"When I grow up I wanna be..."

[Anonymous No.5163679]

Were you always planning to become an artist? Are you a latecomer to art? Or have you always been drawing since you were little?

[Anonymous No.5163680]

hehehe.... funny face punchline :) wtf xD

[Anonymous No.5163682]

>>5163679
>Were you always planning to become an artist?
Yes
>Are you a latecomer to art?
Yes

Life never gave me a chance, now I finally manage to produce one late in my life and now I struggle with the fact that I'm terrible and not getting any better anytime soon. My time is short and running out and I'm not gonna make it at the current pace.

[Anonymous No.5163689]

I want to be a mad scientist, inventing shit like flying robots and magic potions. So I guess artist was me realizing only fiction can get me any close to it.

[Anonymous No.5163695]

>3
Wanna be a pirate
>7
Wanna be a plastic surgeon
>10-18
wanna be an actor
-18-20
In university to become a psychologist while learning fundies and hopefully going for a master's in art (or not, studying by yourself is fun too)

[Anonymous No.5163704]

>3
Wanna be rich
>10
Wanna be rich
>18-now
Just want to be happy

[Anonymous No.5163741]

>3
Don't care
>10
Wanna be an animator
>16
School system makes me think I can't do it
>18
Guess I wanna be a developer
>22
Quits university to get into art school and follow the art dream

[Anonymous No.5163743]

>>5163682
That's an excellent drawing. You are gmi, anon!

[Anonymous No.5163761]

>>5163743
Not sure if you're joking, but that's drawn by veteran mangaka Naoki Urasawa

[Anonymous No.5163767]

I realized the odds of making a decent living as an artist were poor so I decided to study medicine and pursue visual art as an avocation

[Anonymous No.5163771]

If I don't get married I might kill myself

[Anonymous No.5163775]

>>5163761
GANBATTE KUDASAI!

[Anonymous No.5163778]

>5
want to be a pirate
>10
want to be an astronaut
>12
want to cum a lot
>14
want to cum inside girls a lot
>25
want to draw space pirates and girls I want to cum inside of
>29
want to kill myself

[Anonymous No.5163791]

>>5163743
>>5163775
mongoloid

[Anonymous No.5163793]

>>5163679
It’s been my plan for most of my life. What fucked me is that, because no one else wanted me to do it, all of my education was geared toward STEM in highschool so I disengaged thinking I would start my real life after graduating HS. Big mistake. Part of it being on the adults in my life not knowing what I wanted/needed and part of it being my fault for being stubborn and(probably) lazy.
I graduated highschool, but I lost out significantly in the discipline and ability to tolerate mental discomfort departments. Critical areas for being able to create art, let alone learn things.

[Anonymous No.5163794]

>>5163791
That's really offensive to people from Mongolia! You should go play in traffic, you dumbshit fucktard!

[Anonymous No.5163797]

>>5163794
That phrase is hurtful to transport workers, they give their life to transporting goods and personnel and facilitate our economy, they do not kill children nor deserve to be labeled as something to be avoided and afraid of.

[Anonymous No.5163800]

>>5163797
>they do not kill children
Sometimes they do though. That's a simple fact.

[Anonymous No.5163802]

>>5163800
mongoloids are sometimes mongolians

[Anonymous No.5163819]

>>5163793
Same, I aimlessly went from a STEM-oriented high school into software engineering, for some godforsaken reason - burned out so hard I didn't even finish my college, would rather kill myself than work with a computer at this point.

I've been drawing my whole life but without any goal or direction. Right now at 24 I'm also far too lacking in mental fortitude for any "serious" art career; but I'm still hoping to get good enough to at least make some extra money from commissions, even if it's the proverbial gay furry porn lol

[Anonymous No.5163885]

I wanted to make manga since high school, but due to life stuff I had a... long delay when it comes to actually getting started. Better late then never of course!

[Anonymous No.5163912]

>>5163778
based

[Anonymous No.5163925]

>>5163679
been drawing since I was a teenager, and I lowkey always wanted to make some Berserk tier shit that would not only be great, but also pay my rent. but I also always thought (rightfully so) that art is a questionable carrier choice so went into IE direction with my education. dunno if its because of covid or higher education in general, but holy shit do I absolutely despise math now and wish I could just draw my shit without losing sanity and sleep because of a looming math exam... prolly gonna drop out, find some (any) job and just use my free time for those stupid drawings.

[Anonymous No.5163926]

i like to cook, but it doesn't make me a chef, and i have no aspirations to become one

[Anonymous No.5163941]

>>5163925
Yeah, not ideal for f-35s.

[Anonymous No.5163968]

I just want to draw and get paid for it

>Draw porn
10 years ago sure, nowadays too much competition cheapens the product

[Anonymous No.5163974]

>>5163679
No, I did art for GCSE/A-level and doodled on the side but I did it because they were easy As rather than because I wanted to carry it on. At the time I only ever considered doing STEM stuff (I disliked showing others my writing or talking about my opinions, still do if it's not anonymous).
I did not go into STEM because of ADHD making basically any university course impossible for me (I tried twice). I'm a hikkineet now and have been for a year+, very wary about starting any serious commitments because I feel I'll just crash and burn yet again. I like drawing and find it comparitively easy to focus on, but I'm unsure how seriously I should take it.

