Your Art's Purpose

[Anonymous No.3313961]

What is the purpose of your art? What do you hope to achieve with it? What is the motivation behind those grueling hours spent on practice?

>Is it to make a living?
>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
>To receive attention?
>To be part of a creative community?
>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
>Did you recognize you needed a creative outlet and just never stopped drawing?
>Or is it simply passion for the craft?

Art is suffering. Why are you making art?

[Anonymous No.3313962]

>>3313961
If you have to ask, you're not going to make it and you might as well just give up.

[Anonymous No.3313964]

>>3313962
I think it's good to formally address your reason for doing something. Whether it's "I just like it!" or "I put too much work into this and now I'm scared to stop" it's nice to come to terms with your reasons for doing so.

[Anonymous No.3313967]

Simple. I do backgrounds/environments and anime girls in anime screenshot style.

Backgrounds take me 10 hours and are highly rendered, so people on /ic/ can take me serious. The anime girls are for my dream goal of making a comic one day. I have only seen 150 something anime in my life though, so i want to marry a girl whose seen about 1000 anime or so,write comic with her.

[Anonymous No.3313981]

>>3313961
It’s fun and a break from my normal creative work.

[Anonymous No.3313983]

>>3313961
I... I actually don't really know why. I dropped the ball a couple years back and realized that it was my identity. I made friends and got attention for it. I was bored in class and drawing was my outlet for it (since getting a book out would get me in trouble). I once thought I would create a certain comic that would be my magnum opus. I came to realize that it is too personal to share, so it'll never see the light of day.

Why? At this point, the most likely reason is that I want to be part of community. I like to draw with others and help them brainstorm and constructively critique their works. It's fun drawing with others! Also, there are certain artists on Twitter whose works I love dearly, and I think I'd like to gift them artwork that they would love in the same manner. Like returning the favor for inspiring and sharing their works with me and the world.

[Anonymous No.3314073]

>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
This one. I have a lot of story ideas and want to get them out before I die.

[Anonymous No.3314093]

>>3313961
>to make a living
>passion for the craft
these

[Anonymous No.3314107]

>>3313961
>to transform your thoughts into something tangible
>to be part of a creative community
>to receive attention
>passion for the craft
I've only ever had interest in visual art, storytelling and worldbuilding. Now that I spent some 20 years doing nothing but reading, watching and playing shit related to all that, and autistically trying to analyze what exactly differentiates a good story/movie/game/picture from a bad one, what goes into creating all of it, etc., I want to do it myself.
I'm done being some useless armchair artist, basically. I'll show myself and everyone how it's done.

[Anonymous No.3314122]

I want to have at least one thing I'm really good at, because I suck at pretty much everything. Plus I enjoy drawing. I hope to publish my own comic book someday.

[Anonymous No.3314145]

>>3313967
Good luck finding a decent looking girl who watches anime. Why not just watch 1000 anime yourself? Or just not bother and make a comic anyway?

[Anonymous No.3314151]

>>3313961
It's the only part of my life where I'm completely in control.
I create these things from pretty much nothing using only myself and what I know. It might make me sound craycray (and maybe I am), but it makes me feel like a god.
And like any good god I want the best for my creations, so I keep practising so that I can live up to those expectations.

[Anonymous No.3314152]

>>3313961
I need something in life to care about, something that all of my decisions can be based around.

[Anonymous No.3314176]

>>3313967
kill yourself desu

[Anonymous No.3314182]

>>3313961

[Anonymous No.3314183]

[Anonymous No.3314247]

it's fun

[Anonymous No.3314258]

To express things I can't put into words

[Anonymous No.3314269]

I like the attention it gets me and it's good mental exercise.
Plus I'm starting to appreciate the things I see around me, a sunrise never looked as pretty before I started learning to draw and paint, after I learned to look.

[Anonymous No.3314272]

>>3313961
i cant afford cool cars so I draw them. Maybe one day i can make that into a lucrative career.

[Anonymous No.3314277]

I want to paint sexy animu girls like this

[Anonymous No.3314280]

>>3314277
Is there a way to blacklist this image so I never have to see it ever again?

[Anonymous No.3314302]

>>3313961
because I'm bitter and i like it

[Anonymous No.3314319]

>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
This. I get ideas and I want to see them

[Anonymous No.3314357]

Making art is suffering, but if you don't waver, you'll have some great results to appreciate. Sweeter than honey!

[Anonymous No.3314369]

>>3313961
I just want to do what I wanted to do since I was a kid. Drawing in itself is being a reward so far.

