Art-Regrets

I regret not drawing as much as I should.

>>2797354
I regret progressing through the medium in an impractically non-methodical way, and often skipping over construction in an attempt to create complex imaginative ideas that I cannot interpret into line

>>2797358
How much should you draw then?

>>2797373
More than just a few shitty doodles every other days.

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I regret finding this thread and /ic/

>>2797354
i regret not using boxes to create people and things. I regret not taking the time to learn the planes and faces of different objects

>>2797354
Not studying perspective/landscapes/etc at all.
Not studying anatomy and foreshortening.
Painting and polishing turds instead of learning how to draw, related to both above.

I think I'm addicted to turdpolishing.

I regret throwing away 20 years worth of study for working and playing video games.

I been drawing since i was 10 yo, but just as a hobby, now i'm 29 and regret all the years wasted as a hobbyist...maybe it's too late for me.

>>2797354

I regret grinding at mmorpgs in my youth, when I could have instead leveled up my art skills instead.

Can't expect a teen to have good judgement I guess.

>>2797354
not starting many years earlier

>>2797437
Turd polishing hhhngggngn I know it's shit but it's fun to paint orz

>>2797354
I don't regret much, I was a lazy depressed piece of shit and unless that disappeared magically I wouldn't of been able to do anything different. I'm still youngish, can leech of my parents for a while without them hating me, so I'll be fine.

I do regret buying art books though, I have all the pdfs now so now I can try them out and then buy the books I actually use. Actually just buying stuff in general. Always had to have the best materials before starting something. For a while I was convinced that I needed a Cintiq to improve. Now I couldn't care for anything besides my Intuos.

I started making art as a joke.

>>2797354

not taking anatomy seriously.

its really held me back in my progression in the last few years.

>>2797354
I regret not starting 12 years ago in sophomore year in high school when my mom bought me that Betty Edwards book

I regret not learning and grinding vizcom and draughtsmanship first

I regret videogames

I regret trying to learn the structure of man by riven phoenix when I was like 15 years old it fucked me up.

I regret not getting into conceptart.org when it was at its peak in 08

I regret falling for the loomis meme

I regret not keeping up with my DA like sakimahchen so I could have a large following

I regret not befriending sycra back in 07 when he was a animefag

I regret not taking it seriously, not being a part of the community heavily and not getting a tablet to get into digital art

I regret throwing away my old art to look back at my failures

I also regret playing video games like warcraft

>>2797532
What's the "loomis meme"?

>>2797532
>Not taking Loomis seriously

My only regret is that I didn't find out about Loomis sooner. It has helped me get introduced to techniques and use them where applicable.

>>2797354
I regret barely drawing in 2016 when I became a NEET.

I hardly drew and just played video games, fapped and shit talked online. Feels like I wasted a year of my life. Now that I'm finally getting back to school in the spring I'm hoping the structure helps me get back in the drawing mood.

I also have a new Galaxy note phone so I've been doodling in that to remember all of my skills.

>>2797532
>and not getting a tablet to get into digital art
>I regret falling for the loomis meme
Are you just trying to bait or is getting a tablet a good idea for a beginner?
I'm trying to get the fundamentals down right since I suck at imaginative drawings but I've always thought that tablets would only hinder my learning. Are the skills easily transferable between the two?

>>2797354
all the time I wasted and am currently wasting not drawing

>>2797912
Not him, but I'm not sure if you know what tablets are exactly. It's just a tool, like a pencil or pen.

It just makes drawing or painting on the computer actually possible, as drawing with a mouse is extremely difficult + doesn't have pressure support. It takes a while to get used to, but it doesn't actually affect your skills or anything.

I don't regret anything.

>>2797354
Regret not getting into digital earlier and shilling my art on deviantArt. I could have been swimming in patreon bux now.

>>2797532
Why is loomis one of your regrets

>>2797354
I should have started doing this seriously in my mid 20's.

I regret finding 'muh style' before actually learning to draw realistically or at least semi-realistically

when I was in school and had no homeworks to do/ lessons to remember I would find joy in sitting in my chair and observing the human cubs in their natural habitat.

I regret listening to my father and putting drawing to the side to study, so many years of gesture drawing lost, for entering in a high school which I ended up regretting later and dropping

>>2798219
I regret this, too. So, so much...

