what are the social cliques of /ic/?

[Anonymous No.2751258]

[Anonymous No.2751260]

>>2751258
art posters
shit posters (you)

[Anonymous No.2751265]

>>2751258
Not gonna make it as a good luck sign.

[Anonymous No.2751266]

There's the sob-why-is-/ic/-so-mean-and-elitist side.

And then there's the side with actual taste.

[Anonymous No.2751271]

>>2751258
people who can't draw
people who can draw but doesn't come here

[Anonymous No.2751305]

Animefags
Paintfags
Digitalfags
And the lowly beginner hoard

[Anonymous No.2751310]

>>2751266
Pretty sure the former don't exist and are just d/ic/ks fucking around.

[Anonymous No.2751329]

>>2751258

>People who stopped awhile back, just looking to shoot the shit without any strings attached
>People who genuinely mean well and post critique and legitimately want to share what they know to help others

[Anonymous No.2751346]

0. Anime people

1. People who want to learn how to make art

2. People who give advice

3. People who give good advice.

4. Those art history fuckers, you know who you are.

Learn to know the difference..

[Anonymous No.2751564]

01 concept art ("not art")
02 anime (mostly digital, includes the bulk of alt-style)
03 lewd (usually anime, sometimes furry)
04 furry (infamous)
05 pixels (don't know why they bother)
06 graffiti (usually makes own threads. large pictures. often non-native invasive pest to the board)
07 black art
08 early-mid 20th century-inspired illustration
09 fantasy-inspired illustration (Frazetta)
10 modern art history (smug college students/graduates, can't draw)
11 alla prima (Sargent, cliques with bargue clique sometimes)
12 bargue (often cliques with Russian school followers)
13 art theory (rare)
14 baroque (Bernini, Caravaggio. cliques with bargue and Repin fans)
15 fan art (usually on tumblr; on the follower count grind)
16 acrylic (often new)
17 comic
18 van gogh-inspired (mostly histrionics)
19 high school surrealism (large image size posts)
20 abstract (often makes their own threads, paints mostly in acrylic, sometimes high school class doodles)
21 omni-traditional (wields various tools)

[Anonymous No.2751567]

>>2751564
>Black art

Go to fucking bed Illastrat

[Anonymous No.2751731]

>>2751564
hey i'd fall into the modern art history group and i can draw pretty dadgum well. can barely paint at all though

[Anonymous No.2751740]

>>2751564
>pixels (don't know why they bother)
They do seem to be under the delusion that their medium doesn't require fundies or skill, it's weird.

[Anonymous No.2751743]

>>2751564
01, 08, 09, and 11 are basically one group. Also as a fan of Russian schools/artists I don't clique with filthy Bargue hacks.

[Anonymous No.2751761]

>>2751258
>Big 3:
Contemporary digital illustration:
Sorta mushy amorphous blob of a non-clique that forms the bulk of /ic/ and easily interchanges with other cliques. The normies of /ic/, NGMI central.

Hardcore traditional illustration:
Like most religions, has dozens of different sections and bisections and whatever. Delusional.

Beginners:
Usually just passing through. I've yet to hear anyone who didn't have a solid base before coming to /ic/ surviving /ic/.

>Specific cliques:
/pol/ redpillers and memesters not included, who aren't even /beg/ and should fuck off.

>pixel art
>graffiti art
Just keep to themselves. Absolutely terrible at art. Will always be terrible at art.

>abstract art
Not really a clique, just sorta make themselves known whenever an abstract art hate thread comes up. Yes, very few people on /ic/ like that shit, that was readily apparent fucking years ago.

"You just don't get it" - their motto.

>art history students
A more insufferable version of the above.

>anime autists
Bleed into other threads for whatever reason because anime is literally all they care about. Weirdos but whatever. Usually /beg/ or near /beg/.

>furries
Don't dare venture outside of the porn threads. Porn beginners may as well be their own clique. See abstract for how well they're liked.

>fundie grinders
Pages and pages of grinding out hands, faces, bargue plates whatever. Dead inside and lack any sort of goal of driving force beyond self-hatred. Like a leveled /beg/ loser.

>The Various Schools of Traditional
Like Europe or Asia, you can barely tell them apart and they all vehemently hate each other for no apparent reason.

>Contemporary Traditional
Comic artists, traditional focused asian artists, Frazetta fanboys and the like go here. Destined to a life of mediocrity.

>Concept artist hopefuls
See above, but more pathetic.

>You
Dissecting this post for a place to identify and win the name-game. You can't, just git gud or die trying, don't bother with /ic/ politics.

[Anonymous No.2751770]

>>2751743
20th century illustration cliques, the fantasy variants, and alla prima heads often come to learn of the artists from the same circle of influential people, and these people are often concept artists, oddly enough. It's why we see so much digital studies of Sargent. They can branch out though, and there's plenty of alla prima people who don't know anything about the concept art world.

[Anonymous No.2751815]

>Drawthread
Activate your d/ic/k but get ready to take it up the ass.

>Alternative art/ stylization general /AASG/
The only thing longer then that name is the number of post that don't contain work.

>Beginner /beg/
Inner monologue is something like "today I ascend" when they post their work.

>Porn thread
I'd fap to that.

>Last Artist Standing /LAS/
What the fuck is going on here? You join only to find out they don't even know.

