What sort of routines do you generally stick to?
-Spend 2 hours looking for ref. Fap to nudes.
-Drawing for 20 minutes, get frustrated. Fap to stick figure.
-Break for lunch.
-Look up tutorials for another hour.
-Resolve to just pick something and draw.
-Fap because you're going to die alone.
-Get into the mode. It's dawn. This looks great. Finally broke through. Pick this up again tomorrow.
-Bed time. Fap thinking about ex from years ago who got someone new within days of the breaking up while you've never had so much as a right-swip on Tinder.
-Wake up. Excited to get back to that drawing. Look at drawing. Clearly the work of an epileptic pool noodle.
-Use tears for lubricant for fap.
-Rinse repeat.
>>2305377
- Drawing for 5h/day
- 1rst hour trying to draw from imagination what I've learned the day before.
- next 4h: Anatomy with a lot of repetitions and exercises to know what is fixed on the mind.
I use one app with a Pomodoro timer without the long break, only with small 5 minutes breaks every 25 minutes. It works to me. My focus is OK.
All my notifications are off, no text messages, no phone calls, no music, no computer, to try to focus better.
>wake up
>turn on computer
>eat
>multiple ideas comes to mind
>try to draw one
>3 hours or more to finish it
>scan it
>try to color it in photoshop
>4 hours or more
>be completely shit and ruin it
>it's already night
>eat
>go to bed
>browse 4chan in phone
>2 hours
>my hand hurts
>stare at the obscurity and think about my future until I'd fall asleep
>wake up
>dip hand in ice water then warm water x3
>study 30-40 minutes
>watch youtube 10-20 minutes
>sip coffee
>continue study
>repeat till 3 am
>>2305377
have to work at 5 and its a 4 days 8 hour part time. so
>up
>fap to traps if horny
>study
>take 20 minutes break and go out side
>comeback and check /ic/
>do color study
go to job hate self and work until i leave the "weight lifting period.
>>2305406
oh yeah i dint explain, i have 3 free days so those days are the days i fit the work i missed( by choice) sincwe i have to go to work and i'm tired so technically its more like:
>work days i draw 3 hours
>free days i draw 4 hours and stop for like 2 or 3 and then come back and do 4 more. >>2305394
pic related.
>Wake up at 9
>Do pull ups and push ups
>Shower, prepare breakfast
>Walk the dog, meditate
>Either paint my own stuff or study Loomis until lunch time
>Eat lunch
>Go to live drawing session in my town until 8pm
So it's 6-8 hours of drawing/painting every day, I'm happy with it.
>>2305415
>no worries and no need to have a job.
you better count your blessings.
>>2305412
Busting out the charts 'n schedules? I need to organize like that. Then actually stick to it. Then get some snacks to comfort myself when I eventually fail to keep to it.
>>2305417
take it from me, it took me 1 YEAR to actually have the balls to stick to it, i usually spent like 2 hours a day from the schedule trying to follow it, give it time, start slow that was my mistake trying to jump on it hardcore made take massive 4 to 5 months breakdown where i dint draw due to stupidity and depression. oh yeah don't work full time if you can don't give the jews all of your time.
>>2305377
wake up between 9 and 12.
draw until midnight maybe a little later.
>>2305419
Am I the only one who paints/draws whatever he wants and learns from reference when needed to complete the drawing?
Doing all those studies for no reason other than getting good would bore me to death.
>wake up at 7
>if its weekday and grandma goes to work fap for an hour (sleep on couch no privacy)
>draw for a bit
>take a shower, make coffee and eat breakfeast
>draw and take breaks to shitpost till around 7 or so then shitpost till I fall asleep
been at this schedule for about a half a year p good life
>>2305424
>>2305402
>>2305392
>>2305377
LIES OF IC
I always see these posts of people who "draw until midnight", but then I check the draw thread and it's mostly shit.
Are you guys secretly Ruan Jia levels and never post your work? I don't think more than 6 hours a day is productive or stimulating.
Explain yourselves now.
>>2305426
It's not that I want to get good, I'm already good. I want to get better. I think I've been stagnating because I've been drawing directionlessly. Besides, I've worked in lineart and black and white for so long, I sincerely can't picture things in color. I mainly want to try this schedule for the fact it has daily color studies, which I was going to start doing anyway because I've tried everything else and it's not working. So I just need to study color from life, plain and simple. And brushing up on anatomy never hurts. Only the first two hours are study, the majority of the day is still left for free drawing. I just think it'll help me get the most out of my day to have some structure.
