Thread 7768691

How many hours of active drawing have you done in your entire life, if you had to guess? Any skill level. Have other areas of your life suffered because of it?

>>7768691 (OP)
I probably draw on average 3-4 hours a day, 3-4 days a week for like 10 years. So maybe like 6k hours. Drawing is a vice. I quit my job because i didnt have time to draw in inktober one year (amongst many other reasons). I lose lots of sleep to draw. I dont watch TV or play video games. I am just out of touch with reality and modern media. I dont have any friends IRL. Everyone online is an NPC.

Otherwise, life is pretty good

>>7768691 (OP)
Probably 100-200 hours as a kid from school and a couple of half-filled sketchbooks
2957 hours logged since I started again as a hobby 6 years ago. So lets just say 3000 hours.
>Have other areas of your life suffered because of it?
Yeah my back hurts from sitting at my desk too much. But now I play less videos games and can listen to more music/podcasts while I draw instead.

What age when my back will start hurting? this is a genuine question

>>7768709
Depends on your lifestyle and sitting posture

>>7768699
Pyw or stfud8kd2

>>7768691 (OP)
If I had to guess probably like half an hour a week on average from age 0 to 16, so roughly 400 hours. A combination of stickman doodles and mandatory art classes in school, so just normal kid drawings without really trying to improve.
Then maybe like 100 hours from age 17 to 24, trying to start learning a few times, but not really sticking with it and not drawing outside of that.
The only hours I actually kept track off has been the last 10 months, so since the middle of december, and I'm close to 900 hours since then. So pretty much 3 hours a day on average and almost double what I've drawn in the rest of my life combined. Could have been more if I didn't burn out in July and August
>Have other areas of your life suffered because of it?
Somewhat? I don't go to the gym as often anymore and play less (but not no) vidya, that's about it though. I didn't do much with the time before, just watching videos pretty much.
Sometimes I think about what'd be like to do nothing but draw, but work, friends and other commitments keep me from just becoming a full on hermit.

>>7768720
You know who i am. I make that blogpost all the time around here.

>>7768709
34, then you have to be careful lifting heavy shit or sneezing too hard

drawing since I could hold a crayon. 10k+ by now seems right...

>>7768691 (OP)
I don’t know how much time I’ve spent in my entire life, but over the last 5 years, it’s been between 2,000 and 3,000 hours.

>>7768699

I wonder how someone like you will raise two children. I don't even mean this in a mean-spirited way, there's just that whole 'it takes a village' thing, where you have to deal with other people and taking them out into the world and socialize a whole lot to raise a crotchling well. One of the reasons I'm not having any, and it would cut into my drawing time, which my wage-slaving already does enough of.

>>7768732
There is a reason why there are typically 2 parents. The socializing is pretty taxing, but i delegated that to wife. I’m in charge of food, cleaning, and putting asses in chairs.

The second kid nearly killed me, and i didnt draw anything for like a year. I finally got back like 3 hours of draw time at night a couple months ago. I’ll take what i can get. Anything is better than wage slaving. Time is your most valuable asset.

>>7768738
>Time is your most valuable asset.
Yeah...so valuable you decided to throw it and your energy away for another kid you didn't need...

>>7768731
A bit wasteful to do the exact same thing over and over.

>>7768738

>2 parents

I guess. I’m not banking on that though, seen it go wrong in my own circles much too often. And usually the children stay with the mother when parents separate. I feel my artistic endeavours would be completely over if I’d end up a single mom. So no kids for me, despite liking them and they’d absolutely be my world if I had any.

>how many hours
These metrics are meaningless to me. Because during my most active drawing period I was filling up sketchbooks full of angsty scribble.

>>7768760
I tried to do something different before.

>>7768691 (OP)
I'm on about 100 since I started taking it seriously in like May, add 3-4 years of inconsistent permabeg drawabox type shit, probably another 2-300? Then you kinda have to jump to childhood in which case idfk, probably the whole thing totals to close to 1k.

So far it hasn't impacted other areas besides me having less gaming time, but there's plenty I'd be ok sacrificing and plan to in the future, just ramping up slowly so I don't burn out or fuck up my wrist.

>>7768691 (OP)
2-3 hours a day for ~4 years, so 3.5k hours. this is indeed very detrimental to the rest of my life. I haven't seriously played vidya or watched a movie for at least 2 years, my uni grades went down 40%. I have a single friend which has to be my gf to save time. all this for not much.

>>7768691 (OP)
Realistically, probably 1.5k hours. Still /beg/

>>7768738
Soon you'll have your kids to help out with you're drawings. You can make them into apprentices and ink your drafts. Hehehe.

>>7768813
If that is a normal girl that Horse is bigger than a F250 Truck lol.

>>7768691 (OP)
Real drawing? Like trying to draw purposefully?
Like 10 hours maybe

Doodling as a kid, I dunno

>>7768691 (OP)
I started drawing for like 20 minutes a day during the pandemic but I probably only did that for a year or two since. Never drew before.
I'm a neet so all my time is wasteful suffering. Drawing garbage copies was significantly more productive than my average day, if anything.

>>7768797
Look up Dorian Iten's course on accuracy and copy some very simple line drawings like manga, or maybe a picture of something simple like a rock or a bowl of fruit.

draw 2-3 hours a day
think about drawing 8 hours a day

>>7769040
lul I know, that's a man but it's impossible to balance since I want the soldier to be much larger than him. the horse looks minuscule if I size it for the smallest body

>>7768732
>raising children
this is an honor bestowed upon the few chads.
Our children will just be sketches - raise those well

>>7768761
it's their choice tho. If you prefer to draw over kids, the guy would gladly take them.

>>7768761
>>7769374
and to add to this: being separated is your choice, too. Men rarely separate.

>>7768731
grim

>>7768699
>Drawing is a vice. I quit my job because i didnt have time to draw in inktober one year (amongst many other reasons). I lose lots of sleep to draw. I dont watch TV or play video games. I am just out of touch with reality and modern media. I dont have any friends IRL. Everyone online is an NPC.

I don't remember writing this post. A year ago I looked up and saw how empty my life was from me fixating on art and jumping from project to project. How many times I was invited places but refused because I wanted to draw, how lonely I get sometimes so I have to go on a troll image board because it's the fastest and (sadly) least cringe moving art forum I know of.

I've kind of submitted to my fate of being alone flail around in hopes that I can find someone to have sex with, but friends, adventures, actual life I'm completely lost to what I would want to do other than Art.

>>7769378

That is simply not true.

>>7768725
Bro... You're literally married, you have a child and you're one of the best artists on /ic/. That's the definition of making it.