/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I'm gonna assume Banana is reading the thread becuase it's what I do whenever I get eliminated

>4 years drawing
I used to keep track of the years I've spent drawing but I have discovered that this is a pretty meaningless way of measuring progress.
Every artist spends the first few years fumbling about not knowing what the fundamentals are or really anything, can you really count this as progress?

The following however many years after that are inconsistant, you have some months/years where you study alot and others where you don't draw at all.
A more accurate measurement would be hours spent actually drawing, but no artist has bothered to keep track of that.
Forget about the past, just focus on the future, that's all you can do really

>current lineart/shakey hands
I don't know if you have any kind of hand troubles that might be affecting it but I see your lines are really thin and don't seem to have much opacity fade in them. A tablet is like drawing on glass, without the friction of a real pen and paper it will always be more slippery to draw on a tablet.

I recommend going back to the thicker brush you used in the past, it's much more relaxing to use in my experience. Of course it doesn't make for good looking lineart but that brings me onto my next idea...

>painting
I think you did well with the ctrl paint stuff, this study of the rock shows a decent ability to blend and construct a painting. I'm sure it probably took you more hours than you'd like but you got to a decent end result didn't you?

I think you should try doing the thick line thing and then use that as a base to have a go at painting, you don't have to worry about precision with painting, it's like building with clay, you just fumble around with it until it looks right

>discipline
I worry about this too, discipline is a hard thing. But you did draw for 100 days this time around, that's pretty good.

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