>>2305430
posting stuff that links you to this site is dangerous because normie scum overreacts and tries to ruin you.
>>2305435
and if im being entirely honest i usually play at least one game of league of legends everyday, so it's not 12 straight hours of drawing. i take cigarette breaks and stuff.
>>2305430
90% of my work consists of personal studies. For the most part i don't care to post them because i have other means of reference and critique outside of /ic/.
>>2305436
lol thats not it
Whats really annoying are those doodoheads that cant shut up about ic
"I saw your work on ic why is that Xd"
normies dont give a fuck about "some guy who posts his work on a greek pantomime mural"
You know why Olly doesnt post here anymore? its because whenever he goes to a convention for atists som guy gives him the stink eye "how dare you be popular" and really really awkward people think they have something in common with him.
It's because I dont want to personally befriend you that I dont want to associate myself with this board.
>Wake up
>Check Reddit, Youtube, and 4chan
>Load up a podcast or audiobook and walk 5 miles to get breakfast.
>Practice Photography while I walk.
>Check photos when I get home, they're always shit.
>Practice Piano for an hour when I get home
>Drive 6/10 Girlfriend to work
>Get home and work on animation commission
>Get board and watch and follow a Cinima 4d tutorial
>watch Dota on phone in bed
>Check Reddit, Youtube, and 4chan again
>Pick up Girlfriend from work
>Make dinner together
>Watch an episode of Dr Who, Jessica Jones or One Punch Man together.
>work more on animation commission
>GF gets turned on from my animation
>Have sex
>We play with our cat after
>sleep
This has been my routine for the last few weeks.
feels pretty good man.
>>2305444
i remember this one guy who works in movies and now that they found his pr0n/futa/shota bread drawings he is being grilled and he even decided to cut all contact with social media. keep drinking the kool aid anon just parade your true self and nothing will happen to you, this is why i have 3 styles to distance my self from here yet at the same time enjoy my degeneracy..you'll see..
>>2305450
I don't draw porn of any kind so it doesn't matter to me.
Besides you just have to be good enough look at Kim Jung Gi releasing a porn book with fisting gore. and people dont give a shit because he's good. It's because you don't own with it. Scared of them finding it.
>>2305455
2bh family I posted here years ago and I got stuck forever
>>2305450
you don't even know the guys name so obviously its not that bad. plus look at someone like jim norton. he does movies and shit and talks about fucking tranny hookers and nothing happens to him because he's so open to it. patrice o neal would talk about going to brazil to fuck third world hookers and he had a tv show.
desu senpai nobody gives two shits about that shit unless you got an image and hide it
>>2305455
i want to post my work so bad...just to see you cry~
>>2305464
sure, if you have something that beats this go ahead. post :) i like crying
>>2305464
You're probably not that good but whenever I see guys who genuinely are good coming and posting here, I don't understand why. They obviously don't need the help, all they ever end up doing is pulling negative attention. Once I start getting to that point I'm cutting all ties with this place.
>wake up
>do shit
>find time to get around to drawing everyday
first hour or so is usually pretty rusty so I don't work on anything important. I just relax and accept that it's going to be bad until I get in a flow
I draw multiple images at once doing whatever I feel like doing at the moment of what needs doing
Don't push yourself, I take a break when I start feeling worn out but breaks are dangerous so you've gotta control yourself so you don't end up taking 2 hour breaks for every 10 minutes of drawing
After about 4-5 hours in I lose my juice and have to stop because anything I do after that results in frustration and ruined images
On days that I don't have images need doing I'll either take a break or study something
Toot-toot! All aboard the detailed thread.
Post drawing regimes. No one cares why you don't post your shitty work. Take that shit to chat.
>>2305470
>dont come to 4chinz is mean
why not? its nice to be mean once in a while, i dont need to prove how good i am, i still hate my stuff even though everyone says its good, heel, look at kyle and bbc timmy firez tinkle and a bunch of fags from the pron thread.
>>2305466
this guy here? he's godly i sure can't colour without a digital pen.
