Biggest pet peeves as an artist

That there is literally no way you can prove you're good at art except by being a pro already.

Mine is when autists bitch and moan incessantly about other artists, gossiping and shit-talking like teenaged girls.

>>2693421
Fuck you buddy. We're all just here to have a good time.

>>2693417
What? That's not true at all

>>2693402

THAT I CANT FUCKING START
AND I REALLY REALLY WANT TO
ITS KILLING ME.

>>2693466
The only good time I've had was with your mom last night.

>>2693503
What are you, 8 years old?

>>2693502
Anon, start.

>>2693508
What's the matter bro? Did I get you buttblasted more than your mom last night after I finished having anal with her?

>>2693519
I'd say not more, but about just the same. As in not at all. Heh. *lowers fedora brim over my eyes*

>>2693520
Good good, cover your tears.

my biggest pet peave in art is people that go on a sudanese water filter installation help line and complain about artists

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Biggest art related pet peeve?

People
Always
Asking
For
FREE
ART

It is a fucking epidemic.
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>>2693588
THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>2693550
nice edge cuckfuck!

>>2693752
how is that edge? these threads are made every day. go draw fag.

People who do nothing but studies and never create anything and then complain that they can't get good.

>>2693466
>pushing other's down to elevate yourself

It's literally the most American (and most disgusting) mindset ever. I pity you for not wanting to truly make it.

>>2693402
Man this weeaboo hubclub decided to hold an art contest last month, the theme was "fan art".
99% of the entries submitted were literally copied off the first few images of popular anime on google images lol (a couple were traced too). The way these fags were defending the copied artwork and how "original" they are was priceless.

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>can't draw for a day or two for whatever reason
>don't immediately pick up dimensions and correct placement of details so have to actually do true construction pre-sketch as to not fuck up 3D thinking

I hate this more than anything else, I much prefer being in the proper flow of things. I either have to do warmups or construction for everything and it just ruins my mood. It's mainly faces. I think I need to just draw a million faces till it solidifies in my mind. Also not my art.

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>>2693421

>>2693421
I agree; have a (you).

Can't stand edgy Shephard Fairey/Ron English pop art.
The incessant inclusion of Mickey mouse, Marilyn Monroe, all that shit. I used to like juxtapoz til I realized almost every fucking issue has Mickey in it somewhere. Probably a bunch of Disney shills

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>>2693402
>"what do you mean art is hard? all you do is sit there all day wasting your life away. GET A REAL JOB!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFe8TBhLeQQ

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>>2693588
>start dating someone
>they're awesome, same likes/interests/etc
>find out that I draw
>"hey I have this idea for a comic can you draw it for me?"
>proceeds to describe some lord of the rings length story
>fuck me I agree
>every time I get a few pages in they rewrite it

>>2694188
Beta as -fuck-

>>2694195
I've since refused to draw anything until they finish writing everything and are satisfied with it with the agreement that there would be no major changes that require start-overs once I've drawn it.

They haven't written a page since.

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>>2693503
>>2693519
>your mom jokes
>2016

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>What'cha drawing there? Can I see? I am going to thumb through your entire sketchbook now without asking.

The need for emotional meaning behind every painting. Sometimes I paint shit because I think looks fucking cool.

>>2693402

Basically what you got there op. "Realistic" pencil art featuring celebrities/models. Anyone can copy a photograph, especially in one of the easiest fucking mediums in existence.

-when people that are really talking about contemporary art refer to it as modern art

-people doing Bob Ross painting and thinking they have hidden artistic talent

-people who make copies of photographs/movies stills

-"I can't even do stick figures." yes. yes you can, you're just too fucking lazy

-dia de los muertos faces

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I doubt anyone else here has this feel:
it's drawing, being a serious art student and very often being satisfied with your results - but never having that inside impulse to draw something, even if I know I'll probably like it in the end.
Being able to go on forever before wanting to touch a pencil. Technical skill, but seemingly no creativity - I just don't ever doodle something random.
Combine that with a generic lack of discipline to study the finer workings of human anatomy and it's a classic recipe for wasted potential.

>doing some sketching
>friend/family member/etc did asks to see my sketchbook
>"Wow, did you draw all these?"