[Anonymous No.5163979]

>>5163968
10 years ago you couldn't make a fraction of what you can now with porn, I would know.

[Anonymous No.5164047]

>>5163680
started drawing roughly 6 months ago (including 1 and a half months break)

[Anonymous No.5164049]

>>5164047
wait, 5 months?, wtf I'm still so young.

[Anonymous No.5164189]

>>5163778
chad path

[Anonymous No.5164226]

>>5163679
Drawing since I was little and everyone just encouraged me to keep drawing. I can't remember the point where I started taking it seriously, though, or if I'm even "serious" right now to begin with. I like what I do and I want to keep improving, though.

[Anonymous No.5164233]

>>5163679
When I was like 6 I thought maybe engineer because I liked LEGO and robots, but aside from that it's always been art.

[Anonymous No.5164236]

>>5163741
Do NOT go to art school.
Learn art on your own and follow your dream in that way, but art school is a mistake.

[Anonymous No.5164239]

I did graphic design and website coding for few years until I completely burned out and never wanted to do it again. Then I was supposed to become a musician but that didn't happen, I still play every now and then for fun. Then I wanted to become an animator, but that didn't happen. Now I'm a semi successful actor, just recently had my first voice role which is something that I've always dreamed about. I think about going back to animating and voicing my own stuff.

[Anonymous No.5164256]

>4
Started drawing and fucking love it. Make grandma mad because I keep taking her fancy letterhead stationery to scribble on
>12
Find brother's stack of comics, want to be comic artist
>18
college and go for programming, fail mandatory accounting class (???), change major to graphic design and it's fun but still want to make comics
>22
make friends, first major relationship, turns abusive, have nothing and want to suicide
>27
get life back on track, get into making indie comics with positive reception, but now so insecure and mentally crippled that I feel like I wasted my life

[Anonymous No.5164772]

> 3
Marine Biologist, Librarian to a great athenaeum.
>10
Astrophysicist
>20
Concept artist

[Anonymous No.5164781]

>>5163778
my man

[Anonymous No.5164806]

>>5163679
16
I wanna be able to get good at art
18 turning 19
Still not that good

[Anonymous No.5164902]

>when there are people 10 years younger than me on /ic/
nooo....

[Anonymous No.5164974]

>3
Cowgirl
>6
Veterinarian
>9
Writer
>12
Mangaka
>15
Psychiatrist
>18
Artist
>21
Geologist
>24
Surface Design Artist

I draw coom right now, I just want to make a living with art.

[Anonymous No.5165406]

>>5163679
>4
want to be a draftsman like my dad
>10
want to be a draftsman like my dad
>14
want to be a draftsman like my dad
>18
want to be a draftsman like my dad without going 50k into debt
>25
want to be a draftsman like my dad
>30
Still haven't made it, but want to be a draftsman like my dad, maybe an illustrator too

[Anonymous No.5165462]

>>5163679
>3
Wanna be paleontologist
>6
Wanna draw
>9
Wanna be chef
>12
Wanna be roboticist
>15
Wanna be circus acrobat
>21
Wanna be programmer
>25
Wanna be toy designer
>31
Wanna quit job
>34
Wanna make drawings but not be known as an artist

[Anonymous No.5165505]

>3
>11
flash artist or mangaka
>14
Automobile designer
>16
guitarist
>18
Die
>21
That guy on exhentai
>25 now
Making bunker website and don't fucking die

[Anonymous No.5165508]

>>5165505
Also don't become this guy
https://youtu.be/mhO4jV9WCII

[Anonymous No.5165509]

Lol I’m 18 get fuck.
I’ve been on /ic/ since I was 16 and I’m grinding like Asian

[Anonymous No.5165580]

>>5165509
MOOODDDDDDDS

[Anonymous No.5165671]

>>5165509
wtf

[Anonymous No.5165674]

>>5165509
u wan sum fuck??

[Anonymous No.5165705]

>12
Want to look at paintings of hands
>16
Want to study irl hands, up close
>21
Want to collect hands
>33
Just want to live a quiet life

[Anonymous No.5165706]

>5
want to be a veterinarian
>14
want to be a comic artist
>18
want to be an animator
>20
want to die
>25
want to stay inside my room forever and forget the world outside


>>5163778
based

[Anonymous No.5165741]

>>5163679
>Were you always planning to become an artist? Are you a latecomer to art?
No I played Neir and watched a Mikeymegamega video on youtube on his 2b fan art and drew along. 4 years later I'm still drawing.
>Or have you always been drawing since you were little?
I didn't give a shit about art and failed at school. I fell for the STEM meme and got a boring degree and job

[Anonymous No.5165785]

>>5163778
we've all been there.

[Anonymous No.5165794]

>>5163695
>21- wanna be a woman

[Anonymous No.5165803]

>3
chilling
>7
merchant banker
>14
artist and programmer
>17
became programmer
enter Finance/STEM in uni
>18
became investor
>19
became classical musician at uni
>22
begin taking art seriously this year
wanna do advanced maths

honestly can't stop winning tbqh

[Anonymous No.5165805]

>>5165705
>Just want to live a quiet life
This is where I'm at too, fren.
>>5165803
You sound insufferable.

