/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3788791]

What made you fall in love with art?

[Anonymous No.3788796]

>>3788791
The ability to express myself

[Anonymous No.3788800]

>>3788791
i hate art, but is the only thing i can barely do fine..would be kinda of a waste if i throw away all those hours of practice

[Anonymous No.3788802]

>>3788800
Why do you have it?

[Anonymous No.3788805]

>>3788791
The bore-out of my old job

[Anonymous No.3788807]

>>3788791
I like how I can make my ideas be represented in a way I can actually see.

[Anonymous No.3788808]

>>3788791
ego issues and god complex i wish to create and have total control over something. I want to create things that people will like. i dont even love art. i hate most of you, most of the wanna be artists are so shit, have such awful taste. people are like pigs in shit.

[Anonymous No.3788818]

>>3788808
but you won't ngmi

[Anonymous No.3788820]

>>3788808
Lmao

[Anonymous No.3788860]

>>3788808
I'll take a wild guess and say you actually can't draw or paint for shit

[Anonymous No.3788866]

>>3788791 I realized characters are better than people

[Anonymous No.3788949]

>>3788808
genuine yikes

[Anonymous No.3788962]

>>3788808
>

[Anonymous No.3789018]

>>3788791
My dick, but I got over it.

[Anonymous No.3789021]

>>3788791
Furry porn

[Anonymous No.3789110]

>>3788791
Moebius

[Anonymous No.3789278]

>>3788791
The ability to depict the imaginary and the impossible

[Anonymous No.3789279]

>>3788962
>>3788949
>>3788860
>>3788820
>>3788818
okay npc

[Anonymous No.3789343]

I used to draw and read comics as a kid, and I was blown away when I discovered anime. Probably many of you can relate. I didn't consider design so much, I believed the quality of an art was a function of time invested. Like an artist is owed appreciation for their labor, and anyone who cannot see that is dumb and has poor taste.

But there is supply and demand. I began to consider art as an object, how a thing can improve it's surroundings, and what it means to appreciate art. I kind of "grew out of" the drawn image, I didn't want to stay there, I explored other media,
sculpture, oils. Design and economics are hugely important. Art is not always a purely expressive or temperamental exercise, it can be slow, calculated and abstract.

I love art because it can be anything you want. Thanks for reading my blog, d/ic/ks

[Anonymous No.3789346]

>>3789278
God I wish that were real

[Anonymous No.3789348]

...why do I love art?...

I LOVE feeling CANVAS. Oh my sweet fuck I love going to a canvas roll and TAKING a big square out of it with scissors. Oh my sweet fuck I love the light softness that canvas has. I rub my palms over it...then...oh DEAR I LOVE TAKING IT AND "STRETCHING" IT. I LOVE the old way of taking CANVAS and STRETCHING IT AND NAILING IT TO THE POINT WHERE...where it's ALL tight. Oh man I love that feeling...Next, oh how I love the paints..the delicious colorful sexually gooey goppy PAINTS. I love nothing more than in white noise to take the paint and screw off the tip and to LIGHTLY squeeze the bottle until the COLORFUL YUMMY GUNK SMEARS gently on glass....dare I say to even take my beautiful brush and LIGHTLY put it in the paint and stare at my virgin delicious TIGHT CANVAS and prepare myself to paint something. Oh I love the smell of drying WET oil on canvas. I LOVE WAITING FOR IT TO DRY. I can feel the dry edges around my art and feel that delicious DELICIOUS canvas in my fingertips. Oh the sensual lust horror...give me ALL the canvas. ALL OF IT.

[Anonymous No.3789351]

>>3788791
Stockholm syndrome.

[Anonymous No.3789357]

Good thread : a good artist knows why he / she does it.
I do it because I can put my thoughts on a canvas & I can transmit universal feelings/messages with it! (Basically, transmit the sense of Wonder I had when I watched Lion King / read Dragon Ball & Astérix to the new generation and nostalgia for the others)

[Anonymous No.3789361]

I watched hentai and I thought, neat, wish I could do that

[Anonymous No.3789367]

Masterpiece the boardgame. It was the first time I was introduced to real art as a child. Been in love ever since.

