/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6546842
>vidya
lol ngmi

why are you doing this? what is the point?

>>6546842
Sell your PC and buy a notebook for $300.

>>6546843
There's no way you fags do nothing but draw all day every day, you gotta have fun too once in a while

>>6546847
why do you think I'm here? this is my entire weekend entertainment

>>6546847
There will come a point in your life when you've done everything that consumerism has to offer and you essentially just get bored of games and TV and social networks. When you get to that point is when you draw almost everyday trying to get better. I've reached it but occasionally I will pick up an old game when I need some inspiration

>>6546853
I'm almost 30 and this still hasn't happened

>>6546842
if you have a job, make your own meals, get any amount of exercise at all, and have relationships to manage then... it's impossible. pick one

>>6546854
become cynical and you'll start looking at video games as a waste of time made to keep you addicted

>>6546858
This
>>6546853
When you realize that consumerism is an American value trap that confines you to an abyss of dopamine addiction you can then become a creator instead of a lurker

>>6546854
You'll start to notice that every game is essentially the same. The reward mechanisms are different but they're all reward mechanisms. I still game every so often when I want to admire how immersive a world is. but it wears off after an hour or so

>>6546863
I stick to the oldies for some reason, new shit is just boring af, beat legend of dragoon the other day and was fully recharged to start more art projects afterwards

>>6546853
I'm only bored of social networks, not TV/games. There is nothing to talk about on forums but to glance at peoples reactions to what happened in the episode. Or if I scroll down in the comments on a streaming site I'm only either going to get some queer spoiling the manga or ironics talking about how it's 'oh so wrong to like this loli character and you're a bad person'. And then infinity scrolling to like images on Twitter is monkey brain behavior.

I'd rather just seclude myself to consume in peace.

>>6546869
Why are you here again? Are you actually trying to get better at drawing or art or just content with being a consumer? Some people are content with that tbf but man it's a sad life

>>6546867
>new shit is just boring af
Agreed. Seems like everything is either attempting to be a full cinematic experience or an open world dopamine farm. That's not even getting into microtransactions

>>6546877
Stuffing my brain with junk stories starves off bad thoughts. It's a necessary poor activity for me.

>>6546842
the only games i really spend the time on anymore are old adventure games and visual novels if you count those. i usually play them at night for an hour or two and i sometimes go long stretches without playing them at all.

>>6546881
You could seclude yourself and draw and accomplish the same thing.

>>6546888
I'm sort of not in any rush anymore. It's like speeding past a car that's going way too slow in front of you only to reach the stop light on red and the car that was going slow is at the back of you, making the speeding pointless. I know whatever I'm trying will get to a destination anyway.

>>6546842
I wake up at 5 AM and draw for two hours before work, then another hour or two after work around 6PM
In the weekends I just draw whenever I want

>>6546842
I’ve been struggling with this as well Anon. I haven’t been drawing much because of vidya. I also read so it’s so hard to find time to balance all of my hobbies.

You just have to decide what you want more and what you want to put your time towards. It’s okay if you don’t want to draw all day every day. Vidya are very fun but try drawing at least once a day.

>>6546861
Already realized that but still addicted to VRChat. I'm stuck in a self-awareness paradox.

>>6546842
Play a lot and get carpal tunnel

>>6546847
Drawing is the fun, you retarded ngmi

>>6546854
I started drawing in my late 30s and that cut my gaming/tv/drinking/socials by 95%

>>6546842
i try to limit it to 1 hr a day. i draw every day for up to 10+ hrs, if i dont want to burn out i need to break sometimes.

>>6546958
some of you are tryhards tbch

What i want to know is how to balance studying for University and drawing, been having tons of problems with that.

>>6547001
see >>6546907

>>6546842
I watch lets plays and draw. Any good game should be entertaining enough to put on the bg while you draw.

>>6546842
Don't allow yourself to play games until you've met certain art goals that day.

Is drawing 5 hours a day good for a beginner? It's what I usually do unless college leaves time consuming bullshit.

>>6546842
Imagine wasting your time playing fucking video games kek.
Kill your pathetic self already, you know you want to

>>6546853
This checks out. But I didn't really increase my drawing amount after essentially dropping games/anime etc. I draw a lot still, but my consoom time is just spent browsing the internet.

>>6547057
Time spent having fun is never wasted, zoomer tranny

>>6547057
even watching paint dry is better than making posts like yours

>>6546853
>>6546854
Most people won’t ever reach that threshold. I was homeschooled starting at 7th grade and was a shutin NEET through my teens and 20s. I blew through what consumerism had to offer by 25. I had seen it all at that point and was irreconcilably jaded. To this day vidya and tv makes me dead inside bored.