>>2305450
when i'm steaming and some random dude is all like "hey /ic/ ! i'm from /ic/". yeah i don't like that feeling, this place was supposed to be an echo chamber that was hidden in the bowels of the web.
>>2305474
Why come here to post stuff when you clearly don't need help though? When there are barely people here close enough to your level to offer help even if you did need it? Are you just looking for attention? That's why they only end up getting negative attention. When I get there, I'd cut this place off not so much because I don't want to deal with shitposting, but because the shitposting will be how I know I'm good enough to not need to be here anymore.
>>2305478
considering our work, no place will give you a crit on the best way to draw fetishes plus this place is always entertaining have you ever visited /fit/ we share a lot in common with them.
>When there are barely people here close enough to your level to offer help even if you did need it?
that's your fault for not trying to talk to them you stromweenie, networking is almost more important than the art itself.
>>2305477
>muh super sekret club
2005 is calling
>>2305477
You musn't enable them. I never respond to "IC xd" comments. People catch on the first time.
>"lol ic hihi"
>Who are you
Also on topic
I do the kim jung gi exercise for 10-20 mins and then go back to painting sick pics that make people go wow!
>mfw robert kondo liked a bunch of my pics and followed me on dumblr
>>2305486
...dude what? You lost me with this entire post. I don't come here for porn crits, and when I was talking about coming to a place with people not on "your" level, I meant the level of guys like that michaelmacrae dude who's been posting in the draw threads lately, not me or anyone here.
>>2305497
nice.
>>2305497
>the kim jung gi exercise
What's this?
>>2305503
draw squares and then place dicks in such squares.
>>2305500
>I meant the level of guys like that michaelmacrae dude
>assuming we knew you had bad taste
>>2305512
I would say I don't know why you would assume that I like the guy's art, because like it or not it's more than obvious he's way better than most people here and isn't going to get any meaningful feedback here, so liking it has nothing to do with my point, but I forgot where I was for a second. Yes, guys like him, and that dude who paints the blurry monster faces, and several other guys who post here for god knows why, when they don't get anything out of it but salt from people like you, who can't even understand a simple fucking sentence, I don't know why they put up with the bullshit that comes from here when they don't even need help, or if they do, sure as hell aren't gonna find it here. This was such a good use of my time. God, I'm not on their level yet but I'm so fucking done with this place.
>>2305517
peace
>>2305517
all im saying is that guy isn't a good artist. and you're wrong for thinking that, that that's all you expect from artists to qualify them as "good". these "good artists" need crits as bad as the rest of you, and they are just as unreceptive to feedback as anyone else, because I've critted them on their concepts before and nothing changes when they do a new piece. if that's your idea of being a good artist, to be technically proficient in photoshop so you can shrug off people when they say you haven't had an original idea in your entire life, then go ahead. Become like those guys. You probably wouldn't know how to do something different anyways. Bye.
>>2305464
Just do it faggot
>>2305517
Chill out Michael
Who else here is only on /ic/ until they get good and then change names and create a new dA so people think you popped up from nowhere?
>wake up at 10 am
>think in my ex all the morning
>play some vydias
>1 pm, time to draw
>thinks in her more
>draw futa and shit
>night come
>think in her again
>draw her
>i realize that she leave and i dont gonna have a second chance w/ her
>take a bath
>draw more asses, dicks and pussies
>time to bed
>i cry and fall sleep.
(sorry for my bad english.)
>wake up 4:am
> go to work
>come home at 8PM
>have a quick smoke session and dinner
>from 9 to 11 pm draw
>anime until 1 am
>sleep
>>2305596
There is no way you are sleeping 4 hours a day.
I can barely manage on sleeping 10 hours a day.
>>2305598
it's tough but eventually you will get used to it
>>2305598
4 - 6 hours works best for me. I rarely feel rested but sleeping more than 6 hours makes me feel so tired I almost fall asleep on my way to school. 9 + hours and I'm dead the whole day.
>>2305598
Don't worry, that person isn't going to learn as much since lifestyles with a lack of sleep are proven to impair cognitive function and memory.
>>2305517
>dude who paints the blurry monster faces
To be honest I only post because I have no friends. After doing my year end review it's pretty clear I need a new pursuit anyways.
