Why did so many of you only start drawing later in life?If you wanted to be an artist so bad then why didn’t you draw more as a kid? What was stopping you?
>>7966829I only got inspired to draw because of the internet. Most art I come across in my area are vandalism.
I think it's normal to not take it seriously until you're older but I'm confused by people who, having gone to school, never even doodled as a kid. You're telling me you were stuck in a room all day forced to listen to bullshit you'd never care about or remember in a year's time, and you never did anything else with your hands in those notebooks? Unless you went to some faggy ultra-strict school that'd expel you for "vandalizing" your notebooks and had it beaten out of you early on.
>>7966829I found drawing completely unintuitive on every level, and everyone I asked about how to learn or improve told me that it required intuition/talent and that I should give up, so eventually I did.>>7966861I was always far, far worse than most people my age at drawing, so being asked to draw something as a kid was being asked to publicly humiliate myself. I have the confidence to not care about that sort of thing now, of course, but as a kid I didn't want to open myself up to mockery more than I had to.
Had that awful fugue state of just consooming, mostly gaming, my life away when I suddenly got that creative bug. I'm glad for it since all I want to do now is draw, write and play music more.
>>7966829As a kid I always drew whatever I was inspired by which was always other kids doodles. Later in life I wanted to get more serious because I was inspired by all of the artwork I saw online and my work is still takes after my inspirations. It helps to have friends that you can draw together with and be inspired by.
>>7966829I realize that the game we call life is nonsensical and then we die. So I will commit the ultimate nonsense and create whatever art by drawing music or master defecations on walls
prayer thread
>>7966876Will he ever stop being a permabeg and borderline nodraw
>>7966876I dunno why I keep getting accused of being “Prayer” but I’m not him and I don’t know who he is
>>7966880You're him because only 1) you'd post umamusume images here and 2) your filename links back to /lsg/
>>7966880He is one of the biggest losers in /ic. NGMI incarnate
>>7966829I had no idea what I was doing back then, and no internet to aquire the knowledge.All I had was just manga books and artbooks to study from. If I had internet back then, I probably would have drawn much more.
>>7966883It’s the generic iPhone filename
>>7966880He's the only /adv/ artist in /ic/. That's why he gets so much hatred.
>>7966829Why aren't you drawing more then prayer? You have made like 2 drawings in 2026
>>7966829I actually spent a lot of time in my young doodling shit, all the scrapbooks are full of my ugly drawings. At one point I just stopped because I thought I could abandon it and because I drew ugly. Most of art mine was badly copy of something anyways. I couldn't even feel the form, so I just drew all flat shapes as characters. It was fun, I made a few comic for myself to read here and there.
>>7966829I only started drawing cause of boredom and genuinely being a loner in class
>>7966887No. I don't like him because he thinks he is somehow better than other people here and shit-talks people all the time. When he has only 130 followers after drawing for almost 5 years, despite getting retweeted by two big artists with over 20k followers. Nowadays he is just this egoistical avatar-, blogposting nodraw. He has only regressed over the years. It almost seems he doesn't even care about basic fundies anymore, since the stuff he draws now almost has this prebeg-esque look to them. I've grown tired of his antics
>>7966861I actually did doodle on my worksheets in school and when I was like 13 I even had my own little webcomic that I updated regularly. But I got it into my head VERY early on, by the time I was like 4 or 5, that there were other kids who "could draw" and I "couldn't draw". Something about it just didn't click for me and I never felt the urge to experiment or push myself. So I basically never even tried to draw anything besides stick figures.Learning drawing later as an adult and it seems that kid me was basically correct in his self-assessment, because holy hell do I have anti-talent. It's really hard for me. But I think I can make progress if I keep at it.
>>7966894>he thinks he is somehow better than other people here and shit-talks people all the timeHe doesn't >Nowadays he is just this egoistical avatar-, blogposting nodrawHes not>He has only regressed over the yearsHe hasnt> It almost seems he doesn't even care about basic fundies anymoreHe doesn't care and is very proficient >since the stuff he draws now almost has this prebeg-esque look to them. They dont>I've grown tired of his anticsYou just dont like him and thats ok but to project the fiction in your head and lie is very entertaining
>>7966906Holy nuh uh level counter-argument...
>>7966894> shit-talks people all the timeOnly in retaliation, you really are subu
>>7966886doesn't matter, its him.
>>7966906>He doesn't care and is very proficient*does>>7966910its the nuh uh yin to the yuh uh yang
>>7966906Prayer is such a permabeglet...
>>7966930>>7966929>>7966910samegod
>>7966934You'd like to think that prayerboy
>>7966934I was amending my own statement
>>7966880are you trans?
Prayer humiliation ritual thread...
>>7966955I’ve never actually tried to transition and don’t want to, but I am AGP and I’ve dealt with strong recurring desires of wanting to be a woman my whole life
>>7966971you must be twins
>>7966829I always thought all my life it was a talent thing so I never really bothered trying. Turns out, the talent thing was a pretty damn big lie lol. Anyone can learn to draw, even a retard like me hehehe.
