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The thing is, I don't really like drawing.
All these comments about my drawings surprise me.
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Posted 11 months ago #
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I know the feel, Anti. I can't stand drawing and I think it's gay, but I like getting positive comments.
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The Antiweeaboo said:
The thing is, I don't really like drawing.All these comments about my drawings surprise me.
I know what you mean about that. The thought process is probably different, but the end result might be similar.
I don't really like the process of drawing, at all, and I'm generally not fond of the finished product for very long. If I take too long, I will get sick of what I'm doing and never finish it, no matter how much I liked the idea when I started.
I never took classes because, quite frankly, I never wanted to put that much effort into it, because I knew I'd hate it even more, so I hardly ever "practice" either. Somehow, I still manage to pull enough innate "talent"-like material out of my ass to make something decently presentable (which, somehow, still pisses me off, because then I know I didn't put any "real effort" into it). Two weeks later, I'll point out all the flaws in what I did and curse myself for being stupid enough to have ever thought I could show this crap to somebody, to the point of actually having previously verbally berated people for being audaciously stupid enough to like my work.
First time someone told me they liked my stuff I didn't know if I should believe them and think that I might not suck as bad as I thought, or if they were just jerking me around, because it was obviously garbage produced by a talent-less hack whose only real skill is faking skill well enough to make people think he's halfway decent.
(Totally aside... see? This is why I don't drink, despite people telling me it'd "loosen me up." With the inhibition-canceling effects of alcohol, I think I would be the most depressing, angry, critical drunk in the world.)
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Neat Hedgehog said:
I cheat pretty bad when it comes to that, myself. I just do very, very, rough, general sketches, often free of perspective, on paper, and then do all the real drawing and corrections on my computer.
That's how a lot of people draw.
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I was going to comment on the rest but...
Ninsheart said:
I know the feel, Anti. I can't stand drawing and I think it's gay, but I like getting positive comments.Posted 11 months ago # -
giascle said:
That's how a lot of people draw.
I know, but it feels cheap to me, somehow.
I have actually done line art with a pencil that I kept almost all of, but it's a lot of effort, and I have to think it's worth doing right, which is rarely.
I have a lot of respect for people who can draw and ink on paper, as well as actually paint on canvas. No CTRL-Z there.
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Satoko said:
I was going to comment on the rest but...You make it sound like they're mutually exclusive.
...But while I was being Nin, I was also, in fact, being very serious.
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Ninsheart said:
...But while I was being Nin, I was also, in fact, being very serious.Those don't go together!!
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Ninsheart said:
You make it sound like they're mutually exclusive.
...But while I was being Nin, I was also, in fact, being very serious.
Being able to create a visual image of your imagination is magnificent.
The process of creating a visual image of your imagination is invigorating.
Lacking the skill to create a proper image of your imagination is devastating.
Knowing the probability of a devastating result turns the process into torture.My reason for doubting you is much more simple than that though.
You produce way too many images for such a statement to have any greater likelihood of being true, Ninkun.Posted 11 months ago # -
Satoko said:
Lacking the talent to create a proper image of your imagination is devastating.
Knowing the probability of a devastating result turns the process it into torture.I don't lack the talent to create a proper image of my imagination. What really makes the process into torture is that drawing is just plain boring. And it's frustrating when it takes several tries before it works out the way you want it.
Satoko said:
My reason for doubting you is much more simple than that though.
You produce way too many images for such a statement to have any greater likelihood of being true, Ninkun.The joy I derive from reading sweet comments outweighs the frustration and boredom I suffer while drawing.
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The part in italics is not directly a comment to you, Nin.
That part is simply how I work with it.Ninsheart said:
The joy I derive from reading sweet comments outweighs the frustration and boredom I suffer while drawing.You are a strange creature, but I guess that is to be expected from you.
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Ninsheart said:
I know the feel, Anti. I can't stand drawing and I think it's gay, but I like getting positive comments.I'd sooner phrase it as, "I draw to entertain."
Neat Hedgehog said:
I know what you mean about that. The thought process is probably different, but the end result might be similar.
I don't really like the process of drawing, at all, and I'm generally not fond of the finished product for very long. If I take too long, I will get sick of what I'm doing and never finish it, no matter how much I liked the idea when I started.
I never took classes because, quite frankly, I never wanted to put that much effort into it, because I knew I'd hate it even more, so I hardly ever "practice" either. Somehow, I still manage to pull enough innate "talent"-like material out of my ass to make something decently presentable (which, somehow, still pisses me off, because then I know I didn't put any "real effort" into it). Two weeks later, I'll point out all the flaws in what I did and curse myself for being stupid enough to have ever thought I could show this crap to somebody, to the point of actually having previously verbally berated people for being audaciously stupid enough to like my work.
First time someone told me they liked my stuff I didn't know if I should believe them and think that I might not suck as bad as I thought, or if they were just jerking me around, because it was obviously garbage produced by a talent-less hack whose only real skill is faking skill well enough to make people think he's halfway decent.
(Totally aside... see? This is why I don't drink, despite people telling me it'd "loosen me up." With the inhibition-canceling effects of alcohol, I think I would be the most depressing, angry, critical drunk in the world.)
Beauty is subjective; not only changing from person to person, but from one context to another as well.
The reception of it is no more mysterious than what you'd get from any other from of communication. It may seem different aesthetically from say, conversation, but from what I've observed they really aren't so different.
If you tell someone, "I like robots," and they agree, "robots are pretty cool," they will have given you more or less what you would have gotten from showing them a drawing of it. People only gush about how impressed they are because the communication of the idea came in a novel form; a particular form that they doubt they could have expressed themselves in.
(Of course, this only my half-witted observation. It has no basis in anything proper or scholarly, and it's doubtlessly wrong on several accounts.)
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Ninsheart said:
I don't lack the talent to create a proper image of my imagination. What really makes the process into torture is that drawing is just plain boring. And it's frustrating when it takes several tries before it works out the way you want it.
My feelings exactly.
Writing >>>>>>>> drawing
Posted 11 months ago # -
I drew a circle. Then I drew a head. Then I made it a guy's head. Then I randomly scribbled hair. Before I knew it, I had this.
Drawn without reference because I don't save pictures of him unlike
some peopleeveryone.Posted 11 months ago # -
I drew a circle. Then I drew another circle. Then I made it a genital. Then I randomly scribbled limbs. Before I knew it, I had this.
Drawn without reference because I don't save pictures of him unlike
some peopleeveryone.Posted 11 months ago # -
drawing randomly and without reference is the most fun way to draw.
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Lens said:
:l
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giascle said:
Who is this? He's pretty good looking IMO (no homo).
Nice work, Gia.
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Peter told me to draw a tree, so I did in MS paint.
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Ninsheart said:
You make it sound like they're mutually exclusive.
...But while I was being Nin, I was also, in fact, being very serious.
Im not even frontin man. If I wanted to troll this thread I would have done it a long time ago. My decision to post my drawings came from a conversation i was having with Gia.
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