Drawing Struggles

[Anonymous No.2054862]

List some of your Drawing Struggles Guys,
Dose not have to be Directly to art
Just A Strug' of art

>Currently drawing something in class
>Fucboi #1 Looks over
>"Oh wow, Did you draw that?"
>Did I?

[Anonymous No.2054869]

>>2054862
>spongebob-elite-daily-6.png

so i was sitting in art class, and drawing when this COMPLETE PLEBIAN WHITE MALE asshole asks me if i drew the picture in front of me. WHAT A FUCKING RETARD, i cant figure out why he hasnt killed himself. I thought he was just trying to be friendly by making smalltalk about our shared interest, when i realized the OPRESSIVE FUCKBOI was EYE RAPING MY DRAWING. What a stupid cunt that faggot was, good thing i had my mace so he couldnt lay his WHITE MALE hands on me. I JUST WANT TO DRAW IM NOT HERE TO HOOK UP IF YOU SEE ME DRAWING DONT TALK TO ME PLEASE BECAUSE YOURE A LOSER VIRGIN. God i just need to get home, eat some activated almonds, take my Rosewater-Soy Milk bath and open up a couple of good memes. Maybe reddit will have some quality material today, or maybe ill go make fun of young "artists" on deviant art. Why do they even try? God being an artist is hell.

#ArtStrugs

[Anonymous No.2054871]

>>2054862

I have an extremely easy time producing work from imagination without any reference, and bringing it up to 60-70%.

But the remaining 30-40% it would take to bring that piece to a real level of finish takes me a ridiculous amount of work, time and brain calories.

Wat do?

[Anonymous No.2054872]

How about this one, Some anime Lover. Neckbeard, Fedora ect. #346543, Draws that God damn "hair over one Eye female with Pointy chin Head" with colored pencils and has the AUDACITY to criticize MY ARTWORK with "i don't like the form" or "i don't like that Style"
These people need to be Crucified

[Anonymous No.2054880]

>>2054869
you gave me a couple of good keks. thanks anon

[Anonymous No.2055048]

>Be in free period
>Drawing
>Girl walks up to me and interrupts my creative process
>"I like your drawing"
>It's just a shitty sketch
>"Thanks"
>She sits next to me
>God damn it
>"You must be really talented! I wish I could draw like that"
>Talent
>Mentally roll eyes
>"Do you think you could teach me to draw?"
>She wants free lessons
>Make up some bullshit about how I'm not qualified since I'm still learning myself
>"Oh, okay"
>She stays seated next to me
>Try to ignore her and continue drawing
>She's still there, practically watching over my shoulder
>Can't draw in peace, so I get up and leave

Why do some people think it's okay to interrupt us when we're working?

[Anonymous No.2055052]

>>2054862
So much I'm bad at -> too much to study -> study one thing, regress at another -> never improve

Eternal standstill, why?

[Anonymous No.2055096]

>All day long at work want to draw
>Go home
>Want nothing but sleep

[Anonymous No.2055107]

>>2054862
It's the equivalent of
>"Hey, did you get a haircut?"
>No, I got cancer

It's just a way of striking up a conversation, you fucking dumbass

[Anonymous No.2055111]

>>2055048
Wasn't she just after your D?

So

>D.exe
>nobitch.exe

Solved no charge.

[Anonymous No.2055341]

>>2054871
Put in a ridiculous amount of work, time and brain calories.

[Anonymous No.2055345]

>>2055341

brilliant. thanks!

[Anonymous No.2055348]

>>2054871
I'm at that same point. I'm pretty sure I just need to do more studies and focus on rendering things quickly, building visual library, and all that shit.

I haven't been doing studies nearly as much as I should have.

[Anonymous No.2055350]

>>2055096
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.2055360]

>>2055048
Was she qt though? I'm guessing no.

