Progression

[Anonymous No.3142296]

Post your progress of drawing/painting

[Anonymous No.3142302]

>>3142296
come on OP why do you do this to yourself

[Anonymous No.3142306]

I just wanted to see others' drawings :(

[Anonymous No.3142307]

keep on drawing op!

[Anonymous No.3142312]

>>3142296
at least you had fun

[Anonymous No.3142313]

>>3142296
I like making these, but I wish my improvements were more noticeable.

The progress I've made has been in the ease of execution, and speed with which I produce paintings, not necessarily the quality of what I've produced. Idk how to change that and make the jump to more impressive work, but I just assume that will happen when I build up to longer projects that may take a week or a month, and all that practice on speed and execution will pay off for larger, more intensive paintings.

Or maybe I'm just not getting any better.

[Anonymous No.3142315]

Ooooh, very nice, I wish I could paint stuff.

[Anonymous No.3142316]

>>3142313
I just wish I was like the other people posted as examples of "GODLIKE PROGRESS" where a year passes and suddenly they're amazing. I'm such a slower progression. It could take years of incremental progress for me to finally reach a professional level, which I imagine will make me bitter. That I'm not an overnight success story, I will have spent years and years making very small steps forward. That's what I get for not being born with "talent"

[Anonymous No.3142318]

>>3142316
Do you engage in deliberate practice? How much do you practice? Do you study your core fundamentals like perspective and anatomy? do you do finished work? Do you actively step out of your comfort zone? Talent may exist but you can still make a lot of progress by making sure you're training correctly.

[Anonymous No.3142324]

>>3142318
it's probably not the same exercises that most anons engage with. I don't study perspective through construction, I study it freehand, because I hope to be able to accomplish good perspective simply through looking at what I'm drawing. I finish every painting I start, but I still have the prickish Picasso contemporary art tendencies of finishing a painting in a day or two, and moving onto the next one.

The aspects of my art that step out of my comfort zone are that I purposely do what /ic/ advises against, like foregoing construction for purely freehanded work, and not abiding by "no rules just tools". I don't use photographs, and I purposely try to learn through careful observation of individual lines, values, and colors. What that ends up meaning though is that I only have enough energy for that kind of work for about 3 hours a day, or 6 if I work in the morning and then work again at night.

That's my biggest fear, is that I might be getting faster and more accurate with my drawings and paintings, but the time it takes to execute precise work becomes less and less. Where before I could paint at a relatively middling level all day, now I'm lucky if I can do my best work for 2 hours straight. I quickly become tired simply from intense observation of what I'm looking at.

I've tried a lot of different things to alleviate this. Grisaille, perspective frames, taking more breaks, but I just can't work for much longer than a few hours without feeling completely drained, unlike when I was 18 and could paint and draw all day.

[Anonymous No.3142329]

>>3142324
My art skills have much surpassed my patience. I'm still not patient enough to just suck it up and work 3 hours a day, for a month, on one painting. I see artists with much bigger followings than me, since I have no following, who produce work at a much more rapid pace than I do, and I feel enormous pressure to continually pump out paintings and not spend too much time on one thing. I've done paintings that took 5 days that ended up going completely unnoticed, just as much as the paintings I've done that took 3 hours. It's a fucking horrible feeling. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing to make a career out of this. Nobody seems to give a shit about my art

[Anonymous No.3142330]

here are some foxes i drew over the years

[Anonymous No.3142336]

>>3142330
I really love the last one. Cute foxes!

[Anonymous No.3142343]

>>3142329
post work

[Anonymous No.3142344]

>>3142330
damn, the most recent one is really impressive, do you have a site?

[Anonymous No.3142359]

i started drawing yeaterday after a three year break.

[Anonymous No.3142381]

>>3142313
Brian, you are getting better, it is noticeable. I can clue you in on why you are taking so long to get truly GUD, that's the good news, the bad news is that you might ignore the answer like you tend to do.

The thing that always pissed me off about you is that you have the potential and the work ethic to be a monster, you are prolific as fuck, but, instead of focusing your time to actively improve, you prefer to fall into your old habits and comfort zone and to give excuses for them.

I made this compilation of your drawings years ago to illustrate this same point to you: When you try to draw something and you can't, you usually turn the drawing into a retarded doodle, and every time we called you for these ugly habits, you gave "muh style" justifications and excuses, the most absurd of them being that you couldn't draw naked males because you were so disgusted by the male form that the experience of drawing them was almost traumatic or something.

>The short version of what I want to say is: people who improve "overnight" work a lot, and they focus their efforts on practicing what they want to be able to do, you on the other hand, you also work a lot, but you draw what you already know hoping you learn something new almost by accident.
It's not talent, it's studying smart. They see their mistakes as mistakes, you see your mistakes as style.

Again, you are clearly getting better little by little, you eventually got those figures right by drawing a fuck ton of stone abominations... but imagine how much faster it would have been if you made the effort to get them right from the start.

[Anonymous No.3142382]

>>3142324
>The aspects of my art that step out of my comfort zone are that I purposely do what /ic/ advises against

By the way, that is not stepping out of your comfort zone, it's literally the opposite. Being a stubborn cunt and doing what you feel like at the moment is what you do.
And, well, you really showed us, didn't you? Who would have guessed doing the opposite of the proved methods for improvement would give you no improvement?

Also, what ever happened to the Catt paintings?

[Anonymous No.3142383]

>>3142330
Love your stuff, Anon. I had this one as my phone wallpaper for a long time. I guess it's time to put it back

[Anonymous No.3142932]

>>3142381
Not to armchair psychoanalyst myself anymore cause I seem to be doing that more and more lately... but I think I drew like that because it was the only way I could get myself to draw. I think maybe I just don't like drawing that much, and it's making me miserable because I simply don't like doing it.

[Anonymous No.3142942]

>>3142316
>other people posted as examples of "GODLIKE PROGRESS" where a year passes and suddenly they're amazing.
Can I see these examples?

[Anonymous No.3142962]

>>3142329
I don't think you need to be constantly cranking out paintings like some kind of art machine, but I think maybe you're spending too much time on your paintings, at least if you're not attempting to paint a masterpiece. Even my most challenging painting to date, although far from perfect, only took me around 3 hours.
A lot of the finished pieces that artists who do speed paints on youtube tend to only spend 2 to 6 hours in real time.

Don't put too much pressure on yourself, but practice more, and you'll get faster and more efficient with your drawing over time.

[Anonymous No.3142966]

>>3142316
I'd say you have talent!
But do it for Pleasure, not for Show!

[Anonymous No.3143067]

This is my progression, I floundered for a couple years doing it mainly for enjoyment but now I wanna take it seriously and take a bunch of courses and push my hours into 10+ a day.