Drawing is the only thing that compels me anymore. But you only get to this point by gorging yourself on movies, tv and vidya all hours of the day for decades. Essentially you gotta burn a lot of time to get to this point. I feel nothing when I consume media now. It’s like eating cardboard.

It’s a double edge sword bc on one hand it has freed me of the shackles of media consumption, but then also I can’t remember the last time a video game made me feel something. Can’t sit through one. I’ve seen it all a thousand times. Rehashed. I kind of miss it but I can’t un-experience 20 years of gaming hedonism.

>>6546842
>>6547001
There's three possibilities as for why you're not drawing: too busy, too easily distracted or it's not really your priority so you're not giving it dedication. In my case it's the first one. I wake up at 7 AM since work starts at 8 AM, so I'm busy till 5 PM. At 5:30 I gotta get going to college, staying there till 11 PM and arriving at home at 00:00. I get less than 7 hours of sleep and some time during the weekends to draw, and since I don't live with my parents, I have to spend that time to take care of my house, sometimes take the cats to the vet, study for tests and see the friends/family. I'd love to spend the little time I have drawing, but living like this takes such a toll on your mind that sometimes I just can't do it to relax. Sometimes I'll draw during work hours if I can.

>>6546842
I had to give up playing on weekdays after work. I only play on weekends now after drawing all day

>>6546842
schedule your day out.
for me its
>work
>come home at 3
>play vidya for a few hours
>cook dinner
>shower
>spend 2-3 hours drawing

i always start drawing around 7pm, so its just naturally where i go to end my day.

>>6546842
You vidya while your other pc draws for you. You do have more than one pc, right?

>>6546842
I have over 7K hours poured into various MonHun games and still draw at least two hours a day.

quit your job

>>6547351

How would you survive? I have been thinking about quitting to get a part time job instead of full time because I'm not seeing the point working 8 hours. I just don't know where to look that isn't shitty retail work.

>>6546842
>20 minutes of vidya
>40 minutes of drawing
Solved

No vidya all drawing
>t. played Morrowind for 3 hours today and has not drawn yet

>>6547372
Work it or probably costumer service

>>6547379
I need at least 8 hours of vidya each day

>>6546842
>vidya
Can we have some fun with this thread? Post steam game library and anons tell you if NGMI. Pic related is my currently installed games. Outside of vidya I am also currently attending a foundational life drawing class and animation class at my uni, but I also try to draw at least an hour or two in my free time outside of classes.

>>6546842
I only play games after 9pm

>>6547503
I don't play any video games. Am I gonna make it?

>>6547503
Am I fucked...

>>6547387
What works for me is drawing before playing vidya, so it is a dopamine reward. Though the endgame is drawing itself be the dopamine machine

>>6547503
Imma just post the favorites since they're the ones I keep replaying the most

>>6547573
Sure, you can draw inspiration from lots of places, mine are games and books

>>6547573
>I don't play any video games. Am I gonna make it?
What do you do instead of vidya? I think you are in a good position to be GMI since you have more time to make art instead of gaming like I do. But vidya can also serve as a source of inspiration. Do you watch movies or read books instead?
>>6547579
>anime games and RPGs
I think if you channel your inner coomer into your art you have better chance at making it.

>>6547503
>>6547579
>>6547582
Don't just post games, post hours played as well, I have seen many of you fags have 1500+ hrs in multiple games last we had a thread like this.

>>6546842
The way you balance any hobbies.
Just do whatever.
I draw and play vidya whenever I feel like it, never been an issue.
>ngmi
Well, OP, if you want to take drawing seriously as more than just a hobby, you may as well treat it like work, schedule proper working times like you'd do with any serious work and then draw. You can even set some time apart to plan out what and how you'll be drawing in advance. I like to go to town or into the woods to draw the environment on occasion. Maybe you'd have fun doing that too and you likely wouldn't be distracted by video games there.
I only do scheduling stuff for my work assignments, but if I was drawing professionally, I'd do the same for art.

>>6547605
most mine are single player games, so i have mostly 10-30 hours in games.

man, i haven't played CS in forever though, surprised i dumped that many hours into them.

>>6547579
>75 favourites
>271 uncategorized
If you're too lazy to sort your games, you can always make dynamic categories.
>Am I fucked...
Yes, game buying addiction clearly, there's no way you'll play and complete all of these. I hope you can at least share your library to make you feel better about wasting all that money.
>Audiosurf
I have so many hours in that game....

