>dedicate entire day to drawing
>nobody bothering me
>its a nice sunny day and I have my youtube videos ready
>turn on drawing program
>get a migraine
fuck

>not getting anywhere with my creative pursuits due to wokring 60-hour weeks
>decide to focus on leaving this shitty job
>life throws tragedies at me whenever I'm close to quitting
>since I work with my dad and older sister, those tragedies do affect things at work, forcing me to stay
I must be cursed or something.

>>7853546
Don't quit unless you already have a solid next step.

>>7853546
I’m trying to quit too to pivot but the people along the chain aren’t moving shit along, trapping me at the job longer.

I'm stuck looking for ways to practice while still making art. I need exercises.

>be me on twitter
>only post art
>only like art
>only follow artists
>not american
>be twitter algorithm
>see me
>show me only american politics
thank you musk, very cool

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This is me after 1 hour of drawing

Hello everyone, first I hope you are doing alright.
And second, while I am not exactly proud of my art last year, I still felt I did some progress in one or two things.

Also haven't been there for a very long time.

>>7854129
>I’m trying to quit too to pivot but the people along the chain aren’t moving shit along, trapping me at the job longer.

mind showing me what you've drawn during that hour please ?

I’m going to finish uni in 4 months or so. I really need to make it with my drawings because there are no jobs in my field of study. Any ideas on how to make it in such a short time? Make a comic and hope that people subscribe to my Patreon? Do commissions? I really dislike to sell myself so desperately but I really don’t want to be a wageslave.

>draw for an hour
>brain is out of memory
>sit for 2 hours doing nothing
>draw for another hour
>brain is out of memory
>sit for two hours doing nothing

there has to be a better way to do things

>>7854367
More like
>draw for 5 minutes
>doomscroll for 1 hour
>draw for 5 minutes
>doomscroll for 1 hour
>regret when it’s time to sleep
>repeat

Watched one artist’s video where he mentioned that a picture with good form and no rendering looks better than a picture with beautiful rendering and bad form. And I realized that’s me, I’m a permabeg but I’ve always been practicing art with that mindset. Get good at basic drawing first ——> learn rendering at some point in the distant future ???

>>7853931
Take the blue(sky) pill

>>7854414
yes

>>7854367
You last more than me.
I also get sluggish and depressed when I realize I performed badly for my studies or for my drawings, which makes me waste more time.

>>7854378
>>7854367
how do you stop this?

>feels like I'm getting worse again

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>/fyi/
>/cgsg/ (formerly /cbsg/)
>/lsg/
>/alt/
>/draw/
you know I'm beginning to think it's just trolls drawing lines in the sand at this point.

/cbsg/ got pulled apart into three seperate threads for no reason.
what even is the difference between /draw/ and /alt/ at this point? I know they're old threads but genuinely what's the point of this seperation?
It just feels like an already small community is being divided with no actual benefit

>>7854414
>>7854451
I worry I’m taking the opposite extreme and not really learning any rendering until my basics are unbesmirchable

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>>7855713
/ic/ used to be conceptart.org for autistic people. primary goal of /ic/fags was to make it as either a videogame artist or card illustrator. the advice from pretty much every working professional or educator up until like 2016 was 'anime is a /beg/trap, you need a classical realist skillset or you're ngmi'
learning resources were significantly worse back then too so people also used to come to this board for actual crits & advice and not just asspats and the animefags in /draw/ got tired of being told to stop drawing anime when they posted anything so they created an anime general

I'm currently sad and lonely. I can't do art when I'm sad and lonely. So I just scream at the void that is 4chan instead. I'm breaking down even though I'm on the verge of getting back up. When I'm sad, everything seems hopeless.
Sorry for the blog post

>>7855742
i love you, just another lurker here, but you’re not alone. i hope things will get better for you, soon.

>>7855762
Thank you, I love you too

>>7855713
>/cbsg/ got pulled apart into three seperate threads for no reason.
>three
?

After several years, I was thinking of opening my first Twitter and BlueSky accounts, but I have a feeling that my best online friend is going through a tough time. I suspect that his mother may have cancer. It seems wrong to me to open an account when he's going through such a difficult time, especially since he's on Twitter and some of my drawings are based on his writings.

there's a character I want to draw but there's not a ton of references of her so I'm a bit apprehensive on drawing her

This is a very specific problem but
>want to increase drawing output
>have background in data science
>idea: do statistical analysis of danbooru posts to generate drawing ideas
>make program that does that
>it's very useful, am going to improve it further
>can't post about it publicly because twitter artists are so sensitive about AI/data scraping
I'm going kind of stir crazy because this is my current main coding project & I'm gonna keep refining it, but I don't have anyone to talk about it with because I know I'll get bitched at if I try to.
Maybe I'll repurpose it into something I can sell to consumers instead of artists once I feel like it's got all the features I want for my own purposes

>>7855896
fyi is just cbsg with more steps
if your characters are too skinny or small you get kicked out if cgsg to lsg (even if it isn't a shota)
>>7855731
all I'm saying is at this point there's no real difference, the split is just legacy
pick 10 pieces blind from each thread, shuffle them, then try to put them back I guarantee you will struggle
NO MORE BROTHER WARS

drawing is minimum 2 hours of work, when I only have an hour or so of free time, I just sit and do ntohign because I can't draw and I threw away all my time wasting copes.

