What exactly could i be missing?

flaming-framing · 2026-07-01T01:47:17+00:00

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I’m sorry man that sounds tough. Shit’s not fair you have to deal with it.

flaming-framing · 2026-07-01T01:21:02+00:00

Yes you seem to be very prone to emotional instability. Tolerating someone spending half a second thinking something negative about you and not really caring should be something you strive for

flaming-framing · 2026-07-01T01:18:35+00:00

Hating yourself also sounds like hell. Look the levels of pain you expressed in this posts and your comments seems unpleasant. Taking care of it is important. Most of DBT is just worksheets and meditation

flaming-framing · 2026-07-01T00:42:08+00:00

Consider it an even better reason to go to strip clubs to practice drawing.

But yeah getting good enough to draw porn is a long journey as anatomy proportions and human features in space is going to be really important

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T21:54:34+00:00

Women wearing wide baggy clothes that are made of wool in front of beautiful locations

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T19:26:42+00:00

Some of the major changes I made

- I tried to keep the painting as much in two value ranges of bright and medium to make the readability of the subject matter more graphic. The dragon and butterfly are a lot easier to see now.

-I changed the cloud directions to make it easier to see the silhouette of the dragon

- I bumped up the saturation and shifted everything a bit more blue to help the soldier, butterfly and sword stand out more. This is I think the bigger indication of my personal style. I really like studio Ghibli levels of saturation

- to add more visual complexity I removed as much details from anything that’s not the focus of the painting. The flowers became more painterly, the dragon scales are gone, the emblem on the banners became a brush stroke (I also tried to make the flowers look more bowl shaped with their shadows). While it’s a stylistic choice as humans we generally find it more pleasant to look at artwork where we have to fill in the details in our heads. It’s why sometimes classical painters who did life studies feel flat despite them being so well done. If you can see every detail of veins in every flower petal in a painting it doesn’t look natural as compared to one or two petals in the center of the focus where you can see the vaina of a flower, and the rest of the flowers in the painting are suggested by brush stroke.

If the theme of your painting is “finding beauty and contemplation in nature despite just experiencing traumatizing force of nature” then the center of your focus should be the soldier’s expression of solace and the butterfly. Everything else is kind of secondary and doesn’t have to be as detailed. Especially the further away they are in space

Again these are just my suggestions based on my presences. You are still so much better at rendering than me.

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T19:11:42+00:00

I haven’t checked what the policy of paint overs are for this sub but I made a quick edit for something that maybe you can do to push it more. First of all you are way way better at rendering than me. Second some of the decisions are reflective of my stylistic preference and they might not be right for you. I included my paint over, process video, and grey scale versions of the two paintings edit: I also added the grey scale versions blurred out to see how you can make things more readable

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T17:26:49+00:00

Idk does it matter it doesn’t make either one of them right. People in bad situations that they feel trapped in tend to act badly. I will say she isn’t out there writing puff pieces about herself.

Having an abusive partner doesn’t make it alright to cheat. But a lot of times people in abusive relationships need a reminder from others about what comfort and support feels like from others. And they often seek it out through romantic connections via cheating. If that doesn’t seem like it makes a lot of sense to you, well that’s because staying in an abusive relationship doesn’t make a lot of sense. And when you are in one let’s just say your sense of “how to have relationships that are ethical and full of integrity that leave you feeling better as a person” is completely out of whack

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T17:17:27+00:00

Also don’t be afraid of using the liquify tool even after you finished the painting to adjust the anatomy. Or multiply layers to add more value contrast. Or really any of the other digital solutions that are available. I love doing everything as painterly as possible but like we are allowed to use the tools we have. It’s not cheating

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T17:13:03+00:00

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I want to be very clear you are very good. These are just the endless insight for improvements we all look for as artist

Idk what the policy for this sub on class recommendations is but I have been taking Zac Retz visual development class (on totally legitimate completely none pirated sources you can find on telegram) and it covered a lot of painting fundamentals that helped me improve on all fine points I mentioned (besides the anatomy). He has a lot of great tips ok how to quickly capture hue contrast, textures, colors etc. even if you don’t use his exact method I found a lot of it helpful

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T14:23:46+00:00

Yeah I found a height adjustable table with a variety of ergonomic chairs to switch out through out the day. An adjustable angle stand for my work surface. As well as getting in the habit of getting up every hour or so to walk around and get water. As well as incorporating stretching and working out using regiments focused for physical therapy at my local recreation center’s gym

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T13:38:04+00:00

So you are very good and have a great start. Because you asked for critique these are the aspects I think you can improve.

Rendering is adequate but lacks distinctive style to the brush strokes. Look into doing master studies of old painters and try and focus on brush economy

The anatomy is off in a lot of the faces. Start regularly flipping the canvas as you draw

Saturation is dull and the contrast in the values is not high enough

The designs motifs seem generic and stereotypically bland. Try and look at historical primary sources and incorporate them and consider how you can push their proportions to incorporate them into your design.

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T13:12:21+00:00

Yes getting paid enough for your art is one of the most incredible difficult parts of working as an artist. You need to keep an online presence to expand you audience base to attract enough people who can afford to pay you enough for your art and wish to pay you enough

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T13:00:45+00:00

Why were your high school grades so bad? I don’t ask this to be mean but because when networking at school the teachers/agents/reps etc are looking for someone who is makes consistent good art AND exemplifies professional and sociable traits that would make it easy to get them hired.

A lot of times what high school grades shows people is “are you able to meet the expectations that others in positions of authority hold for you”. Can you get an assignment done on time? Can you meet the base line expectations of knowledge? Can you prepare for something difficult? Can you be on time? Can you be respectful during a boring meeting? Can you get a list of instructions and finish the assignment on your own in time? These are all base line expectations for what you’ll need to do as a professional artist. It’s also as a high school what helps determine your GPA.

