any excuse is good when you don't want to make it.

>>5239541
I am 27 and started 3 weeks ago.

>>5244348
post ur work babe

I'm 19 and just started. Is it too late?

>>5244352
Yes. You should probably neck yourself, before life crushes you even harder.

>>5239541
>If you're not good by your early 20's it's over, isn't it?

no. Drawing isn't even some competition in the first place.

>>5244352
Perfect age imo - old enough to fully understand books/courses and work hard at them, young enough to still have a lot of years left to build up your skills. Now don't you waste this chance!

>>5239541
Drawing Superman with a city background requires knowing anatomy, pose, drawing, perspective, etc
Recopying a photo requires eyes and a functioning hand. That's all.

This image is retarded and the guy who made it would probably still draw superman the same way today.

>>5244404
It really is if you wanna make it your living

>>5244348
>draws cause they wanna
>they don’t care what age they started
>they’re achieving their dreams and putting in effort with no excuses

Based