how do you manifest the time and energy to draw while at the same time having job responsabilities and media consoomerism responsabilities. Want to draw but also have a gigantic watchlist/readlist that must be completed and each time i come back from work I dont want to do anything for the next 10 hours
>>7844356draw in the morning before work. go to bed 1 hour early, wake up 1 hour early. easier to draw in the morning when you have more energy.the more your draw, the less you'll want to consoom and the more you'll want to create.
>>7844383going to bed early does not mean you wake up early. I just lie in bed for an extra hour that could have been used on something. And then I sleep in until the last possible second to still have time to get ready for work.
>>7844418then you don't want it enough, NGMI
>>7844383This works when you’re really, really young. That 1 hour would be better used going out for a jog than immediately hitting the snooze button and going to your desk to stare at a screen all groggy and just booting up mentally.
>having job responsabilitiesjust don't do your job, unless you're in a factory or something and your output is immediately measurable you can just sit there not doing shit for around two hours a day before they notice.
>>7844582It’s someone’s job to notice and that’s why Veronica gets the $3 raise at the end of the year while you get 0.25 cents.
>>7844356I work a regular 8-4 SWE job, do stuff with friends, play games(especially gacha), read manga and doomscroll youtube a lot.I still managed to draw an average of 3 hours every day last year. That's a bit more than 1000 hours.Literally the only thing stopping you from doing the same is this:>each time i come back from work I dont want to do anything for the next 10 hoursWhat helped me is doing stuff right after work. Even if I felt like I needed a break first, taking a break always made me just do nothing for the rest of the day. If I drew right after I came home from work I just stayed in that productive flow state.
>>7844356>media consoomerism responsabilitieswhat the fuck is that?
>>7844632>$3 raise at the end of the yearthese days she gets 0.25 and I get 0.2, it's not worth it. In some competitive fields that's true but if you're some no-name paper pusher doing fuck knows what and is two years away from being replaced by ChatGPT or at least a guy in the Philippines using ChatGPT like most of the population your performance bonus is generally pathetic. Now maybe in 5 years some guy retires and she'll be promoted and her pay will triple but in a ton of places it never happens either, they hire a new guy for it or just pay her roughly the same until she figures it out and quits.
>>7844724>two years away from being replaced by ChatGPT or at least a guy in the Philippines using ChatGPT like most of the populationThis hurts the most. I was “ghost promoted” (new buzzword) and it just turned out I was a lab rat in finding the most efficient way to do the job just so they can show a new hire in the Philippines to train a fleet of Philippine employees. When the head of the department left I was on my own (with one other girl) for like 2 weeks until they quietly pushed an overlapping schedule with the Philippine team making it look like we were working together when in actuality they were watching our every keystroke and every frame to replace us.
>>7844356my conspiracy theory is that every artist you see online who is somehow drawing /posting everyday either 1: is a neet who is living with someone or their parents2: goes to school and neglecting their classes3: lives in a country where it's insanely cheap to live or gets government assistancei keep seeing emergency commissions for people who need a specific amount of money at the end of the month, so them doing art full time is not realistic unless they're already super popular
>>7844477Yea i don’t know how people who are starting to draw in their work years can improve as fast as someone who is not working, either a kid, neet, or retired person.
>>7848429>t. working two jobs, but drawing since childhood>literally working from 5 A- 9 P>no time to draw but retain some skills from non-working yearsNeets can still surpass me tho, that’s how my jobs fuck me over
>>7844356You don't, that's why platitudes like 'anyone can be great at drawing' are a massive crock.
>>7844356I got a cheap tablet and stylus, so I can do my content consumption and video game playing all in one device, it helps since whenever I'm watching or playing something, and feel inspired to draw something from the content I was consuming, my drawing application is a touch away and suddently I'm off to draw whatever I feel like, it's practical and easier.P.S. Focus on "starting" as in, you don't have to draw for an hour, you just have to draw "today" since when you start it's likely you won't want to stop so soon.
>>7844356Draw with purpose. My purpose is finishing my comic.
>>7844356>media consoomerism responsabilitiesAbsolute fucking retard.
>>7844356>media consoomerism backlogI really don't understand people who treat entertainment like a chore, a todo list of shit to get through, what a fucked mindset
>>7844356> having job responsabilitiesWork 9-5, then spend 2-3 hours doing art when I get home. > and media consoomerism responsabilities.Most media is trash so I ignore it. Not playing vidya also helps since that can take a lot of time from you >Want to draw but also have a gigantic watchlist/readlist that must be completedJust spend and hour or 2 reading/watching something you actually want to watch, it’s not that hard
>>7852039>Most media is trash so I ignore ityour art is boring confirmed
>>7852039new media is trash (mostly). consume old stuff. Still good stuff coming out though. like No Other Choice, really anything not from the west
>>7848427Don't forget, a lot of thirdies live in countries where their currency/economy is so bad it is literally not worth it to work a wage job even if they wanted to. Drawing commissions all day can actually sustain them better
>>7844356Recently outside of understaffed days like today, I can unironically draw at work during work hours. It's a desk/phone job and I perform better than 95% of my department most of the time, so if I'm not in a call or handling administrative tasks, I get to do whatever. Obviously can't do more involved stuff like master studies, but there's enough 10 minutes of empty space inbetween some tasks, so I can crank out a page of croquis inbetween or continue working on a panel, copy a bridgman sketch. I do that a couple times a day every now and then and I leave work with 30-40 new figgies in my sketchbook, a page with it's paneling and pacing corrected, and so on.It adds up over time
>>7853556addendum some hours later (got called away from my home pc to do shit), I have more freedom to do art at work or at a café/restaurant after work than I do at home. Case in point: the 1:20 interruption between these two posts
theres just no way nigga