[Anonymous No.5165806]

>>5165803
and yet you come to coomer/crabbiest board on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.5165809]

>>5165805
>>5165806
I'm a ragin' narcissist.
Pro-tip: buy solar/renewable etfs

[Anonymous No.5165811]

>9
Just wanna stay in my room and play games

>14
Wanna be a nurse
>Fails to get into medicine school, goes to normal high school

>18
Wanna be an english teacher
>fails to become an english major, starts studying art history

>21
>depression
>memory issues caused me to fail uni
gonna drop everything and focus on getting into an art academy and becoming a scultor.

>hope dies last frens

[Anonymous No.5165813]

>>5165811
You can do it brah. Pace yourself and you'll make it, we all believe in you.
Also buy solar stocks

[Anonymous No.5165814]

>>5165803
>crayon drawing at 3
LOOK MOM I'M AN ARTIST!
>buy 1 stock
LOOK MOM I'M AN INVESTOR!
>print hello world in python
LOOK MOM I'M A PROGRAMMER!
>>5165809
>Pro-tip: buy solar/renewable etfs
Literally no one asked.

[Anonymous No.5165818]

>>5165814
Bro live a little. Unsolicited advice on an anonymous image board is worth a punt.

[Anonymous No.5165822]

>>5165818
broooo, just buy apple stocks 40 years ago XD

[Anonymous No.5165828]

>>5165822
bro Proko 2.0 is the next apple.

[Anonymous No.5165880]

>>5165813
tnx fren.
gonna learn how to trade stocks

[Anonymous No.5165883]

>>5165880
Don't listen to him. Buy gamestop stocks.

[Anonymous No.5165900]

>>5165880
Learn but don't actually buy yet. Too much uncertainty and decadence. (markets fucked)
eg. GME, don't touch that shit
>>5165883

Read the Intelligent Investor by B. Graham.

Do Loomis, etc though. If you have a passion for art you'll make it, we're all gonna make it brah.

[Anonymous No.5165911]

>>5165883
If you wanna help fuck over a few retarded hedge fund managers sure, but not if you want to make money for yourself.

[Anonymous No.5166659]

>>5163679
wow what a liar

[Anonymous No.5166677]

>23
Just want to make time for a fulfilling hobby in my life as well as work towards my career. Hopefully establish a healthy work life balance.

[Anonymous No.5166682]

>>5163679
Nope
Yes
Nope
And no I'll never make it and keep giving up. Sometimes it's fun to drop a doodle in a draw threads though. Too hard to keep studying when I have actual work things to study and my soul and body feels dead.

[Anonymous No.5166683]

>>5166659
wtffff

[Anonymous No.5167589]

>4-12
Draw occasionally but never actually had any plans for it
>12-19 (I graduated late)
Basically only draw in school when I'm bored
>20
Join the military, not thinking about drawing at all
>21
Realize that I don't wanna die having done nothing in the grand scheme of things but make money for other people, start taking drawing seriously but now I barely any time

Honestly thinking about possibly just coasting through my contract and maybe using my GI bill to go to art school. I'll be 24 then. I'm not sure though because it's really risky financially but I hate spending 5 days a week 8 hours wasting my time. At least if I worked an art job it'd force me to improve. It's like I'm forced to choose between living a life where I'm comfortable but unsatisfied, or a life where I might be more satisfied but also probably poor

[Anonymous No.5167614]

>6-13
scribbles in schoolwork, notebooks
>14-16
golden ages, didnt give a shit about improvement and everything was pure passion and hornyness
>17 and beyond
fuck art, drawing is a shit

[Anonymous No.5167626]

>>5163679
>Were you always planning to become an artist?
No
>Are you a latecomer to art?
Depends on what you count as late. I would say yes, but I started when I was 18 and now I'm 22.

My only regret is I didn't spent that time well, but at least I kept it up.

[Anonymous No.5167629]

>>5165705
Did you become a serial killer?

[Anonymous No.5167637]

>0-16
just want to play league of legends
>17-20
Suddenly, out of nowhere, want to become a mangaka

[Anonymous No.5169061]

>>5163679
I always wanted to make cartoons.

[Anonymous No.5169065]

>>5164256
im sorry to hear anon please dont see your past as a waste there is plenty of future ahead

[Anonymous No.5169074]

>>5163679
>5
artist
>12
portrait artist
>15
architect
>17
grades not good enough... something where i can draw a lot
>20
animator
>25 (now)
working as animator

[Anonymous No.5169138]

>>5163679
I didn't want to be anything and I still don't.

[Anonymous No.5169156]

>>5169138
literally me

[Anonymous No.5169163]

>>5169156
I'm 28. I get by, but until someone comes along to pay me to wank, read and play games then I will never have the career I want.
Just realised I wish I were a camgirl/twitch whore.

