NEETS POST WORK

[Anonymous No.3435216]

We seem to have a high percentage of NEETS on this board. I'm just curious at the level of skill you guys have. Can you share your work please? I just want to know if ample time without paid education really does equal skill.

[Anonymous No.3435224]

>>3435216
nah neets just don't have anyone to talk to so they post stupid rubbish 24/7

[Anonymous No.3435229]

>>3435216
I am a NEET but I am only six montha into learning art so I have no skill. I think I am making progress at a higher than average pace however. Being a NEET affords me not only time to practice but time to think about art as a whole. At school or work you cannot really think about art, you cannot just drop your task and stare at a persons gesture and examine the distrobution of mass and energy. You cannot think about and study art history while you are studying something else. I hope to become a non-neet by advancing my art skills to the point in which I can make a living from art. I chose to do art for my love of all things visual and because I will be able to do it from my home.

[Anonymous No.3435233]

>>3435229
>but I am only six montha into learning art so I have no skill
Nonsense just post what you have. I'm just curious this isn't a shame thread.

[Anonymous No.3435263]

I try to draw as much as I can whenever my body lets me... which is honestly not as much as I'd like. Actually I'm kinda lying since I'm spending a couple hours on videogames every other day now.

[Anonymous No.3435282]

>if ample time without paid education really does equal skill
of course not, you also need practicing and studying. there's no reason why NEETs in particular would have a different level on average than anybody else.

[Anonymous No.3435285]

>>3435282
I've seen 1 or 2 NEETs in discord from here apparently top tier. Ironically I've never seen their work posted here.


cmon you dorks dont be shy

[Anonymous No.3435293]

>>3435285
yes, and there are a few top tiers non-neets too. and most are average or bad, and most non-neets are average or bad.
this thread has no point.

[Anonymous No.3435297]

>>3435293

>t. i dont want to post work so I'll keep typing

[Anonymous No.3435302]

>>3435297
>makes retarded assumption
>acts like a total asshole
>anime pic in the OP
>ignores the guy who actually posted his work
Yep, things are going exactly as expected.

[Anonymous No.3435303]

>>3435302
>makes retarded assumption
Uh you're still doing it my dude.
>acts like a total asshole
Asking the board to share their work is being an asshole?
>anime pic on the...
look where you are
>ignores the guy who actually posted his work
For someone who says they're making assumptions you're the one doing it. I read his post and all posts ITT. That doesn't mean I have to reply to everything, most because I have nothing to say for his picture.

[Anonymous No.3435308]

drawing is one of the few things i still derive enjoyment from, aside from watching old anime and crime dramas.
been feeling pretty productive lately but usually i barely make 1 drawing/month.
think i may be bipolar, apparently it runs in the family.

i'd probably benefit from some proper schooling but i find i do fine on my own.
parents enrolled me in some courses as a kid and those taught me some valuable basics.
basics are important.

it's tough sometimes but i'll keep trying, and i hope my fellow neets will too

[Anonymous No.3435309]

>>3435308
Hey, shes cute. CUTE!!

[Anonymous No.3435312]

Uhhhhh I'm about 3 years now of not leaving the house and mostly learning various thing to keep myself busy
I feel like I improved in my general art skill just by reading works and stuff

But my coloring still isn't great and I still have trouble with perspective

I mostly like to do backgrounds since I can listen to a lecture or podcast while I do it since once you have your plan set you out you can sorta go on autopilot rather than have to check every single thing like you would in a cg or character

Here's the latest ""finished"" thing I did

[Anonymous No.3435328]

>>3435312
That looks like a sketchup crop for whatever reason. It just looks random.

[Anonymous No.3435339]

>>3435328
Can you even build tree's in sketchup?

[Anonymous No.3435344]

>>3435339

You can drop flat graphics but why would anyone do that.

[Anonymous No.3435449]

>>3435263
David is that you?