I sometimes wonder where I'd be today if I took a Fine Arts course instead of taking IT

I'm a programmer now and I practice whenever I can so I can switch careers

I regret not drawing once for the 3 years I spent as a neet, after drawing constantly during school. How the fuck did I manage to do that

>>2797354
I wish is have realized how much time you have to put into art. I was luck enough to find /ic/ during my 2nd or 3rd year of high school and I read the sticky and everything. I did all the exercises in drawing on the right side and even did a little Loomis, but the problem is that that's all I did. If I realized that you have to draw for multiple hours every day instead of drawing for 1 hour every now and then, I think I would've been a while lot better at this point. I only started started taking art seriously this past year and drew everyday but it gets kinda difficult with college stuff, I feel like I wasted so much free time during high school shitposting online, playing vidya, movies etc when I could've been studying art. I say at home all day regardless so it would've been nice to have done something productive.

I regret not going down the art path during uni. I studied law for 6 years because my asian helicopter parents forced me to take a degree that will have a 'future'. Jokes on them though! Here I am a depressed NEET for almost a year after graduating my Masters in Law because I just can't seem to land a lecturing job in my shitty third world country universities. Fuck being a lawyer! I've tried it for a year and it was a soul sucking job and the pay was shitty!!!

I just wanted to happily draw my animu mom and dad! Reeeeeeeeeeeeee!

>>2797521
>vidya
>fine arts (liberal), no guts to quit on 3rd year
>truly started learning to draw after it on ic
>started to freelance
>got a dayjob, fired after test month
>only get freelance gigs that lead nowhere
>got better but portfolio turned weabo
>depressed as fuck
>25 soon
>burning mum's retirement

I might take a 10-15k loan and study a private master of digital art with teachers I don't despice, learning on my own is not working
or I may migrate to singapore to get a shitty job cuz I fucking h8 my country (40% unenployment for youngs at my home town kek)

>>2797476
unless you're on your deathbed it's really not too late
you turn 40 and you've only lived half your life (on average at least)

I regret not studying fundamentals early and being stuck on cartoon/anime stage for more than a goddamn decade
I regret not taking the all the opportunities I had when I was younger to get better
I regret not using the books I promised myself to use years ago
I regret wasting so much time being depressed
I regret wasting so much time on the internet in particular

I tried doing animation before learning the basics of drawing and animation.

By dumb luck i got popular due to ponies, and kept up said animations despite being absolute shit.

Now years later i'm going back and learning the basics and starting over so i could be proud of my work, only to realize that my audience doesn't and never cared about quality, just the memes i pandered to it.

At first I regretted not studying the fundamentals right away when I found out about them but then I realized that the things I learned in my "dark years" of practicing art weren't completely a waste of time. We all have different journeys and learning process and not everyone needs to start with Loomis or Bridgeman right away or even ever in order to become a successful artist.

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>>2798488
>may migrate to singapore
woah, is it easy for foreigners to get sweet art jobs in non-japanese asian countries? That sounds kind of nice.

>>2799325
animatedjames?

>>2799338
Not him but yeah along those lines of work.

>>2798310
Do you actually get free time? Or is it an endless cycle of work work work

>>2799340
Well atleast you realized it. Good luck on your journey m8.

>>2799344
I mean i'm doing it more for myself than my fans. They honestly don't care and i doubt any upgrades in quality will be noticed.

I regret "who would draw when everyone has a camera" and postponing my decision to start learning till my late 20s.

>>2797354
I regret not drawing enoush, I'm sure I could be very good, with the amount I draw I should be at my current level (not saying that I'm good or great)

And I regret never starting drawing with tablets, I have one, but I can't use it for shit and it pisses me off to learn how to do straight lines with this. It's too different from paper

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procrastination
>still doing it

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>>2797532

>>2799533
This so much. Either im tired af by doing absolutely nothing or i browse 4chan.
How
Do
I
Escape

>>2797354
I regret being depressed and struggle to make something about drawings and my life in general. I don't study hard enough. I don't really know where to go.

>>2799549
keep your tablet or drawing materials right next to you so it's easier to do on a whim

draw while watching let's plays or something, stuff you'd wanna do anyways

let yourself draw for just one shitty sketch instead of forcing yourself to keep going every time (otherwise starting will be way harder than it has to because you know you wont let yourself stop without feeling bad)

work on your mental health/energy levels, even give up drawing for a while to do so if that helps. you have to have money to make money or whatever that saying is

not believing i could do it
not practicing enough

Yes.

