You get good now it is fun

find enjoyment in the act of creating no matter the skill level

>>7818620
Even at my first drawings anons would say it's cute so I had some positive reinforcement.
From there you take joy in it being better than your last drawing

why did you even start drawing then, if it's not about engagement or other people theres should be something fun about it

>>7818649
It's just not very consistent.

>>7818620
you gotta reprogram your zoomie brain to be okay with delayed gratification

the act itself isnt always fun but what you get out of it should be worth it and have meaning to you

>>7818620
draw fun things

>>7818620
Doodle whatever feels good.

>>7818620
Shitpost or draw cool monsters

>>7818620
I just draw fox girls

>>7820344
fanbox?

>>7818643
spbp

>>7820349
I don't have one.

>>7818620
Imagine you are going to die tonight before you start drawing.

>>7818620
You literally can’t. You just have to suffer in the beginning until you get good enough. Sorry.

>>7818643
Low T response

>>7820522
This is wrong. You are not good enough so you wouldn't know if it's different when you are "good"

>>7818620
You find shortcuts

>>7818640
>>7818654
>>7820522
>>7820524
if you think you need to be "good" to enjoy drawing you're ngmi sadly

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>>7818620
>Having fun drawing
>The end result doesn't meet an arbitrary standard
>MFW it turns out I wasn't having fun at all and was only faking it

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>>7818620
You gain confidence and satisfaction from completing a good drawing. The key is to attempt something that presents a small challenge so that you can improve, but not so much of a challenge that you are overwhelmed and all but guaranteed to fail. You want the reward of a nice, finished drawing. Something like picrel (E.G. Lutz, "What to Draw and How to Draw It") is appropriate for a beginner. The steps are given and easy to follow, you end up with a cute drawing, and you internalize an important lesson about how to approach any drawing successfully: to work from the broad to the specific, from the big shapes to the small details. Notice also that you can do this with nothing but a sheet of paper, a pencil and an eraser. It would be fun and good practice as well to ink each completed drawing using Micron pens or (if you want more of a challenge) a steel nib dipped in ink, and a black marker or brush for large areas of solid black. Get comfortable working with these simple means before taking on the complications of value, color and digital tools like tablets and painting software. Some people have built entire careers on white paper and black ink.

it's impossible to guarantee that all throughout a given drawing you'll have fun, but there are ways of increasing the likelihood. for starters, periodically do low(er) stakes drawings, things you are interested in but which hardly exceed what you're capable of (if at all). also, periodically doing studies where the goal is to produce something ultimately undesirable. it sounds paradoxical, but you can have, say one drawing a week where you are trying to experiment, trying to learn something, but you intend to push to such an extent that you expect it to look bad. the goal isn't cool, neat, pretty, whatever, it's to do the experimentation: try something out, see how it goes. I've also found that the more I think about my long-term goals, actually conceptualize them, and find myself approaching them, any given drawing goes more smoothly: even if I draw something poorly, I had a clear intention in the drawing, I knew how doing it would help me towards my long-term goals, and I performed the task.

I dont know
I guess I liked drawing when I was 3-5yo or something, but I can't remember
The first memory I have of drawing is from high school and I remember I just draw and didnt like it because I didnt know how to draw and there was nobody to teach me
I only started to like drawing when I many years later at 30something found some internet pages and decided to start drawing and I followed instructions and tutorials and programs and books

>>7820613
What are you even doing if you don't work on a drawing until you think it is good to you?

>>7820674
nta, but there are different levels of "good" even for an individual person. there is "good" in a more absolute sense, i.e. where the quality of your art would ideally be; but also in the sense of better relative to what you're used to. you can draw something that is ultimately shit, but it can feel good because you see (or at least assume) it's an improvement upon what you normally draw. not every drawing has to involve reaching an absolute level of quality.

>>7820682
There is no absolute level of quality in art, art is subjective and taste changes with the times

>>7820684
note I initially said
>a more absolute
I'm not saying strictly that there is, just relative to a given person. and sure it can change, I just mean at a given point in time.

>>7820667
I should have said that I enjoy the drawing process itself
Every decently succesful mark I make brings me satisfaction
Sometimes what I draw isnt good, isnt accurate, looks flat, poorly shaded or whatever, I try to fix it, and if it gets better, I get satisfaction. If I cant figure out whats wrong and how to fix it, I just leave it and continue on.

>>7820687
>not every drawing has to involve reaching an absolute level of quality.
Then I don't know what you meant by this

>>7820692
I mean a given person's current ideal

https://youtu.be/1OSWR7xiQLk?si=Fprr-BwNeOFKK85G

The Fun is seeing what you come up with.