[Anonymous No.2055361]

>>2054862
Op you sound like a dumb tumblr douche

[Anonymous No.2055366]

if i wasnt making slow improvement i would just stop amd kill myself but thankfully im at least going forward for now

but muh art struggle is
>making thumbnails for a finished piece
>have brilliant idea in my head i can see it so crystal clear
>find out i dont have the knowledge on how to execute it properly
>it looks like dookie poo
or
>when that awesome idea strikes and i start thinking about how to construct specific parts like the body
>fumble and go into retard mode
>as i struggle with that area i slowly forget what the overall glamour of the piece was supposed to be

this shits tough son

[Anonymous No.2055368]

>At school, history class
>Draw a shitty Kazuya Mishima head on the desk.
>Same class the very next week, drawing's still here.
>"Wow, this is very well done, so amazing :O!" wrote next to it.

Please.
And also fuck people writing with smileys IRL xDDDDDD.

[Anonymous No.2055374]

>>2055048
The process of teaching somebody else can actually be really good to solidify information in your own brain. You could've been nicer and at least given her some quick general pointers.

[Anonymous No.2055380]

>>2055366
This is like my entire life. I definitely do learn things when I try and fail to execute my own ideas, but for now I've just gotten really frustrated with my current skill level and started doing mostly studies. Obviously its a little more of an efficient way to learn, but I really have to want to do studies or else I find them incredibly boring.

[Anonymous No.2055383]

>>2055380
>>2055366
I feel like I improved and had tons of small jumps in knowledge about form and construction but for the past 4 months I feel like it all disappeared....

[Anonymous No.2055423]

there was a properly dressed qt girl, neat hair and all that tried to chat me up while i was drawing at the museum. she was asking me questions that aren't the usual dumb ones and laughed at my answers however serious i was, but i just cold shouldered her until she left. it's not even just qt girls; i tend to neglect relationships with people to work on my art alone instead.

she had a nice butt, too.

[Anonymous No.2055429]

Mark making can be challenging. Feels like my hand fights me sometimes when putting down strokes. I tried taking up some of Peter Hahn's practices in dynamic sketching to get a little more dexterous, but I find that I have a hard time getting into a proper groove of breathing and going over a line.
Still try to power on through it, but it's annoying.

[Anonymous No.2055437]

I can only draw from imagination; looking at reference bores me. The only way I can draw from reference is if I look at it then draw later without it, or force myself to study it.
I also can't really think about what I'm doing while I'm drawing; things just tend to flow out.
How do I think while drawing, and how do I use reference without killing myself?

[Anonymous No.2055440]

>>2054871

It's called the 80/20 rule. The first 80% of the work takes 20% of the time, and that last 20% of polishing takes 80% of the time.

No way around it. It is our cross to bear as artists.

[Anonymous No.2055444]

>>2055437
you using photo refs or real life? I can understand being bored by copying a photo but working from life should feel much different.

are you able to draw from reference well? do you dislike it because you find it boring or because you find it difficult? keep in mind you can work from reference AND imagination, be liberal with how you use your references, you don't have to copy them like a machine.

[Anonymous No.2055447]

>>2054869

#artstrugs lol

[Anonymous No.2055453]

>>2055437
>how do I use reference without killing myself?
I find that doing more practical or situational studies helps me with that.
Whenever you're struggling with something you're drawing, or if you just think you could be doing something better, get a reference of whatever aspect you're struggling with and apply it, or even do a study of it to understand better before applying it.

[Anonymous No.2055456]

>>2055048
Your a dick

[Anonymous No.2055466]

>>2055456
no, yore a dick.

[Anonymous No.2055471]

>>2055456
No he's not

[Anonymous No.2055476]

>>2054869
>Activated almonds
I forgot about this gem.

[Anonymous No.2055481]

My lack of confidence and self esteem. My constant need to compare myself to others. My self hatred. Those are my struggles.

[Anonymous No.2055498]

>>2055481
Damn, Anon, you need a Hug

[Anonymous No.2055500]

>>2055048
She was trying to make conversation you autist.
You could have befriended her and then dicked her

[Anonymous No.2055502]

>>2055481
Dear anon:
I am 100% sure there is someone out there that likes you and I am 100% sure there is someone who likes your art. Draw something that makes you happy, like a cat or a panda. Please do not be sad.
-me

[Anonymous No.2055506]

>>2055481
I feel your pain brother.
We are going to get through this

[Anonymous No.2055507]

>>2055506
Dear other anon:
I hope you are not that sad, either. Please draw that cute cat. You will feel very happy. There are people in the world that would/do appreciate your drawings and there are people that like you, too
-Me

[Anonymous No.2055508]

Ever since my car accident 2 weeks ago, I cant remember anything I grinded on.
Its fustrating having to crash corse this all over again

[Anonymous No.2055509]

>>2055508
Are you hurt?!?!?