I might add it to my resume when I'm comfortable enough to take commissions, but right now, I just want to draw things I find cute or cool.

[Anonymous No.3314462]

>>3314073
Do you draw comics or something else?

[Anonymous No.3314487]

>>3313961
>What is the purpose of your art?
To create something new

>What do you hope to achieve with it?
Nothing save for getting all this shit in my head onto a digital canvas

>What is the motivation behind those grueling hours spent on practice?
I enjoy it and I enjoy the world that I'm trying to express.

Put simply I have no interest in money or "making it" I'm doing art for the sake of art. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Anonymous No.3314501]

>>3314462
Comics. Lots planned in the same sort of universe. Used to want to make video games but they'd take too long.

[Anonymous No.3314512]

>>3313961
Mostly to dedicate a part of my life to get really good at something and to stick with it even when I get really old. I did that with guitar for over a decade and disciplined practice until I hit a point where getting better had no practical use for me personally. Not saying that I was incredible, but you can hit a point in guitar where you just push yourself into weird musical niches to challenge yourself that actually sound like shit in the end. Not so much with art and that's what I like about it. I am just in love with discplined practice and craft, not so much with a specific artistic statement or specific story that I want to tell. I am probably a bit lame in that regard, which is why teaching art might be the right ambition for me, instead of trying to get fame or working for a big company.

[Anonymous No.3314535]

There is a feeling I get when I see beauty. It's those street lamps in sunset. It's how sunlight hits a the grass and the trees in a summer afternoon. It's the stars in a winter sky.

The the world speak a profound visual language in every corner that makes me feel things. I want to speak that languge.So I can capture those moments, and show people that there is beauty all around us that we are too busy to stop and look at. It's a cheesy reason but I can't help it.

[Anonymous No.3314549]

>>3313961
art is not suffering,
living is suffering,
learning relieves suffering,
art is apparently whatever you want it to be nowadays,
that is why contemporary is filled with losers
it is a phase, i wont see it change in my lifetime,
so i can't fight it

[Anonymous No.3314555]

I draw my dreams and random thoughts that come into my head.

[Anonymous No.3314560]

>>3313961
>to make a living
>passion for the craft
And to keep the tradition and culture inherited in the family alive. A proof of the long blood chain existence that I'm a purebreed.

[Anonymous No.3314567]

>>3314560
Cont.
Did I mention that I made things for vvips and royal families? High skill is needed to do it and the materials are lux as well.

[Anonymous No.3314811]

I've always felt like I was born by accident and wasn't wanted or worth anything. Both my parents separated from each other, started new families, and left me alone because I reminded them of their past mistakes with my gloomy disposition. Since then, I felt this immense dread that life is meaningless, I felt very cold and alone. Later I realized that it's okay, that life can't be what it is without the bad to remind you of the good and vice versa; that everything cannot be without another. With life comes death, light casts shadows, good cannot exist without the bad, and so on and so forth. That everything's connected and eventually becomes one in the grand scheme of things, an infinite cycle of itself that has balance. That nothing is really alone and is part of a greater whole; something infinite. That same infinite balance and guide that I used in Finbonacci's sequence to provide composition to my pieces.

When I realized this balance, I felt at ease with all the bad things in my life and used them subliminally to create stories in my work that produced good, comforted by the thought that those pieces of art would not have existed without hardships. i want to illustrate those points in my work so I heavily rely on symbolism, surreallism, and heavy contrasts to create focal points and such to balance my work. As well as a reminder to people who are in a state of personal hell that I was once in to feel comforted by the idea that they hold the poison and the cure within themselves to not collapse and crumble under the weight of existence's pressure's.

[Anonymous No.3314846]

>>3313961
>>Is it to make a living?
>>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
>>To be part of a creative community?

This

My dream's to draw porn for a living. And eventually make a piece that will satisfy me. I want to draw the best porn ever, i've always fapped to other people's work, and now want to create mine and share it.

>Or is it simply passion for the craft?

I've never enjoyed my life more than today, learning new thing everyday throughout my art, seeing how much you've evolve during the past days, months and years, this give me the satisfaction and the inspiration to move forwards.

[Anonymous No.3314869]

>>3313961
>art is suffering
I truly pity people that are forcing themselves to make art. just stop. I drew since I was a kid. I love it.

[Anonymous No.3314937]

Porn. I have deviant tastes that can only be achieved, morally, on paper. Drawing porn helps me keep my urges in check while being part of a community that makes me feel less alone. Also, I'd love to stay at home all day and do art commissions.

