It's time to confess, anon.What art related sins have you committed?
>>7924111I'll admit, I get very, very jealous of popular social media artists who manage to make a living off of their work. I wasted my 20s dreaming about being an animator only for 30 to hit me like a brick and have fuck all to show for it. This wouldn't bother me too much if it weren't for the undeniable fact that the economy as we know it is going to collapse within the next five years and I'll probably end up starving to death. My life has amounted to nothing
>>7924111I absolutely hate the drawing process. I have a comic and honestly, if I could pay people to draw it for me while I write then I would
I used to lie about how much effort I was really putting in as a woe is me thing. I loved to say "I've been drawing for my entire life and I'm still perma/beg/ I'll never make it art is hopeless you need TALENT and east asian genes!?!?!!!" when in truth, prior to a few years ago (and even in 2025 I didn't draw a wit), the grand amount of time I drew was basically nada. I'd fuck around for ten minutes every other month, get angry that I wasn't pro, and drop it. It was self soothing to convince myself I just lacked that "something" when in truth I simply never genuinely tried and struggled.
>>7924124BasedI do the same to this day
>>7924115Everyone does, most just won't admit to itImagine actually being content seeing ecelebs make 100k while you bust your ass to make 25It genuinely makes me livid seeing artists like Khyle or Scott Malin make so much goddamn money to the point where I kinda want these sites to start cracking down on coom art just to watch them squirm.If I can't be successful, no one else can
>>7924131>>7924115Why does this board seem so fixated on chasing money?
>>7924140Tons of people want to be famousEveryone wants moneyPeople want to make money doing what they loveI try to play pretend and act like I have integrity but the truth is that I'd whore out the second I am presented with the opportunity I don't care if it makes me immature or vain. I don't give a shit about muh honor. Drawing a graphic novel takes time and time is motherfucking money. I want to be like these famous ecelebs I have to bust my dick working retail 50 hours a week, if I have to continue this any longer I'm going to rope.
I keep telling myself I need to develop the style I want before committing to any kind of proyect :'v
>>7924140I'm tired of hobbycucks desu. They're even worse than clout chasers. What happened to the anons who wanted to work in the concept art industry? You need goals as an artist, if you just do this shit for a hobby, you're just going to spin wheels forever and make no real projects. I don't think I've ever seen a hobbycel here make anything that isn't just a bunch of unfinished sketchesThat said, social media is in fact cancer.
>>7924140Because whether you like it or not, money = value. If your art makes money, it is by definition, more valuable than art that doesn't. People want to feel valued. Art for art's sake is a meme.
I trace my own photos.
>>7924140Because I can't get a real fucking job. Every time I apply it just goes to some womanPorn comms are the only thing that's getting me fedPeople can't afford to have hobbies that don't pay off anymore
>>7924148>Art for art's sake is a meme.not really, because there is easier, quicker and much better ways to earn money if you apply yourself. trying to make money with art is literally the most stupid thing you could do as your main goal.
a commission was going horribly, really wasn't happy with it, but was out of time, the client loved it, I felt like I'd scammed them.
A long long time ago I stole several wonderful hardcovered books from the public library v.vA beautiful blackbound E.E. cummings collection, a redbound Gertrude Stein, and a purple Steinhauer translation of the Sufferings (yes, his translation uses 'Sufferings' and not sorrows) of young Werther.I don't regret it for a second but I would never do that again.
>>7924166I'd rather be in poverty or low wages making art than to juggle a full time job on top of art. I don't need much money, it's more so the prestige that comes with it and the freed up time
>>7924140you need money to live you retard
>>7924115>This wouldn't bother me too much if it weren't for the undeniable fact that the economy as we know it is going to collapse within the next five years and I'll probably end up starving to death.I'm genuinely shocked that more people aren't terrified of this. The depression is coming and no American adult seems the least bit prepared. Everyone appears to believe the status quo will continue forever despite things already getting worse slowly but surely. We are running out of time
i’ve always sort of hoped to be challenged to draw something, or to post what i mean when i’ve mentioned the subjects i draw, but it doesn’t happen. i requested someone to toss out a challenge a few topics back (the subject: something maybe gestural on guns like grips and things,) but never got a reply. sketching to the void is tough, sometimes.>i’d still love that challenge
>>7924176You can earn money with a mcwagie and still have a hobby, everyone else does
>>7924277"Everyone else" sits and watch mind numbing tv, shovels poison down their gullet, is obese, and near infertile thanks to microplastics and Christ knows what elseAlso as an anon above stated, their days are also numbered
>>7924115This is how most artists feel whether they acknowledge it or not. People just don't like seeing others make money doing something they may enjoy. It's why this board got overrun with hobby copers. It's sour grapes
>>7924298Hobbyists are happier than the crabs of /ic/ because they're too busy working on and enjoying their craft to care if it makes money or not. They're not worried about "Oh no what if I don't have the money, Oh no I need to have the money, daddy monopoly man please I need the money please daddy monopoly man"
>>7924311Anon, it's 2026, everyone is worrying about moneyYou're poor regardless
>>7924314Maybe you're worried about money, I have a job
>>7924311Nah, I make a good 3k a month with Patreon and comms and couldn't be happier
>>7924311>>7924316if your job pays well, then obviously you don't need to worry about money. what point are you trying to make here?
