How do you prevent stagnation?
I try to force myself to draw things I usually don't like tanks and horses sometimes
>>7819060Your post is asking two different questions, so I'll answer both of them.Your first question is what you asked outright, which is how to prevent stagnation. This can be achieved by enriching your set of references with new data. Keep in mind that stagnation is not necessarily bad since it merely means the absence of change, and change itself isn't necessarily good (we'll get to that next). It's perfectly fair to want to grow up to a certain point and then stagnate once you're satisfied.Your second question is implied by the image you chose to attach to your post, which is how to prevent corruption. I use the word "corruption" here to refer to deleterious changes in one's art style such as those that are shown in your picture. Corruption most often affects beginners who feel that they're too good to use references. Just like a car will steadily drift if there are no road markings to inform the driver, so too are artists' styles naturally prone to corruption when they refuse guidance. You can do nothing at all and your art style will corrupt itself. It can be prevented by surrounding yourself with good examples and not being afraid to reference them.
Don't get corrupted by the egotistical 10 incher senpai within you, you must remain a pure artistic maiden and be loyal to the truths of art, that's how you'll grow.
>>7819079Thanks, chatgpt.
>>7819060Trying new styles and doing studies.
>>7819142pretty much this + process studies of other artists and switching up mediums that force you to think differently about your approaches
>>7819126Are you so brainrotten by AI that you see a long-form post with proper grammar and immediately think of ChatGPT? Grow a pair, nigger, and if there's anything I said that you disagree with, then say so instead of littering this board with inane comments.
>>7819060By pushing yourself. If you're completely satisfied with your art, or comfortable with how you're drawing, you're stagnating.You should be making art that's difficult for you, and often.
>>7819182>wall of textfuck off clanker
>>7819182Fuck that guy he is cancerous
>>7819060To not stagnate you have to remove all the rancid cum inside your brain that's been fermenting your brain
>>7819606But what if we're stagnating and we're not dickheads?
>>7819580Get your rotten neovagina back to Twitter, faggot. Plenty of other roaches to circklejerk about AI boogeymen there.
>>7819732you might have autism
there's no way around it xister you gotta start grinding fundies...visual learning and drawing can only get you so far....
So a guy was clearly shitting on his art and he decides to engage with him? Do artists really? Are they ALL this retarded?
>>7819732shut fuck up ChatJeetPT
>>7819079>wall of texti cum
>>7819580It's kinda funny that we'll eventually see clanker being actual insult for people who are too stupid to do anything themselves they resorted to AI
>>7819060>venture outside of my comfort zone>feel boiling rage for the rest of the day because everything looks wrong and badhonestly the real issue here is that i'm not doing this more often
>>7819060>Puppychan
would stagnation not generally refer to the tendency towards repetitive actionthought that was why I've lived around so many people cranking their hog to enlightenment ideals and continuing education and having an open mindnihil novi and all that
the whole comparative anatomy thingstudying of different artiststhat whole "be eclectic" thing"get comfortable being uncomfortable"all that "art challenge!" stufflifelong learner>>7819079second point seems like the relevant one I cannot be convinced that OP isn't asking "how do I not become Unya" which is way more specific than avoiding stagnation.can someone help me understand who egodeathprower is. why can't I find his twitter. why is there a post saying that unya is also puppychan. is this just a cris thread
>>7819060Honestly? Try to draw in other styles. This works especially well with animators.
>>7819060Pray is a retarded eastern faggot you can tell. Before pics aee always posted on the left. While after is always posted on the right.
>>7823741*are
>>7819060never start doing art for money
>>7819580>clankerfuck off to reddit
>puppychanbut xhe did improve?
>>7819275>If you're completely satisfied with your art, or comfortable with how you're drawing, you're stagnating.as someone who's never satisfied with his art and constantly feels like he's regressing this is kinda reassuring.
>>7819079Thank you for pointing this out. There have been so many instances of artstyles going down the shitter or getting corrupted after reaching peak because the retard artist/studio thinks change = good.It is simply better to "stagnate" (which is an immensely homosexual word when used in a negative manner since it suggests you have to be constantly changing at all costs) than to stray from the excellence you've achieved.
>>7823838I'd still rather draw slop than have a real job
>>7819079Thank you for the good post.
>>7825732Kinda? She is now on Tumblr doing the same things she did on Twitter but now is a fat fetishist with bad art.
>>7823838i've actually seen this happen in reverse with artists like Fluff-Kevlar who have beautiful concept art and lore posts in their patreon but yiff on the open web. the concept art didn't start until years after the porn.that being said, doing art for money is bad because then your "job art" is competing with your personal art, and you'll never have enough time for both unless you're willing to live your whole life behind the PC.commissions are really where the fun is at because the job and hobby are distinct facets that you can juggle easily as opposed to a subscription site where job = hobby.
I don’t think practice is exactly the right answer. I’ve seen people become ‘worse’ from practice because their art visibly loses its spark and everything just becomes studies. But then again you could argue that constitutes as poor practice.But what I know for sure: Don’t look at common slop. Don’t look at bad art. Some bad art has merit if it’s unique in any way or there’s use of an interesting shortcut or have mixed skill levels across mediums (e.g. poor anatomy but great shading). But generic slop should piss you off when you see it. At peast make make an effort to collect good art.
>>7819079This Wizard believes you are always changing, and to deny it is to halt your own growth. This Wizard believes that stagnation and corruption are one in the same process. This Wizard believes The Artist is following his path, and The Artist is The Artist because he is following this path. This Wizard believes thusly that if The Artist reaches his imagined destination, The Artist has capped his imagination, and The Artist has become something that is not The Artist.
>>7819060This shit has to be the most fem-brained, passive-aggressive way to shit on someone and their art.
>>7819060Was gonna give this guy a follow until I found out about the twitter drama and his account being gone.
>>7828959I think The Wizard has a very narrow-minded view of what an artist is. How is it useful to classify all stagnant artists as non-artists?
The Artist must always be changing lest he stagnates.
>>7829073This Wizard believes that while all those who create may be artists not all those who create embody The Artist.
>>7819060Recognize things you do well and experiment with changes to the things you feel didn't do well.
>>7819060insight and inspiration.seek out those two and you'll always advancestagnation happens when you feel as if you know everything about a specific field, so there's no more advancement.study each individual section down to every single detail, from the macro (hands) to the micro (hair, skin, skeleton, etc, etc)the more you can break down and compartmentalize each individual section and how light works on that, the more you can acheive.you may end up going insane though, minor side effect...do your best to stay grounded through the psychosis, and you may turn out like some of the best....(no promises, or refunds)
