I've always wanted to try and learn how to do art, always thought artists were cool and always thought art was amazing. For some reason I added around like a retard and never actually bothered to try. I finally do, at 30, and I offer to make a character a friend has after encouragement from a bunch of anons.I spend what feels like forever on this and it ends up looking like dogshit. A child would have drawn something better. And I'm fucking 30. Do I just have the opposite of talent? If my life is half over should I stick to just doing nothing meaningful as I always have? I saw someone else also draw this character in the same amount of time as I did and it actually looks amazing, my garbage looks offensive in comparison.
>>7979261You're 30 years old, stop acting like a baby. Surely you've learned a skill as an adult and got better at something before. Unless you are retarded, you can improve.Just try again. If you can make every drawing 1% better, you can get decent in a couple of months. Compare your drawing to the better one and pick something to improve.
>>7979266Nope. Pretty much everything I'm good at I started learning when I was 15 or younger. Cooking, soldering, working with computers were all things I started when I was a kid.That being said, I'm absolutely disgusted by the eyes. If I wanted to fix anything, it's that.
>>7979261From what you wrote, it sounds like you drew just for 1 day.The act of drawing requires several years.>>7979266>you can get decent in a couple of monthsOnly very talented people can.
>>7979289depends on what you consider decentdecent enough to see progress and want to keep going is what I meant
>>7979261>I spend what feels like forever on this
>>7979261well, try again
>i try, i failedso did everyone on this board. thats what art is about. if you genuinely cant learn by yourself GET A MENTOR. you dont even need a course that lasts years, just sign up for a basic one and youll be fine
>>7979261Keep grinding and copy
>>7979261I'm not gonna lie to you, you don't have talent. You might be able to get pretty good with lots of work though.
>>7979261dont listen to the schizos in this thread. This is normal for the first drawing you seriously attempted. Most normies never get to this point because they're afraid of trying and "failing". You didn't fail btw, you drew something from your soul and worked hard at it, that's an achievement. You expected it to look better because you didnt know what it takes to draw something. The secret is adults draw the same as children, there is no such thing as untrained adults drawing better than untrained children. It's just a mental block people have to maintain their sanity in this world as they waste half their life working and paying taxes.
>>7979261Eeeh you'll get better eventually. I started at 29 and i can shit out slop like this after a year and a half. Note that ive been pretty lazy and have jumped between styles and subject multiple times so if you apply yourself just a little bit you will surely be far better in no time.
>>7979379While I drew for almost a decade and still I can't understand the form. It's over...
>>7979261I started at 30, you'll be fine
>>7979591I can't either desu i just use refs
>>7979591What is "the form?" Everyone always says the term but no one can explain waht it is...
>>7979664Let's say that if you understand it, you will draw things in 3D and in perspective, instead of something flat and symbolized
>>7979668How do you draw things in 3D if the paper is 2D?Ah, I think I get it, kinda. I was drawing something, and I started to feel that it was correct like I could imagine the 3D shape. Well, maybe "feel" is something that's hard to quantify.
>>7979261I think you should give up. I bet your brain doesnt process visual information at 100%. Theres probably other things youre good at thats unrelated to visual perception. Think back to your childhood and the things you liked to do. Art isn't your path
>>7979699>artYou mean illustration? Artistry is WAY more than just drawing. Music is art, film directing is art, and so much more. Perhaps his path is in art after all, even if not in illustration.
>>7979379tokyo ghoul inspired or just generic summon shit with the diamonds overher head?
>>7979331do mentors even exist
>>7979716Sure. Youre right. I should say visual arts. Good call
>>7979721Nope. Anyone worth your time ironically doesn't have the time to mentor you because they're too busy doing cool things.
>>7979733I'm generalizing and there are always exceptions to every rule. But highly skilled people are often also very busy people. So it's very difficult to find a mentor who can pass down anything valuable to you, unless you are truly a beginner with zero knowledge, in which case you'll find plenty of mentors but you'll outgrow them very quickly. One other note: I have noticed that valuable mentors are very busy, and they value their time, so you have to be someone who is serious and able to demonstrate that they're not going to waste their time by mentoring you.
>>7979261You'll never be as skilled as someone who started early (like me), but you can achieve a hobbyist level if you don't listen to the advice given here and watch that guy piew diepie videos and copy his method.
I'm so tired of retards whining about how a child could've done it better. Children are absolute dog shit at drawing. Only those who keep at it until they stop being retarded and focus a big chunk of their youth on improving the skill actually make it.
>>7979261If you want to improve at drawing, you need to do it in a logical way. Spend a week just drawing lines and then spend another drawing shapes. Spend two weeks grinding forms.Then grab a copy of DRSB and do the exercises.
>>7979261Keep trying and failing for a few years and not a few hours. Also don't bother comparing yourself to others. You have no talent, so learning will take you significantly longer than average. You're in good company though, many people here don't have talent. Just don't expect to draw anything decent for the next 5-10 years. It will be a hard and slow grind, but you will improve.
