/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6456947]

I have come to the conclusion that if you are past the age of 26, there is no point in getting into art. You have missed the boat. The thing about most professional artists is that they have been studying art since childhood. When you're that young, you won't care as much about mistakes and have far more free time. Fast forward to being an adult with (assuming) a full time job, you will no longer have that patience. You will notice your mistakes even more, aware that you are running out of time.
tl;dr: If you're reaching 30, don't bother getting into art.

[Anonymous No.6456948]

>>6456947
How does this thread relate to AI art? Can mods do their job and clean up this whiny shit?

[Anonymous No.6456949]

What about 22? am i gona make it?

[Anonymous No.6456960]

>>6456947
Average life expectancy is around 80. If you're 26, you still likely have 54 years left to live. You gonna spend the rest of that 54 years wishing you started, or are you gonna spend it drawing?

[Anonymous No.6456961]

>>6456947

[Anonymous No.6456969]

>>6456960
I'm giving myself until 35.

[Anonymous No.6456988]

>>6456947
The thing is you dont actually have to draw like a "pro" to be a successful artist.
Having to draw like a "pro" to be a successful artist is just a meme.
Look at this for example.
The account on the left is 8 months old
57k followers
7k likes on the image uploaded 12 days ago
Account on the right is 6 months old
18 followers
5 likes on a image uploaded 7 days ago.

[Anonymous No.6457066]

>>6456947
>past the age of 26, there is no point in getting into art.
>You have missed the boat
>aware that you are running out of time
Fear of missing out is only a teenage thing.
>there is no point
You don't need a reason to have fun.

[Anonymous No.6457069]

as long as you drew before 26 and could draw better than a 10 year old you can still make it, if you are starting like a blank slate or from a stick figure you are never going to make it, no one that made it has, everyone that made it "as an over 25 year old" drew when they were kids they just dont tell you honestly

[Anonymous No.6457150]

I always laugh when someone makes an argument about wasted time.
"If u pist 26 u nat ginna muk it".

Ah yes, because if u didn't draw, u could...um... start a succesful buziness? Get a job in a great company? Write a novel that wins Pulitzer prise?

Or u could spend that precious time playing some videogames, watching tv and jerking off on porn or some cum art.

Yeach, we all know what's more likely to happen, right?

And then, when u fifty and ur brain is turn into cum, you gonna look back telling yourself, "well, i didn't have a chance anyway, so i win".
Cowards.

[Anonymous No.6457152]

>>6456947
This is exhibit A as to why this board is shit. You faggots treat art like it is do or die. This shit mindset just leads some people to burn out and do nothing else with their time. Unless your life depends on it, which it shouldn't, you have no reason to think this way. Stop being a fag, please and thank you.

[Anonymous No.6457163]

>>6456947
Your conclusion is shit, your take is shit. Next time, save yourself some time and just write "I'm fucking dumb" instead of typing all this nonsense.

[Anonymous No.6457180]

>>6456947
k

[Anonymous No.6457258]

>>6457150

[Anonymous No.6457279]

>boo boo I don't want to draw

[Anonymous No.6457298]

>>6456947
>>6456947
You can't tell me what to do, you fearful coward. You scared of life?
Scared of suffering?
Good, go cry in a corner and let the men handle it

[Anonymous No.6457418]

The pic says it all,but I will interpret it.

The picture is a panel from the storyboards of another storyline that I had to abandon. The guy getting yelled at is a young magician who is being hunted by the archmage who once imprisoned him until the archmage's granddaughter helped him escape. And moments later he watched her get devoured whole by a demon sent to retrieve him. And for the past few years, this fugitive has been befriended by other girls,only to watch them meet similar terrible ends. Consequently, he wants to remain friendless, because his soul cannot take another senseless death brought about by his pursuit.

The girl doing the screaming is the latest girl to stumble into his life,and she wants to stand by him,knowing his past and troubles. In the previous panels,they walked together and he unburdened himself with a soliloquy about how he wishes he wouldn't have anyone care for him, because he knows too well what happens to those who do. Her response?

She tackles him. And tells him he doesn't get that choice. The last panel is her hugging him fiercely, and a wall of words repeats "You don't get a choice" frames the panel. And he struggles with his own tears,knowing he will undoubtedly doom another innocent soul.

I am struggling with my own tears writing about this. Why? I know these people, and everything about them. I watch their lives unfold under my pen,and cheer and grieve with them. Their stories are important to me, and I have to get them on paper, so they can live on after me,and maybe change their world, and mine as well. And it's why I say loudly, repeatedly, and evangelically, Follow Your Story. A random sketch of a demon head led to a sprawling mystery about a castle in a snowglobe, and after 180 strips over the decade, was just hurrying to the conclusion. You don't know where the story goes until you actually put it on paper, and even if I won't live to see it reach other media, I will put it down. I have no choice.