[Anonymous No.2055511]

>>2055509
He's dead.

[Anonymous No.2055519]

>>2055509
I only suffered a concussion. Its not the first time I got one of those. Playing football in highschool, you'd get hundreds.

This time its different though. My truck was hurt beyond repair. Thats the sad part

[Anonymous No.2055523]

>>2055519
:C sad

[Anonymous No.2055524]

>>2055048
>Girl is friendly to you
>Wants to conversate
>NO BITCH
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.2055526]

>>2055524
>wants to conversate
>conversate
what are you doing

[Anonymous No.2055528]

I CANNOT DRAW NOSES

[Anonymous No.2055529]

>>2054862
Why are clothes so hard to draw? I mean seriously, now I get why in the eden garden people was naked: its because they didn't knew Satan yet
when the first guy tried to draw someone for the first time in history, Satan popped up and told him "yo dude drawing all those limbs and shit correctly is gonna be a mess, Iàm sure that if there was a piece of cloth on them it would be baby tier shit!" and the guy said "shit nigga dats the sickest cheat since fire! bring it on!"
*poof*
and so every artist in history was fucked.

[Anonymous No.2055541]

>>2055096

>think drawing all day while at work
>"...yeah, and organize my reference library and work on some freeform sketches with legs and practice on feet today..."
>get home
>assaulted by buddies on Steam and on skype
>DUDE HAVE YOU GOTTEN GTA5 YET? DOWNLOAD THAT SHIT AND DO HEISTS WITH US.

I'm so weak willed when it comes to my friends. Some days I wish I didn't have any.

[Anonymous No.2055545]

>>2055541
turn off skype you dumb nigger. these aren't people beating down your actual door, you choose to turn on or turn off distractions on the computer.

[Anonymous No.2055546]

>>2055541
That's why I got rid of all of mine except for my husband. Or at least I say I purposely did it...

[Anonymous No.2055548]

Concentration is hard as fuck.

Any tips? I want to start meditating.

[Anonymous No.2055553]

>>2055548
tip: start meditating. takes 10 minutes a day.

[Anonymous No.2055554]

>>2055546

>having a S/O

I guess that's why I pander so much to my friends...

[Anonymous No.2055559]

>>2055548
Isometric tunes

[Anonymous No.2055561]

>>2055548
>>2055559
https://youtu.be/VbOgj5-rjQQ

[Anonymous No.2055565]

>>2055554
I've been with him since I was 13 and I slowly started to realize that the people I was friends with were not good people. I know it's common for kids in highschool to smoke weed and to drink, and I did before I met him, but hardly at all. I just slowly stopped being friends with those people and haven't made an effort to be friends with others. I am studying college online and also work in an area where I might have one person talk to me once a week, like "where is the bathroom," so I don't really even have acquaintances. I'm okay with that, though. Even if I said I wasn't originally. Being married is awesome.

[Anonymous No.2055569]

>>2055565
start a blog

[Anonymous No.2055571]

>>2055048
This is me when a female talks to me on the train, it's funny.

but I don't sit somewhere else because I don't care what other people think.

Also you could've got a bj

[Anonymous No.2055572]

>>2055526
languagening.

[Anonymous No.2055578]

Color kills me and I lost the little rendering skills I had...


I can't wait for my next break through because I am majorly sucking at everything.

[Anonymous No.2055590]

>colourblind

[Anonymous No.2055602]

>>2055048

>us

nigga you autistic as fuck. don't put me in the same group with you.

[Anonymous No.2055606]

>>2055111
>>2055360
>>2055374
>>2055456
>>2055500
>>2055524
>>2055571
>>2055602

Did you faggots seriously miss the first part? She clearly said she was in her period and was free bleeding while drawing then this cunt comes along and sits next to her.

[Anonymous No.2055607]

>>2055606
A free period is a time period that a student is not enrolled in a class. During the free period, students are literally free and could do whatever they want that complies to the campus rules and the law.

