Thread 7751183

Why did you stop drawing?

You're still here, lurking the threads and refreshing the catalog but you're not drawing anymore. Why is that? Where did that spark go? You remember, right?
The tingling feeling and excitement you got putting marks down on the paper and slowly seeing it take life before your eyes.
Conjuring shapes and forms from blobs or lines, seeing where it would lead. Or looking back at your earlier work, and seeing how much you've improved.
Actually feeling proud of yourself for the first time in your life.

Now, nothing. You're still of course daydreaming about creating that comic, or creating that kind of illustration that took your breath away once.
However, maybe your vision has become clouded. Clouded with a craving of attention and approval. Perhaps in the back of your mind, the importance of 'likes' or whatever symbolic form of approval is what has shackled and poisoned your mind. You're not drawing anymore for the joy of it, but rather in a pursuit of fake happiness.
What was once fun, is now a source of frustration, anxiety and pain. And you have experienced that over and over again. Perhaps you have given up due to that endless cycle of torment.
And yet you still linger here. Maybe because deep down in your heart, you know you still want to express yourself and find the joy of drawing again.

It's not too late, anon. Forget the triviality of social media and the bravado of approvals. The journey is the destination and you are destined for greatness.
It's time to pick up the pencil once more.

>>7751183 (OP)
I always give myself a few days off from drawing after finishing something, I don't want to just be working 24/7. And I just posted my last thing sunday

i didnt, i just come here to shitpost for stress relief

I want to find that joy again but I took too long of a break. I try but it doesn't quite work like it used to. I can do studies and grind fundamentals as much as I like but I've run out of both technical skill and ideas. I can't even construct a head anymore and the frustration keeps me away.

>>7751183 (OP)
i felt this to my heart

I drew a ton of it today but none of it is good enough to post

I was busy getting emotionally crushed

>>7751183 (OP)
I'm clouded by a lack of free time and money. I started as a writer and simply went back.

don't make me draw a mirror you reflecting nigger

>>7751183 (OP)
I have exams

>>7751183 (OP)
Around high school when I got distracted with other things and assumed I wanted to make video games.

>>7751183 (OP)
If you're a slow, indecisive artist who struggles to finish stuff, never post WIPs on your socials.

>>7751592
DO IT

>>7751183 (OP)
Zoomers killed the site.

>>7753079
check out this old man, I bet he screams at kids to get off his lawn

>>7751183 (OP)
too hard lol. i should find something else to kill time

>>7751604
This.
>>7751580
Both of this. I hate exams, I'd rather draw. But I'll spend hours drawing if I start now...

>>7751585
>I started as a writer
Same
>simply went back.
I forgot about it after years of grinding art
Maybe I should go back too...
>>7753059
>I wanted to make video games
I still do

>>7753124
I wish I took art classes instead of computer ones looking back.

>>7753134
>>7753124
But I'm glad you still do. I just wish I wasn't so aimless in 2014 and was a smidge more productive.

>>7753124
>I wanted to make video games
>I still do
What's stopping you? I hope you're working towards something else, and not just waiting around for the "right moment".
That moment will never come.

>>7751183 (OP)
I didn't. I draw everyday, all day. Making mad patreon bux and the only time I ever stop drawing and browse this site to shit on permabegs is, when I need to take a shit or when my hand needs to take a break.
The artist life's good. And you'll never get to experience it, box meme losers

>>7751183 (OP)
Because I never improve and nobody on /ic/ give me Yous

>>7753134
I wish I took marketing classes instead of art classes looking back.

>>7751183 (OP)
Back in high school since I took it for an easy pass, which I did but just barely. Only picked it up again recently and it's all I can think about.

>Get into games industry as a Concept Artist (not junior),
>Game I work on is published, worked on 4 pitches for huge companies.
>It's just office work, Retain, Monetize, market to Gen Alpha
>They start spamming Nano Banana generated images and letting the 3D artists add persona touches
I wish I had pursued something actually worth doing with my youth.

>>7753515
Any advice for someone who has a Junior Concept Artist job offer?

>>7753524
have a side project so when your company goes tits up you can maybe monetize and live ok

>>7753496
Not sure if you'rr baiting or serious but can't you do both

>>7751183 (OP)
this thread was meant for me, thanks OP, today you're not a fag. i stopped simply because i'm apparently the shit end of adhd where i get too attached to "the other thing" that has me baited still since the early 2000s, and it won't throw me back into the pond. i did work on a reimagination of a jumpscare kind of image decades before jumpscares even happened online (oldfag), but i did this as digital art and i spent 80 hours on it, only to find that i was doing very intricate details on shit that nobody but myself would notice. it was such a condensed time frame, it burned me out so bad i haven't even finished that and the last i touched that was 3 years ago. recently i drew a frog pooping out a beetle tho, that was spur of the moment 15 minutes of shits and giggles. short term projects seem to work for me.

I stopped drawing because you told me I’m a NGMI permaprebeg.

>>7753286
You're right, I should make my video games right now and learn as I go.

>>7751183 (OP)
shut the fuck up and give me 20 human figure sketches
you have an hour, now go

Honestly what are some regrets you anons have regarding art?

>>7754543
Not asking more people to pose for me...

>>7754558
For me it boild down to slipping up due to AuDHD

>>7753635
don’t be like that

>>7751183 (OP)
The truth is I hate drawing from life, doing repetitious studies, endlessly repeating shapes, I cant even bring myself to read most of the books. I improved as much as I can without coming to hate drawing, and its sad that I was so greedy to desire skills above the time and effort what I was willing to give to my practice. I like drawing but I dont love it enough to make myself miserable for it, or maybe I was bound to stop because it could make me miserable at all.

>>7751183 (OP)
I didn't, I just stopped pursuing unrealistic goals.

>>7751183 (OP)
I'm just shitting right now

My brain stopped working and now I can't get it back on track aiiieee