/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6487125]

what happened to /30/ y.o. threads?

[Anonymous No.6487127]

They've gotten too old

[Anonymous No.6487130]

covid got all the old people

[Anonymous No.6487133]

Neuroplasicity ran out

[Anonymous No.6487134]

I've never seen one of those, how long ago was this?

[Anonymous No.6487138]

no imageboard for old men, anon

[Anonymous No.6487191]

>>6487134
I…I don’t remember. What were we talking about?

[Anonymous No.6487201]

>>6487125
Theres no making friends after 30.
Plus i dont need more depressed people in my life.

[Anonymous No.6487205]

36 years
I'm focusing on making more complete work rather than uploading sketches and scribbles. My day to day practice is more design based, though I still want to do more perspective. I want to be able to communicate effectively with my work, rather than merely have it rendered well.

[Anonymous No.6487216]

>>6487125
i pretty much have stopped talking to anyone

[Anonymous No.6487272]

Im 30 just recently got back into drawing furries and graphic designs. I've been the happiest with my art in years. I'm finally letting myself go into the direction I've always wanted to go with my art and I hope to start making webcomics again.

[Anonymous No.6487286]

im turning 30 this year
started when i was 26

[Anonymous No.6487294]

any wizards here?

[Anonymous No.6487303]

>>6487294
depends on whether getting molested as a kid is a disqualification or not

[Anonymous No.6487311]

>>6487286
Can you post some of your work? I'm genuinely curious

[Anonymous No.6487328]

>>6487125
We are all 30+ now, young people are not interested in art.

[Anonymous No.6487331]

>>6487303
That doesnt count

[Anonymous No.6487432]

>>6487205
>>6487272
Post work fellow oldfags. I’d like to see the /30/ threads come back, they were comfy.

[Anonymous No.6487437]

>>6487125
I remember /ic/ shitting on them a lot, even the successful ones.

[Anonymous No.6487670]

>>6487311
i draw furry porn
its about what youd expect from a 3yo furry beg

[Anonymous No.6487678]

>>6487125
They became 31 year olds. Hence the death of the thread

[Anonymous No.6487683]

>>6487678
>Tfw I turned 31 recently and started to feel like I don't belong here

[Anonymous No.6487699]

>>6487683
>It’s not that you don't belong here, anymore anon, it's that nobody ever belonged here. Which means, of course, that eventually, noone will have ever been here.

[Anonymous No.6487701]

>>6487683
Dont worry you're not alone

[Anonymous No.6487702]

>>6487683
hold it m8, 31 soon fag here we can make it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASiVYLdeAaA

[Anonymous No.6487713]

>>6487702
Is this blue period but for boomers?

[Anonymous No.6487725]

>>6487713
I guess because I had to google it

[Anonymous No.6487750]

>>6487216
Here is me, talking to you through 4chan. Hope you become a recognized artist, bro

[Anonymous No.6487756]

>>6487683
It's okay, bro. We can still make it.

[Anonymous No.6487807]

>>6487328
There's a lot of zoom zooms who come to my figure drawing groups

[Anonymous No.6488475]

>>6487125
they vanished 10y ago... Some say they were killed by the /40/ y.o. threads...

[Anonymous No.6488499]

>>6487125
I am too busy adulting like the rest of the 30 year olds that will never be able to retire even if they started saving early. Thankfully I’m not one of those faggots who do overtime because they have nothing better to do at home so I just draw big titty anime girls most days and watch old anime like one piece.

[Anonymous No.6488534]

>>6487807
do they mog you?

[Anonymous No.6488712]

the number of people on here that think your brain seals itself off from new knowledge after 25 is laughable.
if people in their 30s are going back to get their phDs, you can learn how to draw

[Anonymous No.6488989]

Anyone else 30 and beg?

[Anonymous No.6489006]

>>6488989
29.5 and beg

[Anonymous No.6489213]

I can't stop dwelling on half my life being over, it's not just the age thing it's time, I stay up late weighing time and thinking if I do X, it takes 15 years (say like raising kids is even longer), or whatever, just simple shit haunts me with the time cost. I can't stand talking to people who talk for hours. But I used to love doing.

Yes this is 4chan. But seriously, how do you stop measuring time in a way that doesnt make you miserable. The fact that the perception of it gets faster as you age is also paralysis inducing.

When you settle down it feels like nothing will ever happen again.

[Anonymous No.6489355]

>>6488712
>getting a phd means you are smart

[Anonymous No.6489446]

>>6489355
>reading comprehension
stay in school anon.