>>7855713
>>7856020
>complaining about containment threads
Who cares? The catalog is big enough for all of /ic/ generals to exist and board culture has long since shifted to having specific topic threads about 5 years ago. You're not putting the toothpaste back in the tube.

>>7853396
When it's time to recognize that you have to give up?

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It's okay to take a break when you feel like you need it right?

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I'm trying to get back into using paint.

Also, why isn't there a /sfw/ general?

>>7856365
Jack Money anon! Haven't seen you in a while.

>>7856395
I know, I keep getting sidetracked and not working on any comics. I'll probably post a new Anon Jump before I work on my stuff

>>7856398
Oh so you're the one making those? That's nice. Take your time.

>>7856402
Nah you guys make em, I'm just the editor.

lately i haven't been able to play watch read draw anything despite having tons of free time, i wonder if it's an adhd thing

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>Finally get a request that isn't from a scam profile
>"Uhhh... can it be for free? :3"

>>7856885
What's your genre and brand?

>>7856544
What are you doing instead?

>>7856885
I'm curious, what do messages from the scam ones look like?

>>7856890
You mean the type of cotent I make? I draw anime girls, but I can draw anything else. I'm not really taking comms anymore though.

>>7856900
They just DM you like usual but their profile is recent and there's nothing on it. On DeviantArt they usually get deleted soon.

>>7855919
>some of my drawings are based on his writings

you wouldnt have that problem if you wrote your own shit you uncreative loser

>>7856892
nonstop jerking

>>7854414
while your at it, try putting on socks before shoes

>vertical trends are only available to old verified and blue check accounts
Fuck I just spent an hour and a half on a drawing only to find that out.

>>7856921
Is twitter the only site you post to?

>>7854749
>>7854378
>>7854367
Seems like you guys don't actually enjoy drawing. If your able to lock-in on a video game or a movie for multiple hours, then its not some sort of ADHD/autism problem.

>>7855919
you can just be original you know
you can do more than one thing in the same time period you know

>>7856916
>>7857047
I don't understand why you're angry. I made some drawings for a friend, inspired by his writing, as a gift. They don't represent even a small part of all my drawings. I'm simply worried about what he might be going through, and I'm afraid of doing something insensitive.

>>7856945
Videogames don't require energy. They are relaxing.
Drawing is like going to gym, working or running.

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>>7857091

>>7857115
Yea, you don't enjoy drawing. Pack it up anon.

>>7857165
nta but I enjoyed drawing when I first started, but not anymore. PYW if you don't mind

>>7857173
also nta but I was the same. drawing was a lot of fun when I first started but I got bored of it. I think it's just because eventually you start to draw similar things after a while

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>Want to draw a sexy female character
>Not -actually- that turned on by women
>I just like this character and she's sexy, so I want to draw her sexy
What a predicament...
I spent quite a lot of time just drawing guys but I'm trying to "branch out" more. It's kinda hard to draw without my horniness guiding me though

>>7857115
Words form reality, you should be careful what you say or especially what you write.
I get you, but also not all drawing has to be hard. You likened it to hitting the gym but you don't have to be sprinting every session... Take a walk sometimes.
In this case when you come to unwind start doodling. Just sketches, zero pressure. "Waste the paper". Eventually you'll stop associating art with negative emotions even when it's difficult.

>mention WEF in a shitpost tweet
>whole account gets buried when typing it into search
>remove tweet
>all my tweets are restored
Jesus christ what a shit platform

>>7857567
whats wef

>>7853931
change your settings to another country and that all goes away

>>7855731
those were the good days. Funny that ot took me 9 more years to actually draw

>>7855742
for me it's the opposite. I draw because I am depressed about being single. It's very therapeutic.

>>7857567
you will NOT question klaus schwab
you WILL use ai to assist your drawings
you WILL eat the bugs

>>7858215
when will you fags update your NPC programming, the bald kraut isn't even in charge anymore, it's some norwegian now

>>7858254
The message is the same and klaus is still alive.

>>7858254
>this mad over a shitpost
i sincerely apologize

Putting down the first strokes of colors for interiors is beyond stressful. I never know until at least 15 minutes later if the walls are ok or if they are not and by extension the whole piece is going off.

>>7858507
if you're doing digital you can work non-destructively so you can adjust things more easily
if trad you can do a small color study first

I really need to read scientific papers and prepare my final thesis to finish my degree (not art), but instead I procrastinate by putting together an art supply kit for a friend (who draws mostly digitally) + coming up with a versatile palette of Polychromos pencils specifically for her that she'd enjoy using. I'm quite satisfied with the 9 pencils I've selected, and I will draw something for her using this palette before the end of the month.

How do YOU overcome art block? For context, I work full time and just came back from a convention weekend. Maybe it’s just being tired from cosplaying and being on my feet all weekend, but I’m not feeling the pull to draw as much as I usually do (despite actually wanting to draw, somehow), and when I do, the results aren’t satisfactory to me.