[Anonymous No.3143070]

>>3143067
What are your influences and what's your motivation for coming back?

[Anonymous No.3143078]

>>3143070
Regrettably when I started I didn't really have any influences, I thought I could be a better artist just trying to become my own influence and looking at the world around me as I thought it would be cheating if I tried to emulate other people, this was a mistake which cost me dearly early (thank you to /ic/ for setting me straight). I started building up people who inspire me and I do studies of their works and try to understand their processes, if anything I haven't been doing it enough but these are the people that I really want to get to personally, I've tried finding out their methods of learning and who tutored/inspired them to get where they are now.

>Jamie Jones
>Anthony Jones (taking his course when it next opens as I didn't have the money this September)
>John Park (his mechs are delicious)
>Phil Hale
>John Berkey (I've avoided mechanical and vehicle design for ages but his work makes me wanna do >it badly)


It's not really that I'm coming back, by "took a large gap" I meant it just with learning creature design, it's something I suck pretty bad at and I know it's one of my weak spots so now I'm coming back and working on getting it to a better level by studying and combining.


I say my motivation never really changed, I wanted to draw so I could improve something I love doing and to make my grandma proud. She was the one who got me into drawing and she never personally "made it" even though it was her dream to always become a successful illustrator, I'm now working to achieve that dream in her place and of course she's getting pretty old so I need to get gud fast by grinding hard. Either way it's something I love and I am mainly doing it for myself but also for her.

>pic-related, it's a picture of my grandma when she was young, I keep in my art folder to remind me to work hard

[Anonymous No.3143083]

Redrew from a year ago

[Anonymous No.3144056]

This is about 4 years apart

>>3143083
Great improvement!

[Anonymous No.3144060]

>>3142296

[Anonymous No.3144064]

>>3144060
How does xkdc make 11 grand on patreon drawing this shit

[Anonymous No.3144067]

>>3144064
my post was a joke. I love xkcd very much. His selling point isn't that he draws well. However he is very effective illustrator.

[Anonymous No.3144079]

>>3144064
Art quality /= income
you can draw good but be a fucking stupid pandering shitass like thdark and make 1$ on patreon or you can draw like shit but have super high iq and create thoughtful comics like xkcd or whomp and make mad dosh.

[Anonymous No.3144100]

Made most progress in the recent year tho.

[Anonymous No.3144137]

>>3143078
cool dude, keep it up

[Anonymous No.3144166]

Meh

[Anonymous No.3144199]

>>3144100
Very nice!

[Anonymous No.3144201]

>>3144100
How do I get as good as you?

[Anonymous No.3144202]

>>3144100
>7 years

[Anonymous No.3144203]

>>3144202
Post your progress

[Anonymous No.3144206]

>>3144203

[Anonymous No.3144207]

>>3144079
>thdark
Looks like he's made it anyways.

[Anonymous No.3144211]

>>3144166
Wikihow - How to make love in Second Life.

[Anonymous No.3144214]

>>3144206
blog?

[Anonymous No.3144225]

>>3144206
is that beyonce?

[Anonymous No.3144244]

>>3144201
I'm still too insecure about anatomy, need to practice..
In my case I am happy that I joined twitter and followed shitton of artists here. It's hard to find any decent art on tumblr and I don't visit DA anymore.

>>3144202
gmon it's not like I worked hard on drawing during most of this time

[Anonymous No.3144262]

>>3144211
Wat

[Anonymous No.3144273]

Okay I know this seems autistic but I don't know where to put this

This is before and after I finished Drawing on the right side of the brain but they were made a month apart from each other because I was too busy to focus on learning how to draw
and the work I put between them was only 14 drawings

am I on the right track? (I know I'm going slow as fuck but I just cleared my schedule to have time for drawing)

[Anonymous No.3144275]

>>3144273
sorry here's the pic

[Anonymous No.3144279]

left to right = oldest to newest

from 2016 to 2017

acrylic to oil painting

[Anonymous No.3144285]

>>3144275
Definitely an improvement

[Anonymous No.3144336]

>>3144207
not really. he's hinting suicide in his recent tweets. I can see he really wants to make mad dosh from his works but since he doesnt draw porn well...

[Anonymous No.3144349]

[Anonymous No.3144351]

>>3144079
What the hell did thdark ever do to you, you obese crybaby; I know you're the same guy that keeps bringing him up out of the blue for no reason.

NGMI /ic/ bullies should be gassed tbqph

>>3144336
No he hasn't nigga lmao

[Anonymous No.3144509]

[Anonymous No.3144510]

>>3144509
How do I get as good as you?

[Anonymous No.3144511]

>>3144351
thdark whatever you do pls dont kill yourself. remember kronprinz make 15 grand per month drawing sfw you can reach that level too if you try.

[Anonymous No.3144512]

>>3144509
Sorry senpai. I don't see a difference.

[Anonymous No.3144570]

>>3144511
I'm not him (and I know you know that you smart ass), but if he does have any problems it's that he doesn't pander ENOUGH.

He might be doing freelance work on the side too there's really no way to know. If someone pays you to make art, at least if it's implied to be for a commercial purpose, you can't post it on your public accounts so that's kind of a double-edged sword, there. You're making money from a client but might be, at least temporarily, stifling your opportunity to build your own brand.

Also I just noticed, he has two semi-recent pieces of fanart he did on twitter and he didn't tag them AT ALL. If you're lurking Darky you really have to make sure you include a "#<insert famous intellectual property name here>" whenever you draw something like that (at least that's how I think twitter works lmoa)

[Anonymous No.3144662]

it's that time again

[Anonymous No.3144664]

>>3142330
nice color theory.

[Anonymous No.3144667]

>>3144662
>the eyes, hair, and hands actually look good now

[Anonymous No.3144668]

>>3144570
wow you sure know a lot about him, thdark. if you want me to give you a dollar on patreon just say it. but on your knees first.

[Anonymous No.3144670]

>>3144166
fucking stop...

These are horrible.

[Anonymous No.3144671]

>>3144662
How did you do it?
>inb4 just draw

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3144677]

My drawing progress to the left and painting progress on the right

[Anonymous No.3144680]

>>3144677
These are pretty mega shit. I know you think the last one is good but it looks like some study traced chinese crap.

[Anonymous No.3144684]

>>3144671
How did I do what? Draw that? Because I did just draw

>>3144677
>I have one good painting and I will never stop finding excuses to post it everywhere
a man after my own heart

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3144688]

>>3144684
>>3144680
lmao It's my favorite painting I've made so far in 2017, only created 2 finished paintings since then anyways

[Anonymous No.3144694]

>>3144677

I've seen this. You don't have anything new on 2017?

