STAGNATION

[Anonymous No.5216713]

How do you avoid this, i have seen a lot of people never progressing that far despite drawing frequently like in the drawthreads, how do you know you are not just drawing in vain

[Anonymous No.5216719]

>>5216713
You don’t give a fuck and you just draw because you like it and you ignore shitty threads like this one.

[Anonymous No.5216725]

>>5216713
saying "just draw" is like telling some incel "just be yourself". It's a joke answer. The issue inherently is that you start off being bad. Being bad more often isn't the solution, solving the issue is. being critical and analytical of your own work is how you move past stagnating for years on end

[Anonymous No.5216727]

there's actually a lot of progress in that picture, maybe stop crabbing

[Anonymous No.5216731]

>>5216727
I agree, right looks a lot better! Now they just need to start coloring

[Anonymous No.5216734]

>>5216713
Lack of any intelligence, curiosity and life force perhaps?

[Anonymous No.5216739]

>>5216731
>>5216727
wrong, 2 years for that much is terrible since he never drew full bodies and theres just as many mistakes in both pics

[Anonymous No.5216751]

>>5216713
Draw consciously

[Anonymous No.5216762]

>>5216713
The right pic is better than the left one T. B. Desu but you’re right that it’s reasonable to expect more for two years’ worth of work.
I think the most important thing is to just be ambitious in your drawings. Do different characters doing different things in different settings, don’t just always do the same floating anime head.

[Anonymous No.5216771]

unironically with an art mentor

[Anonymous No.5216772]

Soulless
Soul

[Anonymous No.5216785]

>>5216739
>2 years for that much is terrible since he never drew full bodies
So then it isn't progress, it's drawing the same picture maybe three times a month and then wondering why there isn't any improvement.
The answer to the OP is doing focused, devoted studies and not just random, off the cuff drawing for ten minutes shoved between dinner and gaming. You're not going to improve if you're not making an effort to learn.

[Anonymous No.5216793]

You stop drawing and you will magically improve.

[Anonymous No.5216915]

>>5216751
This.

[Anonymous No.5216916]

>>5216713
loomis

[Anonymous No.5216921]

>>5216713
LEAVE DENTIST-KUN ALONE

[Anonymous No.5216925]

>>5216713
Not pushing yourself outside your comfort zone. If you only do the same thing you'll get better at only doing that thing.

[Anonymous No.5217084]

Comfort zoning. Having to put yourself in a situation to learn means you have to be bad at something again. So they struggle to learn new techniques and revert back to the things they are better at because they know how to get some sort of success with it rather than trudging through the period of learning a new thing. Sometimes the issue gets compounded if they get some accolades for the thing they do know which means they would have to look vulnerable in a way, looking weaker or incompetent if they try to further their skills.

[Anonymous No.5217099]

Step out of your comfort zone, you only learn by trying harder things, the same way you build more muscle lifting heavier weights.

[Anonymous No.5217153]

>>5216739
>2 years
yeah but how many hours did he put in? that is what matters.

[Anonymous No.5217179]

Stagnation comes from:
>not practicing fundies
>not practicing on a regular basis
>drawing only one type subject (humans,animals etc)
>not using more than one medium
>not asking other artists for critique
>not doing studies

[Anonymous No.5217242]

>>5216713
Doing something other than fucking weebshit.

[Anonymous No.5217304]

simply improve

[Anonymous No.5217380]

Have fun with a pencil you retard

[Anonymous No.5217692]

>>5216713
if the artist used that time to make the jump from traditional to digital, having his work look exactly the same is not that bad for 2 years
but jfc those shoulders. i wonder the improvement would have been more obvious had he tried to recreate them

[Anonymous No.5217761]

>>5216713
Always aim to draw like a photograph and never settle. You should never be satisfied with any of your drawings.

[Anonymous No.5217847]

>>5216713
If you rely on grid lines/ following a 'formula' for drawing, you'll never get progress past a certain plateau. All you have to do is draw what you see, it's not hard

[Anonymous No.5217915]

>>5216739
wrong, cuz OP is just comparing those two pictures, nobody says anything about being able or not to draw bodies. Stop being crabs.

[Anonymous No.5217937]

>>5216713

Stagnation is good if your art in general is good, ive seen peoples artstyles get worse over time.

[Anonymous No.5217940]

>>5217937
Are you saying that art is good?

[Anonymous No.5217994]

>>5217915
NTA but that guy is known and used to be a regular here, he's dentist-kun. He's never drawn anything but these wide floating faces, that's all he would post, and his rare drawings showing bodies weren't good either.

[Anonymous No.5218734]

>draw
>evaluate
>study
repeat it forever

[Anonymous No.5218740]

>>5217937
I agree with the sentiment, but just because it could be worse doesn't mean that it is good.

[Anonymous No.5218919]

>>5216719
fpbp

[Anonymous No.5219768]

>>5216713
/beg/ is for progress /draw/ is for crabbing and shitposting

[Anonymous No.5219989]

>>5217179
>drawing only one type subject (humans,animals etc)
>not using more than one medium
>not asking other artists for critique
Literally me right now. Fuck my life familia

[Anonymous No.5220000]

>>5217994
>>5216921
is he a real dentist?

[Anonymous No.5220006]

>>5216739
Looks better than what you can make

[Anonymous No.5220141]

>>5220000
Yes.

[Anonymous No.5221278]

>>5220000

[Anonymous No.5221390]

>>5220000

[Anonymous No.5222067]

>>5216713
Buy denim clothing made in the orient.

[Anonymous No.5222845]

>this guy runs everyday for years but never won an olympic medal! fucking loser lol.

[Anonymous No.5223586]

>>5222845
No but he’s getting fit and/or faster

[Anonymous No.5224198]

>>5216713
draw more than floating anime heads every other week

[Anonymous No.5224221]

>>5216713
Pic somewhat unrelated but J get where you are going.
The path to moving forward is to pushing and trying hard things constantly, not just doing.
Think of it like reps at the gym. If you never push for higher weights, better form, or more reps, or different muscle groups you will reach a ceiling of how much you can do after the initial gains.