Why do you draw?

>>3047832

A few years ago I saw a black and white movie about a painter. The hero of the movie is sent by the painter's wife to tell him she refuses to divorce and if possible to take him back to home. He finds the painter living in a small and cold appartment belonging to some prostitute. When the hero asks why he would rather live like this than living a responsible and ordained life, he answers
> You don't understand, I need to paint

The hero goes back to the wife, explains the situation. She tells him
> If there was another wife, I would've never accepted, to make them suffer, but tell him I accept the divorce.

You could ponder the question for a year, but some people don't need a reason.

The two main reasons people draw:
1: To sooth their own anxiety
2: To limit their arousal

If you can find an intermediate point between them, you can be more conscious about what you're doing.

>>3047832
Sunk cost fallacy.

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>>3047832
because its fun and rewarding

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>>3047832
To draw cute girls.

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Because I can have unlimited material of my husbandos and make them do whatever I want.
Also because it's fun.

It's fun.

The thought of making it into a career is long gone, for me it's a great hobby.

>>3047832
to prove that i can

then i fail

>>3047832
To get better to get all those images out of my head and on a paper.
Also, to get money so I can do exactly that full time.

>>3048002
I hope you get run over by a peace truck.

>>3048042
i hope you have a nice day

Because I need to

i read Calbin and Hobves as a kid, and decided I was artistic

im not btw

>>3047832
I wish to partake in the great conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Conversation

>>3048042
I'm very peaceful already anon, but thanks anyway.

Draw porn of characters who don't have enough porn

Why do you live?

>>3047845
what movie? i vaguely remember a bw movie about a poor painter in an attic or something, maybe italian or french, is that the one?

Why do you post?

$ :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAExa9P7hME

>>3047832
One of the few things that don't need a reason

It's a compulsion, not deliberate

I don't want to meet people but I want money

Because it isn't there.

>>3047832
I worship Vilppu. When I die, I will go before him, and he will ask me "What is the riddle of feel?". If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That is Vilppu, strong in his feels.

>>3047832
I don't wan't to work.

>>3048312
want*

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>>3048082
>Great Conversation

This is part of my reason. And I am building upon the work of an author who was a father of my voice, and hoping that I can meet him and earn his paternal love someday because I am a sad desperate orphan who just happens to be a tortured artist.

>>3048319
>>3048082
>"The Great Conversation is the ongoing process of writers and thinkers referencing, building on, and refining the work of their predecessors."
>Most of the art today is either some abstract artsy shit or porn.
Nice conversation.

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Because I kind of want to rub it in my ex's face when my shit takes off. Take that, you fat Irish fuck.

>Still bitter

I'm a masochist and enjoy the feeling of routinely noticing mistakes halfway through a several hours long drawing session. That and always not quite being content with what I've drawn.

>>3047832

I have a purpose. From when I was a kid I started to imagine many worlds, or as I would like think, they present themselves to me.

Sometimes when I forget, and I'm in the thick of life. I get that sweet sweet reminder of that cosmic beauty of many worlds waiting to be explored, and expressed. So I keep going.

I owe it to those worlds whether they're real or not; I owe people because I need to show them what I see. And most importantly I owe my lush imagination. It's my duty, and my goal to express.

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>>3048433
Keep dreaming kid.

>>3048433
Where is your art? You haven't shown anything.

>>3047832

Back when Eddsworld was cool, in the early 2010s, I wanted to be like him and make a cartoon like that so I picked up drawing. Made a few cringy comics in MS paint but all the files ended up corrupted and that basically killed my enthousiasm for it. It's been off and on since then until about 2 years ago when I suddenly got a second wind.

Now I'm older I realise I don't want to be exactly like Eddsworld, but I do want to create something that someone somewhere will enjoy at least as much as I enjoyed his stuff.

>>3047879
this. completely

i need to create or my brain starts to eat itself

>>3048002
This, draw my favourite characters/pairings that people wouldn't do

>>3047832
because i want to draw porn comics

>>3047832
bara furry butts

The approproate question for this board would be
>Why DON'T you draw?

Because it doesn't leave me alone

Because I like art and I want to get good at it

As an aside, I want to get a lot of money to help my aging parents retire in peace, but I know just getting good isn't enough for that.

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>>3047832
for the fuck of it

>>3047832
The physical articulation of ideas.

>>3049198
>I want to get a lot of money

You may want to pursue a different path than art, anon.

>>3047832

So I can animate. I also hate videogam-
>slips back into playing them

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2 be like my husbando -_-

>>3047832
I don't anymore.

You managed to kill the last bit of hope and life I had in me.

I draw because my daughter has taken an interest in it and I figure we could learn together.

to draw anime and go to japan to find a beautiful japanese girl and marry

For myself, for fun, because I want to make money off it someday.

