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2699134 No.2699134 [Reply] [Original]

Can I still git gut if I start now? Or is it already too late? I'm 32 by the way.

>> No.2699146

It's never too late to learn something new, but you have to be realistic about your goals and how much time you are willing to invest.

>> No.2699153

>>2699134
>32
Way too late, 0 neuroplasticity left.

>> No.2699155

Start now.

>> No.2699156

>>2699134
25 is the cut off age. sorry bud.

>> No.2699158

>>2699134
We don't care about your threads, stop wasting space.

>> No.2699159

>>2699156
Why, what happened to you when you hit 26?

>> No.2699161

Yeah my annoying stepmom did

>> No.2699171
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2699171

>>2699159
neoplasticity mang

>> No.2699173

>>2699134
if you can spend more than 6 hours a day drawing, I'm pretty sure you can make it

>> No.2699176

>>2699134
18 year old here. I've been drawing with pencil for a year and a half. Is that bad?

>> No.2699191

>>2699153
Is this just an /ic/ shitposting meme or is there actually something to it? I don't come here very often.

I'm not OP; I've been drawing most of my life as a hobby. There are still several aspects about painting and colour I have yet to learn, but I hope I have already laid the foundation in younger years to be able to learn it now at 30.

>> No.2699195

>>2699191
fuck off OP

>> No.2699196

>>2699195
i love this board

>> No.2699205

>>2699134
Depends if you're an alcoholic. Need dem brain cells.

>> No.2699234 [DELETED] 

>>2699191
>>2699196
kill yourself

>> No.2699361

>>2699134
Fucking neroplastics

>> No.2699372
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>>2699134
i met a guy who started at his 30s he had a wife a desk job and a cat , fast learner he went to learn with proko, Ron Robinson, i hope he's still drawing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBJqiPVVyI&t=4m13s

>> No.2699385

>>2699191
It's as leggit as the ligameme anon

>> No.2699389

>>2699153
There is a book on brain health that I read that says adults can still generate new braincells and learn new skills. The only difference is you have to go out of your way to kind of force the process to happen by exercising and a diet that purposely increase the health of your brain

>> No.2699396

>>2699153
>neuroplasticity

It's funny how this meme is all the other way around.

People thought that after a certain age or after brain damage, you were fucked for life, but then they discovered the brain can create new paths to replace the older ones. That's neuroplasticity.

>>2699191

It's millenial retarded kids trying to feel better than grown adult men.

>My art is shit, b-but I'm younger than you!

>> No.2699397

>>2699205
Wonder how Brad Rigney did it.

Recovering alcoholic AND started in his 30s. He must have started with negative brain neoplasticbags.

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2699400

>>2699397
his wife supported him, sometimes we only need someone rooting for us. just one..

>> No.2700007

>>2699134
yep. get to it!

>> No.2700024

>>2699389
lmfao at new brain cells
neural cells dont replicate ever
thats why brain damage never heals

>> No.2700051

>>2700024
but depending the case people with brain damage can use neuroplasticity to recover functions,

>> No.2700150

>>2699134
no its not, only problem starting so late is you basically have no time or you have no life.

>go to work
>come home
>eat
>study drawing
>9pm
>watch some tv show
>go sleep alone forever
>wake up
>go work..

Once u get good, you will be like 35-36? Might be able quit your job and go pro, then go to some college drawing class, pick up some cuty 20y. So its possible.

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2700159

>>2699134
Yeah sure, why not.

>> No.2700819

>being 32
>asking a bunch of early 20 year olds for advice on anything

>> No.2700851

>>2699153
have u ever met a single person whos had a stroke before?

>> No.2700853

>>2699134
never too late. You're going to need to work hard op. and be legitimately dedicated to learning fundamentals.

>> No.2700855

>>2699134
>tfw dad is raping sister in another room

>> No.2700914

>>2699134
Even at 30, I quickly became a much better artist than my classically trained ex-gf that had a masters in fine arts.
You'll be just fine if you put yourself in to it.
Don't hold back.

>> No.2700919

Depends on your goals.

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>>2699134

>> No.2701300

>>2699134
It's never too late.

>> No.2701305

>>2699134
van gogh did his first painting at 27. no excuses.

>> No.2701318

>>2700819
Underrated post

>> No.2701322

For me the biggest problem is the awareness of how bad you are and comparing yourself to others.

When I was young I would just start watching a tutorial and learn. I was young so I had all the time and I did not have to compare myself to skilled people who were much older than me.

But now I feel embarassed to not be good in my age when others have achieved mastery by now and even earlier. I feel this pressure to get good fast. Every mistake I make gets me down. It's really hard to do exercises with this state of mind. I keep rushing them and losing focus.

>> No.2701327

28 and I've started lately. It's never too late, I can already feel improving with a great speed, If not for work and personal stuff, I'd do even better. Do it.

