Why do you create art?

better than creating farts right? lol

>>2975734
because of the voices I hear every night and morning

Because it is one of the few things that has held my interest over decades and without being creative I wouldn't want to be here

I don't know. Why is your face so ugly?

>>2975755
lmao this tbqfh

>>2975734
Because I want a piece of me to live on after I die

if i didnt do this id just be playing video games and watching anime all day

>>2975758
hi sycra. kek
>>2975734
because i use to do it back in middle school, then i learned to play an instrument and write music but could never finish anything . then i tried drawing again and found out it was much easier for me to do stuff and finish it. drawing and stuff is just easy for me compared to most of the other stuff i learned. so i think its what i should be doing. and i feel like i improved faster at drawing more than any other skill i have learned because i understand it more , its more mentally tangible to me than music or other things.

idk because i have a lot of fun with it and i like to think im alright at it

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I don't know how else to express my emotions in a healthy way really

I don't, I shitpost on /ic/

Because I can

>>2975734
Closest I'll ever get to getting laid.

>>2975734
It is the one thing I kind of don't suck at without being a family disappointment

>>2975734
Because my parents make money,

Because I have some skill with my eyes and hands,

Because my younger sister is taking up the mantle of becoming a money making medical worker machine,

Because I have a huge extended family that want to see me succeed and all agree that I am very polite, very pleasant, and unusually handsome for our bloodline.

Basically, I've been coddled all my life and have grown into it.

>>2975734
I got kicked out of medical school, so now I'm making art in an attempt to make up for being a fuck-up.

>>2976877
story?

to better my life and switch up an unhealthy addiction for an art addiction.

>>2975764
I guess I'm a Hermit riding a Chariot then.

>>2976889
It was Valentine's Day and he found himself in the morgue.

You fill in the rest.

>>2975734
Because I find so very few good art of the fetishes I have.

>>2975734
I want to make what I like, I'm not going to wait for someone else to make my art for me.

>>2976915
>anon says after years of waiting for someone else to make it only to change their mind after all these years and do it their self

>>2975764
oh shit wattup/

I enjoy the process of creating art... not so much the results.

>>2975734
Because I am a artist

>>2975734
because it's the only thing i'm good at

>>2976954
you're trash

>>2975734
because i want to put the things i see in my head on paper

>>2975734
When I was in primary school I doodled so much my teachers banned me from drawing during classes.

FUCK YOU MS SHERMAN
I'M TAKING A FUCKING DRAWING CLASS NOW
BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THAT HUH

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>>2975734
i did it for da bitches.

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>>2975764
The tower here.

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To tell stories,and to introduce the strange logic of a certain hedgehog,in the hopes of saving the world. His and possibly ours.

>>2976954
Not the writerly kind, evidently.

>>2975764
who here /hierophant/?

>>2977310
too much dialogue its confusing

>>2975764
Initially The Hermit, but now it's both The Devil and The Tower.
Ultimately it's probably because of Death.

>>2977310
WALLS OF TEXT
SERIOUS FURRIES

>>2975755
that is arguable my friend

>>2975734
It's was the one thing I decided to focus on when I was a child, almost to the exclusion of everything else. Living the quintessential "bohemian" artist life as a teenager and currently into my mid life has been an interesting experience. Not many artists like this anymore...

>>2975734
Who else is gonna draw weird porn of obscure characters?

>>2975734
I don't know. I'm wired that way, I guess. I go a little nuts if I go too long without being creative somehow - I've drawn and painted and sculpted since I could pick them up - mom was an artist, too, so our house always had art and craft supplies around. My mom was the kind of mom who'd have all the neighborhood kids over to make macaroni sculpture for holidays. It's always been my focus. My mom said I was the easiest kid to watch, just hand me crayons and paper and i'd sit there for hours. I had the shittiest time in school, because I'd doodle on everything. The teachers would complain that I wasn't paying attention - but that's how I pay attention - my hand goes to work, and my brain focuses on what's being said. I understood the material, tested fine on it, but the doodles on my notes enraged them.
It was never an question for me, what I was going to do - I was going to pursue art, no matter what, even if I worked in a gas station so I could paint at night. Luckily I found design and commercial art, and get paid for that. I fought tooth and fucking nail against my father to major in art in college, and ended up telling him to go fuck himself and his money in the junior year, when he told me to switch to business or engineering or he'd stop paying. Fuck you, dad.

It's who I am. I'll be doing some form of art until the day I day. There is no "retire". Retire to me means getting into MORE art, and trying stuff I don't have time for now, like stained glass, glass blowing, and etching. I want to build my own paper press. I want to work in marble again. I want to go see more of the world, and draw and paint it. I want my last check to go for art supplies, and I want it to bounce.

Because it gives me a purpose in life

>>2975734
How did Toulouse Lautrec make his oil look so much like pastels. True master.

