/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.1770631]

Mods are asleep, post current artist feelings!

[Anonymous No.1770635]

>>1770631
>Draw tonight, be proud and start color
>Post on /ic/, DA go to sleep
>It looks like crap the next morning and hate it
>Feel embarrassed

[Anonymous No.1770636]

>Finish something
>Better than last time
>Want to keep improving
>Afraid to show it and ask for help on /ic/

[Anonymous No.1770637]

>>1770631
>look at yourself in the mirror.

>tfw you still are not good after 4 years of painting.

>reason for painting has changed over and over.

>would rather stay at home to paint than go out with friends and family.

>tfw nothing to show for it as in the trash it goes when done.

>i feel nothng.

[Anonymous No.1770639]

>shit at art
>start painting digitally
>do some portraits daily over the next few months
>only draw portraits
>few days ago
>tablet shits out try to do one on paper
>realise that my line art is so bad it looks like i just started again
>all this time drawing portraits thinking ive been practicing was a waste
been spending the past few days dedicating atleast 4-6 hours a day drawing on paper, reading loomis again is pretty depressing. hopefully ill improve because i dont know what to do besides just draw

[Anonymous No.1770640]

>tfw you see yourself improving but it feels like your goals are getting farther away

[Anonymous No.1770647]

>>1770640
>also this

[Anonymous No.1770676]

>>1770635
>>1770640
u guys me

[Anonymous No.1770686]

>>1770635
>>1770640
>>1770647
>>1770676
my feels have already been felt.
i did a few nice studies recently, but all of my portfolio, personal website and educational goals always seem to be on hold for some quick freelancing thing that turns into a major time eater. and where one side project ends another two spring up. can i ever manage to move from this rut?

[Anonymous No.1770687]

>tfw using a kneadable eraser for the first time

[Anonymous No.1770705]

>tfw desperately attempting to become good at art in an attempt to be able to make create your own worlds to be happy with
i just want to draw things the way i wish they were mang

[Anonymous No.1770709]

>trys to draw at least something
>it looks like shit
>start it all over again
Fuck i cant draw Digital..

[Anonymous No.1770711]

>tfw keep saying im gonna start practicing but just end up lurking /ic/ or other art sites

[Anonymous No.1770716]

>fuck a girl after doing some croqi with her

>mfw her friends find out

[Anonymous No.1770718]

Repetitive strain injury in my shoulder is bringing me down, haven't been able to draw for months.

[Anonymous No.1770720]

>Begin to become the greatest artist ever
>can't get a job after 2 years

[Anonymous No.1770721]

>>1770635
ur cute

>>1770686
Don't do freelance if you don't want to do freelance.

How much money are you making? If it's less than 17 / usd an hour don't bother. That's less than minimum wage where I'm from.


>>1770705
Making art to escape the world has made me realize how great the world I already exist in is.


>>1770718
Switch hand? The knowledge is in your head, no need to stop.

>>1770687
This is a true good feel

>>1770716
Godspeed anon, may your penis gains not come too much in the way for your art gains

[Anonymous No.1770728]

>>1770721
Switching hand is harder than it sounds, takes months to get used to it unless you want to strain your left

[Anonymous No.1770729]

Passion is essential to success and my flame is dimming.

[Anonymous No.1770730]

>tfw making subtle improvements in art
>tfw everything else is lagging behind

[Anonymous No.1770736]

>>1770729
>>1770730

[Anonymous No.1770763]

give up everything for art.
no friends
family hates me
starting to look like feel irl
too depressed to even enjoy it any more

[Anonymous No.1770765]

>>1770763
a-are you me?
also
>getting old
>metabolism slowing down
>no time to get /fit/ because m-muh studies
>slowly getting fat

[Anonymous No.1770767]

I just want give up but something keep me forcing to continue. I don't care anymore, I just wanna quit but it's hard to cut ties.

[Anonymous No.1770769]

>always been an overthinking and dense loser
>improving
>start to doubt of the path I choose because I can't even get fundamentals down and my love for drawing isn't strong enough to keep me going
>cry every time when I notice at this rate, I'll never be like the artists I admire
>think about suppress all drawing frustrations in writing and working then buy expensive shit I don't need

I think I'll become a writer or something... I can't get the fundamentals down no matter how hard I try.