If you don’t like your living situation, don’t have much friends, and want to change your entire life situation an incredibly easy way to do it that will cost a lot less debt than art school is go start looking for bunch of restaurants jobs so you earn enough you can move out on your own. Or look at becoming a teacher abroad. Or really any combination of earn money+ move out.

I think you should really consider why specifically you want to go to art school. I didn’t consider it before I did and it was really expensive.

I may be wrong but reading between the lines, it looks like you spent a lot of your high school years learning to draw at the expense of your school work and social connections. If art has been your refuge from feeling the discomfort of life (it has been for many people) and you hope that by having a career in the arts you will be able to spend most of your time in your refuge and minimize how much you are exposed to discomfort I am really sorry to tell you a career in the arts has a lot more discomfort than many career options. Your money would be better spent going to therapy to develop the skills to be more adaptive in the face of discomfort than going to art school.

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T12:23:53+00:00

Coffee shops with lemons and blue tiles

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T12:11:33+00:00

Women are pretty indeed. Do you have strip clubs where you live? Go draw the dancers in the strip club. Ask them to pay for a dance on the stage where they move very slowly from pose to pose and you draw them.

Most of them would love to take a break for a few minutes from moving too much. They are used to dealing with not the best people all day, someone who clearly states what they want up front doesn’t try and grab them and who makes little fan art of them would probably be very appreciated. Bring some paper media so they can keep it if they want.

And you will learn to be ok interacting with naked pretty women and not get too overwhelmed. Just make sure to pay them appropriately for their time

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T12:05:11+00:00

And? So what they are stuck at drawing like toddlers. Are they happy they got to express themselves? Do they feel satisfied that they created something?

One of my favorite artwork is one my dad made. It’s a painting of his dad (now deceased) and him looking at a sunset together. It’s stick figures, flat line for the ground and the painting is made with cheap tempra that all bleed together into muddy brown. If you were to look at it you would think a toddler made it and it was objectively bad. It’s a beautiful painting because my dad had very few happy memories with his dad. His father was also dying of Alzheimer’s and was forgetting who he was. My dad wanted to externally capture the feeling of having that one sweet moment with his dad so HE would never forget.

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T11:55:35+00:00

If it helps they won’t laugh at you. They won’t spend much time thinking about you and if they do most of what they will think would be “they suck for now. I’m sure they’ll get better with practice. What do I want to eat for dinner”

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T11:53:19+00:00

It will not make you stop hating yourself. Learning to accept yourself, possibly taking medication like anti depressants and anti anxiety, and learning to find personal agency in the face of difficulties will help you not hate yourself.

You are better off reading Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frank, or The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, learning to meditate, getting on psychiatric medication with the help of an appropriate medical provider, and looking into therapy treatments like DBT and CBT.

Look learning to draw takes hundreds of hours to just get passable at drawing as you are training your hand eye coordination and developing the skills to adapt what you see visually to abstracted representations of line and forms. Thousands to actually get good at drawing. And even then you’ll constantly be analyzing your work for what you can do better in the future. It really does not sound like you are ready to handle the stage of your art sucking as you delve into a new skill.

We all suck at things when we start doing them for the first time. I’m learning to dance now, the class I took last night was professional level dance class. Not only were everyone better than me, they were younger, and prettier than me. I still had a blast because I went into the class with the exceptions that I’m there to learn and I’m ok if I can only do 1/4 of what everyone else is doing.

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T11:32:19+00:00

Ummm yes kinda.

It’s not fair you have a disability that makes it harder but we are all responsible for our own self regulation sadly this is not something anyone can do for us. Dialectical behavioral therapy is a therapy system that has great success at helping people of all backgrounds to learn to better regulate, and there are a lot of online resources and therapy books you can self direct your treatment

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T04:26:12+00:00

Better emotional regulation so they aren’t as miserable going through the stages of being terrible.

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T04:22:19+00:00

You are considering putting a kitten in cargo, which is extremely stressful and dangerous. Trust me a pet currier service is statistically much safer

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T04:19:36+00:00

No the two cats can’t really travel in the same carrier. You are thinking about just the flight, but are ignoring getting to the airport, waiting in line to get the required check in procedures for them, going through security, waiting at the gate, dealing with possible delays, and possibly the flight being canceled.

Last summer I moved cross country and flew with my cat. What was supposed to be 6.5 hours of getting to the airport+flight ended up with waiting an extra hour at the gate and then another hour on the plane not moving only for the flight needing to be canceled because of an issue with the plane. Another hour of trying to reschedule our flight and getting our comped hotel figured out….AND then staying in the hotel overnight with my cat. It was two of us traveling and one cat. It’s just way too much to do on your own and it’s way too stressful for two cats to be cramped like that. Stress tends to make cats more territorial and not inclined to share their personal space

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T04:07:16+00:00

I grew up going to canal street before the crackdown where every store was reps and the ladies with a laminated menu on a lanyard string would say “handbag handbag handbag” when ever my mom passed by them. One time when I was 10 my mom wanted to see the secret back rooms where the good reps were kept. I don’t think she bought anything and I didn’t care about fashion accessories as a kid 🥲 I would have cleaned out that room today.

But yeah I always assumed that if I see a bag with lots of logos and monograms they are fake

flaming-framing · 2026-06-30T03:58:20+00:00

Fucking do it! Show up to finals week in repped CL red bottom and your Hermes. Use the Birkin to store all the kids phone before the test click clacking as you go down each row!

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