[Anonymous No.3435543]

>>3435216
buump

[Anonymous No.3435596]

>>3435449
no, sorry

[Anonymous No.3435597]

being NEET doesnt matter unless you started after you became NEET desu. even then it only means you have more time to git gud

[Anonymous No.3435618]

>>3435449
No this is David

[Anonymous No.3435679]

>>3435312
This is pretty nice dude, if this is your level I'd say you could easily get work doing backgrounds for VNs or other similar projects. Keep doing great.

[Anonymous No.3435717]

This is about 8 months of NEETing difference.
In that time my only goal has always been to draw "more manga" so my gains do not reflect the NEET artist experience as a whole. Someone aiming for realism or portrait painting probably could've gotten more spectacular looking gains in that 8 month period. All I've focused on were improving my lineart and learning values, on top of improving the basic fundies. Also, one thing this picture doesn't show, is my sketching in general has improved a boatload and I don't quite have to depend on photo references as much anymore. To put it another way, I'd have to concentrate and put a lot of effort down on paper to get the result on the left 8 months ago; but now, the drawing on the right is basically my average output, something I could do just as a warmup or a practice sketch.

There is a couple things I want to point out though. Obviously, being a NEET doesn't guarantee skill, it only guarantees time. What you do with your time is entirely up to you. Ideally, you wanna be drawing everyday, at least 4-8 hours, especially since you have no responsibilities. But you need to have good time management skills, because if before you're a NEET you're always being distracted by social media or 4chan, watching anime or movies, or having a bad sleep schedule- those things are only gonna get worse when you're a NEET.
And this is solely my opinion, but I'd say your lifestyle would benefit from having a part time job instead of being a full NEET. That way you have a reason to leave your house everyday, you make cash(bonus if you're not making money off your art already), and in general it's healthier not to be thinking and working on art 24/7. You burn out quick drawing 8-12 hours a day everyday, no matter how much you love art. But maybe that's just me.

[Anonymous No.3435733]

>>3435717

Agreed, people who are NEET usually lack a sense of responsibility, discipline and self control so they won't even value all the time they have available and waste on internet browsing and jerking off.

You could even argue that someone who is working or studying might be more productive with the time they have left to draw because they understand the value of it.

[Anonymous No.3435736]

>>3435216
>I just want to know if ample time without paid education really does equal skill.

Of course it does if you're focused on the right things and consistently working. I would say most NEETs became NEET not to pursue art but because of other problems in life. Thus, (at least in my case) problems focusing, depression, not knowing what to do, etc. would get in the way of their art progress probably more so than most non-NEETs .

[Anonymous No.3435745]

>>3435309
hey thanks dude
>>3435312
not a bad painting but the colors look a bit cold, maybe work some warmer tints in there? give it some contrast yknow

[Anonymous No.3435783]

>>3435736
you become NEET from choice not because of problems. being mentally compromised to think you must work in modern society is having a problem.

[Anonymous No.3436583]

>>3435717
You've definitely gotten better but I just want to say that the 3rd bitch is making my dick solid.

I have no other criticisms.

[Anonymous No.3436635]

>>3435216
This is a WIP that I'm realizing I'll probably never finish, because it's been a couple of months since I touched it. I've been improving a lot lately so it might be time for me to take another shot at finishing a piece

[Anonymous No.3436652]

>>3435263
Jack is that you?

[Anonymous No.3436730]

>>3435597
Is that Carol from The Office?

[Anonymous No.3436908]

>>3436635
blog? Love your style^^

[Anonymous No.3436943]

>>3436908
fuck off

[Anonymous No.3437075]

>>3436583
Thank you, she's Miyabi from Senran Kagura. Please tell /skg/ you love them.

[Anonymous No.3437216]

>>3436908
Not sure why that other guy told you to fuck off... But I don't have a blog or anything yet. I don't put out work very consistently at all (all I do is study)

I'll set something up soon though

[Anonymous No.3437637]

>>3435745
wah this is really good

[Anonymous No.3437644]

been drawing for around 9 months
I could be a lot better but I majorly lack discipline and focus

[Anonymous No.3437653]

>>3436730
David, is that you?

[Anonymous No.3437812]

>>3437653
>David, is that you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1chLj1fro

[Anonymous No.3437833]

>>3435308

What app or software did you draw this on anon?

