/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4568381
30
since i was 8

>>4568381
28.
1.5 years.

>>4568381
im 25 and have never been drawing seriously

Almost 30. Been at it on and off since my late teens.

24, 11 years of actually putting effort into it.

29
2-3 years I think

>>4568381
32 only 2 years

>>4568386
>>4568390
>>4568392
>>4568394
>>4568397
Why are you so old

>>4568400
Fuck you nigger!

25. like 2 weeks

>>4568400
im old because ive completed being young

42, drawing since 38

>>4568381
21, 1.5 years
Not quite where I want to be yet

>>4568409
What made you start at 38? I'm actually curious, since I know there are plenty of sparks for inspiration throughout adulthood

>>4568400
Because 4chan will be 20 years old soon.

why doesnt anyone post work?

>>4568431
Did you even look in the thread

It depends on what is serious.

30 and 5 months.

>>4568431
This is mine

18. Did 2 drawings during 2018, didn't touch a pencil in 2019 and now i am back and i have been drawing a lot.

>>4568431
I'm terrible and only have a couple shitty works to post which everyone has already laughed at, I'd feel like it was spamming to keep posting them.
I will go back to posting work when I draw something better.

25, I've been taking it more seriously for about 2 years now

>>4568400
Because being old is fun

>>4568400
you'll be too, tomorrow

>>4568381
25
4 minutes

23yo Polish male
8 months

>>4568530
Didn't ask for your gender

19. Started about a week ago.

23, doodled casually throughout my teens but only started seriously about a year ago

>>4568539
Why do people start and instantly come to /ic/

>>4568579
I've been here for 2 years. I just didn't try, now i am.

>>4568590
What the FUCK

>>4568626
What? I wasn't aware that that was a startling revelation.

>>4568635
You saying that you were 17 and didn't try drawing while browsing here 2 years ago is a little disgruntling

19, knew I wanted to make art for a living around 12, but has only started to actually study stuff these last few months.

>>4568640
Meh. I'd draw shitty anime faces here and there but didn't take it seriously. Im fine with it though. I didn't have any drive or direction for my art but since then my taste has evolved. I have a pretty good idea of what i want now and how to get there, so i think im better off then being stuck in an anime purgatory.

>>4568381
20
about an hour ago

>>4568579
My assumption is people wasting their lives browsing 4chan as their main source of entertainment, wanting more from their life and turning to a hobby they always enjoyed and so go browse the related board, lol

>>4568458
Latest drawing

>>4568696
sad but true

>>4568696
Picking up a hobby in your adulthood doesn't mean you have no other hobbies.

>>4568756
shiny

>>4568381
20. Been drawing for 3.5 years.

16 been drawing everyday since i was like 6

>>4568505
same bro. good luck

>>4568381
19
4 years

>>4568381
25, started taking it seriously in 2015

>>4569058
Do you finish things
Post one

>>4569087
Been trying to be better about finishing stuff.
coloring is really enjoyable to me but my sketches always lose their "life" when finished.

>>4568381
21 yo
been drawing consistently since I was 8-9, but with the intent to "get gud" since I was 14-15, so for 12-13 years total, but for 6-7 years seriously.

only started to get gud within the past 3ish years, tho lmao

>>4569105
Oof dude you should get on finishing practice
>>4569112
Nice

29 and a little over a year.
Been drawing every single day tho, 400 something days
Nice to see I'm mostly not alone lel

>>4569137
art?

Im 24. I've always liked drawing and started doing it a bit more seriously at 17 to prepare for art school exams

>>4569159
You'd fit in with the manufactured Facebook art

>>4569164
I'm working hard towards this goal >_<

>>4569159
nice on the eyes, good work

Old enough to post on 4chin

>>4568502
this nigga was born in 2002. Goddamn !

>>4569395
The future is now, old man!

>>4568381
18
since i was 13

20.
I dont know whats considered drawing seriously

past few months Ive been drawing alot I guess

22
ever since I was in diapers I've been drawing but I didn't start taking it serious until 2017

31, started a little under 3 years ago, switched my focus entirely to landscapes/environments last summer. Before that I was still trying to figure out where exactly I wanted to take my art and experimented with everything, from cute watercolor demon girls, to abstract landscapes, to embroidery lol

These are recent oil paintings, a medium I'm still pretty new at, I often paint digitally or with gouache.

