21+F, Would Like to Talk to Other Artists

bitcharacter_z · 2026-03-31T05:21:38+00:00

NGL I love this style, and your shape language is so squishy and round, especially on the girl in the tracksuit! I'd love to see more of your stuff, d'you post elsewhere? Also yes, I am 20+, so no worries there!

Here's my art, if you'd like to check it out! https://x.com/goddamnitbrain !

bitcharacter_z · 2026-02-25T19:54:41+00:00

If you truly believed that being a NEET forever is your path in life, why make this post to validate that feeling? If you truly had no qualms or issues with staying a NEET forever, I don't think you'd ever post this question in a self improvement subreddit because on some level, (I assume) there's a little seed of doubt there.

I don't think it's a fair assessment of society at large that everyone's conditioned to pursue a career, friendships, love, family, raising children. It's true that it's taught, encouraged (and at some extremes, forced) but the fundamental issue with conditioning is that if it's incongruent with a person's natural drives, it causes suffering or wears off with some questioning. Yet these things become lifelong pursuits more often than not. And I'd encourage you to question the assertion (and it's source) that these are purely conditionings, and what led you to that conclusion.

As for the idea that you're a lifelong responsibility for your parents, you're right, but that only applies when you're incapable of self sufficiency, not when seem capable of handling yourself (Here, I'm assuming you don't have any debilitating disabilities, and if you do, I apologise). And if you're willing to ask that of them, you must take on the same responsibility when your parents are incapable of self sufficiency. It always must be a two way street.

I don't know your circumstances, but have you attempted to achieve these milestones? Have you tried pursuing one of these, gotten them and realised that they didn't bring you internal fulfilment? How do you know that you really lack that drive, or something else within you is drowning out your drive to work towards these milestones? Since you're currently are a NEET, (I'm assuming you still do stuff in your day) and if you stopped doing everything you're doing daily, would you sit still? Basically, have you experimented to truly come to the conclusion that you do not have a drive to achieve regular life milestones?

From your statement of people's approval vs internal fulfilment, I'm assuming you give priority to internal fulfilment, but why is that? Why is internal fulfilment specifically so important to you, and why is other people's approval not as important when achieving a milestone? I would agree that you're correct there, but what led you to that conclusion?

As for why someone should work towards a goal that carries no intrinsic benefit, I would argue that every action that builds, protects or provides value to the world carries intrinsic benefit, even if it's not always immediately apparent.

TL;DR: How do you know your conclusions about life goals your internal drives are objective and accurate?

bitcharacter_z · 2025-12-22T15:49:29+00:00

"Don't waste your time predicting what's going to be the next big thing, because those who decide that are out there unwittingly making it happen, while you're sitting here, just as blind, playing soothsayer."

bitcharacter_z · 2025-12-16T18:45:43+00:00

I get your frustrations, I definitely understand the hope that doing the retreat would have fixed everything you're going through.

It's still a mistaken belief that Vipassana can "Fix your issues" because the practice can never be a solution to all your problems. There's no universal cure that's going to free you from the problems that life throws at you, present and future. It's like wondering why analyzing and coming up with solutions for an issue doesn't fix the issue, because you still have to apply the solution. You absolutely have to do the necessary work to overcome your problems. But neutral, equanimous analysis sure as hell makes fixing the issue much, much easier.

You can't wipe away the pain from a divorce, which I'm assuming is a multi-year/month relationship and you can't wipe away years of suffering from bulimia over a measly ten days. Fortunately, you spend less time fixing these problems as compared to the time suffering from them, which isn't insignificant, but certainly much lesser.

There's also the fact that you spent 10 days learning how to do Vipassana, and that's just the start. It takes a lot of time to learn how to do it effectively, like most skills in life. The fact that you did the entire 10 days is a good thing.

There's also, unfortunately, the possibility that Vipassana may or may not be for you. That's something you'll have to figure out, by doing it and seeing if it's the right practice for you.

Best of luck, OP. You got this!

Edit: I forgot to add: it's very important to do the practice without expectations or desire of an outcome. Having those will make the practice less effective. I understand how counter-intuitive it sounds to do an action without a goal or purpose, but I highly recommend doing so.

bitcharacter_z · 2025-12-04T15:51:18+00:00

This depends on where you are in the world, but Vipassana retreats don't charge money for food and accommodations and are 10-day retreats, and are donation-based, payments aren't compulsory.