[Anonymous No.3144697]

>>3144662

You only draw this one character? What's your end goal? manga? Hobby?

[Anonymous No.3144698]

>>3143083

I just see different style but the same level of drawing.

[Anonymous No.3144699]

>>3144677
>tfw eyes are better now and realize Nile isn't actually as good as I thought he was
No, this can't be. You were supposed to be the one.

[Anonymous No.3144703]

how the fuck did I devolve on the nose

[Anonymous No.3144705]

>>3144703
Too much tumblr.

[Anonymous No.3144706]

>>3144705
lol don't actually even use it

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3144708]

>>3144694
If we're talking finished pieces I only have these 2, and I don't really like either of them
>>3144699
Happy to see your critical eye is improving anon, hope I can pick up the pace and not disappoint any further

[Anonymous No.3144711]

>>3144703
im convinced this is bait but i cant tell

[Anonymous No.3144712]

>>3144697
>you only draw this one character
no, I draw shit again to gauge progress
>end goal?
the goal is progress and progress never ends

>>3144703
you were drawing symbols in 2015 and now you're only just learning to portray forms with construction in 2017 so everything looks worse but you're improving on a technical level
you gigantic tumblr faggot

[Anonymous No.3144714]

>>3144712
Thanks I guess? But why does everyone keep assuming I'm from tumblr? I fucking hate that place. Is my style just that faggot looking?

[Anonymous No.3144715]

>>3144279
not bad

How often do you paint from life? You may want to incorporate plein airs into your routine

[Anonymous No.3144716]

>>3144712
>you gigantic tumblr faggot
Holy shit, I had to run to the bathroom because I actually nearly pissed myself laughing. WHY.

[Anonymous No.3144722]

>>3144714
>blushing man with puppy-dog eyes, eyeshadow, fake lashes and a gauge
>what??? he looks like a fag???

[Anonymous No.3144728]

This has been my improvement. As soon as I learned the fundamentals my improvement soared quickly. Now I am learning about lighting a scene its quite difficult but it takes one step at a time. We will all get there eventually! It only takes time!

[Anonymous No.3144735]

>>3144728
So this is what those legendary talented one year improvements look like

[Anonymous No.3144742]

>>3144728
fuck u man, fuck u

[Anonymous No.3144751]

>>3144735
No, it's obvious from the first two images that that anon understands proportions and how to draw to some extent. Likely got a year or two before even this image.

[Anonymous No.3144755]

>>3144728

Noice!

[Anonymous No.3144768]

>>3144751
yea Jan 2016 is probably around 50-100 hrs

by the end of 2016 roughly 1300-1500 hrs(I drew atleast 3hrs a day in 2016)

By sept 2017 probably around 3000-3500 hrs already(I drew atleast 5-6hrs in 2017)

Its just hrs really the more hrs you put in the bigger the gains you get.

[Anonymous No.3144778]

>>3144668
You're not even making sense anymore, just kys urself you fat schizophrenic twat

>>3144677
Good progress Nile

>>3144703
Pretty much what that other guy said, right down to 'gigantic tumblr faggot'. Keep up the good work

>>3144728
Impressive

[Anonymous No.3144781]

>>3144768
What kinds of things did you study and how did you do them?

[Anonymous No.3144795]

Couldn't cherry pick the ones from this year since this is all of the traditional painting I've done so far.

[Anonymous No.3144800]

>>3144166
No improvement. Stop symbol drawing and start with b&w before you do color.

[Anonymous No.3144801]

>>3144781
Before I start, your mindset must be the first thing you should take care of.You cannot do multiple hrs a day with all the distractions around. So the drawing part is not where it really begins. I meditate 15 mins every morning, I also go to the gym 3x a week. I think they are more important than drawing because you cannot draw if you're not in the right mindset to start with.

I studied the fundamentals : anatomy, form proportion, gesture, values, all the beginner stuff. It is not fun really and I failed alot specially in the beginning. I usually tackle one subject at a time. I study anatomy 30 mins and put what I learned in the next hr, I study perspective for 30 mins and practice it in the next hr. slowly but surely improvement takes in. do more of the practice than watching or reading tutorials thats the key. Meditation and working out helps tremendously because it keeps you away from the negativity and makes you keep going forward. It also helps to listen to people like Tony Robbins for motivation.

[Anonymous No.3144814]

First freebie I ever did on Gaia VS last freebie for the CGL drawthread. Honestly feeling so stagnant in terms of quality right now, need to start getting into the habit of doing studies again

[Anonymous No.3144819]

I'm currently recovering from a 2 months break. Please don't remind me that I got worse, I know...

[Anonymous No.3144841]

>>3144819
dude do you wanna be friends

[Anonymous No.3144846]

>>3144841
Of course I want an artist friend!!

[Anonymous No.3144847]

>>3144841
Of course I want an artist friend!! Why do you wanna be my friend?

[Anonymous No.3144850]

>>3144846
>>3144847
I don't know what happend there

[Anonymous No.3144851]

>>3144847
Cuz ur pretty good email me [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.3144919]

>>3144056
Anon, sorry to say this, but you haven't improved much... You ditched the flat coloring for pencil rendering, but it's clear you still don't understand how the planes of the face work, you are still just flat painting, but with grey instead of colors.

>>3144275
Looking better for sure, but can you draw the same face from different angles?

>>3144677
Great progress, you're gonna make it for sure. Awful work on that photobashing though.

[Anonymous No.3144965]

>>3144056
That hair is so damn good.

[Anonymous No.3144972]

>>3144667
I'm not the only one seeing broken fingers/neck, right?

[Anonymous No.3145012]

>>3142313
>iwasneverbad.jpg

god you are such an insufferable egotistic cunt
you are so much worse that you think you are

>I was always good
no you idiot, you simply havent improved or changed anything. You were always bad

[Anonymous No.3145146]

>>3144670
They're also a 3 month difference, faggot.

[Anonymous No.3145323]

https://gs95.tumblr.com

I started learning since July of this year. My progress so far is on my blog.

[Anonymous No.3145428]

I've never made a full drawing , I just randomly sketch and have such few things to choose from its embaressing

If I applied myself I could be much better, but life gets in the way what can I say.......... 2016 arguably looked better, aesthetically

[Anonymous No.3145451]

>>3144819
love your stuff man

[Anonymous No.3145488]

>>3145428
Stop "just doodling" or I will come over there and smack you in the back of the head, I swear to god you little shit I'm getting annoyed with you because you're not improving as much as you could and it pisses me off to no end.