I can never catch up.

>>7858682

You can never catch up.

>>7853931
I use two extentions for Twitter.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/
This will make sure you will only see the tweets by the ones you follow. You won't even see their retweets.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitter-origifier/
This automatically shows the image at the original resolution whenever you open it in full window.

>thank you musk, very cool
Pretty sure it has always worked like this before.

>>7854414
>Take the blue(sky) pill
Same garbage. Surely not better.

Has anybody else found themselves growing to dislike high contrast in values in paintings now? I think my brain has started to associate it with cheap and low quality because a lot of AI slop has overblown highlights and crushed darks. I've seen a shift in my own art towards tighter and more subtle value ranges

>>7858724
No, if anything I think AI's problem is washed out lighting and not integrating the chacter shading with the background shading very well

>>7853396
guys how do i get my passion back

>>7855713
you know how our government prints more money to stimulate the economy? we print more boards here to stimulate the boardconomy

>>7858724
>I've seen a shift in my own art towards tighter and more subtle value ranges
AI may have made it inconvenient to execute on top of now being associated with AI slop, but I'm not going to let it influence my style. I leave my old drawings with shit colors up as a way to show I've been trying to color like this way before AI. I remind myself that I'm on the right track by looking at pre-AI high contrast saturated artwork

>>7858869
I don't think that saturation is a bad thing, I actually embrace it but create room for my midtones to breathe in the smaller ranges I'm working in. You can have extreme saturation and beautiful colors while limiting the values you work within. To me the large value ranges and contrast in values looks too tacky now. I don't want to say it's my eye maturing or anything condescending like that because taste is subjective, it's just something I've been noticing as I look back at my earlier work

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>>7858852
I saw this funny drawing again at it invigorated my passion for drawing, again. i was in a 2 month period of not drawing before seeing this. so reconnect with your muse.

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I'm beginning to realize why I hate drawing video game characters from 3D games
It's cuz the designers only had to draw a turnaround in A-pose and could add as much shit and lines and greebles for the modeler to put in...

It just doesn't work when doing 2D fanart/illustrations because it's too complex, but omitting a lot of these details kinda ruins the impression of the character...

Starting to practice with a pen after using a pencil and eraser for so long is extremely humbling

>>7853602
at the home stretch almost there and I can begin my true solo leveling without a 9 to 5 in the way

Don't stream if you're just going to go AFK for hours on end

>>7859727
But that's literally the strategy that every big streamer uses. What's that guy's name? Diker? Hasson Diker? Just streams his chair

>>7859730
>Just streams his chair

My God don't get me started with those women who just turn on their phone and point the camera to their wall while simps donate. Hundreds of viewers too. Must be all botted. But no, I keep going on streams just to see people leave it afk. I think every site that isn't twitch is low quality and I'm realizing that now. With Twitch, there is barely any AFK from the cream of the crop on the top results.

>>7859743
pixiv sketch was great before they killed it

>>7859747
Yes primarily because of the NSFW. There really isn't a better alternative at the moment without having to wade through furries and people watching King of the Hill.

Finally started to get commissions. Never really could've pictured this back when I started drawing in 2016 or picking it up again for good in 2023, all it really took was find a niche and post on twitter. Not anywhere near being able to earn any decent money but now I know I'm atleast capable of it. Big plus that is also has lead to some art improvements too.

>>7859778
>find a niche
porn?
god I'd do anything to avoid that fate myself but this is a huge achievement/milestone. congratulations

>>7859888
Naw, never been much of a porn art guy even if I've drawn the odd picture here and there it isn't something I've shared online. My niche are certain fandoms and character/Oc drawings. Thank you anon, I hope you achieve some of your art goals this year too.
Also nice trips

i've been drawing 5 hours a day for a couple days now, and been trying really hard to draw with oout a draft sketch and free hand everything, feel like im close but yet so far

>>7859933
>didn't have to compromise either
all the more reason to be more happy about your achievement. If that's not a sign of starting to "make it" then I don't know what is.

>Well it wasn't wrong now was it?

>>7860601
who are you quoting

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>>7860602

>>7854451
>>7855725
I feel like I typed that wrong, what I meant was that I’ve been practicing form over rendering and still don’t know anything abt rendering cuz I instinctively figured a plain black and white sketch with good form will look better than a crappy drawing with great colouring

>>7856351
it genuinely depends on if it's a real fatigue wave from actually working for hours, or if its just adhd disinterest manifesting as pseudo fatigue after like 5 minutes

You guys ever use that shader assist in CSP? Seems kinda cool.

>>7861103
nah it sucks

>>7858971
I'm still waiting for this, nothings inspiring me at the moment and I can't draw if I'm not inspired. I don't doomscroll or watch anime either since I gave it all up to draw..... I just do nothing....

>>7859727
we're in the advertiser money era. Maknig actual content is bad business, the only thing that matters is people seeing ads and mega corporations paying people to trick people into seeing ads.

