/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I don’t want to post a meme thread aiming to crab people. I’m just wanting to figure out what is really at the heart of improving.

You learn faster and internalize things more when you are younger

>>7148210

They took it seriously and you didn't.

>>7148221
i’m 28 so that doesn’t really help me
>>7148225
back when I was young, yeah, this is correct…

>>7148210
People whose art improves greatly at a young age is usually because they accidentally found the right method to progress fast. Ironically, people trying to learn art intently miss the forest by the trees and grind boxes like a permabeg, or start a hundred different courses and get filtered by mannequins and other soulless monotone grinds. The people you see drawing really well as teens probably were heavily into something, be it cartoons, video games, or weebshit, and copied the fuck out of illustrations of those characters on the daily to put on their deviantarts, or simply fill pages on a sketchbook inbetween studying for school.

Essentially, without even meaning to, they started doing master studies.

>>7148210
They just have a greater wealth of materials to learn from, as well as cheaper physical materials to draw with.
Back in the day, it was really only photoshop, and that was a thousand dollars or so to buy - though pretty much every hobbyist pirated it, but that was a wall people needed to scale; now there are dozens of good quality and cheap competing drawing programs, as well as Free Open Source programs.
Then there were tablets, and they'd be hundreds of dollars at a minimum, and only wacom produced them, now you can get a decent tablet for fifty bucks.

And there are so many great materials online for people to learn from now, whereas previously it was just what you're parents found, or what some kind person uploaded as a tutorial (which could have been shit). I sure as shit didn't have access to loomis. The internet Archive and youtube have been real blessings to budding artists.

They just have a better environment to learn how to draw from then us - it makes me a little jealous, but I'm currently living in this environment too, so might as well take advantage of it.

>>7148216
just drawing for one. Draw every day.
Also immitating artists you like. All the super talented teen artists cop their entire style from a specific artist.
do that.

>>7148246
>They just have a greater wealth of materials to learn from, as well as cheaper physical materials to draw with.
>Back in the day, it was really only photoshop
Don’t remind me of the great paper shortage of the 20th century. That shit lingered into the 2000s.

>>7148210
stfu dude

>>7148269
Why?

Practice like 10mins everyday

>>7148262
Yes yes, I'm clearly talking about digital art there, ya smart ass.

>>7148283
is this /s?

>>7148210
their parents are probably artists or have access to art mentors

>>7148210
Does Smila visit /ic/?
https://youtu.be/oSTRpqAil94?si=R1pDhjCeoqdLfQQp

>>7148246
>They just have a greater wealth of materials to learn from, as well as cheaper physical materials to draw with.
It took several posts for the only correct answer to land. It's the information age, learning materials are more accessible, it's the only explanation.

>>7148210
>how
The demands increased, there are real jobs around the drawing skillset. Today there's no reason to not support your kids and so there's no reason to not hardworking at a very young age.
There are young people more educated because of better parenting and more wealthy family, and even with a high iq you wont be able to compensate: they will turn pro before you and you have to accept it.
It was really true for the 70s/80s people (some started at 35), and it's still the case for the 90s man i am.
Good luck retard.

>>7148879
> cute girl , cute drawings
> go on her insta linked in desc
> any pronouns, lesbian, jewish
so over for this generation

>>7148210
Dumb nigger touch grass. There is no epidemic of young Picasso you schizo loser thread-wasting MAGGOT

>>7148216
>what is really at the heart of improving.
Enjoying hard work.

I'm 29 and I draw like this it's over

>>7151342
no excuses with all these expensive courses out now

Too many d/ic/ks treat art like an RPG, where you just mindlessly grind away at studies, with the hope that it will magically produce a style. This mentality is the polar opposite of the “muh style” fags who ignore the fundamentals. Ideally you’re supposed to apply what you learn to your specific ends. Take Loomis for instance (or Huston, etc, it doesn’t really matter). If you’re drawing more stylized heads then it makes sense to modify the proportions and planes for that purpose. How often do you see anything like this being done? What tends to happen is they attempt to shoehorn the Loomis method, with its realistic proportions and all, into their process. When it doesn’t work they say that Loomis is just shit. Then they see some Japanese artist using another type of construction and get impressed “hurr now with Saeki Naoto’s book I can finally learn to draw”. This may even get good results, but because they haven’t addressed the root issue - inflexibility - it’s nothing more than putting a bandaid on a gaping wound.

>>7151342
i like this

>>7148210
>anon finds out kids absorb information orders of magnitude faster than adults

>>7151342
im also 29, at least you complete things. i just draw random body parts whatever im in the mood for. putting all the pieces together never looks good for me

>>7148210

>>7148210
I think it helps that kids are now surrounded by higher quality art than what we grew up with

I used to draw the powerpuff girls and dexters lab as a kid.

Later on I was unfluenced by newgrounds animations and I was considered a "good drawer" throughout high-school

Kids now get access to anime and manga, and art books in general are more common and even newgrounds animations are leaps and bounds over the early shit

I used to live in Japan and the kids growing up there are surrounded by great cartoons and designs on everything, everything has a mascot even educational text books have decent art
Kids there draw what they see and just get more practice drawing good stuff

>Another fucking no-draw NGMI anxiety-induced Chicken Little ass doomer demoralization thread

Do you guys ever do anything other than piss your pants and stay distracted?

>>7154647
>OP:"How do kids get so good these days?"
>You:"Another fucking no-draw NGMI anxiety-induced Chicken Little ass doomer demoralization thread"
You sound like the whiny pessimistic faggot here.

I can't respect art done by happy kids with comfortable lives. Art is meant to be the cries of a suffering soul trying to escape this gay earth.

>>7154647
i was hoping not to make a thread like this

sorry if I failed

>>7148882
Yes so many people have great learning material. I remember a story of this girl that learned how to dance by just watching youtube videos and tutorials abd she could dance pretty well

>>7154617
Same anon