Only post in this thread if you're in your 30's.Begs, ints, and pros are all welcome. Remember to PYW.Some questions for the thread>How long have you been drawing?>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?>Have you made it? If not, why?>What do you like most about your work?>Socials?
30y and 3m here.>How long have you been drawing?5 years abstract digital art, took a 4 year break, and came back a few days ago for a contest. (Studying anatomy atm for it)>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?Passion, almost gave up out of frustration, but this contest reignited the flame.>Have you made it? If not, why?No, because I'm dogshit.>What do you like most about your work?The fact that I'm free to draw anything I want without constraints because I'm aware I'm NGMI.>Socials?https://www.deviantart.com/mithrithnokh/galleryhttps://www.youtube.com/@Nicu-%C8%98tefan-Cristian
>>7900557OP here, I'll start.>How long have you been drawing?Since high school, although there was a period where I stopped taking art seriously to focus on other things.>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?It's been both, but I still want it to be a passion despite where I am in my life. I want to be able to make something I've proud of while working my normie job. I don't really have a following, but I've gotten into contact with mutuals that share similar interests in regards to art.>Have you made it? If not, why?No, part of it is my fault (largely due to me not knowing whether I wanted to work in illustration) and kneecapping myself again and again in terms of networking. I just don't see myself as the type of person that wants to see art as work. Maybe that's to my detriment? I don't know.>What do you like most about your work?I liked that I quit drawing anime and now have a focused vision. My skill levels still aren't where I want them to be but I can safely say that I finally have a voice that's all my own.>Socials?I mostly just share on Discord with my friends
>>7900559Dang man, some of that abstract stuff is pretty cool. Reminds me of Steven Zapata.
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>>7900557>be drawing professionally for almost two decades>heavy depression>constantly sick>stop drawing altogether>find a new job>new people around>depression cured>healthierDrawing really sucks the life out of you.
>>7900876This is your own fault for commercializing something it’s supposed to love. Get wrecked, Jew
i'm 27 soon can i hang out
>>7901068Yeah I don't see why not, make sure you PYW too.
>>790055733>>How long have you been drawing?Since 2023 I’ve been putting real effort into it. Before that, I was just messing around, not taking it seriously.>>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?It’s a passion, but not my job—which is great.>>Have you made it? If not, why?I’m having fun every time I draw, paint, or sculpt; I don't have to worry about money for now, so yeah, I’ve made it.>>What do you like most about your work?The problem solving, and the fact that I can bring the ideas in my mind to life. I’ve got a huge backlog of things I want to draw.>>Socials?No socials. I don’t post finished work here anymore, just doodles or quick figure sketches, here a collection of stuff I drew in 2024.
>>7900557Hello, im35. >How long have you been drawing?Since covid, on and off>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?Just a hobby, like playing games.>Have you made it? If not, why?I'm convinced it won't happen to me.>What do you like most about your work?I like it when it shines.>Socials?Search for ophiuchusjpg or travis.arkI'll try to defeat the captcha but I've failed before to upload images. I really enjoy showing my work.
>>790055730y hereBeen drawing for what, a year and a half? It's mostly been a hobby i think, i do it here and there. I still feel pre-beg. I don't really have a goal so i feel like i just badly copy stuff i like.I mostly like that im able to make stuff for people or franchises i like>>7901258The face feels very realistic, its impressive
>>7900557>How long have you been drawing?doodling whole life, for serious 12 years>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?both>Have you made it? If not, why?idc so yea>What do you like most about your work?idk, i didn't think about that>Socials?@RaxavArt
>>7900562Was the tranny YouTuber art style really necessary?
>How long have you been drawing?Probably since I was around 3-4Seriously since I was 20 something >Is art a hobby or a passion for you?Passion>Have you made it? If not, why?I’ve had stuff published but can’t make a living off it >What do you like most about your work?Nothing right now >Socials?Don’t wanna share, but I might follow some of you
>>7901295>Only post in this thread if you're in your 30's.
Been on ic cause socials had me drawing rage art, its some of my best work but within days of drawing I usually ended hating myself for making it. [None cares]I miss drawing with my friends in anime club.. that's why im here desu[Ew shut up]*sigh
>>7900557>Since I was a little kid, doodling stuff on school notebooks. >Hobby/passion>Lmao no. I'm too asocial and autistic to really market myself or put myself out there. I draw stuff because I am compelled to depict the stuff I imagine.>It is an avenue for expressing my imagination and one of the last sources of enjoyment I have in life.The bulk of my drawings are just me depicting elements of my autistic worldbuilding project. I don't really find much enjoyment out of drawing fanart etc.I mostly post my shit on my deviant art gallery and xitter accounts, as well as of course on 4chan.https://www.deviantart.com/screeble/galleryhttps://x.com/Screeble_art
>>790055735>How long have you been drawing?all my life, like literally everyone that picked up a crayon as toddler, no? but only seriously since last march (studying fundies, ridding myself of symbol drawing etc)>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?still a hobby i would guess, if i were passionate enough i'd probably be better and draw a lot more. i did make 200 pieces and around 1000 sketches last year, judging from the paper mountain i have amassed, but it could be at least double in size if there was true, burning passion behind it.>>Have you made it? If not, why?dunno, a little goal-less right now. making it should only be referred to the goal one sets for themself i feel, not what others perceive it is. fame? fortune? who cares about that shit. superficial. theres better and easier ways to get attention and monies.>What do you like most about your work?how fun it is in the zone once you managed to enter it. only like every other piece i produce though, but the process can be a fun one. better than any chemical coursing throuhg your veins.