[Anonymous No.6489453]

>>6489213
>When you settle down it feels like nothing will ever happen again.
That's a cope, you'll only snap of it when you settle down and have a family. The rest is lalaland fantasy to escape responsibility

[Anonymous No.6489465]

>>6488989
This is nothing to be ashamed of. You're actually trying to learn one of the hardest things on earth. Most people don't have one tenth of mental strength artists do and wouldn't be able to handle drawing for one week without wanting to blow their brains out or give up. Everyone is just coasting along taking the path of least resistance. And for most normalfags, that is already a decent path. We have to grind and practice and eat shit for years just to get the same dopamine normal people get when they scroll endlessly on youtube. You're a cut above, and you should be happy for that. It doesn't matter if you're 16 or 60, art takes the same amount of time to get good. Most people are worse than chris chan at drawing, but they aren't trying to draw so it rarely comes up. You, however, are constantly examining your weaknesses and striving to improve, so people notice your failures more, which makes you seem like a failure. You're not, you're better than people who don't try.

[Anonymous No.6489470]

>>6488989
31 y.o beg here

[Anonymous No.6489524]

>>6488499
I retired when I was 31. When a man quits his job early it’s called retirement. When a woman quits early it’s called giving up and becoming a housewife.

Speaking of old anime, I finally finished Naruto recently. I still need to watch bleach.

[Anonymous No.6489621]

My tour through doing art has been rocky.
I went to an art school, but somehow managed to get all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits. Even now a decade later, my skills are not professional level and I'm still paying off the debt. I figure most would give up, I gave that a shot even, but I could never escape the craft. It was like trying to kill part of myself, I was a lesser man for the trouble. What keeps me going is a strong internal determination. I have no presence, no following and niche subject interests, but something inside of my heart won't let me quit. I can't, the very concept disgusts me.

[Anonymous No.6489728]

>>6487125
Many of them probably gave up or simply don't post in 4chsn as much.

Ive been coming to this website less and less lately.

[Anonymous No.6489734]

>>6489621
Just sounds to me more like you have a huge ego

[Anonymous No.6489738]

>>6489524
>bleach anime ended 11 years ago
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.6489755]

>>6489734
I wish, it'd make life easier to manage. I had to hit near rock bottom to even consider picking up my pen again, there was no indication anything good would come from it, I was just frustrated with how sour life had gotten, so I figured I may as well do something I liked if everything else was going south.
I got no illusions about my skills or whatever, I just don't want to lose that passion again.

[Anonymous No.6489770]

>>6488989
Gonna be me in 6 years.

[Anonymous No.6489796]

32 and /beg/
I started roughly 2 years ago. I used to draw a bit from time to time before, but for some reason I totally dropped it and never really "learned". Now I've been at it 100% for 2 years, it's fun but I realize how late I am, especially If I do the mistake to compare myself to the ultra-talented 16yos on twitter.

[Anonymous No.6489806]

>>6489728
you guys think it would be nice if we have those threads back?

[Anonymous No.6489814]

>>6489806
As a zooming crab. It'd great to have a place where I can prey on the feeble and senile.

[Anonymous No.6489817]

>>6489796
you are doing great, why do you care about what anyone else is doing, thats the advantage of getting old, just enjoy the process.

[Anonymous No.6489821]

>>6487125
too busy to be making threads or following them

[Anonymous No.6489824]

didn’t there used to be a discord for the senile? what happened to that?

[Anonymous No.6489832]

>>6489814
I too was a insufferable kid, keep it up Im sure youll go places

[Anonymous No.6489833]

>>6489824
we forgot, and I couldnt give the gift cards to the clumsy discord admin, I hope he didnt lose his job.

[Anonymous No.6489853]

>>6489833
You should’ve hit up my nice Arab friend, he’s a prince or something in his home country. LOL.

Bob

[Anonymous No.6489889]

>>6489796
I went 100% for like 2 months before I was like wtf ami doing. I'd so much rather go 2% for 100 years. Ambition is fine, I guess, so long as it doesn't start to shape who you are. But I'm lucky enough so far not to need anything that comes of it.

On another note,
>children of the 80s know true aesthetic horrors better than anyone
Picrelated kek

[Anonymous No.6490830]

>>6487125
because all the bullshit 'its to late for me' shit more or less died when ai came around, you want to demoralize people, ai does a far FAR better job than anything else.

[Anonymous No.6490912]

>>6490830
Ai is boring

[Anonymous No.6490914]

>>6487125

covid took em

[Anonymous No.6490949]

>>6490912
only if you stay with prompting, in/out painting, normal maps, inbetweeing, masking, img2img, are super fun and get really good results.

[Anonymous No.6490960]

>>6490949
Sounds like a chore

[Anonymous No.6490974]

>>6489470
Basado, never give up as long as its meaningful

[Anonymous No.6490986]

>>6490960
img2img and normal map making is a god's gift mundane tasks that consume too much time.

[Anonymous No.6491008]

>>6490986
Drawing is fun and i dont find it mundane. Also it isnt a god gift, its man made, i wouldnt call crack a gods gift

[Anonymous No.6491084]

>>6489832
You mean like you? Worry about urself first bro. Kek.

[Anonymous No.6491103]

>>6487125
Mhhh I think I'm getting married in a while. I met a chick a few months ago and she is 26 and eager to start something serious. At first it was rocky but now I'm thinking about it. Let's see how it goes, maybe it works. If not, life goes on. I'm 36 and I have improved a lot since I started. These are some of my works and I like what I have done so far.