[Anonymous No.3315023]

>>3314937
>>3314846
That's basically me, i aim for the same goal.

[Anonymous No.3315029]

no purpose. drawing feels natural, like breathing.

[Anonymous No.3315157]

>>3313961
Truthfully, I have no idea.

[Anonymous No.3315173]

>>3313961
my aspirations are purely homunculitic

[Anonymous No.3315176]

>>3314869
perhaps you don't do art then.

[Anonymous No.3315196]

>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
pretty much

[Anonymous No.3315365]

>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
Pretty much that. But I see no other thing I'd rather do than creating stories for people to enjoy.

Whether I should be doing that through drawing is a whole nother story.

[Anonymous No.3315399]

>>3313961
Whenever I'm at work, and I'm doodling at a meeting or something, I want my doodles to look beautiful.

[Anonymous No.3315538]

>>3313961
I took some art classes in highschool because I drew for fun all the time. Went to art school, learned illustration, because I wanted my work to be something I enjoy. I was very good at math, physics, and chemistry, but couldn't imagine myself actually working in those fields and not being bored.

Wanted to be a famous illustrator like Norman Rockwell, but couldn't seem to get my business off the ground. As time went on, I started having these visions for long form graphic novels and giant oil paintings.

Nowadays I just do illustration jobs if they come along, but I seem to be entranced by those visions, so I spend more and more of my time pursuing those things and not making any money.

So right now I do it because of passion, I am totally mesmerized by the beauty in the world and feel a need to show it to people.

[Anonymous No.3315543]

Whatever I make will likely outlive me one way or another. I don't want to die having left no impact on the world.

[Anonymous No.3315625]

>>3315543
You could always shoot up a school.

[Anonymous No.3315878]

>>3313961

>What is the purpose of your art?

To give meaning to my life. I want to be remembered for my art, to have people talk about my achievements long after I'm dead.

[Anonymous No.3315920]

>>3313961
>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
oh fuck. ouch.

[Anonymous No.3316934]

>>3313961
>Is it to make a living?
Ideally, yes.
>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
Initially, yes.
>To receive attention?
This was also a big starting point.
>To be part of a creative community?
Yes, but the small city I grew up in spent more funds on the performing arts and I didn't want to be relegated to painting play set-pieces for the rest of my life.
>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
During high school that was definitely the case; then I had shitty art teachers that never pushed me in the right direction and I stopped entirely by junior year. Five years after graduating I found myself returning to different mediums than I was doing before and really enjoying it, tho.
>Did you recognize you needed a creative outlet and just never stopped drawing?
No.
>Or is it simply passion for the craft?
Given the mediums I've been working in. it's certainly this.

[Anonymous No.3318760]

>>3314280
being this jealous, pleb

[Anonymous No.3318765]

>>3313961
>Is it to make a living?
no
>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
i guess
>To receive attention?
i dont think of it that way, i just want to fill a hole that i know other people would like as well
>To be part of a creative community?
no
>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
no ive never been the "artist"
>Did you recognize you needed a creative outlet and just never stopped drawing?
no
>Or is it simply passion for the craft?
no
>Art is suffering. Why are you making art?
because its a hobby and i want to draw specific stuff

[Anonymous No.3318929]

>>3313961
To make a comic.

[Anonymous No.3318935]

>Is it to make a living?
Not in the foreseeable future.

>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
Not really. No ideas or thoughts in my mind when I draw. Just anatomical skills and more practice.

>To receive attention?
Yes.
>To be part of a creative community?
Yes.
>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?
Extremely yes.
>Did you recognize you needed a creative outlet and just never stopped drawing?

No. Zero creative juice in me.

>Or is it simply passion for the craft?

Hell no.

[Anonymous No.3318943]

99% passion, 1% attention.

[Anonymous No.3319009]

I do art because I want to create something I enjoy and so people who also enjoy the same thing I do can also enjoy it. Also because I want more dreamy art. In a sense, it's to make my thoughts into something tangible.

bit pretentious, sorry

[Anonymous No.3319029]

>To transform your thoughts in

I just hope that some day I can draw and tell the stories that i want to tell, and that they are good enough to people to want to read them.

That's all I want (and make a living doing them) and it's fucking scary to think about it.

[Anonymous No.3319104]

>>3313961
To leave behind something that at least a few people will enjoy and remember before I eventually kill myself

[Anonymous No.3319157]

>>3313961
I like the act of creating something, even if it's bad.
Actually, my goal is to create the most cute drawings of my waifu by my own hands! And I'm gonna make it, you hear me!?