I’m in my mid-70’s can I post here?
>>790055731. I'm a beginner going through Drawing on the right side of the brain. First time I'm trying to follow through with an art book instead of floundering around and doing shitty copies. Pic is a study of a Van Gogh in the book that I did for extra practice a couple days ago. >How long have you been drawing?Started last year but wasted most of it either not knowing what to do or just not drawing>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?Hobby, I suppose. Always wanted to learn since I enjoy it but it's harder than I expected>Have you made it? If not, why?No but I'll get there eventually. I'm learning to accept that that my progress will be slow.>What do you like most about your work?Most of my hobbies are artistic. Creating things gives me a unique sense of fulfillment that I don't get from vidya or other hobbies.
>>7901494>Most of my hobbies are artistic. Creating things gives me a unique sense of fulfillment that I don't get from vidya or other hobbies.Based. I can still play vidya but I can only play up to an hour or so before I have to move onto something else. I find that creation and the act of learning and growing is much more fulfilling rather than passive engagement through games or shows.
>>7900557I'm white but by east asian standards I'm already 30 so I'll take advantage of this technicality>>How long have you been drawing?Digitally, since 2011. In general, since 2003, the earliest work I remember doing was the red Rahkshi Bionicle. Bionicles are fucking cool>>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?They're synonyms to me. You wouldn't be doing a hobby if you didn't like it, right?>>Have you made it? If not, why?If your metric for "making it" is monetary success, then no. It might be cope, but there's a silver lining to that, in that it's freeing in a way, to not have your art be bound by monetary expectations, on the one hand it's a bummer I can't just live off my art, but most cons come with a pro. This is one of those examples. I'm entirely free to take my art any direction I want>>What do you like most about your work?That I'm able to nail on canvas ideas I have in my head. Like, they're nebulous concepts at first but when I draw them down it's a special kind of satisfying to see them "concretized", if that makes sense, become tangible. I like creating characters and designs>>Socials?Nah. I don't like socials, good for you if you like them but I'd rather not
>>7900557Holy fuck this thread is grim. Genuinely black pilling.
>>7901526pyw or piss off
>>7900557Ill never make it but Ive drawn off and on my whole life. I guess its just a hobby while my "career" sucks the life out of me.
>>7901667>sucks the life out of me.i think drawing is also very intense when you get into it, moreso than most sitting down jobs. but with drawing you most likely do it because you want to and theres a tangible outcome, fruits of your own labour basically, not something you did so the bossman can go out to the town that night because you slaved your ass off. i think when you work a boring office job or something backbreaking at least once in your life, you will appreciate the process of art and the grind a lot more. it could be worse! you could be punching in sensless datasets into a screen all day.
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>>7901526Good artists are inherently not black pillable. They are easily motivated by art they like rather than demotivated by art they dislike. I always felt blackpillers are just airing out their own creative depression. Shitting in public for others to observe.
>>7901775thats just a crab haunting this board, one very disgruntled no-draw i belief. they never post their stuff
>>7901778They don’t have to post their stuff to be right that your art is shit. That’s just a permabeg cope.
>>7901781who's work are you even talking about schizo
Six of the posters have barely drawn consistantly for four years or more, to which age at this point has no bearing. I'd say these don't look so bad for that length of time especially coming out of rusty habits or in some cases starting from square one. I'm 33.>How long have you been drawing?Forever. It wasn't until 2015 that I really started trying to knuckle down because I had reasons to strive to improve, but I only got the chance to focus on art full time for the last six years. That gap in between 2015 and 2021 made me a miserable little art chud who was trapped on Roraima. It was bad.>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?When people say something like "This is just my hobby!" That's usually a pathetic excuse not to give it their all right? To me it's either passion or nothing.>Have you made it? If not, why?In a lot of ways. Not in some other ways, I'm workin' awn it. >What do you like most about your work?Right now hatching is my big thing. It's fun and it looks cool. I'm a comic artist so I feel pretty fulfilled in life, but it leaves next to no energy for anything else so I don't really do illustrations or things like that often anymore.>socials?https://topnugg.newgrounds.com/
>>7901387I just took a look through your gallery and the amount of work you've put into your worldbuild is honestly impressive.