[Anonymous No.6491178]

>>6491008
you have a bias, for img2img you have/can draw the whole thing, even lets you style transfer your own work. Its funny how most artist are super orthodox even though want to appear open minded.

[Anonymous No.6491340]

>>6491178
Im too controlling I would waste more time on Ai then what it would take to finish a drawing besides you seem to be missing the point that some people just want to draw

[Anonymous No.6491391]

>>6490830
Why do you people even bother to stay on a board about creating art if you aren't even interested in it? Same applies to all of the AI shills.

[Anonymous No.6491644]

>>6491391
They're just the new type of crabs, they don't care, they just want to be contentious

[Anonymous No.6491654]

Is this 30+ thread?

[Anonymous No.6491656]

>>6491654

[Anonymous No.6491659]

>>6491656

[Anonymous No.6491660]

>>6491659

[Anonymous No.6491673]

>>6487683
Don't worry anon, 30 onward is when you can truly start developing the sovl in your art, since usually in your 20's you just haven't lived through enough yet. And no, this is not cope.

[Anonymous No.6491676]

>>6491391
Its crabs that got filtered by a pencil. They will literally latch onto anything that can help them cope with failure and not take responsibility. Ligament, spark, talent, sovl, jeans, aphantasia whatever it may be, there will always be something that's at fault and not them. AI is just all that came before cranked up to eleven. Practically the Grinch waiting on the mountain shocked that you could possibly create for the satisfaction of creating and honing a skill. Just don't pay them any attention, they don't draw.

[Anonymous No.6491684]

>>6491654
No, it's the 30+/-.5 thread :>

[Anonymous No.6491690]

>>6491656
>>6491659
Nice 'scapes. I'd take either one for a daytrip.

[Anonymous No.6491705]

>>6491178
If you like to draw you like to draw, it's like saying, why hike up a mountain when you can just take the cable car.
Obviously everybody has their limits and preferences, some use only traditional mediums, some will photobash and prompt to their heart's content. Personally I wouldn't consider that drawing, but to each their own.

[Anonymous No.6491745]

>>6489213
Life was always a process of making one choice over the other, I think what you just have to accept, if you want to settle down, is not that nothing will ever happen again, but that there's hopefully more in life than filling check lists of experiences and consuming.
I think having a child is one of the most important things you can do in life, and I can't imagine nothing more fulfilling then loving your childrens. Just make a tier of what you value in life and decide accordingly, but existential dread is just bullshit and you have to ignore it and move forward with your life.

[Anonymous No.6491767]

>>6489213
when you settle down with the right person it actually makes life feel more eventful

[Anonymous No.6491777]

I'm 37.
I think midlife crisis is after you arrive at what you thought was "making it" as a kid, you realize it doesn't matter and you're still fucking old and it won't stop.

[Anonymous No.6491795]

>>6491777
Life never quits

[Anonymous No.6491809]

>>6491767
I think you mean awful not eventful

[Anonymous No.6491810]

>>6491767
I'd call it busy. At times, but well worth it. Of course, the worth it is also up to you.

[Anonymous No.6491814]

>>6491745
>I think having a child is one of the most important things you can do in life
It's powerful, transformative and amazing anon. You can't really know how much so beforehand though. Which is kind of a shame in a way. But it’s nature's course I suppose.

[Anonymous No.6491816]

>>6491809
Well Im happy and my life feels really eventful with them, so I feel like I lucked out

[Anonymous No.6491821]

>>6491814
Unfortunately I'm 31 years old wizard, and this point, and even though having children is genuinely the thing I want the most out life, I also know it would be very egotistical for a mentally ill person like me right now to raise another innocent human, I hope that in 10 years, when I'm 40, if I didn't kill myself yet, I will be in the position to have a family.

[Anonymous No.6491828]

Also, being 30 is, I think, the weird point in life in which you still feel young but you know that you're "old", and honestly, I do start to feel old, or no longer a kid i suppose. Transitional phases in life tend to be the hardest, but seeing my parents, after 55/60 you tend to not give a fuck anymore, so at least there's that to look forward to, regardless of everything.

[Anonymous No.6491831]

>>6491828
Yeah the worst part about getting old is grandparents dying or basically decaying as theyre still alive and seeing your parents age. I basically use that as motivation to lift and to try to be healthy, I dont want to age like shit.

[Anonymous No.6491842]

Does getting old really change ur worldwide that much? Why does everyone want to have kids?

[Anonymous No.6491851]

>>6491821
I'm pulling for you wizard. Caring enough to be in a better place for their sake tells me you've got a better start than many parents. But if you want more, drop the killing yourself bit. There's many people around you to invest your care in in the meantime. Call it practice. Fundies. Because without appreciating the beauty that is all life, including your own, what are you going to give them?

[Anonymous No.6491853]

>>6491842
Well, yeah, your world gets bigger. With every problem you encounter, every experience, they make a bigger, more complex picture. You can ignore it, some people get away with that. Others keep trying to branch out forever, keeps that plastic in your brain nice n hot n melty.