[Anonymous No.3321550]

I wanna draw lewd fanart and cool Illiad ilustrations tbqhwyf.

[Anonymous No.3321562]

>what is the purpose of your art

to get attention from strangers on the internet, why else?

[Anonymous No.3321592]

>>3313961
These are my doctrines

>1. to have genuine ideas to express;
>2. to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
>3. to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and
>4.most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.

Don't steal

[Anonymous No.3321606]

>>3321592
Is that a little girl? Can we see her naked?

[Anonymous No.3321690]

>>3321606

[Anonymous No.3321699]

>>3321606
seconded

[Anonymous No.3321814]

I want to communicate my emotions, personal philosophy and ideas to those around me. I'm not the best when it comes to showing my emotions or explaing my views/ideas, so I hope that what I create gives people a better understanding of what I attempt to communicate.

[Anonymous No.3321831]

>>3313961
>To transform your thoughts into something tangible?
yes but i want to learn to draw so i can make a channel that covers fictional monsters from movies and video games in a scientific manner. basically this but with a much more limited and tetail animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXEzvosnSE..

>To be part of a creative community?
this too.

[Anonymous No.3321835]

To unravel divinity and come as close as possible to portraying a platonic ideal.

It's complicated, you have to read a lot of philosophy to understand it. Here's my favorite piece.

[Anonymous No.3321839]

>>3321606
Can we see your corpse?

[Anonymous No.3321844]

>>3321839
Sure, let me draw it for you. Chotto matte!

[Anonymous No.3321875]

>>3313961
>transforming thoughts into something tangible
>attention
>needing a creative outlet

A mix of these three, mostly. I have a lot of ideas in my head and I just want to make them visible. I tried writing too, but ultimately I found that drawing is more for me.
The attention one is something I don't really want to admit, but I would be lying if I said that it doesn't matter to me at all.

[Anonymous No.3321878]

all i want is money

[Anonymous No.3321895]

>>3321878
Prostitution is always an alternative, Anon.

[Anonymous No.3321994]

>>3321878
>Goal is to make money
>Chooses Art as a career

[Anonymous No.3322403]

>>3313961
i want to jerk off to my own drawings without feeling like shit after i cum

[Anonymous No.3322561]

>>3315399
This. Also I like the attention I sometimes get. A simple compliment can really make my day.

[Anonymous No.3323668]

>>3314280
maybe this? I havent done it myself

[Anonymous No.3323675]

>>3321835
nigga thats just harambe fucking some bitch

[Anonymous No.3325047]

I want to hurt people.
Growing up the pieces of media that meant the most to me hurt me a lot at some point.
If I can make somebody feel the same emotions I felt through my art then I would have accomplished my goal.

Oh, and being better than others gives me a hard-on.

[Anonymous No.3325063]

Waifu reasons

[Anonymous No.3325067]

>>3313961
Attention must be nice. How do you get over embarrassing yourself over social media though?

[Anonymous No.3325251]

At first it was to outdo my brother but now it's for the jot of working to git gud at drawing. Also the joy of making cool fanart, maybe porn. It's also to humiliate and prove this one guy in a /co/ draw thread wrong

[Anonymous No.3325343]

>>3313983
>it's too personal to share
I've long planned on working on a project that would absolutely crush my family if they knew it was me that made it, but I still plan on getting it out. If it's not a huge international commercial project, just write under an alias. Or, if you truly care about art and not about credit, let another artist you know pass it off as their own work.

[Anonymous No.3325509]

I like sketching, and I like to look at other's sketches therefore I am planing to make a living out of publishing art book with my sketches (after I git gud)

[Anonymous No.3325511]

>>3325509
artbookS*

[Anonymous No.3325975]

>>3325251

[Anonymous No.3325976]

>>3313961
I just want to draw my waifu bruh

[Anonymous No.3326254]

>>3313961
I agree with most of the bullet points, which ones change depending on when you ask.
When my art is going well, I'm happy, or at least content. I feel shitty otherwise. I want to make things that I can enjoy.

[Anonymous No.3326369]

>>3313961
Art make me externalize my inner violence, some people find me aggressive if I didn't draw for a while. Also drawing for me is just a way to express the stories I imagine when I'm bored, and I'm always bored.
Maybe one day I'll make a living out of it and draw a comic, but I know my family would be an obstacle and will always keep me from becoming a professional due to the insecurities of art, and they're totally right.

