What's the obsession with hoarding and stacking petabytes of couses? I started using /ic/ in 2020 until 2021 when I had to stop pursuing drawing as a hobby because of college, and it's like literally nothing has changed a bit here.Why do you need THAT random course from Coloso and Domestika? Wasn't Watts enough? Or Proko? Or Vilppu? Or Bucci? Peter Han? Bucci? Erik Olson? Craig Mullins? Blaise? Bridgam!? Hampton? Why do people keep begging for expensives courses made by random chinks when dozens of courses made by actual masters have already been leaked years ago? Why can't you just fucking draw?
>>7901491>what's the obsession with hoarding and stacking petabytes of couses?Everyone is still looking for "THAT ONE SECRET COURSE/METHOD" That will make drawing easily click for them. People download them and imagine that the course they're currently downloading will be the one. But it isn't. They either look at just a few videos for a day or two or not at all. Then they move on to another course to repeat the cycle all over again.
>>7901491A few possible reasons:>Practice is hard and annoying and people DO do (some) of the courses but then see little-to-no improvementThis might be due to some much more basic issues that they have. To use a simple example but elaborate on it fully, they may have poor line control. ANY class, course or book assumes a minimum level of familiarity or basic competency making marks. I have rarely seen anyone besides my current mentor go into these super low level basics (like, some of the other students needed to learn how to use a ruler to measure things that were not physical objects - it was that bad) but even then the scant few who have mostly glossed over how important it is. A lot of people notice they have poor line control, but don't realize that's normal when untrained/lacking practice. And they come to the dumb conclusion is that it must be an inherent personal defect, and claim they "have shaky hands".Anyway, another problem is:>The instructor's art/presentation/voice is unappealing or difficult to follow.This is something that I don't think many people notice is making sticking with an instructor difficult. If you are surrounding yourself with something unappealing, you will have a worse time. If you're trying to extract useful information from instruction, and you have to go through another step of reprocessing it in your brain to avoid duplicating something you don't like, that makes it take much more mental effort. Even for those self-aware to realize this is their issue, few vocalize it. It can be taken by others as insulting the instructor rather than as a statement of a personal hangup.Like, this would get someone crucified:>"I think Vilppu art looks like shit, I can tell it's skilled but I just find it so uneappealing that it's distracting."This also is probably why a lot can't get through Loomis's books - the art is of ugly old men and weird caricatures, and that is unnerving to some.
>>7901491>Why do people keep begging for expensives courses made by random chinks when dozens of courses made by actual masters have already been leaked years ago?Is Proko, Watts, Vilpoo, Bucci, Peter, Erik, Mullins, Blaise, Bridggam, Hapton teaching Anime?>I started using /ic/ in 2020 until 2021What a fucking coincidence!! It took a freaking pandemic for all the people who could draw anime to sit in front of their compooter and teach how to draw anime. Pre pandemic there were virtually zero anime courses on the internet to pirate besides hot tips on Youtube.
each gigabyte of learning material gives you a passive +1 to draftsmanship
>Wasn't Watts enough? Or Proko? Or Vilppu? Or Bucci? Peter Han? Bucci? Erik Olson? Craig Mullins? Blaise? Bridgam!? Hampton?Isn't there someone you're forgetting? The best one that is.
>>7901491There are thousands of people. Of course someone can be curious for some other course, we are not fucking machines.
>>7904443Too messy