[Anonymous No.6491857]

>>6491842
depends on many factors, the longer you live the more shitty moments you may (or not) live, those things can change someone believes fast.
As for kids the same as women, men do have bio clocks its just different, men are more into the I will mentor/mold my mini me.

[Anonymous No.6491872]

>>6491857
>those things can change someone believes fast.
Aye
>men are more into the I will mentor/mold my mini me.
Idk about that, I just want to avoid making a monster/ make someone who can live fulfilled.

[Anonymous No.6491877]

>>6491872
>I just want to avoid making a monster/ make someone who can live fulfilled.
yeah and you do that by begin present and mentorship guidance, the mini me was as a joke (mostly).

[Anonymous No.6491880]

>>6488989
gonna be 31 and I'm beg as fuck
started drawing at 29

[Anonymous No.6491886]

>>6491851
Thanks friend, I do truly believe that life can be beautiful, the ugly and the good, and at least I truly do enjoy drawing.
>>6491842
Personally I lost half my family in this last 5 years, all of cancer, but it's not just that, i'm just tired, and as someone who's dreadfully online even more so, about the idea of just consuming until I die, of not feeling that true pure love, of having just a probably vapid existence based on pure edonism.
When my mother died of cancer, in the last month, she almost regressed to a child like state, or at least I kinda saw her as a child and me the parent, and in that last month I felt a love that I never felt for her before, not with that intensity.
To live that kind of love again, or even greater is I think the greater purpose in life.
Life is about balance, you take some and you give some back, and the same goes for drawing and art in general, you take in life and you have the possibility to digest it through art, at least that's how I see it, and it doesn't have to be pretentious, just how you see things and feel them, nothing magical about it, everyone can do it.which is also what makes me especially sad about AI art in general, the fact that people are robbing themselves of themselves.
And since this is still supposed to be an artwork and critique board, here's a speedpaint I did a couple of months ago.
Sorry for the long rant.

[Anonymous No.6491896]

>>6491886
thats tough, cancer or any degenerative disease are awful for both the patience and caregiver, hang in there life tough but worth it.

[Anonymous No.6491907]

>>6491842
My worldview has always been fucked. Im glad I dont want kids anymore. I had a crisis at 25 about how i needed to settle down and start a family but it passed in a year. Im glad i didnt have a kid because I know for sure Id mess that kid up and the world meeds less damage people.

[Anonymous No.6491954]

>>6491886
Don't apologize for laying your heart out, no matter how it's taken. That love is it, anon, it's all of it. Take it, the depth of it and give it. The freer the better, because it's alive, truly. It will come back to you, even when it doesn't. Just in a different way then. Even just a little counters something being vapid, they simply can't exist in the same space.

[Anonymous No.6491959]

>>6491880
Pyw bro

[Anonymous No.6492016]

>>6491959
No I can't do more than this lmao, I really want to get good at the basics before doing more
took me like 25 minutes

[Anonymous No.6492024]

gmi thread

[Anonymous No.6492027]

>>6491842
Honestly, I was ready to cruise through life with or without kids until I found out that I couldn’t have kids. Then suddenly what you can’t have you now want. I took reproduction for granted.

But things worked out and I managed to have a kid by using science. I think the whole thing made me appreciate the “miracle of life” thing more, and now the kid is more special because it was very difficult to obtain.

Likewise, when people start to die around you or get very close to death, you begin to question your mortality and what you are doing with your life and your time. When you are 20 you feel invincible and it’s easy to waste time until you are 30 then you realize people are fragile, people die. Don’t waste time doing stuff you don’t want to do. Just do what you want before something happens and you can’t do it anymore.

[Anonymous No.6492055]

>>6492016
Forcing yourself to finish shit from time to time is a good practice, bro. Studying is good and all but actually making a finished at least somewhat finished piece is great.
Also use references it helps a lot.
Not sure if you studied perspective but it also helps.

[Anonymous No.6492076]

They became pajeets and started spamming how great muh goyslop machine is at redrawing their 2007 artwork

[Anonymous No.6492077]

>>6492076
No we didn't. Stop projecting.

[Anonymous No.6492212]

>>6492027
I hope you and your kid never run out of awe for for all that life offers anon. You'll never run out of adventure that way.

[Anonymous No.6492388]

>>6491842
Everyone told me life gets better the older you get but honestly my 30's feel no different then my 20' or teen years. You just exchange school for wageing and your back hurts more.

[Anonymous No.6492429]

>>6492388
I dunno anon, I feel pretty happy in my 30s. Something about dropping out of the social rat race feels like a whole burden off my shoulders. In your 30s, the people who used to spout their success schemes end up reaping what they get and end up exactly how I suspected that they’d end up. Meanwhile I am proven right and at the happiest period of my life.

Fuck you Ella I got mine HAHAHAHHA

[Anonymous No.6492630]

>>6492388
Who said that, lol? It gets whatever you put into it. More or less. Caveats apply etcetc

[Anonymous No.6492638]

>>6492630
>Who said that
literally face book every normey ive ever met.

