No.9574
>You didn't start drawing until your late 20s
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No.9575
>>9574
>being in your late 20s
Fucking sucks man, I'm only 25 and I have yet to achieve anything.
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No.9579
One of these days I'll be old and I'll think "man, now that I'm old, I sure can draw more stuff than when I was a youngster".
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No.9580
Von Gogh started painting when he was 27.
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No.9581
>>9580
And then he killed himself.
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No.9590
>>9581
then just don't die.
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No.9591
>>9581
Well don't do that.
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No.9602
>>9574
ha, I started when I was 20
;_;
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No.9606
I started when I was 12.it was worth only to prolong the suffer.
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No.9652
>>9580
Van Gogh is a good example of an artist that improved dramatically in a really short period of time. You can compare one of his earliest paintings of a carpenter to one he made two years later and it's like night and day in terms of quality.
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No.9693
>>9574
I began drawing when I was 15, and i've graduated just recently.
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No.9790
>>9652
the first one is still better than all of my work
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No.9794
>got serious at 30
>working by 33
I don't think we have much of an excuse when there's random n-words out there making it like this. Those memes about it ever being "too late" are toxic af tbh fams
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No.9796
>>9794
He probably started at 8 and already had a ton of experience with drawing, he just didn't get serious about making it a career until later. Also, post the full page.
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No.9797
>>9796
According to the article the dude was basically a drug addled loser throughout his teens and 20s.
Unfortunately this is an app from a small resolution phone not a .pdf, taking all of the screenshots and editing them into a readable format would take a while. One sec, I'll hold my phone sideways because it captures the entire page that way-but it probably won't be readable.
Here's the guy's blog though, pretty decent stuff imho
https://www.instagram.com/melmadedooks/
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No.9798
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No.9799
>>9798
Nope, figured as much
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No.9800
>>9794
Here's the full article.
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No.9802
Van Gogh started when he was 27, Bob Ross started when he was nearly 30. It's never too late to start.
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No.9817
>>9802
It's worth noting Bob Ross's work was heavily focused on landscapes. And specific kinds of landscapes, namely mountains and trees. While he was an expert at creating landscape paintings he was heavily specialized on doing one thing. Which is common with self taught artists.
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No.9942
>>9580
>>9802
I'm 27 now. Nice.
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No.10055
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>>9574
I started at 32, which is okay since not everything has to be porn.
That's the only thing that gets weird if you're that old, drawing hentai and shit.
But if the average livespan is 70 something with retirement about 60-65 then I still have about 30 years of drawing ahead of me, which is not too bad.
Of course you can still draw smut when you're out of the age range of the nubile young teenagers that porn thrives off, but yeah.
Not everything has to be that.
In fact, I started drawing cause over the years I have been missing more and more sincerity and loathed more and more dumb irony and other shit and while porn is not part of that, I still miss shit that takes itself seriously.
Matt Groening is making this new fantasy cartoon, disenchanted, and it's about a disgruntled bitch who hates having magic and shit.
Why even make such a thing. Fucking "irony" and "sardonic" bullshit.
I want to enrich the world. I want to draw like Rackham and co.
I still lack in the body department, though, so no art posts from me.
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No.10056
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>>9798
>>9800
Motivation is kinda shit, to be honest.
Draw like it's your task, your job.
Just do it. Just do your drawing. No buts, not excuses. You haven't drawn today? Tough luck, you don't get to sleep until you have drawn something.
If you're waiting for motivation then you'll be chasing a shadow.
If you force yourself then that might not sound like a lot of fun, but I have found out that, even if it takes a few days to kick in, that I actually kinda like the stuff I did during my drills.
But yeah, "motivation" has too much attached to it, too much rationalization.
Too much doubt.
"do I really feel inspired? I don't know. Probably not since I don't feel super duper stoked to draw."
And thus you don't draw that day, when even doing simple exercises like connecting two dots with a straight freehand line would have given you at least some hand eye coordination gains.
Also, bumping to offset the accidental sageru.
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No.10127
>>10056
Good points. Something I've learned about motivation is that you have to be honest about what things you desire that actually have an emotional charge to them.
We all want a million things for various reasons, but there are a few particular items that when we envision us having them, we have a strong emotional reaction to, usually feeling good. The problem is we may attach negative judgements to our desires. We may think the reflect poorly on our idealized character or that desiring things leads stress related to obtaining them. We may think that the effort required to obtain them should be put forth toward more noble pursuits.
This leaves people in a perpetual state of waiting around to be motivated. Either new desires need to come along or the idealized desires need become sufficiently emotionally charged to move one towards action. Life experience suggests that these two things rarely occur if at all.
Instead we should embrace that which emotionally moves us and feed those desires everyday. I don't know if there is anything humans are as good at consisitently doing as they are at yearning for their desires. If we can transmute this yearning into a constant reminder to take up our practice, we should have a constant source of motivation that should be self-perpetuating.
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No.10169
>>10056
But I like drawing butts
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No.10170
>>10169
Butts are great, I draw them, too.
But how many butts are there in relation to something like Frank Frazetta illustrations nowadays.
He has butts, too, by the way, but not much along those ways.
Where are the old masters of illustration gone?
Do you think they would all be drawing porn today, too?
Hello, Rockwell is my name, here's my patreon.
I illustrate only the finest rule 34, please consider becoming a patreon.
And Rockwell isn't even all that special.
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No.10181
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No.10197
>>10056
>Just do it. Just do your drawing. No buts, not excuses. You haven't drawn today? Tough luck, you don't get to sleep until you have drawn something.
Don't do this. You will find yourself crying and wanting to die. Just give it some rest.
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No.10379
>tfw I started when I was 15
>my work when I was 18 wasn't terrible and yet I still didn't have a grasp on the fundamentals
>tfw birthday in two days
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