[Anonymous No.5169205]

>>5163682
Wrong mindset
You get better with time given that you study the fundamentals first
Life is long, and it's all yours, so do what you want to do even if it means starving to death

[Anonymous No.5169209]

>>5163778
>5
cum a lot and draw
>10
cum a lot and draw
>15
cum a lot and draw
>20
cum a lot and draw
>22
cum a lot and start learning fundies, find /ic/
>24
I am now here

[Anonymous No.5169290]

>>5163679
>Were you always planning to become an artist?
No

>Are you a latecomer to art? Or have you always been drawing since you were little?
Was a typical case of "the art kid" in school, was always told how great I was at drawing (I wasn't) so stagnated until my 20's. Still a long way to go but I'm more aware of what's lacking and how to fix it, it's just getting around to doing it.


>5
Want to be a vet

>17-20
Fail most of my A-Levels, become a shut-in until parents help me get jobs to get me out the house.

>21-25
Keep a consistent part time job, take the odd batch of commissions now and then.

>25-27
Quit part-time job to work solely on commissions. I keep considering trying to find a basic part time job again so that I can stop commissions to work on improving, but art is all I'm really comfortable with doing.
No real plans for what I want to do in the future, but if I can work up to making a comfortable living then I'd be happy with that.

[Anonymous No.5169301]

>>5169290
how many hours a week do you spend on commissions that taking a part time job would provide more time to practice?

[Anonymous No.5169315]

>>5169209
are you still cumming a lot?

[Anonymous No.5169329]

>Were you always planning to become an artist?
Since 8th grade
>Are you a latecomer to art? Or have you always been drawing since you were little?
Who HASN'T been drawing since childhood? Are there people who exist who didn't draw as kids? I've been drawing seriously since 8th grade, but always did an amount of doodling. Started drawing anime in 6th

[Anonymous No.5169342]

>>5169301
I honestly couldn't say, I'm not very disciplined with it and I don't keep track - I just take a batch of commissions and try and get them done within a set time frame (usually a month). Though, it'd be less about making more time to practice and more that I'd not be using up my "art time" on commissions. Sometimes I find it hard to sit at the tablet for a length of time and to get stuff done, so I end up using those moments on just work instead of practice/personal stuff.

It's something that could easily be solved if I could make a schedule and keep it but for some reason I really struggle with that. I had one a while ago and things were going well (study in the morning, work in the afternoon, relax in the evening) but I fell off the wagon and haven't been able to get back on.

[Anonymous No.5169360]

I regret the times when I thought I am one of those special art kid at school just because I draw better than all my classmates, little did I know that world is bigger than my classroom.

Middle school, started to realize that there are more artistic kids in my school, join a few drawing & painting events, I was like, "wow, they got some good and vibrant styles"

Highschool, another painting events, I was fucked. I am nothing. Garbage drawing.

Now I'm learning fundies, hoping to be able to draw properly. Switch learning between loomis and norling at the moment.

[Anonymous No.5169362]

>>5169342
have you tried just timing yourself? time your drawing time, stop the timer for anything that isn’t drawing, no matter how mall, taking a piss, getting a glass of water, finding something to play in the background, etc
most likely, the actual time working will be pathetic, so try and get the time up every day
also, try to steer yourself towards what you want to do in art with commissions
for example drawing drains me really fast, I struggle to top 4 hours a day, but when I’m painting I easily get 7 hours of pure work, so try and eliminate the shit you don’t like and maximise the stuff you enjoy doing, the subject is largely irrelevant as long as it’s not anything turbo autistic like ttrpg character illustration for people convinced they’re master world builders and give you extremely detailed oc donut steels with zero sense of design and expect you to produce what they have in their head exactly

[Anonymous No.5169448]

>>5169362
I do now and then, when I remember to! I have a timer that can be linked to a program so that it stops counting whenever you leave the window or become inactive.

>the actual time working will be pathetic
Usually it is, yeah. I get distracted alot so 4 hours at the screen could easily be 2 of actual work on a bad day, but it feels just as tiring as if it had been the full 4 hours.

>but when I’m painting I easily get 7 hours of pure work, so try and eliminate the shit you don’t like and maximise the stuff you enjoy doing
I feel the same about painting, once I'm into it then I can go for hours - it's mainly getting into it that's the problem. I can try streamlining the drawing phase or doing them a few at a time instead, get them out the way so that I can just crack on with colour. Thankfully the DONUT STEAL ocs have seemed to whittle away after price raises+conversion rates and clients are usually pretty chill, it's just the getting shit done part that gets me.

Thank you for the advice anon! I have a batch to finish so I'll try put it into practice, starting with keeping that timer on.

[Anonymous No.5169621]

I wanted to be an artist since I was a young kid. I had a natural talent for it which was encouraged by adults and I did my best to learn as much as possible during school. When I graduated high school I became a fucking NEET but I continued learning and started doing digital drawing with a tiny wacom tablet and a net book. I spent most of my time drawing for draw threads on 4chan, first in /ksg/, then on /x/, /v/, eventually joined the /vp/ game project designing pokemon and maps and finally ended up on /tg/ where I first caught the attention of someone willing to pay for my art. I drew a few things for the website Roll20 when they first opened their shop. Then my dad died and I had to get a real job. My brother got me a job as a dishwasher at a bar, where I became an alcoholic and worked my way up through the kitchen for 5 years until I eventually took over as the head chef. I kept drawing through that time, but gave up on improving and working as an artist and changed gears to wanting to become a famous chef. I got very good at cooking and and enjoyed it a lot, but last year I finally realized that no amount of hard work and skill was ever going to get me out of the fucking weeds and I'd always be a poor, so I quit my job and am now trying to go back to being an artist.