[Anonymous No.2055734]

I thought this thread would be about actual struggles, not autists freaking out over people taking an interest in what they do.

[Anonymous No.2055740]

>>2055734
I felt the same when i posted it

[Anonymous No.2055773]

>>2055606
>THIS FUCKING COMMENT

[Anonymous No.2055809]

>>2055773
You must be new here.

[Anonymous No.2055811]

>>2055048
>girl tries to compliment you on your work
>you go full sperg
Dont lump any of us in with you faggot

[Anonymous No.2055820]

>>2055519
Wow that sucks. The football part I mean. That shit catches up with you hard later in life and you're going to end up a drooling retard who will, needless to say, never make it.

[Anonymous No.2055863]

>>2055811
He was smart in not letting that succubus take advantage of him she saw something she can exploit and he didn't let her.

[Anonymous No.2055869]

>>2054862
Wow don't be such a fucking ashole
What's wrong with you?
That's how people give compliments.
No ones going to care if you're good at drawing if you're still a shitty person. Work on your humility.

[Anonymous No.2055874]

>>2055565
>I know it's common for kids in highschool to smoke weed and to drink

If your parents are cocksucking crackheads, yea.

[Anonymous No.2055878]

>>2055820
I already feel it in my joints and im loosing memory every day

[Anonymous No.2055879]

[Anonymous No.2055881]

>>2055874
Well at my school it was. Almost every kid did. That town was and is known for pot though. Reallybadly....

[Anonymous No.2055894]

I haven't genuinely found drawing fun since 2010. With each passing year the more pressure I put on myself and the more my expectations rise. I still enjoy artistic" creation" greatly but now its just 100% mental wank. I lie in bed at night or daydream while driving about artistic compositions I will create and how the lighting will work, etc etc... and as soon as its time to actually draw I realize Ive already had my fun and there's no enjoyment to be had in wasting hours only to reduce my lovely, living, breathing mental concept into a shitty drawing on a peice of paper, that reflects nothing but my own life failure. The path of least resistance. Its ends here my friends, my own mental matrix.

[Anonymous No.2055899]

>>2055894
:c

[Anonymous No.2055916]

>>2055894
I feel the exact same way.
Except I dont make money from mine. I never finish, its a metaphore for my entire dilema

[Anonymous No.2055920]

>>2055916
>>2055894
:ccccc
Is there something that makes you happy?

[Anonymous No.2055927]

>>2055920
Not too much. I suffered a depressive stage in high school and have sort of had it lingering inside me ever since. Also persistent general anxiety. When I was a kid I drew voraciously, then it petered out as I took art classes. For a period of time I got into anime and got a second motivational burst for a year or 2- art was still fun to me as it was still a pastime, something I did while procrastinating on my homework at 3 AM. Of course my drawings sucked, and of course they are on dA but thats entirely besides the point.

These days I surf the web and half-assedly try to paint my cars. Play games and watch TV shows. But mostly I work full-time on my Designated Career Path. Sometimes I feel like my life as a free person is over, but thats simply ridiculous, as the problem is pretty much entirely psychological. I just cant even pick up a pencil anymore.

[Anonymous No.2055943]

>>2055874
Wow you must have had no friends in high school

[Anonymous No.2055945]

I feel guilty if I play video games or do anything fun instead of drawing.

[Anonymous No.2055947]

>>2055945
Good.

[Anonymous No.2055959]

>>2055440
holy shit, that is backwards for me.
100% of the work takes 100% of the time and the polishing doesn't happen because my work doesn't even look 10% finished even after i spent over an hour on it.

i just, i really hate where i am. i feel like i've learned nothing and am learning nothing concrete. is trying to teach yourself with books and videos the worst way to do this? i mean, i feel like i'm understanding things, but not able to do them. like i can't keep my level of drawing and shit up. i'd post stuff, but it'd be useless because i'd get the atypical "practice more, LOOMIS, etc etc"

i mean, HOW do you even practice?

[Anonymous No.2055970]

>>2055959
First, understand form. We tell you to read loomis because he explains this very well. Learn that what you're drawing is actually 3D. You're looking for planes that move closer and further away from the eye, not flat shapes that define the contour. Draw ellipses, or squishy balls until you understand they're spheres in space. Then you just start studying anatomy or w/e you like.

