thank you so much for this post btw!
hhaha no problem :y
like your reply sort of put an upspin on what was a very bad night last night so haha yeah like i wanted to reply last night but i needed to be in bed for a lecture i ended up oversleeping for anyway sighs and rolls eyes
yeah i do just have to force myself to keep drawing everyday even if i don't want too :u i do draw at college almost every day but that's ~academic~ art so i guess i don't enjoy it as much? it's been useful to learn though so it has helped! especially colour and location drawing for getting perspective down.
haha like omg tell me about it i'm uncomfortably learning that you literally have to immerse yourself in stuff you'd never draw ever again
like i think we had to do modigliani of all frickin things in year 7 but im glad we did cos i like having had the experience and the Ideas from it cos all paths of everything have Usefulness in them
i've seen that topic on ca before it's actually insane but i guess it just boils down to pratice, pratice and more practice! I need to have a proper read of it at some point though.
it is annoying not having people like my art but i suppose it's not different/unique enough to stand out from the crowd (but let's face it what is aha everyone rips of someone in some shape of form).
like i would say like i say to all sort of people who can draw worth a damn and say that its not different enough to stand out from the crowd YET cos all artists go through A Period Where Its The Same but you deffo could if you keep at it
i think a couple other good places for constructive crit are polykarbon (hahhhahah oh my god talk about nostalgia) and wetcanvas if you haven't registered there already
homestuck art is so pretty <3 don't think i've ever seen a dud besides from the horribly edited art from the comics. I wouldn't mind trying to draw some characters but i feel like i need to read it first aha
oh there is terrible art out there trust me
i'm actually so glad my anime phase stopped when i was about 12 before i came on the internet. i've heard so many people being stuck in a rut with it and having to go back and relearn all the basics! but yeah since i've been 16 i've been constantly trying to improve all the time and i think it's slowly starting to pay off now i guess.
yeah i'm one of those people going back to square one
like people complimented it sure but there was like speedpainters and there was me trying for 3 days to fix a terrible looking arm and then just giving up and pillowshading it because i have no idea how 3d surfaces work cos i didn't study drawing properly
like its kind of Humbling and i had an emotional temper tantrum with it for a good few months before buying Bert Dodson's keys of drawing (reccommended book for all artists and proto-artists) and just beginning to start at square one and so far i have a one-line drawing of a travel mug and a vague gesture drawing of my slippers so
I don't think i'll have a proper ~art job~ I'm wanting to go into primary teaching at some point so that's another pipe dream of mines. I think it's just my college course that's putting me off just now because it's full of mature students (28 - 60) and most of them are great but it gets annoying when they whine about having to do higher art and doing computer work :u
"it's new and scary omg i can't help"
I'm leaning more illustration/animation side of things now. the uni i'm hoping to get into has 96% employment rate after graduation so hopefully i won't end up freelance aha.
haha yes good a plan is good even if its any plan
the mature students sound like the type who expect to draw anime and then when someone says "do you have any anatomy under your belt" and they're like "my art gets 2000 likes on deviantart i don't think i need anatomy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and its just like midlife crisis in slow motion
like i think one of the hardest things as an artist is appreciating criticism and learning to sift the pure pointless hatred for your work from the compliments from the constructive criticism
like its why deviantart has a thing for you to explicity ask for constructive criticism or at least it did when i was first there and the whole place wasn't full of fetishes
like people see art as 1. pick up pencil 2. instant talent 3. endless praise when really you get praised for a drawing cos it took you two weeks to come up with the concept and another week to get it looking to a standard that you don't hate and you've been drawing for like 5 years already
and people think that just happens cos of this RNG algorithm that seems to bestow instant talent on some people and its like playing the lottery no-one ever wins it except for a tenner in 2011 once or s/t like you get money by being really boring and investing in ISAs and budgeting and researching economic plans etc. etc.
ngl if i get 5 comments on a picture i've done i consider that a jackpot
like if you want to go ultimately into primary teaching like a PGCE shouldnt be entirely too hard to do?? might be an idea to research child psychology later in life
i'm def going to try drawing more pokemon just to get some practice in like you said.
and thank you!
thank you so much for this though, really given me a boost <3
[sorry for any typos this keyboard is disgusting]
hahhaha aww shucks #u
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like i want to post in all the topics of people drawing but i can't cos im too shy and i usually sort of don't tell people a lot of things cos im not good with the whole "my opinion matters in any way" thing yet
like i can't promise to be there being all sort of YES KEEP DRAWING every time cos i'm a bit weird about giving praise out all the time but as a 25 year old relearning how to draw and trying to learn from every mistake keep at it
like i think the other day i was like "wow i really like the minimalist motif you can do with groudon and kyogre [im only just playing gen III at last now]" and tried to sort of do stuff based on that
EDIT i rambled about the all 649 pokemon project here before realising it was a completely diff. person but wherever you are siacziu (sp????) you should keep at it as well
but deffo try to analyze pokemon character design cos esp. when we get to gen III and beyond
like i love the stuff they did with gen V and gen VI cos its quite hard to do an evolution for murkrow and yet still have me fall in love with it
like i guess all this twaddle goes for anyone doing art like i know some 25 year old loser on a forum doesn't really know much about anyone elses life but like honest moment i was steps away from making a Big Mistake at one point
like i wanted to do graphic design and do websites etc. and was applying for foundation courses in art and ive just deleted the 4 paragraphs of boring backstory but it would have been a huge mistake
i love drawing but im not at a stage in myself yet where i'm able to do it for a living like i really can't make a living out of a hobby unless i want to hate that hobby
like it took about 3 years to go from "oh no." to my "welcome to chemistry" letter from my uni so its not like i didn't have months of despair and directionless bleating pathetic whining for a while hhahahh so i spend at least 1 year fannying about trying to decide what to do
at about age 20 my mother not being able to afford to support my rent/clothes/bills etc. and me Having To Make Adult Life Work usually knocks the remaining teenage brat out of the system
of course you could go the other way like one supervisor at work and turn into alan partridge but thats a story for another day
like i thought i was going to be this excellent talented graphic designer until i realised that my graphic designer friend gets gigs and Contracts and went to Bournemouth uni because--
well i should have spotted the signs when he spent an entire evening going "it costs HOW much to insure a BMW??? holy crap"
and how we found out his mum was basically a rich daughter of someone
like it was another instance of Money and Connected Family and me not understanding the difference between my stupid anime heads and my friend who had about 20 or so professional sites under his belt and a huge house in the Rich Expat area of the spanish city and how he owned a DSLR at the age of 18 and did a photoshoot for The Toasters i.e. an actual Famous ska band because his family had Connections and he knew how to make use of them too ~_~
long story short i was basically going to end up as a small rob liefield and once you're rob liefeld there's no coming back your ego aint comin down for the rest of your life
thank god things happened the way they did tho omgholy crap sorry i wrote so much everyone
im not really sorry though hhahahahahah suckers
also like steelix is basically (one of) the best pokemon so