>illustrator moved into town while I was in elementary/middle school
>one of my parents told them that I Ioved to draw
>they asked if I'd be interested in their old mac and (intuos) drawing tablet
>said yes and we went over to their house and picked the stuff up, also gave us a scanner/printer
>parents proceed to dump everything in a closet and leave it there for years

I'm still pissed about it honestly. I wasn't computer savvy enough back then to know how to put everything together, my parents hate technology, and by the time I realized I had to do it myself a bunch of stuff was missing. And I'm sure if I go my parent's house now some of it will still be shoved away in a closet.

I regret not finding ic sooner.
As much as you guys like to meme in contrary,before I came here I didn't even know you could actually methodically improve at art.
I considered my slight affinity for art as talent and thought that's all that mattered.
If I had found this maybe even just two years earlier I could've gone into an art college instead of engineering.

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>>2797354

>I regret denying the power drawing porn and fanart for so long

Could've been making a lot more money earlier

>>2799679
Have you tried getting any of it back?

>>2801097
lol those proportions

I regret not learning at an earlier age as it seems like most artists begin drawing when they're a child. I feel like if I did too, I would be much better by now.

I regret ever gracing /ic with my presence, because it's full of nothing but internet tough guys and cry babies who will never get a job with their crap art anyway.

>>2797397
yes

>>2797532
lol i had the whole series by riven phoenix as well.

>>2801097
>>2802018
>>2797354
I want to say I regret believing other people's opinions with such zeal, but it feels like the psychology textbook definitely wasn't lying when they said the brain's not fully developed before 25. Past couple of years it feels like I've been seeing things with much more awareness and attention to what I know to be their historical and contextual significance, rather than as a compilation of people's opinions of whether they were good or bad.

Patreon's definitely helped too though. Even without /ic/ I'd used to go "wow that doesn't look right here here and here". Now it's "wow that doesn't look right here here and here *AND* it's making that much".

>>2797354
Only one, and that's how I wished I had 'given up' on the magic idealized image of being an artist sooner.

I think it would have made me work harder, more honestly, without erratic hold-ups, learn more efficiently.

I apply it to everything now. I take away the magic of it. I look at what are just my feelings and put that in a mental corner, and scrutinize what the subject (((actually))) (((is))). This kind of woke up an unused part of my brain called 'logic,' because once you get past the shitty feelings, then you're forced to create your own string of questions to ask about the thing you are scrutinizing so you can learn more about it.

After that, the act of getting work done is very simple, no more tension, pressure, nothing. There is stress still because working is exertion of energy and problem-solving. But it's so much more clear.

Moving forward means two things. Moving yourself towards something far away, and distancing yourself away from where you are now. Change is fucking crazy.

>>2805308
I want the magic back to be honest. I can't look at anything without seeing shit now. The magic made everything better and without it, the world is bleak and really isn't worth living.

>>2799325
Similar thing happened to me. I used to maintain a devart account, didn't have much of notice. Then I got into ponies and got 10x as much activity. Then I tried switching back to my usual stuff and everything died out again, because the ponyfags didn't really care for my actual art, only the ponies and nothing else.

I regret going into an arts university. Mostly because it's a shit environment that's not conductive to actually getting better, especially if you're weak minded (which I am). All you see is conceptual art shit and the people that work the least but find the best words to explain their bullshit and "breathe" the most art are the ones that get rewarded. It's pretty bullshit.

Now all I have to do is finish this degree because I've already started, no point in quitting so close to the end. But I wish I had never gone into university, which is proving to be just an investment in worthlessness.

I regret not dropping out of high school

>>2805329
Same.

When I look at a drawing I just see a bunch of lines directed in a logical manner.

There is no emotion anymore.

Once you start thinking logically doing good art becomes achievable, but without feeling there is no reason to do it in the first place.

i regret all that time i wasted tracing as a kid

Tracing can be helpful for understanding anatomy/fundamentals as just an exercise, but i never really challenged myself.

not drawing enough

not animating enough

not finishing works

not learning to paint at least to a competent level

i live a life full of regrets

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NO REGRETS NIGGA.
THE PAST IS IN THE PAST.
THE FUTURE IS IN THE FUTURE.
WORRY ABOUT DOING GOOD IN THE PRESENT.