No, I killed some motherfucker, stole their sketch book and started drawing exactly like they did in it.

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>Can you draw me?

When someone with a decent amount of skill shows a piece but acts all wingey and "no no it's terrible" while fishing for compliments.

>>2694222
Maybe you're depressed? How did you get gud at drawing if you didn't like it?

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>>2694229
Can't stand that shit. It makes my blood boil especially when a popular artist does it.

>>2694229
What if I know my work sucks but I need compliments to keep myself going because I have no motivation because I think my art sucks?

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>I like to paint on boxes
>roommate comes in just as I walk away from a piece I'm almost finished with
>"Hey this looks great!"
>"Thanks-"
>I turn around
>the son of a bitch has picked up the still wet box

this goes for every instance of some ignorant ass that touches shit without asking and fucks it up.

When people tell me my art is good.

No is fucking isn't you normie scum. You all just have shit taste and can't draw, stop drawing to turn me into a dunning kruger artist.

>>2694244
Got another one

>in school they let everyone do tiny oil paintings on the wall
>friend comes to see what I'm working on
>makes a fair crit about the nose
>decides the best way to show what they mean is to poke the freshly applied oil paint

goddamn it

>>2694230
I do like it anon - it's always been my dream to do it.
Why, then, does my stupid brain not subconsciously love it? It's all I envision for my future yet I'm not like those people who just get this impulse to fucking doodle all this creative shit.

No, you know what? I should stop whining, sit down and finish these back anatomy studies until I know this shit from A to Z... labour is good

People who purposefully tuck hands behind stuff so they don't have to draw them.

Also people who constantly draw faces from the exact same 3/4ths angle so all their characters look like :^U

>>2694251
I think in a lot of ways your creativity and drive for drawing can get lost when the main focus becomes 'do work that is amazing 10/10' all the time.

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>spend hours working on a drawing
>feel fairly satisfied with it
>post it
>come back a day later and look at it
>see a glaringly obvious error that you somehow missed

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>make a black and white value study
>"oh nice are you going to color it?"

>>2694247
this

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Someone finds out I draw. Then immediately asks:

-Can you design a tattoo for me?
-Can you draw me?
-I have this great idea for a comic...
-Could you draw {favorite character} from {favorite video game/show/comic/etc} for me?

Oh of course they're not going to pay me, it should take no time or effort on my part right?

>Overly saturated color schemes
>Same face syndrome
>Drawing the exact same lighting conditions over and over again
>Constantly presenting figures in minimal to no background/context as completed work

>>2694203
>current year
fuck off john Oliver

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Normies putting their sweaty filthy fingers/thumbs on my graphite drawings. And they always hold my sketchbook like it's a goddamned Gameboy. How can you not understand that graphite smudges?!
I never show my stuff to anyone but close friends anymore, but the very memory of some pleb exclaiming "Oh, i love this part" only to point their finger directly on the paper surface and ruining it gives me fucking 'nam flashbacks.

Also, though i think this has been mentioned before, but non-artists with shit taste sets my rage ablaze like no other. And i mean the kind of shit taste that indicates someone can't tell the difference between the worst Chris Hart animu drawing and Kim Jung Gi's art (just to give an example, you get the point).

>>2694261
Thisssssss!

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>work on a piece for hours and days
>eventually come to hate it
>never finish

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>I can't pay you but you'll get great exposure!

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"It's so great you don't have to work, you just sit and doodle all day!"

>>2694293
Why do normies do the finger thing?
It's like they need to touch fucking everything, from drawings to computer screens.
And my pet peeve is dudebros who just copy dragonball and draw mushrooms smoking weed and think they're amazing

The Lean. Not when normies lean over to glance as what youre drawing but the Lean where you can feel them breathing on your neck and aligning their feet with yours and trying to get you to notice them looking at what youre doing.

>>2694435
dude this is every artist. except they actually do finish it. Still hate it.

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>>2694228
>hee anon can you draw my?

>implying you wouldnt

>>2693402
>pretty good at art
>send portfolio to director.
>sorry not what we're looking for try again
>5 years later.
>fuck thought i was good.lol

>>2694575
>he cares about girls more that art

Not gonna ____ __

>>2694575
who is she?

she moves me.