[Anonymous No.2055971]

>>2055368
What is wrong with you people

[Anonymous No.2055973]

>>2054862
I'm so fucking shit. Around the web I see all these great artists and can't help but compare my garbage to their work.

I've come a long way, but real life still intends on cockblocking me and impeding my progress. All I want to do is draw.

So yeah, same as what lots of you struggle with.

[Anonymous No.2055980]

>>2055973
>Abloo bloo bloo

Get over it, there will always be someone better than you, stop bitching and moaning about this simple fact of life.

[Anonymous No.2055982]

>>2055973
same with me, i can't help but compare and i know people tell me not to, but guess fucking what?
i want to be like them, i like their art and in some cases they watch me on some art sites. i feel pressured to put out the best work i can and I know I can't or shouldn't bother to try drawing for myself again until i get better.

[Anonymous No.2055988]

>>2055970
i understand 3D shit and that things have volume and space and shit, but i guess im having proportion issues and judging the space in something like a torso or a head. i draw it in 3D completely and then i just lose it, i have no idea what i'm doing after that and im grasping at straws as to what "looks" right.

[Anonymous No.2055995]

>make a tumblr
>make some shitty half-ass comic
>1 week later
>100 notes
>feel shitty but don't want to look like a pussy by deleting it
what do

[Anonymous No.2056013]

>>2055995
What is shitty about 100 notes? Doesn't that mean 100 people like it?

[Anonymous No.2056014]

>>2055995
idk, people i guess don't like it when other people like something they didn't try 100% on.

[Anonymous No.2056024]

>>2055980
I'm not frustrated that there are people better than me, I'm frustrated that I'm shit. Regardless, I will keep working hard to catch up.

[Anonymous No.2056025]

Right now I am in this purpetual fugue state, where I don't know left from right nor up from down. Procrastination has made it to the point to where I don't draw much anymore and I don't really know why.

Though, I have a pretty good idea of what it is. Lately I've been kind of disillusioned to art as a career, with the industry being what it is. Fine art is one big laundering scheme, digital art means becoming an expendable cog with little creative initiative.

There are the good jobs, but they are few and far between for anyone who is still climbing the ladder.

My family has always had particularly high expectations of me, as I have many artists in my family and from the day I started they have always been saying "Oh, he'll be an art genius when he grows up!". They've seen little of my art and they put on their fake smiles and pat me on the back, but if they only knew a single fucking thing about art they would see that I am fucking garbage. Maybe they do.

Everytime I try to make something it's like there is a wall preventing me from making any progress. I want to have courage, I want to be strong, but the walls keep coming. Most would say "BREAK THEM DOWN MAN!" but I don't feel like this is a learning issue so much as it is an emotional and spiritual one.

I like art, but I want it to be my thing. It used to be an outlet for me when I was younger, but now it has become the source of constant anxiety and stress. I want to feel again, I want to feel good about learning about it but I just feel dead inside. I want to make art for me and I think that's the path that I'm going to take.

[Anonymous No.2056030]

>>2056025
i'm you, i just want to do it as a hobby and draw tits and animu all day. that shouldn't be too hard, all i gotta do is learn EVERYTHING about art, aka the basics and then i'm good.

[Anonymous No.2056036]

Here's mine.

>use to just doodling demons and devils
>pretty okay at basic figure drawing with reference
>cant draw faces for shit
>practice drawing heads/hair/faces at girlfriends place
>"wow anon. You should stop. Those faces are terrible."
>I know. I'm practicing. I know my faces are shit right now.
>"they really are."

Literally no support from her or anyone other than my drawing prof.

Photo is example of shitty face from a shitty drawing i gave up on entirely.

[Anonymous No.2056037]

>>2056036
not sure how i could help, im in worse shape than you. all ive been told is draw from life, great advice!

[Anonymous No.2056046]

>>2056036

It's not that much of a problem man, just experiment more. Plan more instead of just letting the pen take control and just seeing where it goes. Pick up a few books, shouldn't be long.

It's after you know all of the basics is when the real struggle starts, and it only gets worse from there.

