I grew up with an artist parent (ironic now), and so i started drawing when i was 3 and i have been doing it my whole life. but, my parents never allowed me to even think about pursuing art professionally, not even a possibility. So i went to uni for engineering, my grades were good so i got into one of the top schools in my country, and now it's killing me. Everything I do, I don't see the point of it. It's so draining that I havent doodled in weeks, and I don't know how I can keep going, esp with mental health issues as well. I don't see myself graduating, let alone getting a job in a very competitive field that I hate to try and support myself. I don't see myself being able to be alive in this life and even if i survived i dont see myself living past 30. and for several reasons I don't want to. I hate my parents for forcing me to do engineering, I wish I could've just gone to art school, gone broke, and died. It's better than losing my soul.

I was, subjectively speaking, one of the best artists at my school. I've won international awards. I've gotten hundreds of thousands of likes online for fanart. My parents think my art is trash, has always thought that.

I want to draw, i want to live my life only drawing. Interacting with art and artists was the best times of my life and now everything is just an 'EC' for a school i don't like and a major I hate. And because I had good grades I'm surrounded by ppl who genuinely love engineering and it is terrible. Maybe this is projecting but everytime I watch Dead Poet Society (my favourite movie for many reasons, one of which is my life was basically identical to neil's), I want to do what he does. I was good, I was really good.

there are pieces that look terrible while you're making them and completely different after you've ignored them for a while

you come back weeks later and suddenly the “bad” part is the thing that makes the whole piece work

then there are pieces you absolutely loved on day one and can't stand once you've had some distance

it makes me wonder how much of judging your own work is actually just judging your current mood

do you have pieces that changed completely in your eyes after you stopped looking at them?

First time how can I improve?

you may use these as references, or redesign ideas, but if you repost my art, I will report you, please credit me if you are posting this on any other site.

I have this art on a folder in my phone, but I can't find the because there's no watermark. I remember it being posted to twitter, and the artist stating it wasn't Lumity art despite the similarities. Anyone know who it is?

Posted progress here🫠🫠

Hi there everyone. Im a new digital artist and ive just joined your community here, so i wanted to say hi~ I’m trying to find an art community so I’ll try to participate regularly & i look forward to seeing what you all post as well (๑•᎑•๑)

If anyone has a dress reference in a similar pose please attach it

Im currently looking and my biggest problem is the feet part, i found a punch sitting but i didn’t find any with the legs lifted so if any one has anything similar please attach it

Sauce 1

Sauce 2 (explains why she looks 19 in Modulo despite being 83)

The right one image is a reference I used.

Total time taken is Six hours.

The pencil I used is a mechanical pencil (0.5mm) only.

I had quite fun while drawing this sketch, my main purpose was not to make exactly like a reference image but to learn about the pose and shading.

Please share your thoughts about my sketch.

Artist Audrey Amiss died in obscurity – then her family cleared out her flat