[Anonymous No.6492641]

if still posting here after my 20s id seek help tbqh
i know the saying "youre here forever" no im not just ctrl+w

[Anonymous No.6492662]

>>6492638
If you say so. I mean there's no reason for it not to, but it's still attached to an "if". It's not gonna magically itself without you.

[Anonymous No.6492803]

every day I have less and less mental energy to draw.
as a kid I used to wonder why old people like to sit around and stare off into space a lot, but now I understand. Everything requires a cost-benefit analysis so I just "predraw" in my head to see if its worth doing for real

[Anonymous No.6492816]

>>6487125
I stopped making them since I'm 40 now.
I'm not even joking

[Anonymous No.6492824]

>>6492816
Are you at least good now?

[Anonymous No.6492965]

I wonder whos the oldest on this board. Like if theres any 60+ out there that sometimes drops in.

[Anonymous No.6492972]

>>6492641
You should probably start getting help now so you can leave before then

[Anonymous No.6493142]

Turning 30 this year. Never managed to commit to actually practicing drawing. I've been getting into painting recently though, just to do something that isn't video games or mindless browsing, and I've been really enjoying it. Even looking forward to spending hours working on something. I started just tracing pepe images and painting them but I've been trying more elaborate or original ideas and having a blast. It's mostly elements copied from/inspired by other sources, so I still suck at drawing, but I'm having fun at least and figuring new things out as I go

[Anonymous No.6493247]

If you haven’t GMI by 30 you may as well be dead.

[Anonymous No.6493251]

>>6493142
i think this is cool

[Anonymous No.6493256]

>>6493247
We are

[Anonymous No.6493264]

I remember those threads. You stupid old fucks kept screwing them up by putting the subject in the name field or making it for 3 year olds instead of 30. I didn’t know a little age turned you retarded, but oh well.

[Anonymous No.6493271]

>>6493251
Thx. Here's today's pepe

[Anonymous No.6493284]

>>6493271
How long does each painting take you?

[Anonymous No.6493337]

>>6493284
Not sure, maybe between 2-10 hours? Depends on how complicated my idea is. Sometimes I'll plan and finish one in an evening, other times I'll work in bursts throughout a day. I don't really track the time so hard to say for sure

[Anonymous No.6493355]

>>6493142
>>6493271
>>6493337
These are really charming anon!

[Anonymous No.6493651]

>>6493142
>>6493271
>>6493337
These are awesome! And silly, the best combination.

[Anonymous No.6494050]

>>6493355
>>6493651
Thanks bros, I'll keep painting every day this year and see where it goes

[Anonymous No.6494108]

>>6487125
this thread has inspired me to make it at the age of 29. I've doodled my whole life, so I'm not total beg, but close enough.

[Anonymous No.6494116]

>>6494108
I remember being so naive.

[Anonymous No.6494319]

>>6494116
u mean lazy and uninspired

[Anonymous No.6494378]

>>6494108
If all the land were doodles, and all the seas /ic/, then not a drop of ink would any crab appease. Kek Pleasant travels homestar

[Anonymous No.6494391]

>>6494108
Its only ever too late when you completely give up on yourself. Remember everyone has their own idea of making it and not everyone has the same goal. Just remember the important part is to draw for yourself, that its your art.

[Anonymous No.6494404]

>>6494391
my goal is to destroy everyone's goal simply as that

[Anonymous No.6494435]

>>6494404
That sounds like the human condition

[Anonymous No.6494492]

>>6494404
Sounds like a skill issue

[Anonymous No.6494593]

I’m 31. I just started 3 months ago. I want to be a famous twitter artist.

I’m influenced by eroge artists similar to my dakumakura

I’ve been slacking though and AI art has me feeling like “what’s the point” but guck it I’m gunna try anyway fuck AI fags I’ll become the AI and machine learn myself to draw eroge

[Anonymous No.6494630]

>>6494593
are u really 31 or 15?

[Anonymous No.6495006]

I really like watching people start their art journey of art and learning to draw. Thats was always the funnest part about watching artistes. But now Im 30 I have a age limit I follow, because I dont want to watch no damn kid. So I'll pass a person if I see that theyre under 25. But damn I wish my art was better. Im getting there its just Im a slow learner and a slow drawer.

[Anonymous No.6495046]

>>6494108
Go for it man. I've studied with people who became successful artists starting at the age of 40 or 50, all the cynicism here is a meme. The field is hard but if you work at it and really think about the work you're doing and who it's for you can definitely find a niche.

The best advice I can give you is to try and find classes or studios by you. Just walk-ins for figure drawing, not an art school or anything like that. Self study can definitely work for some people but you'll always improve more efficiently if you're with a community and have people giving you live advice. Watching How to Draw streams and pirating art books is the fastest way to stagnate if you don't know exactly what you're doing.

[Anonymous No.6495085]

>>6494116
Good luck.
>>6495046
Thanks, pal. I'm not starting from ground zero, but I'm not very good. God speed.

