Developing Good Habits

[Anonymous No.3929000]

Can /ic/ share the small things you do on a daily basis in order to cultivate good art habits and help productivity?

I believe most of ngmis are intoxicated with too much visual input from the Internet, constant distractions, instant gratification and all that.

Two things I started doing recently:
- Every time I read manga, I will keep my notebook nearby. If something interesting pops up, I will copy it, as a form of study. It can be an interesting shape, a panel composition, a figurine or simply a cute girl. Building my mental library, basically.

- I made a new, clean user on my PC without the usual shitton of distractions (messengers, saved tabs, cluttered desktop etc;). I use it while I work and it helps, though I can still feel the urge to "alt+tab to something else" every time something gets hard.

[Anonymous No.3929005]

I encourage myself to draw for at least 4 hours a day, with at least 1 hour spent studying anatomy, gesture, composition, and/or perspective. Then I reward myself by cumming into my mouth while listening to the most degenerate sissy hypno videos you can imagine. Then I subsequently experience the deepest self-loathing that a human being could ever conceive and channel my disgust and hatred into my art. Then sometime later, when my mind is clear and I am retrospective, I tear my artwork into tiny pieces and throw it away because it reminds me of how much of a faggot and failure that I am.

At this rate, I expect to be a revolutionary artist synonymous with the same level of historical impact the likes that da Vinci and Rembrandt are associated with within the next decade.

[Anonymous No.3929030]

>>3929000
that burd is MVP!

[Anonymous No.3929040]

no matter how hard you try you will fall back to your bad habits after a while. you can use all the tricks out there including the ones you mentioned but they are just that, tricks. Very few people have the talent, will and work ethic to pursue their own interest and be successful at it, but if you come to this site regularly you are not one of them.
I'm not saying that you should give up but you will figure this out on your own after experience.

[Anonymous No.3929045]

>>3929040
Don't listen to this guy or people like him.

[Anonymous No.3929060]

>>3929045
deep down you know it's true. but i agree, the rational thing to do is to act like it's not true.

[Anonymous No.3929063]

>>3929045
Keep living in a fantasy land kid

[Anonymous No.3929070]

>>3929040
>I'm not saying that you should give up
So offer a silver lining. We all know what you're saying, but should these little tricks be the beginning of a new mindset, that might become strong enough to one day allow you to take flight?

[Anonymous No.3929073]

>>3929070
>offer a silver lining
life has no silver lining. we all suffer and die.

[Anonymous No.3929109]

Set up a space that is only for drawing that inspires you. Watch studio idea videos if you arent sure how to do this. It can even be your nightstand or a tv tray, just have a space.

Get four or five sketchbooks and some large paper for works where you want to test your skills. If you don't need professional quality sketchbooks, dont get them. They will only intimidate you. Treat your sketchbooks as a pad of scratch paper, not as portfolios. Most of the book will be trash you don't want to show anyone. That's fine, even normal. You're still learning.

Get a focus timer app. I recommend FLIP, because it lets you set goals and grades your focus level. Set the timer for two hours of studying figures. Do nothing but study during that time. Are you reading or watching a video about how to implement a technique from an online course? Count that as studying, as long as you attempt it afterwords. It's still time spent learning.

Make other timers for plein air, architecture, color theory, whatever you want to get better at. If it's something that's really boring to you, set the timer for 30 minutes. All that matters is that you do it. Finish up with an hour of imaginative drawing and crap doodles, or create a finished piece on the large paper, implementing what you've learned. Use a different sketchbook for every subject. Then you will be able to clearly see how much you have improved in each subject.

Knowing the timer is on and you will break your focus "grade" by taking a break will help your concentration, and knowing a different subject is just around the corner will motivate you to keep going with what you are struggling with.

I went from filling a sketchbook in a year to several in a month this way.

[Anonymous No.3929113]

>>3929109
It's funny. Everyone can write a blog post about what they should do to make it. But almost no does what they tell others to do

[Anonymous No.3929114]

>>3929113
*almost no one

[Anonymous No.3929129]

>>3929040
>>3929060
>>3929063
>>3929073
Based and blackpilled.

[Anonymous No.3929149]

>>3929000
Greatest habit is to bring a sketchbook and sketch a lot. Nothing beats actually practicing art whenever and wherever you are

[Anonymous No.3929393]

>>3929073
>>3929045
>>3929063
>>3929040
Reminder posts like these are aimed at tricking and demoralizing upcoming artists to cull the competition
Do not be fooled anons

[Anonymous No.3929399]

>>3929109
>FLIP
where can i find it? please don't tell me it's mobile

[Anonymous No.3929412]

>>3929000
I made a breakthrough when I realized that for my attempts at developing habits to have any weight behind them, first I needed to be strong.
So I worked my way towards strength, bit by bit. First I quit going to bed late. Then I started waking early to exercise. Healthy diet, quitting porn (not jacking off, just porn) was a major ground I conquerred. Porn was making me feel extremely weak.

Not saying I'm some kind of success story, but I went from borderline suicidal to a level where I can hold non autistic conversations and actually have some friends. Sometimes I even get shit done, without procrastinating, so there's that.

[Anonymous No.3929417]

>>3929040
Back in the bucket, crab

[Anonymous No.3929421]

>>3929412
This made me smile anon :-) Good job!