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In the end drawing or painting is just a skill like any other. Making art in the sense of adding "something more" which is usually meaning to a piece is extra stuff but the act of drawing or painting is a mechanical learnable skill it just has tremendous variations on what you or other people consider "good" technically, and especially what different people consider "good art". And technique-wise sure there are fundamentals of art you can get better at. But I personally think the best thing for me to do is just do what I like.

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The "right way to draw" beyond the fundamentals is up for the individual's taste. And as for what medium and how you use the medium well that's entirely up to taste. Sure there are established popular techniques but if you can achieve the effect you want you're good no matter what some art snob says.

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I've realised I'm the kind of artist who just jumps at the art with wild abandon and just doesn't care. I completely ruin a piece? What of it? And that tends to stress a lot of people out.

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Art mistakes commonly boil down to either not knowing how to draw something (but giving it a try anyway which is a good thing), or not having enough control over your hand to draw what you want to draw.

Not knowing how to draw something (and this includes how to make it appealing) is fixed by studying the thing more thoroughly and learning how to simplify it into stuff you can manage.

Not having enough control requires practice. Repetition done in a way you can handle. (I for one can't grind out 200 of the same thing because it bores me to death. Practice doesn't have to be boring you're allowed to have fun while making art.) As for the how I usually just payed attention to what aspect of my drawing I felt physically out of control with compared to what I want to achieve, adjusted how my hand moved, and then I practiced till my hand got used to it.

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I think it's funny that I've never had art block until I've heard of art block. And after I've heard of art block having a period of time where you have no control over your art which again I've never had before I heard of art block I've suddenly started to have problems fixing my art issues because I thought the mistakes I made because I was lacking in skill was because I lost my talent because well if art block can happen a bunch of other stuff can happen. Yaknow instead of Idk being human, not always wanting to do the same thing, maybe being tired, maybe lacking some skill or knowledge you still need to learn.

I call bullshit on art block. If you feel like you can't continue something you aren't blocked you just need a fuckin break and some new experiences to spice things up. You can't possibly do art all the fuckin time and expect yourself to not get bored or tired. You can't do any one thing all the time and not get bored. It's normal. You're probably tired or hungry or whatever basic need you've been neglecting and/or your brain is bored take a break.

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I've been mulling this over for a while and I've came to the conclusion that good art only means art that achieves it's purpose and people judging art good or bad sometimes have a very different idea of it's purpose than the artist. As for what is art it's pure expression. That doesn't just mean expression of emotion tho. It's like translating something into something else. Abstracting it. Like even if you make a fully realistic portrait that is still 1, an expression of the subject of the portrait through the artist's eyes, and secondly it's just some paint/ drawing implement dust stuck on paper or canvas. As for is it good? well that again depends on the purpose but let's say the purpose was just to make it realistic. If it is, then it's good. But I also think saying good and bad art is waaaay oversimplified considering again the purpose of the art for the artist differs usually from the purpose of the art for the viewer. Like how some people shit on anime for not being realistic while completely missing the point (on purpose or not) of the anime probably isn't meant to be realistic. Same with stylistic art and so on. If the artist made something a certain way it probably has a purpose even if it's just "I like boobs" and you'll never know it's purpose to the artist till you ask them. But again the point of the piece you just over-analyzed to shit and got angry about to them may just be some completely different thing. And I think there is value in thinking about what purpose you assume a piece has.

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Training AI on someone's art without their permission is like violating an artist's soul. If you're not an artist you probably have little idea how much love and joy and or blood sweat and tears we put into our work and despite how long it takes or how exhausted we get and how much our body hurts we we just keep doing it. Because we just can't stop. Life is meaningless without creating. For some of us it's pure joy for others it's almost nothing but pain but we still keep doing it because life wouldn't be worth living otherwise. And then we share our Sisyphean creation with others to give them a glimpse of what we feel only for people who have never loved something this much in their lives to steal it and try to turn it into cash. And yes there were always people on the internet who saved other's work and we didn't like that either. I mean imagine spending so much effort and time on something and sharing it with someone else only to then have it taken and sold without your permission. If you've ever got your prompt "stolen" and it upset you, you've just experienced a tiny glimpse of the soul shattering feeling we experience en masse. And it's not even because we're getting "replaced" boo fuckin hoo everyone will be replaced by tech eventually sure some artists who make money on their creation may need to hustle a bit differently but we will create anyways. It's the fact that all some of you see when you look at art is content. A product. An object. Not someone's hard-fought creation. Not a piece of our soul. But oh well. We don't have to share. Especially those of us who create for fun and share for fun.

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I did some sketching while chatting with a friend. Here's "pickle man".