[Anonymous No.5169674]

>>5164256
I hope you really get better anon.i know how it feels .im almost 30 and stoped talking to friends i had since i was practically 15 yo
I allways worked in jobs i didnt like nor care ,in fact i hated those .been working since my 19s .i lost my last job 2 years ago.i do independent work form tine to time but basically i cannot find anything lasting .im living whit my gf and feel like a parasite cause she basically bring dinner home .i felt like im not worth a damn .but you know what? I decided i got almost the doble of time i allready spent in this earth yet to live.and that makes me realize that is a lot of time to practice the skills i allways was afraid to develop .im gonna practice till i get enough good to work of this.in the mean time i know eventually im gonna find a job and keep living .cause thats whay ppl do .just keep going .and eventually thing will be better.
I send you a big hug anon .really i hope you realize it is not the end.but a begining to other chapter in life

[Anonymous No.5169688]

to some extent yes.
>between age 3~10: "i want to be an artist/mangaka"
then i get told artists/mangaka don't make money and will be forever homeless
>11~13: "ok... i want to be a fashion designer then"
because i wanted to be "cool" and that was the closest thing i can think of between character designing (my true dream) and what's normie acceptable
>13~16: "nevermind, i want to be an actor"
taking normie route sent me on a path of narcissism only to fail and burn and realize i'm too introverted to perform on stage convincingly except if i wanted to be cast as the michael cera type.
>17: "wait, there's a school for drawing for video games and tv?"
i discovered a little late that concept art was a thing.
>29: "i hate drawing for mobile game apps i wanna draw manga."
currently pursuing... wish me luck bros.

[Anonymous No.5169696]

>6
Truck driver
>9
Explorer
>13
Sit at home all day and play video games
>16
Electrician
>17
Nurse
>21
Got nursing liscense
>22
Enjoy nursing but part of me wishing to be locked in my room 24/7 drawing, surviving off of coom art

[Anonymous No.5169707]

i wanted to be an artist but my parents didn't because they said i'd end up poor. so i gave up on my dream and just sit in my boy room instead and rot away

[Anonymous No.5169829]

>6
Army man
>12-14
Animator
>15-18
Played music, did dance
>18
Go to college, drop out, depression, video games, occasionally draw something for fun but poorly.
>20
Join the Marine Corps. Infantryman. Literally kill people. Lose friends.
>24
Get out of Marine Corps, return to dysfunctional family, dying father, insane mother. More depressed then ever. Start work driving buses. Sociopath mother regularly sucking finances dry. Start drawing for fun at work.
>25
Fuck this, wageslaving and I don't even get to have the fruits of my labor, 20k in credit card debt. I struggle to relate to most people. Quit my stressful job. Decide to get serious as fuck about art.

If this is what life is, then I'm at least going to do something I enjoy.

[Anonymous No.5169950]

>3
Start drawing
>5
Want to be an illustrator in the future
>16
Start preparing for art uni
>19
Enter art uni
>21
Get a degree and a job at an illustration studio
>22
Leave the job and start my own business as a freelance illustrator
>25
Still at it

Technically I'm still shit but I don't mind as long as I'm making money. I don't know anyone in my industry who hasn't been drawing since early childhood. Also, art skill is overrated, it's more about how you market yourself.

[Anonymous No.5171119]

>>5163679
pure
>wanted to be animator and made animations since like 10
>decided to learn to draw when 14
>study seriously at 16
>now in college
>will be working in industry / freelance / make a game / do fury coom comisions. within a few years
As long as I can make art my job i'll be a happy camper

[Anonymous No.5171122]

>>5163679
Why is this guys art and humor so insufferable

[Anonymous No.5171124]

>>5164256
still young, take control faggot, you know how it goes and you know its true stop crying lol

[Anonymous No.5171160]

>>5163679

[Anonymous No.5171171]

>>5163679
Latecomer at the age of 15. I should've been here at a much younger age.

[Anonymous No.5171211]

>>5163679
I've wanted to be a cartoonist since I was 13. Public school art teachers crushed my dream into a fine paste.
Now I'm 28 and starting over with drawing classes between 14hr shifts.

[Anonymous No.5171245]

>>5163679
i had no plans when i was a kid and so nothing has really changed much

[Anonymous No.5171249]

>>5165811
i beliv in u don suiside pls

[Anonymous No.5171755]

>>5163679
Everytime he makes a comic he fucks it up with the same mistake.
Here: the punchline is improved.

[Anonymous No.5171756]

>>5163778
Yes.