>>4568381
25, maybe 2-3 months of trying

>>4569395
what about you nigga

>>4568381
18
4 months

>>4569633
Do you do these as a form of exercise or as finished works?

1996
Been drawing since toddler but I only started studying and practicing around november last year.

>>4568400
26
On and off again since I was 17.

>>4568381
21
since i was 3
how in the world do you now draw seriously? Do you just fucking draw nonsense on the paper with no purpose?

>>4570236
>how in the world do you now draw seriously? Do you just fucking draw nonsense on the paper with no purpose?
doodles

23
Idk what serious means but I've been on and off the past 3 or 4 years
I'm too much of a scared baby to start working with markers or digital

>>4570253
thats stupid, youre just assuming ugly drawing=not drawing seriously.
You should ask since when have you been drawing and when did you start studying drawing.

24, on and off my whole life and I have nothing to show for it

>>4570260
my doodles aren't ugly, they are emoji tier simple when I'm bored or waiting something.

>>4569627
honestly, that's a nice fucking drawing

How do so many of you not know what OP (me) meant by drawing seriously
I mean being in the state of mind where you actually want to improve OR you're drawing for many hours a week

>>4570283
your answer explains a lot on how you see art.

>>4570321
most of what you call “art” probably isn’t art but illustration

>>4570321
What do you mean? I just like doodling for fun or to pass time.

>>4570361
Coward

>>4570394
Not everyone aims to be an artist the same way not everyone aims to be a car racer when driving.

>>4568381
28
Started learning the academic base properly about 2 years ago, until that time drew very rarely and intuitive, just drew what i like, like children and retards do.

>>4570409
Get in the right lane, coward B)

>>4570417
>just drew what i like, like children and retards do.
Ease up on the elitism there little guy.

>>4570417
nice

>>4570427
Hey, I'm still a retard tough, don't worry!
Sometimes I still draw what I want and how I want, although I know that this is unproductive, because I still don’t know many things. But damn, sometimes you have to have some fun, otherwise you will hate the process of drawing itself.

>>4570417
Are these done with oil? Colors are really nice.

>>4570592
The one with dude in a red pointed hood and the one with red rocks shaped like bird heads is painted with acrilyc, the rest painted with oil.

>>4570417
I dig this a bunch, feels like a pastel halfway point between Dali and Bekinski, very excellent

>>4570637
I'll take that as compliment, thank you.

%%Do you visiting /x/? Ever heard about horror of noon? I'm trying to paint that%%

>>4570651
It was indeed a compliment - and I will say that the top two’s colors are especially well done.

I haven’t recently except to harvest images, but I’ll have a looksee at that.

>>4569176
Damn, wish I could make souless start-up art like you. Good job, you're gonna be making mad moola

>>4569663
Both, they're quick (40-50 min) and small (4x4, 3x5) and I painted them as part of #maysketchaday so they're definitely more done for practice, but I try to make them look as finished as possible within the time limit I usually set for myself.

>>4568408
Heh, I don't mind aging but being a failure scares me to my core.

>>4570658
I don't think there is a recent thread, but you can search on yuckla.

>>4568381
I am almost 24, I started making a serious effort a year and a half ago

19
been on and off since I was 18, fear of injury or injury made me quit

>>4570686
Found what you meant, really interesting concept - while I’m not one for believing in such phenomena, I am impressed at x’s ability to isolate such specific contexts sometimes and make them eerie. Good luck on the work.

21

I've got drawings going back to when I was about 6, which was when I started. wanted to be an artist and was working very seriously when I was 18 but went to uni instead where I didn't practice much. Now I'm graduated and am probably not going to use my degree and pursue my dream instead.

Tyт чтo, пoлoвинa pa/ cидит? Hy oбocpaтьcя тeпepь.

19
Been doing it since i was 17

>>4569159
This is the exact art that you'd see on Google Doodle.

>>4569159
i still hate your garbage socialist art

>>4568418

Is that your work?

Do you have Instagram, Tumblr or something? That's a pretty cool style, I love it.

