/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4957768
i started my art journey at 11, when i found a "how to draw manga" book at the school library"
i'd be stuck with the "how to draw eyes" type of tutorials until i turned 14, when i first came on the board and read the sticky
i ground anatomy to the point where art became a chore, which was not the way to go about it. i'd grind anatomy because i thought i wasn't good enough to do the ideas in my head.
i got really existential during that time. i was deluding myself to think i was drawing for something greater than myself, when in reality i just drew because i enjoyed it a lot and people were complimenting my drawings. nothing wrong with that, but i don't think a teenager who thinks they're better than their peers would want to admit they're passionate about something because of selfish desires.
i'm not sure when i really stopped with the mentality of "i'm not good enough to do that idea." hell, maybe i'm still in it but i'm just denying it, just like i denied why i was really drawing.
then at around 16 or so, i decided to switch up my style. i think after a couple of months, i started to enjoy myself again. i was less focused on realism and it felt like i had more opportunities to be creative.
currently, i'm just frustrated i can't seem to find a good pose for my characters. i always spend too much time trying to find a good reference but i can never find one. i still haven't figured out how to convey personality through a pose.

>>4957768
>I am from a poor family and when I was 4 I used to draw on our wooden tables and walls with chalk. I have a gundam shirt when I was 6 and I used to take it off and copy all the time.
>Never stopped drawing but treat it as a hobby.
>Went to Engineering school to study mechanical engineering with scholarship back in 2013, half-way through I can't bear the pressure because I lost my love and motivation for it, plus it is one of the toughest schools in my country.
>I was reluctant in dropping out and chose to extend, my attendance sheet is riddled with absences and only came to school during exams (absences forgivable if you can score a term exam at 90%, passing is 75%).
>eventually dropped out in 2018 and honed my artistic skills further
> started working as freelance illustrator 5 months later
>I do album cover for bands and book covers, storyboarding and private coms.
>still not a huge income but I can manage to support myself.
> saved and left home
>living alone, abandoned friends and classmates due to shame
> lurk 4chan in free time.
That is all, been lurking here for weeks but this is my first post/comment. I wish you all make it better than me, I know you can, good luck. bye.

>>4957768
I guess I started when I was kid, but literally every little kid draws.

It became solidified as one of my official hobbies once I was in elementary school, however. By then, most kids don't draw anymore, or they just do little stick men doodles on their worksheets. Me, i was drawing Pokemon and Dragonball Z art that my mom would unironically put on the fridge.

I started drawing seriously once I turned 17. Started doing master copies, life drawings and playing around with different kinds of drawing techniques. I got a job that same year and couldn't devote all my time to drawing any more so my stuides have been short and sporadic since then.
Had a short dream of becoming a comic book artist, but quickly gave up on that and now I just draw occasionally where the sessions are short and I don't produce anything of worth or that i'm exactly proud of.

Im 30 now.

my uncle was an architect so I wanted to study that but then I noticed that I was a brainlet for it, so I studied industrial design instead and here I am

>Fall in love with a girl
>Feelings aren't mutual.
>Whatever lol
>We stop talking
>I get depressed
>Start distancing myself from friends
>Realize my life is going nowhere
>I'm losing friends, I hate school
>I just want to escape and relax all day, doing what I love
>Drawing!
>Find Sycra, Sinix, Proko, Loomis
>Begin learning to draw
>Tremendous improvement
>Ego inflates. I think I'm a prodigious genius.
>Try to get into animation school
>Rejected from all of them.
>End up going to a state school for engineering
>Severely depressed
>Don't do anything for a year.
>Sophomore year, decide to reapply to animation school, to revive my dream of working in animation
>Get rejected from all of them. Again
>Fuck.
Now I'm here. Third time around, I'm applying to Calarts, Gobelins, and Sheridan again. On the one hand, my ego's completely torn down and I'm used to rejection, but I'm pretty sure I don't have a future anymore. My drawings suck. My work sucks. I have no creativity, and I'm not organized at all. But it gives me hope when I hear that most people in those big art schools are in their twenties, so maybe I'm not so late after all.

>>4957817
Your experience is pretty close to mine, but you still seem young. Maybe you might gain from practicing gesture so you can skip the reference part and draw straight from imagination?

>>4957871
That's a pretty ambitious goal, anon. I hope you succeed! But I also hope you learn from rejections (so long as those guys give you actual feedback).

>>4957768
>art journey
wtf is that? i just draw.

>>4957948
stfu retard

>>4957768
art journey? you're sitting in front of a screen drawing lines, tell it how it is, cringemaster

>>4957768
That nobody cares about physical art anymore, i'm talking about the general population, not the money laundering aristocrats. The general zoomer populations equivalent of art in 2020 is a well-made youtube video to sink time into, that is the extent of their consumption of 'art'. Whatever, my only goal is to paint as much before I inevitably kill myself

>>4957963
What's the hurry? You'll be dead for the rest of eternity anyway, might as well use the time to do enjoyable things

>>4957879
i really don't retain anything from doing gesture, i just see it as a warmup exercise
how do you do it anon?

>>4957768

I drew since I was a kid, but it became an "official hobby" when I was 11. I spent the next several years until I was 18 drawing purely for fun for myself, creating all sorts of stories that I doubt anyone else would care about.
At 18, I started sharing my art online, and it quickly made me hate drawing because I got caught up in the dopamine trap. Drawing generic soulless crap that people wanted to see rather than what I wanted to draw. I took many breaks (some years long) from drawing because it just wasn't motivating or fun at all.
I finally realized at 25 that I don't enjoy social media at all, and just want to draw for myself. I knew I never wanted an art job because I would rather draw what I liked rather than other people's ideas, but for some retarded reason I didn't translate that over to internet attention and commissions. I have a nice stable job so I am never going to do commissions again. Might make some games and comics and stuff for some extra passive income, but I wouldn't care if they sold zero copies because I just have an internal need to get these stories out. It doesn't matter if anyone looks at them or not.
I've improved insanely this year and had the most fun drawing since I was 18.

>>4958068
Pixiv secret tags? Vilppu psyop 1996? Can you elaborate? I want to go down the rabbit hole.

i just started a year ago. i'm 19 now, im really glad i found out my love of drawing and painting before committing a rope neck. this "journey" is pretty fucking lonely ngl, i really realized that during this quarantine, i barely talked to anyone. but i have never been happier doing something, so i'm still kinda confused about that

age 5 i started drawing random shit
age 7 i started copying blastoise off my pokemon card and some ad in a coupon magazine for red and blue
age 13 i make my first manga and make copies and sell them at my middle school and use said funds to buy sonic comics
age 15 i start painting white vans shoes for people for cash
age 20 become art major for one semester in between pre med and philosophy majors
age 23-26 basically finish as a painting major with a minor in biology
28 now this year do tezuka manga comic contest

im going to massage therapy school to massage milfs and asian womenz though in january im excite with my dunkin donuts money and government monies i saved up paying for the tuition

azn gf here i come!