Goddamn lucky-ass NEETs. Fuck you guys. ;_;
>>2305664
>>2305664
I'll admit I am a bit jealous, but I do like having $600 spending money every month.
one hour on a wacom, then one hour with pencil and paper.
some times i just do 30 minutes for both if i want to do something else
>>2305377
>1-2 pages of circles/peter han stuff
>1-2 minute gestures for however long
>study bones
>work on my [spoiler]animation[/spoiler] assignments/projects
>shitpost
>>2305392
>4 hours of anatomy, 1 hour imagination/memory
Jesus dude, crop the anatomy down to at least 3, probably even 2, and do some painting instead. Unless you want to draw beautiful anatomically correct figures with no colour or lighting on them, in which case that's up to you.
>>2305448
You can live off animation commissions? Like custom made lewds, or are we talking SFM porn.
>wake up
>fuck my wife
>scratch the dirt off my balls
>play Dragon Quest for 6 hours
>kek at the people online raging because I have a life and would rather spend my time living life then devoting it to drawing my manga
>stare at my pencil gradually collecting dust and laugh even harder
>I get richer every day from royalites because my newest series got a reboot
Being successful has its perks, lol
>>2305646
Post your most recent blurry monster face pls, I'm interested
>>2305595
never apologize for your english,where are you from?
Also dem eyes
>-Bed time. Fap thinking about ex from years ago who got someone new within days of the breaking up while you've never had so much as a right-swip on Tinder.
God damn it OP
>>2305922
Togashikek
wake up
brush hair
paint
nap
study anatomy
nap
paint
sleep
paint
brushhair
here is my schedule pasta, most of you have probably seen this already (27:00 is 3am same day)
Polyphasic sleep schedule
07:30
>Wake up - go to bus stop
08:00
>get on bus - check 4chan to see if people responded to my drawing bait
> bus nap 1.5hrs
10:00
> start work, check 4chan
>avoid work, check 4chan, lunch, write 2 lines of code
>meetings - check 4chan, wish I was drawing, consider quitting
18:00
>get on bus - check 4chan
>1.5hr nap
20:00
>cook dinner, tend to hygiene
>watch movie, check 4chan
>study pix, plan tonight's draw session
23:00
>Start drawing - self crit last nights work
>practice faces, gestures, materials, and whatever sucked from last night
>pick something to ink and color
27:00
>document tonight's draw session - post on 4chan
>Sleep 3-4hrs
Replaced my 23:00-27:00 activities with drawing for the past 2yrs. I used to stay up till 29:00, but I heard some anon got epilepsy from sleep deprivation so I dialed it back to 27:00. Otherwise same schedule for over 5 yrs
>>2305891
Nope.
My Girlfriend supports me.
>>2305408
I'm not perfect or total disciplined. But I want to see what will happen in the future
>>2305885
Anatomy is my thing now, I want to study it for a few weeks.
I paint.
>Wake up, its sometime between 8-10AM
>Usually walk around the apartment for a bit, think, realize how my life is in the designated shitter
>shit post and play autism mod, drink coffee, watch kek news,make sure my sick family member is OK
>make sure my mind is OK, might be another one of those bad days but so far so good (diagnosed bipolar, once the depression begins its all ogre, during mania I can at least smoke a pack and just paint through it)
>coffee
>say goodbye to dad who works 12 hours a day
>say goodbye to mother who goes to school attempting to get degree and job
>enjoy silence for a bit
>more vidya
>more shitpost
>think about what it would be like to be a somebody
>think about how much of a shit my art is, if you can even call it that
>wait until 10pm to paint
>paint until morning
>sleep
>smoke
>wish I had drugs
>sleep
>fap
>smoke
>sleep
>repeat
is 19 too early to give up on your hopes and dreams?
>>2305430
I'm the 5 hour guy. I'm shit now, I'm just learning, I can't draw until midnight, I don't know if I'll be something or give up next year.
I was shooting everywhere few months ago, now I'm trying to do one thing . I was studying construction drawing when anatomy punched me in the face.
Don't know if I'm wrong doing only one thing at a time, but I'll try to focus on it.
>>2305477
Blame mainstream news sites and Youtubers for mentioning this site, particularly /b/. Now normies swarm to other boards and take over like necrosis.
>>2307009
Nah, you're just an angsty teen, you'll get over it.