Turned 18 four days ago. Following Keys to Drawing for the past 2 weeks.

about a week ago, got memed into starting with Riven Phoenix as well

>>4571967
also 24

23, I pretty much only copied references since I was 15 until I found /ic/ last year, tried to improve for 3 months and then gave up.

>>4570254
nice car anon, Ive been trying to get into drawing them myself just for the hell of it.

>>4571731
forgot to post work and yea I'm still beg af, I was drawing aimlessly for the past 5 months and I made little to no progress then i found out this shithole and my progress skyrocketed.

>>4571967
Is she sad because they cancelled her show?

>>4572020
rude

>>4568425
I'm 35, started learning how to draw seriously last year. I started because over the years I've always liked drawing but never took it seriously and I needed a new creative hobby. I tried painting tank models but I didn't enjoy it, and I tried photography but there's only so many times I'm willing to just go out and shoot things. Drawing is fun for me, gives me an outlet when I'm stressed, is endless (there's tons to learn, forever), exercises my creativity, and I can combine it with my writing to create comics. It ticked all the boxes.

This year I started playing the piano. Ticks the same boxes.

>>4568381
32... i started at maybe 5.

>>4572036
kudos on you man, drawing is especially nice because you only need a pencil and a piece of paper then you can go to town with it at just about anywhere, the prospect of consciously picking up a new hobby sounds fascinating to me, do you just go and try out a bunch of stuff and see which one you like?

>>4572024
some /co/ anon pictured her having an unlucky run against Big Deal, I'll add the intestines later

20, started drawing in january 2019

>>4570303

Thanks I spent about 5 or 6 hours on it, I had fun and learned a lot from it

>>4572239
that looks pretty fucking neat man

>>4572053
> do you just go and try out a bunch of stuff and see which one you like
Yes, kinda. This is something I've only started doing in the past 5 years or so because I finally ascended into a well paying job but basically:

Go through youtube, 4chan boards, reddit, etc and see what people are dedicating themselves to. Find something that fascinates you, where you can sit down and watch videos for hours on how to do the thing.

It takes about 6 months to get a good feel for the hobby, until you kinda get out of that super beginner stage where everything's too hard and really understand if it's something you want to pursue.

Don't just buy a shitload of gear and equipment when you're just trying something out or you'll end up either throwing money away or sticking with a hobby just because you sunk so much money into it. Start slow. But, if you can, try going for that upper beginner level stuff. Otherwise it'll hurt your enjoyment of the hobby and you'll end up quitting a hobby you might have enjoyed.

Immerse yourself fully in the hobby, educating yourself, and the community.

Over 5 years I've tried:
- writing
- art
- photography
- playing the piano
- speed reading
- model building/painting
- lockpicking
- getting gud at fighting games
- making jewelry

The last 4 I abandoned because I wasn't getting enjoyment out of them. Photography I still do occasionally. Writing I didn't have time for but I'll get back to that when I get to comics. Art, piano and reading I've stuck to. I dedicate about 3 hours between them every day with reading usually being the one skipped if I want to dedicate more time to the other two.

The nice part of trying new hobbies is that you learn stuff you can apply elsewhere. Like my knowledge of photography has helped my art. Jewelry stuff helped lockpicking And some hobbies simply improve your life e.g. speed reading helps me learn everything faster.

The only hobby I've ever had that I can say never positively impacted my life is gaming.

>>4572311
>Immerse yourself fully in the hobby, educating yourself, and the community.
What I mean with immersing yourself is try to read books about the hobby, join communities, discord servers, watch videos, take a course, see what other people are posting, communicate with others, post about what you're doing on social media. The more you immerse yourself the quicker you can get a feel for the hobby and the more excited about it you become.

If the hobby isn't for you you'll then you'll automatically find yourself, in spite of your best efforts kinda losing momentum, losing touch with the community, not being interested in learning anymore.

But you need to jump start your interest and that's the way to do it.

>>4572311
>The only hobby I've ever had that I can say never positively impacted my life is gaming.

For me It's kinda the opposite, If it wasn't for VNs I wouldn't have bothered to learn japanese. Altough I regret wasting
most of my childhood playing cs for 10 hours straight Everyday.

>>4572318
Well, technically gaming didn't teach you Japanese. It just inspired you to learn it. In that way, yes, gaming can influence you. Kinda how Cities Skylines has inspired me to learn more about how road design works in cities. But that's not really gaming teaching you something or impacting your life meaninfully. It's more that it's just another avenue to find things that might interest you.

