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This is what I can come up with if I tell myself that I have to spend no longer than a third of a day drawing a picture from start to finish. I know it's not very good and am aware of all the glaring mistakes. My question is: how do I get better? I guess a better question would be: How should I structure my practice sessions?
Is it bad for me to try to practice speed for now? Or should I go back to the drawing board and take my time practicing quality? If I try to make a fuck ton of pictures, will that be better than spending a lot of time on a few pictures?
I want to spend my life drawing because I feel depressed and pointless without art. I just want to use creativity as a way to distract myself from thiking too much.
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>>2738112
>wants to get better
>doesnt want to think too much
getting better requires a lot of internalization and study and sometimes it requires a lot of thinking and furstration, mate-o
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It's not god-tier, but if I could get from zero to your level I'd be quite happy. How much practice would you say you have?
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take it to beginners'
also you should improve your shading in order to add depth to your picture. She looks flat.
also sage
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Which artwork would you like to have on your bedroom?
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y-y-your mom
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>>2739104
I want several portraits of myself looking mildly concerned.
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>>2739106
go back to /b/
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Am I allowed to finish this book in one or two weeks?
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that book is garbage
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You can draw a shitty eye in 30 days
nice book
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>in one month or less
I'm pretty sure you'll be OK.
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How do we save /ic/? All the major artists are leaving this board and with them we lose advice and knowledge. Doxy and InCase are long gone, people like Simon, BBC and Kyle no longer even post here. And artists like Keppok were bullied so hard she stopped drawing 6 months ago.
I love this board I really do, it's been a huge help for me but we need to come together and stop this petty bullshit where artists attack other artists. Enough is enough.
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>>2737869
With more Loomis.
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>>2737869
There's nothing we can do to save /ic/.
It's been particularly bad for over a year, and shitposting was almost constant up until a few months ago. Now a lot of the shitposting seems to have died down, as I assume a lot of the older users have gotten sick of it and left, and most of the new posters seem to be tumblrcunts or people asking for blogs rather than giving criticism
There's really just one group to blame, and that's the mods. /ic/ is such a small board that it's very easy to disrupts with shitposting, particularly when you take into considering that we're dealing with something as personal as art. Most people who post here can take harsh criticism and the occasional shitposting, but when the mods allow a handful of individual shitposters to spam threads, samefag and harass specific artists without consequences, then people will eventually get fed up and the community will die.
All it would take to save /ic/ is one mod or janitor to take an active role in combating serial shitposters, but that seems to be too much to ask.
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Eventually artists with half a clue get tired of helping the never ending stream of clueless noobs with the same problems. Around the same time they also get tired of sharing their own studies, because studies are not interesting to look at, and uploading them is a waste of time.
ITT: works that impressed you so much you actually shouted
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can;t say i've ever shouted because of art, but i guess this one got the closest
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>>2737741
omfg
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How is it possible to improve that fast?
All I want to do is improve, but I don't know how to do it.
Anyone planning to save up the money and go to this school?
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Their improvement was that their started using color?
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>>2738858
FZD does deliberate practice with their students which is why they improve so quick. They're always pushed just right at the edge of their abilities so they're always having to do something they couldn't do before and by doing so, they improve very quickly because they know what they know and what they don't know. It's clear and cut unlike self-teaching. They also spend a lot of time on drawing and improving is all about mileage. They're full time artists so that's already 40+ hours a week. A luxury most people don't have to spend on improving their art. They're also in a fun environment and around competitive people, which further motivates students to strive ahead. It's the perfect environment for improving which is why they do so quickly.
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>>2738858
Its done by deeply internalizing a formulaic pipeline that meets industry standards through endless repetition and turning your passion into a soulless job you so desperately wanted to avoid when you started doing art.
Do not envy the dead.
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I have been giving up on drawing for a few times now. Last time I drew anything was in february this year. I want to break this cycle. I know that I love drawing, it's just i get easily frustrated.