>If I applied myself I could be much better


NO FUCKING SHIT, see it's this bullshit which annoys me. You know you can do better yet you slack off and jack off, do some goddamn grinding or else I will bully you everytime I see you on /ic/ if you're not improving in some manner in which case I will personally go out of my way to give you praise. I gave you some advice in the last draw thread so goddamn follow it you son of a bitch.

>>3143302

I'm here everyday from 9am to 3am drawing and posting on /ic/ so you won't escape, you've stirred up my autism today anon and now I'm not gonna be able to get rid of it till I see some gains.

Get to fucking work right now, no fucking excuses. I'm sure you have a pencil and a notepad, so fucking bring it with you and start drawing shitty sketches till their good. You better fill up at least a couple pages and I expect them to be posted in the beginner thread because I'll be there waiting you little doof.

[Anonymous No.3145492]

>>3145428
>>3145488
I'm actually furious right now.

[Anonymous No.3145535]

>>3145492
>>3145488
so this is the power of /ic...

[Anonymous No.3145555]

feels like slow progress when you look back at it. I would greatly appreciate feedback anc critz on what I could improve.

[Anonymous No.3145558]

only pencil from life.

[Anonymous No.3145578]

r8 my progress

[Anonymous No.3145579]

>>3145578
you improve at the rate of someone who draws once a week.

[Anonymous No.3145580]

>>3145578
Progress is very slow the values are still all over the place do real life drawings man

[Anonymous No.3145583]

>>3145579
>>3145580

thanks I was looking for a good reason to never draw again

[Anonymous No.3145591]

>>3144715
i havent yet, i mean to though. those early ones are from photographs but its not the same thing. ill give it a shot

[Anonymous No.3145607]

>>3145583
See you next thread

[Anonymous No.3145612]

>>3145607
Jokes on you, I just threw all my art supplies in the trash and spent the rest of my money on video games

[Anonymous No.3145624]

>>3145555
nice quads
It's all pretty boring, albeit well drawn. What desires occupy those those worlds? What challenges? What sacrifices do they have to make?

Imo you might enjoy drawing vehicles. Really technical and crisp.

[Anonymous No.3145630]

[Anonymous No.3145642]

>>3145624
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah it's not the most exciting paintings I'm showcasing. I actually like narrative driven and suggestive pieces more, like pelengs work. I have some of those too. These where mostly to clarify any progress or stagnation on the technical side. Also I'm practising vehicles a bit too.

[Anonymous No.3145949]

>>3145492
thanks


that red circled area is just random strokes btw, not meant to mean anything

[Anonymous No.3146433]

>>3144202
>cant read

[Anonymous No.3146506]

Day after day i feel like i am losing the urge to draw, the passion and motivation i felt in the beginning is almost gone, i made it a habit to draw everyday i could but it is not as enjoyable as before, how do you guys cope with this and recover that sensation of enjoyment? I draw as a hobby, not to make it

Maybe i should update this pic...

[Anonymous No.3146511]

>>3146506
that was almost two months ago. do you have more recent drawings to share?

[Anonymous No.3146513]

>>3146506
I finally caught up to you and realized that copying form reference apparently isn't all that great since it's merely only the beginning.

But that's not what you wanted to know. I just forced myself to do it because it gives me enjoyment to see the finished drawing or even a drawing that's going towards completion.

[Anonymous No.3146524]

>>3146511
Since i spent those first two months making studies of portraits because i like them the most, nowadays i do studies outside of my comfort zone so it is still shit obviously

Pic related was a side project for fun plus a practice with colors

>>3146513
Are you maybe that one anon that i explained my process to?

[Anonymous No.3146526]

>>3142330
all shit

[Anonymous No.3146528]

>>3144056
4 years? and all you did is learn that colored pencils exist? fuck you/

[Anonymous No.3146529]

>>3144703
6 years. same face shape/ same boring ass generic manga concept/ fuck you. fuck your mom. fuck your siblings, fuck your dad fuck everything you live for. stop drawing. i hope you die and only your family shows up to your funeral.

[Anonymous No.3146533]

>>3146506
DREW LINES IN SHAPE OF HUMAN SO GOOD. KILLYOURSELF

[Anonymous No.3146535]

>>3146524
Yeah, you told me how many hours you spent too. It took me significantly less though since I'm apparently better than you at observational drawing.

[Anonymous No.3146542]

>>3146535
YOUR TRAASH

[Anonymous No.3146543]

>>3146535
That is nice, care to share some work? Also how are you going to proceed now? I just slacked this past few months so i am trying to get back to drawing with a purpose, although i draw almost everyday i can i feel that i have lost motivation due to some IRL stuff but i am working on it

[Anonymous No.3146572]

i didn't progress much through 7 years, i was pretty dunning kruger when i was younger. at the very least i don't waste so much paper nowadays.

[Anonymous No.3146592]

>>3146543
Yeah sure. Looking at it again, it's not that great, probably same or even of lower quality than yours, but it's alright, I'll get better. I'm just going to keep doing some more references and also start working through Vilppu.

[Anonymous No.3146637]

>>3143083
Definitely see the improvement. Why u took the shines out tho :(

[Anonymous No.3146651]

>>3144795
Snives/Agemo you're one of the best Artists on /ic/

[Bully No.3147024]

>>3145949
Then why we're you doing it, huh, HUH?

I don't want to ever see you put a pencil or pen to anything unless what you'RE putting down is to push you further, drawing shit will only make you shit. Don't let it happen again, you doodle in a phonebook not here and not to represent yourself nor your progress.

Get back to work right now and draw my 30 heads by the end of the day, post them in the beginner thread or else I'll never leave you alone.

[Anonymous No.3147055]

>progressing

[Anonymous No.3147123]

>>3142313

I like your 2013 one the most.

[Anonymous No.3147238]

>>3144509
Once I reach this point, I'd stop. All I want to do is drawing mini comics like on tumblr

[Anonymous No.3147240]

>>3144509
>can draw anime well
>can't draw realistic anatomy well
The ideal phase of an artist

[Anonymous No.3147400]

[Anonymous No.3147408]

>>3147400
How did you get so good in a year? Also got a blog?

[Anonymous No.3147459]

>>3147408
Im shit still, i struggle with everything, but just study your favorite artists if you wanna to get better, and the most important thing: study theirs workflow! Go to china digital painting on youtube and watch carefully every painting for example. If you start to try to think as the artist even a 2h hour video is interisting to watch.

[Anonymous No.3147551]

>>3147408
>good
yeah sure, nigger can only draw faces

[Anonymous No.3147744]

[Anonymous No.3147749]

>>3147744
I see you still didn't get to coloring.