>discover artist the same age
>they're working with game companies full time
>traveling the world
>signing autographs
>publishing books
>wtf am i doing

>>2694580
id draw anyone posing for me desu.
t. shut in neet.

>>2694582
qt spanish gril:
http://vivicakescosplay.deviantart.com/art/Agnes-Oblige-cosplay-2-446796988

>>2694599
I thought spanish girls were short and fat with wrinkles. learn something new everyday.

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>>2693588
>>2693739
>>2694228
>Drawing for 12 years.
>tfw I never had a single person ask for free art due to my mediocre art and animations.

I wish there was a way to send them all to me, I'd gladly draw most of them free quick sketches. I wouldn't even mind the clingy and/or stalker requesters, please bring them my way. I refuse to believe that it can get worse from here.

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>>2694228
>>2694575
>hey you draw?
>huhuh do me
>draw me
>just real quick

>hey you're a dentist?
>could you give me a filling
>c'mon real quick
>yeah for free c'mon as a friend

>hey you're a programmer right?
>could you program me something?
>I dunno maybe like a webpage or an app
>real quick c'mon as a friend

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>working on something
>know something's wrong
>been staring at it so long you can't tell what
>leave
>come back a few hours later
>it's completely obvious now
Thanks I guess.

>>2694251
Try to live, go out, take pictures of what you like, watch documentaries, read books,etc.
You'll have more inspiration and you'll get this "impulse to fucking doodle all this creative shit."

>>2694795
Buy a mirror

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>>2694575
I wouldn't like to make shitty art of a model as good as her.

>>2694795
How is that a bad thing? It's one of the few things I can count on, that I know I will be able to improve things if I take a break on it. It makes me feel like I can always push a piece farther even if I feel stuck at that moment.

>>2694162
The feels are too real

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>>2693402
Hey, you draw so well, can you draw me?
Can you draw something for me?

What do you mean i have to pay for it?

psssh, you're art isn't even that good. My cousin can draw better than you.

>>2694229
the artist probably does think it's not good, since you're never as good as you wish you were unless you're delusional
>>2694222
I know that feel, keep drawing and think long and hard about the things you love and you'll find your answer eventually, your potential is only wasted the moment you give up.

>>2694586
wish I knew how to get started with that stuff

>>2694842
Just git gud

>>2694784
Same here. Nobody has ever asked me for art. I've only made stuff as gifts..

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>>2694833
I'm that guys cousin. fight me

>>2693402
>biggest pet peeve

unoriginal artists/fan artists copying someone elses work, with no ideas or creations of their own and claiming to be artists...con artists more like it.

half assed artist with posting meaningless cartoons.

digital "painters", "illistrators" and "artists" generally. you are all faggots.

art fags.

art school and art school students.

by biggest art pet peeve is amateur artists hatting on better artists for being better, and blaming it on their medium

second after that is normies not even trying because they don't have ''talent''

>>2694162
i feel very grateful that my mom supports my art, this video makes me so sad

>>2694793
I have a cousin who's a doctor. He hates the shit out of family gatherings because most of our relatives only interaction with him will go like this:

>Hi how are you and your family?
>Just fine thanks! We just came back from-
>Nevermind any details of your life, I will now badger you with a tirade of medical questions also can you look at this rash for me?

>>2694834
No there are some people who genuinely pretend to hate their art in order to entice more positive responses from other people. The difference being that they will actively look for as many ways as possible to show off their work to others while the sort you're talking about will at least have honest reluctance.

I've never worked with a client as obnoxious as in this skit, but some have come close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

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>>2694793
Idk about you guys but im starving for free models that arent me.

>>2693402
Pretty much nailed it. If I wanted to look at a photo I'd look at a fuckin photo. That being said I suck so maybe it's a sour grapes scenario.

>>2694793
>>hey you're a programmer right?

I have a CS degree and people do ask me for "real quick" help because "my computer is acting funny".

>>2694224
>No, I killed some motherfucker, stole their sketch book and started drawing exactly like they did in it.

Dave Rapoza is on the loose again.

>>2694162
holy shit right in the feels. i had my parents sound a LOT like his mom when i was starting out, but since i've made more progress and being able to show them that it could be worth it, they're a lot more understanding

>Anon, why do you draw naked people all day?

