If you could go back in time when you first started drawing, whats the number one drawing-related advice you would tell your younger self?

>>7635756 (OP)
Draw as long as you can. Studying should only be your warm up. Treat studying like anki, and always apply what you've learned. Don't be a pussy and always draw what is hard but barely possible. Don't bother with /ic/ and don't interact with anyone from that place.

>>7635756 (OP)
You don't have what it takes. Do something else.

>>7635767
why are you still here?

>>7635769
NTA but sunk-cost fallacy

I wonder if Hiro's still around

https://youtu.be/ddqx_cWUN-g?si=K_ymR4aS0nEMbNqS

>>7635756 (OP)
build a following. its going to get nearly impossible soon.

>>7635756 (OP)
>all these le 4chinz buzzwords
makes me cringe tbqhwyf

>>7635756 (OP)
>whats the number one drawing-related advice you would tell your younger self?
Drawing is shit, learn something else.

Don't stop. Just keep going.

>>7636003
that’s what she told me

>>7635769
>>7635771
forgot your attach, king

>>7635756 (OP)
Don't take that commonsensical advice about drawing on the side while pursuing a "serious" career. You'll hate your life, lose the desire to draw, and won't really make it in "the career" either.

>>7635821
I prefer /vst/ these days but I appreciate the thought

>>7635756 (OP)
>Don't listen to ICels, they're losers, crabs and NGMI beglets
>Focus on your dreams and give it your all
>Day jobs can go fuck themselves in the ass
>Create a social media for your art even Tiktok
>Draw NSFW and even garbage like Furry porn
>Make bank off yiff and invest it all on BTC
>Quit art and move to Thailand
>Lean F.I.R.E
>Bang shemales all day, every single f*cking day
>???
>Profit!

>>7635756 (OP)
I wouldn't say anything, I would just immediately put a bullet between his eyes.

>>7635756 (OP)
Don't listen to your family, you actually have talent for art, it's just hard to judge when you're a child

>>7635756 (OP)
invest in bitcoin, it'll pay more than your art ever will

>>7635756 (OP)
Don't actually do it. You don't like drawing you just like the idea of drawing and making pictures. Just wait for AI and learn that instead.
I gaslit myself for years thinking that I should just grind the fundies or whatever but I should just have waited. I fucking hate my life at this point and how much I've spend to get decent drawing material, from buying courses and a tablet. I fucking hate it

>>7635756 (OP)
Never ever visit /ic/.

>>7635756 (OP)
>If you could go back in time when you first started drawing
I would be an 8 year old wich would be very strange to see talking and thinking like a grown ass man on top of being able to predict coronavirus, trump, the invasion of ukraine, the american retreat from Afghanistan, the rise of morena, AI, nfts, bitcoin, and multiple terrorist attacks ive memorized

>If you don't care about things you still have to deal with the consequences of "Not caring" that means going without all the benefits that caring would give you. The price of "I don't care" is a heavy one
>The reason your work does not look like their work is because you're allowing yourself to play it by ear, a drawing is like building a house, you have to make sure the foundation is good, plan ahead and the rest will be easier.
>Solve one problem at a time. Big to small, think of what would impact the artwork the most then work on the next thing
>Drawing is describing what you see not copying it exactly
>Try to go for Clarity not beauty, you can always add beauty later when everything is in its right place
>SLOW DOWN speed covers mistakes
>When you are shading you are still drawing, those artists you watch go super fast because they have the experience to.

Ultimately I wouldn't listen to my advice because there was tons of advice that I use now that I heard as a kid and just nodded my head

>>7635756 (OP)
2 years old, crayons on wall, caveman style, what a fucking retard, if I can travel back to tell my 7 years old, it will be just draw, draw everyday, at least 4 hours - 8 hours a day.

>>7635767
spbp

>>7635756 (OP)
Get in to programming or anything that's not drawing.

>>7635756 (OP)
have fun with it while you still can, think about nothing else whether its about clout seeking or artistic self improvement. the fulfillment you get from creating things is a fleeting feeling and you should savor that feeling as long as the spark lasts

Go find yourself. Appreciate the beauty in life. Find a reason to learn everything you can about this world and how it works, how it has always worked for eternity. Dig a little deeper. Stop pretending to be an expert, you are a student forever and ever. Learn to love learning. Clean your soul and let others touch it. Then capture the beauty onto a piece of paper.

>>7635756 (OP)
Just draw
And buy bitcoin

>>7635756 (OP)
Quickly get a drawing tablet
Post stuff on pixiv or twitter
My drawings were actually not as bad as i thought

>>7635756 (OP)
Just keep drawing, don't be afraid of mistakes, and do your studies.

>>7635853
W-what are you implying.... *scared*

>>7635756 (OP)
spend less time on /ic/

>>7635756 (OP)
Please just graduate the major doesn't matter. you never use your degree anyway. You are much more useful as an artist.

Study fundies you'll get a job way faster.

>>7635756 (OP)
"Even professional artists with thousands, if not TENS of thousands of drawings under their belt will abuse the shit out of the undo key."

all of you guys advice sucks. boooooooo, get better material

>>7635756 (OP)
Ignore your parents telling you not to do it in school.

>>7635756 (OP)
charging 25¢ per picture is not enough, self, you are worth at least 50¢ per picture, and your wealth will come naturally. do not listen to crabs, in fact, continue to shove your wit down their throats. call out all cheaters, name thieves by name--they do not like this. make them hate themselves for the choice to crab on others. you are worth way more than even 50¢. it's 1986, charge a fucking hundred dollars for a silly cartoon. all the dumb shit you constantly do, it actually makes people laugh and shart at the same time. you'll be so fucking rich by the time you're ready to decide to go to college or not. do not go to art school. they hate humor, new styles scare them, "teachers" fear intelligence and autonomy. save your money you made with your funny troll comics and characters---and use that money to fund your own business. this will also strike fear into crabs. keep it up, self, you'll be infamous, and that! is a good thing...

>>7635756 (OP)
To not throw away/erase my drawings, even the shitty ones

>>7635756 (OP)
I'd kick his ass and then threaten to come back again and kill him if he even thinks about pursuing art ever again.

1: youtube tutorials are ass, you'd get a million times more out of it just looking up someone drawing and copying that.

2: use a reference, this is how everyone starts, it is the most important first lesson. you can technically get by just knowing this.

3: invest everything into learning how to draw without the reference. Work on this until you can at LEAST draw an entire finished cute animu girl from memory, reliably from one angle, and remember it always. Really, you should figure out how to do everything from memory, but knowing a full drawing from at least 1 angle is a good start. extreme practical value, and I find it fun. Its maybe only 4% more difficult than learning something well by reference, so its simply just worth it to learn everything from memory.

4: Learn to draw without guidelines. You can use the parts you draw as if they were your guidelines, until you are using none at all. its fun to figure out, and very useful!

5: Anyone that does what he loves is going to be highly specialized and have plenty weaknesses. avoid your weaknesses and stay within your limitations, embrace the fact that you are weak, and you will win. Stay in your range, and just do what you're strongest at with over and over again, focusing on your obsession / interests. Do not "face your fears" or "be brave", or anything that makes things pointlessly more difficult and waste effort, for example, don't force hard angles to work, just find whatever easy way that looks good. Be a coward, avoid failure and anything that tends to not work. just do whatever works. You'll understand the sheer scale of just how right I am once you actually start doing it.