>>7858215

weak bait, the WEF is the most likely group to insist that you give up on learning to draw the real way and use cloud-based subscription AI slop instead.

>>7861051
The only way I know how to beat this is to put on a random interesting video to watch then mindlessly doodling on the canvas for 5 to 10 minutes until I force my brain to understand drawing is good and it's time to draw. It doesn't make me draw better or anything but if I need to Just Draw it works. I guess it tricks my brain into skipping the pseudo-fatigue disinterest phase by associating the task with something I'm already interested in

>>7861153
what sucks about it?

>>7861271
it's a shitpost man, calm down. it's wct of all places, take a chill pill

I’m currently in a relationship and although I spend a lot of time with my significant other not drawing, I’ve never drawn this much since many years. I wish you all anons to find a muse.

>>7861595
fuck you you non virgin, never post here again bitch

vgen is currently catching shit for taking a cut out of tips by calling them "boosts" that don't actually help you get on the front page.
always had a feeling that site was shady.

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saw this youtuber show art from students that where thrown in the trash, a grim reminder to shread artwork you don't never want eyes to gaze upon

>>7853396
>enter in a flow state for several minutes
>it rarely happens
>suddently hit by strong hunger
>resist to it for only 15 minutes

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>close eyes
>can sort of see pose
>go to draw it
>slop, slop, slop
>realize how much i need to know that i don't know
>scared to "Draw"
>go study only
i want to draw but to be able to draw i have to study and my studies feel like slop. i feel like this and that .gif of the blue face shrinking up

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You guys got any good art youtubers

>>7861873
I just enjoy reading art books more than actually trying to learn from them. I used to crap on Scott Robertson for his unnecessary techniques on perspective but now I'm actually enjoying reading his how to book.

>>7861886
>good art
>YouTuber
Pick one

I think I'm going to quit this place for good. I started coming here because I have no artist friends IRL and hoped to enjoy the motivation and inspiration that come with talking about your craft with others. Most other forums are highly censored, are hugboxes and/or require a song and dance to join. So, here I am.

But this place is depressing. The same retarded, throwaway topics, over and over. In the threads where people actually draw, it's 95% the most hideous shit imaginable. I don't even mean just in terms of skill, as that would be forgivable. I mean it's the most disgusting, tasteless, porn-brained shit imaginable — AND it's drawn poorly. I'm not a prude, but this place could be exhibit A in the case for banning porn. Also, pedos have their own generals, which are the most active of all on the boards. I don't know what goes on in those generals because I've never looked.

Then there's anime. I like anime and manga well enough. I appreciate the skill it takes to draw it well. But anime is not a lifestyle/sexual orientation. So many of the posts here give off "bedroom filled with anime toys, empty Doritos bags and Coke cans on the floor, sex doll on the bed, mom knocking at the door to tell you it's time to eat" vibes. You're supposed to be 18 or older to post here.

FWIW, I've tried to answer questions and provide actually helpful advice to people here, and have occasionally even been thanked for it. But the people here who are genuinely interested in learning to draw, and aren't absolute schizos, seem to be a tiny minority. It's too bad. The internet needs something like this, but with a benevolent dictator to act as gatekeeper.

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>>7861989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcaVFBB4aHg
I found this guy recently and I like his content a lot

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Trying to accept that I'm ass because maybe admission will allow me to be better.

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>>7853396
Trying to draw from life and having it turn out terribly despite drawing for years is really eating away from me. I still want to push through though.

>>7862298
What are you drawing, anon?

>>7862161
reddit might be more your speed, they like western style art more there.

how do you guys draw every day? I'm tired of using psychological tricks like waking up and immediately drawing, or telling myself that I'm just drawing for 5 minutes. I have to spend hours psyching myself up to draw because I'm paying time and energy for happiness which I can get in easier ways. Money is a good motivator to draw though.

If I had infinite money I would just sleep forever and never talk to anyone. Or give it all to my family and then kill myself.

>>7862452
There are things I want to create and I need to be a decent artist to do it. and I feel strongly enough about it to keep me from ever dropping art.
Small things here and there actually keep be going daily.

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>>7862452

sticky notes.

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>>7862551
lol. the resolution is small, but by golly I can practice animation too

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>stylus replacement order is stuck under review
It never began for wacomcels

i hear the rats dying from the poison :(

man I could be a really good fucking artist and absolutely decimate these dudes on twitter one fucking thing i have to fix in my life then I can go all out

Oh shit I think I figured out a neat trick to draw scenes from imagination thanks to a shitpost tweet. I gotta try it for a couple of days but if it works I want Coloso to shoot me an offer and I’ll spill the beans.

>>7862452
>I'm paying time and energy for happiness which I can get in easier way
Remove most other methods of happiness

>>7861886
https://www.youtube.com/@akihitoyoshitomi3758

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I've lost interest in pretty much every idea I've come up with no matter how small and 'manageable' I've tried to make them. I wanted to so badly make a comic, small game, or any form of story last year but now everything I daydream about I stop and think "Wait a minute, this sucks." and it never goes anywhere.
I'm disappointed in my characters and artstyle and pretty much my entire art journey up to this point and don't feel like doing anything more than scribbles because I don't see myself every improving or being able to do the kind of art I do want to make. I have no idea if I'm depressed or something.

