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>>2893202
It's pretty high level. Could easily take a decade to get there, but to be honest 99% of people never even approach it. Also you don't get there by grinding, you get there by putting a lot of thought into every piece and studying deliberately. Grinding implies mindless repetition.

>>2893212
You can't think for 16 hours a day, yet you see people telling that it's necessary to do that much work

>>2893202
thats heavily referenced...theres a statue photo of that

Consider suicide

>>2892424
Have you ever attended grade school art classes? Unless you haven't, I got bad news for you..

>>2892449
It's a quick sketch, m8! I got proportions right. And moreover - I had a vision. A concept. A lot of skillful artists can picture talking dog or some girl. But they lack ideas!

>>2891850
N-no that can't be true.

Where did you get that idea?

I think you're just tricking yourself and thinking wrong about it.

How else are we supposed to become successful illustrators?

>>2891850
It's an oversaturated market, and if you don't have the passion and determination to work yourself to the bone for fun then you probably won't make it. Congrats for realizing sooner rather than later. Now you can either step up your game or quit and cry about having no other skills to fall back on.

PS: You don't need to be a god at art to make a living. You need to be solid and then have connections.

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>>2891850
>even if you get a job to sustain yourself the amount of effort expendature means you'll never have time to do much of anything and it will take years for you to go anywhere
>you'll never have time to do much of anything

It's a good thing I don't have any friends.

Tough scene. Seen a lot of younger artists get torn up, meaning lose a lot of money and gain little to no profit.
Fanart does sell, but that doesn't mean fanart will sell. Having a particular style that's appealing is also key.
There's a difference between "good art" and "good art that will sell".

The most important thing is that making art isn't about making money.
Also I don't know how to answer your question because I'm from another country so rules are different.
Can't you place this work under hobby or personal interest? Unless you make a job out of conventions, you won't earn enough for a full business number.

>>2892817
That's what I thought, but cons ask you to enter your tax number in when applying and they say they will check at the con to make sure you have one. It's really daunting

Yuropoor doing C2E2 Chicago next month, should be interesting. I have some pre-commissions lined up and will be doing busts/head sketches on the day as well as selling some comics

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>>2890480
I already started making money. More than I have ever done in my life.

The problem is that the pressure to perform stifles my creativity.

I can stop giving a fuck about art and just release the first thing that comes out, but that's not why I became an artist. I wanted to create worlds, not be a salesman.

>>2890566
Tell me more.

>>2890566
>I already started making money
pls help, how do I into money? I don't draw porn though, please help

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>>2890401

>he's barely working anyone and playing games most of the time while getting free money for Patreon
He's made it.

I'm happy to see his fans angry about that artist who keeps drawing little girls getting fucked by black men. It's fucking disgusting.

>What a fucking loser.


as opposed to some whiny guy on /ic/ who is actually upset by something so trivial? :^)

>>2890014
The good ones are all private and intentionally exclusive to keep out beginners and ensure the server is small and more of a community

>>2890020
How do I find them then

>>2890029
post merc_wip itt

alternatively post your work

There was a comic called Cerebus the Aardvark that featured a secondary artist who crammed elaborate backgrounds around the Creator's figures. He still is at it,and its a good place to start for another artist's take on architecture.

http://www.artofgerhard.com

>>2889456
modern art seems easy to draw but shit like cathedrals has so much detail to it, I just don't have the patience it takes to make them look well.

I love architecture!

As in, real architecture and not that ugly shit in the OP.

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I find picking a handful of shitty doodles from random pages and coloring/rendering them a bit is a good release exercise.

>>2888158
Enjoying the scene i'm gettin.

>>2888158
Just started studying colors and would love to know your painting process. What is the first thing you do?

>>2887808
Is this what you call shilling

>>2887808
>draw pandering anime shit
>still less than $500 in your patreon
lmao

What seems to be the problem here, officer?

>>2887293
idk

>>2887293
>film grain filter
>radial zoom blur filter
>guassian blur filtered bg
>chromatic aberration
>lazy photo integration
>painting celebrity portraits
>that faux-oil drybrush brushset that so many people use
>making a full 3d scene and letting some render program make it look beautiful, then calling it a 2d painting because there are 2 brushstrokes and a photo texture pasted in
>meaningless over greebled sci-fi design
>landscapes consisting of giant spikes of rocks that point to the focal point
>entire galleries of just copies of photos of attractive girls
>"this is my IP"
>shamelessly ripping off Ruan Jia or some other popular artist's style
>randomly making edges completely soft and smudging shit to make it artsy
>frantically shitting out fanart for major franchises right before the new movie/game is released to try to get "likes" on social media
>using the mixer brush in that one specific way that Mullins did that one time

people suddenly drawing sarah j. maas's characters cause a popular artist is drawing them nonstop

waaaaaaaaaah so many people are better than meeeeeee I'm going to graduate in two months and I should be a professional so why can't I art as gud as the gud arters I seeeeeeee

fuck my laziness i suck i suck i suck i suck i suck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

>>2887246
I am not creativeee reeeeeee my mental fog waaaaah I just to feel my brain work again waheeeeeeeee

>>2887246
BOOO HOOO I HAVE NO MOTIVATION D^;

There's no age limit for drawing cute girls, anon.

>>2887216

Feng Zhu says you don't have to worry about silly things like that unless you're past 25.

Start to drawing and kill commies and the gates of heaven will open to you dear anon.

>>2886279
>Chad the ogre

My fucking sides

>>2886279
So, how long have you been working as an artist OP?

>>2886280
kek his face does look like a fucking Chad only he made the mouth longer and added ogre teeth