>dedicate entire day to drawing
>nobody bothering me
>its a nice sunny day and I have my youtube videos ready
>turn on drawing program
>get a migraine
fuck

>not getting anywhere with my creative pursuits due to wokring 60-hour weeks
>decide to focus on leaving this shitty job
>life throws tragedies at me whenever I'm close to quitting
>since I work with my dad and older sister, those tragedies do affect things at work, forcing me to stay
I must be cursed or something.

>>7853546
Don't quit unless you already have a solid next step.

>>7853546
I’m trying to quit too to pivot but the people along the chain aren’t moving shit along, trapping me at the job longer.

I'm stuck looking for ways to practice while still making art. I need exercises.

>be me on twitter
>only post art
>only like art
>only follow artists
>not american
>be twitter algorithm
>see me
>show me only american politics
thank you musk, very cool

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This is me after 1 hour of drawing

Hello everyone, first I hope you are doing alright.
And second, while I am not exactly proud of my art last year, I still felt I did some progress in one or two things.

Also haven't been there for a very long time.

>>7854129
>I’m trying to quit too to pivot but the people along the chain aren’t moving shit along, trapping me at the job longer.

mind showing me what you've drawn during that hour please ?

I’m going to finish uni in 4 months or so. I really need to make it with my drawings because there are no jobs in my field of study. Any ideas on how to make it in such a short time? Make a comic and hope that people subscribe to my Patreon? Do commissions? I really dislike to sell myself so desperately but I really don’t want to be a wageslave.

>draw for an hour
>brain is out of memory
>sit for 2 hours doing nothing
>draw for another hour
>brain is out of memory
>sit for two hours doing nothing

there has to be a better way to do things

>>7854367
More like
>draw for 5 minutes
>doomscroll for 1 hour
>draw for 5 minutes
>doomscroll for 1 hour
>regret when it’s time to sleep
>repeat

Watched one artist’s video where he mentioned that a picture with good form and no rendering looks better than a picture with beautiful rendering and bad form. And I realized that’s me, I’m a permabeg but I’ve always been practicing art with that mindset. Get good at basic drawing first ——> learn rendering at some point in the distant future ???

>>7853931
Take the blue(sky) pill

>>7854414
yes

>>7854367
You last more than me.
I also get sluggish and depressed when I realize I performed badly for my studies or for my drawings, which makes me waste more time.

>>7854378
>>7854367
how do you stop this?

>feels like I'm getting worse again

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>/fyi/
>/cgsg/ (formerly /cbsg/)
>/lsg/
>/alt/
>/draw/
you know I'm beginning to think it's just trolls drawing lines in the sand at this point.

/cbsg/ got pulled apart into three seperate threads for no reason.
what even is the difference between /draw/ and /alt/ at this point? I know they're old threads but genuinely what's the point of this seperation?
It just feels like an already small community is being divided with no actual benefit

>>7854414
>>7854451
I worry I’m taking the opposite extreme and not really learning any rendering until my basics are unbesmirchable

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>>7855713
/ic/ used to be conceptart.org for autistic people. primary goal of /ic/fags was to make it as either a videogame artist or card illustrator. the advice from pretty much every working professional or educator up until like 2016 was 'anime is a /beg/trap, you need a classical realist skillset or you're ngmi'
learning resources were significantly worse back then too so people also used to come to this board for actual crits & advice and not just asspats and the animefags in /draw/ got tired of being told to stop drawing anime when they posted anything so they created an anime general

I'm currently sad and lonely. I can't do art when I'm sad and lonely. So I just scream at the void that is 4chan instead. I'm breaking down even though I'm on the verge of getting back up. When I'm sad, everything seems hopeless.
Sorry for the blog post

>>7855742
i love you, just another lurker here, but you’re not alone. i hope things will get better for you, soon.

>>7855762
Thank you, I love you too

>>7855713
>/cbsg/ got pulled apart into three seperate threads for no reason.
>three
?