[Anonymous No.3437996]

Started drawing again yesterday, after a friend said i should give it try again.

This is the result from this morning.
I´m content about the result, but still need a lot practise... i guess

[Anonymous No.3438010]

>>3437996
How long was your break?

[Anonymous No.3438011]

>>3438010
About half a year

+- 1 or 2 months

[Anonymous No.3438054]

Just because you're a NEET doesn't mean you'll accomplish anything. I started drawing "seriously" about a year ago and haven't gotten very better. I keep stopping and starting and am very lazy, probably why I'm a worthless NEET.

[Anonymous No.3438180]

>>3437833
i usually use sai but that particular drawing was made in paint.net

[Anonymous No.3439267]

Still in progress.

[Anonymous No.3439303]

>>3437996
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3439345]

>>3435308
Bless this anon I want only good things to come their way

[Y No.3439354]

Me still beg tier

[Anonymous No.3439405]

>>3435216
I probably made more efficient gainz back when I was in college desu

[Anonymous No.3439431]

BRRRRRRRRR IM A TURKEY BRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[Anonymous No.3439432]

>>3439431
Blog?

[Anonymous No.3439613]

>>3439354
better than me from what i see, link me to your blog bby

[Anonymous No.3439789]

>>3439303
Don´t have any

[Y No.3439822]

>>3439613
Nuh, never

[Anonymous No.3440010]

>>3439822
:(

[Anonymous No.3440014]

>>3437644
that's not that bad for just drawing for 9 months honestly

[Anonymous No.3440029]

[Anonymous No.3441523]

been neeting for awhile but was still taking online courses. Now i'm free baybay~ Been drawing everyday for like a month for at the verryyy least 2 hours, most days more than 4. Working on a comic with a pal and god i'm overwhelmed. Here's a design for this goddess chick whose kinda a side character. Revisions imminent.

(note i've been drawing since like 6th grade but only now getting more serious/structured)

[Anonymous No.3441582]

>>3435216
How can I escape NEEThood with art?
I calculate that I need a minimum of 1200USD a month to survive on my own, how can I make that with art?

[Anonymous No.3441585]

>>3441582
get popular by drawing porn and set up a patreon

[Anonymous No.3441586]

>>3435216

[Anonymous No.3441596]

>>3441582
1200 USD anywhere in the USD is not enough to survive. Your health and well being goes south you are FUCKED. Especially as you get older.

[Anonymous No.3441598]

>>3441596
>anywhere in the USA*

[Anonymous No.3441599]

>>3441596
It is enough for now.
I can get an apartment for 800 a month, utilities for 150, internet for 50 and food for 100, and leave 100 extra for other shit

[Anonymous No.3441600]

>>3435783
Just because we're nice enough not to let our retards starve to death doesn't mean you're not a retard, retard.

[Anonymous No.3441602]

>>3441596
>Your health and well being goes south you are FUCKED.
yeah well a bit too late for that

[Anonymous No.3441606]

>>3441596
I pay 500 a month on a 1 room apt and spend 200 on food and 100 on utilities

And I live in a college town

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.3441615]

>>3441606
>200 on food

Are you a fat boy or something? No single person needs to spend that much on food.

Also where do you live, Compton? Then again I wouldn't know I lived all my life in the middle class areas of Florida. The cheapest apartment rent within 25 miles goes for $800 and sure bet it's over run with roaches. Yeah it's cheaper up north but nothing is up north. No attractions no nothing.

[Anonymous No.3441623]

>>3441615
>floridafag is a weirdo
Naturally

[Anonymous No.3441625]

>>3441623

You're just jealous.

[Anonymous No.3441636]

>>3441615
I live in a gated community in Indiana

Also what's wrong with 200?

I get my spaghetti, my vegetables, my cheeses, my breads, my cereals and my milks
A bunch of snacks
Some meat and spices and sauces
And a bunch of fruit
Then maybe some burgers on the way home

[Anonymous No.3441642]

the result of 2 years neet. it's a little bit of a wake up call actually. not drawing as much as i should/can

[Anonymous No.3441645]

>>3441642
That's really good for 2 years.