28, drawing since I was 15-16... Never had that mentality of making it, so I was always drawing onlyfor myself with no regard of it being pleasing or marketable...

Maybe since 2018 I started to more actively pursue art, at least to just pocket in some money. Due to personal circumstances I can only pursue art semi-professionally at best, hobyist in reality.

I also have a really low output, maybe 6-8 finished pieces a year, and I dont sletch of really study, so you can see, but this quarantine has helped me draw and paint so much, maybe, in 2 weeks I already surpassed my last years output

>>4572340
Sorry, wrong photo

>>4572332
It did dude, I literally learned japanese from visual novels, using a texthooker and a popup dictionary I spent over 4 hours a day grinding vocab, learning grammar and all that shit. Gaming can be a good source of learning, You just have to be smart enough to know which games benefit you and which ones just overdose your brain with quick dopamine boosts

>>4572363
Oh alright then :)

I was just talking from my own personal experience of course. Good for you learning Japanese through VNs!

>>4569633
It looks kinda weird. It's like you were trying to paint some concept CG landscape, but with paint. They look kinda unfinished.

>>4571485
Thank you.

>>4572317
>>4572311
thank you for the very thorough response anon, 3 hours everyday on your hobby is kinda crazy honestly, I don't even have classes right now and I can barely muster 3 hours of productivity everyday

the immersion in the hobby part is definitely something I could do, as I'm pretty detached to just about anything that I do regularly, apart from shitposting

also you might wanna check on speed reading man, unless you mean something else from the popular therm, baed on what I've read so far, it comes at a cost of comprehension

>>4572317
>>4572311

thank you for the very thorough response anon, 3 hours everyday on your hobby is kinda crazy honestly, I don't even have classes right now and I can barely muster 3 hours of productivity everyday

the immersion in the hobby part is definitely something I could do, as I'm pretty detached to just about anything that I do regularly, apart from shitposting

also you might wanna check on speed reading man, unless you mean something else from the popular term, based on what I've read so far, the science behind it is shaky af

>>4568400
>being an agelet

>>4568381
20 and I have never drawn seriously I have no drive in life and dont feel like getting any

>>4572340
Imagine the smell

>>4572341
I like this piece. Do you have an instagram ot something?

>>4572674
why do elves have receding blonde hair line

>>4573312
Instagram.com/Fossilmorph
for illustration and random stuff and for my painting stuff (pic related)
Instagram.com/c0rdeiro_2020

>>4568381
27, 5-6 years

>>4568400
Did you discover 4chan through reddit, kid? If you haven't been on here since at least 2008, you're a newfag and should fuck off or lurk more.

>>4574350
how is the kid supposed to come here in 2008 if he was born in 2009

>>4574354
He doesn't and looks for somewhere else to summerfag.

just turned 33, drawing for realsies for probably like 6-7 years now

>>4574350
It's kinda cringe how hard you're trying
kek

>>4574350
I bet you're here since 2019 or something

>>4568381
25
Drawing since age 8, but became serious around age 18.

>>4574523

>>4568381

>>4568381

33, I can't I've ever been drawing seriously. I'm truly a despicable human being who can't finish anything he starts.

>>4574535
Well then do something about it

i'd like to be in a group with 23-28yr olds that do varying degrees of art i think it'd be cool

>>4568381
27
>drawing seriously for
4 years on and off

>>4568381
28, and since I was 4

>>4570668
Everyone's a failure. You've just gotta learn to cope unless you're a trust fund babby

>>4568381
30, on and off for the last 13 years

>>4574752

Trying to. Again. Maybe this time.

>>4568381
18
2 weeks

20
I've been drawing on and off since I was four but never put in the effort to improve and taking month long breaks has constantly put me backwards

>>4569058
Good shit.

>>4568381
26, 4 years

18, 1 year

>>4574535
This but i'm 27.
I feel like my piece of shit pic related

>>4578095
Skeleton or snowman?

