/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.5129622]

/ic/ cares alot about soul but how do you train your soul?

[Anonymous No.5129623]

Draw like a /beg/ so you won’t intimidate the people crying about “soul”

[Anonymous No.5129624]

kindness and confidence, forgiving your mistakes, but not forgetting them
give yourself room to grow

[Anonymous No.5129640]

This is the exact definition of soul, from now on when you see someone asking about soul, refer them to this:

Soul;
A piece of art work that has (atleast) one aspect of it completely finished and realized, while also having (atleast) one aspect of it amateurishly done.

[Anonymous No.5129644]

>>5129622
Soul just means things you like.

[Anonymous No.5129685]

>>5129622
draw whatever you want, however you want. trying to "get good" in the classical sense of being able to perfectly capture a moment in life is the definition of soulless. focus on getting good at expressing what you want to.

>>5129640
dog shit definition

[Anonymous No.5129694]

>>5129622
If you have to ask, you'll never have it.

[Anonymous No.5129698]

>>5129622
>read lots of books and media by various authors to fuel your imagination.
>make things only you can make, even if you think no one else will like them. even if they are 'cliche'.
>take care of your mental health. take breaks and maybe a nice walk through a park.
>dont take life or political advice from the teeming cesspool of rodents on 4chan

>>5129640
>big_cringe.png

[Anonymous No.5129701]

>>5129685
>dog shit definition
Prove it wrong. Post a soulful artwork that doesn't follow the definition.

[Anonymous No.5129706]

>>5129701

[Anonymous No.5129720]

>>5129624
Gay, but true.

[Anonymous No.5129722]

>>5129622
By living a virtuous life. Use virtues like Courage, Temperance, Justice and Wisdom to attain the highest good.

[Anonymous No.5129729]

>>5129706
soulless
soul just means "whatever i like" and soulless just means "whatever i don't like"

[Anonymous No.5129730]

>>5129701

[Anonymous No.5129732]

>>5129701
I love this guys art

[Anonymous No.5129734]

>>5129729
What is that image lacking that makes it soulless exactly though? Soul is just a bullshit buzzword on ic but that doesn’t make it the definition, it’s just widely misused

[ta-kun No.5129738]

>>5129622
There are a lot of muscians who spend decades learning different instruments, reading every theory book and never make a single good track, it would take a master of many skills to produce them, but there is nothing of value to listen to, it would be soulless. Soul is a measure of something to be consumed based on how enjoyable and consumption is, rather than technical skills which took to make it. This can applies to music, guns, shoes, anything created, which include drawing.
In art you can simply say how fun it is to look at something. Because something can be fun to look at despite not being fully polished. Very often you have sketches and amaturish work called soul, this is caused by chocolate, wow, you are reading my essay, I really appreciate that, this is an easter egg, what I was getting at is how every process of polishing something is its own skillset, not to mention sketches and amatures being loose, and how not every piece needs a realism polish. That's why. You could definitely have soul and max render and anatomy, just look and frazetta.

[Anonymous No.5129737]

>>5129722
fart huffed detected

[Anonymous No.5129760]

Only kids can draw soul. That's why when someone starts learning to draw, their drawing has some soul (retained from childhood) and loose it over time.

[Anonymous No.5129857]

To find excellence is to have soul.

[Anonymous No.5129888]

>>5129738
>>5129644
>>5129729
this. Porn is always soulful

[Anonymous No.5130054]

>>5129706
coomer soul

[Anonymous No.5130059]

>>5129623
t. soullet that doesn't understand what soul means

[Anonymous No.5130064]

>>5129701
The only soulful thing this nigger ever made, but I don't see what aspects of it are "amateurishly done"

[Anonymous No.5130079]

4channer cant into soul, it's hopeless.
Like teaching rock to swim, that's why no one here will ever make it. You're all not fit for society.

[Anonymous No.5130326]

Soul is gesture. Prove me wrong and post soulful art without gesture

[Anonymous No.5130331]

>>5129729
That's just begging the question

[Anonymous No.5130819]

>>5129622
Stop looking at porn, it's poison for the soul. I browse this shithole with images blocked.
But it's wasted advice anyway. And making heartfelt artwork basically means you'll never go anywhere. Unless by soul you mean some anime waifu that AI could shit out in a few years then w/e

[Anonymous No.5132011]

Soul means not being american or asian.

[Anonymous No.5132031]

>>5130819
>AI could shit out in a few years
3D software for producing endless free anime girl pictures has been out for years. In my eyes the quality beats most artists, yet those artists make just as much as before from their commissions. I wouldn't wait for automation to replace human art, it never has.

Look at this 80s scifi art. Stuff like this wowed people and made money in its time. Nowadays you can produce something a thousand times better with free software like Blender, but no one pays for that. Instead they might very well pay for a crude acrylic painting of their dog in the same quality as the 80s scifi piece, in a painting style that hasn't evolved the tiniest bit in the last 500 years.

People don't pay for automated art, because why would they? There is such a thing as a law of demand and supply. Endless supply - zero value.

[Anonymous No.5132062]

>>5130819
Imagine browsing an ART IMAGE BOARD with images blocked, on the off chance that you might scroll past a sexual image and drain yourself of all soul and inspiration

[Anonymous No.5133675]

>>5129888
You just managed to infuriate me : NO it's not. Appealing to coomers for easy money is as soulless as an artist could get.
Never draw the parallel between art prostitutes and soul again.

[Anonymous No.5133677]

>>5133675
>You just managed to infuriate me
lol

[Anonymous No.5133679]

>>5130819
I agree. There was a time when this place wasnt as infested, now it's too far gone.

[Anonymous No.5133691]

>>5129622
Passion and love for the craft. Doing things for fun instead of for attention or money.

[Anonymous No.5136813]

>>5129622
Well, i'll tell you son. These is this big great book called the Holy Bible. To be close to God is to know him, you do that by reading the holy texts. Also to interact with him through prayer. I would recommend starting with Luke, The bible is built up by many books so it's ok to start wherever you like.

[Anonymous No.5136839]

>>5129622
>“The soul that can be taught is not the eternal Soul; The fundie that can be named is not the eternal Fundie.” - the sage Loo Mis

You either have the spark or you don’t

[Anonymous No.5137017]

>>5132062
>Imagine browsing an ART IMAGE BOARD with images blocked
there is no art on this board, only trashy porn

[Anonymous No.5137037]

>>5129706
the fuck is even going on in this image

[Anonymous No.5137045]

>>5129622
Have a life and something to show for it. Express your own thoughts instead of being yet another radio for someone elses thoughts and ideas.

[Anonymous No.5137048]

>>5129640
>>5129644
>>5129729
>>5129888
>>5130079
>>5132011
>>5133675
Soulless NPC responses
>inb4 redditors scream "frogposter!"
>>5136839
>>5129694
this is the only answer you should ever give to someone asking about soul. automatons deserve to suffer in confusion.

[Anonymous No.5137069]

>>5129622
meth induced psychosis

[Anonymous No.5137088]

>>5137048
wtf I love frog posting now

[Anonymous No.5137233]

>>5129622
Soul = refined taste

[Anonymous No.5137274]

heresy

[Anonymous No.5138006]

the most effective way to train soul is to draw gondolas

[Anonymous No.5139012]

soul: drawing because you want to

soulless: drawing because you have to

[Anonymous No.5139263]

>>5137048
>Theseus pepe
based and douchebag hero pilled

[Anonymous No.5139272]

>>5138006
based