/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6964316]

How does one connect with one's own emotions when drawing art?

I feel like when I was 16-19 and emotionally unstable I simply did my best art, even if I'm technically more skilled now.

I'm now 26 and returning to art, but many years of working at a call center has left me emotionless man, and it shows in my art in that it has no emotional intent.

[Anonymous No.6964328]

I don't know, but here are some ways to absolutely lose any emotional connection with your art:
Caring about what others think or being concerned with likes
Feeling like you are not technically good enough to feel connected to your work
Frying your brain with constant stimulation


Oh and you could maybe go through Steven Zapata's entire drawing meditation playlist. That helped me.

[Anonymous No.6964333]

>>6964328
Meds (ADHD meds, anxiolytics, or antidepressants) can also crush creativity by giving a feeling of numbness or feeling too even.

[Anonymous No.6964338]

You can't just conjure up emotions. If you cant draw from your life experiences then watch an emotional movie to be inspired.

[Anonymous No.6964341]

>call center wagecuck
>meds
yeah, that would fuck you up

[Anonymous No.6964350]

>>6964316
how's that canvas staying up

[Anonymous No.6964385]

>>6964316
>howie.jpg
Jokes aside it's very hard for turbo autistics virgins to get good at art. I try and I draw better and more accurate but my lines are soulless and they have a schizo aura that fills me with dread.

[Anonymous No.6964388]

>>6964350
Power of will.
Also there is an out of frame wall that the out of frame top of canvas is leaning against.

[Anonymous No.6964395]

>>6964328
>Frying your brain with constant stimulation
this is a big one

[Anonymous No.6964444]

>>6964316
What is she painting? it's yellow. maybe spongebob?

[Anonymous No.6964473]

Through writing about their lives,putting them through shit just for your audience's amusement, you connect with them. That extreme of feeling is what you want to convey.

[Anonymous No.6964545]

>>6964388
Like this?

[Anonymous No.6964554]

>>6964545
Yeah, she needed that much canvas to draw my peanus weanus, of course.

[Anonymous No.6964647]

>>6964316
Listen to music while you draw. It's an easy cheat to synchronize the mood of your mind and your art.

[Anonymous No.6964654]

>>6964545

[Anonymous No.6964664]

>>6964654
10 billion datasets and this is the best it can do?

[Anonymous No.6964680]

>>6964664
Can you do better? Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question.

[Anonymous No.6964753]

>>6964316
idk how you even think of art while working on a call center, looks like one of the most unrewarding jobs ever that only sucks your soul out of you.
maybe you need to reconnect to your inner child. revisit the things you liked when you were a teenager and a kid, indulge in the mundane and rather cringy pleasure of drawing because you want to see something cool (and not because you need to get good).
as a child i used to constantly visit a place where i could roam free in nature, completely alone, and that is something that shaped me deeply until today, i still have lingering feelings towards that place. when i draw thinking of those early days, i instantly get in the 'zone'. i also feel most free when i draw based on my experiences in general, like things that happened to me. i noticed other people tend to like these subjects way more as well, it must have something to do with being honest with yourself

[Anonymous No.6964757]

>>6964316
Think of it this way. As you are now, you are a worm under the foot of others. Their approval, their judgement, their cruelty. You wriggle and writhe however they command you to, because their boot hovers over your fleshy body and you think this threat is all there is to life. But you are alive. And deep down you lust to keep living. And you are gifted with the otherworldly blessing of sapience and imagination, you are not the worm you think you are right now. Their cruelty has only hypnotized you into this "powerless" worm state. You have vague memories of being human, once, when you were still young. So you have to decide for yourself, that the boot of their judgment/contempt/manipulation has no power over you because you are not a worm at all. Once you truly deeply understand that you are the same human as them, you have all the power you need to stand up from under their foot. To realize their foot is no bigger than your own.
This will make some of them mad. Some may try to fight you, to trick you into thinking you're a worm again. But you have the power to ignore them. You have the gift of sapience to figure out how to avoid them if you can't ignore them. You just have to want it. You're the same human you were in those vague childhood memories, the same human as the one wearing the boot. You've just gotten locked into a broken state of mind where deep down you cower in fear at what the big boot will do if you don't act the way it wants you to. So you shut down all the faculties that could displease them. You turn off all emotions but fear and dance when they say dance. But there is no real reason to cower like this. Stand up.
There is only one risk.
The risk that you yourself become the boot.
Always remember what it felt like to be the worm, and vow to never ever make anyone feel the fear you felt.
Stand up, man, you are no worm. You are free to laugh, scream, cry and love just like the rest of us.

[Anonymous No.6964759]

>>6964757
Tdlr
I'm a worm super soldier, got it.

[Anonymous No.6964762]

>>6964759
And you have my pity

[Anonymous No.6964767]

>>6964762
I don't need your pity, I need your flesh.

[Anonymous No.6964778]

>>6964757
My brother you are based as hell

[Anonymous No.6964795]

>>6964680
With 10 billion's worth of datasets cramed into his brain? Yeah, easily.

[Anonymous No.6964802]

>>6964767
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUZVXtDVrc0
And yours gets thrown into fire too along with your fish eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htLjVzEoV9g