>>2975734
Because the history of art is the greatest and most powerful story I have ever read and I have this aching need to write myself into this story so that my name may hang their with the masters i admire.

I remember seeing Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
in person and being unable to breathe. Their is a weight present there as there is in all good art and I mean to carry this load and make it heavier for those who come after so that one day one of us can reach a pure synthesis of all who came before.

>>2975764
the emperor to be quite honest.

>>2975764
Hermit, Death, Tower.

I have to make fantasy worlds, that's just a part of me.
Art helps make them real to me, the better at art I get the realer the worlds.

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>>2975764
Strength and Temperance play a role.

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Why do I not, even though I want to?

My fetish is so niche that if I don't draw it myself then nobody will.

>>2975734

Same reason I play guitar, or write. Creating things is fundamentally kind of fun and a way to stave off hating myself, and I get bored/depressed when I only do one of them for too long.

It means I'm more or less shit at all of those things, but, well, that's just the stupid way my brain's structured, I guess.

>>2977085
This

It's quite interesting how you suddenly can get a complete image in your head that wants to be drawn, it must be from where the ancients had gotten the concept of divine revelation

It's like, I didn't consciously participate in the creation of the image, so from where did it come?

>>2975734
Self loathing, I suppose.

>>2982083
You're an idiot and probably a terrible 'artist'.

>>2975764
Judgement (sans the Jesus bit)
The World
Wheel of Fortune
The Hermit
The Heirophant

literally all forms of intelligence that are not inherently academic in nature, can be cultivated through drawing and painting.

Because no one will commission my furry fetish fantasies.

>>2977188
aw LAWD, thanks anon

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>>2982083
>It's like, I didn't consciously participate in the creation of the image, so from where did it come?
Blew my mind anon.

>>2975734
I did not create since a long time ago, I was depressed and I lost something in my person, maybe inspiration. But when I painted there was something in my soul that was happy to smell the scent of the painting.

>>2980795
Fuck yeah man. Do IT! So many people today chase satisfaction and purpose down a never ending flight of stairs. You obviously have the motivation so make this world give you your dream.

I started with music but i was a lot like you; I feel the need to create. I write music and every morning the first thing I do is play an instrument for hours, but recently I have reached an impasse. While I will always love to play instruments, but what I really want is to create something I feel great about sharing to the world. Sadly I am incapable of making the sort of music I wish to, because I have an awful voice. So I am pursuing 2d art full force now

You remind me of what my math teacher said to me in 8th grade: "well you may have drawn a bunch of pretty pictures but you didn't learn nothin'!". Haha.

>>2975734
I hear rumors about people who enjoy making art, or use it as a way of relaxing, etc. but I can never accept this to actually be true.if this is really the case, then I have near infinite amounts of envy towards these people.

All my experiences with making art have been frustrating, terribly boring, and incredibly taxing on my mental state, but I stick with it in hopes of one day making less than shit art so I can prove to myself and everyone else that I'm not a total loser.

>>2982386

People are really different with shit like this. I have the same attitude with everything I start, including art.

I play the guitar as a hobby but I still need to be good at that. I can't do it "just for fun". I need to get better. I need to get faster. I need to learn all the chords and become a better composer.

I started going to the gym to become healthier but after about a year it was only about being as strong as humanely possible. Getting my deadlift/squat/bench as high as possible so I'd be "better" than everybody else.

I always lose all the joy in what ever it is I'm doing including art... Well at least it helps me get jobs doing stuff. Still sucks.

>>2982114

Funny. Knowing what you apparently believe, I'd say the same about you.

It used to be that I was too poor to afford commissions of muh OCs. Now I am the artist people commission.

>>2980843
what the fuck? that's oil? how? i like him even more now

Because it's hard.
I genuinely enjoy the process sometimes, especially as I teach myself to not get caught up in the self-loathing.

Also, not many people can make it, so it's even more satisfying if you do.

When you tell people you do that as a living it sounds pretty cool too.

Also way better than a 9-5 job.

Oh, i dislike most people and socializing drains my energy. Freelance is the best.

Dream is to make bigger freelance $ at home and be a part time sahm <3

>>2983554
Are you looking for a fellow reclusive artist to impregnate you?

>>2975734
To communicate with ppl and masturbate.

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>>2975764
who here /star/?

I don't anymore.

I want to die. I want to die so fucking badly.

>>2975734
helps me clear my mind

I don't really.
I just sketch every day hoping to improve enough but I never actually try my hand at creating a complete work of art out of fear.
So I linger in the comfort zone of shitty pencil sketching and practice.

To compensate for my autism and soulessness that comes with it

>>2975734
It relaxes me and feel that I move forward.

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to learn about myself and the universe

>>2975734
1) I'm too socially inept to communicate in any normal way, so I'll do it with drawings instead

2) Impressing people with a skill is easier than trying to make genuine friends

3) There's always something to improve -- I can drown in my perfectionism and forget about real world problems

4) I like 2d girls

Because I am gay and gay people are naturally more creative than straighty 180s.

