Are there any stories of artists who worked hard, I mean really

>>2583101

Read Bakuman, its a loosely biographical piece of the authors of Death Note.

>>2583101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEU03Q5H5sU

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>>2583101
Kakukaku Shikajika

An autobiography by a successful mangaka. There's some "nose to the grindstone" stuff in later chapters, but it's mainly a cautionary tale of the mistakes you make early in life. Lots of inspiring stuff.

>>2583101
>>2583107

on the topic of (mostly) chinese recs there was this thread not so long ago.

>>2583101
https://vimeo.com/29510470

and the same thing for Algenpfleger's entire conceptart sketchbook thread
http://vimeo.com/29565241

>>2583228
is that a child with grown ass man face riding a normal motorcycle or a normal grown ass man riding a giant motorcycle?

>>2584467
yo thats a moped dude

>>2584471
I knew it wasn't a motorcycle but I didn't know how it's actually called

>>2584467
It's a tiny asian grown man.

>>2583167
it's because of him that i hate every NEET who doesn't improve.. The dude is brilliant

>>2583228
SENSEEEEEEIIIIIIII
;_;

>>2584472
"What it's actually called", not "how it's called". Learn English you fucking mongoloids.

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>>2583101
watch the film 'whiplash'

>>2583101
Steven King's "On Writing".
>get your ass in the chair and write. If you're not writing, read something you like.

Mark Carder's tutorials on Youtube.
>learn to draw in basic proportion, learn how to mix colors from three primaries, put colors where you see them in the object

>>2589004
this, it shows what real dedication means

>>2583228
fug, I just finished reading this and it hit me hard. Really good stuff, thanks for the rec. ;_;