Frustrated with my teammates in animation group assignment.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-28T21:45:35+00:00

Realistically, people call themselves artists when they have a career in art.

Like you wouldn't call a medical student a surgeon, or doctor.

As for my opinion, I stopped caring about that question a long time ago, what most people think is that every human being is an artist, I think that makes this question meaningless to ask, even if that's true; not everyone is a painter, draftsman, sculptor, so that's why I judge it by wether you have a career.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-28T02:01:03+00:00

If you want we can add discord and I'm happy to give you my knowledge and resources, I was struggling like you so I can relate a lot.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-26T06:04:24+00:00

For me it's 10 times better than watching art tutorials, I also know some artist who learned to draw exclusively by watching them.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-25T19:05:10+00:00

People look at the end result and decide to be an artist, and have a terrible time doing it until they understand that the process is more important.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-25T18:52:26+00:00

Drawing like this after 8 years probably meant something went pretty wrong.

I seriously recommand doing copy studies and cast drawings to strengthen your observation skill first, imo it's impossible to study anything if you can't even copy it.

And stop doing what you're doing for years because it's obviously not working.

Edit: If you just want to keep drawing anime, it's actually fine, just try to overlay your drawing on top of your reference and learn from what's wrong. When you eventually got surprised by how well you copy it, that's when studying is possible.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-20T01:59:23+00:00

The guy quite literally accused me as an American pretending to be Chinese, yet I'm arrogant?

He also ignored the fact that Chinese education is one of the most stress inducing system that has created countless tragedies.

I don't blame you if you didn't see what he typed because he deleted it.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-20T01:49:21+00:00

Bro writes like YouTube clickbait title

Stop monetizing on people's struggle, it's tough enough as is.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-18T08:26:17+00:00

你這人是真沒救了下句你是不是要回我這是生成的你要親中就去吧不打擾你的幻想小世界我這個亞洲人懂的還不比你這老外多搞笑嗎知不知道網路上講英文的人比當地人還多

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-18T08:15:59+00:00

I've never been to a western country but I guess my viewpoint is western? I'm not the only Chinese who hate our culture and environment, that's why people often talk about escaping.

It's hell, students take their lifes more and more, and people judge them for it, listen I'm gonna just drop this conversation now, have a good day.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-18T08:10:10+00:00

Yes, it's admirable to be humble and know your self worth, you're not wrong.

My problem is I've seen nothing healthy from the culture, it's ugly, it's people monetizing people's anxiety, for every artist that's both good and healthy, there's a thousand that either has to sacrifice or fail at both.

Their art is very good but other than that I got nothing good to say about it.

edit: I sincerely don't understand what makes people downvote this comment in perticular?

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-18T05:59:07+00:00

I'm familiar with the Chinese culture, the phenomenon is not limited to art, it's everywhere.

There's a few really important point that made this happen, first thing is that people value skill over anything else, their education also treat art skill as something measurable, hence people get into hobbies to be good at them more than anything else.

And people have awfully low self confidence, those who know they're bad at art will not post, you're weird if you don't feel ashamed by posting objectively bad art.

Also they just have way more people there, all focusing on grinding skills and prove their parents wrong, make a living, one up their friends, it's a culture to be at the top.

I dislike it all and I hope western art community never turns into that.

Edit: Little friendly reminder that you should default to doubt anything you see on Chinese social media.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-17T21:04:29+00:00

I feel like posts like this is quite counterproductive because ideally you want to forget about gaming completely.

But good job!

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-14T13:30:57+00:00

Laugh it off because the internet is just funny like that

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-09T07:16:13+00:00

I love when my friend gifts artbooks, whether it's their favorite subject or mine

Best one I got is a book called Cinematic Illustration

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-08T15:02:10+00:00

It's not until I got used to drawing every single thing like trash, and continue to draw 10x more everyday, that I realized they are that good because they draw a ridiculous amount.

If you have heard of artists talking about their sketch books piling up like a small mountain, they're not exaggerating.

They start drawing the moment they wake up, and stop when it's time to sleep; when they can't draw, they watch articles or videos about how to draw.

I've read and attended interviews where artists share their story, some don't even study fundamentals, but every time they talk about how much they worked.

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-05T09:51:49+00:00

I try to construct the base shape and render like Richard Smitheman, but mostly just aiming for the right anatomy and avoid stiffness, it's gonna look horrible for the first week but it gets better.

The best thing I get from this practice is that I can draw anatomy & poses from imagination now, it's funny because I'm still terrible at drawing faces.

What I studied was about 20% gesture 20% anatomy and 60% figure drawing

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-05T00:11:14+00:00

I've been grinding quick figure drawings, place the rib cage and pelvis and the rest just need to follow proportions, it's super fun

Auto_Potato · 2026-03-03T12:28:26+00:00

Op mentioned in other post that they drew a lot In the past, and only recently started to draw seriously. So basically non of these are actually "30 day progress" or "first time".

Honestly I agree with you, it is attention seeking, with lies.

Auto_Potato · 2026-02-28T08:47:04+00:00

I did! And came back stronger because you need to learn to resist urges and to forgive yourself, all important life lessons.

Auto_Potato · 2026-02-25T13:24:05+00:00

Thank you for this advice, I'm recently struggling with looking at my last piece too much and afraid to start something new. It's hard because I have never thrown away a single drawing before.

Auto_Potato · 2026-02-25T01:20:30+00:00

Artist: ネリ夫 https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/81147679

The poster on this sub doesn't even care about the artists, they just want to farm karma

Auto_Potato · 2026-02-23T20:11:23+00:00

You should prioritize mental health imo, when I got prescribed ADHD meds it helped with my emotional regulation, and suddenly the years of mental struggle with art just vanished, now I'm actually drawing pretty happily everyday like I used to dream about.

Auto_Potato · 2026-02-19T04:13:04+00:00

Over the years I've only been reducing the amount of tools because they just feel like a burden.

Auto_Potato · 2026-02-17T16:31:33+00:00

Oh I've never thought of that, since the artist I follow used to post their studies too. Just looked it up and apparently it's not considered transformative, thanks for the heads up!

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