[Anonymous No.6495089]

>>6494630
If that shitty late 90s early 00s anime style doesn't give anything away you should ask that to yourself

[Anonymous No.6495104]

I don’t recall if I was as hated in the old flag general as I am in the other generals.

[Anonymous No.6495132]

>>6494630
Yes I’m 31 ask me to prove it I’ll old skool meme watch me riflcopter how I shut web they’re taking hobbits to Isengard how u shot web? Badger badger badger no u y so mad? This is spartaaaAa! Hamster dance nyancat longcat u liek mud kups? Imma firing mah lazoooor! U just got pwnzorzed roflz lmao@u! Kthx

[Anonymous No.6495136]

>>6491886
Great picture

[Anonymous No.6495137]

>>6495132
The eroge style stuff is why I suffered from beady dot mouths for years and not drawing a wide variety of expressions. As much as I like it you don't want to fall into that trap.

[Anonymous No.6495144]

>>6495137
Tbh the hardest part is the painting and getting everything so clean and perfect. I can sketch the stuff dirty but when it comes time to clean it up and make it look nice it’s fucking hard lol. It’s like the pro eroge artists are AI themselves, I bet they use 3d models to pose from and and stuff

[Anonymous No.6495147]

>>6495132
Even as a zoomer I know those memes...maybe u should mention an old show only the 90s kids would know

[Anonymous No.6495188]

>>6495147
Dark wing duck, hey dude, the real adventures of Jonny quest, reboot, Doug, tiny toon adventures

[Anonymous No.6495232]

>>6495104
If we reboot the oldfag gen I’d certainly hate you in it.

[Anonymous No.6495309]

27 and Ive been drawing for 9 years. Neurplasticy only matters if you aren't experienced. Even then you can train yourself to get out of the over bearing auto-pilot mode your brain perfers.

[Anonymous No.6495519]

>20 year old neet with nothing deciding to take art seriously
>now almost 30 and art is all I ever had
>finally good at drawing
>all the boxes in perspective paid off
>see people posting my art on 4chan and other places

>feel empty because I just barely made it and my entire life before this point was shit
>see 20 year olds already drawing better than me
>AND they have awesome lives outside art
>I'm still not even that good for someone who only draws

[Anonymous No.6495530]

>This is nothing to be ashamed of. You're actually trying to learn one of the hardest things on earth. Most people don't have one tenth of mental strength artists do and wouldn't be able to handle drawing for one week without wanting to blow their brains out or give up. Everyone is just coasting along taking the path of least resistance. And for most normalfags, that is already a decent path. We have to grind and practice and eat shit for years just to get the same dopamine normal people get when they scroll endlessly on youtube. You're a cut above, and you should be happy for that. It doesn't matter if you're 16 or 60, art takes the same amount of time to get good. Most people are worse than chris chan at drawing, but they aren't trying to draw so it rarely comes up. You, however, are constantly examining your weaknesses and striving to improve, so people notice your failures more, which makes you seem like a failure. You're not, you're better than people who don't try.

[Anonymous No.6495586]

>>6495232
Well fuck you, too.

[Anonymous No.6495645]

>>6487125
>34
>being trying to learn2draw for the past 25 years
>never make past the 8th-10th practice drawing
>drop it for 4-12 months
>repeat
I've never felt passionate about any hobby I tried in my life, I just keep trying to learn to draw/paint because it's the only thing that I find cool.

[Anonymous No.6495690]

>>6495519
>talent and neuroplasticity arent re...

[Anonymous No.6497130]

>>6487201
I'm 32 and I made a lot of friends in the last 2 years.

[Anonymous No.6497528]

I'm 30 and I had rediscovered my passion for art again. I haven't drawn in 5-6 years, which is around the time I stopped visiting this board. Kind of sucks feel like creating again when AI art suddenly exploded and is flooding everything. It's why I came back here to hear other peoples opinions about AI.
At least I've been getting helpful advice in draw threads. That's why I've been staying and it's nice when someone likes my advice. Sucks to feel like a total /beg again and have to relearn everything.

[Anonymous No.6498120]

>>6493142
You do not need to be a lv 9999 ultra proko meets russian meets kentaro miura , frazzeta combo to make someone a little bit happier, your name wont echo throughout the decades but it doesn't need to. Im still a beg but occasionally my mothers frends .... frends ask me to draw them something for some of their own projects. So your talents need not be completely wasted. If one of your friends kids likes dinosaurs draw them

[Anonymous No.6498140]

>>6494593
31yo with the mind of a child... a sick child with severe narcissism and an hentai addiction.

[Anonymous No.6498145]

>>6495188
no animaniacs? GTFO off here! no kids from the 90s would forget about that show!
nice try but you're gonna have to "how are you doing fellow millennials?" harder than that to fool me zoomer

[Anonymous No.6498150]

>>6495645
>25y
I never say that but: maybe you should stop, cut off your losses. Maybe you're just a normalfag.
But hey it could be worst at least you're not a furry or some degenerate weeb obsessed with lolies and futas,.. right?