>>7924111Learning to draw makes me weirdly depressed, or at least triggers my depression more often than other activities. Not because of the process or the frustration or anything.And I somehow keep doing it as some kind of self-harm while I'm having suicidal thoughts.And yet the small progress I notice feels fun and fulfilling.I guess it is overall better than just staring at the wall or computer screen when I have these moments.
>>7924115>>7924131Same, but for me it stings because i knew them before they got popular, then they mock me in the DMs.>>7924140Because i want to buy a ps5.
>>7924380it’s the same with me, in everything. it all travels through the pen and onto the page and does surprising, expressive things there.
>>7924111I...dont draw
>>7924144Every time I pick up a stylus I get a different style. My dumbass can’t be consistent.
>>7924111I sketched on paper and....and I traced over it on digital
I tell myself I'm going to learn perspective and backgrounds but I just end up doing woman in void drawings again
>>7924111Believing I could actually learn this.>>7924140How... How do you eat?
>>7924111I... I used a french curve to draw an ellipse correctly
>>7924534imagine the first time you told yourself that. if you stuck to it you'd be making crazy scenes. nothing wrong with a 1girl white_background but you're missing out on so many storytelling opportunities
>>7924115Same
>>7924131Nah, for me it's not jealousy or envy in any form, i'm just tired that i have to be forced to say that anyone drawing titties as the pinnacle of artistry because of internet numbers or money made by appealing to the lowest common denominator and autists being unable to fathom that people have different tastes and keep projecting how everyone not sucking the dicks of anyone "better" than them must be "jealous".It's like normies when they act shocked when you don't go crazy over the new shiny product of the week or that you are not an exact carbon copy of them with the same thoughts, likes and patterns.Am i jealous of rappers singing about gangbanging and selling drugs and owning materials or pop singers singing about having sex with their mom's boyfriends while having an incestuous relationship? No, i just rather listen to videogame soundtracks where i can imagine whole scenarios and stories.Someone that draws better or differently than me is a good source of inspiration and ideas, but somehow idolizing them as the second cumming of anime christ is fucking cringe.
When I look at a drawing, painting, or any piece, I literally do not give a single fuck about the artist.I don't check the name, I don’t look up their socials, I don't care how many followers they have, what their commission prices are. I only look at what's in front of me.What is this image actually trying to say? What feeling is it punching me in the chest with? Is the composition screaming loneliness, rage, quiet joy, or something else?Does the color choice feel honest or is it just trying to look cool?Are the lines hesitant and alive or are they perfect but dead?I treat every piece like it's made by anonymous. Just the work, raw, standing on its own two legs.That's the only way art actually hits.Everything else is just celebrity worship and market circlejerking.
>>7924741>I treat every piece like it's made by anonymous. Just the work, raw, standing on its own two legsThis is proper, actually. So much modern art would be worth shit if critics actually did this.
>>7924268draw me a warhammer 40k space marine riding a trex, bet you can't
>>7924111Using the "throw everything on a wall and see what sticks" mentality. I sketch like a maniac hoping some comprehensible shape would come up.
>>7924143>picwoah ONE's lineart has gotten way cleaner and more consistent , he's also showing much better understanding of foreshortening and forms with genos' arm, it's still very wonky/toony but its nice that even just doing it as a hobby he managed to get his skill up like that
>>7924140I want to make money off what I enjoy doing and I get extremely annoyed when I see big number artists pull the "Why do you want to make money??!! Just draw for you :)" after growing their audience drawing FOTMs and other kinds of fanart, boobs tooI have no idea why Big Number Artists pull that, it's like as soon as they make enough followers to whip out the "Emergency Commission" post they act like it's weird and wrong for smaller artists to want that for themselves too. They get super uppity every time Smaller Artists complain about the obvious lack of support when the Big Number Artists all gather 'round to fame the newest titty artist
>>7924121AI was made for people like you?
Most of the time, I create a reference image in Daz Studio by posing some 3D models. Then I copy it using a grid in a traditional way. In my defence, most of my drawings involve several characters interacting with each other, as well as unusual perspectives.Also, when I sketch digitally, I often use marker brush to "sculpt" the sketch. I find this method quite comfortable.