[Anonymous No.5171775]

>5
want to be an astrologer
>10
want to be mangaka
>14
want to be illustrator
>15
want to be coom artist
>18
want to be character designer
>20
want to be comic artist
study engineering for financial security
>23
make a cool million off crypto
>24
study programming to be game dev

>>5165803
kek almost sounds like me

I just wanted to make enough money to draw

[Anonymous No.5171782]

>>5165811
bicth no one get alzhiemers that young whatever meds you're taking stop taking them your brain can still recover

[Anonymous No.5171784]

>>5163679
>>5163679
>4
>wanted to be a wrestler
>"lol anon that's unrealistic, you'll never be strong enough, be a doctor instead."
>even as a 4 year old i somehow had enough competence to know that being a doctor would kill me both emotionally and literally
>12
>wanted to make video games
>lived in an area and era where the only vidya developers were 3 large AAA companies and 100+ indie dev teams
>give up on video games cause i was 99.9% certain i'd end up becoming just another indie dev that lives in their moms basement
>16+
>no sense of direction. want to be a ceo of something but know my parents are dirt poor so i can't start a business.
>18+
>forced to climb to something to keep my sanity while wageslaving.
>use art to keep myself together
>end up wanting to make manga, however childish that sounds, because its my only way out of wageslaving myself to death for the rest of my life
>can't imagine myself working a soul crushing corporate job cause covid taught me that everyone is just a replaceable cog that can be fired on the spot
>now want to live as a free artist that works from home without having to rely on anyone or needing to care about anyone's opinion

[Anonymous No.5171788]

>>5171784
cling to something*

[Anonymous No.5171798]

>>5163679

>Were you always planning to become an artist?

No

>Are you a latecomer to art? Or have you always been drawing since you were little?

I doodled like any other kid when I was little, but I didn't become an artist til I was 26 (currently 30).

My current trade is entertainment production; while doing art for a living would be nice, I don't mind keeping it a hobby so that work doesn't suck my enjoyment out of it.

[Anonymous No.5171806]

>my only options for improving lie between caustic crabs who offer no helpful assistance beyond "le learn fundamentals" (fuck you no help) and overly stylized russians who can't fluently speak english, let alone meaningfully prescribe any sort of assistance
Time to drink another bottle

[Anonymous No.5173635]

>>5171755
so much worse. You don't have the slightest clue on design.

[Anonymous No.5173970]

I'm schitzo/bipolar so I constantly need some sort of distraction from the devastating reality that I will eventually lose all touch with reality. It could have been anything, it just happened to be art. I don't particularly care if anyone sees it, my friends push me into releasing it.

Renowned or ignored, everyone is eventually forgotten, so the only thought that brings me joy is being apart of this unbroken chain of inspiration (The artists I admire admired other artists that inspired them to be artists, all the way back to the dawn of time) if I can bring even one person inspiration or solace them I'm happy, but I hate how narcissistic such fantasies feel

[Anonymous No.5174090]

>>5163679
>10
Wanna be a pilot
>14
>Family and school pushes the engineer, doctor, lawyer shit
Decide that out of my options that I want to be an engineer because I was good at math and I hated science and public speaking
>24
decided after all those years wasted in college I want to create art. I'm currently 24 and can't draw. I always enjoyed art but I was pretty much sure there was no way to make a living off it until I decided that I hate everyjob I have to do and I don't care if I starve I want to do art.

[Anonymous No.5175414]

>>5163704
same

[Anonymous No.5175424]

>>5163679
i'm an artist since i realized i can't do anityng better.

[Anonymous No.5175646]

>>5163679
>Up to 18
No idea what I wanna do. Always been a doodler though.

>18-19
I've fucked a bit with programming so I'll go to college for computer science I guess? Later took an oath to draw every day since I wanted a hobby I could see visual improvement in so I'd feel less worthless as a person.

>20-21
College is hard. This is boring. :( I want to be an artist because that sounds fun! Started grinding art harder and left college with a worthless Associate's.

>20-22
NEETlyfe, grinding to the max.

>23-25
Moved across the country to live with discord gf (We didn't last very long). Get steady Pokemon and furry coom commissions. Have to pick up a day job though. Realize being poor really kinda blows.

>Now (Almost 26)
Begun to actually think about my future for the first time. I'm at a somewhat competent intermediate level, but I'd never be employed in the industry, especially because I never tried to specialize in a particular area. I could go all in on freelancing, but I despise the marketing/business side of that path, third worlders will undercut you immensely while still making a comfortable living, and all in all it just seems like a whole lot of work only to end up drawing shit for other people while living in poverty. I've also gained an urge to explore new disciplines, so I've decided to go back and finish my CS degree while leaving art as a side hustle. Yes I am shameless. Fuck being poor.

[Anonymous No.5175812]

>>5163679
I started drawing when I was 4 or 5. Wasn't exactly gifted, but I liked it.
Never learned to draw properly (i.e. I never actually studied the subject).
I was drawing pretty much everyday through highschool.
When I was 20, I tried joining a school.
Didn't work out: I was an undisciplined idiot, and left after the first year. Also, seeing how good some other people in my class were discouraged me enormously, and I sorta stopped drawing after that.
Recently, I've been trying to get back in the game, but it feels very hard to learn the technique by myself, without any actual pointers.

[Anonymous No.5175825]

>>5175812
Also, I have only ever drawn single characters.
I can't do backgrounds or landscapes.
My anatomy and my perspective are less-than-stellar.
All my drawings feel stiff and lifeless.