>>7863507
you have not earned the right to feel bad about it until you push through, actually complete a project, and reflect on it

>>7863507
so learn how to make good shit

>work hard on a drawing for hours
>it sucks
>sketch something in ten minutes
>its amazing
fuck this shit

>>7861620
>the grid
nigga was drawing with the right side of his brain

>>7863633
>work hard on drawing
>have a goal in mind
>sketch something
>low standards
Easy

>>7863633
I've realized for myself that this is usually due to me fucking up something with the pose early on and it not being salvageable, vs with the low effort drawings where you usually do whatever pose comes naturally to you

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>>7853396
I keep on waiting for the day one of my drawings get reposted/shared in some random post I didn't expect seeing. It will be the happiest day of my life.

>>7854151
are you in EU

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Fuark. I should have made an art account back when I was still a noob, even if I was not gonna use it or upload shitty drawings to it. Huge mistake, old accounts now a days are worth it's weight in gold because of the account creation date.

>draw until my brain hurts
I think that means I'm improving

>>7862452
I love video games so much that I am sad with the state of where video game is, even the indies. I always been a technical guy and always wanted to make a video game. At first I tried doing the programming side of things but I think someone could do a better job than me. So, I tried tackling the art and story department. While I think I will never be as good as I hope, I just need to draw the basic idea or be good enough and hopefully I could later pitch the idea somewhat. That is my motivation, just to be able to do good enough for the things that matter to me which is vidya.

Even if I will never get to my dream, doing art has allowed some sort of introspection or observation about my surroundings. It made me realize how nice everything is. So my advice is try to connect the art that you do with like a larger goal or what you want to do in life. Simpl things such as being able to gift a friend your drawing works well for me in the past.

>>7864273
I think you're getting a blood clot

Spent the whole day working on what is supposed to eventually be a relatively complex yuri drawing, using manually posed 3D models as loose reference because I have no idea what I'm doing. It's only been a month since I started drawing at all, so this is not going to work. Won't stop me.

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I've regressed not because I've forgotten how, but because I no longer have the energy.

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whenever i’m faced with my own shiteness it really does help to stumble across something like picrel from an artist i admire. it really does come down to a ton of good practice huh

>>7864697
I'm experiencing the opposite right now.
>Draw
>Think I did a pretty good job
>Take a break, scroll on xitter
>See art that mogs mine
>No longer want to continue the drawing

Normally good art motivates me but sometimes it's just a reminder.

another day spent scrolling and not drawing. I dont even remember what I looked at, but if I start drawing now that's gonna be at least an hour of warming up to fight the brainfog.

>>7864658
This is really cool though, I like the effect you went for a ton.

>>7862161
I agree but at the same time this is 4chan. It's mostly populated by retards and the rest is trolls. I'm not sure why you are looking for a genuine connection on a shitpost site. Also art is a very singular journey and each person has their own goals. Your paths may cross but they will ultimately diverge. When you spend so long dedicating yourself to a craft, you begin to have expectations of others. However, there is nothing that guarantees others will meet those expectations. /ic/ is also, or at least, was born of a large chunk of users who wanted to work in video games and movies, and therefore props up mainly digital art and pinup stuff. It's not really a place for someone who wants to pursue painting.

today was one of those days where It felt like I forgot everything I've been practicing this past week. shit sucks

>those 15 seconds of silence as CSP loads and your tablet starts up, holding freezeing your pc

>The full price of the course is $297

Oh fuck off. Can we get a groupbuy going for the Oridays class launching tomorrow? Where is the video course thread?

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>>7865565
Oh his course is finally releasing? It's been hyped so much, I can hardly wait! As for the video course thread, it fell off page 11 a while ago, guess no one noticed.

>>7865565
or just get any coloso course to get the same thing by actual pros and not int grifter

>>7865599
That's more than likely the course creator himself
And the other guy is also him

>>7865602
No I'm not you fool. I saw his email because I'm on the "waitlist" and that's what pissed me off.

>"I'm going to draw today"
>psych myself up for hours by doing nothing and staring at my tablet
>draw for 2 hours until I finish something (minimum time if I rush)
>its bad because I rushed
>I'm still mentally exhausted
>doomscroll for 3 hours after to make up for it
theres gotta be another way to get better without drawing for hours. Every day I have less and less stamina to give

>>7864697
and how are you suppose to do a ton of good practice when you're bad, huh?

I'm no good for anything else anymore I draw because it's the only thing I'm good at that didn't deteriorate when I ruined my own life

>>7865988
Most people aren't good at anything, so being good at one thing doesn't sound so bad.

Just need to vent. Magic the gathering is such a bad game. Such a waste of time.

>>7865565
So it's not just me, huh? I was really looking forward to his course, but that price tag fucking destroyed me. Fingers crossed we make it work somehow.

>>7866135

Would you guys be interested if I created a group buy? I've done it one time on this board a few years ago for an art station course, surprisingly people trusted me enough and I delivered immediately.