[Anonymous No.3147758]

>>3147744
I see that you have autism

[Anonymous No.3147797]

>>3147551
nobody need to know that

[Anonymous No.3147873]

>>3143083
Face looks good. Everything below it looks like shit, study necks and shoulders

[Anonymous No.3148420]

>>3144199
This a bit better?

[Anonymous No.3148726]

>>3146506
Don't give up man, you've improved quite a bit.
Also better than 99% of ic already

[Anonymous No.3148754]

H-hello

[Anonymous No.3148768]

>>3148726
>Also better than 99% of ic already
Get real.

[Anonymous No.3148774]

>>3146506
The beginning is rough if you're serious about it. The fun picks up again once you start working on your own images and you only study to supplement your work. You hate probably everything you do right now but that's normal and it will become easier to draw things and enjoy the process later on.
Nontheless, take a day or two off every now and then. Your brain is like a muscle and needs rest from time to time to process what you've learned.

[Anonymous No.3148904]

>>3146506
Yeah, it's called the honeymoon stage. This is the stage where you'll experience the most improvement and enjoyment from making art. Most people drop after this stage because after this you'll start running into art blocks, self doubts, lack of motivation and all sorts of problems. If you do want to get good, it's important that you continue drawing.

[Anonymous No.3148950]

>>3146506
you improved that much in a month ? this is absolutely fake

if it was a year I would probably believe you.

[Anonymous No.3148988]

>>3148754
Everything improved except the face which regressed.

[Anonymous No.3149059]

>>3147240
I'm trying my best to get away from animu and reach for goals like pic related.
but I just changed my tastes recently this year.

[Anonymous No.3149063]

>>3145578
that 2017 July pug is really cute
if you can do you have the full pic

[Anonymous No.3149088]

>>3144965
It isn't. Stop.

[Anonymous No.3149122]

[Anonymous No.3149146]

Please rate my progress, if there is even one.

[Anonymous No.3149155]

>>3149146
Good progress. Don't shy away from doing the faces on your full bodies, you're making me believe you can't at all so try a bit

[Anonymous No.3149168]

>>3149155
Yeah, I hated the feeling of dread that drawing faces gave me. That's why I'm drawing mainly faces now.
I plan to learn how to draw the human body one part at a time, then just combine it to make full body drawings.

Between that I try to force myself, from time to time, to practice other things like perspective.

[Anonymous No.3149176]

>>3149168
That's sort of how I'm learning too, by taking on one thing at a time of the whole, but I consistently do the whole quite often too between every milestone. And not just in the end when you think you know everything. It gives good overview to do both the small and the big view and never fokus on only one of the two

Well atleast for me maybe others such as you learn better in other ways who can know us except ourself

[Anonymous No.3149189]

>>3149176
Oh no, I also do the whole body, but not that often and usually it's just 2 or 3 drawings. Then I return back to grinding specific body parts.

There are times when I'm sick of grinding but I can't break my daily routine, so I just draw some animu girls form pivix. I see lots of people here forcing others to ONLY grind, every day. Taking a break and drawing something you truly like from time to time is a really important thing. You don't want to burn out too early.

[Anonymous No.3149288]

I'm not going to subject myself to making a comparison to show I've made no progress

[Anonymous No.3149327]

>>3149288
and that is why you will never improve, congratulations

[Anonymous No.3149413]

>>3145558
Pretty pretty rocks

[Anonymous No.3149419]

>>3144100
good good

[Anonymous No.3149425]

>>3142296
Top pic: 2016
Bottom pic: 2012
>former warriors trash here

[Anonymous No.3149437]

did the one on the right just a few min ago too

[Anonymous No.3149444]

[NoseBro No.3149450]

>>3144698
which means you suck at drawing

[Anonymous No.3149477]

>>3149450
Not as much as you suck dick.

[Anonymous No.3149482]

>>3149425
Bottom pic is better in composition and character/expression.
The top cat barely looks ethereal other than its eyes, which are its best features. Also its tail is much less menacing because its further from the neck and is less curled. It looks like the tail could have just incidentally swung over instead of being a deliberate choice.

[Anonymous No.3149529]

>>3144060
I prefer Minutephysics/earth's style of drawing stickfigures, has a lot more heart to it.

[Anonymous No.3149534]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTHCwU9rUdY

/This thread

[Anonymous No.3149925]

>>3149482
I see what you mean. It probably would have been better if I gave the ghost cat a menacing expression at the very least.

[Anonymous No.3149935]

>>3145630
blog ?

[Anonymous No.3149938]

>>3145630
Second coming of KJG?

[nya No.3149953]

idk i kinda stopped drawing and painting for a while late 2016 til mid 2017 bc i got dumped so i didnt make any progress at that time

[Anonymous No.3150015]

>>3144677
bananaman is the most appealing on the left side for me.

[Anonymous No.3150020]

>>3149935
ilovebedsart.tumblr.com

[Anonymous No.3150022]

>>3149425
for the future, put the newer one to the right or the bottom. This is a western site so we read from left to right and top to bottom

[Anonymous No.3150520]

>>3145630
love it

[Anonymous No.3150535]

Still a long way to go, but I do draw everyday since last year. (Both done in photoshop)

[Anonymous No.3150539]

>>3150535
>tfw been working for a year too but don't have the same kind of progress
Does this mean you suck at drawing?

[Anonymous No.3150552]

>>3149063
They're both French bulldogs so I'll just post both

[Anonymous No.3150554]

>>3150539
>Does this mean you suck at drawing?
Not necessarily . Maybe you don't do studies. I do four shitty thumbnail pencil sketches every day no matter what. But I also do studies at least once a week, and by study I mean finding a cool picture and spending a couple of days painting it. I think the latter is what helped me improved faster.

[Anonymous No.3150556]

>>3150552

[Anonymous No.3150558]

>>3150554
A couple of days? Do you only paint an hour a day? Also do you spend that time on one painting or do you repeat paint one image?

[Anonymous No.3150561]

>>3150535
>>3150554
Also here is the brushes I use. If anyone is interested. I like them a lot because they give a painterly look.

https://gumroad.com/l/pACug

[Anonymous No.3150575]

>>3150558
No around 6 to 8 hours a day the longest I did for a study was 3 days, but usually I fninsh in 2. I dont like spending too mauch time on one study.

I don't understand your second question. I don't do a study of the same thing. I find a different image for the next study

[Anonymous No.3150582]

>>3150575
Do you have a blog?

[Anonymous No.3150598]

>>3150582
Yes. Although I do a lot of pixel art, only recently I started to upload my digital painting stuff.

https://kldpxl.tumblr.com/

[Anonymous No.3150599]

>>3150598
Do you mentor?