[Anonymous No.3789386]

I dont know really. I didnt have any toys when i was little. I think this is important. My parents hardly bought me any toys or video games. So i just watched tv or would draw all the time.
I remember threre was this guy in one of my classes who could draw dragon ball z characters like nothing. I was jealous.
Finally, i had a secret semi sexual emotional affair with my art teacher in high school. She was a terrible artist and taught me nothing really. I loved her. Quite possibly the only woman i ever did love. But she was married. and my teacher.
I wanted to please her.
She was only my teacher for a year. Im not sure if she quit or was fired. As fate would have it, the one year i had to go to summer school i was standing there waiting outside the cafeteria and found her on her last day of work putting stuff into a cardboard box.

From what i gather on my social media stalking, she divorced her husband and moved out of state.

I was very disappointed that she left. I became pretty nihilistic and stopped doing art for a while.

Well, its been years since then and to quote william dafoe from that movie about vincent van gogh which i only saw a preview of.


Because i cant do anything else, believe me ive tried

[Anonymous No.3789389]

>>3788791
dance til tomorrow (asatte dance) by naoki yamamoto.

[Anonymous No.3789390]

Started with 2000s cartoons, to comic strips, to TMS animation to 2010 era sakuga compilations on youtube, to comic book compositions, to the bible, to renaissance era art, to studying anatomy, and here I am doing my 1st commission portrait.

art helped me, as before that as a 5 year old I wanted to work at Walmart (because I was too lazy and dumb to be a firefighter)

[Anonymous No.3789392]

>>3788808
same t b h

[Anonymous No.3789396]

It was really weird. One day I was lurking boards online like usual and slowly started to notice the occasional cool sketch/art piece, even though I never paid attention to that kind of stuff before. This continued until one day I just was suddenly gripped by an insane, almost unbearable urge to learn to draw. I really like worldbuilding and come up with all kinds of wild shit in my head, so I think I just wanted to get better at expressing that.

I think seeing sketchy and amateurish art that is still super cool / hot / brutal / dynamic / whatever really pushed me to put my heart into it, and bring my weird ideas into creation.

[Anonymous No.3789408]

>>3788808
post your work

[Anonymous No.3789413]

Looney Tunes Back in Action. No joke, this movie blew my fucking mind as a kid. It made me realize that anything was possible in the world of animation. Seeing Who Framed Roger Rabbit a couple months later only reinforced that.

[Anonymous No.3789514]

>>3788791
when i was a kid it made people pay attention to me

[Anonymous No.3789531]

>>3788791
French comics.
More specifically Blacksad and Tin Tin.
American comics are pretty crap in comparison with what Europe has to offer.

[Anonymous No.3789532]

When I doodled a penis in a friend's notebook that's when it just clicked

[Anonymous No.3789536]

>>3788791
icewind dale and the portraits in that game

[Anonymous No.3789545]

>>3788808
e d g y

[Anonymous No.3789551]

>>3788808
Please post your work. A worldview like this leaves a unique touch in artwork a cringy as fuck one

[Anonymous No.3789555]

I remember being younger than 10 and receiving coloring assignments in school , compared to science and math they were things that I ACTUALLY enjoyed. For most of my youth I drew, sculpted with play-dough and colored until I was in my mid teens.

It was then that I moved away from home and lost my art, only using it as a tool to impress friends or doodle when I was bored, I never took it seriously.

I can't tell you what it is about art that is so special, a reminder of my childhood and simpler times? Feeling some worth by impressing normies(I don't feel any satisfaction anymore from doing this thanks to /ic/), the joys of realizing my ideas and being capable enough to project them literally into the real world?

I don't know, anons, I feel like I've lost the spark. Maybe I only draw because if I didn't, I would regret it for the rest of my life.

[Anonymous No.3789573]

>>3788791
Believe it or not, it was this specific image.
Dunno why, but I always get inspired just by looking at it for some reason.
It's rendering is exquisite.