>> No.2701331

>>2699153
>>2699156
>>2699171
>The adult brain is not entirely "hard-wired" with fixed neuronal circuits. There are many instances of cortical and subcortical rewiring of neuronal circuits in response to training as well as in response to injury. There is solid evidence that neurogenesis (birth of brain cells) occurs in the adult, mammalian brain—and such changes can persist well into old age.

bs

>> No.2701334

>>2699134
is your name paul by any chance?

>> No.2701335

>>2701334
yeah, whos this?

>> No.2701371

>>2701335
I saw a tweet on my GF's drawing that was similar to OP's post ololol

It's It's a small internet

>> No.2701378

>>2701335
kys /pol/

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>>2699153

>> No.2701835

>>2700819
this

i'm 28, started at 26, still shit but being so scared of the 30 milestone is stupid

just draw and avoid women

>> No.2701886

>>2700024
but they do tho, first anon was right
>t. medical student

>> No.2701916

>>2699134
You can git gut.
You can always get good, specially at drawing, but don't kid yourself, you're going to work hard and sweat the time in blood to do it.

You can do it.
Go for it.
Go.
Now.
Leave this board and stop wasting your time.

Go fucking get good anon, you can do it.

>> No.2701918

gut git

>> No.2704946

>>2699153

What about for someone who's 23? How much neuropasisity do I have left?

>> No.2704967

>>2704946
bout 2 years left bud, better get grinding

>> No.2705103

>>2704946
cut off age is 25, after which you begin to rapidly lose Neuroplasticity, so just get 25 and minus your age

>> No.2705313

25 here - seriously started at lets sayyy 22. Just starting to feel like im 'ok' but in the grandscheme of things im still bad. If your starting at 32 then imma just let you know that your going to feel mentally challenged since literally 10k+ people way younger than you can outdraw you. Its a big hurdle to handle imo, but you can get over it with time and patience...lots and lots of patience.

>> No.2705322

Neuroplasticity my ass, one of the best painters i've met in person was 30 when he started

>> No.2705326

>>2705322
Who is it?

>> No.2705331

>neuroplasticity

you guys will believe anything you read on ic. How the hell do you explain stroke patients who relearn walking, talking etc beyond the age of 30? There is no credible research to support the claim that you stop forming neural connections beyond the age of 25.

>> No.2705336

>>2705331
>thinking people are actually taking a meme seriously and not in on the joke

>> No.2705351

>>2705336
>he thinks I'm joking

it's actually backed by proven chinese research

>> No.2705369

>>2705351
Chinks aren't human, their neurology does not apply to us.

>> No.2705371

>>2705369
>Chinks aren't human
>tfw they really do have insane gains before 25
Holy shit, how is this fair?

>> No.2705418

>>2699134
well, it depends. if you start grinding fundamentals as of right now, about 4 or 6 hours a day, you may be at least mediocre in 2 or 3 years and get progresively better with practice, theres no magic and no science other than what the masters already studied and left written in a book for your old ass. your problem is time, motivation and confidence, you are pretty mature and geting gud is time consuming you have to work so you can pay rent, you need to socialize so you don't feel miserable, you need to eat/sleep/shower so you can be healthy, balance is a bitch. also you DO have to evaluate if this is what you want, get motivated. and since you are actually asking this stuff on this board then you need to start building confidence, because that's low

>> No.2705630

>>2699400
I can root for you, anon.

>> No.2705650

Achieving mastery in any skill takes about 100.000 hours.

That's a hundred thousand hours. Not ten thousand, not a ten hundreds, but a hundred thousand.

If you work eight hours a day, five days a week, that'll take you about 33 years.

The good news is, you and I are likely to live until we're about 85, longer if we take care of ourselves -- and you're gonna get old regardless of what you do, so if you really want to get good, you might as well start today.

C'mon. The first hour is ticking.

>> No.2705652

>>2705650
>33 years
lol no, 5 years

>> No.2705653

When was the last time you learned a new skill? Learned a new name? Learned a new recipe? A new face? Anything?

Without the ability to reshape the brains matter, none of these things would be possible.

>> No.2705655

>>2705653
When I was 25 years old.

>> No.2705656

>>2705652
I knew my math was off -- how'd you get five years?

re: comparisons... there's no reason to compare oneself to others. Would you compare a man to a woman based on who has the more efficient estrous cycle? Would you compare a bathtub to a shower curtain based on which one can hold the most water? Would you compare the ocean to the raincloud based on which one is the wettest?

Would you compare you to me based on who's fastest, or most able to hit the keys on the keyboard?

You don't get to choose what you think -- the brain's more like a radio without an off-button -- but you DO get to choose which thoughts you keep and which ones you smile and wave at.

>> No.2705658

>>2699134
Either your start practicing or you don't, you're gonna get old anyway. So you might as well start now.

>> No.2705788

>be 31
>started drawing a few months ago
>surprise myself at my own skill

Unless you are unlucky enough to have early onset dementia, why coulnd't you learn how to pretty much anything?