>Progress thread
The greatest people you'll ever meet (or so their images would have you believe)

>cringe thread
The worst

>reference thread
You need a guy being shot out a flaming canon, with a mix of sadness and fear on their face, and a whale off in the distance ready to swallow them in profile view. Let me just check... yup 2 folders of exactly that.

>art book thread
They AREN'T hoarders! Yes, they ARE going to read through all those books.

There's also
>animation thread
>age insecurity thread

[Anonymous No.2751839]

>>2751815
LAS is the club without any supervisor where all its members pretend they are doing something but really they just laze around and go home early.

[Anonymous No.2751842]

>>2751815
>Beginner /beg/
>Inner monologue is something like "today I ascend" when they post their work.

Nailed it. One of these days they'll tell me I'm good enough to leave.

[Anonymous No.2751853]

>>2751815
>>art book thread
>They AREN'T hoarders! Yes, they ARE going to read through all those books.

I do save all I I find there knowing very well I am not going to read all. But when I do have time I do actually read what interest me. I don't bother with sorting what I save and what not because space is not a problem, but good internet connection is. Also torrents sites come and go, and ppl stop seeding after a while, so what is easy to find now might not be in the future.

I do organize my shit, each folder opens in another 20, so finding or knowing where to find something is easy for me.

[Anonymous No.2751879]

>>2751265
You keep on telling yourself that. But you are literally not going to make it.

[Anonymous No.2751886]

>>2751815
>>reference thread
Where 100% of the references are about the human body, something you could just as well reference from the mirror.

Literally no mechanical references, no animals, no scenery, architecture, weaponry, armor, no nothing. One of the more useless circlejerks on the board.

[Anonymous No.2751979]

>>2751886
I've saved tons of great refs from those threads. Interesting humans, clothes, architecture, landscapes, you name it.

[Anonymous No.2752016]

>>2751258
A bunch of idiots mainly

[Anonymous No.2752068]

>>2752016
how do you even find a thread on this board if you filter them all?

[Anonymous No.2752070]

>>2752068
He found this one, so the answer is obvious; the filters don't work.

[Anonymous No.2752072]

>>2752016
>you can't filter """"""" """"""" and t. posts

[Anonymous No.2752119]

>>2752016
You should stay on your hugbox.

[Anonymous No.2752134]

>>2752016
Why the fuck are you even here? Do just just stare at an empty catalogue waiting for a new thread to hide?

[Anonymous No.2752238]

>>2751761
>>The Various Schools of Traditional
>Like Europe or Asia, you can barely tell them apart and they all vehemently hate each other for no apparent reason.
Different kind of people. Different kind of qualities. It's always been the case throughout history, and I'd disagree that you can hardly tell them apart. They also use different tools these from the others these days, or vastly different methods with the same.

Most digitals are aiming for the same few goals, almost all of which have large followings with influential figure heads.

[Anonymous No.2752245]

>>2751266
>the side with actual taste

Hahahahaha is this actually how you see yourself?

>I'm that guy who "critiques" art on a Burmese paper-mache forum and doesn't actually know how to draw

Kill yourself please.

[Anonymous No.2752249]

>>2751258
I broke it down for you:

-Actual artists who are decent and trying to improve and also give meaningful critiques (10%)
-Actual artists who think they're way better than they are but still at least actually post art (10%)
-people who actually give meaningful feedback, whether they can draw or not (10%)
-Fedora posters who talk shit and don't know how to draw (70%)

>inb4 "stop whining"

you know I'm right.

[Anonymous No.2755322]

>>2751258
People who bump useless thread?

[Anonymous No.2755469]

>>2755322
Those are the worst.

[Anonymous No.2755512]

>>2752016
>Can't share youtube tutorials
>Can't talk about animation
>Can't fucking talk about critique (what the hell dude)

Serious question, what are tour main threads in here?

[Anonymous No.2755516]

>>2755512
>your
sry

[Anonymous No.2755517]

Tower girls thread

>monster tiddy afficionados

[Anonymous No.2755526]

>>2755517
To be fair, monster titties are a pretty compelling argument

[Anonymous No.2755532]

>>2755512

Draw and reference threads, the former is supposed to be used for critique. I have little interest in anything else, and am tired of seeing spread-eagle anime tgirls for the eightieth time

[Anonymous No.2755534]

>>2755532
k then

[Anonymous No.2755637]

>>2751842
hahaha this

[Anonymous No.2756014]

>>2752245
And here is the sob-why-is-/ic/-so-mean-and-elitist side.

Whats the matter champ, someone didn't like your Naruto drawings?

[Anonymous No.2756084]

>>2751258
I want to be the very best

[Anonymous No.2756085]

>>2756084
wrong thread >>2756007

[Anonymous No.2757278]

a) Gonna make it

2) Not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.2757353]

>>2751761
>I've yet to hear anyone who didn't have a solid base before coming to /ic/ surviving /ic/.
I know a few people, including myself.

[Anonymous No.2757371]

>>2751346
I'm addicted to cough syrup!

[Anonymous No.2757379]

>>2751258
>people who post
>people who lurk, then post
>people who lurk

believe it or not, there's probably at least 3 brad rigney tier artists here who we don't even know exist, reading every artbook, doing all the work, etc.