[boxman No.5176084]

oh boy here we go

>5 (1997)
I wanna work for nintendo!
>10 (2002)
I wanna work for nintendo, but maybe I'll just start with fangames first.
>15 (2007)
I wanna work for nintendo, and yeah pixel art will never go out of style! Glad I'm working on my pixeling skills!
>18 (2010)
>DEAR SON GO BE A DOCTOR OR ELSE WE AINT PAYING 4 COLLEGE ~LOVE RUSSIAN PARENTS
...oh ok no art school i guess then. (I didn't like hipster biddies anywho...;_;)
>20 (2012)
Well ok , pre-med isn't SO bad...at least i get to draw cool dissected mouses because i work in thsi lab.
>21(2013)
Uhmmm gee this organic chemistry and upper division microbiology is kinda hard, maybe i can solve it by popping more adderall/smoking more newports/chugging more cough syrup!
>later that semester parents come visit
>SON WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS APARTMENT MESS JESUS CHRIST YOU SCHIZO LET ME SEE YOUR GRADES
>F
>F
>F F F F all around gpa = 0.90

>ALRIGHT ITS BACK HOME WITH YOU
>parents no please i love austin TX this place is so neat!

>Alright we'll give you one more chance, but you're moving apartments to somewhere cheaper, and you're switching majors because clearly you don't give a fuck about medicine and you have all your gen ed's anyway.

>move to hostel where you can rent your room out etc

>change major to ART FINALLY
>and for one glorious semester boxman didn't hate life, annnddd

>Parents: you know what philosophy is probably you're best bet at getting a degree the fastest, we're not paying for all these art classes
>BBBBBBBBBUT MY ART LOCKER AND TTHE ART HOS

(continued)

[boxman No.5176086]

>>5176084

>23 (2015)
Bowman is a philosophy major now! Ok take philosophy of aesthetics, thats like art, pretty neat! take philosophy of christianity! OK super neat! ok whats next? philosophy isn’t so bad-
ENTER FORMAL LOGIC AND BORING ASS UPPER DIVISIONS
no no no UPPER DIVISIONS MY ONLY WEAKNESS
maybe i can solve it by popping more adderall/smoking more newports/chugging more cough syrup! and this time I gonna drop Acid for the first time too!

wowowowWOWOWOWwowowowow kabbbballlllaaahhhh get really into kabbalah and the tree of life ohhmmmmmmmm

>24 (2016)
Renter stage left, box mans parents,
Well he did it again honey. the rooms a mess, schizoid art on the walls, he’s failing. time to call it home.

(continued when i have more energies)

[Anonymous No.5176129]

>>5165828
>bro, invest in the tech that'd put your childrens life in misery
When will people start seeing past their wallet?
>>5167589
Choose the latter. Money is a meme they want you to buy into, the more you have the more it weighs down on you. Also, going to art school is the worst thing you could do. Just buy equipment and work nonstop on making art, the rest will come by itself.
Time is the only thing you can't have more of, spend it wisely.
>8
Pokemon designer
>15
City builder, architect dream
>18-21
military
>24
Architecture degree, realized that I'm being groomed into being a cog in a machine led by sick psychopaths with a defective moral compass
>28
Live on my own land selling art and raising my kid together with my loving wife

[Anonymous No.5176657]

>3-5
"wow you're so good at drawing, maybe you'll be a cartoonist someday"
cool
>6-10
maybe i can do cartooning
>10
i think i'd enjoy animation, i love cartoons and games and movies & shit
>13-18
realizing drawing dicks on everything won't provide a good future for me
>18-19
i wanna be a vet i love animals
>my cat dies a year later
>20-21
maybe i should return to art & draw shit
>oops digital age NOPENOPENOPE
>39
learning fundies over again, maybe i can at least post a few cancerous memes online that only i understand

i hate hands so bad

[Anonymous No.5177838]

Age 6-26 I want to be rich

I'm 26 now and I still want to be rich.

Porsche 911 I'm coming for your booty. I can't wait to cum all over the back engine of that seductress.

[Anonymous No.5177857]

>>5176657
>cels vanishing from the earth made anon stop drawing for 20 years
I'm sorry, what?

[Anonymous No.5178072]

>>5177838
based

money does buy happiness if you're smart with it

[Anonymous No.5178118]

>>5177857
the fast-forward process doesn't matter here, only the here and now. at least i'm picking up where i left off, that's what matters most.

[Anonymous No.5178174]

Every adult that saw me draw knew that I would grow up to be a pro artist. Never had any extra instruction or direction as a kiddo, I just liked drawing on my own because I was an only child with parents who had a punch a clock for a living. Painted trad for the first time in 13' and I've been on the pain train ever since. Now I do landscape painting in an area famous for landscape painting so here I am competing with the best of them. If I told myself as a kid that my work would be in private collection hanging next to Benjamin Champney and Frank Shapleigh I wouldn't know what the fuck I was talking about.

Here's to the true painting goblins out there.

