>To get better, you’ve gotta put in the hours and practice.I used to have all these ideas I wanted to draw, but I didn’t have the skills to make them happen. So, I grinded. I practiced hard trying to improve. Every time I thought I was getting somewhere I’d try again and realize I still wasn’t good enough, and go back to grinding. It turned into this endless loop. grind. try. fail. repeat. After a while I got so caught up in grinding that I forgot why I even started drawing in the first place. What started as a passion turned into this aimless routine, and no matter how much I practiced, it felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere. People always said grinding was the key, so why does it feel like I'm getting worse and not retaining any information? All my ideas dried up, and the only thing on my mind was grinding. But for what? Who was I even doing this for? It’s like I lost sight of the point.
>>7964648Pretend you have a commission or got hired onto some project and give yourself a deadline. Put 100% into it. Analyze results. Continue grinding for a couple weeks. Then give yourself another project.
>>7964648You're supposed to be like those shounen characters. You know, mid season this super cool elite group of buddies all with unique abilities they've trained so hard for that when they show up to wipe the bad guys out in 1 shot, yeah that can be you.In short, be delusional. You kinda need to be to trick yourself to keep going.
>>7964648go to >>>/x/ and look for magical guidance, your rant reads like you're in a bad headspace
how often will you post similar threads instead of drawing?
>>7964776lost
>>7964648You guys really need to change this mindset, is it a grind? Yes for sure, but let me tell you a secret, you are allowed to have fun along the way!Anatomy?Do it with a character that you likesPerspective?Draw a room of their houseExpressions?Draw some hentai facesFor God's sake I beg you, have some fucking damn FUN
>>7964648When sharpening a blade do you forget why it is you started grinding away at it to begin with? To lose sight of why you are grinding away at your blade will dull it. To grind without purpose will leave you with a slab of iron incapable of slicing through the smothering cloak of mediocrity.
>>7964655This but unironically. Delusion is a requirement for trying to make it
>>7964648Your true self is the one listening to your thoughts and you listen and obey your thoughts like a cuck.Your thoughts get to fuck your life while you sit by and live through it.Your thoughts are something you should percieve like any other sense of yours. It's an illusion createdby your brain to make you work in society. It's important to have, but it shouldt define how you seeyourself and how you feel.
what people dont want to admit is that not everyone can do/learn anything just by grinding. You gotta have a certain amount of genetic predisposition for anything worth achieving in life, which is luck. You gotta have luck in this life. Hard work is only one variable of success, most is luck and your genetic material.If you work hard all the time but have almost nothing to show for it and dont make the progress you wanted, it just mean you lack some inheret abilities. Its not your fault, but you will never make it very far, if you're not an outlier.You will work ten times as hard with less rwsult than someone who is genetically gifted and who isnt even grinding as hard as you.You have to decide if it is still worth it to put your effort into a thing, even if you will never make it that far.
>>7965924Okay but how do you know if your tolerance for effort isn't just lower than somebody else's? Someone else could be making a much higher effort than you can even fathom, yet because they have a higher tolerance for mental effort, on the surface they might look like they aren't even trying. All you know is your reality, but imagine if cor a second you were swapped into the mind of someone who you'd consider talented, your tolerance for effort might be so low that being able to sit in, even for a moments in their mind, could overwhelm you with how much more effort their minds, with taking so many variables into account and doing complex computations. What if it's just a matter of your intolerance for mental effort? What if talent doesn't exist but it's just a way for us to define the phenomena of some people's minds just being able to exert more computational effort than others? Science even has a term for people who find cognitively tasks rewarding rather than demanding. As a matter of fact, science has tried to quantity what it is exactly that talent is. [Genetic Baseline / WMC(working memory capacity)] + [High Need for Cognition (Stamina)] + [Years of Neural Efficiency (Practice)] Not to be that guy, but most people here are just mentally lazy and write off everything as talent pretending like cognitive tasks don't take effort
>>7964648deeply resonating post tbdesuI've always remember the main project that I want to complete no matter what, but it feels like I've forgotten all fun things I wanted to do or participate in 6 years ago.I find new stuff here or there that inspires me but I feel like I've slightly let my past self down despite being almost where I dreamed of being.
>>7965927by that logic you can never say that someone is plainly untalented.You can always bring the excuse "oh no, I'm not bad at art/math/whatever, I'm just lazy." This sounds like a cope to be honest.If you have a talent for something, you will naturally come to enjoy it and want to do it even more.(not to say that everyone who likes drawing has talent or is good at it) Even if youre right, i guess its safe to assume that this low tolerance is result of something genetical. So my point would stand either way. Wouldnt matter though. If you cant make use of your potential, you might aswell not have it. Results matter, not a vague idea of your potential that you might have or not
>>7965993High Need for Cognition is literally that though. Some people simply derive more satisfaction from highly cognitive tasks than others.
