At what age did you start drawing?, is it too late once you're in your late twenties and neuroplasticity has set in?
I started technically around 14 but I only got halfway serious once I had my own money for supplies. I might be a permbeg tho so that might be a point towards such a thing as too late
>>7859748Since I was a child.Seriously? 27
i'll try to find more images like this and make a little collage for /ic/ >inb4 le jap jeans!anyone can draw, 3-4 months tops, if you do it smartly:https://www.scribd.com/document/608834418/Gitgud-at-Illustration-Guide-for-Anonshttps://prrb.tumblr.com/post/30177790499/shrimp-method
>>7859748I didn't start drawing seriously until 24. I mostly only did acrylic painting before that, but I started that during lockdowns when I was 21.
Started seriously at 31. Then again, my brain isn't rotted by TV, Twitter, alcohol, nicotine, sugar, TikTok et al.
>>7859748>started drawingAs a toddler>started seriously drawing11-14 stopped for 4 years, 18-21 sporadically, stopped for 3 years, 24 (now)>is it too late for me to draw at ##? Shut the fuck up and draw
>startedas a kid. Never studied or anything, I wasn't very good, picrel is the last thing I made (I was maybe 17)? Quit art for uni, picked it up again in 2024 and drew almost every day, was gonna draw every day of 2025 but didn't draw at all. My biggest regret is quitting at 17 desu. I don't know why I thought I was too old to learn how to draw then. Dumb dumb dumb, I'm 26 now, I won't give up again
>>7859748>neuroplasticity bait still gets replies in 2026combined with the faggot janny deleting totally valid threads for being "off topic", this board is so fucked. I'm glad I turned down a janny role. comig here more than once a month is a fuckin chore
>>7859820>Since I was a child.Me2 so 34 xD
>>7861800>draw this in your style thread gets deleted(you know, one of the only threads people actually draw in and is actually fun to see)>"requesting free artwork from users is against the rulesCan confirm this guy is a MASSIVE fucking faggot
>>7859938>10 years>for thatGrim progression. He's a salaryman and has no time to practice, right?
if you didn't grab a pen from your way out of the womb it's too late sorry it's over you should go and make minecraft pvp montages instead
>>7859748>startedtoddler, drew sporadically through my teens, basically stopped by 18>seriously30, mostly begtraps and starting courses, dropping out for 3-5 months, then trying again with a different one>actually seriously35, making insane gains quickly. nerdoplasticine is a meme.
>>7859748started at 26, literally never drew as a child outside of drawing squares on the sides of my homeworki'm 2 years in now, and I could be way better, but I feel like I'm making decent progress
>>7862642I like this study method. Is there a guide for it?
>>7862697it's just a homework assignment from Krenz's lighting/coloring course, you just find 3 references with colors you find interesting and 3 references with light you want to replicate (preferably hard light where you can see the terminator line) and then you combine them
>>7862642>>7862730How do you like krenzs course? Did you do his 'zero' course?
>>7862730Thanks. Do you use a color picker or eyeball it?
>>7859748I drew a lot as a kid, but I stopped when I turned 15, believing I was good enough to pick it up later. I tried to draw, sporadically, for a few years, but I decided to pursue a teaching degree in art history. I worked for a few years, and I decided to try and teach drawing and painting back in December 2024. Turns out, I was completely shit. Being a delusional 15-year-old really does a number on your perception of reality. I couldn't even draw a Loomis head correctly, it was that bad. In December 2024, I was 28, I started taking it seriously, doing absolutely boring shit, no fun drawings, no original pieces for the first 8-10 months. I only studied Hampton, I'm still studying Bridgman, and some artists inbetween to enhance my linework. It's boring doing 80 percent studies 2-5 hours a day, but man it accelerates your learning. I'm now 29, and it was worth it. No regrets, and I keep improving every single day.
>>7862824i did zero but stopped midway because I started the course after I had already learned to do copies on my own, so it was doing a lot of the samefor the color/light course, yes its amazing, the first 3 lessons or so are very rudimentary and basic/fundamental, but lesson 4 onwards is where i was really getting that "fuck this is so helpful I wish I had more lessons than just 8 of this stuff">>7862827the goal is to eyeball both the color and value but i think he mentioned if you cant do that then you can color pick, but only to check to see how close you were, but not to use it to skip the learning process of being able to determine values by sight alone
>>7863100That sounds good. Thanks anon, my copying isn't good so zero might not be a bad idea, was it good until the midway point?
>>7863110i think its good all the way through, from what i could tell it was basically just going from really basic copying to more complex, its a solid course for someone who is a couple of months into learning, definitely not for brand new beginners though
>>7863112I see, I'll have to try it out then. I saw everyone was doing it digitally (I think you're supposed to, not sure?) and drawing with a tablet feels real weird but I'm sure I'll adjust eventually.
Bro I'm 33 and seriously buckling down. Its never too late.
