>6 years in
>still beg
go on without me, I won't make it

>>7635552 (OP)
ok

>>7635552 (OP)
Early morning depression huh?
Drink some strong coffee anon.

>>7635552 (OP)
>WAR IS UHHHHH..... UMMMMMM.....
>*violently turns toward camera*
>LE BAD!
>*soldiers form a flash mob and dance in a choreographed number behind him*
>HIT IT!
>soldiers all jump and turn around
>*signs on their backs that come together to collectively spell "PEACE GOOD!"*
>*kid runs through the crowd, gets picked up by the soldiers and held up like a cheerleader*
>baby Hitler farts
>crowd erupts in laughter
>AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!
>*winks at the camera with a winking sound effect*

>>7635552 (OP)
I made zero progress in 10+ years

>>7635552 (OP)
i am NOT leaving you here anon
Take my hand, you WILL make it.

>>7635581
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsdmzNDFJ0s
war? is? le? bad?

>>7635552 (OP)
Yeah don't worry about it perma/beg/ schizo, you'll stick around.
It's not like you come here to motivate yourself and actually draw, you just come here to chit-chat, shit on people who draw and ask people who draw anime girls their blog.
You'll be fine.

>>7635552 (OP)
At least you're honest about it, you've got self-awareness buddy and that's gotta amount to something, you can probably be a janitor

what's the point of this thread?

>>7635714
destroying morale

>>7635552 (OP)
NO MAN LEFT BEHIND!

>>7635714
We don't draw here on /ic/, all we do is make threads about things

>>7635719
We wont let it.

>>7635568
>>7635598
>>7635688
>>7635710
>>7635720
FEELS GOOD

Feels good.

>>7635719
>>7635719
We wont let it.

>>7635568
>>7635598
>>7635688
>>7635710
>>7635720
FEELS GOOD

>>7635552 (OP)
I started drawing in 2009 and I'm still /beg/

>>7635794
prove it.

>>7635552 (OP)
>>7635794
How many finished illustrations have you both done in that time?

I started in 2005 and I'm still /beg/

>>7635552 (OP)
I was born a /beg/ and will die as /beg/

>>7635552 (OP)
are you at least drawing some cool shit?

sometimes I see ai pics in other threads on 4chan and its so demoralizing. I'm sitting here wracking my brain trying to draw something with form and ai can just shit out interesting form and gesture like its nothing. and I don't mean hyper rendered sakimichan shit, I mean AIs specifically designed to look like doodles.

>>7635802
How many have you? Pyw

>>7636141
So basically none? Maybe try finishing some stuff and you'd see some improvement.

>>7635552 (OP)
No anon left behind
lurking here since 2013, inconstantly posting since 2014, someone once called my art cute, and got fan art, somehow with my /beg/ artwork.

>>7636156
normal people dont have to come up with these contrived scenarios, they just do the first thing that pops into their head and their lives are awesome. Meanwhile we have to carefully calculate and tiptoe around life and play perfectly optimally or our file gets softlocked.

>>7636231
Women like meditation and those spiritual 'hang in there' posters and whole lot - so I disagree that 'normal' people don't have these thoughts or think these sort of scenarios. You're not so special anon, none of us are, your thoughts (and ours) are hardly that unique.

>>7636231
>normal people dont have to come up with these contrived scenarios, they just do the first thing that pops into their head and their lives are awesome. Meanwhile we have to carefully calculate and tiptoe around life and play perfectly optimally or our file gets softlocked.
If we don't get to be Alexanders we got to be Caesars

>>7636231
Normal successful people. The actual normal person is aimless and wastes their life being a wage slave

>>7636231
majority of "normal" people waste their lives away
>wageslaving
>movies
>vidya
>fandoms
>alcoholism
>self-harm
>gambling
>drugs
>obesity / food addiction
>paycheck to paycheck poverty
>politics
>religion

all vices that drain one's time away

>>7636150
So basically none? Maybe try finishing some stuff and you'd see some improvement.

>>7636231
If you want anything in life worth having you'll hit that wall and your brain will say "This is stupid why are we even doing this" and if you don't have an answer you'll give up. That goes for people in higher education, military, getting a certification- no one has it easy. Even people who have free rides hit this wall, everyone struggles in life it's part of being a living organism.

>>7635552 (OP)
>go on without me
nobody noticed you in the first place, NPC.

>>7635599
okay I will watch it now

>>7636999
Whoah, did this guy just give a highschool style copy/paste answer? How flippant and bad ass! Make sure to tell mummy at dinner how cool you were on the internet.

>drew hours a day as a /beg/
>can't even muster up one hour as an /int/ because I can just draw in my head instead and save my energy

>>7635552 (OP)
>go on without me, I won't make it

>>7635552 (OP)
I'm with you man. But for me it's closer to 7.
I think my problem is that I was neglecting studies. There were some entire years where I basically drew nothing from reference. Now I'm committed to doing a lot of studies, and practicing them until I can do them fast and accurately. idk if it'll actually help, I might just be fucked because I have anti-talent, but at the very least this is a concrete change from what I was doing before, so there's hope I guess.

>>7635552 (OP)
Progress isn't linear
One of these days its going to finally click for you and you'll make massive progress
As long as you keep trying, you'll get there
Remember; We are ALL going to make it

>>7640188
>One of these days its going to finally click for you and you'll make massive progress
Yep
You only truly fail if you give up

>>7640177
>>7640188
>>7640199
>77 88 99
damn

>>7635552 (OP)
"Protect your honor as an int...OK, so you never made it int, but it's what's in here that counts"

>>7635552 (OP)
it's the journey that matters anon

>>7635552 (OP)
there are three basic levels of intent to a skill
>hobby (purely for fun)
>serious hobby (fun but also gitting gud/potentially a "side hustle" as the kids would say)
>professional or whatever (actually trying to git gud so you can live off of it)
personally I draw for fun
I will never life off, or make any money from drawing
I have serious hobbies I could probably monetise
and then a few very specific skills I'm seeking professionalism in because I would love to do them for a living
so ask yourself
is drawing something you want to do for self expression and fun? or is it something you want to live off?

>>7641235
As corny as that sounds, it really is. It is the variable, in the equation.

>>7635552 (OP)
That's just how it goes sometimes. Just keep at it. I've been at this about that long and still in a similar boat but I keep at it. The point of drawing I think is making something you want to happen happen on the paper. For me that's the big draw. You made whatever the hell you wanted to see happen happen. Regardless of how it looks it's there. Try thinking out where your issues skill wise lie. I think my issue was that I never really developed the ability of studying. I always just wanted to do the thing, drawing whatever, and I hoped to practice as I do it. Which means I do get drawings done but it's also horribly slow improvement. There's some but it's glacial. Find whatever it is that's slowing you down and maybe work on fixing it. Or just keep hobby-ing it. There's really no shame in that either.

>>7636231
normal people have a 9-5 and watch netflix and don't do much else

>>7645456
That's right anon, nobody is special or has any thoughts in their heads, except you. You are the one special little boy in the world.

>>7640188
The more you fail the less you need to succeed

>>7645468
not what I said buddy, they said normal people dont do this and I said what normal people do do
they dont have to find ways to trick themselves into drawing because they just dont do it in the first place, its a non issue

>>7645486
he said dodo

Is 6 years the limit? t 5 year beg

>>7645497
I always thought it was 3. t int.

>>7645497
I’m fine with just struggling and failing the rest of my life, even if I knew for sure it was impossible for me to learn. Maybe it’s penance for my sins.