/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>>/lit/

You already made this thread.

You watch movies, read books, read comics, listen to music and steal things.

Think about things you like and steal them. Think about what you don't like too and think about how to make it better.

Relate things back to your own life experience.

Observe other people and how they behave, interact with others.

Think about something amusing or interesting that could happen in a situation.

Learn to be yourself.

>>6975492
There's no such thing as an original story anymore.

>>6975492
>Everything I've ever made has been a fanfiction based on another property
What are you letting I to your mind? Original ideas are novel combinations of things that came before. Attack on Titan, what if gundams were flesh and Hitler? Dragon ball, what if wukong was an alien?

ATTENTION ALL ANONS.
YOU HAVE ACCIDENTALLY FALLEN FOR HOWIE SCHIZO'S TRAP. THIS SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL ANON DOES NOT DRAW, NOR DOES HE HAVE ANY INTENTION OF DRAWING. NO MATTER HOW MUCH ADVICE OR TIPS OR CRITICISM YOU GIVE HIM, HE WILL NEVER PICK UP A PENCIL. HE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR MONTHS, GARNERING HUNDREDS OF POSTS IN HIS COPY AND PASTE THREADS, AND NOT ONCE HAS HE EVER ACTUALLY DRAWN, ONLY POSTING THE SAME SHITTY SCRIBBLES HE MADE A YEAR AGO.

Some telltale signs you are interacting with him:
>Will mention how the only thing he can do is "write" fanfiction
>Is taking every medication under the sun
>Says he wants to draw but has no interest in drawing a single thing, he is a paradox
>Gave up every guide he tried on page one, refuses to continue
>Will disregard every single piece of advice you give, has endless excuses
>"I'm autistic, with adhd"
>"I get bored and looking at my phone or staring at a wall"
>"I can't/don't know how to (most basic thing)"
>"Then I might as well not be interested in anything because I can't do anything" <--He uses this one when someone calls him out

The last thread he posted (still on the catalogue):
>>6970863
Some of the many threads /posts he's made over the past few months:
https://warosu (.) org/ic/?task=search&ghost=false&search_text=%22with+adhd%22&offset=0

HEED MY WARNING, SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME, ENERGY, AND MENTAL STRAIN BY IGNORING HIS THREADS AND POSTS. GO DRAW SOMETHING INSTEAD.

>>6975492
There's nothing new under the sun, just take elements from things you already know and like and do your best with them.

>>6975499
What Anon-kun is saying is true. Watch many movies, documentaries, read manga, and play video games. At some point, something will click, and you'll think, "I want to create something like this." The more references you have from things you enjoy, better stories and characters you'll be able to create.

1. You need to study script structure, I recommend the book Saving the Cat.
2. Next you need to learn the Japanese script structure (research on Youtube or Google).
3.To understand all the information personally, take out and divide the structure of your favorite animes so that you can have a better understanding.
4. Now you must explore your creative side and create a story that you want to tell with the structure and stereotypes of a Japanese character. If you can't think of anything right now it's because you don't have anything, the stories of good scriptwriters are born from real life experiences, so go out and Live your life and maybe in a few years you will come across that story.

Note: How helpful can I tell you that one of the most important elements in Japanese manga or anime lies in the premise.

>>6975520
Oh boy i fall

Develop schizophrenia. You don't need inspiration from anything to create your stories then.

>>6975499
This only works in very short bursts. It's good to steal things to make your own, but If you actually want to make something that isn't a three panel comic you need to learn how to structure stories properly.

>>6975520
The hero we don’t deserve

>>6975492
I heard that a composer has saved the melodies that they came up with, and when making a song they simply try with what they have. And the artists have a notebook where they make a lot of sketches where they mix things, an example would be ''lolita'' and ''gothic'', and what you can see comes out.
If you do something similar it might help you.
Also, although unrelated to writing, taking up photography could also help, just as taking up gardening can help you take a good photo.

>>6975638
I don't feel like I have anything to actually express.

>>6976211
express that feeling. the feeling like you haven't got anything. the lack. the want. a boy without a body. he looks on at the others, wanted the same, so he tries to build one from scrap parts, but becomes a frighting monster...

>>6976215
I don't know how.

>>6976225
Just pet the dog

>>6976228
I don't know how can you explain it?