Cause I wanna git gud

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>>2694575
Sorry, but I'm gay.

>>2694616
Latin Americans comes in all shapes and sizes.

sigh okay I'll bite
>"can you draw this? I'll pay you ___ ( a lot of money)?"
>sure
>gives you shitty flat ange family photo with zero contrasting shadows

>haha I can do digital ink effects for Inktober instead, right?

no you can't, the whole point is that you're supposed to use traditional ink because its HARD and UNFORGIVING unlike digital, you asshat

also with>>2693402 you can always tell when an artist is a photocopier, their work has no depth, perspective form or construction, its just an accurate rendering of 2D shapes

>>2694188
you're a pussy

every single free art request goes something like this for me

>"can you draw x for me?"
>"cash money?"
>"no its just something quick"
>"not arsed"
>"why? drawings easy for you!"
>"yea but its still fuckn effort" or just "no its not, do it yourself"
>"go on"
>"nah"

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>>2695438
THIS THIS THIS
do they think we know how they look when they send blurred out of focus 3 pixel flat light photo

ugly photo - ugly fucking drawing

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>>2693519
This guy
This guy right here

>>2695438
I can unfortunately relate a lot to this...

>About that illustration - cancel it.
>Cancel it?
>Yes, I want it canceled.
>I can’t cancel it, it’s already done. You can ask for changes, though. What didn’t you like about it? What do you wish to change?
>I’m simply not going to use it, so I’m not going to pay.
>You may choose not to use it, but you signed a contract, you must pay.
>No.

And that's how I learned more about filing a civil lawsuit than I ever cared to know.

>>2694205
what's wrong with that? Usually they compliment you and start a conversation, that's cool

[spoiler]unless you draw lewd stuff[/spoiler]

>"Critique wanted!"
>Tell them why their art is shit
>They delete my comment because I was saying what I didn't like about their art and not praising what I liked about it

>>2696009
It's a privacy/common courtesy thing. Don't paw through someone's stuff without someone's permission.

>>2696139
I see why that might upset you, but I like it. It's like showing off but without seeming pretentious

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>>2694228
For me it's

>Can you draw me a tattoo?

every fucking time.

>>2693503
you'd expect a subforum like ic to attract a lot more grown up people...

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>>2696228
get out

>for my drawing class I do an illustration and its very succesful to the class, the concept of the illustration and the technical quality is approved, (this doesnt mean its great, this is art school afterall- but it was good for me)
>next critique period my classmate decides out of the blue she wants to do illustration too (she's a photocopier so this is pretty different)
>also, her idea is very similar to mine, which is kind of irritating but Im sure its all in my head
>months later she still is trying to do illustration with photocopying but because she's so good at photocopying it looks good, she's deemed the best artist in the school by some people
>she brings in a drawing into crit and its her best yet, even I admit that the drawing is good and i like it
>except
>except
>wait a minute, this looks just like my fucking drawing. (for example, the figure is in the same exact position and in the same space in the composition i.e. someone on a bed with their hand layed out in dismay)

I don't know if its all in my head, and I don't want to be too open about it because its a shitty thing to accuse someone of doing but I'm pretty peeved.
I'm sure she just was doing it subconciously. I can't tell if I'm being paranoid but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

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>*Takes sketchbook, looks through it and won't give it back.*
>Wow you are so talented I can't even draw a square.
>It can't be that hard.
>Can you draw me?
>Can you draw my edgy oc?
>FREE ART

>>2693402
>chromatic aberration
Am I the only one who thinks chromatic aberration looks fucking awful? I feel like artists do it because they think it'll make their work look better. It doesn't

>>2696528
yeah it's fucking terrible. a lot of amateurs use it.

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>>2694162

>>2695998
Did you file? And had you actually made a contract?

>>2696471
Tell your instructor

>be in Drawing I
>taking it because I want to git good, and this is the first step
>repeatedly makesthe best art in the class
>another girl is actually better than I am, and is a human photocopier
>doesn't even try in class, so her stuff is better than the other students, but mine only barely beats her
>disrespects the teacher
>only takes this class for the credits
I should t be upset with this, but I am because I am.