>>6546842
Not going to lie, once I got a pro job as an artist I barely even have time to do a 30 min gaming session a week with friends. I honestly think it's a better use of time to consume other media like movies. Unless you're aiming to get into the game industry, that is.

>>6547612
>1,311 hrs
>757 hrs
>574 hrs
anon...

>>6547593
All those games have very unique artstyles, I hope they serve as good inspiration for you.
>>6547605
>Don't just post games, post hours played as well
You are right, my bad. Here are my top played and recently played.

>>6547615
i favorite the ones i still need to play or that i regularly go back to, then unfavorite once i'm done or decide the game sucks.

>>6547623
>Krita
>10.3 hrs
kek

>>6547485
>I don't have the time
We all have the time. You make the time. Vilppu drove his pregnant wife to the hospital, while she was giving birth: he was drawing in the other room. You do you, Anon, but don't give us excuses. No excuse. You need 8 hours of vidya? Get better, play faster. You need 8 hours of sleep? Sleep faster. Nobody said it was going to be easy.

>>6547630
at least im drawing anon :(

>>6547629
>buys games that suck
You can watch gameplays before buying, you know. I hope that this isn't a large part of the games you've unfavourited then. I don't know how you found the time to finish that many games in the first place.

>>6547579
Orange juice chad, gmi

>>6547630
The absolute state of /ic/. Fuck it is true, you fags draw once every 2 weeks or don’t draw at.

>>6547485
>8 hours of video game
>8 hours of sleep
>8 hours of drawing
Solved, I hope you don't work or at least work as a playtester

>>6547646
My only response to this is that I literally have drawing classes that involve working traditionally so I'm not always working digitally and recording my hours. Also, I have other general education courses to worry about that take up my time. I can't speak for anyone else here but what about you? What is your schedule like?

>>6547641
a good chunk are f2p and shorter indie titles.
i think a good 20 are like VR games that i bought when i was into that, but they have like 2-10 hours of gameplay.

i've had the account for over a decade, probably closer to 2 decades now than 1. it just adds up.

>>6547646
>Fuck it is true, you fags draw once every 2 weeks or don’t draw at.
N-no..

>>6547670
>almost 2 decades
Ah, I see, that makes sense then.
Sorry, I forgot that gamers can be older.

>>6547503
I've been slowly trying to get back into vidya. I mainly just sink time into watching anime.

>>6547636
When did he tell this story?

>>6547388
I'm never doing customer service again for as long as I live. I didn't slave away in an office for 4 1/2 years for nothing to get where I am now.

>>6547695
For me it's the opposite. I want to cut down on vidya and get back into watching more anime.

>>6547699
He told it when he got interviewed by New Masters Academy, the vidya is still up:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMbK2sptLig

>>6547074
What about reading a novel, is it the same as everything else for you?

I mean I really want to play fo76 before the servers eventually go down and I never get a chance to play it but I might just wait until they announce the end of it mostly I just want to play games before they die because I know they will die at some point and there's some that I missed playing before they died so you should probably try playing anything you're interested in before it's gone for good

>>6546842
If you're asking on an online basket weaving forum you're likely an addict. The only way forward is going cold turkey. Replace it a different hobby like learning to play a instrument, photography, woodworking, or even shooting. Something that facilitates learning new skills, going to new places, and/or interacting with new kinds of people.

>over thousands of hours in TF2
I wasted my life..

>>6547939
did you have fun?

>>6547503
Last games I played I think were Advance Wars, Trails of the Sky, and Fantasy Life. I still need to play Darkest Dungeon and Desu Ex. I haven't played video games in a long time.

>>6547946
probably not as much as I could be having drawing really good stuff

>>6546842
You don't. I haven't played any games in months.
>>6546958
This, and based.

>>6546842
>vidya
Lol lol lol quit this shit you fucking addict. Worse than cigarettes and yes you WILL get cancer. A malignant tumour on your time.

Anyone that thinks drawing is fun when you're a /beg/ is delusional or autistic. Being a beginner is frustrating as fuck because everything you draw is garbage and everytime you look at your shit, you feel like you ngmi, especially if you suffer from aphantasia and cant image shit with your mind.