>>2307009
in a very similar boat but i'm 21. shits starting to get rough. don't give up though.
>look at armor designs
>think of story
>put sketchbook in front of me
>browse internet play games for 3 hours
>draw a little and write story
>one hour passes and its 2 am
>sleep
Fuck
>>2305377
You can fap five times in a day? You must be young.
>>2306739
>27:00
Are you living in future or other dimension?
>>2307160
it says it means 3am same day
>>2305377
>Wake up
>Do human anatomy study drawings for 2 hours
>Play vidya
>Do digital speedpaints of landscapes and animals with reference and timer, session lasts between 1hour to 2 hours depending on day
>Do my engineer studies
>Reference screecaps of movies and/or tv shows, around an hour
>watch tv, youtube, streaming site whatever for an hour
>drawing random stuff that looks shit and cringey enough to make tumblrina artists more forgiving.
Fuck me, why should I live...
>>2305377
Anons I need help. How do I build better discipline? I average 15-20 hours of drawing a week (usually closer to the 15 range...). Sometimes more, sometimes less. The issue isn't so much that I'm not motivated to draw, its more the fact that I can't get myself to wake up on time or get everything else done so that I have the freedom to do it all day.
How the fuck can I build self discipline?
Are there any specific exercises for this?
I've heard someone recommend taking a cold shower for 2 minutes every morning or just forcing yourself to do something similarly unpleasant can help. Probably exercising regularly too...
I'm not sure. I've been trying to just force myself to do better but I've been bad at it. I think having a more clear goal or something finite to focus on might help (besides getting good).
What I want is to be about to draw 7-9 hours a day and keep a healthy lifestyle (exercise etc.) and I'll do great for a week or two but then I'm back to being garbage. I've gone through this cycle for 2 years and I desperately need to fix it.
How do I make a schedule and stick with it? it doesn't have to be hardcore, I just need it to become a habit so I don't stop it.
>>2307225
Discipline is a lie
>>2307225
>How do I make a schedule and stick with it?
You make a schedule. Then you stick to it. No tricks involved.
What helps is to develop a consistent routine so that drawing is a habit. Wake up at the same time everyday, and have a morning routine that smoothly transitions straight into work. That might've waking up, reading or sketching for a bit. Go exercise, shower, and eat. Then get straight back to work for X hrs, take a break for Y min, rinse and repeat until you've done all your planned drawing for the day.
You might want to try reading The Power of Habit and The Willlpower Instinct. Might give you some ideas or tools that can help. But again, there aren't any real tricks out there.
>>2307080
Shit m8 almost replied to b8
>>2307084
>20k debt
>dropped out of uni twice after going a year early on half scholarship
>failed business start up because of a mental breakdown
>ended up in psychward, no body in my family believes I have mental problems despite that
>no one believes me when I was put on anti-psychotics and finally when insurance gave out because were moving, no more shrink, no more meds
>go back to smoking to help take edge off
>not enough money to buy smokes or drugs
>about to be homeless, however a friend is allowing my family and invited me as well to move into a one bedroom apartment (six people) in NY somewhere, its either that or homeless
>can't land job
>painting keeps me sane
Don't get me wrong I have food in my stomach and a roof over my head but I'm going to lose that soon, and then what? Trying to get over myself but I just can't focus on anything.
I dunno man, sudoku seems like a promising option. Might shit on a canvas and mail it to slade school of art or some high end faggotry as a last will and testament (fbi pls go nsa no bully)
>>2308057
Damn dude, that's rough. I was in virtually the same position, down to spending a day in a mental hospital. I turned to porn to stabilize, but I'm drawing porn shit I was already drawing for myself so it hasn't been as soul crushing as some people seem to find it. If you can stand that, might be an option for now.
>>2308057
>Land of the free.
I live in mexico, have been uneployed for 4 years and barely pay the bills by winning at card games and selling drawn porn.
Even then, if I couldn't pay for shit, I'd still have my house and no bank or government can take that away from me even if I owed the jew a gorillion shekels.
>>2308057
start porn commissions and portrait sketching on the streets.
>>2305377
lets see
>mon-thur work 11 hours sleep 8 get ready for work the next day and maybe watch some art videos
>fri draw a lot of study stuff
>sat/sun draw anime girls for 4-5 hours