[Anonymous No.1770773]

>I won't be able to make a living with art because the market will be oversaturated once I'm on a pro-level
>mfw I have burned all bridges
>mfw I'll never be able to support a family
>mfw I'll die poor and lonely

[Anonymous No.1770786]

>>1770687
I can't control it. It's too soft.

[Anonymous No.1770789]

>>1770631
>depression gone
>don't have to force drawing anymore
>improve more in one month than in the past two years
>depression comes back after less than three months of being healthy

God fucking dammit. They are probs gonna put me on meds next week, we'll see if that helps.
At least this time I know it's possible to get better, didn't really believed that during past years.

[Anonymous No.1770791]

>>1770769
I don't want to discourage you even further, but writing requires just as much work as drawing to git gud. Be prepared for nights of angry writing, then discovering your stuff is shit, deleting it, reading books by writers who are better than you, crying, then starting again. I also find it's harder to get critiques for writing (/lit/ doesn't know shit, and I can't find any communities online that say something other than "yeah it's good"; people are so easily satisfied with bad writing). Really, all the arts will bring you suffering. You just have to handle the feels somehow.

[Anonymous No.1770795]

>>1770791
Yeah, I know, I may sound stupid but I know writing is hard as well. The difference is, I can accept myself as an "okay" writer but I can't accept myself as an "okay" artist. I won't cry over people who writes better than me, because it's words. It's not figures, pictures. You understand? I can't handle my feelings when it comes to drawing. I can be average or lower than average in a lot of things in life, but when it comes to drawing, I can't take it. But yeah, I want to die everyday. I wonder what I'm doing here. Why the fuck an useless piece of shit like me is alive. I'm just a waste of space and air.

[Anonymous No.1770796]

>>1770769
Ikr, anon. It's a full-time suffering.

>writes, like almost halfway
>bought a novel
>sees writing better than mine
>cries and abandons project for a month before deciding to do a full-on remake (in progress now)

[Anonymous No.1770801]

>dedicate summer to git gud and /fit/ness
>Read here and there, do at least a little practice everyday, feel I should do more
>Seeing improvements
>feel like exercise is lagging behind, trying to overcome complacence
>Doing mindfulness meditation, as it's supposed to help focus, and be good for keeping calm
>fixing posture
>eating less

But on the flip

>still feel like a dunce who needs to read something twice to understand what someone else can once
>still feel bad for being overweight
>worried about suddenly hitting a plateau and never improving
>still masturbate too much and with bad habits (deathclutch and sanic speed)
>worried about never having an erection to things I like ever again
>worried about wasting time
>feel like my dedication is desperation, my last leg to stand on
>Like if I don't get good at something, I'm worthless
>Isolate myself from other peoples art, find it a put down
>Becoming slightly more estranged from family and friends everyday
>Isolate myself from all media really, too distracting

[Anonymous No.1770803]

>be really motivated to do the things I want to do
>get down and write schedules, set goals
>proceed to do even less than I'd normally do, as if to spite myself

Also:
>It has been one year since buying a tablet
>haven't even worked through one whole book
>Shitty improvements because too little exercise

Why am I such a retard?

[Anonymous No.1770806]

Are any of you guys a part of Unmotivated Losers?

[Anonymous No.1770810]

>>1770803

Stop planning how to do things and just do them, I've known a lot of people like you. You don't need schedules or timetables, just figure out some goals and work on them

[Anonymous No.1770815]

>>1770767
that's love, brah

[Anonymous No.1770817]

>>1770795
> But yeah, I want to die everyday. I wonder what I'm doing here. Why the fuck an useless piece of shit like me is alive. I'm just a waste of space and air.
Stop this right now, anon. You only get one life; are you going to spend it crying like this ? If you want to be a better artist, you WILL be a better artist. Keep trying. It takes time for all of us, we all doubt, we all suffer. Yet we improve. We're no better than you ; we're on 4chan, a lot of us are fucked up and sad. But we keep going ; what else is there to do ?
If you feel art isn't worth the pain you get, by all means, stop. Find something else, something that will make you happy. Something you'll be good at. Nobody's born good at anything ; it may feel that way, but I assure you we all work hard. You can work hard too.
Don't feel bad yourself, don't ask yourself why you're alive. You're alive, and that's fucking amazing, because tons of people die everyday. It doesn't matter if they were better than you, smarter, more skilled ; you're alive, they're not. You've got the opportunity to do something great, anything you want.
Just keep going, anon. If really you've got the will to die, if nothing in your existence justifies living, then there's nothing to keep you from trying as hard you can, and telling the rest of the world to go fuck itself. Keep trying and see what happens ; death can always wait.
I believe in you, anon.