>>6548001
Unless ur a child when u start. I feel like people who never enjoyed drawing as a child is a for sure ngmi

>>6548005
Yea, i tried getting into drawin for around 4 months and it felt more frustrating than fun to me, i guess the pic related was my last sketch, it was months ago. Every single time i look at it, it remembers me how garbage i am at drawing. I wanted to be good at drawing and draw shit i want, but it requires way too much grind to get there and i dont think i can endure it.

>>6548008
That's a pretty good drawing for 4 months!
I think the problem that everyone in this thread has is the carrot and stick of modern life.
The carrot is all the pleasant distractions or even other things that you are objectively better at doing than art as a beginner. The stick is the pain and frustration that comes with being bad at something for the first months or years.
What people forget is that art making was literally a craft taught historically in the same way that smithing or welding was. If you have ever seen the crazy stuff that beginner welders make or fail at you would laugh your ass off.
Imagine if every welding beg wanted to become a 6 figure mechanic at Boeing within the first 6 months of starting to learn. For some people on this board the expectation is probably even more ridiculous.
Essentially any able-bodied person can be taught to be a welder. There's varying degrees of "talent" ofc; some people just "get it" faster than others, but everyone will get there with practice in the end.
I belive that people who quit learning to draw simply have other things going on in their lives and treat art as a hobby at best (nothing wrong with that ofc!) If you are already going to school to study engineering and trying to do co-op placements and working part time etc. then coming home and spending hours on what would have historically been someone's sole vocation is just too much. It's not your fault for giving up.
All that being said you kind of have to be a little insane to succeed at art. This isn't something that you can half ass and if you want it badly enough I think you can find a way. Plus learning is fun!

>>6547372

Actually, I'm realizing half my 8 hour shift I barely have work to do if I'm getting away with watching TV shows on the clock. At least on slow days.

>>6546842
Draw before vidya, commit to the lowest time possible and you'll find you often overshoot it. 5 minutes of drawing and 8hrs of vidya is still infinitely better than 0 minutes of drawing and 8hrs of vidya. Just the other day I had been burning the candle at both ends and told myself I was going to draw for 10 minutes and then relax with some vidya, ended up drawing for hours and staying up until 5am drawing. Went to bed without playing any vidya.

>>6546842
you must choice
>vidya:literal waste of time
>art: a skill with your hands

>>6548001
>Anyone that thinks drawing is fun when you're a /beg/ is delusional or autistic

Nope they're just the people that see tiny bits of improvement every time they draw. Getting butthurt about starting from zero like everyone does is your own personal hangup.

The feeling that your skills could be better is never supposed to go away even when you reach master level. If you can't get over it as a beg you'll never get over it period.

>start enjoying drawing
>slowly stop caring about videogames
>play videogames
>"man i wish i was drawing rn"
>turn it off and draw
/v/ros... Not like this

>>6549365
Its fun only when you're decent enough to not want to kill yourself looking at your garbage. There is a reason more people end up dropping drawing when they're /beg/ than when they're decent, and its because leaving the /beg/ level is much harder and frustrating.

>>6546945
Can you still draw if you have carpal tunnel? inb4 use your other hand/use your mouth

>>6549365
Drawing is much more frustrating when you are a beg because thats the phase you have no idea what youre doing. You dont know how to find the solutions for your questions, you didnt find the ideal workflow for you, and the most important of it all : you are utter garbage at the fundamentals like perspective, construction and shading. When youre not on beg level anymore you already have all of these figured out already, making the learning process smoother and more fun.

>>6547051
It's really good if you can pull that of. But going from 'not drawing' to '5 hours a day' can be overwhelming, so I would recommend to gradually draw more and more each day, until you get to 5 hours.

But then again, it doesn't matter as long as it works for *you* anon.
Draw as much as you want lol

>>6547485
>need

>>6546842
Completely dropped vidya. It's not worth it frying me reward center over.

>>6547503

top 5 (in hours):
cookie clicker - 2'000 hours (shouldn't count as I leave it on during the entire day)
Factorio - 460 hours (Has long been a favorite of mine, it fuels my autism)
Hearts of iron IV - 400 hours (Nowadays I mainly play this with friends, which is seldom)
Stardew Valley - 185 hours (wholesome, nice pixelart)
Rimworld - 170 hours (Forgot I had this one honestly)

I gravitate towards games that I can play on the main screen, while listening to a podcast or watch something else on another screen.
I like to watch educational yt videos, mainly on; art, history, and electronics. As well as a lot of Tom Scott.

Sometimes I purchase a story-driven tripple-A FPS to play. I have these in high regard and dedicate time to them.
Recently I've been playing 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' which I've found great enjoyment in.