[Anonymous No.3789575]

>>3788791
all the pussy i'm getting
>haha i'm not getting any pussy pls be my gf

[Anonymous No.3789601]

1. inspiration from beautiful art and wanting to create the same
2. the prospect of making money from drawing shit instead of being a wage slave

[Anonymous No.3789612]

>>3789555
Didn't even realize that I got trips, nice.

[Anonymous No.3789621]

>>3789573
That's a beautiful picture

[Anonymous No.3789646]

I saw some inks of American comics
I really disliked the stories they told but the skill and draftsmanship put into them is no joke, I was just mesmerized

[Anonymous No.3789958]

>>3788791
the process of creation.

[Anonymous No.3790012]

>>3788791
When I found clay at 21 years old. Started wheel work, and completely fell in love with the medium. Soon after, I got into kilns and chemistry. Geology, fire, water, physics, chemistry, aesthetics. Magic and science and creativity. Just pure bliss. I knew immediately this was what I was meant to do with my life.

[Anonymous No.3790019]

>>3788791
I like cool stuff. Maybe Digimon? It was anime in general, since I was a baby I liked grabbing pens and drawing whatever was on TV which was usually pokemon, digimon and dbz,but my oldest drawing {that I remember, 3 years old} was a Garurumon. It was a shocker to find out not every kid used to draw on their notebooks. What the hell did they do if not draw?

Though falling in love implies a more serious approach. I exactly fell in love with art when reading Onepunch Man. I saved up to 120 pages, I saved every page that impressed me but stopped doing it years ago because it was redundant;whole chapters made my jaw drop. Reading OPM is one hell of an experience for an artist, you can see how Godlike everything is. Berserk has nice aesthetics but it's like watching epic paintings while OPM feels like the pages and characters are alive

[Anonymous No.3790021]

>>3790012
Honestly the most disgustingly onions thing I've read on this website.

[Anonymous No.3790022]

>>3788791
The ability that someone can make a dragon fuck a car

[Anonymous No.3790084]

>>3790021
I don't even know what that means, dude. I make a lot of money slinging mud and playing with fire and chemicals. Most dorks on this board sit in sad, dark little rooms plinking on a drawing tablet. If I had to guess, your comment comes from jealousy. You should get into clay, too. It's pretty great.

[Anonymous No.3790094]

>>3790084
No thanks, I do actual chemistry at my day job. I don't need to put mud in a kiln and play pretend scientist.

[Anonymous No.3790102]

>>3790094
What I do makes chemists and geologists wet. Have a nice day.

[Anonymous No.3790113]

>>3790102
Keep telling yourself that. Have fun playing in the mud.

[Anonymous No.3790244]

>>3789346
Same, though lucid dreaming is the only way it can ever be

[Anonymous No.3790246]

>>3790244

[Anonymous No.3790248]

>>3790246

[Anonymous No.3790276]

>>3788791
dude

i dont fucking remember, actually.

i just drew a bit here and there and people liked it so i kept doing it.
i suppose it is fun to reduce what i see into lines.
But I've never once had the same passion for art as others did. I never really gave a hoot about other artists, not even the greats. I did study their work, I tried to figure out how they approached subject matter and what sort of hand they maintained while drawing. Though that is about it in regards to my delving into with masterworks.

I suppose I can say that my half-assed interest in art coincidentally coincided with the cg/industry artist boom in the late 2000s, where it felt like everyone was in a rush to build up and send out portfolios. And working for cartoon network wasn't a joke, yet. So since everyone around me was busying themselves, I just naturally followed suit, even though I didn't need to. My interest was still half-assed, but I was picking up adulty work-minded vocabulary and I could very much sound like I was passionate about the making of art.

But it all fizzed out, whether it be the times, or the environment I am now in, I just don't draw anymore and I don't waste as much energy pretending that I care about it. /ic/ is only checked mechanically, for shitposting purposes, not art purposes. The funny thing is, is that while I don't draw AS much, I do still draw, and I can say with confidence that my art style did mature, despite the lack of steady practice.

Still, I would like to make a painting on a bigger scale, not a large one the size of the guernica but just larger in scope than what im doing now - doodles on a sketchbook.