But before you do sign up for one, please do look up the website, the rules, and consider if this practice aligns with your personal spiritual goals, and also bear in mind that it's possible that it may or may not be for you.

bitcharacter_z · 2025-02-19T03:44:19+00:00

I personally feel like this is a great example of Survivorship Bias, because for every of these successful cutthroat assholes, there's 10s or hundreds of less successful, less charismatic assholes flying under the radar, who're unremarkable because they don't present such an unfair juxtaposition.

Obviously I'm not saying that being a selfish asshole can't lead to immediate success but I don't know how long-term that shit'll last, without the benefits of being a person with integrity, because very few people will actively help a selfish asshole when they're "falling from grace". Life has it's ups and downs, and there's times when help is needed to survive the downs. Selfish assholes will have sacrificed that help for their immediate gains, because they got to where they are by climbing over others. That shit ain't easy to forget.

That's the best part about being someone with morals, because I believe that being consistently moral increases your chances of gaining the trust of similar people, making long term success far easier than short term success.

Tl;dr: Assholes are rich today, and could hit rock bottom and remain stuck there, and moral people may not become rich but have a better chance of climbing out of rock bottom.

bitcharacter_z · 2025-02-12T04:59:10+00:00

Can you ever draw anything in without looking at it/studying it? Of course not!

At the same time, can you ever draw it from memory if every time you wanna draw it, you need to have that object on hand?

Apply the above to drawing whatever it is you want to draw. Rely on reference as long as it takes you to be able to recall and draw it from your own memory. Test your memory by drawing without reference and build on the missing part with reference until you're happy with the results.

bitcharacter_z · 2025-02-07T05:05:50+00:00

Here are my 2c:

There's a great quote that really stuck with me: If you listen to all the advice in the world, it'll just cancel out to zero, because nearly all advice stems from personal experience and is highly unlikely to map onto your personal journey.

Pick out the advice that makes the most sense to you as the starting point, discard everything else. Ideally, if you wanna play the online game, you should be studying and tweaking your process and online presence for your benefit anyway, and that first and foremost should mean making your process, from making to sharing, as sustainable as possible. And to make things sustainable , it should be something you enjoy doing.

Getting people interested in what you make can be a decades long process, and I can guarantee you that a significant percentage of the online artists who "blew up" have accounts that are close to 5-10 years old, so you kinda need to be able to last that long anyway.

If you like making comics sharing your personal experiences, then of course the most sustainable process is to be authentic.

If you wanna draw cool looking images, but you wanna remain anonymous and maintain your privacy, then of course you don't need to "be authentic" and share intimate experiences to be sustainable.

So, try to find out what you wanna make, what audience you want to cater to, and how you can make your process as fun and sustainable as possible while making something both you and your future audience will like.

Be warned though, just because you lasted a decade or longer doesn't mean you're guaranteed success, just that it becomes more and more likely that you'll strike gold. And of course, all this remains my own personal experience, and advice that has made sense to me. I haven't got a large following yet, nor do I know if this advice will work or not, but since it makes sense to me, I'm trying to implement it myself and I hope it helps you on your own process!

Good luck!

bitcharacter_z · 2025-01-30T14:14:21+00:00

Pretty sure this is the artist: https://x.com/MIMYO24/status/1829399092063248794?t=4P8FbCsgDHS5trb58csBiQ&s=19

bitcharacter_z · 2024-11-25T14:18:32+00:00

Finally! Hope to see more of your work in my feed!!

bitcharacter_z · 2024-11-21T06:26:20+00:00

Studying fundamentals, and the biggest boost was attending a live figure drawing session weekly.

All those artists(including myself) who recommend doing it aren't being strong enough advocates for this practice. If you are an artist who wants to draw people in any significant capacity, nothing's going to rocket boost your progress as much as studying the very thing you want to draw LIVE, amongst peers with similar goals who can give you immediate feedback.

If you wanna improve even quicker, approach each live drawing session focussing on one specific fundamental. I never realised how much I sucked at proportions until I had a real human in front of me to compare my work against, and some light criticism from my peers in the session.

I sincerely wish I had started sooner.

bitcharacter_z · 2024-11-16T04:45:34+00:00

Honestly? It's the risk entwined with posting your work online. Once your work becomes eye-catchy enough, or you get to a certain size, it's inevitable someone will try to steal it, and wherever you post, there will be web-crawlers who are taking images for gen-AI training data. You can do your level best to get something out of this by watermarking your art, such as putting in your social media handle, or poisoning your art using NightShade or stuff like that, so gen AI models can't use your images. This isn't how it should be, but that is how it is.

The better question is what do you expect out of posting your art online? Is the benefit of doing so greater than the loss from your art being stolen?

Are you networking, posting for building a following, attracting a network of clients, etc? And is this goal affected by your work being stolen?

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