>>7818620
It's not about the product. It's abt the process.

>>7818620
Unironically find someone to draw with. Can be a stream, can be a drawpile, but for whatever reason drawing with someone instantly makes the process like 5x more fun.
Just don't be a little bitch and constantly complain because that saps the fun out of it.

It's, in my opinion, the most fun way to draw. Almost addicting in a way.

Fun is just a buzzword. It can't be defined, it can't be quantified. You Just Draw because you have to whether you're filled with satisfaction the whole time or you're miserable the whole time. Enjoyment shouldn't factor into it. Unless you're drawing with no expectations or intent to improve, then you can just fuck around.

>>7818620
I try not to take myself too seriously

>>7818643
How do you find joy in wasting time and effort only to create an abomination that isn't pleasant to your or anyone else's eyes?
Utter fucking troglodyte

Not to mention you are wasting your existence in pointless effort when you get no recognition or money in spite of all your effort invested
You piece of arrogant shit

How can I spell it for you?????

>>7821788
As much as i want to believe I hit some faggot's nerve, this is probably bait. Anyone that actually has this mentallity would've killed themselves long ago upon realising they can't instantly gain world class skill on an activity they just started.

>>7821802
What if you have been doing it for a long time and you still hate your own unintentional permaprebeg garbage?

You don't. Only if you're able to stomach the first few miserable years, then you'll be able to enjoy drawing and do it for fun.

>>7821816
What if you are cursed to draw poorly and never improve for all of your existence?
Think it like some sort of curse

>>7821806
>long time
How much is a long time? If your drawing quite consistantly (like 4-5 days a week), you WILL see massive improvement within a couple of months, maybe not enough to get out of /beg/ but enough that you yourself will be surprised and happy about the improvements, once you experience that you'll want to keep drawing. Honestly its not possible to draw consistantly for extended peroids of time and not improve at all, there are cases but thats usually exclusive to autists like chris chan who genuinely enjoy drawing like shit. Also regonise your skill level and draw accordingly, focus on actually finishing pieces instead of trying to draw something you can't over and over and getting frustrated, yes its good to leave your comfort zone and trying something really difficult but make sure its not the ONLY thing your doing or else you'll hate art.
I know i'm probably replying to some troll but I do wanna get this out there, learn to enjoy the /beg/ scribbles you make because I can guarantee that if you don't you're not gonna get very far.
>INB4 seethe and excuses

>>7821818
Most people are. It's up to you to realize it and give up and stop wasting time. Contrary to what retarded cope-inhalers from this board say; not everyone can draw.

>>7820613
didnt say that i said its not always gonna be fun in the moment
the fun comes from achievment and creating something

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>>7818620
as a beginner you need to be dunning-krugermaxxing. you have to delude yourself into thinking you are a god at drawing, this way it will be fun since from your perspective, you're creating nothing but masterpieces

>>7818620
It's fun to practice and learn and follow tutorials and try to figure it out.

>>7821788
Let go of your ego.
You cannot a child to write a symphony. Yeah yeah, muh Mozart, well you're not Mozart, none of us are, we're on 4chan. 4chan isn't where people like Mozart go, because those people figure out who they are long before they find 4chan. So you're just a guy.

Now, make the art. Accept that you won't like it. Accept that it hurts to look at your mistakes. Accept that you do make mistakes. Then understand what those mistakes are, where they were made, and work on them. But also keep making the art. Make the mistakes. You are not behind, you are not facing a deadline, you are learning to make art and it will take your entire life.

Relax, take walks, eat well, get rest, and draw. Draw and draw and draw. It will hurt, that is natural. It will feel like you're going nowhere. That is natural. Accept it, accept it, accept it. If you can't, then you can't draw. And you can draw, anyone can draw, so you can accept it. Do not get into your own head and scream and demand footsteps to follow step by step, this is not a video game, it is a life. And it takes time.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MFhOchDvEOM

>>7821806
>what if
No one should engage in these meaningless hypotheticals.

Its like they're trying to test your logic that you use for learning and keeping your spirits up for drawing, applied to an absolute retard.

>OH, you think you'll improve by just drawing
>Well this fucking retard hasn't improved, therefore youre wrong and should stop drawing.

fuck off and die already.
Don't engage with this shit.

>>7823830
How can someone be happy when he is constantly being bombarded by artworks that mog their shitty pieces?
Even if they completely isolate from internet, there's the thought that someone out there is art mogging you and is fucking your looksmatch while you rot without recognition and without having ever kissed a woman