You can make it

[Anonymous No.4136059]

Daily Reminder,

It doesn't matter at what age you start practicing and drawing art you still can make it, and rake fat cash on patreon

[Anonymous No.4136062]

>started at 27
As much as I'd like to feel comforted, these are almost always a gross exaggeration, can any e-celeb expert check on his older stuff?

[Anonymous No.4136066]

>>4136059
>Comparing himself to an old master

Makes me feel less guilty for comparing myself to Van Gogh mainly for being an incel, starting late and being mentally ill

[Anonymous No.4136068]

>>4136062
Why would he exaggerate, most people actually want to say akin to

>Muh I started from 3, and if you didn't you are ngmi

[Anonymous No.4136940]

Smut artist is so pretentious, he compares himself with da Vinci... Your brain on COOM.

[Anonymous No.4136965]

It's sad and pathetic that so many on /ic/ equate porn patreons to "making it"

[Anonymous No.4137010]

>>4136965
make a living, not a life.

[Anonymous No.4137054]

The real question is not "starting at X"
It's "how many years to get good"

[Anonymous No.4137101]

>>4136059
What utter trash he makes. How much $$ does he get?

[Anonymous No.4137109]

>>4136059
hes pretty good, but i think hes lying

[Anonymous No.4137111]

phw

[Anonymous No.4137119]

>>4136059
any artists who made it when they started from scratch in their 40s?

[Anonymous No.4137125]

>>4137109
Very hit and miss I would say, I find his tastes and most of his execution rather vulgar but I commend him for not using photobash

[Anonymous No.4137154]

>>4137054
Depends on how you practice, and your mindset.

Take Rapoza- guy practiced for more than half of his day, with a mindset of improvement and seeking out the next thing to fail on so he could learn from it. He got big gains within the span of a year.

[Anonymous No.4137157]

>>4136965
we had sad and pathetic lives, anon.
What's your excuse for being a stuck up bitch?

[Anonymous No.4137200]

>>4137154
I think I could have the correct mindset, but sadly I can't dedicate half of my days to it.
I'd say 15 hours a week would be my limit, considering I have a full-time job...

[Anonymous No.4137243]

>>4137154
>Take Rapoza- guy practiced for more than half of his day
is there a video or something where he talks about it, breaking down how his process?

[Anonymous No.4137287]

>>4137243
not watched it yet personally but i'll bet everyone else would say the orc portrait video

[Anonymous No.4137296]

>>4137109
Bad art on a moral, ethical, and technical level.

[Anonymous No.4137408]

>>4136059
didnt firez start when he was 28

[Anonymous No.4137431]

>>4137243
>>4137287
He talks about some stuff on the bog witch video too

[Anonymous No.4137444]

>>4137431
oh yeah, this seems to be what I was looking for, thanks

[Anonymous No.4137458]

>>4137408
Yes, probably one of the oldest d/ic/ks

[Anonymous No.4137610]

I like this one
https://www.deviantart.com/algenpfleger/gallery/27635231

[Anonymous No.4137611]

>>4136059
>Hey there cutesexyrobbuts here
>Cum guzzling from /ic/ ensues
Stopped reading right there. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.4137616]

Any one remember MindCandyMan? Sucks that all CA sketchbooks are gone now

[Anonymous No.4137662]

>>4137616
This guy was crazy, definitely an inspiration.

[Anonymous No.4137680]

>>4136059
Daily reminder:
Most made pornfags are so miserable they come here to bully begs and make threads to shill themselves.

[Anonymous No.4137832]

>>4136062
I drew all the time when I was a teenager, but I didn't study fundamentals and brute forced my way with pointless lines, it didn't matter outside of drawing basic shapes, line control and misplaced confidence. Its also the same story for many others, take the comfort, its real.

[Anonymous No.4139141]

Which tutorials is he talking about, do you think?

[Anonymous No.4139172]

>>4136062
bumskee started at 25.
when you start matters far less than what you do once you have

[Anonymous No.4139211]

>>4139172
This.
>tfw been "learning" like shit for years and only just now starting to figure out what I actually need to be doing
It's not even that I wish I started earlier, it's just that I wish I was practicing better all this time.

[Anonymous No.4139280]

>>4139211
Speaking of, what's a good way of studying and practicing?

[Anonymous No.4139283]

>>4139211
lmao Why is it that whenever someone posts something like this they never explain what they did different? Help a brother out anon.

[Anonymous No.4139312]

>>4139172
To add onto that, Hal Foster started school at 27 and he's the man who Frazetta looks up to.

[Anonymous No.4139320]

>>4139283
Because what you actually need to be doing depends on who you are. In other words, you need critical thinking. Books, tutorials and paintings are all available. There are perspective, value, color, edge, shapes: keep pushing your own work higher and higher in these areas using books, references (real life images & other people's works), tutorials/workshops etc. You must do this

[Anonymous No.4139437]

>>4139320
>Because what you actually need to be doing depends on who you are.

This is it right here. At least, it's what I've found to be the only constant in learning art. If I don't know what I'm trying to accomplish, whether on a micro scale (for one drawing/project) or a macro scale (my entire process of growth), I produce garbage or else piss away the time. I'm successful proportional to the degree I understand or visualize a specific goal, and then pursue it in an ordered fashion.

People want the answer on "how" to study, but it varies from person to person, based on your goals, personality, free time, and probably other factors. You need to be to willing to try lots of things, most of which will fail, to find THE thing. It can feel so bad at times, like you're worse than you've ever been, and you have to push through the pain of incompetence anyway. If something fails, don't say oh you just can't do it or blame others, figure out what you could have done better and try again, maybe after taking a break. The good news is, as you become more knowledgeable in general and learn what learning strategies work for you, it gets easier and faster. You get more and more confident that you're making the right intuitions, because you've done so in the past, so you're more motivated to pursue a given strategy.

[Anonymous No.4139756]

>>4139437
This is good to hear, thank you.

[Anonymous No.4139762]

>>4136059
I’m pretty old but I larp as a Zoomer on my social media because I’m addicted to that yung cunny

[Anonymous No.4139769]

>>4137616
A blessing and a curse since his sketchbook was a prominent factor in the whole "gotta grind dont sleep eat or have fun ever just grind bro" era. Not to discount hard work but it spawned a lot of wack attitudes.

[Anonymous No.4139774]

>>4136059
I DONT CARE ABOUT MAKING IT I JUST WANT A GF NOW NOW NOW GIVE ME MY ART GF NOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW

[Anonymous No.4141773]

>>4137458
What in the fug happened between 2013 and 2014

[Anonymous No.4141812]

>>4141773
It is not that big of a leap: monochrome + sloppy rendering, we all went through that phase