>>7866197
I am willing to pay.
But how do you handle payments?

>>7866238
I just used paypal the last time. How it worked was we gathered a few dozen people then divided the amount of people in the group by the price. So each person may have paid $10 (I don't remember, but it wasn't much).

wait a min...
>99 concise lessons
>8+ hours of teaching material
>$297
that seems rather off...and if we remove the fluff chapter on "motivation" and box rotation (all free on youtube) that drops the duration. There's 13-14 chapters so dividing the time we get about 40 minutes each chapter.

That's about the same amount of time as a regular coloso video. Eeeeeeeeeehhhhh nevermind.

>>7866255
It's $267 with the newsletter discount, but yeah, that's still way too expensive.
Ideally, we'd find 4 or 5 anons willing to chip in, because anything less would feel like a scam.

>>7866197
I am also interested, for what it's worth.

2026 not looking good. Another dental filling fell out. Maybe I just need to get used to things not going well. Maybe that's just what it means to get older. Exciting happy things you look forward to become more and more sparse, and life becomes about trying to stop things from falling apart around you.

>>7866400
Teeth is something you don't wanna f around find out and all dental offices are scum.

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Taking a break from this pose but its a guy tripping backwards

Saw a lot of refs but trying to incorporate them dynamically

Have to also get a lineart done

Migraine

>>7866400
If they fall out in less than 5 years then they sealed it poorly on purpose.

>>7866400
>be me
>get pricey emergency root canal done
>dentist tells me they removed everything
>weak antibiotics prescribed
>a week passes and the numbness returns
>numbness in my cheek climbing up my nose and down to my chin
>people who have all their wisdom teeth removed dying of infections more than usual in my state
>heavily suspect infection
>they left the nerves intact and a piece of tooth purposely left to rot
>go to another place for an emergency tooth canal
>they break and remove the rest of the tooth free of charge and remove every nerve ending for a fraction of a fraction of the price
>painless and stronger prescribed antibiotics
>free check ups
Dentists very often conveniently forget they're providing an essential medical service even if you have good dental hygiene. Those faggots left a ticking time bomb buried under my gums for no reason because they know the vast majority of people will suspect themselves before a dentist

>>7864129
Why? Still got mine from 2013 but why are they special now?

>>7866548
First. Old accounts get an auto pass for AI scrutiny, they know you're the real deal. Among other things.

>>7866543
Is this USA? There healthcare is a business.

>>7866400
Yea, things never stop to go bad. In this new year, without counting classic allergy, I've got a 3rd chronic disease...

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anyone remember that /beg/ who made a whole deal about making a tumblr and drawing every day and quit and disappeared in like 2 months

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>>7866292

He got greedy. All he had to do was charge $40 - $50 and thousands of people would have bought it. He would have made a good $200k at least minimum if just 5000 out of his 10000 newsletter subscribers paid up then take the bag and run.

Biggest fumble of January 2026.

>>7866636
its so carzy that retards that are dumber than me are living much better lives than me. I'm playing life on Maniac difficulty.

>>7866591
>he managed 2 months
Most fold in a few days.
My first attempt was such. Oh, how I told I'll be pro. A year later I started again in silence and now it's been a year long journey already.
>mfw still /beg/

>>7866255
>>7866292
I suspected it'll be at least $100 but this is too much.

Someone bake a video thread

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I don't think construction is for me, I get how it works and all but when I actually try to put pen to paper I totally lose all the gesture and end up get super confused. I'm not sure how much I should continue to bother studying it when I just blank out every single time and only utilize it in its most basic form when it comes to drawing for fun.

Today I'm going to draw-

>headache

Guess I can't draw today.

>>7866292
I'm not willing to pay more than $30 for this shit, so I'm in if there's 9 others.

>>7866973
~4 anons already seem interested in the group buy, which is promising all things considered.
For what it's worth, I also think the price tag is ridiculous, but the material still looks interesting and should be worthwhile if enough people are willing to contribute.

>>7866992
Well i'm in. There's tons of tutorials and books for a begger like me but i'd like that structured, tablet oriented progression.

>supposed to be productive today
>laptop is being fucky
>took me half of day to figure out what's wrong
>turns out power setting went into power-saving mode by itself and most options disappeared, so had to go through never-used path to get at proper setting.
>now also there is FOMO to check some things out away from my home
Just fuck me

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Joining DAD has really called me out. It looks like overall, I drew for about ~20 hours this month, in total. In college I would aim to study, at minimum, 20 hours peer WEEK. No wonder I haven't seen crazy improvement I haven't been fucking drawing...

>>7867098
Same. At that rate I would only draw 140 hours in the year which is a joke. I have to sacrifice something.

>>7867098
damn I drew that much in 3 days, I'm sorry man.

I was feeling so positive in November and December, I was getting really serious about drawing, then come January I’m doing jack shit

>>7867391
Chin up, this is the year we make it. Go rotate a box, right now

I really hate that the "don't listen to music while you draw" thing is true for me, I draw way less bad when I'm in complete silence

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>>7867467
Jesus, I can't even imagine that. Complete opposite effect for me.

