Two Year of Progress

>>2699200
>is this making it?
No.

>Is she godlike or shit-tier?
This is average 2 year progress.

>And how do you git gud in two years?
Study for 16 hours a day, 7 days a week.

>>2699200
>2010 - 2012

Well, what's her work look like nowadays 4 years later?

find the question thread

It's pretty competent, but it's neither godlike nor shit tier. For 2 years work I think she did well for herself.

>>2699200
who is she

>>2699230
Her name is Jessica Mack she's an illustrator from Australia. This image was posted on her website as a demo of her progress before entering art school.

But apparently it's just average growth so idk man this looks pretty effin good to me. I'm also a complete novice so there's that too

>>2699238
It's a nice growth, that's for sure, but not anything really out of the ordinary. Most people can reach such improvement if they apply themselves and practice ~3 hours per day.

>>2699238
okay

so >>2699208 guy asking what her art looks like 4 years after 2012

her website: http://www.brownpaperbunny.com/my-story/ she put that progress image there
her portfolio: http://www.brownpaperbunny.com/portfolio/

>>2699200
Fucking Hell, i applaud the woman who had to sit still for two years. Good job.

>>2699241
Well her current work is bland AF
Maybe she just spent 6 months doing that second sketch?

>>2699241
>her portfolio: http://www.brownpaperbunny.com/portfolio/

Ew.

>amateur photocopy

>>2699242
kek

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>>2699247
>doesn't recognize realism
>calls if photocopy drawing

>>2699240
What if someone did 6hrs a day?

Cause shit, if that's just average for two years of work I just got really hopeful about my future.

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>>2699251
>doesn't recognize realism
amateur photocopy is still amateur photocopy

>>2699251
It's a photocopy, m8.

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>>2699251

>>2699200
Of course not. That progress should take 2 months at most.

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>>2699283
bro I just needa git gud like this bitch

>>2699204
>16 hours 7 days a week
You need to stay healthy...

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>>2699283
2 months huh?

>>2699204
kek, /Ic/ is always so much fun

>>2699319
Wait, you aren't mooching off your parents who do your laundry, cook your meals, do your dishes, run your errands, and pay your bills so you can draw 16hrs a day every day?

Let me guess. You're a mature adult that contributes to society and ignores the ridiculous FZD-level hype of lifestyle drawing.

Four words: neva gonna make it

>>2699200

She went from shit, to good. I don't care if it took 10 years, she DID it. That is the hard part.

I can appreciate the effort but observation copies are not exactly hard to do, the pic is even squashed down to minimum size so it looks better. Her imagination work is especially bad.

>>2699204
>le work so hard you burnout and quit meme

>>2699200
she went from absolute shit to decent, but in 2 years time you can improve a lot more than her, looking at her portfolio

>>2699367
Any other examples of 2yr progress pics showing more growth?

I'm wondering what could be realistic if I put in 6hrs daily for two years

>>2699319
>>2699334
>how do you get good in 2 years

It's not gonna happen unless you spend a crazy amount of time studying every day. Dave Repoza was getting work after 2 years of doing 12-16 hour days.

>>2699374
How do you know Dave Repoza worked that hard for two years? Does he say it somewhere?

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>>2699374
>It's not gonna happen unless you spend a crazy amount of time studying every day.
Not really. Proper schedule and a few times a week will make you be able to go from zero to portraits in a year, maybe a little more, correlating for how stupid you are. "16 hours a day, 7 days a week" meme will probably fucking kill you both mentally and physically and no amount of grind will get you what some good studies will do.

Literally every post above and below mine is horse shit.

Yes, OP, she is "making it". Disregard all the d/ic/kheads who are still struggling with their anime waifus for the 6th month

>>2699200
>>2699241
well she did make it, seems like she is a pro now

>>2699241

The portraits on here are actually really bad. Even beyond the "muh style" her 2012 drawing is better than most of her portfolio.

She just learned the basics of construction and using a reference. Something you fucking nobodies always seem to complicate. When will you people learn that "making it" means actually going out and using your stupid face to find a goddamn job.

>>2699462
I agree that most of her actual work isn't very good.

Which begs the question, how did she even do that 2012 portrait if she's not very good? Was it a teacher-guided portrait that she relied mostly on instruction?

>>2699477
>how did she even do that 2012 portrait if she's not very good?

My guess is she just took her stuff in a different (read: unfortunate) direction. She went away from worrying about realism and value and just locked in on childish symbol drawing and vibrant color shit because muh style.

Doing a good realistic black and white portrait from reference/a model, given enough time and patience, is pretty achievable even for an intermediate artist. Perhaps a bit harder with traditional tools, but I've sat my ass down for a few hours on a study and got pretty competent results even though my usual work (namely, anything I don't spend a very long time on / do from imagination) still looks far more amateurish.

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>>2699374
>Dave Repoza
he's not even good...
So much for wasting 2 years of his life because his art is still mediocre.

>>2699322
If you have time and a good teacher, yeah.

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>>2699370
suzanne helmig

>>2699532
>looking for examples of two years showing serious progress
>posts image of a girl who took literally 7+ years to get good

>>2699539
2009 -> 2011

sinix got good in 6 months

>>2699539
>OP pic
>serious progress

>>2699241
>http://www.brownpaperbunny.com/portfolio/

So is this what they meant by regression?

>>2699579
But do you have a better example of two years of progress? Specifically from a complete beginner starting out

>>2699241

That is super weak portfolio. In this case not in sense of quality (which is far from great too) but of quantity

>>2699200
looks like the age 25 neuro-plasticity meme spouted by desperate broken anons is false

>>2699601
It's kinda tricky. You know, drawing portraits for two years is EZ compared to drawing full figures. Here some guy from Watts courses. He was completly begginer as I remember. >https://www.youtube.com/user/xym779/

>>2699532
Being able to do nothing but copy photos and paint over 3d models is good?

>>2699630
>paint over 3d models
???

>>2699632
She streams on twitch, uses Daz extensively for nearlly all her work. Shes a hack that can't do anything without a photo to copy.

>>2699253
Then you're practically guaranteed to reach that level in the time it took her, if you aren't fucking your studies up royally. Very likely you'll reach that level in even less time.

Copying from reality is not that difficult. You can see her drawings from imagination at her page are significantly worse (albeit that's to be expected, though!) It's more a matter of grinding stuff from life to "get the hang of it".

>>2699656
This is pleasing news.

I always check /ic/ critiques but I can never tell if something's good or not. Everyone says draw realistically, but then shits on realist photocopy work and I literally can't tell the difference.

So here I am thinking life drawing is much harder than imaginative drawing, and with little clarification between life/photocopy drawings + so much animu in this sub I just go back to lurking most of the time.

Maybe I'll just do the 6hrs a day for a year and then come here for critiques. At least then I won't suck complete asshole.

>>2699545
lol