>>6976225
what interests you? why does it interest you. start there. write a wordcloud/brain storm

>>6976233
Astronomy, science, technology, history and cartoons.

All of which I'm too fucking retarded to know how to learn.

Watch/read/whatever something.

Get pissed off about some detail in the plot/setting/characters/etc.

Apply tweaks to fix it.

Find new things to get pissed off about and continually tweak it to your liking.

Repeat until mutilated beyond recognition.

>>6975492
The best way is live an interesting life and have many unique experiences you can draw from. Since you probably won't do that you can try consuming so much that you can eventually cobble something together by ripping off a wide enough variety of sources.

>>6976300
I've literally been living in my room for 12 years.

>>6976304
Book a trip

>>6976309
I've been on multiple vacations but I still don't have any ideas.

>>6976313
Is your head truly empty or is there something preventing you from expressing your ideas outside your own skull?

>>6976315
I have constant brain fog outside of very few times in which my adderall gives me minor clarity. My mind for the most part is meaningless gobbledygook bullshit and the only things I can think up are usually half-assed. Any good ideas for characters and stories that I might have are either impossible for me to draw or write about.

>>6976315
Either that or I can't properly think up a storyline for them because I'll get distracted or be unable to finish it due to my lack of self confidence.

So, what should I do?

>>6976328
What do you need an original story for? plenty of history and mythology, folktales etc you could draw.

>>6976342
I want to make things of my own. I want to be able to entertain myself. I want things to call my own rather than just doing stuff based on a preexisting story. I want to be creative. I want to world build and dive deep into it. I want to make a setting that's good and interesting. I want to make it's history, characters, factions, political situation, culture, religion and concepts developed, sensible, believable and cool.

>>6976342
I've literally been trying to write something original for 12 years and I still have no idea what I like or what I want to write about. I may have ideas in my head but all of it leaves once I actually try getting anything down.

>>6976344
storyboard a chapter or less of a book you like

>>6976343
>>6976344
Start with a premise. build from there. Just start building, iterating.
Nothing has to be permanent, explore ideas.
anytime you have a glimmer of an idea, write it down.

>>6976350
How?
>>6976351
>Start with a premise. build from there. Just start building, iterating.
Can you explain the process for doing this?

>>6976352
Ok, so start with something simple
"birds are evil"
then design a civilization around that idea. maybe people live underground, maybe there are great heroes that go out to destroy the bird nests, maybe there are people who believe birds are gods and mustn't be harmed. conflicts, resolutions to conflicts. set up a potential issue and come up with answers.

>>6975492
Consume more Media. Read more. Watch more films. Look at more art. Listen to more music. Your creativity is an engine and it can't function without fuel. Creativity cannot exist in a void.

>>6976383
I usually have really narrow tastes and I don't consume much media if at all. If I can even get myself to stop being distracted enough to even watch it in the first place

>>6976211
Maybe you want immediate creativity? wanting to think about something and have that something just come to your head

I don't know, from what I see you can only get something creative by mixing things xd
or try to think of something based on something else (something badass = a priest exorcising demons, or the doom slayer)
Just do what seems fun to you, if you have empty ideas you're just going to throw them away.

something fun... cats are pretty, plants are green (?), I would say that something like a cat by itself is a little boring... Maybe a cat that wanders through the forest, and attracts people to it and then eat them (?)

I think something like ''immediate creativity'' is a bit complicated xd
Because it's hard to think of fun things, nothing comes to mind.
It would be nice to have something where you write or draw whatever comes to mind and keep what's fun to yourself.

I hope it helps you, I don't know, I'm an idiot, I'm leaving asdasfefdfad xd

>>6976211
Then don't? Just make a patreon and draw what other people request?

>>6976754
But I want to.

>>6975544
>>6976239
>>6976365
>>6976738
Everyone giving specific, useful advice gets ignored, only simple, more open-ended replies get an answer from OP saying "how tho?", this is hilarious.

When you think Gabe and Brian are the worst /ic/ has to offer, this guy shows up.

I personally will invest my funds in Aladdintranny anon as the next big shot of schizos.