[Anonymous No.6498165]

Any discords for 25+ y/o who isn't into degenrate shit? asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.6498173]

>>6498165

Lemme know if you find one

[Anonymous No.6498176]

Im almost 30 in 2 months. I’m learning to draw sculpt and programming. I make 6 figs not working in tech. Everybody else is chasing the corpo ladder while Im here just learning despite whatever normies throw at me (AI, tech layoffs, covid). If you enjoy learning, nothing will stop you. It’s all about mindset if you truly want to make it.

[Anonymous No.6498208]

>>6498150
nah, I like character design and sketching different parts of the city

[Anonymous No.6498244]

>>6498173
I can do that. If I don't find one, I'll just make one myself
Feel free to come with suggestions regarding rules and whatnot

[Anonymous No.6498295]

Bought myself a watercolor pad, time to paint this bad boy

>>6493142
>>6493271
>>6493337
>>6494050
oozing with soul, you've made it

[Anonymous No.6498298]

>>6498145
I thought animaniacs was too obvious for a zoomer to know. Same with rugrats, beavis and butthead, Simpsons, ren and stimpy, courage the cowardly dog, Jonny bravo… etc

[Anonymous No.6498304]

>>6498244
the only rule should be don’t be a zoomer and everything else will fall into place. oldfags know how to behave. i’d join if you made one

[Anonymous No.6498308]

>>6498295

[Anonymous No.6498310]

finding out that other artists i like are my age is lifefuel.

[Anonymous No.6498317]

>>6498244
I’d join if you made one. No memes no video YouTube links no gifs. Just drawing.

[Anonymous No.6498388]

>>6487125
The are dead

[Anonymous No.6499465]

>>6487133
They grew up and realized these threads were for unproductive children. I.e. a waste of their time.

[Anonymous No.6499659]

I posted earlier in the thread but didn't post any work, so rectifying that. I'm hoping your guys are doing well along your way.

[Anonymous No.6499712]

>>6499659
You are posting the same work like 10th time already. Got anything new?

[Anonymous No.6499737]

Oh wow, hello, my fellow 30 y.olds.

I am 31 now, started to learn drawing at 26 (fundamentals and all). Not on my own, though, i go to academic drawing courses. There i draw ancient dudes, still life and other "fun" things, at home i paint what i want and how i can.
My favourite medium is oil. Is it just me being blind with ny surroundings, or 30 y.o. really prefer traditional art over digital?

[Anonymous No.6499809]

>>6499712
I will soon. I've been busy with wage work and that was the latest thing I finished. I didn't want to start posting sketches, but I understand seeing the same thing over and over again isn't fun. Excuse me.

[Anonymous No.6499934]

>>6499737
I prefer digital personally because it allows me to make mistakes.
>Inb4 you should think of every line before you draw it
Doesn't really work for me, not to mention sketching is fun.
To each their own overall, I never felt any attachment to gouache.

[Anonymous No.6499977]

>>6499737
I like both, do more digital than trad. brush pen and Gouache is my favorite on trad.

[Anonymous No.6499983]

>>6498244
Looking forward to it if you choose to make one.

[Anonymous No.6499989]

>>6499737
Digital fits well with my current lifestyle. I only have a very small room to work in, such that my bed takes up a good majority of the space. Trying to work with paints in there would be awkward at least. I do enjoy working with pencils and marker though, and I have a bit of space dedicated to sketching.
As well, I generally like working with computers. Disregarding the social media aspect, making computers do what I want them to is interesting, and computer generated imagery (not counting AI in my case) is really fun.

[Anonymous No.6500033]

>>6499989
>computer generated imagery (not counting AI in my case)
Do you mean like demoscene visuals or something else?

[Anonymous No.6500061]

>>6499659
These are so moe

[Anonymous No.6500075]

>>6499737
I like how you did the water highlight. Surrealism is always a pleasure to see.

>30 y.o. really prefer traditional art over digital?
Youre not wrong, its very relaxing media to work with. I know there are plenty of younger people who like to oil paint.
It's one of my favorite medias to work with but I haven't painted in some years because I dont have the room. Right now I just do digital and my art has gone from a more realistic style to a cartoony(anime) one.

[Anonymous No.6500133]

>>6500033
> Do you mean like demoscene visuals or something else?
Not only that, but also fractals, procedural generated imagery, even video games to a degree. There's a lot of cool stuff computers can do that are unique and worth taking a look at.
The demoscene in particular has been a inspiration for me to keep doing artwork, the raw creative energy was infectious and made me look at computers in a very different light.

[Onanymous No.6501466]

>>6498208
oh if you like it then good for you, keep at it and have fun and who knows maybe you'll have a couple epiphanies and get real good at some point in the next 10y
good luck anon

[Anonymous No.6501518]

>>6500075
Oh, i just paint where i sleep, and then I open the windows to ventilate the room, and put the painting on the balcony to dry.
All my creative belongings can be placed on the table, and I put the canvases on a small tabletop easel. Before that, I cover the table with newspapers so as not to stain it. I put a laptop on the windowsill (there is not enough space on the table), and you can listen to music or podcasts while you draw.