[Anonymous No.3441782]

>>3435216
for someone who has been drawing realistic and other stuff. i always feel happy when i draw my waifu

[Anonymous No.3441865]

>>3441645
thanksyou, i do think that if i had sworn off videogames earlier i would have been further along

[Anonymous No.3442044]

>>3441585
Do you make money that way?

[Anonymous No.3442056]

>>3441523
Those are some wonky tits

[Anonymous No.3442131]

I don't seem to improve at all. I've been at this messy sketch level for years.

[Anonymous No.3442150]

>>3442131
I kinda like it.

I'm not sure loomis is integrating that well with your anime. If you're going for an old school shoujo style then forget what I said about loomis.

[Anonymous No.3442152]

>>3442150
Thanks! The way I draw is all over the place. Not sure what kind of style I'm aiming for. I just want my characters look pretty. ^^"

[Anonymous No.3442153]

>>3442152
*to look pretty.

[Anonymous No.3442162]

last time i posted this i got crabbed

[Anonymous No.3442163]

>>3442152
>>3442153
If you're not set on an anime style, then try paying attention to proportions of real-life pretty people. And then you can find your style by focusing on the features you like. Right now all of her facial features appear enlarged and vying for attention.

[Anonymous No.3442166]

>>3442162
honestly, you're probably going to get crabbed again.

i mean this in the kindest way possible but you should figure out what the fuck you're actually doing

[Anonymous No.3442171]

>>3442166
do you mean like stylistically that everything is like pulled out my ass random or like with fundamentals? a lot has been experimentation Ive been using photoshop less than a year i dont think any of it is like coherent.

[Anonymous No.3442177]

>>3442171
>stylistically that everything is like pulled out my ass random

that's one of the major problems.

you also show very little knowledge in fundamentals. a lot of those were very obviously traced, and there's one where you just copy and pasted (poorly, i might add) a bunch of anime girls together with some disgusting font.

on top of that, not a single piece is aesthetically pleasing, or appealing. which I suppose is the cardinal sin.

[Anonymous No.3442180]

>>3442163
Thanks, I will give that a try.

[Anonymous No.3442443]

neet here learning animu after loomis practice for fun. tried to draw hex manic. is there any shortcut to drawing anime or something

[Anonymous No.3443085]

>>3442056
i agree, can you help me?

[Anonymous No.3443086]

>>3442443
Yeah. Look at anime tutorials on deviantart or pixiv. I like what you have.

[Anonymous No.3443117]

>>3443085
Probably not 100% accurate, but you dont really have much structure under the form so it looks like one boob is stapled higher than the other, and is much smaller. Reference people holding their hands behind their heads for how the arm/ shoulder/ neck muscle groups should look.

[Anonymous No.3443135]

>>3443117
Definitely an improvement, but her right boob's crease really shouldn't go past her center line.

[Anonymous No.3443250]

>>3435263
Thankfully I have all the time in my hands, this took me about 7 hours. Now I can make it without having to deal with responsibilities!

[Anonymous No.3443308]

>>3435216
Sketches while testing out krita
new to the board so sorry if the image is all fucked up or something

[Anonymous No.3443554]

>>3441599
Where do you fucking live so I can get in on that shit. All living expenses add up to about 1500 not including food where I live.

[Anonymous No.3443557]

i like turtles

[Anonymous No.3444051]

/tv/ didn’t appreciate it so I’ll post here.
I’m very undisciplined and don’t sketch

[Anonymous No.3444724]

>>3435216
I don't have skill -I'm need- but I do have lots of time.....

I drew 100k circles into a bro fist

I made a video too if you guys want to see the timelapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUGntos4cI

[Anonymous No.3444728]

>>3444724
You literally effectively drew, pixel by pixel, a brofist. Do you happen to have autism? You should use that incredibly useful skill to practice drawing properly instead of just circles.

[Anonymous No.3444736]

self taught and do it for fun and do it since i was a little babbie

[Anonymous No.3444761]

>>3444736
Whoa, you're self taught?? That's unheard of!