>>7901851I recognize you from the 'pile. Nice stuff. I like that little gremlin you draw.
>>7901869Thank you. Like I said, I am compelled to draw this autistic shit. I don't really have any concrete end goal or purpose for any of this besides the enjoyment I get out of this worldbuilding. What vague fantasies and ideas for an actual use for this setting I have boil down to "maybe I'll make a webcomic/some simple videogame etc" type of stuff. I don't even have anyone irl with whom to share this autistic nonsense lel. It is a mental compulsion.
>>7901781>permabegNTA, but I'm one of the anons who replied to OP and I'm fine with being a permabeg. Just draw what you want and have fun with it, that's all
Just dabbling in acrylic painting
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>>7901909Oh yeah w ell eat my ass fag
>>7902039LOL!
>>7901884oh which one?
started learning to draw people back in autumn, I followed Marc brunet videos on faces and feel like I've got a good lock down have a matchbox painting I made of someone across from me in a cafe, and that's meant to be a sausage dog he was holding in one arm
>>7902577Very good, you should've put your number on it given it to him and asked to suck his cock
>>7900557Damn Unc thread
Have some unc slop, whippersnappers
>>7902595aw FUCK bro why didn't I think of that, damn! here I am with no dick to suck, tsk
>>7902623I like your unc slop
>>7901831look at this entire thread lol
I started at 30 with no prior drawing experience, I'm now 35 and can kind of draw coom. It's nowhere near something that can pull patreon bux but it's a definite improvement over stick figures. I like when it turns out degenerate and don't really have any hang ups over being above base instincts or whatever. No socials and no plans to make any at the moment. Pic rel is recent but I aimed to learn new tech on this piece instead of just having fun with it.
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>>7901526>browse thread>not a SINGLE good drawing>everyone here is already 30 and overAgreed, this is fucking Grim. I honestly think artists have stagnated, you used to have people on /ic/ literally go pro with industry jobs in the span of five years. Now you have people who've drawn for a fucking decade and have barely scratched /int/tier.
>>7903395Post your professional level work or shut your whore mouth
>>7903395Your pic is unironically the reason why there's more stagnation. Things have changed a lot in the past decade.
>>7903395There are a few drawings I saved either from the thread or from the links in the thread. I'm over 30 now and started drawing seriously "late" but I'm not trying to give you retards any personal info on me. I think doomers are funny. I saw a post yesterday of an anon saying he was a little old for art at the age of 19.Genuinely what is wrong with you people? How do you expect to get good at something as cognitively and creatively demanding as art while being so neurotic and mentally ill?
>>7901286I wanked my dick to your art. Just thought you should know.
>>7903395How many hours a day do you draw/paint? I’ll tell you if you’ll if this thread is your future
>>7901286Physically 30Emotionally 60Life experience 15Fuck drawing, i draw every day but hardly get anything drawn
>>7900557Yeah I have been drawing since I can remember, it's a passion definitely. I haven't made it but was employed as an illustrator for a few years before. I like how I am still improving (I'm 39) and practicing a lot. I don't have socials.
>>7903405>Genuinely what is wrong with you people? How do you expect to get good at something as cognitively and creatively demanding as art while being so neurotic and mentally ill?nta but I turned 38 last week and with a lifetime of being told I can't do anything because I was born a sperg, I can't deal with difficultly or failure well. I started around 2020, maybe 2019. I'm stuck with the Loomus meme with no other direction. I usually can't stay in a good enough mood to concentrate for long. I do mange a Xmas card every year that my family likes but otherwise I never get much done.
>>790055735 years old here>How long ?Since my childhood. I was always drawing but really stagnating. Art school taught me some basics but I was still so far behind most of the students. I'm still learning and I'm only serious about it since 3 years.>Hobby or passion ?Passion, I just can't stop thinking about it. But I have many other passions I can't stop thinking about...>Have you made it ?I guess. Made some exhibitions, got paid for some illustrations and I've been running some art workshops. Most of the time it doesn't pay the bills but I don't care, I just like to draw.>What do you like most about your work ?Doing it. Most of the time the outcome doesn't satisfy me.>Socialsclaude.breck on IG, but I plan to quit socials and only post on a website I'm codingReally cool !>>7901393>>7901494
Hi I'll kill myself this year
>>7905095spooky. that looks like a lot of effort just filling out by hand, but the effect is great.
>>7905123Good luck, anon.
I turned 30 earlier this month good afternoon fellas.
>>7900557>How long have you been drawing?I started around 1.5 years ago.>Is art a hobby or a passion for you?It is a hobby with a certain objective in mind.>Have you made it? If not, why?No, wish I had more than through the week to dedicate to art.>What do you like most about your work?I like drawing women bodies.>Socials?EthylicTepacheSometimes I wish I started earlier in my life.