[Anonymous No.3790301]

Just want to be useful, art is something most people are terrible at, it's nice to be able to fill a need.
Also I get bored really easily, art is always challenging and new.

[Anonymous No.3790978]

>>3789621
Yeah, the guy is a fucking art beast.
Too bad he's one of those whinny upper-class Californians.

[Anonymous No.3790980]

>>3788808
/ic/ as a human being

[Anonymous No.3790981]

>>3788791
>was reading dorohedoro today
>check /a/, my dorohedoro thread vanished
>check /ic/, first thread has Shin as picrelated
You've read Dorohedoro. You've got good taste in general. You know why.

[Anonymous No.3790993]

>>3789551
>>3789408
>>3788860
I do post here but you would never expect or believe me if I showed you.

[Anonymous No.3791015]

>>3788818
>>3788820
>>3788860
>>3788949
>>3788962
>>3789408
>>3789545
>>3789551
>>3790980
I don't need to justify myself to small minded ants like you. You're all just jealous that I don't even enjoy art but my skill surpasses you all.

[Anonymous No.3791040]

>>3791015
Post your real work

[Anonymous No.3791097]

>>3788791
documenting my delirious visions of insomnia into something you can see

[Anonymous No.3791102]

>>3790244
this is the scale i imagine some of the lord of the rings locations to be, those big mines at least

[Anonymous No.3791105]

>>3789110
that gold and purple looks so tasty

[Anonymous No.3791110]

>>3788791
Sinix’s sketchbook thread on conceptart.org back in 2006. Thought art was gay as fuck before that

[Anonymous No.3791554]

>>3788791
I never had to fall, I was always down

[Anonymous No.3791610]

>>3790981
my thoughts are similar, dorohedoro is probably the best manga out there. noi best tall girl

[Anonymous No.3792095]

>>3788791
Animation, specifically japanese animation.

Started learning how to draw and animate as early as middleschool on my free time just so I could make cool fight scenes in the limited animation software I could download for free.

This eventually turned into a greater appreciation for the medium itself.

[Anonymous No.3792252]

>>3790113
fuck off kike

[Anonymous No.3792262]

I love it because it gives back as much as you give in. There are occasions where I get sucked into doing something that really fires me up and I don't need to sleep or eat, just do what I envisioned

[Anonymous No.3793378]

>>3788791
painter carlos alonso (had a book of his at home) and Z. Beksinski.

[Anonymous No.3794983]

>>3788791
I was depressed and went on da (I know) then thought to myself "all these other people create these beautiful characters so why can't I?"

honestly it was alot harder than I thought but shit I wouldnt throw it away from anything in the world and got me out of depression, also made me more productive with my time instead of yt or vidya all day so that's a plus

posting something I did last night

[Anonymous No.3794986]

craig mullins

[Anonymous No.3795006]

>>3789573
This is really cute!

[Anonymous No.3795652]

>>3788791
A sense of boredom mixed with the crushing feeling (grounded in reality or not, it depends on who you ask to) of being a failure at life leading to any kind of escapism I can possibly indulge in.
I paint, sculpt, write poetry (at least try to) and play music only because I'm trying to delude myself I'm good at something most people can't or doesn't care to do and distracting myself from all my rl duties and obbligations

[Anonymous No.3795679]

when I was about four, my grandmother (who raised me until I was almost a teen) would clean churches and I would sit by myself in the pews with a coloring book and some crayons. I thought most of the line art was ugly so I preferred to draw my own pictures in the white spaces. my grandmother would get mad that I wasn’t coloring properly.

fast forward to now, I’m 23. my mom just died a few weeks ago from an aneurysm. today is the first day since then I’ve picked up a pencil. I know I need to keep drawing because she believed in my art.

[Anonymous No.3795869]

>>3792095
Source?

[Anonymous No.3795927]

>>3795679
sorry to hear anon, be thankful for the time u had

[Anonymous No.3795937]

>>3788791
i was in the 4th grade and i just moved to a new town and had no friend. the first friend i made was drawing and it was really good. he said i should start drawing too, so i did and ive had an on off relationship with art since then. i always wondered if he still makes art, he was amazing in highschool.