So there are options, bro, if you really want to paint with oils! A separate room is not necessary.

[Anonymous No.6501525]

>>6487125
Every thread is /30/ y.o. thread when I post in it.

[Anonymous No.6504446]

>>6499659
Cute!

[Anonymous No.6506576]

>>6497130
How do you make friends and what is it like?

[Anonymous No.6506604]

>>6491103
Bro you can't be serious about anything you just said...

[Anonymous No.6508435]

>>6498244
we have one yet?

[Anonymous No.6508644]

>>6508435
Am working on one, shit takes time to set up
doesnt help im busy with work and other stuff
I'll see if I can finish it tonight, will post it here then

[Anonymous No.6508875]

>>6508644
https://discord.gg/ZkADruTV
it's up

[Anonymous No.6508877]

>>6508875
>>6498173
>>6498304
>>6498317
>>6499983
>>6508435
tagging you just in case

[Anonymous No.6508964]

>>6500133
Based taste. Love me some Shader Showdowns. I think this is a joy only boomers can understand.

[Anonymous No.6509306]

31 here I cant wait for my prostate exam

[Anonymous No.6510473]

>>6491842
yeah, time does start to move faster, friends and family start to age or have health problems, or die. when you're younger you can kind of ignore death because it's still abstract, maybe a grandparent or someone from school you knew died. when you cross the 30yr boomer line you start to have immediate family and friends who are gone or on their way out. so you start looking at how long you have left, start questioning the purpose of your life and all the cliche shit your grandparents talked about but now it's viscerally real and you know you can't escape it. as for kids for men it's more about passing something on to someone else to help them in their life.
I'm only in the my 30's so still realistically can live another two lifetimes but it does change your view of life.

[Anonymous No.6512190]

>>6487133
ligameme

[Anonymous No.6512518]

I'm actually getting worse, as incredible as that sounds. Each drawing I make is worse than the last. I thought I could just grind and make it through sheer willpower but this is an unprecedented situation. I have some kind of rare disease where become dumber over time.

[Anonymous No.6515412]

>>6487294
>thought the wizard meme was funny
>its almost time for me to ascend
Oh no

[Anonymous No.6515531]

>>6510473
This. When you're young you're still on the way up, still got time and reason to progress. There's a reason it's called being over the hill, you realize you're now on the downswing, all the things you dreamt you'd do you realize you do not actually have time for, and much progress is now pointless because what are you striving for? You body slowly starts to degrade and you realize how fast time actually passes. When you're young so much seems static and indefinite but as you age it becomes ever more apparent that everything, everyone that you've known or cared about is just some ephemeral circumstance for a mere second then things are different.

And then you do your best to ignore the above and just keep going anyway.

[Anonymous No.6515920]

>>6510473
>>6515531
It's all so tiresome.

[Anonymous No.6516052]

>>6515531
>>6510473
35 here, you lack cardio do breathing ladders it will do wonders also take your daily electrolytes.

[Anonymous No.6516142]

>>6516052
I'm 38 I run, cycle, rollerblade and also paddle and sail I got great cardio bruh. Your body still degrades though, my hair is thinning and it's my skin, it just looks old, like old person skin. It's gross.

[Anonymous No.6516164]

How are you supposed to use video courses to learn?
I bought a few courses to learn and all I do is take notes, like I'm in fucking high school.

[Anonymous No.6516193]

>>6516164
dude apply what you've learned on your draws then review

[Anonymous No.6516214]

>>6516052
>breathing ladder
interesting, I'll check it out
already lifting 4x a week with cardio and agility work spread throughout the week, I just don't recover as quickly as I did in my twenties although I'm more strict about rest and recovery than when I was younger
>>6515920
nah you just have to have the right mindset, go to church or learn a new skill. I got inspired by my father who is in his mid 60's and has been learning German. there's still a ton of time to do what you want and explore things but you have to be discerning.

[Anonymous No.6516331]

>>6498165
are you who i think you are or im retarded

[Anonymous No.6516395]

>>6516142
>>6516214
Fair enough, take vitamin E for skin care as a pill or topic oil it does wonders.

[Anonymous No.6517488]

>>6516214
>go to church or learn a new skill
Well I'm learning how to draw, haha...

[Anonymous No.6517526]

>>6516331
I highly doubt the lead character artist at santa monica studio would be here

[Anonymous No.6517759]

>>6517526
I doubt that's him too but there's absolutely nothing stopping anybody from coming here. Now, posting work that can be traced back to him? Probably not, but weirder things have happened.

[Anonymous No.6517824]

>>6487294
>>6515412
Lost my wizard card at 34. Wasn't worth it, hadn't draw anything for 4 months while being in relationship, and after breakup I just binge played videogames for almost a year.

[Anonymous No.6518026]

>>6487125
Wrong board robot