[Anonymous No.3150608]

>>3150599
lol I do need a mentor myself. I suck at a lot of things, and I don't know how to draw people. I'm thinking about registering for the schoolism thing, but I'm not sure yet

[Anonymous No.3150703]

>>3150535
>>3150561
Thanks Anon, I love you AND your work
Is this painting from reference?

[Anonymous No.3150708]

Whoops

[Anonymous No.3150714]

>>3150708
So what chemicals make you improve quickest? Why don't people abuse it then?

[Anonymous No.3150718]

>>3150714
the chemical that makes you git gud

[Anonymous No.3150719]

>>3150703
Yes

[Anonymous No.3150732]

>>3145558
maan, I love your stuff, great progress

what pencils did you use for the last two? drawing clouds is so fucking hard

[Anonymous No.3150760]

>>3145558
Hey, I remember you posting that first image to /beg/ and asking for critique. Crazy to think it's been a year already. Awesome improvement, what did you do over the past few months?

[Anonymous No.3150764]

>>3148950
It's not that unbelievable because the ones on the left are all from imagination and the one on the right is copied (and probably took forever). There are parts in the copied picture where their lack of knowledge shows, like the ear and front of the hair. Still, everyone learns by copying so there's nothing wrong with it.

>>3150535
lol the weird dick thing on the left

great work

[Anonymous No.3150792]

updated

[Anonymous No.3150794]

those are ~6 months apart (left one is the older one) did i improve at crocs?

[Anonymous No.3150799]

>>3150794
good shit man, could use a little more shading around the eye to make it stand out more

[Anonymous No.3150879]

>>3150792
Jesus

[Anonymous No.3151259]

Couldn't even draw a cube in january.
Now trying to brute force perspective, it's hard...

[Anonymous No.3151262]

>>3151259
>think left is before and right is after
>wonder why anon got worse
>see dates
I fucking hate you people

[Anonymous No.3151340]

>>3145555
Bump

[Anonymous No.3151426]

>>3151262
Putting the new drawing on the left and the old drawing on the right is the standard way to do these improvement pics. Pretty much every pic does it. If you put the old one on the left and the new one on the right, then you are being needlessly different and will confuse people.

[Anonymous No.3151441]

>>3151426
not the dude, but it does seem counter-intuitive

[Anonymous No.3151445]

>>3150732
thanks, that means a lot!
I used a mechanical pencil 1.3 and one "weisskreide 276" which I guess is a chalk pencil.
I love clouds and it gets much easier to draw them with white pencil on toned paper.

>>3150760
Yep, I posted that in /beg/! really cool that you remember. I have been drawing more or less regularly since then. I just started painting, which has been my goal all along. It's very hard tho. And I am constantly doubting myself. fear of failure keeps me from trying and improving. it's ridiculous. Thanks again for remembering my drawing, I owe a lot to /ic/.

[Anonymous No.3151448]

>>3151259
Work on your lines at the same time.
Don't scribble. Try hatching instead. You might not be great at it initially, but it will soon become ingrained in your muscle memory.

[Anonymous No.3151452]

>>3151426
What?!

It should read from:
Old -> New

English is read from left to right. Western comics read from left to right.

[Anonymous No.3151458]

>>3151452
English is read left to right, so you should put the first picture you want people to see on the left. Normally the "after" picture is better, so of course that one goes on the left, so that people get the best first impression.

You see where they are now, and if you are interested in how they have improved you move to the left and see the before picture. If someone loses interest after one picture, then they are left with the lasting impression of your current skill level. If the before picture was on the left, then people are left with the impression of where you were x number of years ago.

[Anonymous No.3151461]

>>3151458
Or, order them chronologically with the earlier picture first.

[Anonymous No.3151464]

>>3151458

its before and after not after and before.

[Anonymous No.3151471]

>>3151426
>>3151458
The hunt is on, this place is ripe with (you)s!

[Anonymous No.3151516]

>>3144677
W-what do you mean? Drawing ability is not necessary or even associated with good painting ability then? Fuck.

[Anonymous No.3151526]

>>3145492

But what if he's trying to make it look weird/alien/cartoony?

Some of the scribble lines are unacceptable though.

[Anonymous No.3151540]

>>3150879
?

[Anonymous No.3151611]

>>3144728
Blog please? I love u

[Anonymous No.3151653]

>>3144728
Wow, impressive.
And even your older ideias seem to have a certain appeal to it. Nice.

[Anonymous No.3151695]

>>3150792
blog?

[Anonymous No.3151710]

>>3151458

Except that seeing the crappy drawings first makes the current ones look much better.

[Anonymous No.3151727]

>>3144225
p sure thats nikki

[Anonymous No.3151770]

finally taking an art class in 2018. learning to draw from real life instead of images or my imagination. i know it looks worse but i feel like im learning, and it's still fun.

[Anonymous No.3151778]

>>3142296
No previous ref sadly
Since I quit art for around 3 years and am just getting back in

[Anonymous No.3151787]

>>3151770
damn how'd you get your art from the future

[Anonymous No.3151806]

>>3151787
by being drunk

[Anonymous No.3151810]

>>3150792
Do you have any progress before 2015?

[Anonymous No.3151824]

>>3149437
study hats maybe

[Anonymous No.3151882]

>>3149146
the best piece of advice that my high school art teacher gave me like 5-6 years ago was to stop shading and rubbing the graphite. You will learn so much more about values and tones but stopping that.

[Anonymous No.3151889]

>>3151778
Dear god read art books bro you draw terrible

[Anonymous No.3151920]

>>3151810
well i do have this thing i made in 2015 which has some of my drawings from previous years on it-- actually coloring things became a goal of mine in 2015 so that's when i first started trying to paint (previous picture is a psd i update every so often to track my painting progress)

[Anonymous No.3151932]

>>3151920
Having a progress chart with everything included is much better. Just make the first chart you posted long as fuck to include everything.

If you have any more from 2007 or earlier it would be nice. Showing how you go from bad to adequate in a year would be great motivation for beginning artists.

[Anonymous No.3151934]

>>3151920
Wow, this is the first time I'm seeing your actual progress for drawing. You've been at this for a much longer time than I've been believing. I'm so glad to know. It's truly inspiring to see ten years of progress.

[Anonymous No.3151936]

sorry for my shit collage skills

[Anonymous No.3151937]

>>3151936
Adorable girls and style. You made a really big leap since 2016.

[Anonymous No.3151939]

>>3151936
This >>3151937
How the heck? It's like something magically connected and everything just works.

[Anonymous No.3151947]

>>3151920
blog?

