/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.4055229]

>like drawing
>spend years learning and drawing and growing as an artist
>still not all that great
>make new friend
>get him into drawing
>within three months he's improved more than I have in three years
>he surpasses me and is even doing commission work
Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill myself.

[Anonymous No.4055319]

>>4055229
Fun fact: Mastershakes's eyes popping out is actually a sign of a "proper" hanging (where the hanging causes instant death via breaking the neck rather than suffocation) and that's why people that were executed by noose in the West had to wear hoods. To protect the audience from seeing their eyes pop out.

[Anonymous No.4055321]

>>4055229
ask him how he's improving so fast.
he's probably drawing 4-8 hours a day instead of shitposting here .

[Anonymous No.4055322]

>>4055229
You still didn’t beat your friend. Try harder.

[Anonymous No.4055325]

>>4055319
Which I do not understand at all, because if you are already taking the time to see a public hanging, you probably want the whole schaudenfreud package. Plus if public hangings are supposed to set an example of criminal consequences, why the heck would you remove the most disturbing part?

[Anonymous No.4055328]

>>4055325
>why the heck would you remove the most disturbing part?
you know how it is, a kid starts crying and this mom walks up and says she wants to speak to the manager

[Anonymous No.4055370]

>>4055229
That sucks man. I've been taking drawing seriously for about a year and I think I'm about to start producing pieces that I wouldn't be ashamed to show people, maybe I could even con someone into commissioning me although it would take me a really long fucking time to draw whatever it is. How much has your friend been practicing? Are you sure he hadn't drawn any before he started a few months ago? I've literally never seen a single person on this board who was commission-ready who claimed they had only been drawing 3 months.

[Anonymous No.4055395]

>>4055229
Reminds me of my piano adventures.
>play piano since I was a kid
>the only hobby I had that time
>practice a shitton
>not a virtuoso but still decently skilled to be called good
>highschool friend who's never touched an instrument in his life picks up piano
>surpasses me in every single way within a single year
My whole existence is a failure. This is why I call horseshit whenever people say that talent isn't real. I don't even care anymore, but I still cry a little inside whenever someone compares drawing to learning a musical instrument. Yes, they're probably right. It's just like the piano. And that confirms that I have not a single fucking chance of making it, no matter how much and how hard I work towards it. I'd give up, but whenever I hear a disney song or look at old disney art, I get motivated and I feel like I must do it and I'd feel like dogshit if I didn't spend the next few hours practicing.

[Anonymous No.4055557]

>>4055325
Well it's more of an issue of people having a justice boner and wanting it satiated but they don't want to see the gruesome result. Let's take execution via electrocution as an example. During an electrocution, you sit in another room and watch from a one-way mirror. But the smell of burning human activates the part of their brain that makes them have a "wait a minute" moment. And then they start getting empathetic and questioning the ethics of their actions.

TL;DR: People want justice but don't want to see the titty gritty of that justice.

[Anonymous No.4055562]

>>4055555

[Anonymous No.4055592]

Talent is real.

[Anonymous No.4055953]

>>4055395
Don’t give up. There’s something about what you wrote that makes me think your creative efforts are worth something. Even if you’re not the best, you’re making things that only you can make. I think someone will like them

[Anonymous No.4055971]

>>4055229
Big deal. Why tf would you kill yourself if someone is more talented than you? By this logic everyone but one person should commit suicide.

[Anonymous No.4056228]

>>4055395
don't worry mang

[Anonymous No.4056231]

>>4056228
Right now there is no value in innovation or style, you have to be amazing in a conventional sense.

[Anonymous No.4056385]

post your works

[Anonymous No.4056396]

>>4056231
It doesn't work if you keep flipping the script, you know

[Anonymous No.4056431]

>>4056396
You know perfectly well why this artist was hired.

[Anonymous No.4056465]

>>4055395
you probably want to practice more than you want to play, improvement depends on both

[Anonymous No.4056517]

>>4056431
>can't draw
>can't lie
>no strong opinions left
>no strong opinions right
>implicitly cannot tell a joke
Maybe some people don't... deserve, success?

[Anonymous No.4056597]

>>4055229
>Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill myself.
you are great at finding the spark in others

[Anonymous No.4056706]

>>4055229
Challenge yourself. Always change what you do. Never stick to one process, never settle for a shortcuts. Don't avoid something you cant draw. Learn it. Study, do a lot of studies, whenever you have the free time.

[Anonymous No.4056807]

>>4055229
I bet you're an atheist :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel

[Anonymous No.4056905]

>>4055971
>By this logic everyone but one person should commit suicide.
That doesn't sound like a bad idea.

[Anonymous No.4056908]

>>4056517
kek

[Anonymous No.4056915]

>>4055321
This

>>4055229
From what I've observed for years, the reason people don't improve is either drawing only when they feel like it (waiting for inspiration) or staying in their comfort zone not allowing themselves to make mistakes, or lack of self reflection. Chances are you don't practice correctly.

[Anonymous No.4056947]

>>4056228
What a good answer.

Though, the reason why people improve so much faster than others is that sometimes they are lucky to have just come across the right information in the right order at the right time and it just "clicks". Also, they probably practice 8-10 hours a day, like many people do when they get obsessed.

[Anonymous No.4058843]

>>4056807
exactly, i bet OP is white.

[Anonymous No.4060458]

>>4055395
>>4055229
Calm down niggas that's because your actual talent isn't art but teaching

[Anonymous No.4063529]

>>4055592
this. i could draw without trying as a kid, while other kids were amazed and asked me how i did it. i had no answers.

[Anonymous No.4063535]

>>4055229
You're probably just an idiot while your friend actually uses his brain

[Anonymous No.4063649]

>>4055229
>Mr. Miyagi showing Daniel Son how to catch fly and Danial Son surpasses master

[Anonymous No.4063662]

>>4063529
pyw

[Anonymous No.4066703]

>>4055229
You should feel proud!
That's your friend and he obviously found the right path.
Ask him for help!