[Anonymous No.3795941]

>>3795679
do it

[Anonymous No.3795946]

>>3789343

[Anonymous No.3795949]

>>3789348
paintin' is fuckin' fun dude, I agree.

[Anonymous No.3795955]

Drawing is fun, end of fucking story.

[Anonymous No.3795985]

>>3788791
i want to be able to make beautiful things

[Anonymous No.3796046]

>>3791040
Thats not even him idiot

[Anonymous No.3796335]

>>3790276
>Still, I would like to make a painting on a bigger scale, not a large one the size of the guernica but just larger in scope than what im doing now - doodles on a sketchbook.
whats stopping you?

[Anonymous No.3796428]

It's the only art form you can do if you don't have a soul, I actually used it to transition into an even more soulless field, design

[Anonymous No.3796459]

>>3788791
A drawing my dad made for my mom and my cousins that used to draw. When I was little I thought it was super cool

[Anonymous No.3797034]

>>3788791
When I was like 10 years old, for the first time ever at a museum i started looking really close and long at a painting of a swan. The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn The longer I looked the more i understood the creation and story about it. It is my favorite painting at the museum and it is because of it that I want to create that same impact of wonder to people that also just start to gain an understanding for the medium.

[Anonymous No.3797039]

can't remember

[Anonymous No.3797044]

>>3788791
Good question, i dont really know
Maybe in part it developed from my intrigue for my older brother's skill and some of his work. He never really did anything super great or unique, most dragonball z sketches, but to 6 year old me he was so cool. It might also stem from reading a small book we had in the house on traditional japanese culture around that same age.
Ive always thought itd be nice to develop my skills more but eh. Taken a couple art courses in public school and thats about it

[Anonymous No.3797102]

Have always been the artsy kid. From kindergarden to high school. I'm in STEM now lol

[Anonymous No.3797381]

>>3788791
It was more fun than listening to teachers so I drew in class and that kinda evolved.

[Anonymous No.3799194]

I actually hate art and draw for the sole purpose of hurting it as a whole.

[Anonymous No.3799369]

WoW loading screens and Dragon Ball manga got me into liking different styles of art, I don't draw as much as I'd like to, but I'll change that.

[Anonymous No.3799375]

It makes beautiful things that don't exist in reality and artists enhance the beauty of things I find beautiful but normal people dont care for

[Anonymous No.3799422]

this little bitch

[Anonymous No.3802168]

George and Harold got me to start drawing.

[Anonymous No.3802173]

>>3799369
I've never played WoW, what do their loading screens look like?

[Anonymous No.3802178]

>>3788791
I was really fascinated by punpun. I know it doesn't have the best art, but it resonated with me for some reason. Because story was really connected with the medium it was using, maybe. I also started reading a lot of other manga like dorohedoro and billy bat, which inspired me even further, but it all started with punpun.

[Anonymous No.3802228]

I have no idea, it's something that I had really early on as a kid.
I always wanted to make stuff, and drawing was just the most accessible thing to me at the time.
Maybe it's strange but I've never been that interested with consuming media, but fascinated with creating it.
Even at a young age I'd rather watch the making of an animation or comic than watch/read the finished product.

[Anonymous No.3802235]

>>3788791
I have aphantasia (no minds eye), I can't imagine shit like you normal people apparently can. Drawing is a way for me to see the concepts I've got in my head. I want to know what a half-and-half half-ostrich would look like? I grab my refs and draw it.

[Anonymous No.3802236]

>>3802235
Fucking phone autocorrect. Half-man, half-ostrich*

[Anonymous No.3802238]

>>3789396
This basicly
I keep seeing cool Art everywhere and I wanna make some too

[Anonymous No.3802623]

>>3788791
I've always loved drawing. It's the first real passion I've ever had. I did lose it for a brief period of time growing up, but the online communities and all the amazing people I met later on really set that passion ablaze. I can't thank them enough for it, wherever they all are now. As bad as you fags are, especially the asshole crabs, I truly hope each and every one of you makes it, whatever "making it" means to you. Art is the love of my life and I just can't express how grateful I am that it exists.