I will try once again, hopefully this time I'll continue to improve myself. I will try knowing my past mistakes. I will try knowing that I have to go through that hard wall to make it. I don't know what is waiting for me in the end and if I even get there but I WILL TRY.
Godspeed /ic/
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good luck op, you can do it!
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>>2738173
Just remember that it's like doing fitness: you're infinitely more likely to succeed if you have a gym buddy.
Find an art buddy.
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Corel Painter is a shit. They release this product many years without real improvements and bug fixes. Don't buy it.
http://painterfactory.com/painter_product_discussion/f/53/t/25936
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Just look it this
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Hey /ic/, I just got back into digital painting recently and made a piece I actually kind of like. I don't know if it's realistic or not, but I think it looks cool.
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>>2737691
It's good, I like the colours, but are those clouds or something?
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>>2737729
Yeah they're supposed to be clouds above a landscape. I guess it's up to your imagination though
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>>2737691
>I don't know if it's realistic or not
I don't know man, have you ever seen clouds bend that way in real life? I sure haven't. there's also no visible cause for the large shadow area on the right side of the picture.
So you'd be better off calling this a fantasy/ "dream like" rendition. Nice colours though. if i turn my logic off I enjoy it.
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Interesting references of any kind please post them and then post some more
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Have a lewd and I photographed using a cellphone camera and the lens of an old cd-drive.
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Sir Harry Lauder was the first Scottish singer to sell over a million records.
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For everyone that thinks they aren't educated enough, or it's to late to make art:
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: "it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks." And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it.
When I read this letter of Van Gogh's it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *acedemical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.
But the moment I read Van Gogh's letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.
And Van Gogh's little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care. ”
- Brenda Ueland
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>>2737231
To be perfectly honest, Van Gogh is kinda shit and rode posthumously on novelty.
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>van gogh
>good
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>>2737231
>Van Gogh
Any examples of artists working in the industry today that started as absolute beginners in drawing at a late age?
Would be infinitely better to have.
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Because we should not have to make new threads or post in draw threads with our fundamental exercises.
Feel free to post even the smallest exercise you have done to show you are still trying, do not give up, make someone proud.
AVOID asking unrelated questions, there is a question thread for that.
RESIZE YOUR IMAGES TO ~1000 PIXELS:
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>screenshot the image and post that instead (I recommend ShareX)
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>change camera capture settings to something smaller
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>send to computer and resize in MSPaint
→ →
There's a new (and cleaner) sticky in town! You can see it at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit#bookmark=id.15jx3pyuimvj
>Thread study: Try to draw/paint the opening or any other following images.
Feel free to post your original works as well if you're trash.
TRY TO BE MORE ACTIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME FEEDBACK - many studies are left unreplied, which is a bit sad and can be quite demotivating for the people that try their best to improve, but are left directionless.
OLD THREAD: >>2732665
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>didn't draw for months
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>>2735920
Don't ever try thinking about making it.
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>>2735924
This making meme needs to stop. There are only miserable failures on this board. Accept that the first step to making it is leaving this board behind.
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just enjoy your life its time to give up
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Has there been any case where a guy pays another better artists to make his paintings?
like some idea guy?
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>>2726237
Like a Ghost Artist? Probably. Normally it's the artist paying the dude to pose as them, like that mother pretending she wasn't painting her child's work.
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>>2726240
more like an idea guy.
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I would sincerely hope not.
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Is there a /IC/ discord? I want to socialize with other artist
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>>2738479
There is. Just check the sticky. Be forewarned it's full of a few individuals who don't draw and spam memes all day because they're lonely.
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>>2738485
Where's the option for dudes who want to just casually chip in between breaks while drawing/breaking/studying and crack a joke or two at current /ic/ threads and generally just hang out?
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>>2738500
It's right under the "I read books and watch tutorials but don't draw and love to talk about birds sexually" checkbox.