>>8024538
What about pencils?I figured out mechanical pencils are too heavy for me. I have a rotring 600, messing, unusable, it's so heavy, it slips out my fingers.Plastic faber castel 2mm or p205 are better, but still uncomfortably heavy.Wooden pencils are the best, maybe i should buy something fancy, like mono or mitsubishi.But i hate them getting shorter with usage. Can't find an extender that would be light and sturdy.Same with a sharpener, they get dull after 3 pencils max.In the year of our lord 2026, humanity still can't figure out pencils...
>>8024789First time using oils this weekend. All in all, I'm pleased with the results.
>>8024801must say i agree with you, that looks really nice. who are the other people? Are you doing a course?
>>8024789what's with all the Bouguereaus? Couldn't you use something from the old thread?
>>8024801a complete failure.
>>8024808It was workshop. We all worked on our own things and would go around and offer suggestions, etc. >>8024813Mom, is that you?
>>8024815>We all worked on our own things and would go around and offer suggestionshuh never heard it done that way before. Were the others any good? Did you get useful feedback?
You guys often think about killing yourselves too, right?
>>8024801Mrs. Smith, what did we say about posting on the incel forum at the workshop?
>>8024797>humanity still can't figure out pencils...Honestly sounds like a (you) problem. I use a mechanical pencil with a 2mm HB lead, sharpen it with sandpaper and I love it to bits. Tried a bunch of different hardnesses but ended up liking HB the most as it's the most versatile though sometimes I use 2H for fine detailing and 2B if I need some more contrast in values. I have a bunch of faber castell leads and I try to sharpen them to a really thin fine point, and work with a very soft touch.
>>8024820sure i think that's fairly normal. how often is often, though?
>>8024825Not even joking, daily. Every other day at the least.Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for drama and doubt I'd do it, but trying to be a painter is definitely a good part of what's making me think about it so much and I'm kinda concerned
>>8024820i doSO I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT MYSELF, EVEN THOUGH SOME RETARD ON HERE SAID THAT UH YOU CANT BECAUSE UH IT HURTS HIS FEELINGSi have lended my iq to anons on here and i think they improved precisely 0 (0 doesnt need a unit of measurement, isnt it so great?) because they dont give a fuck
>>8024831have you read a single fucking book you were told to read, you schizo?
omg lol, it sounds like i give a fuck about whether what i say matters to anons, i dont, i am actively trying to abandon this goddamned website but i dont know what to fill that time with>uh drawinguh suck my penis? as if i would sit at a table and start pouring effort into anything while my legs and back and shoulders hurtuh i am just so eager to drawand my mom thats got a good job and feeds me, because even though i am a grown ass man i am a failure of an adult is droning around the house and i cant fucking focus on drawing
>>8024832what the hell are you talking about, schizo?i cant reas books, i laughed at an andrew tate clip
>>8024831>>8024833You will never be a fantasy princess
any crits for this? last thing i posted I was told to soften my edges more, so tried to apply that here and I do think it turned out better.
>>8024824There is no universal hardness scale for pencils, it varies between brands.But usually hb is okey.
>>8024835add this to no cancer, not an amputee, didnt get stabbed that one time or the other time, not shot that one other time, the car only hit me that one other timei have got quite the blessings, yeah!
>>8024836looks amazing i am not equipped to critique it
>>8024829daily is definitely often enough that it's a problem. How is you trying to be a painter making you think like this? You aren't succeeding or not enjoying the process?
>>8024820No, i'm too narcissistic to destroy something so precious.But i fantasize about having a Death Note often. Justice delivered by a pen, i like the thought. Even though the whole thing has a bureaucratic vibe to it, i still don't mind. But i have aphantasia, i'm not even sure it would work, as you have to visualise the person before writing the name.
>>8024819It was very helpful, so long as you didn't necessarily need a lot of hand-holding. The others were quite good and working in different styles from tight, realistic still-life to loose portraits. A couple did their landscapes using only palette knives (turned out great). >>8024823>what did we say about posting on the incel forum at the workshop?I believe it was "someone will try to masturbate to this if you post it and then complain about how difficult it was"
>>8024842I like it fine, it's the realization that I'm a socially withdrawn autist committing myself to of teaching a relatively demanding craft that nobody actually needs and is heavily dependent on cultivating a personal image and connections to monetize in a world where the general population increasingly can't afford luxuries that is doing me in.I feel like I'm throwing the dice with my life on the line for a minimal chance of winning a lifetime of struggle and anxiety.Like what are my prospects even if I get gud, selling to boomers until they die off or hoping some rich guy takes a liking to me?
>>8024855*self teaching
>>8024855i see, i can definitely relate to that.Did you ever try at a more normal, 9-5ish route that has better odds of "success"?
>>8024863I can't get a 9-5, I've never worked under 50 h/wk and never under an hour away from me. The kind of work I can get is the kind any retard can do and increasingly done by indians. I mean I've done highly skilled machine operating work years ago, but that market's tiny and it was literally a 12 hour soul crushing shift, which is why I quit. Beyond that, that seems like a cope with no chance of success as a painter, so it's a moot point.I want to paint, I just doubt I've got a real chance at this point
>>8024829La tristesse durera toujours
In the last thread someone asked about ink that can disappear.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MjcRnR9kKjc
>>8024904kek imagine your customers getting paintings with scribbles and getting mad, then having to instruct them to carefully use a blow dryer on their fancy new paintingI wonder if watercolor would even adhere to the ink
Sometimes it's nice just going back to copy machine paper and doing a bunch of low effort sketches.
what the hell? you guys draw? i just wait for my death instead
>>8025228Why not keep yourself busy in the meantime?
>>8025228why wait
>>8025335because i am not stupid enough to end it when it hasnt even gotten as bad as it can get.
>>8025339>vgh, I just wait for death...>kill myself? but I'll miss life being even worse! I'm too intelligent to avoid suffering!
>>8025342whats the point of avoiding suffering you little bitch, id rather be a tragic little motherfucker than some suicidal faggot
>>8025350I'm not the one crying on an anime from lel
>>8025360you are the nigger replying to people "why wait" to depresses people on the " 'from", thats the new wave zoomer term, the old internet 'froms yeah, niggerfucking coward, go back to twitter
>>8025368kek imagine going around telling strangers you're le depressed and crying about le mean 4chan telling fags to kill themselves and somehow thinking you're not the twitter faggot in the conversationis your hrt making you emotional sweatie?
>>8025369you are the one being a faggot dumb bitch, go to twitter if you want to act adversarial toward everybody
>>8025371kek how much of a newfag could you be, tranny
>>8025372This is a safe space, chud
