/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3793301]

I turned 24 last month and I still haven't gone anywhere with my art, a beginner.

Is it too late? I wanted to do art for a living and everyone I follow was a pro by the time they hit 24, I am nowhere near them. I just don't know if it's possible anymore.

[Anonymous No.3793305]

>>3793301
dude I just start last year and I'm 24 now
just don't fucking give up and show them pro what you made of
ps: also post your art

[Anonymous No.3793306]

>>3793301
Nope, all hope's lost. give up on art and become a car salesman.

[Anonymous No.3793308]

>>3793301
just be smart about your practice. don quite learn to take breaks when you get frustrated. you are not other people, you are yourself, dont compare yourself to others, because it will only discourage you. you will make it if you dont stop trying, you will not be kim jung gi. you will be you. getting older doesnt stop you from selling art, only fucking retards judge peoples skil based on age. even if you are 55 you can still learn to draw or paint and become good enough to shill your art, just take some hgh. you are young enough to get good enough to shill your shit, but dont be unrealistic, you cant be space lord artist of the universe.

[Anonymous No.3793328]

you can waste a hell of a lot of time by trying to rush things

[Anonymous No.3793336]

>>3793301
The next step.

[Anonymous No.3793345]

>>3793336
why do you hurt me anon?

[Anonymous No.3793351]

>>3793336
wtf how did he get 1 (one) year younger

[Anonymous No.3793401]

>>3793336
it hurts

[Anonymous No.3793441]

>>3793336
I don't even draw enough to become this guy, it's pathetic

[Anonymous No.3793445]

>>3793301
Just turned 24 yesterday. I've been drawing since I was a teen but I made the most progress in the last 1-2 years. I'm not trying to go pro, just draw on the side to relax. Might do something more in the future though.

It's not too late. I thought I was literally incapable of doing certain things but I kept overcoming problems again and again.
>pick something to work on
>draw
>FINISH it
>analyze
>see what you improved on
>see what needs more work
>keep it in mind for next time
>study it
Active drawing is everything. You need a clear goal and a way to achieve it. Good luck, fellow go-getter.

[Anonymous No.3793481]

>>3793441
Well he spends all of his time drawing and is ngmi, you spend all of your time doing whatever you want and are also ngmi so who is the real winner here?

[Anonymous No.3793484]

>>3793336

[Anonymous No.3793498]

I didn't pick up a pencil until I was 32. Its being about 9 years now and I'm picking up exhibition prizes and making a neat little profit from selling prints at local markets. It's never too late, art has never being age specific.

[Anonymous No.3793508]

>>3793498
Post some of your work. I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.3793515]

>>3793301
There was a woman who got famous because she started sculpting in her 60s, she is 70 now and has galleries dedicated to her, her thing is she doesn't finish anything
So is it too late? I think too late is a curve you go from child prodigy to fucking waste of time to wonder man if you stick to it

[Anonymous No.3793536]

>>3793498
Post work, fellow oldfag.
I want to believe.

[Anonymous No.3793541]

>>3793336
just fuck my shit up

[Anonymous No.3793542]

>>3793498
Oldfags ww@?

[Anonymous No.3793550]

>>3793498
post your work, anon!
I'll post some of mine as encouragement.

[Anonymous No.3793593]

>>3793498
Holy shit you're old!

[Anonymous No.3793712]

>>3793301
Drop the mentality of “too late”. Just stop, there’s not a clock or formula you should follow, there’s only hard work.
Get to it or fuck off, you’ll find no sympathy here for your whiny episodes

[Anonymous No.3793794]

>>3793301
Well, you could take some lessons from the PIC YOU JUST FUCKING POSTED, YOU ABSOLUTE MONG

[Anonymous No.3793795]

>>3793336
Oh nooOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.3793894]

One of my first art friends was 23 years old and had lots of fans. 3 years later her profile still says 23.
I’ve seen an artist turn 18, then 3 years later say they just turned 19. Tldr age is overhyped

[Anonymous No.3793895]

>>3793336

[Anonymous No.3793911]

>>3793301
>>3793794
Pretty much this. Try to believe in yourself

[Anonymous No.3794014]

>>3793336
why so accurate damn..

[Anonymous No.3794517]

>>3793301
24 and also just started drawing.

[Anonymous No.3796581]

it takes on average 10000 hours to get good at something.

Thats around 10 years of your life

If you start practicing hard now you may be good by the time you are 35

How will you fund yourself during this time?

Will you want to be a 40 year old manchild doing babbys first commission?

Unless you have been drawing from when you were 12, you are unlikely to "make it".

everyone is already ahead of you both technically and with contacts/networking


get a real job

[Anonymous No.3796586]

>>3793336
That's the previous step anons...

[Anonymous No.3796587]

>>3796581
>10000 hours
>that's 10 years
haha uh anon, think there might be something wrong with your math

[Anonymous No.3796589]

>>3796581

Oh boy 10,000 hours meme and you got it wrong too.

10,000 is for mastery.

''good'' happens way before.