>>6976211
Non-ironic advice,
Give up.
You don't actually want to make art. You're convincing yourself you do because you have nothing else in your life either, and pretending you want to draw (you don't want to) distracts from everything else. Focus on your actual issues, which clearly have nothing to do with drawing.
Art IS expression. If you have nothing to express, it isn't for you and you're lying to yourself about wanting to make it. You're wasting your time and your life. If you wanted to do it you already would do it. You might as well be staring at food without eating it and telling yourself you're hungry. If you were hungry to begin with you would eat it already.

>>6977317
Then you might as well say I'm not interested in anything because I can't do anything. I tried learning Source Filmmaker as a teen. Gave up immediately. Tried learning Gamemaker as well. Gave up on that too. This is what it's like for literally everything I try doing. I've tried several creative outlets and gave up each of them immediately because I flat out couldn't understand the UI of most of these programs.

I have literally tried doing several artistic hobbies and gave up each of them immediately when I was a teenager.
>Gave up on Source Filmmaker
>Gave up on GameMaker
>Gave up on FireAlpaca
>Gave up on Photoshop
I didn't know how any of them worked or what to
do. I don't even know basic trig. Even when I look art guides, I literally cannot comprehend them or figure them out. I don't want to be stuck with no creativity or being unable to express myself. So, no. I have tried several creative outlets, I just have no idea how they work or what to do.

>>6977317
Then you might as well say I'm not interested in anything because I can't do anything.
I have literally tried doing several artistic hobbies and gave up each of them immediately when I was a teenager.
>Gave up on Source Filmmaker
>Gave up on GameMaker
>Gave up on FireAlpaca
>Gave up on Photoshop
I didn't know how any of them worked or what to
do. I don't even know basic trig. Even when I look art guides, I literally cannot comprehend them or figure them out. I don't want to be stuck with no creativity or being unable to express myself. This is what it's like for literally everything I try doing.

>>6977369
>Then you might as well say I'm not interested in anything because I can't do anything.
Then I am saying that. You are literally not interested in anything artistic. That's fine. You don't have to do something creative to have value in your life. Even if you have something to express inside you, it's locked behind your emptiness and depression. Swallow your shame and self-pity and go to a therapist at that point. Your problem ruins deeper than any hobby or interest can help. Don't put the cart before the horse. If you don't right your mind fundamentally of course creativity will be lost to you.

>>6977399
>You are literally not interested in anything artistic.
Did you literally not read any of the hobbies I tried and failed at doing? If all you're going to do is talk past me and project and assume the things I think about, then this is not going to be a very productive conversation and I don't think I should take any advice from you. My problems have been life-long, entirely born (ADHD) and have affected every aspect of my life. I am literally on several medications and even when I feel my best, I can't bring myself to actually learn or do literally anything. Either because I'm too retarded, or because I can't get the executive function to actually do it. I do literally nothing except lay in my room, jerk off and go to sleep. How about I get some actual fucking advice on how to do something that I clearly want to do, instead of assuming everything about me.

>>6977399
>You don't have to do something creative to have value in your life.
But that's the thing. I WANT to be creative. I want to get lost in my own world and think about all kinds of different fictitious settings, characters, all that shit. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't want to.

>>6977205
I feel like you’re the same pretentious schizo that constantly laments the imaginary decay of the OC redraw thread

>>6977399
>You are literally not interested in anything artistic.
I have literally been writing for 12 years.

>>6977403
>>6977404
All you do every day is jerk off, stay alone in your room and sleep, and I'm making assumptions by saying your life is empty and depressed? You're lying to yourself because you're afraid to actually look at your real self.
>I WANT to be creative.
You're lying. Being creative is DOING creativity. Liking the idea of something is not the same as actually wanting to do something. Talking about wanting to be a bodybuilder but not wanting to lift weights is retarded. Because being one IS lifting weights, inseparably. If you don't want to lift weights, you don't actually want to be a bodybuilder, you merely like the IDEA of it.

Just the same, actually BEING an artist IS creating art. Being is a verb, a state of action, not just an idea about a hypothetical self. There is no such thing as wanting to be an artist but not wanting to do art. Because being an artist IS making art. Actual being IS doing. Talking about wanting "to be" something when you don't actually want to do the thing is nonsense. You're using an idea about a hypothetical self that does something valuable or desirable to regulate yourself through fantasies about a future self who is that way. That's why you have tried being a gamemaker, an animator, an artist, all this different shit. Because you don't want to look at your own actual self right here right now, look at your own suffering, and deal with it. Incidentally, I have ADHD too, diagnosed in childhood even. Remember, just because you don't want to hear it doesn't make it untrue. If after 12 years you get nowhere with hobbies as a coping mechanism, it's time for you to work on the actual problem, which is yourself, your own mind at this exact moment. Good luck.