>>7866910
>>7867021
>excuses
>excuses
>oh, look, more excuses!
Ngmi

>>7867473
I can't draw with a headache, or a stomach ache, or a tooth ache! What do you want me to do, I didn't make the rules.

I have tried again and again to fix my sleep schedule but I'm really drained of the motivation to draw in the day for some reason.

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>>7867391
>>7867393
This, 2026 will surely be our year guys. Let's all do our best

>>7868060
grim + cursed image

>>7868060
2025 was my year
2026 will also be my year
the future is mine

>>7868065
check out Lucky McLuck over here

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This year I will create more than one (1) finished illustration!

>>7868084
Hontou ni?

AHHHHHHH I HATE GETTING SOBER. I WANT WEED, BUT THE WEED EXPANDED MY MIND AND NOW I UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPENDING MORE TIME SMOKING WEED. FUCK THIS GAY EARTH MAN

>>7868202
You shouldn't be in here complaining about how you can't draw because you didn't had weed today you should be out there protesting against ICE and smoking pot with the rest of them liberals. Weed isn't a draughtsman's pastime; it's more of brown being thing if you ask anybody in here.

>>7868202
Weed is based for art. Smoke up

>>7868206
Nah, being straightedge is baser. And not listening to music when drawing improves drawing tenfold.

>>7868208
People's brains are different. One size doesn't fit all.

>>7868205
Huh? No I'm drawing because I'm not on weed. I can't self-motivate while high so I quit. I just needed to type angrily into the void to get some stress out.

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>>7868208
I've never smoked, never been drunk, never did any drugs brutha. ART is the only drug I'll ever need!!!

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I’ve done 10- 14 hours drawing every day since Wednesday or Thursday. I’ve promised myself every day that I’d take a break and read or something, but then, all of a sudden, it’s midnight. I just sat down to do a few minutes of drawing- but I escaped the trap at the last second.
I love drawing, but it just steals away the rest of my life.
End blog post.

>>7866739
i have the same problem. a lot of artists don't use construction when they draw except for maybe basic guidelines, so if it doesn't work for you focus on other things!

I realize why I hate starting a drawing. Its because 99% of drawing is just thinking of what to draw or fixing what you drew. The actual act of creating the lines only happens in an instant and is the only good part of drawing. If I spend 30 minutes drawing an anime girl, I'm spending 2 hours editing it and making sure its good and worth continuing.

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>>7868312
>anime drawer complains about drawing

"drawing" isnt the part you like doing. The entire process is drawing. fag

>>7868312
>He can get a character up to his current standards in 2 hours
Cool it with the humble brag, speedster

>>7868238
You lucky motherfucker
I don't have life either yet I don't draw enough to justify that

my artstyle sucks man

>>7868574
Just fucking yoink someone else's artstyle, artstyles arent copywrited last I checked.

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my eyes are watery

>>7868604
Are you working from a book?
If so, which one?

>>7868613
Several pinterest tutorial images

I have a couple of dynamic poses in my mind i wanna draw

>>7868604
Just realized i need to fix my line pounting to the brachialis

I'm lazy now

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wow wtf mithrilda is alive and posting on ig. totally thought she gave it up + i remember this board constantly shitting on her lol

>>7869054
she cute, why didnt she just grift off simps

what's a thing you guys keep randomly screwing up but isn't huge deal? you know, just something to keep in mind that you need to study a bit.
If I don't consciously think about proportions I always make the upper legs too short on any figure. Maybe I'm destined to create shortstacks or something.

>>7853396
>tried to find a job
>see job offering
>submit my job application
>gets rejected
>find another job offering
>submit it again
>repeat the steps until I burn myself out
>on top of that, my family found out about my uncle has been embezzling money about around thousand of dollars
>what did he use the money for? toys, games, cards, junk foods, funkopops you name it! If it’s nerdy he’ll buy it
>when my mom confronted grandma about (fyi she’s my uncle’s legal guradian)
>downplays it hard
>mom comes home crying
>dad tries to comfort my mom
>it’s only January
Fuck my life

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How do I address “burn out” if that’s the right term. I haven’t drawn a full drawing in three years because I’ve been plagued with perfectionism. Most of what I like to draw is filled with highly technical boomer-slop (I like drawing NDNs and like historical battles and shit), and I just can’t stop thinking that I’ll just do a real drawing after a few more gouache studies. When, I actually try to “just draw”, I get inconsolably upset because of imaginary pressure, and once I even set my bathtub on fire and there are now permanent scorch marks. Have any of you overcame this? Also picrel is what I want to draw like, any tips? It all has such neurotypical boomer aire to it, I don’t know how to replicate it. It’s like how americans draw anime weird but for age.

Every time I start a new piece, I think, "This is it. This is the one that's going to make me finally feel like a real artist". And then I look back the next day going, nope, still not there.