After several years, I was thinking of opening my first Twitter and BlueSky accounts, but I have a feeling that my best online friend is going through a tough time. I suspect that his mother may have cancer. It seems wrong to me to open an account when he's going through such a difficult time, especially since he's on Twitter and some of my drawings are based on his writings.

there's a character I want to draw but there's not a ton of references of her so I'm a bit apprehensive on drawing her

This is a very specific problem but
>want to increase drawing output
>have background in data science
>idea: do statistical analysis of danbooru posts to generate drawing ideas
>make program that does that
>it's very useful, am going to improve it further
>can't post about it publicly because twitter artists are so sensitive about AI/data scraping
I'm going kind of stir crazy because this is my current main coding project & I'm gonna keep refining it, but I don't have anyone to talk about it with because I know I'll get bitched at if I try to.
Maybe I'll repurpose it into something I can sell to consumers instead of artists once I feel like it's got all the features I want for my own purposes

>>7855896
fyi is just cbsg with more steps
if your characters are too skinny or small you get kicked out if cgsg to lsg (even if it isn't a shota)
>>7855731
all I'm saying is at this point there's no real difference, the split is just legacy
pick 10 pieces blind from each thread, shuffle them, then try to put them back I guarantee you will struggle
NO MORE BROTHER WARS

drawing is minimum 2 hours of work, when I only have an hour or so of free time, I just sit and do ntohign because I can't draw and I threw away all my time wasting copes.

>>7855713
>>7856020
>complaining about containment threads
Who cares? The catalog is big enough for all of /ic/ generals to exist and board culture has long since shifted to having specific topic threads about 5 years ago. You're not putting the toothpaste back in the tube.

>>7853396
When it's time to recognize that you have to give up?

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It's okay to take a break when you feel like you need it right?

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I'm trying to get back into using paint.

Also, why isn't there a /sfw/ general?

>>7856365
Jack Money anon! Haven't seen you in a while.

>>7856395
I know, I keep getting sidetracked and not working on any comics. I'll probably post a new Anon Jump before I work on my stuff

>>7856398
Oh so you're the one making those? That's nice. Take your time.

>>7856402
Nah you guys make em, I'm just the editor.

lately i haven't been able to play watch read draw anything despite having tons of free time, i wonder if it's an adhd thing

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>Finally get a request that isn't from a scam profile
>"Uhhh... can it be for free? :3"

>>7856885
What's your genre and brand?

>>7856544
What are you doing instead?

>>7856885
I'm curious, what do messages from the scam ones look like?

>>7856890
You mean the type of cotent I make? I draw anime girls, but I can draw anything else. I'm not really taking comms anymore though.

>>7856900
They just DM you like usual but their profile is recent and there's nothing on it. On DeviantArt they usually get deleted soon.

>>7855919
>some of my drawings are based on his writings

you wouldnt have that problem if you wrote your own shit you uncreative loser

>>7856892
nonstop jerking

>>7854414
while your at it, try putting on socks before shoes

>vertical trends are only available to old verified and blue check accounts
Fuck I just spent an hour and a half on a drawing only to find that out.

>>7856921
Is twitter the only site you post to?

>>7854749
>>7854378
>>7854367
Seems like you guys don't actually enjoy drawing. If your able to lock-in on a video game or a movie for multiple hours, then its not some sort of ADHD/autism problem.

>>7855919
you can just be original you know
you can do more than one thing in the same time period you know

>>7856916
>>7857047
I don't understand why you're angry. I made some drawings for a friend, inspired by his writing, as a gift. They don't represent even a small part of all my drawings. I'm simply worried about what he might be going through, and I'm afraid of doing something insensitive.

>>7856945
Videogames don't require energy. They are relaxing.
Drawing is like going to gym, working or running.

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>>7857091

>>7857115
Yea, you don't enjoy drawing. Pack it up anon.

>>7857165
nta but I enjoyed drawing when I first started, but not anymore. PYW if you don't mind

>>7857173
also nta but I was the same. drawing was a lot of fun when I first started but I got bored of it. I think it's just because eventually you start to draw similar things after a while

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>Want to draw a sexy female character
>Not -actually- that turned on by women
>I just like this character and she's sexy, so I want to draw her sexy
What a predicament...
I spent quite a lot of time just drawing guys but I'm trying to "branch out" more. It's kinda hard to draw without my horniness guiding me though

>>7857115
Words form reality, you should be careful what you say or especially what you write.
I get you, but also not all drawing has to be hard. You likened it to hitting the gym but you don't have to be sprinting every session... Take a walk sometimes.
In this case when you come to unwind start doodling. Just sketches, zero pressure. "Waste the paper". Eventually you'll stop associating art with negative emotions even when it's difficult.