[Anonymous No.3796595]

>>3796581
>falling for the 10000 hours meme

og niggas take 90000000 hours to git gud

[Anonymous No.3796596]

>>3796581
10000 hours is a little over one year you retard

[Anonymous No.3796604]

>>3796596
>>3796587

I feel like you nibbas are intentionally trolling him at this point but

10k hours of practice

2 something hours a day = 10years
4 = 5 years and so on. this is what he meant

[Anonymous No.3796622]

>>3793336
aaaaaaaaaaa

[Anonymous No.3796632]

>>3793301
im turning 24 next month op

[Anonymous No.3796760]

>>3796587
6-10 years if you practice naturally.

If you try and force it and study 8+ hours a day, all youll do is burn yourself out or lose interest. Forcing yourself to draw long hours to "catch up" wont work. Same with any other skill.

>>3796589
M8, theres plenty of people who are "good". The market and professional industry isnt looking for "good"

>>3796595
shitpost

>>3796596
shitpost

[Anonymous No.3796834]

>>3793301
Whats the plan?

[Anonymous No.3796847]

everyone heres fucking retarded

a friend of mine was /beg/, started at 23.5years old. took him 3.5years to get into the industry, he was already skilled enough to do freelance stuff like 2years into it but he wanted to keep grinding.

he only did on average 4h/day every day. saw his time tracking app. He has around 5000hours of work done

[Anonymous No.3797005]

>>3796760
>>3796604
I get so frustrated when I see people limiting themselves to less than 10 hours a day, and then complaining when they aren't getting good. Why limit yourself so? Just literally draw all day, not hard desu

[Anonymous No.3797007]

>>3796847
post his work before and after

[Anonymous No.3797114]

>>3793894
underage artist often say they're 18, so it's no surprise they turn 19 three years later

[Anonymous No.3797116]

>>3796581
I started drawing with 22. Now at 26 I'm making a nice earning with commissions. desu I think I could've started way earlier to sell my art. Two to three years of experience are plenty enough to get decent enough for an internet audience.

[Anonymous No.3797123]

>>3797005
It really isn't. You can take 50 to 100mg of amphetamine every day for a year without toooo much lasting health problems (source: I did it). On that kind of drug regime it's easy and actually enjoyable to stay up for three days in a row doing monotonous tasks. You could become a master in just a year if you put your mind to it. I'd imagine that meth or coke works even better.

[Anonymous No.3797145]

>>3797123
Q: How do I draw >10 hours each day?
A: Just snort five lines of speed every day.

Seems legit.

[Anonymous No.3798276]

>>3793301
bumskee started at 25, basedboomer brad rigney started even later than that. my aunt started in her lat 60's & has had her gay little jesus drawings featured in galleries. short of arthritis/dementia they're aren't really any innate barriers to getting into art & becoming good at it.
the only thing between anyone and gitting gud is building & maintaining good study habits as part of your lifestyle. this might mean different things depending on your obligations but i've never met anyone who truly didn't have to time to draw.
>>3793328
this is right on the money desu. i think a lot of anons fall into the trap of trying to git gud too fast and then end up discouraged & bitter when going full neetmode doesn't land them a studio job or a top 1/% patreon within a year or two.

>>3797123
ulrikpls

[Anonymous No.3798500]

>>3796847
There’s a 99% chance that you’re lying. Algen went autistic and did like 12 hours a day and it even took him ~2-3 years to get to a pro level. No way your friend got into the industry in only 2 years unless you’re talking about private commissions or something. Post some of his work.

[Anonymous No.3798540]

>>3798276
>ulrikpls
Is that what happened to him? Do you know how he’s doing?

[Anonymous No.3798610]

>>3798500
That guy said 3.5 years not 2 to get into the industry first of all, and second, I'd rather put 4 hours a day in where I am consciously learning than autistically grind for 12 hours

[Anonymous No.3798644]

>>3796581
uff!, glad im at the 9, 900 hours, so close!!

[Anonymous No.3798646]

>>3798500
Not that guy but I knew a guy in school who started at age 26 and got to pro level in about the same amount of time, however I know for a fact he was putting in 8-16 hours of work every day even on weekends and holidays to get to that level from /beg/ tier. When we would hang out during lunch hour he'd take like 5 min to eat a sandwich real quick and then he was right back to it, drawing away.

It takes a lot more than 4 hours a day to get to that level that fast, even with mentors watching you draw and helping you correct your problems.

The guy >>3796847 is talking about was either some kind of prodigy or he's making it up.

[Anonymous No.3798649]

>>3798610
first or all whatever you said doesn't matter unless you post some of his work

[Anonymous No.3798654]

>>3796760
anon please.. you technically cant draw all day, uless you are an ultra austistic fag, no social life, and have a stamina of a fucking athlete.. ffs!

[Anonymous No.3798656]

>>3797005
anon please.. you technically cant draw all day, uless you are an ultra austistic fag, no social life, and have a stamina of a fucking athlete.. ffs!

[Anonymous No.3798661]

>>3797123
well but remember we are honorable knights of artists, we dont cheat. only begs do.

[Anonymous No.3798669]

>>3798656
it sounds like you have shitty time management anon

[Anonymous No.3798674]

>>3798649
I'm not that guy, I just also think you're wrong

[Anonymous No.3798949]

>>3798540
his output pretty much stopped when he started doing meth.
>http://ulrikbadass.blogspot.com/2018/10/blog-post.html
it seems like he's doing a little better lately though