[Anonymous No.3445453]

[Anonymous No.3445459]

>>3444736
>>3445453
these are looking at another picture to draw it

this one is from my imagination i didnt look at anything to draw it

[Anonymous No.3445465]

>>3444736
That is a trace

[Anonymous No.3445471]

>>3445459

this one i am working on now since January

[Anonymous No.3445479]

>>3441615
nayrt but i'm sorry youve never had a nice meal

[Anonymous No.3445481]

>>3445479
when war breaks out you'll be the first to go because you refuse to eat beans and rice

[Anonymous No.3445526]

>>3435229
>I think I am making progress at a higher than average pace however.
As someone who has been there and now teaches art and has seen a lot of people in the same place, I can asure you that there is a 90% chance that that isn't the case. You are just having begginers gains, It's easy to improve the worse your work starts. It's not above average.
Also:

>but time to think about art as a whole.
>examine the distrobution of mass and energy.
Almost all the "observations" you are making are worthless. You have this false sense that you are understanding something deeper about reality that would translate to drawing ability but it won't. Most of the time you are just wasting time and not learning anything.

[Anonymous No.3445564]

>>3437996
Same Anon who did this

[NoseBro No.3446295]

>>3435736
blog.

[NoseBro No.3446299]

>>3439354
lmao youre so close yet so far, how are you so good yet so bad? You cheating somehow? Is there a gimmick?

[This is my latest one. No.3446801]

[Anonymous No.3448015]

>>3442177
honestly never coming back to /ic/ because this is the second time someone has accused me of tracing and I never have, that is the biggest compliment in itself. "obviously traced" jesus christ you just undercut your whole opinion if you want to assert those are "so clearly" obvious. the faces are ballpoint pen taken into photoshop and illustrator. the anime girls are copy and pasted, its an image macro thats not supposed to be taken serious you fucking mongoloid

[Anonymous No.3448052]

>>3448015
There's a very specific look to work that's traced by an unskilled artist. Whether you traced it or not, you should develop your eye and avoid that look. But then again it doesn't look like you take criticism very well...

So maybe if you sperg out some more, you can simply convince everyone that your work is appealing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous No.3448055]

>>3448052
> you’re very obviously tracing
> uh oh uh your style looks like it was traced which is a bad thing!

[Anonymous No.3448057]

>>3448055
>the faces are ballpoint pen taken into photoshop and illustrator
>not traced

Please post your progress pics again so we can all laugh

[Anonymous No.3448122]

It’s not sideways it’s stlyized

I work 40 hours a week on my art

MAJOR IM BURNING OUT

[Anonymous No.3448401]

>>3448122
>high-res image
>not progressive jpeg
It gets much better compression and can load, well, progressively.

[Anonymous No.3448756]

>>3445471
very powerful works of art, i am rooting for you! i enjoyed the tree-vein especially

[Anonymous No.3449151]

>>3435263
Harry?

[Anonymous No.3449239]

>>3435263
Harold is that you?

[Anonymous No.3451831]

>>3448015
son, I know you didn't draw that head on the left or the right by yourself. I recognize both of them.

[Anonymous No.3451837]

>>3448015
pretty nice drawings, might want to play around with different contour line weight, even line weight all around kind of flattens things out

[Anonymous No.3451839]

>>3448015
Interesting way of drawing. Did you learn from a prestigious art school? The precision on the head in the right is insane.

[Anonymous No.3451859]

Upcoming character in my manga

[Anonymous No.3453311]

>37 images
>only a handful are finished pieces

i could have had a job or something if i actually followed through on shit, it’s true

[Anonymous No.3453817]

>>3435733
>Agreed, people who are NEET usually lack a sense of responsibility, discipline and self control so they won't even value all the time they have available and waste on internet browsing and jerking off.
Wow rude! Some of us also waste our time sleeping and watching countless hours of youtube tutorials despite rarely doing any art ourselves. Hopefully you'll bear this in mind in future before branding us all worthless procrastinators.

[Anonymous No.3453834]

>>3453817
This, not all NEETs are bad.

[Anonymous No.3453852]

>>3448015
Nothing proves your point better than deleting the OR.