Taking a break? Drink some water, do some stretches, share some thoughts.Just keep them art related.This is a thread for venting about and discussing your own personal drawing-related issues. Please keep posts on topic. Do not discuss community drama, do not like to twitter threads, and do not discuss non-art topics.Previous: >>8015508
>>8022774Sometimes, I think about the absurd amount of art that has been made, is currently being made and will keep being made and it makes me feel that sharing my own work is a bit redundant. Like carrying wood to a forest. I suppose social media makes this worse. Before the internet, you'd see less art, more "local", and whatever you sought out in books and magazines and exhibitions and such. But with social media, you can see the endless amount of art you can scroll through - and it seems like a lot of people are interested in drawing today, too. It feels like a dump that people just keep throwing more stuff into. I have this silly thought, that it would be interesting if humanity could agree to stop making/sharing their art for a few years, just so it could look through and appreciate all the stuff that has already been made. I bet that just for the past year, enough art has been uploaded online that if nothing more was made for a few years, it wouldn't even make a difference.Well, I guess the "solution" would be making and consuming art on a more personal level. I really like the drawings my friends make, even though there are so many others out there. Maybe what I am more bothered by is a feeling of alienation, anonymity, like all art is just feeding some kind of content monster. Though, that's a pretty obvious thought. Who knows, maybe this is just a stage in my development to become a truly "ensouled" artist lol.
>>8022808gay writing style>>8022774i cant come up with good shit
>>8022808That's just the way social media twisted interactions. Grab your wood, drop it in the forest and hope it catches fire.
>>8022808There are plenty of opportunities for local and more personal stuff. Most of my gifts to family members are artworks. My friend directs community plays; I've been working on the sets for years (backdrops, signs, props, etc.). Kids and their friends put up a homemade display at a nearby fair two days ago. It is full of their drawings, and they built the 8' diorama. Next week, I have a painting going up in a nearby museum for a month. I'm not a museum-class painter by any stretch. The museum handed out verses from a town poetry group and small canvases. I paint one and bring it back. My daughter teaches a small variety of one-off classes at our library: drawing figures, bookbinding, polymer clay figurines. You don't need to look hard to find this stuff.If you need a simple excuse to show people you know your artwork, print up a set of your own Christmas cards this year. Or Halloween. Doesn't matter, people love receiving this nonsense.I did feel your own sense of redundancy recently during Artfight. Generally, though, 4chan is the closest I get to social media.
>>8022808All my inspirations are from at the latest early 2010's. There are many internet artists that you'd always hear about, wl0p, guiweiz etc. Will there be a new generation of artists whose work is appreciated like that? Also artists drew fan art but it was from games and shows now everyone is drawing vtumors and gacha shit. Will anyone remember these games and characters that are from bottom up designed to titillate retarded coomers
In regards to japanese art and media in general, I realized I actually hate over the top character designs and I like the character designs of stuff like JJK, Kagurabachi, and CSM over something like My Hero Academia ,Gachiakuta, Soul Eater or most JRPGs. Don't get me wrong, the character designs in both are great for the shows they're in. Superheroes and fantasy characters need to stand out after all.But if Denji had super spikey hair or the devil hunters wore outlandish fashion, Chainsaw Man probably wouldn't have worked as well as it did.It's the fact that they are grounded and "basic" character designs that they paint a picture of pseudo-realism. Well, as real as you can get when they are around fighting bizarre looking demons.
Hate to say it, but I like opening the useless dating app on my Ipad and drawing the random occasional hot women I find. It's difficult to explain but I kinda dig the feeling of knowing that these people actually exist a few kilometers from here. it makes them feel more 'real'. It's something you don't get from the random women in threads on this site or the wider internet.
I went to message my alt on twat and sure enough I was on spam along with bot accounts. X thinks I'm a bot... that explains the abysmal engagements despite using hashtags. How do I undo this without selling my soul?
>>8022971I don't really care about zoomer anime or manga cause japan obviously can't draw anymore.Over designed, Simple designs, it makes no difference anymore. They all look like dogshit , Modern anime and manga is dogshit. Is it even drawn anymore? It just looks like a diarrhea of CGI effects on top of a dogshit settei / keyframes
>>8022774i like to post my art on deviantart because it's one of the very few art places that isn't a blogposting hellhole like twitter/bluesky or a dedicated primarily to anime porn or furfags.but i swear that half of the users post nothing but memes about the culture wars or basically just memes. one person who keeps showing up on my feed just asks an AI chatbot questions and uploads screenshots of the reply. i honestly prefer the mspaint drawings of antifurries fighting furries in roblox made by gen alpha more interesting.probably doesn't help that i really like poking the bear every now and then. got a bunch of replies on my page from haters.
>>8022808you need to focus your art on something niche. there's thousands of people drawing big tiddy anime girls. how many people are drawing cutaway illustration of cars?
