How do you stop stressing over wasted time? I'm 26 next year and I still draw like shit. I feel guilty about even trying to pick up art again.>PYWI've posted it in other places.
>>7738133>PYW>I've posted it in other places.Okay, I'm not one of those pyw kinda guys, but why wouldn't you just post you're work here if you've already posted it in other threads?As for stressing about your skill level - would you make fun of an older dude who is shit at guitar because he just picked it up?... We all have to be shit at something before we get good at something. For some reason, as we get older, we seem to think we're no longer allowed to be shit at something and refuse to pick up or learn new things because of this.Anyway, hard to tell how applicable this is to you, because I don't know how shit you draw.But surely drawing is better than other hobbies like binging tv, or playing videogames, yeah?
>I've posted it in other places.another gay weeb LARP attentionwhore thread
Around 10 years ago I had two friends who were both tryhards at drawing. Art challenges, exercises, reading books on how to do art better, anatomies, commissions, draw 10 things a day, art social media; all that bullshit. One of them even started doing commissions. Even though I used to spend a lot of time on 4chan, I only heard about this particular board from him. Despite the fact that said two guys looked up to me for my mad drawing skillz, and constantly sought my approval for their stuff (they were pretty good themselves), their entire mindset towards drawing turned me off from doing it for at least two years. You know, this whole competing-with-the-entire-internet thing.I've always just drawn for fun, never wanted to taint the experience with the act of making money off it or constantly comparing my shit to that of others. After those two years of not drawing a single thing, I started doodling at work during idle hours, only to realize I'd improved more by not doing it than the two of them did by "exercising" every day. A couple of years later both of them stopped drawing for good, probably got sick of their own mindset.Some time before ai generated art popped off, I met that one dude who did commissions and we talked (people drift apart). Dude tells me he dropped the whole art thing and just got a job and that he was happy. Complained about how hard it was to make it with commissions, as you need to draw hundreds of monks with glowing eyes and other boring shit before people will acknowledge you. At the time I thought to myself, how many monks with glowing eyes did Nihei or Amano, for instance, have to draw in order to get recognition... probably not as many. In short, just have fun, OP. You're probably not going to "make it", but if you're not having fun drawing, you're doing it wrong.
>>7738165For me "making it" has always been being able to get what I see in my mind down on paper, canvas, or photoshop quickly. The ability to fulfil and stupid idea or request
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>>7738237thanks for the upvote, nigfag
>>7738133I started drawing at 25, before that I could only draw stick figures, but now at 31 I can draw almost on the same level of Morpho so just draw and don't worry about /ic/ memes.
There's this Youtube Channel called 'Can I Learn To Draw ?' The dude decided to learn to draw in his late 30s. He has a wife and two kids.He's doing great. So don't you worry about being too old.Don't listen to memes. You got this.
>>7738133>How do you stop stressing over wasted time?By doing. If art means that much to you then rent out a studio for a couple of months and live there.
What a cute art, can you can pass the blog?
>>7738133>How do you stop stressing over wasted time?By drawing. duh.
I'm 23 and all i think about is having sex.
I wouldn't think about wasted time. I started at 28. Age doesn't truly matter. At some point, you'll reach a stage of "you are good at drawing". It's like a bodybuilder reaching his plateau. There are exceptions, like with anything, but you're worrying about nothing. Just practice what you learn and draw.
>>7738137hmm why dont people want to dox themselves and post identifiable art next to their whiney posts?
>>7738493its not the same if you have a loving family to support you.
>>7738165I mean you’re right that you have to love it to improve and that discipline torture will get you to burn out but you yourself had to have had some form of conscious practice, instruction or tutorial to get ‘good’ while enjoying it. The literal difference between young art prodigy and deviantart shitter that both enjoy art the same amount is that the “prodigy” found tutorials at that age and applied them while cranking out 1000 drawings a day. Misguided practice is even worse than grindcel artmaxxing. Even if the studying is done in the most innocuous and stress-free way possible, it’s still studying.
>>7739181>the “prodigy” found tutorials at that age and applied them while cranking out 1000 drawings a dayProbably not. Knowing how to study prevents a lot of time wasting>Even if the studying is done in the most innocuous and stress-free way possible, it’s still studyingIs studying bad? There shouldn't be anything wrong with studying what you like. Why not use your brain?
>>7739186Anon this reads like you’re disagreeing with me, but I think we’re in agreement. The guy I quoted said he got gud just by drawing rather than grindmaxxing and I’m saying that’s impossible and he had some form of study or instruction at some point in time, even if he was enjoying himself meanwhile
>>7738133Is the sky blue or purple
Try a new medium. This is a place I made as a newbie in Second Life,for their Burning Man art exhibition. It had bouncing particle effect eyes on the dance floor and a hard rock radio streaming there,but unsurprisingly no one danced.But I did the archway too. A random tugging of prims,a useless animated texture I had lying around in my inventory and I am part of their history. https://youtu.be/Yiy_FS7AoJ8?si=hdIoQuIYZe59GPt7
I liked making Romance Venues with commercial free New Age music to waltz to,with places to cuddle and meditate,and my animated paintings store tucked discreetly under decorations.
>>7738133>im 26 this year90% of people your age will spend the next 50 years wageslaving and scrolling Tiktok and absolutely nothing else. It’s grim. You’re already ahead of the game by having any kind of hobby in general.
>>7738195In my college days I always yearn the Internet popularity like you know making a hit rpg maker game like Ib or something like that. But as I grow older, I already drive a nice car, saved up downpayment for a house. Now those Internet gratification are nice to stroke the ego but doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Now I just want to draw whatever I pretty pics I want. I've been drawing for over 10 years now and I'm just enjoying to draw what I want. Funny that I've had hundreds of commissions at this point but I barely even remember much of time/experience spent on them lol. It's only the funny / amusing meme projects I drew are the ones I remembered more. I don't draw them often, it'd just "ooh, I had this idea and I thought it'd be funny and cute" spur of the moment.
>>7739256>>7739261looks neat>>7739382>Now those Internet gratification are nice to stroke the ego but doesn't matter in the grand scheme of thingsI've always enjoyed putting niche things out into the world that I hope someone will get a kick out of. Anonymity doesn't hamper that feeling for me, obvious as we are posting on an anonymous imageboard. I'm known by some usernames in some circles, but I like to keep things separated. I've never cared about having an online "persona"
>>7739167why don't you?