>>6546842
Have a vidya about drawing.

>>6546842
make vidya the reward for drawing, obviously. no vidya until you've done your days work. sometimes you don't even wanna stop because after having done your warmups and your figure drawings it'll feel like a waste to stop your momentum.

>>6546842
One has to go, my slimy friend.

>>6546842
if you're serious about it, your drawing desk is your workplace. vidia and all that shit is entertainment. you relax with some of it AFTER your 6-8 hours of work. (or 2-3 or whatever you can still squeeze in if you're already a wageslave and half your time is eaten).
i.e.: don't be a pleb with no selfcontrol. entertaiment after work, it's that simple.

>>6546842

I had an idea that I got from my boring zoom meetings when they use a wheel to call on names. So basically how it works is you give a mandatory minimum set time to all your hobbies (drawing, game, etc) so 1 hour to drawing and 1 hour to vidya for example. Then use a spin wheel app; this takes discipline on your part to not ignore it.

Since drawing should be your highest priority you should give it x2 to maybe x4 the options on the wheel. So 6 chances for drawing and 2 chances for games for example. So spin the wheel and whatever the wheel lands on you do that thing for half an hour to an hour.

Then spin the wheel again. Rinse and repeat. I think doing this is great for ADHD people with multiple hobbies because you're not making the decision, the wheel is doing it for you.

>>6549174
Drawing during downtime is 300 IQ. You basically get paid to sit there and draw.
>>6547503
>>6547605
Looking at my hours I realize I don't play any new games either lol
>>6547695
>>6547712
You have to strap me to a chair to get me to watch anything. I love being interactive in my hobbies, and sitting on my ass wasting hours watching something makes me feel like shit. I respect someone that plays vidya (not shite movie games) more than someone who just watches TV at least the gamer is doing something, instead of just sitting there absorbing media.
>>6549599
Nice idea. I personally have a set hobby schedule but I might use this when I get burnt out on it.

>>6546842
You know, speaking of creation and videogames, do you anons like games like Garry's mod or Minecraft?

I've always found games where a core aspect is the player's creativity, to be horrifically boring and redundant. Why would I make a house in a game, or sit there and craft the perfect little residence and home interior; when I could be drawing, or coding, or something that others could look at and appreciate?
Something about these game experiences feel so shallow to me.

>>6549625

People who go the extra mile in games like Roblox and Minecraft are inherently creative in their own right. Like for example, the Koikatsufags who make full blown scenes of their characters in studio mode.

That still takes time and creativity and technically they're already composing a picture, just not drawing it. They're 5 steps ahead of the blank canvas syndrome complainers and 1 character on a white BG drawers. If they could master drawing they'd be unstoppable.

>>6547748
>reading
oh silly no one reads these days

>>6549640
audible for the winwar

>>6549640
I think reading books can help inspire someone. I try to read when I can because it’s fun and I hear it does better for someone’s health than video games.

>>6549668
Reading is probably better for ones imagination, as everything isn't personally put onto one's plate - How the characters look, act, how exactly they move etc. is all down to the reader.

That said, I think reading is an "active" thing to do, and is kinda hard to get into compared to just watching something, or playing a game - which I can turn my brain off for.

>>6547074
Man I can kinda relate to that. I used to NEET and do jackshit but play video games and watch anime for years on end. Nowadays the majority of the time I'll start a game and I'll feel a crushing emptiness washing over me. I'll feel anxious if I sit there and consoom for too long kek.
Still I'm not jaded, still enjoy watching art or reading a lot and will play vidya occasionally and have fun.
>>6549668
>>6549681
Lots of easy, good books to get into. Hard part is actually sitting down and reading them. But like everything, just make a habit out of it. For me its started when I made a point to read 5 mins every day before sleeping, but I'd end up binge reading for hours.

>>6546853
>>6546854
I'm with 30yo anon here.
Maybe if you only watch anime or only play videogames you can "run out" of content, but if you are not a low IQ chimp, there is an infinite amount of compelling media.

Moovies, cartoons, anoome, moonga, coomics, goomes, boooooks, moosic. Every genre and language.

I have made some calculations and, in order to live a life where I do everything I want to do, while also consooming everything I want to consoom, I would have to have 14 clones of myself to take care of it all.
An you niggers say you got bored at 25.

Pathetic. But the joke's on me, at the end of the day, cause you are free.

>>6547939
As long as you had fun, that's all that matters

>>6546854
Get a job? I swear neets need to be exterminated why do I have to pay for your welfare while I work my ass off?