>>2987967
Not true.

I don't know. I thought it was a good path to dedicate my work life to, but now I just don't know. I'm not disheartened, but I'm finding things under the art-umbrella that I dislike. And distancing myself from them could just mean specialization as an artist. That's the bright side, anyway. Because it could very well mean that this just isn't for me.

I'd just prefer some structure in my work life. And a clear direction so I wake up and know I'm doing things that put me toward there.

The act of drawing while listening to music is enjoyable. Meditative. Therapeutic.

I feel good when I've created something new. It's like I've pushed entropy away. It gives me a sense of self worth.

It feels good to get attention and compliments.

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>>2975764
Death and Fortune

>>298796lol wow you are an embarrassment to all your potential sex partners

>>2975764
I'm the Hermit banging the Empress with Temperance

Because I want to be a mangaka but normies keep telling me the fundamentals meme.

>>2975764
Empress

>>2990709
Don't worry, no one will notice

Because just about everything else fucking sucks.

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>>2975734

Art is all I do, art is all I know.
I create art because it has always been an integral part of my character. Above all else, I was encouraged to be an artist growing up. A few of my relatives are famous artists in their respective cities and I was expected to be among them, to succeed where my mother failed I suppose. It's something that runs deeper than anything I know of. I was shaped by art, but I never quite lived up to my potential and that is what drives me forward.

When I failed in every other aspect of my life, art has always been the one thing that I had that could pull me out of places where I didn't want to be. Art has been quite literally the one thing that has kept me from killing myself, because I was always scared that my final piece would be my epitaph.

>>2975764
Death and ZA WARUDO!

>>2975764
High priestess here, leaning towards the World and Death, elements of justice.

And sometimes I worry the devil, too.

>>2975734
- To express my mind
- To relax
- To make others happy
And I'd like to create a new form of art that'd make the whole 2d animation field progress. (still brainstorming though,but if I find the key, we might see more 2d movies like the good ol' days)

>>2990988
This is true.

>>2975734
For $$.

>>2975734
I want to draw cute anthro girls.

>>2975734

Because it's what I do, and if I don't, I get unhappy and it makes me feel like less of a person.

>>2975764
>people unironically saying hermit
>I DRAW TO CARVE OUT MY OWN PATH IN LIFE AND BE UNIQUE
>not just "I like to draw"
lmao fucking posers

>>2985395
Mein neger

>>2975764
world and death
I just want my name to be remembered t b h
I was hermit too, but when you're in an art school, you're not really unique for drawing

For money

>>2994018
Some people take their art gurther than you do.

>>2975764
The World, I make art in the hope that others will find joy when they see it, and if others are happy then I know have helped the world in some way, however small it may be

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Because I'm a degenerate with high standards and no one makes the kind of art I want to see for my niche fetish that's about the only thing that gets me off. So I aim to become the best in the niche, not that that's saying much but think a high level of quality for a porn artist. Half because I want to create what has yet to exist but also half because I want to spite all the shitty dramaqueens that are the current generation of artists for my niche, and show them just how lazy and generic they all are. Nothing makes me smile from ear to ear like the thought of autistic chronic masturbators being sexually dependent on my work once they get a taste of it, or stealing commissions away from so many mediocre artists.

I'm a beta manlet with no self esteem but i realize my imagination can help me escape to a world of my own creation where i have control and power

I love combinatory art... Something which informs and arranges what came before so that others can work within a tradition.

>>2975734
to interact with people on an intimate level without me actually having to be there.

>>2994018
to me it's mostly that I've always been "that guy who draws really good" in all of my group of friends, so I don't want to stop drawing and just be "that guy"
Hermit is the closest to that, but yeah it's worded in a pretentious way

Because it doesn't leave the alone

I would like to go somewhere with it. Get some sort of recognition and inspire others to do the same like what happened to me when I was kid.
It also keeps me from killing myself.

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I don't know.

I hate everything I make and it always makes me miserable and I hate it when people tell me it looks good. I stand there waiting to be torn apart and then feel let down when I'm not.

>>2996956
same. never give up, never surrender.

fun

Pussy

Because the characters in games and shows I've played and watched as a kid stuck with me, and I want to recreate that kind of hype in my own way.

Because it isn't there.

>>2976776

Then you will have to be doubly hard on yourself, to make it in the art world.

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>>2975764

Not sure which one I am.

I don't even like drawing, but when I actually do draw I get obsessed with it and make a shiton of progress very quickly, and it is the feeling of progress that makes me like it. I ask myself I would like to draw to get paid, and I don't really feel anything.

>>2975764
I'm the emperor!

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I don't know.

>>2975764
who here chariot, we gonna make it :^)