[Anonymous No.3151954]

>>3151920
Do you have any before even 2007? Looks like you've been working with digital for a while and were already somewhat good. Quite jealous to be honest since I'm not even that level yet. I wonder if you only drew anime girls too or if you did value studies and such. I've got such a long way to go before I can match up to the god.

[Anonymous No.3151960]

>>3151920
What happened in 2012-2014?

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3151966]

>>3151516
You can be really good at painting but still don't really know how to draw, but all your stuff will end up looking really weird. That's imo the biggest thing I'm struggling with personally, I can kinda paint or at the very least render something to look decent but my underlying drawing ability is close to beginner tier. I'd say focus on getting good at the thing you value the most, in my case painting and rendering, but still learn how to draw proper, something I'm trying to do now.
Here's Ruan Jia going through his sketchbook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX_cIzpiluY
>>3150015
Agreed, one of my favorite drawings

[Anonymous No.3151967]

>>3151966
>tfw the thumbnail
Fell in love with Ruan Jia's rendering right there. I've been trying my best to achieve the same softness of rendering ever since, but it's impossible for me still. I don't have the eye to see subtle enough values or something.

[Anonymous No.3151970]

>>3151937
thanks!
>>3151939
i don't care about clean crisp lines anymore which has helped me focus on other aspects, but i still have a long way to go

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3151972]

>>3151967
It's gonna take you a whole lot of years to get to his level lol but keep at it for sure

[Anonymous No.3151975]

>>3151932
Sure. I'll try to find those pictures and add 'em. They're kind of spread out across many hdds though from years of file hoarding so might take a while to dig them out.

>>3151934
Yeah I've been drawing for a while but I think sometimes people get that confused with when I started painting so they think I started everything from scratch in 2015.

>>3151947
http://godsh0t.tumblr.com

>>3151954
2007 was the start for digital for me-- that picture was of konata from lucky star for a thread on /a/ I believe (and I definitely would not call it good). If you're having trouble with digital, don't worry about it. It's not really that intuitive to use a tablet at first so don't be discouraged if you find it difficult.

I pretty much only draw anime girls. Yeah I dunno, I'm not a professional and it's not my career so I just kind of always drew whatever I wanted. Just so happened that they were anime girls. That's not to say I didn't do studies though-- the studies just happened to be incorporated into pictures of anime girls.

>>3151960
Was getting my undergrad physics degree at the time and had a gf so that sucked up a ton of time. Between academics, social life and extracurriculars I just stopped drawing altogether. Then we broke up and I graduated, was out with a job for a bit and realized I had tons of time to myself. Got inspired by some friends who were artists as well and decided I'd try my hand at it again.

[Anonymous No.3152020]

>>3150799
thanks dude,
is it better than the one on the left tho?

heres progress on ravens, left to right, prob ~8 months from first to last

[Anonymous No.3152121]

>>3145555
Work on your gesture more it sucks. Your rendering is mediocre at best. You need to pusg your drawing and rendering out of your comfort zone.

[Anonymous No.3152244]

>>3150794
I like the older one more, but thats because the frontal view looks more interesting

[Anonymous No.3152254]

>>3151966
if you want to go more into the bananaman style for drawing, you should do some studys of yoh yoshinari.
Especially the mouth reminds me of his sketches

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3152291]

>>3152254
Funny you mention Yoh he's tied first place with Ruan Jia for my favorite artist and I study his stuff regularly and especially back in 2015 I used to study him a lot.
I'm kinda split though on what style I want to pursue, seeing as there's a very low chance of me ever being hired as an illustrator despite it being what I enjoy doing most, I feel like aiming for a more stylized type of deal will get me further/anywhere at all.
Idk, we'll see what happens.

[Anonymous No.3152301]

>>3151975
ey, what happend to doyora?

[Anonymous No.3152326]

>>3142313
do something POST cubist or impressionist. 2016 was a nice start but expand the axises a little, dig? *snaps fingers like a beatnik*

[Anonymous No.3152329]

>>3144349
go outside and draw a tree or an animal the breakfast princess will never jerk off to you kinda hard r DnD art with art like this!

[Anonymous No.3152355]

>>3144677

Damn man that guy's sheild is thick as fuck, that must weigh 50lbs

[Anonymous No.3152508]

Been working on this one for a handful of hours now. Definitely a work in progress, but I'm enjoying all the mark making thus far.

[Anonymous No.3152509]

>>3152508

Damn, the colors a bit off.. uploaded in CMYK. Here is RGB.

[Anonymous No.3152807]

>>3152301
He's still around. He even does some requests in random draw threads from time to time.

[Anonymous No.3152821]

>>3144703
DYED?

[Anonymous No.3152824]

>>3144703
Hm, you should stop drawing from imagination for a while until this issue is fixed. That's what I do every time I de-evolve.

[Anonymous No.3152825]

>>3144819
get a tumblr, holy shit this is god tier stuff

[Anonymous No.3154684]

So I just looked through my April 2014 folder, when I started taking art seriously and took my least embarrassing shit from then. I know I still got a long long way to go but I am honestly happy about this.

[Anonymous No.3154689]

>>3154684

awesome progress! Can you share, what you did, to become so good?

[Anonymous No.3154690]

>>3154684
Good job. Your hard work shows.

[Anonymous No.3154721]

>>3154684
neat

[Anonymous No.3154724]

>>3154690
Thanks!

>>3154689
I started here on /ic/, learned about loomis, scott robertson and all the other fundie stuff. I went through most of it but only the basics. Met a bunch of great people on a google hangout who were practicing and trying to learn as well as a few people who were really good and willing to help. After a year of practicing with them I attended an atelier for a year ( best decision of my life! ), I had to take a year off but did a lot of self-study and now I'm attending my second year.
What in my opinion helped the most was doing both super long and quick studies. For example 2 week long figure studies and casts that take about a month at the atelier with great teachers and my own quick studies, sketches and portraits which I did on my own.
Also doing finished paintings from imagination. I always have paintings by master painters I like open in a pureref file. Those paintings have been my goal and "this is what your painting should look like". As well as references to fix the problems in my paintings. I would not finish a painting untill I was satisfied with the quality of it. With every new painting the quality bar went up and I learned a lot more.

It really helps to meet a few nice artists who want to improve as much as you do. Studying and helping each other is waaaay easier than doing everything on your own! You can also ask professional artists of who you like the work to look at your portfolio and give you a critique, if they are not super famous you can often get a reply back. Most artists are super nice.

Also!! I know a lot of people on /ic/ disagree with me on this, but learn to simplify and draw accurately! This is why ateliers have bargue plates. The charles bargue drawing course is available for free online as pdf. If you are able to draw accurately it gets way easier to see problems in your art and it gets easier to fix them and learn more.