>same class
>another girl takes this class because she thought it was an easy A
>mad because she has to actually try to draw something
>try to make structure lines
>girl literally just puts random scribbles on her paper to make it look like she's doing something
>disrespects everyone
>threatens me over literally nothing
>openly mocked me for not being a pothead
>has one of my artist's pencils and erasers, because I was super nice to her on her first day of class
wat

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>>2697026
Current class WIp, by the way

>>2694820
im stilll a bit nervous when i draw a qt gril because the drawing might be SHIT

>>2697045
Then she's not qt

>>2694228
>>2694575
>>2694793
This shit doesn't bother me because it is nothing compared to what I used to get when I was known as "The Magic guy". If you ever want to really be pestered by boring people because of your choice of hobby, start doing magic tricks.

>>2693889
>implying it isn't just human nature to enjoy drama

>tfw I relied so much on drawing from references that I can't draw for shit on my own
>never traced so I never thought this would be a problem
>only improved my actual skill by a very small amount, however, I hugely improved my photo-copying skills
But being good at copying photos will not really benefit me that much in the long run.

Anyway, my pet peeve would be when I accidentally smudge the pencil lines on my paper with the side of my hand whilst drawing. I've seen people position another layer of paper to avoid this, though I'm too lazy to do so.

>>2694247
God, this so much. I cringe every time. If I asked them for critique, they probably wouldn't know how, or give the most unneeded of crits because they don't know what they're talking about.

Having to lie about myself on job interviews when they ask about my interests. Usually, answering anything but "jogging and watching american idol on friday nights with the family" warrants a lot of suspicious questions. So i awkwardly have to explain how aware i am that i can't ever make a living out art and only keep it as a hobby.

But jokes on them now, i get paid more drawing spongebob porn on Tumblr than as a cashier at their fucking store.

>>2697141
Are you happy though?

>>2697145
No, but way less suicidal. Would draw any form of degenerative fetish porn for strangers on the internet in exchange for never having to set my foot in retail again.

>>2697026
Will caring about other people make you better?

No?

Then stop.

>>2697223
*than

With the first girl, I actually wanted some competition to help me to strive better. While I am doing my best, I hoped for an extra push.

Got to "git gud or else there is no future."

>>2694205
Fucking this. It's really bad if I'm using an older sketchbook because my other one ran out of paper.

>>2694247
>When people tell me my art is good.
>>2696099
>>"Critique wanted!"
>Be bad at any art.
>Can't go to art school so go to community college instead
>Professor just hands out compliments instead of critiques.
>Dodges questions when asked about technique
>Try classes outside of college.
>Same thing happens

> Gee anon I really like the uhh....aura of your work! it's really creative.

I can't even into loomis or bridgman - Why is it so hard to get critiques at low level? Trying to git gud but I think even the books are out of my reach

>>2697835
I feel for you.

Sadly, art became fucking complicated after 1900 with wildly different goals the artists could have and the public school system taking over part of the education.

Wait, what kind of classes outside college did you take? I hope it wasn't drawing humans. The only think you really can do as a beginner is very basic stuff which is mostly centered around mastering tools and seeing with your eyes.

>>2694241
if you're motivation comes from others, you're doing art wrong

>>2695447
oh here we go
>make it harder on you just because
make your own ink and paper, otherwise gtfo of inktober

>>2695998
that's why you ask 50% from beginning

knowing they payed half of it will drop the changes for clients to do that for you, and if they still do, you atleast got half of the payment

>>2697855
I took every class I could relating to drawing. Foundation Drawing 1 and 2. Perspective Drawing and, Life Drawing (models)
All the foundation drawing classes ended up being were just a crash course in using different materials like conte crayon, charcoal and ink (brush). Pencil was pretty much forbidden.

>>2698034
the point is to use actual ink, anon

>"classical painter"
>bland 19th century wannabe
>photo copy hack
>Baroque trash
>atelier
>plaster cast renders
>Schmidt alla prima
>Realist scum

>>2694162
I know this guy in real life. Saw this video posted here a year ago and was shocked. Had no idea his parental abuse had gone viral on the Internet. He's doing great now though, living on his own in Oregon far away from his mom.

>asking for critique
>so very lacking in fundamentals that it's difficult to

>>2699440
That's when you say, "draw more"