>>6977441
Pretending to read people's minds and writing paragraph upon paragraph of cope filled projection because you don't want to actually engage in a real conversation is pretty pathetic.

>>6977444
Not more pathetic than spending 12 years pretending your life and mind aren't an empty worthless mess because one day you will draw, hypothetically. lmao

>>6977445
I have literally been writing for the past 12 years, retard and people tell me that my writing is some of the best that they've ever seen.

I respect Howie more than the discordfags that complain about the decay of this board, all while failing to post their own work

>>6975492
https://hackernoon.com/learning-the-art-of-storytelling-from-pixar
https://kindlepreneur.com/story-spine/

>>6977450
At least Howie’s honest about being a coomer nodraw permabeg

>>6977446
The funny thing is anon, if nothing I said was relevant to your situation you'd be able to just ignore it instead of getting assblasted. You are a monumental pussy.

It's completely objective, if you wanted to draw, you would be right now. Just the same way if you really wanted to eat you'd go open your fridge. Having nothing to express is the same as having no hunger. Give up

>>6977441
>>6977456
>You're lying. Being creative is DOING creativity.
Yes, which I have been you absolute fuckwad. I have been writing fanficitons and role-playing online for the past 12 years. I even highlighted this in the opening post which you seemed to have not wanted to read, because you wanted to continue bloviating and projecting. People have told me that my writing is amazing and that it's some of the best they've ever seen. I don't need someone telling me that I'm not interested in being creative when my entire life experience tells me otherwise, you absolute fucking braindead mongoloid troglodyte faggot. Your instinctive take is rather gay, and the way you bloviate on about it really saps my willingness to respond. You're very condescending, you talk past the people you're responding to
>I know [read: think] you'll say X next so allow me drone on as if you did!
and
>Let me restate to you a point you just posted to me
it's pretty insufferable. You're not arguing with anybody here other than yourself because you're too illiterate, smug and full of yourself.

>>6977464
Howie, stop. You’re not going to win this. Just let them seethe. That’s all they do

>>6977456
>just ignore it instead of getting assblasted
>Omg they got mad when I projected onto them something that wasn't true!?

>>6977464
Go write fanfiction then, you're on a drawing board. Why wouldn't I reply in context to drawing? Either way if you won't pick up a pencil visual art isn't for you. The next 12 years aren't about to be any different. And stop samefagging please

>>6977474
This thread is about me wanting to make something original. Do you not read the opening posts of the thread you're replying to?

>>6977403
Ah, that
Its because u are in your room all the time
Im the same xd
I was thinking about it
A lot of insignificant thing start to affect to you
The light, the dress clothe, hunger, if u are clean, the sound, the smell... specially the absence of oxygen...
It's a bad environment, maybe it doesn't make sense, at least try to think about it, really those insignificant things mess with your head without you realizing it

>>6977498
Even when I've gone out of my room I've still got no ideas.

>>6977456
>You are a monumental pussy.
I'm a pussy for actually addressing something rather than ignoring it? How backwards and retarded is this logic?

>>6977545
I was referring to the fact of wanting to do something but not being able to do it.
get up, procrastinate, masturbate and sleep

>>6977555
So then what do I do about it?

>>6977560
go to a library and do your things there, I'm just saying that you don't have to be in a place where you get sensitive to the environment

>>6977567
But that doesn't work either.

>>6975520

>>6977626
I have constant brain fog outside of very few times in which my adderall gives me minor clarity. My mind for the most part is meaningless gobbledygook bullshit and the only things I can think up are usually half-assed. Any good ideas for characters and stories that I might have are either impossible for me to draw or write about

>>6977474
You said
>You're not interested in anything artistic
Writing is artistic.

Log off the internet, then take an IRL drawing course or hire a drawing coach using your mommy's money. No, I will not show you how. Ask your mother or any responsible adult IRL (Can't stress this enough), then ask her why she even bothered to bring you into this world. Do not reply back, I will not answer.