>>4578100
exactly

>>4578089
1 hour*

>>4568381
19
been drawing since i was a kid only took it seriously when I was about 16

>>4569627
SOUL

>>4568381
29
1 year and 7 months

>>4568381
30
3 months or so
actually posting my work even though its shit

>>4568381
25. Started at 19, thought I would quit because I usually drop things but I’m still chugging along

>>4568381
>30
>only drawn seriously when I was 10-11 & 18-19.
>haven't drawn anything serious in like 10 years
>make occasional doodles every 6 months
>still think I can make it if I do 1 year of training

>>4578291
hey man, is that your work? i just started learning a couple of months ago at 28, and this gives me hope.

>>4574350
lol

>>4578420
yes it is mine
glad my example is inspiring for someone

>>4578431
any particular thing you watched, read, copied that was eaasy for you to grind giving you the most progress?

>>4578291
Her lower half is kinda terrible proportion wise

>>4578956
nah i am "just draw" kind of person, i do gesture warmup every day and occasional figure drawings, and the only book i followed was Robertson's "How to Draw" (but even that lasted only for a week)
i tend to spend a lot of time on every drawing, correcting and fixing and redrawing, looking up how other artist did things i am struggling with and so on; for this picture i spent half a week doing thumbnails and rough sketches with different variations and camera angles and then week on picture itself, pretty much everything except for body itself was redrawn 2-4 times
i know it's not very efficient and doesn't look like good for time i spend on it and still has hilarious mistakes like >>4578972 pointed out but that's the only method of improvement that works for me

>>4579020
>can laugh about own mistakes and isn't butthurt
gmi

>>4574237
because that's just how wh*tes are

>>4579020
>spending this much time polishing turds
https://youtu.be/ByuwEiTlRLw
Shit out more turds in a faster rate to get faster gains bro.

21 in a couple days. I think 5 years?

>>4579079
man, 99% of videos like these say nothing useful in particular and this one isn't different from them
"don't zoom early on" and "don't go into fine details early on" is obvious for everyone but newbies and the last one sounds almost like "stay in your comfort zone"

>>4579141
Not him but yeah those videos are useless after you've seen a few being a brand new artist. They just regurgitate the same exact advice only to get ad revenue on easy formulaic advice videos

18, been taking it seriously for 4 years.
>>4570254
I like ur style consider drawing backgrounds

>>4568381
27
was drawing as a teen and later would draw something for my little brother sometimes
taing it seriously for about 3 weeks now (doing the exercises from the new drawing on the right side of the brain)

>>4568381
35, still not taking it seriously

>>4579141
The last one was the only decent advice but certainly helped with painting shit fast. it's a good advice if you just want to finish something faster so you can fail faster and evaluate your piece and then list all the issues and things you improved on and keep notes after that.

>>4579327
That's it after 4 years of trying? Your style reminds me of the crap ethan becker draws but more incomplete

>>4580092
Oh nice.
Mind if I ask what your studies are?

>>4580092
i'm not a furry, but those girls are nice broski

>>4580197
Post work

>>4580197
lol'd

>>4580227
Like what I studied? Went to art school and worked in animation in LA for like 7 years.
>>4580231
Thanks

>>4580197
KEK

>>4580289
>Went to art school and worked in animation in LA for like 7 years.

Nice. But yeah, just wanted to know what and how you studied.

>>4580298
Live figure drawing, Bridgman, Hogarth, anatomy workshops, Loomis unironically, color and design workshops, oil painting workshops, bunch of other 3D classes. Basically a bunch of these classes https://www.academyart.edu/courses/?back=2701&plan=BFA-ANM-BFA-ANM3DA

I focused on animation, that's why my illustration is lacking still.

>>4580302
Thanks for the insight. I'm just wondering of other ways in approaching my drawing habits. Really appreciate you taking the time to share this info.

>>4580307
Np, yeah if you can spare the time and money, take live workshops or even a semester part time. Forced me to me focus and immerse myself studying art full time. I suck at learning on my own.

>>4580197
Weird cause I hate that guys style.

18, since about a year, on this board since 2 months or so

>>4578229

I'm glad to have gotten a soul compliment, thanks :' )

>>4576918
Deadbolt Art.
That's some good shit you don't see every day.

>>4578149
Found a some loomis books on hentai and started grinding

>>4582615
Ehentai*

>>4574350

>summer of 2007 never really ended

You need to go back.

