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I have less than 3 months to make it or at least have something to show for my attempts at drawing before my parents will send me off to a college to get some shitty degree I don't care about. All I learnt in 5 months since I started is simple perspective, Loomis heads, gesture and rotating boxes. What are my options? I have nma subscription and the money to burn on any crash course.

>> No.4643006

Since you have money, then take a mentored class. CGMA, Weston's live workshops, Brainstorm, etc

>> No.4643078

>>4643002
pyw
oh wait you wont

>> No.4643114

Go to college, be mindful of your time and learn both your boring trade and drawing.

If by the end of education you are still not good, you now can get a job. And then you keep grinding your art skills.

If you study your school material for 1 hour every day after class, you'll pass everything comfortably.

Put the rest of your time into art. 2 hours a day would already do you plenty of good over 4 or so years of college.

>> No.4643491

>>4643002
>I have less than 3 months to make it or at least have something to show for my attempts at drawing before my parents will send me off to a college to get some shitty degree I don't care about.

The boomer ultimatum eh? You might as well move out, find any full time job, draw on the side and work your way from there, because anyone who takes on debt now will be a lifelong debt slave.

Did you study hampton? If so, post your figures.

>> No.4643498

>>4643002
Show them someone else's art
That's what I did, I opened a craig mullins painting in PS, added some layer and acted like I made it

Those dumb boomers got played hard lmao

>> No.4643540

>>4643498
do this OP.
Hell, they may even be impressed enough to send you off to a decent art school if you manage to convince them.

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>>4643002
>All I learnt in 5 months since I started is simple perspective, Loomis heads, gesture and rotating boxes.
That's actually more than half of what you need to make it already. Now do hands, feet, shoulders and you're basically good to go with figures. Read a book on drapery like Hogarth's Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery, Bradley's Drawing People: How to Portray the Clothed Figure, or Massen's Artists Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure. Now you can do clothing. Landscapes look intimidating, but a lot of it is just being good with perspective, boxes and tubes. Probably worth reading a book about drawing trees and plants. Machines are usually just lots of boxes, tubes and other simple shapes. With those lessons firmly fixed in your mind, you should be able to not only retain them but gradually improve with only 30 minutes a day of sketching and maybe a couple of hours pushing yourself to do something ambitious every week. Five hours a week. You can spare that while studying. It will probably help you study to have a hobby which forces you to concentrate on something else sometimes. I bet you spend at least five hours a week doing some pointless internet shit you would be better off cutting out of your routine.

Also, your parents (probably) love you and want what is best for you. Talk to them about your degree. If it really isn't what you want to do, then see if you can study something else, or get a low-skill job while you figure out what you want to do. A bad degree is a real wasted opportunity.

>> No.4644033

> posting in an obvious troll thread

> 2020 and /co still doesnt know ...

>> No.4644052

>>4643114
This. Only exceptionally talented people could have the chance to possibly make it in under a year, you are probably not one of those people or you would've posted your work.

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>I have less than 3 months to make it or at least have something to show for my attempts at drawing before my parents will send me off to a college to get some shitty degree I don't care about.
Fuck dude. I’m a sophomore in college and I have 2-3 years to show my parents that I can make it. And I still can’t decide if I want to put all my energy into drawing or music.

>> No.4644220

>>4644009
Why do we need to read so many books just to learn the basics? The old masters didn't learn from books, did they?

>> No.4644728

>>4644220
The old masters learned most of their craft from older masters and invented what they could not learn. Books are much cheaper and easier than finding a master to teach you.

>> No.4644783

>>4644220
>Why do we need to read so many books just to learn the basics?
Because for a myriad of dumb reasons, anons on /ic won't even consider real art education. Because reasons. Even if it's just one course, one time, for one semester, to get the kick start in the right direction. I have a degree in art, and the only books I had to buy was for anatomy and art history. Everything else was in the classroom or the studio.

>> No.4644784

>>4643002
Dude just spend this time looking for a degree that you might like and will actually give you work.
Working in art has nothing to do with art anyway. It's like you want to find true love so you become a pornstar, it's retarded. Don't do it. This is not crabbing or cynicism, really just don't do it because it's nothing like what you think it is.

>> No.4645312

>>4644220
The old masters spent a shit ton of time learning from observation that you can now learn in a fraction of the time just by reading books / watching courses.

>> No.4645667

>>4643002
If you fail and do have to go get a degree in something, choose business. It's going to be your best friend if you want to be an artist.

>> No.4649782

>>4643002
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