/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6388929
I never had much before anyway.

Should have gone into STEM. Become a coder. Make AI.

Same. I'm incapable of moderation. If I have any vidya installed on my PC all I'm thinking about when I'm studying is when I'll get to play next. I also blocked all boards except /ic/ which I barely even come to anymore because of AI spam. Those were the closest things I had to having some sort of social outlet. My life feels so empty and lonely without them. But at least I'm finally getting good work done.

>Addicted to video games, destroying my social life and sleep
>Make the decision to quit
>Pick up drawing instead
>Addicted to drawing, destroying my social life and sleep

>>6388941
>Become a coder
I'm like 3 months of coding before becoming employable, but man, I would rather draw after work

how about you quit 4chan instead

>>6388941
>t. NEET

>>6388941
>Should have gone into STEM. Become a coder. Make AI.
kill yourself bugman

>>6388929
what do you want to do anon?
>>6388942
stop trying to work in the same recreational space. that's the only thing your PC is mentally allocated for.
I implore you to set up a space far from it or find one if you can, if you still live with your family this is can be hard but if you can find a library or something don't think about it, just go there.
conversely /ic/ is a shithole where the quality of the work from the average user has dropped massively compared to what it was even 7 years ago. only use it for pirating books.

>>6388941
I tried to learn coding and I thought it was the most boring soulless shit imaginable.
>Should have gone into STEM. Become a coder. Make AI.
I would rather an hero.

>>6389007
Coding is fun when you are the leader and say how everything should be. Sadly that doesn't happens until you lost your will to live spending years obeying idiotic people

>>6388929
There are 24 hours in a day, you could do multiple things.

>>6389014
Unless you can turn playing vidja into monies you time is better spent focusing on things. Just putt a let play on in the background to enjoy the hobby.

>>6388941
Unironically this. It's easier and more reliable than art

>>6389058
No, you don’t realize how long an hour is, there are multiple things you could be doing.

>>6388941
what if i'm a brainlet who can't into stem?

>>6388929
>quit video games
Always a good thing anon.

>>6389105
Then you're a NGMI permabeglet in art world anyway.

You might like a job more than you think.

>>6388929
>put all my eggs on one basket
Not puer. Good point.

>>6388941
>>6389105
I studied stem and went the project management path. Wouldn't recommend being a coder. It's really sad to see people with way more knowledge than me make less and work insane hours with regular crunch. I'm in just a regular corporation, Fortune 500.
I'd explain why they're treated like grunts and need to be for anything to get done at a scale of 20 + system integrations, but the salty replies from people in the field have gotten tiresome from /biz/ discussions.
I draw for fun, and actually do cheap commissions from time to time because then someone else is relying on me, makes it easier to force myself to keep a schedule after a day of work. I have some aspirations, though. I want to be able to draw a comic one day that's late 90s DC comics tier, and I want to make some Felix the cat style animations that my upcoming kid will appreciate.

>>6389105
The world always needs more cashiers and retail workers.

>>6389014
thats not how it works. You only have a certain number of "charges" to do anything all day. Some activities take one, others take your remaining charges. Going from one task to another eats up an additional charge, so doing two things for 1 hour each is always more expensive than doing one thing all day. The amount of hours in the day doesn't matter, just doing the laundry wipes me out all day.

>>6389105
summon a tulpa to teach you math/programming like i did. they know much of the dark arts

>>6389631
I summoned John Carmack as my tulpa. He refuses to help and just plays doom in my headspace though.

>>6388941
>>6389234
pyw right now

>>6389642
Thanks not summoning tulpas anymore

>>6389217
t. neuroplastic boomer

>>6389551
24 hours is enough to do what’s needed and much more with time to spare. Doing laundry all day forgets that you have 700,000 hours in the following months.

>>6390038

>>6388941
Don't fall for this coders are getting automated and layed off in droves as we speak

>>6388941
>contribute to the fall of society
No thanks

>>6388941
>contribute to the fall of society

>>6389551
Yet kids in African cobalt mines can work 12 hours a day. You're literally getting outdone by lil' niggas mate. Screw your spoon theory and get someone to stab your dick with needles if you don't paint for 16 hours each day, that's how you make it. You need to be afraid of failure like death.

>>6391298
>you're not allowed to be sad because muh heccin starving niggerinos!
kill yourself

>>6388929
OP I tried this and it didn't work, I picked up bonelabs after a few months of no video games and immediately afterward I had a lot more inspiration to draw.
If you don't want to spend your time on video games, at least pick up another hobby, try hiking or trainspotting or some gay shit, idk. Just do something to give your brain input to create art from.
>>6388993
This too desu. Spend less time on 4chan senpai.

>>6391311
If that's your takeaway then you're certainly NGMI
The correct takeaway is that the alternative to not working must suck more than working, so you'll have no choice but to put in the hours to get good at art.
Quit your job, tell all of your friends to fuck off, buy art supplies with all of your money so you can't buy weed/drugs/alcohol or go to parties or movies, and stop paying your internet bill. Trash your car if you have one. When you have nothing else left in your life but art, you're going to be motivated to do it 18 hours a day.