>>4574773
this is super cute, anon

>>4582615
why would you go to ehentai for loomis you almost underage retard

>>4581458
I really like the composition, it has a lot of soul

>>4579410
Looks nice! Good luck on your journey bro

19. Started taking it seriously three years ago so I can git gud for funnybook-making. Turns out writing will always be superior though.

>>4568381
22
Ive been drawing for fun ever since I could hold a pencil, I have never just chosen to git gud one day. I'd say at 10 I started learning more advanced stroke concepts though, when my dad taught me how to draw explosions using various sizes of 3 shapes.

>>4585160
How often would you say you draw

>>4568381
16. been serious since I was like 12 but I still suck.

30
on an off, finally trying to get serious now since I have everything else in my life quite sorted out
still a beg and not worried about making it

>>4580092
Do you post anywhere? Lovely work.

>>4568381
30, started around 12 but haven't drawn seriously since 16. I've lost most of my previous gains.

>>4568530
dick pick or gtfo

>>4586469
*pic
damn auto correct

>>4568381
18, I've been drawing my entire life but I only started doing it seriously in middle school.

>>4586469
imagine fetishizing poles

>>4574468
zoomer buzzword shit soup of a post

Turning 33 next month, starting drawing seriously when I was 30.

Actually, I started drawing seriously back when I was 21 but it only lasted about a year. I found /ic/ discovered/grinded loomis, perspective, etc.. I tried hard for a year, then gave up.

Glad I didn't this time, and I wonder how good I would have been if I had been practicing my observational and drawing mechanics since then. Kind of crazy how I just didn't draw at all for so long. It's a good discipline to get into.

>>4569627
Disgusting Clinton old woman face but Amazin skill

>>4574529
Nice!! Be ambitious. Eyes are a little shallow, could benefit from recessing more or augmenting brow

>>4568381
25
Been drawing seriously since 12
Discovered Loomis at 18, read some Bridgman 3 years ago, and only got around to reading Hogarth this year.
So about 6 years of drawing with no foundation and 6 years with some.
Pic are doodles from a week ago using Frazetta as reference.

>>4586523
based. I'm 25 kind of similar story i'm just not even as close to being as good as you

>>4586523
Did you actually make a doujin or is this a single page thing?

>>4587095
Nah just the cover. If I made a whole doujin I'd commission other artists to help me and spend most of my time writing it and drawing the character sheets.

>>4568381
19, been drawing for 12 years, have yet to draw seriously

>>4568400
Pfff that’s not old. I’m 38 next month and still coming to this cancer website daily.

>>4586523
May I ask what you've done in your 20's I just turned 23 a couple days ago and I feel like my life is over because art is such a fucking struggle.

Oops forgot to do the rest. Ok I’m 38 and I’ve been drawing pretty much since I was a kid but I’m really not anywhere near good enough to prove it. I’m ages behind people half my age in technique and also theory but that inspires me to keep trying to make up for lost time.

>>4587627
Wage slaving as a software engineer. I'm FAANG now so I've basically maxed out at career at this point. Art is something I always wanted to do so now I have more time to do it and not make it hard to enjoy. It'll give me something to do while I hop between jobs for the next 5-10 years and beyond.

>>4568381
19, the last 1.5 to 2 years

>>4587633
>>4586801
>>4580092
>>4579327
>>4574773
>>4572341
these are all awesome! very inspiring

>>4570651
love this, the horror at noon thread on /x/ inspired me to paint something from the thread, actually

22, 10 months on and off

>>4587861
>the horror at noon thread on /x/ inspired me to paint something from the thread, actually
That's awesome. Pls, when you will be done, show it to me, okay? Even if this thread will be gone at this point, post in other thread, TRAD or Last Artist Standing. I'll find it. I'm really intrested, i'm collecting art that has "horror of noon" vibes.
Nice girl, btw.

19. technically started when i was 12 or something but i've never taken it super seriously. i'm usually motivated for a few weeks and draw all day and then i don't touch my drawing tablet for a few months

36
Seriously 15
Professionally 10

>>4588049
dope

>>4584223
Format is easier to read than a pdf

>>4586418
https://twitter.com/aphantomclaw

>>4570230
Same. 27 off and on amateurishly since I’m very little. I went a full year without drawing a single thing once though.