[Anonymous No.5178509]

>>5163679
I can't be the only one who wants to fuck Shen

[Anonymous No.5178542]

>7
paleontologist
>10-14
guitarist
>15-21
computer engineer (graduating this year)
>21-23
artist

[Anonymous No.5178553]

>>5178509
There's been tons of r34 of him back in the day, wasn't there? I mean just search "shen porn", he has literally more pics on google images than the League of Legends character lmao! Most of it is a female version, but there's one pic up top of that search with him as male, and it is admittedly pretty hot-

[Anonymous No.5178560]

>>5165580
retard

[Anonymous No.5178579]

>3-???: archaeologist, zoologist
>???-22 translator, traveler, reporter
>22-24 dead
>25 artist
>26-28 N/A (on meds)
>28-31 still artist but mostly dead
>31 dead
fml

[Anonymous No.5178588]

Ah, why not. Maybe I'll learn something about myself as I write this.

>Grade 1-5
Doodled stick figures a lot but otherwise wasted most of my time playing Vidya. People were actually impressed by my stick figures too since they would actually have gesture and soul.

>Grade 6-12
Played Vidya literally 24/7 or whenever I had a chance.
Stopped doodling completely.
Became an insecure coombrain

>College
Still played Vidya but got into Anime.
Was a degenerate for most of this time with my figurines and anime stickers.
Depression asf
Learn Japanese for 2 years and get pretty good at it.
Learn to draw anime for 1 year and still suck at it despite almost 1000 hours of grinding

>Post College (Now)
Got useless Associates
Allowed to be NEET bc of Covid (thank you!)
Wasted almost 6 months being depressed.
Started to want to change shit.
Now I write 5 hours a day and draw 3 hours a day.
I'm not that great at both but hopefully this pandemy lasts long enough for me to be allowed to leech off my parents.
I'm shameless lmao

[Anonymous No.5178597]

>>5178588
Don't feel bad about "leeching", as long as you're doing something with yourself and learning new skills. Right now you're not even technically a NEET, you're in serious training for your future writing/drawing profession - and anyone should understand that desu.

[Anonymous No.5178600]

>>5178553
broski wheres this info comin from

[Anonymous No.5178603]

>>5178600
literally search "shen porn" in google lol

[Anonymous No.5178610]

>>5178597
yeah but a month ago all I did was cry myself to sleep and jerk off whenever I wasn't listening to dank music
at least now I have satisfaction because I am working at something

[Anonymous No.5178620]

>>5177857

[Anonymous No.5178639]

>>5163679
>6
weapons designer
>11
weapons designer
>16
geologist
>18
want die
>20
maybe write a graphic novel someday

[Anonymous No.5178642]

>>5178639
Honestly at this point I'd just be suspicious if someone told me he didn't want to die at some point in his life - must be a psychopath or something!

[Anonymous No.5178655]

>>5178642
with the QOL of today's times, absolutely.

[Anonymous No.5178699]

>>5178642
>>5178655
Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio...

[Anonymous No.5179090]

>>5178542
what do you plan to do with your degree

[Anonymous No.5179108]

>age 9
manga artist
>age 10, 11, ..., 15
illustrator
>age 16, 17
existential crisis when I realize good art jobs don't exist and also that I'm a shit artist
>age 18, 19, 20
fuck, generic office job, I guess? Getting stem degree
>age 21
existential crisis when I realize sheer willpower isn't enough to make me do passionless work for the next 50 years, trying to find a plan

[Anonymous No.5179133]

>>5169315
I'm filling up a milk carton as we speak.

[Anonymous No.5179157]

>>5163682

nah man, just draw and draw and get all that drawing out. literally just start making lines, and keep on going from there. you will gmi, you will improve, you will be good, just have fun and enjoy and see what you can do!

(and maybe supplement with some exercises here and there)

[Anonymous No.5179163]

>>5163771

hey, don't kill self, live self. Marriage will come if it's what you seek - are you at a jump off point in life or are you still younger?

[Anonymous No.5179186]

>>5169074

is it good? thought about trying to be an animator but wasn't excited about the workload and politicized nature of industry

[Anonymous No.5179194]

>>5169829

hey man, I believe in you. you can do this. you are a good person who is worth the time. I feel you about the friends bit, it's tough when you see a really crazy slice of life like you have, but there are people out there who understand.

you got this bro, gmi, just keep drawing.

[Anonymous No.5179279]

>>5179090
i dont know man
going to a top school and everything with mediocre grades, couldnt land a co-op and i dont even like computers anymore
but im gonna try for some entry level programming/app dev jobs

[Anonymous No.5179298]

>>5179279
good luck, I'm planning on going a similar path. hope I don't end up hating it too. I'm really worried if I'll be able to keep art in my life while doing it though.

[Anonymous No.5179307]

>>5179298
have fun. personally i regret it because i dont think ill enjoy it as much as i thought i would going into it. I need a job thatll let me have a more creative output
which is why im going to still try for a related job for the money and draw on the side until i have a decent enough portfolio
but it all depends on you in the end so your mileage may vary

[Anonymous No.5179997]

>>5179186
It's good yeah.
>but wasn't excited about the workload and politicized nature of industry
I hear in america (california) its very politicized but I've only worked in europe where so far its been pretty chill. There are deadlines and crunch time sometimes but its not so bad. Maybe i've just been lucky but the horror stories i hear sometimes seem overblown to me. Its a good profession if you like drawing a LOT