/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3947859]

anon, let it go.
it is not a sin to drop something close to your heart for the right cause.
there are those graphic novel series where daydreaming about it won't create any progress, and that story you've been building up in your head since highschool is one such.
i know how you feel, anon. you are determined to make this series happen, you do not like the idea of throwing it all away. i know because i too have experienced these feelings.
but its because you cherish this creation that you must make it perfect, hence why you're too afraid to start, because it's "too soon" or your skills "haven't developed enough yet"

please, drop your restraints, drop this epic fantasy series and start drawing something else already. you have the talent, my scanners sensed it.
if you don't drop it now and try moving onto other things, you will never mature as an artist
just, let it go

[Anonymous No.3947866]

>>3947859
quitter

I might stop today, but tomorrow I will start again. You will not.

[Anonymous No.3947867]

>>3947859

okay! teehee!

[Anonymous No.3947879]

>>3947859
get out of my head

[Anonymous No.3948102]

>>3947859
I've honestly been thinking that it's time to move on and just start over.

[Anonymous No.3948110]

>>3947859
None of that applies to me at all.

[Anonymous No.3948485]

>>3947859
"Maybe if I convince others to quit by sounding like the mentor figure I seek in my life, I'll come to terms with my own failures."

[Anonymous No.3948764]

>>3947859
It was a good read with his voice. And I'm sure it applies to 80% of /beg/, but isn't the moral a bit wrong? I thought it was leading to
>Just draw your story even if you're not good enough
Instead of
>You're never overcoming your perfectionist self, just go for something else

Though I might say I like how realistic that 2nd greentext is

[Anonymous No.3949365]

Wrong. Don't drop it.
This grand story you have going on is what's been fueling your passion for creativity since highschool, possibly even childhood. There is a vast landscape of themes and ideas and characters living in your head, and if you let it go you will kill them, thus losing the foundations that support the soul of your artistry. That story that you've had going on since you were a retarded teenager is YOUR STORY, the purest expression of your originality and creativity -- that story is YOUR SOUL, and if you let it go you will become like every other dispassionate internet artist who grinds away their work for pennies. When that story dies, you die. Your soul dies. Your passion dies. Your art dies.

Don't let it go. Don't kill it. Evolve it.

The greatest advice any amateur storyteller can learn is to TRIM THE FAT. If it's not absolutely necessary, cut it. If it's interesting but ultimately does not serve the greater themes of the narrative, cut it. If it's a setpiece that you've loved and held onto since the very beginning, but now stands out in dissonance with the rest of the changing story, cut it.
The problem isn't that you won't let it go, the problem is that you won't let it change as you do. THAT'S why you doubt your work. You still think of your story as a figment of childhood, rather than an organic entity being shaped every day just as you are, maturing -- as you are -- like fine wine.

Maybe it will never come to print. Maybe you will never adapt it into the animated series you want it to be. But more importantly: maybe one day you'll realize that it never HAD to. Because that story was always for YOU. It was your conduit for growth. The spring from which you sourced your creative energy. The lifeblood of your artistic soul.

It's been with you since the beginning bro. Don't let yourself make it without it.

[Anonymous No.3949627]

>>3949365
so much this. that's what good artists have done for centuries, we're not so different from them and we can also achieve glory

[Anonymous No.3949640]

>>3947859
Yeah you need to drop the idea of being perfect but what's with the sudden jump to needing to drop your ideas as well? I was genuinely surprised that your post took that fatalistic turn. You are mega faggot

[Anonymous No.3949647]

>>3948764
This moral is much better. You can always redo your project later, so why not just throw yourself at it right now?

[Anonymous No.3949695]

>>3949365
>But more importantly: maybe one day you'll realize that it never HAD to. Because that story was always for YOU.
Your post hit very close to home, especially this part. I'll never forget your words, and I'll look back on them every now and then. OP almost got me to discard my little world I've been thinking about since middle school.

[Anonymous No.3949699]

>>3949365
Very good post

[Anonymous No.3949830]

>>3947859 >>3949365
W-who do I believe?

[Anonymous No.3949921]

>>3949365
Is this /ic/...cuz this made me cry so fucking much. Good post, good post.

[Anonymous No.3949993]

>>3949830
beLEIEVE IN URSELF

[Anonymous No.3950016]

>>3949365
>>3947859
>tfw haven't been carrying around an idea since middle school
>at best have had constant infatuation with a few pieces of media
>can't name any artists that inspire me
>can't name any anime or comics that inspire me
>The games that inspire me have few stylistic features shared between them
>tfw have no soul to give up
>tfw never had a soul to begin with
Should I just kms?

[Anonymous No.3950037]

>>3949365

shadow alley and probe 11

onslaught and diagos.....

[Anonymous No.3950040]

>>3950016
I kinda feel the same way. I think that even if you don't have a soul, you can try creating something that has one, anon.

[Anonymous No.3950072]

>>3950016
>>3950040
We r robots anon. Machine will take over and we will succeed. ADAPT. OVERCOME

[Anonymous No.3950101]

>>3950040
An art homunculi? Sounds dangerous.
>>3950072
I'm more cyborg than robot.

[Anonymous No.3950111]

>>3947859
So what you're saying is "stop trying to achieve your dreams and cope with something else". NGMI

[Anonymous No.3950133]

>>3949365
>But more importantly: maybe one day you'll realize that it never HAD to. Because that story was always for YOU. It was your conduit for growth. The spring from which you sourced your creative energy. The lifeblood of your artistic soul.
I see it now
the light of truth

[Anonymous No.3950138]

>>3949365

[Anonymous No.3950180]

>>3950101
>>3950072
>>3950040
>>3950016
I don't think he meant that big project ideas are the only way to have soul, just that if you do have one that's gonna be where your soul is, since it's what's most important to you creatively. I'm sure you anons have your own thing too, just look a little harder.

[Anonymous No.3950552]

>>3949365
It's too early for this dele- No keep this up i love you

[Anonymous No.3950556]

>>3947859
Nice try.

[Anonymous No.3950697]

>>3949830
They are both true in their own way.

[Anonymous No.3950860]

>>3947859
What if I've got an undeveloped ideas that I want to progress with once my skills are high enough?

[Anonymous No.3951123]

>>3950860
You don't realize that even if your skills were high enough, developing the idea would still be a long slog of trial and error with hundreds if not thousands of throwaway practice drawings to test the waters. There is absolutely no reason not to start working on them now

[Anonymous No.3951232]

bros dont forget that one punch man, a worldwide hit, came from the shittiest looking webcomic. its never too early to start and wont be too late to redo things later

[Anonymous No.3951288]

>>3950180
>just look a little harder.

[Anonymous No.3951372]

>>3951288
Believe in yourself anon. I believe in you.

[Anonymous No.3951378]

>>3947859
I will absorb all your friends and you can't stop me from doing it.

My epic history will get made.

[Anonymous No.3951387]

>>3949365
I've read a lot of bullshit on this site and this is the first thing to speek to me on deep level, thanks anon I'm taking this to heart.
Also fuck you op and your bad advice

[Anonymous No.3951882]

>>3949365
I sincerely appreciate this post, anon. Godspeed.

[Anonymous No.3952085]

>>3949365
FIVE. STAR. POST.
WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT

[Anonymous No.3952283]

>>3947859

[Anonymous No.3952288]

>>3949365

[Anonymous No.3954043]

>>3949365
capped for posterity

[Anonymous No.3956394]

>>3954043
Ayyy my post got in there as well. It's probably the most profound thing I've seen on 4chan.