I want to play video games so bad but I can't focus for 5 fucking minutes to play any.

>>6550007
Think about it; noone asked you to work your ass off.

>>6549616
would you say 'rivals of aether' is any good?

>>6546842
>play dwarf fortress
>draw the creatures and events that happens while i play.

>>6550110
It's my favorite fighting game of all time, but I would never recommend it to casuals. It's definitely catered to competitive players. Imagine a smash that was developed by people who actually like to have fun. It still has an active playerbase. I will admit the game does have some SJW pandering BS (it's minor, just some flag icons) and most of it's community are furries but it's a damn good game.

>>6550121
you can have fun casually, there's even custom characters and stages with workshop.

>>6549830
your standards are so low that there is plenty of entertainment to keep you satisfied. I have to wait 5 years for a good enough anime to drop and get my attention. games are fucking shit nowadays and if you haven't played most classic games by now, you're just a newfag so your opinion is worthless.

>>6546842
During coof my vidya addiction peaked but now I'm barely addicted to video games anymore. Now I'm fucking horny. I'm so sexually fucking frustrated I want to injure people. I found this gif earlier and I couldn't fucking believe it. How can someone have such perfect fucking breasts and why am I not the one squeezing them? HOLY SHIT IM GONNA LET LOOSE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHGGGGGG HHNNGHNHHNNH HHSAHGAAAAAAAAA IM GONNA CUT MY PENOR OFF

>>6550167
I regret wasting my time during coof. I should have downloaded a bunch of shit and chuck my modem out the window.

>>6550167
I don’t watch porn but ngl that gif is hot

>>6550151
>confirms he only consumes anime and games
Pottery.

>>6550307
>he still reads books
wow you're a big boy arent you? learn any new words recently?

>>6550110
NTA but Rivals of Aether is probably the best smash clone alongside Slap City, it also has rollback netcode which makes long distance online match feasible, the workshop is cool too

>>6550321
imagine getting defensive because someone points out you don't read books. jesus christ man

>>6550167
Thought those tits looked familiar, Anri Okita is the goat

>>6550876
Those are some big words you picked up from reading books.

>>6546842
Pick the games you play carefully. Choose shorter games that you can be done with in a couple days in order to give yourself inbetween periods where you don't feel compelled to play anything. Avoid online games in general, rougelikes, and RPGs.

>>6546842
Treat drawing as an antidepressant. Vidya always ends up making me feel anxiety and dread.

>>6546842
Get a job.

>>6550923
don't do this

>>6550924
Maybe you should try getting a job.

>>6550944

I'm 100% black

Play "knowledge based games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkv05ZO7d8I

And games that you can pause anytime and save your progress. Try to stay away from competitive games or any games with too grindy mechanics or microtransactions. Indie games, retro, singleplayer or co-op games.

>>6546855
If it's impossible then why does every Twitter artist watch seasonal anime, cartoons, movies, and play the latest games while also pumping out fanart after fanart

>>6552036
they get their interns to draw the fanart it for them

>>6552036
they stay in their comfort zone
they trace models
they copy styles
they only draw fotm

>>6552053
Explain this >>6551119

>>6550879
Where the hell are you supposed to look for nude JAV model photoshoots? I want to use them as references but unlike the western porn industry they almost never release a photoset along with their videos, so the preview photos are all just HD screenshots of the video. I know gravure exists but not all the models do gravure.

>>6546842
Videogames was fun when I was a kid, but it makes me feel dead inside nowadays. I'm 31 and haven't played videogames in years, it's boring as fuck.

When you start treating drawing as your form of escapism to replace vidya is when you will make it because then you will actually draw a lot.

>>6552185
Show me 1 sketchbook you filled me draw a lot.

>>6549681
Also depends on what you reading, you can learn anything from reading depending on what book it is benefits not only limited to imagination for creating. Also better for your mental health than playing the video games because the blue light.
>>6550321
There book for retards too. Why reading books turn into bad thing in mainstream media, why is it discouraged as a bad and nerdy thing to do when it actually has much more variety than even video games.

mmm my biggest problem is just finding the time and being the right day to draw. On weekends, unless I have some pressing assignment to do I can get a happy 4 hours of drawing in but on normal days it's either none of an hour, if I haven't had a hard day. Obviously I would like to spend 4 hours everyday on drawing, cause it's fun, but that isn't feasible with study.

>>6552255
I want to read but I can't fucking sit down for more than a second without doing something more active