how it genuinely feels striving to emulate the work of artists that I'm a fan of who are not only younger than me but who also started learning to draw more recently than I did
Why are there so fucking many "woe is me people younger than me are better than me" threads lately? What the hell is this? Is this part of the "/ic/ trolling tactics" list? I fucking hate it, it fucking sucks.
>>7914329>>7914364Doomer fags need a bullet.
>>7914329oh woe is me, I am so old, wahhh, why are there no more sites where I can upload /beg/ drawings and have site users appreciate and leave thoughtfull messages like they would tell a 4 year old drawing something. Waaahhhh
>>7914381Have yet to meet a doomer who wasn't the whiniest faggot.
>>7914364It can feel demoralizing to see people who draw incredible things and they're barely in high school.However, first things first:>people lie about themselves on the internet, especially age.>good support systems from friends and family go a long way>maybe they were involved in serious art from a young age>lastly, self-discipline and practice.I don't fully believe in "talents" besides what your own creativity can achieve and the willpower you possess to achieve your dreams and passions.It took me a while to not feel insecure and fucked up inside seeing all the amazing shit people have done that are like 10+ years your junior. But, comparison is the thief of joy, ego distorts your true self, and all that really matters is what you want and what it will take to get there.Thanks for reading my gay blogpost.
>>7914364Yeah, it's not a race. Hell, probably half the people I follow are probably half my age; young kids these days have so much more access to resources than us old decrepit fucks got.Easy access to great learning materials, great free professional grade programs (krita), cheap tablets. Back in my day, we had to walk fifteen miles, through blazing hot blizzards, through knee deep snow, just to get a few sheets of paper and a half chewed up lead pencil from the corner store.Besides, why should I care who the artist is, if I like their art, I like their art... isn't good art the reason we all wanted to do this in the first place? Good art should make you happy, not miserable.
>>7914329There is no shame in it. Take from them all you can. Let their new ideas and their energy be your sustenance.
>>7914421>self-disciplineAgree with you on every point except this one.It doesn't take much discipline to continue doing something you're already good at (or at least better at than anything else).That's why starting to draw from a young age is easy mode compared to an adult because it takes actual discipline to get better at drawing as an adult. Not so much before that.It's 100% true that a lot of really good artists got to their level with little struggle. They drew because they felt like drawing and rarely did they struggle. I personally know this because I never struggled much to learn how to write. I literally do it all day, everyday, and it's very easy for me to do. I didn't have to have "discipline" at all. That's what talent looks like.Just want to make people aware of this because they'll often think too highly of really good artists and I want to remind them that nearly all of the time, that artist didn't work hard for their ability, they just did it a lot because they felt like doing it. This is true for almost anyone in any skill. Rarely do they have discipline. It's actually an extremely rare skill. If they're good at something, almost 100% of the time they felt like doing it. Not because they forced themselves.That's different from the vast majority of artists on /ic/ who show little improvement because they don't have the talent and thus have to force themselves through bad drawings to get good.