[Anonymous No.3326815]

>>3313962
So... If I ever question why am I alive, should I kill myself?

[Anonymous No.3326824]

>>3313961
Because I can.
I don't like drawing, I don't feel pasion about it, I don't dislike my art, so I keep going. It's the only thing I'm good at

[Anonymous No.3326830]

>>3313961
I don't want to make art into my career as it's probably too late for that. My goal right now is eventually attending the Comitia (like Comiket, but for original stuff only) as a seller.

>>3325067
Don't use your real name, at least early on. Once you've generated a following that is big enough/improved enough, it's not that embarassing anymore.

[Anonymous No.3326853]

Because I don't agree with this world.

[Anonymous No.3326863]

>>3326853
Are you a rebel, Anon?

[Anonymous No.3326917]

>>3326863
Life casts us in many different roles.

[Anonymous No.3327010]

>>3326863
I mean, do you understand life? There's a painting in a modern gallery and it's someone trying to explain the world to their child, I found it really helpful.

[Anonymous No.3327057]

Because dude

i can't fathom how human beings like me can make beautiful stuff that make me want to cry

So I'm like - I gotta get in on that. I want to make other guys cry like little bitches too. I need my revenge.

[Anonymous No.3327074]

>>3327057
Are you a famous gallery owner? Have you visited a biennial?

[Anonymous No.3327150]

The purpose is to perfect muscley guys, I hope to achieve being able to make my own slew of animu muscle guys. The motivation is pic related

[Anonymous No.3327165]

>>3313961
>Make a living
>Transform thoughts into something tangible
>Receive attention
>Need creative outlet
>Passion for the craft
also
>Don't get frustrated doing it, even when I hit blocks
>Not as good at anything else

For something more profound, I want to create books that'll be remembered long after I die, and influence the many generations of artists and comic fans that come after me. I want to inspire the kids out there who aspire to make art but were taught that this isn't a real career, that there's no money to make in this field, that they're not good enough for it, I want to prove all of that wrong and show those kids they can make it too.

[Anonymous No.3327379]

I want to have something to do when I get old and nobody talks to me

[Anonymous No.3327525]

>>3327057
>18
A
Or give me an erection

[Anonymous No.3327529]

That 5th one was a deep cut. I've been struggling with forcing myself to draw and I think this may have hit something.

[Anonymous No.3328973]

>>3313961
>>Is it because you started out being the "artist" and now you're afraid to let go of the one thing that defined you throughout your developing years?

[Anonymous No.3329239]

>>3314107
>what exactly differentiates a good story/movie/game/picture from a bad one

What have you found? are not like those yewtubers that make theories and ask for money?

[Anonymous No.3329240]

>>3313967
there are not 1000 decent anime, do you want to make shit?

[Anonymous No.3329322]

I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. I started out wanting to do manga style illustrations. Ended up doing realism stuff for 3 years to try to get good. I can copy decently from a reference, people seem to like my paintings, but it's like I have no imagination at all. I'm terrible at anything stylized. Any time I try to do a character out of my head, or even with light reference use, I just end up with some stiff, boring looking trash.

I don't care about attention or being an 'artist' or anything like that. I'd like to make money doing this, but mostly because I'm incredibly shy and tend to do poorly in a regular job environment. It's just the only thing I have that makes me feel like I'm not a loser just wasting my time away.

None of it really makes a whole lot of sense to me right now. I look at all my personal works over the past 8 months and I don't like any of it. It's all ugly, awkward, stiff, uninteresting, totally lacking any creativity. Just a bunch of embarrassing pin-up drawings of cartoon characters. I thought I'd be a lot better 3 years in to this, but every time I think I'm getting to where I want to be I end up having some kind of moment of enlightenment where I suddenly realize just how far behind everyone I am.

I did a year of art school and it was like a chunk of my life was taken out. I'm starting to regret it more and more, how much time was wasted just doing absolutely nothing. Just nonsense busywork, gluing shit together, writing essays, studying for tests.

[Anonymous No.3329335]

>>3313961
im a graphic designer and drawing is a fulffilling hobby to me so its because i recognize i need creative outlets and i just cant stop i think

[Anonymous No.3329337]

>>3313967
This post is so autistic I love it. Anon you will achieve your dreams if you work hard I just know it

[Anonymous No.3329342]

>>3313961
Even I after I finally shed this disgusting meat suit and embrace the void, a shitty picture of someone's waifu I drew will forever stain the internet on some long-forgotten booru.