I actually drew a lot as a kid, but it was on and off. I guess I've just alway had that eternal permabeg problem where I can't be happy making mediocre things, but I can't muster the drive to seriously apply myself to study. Every couple of years I give it another go and get a little further than the last, but I still consider myself within the beg-tiers. C'est la vie.
>>7966876That's not me. Please stop bothering other people kudasai.
>>7967051Go draw
>>7966829i didn't draw when i was younger because at the time i was simply unaware of art as a thing outside of silly little doodles to pass the time. now i see art as a means of giving shape to ideas that only exist in the head, and i value it a lot more now.
>>7967078Ah, hai.
>>7966829I didn't start until I was 30, I didn't really even have any interest in art. I just tried it as a way to get my mind out of being stuck in anxiety loops by keeping my thoughts and hands busy. It seems to work so I just stuck with it.
>>7966829My parents didn't support what I wanted to draw and I wanted their approval. My dad only cared about farm stuff, I didn't want to draw farm stuff.My mother was an absentee parent who only paid attention if you were a disappointment. I just stopped caring.It wasn't until much later that I stopped caring about their approval.
>>7966829I don't know. I could give you a sobbing story about the school system, my parents, the neighboorhood, my job, everybody and everything but I being the problem... but looking back, I could have found the time to draw more. I'm probably an NPC and just reacting. My guess is that I did whatever was pushed on me, and drawing would require free will.
>>7967091You won't. stop the cap
>>7967495what did you draw recently
>>7967508Goodes
>>7967508Boinge
>>7967513>>7967516Yeahe...
I would've quit even back when I was a kid, I was worse than all in anything
>>7967987haoki...
>>7966829>Why did so many of you only start drawing later in life?I started at 25 because my then friend was supposed to be the comic artist while I was going to write the comic book but alas he quit art altogether despite being better than most artists in this board.>If you wanted to be an artist so bad then why didn’t you draw more as a kid? I did draw as a kid but I never really wanted to be an artist, still never do tbqh.>What was stopping you?I don't know, maybe the fact I never once had any interest in being an artist, I still don't like drawing, despite being an artist.>>7966861You're probably a Murican, there's no way you would think like that otherwise.At the very least you're a pampered first worlder.You probably browse Redd*t too.
>>7968025I'm from a rural slavic shithole so I have no idea how you arrived at that conclusion. Enjoy continuing to hate drawing and the rest of your life I guess.
>>7968025I browse reddit. What's wrong with that?
>>7966971oh no no no
>>7966829I did a draw along YouTube video with my kids and realized I'm pretty good. This coincided perfectly with life kicking my ass so now I use drawing to express myself.
>>7968025Pyw your work and your friend's work so Prayer can rate it for us. Isn't that right, Casval?
>>7966911Tesla desu
>>7966829i did draw a lot as a kid, in elementary, middle school, highschool and somewhat afterwards.then i went and went exploring in the real world, hiking, camping, raising animals, working on various hobbies.now that i've returned to drawing, i'm a little better at it, having real world refrences to compare to.you'd be surprised how well living outside of a box helps with your art.here's one of my pictures for reference>he's a little guy
>>7966829I started drawing consistently in high school but I stopped mainly because I had college courses and a job eating up most of my free time, and also due to lacking confidence in my drawing ability. I felt like I wasn't able to ever become a "good artist" mainly because I didn't have an existing pathway or support that could help me improve. I picked up drawing four years later and I've been drawing consistently for about two, three years? I'm not as good as I want to be, but I'm seeing improvement and I like where things are going. I pretty much had to self-teach myself how to learn how to draw and the results have been satisfying. Whenever I have the opportunity, I tell the kids I work with about how to improve at drawing.Seeing behind the curtain does take away the mystique, but quite frankly I think making the act of creating art into a mysterious performance does a lot more harm than good.All you have to do is just grind shapes and forms for a month, then draw from life and use references. And by "use" references, I mean applying the exercises and techniques found in DRSB, Cognitive Drawing (or Memory Drawing, whichever one), the Art and Science of Drawing, the Natural Way to Draw, and the Art of Responsive Drawing:>blind (pure) contours>observe ref, hide ref and draw from memory, then copy the ref>trace the ref and focus on how things connect>break down the ref into shapes and forms>draw ref upside down>negative space and positive space drawings>draw ref from memory multiple times from various anglesAnd that's it. That's literally ALL you need to do.
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>>7968173>Seeing behind the curtain does take away the mystiqueyou didn't see behind anything, you were spiritually cauterized.
>>7968179Typical gatekeeper. The Wizard is just a man. The real power lies within us all, you just need to be aware of that and find the tools to make it a reality.
>/lsg/ tards broke containment again