[Anonymous No.2056064]

>>2055920
Drawing fur used to, but now its just eh.
Also cumming makes me happy for about 2 seconds, and then I realize that it was me all along, and Ik back to being sad

[Anonymous No.2056065]

>>2055943
Helicopter parents nigga.
Oh god.

At least you become a ninja at adulthood

[Anonymous No.2056068]

>>2055988
Half of your learning experiance is testing out stuff

[Anonymous No.2056069]

>>2056025
Talking on skype with art buddies helped me out of depression and sloth. Maybe you can summon your own

[Anonymous No.2056070]

>>2056036
You need to cut out some people in your life. Sweet things happen after you do that

[Anonymous No.2056116]

>fan asks you to draw something in their sketchbook.
>haven't drawn on paper in over 8 yrs.

[Anonymous No.2056136]

I know I have to draw at least 6 or 7 hours a day to git gud, but I have trouble drawing any more than 2 or 3.

[Anonymous No.2056139]

I imagined learning art would be a much more interesting and fun process, but now that it comes down to it, it's really hard and painful. A lot of frustration and feels like I have no idea what I'm doing.

Sometimes I wish I had a teacher looming over my shoulder telling me what works and what doesn't.

[Anonymous No.2056149]

>mentally ill artist who cannot draw for a long amount of time over it being a stationary activity
>needs to keep studying because over not drawing skill has deteriorated
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2056155]

>20
>Don't know how to draw
>Need to show creativity and some competence to get on an Art course for Fashion Design & Textiles by September
>Started 8 days ago
>Doing those round face things in Loomis currently
Is there a point in doing this Loomis face thing? When you do figures in fashion they don't even draw faces, hands, or feet 99% of the time.

[Anonymous No.2056163]

>want to draw good
>don't like to draw
>confused and sad till death

[Anonymous No.2056166]

>>2056155

5 months to learn how to draw? You're fucked m8. Considering it's for a fashion course my advice to you would be to take some fashion design templates and try to draw your own clothes on top. I'm not saying don't study the fundamentals but think about the best way to allocate your time. Diving head first into Loomis might not be the wisest idea, if you are lucky you'll end up 5 months later with barely passable drawing skills and nothing relevant to show them. Spend like 80% of your time designing shit and maybe 20% on Loomis. I don't want to discourage you but 5 months is a drop in the ocean in terms of artistic development.
Good luck.

[Anonymous No.2056190]

>>2056166
fuuuuuuuuuuark. I want to fling myself off of a bridge.
Thanks anyway, breh.

[Anonymous No.2056194]

>>2054862
I'll be 26 in August and really wish I had restarted drawing sooner. I'm also too shy to join a drawfag group. )^:

[Anonymous No.2056196]

>>2056194
You mean deviant art group or skype group?

[Anonymous No.2056204]

>>2056196
Either one.

[Anonymous No.2056208]

>>2056204
Just do it, what's the worst that could happen?

[Anonymous No.2056209]

>>2056208
Unwanted attention. It's inevitable and annoying. Then I get blamed. No thanks.

[Anonymous No.2056212]

>>2056209
That's have nothing to do with shyness. At least not in the sense I felt you wrote it.

[Anonymous No.2056214]

>>2056212
If you say so.

[Anonymous No.2056216]

>>2056068
Huh, this was actually pretty educating

[Anonymous No.2056258]

>>2056216
Im liking the cute, fat, chibi feet

[Anonymous No.2056302]

>>2056216

[Anonymous No.2056303]

>>2056258
His designs are cute as fuck.
Cute enough to fuck

[Anonymous No.2056606]

>>2056025
I'm going through something similar, recently I have been reevaluating my passion for drawing. When I first started the first 2 years where glorious freedom and expression, I was blind and having the best time of my life drawing anything and everything i wanted. Then after the second year I found /ic/. It's been a rough journey since.

I've always had the mindset that I'll just get better if I just keep drawing, not aware of the damage that that can cause.