>>6977601
Mmmm, I think the paperwork bothers you? It's not just about drawing. For example, to study something you must pay for courses, buy buddies, research and search through shit.
You say ''I just want to be creative'' ''I just want to learn to draw'', it's true, but you're not going to find anything, nor can you do it directly, you're going to have to put up with paperwork and do a lot of shit that annoys you. just to get that something, like this several times.

*goodies* not buddies, im stupid xdxdxd

>>6978209
I can barely study. That's my problem. My ADHD actively prevents me from doing it. Even when I'm on Adderall.

>>6978276
That happens to everyone...
Where do you think the students are? They are in a library or they take courses and that kind of thing duh

>>6978276
Well, it would be great to lock yourself up and study day and night, and get lost that way and improve, I guess that's what you want?

With that will? You can't even stand the paperwork and want something that's even more full of it? You have to find ways to do things and do them, and be patient...

''I want to be creative''
Buy a sketchbook and start drawing anything that makes you feel something, mix them, improve them or twist them, and if you want, color them
''I want to study''
Grab books (mostly without anything relevant) and look for something useful, understand how this and that works, memorize formulas and words, look for practices, even the same ones you had already done and do them all the time. (most of the time you will spend reading non-essential things)
''i want to draw''
Look for tutorials that are probably shit, and try each thing for days, think about how things work, understand the composition of something, do that several times

If you can't stand that paperwork or you don't like it, then there's nothing you can do, take a course or something li0dmr8ke any normal person.

I type the captcha at the end
im stupid... again xd

>>6978376
I've already been locked up day and night with pencils and plenty of paper for years. Nothing has happened. I don't know what to do.

>>6978495
If you really have ADHD the best you can do is stop wanting to do it. Let it go. It'll come back to you naturally and when it does you won't do anything else but focus on it

>>6978495
I guess anime, if you don't like hair you look for a tutorial, maybe it's shit, take a break and get your head together and look for another tutorial.
and if you don't achieve almost anything, well at least you spent 20 minutes doing more than 2 years of your miserable life xd
and tomorrow the same
and maybe you'll get inventive with your method of doing things and find something less boring (?)

WARNING: THIS POSTER IS AN EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE WHO WILL DEFLECT ALL ADVICE YOU GIVE AND FEAST ON YOUR PSYCHIC ENERGY BY DRAGGING YOU INTO POINTLESS CONVERSATIONS. HE HAS MADE THIS EXACT SAME THREAD COUNTLESS TIMES.

Example of his past exchanges:
>>6836401
>Yes. Your drawings are careless and rushed.
>6836406
>How?
>>6836436
>Google "How to Draw Freehand Straight Lines"
>6836516
>I'm drawing with my shoulders and elbows. This is the best I can do.
>>6836619
>Then you're resistant to advice that already helped hundreds of thousands artists world wide aka retarded.
>6836623
>What other "advice" is there? I Googled exactly what was asked and that's what came up.
>>6836630
>Sigh. No anon. You don't skip and jump from one technique to another until it works. You pick one and grind it until it clicks.
>6836634
>What other techniques are there? You haven't told me a single one. The arm and elbow is literally what every fucking piece of advice tells me to do.

Every reply by this mental case is designed to foist the burden of improving onto the other person. Note how he always vacillates between begging for advice, then finding a way to disregard advice.
Whenever you give him advice, he will whine about how he can't do it.
If you follow up, explaining how to do it, or challenging him, he will whine about how the explanation doesn't work for him. He will continue asking for explanations of more and more basic things beyond the point of absurdity.
He will insist he wants to do something, then turn around and claim he doesn't know what he wants to do.
He will never post examples of his attempts, or post ones done with minimum effort or months ago.
He will try to bait you into meta-discussion about why he sucks.
When you eventually give up, he will start whining again that there is no good advice.

STOP giving him attention. He is mentally ill and has remade this same thread over and over, because HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR ADVICE. HE WANTS YOU TO ENGAGE IN HIS PITY PARTY.

>>6975492
Learn how to steal.
All the stories that will be written, have.
Take an old one and adapt it to our times.