I hope this helps a little. I've attached some 2015 and 2016 stuff.

[Anonymous No.3154754]

>>3154724
where can I meet art friends that want to improve?, im all alone and cant find anyone to get critique or whatever except ic

[Anonymous No.3154763]

>>3154724

Thanks my man, I really like your stuff. Wish i had an atelier in my are.

[Anonymous No.3154853]

>>3154754

there's a subreddit called artbuddy. You can try there.

[Anonymous No.3155064]

>>3151966
>I'd say focus on getting good at the thing you value the most
T-Thanks, senpai.

[Anonymous No.3155070]

>>3154684
Damn, that's nice yo.

[Anonymous No.3155425]

[Anonymous No.3155445]

>>3155425
What did you do to get better?

[Anonymous No.3155450]

>>3152825
Well thank you, maybe "god tier" is too much but anyway thanks.
I've got an instagram now and I used to have a tumblr, but I left it basically because no one I knew IRL had one (unlike instagram) and because I don't really like to post online, so I have enought with one social media
https://www.instagram.com/jordi_milian/

[Anonymous No.3155467]

Still hidden hands.

[Anonymous No.3155575]

Sargent painting looking in disapproval.jpg

[Anonymous No.3155579]

>>3155575
You're. Very horny kid

[Anonymous No.3155783]

>>3144100
Nice m8. Blog? You should draw more than Mongolian Etch A Sketch girls though. Branch out.

[Anonymous No.3155932]

>>3142296

[Anonymous No.3155991]

>>3155932
nice progress

[Anonymous No.3156005]

>>3155932
I like how in 2017 everything just connects

[Anonymous No.3156014]

>>3155932
Yo, can I comission for some art from you

[Anonymous No.3156016]

>>3155575
Literally the only good shit in this was the 2017 2nd pic from the left. 2014 2nd pic from right

Thats it, inbetween weird ass furry shit and sameface anime stuff ALL WITH BROKEN PROPORTIONS AND BAD POSES I think I see talent but my nigga work on your fundamentals.

[Anonymous No.3156021]

>>3150794
What materials used? Good progress.

[Anonymous No.3156063]

>>3144677
You should have been good by now but you still suck. Why do namefags always have the worst progress

[Anonymous No.3156073]

>5 years
Around 2015 I thought I was gonna make a career out of my art so I started trying hard.
Then in 2016 I gave up and got into computer science. So, now I pursue art casually. The blue artwork from 2015 was a 20 dollar commission I spent like 4 hours on. Hah never again. Tho I'm looking for more commission opportunities atm. Gotta have a reason to try harder again.
I feel like that one artist that has become a meme for never really improving. Kek.

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3156088]

>>3156063
In your opinion where should I have been by now?
I've come to realize over the few years that I've been drawing that progress isn't something static like "in 2 years you should be here and in 6 years here" but it's totally dependent on the intelligence, natural aptitude and passion of the individual in question.
I have passion and a little bit of natural aptitude since I have very good visual memory, but I'm very stupid, probably below average in terms of IQ. So my progress will not be the same as someone who draws the same amount as me but fill all the 3 categories that I listed above, or someone who's just smart and "talented" lol

[Anonymous No.3156100]

>>3156088
Natural aptitude and intelligence are kind of the same thing. Someone who has high intelligence in general would have "natural aptitude" for art as in he will be able to understand concepts easily. Hell, it's very easy to mistake someone who is naturally intelligent with aptitude. As for passion, yeah anyone can gain it. How many hours do you practice a day?

[Anonymous No.3156103]

>>3156088
Students at feng zhu design and cinema reach pro in a year. For someone who is "self taught" I'd expect you to be able to do the same in 3 years. You basically went from /beg/ to intermediate. This is like the progress of someone who draws casually on the weekends not the progress of an aspiring professional. I hate to say this but maybe art isn't for you. You should reconsider neeting. .

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3156106]

>>3156100
Yeah you're right natural aptitude and intelligence are very similar, but I still think there's a bit of a difference. And I don't draw that much to be quite honest, only 6-8 hrs a day, should really stop getting distracted by other shit so I could focus on painting.
>>3156103
They reach a level at which they can be hired at in a year yes. But they're far from good if you look up their personal work and all of their work ends up looking like cheap Feng zhu rip-offs.
We'll see in a year or two if you're right or wrong anon, but even if I never earn a dime from art I'll still keep drawing

[Anonymous No.3156112]

>>3156106
Holy fucking shit dude. Get a job.

[Anonymous No.3156132]

January 2017

[Anonymous No.3156133]

>>3156132
August 2017

[Anonymous No.3156137]

>>3156106
Do you actually draw 6-8hours a day? Or is that just your estimate?

If you don't measure your time efficiently you won't even know how much you draw. All these people saying it takes 1/2/3/4/5/x years to Y are dumb. Measure time in actual hours or don't measure it at all.

I can draw 2h/day for 5 years and get nowhere.

[Anonymous No.3156139]

>>3156137
Where did i say i draw 6-8 hours a day, i also consider that more of a doodle than an actual drawing im still pretty amateut as you could see but i did have a lot of free time in 5 of those months January-May before entering uni.

[Nile !!xmt4xI2LMij No.3156146]

>>3156137
I set a timer for 30 minutes and then take a 5 minute break after those 30 and then just repeat that through out the day and I usually end up having spent 6-8 hrs by the end of the day. Could easily be pulling 10 or 12 hour days but like i mentioned earlier I get distracted way too easily.

[Anonymous No.3156159]

>>3156146
Pomodoro technique is only good when you're a lazyfuck. If you can put in 6-8h/day you should've stopped relying on it. Your brain will want those 5minutes and won't focus on the work as efficiently if you didn't rely on the timer. Flow will come much harder to you if you take frequent breaks.

Measure time, there's bunch of apps for doing it automatically. I still don't know how much you've put in. Based on your previous post you said you started hard in 2015. That's something like 4000-5000hours depending on how much you put in, should be really good by now.

You either didn't measure your time well, only did imagination pieces, didn't commit to deliberate practice or something else.

[Anonymous No.3156187]

>>3146637
>tho :(
Get out

[Anonymous No.3156227]

>>3156021
thanks mate! Mikrons or Rotring's Artpen, cant remember, on the soecond one some promarkers on the background (lighter one almost out, for those cool markings.. they should sell em like that also)

>>3152244
yeah, i like that view also, i think that it's back is the best part

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>>3145583
since you have a lot of breaks i think you already did

[Anonymous No.3158415]

>>3145630
so shit that can be worth millions

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>>3158271
sign*