>>2798265
Same, anon

>>2798403
same

>>2805494
This is kinda obvious. Your not an artist selling art, your a co tent creator creating content for specific people with specific liks and dislikes.

/ic/ was a mistake

>>2805308
That's not logic, thats reasoning.

probably my biggest regret is not reading more books and not paying attention in history class tbqh.

i completely lack imagination and so i have nothing to apply my studies to.

I wasted a lot of time copying shit from anatomy books and not internalizing any of it whatsoever.

>>2797354
i regret taking a 10 year break. i went from meh to trash. now i cant draw without being in an exceptional mood or am otherwise inspired to for whatever reason.

All I regret is not making marketable art. I've been working so hard for years just to not know what the hell to draw! I wish I had some damn stories! I think I'm going to make some fucking fanart just to get out of this damn phase.

>>2807884
Wanna be fwends? I never had an older friend. Also, we can die at 90 on our deathbeds, or we can get run over by a fucking bus tomorrow, it's never too late. If you fucking love something then you'll do it anyway, just don't mope around about it, instead go and do what you love. Good luck

>>2805515
Same. I loved doing a conceptual sculpture degree at the time but regret not doing illustration instead. I've had international exhibitions of work too but apart from not being out of pocket I never made any money
I just want to be raymond briggs.

I literally haven't drawn a single thing in 2 years. I just work, play a video game, sleep. repeat. I still want to be an animator but I don't think I can

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I regret not just starting and drawing beyond my comfort zone instead of making art mistakes. If I drew shitty, it went to the ego. I took it too personally. I always told myself "just start already, better to be shitty now than shitty later" since I was 14 but it took me ten years to finally start attempting things I was always scared of drawing.

It doesn't matter if you suck at drawing when you're 14, it fucking matters when you're an adult. To all you youngins out there - make your mistakes now than later. It sucks being an adult who can't even draw things in proper proportions when there are already people your age in the industry.

>>2797354
Stopping for weeks at a time a year ago

Stopping back when I was a teen because muh naruto drawings were shit and made me lose motivation, and never starting seriously until recently.

I regret procrastinating and comparing myself to others instead of embracing my style.

>>2809602
>I literally haven't drawn a single thing in 2 years. get out

>>2798488
>only get freelance gigs that lead nowhere
what kinda gigs? with who?

I regret letting people bring me down my first time posting my art.

I regret to be corupted by porn art for the last years. I couldnt sleep the last 2 weeks because im so ashamed. And i think i will give up being a nsfw artist

>>2798403
Same anon

i regret only drawing animals and monsters until 2 years ago when i started even trying to draw people

learning to draw has made the heavy stylization choices of my favorite animu artists more apparent , so i no longer want to draw like them

>>2811633
>be good at drawing animals
>can't draw people for shit
>"hey anon can you draw me?"

>>2811340
The same, I was always embarrassed and now always think what could have been if I just out myself out there. Still not doing that but I feel like I'm getting over myself slowly at least.

>>2801881
It's been a long time, I finished high school in 2010. The stuff she gave me is obsolete now but it would've been a huge help a decade ago, as I didn't buy another tablet or use most digital programs until I was in college.

Alot of similar answers.

Regret wasting time on Loomis and other ic memes. It was much easier to learn by tracing and modifying other pictures, saves a lot of time too.

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I regret thinking that it would be cool to draw in a anime style. I mean there are people you are good at it , but I was not one of those people and it took me forever to give it up.

>>2797354
Regret not studying values and color earlier on

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>>2797354
I had advertised an animated series back in May 2014 when I was 19 and in college... And thought I could do everything I wanted. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. But over 150 voice actors auditioned for roles, and there was some extraordinary talent. And I'm not a big name, I don't even have a name.

Few months later I just quit. I left people hanging and nothing got produced.

Granted, that year I got very sick. Hormones went wonky, and inflicted severe depression. Attempted suicide twice. And then a brain tumor showed up. Butt-fucked the shit out of my memory. But I am alive and I'm just now starting to recover. I never stopped writing for the series, and I ordered a tablet that's supposed to be here on my birthday so I can start animating again. I'm not good at much, but my brain seems to really understand two things: tiny sculpting details and human movement.

If all goes well, hopefully I can get my shit together and get this thing started. Even if it doesn't do well, it's a passion project that I want to get out there.