>>6975492
Shit happens to me all the time. I make something, and about a year later a movie comes out with a similar plot. there is nothing new. What you can do is read a lot and watch a lot to get ideas as well as learn to write descriptively to paint with new descritpions.
For something more soulfull, try to dig deep down onto a topic you feel strongly about. create a thesis and antithesis to describe the conflicting emotions. Get metaphoricle.

for example. FlCl is a coming of age story. there are a myriad of those stories, but its told with motifs and metaphors. Canti playing with the bass guitar to describe how he takes a back seat in life. The baseball espisode was a metaphor for sex. The old "first base dating, second holding hands, third kissing and home run for sex" motif.

get ambiguous with the common themes in literature and youll make something out of it.

>>6978716
It seems like he wants to kill himself, it worries me a little...

>>6978716
oh, shit, one of those. should have read the thread before i commented.

>>6975492
> Everything I've ever made has been a fanfiction based on another property
You'd be surprised how common it is to do this.

>>6977317
I want to express anime girls doing sex with peepees.

>>6978498
How do I stop focusing on it?

Vocaloid is the best thing that exists in this miserable world

There are all sorts of stories that are out in the public domain, so why not do your own spin on one?

Imagine having time to do shit while at the same time trying to improve on drawing.

>>6980489
But I want to make my own.

Bump

>>6980545
Then draw random things. People,places,objects.

Then...think about them.

Why did you make them as you did? What details crept into their forms, and what do they suggest to you? It's the reasoning that will make the world your creations inhabit. For instance, I drew the demon head initially, and thought what role it would play in ficdom I illustrate. It turned into a "scene from an adventure in progress",something that I like to do for teaching myself to stuff them with small details that hint at the bigger picture of what such an adventure would entail. Then a second page expanding these ideas happened, then a third. And after 180 strips over a decade, that storyline is 2/3 told. And so it happens.

>>6982683
I don't really know how to draw them, though.

>>6983190
You want people to give up on you because you want justification for giving up on yourself. Stop with the one liner “I’m useless” posting if you want to improve.

>>6983262
How do i improve then?

>>6983464
Nta, but let's be completely honest here. You are never going to draw on your own, you have zero accountability. And pixels on a screen are never going to convince you to pick up a pencil. At this rate you are well on your way to fulfilling your ultimatum by the end of the year. So unless you don't want to kill yourself, hire a real life drawing coach or take a physical drawing class. Hire someone to surgically connect a pen to your hand and a sketchbook to your thigh if you have to. Either way, you NEED someone to PHYSICALLY be there forcing you to draw, because there is no chance in hell you will ever be able to do it on your own. Good luck or good riddance.

>>6983479
Literally nothing can motivate me to do anything at all.

>>6978716
Doing god's work, anon.

>>6983505
You’re motivated to make these threads and reply to posts days on end.

>>6983515
Because I have nothing else

>>6983479
>>6983516
You gonna follow my advice or not Howie? Tell your mom/psychologist the truth, that you want to draw or you'll just kill yourself out of uselessness. Tell them you want an irl drawing teacher. They'll get it taken care of. Or you can continue on your self-destructive path until the day of your ultimatum, where you'll chicken out because you're useless, and continue to be useless and a leech on society until you get smothered in your sleep by your caretaker who's had enough of taking care of a living tumor.

>>6983544
I want something I can do online by myself.

>>6975492
trauma
without trauma and overcoming it, your story will suffer

>>6975492
>how do I accomplish x nebulous task?
Fuck off

>>6983672
Better start learning how to tie a noose then. There is no hope for you.

Drop the go, follow my advice, or die.

>>6984151
No. I want something I can do myself.

>>6984173
For someone so desperate you sure are picky. Useless cunt.

>>6984176
Give me a fucking guide I can do myself.

>>6975556
>how to write shounen anime

>>6984283
Do this to improve. Just follow exactly as it says.
https://www.brendanmeachen.com/soloartist

>>6984283
Try this. Prove to your self that you CAN pick up a pencil. The hardest hurdle is the first one. If you can't do this might as well an hero.

>>6984306
Even doing the first fucking lesson looks fucking ridiculous and impossible.

>>6984291
Are you a middleschooler? Did your class never teach basic literature?
There's six (seven if you count comedy) basic types of story telling, the pic your responding too is just one of them.