[Anonymous No.1770820]

> 80% of my time is being chewn up working at my job ( IT tech)
> Try to pick up on my drawings, realize I draw like shit.
> Overcriticizing myself but can't handle criticsm well, crushes me apart.
Decide to buy a notebook and pencil, starts reading Loomis and watching tons of online videos.
> Feeling improvement but only in certain key areas, shit in everywhere else.
> My only good works are ones I copied.
> Watch artists online show how their drawing were when they were young.
> Compare myself to them at that age, feel absolutely crushed by their level.
> Started to actually be pretty good at my job.
> Now I don't know if to continue my art regardless or drop it and move on.

Every time I draw, it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to realize my drawing is shit, and it breaks me apart.

The fucked up thing is, every morning afterwards I renew my strength and try again like nothing happened. Then it repeats itself. This goes on forever.

Is this what they call passion? I want none of it.

[Anonymous No.1770826]

you are all a bunch of pussy ass faggots

>banging lots of chicks
>even reconnected with ex i still love
>art progressing greatly
>fitness progressing greatly
>dad thinks im a failure but i give zero fucks
>mom thinks im a failure but i give zero fucks

>even have time for some vidya inbetween gigs and studies and lifting

feels good to be alfalfa masterrace artist

[Anonymous No.1770827]

>>1770826
>feels good to be alfalfa masterrace artist

post progress.

[Anonymous No.1770832]

>>1770827

what's the point. i can easily cherrypick shit to make myself look as awesome/mediocre/bad as i want.

only i know the truth anon.

[Anonymous No.1770836]

>>1770832
Normally I'm against the whole d/ic/k measuring contest but when the entire point of your post is how well you're going then I thought it'd be interesting to see how good/delusional you really are.

Back down if you want champ :^)

[Anonymous No.1770838]

>>1770832
>awesome/mediocre/bad
Why not post 3 samples

[Anonymous No.1770839]

>>1770827
>>1770836
>>1770838

god, do your jimmies get rustled so easily? if you have to choose between being buttmad and taking a post on /ic/ super seriously and just ignoring it, for the love of god, next time ignore it.

90% of my post was stylized d/ic/kbutt-ism to make the thread interesting by providing a counterposition. but you kids gotta point your greasy finger, get all shaky and yell "oh yeah? p-p-prove it!"

[Anonymous No.1770841]

>>1770817
Shit, I... I'm tearing up. Thank you very much. You are right. I'll keep going, I'll do my best. I can do it. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.1770844]

>>1770817
>we're on 4chan, a lot of us are fucked up and sad.
>a lot of us
Isn't that supposed to be all of us?

[Anonymous No.1770845]

>>1770844

all of us. even me >>1770826

[Anonymous No.1770856]

>>1770639
>painting
There's your problem

[Anonymous No.1770860]

>>1770839
For someone who says to take it easy, you sure as shit make alot of effort to explain the "counterposition" you were trying to show, rather than let it speak for itself.

You really just wanted to have a piss at people here, didn't ya?

[Anonymous No.1770863]

>>1770832
You are an awful person

[Anonymous No.1770865]

>>1770839

[Anonymous No.1770894]

>>1770860
>You really just wanted to have a piss at people here, didn't ya?

ya. lol

[Anonymous No.1770896]

>>1770832
this guys knows whats up

[Anonymous No.1770898]

>>1770631
this gave me artist feels

[Anonymous No.1770900]

>>1770631
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdVkZBm8xUk

[Anonymous No.1770906]

>>1770826
>alfalfa

[Anonymous No.1770907]

>>1770844
>>1770817
>>1770845
>implying being sad is a bad thing

[Anonymous No.1770914]

>>1770817
>>1770841

Touching. Some of you may sometimes be insufferable faggots but I love you guys.

[Anonymous No.1770916]

>>1770900

manly tears