>>7867098
God bless

is there any other good word to call someone who commissions you other than a commissioner? it's just funny because it feels like I'm a detective beat cop calling people that
>yes commissioner, I'll update you and send you a copy of the files by the end of the month

I spent all half my morning searching for reference of a particular garment only to just realize my doll has the same outwear. Damn I’m dumb.

>>7869931
Client, patron, buyer

>>7869931
i don't even do comms but i would love to keep using that. commissioner gordon

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Remember to repost/retweet your old drawings. Makes a lot of difference.

>Draw sketch
>"Looks good i'll develop it"
>"Oh no its actually bad"
>Troubleshoot parts that are bad
>Looks good again
And thats all it takes. Sometimes a good piece is just a couple of steps away

>>7870547
that’s how you spend way too long, son.

>>7870550
No the fact is that drawing isn't as linear as music or sports. You'll always improvise on something so its better to be good at improvising.

>>7868312
Why don't you try doing more fun sketches where you bust out ideas casual style? Or automatic drawing, a lot of legends like Moebius tended to do that as a meditative practice. That way you can do more of the fun stuff to balance out the not so fun stuff.

>>7870554
going in without a plan is always a rookie mistake

>>7870563
There is no plan that will work flawlessly all the way. Drawing is just gacha where you waste time and sometimes your get SSR but most of the time its shit. You're not gonna plan your way into another da vinci. Every step of the plan you make might be the wrong one, like a house of cards. Why fight uncertainty when you can embrace it

been drawing all my life and i still cant draw a single thing. I just ctrl Z every tine until i get a good one. There is no possible way for me to draw well because I only draw things that are novel to me, so I have nothing to reference.

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I'm not a popular artist on social media, or at all. I've built up a following of a few thousand and had several breakout posts to the tune of 3000-7000 likes on twitter. Most shit goes nowhere. Kinda feels like you're being dumped on sometimes when you feel like you're doing good work but nobody cares or maybe the algorithm isn't showing it to anyone.
But last night, I came across a long chain of posts of a guy who had been desperately looking for some of my work that he had lost. He had been looking for two years and literally praying to Christian saints and God, hoping to find it again, and at some point he did by chance. He was Catholic and a bit of an oddball, very religious. My work is not religious at all.

It felt good to know one person cared about something I made that much. Better than all the likes I have or haven't gotten. So thanks, funny Catholic guy.

My nsfw art that I don't post are leagues better than my actual sfw art, dunno how to feel about that. It's a much better measurement of my progress too. Whenever I draw a new one, I always think it's my best work thus far meanwhile sfw only makes me think "I can do better than this." What the fuck.

>>7870908
Lol did you reach out to him?

>>7866543
>people who have all their wisdom teeth removed dying of infections more than usual
what the FUCK is that
t. about to get the rest of the suckers removed because they're chewed up by bacteria

I thought everyone draw with construction first

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Been taking straterra for about 3 months now and I don't feel any different or that whatever has been ailing me is slightly alleviated, I dunno what to do. Sure as hell hasn't been helping me get motivated to practice more that's for sure.

How it feels like producing a decent drawing after drawing like shit for a month
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MMN3AeMYReI

>rando who said he wanted to commission me hasn't responded since I told him the price
kms

drawing every day is impossible while keeping a consistent quality. If my brain realizes it scheduled something in the future, it suddenly doesn't want to do it. Everything I draw has to be spontaneous and inspired.

>>7873397
I mean, you could always just copy stuff or fill an entire page with doodles. Doesn't have to be a great piece of art.

first time in a long time I’m actually lonely. I don’t even have any online friends anymore. I’m trying to find peace with drawing my own characters to fill this empty space in my soul but it feels like something is missing and I don’t know if it’s actually friends or something else entirely.

>>7873450
Sounds like me, I'm drawing stuff for myself, and while I get satisfaction from finishing a piece I feel looks good, it also feels like I'm not working towards anything at the same time, like something is still missing.
I can't figure out if it's because I'm still far from good enough to draw what I really want or I actually want some validation from other people seeing my work.

>>7873450
what happened? did you push them away?

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I've been feeling pain on my hamstring for the past 6 months. Probably tendinopathy. I'm gonna try to avoid sitting down this week to see if it will help. This means no drawing.

>i can't sit so i can't draw
bait used to be believable

>somebody compliments my art
>instantly assume they're talking down on me, like a parent saying their kid's scribbles look good and putting it on the fridge
>feel like shit
how does one escape this mindset.
>>7864129
art account on what?

>>7873687
I draw my stuff on my pc, on a tablet. I'm can't draw while standing up.

>>7869733
>once I even set my bathtub on fire
Uh, why?
But yeah it sounds like perfectionism is your biggest enemy. The good thing is that producing a bad drawing doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. And drawing the things you actually want to draw, even badly, will probably be the fastet way towards improvement

kind of cool that art is like fitness or anything else where you just have a bum day for basically no reason. what the fuck was that

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i havent look in the /beg/ thread in like years but god damn there are some drawers in there. how did the average level get that high. back in my day people were struggling with the upside-down picasso

>>7873959
It's /beg/ and /int/ now so maybe the true/beg/s got mogged shitless into getting scared of posting their work

>>7873962
lmfao