>>6984476
It's legitimately fucking boring and it won't teach me anything. Give me something actually worth trying AND comprehensible.
This advice is even worse than the one Source Filmmaker community gave me.

>>6985006
made me lol. thanks op.
you are fucking hilarious. <3

>>6985006
Make your ultimatum a week rather than a year. Do us all a favor.

Bump

>>6984575
>>6985006
Holy shit, it’s amazing someone can be this unlikeable. Do yourself a favor and just kys already lmao

>>6975499
I dont consoom anything

>all these hapless anons getting dragged down by this retard in trying to help him
All you had to do was heed the warning >>6975520

>>6986678
It's useless to try to help people who are trying to help the OP. They're doomed to write walls of text every iteration of the thread and they will never learn like the OP.

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>>6975492
Have you ever had any cool dreams? That's where all my ideas came from. I read a lot of fantasy or scifi so my dreams tend to relate to what I've been reading. Try mediation or exercising, or doing some activity that lets your mind wander without distractions.

>>6984291
>And Lord of the Rings
>And Star Wars
>And The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
>And The Wheel Of Time
>And Harry Potter
>And Dragon
>And The Odyssey

Gee, I wonder if the most famous authors may have been on to something?

>>6989975
My dreams are incomprehensible garbage and I can't remember most of them.

An exercise in creativity:

With a cheap pad of paper, scribble with a pencil exactly 3 seconds. Then with black pen, elaborate on the random shapes, adding details to make things from them.

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>>6976316
I still have not seen any advice in relation to this either.

>>6989977
all of those are midwit garbage ngl. smart people don't care about this shit.
>>6992067
YOU ARE LOW IQ WITH LESS CHROMOSOMES THAN ME

>>6989975
I've actually been doing exercises almost every other day for about 2 or 3 years. Since December of 2020 I believe.
https://youtu.be/yDQQVU__6Uc?si=EauKaI760Rxoy5_G

I've lost about 20 pounds, completely changed how my body looks. It didn't help me think of anything creative. Even when I really tried to force it.

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>>6975492
For me it's not finding a place in the real world and therefore creating one of my own to immerse myself in. In my own worlds the bad guys get rekt, I get to have all the sex I want as well as all the guns and ammunition imaginable to shoot zombies and bad guys with. It's really that simple silly anon, you're not supposed to make le ebic magnum opus, just a cool world to have fun in, whatever the definition of "fun" may be to you

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regularly exercised imagination + healthy media diet + life experience and milage

>>6993541
>Smart people don't care

Smart people adore complex ideas expressed in a simple way. Only idiots and midwits think hard to understand = smart.

I have 117 IQ my best friend has 127, other two friends have 125, 130, and 135. All of them like those kind of books I listed.
Literally the only people who like other kinds are midwits on lit/ impressed by needlessly complicated windbag writing. God damn I hate that place. Snooty bastards can't allow the mention anyone but literally who authors they only talk about so they can fight over who can be the most smug for reading the most boring unknown author.

The anime version of that is people who think Death Note is genius writing because it's convoluted. Instead of just convoluted writing to hide the fact they can't write smart characters.

>>6992067
Memories of dreams fade within minutes of waking up. Get a dream journal and write it down fast when you have a cool one.

Fucking retards replying to posts from six days ago, bumping a Howie schizo thread.

>>6976316
Well fuck you should have mentioned that you dork. You need a yeast detox with oregano oil, antioxidants rich rose hips for brain clarity boost, cilantro for heavy metal detox, and a higher protein diet with high quality fish oil like the one fit/ recommends for more mental clarity. A study found school children in a African village where meat was rare had amazing test scores when their school lunch had a meat broth.

Start taking oregano oil and cilantro extract 3x a day with a high probiotics rich foods and cut out all sugar and carbs to kill any yeast overgrowth that is known to cause foggy thinking. It takes a month but you'll feel so amazing. The crisp clarity will feel alien and weird after a lifetime in fog.
https://www.yeastinfection.org/

I started taking vitamins afterwards to balance my health further and came up with 5 book ideas in one day.
A multivitamin, green tea extract, fish oil, rose hips, high potassium swiss chard since supplements for potassium over 5% DV are illegal, bone broth, and high protein diet, probiotics rich food. I don't know which did it or if all did it, but I feel amazing. The biggest energy and mental clarity came from rosehips and bone broth.