>>7864125Based hope-anon, thanks for inspiring us. I'm just starting out at 31. DaB is not for me, and I'm torn between learning digital and traditional just for the fundamentals.Anything you're using to help with just getting in the reps and learn?
>>7859748neuroplasticity does not "set in" in late twentiesin mid twenties you leave the uni/college and start being a 9-5 wagie with no free time we do not know when it "sets in" assuming the whole thing is not a meme
>>7859748drawing since a 5yostopped around 19yoresumed pirating ebooks 28yoreturned to my cheapest hobby drawing at 30yo
>>7859748I think it's more about talent.
>>7864475Artwod is good This is also good but I kind of shifted to just doing artwodhttps://files.catbox.moe/opiyne.pdf I got through the first month and then it just said do warm ups and I stopped because I'd have preferred it told me warmups to do as opposed to just picked one.
>>7859748What makes this image so comfy? The colors?
>>7859748I basically started in 2021-ish after I had graduated high school -- which is too late for me personally. Maybe other people are different, but I learn this particular skill far too slowly. I'm still kind of ass at this and I've been stuck for a few months now. I keep going anyway, but I've sorta given up on producing work that's good enough to not be embarrassing.
>>7866016Oh let me tell you the trick no artist tells another artist.You can study all your life, you will still find it to be bad. It's god's little trick we make this by hand bit by bit and people only see the end result. They don't see every line scratched out or colors swapped out. Make it bad, keep making it bad people won't see the bad.Pyw
>>7866022I am aware that it will always look bad to the artist's eye since only they are aware of the best version of the thing, which only exists inside of their head. But I think my work is a bit sloppy even before that, and I dunno how to cure it since I have a job so I can't just go autismo mode for 12 hours a day. There's no chance I'm posting my actual work here since I'm not interested in that particular humiliation ritual, but here's a study I posted in another thread a couple months ago. I had to take two swing at it and I took, I dunno like an hour or so? I was asked why I had bothered to paint it or draw anything other than the face since I screwed it up so badly.
>>7859748Yes. It is literally impossible to learn anything after the age of 25. Once "neuroplasticity sets in" you are only able to do things that you started before your 25th birthday. Don't even try anything new, that time can be spent working at your job
>>7866240That ain't doing art bad this is doing art bad.
And this is doing good
>>7862886i keep seeing your doodles all around the board, good shit man. my story would be similar to yours in terms of timings, but you're a couple months (and years) ahead of me. i only started taking it seriously around april last year and am already 35, but sitting your ass down for some hours and actually putting the legwork in was a remarkable experience. all these distractions when i couldve just at least put in the bare minimum each day and it wouldve been a different life, just in manners of confidence in oneself. never give up, anons.
Since i was a toddler, my mother & auntie were both a little gifted in drawing. In kindergarten is my earliest memory of drawing, when the teacher asked what i wanted to be i said an artist. It was just a hobby for my teenage tears. until i turned 23. Where i was really depressed and suicidal from life,breakup and whatever. That i was literally gonna end my life . I was reflecting one night in my room and it came to me, a voice in my head that art was the thing that i would live for. So since then i took it super seriously.
>>7867093It is not too late at all. you can go from beg to pro in i think 2 years desu. the core point is you must stick to 1 art style and go deep into it. You dont need any books. Id spent first 6 months copying simple references with pencil for hand eye co ordination . Then moving onto the same for different tools : Depending upon your art style. But dont draw from imagination at all. That doesnt grow your skill. the best way to improve is to copy the same reference again and again until you get it near perfect to the original image. Start with super easy references and overtime move to harder ones. Watch a tutorial of someone doing your same style and copy his technique. Thats how all the renaissance painters did it too. Under wing of a master they copied there techniques, copying there art as a reference. Eventually combining multiple references to make there own image.
>>7864475>I'm torn between learning digital and traditional just for the fundamentals.nta but fundamentals don't really change between digital/trad. if you understand how to draw and render a form with pencil and pen then you can do the same with a tablet and vis versa. the big difference is that traditional needs more fore thought because the order you make marks will give different effects while digital allows you to do steps out of order and make major changes further into a piece.that said I like to switch between the two because digital is fast so good for basic studies, but trad has a feel and fidelity that can't be matched.
>>7867082Thanks. Some people peak early, some peak later in life. Even if it takes ten years more for the both of us, we'll only be in our 40's. That means there's at least 30 years of masterful drawing ahead of us after that. I got all the time in the world. We can make it, anon.Also, those hands and feet are beautifully rendered. They are better than mine.
>>7867238>They are better than minethats only after copying bridgeniggerman for hundreds of times and in the end these are also 'only' referenced. but doing these again from memory is easier now after understanding some of the bone and tendon structure underneath. in the end its basically just a slightly different kind of lego playset, putting the parts together so they fit
>>7867275I like the analogy of putting Lego together. That's a really apt way of describing it. As for Bridgman, I'm already noticing some common ways he constructs the bodyparts, especially knuckles, bone connections, muscles, etc. It's an amazing resource.
