do you need to talk anon? Maybe there is an anon who wants to listen.
/r9k is where you want to post this. Trust me.
>>2422074
But I actually want a solution for my issues not just shout "normies reeee" and continue in the same conditions.
/ic/ - Artwork/Critique
>>2422085
Well the solution to your problem is to draw circles 8 hours erry day, anon. You shall continue this for 3000 days after which holy Loomis will descend from the heavens and give you gitgud in exchange for carpal tunnel syndrome and your soul will be saved.
>>2422074
not if it's all art/drawing related
>learn to drive, scared
>don't always like going to lesson but oh well
>weeks later, got driver's license, like driving, it's not nearly as scary anymore
>tfw this could be perspective drawing
>can't decide what to draw/learn
>don't do anything
>draw something for a while
>look at it, it's not kim jung gi level yet
>get discouraged
>be younger self
>look at paintings on the internet
>"If I had that skill I would paint such awesome shit, why doesn't this artist paint awesome shit with that skill?"
>years later, get comparable skill
>don't do shit with it, too intimidated
>now I understand
>when drawing is fun, feel guilty
>when drawing is hard, think maybe I'm not cut out for it
>drawing in public feels super uncomfortable and forced
>lose multiple pens in museum
>be in drawing mode
>fill page with multiple drawings
>draw over something you thought looked good
That's it for now.
inb4 lazy pathetic pussy
i know
>being afraid of being judged on 4chan
pic unrelated
I always feel like shit that I barely have any followers on Tumblr. I know it's not an indication of things, but it's nice to get more than five notes on a picture.
Only time I break the bank with notes is it I post fanart, then hundreds to thousands galore. Be nice to get that on my original stuff.
I see lots of artists get thousands of notes on their original stuff and makes me wonder shit, maybe I just suck? Then I get into that brief panic mode where I consider copying their subject matter and style but usually go against that notion.
>>2422154
>excellent at perspective
>never learned to drive
>too busy drawing
>>2422163
>I see lots of artists get thousands of notes on their original stuff
But that people generally draws kitchy shit or "so relatable" comics.
The smut artists I follow take months to reach 2 digits of notes and they never go over 200
![DanThompson_Anatomical_Plate_I_2009-graphite_23x28[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xb1UMFq.jpg "DanThompson_Anatomical_Plate_I_2009-graphite_23x28[1].jpg")
>You will never be this good
>When you can copy from reference like an academic angel but you try to draw from imagination and it looks like shit then you see artists who can draw 20 of pic related a day like nothing
WHAT
DO
>>2422193
stop caring about what others do
great what others do, but focus on your own shit
>>2422193
have you seen how master illustrators use reference? Just keep your references at hand.
>>2422179
why not?
I feel like a fucking loser. I get good work in my chosen industries (game illustration and comic art), but I always feel like I'm lagging behind or not putting out enough work.
My best friend was recently picked up to draw a graphic novel with a well-known writer and will likely be in the running for an Eisner in the next few years and hasn't even graduated college yet. I can't help but compare myself to my friend, even though our styles are wildly different. I get picked up to do page tests and whatnot but I always feel like everyone is laughing at my art behind my back, like I'm no good and the world is playing some cruel joke on me, ready to pull the rug out from under me when it gets the chance.
I want to start a webcomic, but even then I feel like I wouldn't have the creative capacity. I'm good with other people's scripts, but I'm not good at writing my own shit at all.
>inb4 stop caring about other people/what they think
Fucking how? How does someone do this?
>>2422245
you're making money making art, you shouldn't feel like a loser. :^)
>>2422202
>stop caring about what others do
I feel the same way about people who are bitter about it or bitch about other artists, but having artists you aspire to emulate and trying to learn how to do it shouldn't be a bad thing.
>>2422245
Your art is not the issue, you are jelly of your friend having a better career sooner than you.
>>2422256
I am... Don't get me wrong, I am ecstatic for her, but I also feel like I'm not good enough because I have someone so close to me to compare myself to and feel like I'll never be able to match her output and quality.
>>2422265
You probably haven't found your breakthrough title
Once you've done something that people likes you will feel better but I have no idea how can you land such work.
Moving from fine art to smut comission has been hard on every aspect but I'm strong enough to overcome those issues.
Right now what is twisting my mind are the other artists on my fetish, they're all shallow scumbags but some time ago I was watching the stream of one of them, this guy draws his self insert in fetishy situations with waifus, he's aware that is autistic but he defends himself saying it's all wish fullfillment and that was so sound with me. Then I returned to look at the work of the other artists of that clique, in fine art people always talk of art having a narrative, a discourse or being a window to the mind of the artist, I tought that wasn't the case with smut but I looked at the art of these people and releazed how shallow and sheltered were they were.
They make my blood boil and I don't want to be like them. I'm afraid of drawing what I like because others will be able to see my inside and the fine art work I had was never about wish fullfillment and I don't want to make art for escapism. Now I'm thinking of never drawing smut on my own, always requests and comissions but I feel so self defeating for doing that.
I also have the issue of having a handle/nickname. I wish I could go as a nameless but I know I need a handle to have a career but for the love of god I can't come up with a good one.
>>2422538
Just keep your fine art garbage and smut separate.
Nothing wrong with making art as escapism, either. A lot of artists, porn or not, do it as a form of escapism.
It always seems to me that a lot of artists have their own cliques which are exclusive. I never really feel accepted in a lot of the artist cliques. I wonder if it's because I'm not good enough or I'm just not cool enough. I hate feeling like an outcast among artists.
>>2422174
are you me anon?
ironically, I've learn perspective when, by my father, I should have learn to drive
You guys are such faggots.