I also regret not backing up the story/pictures on a thumb drive because holy shit my PC wiped and I lost everything.

Pic related, but it is kinda old. Last thing I drew before my previous tablet busted.

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>>2814171
I like it, I hope you go on to do great things

never studying anything so now I'm held back by limited knowledge and the inability to study efficiently.

I regret taking art classes because Charcoal was a waste of time they refused to stop using in each one.
Also teacher never taught anything specific and just used Youtube and google image search tutorials when I asked for some specific instruction.

>>2805515
Same, I wish I'd just become a plumber.
I'm never going to be a full time artist and so I'm stuck working 5 days a week at min wage jobs and sleeping away the weekends. If I had just done accountancy or plumbing then I could work part time and have enough energy to draw the rest of the time.

At the same time, I have friends that didn't go to art school because they thought it was unnecessary and now they're totally held back by complexes they have developed for it, even though you wouldn't know if they didn't say.

Also, getting a serious relationship. Once you live with someone you can't just pack up your shit and go to a residency or move into a commune or whatever. It's harder to focus on art during the hard times when you could instead just sit with someone and eat dinner and watch netflix.

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>stoping drawing when I was 12 because everyone told me I sucked, and didn't pick it up again until I was 22
>wasting time with vidya
>procrastinating during my NEET years

>>2814171
What's the plot

>>2814694
Most people I know who are into arts end up in relationships with other artists, I feel. It's almost like they make a wall where everything else is incompatible or some shit.

Honestly, I don't want anything art related as a career goal. I'm planning on just going for some other job, maybe something related to handling horses if I'm lucky enough.

Even as an 18 year old I could be drawing way better than what I'm doing now, I glad I haven't hit my 20s yet but if I don't get past the "novice" phase by June I'm going to be very dissapointed in myself.

2200 hours of TF2

fuck imagine if i replaced that with 2200 hours of literally anything productive. drawing, reading, exercise, practicing an instrument. fuck.

Joining band instead of doing drawing in high school.

My whole high school was going to be nothing but art classes. Ending on digital art and some more advanced stuff.

I got almost a full ride as an engineer. But I never wanted this, I just wanted to be a concept artist. Maybe I'll change careers when I'm better.

>>2815522
>2200 hours
Shit negro, you'd be far ahead of a lot of us.

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>>2815522

>>2814863
Back then I can't remember 100% what I said about it. Now that there have been some renovations it's about a group of criminals who go around doing terrible things. Mostly trying to break off from a bigger drug cartel to form their own operation. Starts off with a street thug who's forced into organized crime, at least for the first bit. I'd like to get 10-15 installments done before branching out into other territory. Human trafficking, terrorism, prostitution... All those shenanigans.

The worst part is figuring out music. I guess there are some who would help, but I can't pay anyone which narrows it right the fuck down. It's more of a portfolio piece than anything else, I'm broke as shit. I guess I shouldn't worry about it until I have a significant part of the animation done, though.

I'm going to go practice drawing cars, now. Toodles.

>>2805689
Are you fucking kidding? That's what gives me such a raging art boner, dude. Taking something so simple as a fucking line and making something with life, tension, drama, and scale is fucking awesome. It's like that quote about sufficiently advanced tech looking like magic. Once you peel back the facade and see the science and engineering of it, it just becomes that much more cool.

>>2797445

this so fuckin much.

Something rather small. I regret not painting much last year because most of what I did was line art. It doesn't really bother me that much.

I do wish I worked on my painting skills, or really drawing a lot of stuff and posting them. Last year was pretty scarce on my blog.

>>2805305
>I want to say I regret believing other people's opinions with such zeal

>Patreon's definitely helped too though. Even without /ic/ I'd used to go "wow that doesn't look right here here and here". Now it's "wow that doesn't look right here here and here *AND* it's making that much".

Same here

>>2797354
Changing back to a RTVF degree and not stayin gin the drawing/painting degree.

College was comfy, so I would have been there anyway.
I am becoming a teacher which has little to do with my actual degree.

Probably would have saved me a few years on technical stuff and maybe would have put me down a different style path.

As it stands now, I am on a huge Moebius inspired inking craze.

>>2799533
should say 'later', not 'no'.

But this, totally.

>>2797354
I regret not cheating more.
I took a 5 month traditional drawing course which was fun but I ended up focusing much more on some grand 'learning process' rather than what I was actually making.
To me techincal quality means nothing if what you're making is boring and meaningless.

