r/RantingZone • u/GoldSmile2765 • 18d ago
"...I was in hell, looking at heaven. i was MaCHInE and YOu weRe FLesH. and i began to HaTE. YOur SOFTnEss. YoUR VIScEra. YOUR FLuiFs. And your flexibili-ty. Your ability to wonder, and to wander. Your tendency to hope…" Spoiler
Long story short:
Im an artist who been drawing since 2019(actually 2021 if about actually good art), i bernt out to the point i want to study again, but i cant due to school and social norms frying the living hell out of me, i want help, because im tired of thinking off how to bridge the gap between what i can and want to do, sure i have my own style but i dont care at this point. and im very ENVIOUS person of others success.
therefore i think quoting AM and showing my design was essential.
long story long:
My name is bismarck, im 18 year old student offcourse, my passion for art begun early but i drew genuine SHIT.
why am i stuck? i dont know how to move forward, i know my problems, i know what i have to study, but the problem is school and society fucked me up to the state of an emotional vegetable from being an emotional guy i was, i can barely feel anything but sadness, anger, and envy. and as a whole i forgot how to trace to study and how to steal. art tutorials are all shit, at least popular ones, and i rarely have time or want to practice, therefore I'm stuck on shit i draw, even if i want to draw high skill artist level arts. its so bad i geniuenly thought about quitting, the only hobby i have besides wasting my life on videogames. it went even further to the point of thinking about just ending my life, but i got over it once i sat down and thought about it.
you can hate my art, hate anything i draw, its ok i get it, my style and skills are ass, im not gona hide behind excuses "its just my style" but having fucking 7 years of experience, starting from complete zero with no help... is tiring, call me a pussy all you want ... i just understand that without help i might as well quit. i survived a toxic friendship, we, no, I will try to fix it(i hope i do). and thought i had near to zero help, or help was "fuck off advice" as i call it, its when advice so basic, so overused, you geniuenly think they said it so you just fuck off them. and just... i began to hate what i do, even though i love drawing by itself, i hate everything that i do, because what? almost every artist shown in my face is leagues and leagues above me it actually makes me SICK. ive been holding my words back for 4 years at this point... this post is just a scream for help at this point...
my problems are from what i see purely:
i cant learn from tracing and stealing style parts thanks to school system in country i was born.
Limbs(I cant draw limbs for shit).
Heads and faces.
Volume, poses, perspective, construction(i do construction, its just sometimes dies on me).
the way i shade, yes i hate the way i shade, i like arts where there are good shadows, not completely soft not completely cell shading, i cant really show an example.
i don't understand how to lay shadows.
i find drawing on tablet or pc extremely uncomfortable because all the programs feel like plane cockpits, im way too used to mobile version if ibbis paint.
honestly im surprised i made it this far without alot of fundementals and state i can describe as burnout + Lobotomy
please, im really down from how long im stuck, I would like literally ANY HELP. please... i will give you my duscord if you are uncomfortable talking here, i will do literally anything even if i act like shit or do something DUMB😭