/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6680238]

I’ve been drinking on my own for the first time ever recently and starting a painting or drawing is way easier now. Is substance abuse the key to being a good artist???

[Anonymous No.6680239]

pyw, hard to tell how good your art is with a drug addled mind

[Anonymous No.6680256]

>>6680238
alcohol is more like general stress relief, the two main drug classes that have a strong impact on drawing are stimulants and anxiolytics.
Bear in mind that by doing stims or benzos you're effectively trading a few hours of hypermode drawing for a couple days of shit drawing, and they're both highly addictive and dangerous.

[Anonymous No.6680258]

i was really feeling the gesture the other night 2 hard kombuchas in.

[Anonymous No.6680263]

>>6680238
>Is substance abuse the key to being a good artist???
Not at all, I made my best work when I was sober.
>>6680256
>alcohol is more like general stress relief
It also act as a depressant over the long term.

[Anonymous No.6680268]

>>6680239
I be painting n shiet

[Anonymous No.6680269]

>>6680268

[Anonymous No.6680304]

>>6680238
I would recommend not leaning into alcohol for any kind of support or necessary use for a preferred outcome. You'll only get burned.

[Anonymous No.6683341]

>>6680268
>>6680269
fuck why is there something to this tho
first one especially i would like to hang on my wall
or hang it on my boat. i dont even own a boat. if i did id hang it there. ill dream about this later tonight

[Anonymous No.6683358]

>>6680238
>DUDE WEED
>LMAO

[Anonymous No.6683396]

>>6680238
>substance abuse
No, it depends on the substance.
Some of the most stagnant boring artists I know are stoners. If they spent half as much time studying as they did smoking they'd be pros by now.

[Anonymous No.6683699]

>>6680238
> Is substance abuse the key to being a good artist???
Not at all, in the general case. It can have small short-term benefits though

[Anonymous No.6683727]

>LADIES AND GENTLEMAN THE 100 MILLIONTH DO DRUGS MAKE U MORE CREATIVE THREAD ON /ic/ huzzah!

>>6680238

All great artists drink or imbibe some substance to fully access the "flower of the mind" as described by emerson. but there is a large enough population of DK's (Dunning Krugers) who are convinced they are the next fucking coming of Da Vinci here to revolutionize the art world, because unironically, without an anti-psychotic to balance it out, even weed will eventually give you megalomania.

Drinking is fine, its a depressant and honestly >>6680269
is like almost the fucking perfect vibe of paintign to have a beer, boat and all. You could be peak conservative realism.

The fact you are questioning it and having doubts are good signs you still have your intellect.

despite what >>6680239
>>6683358

say it boils down to 3+1 categories:

light drinker/drugger - drinks and drugs cigs at parties almost exclusively. socially enabled.

Heavy - Drinks in excess, but will stop upon health concerns arising ie "if you dont stop drinking youll lose your liver" "oh ok, i should stop then." then actually stops/lightens up

Addict- Dr Jekyll and Mr hyde - nicest person but cannot handle their shit without eventually doing some sketchy fucked up shit like wanting to fight, steal, you name it.

Special case: Marijuana is a perfectly legitimate pain reliever due to its documented medical use.

EVERYTHING IN MODERATION, ESPECIALLY MODERATION

PRACTICE HARM REDUCTION, inform those who do chose to partake in risks of drug use, but do not preach unto them as this is largely pointless in those who do, (sauce : myself) so do what you can.

pic related is my shit on different substances but tl;dr

ENHANCE an already good mood with drinking. Drink to feel better, don't drink to feel good.
If you feel like shit, don't drink. Take a break. Stop thinking about art and existential shit like your life. You're OK. You're only human, you've earned a breather.

[Anonymous No.6683751]

>>6683727
Thanks. I'm never touching drugs again.

[Lux Interior No.6684355]

>>6680238
Take this as you will. Substance abuse can influence your art in a good way. But it's only a crutch. After you do art on drugs for so long you don't wanna make art at all sober. Don't fall for the trap. And if still wanna get high and create art. Pleas just do it sparingly. It took me 5 years after getting clean from met to get back into art. And the sad thing is some of my best prices were created while spun out on crystal.. the sad thing is if I just would have went the route of actually going to a psychiatrist I would have been prescribe the meds I need for ADHD but since I self medicated instead, now not a self respecting psychiatrist near me will even entertain the thought of perceiving me stimulants to help me concentrate.

[Anonymous No.6684576]

Interesting stuff. Thank you all for your in depth responses. Think I’ll keep a leash on my drinking, it’s not too hard. Completely destroying my endorphin receptors with junk food however…

[Anonymous No.6684603]

>>6680238
unironically yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe
>It rose to great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. From Europe and the Americas, notable absinthe drinkers included Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Aleister Crowley, Erik Satie, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and Alfred Jarry.
>Numerous artists and writers living in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were noted absinthe drinkers and featured absinthe in their work. Some of these included Édouard Manet,[136] Guy de Maupassant, Paul Verlaine,[137] Amedeo Modigliani, Edgar Degas,[138] Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,[139] Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde,[17] Arthur Rimbaud, and Émile Zola.[140

[Anonymous No.6684622]

I drink all the time but it kills my productivity. good for watching anime though.