T. Health nut and suffered from brain fog for most of my life. Found out late in life it is a sign of high candida infection and other causes of brain fog.

>>6999292
Alright.

>>6975520
>Says he wants to draw but has no interest in drawing a single thing
Wow, he's just like me.

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>>6999302
Anon you think he's going to actually listen to your advice? Dude comes up with an excuse to avoid doing even the slightest thing. It took multiple anons two threads to get him to draw fucking 3d boxes, for fucks sake. Spare yourself and just move on.

WARNING: THIS POSTER IS AN EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE WHO WILL DEFLECT ALL ADVICE YOU GIVE AND FEAST ON YOUR PSYCHIC ENERGY BY DRAGGING YOU INTO POINTLESS CONVERSATIONS. HE HAS MADE THIS EXACT SAME THREAD COUNTLESS TIMES.

Example of his past exchanges:
>>6836401
>Yes. Your drawings are careless and rushed.
>6836406
>How?
>>6836436
>Google "How to Draw Freehand Straight Lines"
>6836516
>I'm drawing with my shoulders and elbows. This is the best I can do.
>>6836619
>Then you're resistant to advice that already helped hundreds of thousands artists world wide aka retarded.
>6836623
>What other "advice" is there? I Googled exactly what was asked and that's what came up.
>>6836630
>Sigh. No anon. You don't skip and jump from one technique to another until it works. You pick one and grind it until it clicks.
>6836634
>What other techniques are there? You haven't told me a single one. The arm and elbow is literally what every fucking piece of advice tells me to do.

Every reply by this mental case is designed to foist the burden of improving onto the other person. Note how he always vacillates between begging for advice, then finding a way to disregard advice.
Whenever you give him advice, he will whine about how he can't do it.
If you follow up, explaining how to do it, or challenging him, he will whine about the explanation not working for him. He will continue asking for explanations of more and more basic things beyond the point of absurdity.
He will insist he wants to do something, then turn around and claim he doesn't know what he wants to do.
He will never post examples of his attempts, or post ones done with minimum effort months/years ago.
He will try to bait you into meta-discussions about himself and why he sucks.
When you eventually give up, he will start whining again that there is no good advice.

STOP giving him attention. He is mentally ill and has remade this same thread over and over, because HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR ADVICE. HE WANTS YOU TO ENGAGE IN HIS PITY PARTY.

>>7004319
All these exchanges are the person asking for clarification and people shitting on him.

>>6975492
Do a cross over fan-fic of two or more IP you like and know well and change the names a bit.

>>6975492
What I do when I want to be creative is try to brainstorm. Due to the way modern media blasts and rots your brain, all your immediate ideas are bound to have no creativity. It's why so many franchises have gone to shit, because they have 0 creativity and just regurgitate what others already made popular. And this happens when you try and come up with shit on autopilot, which is why I usually discard the first idea that comes to mind, and the second, maybe even the third.

Like idk random example, let's say I want to create a world/story about a treasure hunter Indy-style, I've decided I want the protagonist to be female, ok let's try to come up with her looks. First idea that flows to mind is relatively fit, young in her 20s, brown hair, probably braided or ponytail so it doesn't get in the way when doing all the action shit. Boom, old idea, it's literally lara croft and probably many other generic action heroines, to the trash.
K next idea, how about I make her younger, midteens, maybe redhead instead of brown hair, confident, go-getter, and... yeah no fuck that it's literally horizon girl, or archer girl from brave, or pretty much any young spunky redhead heroine ever, to the trash. K what's the next idea? Ok let's keep her young-ish, maybe she just has shoulder-length hair, wears glasses, and is a super history nerd freak although her athleticism might not be the best... ok that seems at least a bit more out there? Yeah there's been a lot of geeky shy glassed characters, so might need to workshop that, but usually you don't see that kind of character in some kind of adventure story, closest that comes to mind would be Milo from Atlantis.

And so on, keep workshopping, keep working and tweaking, question everything. Like you can see in my last attempt at quickly brainstorming a character, my brain went on "autopilot" to make the generic nerdy girl character, I try to notice that happening to stop myself and change directions.

>>7004632
No. It got to this point because this is possibly the 20th thread where its the same song and dance. People are fed up.

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>>7004745
Thank you

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