>most popular thread has been /beg/ for over a decade
What causes this?

>>7651206 (OP)
>What causes this?
the board calling everyone a beg no matter what

>>7651206 (OP)
Only an extremely low amount of people make it out of beginner phase. Not everyone has the talent or the circumstances.

>>7651206 (OP)

>>7651206 (OP)

What does "/beg/" refer to?

>>7651215

What exactly is the beginner phase?

>>7651206 (OP)
90% of the board is /beg/ or /int/, the remaining 10% doesn't draw and crabs everyone else

>>7651206 (OP)
That's because the good artists leave /ic/

>>7651222
>Only 10% crab nodraws
You are being extremely generous.

>>7651206 (OP)
The few /ic/ artists that we have proof that made it as a pro never came back to teach us like the Tonari Animation's key animators, a few NSFW artists like Sakimichan, Cutesexyrobutts and concept artists that make bank in AAA vidya.
We have screenshots to prove that they're wasting their time here years ago but that's in the 2010s and they're too busy making money.
After a while you graduate from this hellhole.

>>7651206 (OP)
If it wasn't /beg/, then it would be the same with any other general. All communities naturally seek for a common room to meet and hang out.
/beg/ is the logical option since it's a place where everyone can feel a beg entitled to make mistakes and laugh about it. Even pros can be begs in certain areas, so everyone feels comfortable in a beg environment.

>>7651219
>What exactly is the beginner phase?
Being unable to internalize any of the drawing fundamentals.

>>7651206 (OP)
>What causes this?
Anonymity.

>>7651249
>Sakimichan, Cutesexyrobutts
>Sakimeme
Sakimi's here in 2015 but that's the same year she sold out and went into NSFW so I blame IC.

>>7651230
did simon ever come back for us?

>>7651287
I think last year he came back and drew a head looking up tutorial. But also got chased off by schizos in that thread.

>>7651206 (OP)
It’s a learning board. People post in the learning thread. Duh.
In fact it’s maybe the only board on 4chan that’s solely dedicated to learning and practicing a skill. Except /3/ maybe?

>>7651206 (OP)
low self esteem
>>7651210
seconding and the crab below proves the point

>>7651357
>But also got chased off by schizos in that thread
I hate crabs so much it's unreal

>>7651280
>image
This has been a feeling in the back of my head lately.
I care about about helping push back against all the artistic blackpills but I have my own shit to do.

I'm not really sure how to really help en masse beyond that. Too many artists are blackpilled to fuck about all kinds of things and spread this mind virus to others, and this is one of the few places where I can actively talk to people and say things that drill into the parasitic ideas without them being able to block/ban me for going against whatever the local narrative of collective struggle is.

>>7651249
>/ic/ is an art thread
stopped reading here

>>7651206 (OP)
you are beg, right?

>>7651206 (OP)
like all threads on /ic/ you don't want an answer, only replies. so here you go.

>>7651453
prompt?

>>7651452
kek I love when people out themselves as posers and tourists by so confidently using the wrong terminology and jargon

>>7651463
classicfckyu

>>7651372
He's not wrong. There are very very few artists who actually make good art. Even less who do so publicly.

And it is largely a personal problem. Of any skill you can learn, art is just about the least dependent on material circumstances. How good you are has a lot to do with how much time and effort you're able to dedicate to drawing. If you're weak willed and working a 60 hour job, good luck bub, chances are slim to none.

>>7651478
based tradchad

All these things are practically look and copy, there is no mystery

>>7651249
It became a board for otakus resentful of the West, but it was an art board in the past.

>>7651216
>>7651478
>>7651498
>>7651504
>>7651516
based AIchad

>>7651551
It's not AI, it's works of artists that I got from Pixiv. asshole

>>7651551
Paranoid

>>7651280
Back then she got into a fight with Ilya because of his plagiarism and she outed herself by posting a link to an /ic/ thread on her DeviantArt account.
She mentioned this board on X too, she's salty because we kept trolling her...

while you're in the progress of trying to make it big, this place (and 4chan in general) is pretty good at being helpful and supportive, it's why a ton of nice artists and game developers have wiggled out of 4chan over the years
once you actually make it on the other hand, schizophrenic crabbuckets can no longer project themselves onto you as a reflection of what they could be as you're no longer in the process of crawling out of the hole and you become an enemy of the "tribe" in their eyes

at least that's what I tell myself, everyone I know who has made some sort of long leap of progress in either just tells me that the site sucks these days.