>mention WEF in a shitpost tweet
>whole account gets buried when typing it into search
>remove tweet
>all my tweets are restored
Jesus christ what a shit platform

>>7857567
whats wef

>>7853931
change your settings to another country and that all goes away

>>7855731
those were the good days. Funny that ot took me 9 more years to actually draw

>>7855742
for me it's the opposite. I draw because I am depressed about being single. It's very therapeutic.

>>7857567
you will NOT question klaus schwab
you WILL use ai to assist your drawings
you WILL eat the bugs

>>7858215
when will you fags update your NPC programming, the bald kraut isn't even in charge anymore, it's some norwegian now

>>7858254
The message is the same and klaus is still alive.

>>7858254
>this mad over a shitpost
i sincerely apologize

Putting down the first strokes of colors for interiors is beyond stressful. I never know until at least 15 minutes later if the walls are ok or if they are not and by extension the whole piece is going off.

>>7858507
if you're doing digital you can work non-destructively so you can adjust things more easily
if trad you can do a small color study first

I really need to read scientific papers and prepare my final thesis to finish my degree (not art), but instead I procrastinate by putting together an art supply kit for a friend (who draws mostly digitally) + coming up with a versatile palette of Polychromos pencils specifically for her that she'd enjoy using. I'm quite satisfied with the 9 pencils I've selected, and I will draw something for her using this palette before the end of the month.

How do YOU overcome art block? For context, I work full time and just came back from a convention weekend. Maybe it’s just being tired from cosplaying and being on my feet all weekend, but I’m not feeling the pull to draw as much as I usually do (despite actually wanting to draw, somehow), and when I do, the results aren’t satisfactory to me.

I can never catch up.

>>7858682

You can never catch up.

>>7853931
I use two extentions for Twitter.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/
This will make sure you will only see the tweets by the ones you follow. You won't even see their retweets.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitter-origifier/
This automatically shows the image at the original resolution whenever you open it in full window.

>thank you musk, very cool
Pretty sure it has always worked like this before.

>>7854414
>Take the blue(sky) pill
Same garbage. Surely not better.

Has anybody else found themselves growing to dislike high contrast in values in paintings now? I think my brain has started to associate it with cheap and low quality because a lot of AI slop has overblown highlights and crushed darks. I've seen a shift in my own art towards tighter and more subtle value ranges

>>7858724
No, if anything I think AI's problem is washed out lighting and not integrating the chacter shading with the background shading very well

>>7853396
guys how do i get my passion back

>>7855713
you know how our government prints more money to stimulate the economy? we print more boards here to stimulate the boardconomy

>>7858724
>I've seen a shift in my own art towards tighter and more subtle value ranges
AI may have made it inconvenient to execute on top of now being associated with AI slop, but I'm not going to let it influence my style. I leave my old drawings with shit colors up as a way to show I've been trying to color like this way before AI. I remind myself that I'm on the right track by looking at pre-AI high contrast saturated artwork

>>7858869
I don't think that saturation is a bad thing, I actually embrace it but create room for my midtones to breathe in the smaller ranges I'm working in. You can have extreme saturation and beautiful colors while limiting the values you work within. To me the large value ranges and contrast in values looks too tacky now. I don't want to say it's my eye maturing or anything condescending like that because taste is subjective, it's just something I've been noticing as I look back at my earlier work

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>>7858852
I saw this funny drawing again at it invigorated my passion for drawing, again. i was in a 2 month period of not drawing before seeing this. so reconnect with your muse.

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I'm beginning to realize why I hate drawing video game characters from 3D games
It's cuz the designers only had to draw a turnaround in A-pose and could add as much shit and lines and greebles for the modeler to put in...

It just doesn't work when doing 2D fanart/illustrations because it's too complex, but omitting a lot of these details kinda ruins the impression of the character...

Starting to practice with a pen after using a pencil and eraser for so long is extremely humbling