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>>3047832
I want to bring the things in my head into the real world so everyone can see what I see. My art is the vehicle with which I attempt to do that, I like writing music and literature too.

I used to often imagine myself as an old man finaly being good enough at all three that I can create a masterpiece blending all three arts together then passing away

>>3047832
i want to draw porn for myself

>>3047832
To emulate reality.

I want to draw cute anime girls

i want to recreate the things i see in my head

>>3047832
Because it's fun

To OWN what I observe.

Because I thought it would be a cool thing to do and more fitting to me than computer science which is what I was doing before I started drawing.

It was really just a choice for me, not a calling or anything.

Later on it has become a way for me to think and contextualize stuff. If I can put a thought into pictures and stories that feel genuine and believable, then I know I've got it figured out in some regard.

But really it's just a choice of doing something with my life.

>>3050149
Pure!

To push my abilities but ultimately am never happy with what I have because I not only feel like I lost the future I wanted to live but also know that I feel like I have wasted my time since I will never be as good as the elite artists of the past and now. And also cuz I get paid for it.

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>>3050674
>Decent enough at art to finally start drawing porn
>Visualization skills eventually creep up making porn obsolete

>>3047832

Because I want to tell stories via comics, and I'd rather make them then partner with someone.

I want to tell my story

i've been drawing for years now and even if i wanted to stop i can't since i've already wasted so much time and money on art. i hate myself so much because of this

>>3048962
Seconding.
I get twitchy and irritable if I don't draw for too long, and yet I procrastinate and worry about it too.
The middle of the stream, floating with the current, is only available when I'm in the middle of drawing and forget about worrying and everything else.

Creating is very pleasant, putting out into the world something that could never be done by someone else, finding your own unique voice... Also, I feel like all the other jobs are very alienating. When you are an artist you still feel a very strong connection between yourself and what you make.

>>3050149
can you be my father too?

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I honestly don't know why. Most of the time I don't even enjoy the process. It just keep going back to it. It's become habit at this point.
The fact that I'm not enjoying it just makes it fucking impossible to properly improve. I draw constantly, but I don't have the discipline to sit down and read a fucking book.

I constantly think about completely giving up, but I can't.

Love and admiration for beauty

>>3049184
/ic/ makes me fear plateauing like a DAtard

>>3047832
So I don't get rusty.

I have a god complex

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>>3050139
lmao nigga just trace shit

>>3051654
Because I don't have anything else to do with my life. Once upon a time I led a normie life with cool friends playing sports, partying etc but after high-school I lost 99 percent of my friends except for this one square that doesn't even wanna go to clubs and it's gay going clubbing alone. Afterwards I got into watching anime and decided it may be interesting to create a Manga(which I'm currently working on) in the end though life is pointless and when I'm 30 I'm gonna kill myself

>>3051695
Sounds fun.

>>3047832
Silly reason, but because I could never find the "perfect" wallpaper when setting up my desktop.

Still haven't gotten to the level where I'm super proud of my work but it's only a matter of time.

>>3051695
>insert "it's never to late" comment here

But seriously the only thing that matters is the product. No one will give a fuck how old the person who drew it was when they first started, hell if anything is should motivate half of the lazy asses in this board.

>>3047832
Because I unironically like furry and pony art, have ideas In my mind that I would like to represent and pretty much find the idea interesting.

>>3047832

I used to think furry porn was cool; now I'm too busy focusing on forms of anatomy to be aroused by anything

>>3051755
I used to think anatomy was cool; now I'm too busy focusing on furry porn to be aroused by anything else.

FTFY

>>3051629
Heheheh. It's so hard to achieve this level of honesty.

The same reason I make music: to share an idea or story in a palatable way. I can't write stories (can never figure out how to get from A to C, and dialogue syntax confuses me), but art is a way to create snapshots of a story or to give something the feeling of a world.

>>3051749
What does this have to do with my comment?

>>3047832
I want to draw beautiful women, and make others feel things

>>3047832
I started at age 13 due to my anxiety in class. I was this shy, kind of autistic kid in the back of the room, who loved to watch classic anime. One day I started, and it helped me a lot in my daily life. Drawing is kind of the opposite of weed in certain ways: It's a gateway into better things. I quit my gaming addiction thanks to drawing, met tons of people and acquired new friends, and I could even impress girls with my sketches. Drawing then got me into music, and the rest is history.

Fun things are fun. Drawing is fun, good and mentally healthy. Everyone in this board feels as if they where in this big race where they must git gud as fast as possible, forgetting that 90% of us, and I would say even more, won't make it pro 'cause we don't want to go pro.


Lads: Draw because you love it. Do so, and then it will love you back by giving you so many good things.

>>3051654
If just tracing shit is enough for making it, then I'm up for it.