concept artist here. been doin my thang for a good 6 years maybe.

If you don't know now, you will never know.
Never ever gonna make it.

>>2764231
Start teaching /ic/ about your industry. The only other concept artist these fucks know is FZ.

>>2764231
C'mon. Do concept stuff.

Dunno if bait or not but my colleague is having the same problem and hes concidering just dropping concept art and start doing illustrations.

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Same situation as you OP. Is your life in check? Do you still go out? I know it helped a lot for me. Also try to take vacations if you can. Do you work in house or are you freelancing?

>>2764408
Cool faries.

>>2764386
It's the way to go if, and only if, you've built up the connections.

This is what I found as well. It's your dream job until you actually have to do it 9-5 mon-fri (or much more during crunch). Then it becomes just a job.

It's still 100x better than regular jobs though. Muscle through is the only solution.

>>2764231
seriously, teach us something useful. Reccomend a book/youtube channel/ give us insight to the business or your process.

>>2764408
nice

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> been doin my thang
> like what's the fucking point of doin' this shit
> ' na mean?
> shiieeeddd
> shieett.

Same here, after graduating uni I started working doing typical western concept art and illustration stuff working for a few outsourcing studios and own jobs from home.

After two years I already felt it's fucking boring and not why I started drawing, so I stopped drawing western shit and changed my style to a more animu-ish one.

I started drawing basically whatever I want (which is sexy chicks doing cool things or designing story telling illustrations for the most part) Surprisingly this landed me a lot of jobs which are pretty much what I like to draw.

Additionally I raised my prices quite a bit so I don't have to take on every single gig and enjoy doing my own shit more.

Only bad thing in my life is that I hardly go out.

>>2765171
hahahahaha yee I naw it's dum but naw i'm serious bro

>>2764408

Reminds me a whole lot of okami

>>2765185
pleeeeease post work

>>2765456

Nobody posts work here. This board is too toxic.

>>2765458
yeeupp. anyone good won't post work here. hahaha

>>2765456

not gonna happen

The video game industry is the aesthetic equivalent of McDonalds. It may pay better but working for the entertainment industry is flipping burgers artistically.

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39. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal. Here is a rule of thumb for the identification of surrogate activities. Given a person who devotes much time and energy to the pursuit of goal X, ask yourself this: If he had to devote most of his time and energy to satisfying his biological needs, and if that effort required him to use his physical and mental faculties in a varied and interesting way, would he feel seriously deprived because he did not attain goal X? If the answer is no, then the person’s pursuit of goal X is a surrogate activity. Hirohito’s studies in marine biology clearly constituted a surrogate activity, since it is pretty certain that if Hirohito had had to spend his time working at interesting non-scientific tasks in order to obtain the necessities of life, he would not have felt deprived because he didn’t know all about the anatomy and life-cycles of marine animals. On the other hand the pursuit of sex and love (for example) is not a surrogate activity, because most people, even if their existence were otherwise satisfactory, would feel deprived if they passed their lives without ever having a relationship with a member of the opposite sex. (But pursuit of an excessive amount of sex, more than one really needs, can be a surrogate activity.)

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>>2765636
40. In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. If one has those, society takes care of one from cradle to grave. (Yes, there is an underclass that cannot take the physical necessities for granted, but we are speaking here of mainstream society.) Thus it is not surprising that modern society is full of surrogate activities. These include scientific work, athletic achievement, humanitarian work, artistic and literary creation, climbing the corporate ladder, acquisition of money and material goods far beyond the point at which they cease to give any additional physical satisfaction, and social activism when it addresses issues that are not important for the activist personally, as in the case of white activists who work for the rights of nonwhite minorities. These are not always PURE surrogate activities, since for many people they may be motivated in part by needs other than the need to have some goal to pursue. Scientific work may be motivated in part by a drive for prestige, artistic creation by a need to express feelings, militant social activism by hostility. But for most people who pursue them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities. For example, the majority of scientists will probably agree that the “fulfillment” they get from their work is more important than the money and prestige they earn.

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>>2765637
41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the “mundane” business of satisfying their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities.

>tl;dr art is unsatisfying because it doesn't matter, in fact any activity people do for "fulfillment" will be unsatisfying in that they don't actually matter

>>2764408
these make my dick wet.

>>2765636
>>2765637
>>2765638
wat dis

>>2765636
>>2765637
>>2765638

But OP doesn't do art for "fulfillment", it's his job, thus his way of satisfying his biological needs

Can you think of something you cannot draw? The prettiest shit you can imagine you are not able to draw now. Try to improve more and more to draw even prettier shit.

>>2765458
>too ashamed or shy

Are you high? Or are you new to 4chan? Post your work, have a thick skin. I wanna see your stuff too.