/draw/ - Original Art

>>5330
i just want to draw anthropormorphic animals getting fuked lol

>>5329
Have you tried learning to draw upside down? I'm not an artist maybe it's a meme but I've seen people say it helped.

>>5332
like upside down how?

>>5330
watched about 3 minutes of the video; i hate AI sloppa. i'm just enviable of people who can draw, as stated before, two anthropormorphic dogs fucking.

The myth that your brain turns into a stale brick at 26 has been debunked several times and only gets pushed by the Heritage Foundation et al to infantalize people under the threshhold–convenient for anti-trans bills–and instill sunk cost fallacies in people above that threshhold–keeps reactionaries from defecting from their social media bubbles and turning left as reality sets in.

The reason you struggle to get good at things is lack of free time and attention span.

>>5334
post evidence please?

also i have plenty of free time and an arguably middling attention span. if anything it's demotivation from the oppressing reality that im shit at things and people who aren't live exhuberently good lives

>>5335
Well to begin with the theory that it was true was just a myth spread from the wording on a government website, similar to "you only use 10% of your brain" likely stemming from the study that people bring up having only tested people up to 26, and found brain development. There's no reason to think someone 27 would not have similar results as all 26 prior tests.

>>5336
so… no proofs? with no proofs we just have lived experience, and i'm seeing seldom few furry porn artists pop up and get good at 28. 15 though? well shit, you like boykisser? then you like the art of a 14 year old cub-feral artist

>>5337
Forgot to browser bookmark, digging through my bookmarks on fedi for a link

>>5338
Ah here we go: a sample of studies on the matter:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24993606/#:~:text=Regions%20of%20the%20human%20brain,with%20some%20maturing%20before%20others
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00661
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article-abstract/41/6/1576/741376?login=false

>>5334
The brain development theory is used by teachers and parents to smother young people and by failed adults to feel not left behind

oldge early transition doodles from years ago but i've been drawing my whole life and inking since i was like 12

you could easily mog me if you read theory because all i have is the muscle memory and if i stop practicing i have to start getting back on my workflow so a lot of shit tends to get messed up because i never made sense out of what i did

i value the skills i learned as much as any artist who does this since they got memory but i'll admit i've let myself rust a little and never ever did i study a single bit of theory

which i thought i didn't need but as i got myself into 3D art at 16 i've come to terms with the importance of theory as proper 3D workflows require you to understand geometry and a bunch of technical stuff unless you want your shit to be really rough around the edges and lag fucking everything you port it into.

so listen here; if you just start at something you probably won't best someone who has been training their whole life IN THEIR FIELD

but you can't master everything, that's why people say "Jack of all trades master of none"

you could pick up a bunch of arts and crafts and do a little bit of everything and become competent

or a little bit of a retarded comparison here, but think about it like a skill tree, you can try training a character in all the fields and it'll probably… won't die against specialized characters at the first swing.

but if you train a character strategically along their fields of interest you can actually build up their own specialty skillset which will be able to compete in the late game along the rest of the team.

art is not a individualist trade, who is going to admire your art if there's no one else?
techniques, theory and skill has to be passed down sometimes through family sometimes through community
under capitalism we're forced to compete to see who can feed themselves off making art
but it's not how things are ought to be
truth is that's not even who triumphs in art.
families with money who can coddle their kids with copypasted bought art courses are the ones who end up making a living off it.

and as much as they're competent at it, they still lack the conflict that the proletariat artist lives through

the pressure to get better to survive

and as such, i'm going to focus on theory for a while…
mostly for 3D and videogame development for a while but at some point i would like to go back to drawing more and maybe get into painting with like oil paint or watercolors or smn like that.

tho i'd prob do it around the time of me studying advanced geometry to learn math and shit, trigonometry and all that stuff that apparently has an esoteric side that makes me so interested in it? that's kinda how i'm focusing my skillset.

I always wanted to be a gymnast, and a soldier, and a pornstar after i gave up on everything else…

but hey, i gotta play with the cards i was dealt.

try age regression hypno to become underage all over again and restart from there

>>5469
I mean I've seen a lot of really talented age regressive artists, there may be something to that.

>>5334
Not OP, but lets not pretend like most artists werent practicing since they were children. The standard acceptable skill level for art takes multiple years of consistent practice to reach. Art isnt something you can just get decent at with a few weeks of dedicated practice and attention. You need YEARS worth of free time to ever have a chance at catching up with the average hobbyist artist

>>5477
>The standard acceptable skill level
Not a thing, you establish what skill level you want by making goals yourself. The reason it takes artists that started as kids as long as since they were kids is because they brute force it. An adult can plan things out.
Art is a language and you can learn that language. It takes time, but that's a hill, not a wall.

>>5478
>just plan things out
Whats that supposed to mean? How am i supposed to plan things out to get better at art? Plus most art advice amounts to "DONT THINK ABOUT IT! JUST PRACTICE" so it seems contradictory to planning

>>5333
>like upside down how?

You take a reference and turn it upside down and draw it that way. Supposedly it helps you draw what's actually there instead of what your brain imagines it to be.

>>5489
>DONT THINK ABOUT IT! JUST PRACTICE
DRAW ME 2 PAGE OF LINES MOTHERFUCKER,YOU'RE DOING IT UNTIL THEY'RE STRAIGHT

>>5329
>>5477

Drawing is like any other skill in life in so much as anyone can learn the skills to an extent but takes natural talent to master. I've been drawing since I was a kid and I still ain't great at it. I used to let it get to me but something I realised is that comparison is the thief of joy. I keep this picture by Chibird to cheer me up whenever I feel down about my hobbies or struggling to learn a new skill.

>>5489
Workflow, composition, notes, and yeah practices like >>5495 is talhing about.

Speaking from experience, being unemployed had a similar effect to being young. Give it a shot!