The 3rd year was a bunch of up and down moments where i felt unstoppable and could take any challenge, and moments where I actually contemplated suicide. However that year I learned a lot, the fundamentals, skills, the breaking of symbolism, just about everything /ic/ preaches I was caught up on. Now here I am on my 4th year and I don't even enjoy drawing. I've just lost my one hobby that I had, the one thing that I thought drew me apart from the average joe. Last night I sat in my bed for 5 hours just thinking about what went wrong, not a day goes by that I don't think about drawing. What happened? Where did my interest in drawing go? I wanted a hobby with a long journey with no end in sight but I feel like my mental self is just quitting. This shouldn't be happening.

Did it just take me 4 years to realize that I didn't like drawing or something? How do I get interested in drawing again? I think I've lost my understanding for what made this hobby fun.

[Anonymous No.2056616]

>>2056303
These are garbage. OK, they're alright, but those retard tiny heads.

[Anonymous No.2056618]

>>2056616
lol

[Anonymous No.2056623]

>>2056070
lets see those hands

[Anonymous No.2056625]

>>2056163
fuck off then

[Anonymous No.2056674]

>>2056606

I don't know man.

Just feels like I don't do it for the love of it, but because I'm expected to do it. I used to love learning about different methods and approaches to creating and improving my craft.

Ha, I remember comparing it to being a wizard, studying all day and night to create new potions and spells... but now it just feels so routine and the fact that I'm not having fun with my work is really obvious.

It's been awhile since I've created anything, but you know... maybe this whole art thing is more of a journey than a destination.

Sometimes you get tired and forget why you keep running, and times like these are important for reminding yourself what you're doing it for.

I think I'll take it at a slow pace for now.

We'll get through this together man. xD

[Anonymous No.2056708]

>>2056163
Well I want to be the best basketball player in the world but I fucking hate basket ball oh no im so depressed

Do things because you like it.

[Anonymous No.2056758]

>draw something
>starts looking good since I'm a scrub
>can't bring myself to finish it because I'll likely fuck it up
>afraid I won't get good if I keep drawing

hold me

[Anonymous No.2056766]

>>2056758

I feel the exact same way, but I'm out of scrubmode for some time now. That feeling never stops anon, start building up that immune system.

[Anonymous No.2056932]

>>2056758
>>2056766
Group hug guys

[Anonymous No.2056952]

>>2056758

Even if you become a super famous artist the history books will only print one of your pieces. Maybe two or three if you're Michelangelo or Picasso or something. You basically have free range to fuck up all the other ones any way you want.

[Anonymous No.2056977]

>>2056758
>draw something
>starts looking good since I'm a scrub
>can't bring myself to finish it because I'll likely fuck it up
>finish it
>go to bed
>wake up with a smile
>look at the piece
>nightmare goggles never came off

[Anonymous No.2057323]

>>2055995
>Make tumblr
>Post Sketches for a month
>Not a single note
>delete posts one by one
>only then delete account

[Anonymous No.2057327]

>>2057323
Did you attention whore on 4chan drawthreads?

No?

There's your problem.

The golden rule is usually follow, then get followed

[Anonymous No.2057342]

>>2057327

When I was playing videogames all day the clan I was in had a forum, where we shared our experiences, wrote guides and generally tried to help eachother to get better at whatever we were playing at the moment. We did this because we were interested in what we were doing and in talking about it, and we did it because we were a community. All artforums I have ever been active on were full of people who only posted in eachothers threads to be noticed. I have no interest in pretending to be interested in people to get them to pretend that they're interested in me, I want a context where people have an honest interest in eachother. Is that really so unreasonable?

[Anonymous No.2057343]

>>2057342
It's just a way to get yourself your on feet.

More followers = more people notice your shit

Simple as that

[Anonymous No.2057365]

>>2056674
Man I remember back in the day I would just draw all these dinosaurs, dragons, demons, etc. but now I fell like I can't draw anything stylized without feeling guilty about not studying...

Maybe one day you and I will find a new beginning for this journey :D

[Anonymous No.2057841]

my thumb two days ago, just started to feel not constantly throbbing and i picked at a sketch for a minute. nope.

[Anonymous No.2057846]

>>2057841
I get faint and feel sick to my stomach at the sight of blood go away. I'm having a panic attack right now goddammit.

[Anonymous No.2057871]

>>2057846
Hey, anon, guess what? I'm menstruating RIGHT NOW. :^)

[Anonymous No.2057872]

>>2057846
>hemophobic
Weak.