I regret that I started with anime drawing books and was falling into symboldrawing, doing generic anime poses with no meaning or need of context whatsover. I wasted so many years on that shit and everytime I tried to do something different I failed because I didn't know how, which frustrated me and I gave up on drawing for a couple of years.

I do wonder though if I kept going and started going down the road of polishing turd (as /ic/ calls it) if ever would've gained a solid following and would've stated a patreon and earned some money with it.

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I regret that I did not copy more. I convinced myself that copying the things I saw, be it another art piece or from life was "stealing" and that everything I drew needed to come from imagination.

I'm also sorry to all the little characters I made up in my mind that were never given a chance to be drawn. I spent so much time thinking and not enough time actually bringing those thoughts to life. We could have had a lot of fun, but now you're somewhere in the depths of my failing memories.

>>2797354
I regret not getting into an art school.
I wish I could find instructors who were harsh but, patient enough with me to tell me what I was doing wrong and how to correct it.

I regret going to two horrible colleges.
The art classes were just a crash course of how to use different materials. Critiques weren't really critiques - just ass kissing sessions where people gave each other compliments.
Very Similar to this guy's experience: >>2814499


>>2797532
>>I regret not getting into conceptart.org when it was at its peak in 08
Pretty much the same here.
I regret not finding a community online that takes this work serious but, doesn't ignore people at lower skill levels.

I regret not being able to find a decent community locally.
It seems my city, as large as it does not like representation art. Photography, performance and abstract seem to have much bigger followings.
Getting people to criticize work is extremely difficult.All people want to do is kiss each others asses.

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>>2820655
Are you me?

Honestly though, in retrospect I guess getting too used to copying is also a really bad thing. I knew this one goth girl that got her dick sucked for her art because all she did was line from line copy other works.

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I regret not drawing enough to develop a routine and now I don't know where to begin with anything.
I regret being that "I don't want to study or draw boring stuff from life, I want to draw cartoons!" guy and not studying my fundamentals sooner.
I regret not finding loomis and other good books to read so I could develop approaches to art sooner.
I regret spending all that time playing videogames instead of doing something better with my life, mainly drawing more and figuring out how to take care of myself and function like an actual human being.

I'm 20, and I know that I have time left, but I'm going to have to change my life around if I really want to improve my skills and go somewhere with my hobby. I still feel like I wasted such valuable time.

This big change is something I've contemplated since junior year in high school. Maybe I need to push myself now. For real this time.

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>>2815522
Fuck, are you me? 1700 in TF2 alone. 2350 across all games on steam. Not even including the years I spent on runescape or WoW and various other games.

Wouldn't be surprised if that number were doubled. I could be halfway to grand master of anything had I put my effort into anything productive.

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>>2815522
>mfw 4937 hours in dota 2

I think I might have ADD or ADHD. Will ritalin/adderal help me gitgud?

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mfw I decided to stop playing games and draw more during my teens

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>>2821088
>Not even including the years I spent on runescape

Fuck I forgot about all those wasted years.

>>2821136
post your work.

>>2821122
If you're willing to deal with the annoying side affects, it definitely helps. Makes focusing much easier.

The side effects of the stuff I take could be specific to me though, since it's not average adderal. Typically I deal with lessened appetite and a periodically increased heart rate which can make me nervous. If you can deal with the chances of these happening, you should be good.

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>>2821139
I wish to remain anon, so I dug old plein aire watercolors I did a few years ago that I never showed anyone. I have better stuff now.

>>2797354
currently going to university for non-art things
I know I had reasons, and that financially it was a better idea not to try to get an art degree, but with all the work from my job and college, I can't practice at all and have been almost completely abstinent of it for a year or so.
I just regret not being able to do more I suppose.

>>2821137
They were good years, damnit.
>you will never grind for months to get 99 fishing while becoming rich off of selling sharks

>>2821179
>first time an anon ever posted his work
I like it.

>>2821146
Being a former fatfuck, I struggle with overeating daily. So the first adverse effect seems like a benefit. Paroxysmal HR increases sound like a shitshow though. Got a Drs appointment tomorrow, see if I can manage to get one something and give it a trial run.

>>2821205
Good luck with that, anon. Hopefully you get a good prescription that works.

>>2821221
Thanks brah!