It's so frustrating being skilled at nothing. I cannot sing and I cannot speak well and I cannot draw. Or play any musical instrument. And I don't know any advanced math.

Do you also feel the same way? That you are "crippled" skill-wise?

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You can always LEARN to do stuff. Take lessons. Learn an instrument, you can even do that by yourself, just buy some cheap ass guitar or something and start with an online tutorial, then, learn to play one song, etc… same goes for drawing, though it's good to have a teacher in any case.

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as would i
although, it would take much too much time to draw them with the quality of a real loli artist

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It's not just not being able to do anything skill wise, is that it all just seems so pointless to learn. I have no desire to learn any of major skills, I go to college but it seems pointless, i been at the same job since I was 15, and i'm 22, and anymore it seems like I know only a little over nothing. So yea, i can relate to wishing i had a skill, or atleast wishing for the desire to have something i want to learn how to do.

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Best drawing advice I have ever been given.

It comes with patience and practice, someone who has drawn 2000 pictures is an ok artist, but someone else who has drawn 20,000 pictures, will be much better. The pictures don't have to be masterpieces, just little doodles.
If you challenge yourself to 1 drawing every 10 seconds, just little scribbles, in 1 minute you've done 6 drawings, in one hour you've done 360 drawings, you draw for 1 hour every day of the week for 1 week, you've drawn 2520 drawings in one week.
In one week chances are you're already better than the person whose drawn 2000 pictures.

Just keep drawing, it'll come with time.

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Yeah, I also feel this way. I badly want to learn to draw because I have visions of dreams and fantasies that are so incredible to me, but others would think of as mysterious and enigmatic as they try to decipher what it means. Also would make a great present to a girlfriend to draw a picture of me embracing her.

I feel like I'm too math-oriented to become an expert artist. I heard that math skills and artistic skills are naturally exclusive. All my friends that were great at drawing sucked at math, and I was great at math but had to struggle to create drawings that I thought were semi-decent.

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The advice about grinding your drawing skills is right. I used to doodle my way through boring periods in high school.

Drawing lolis is fun and all, but you tend to get weird looks from people. Most of my friends (and people who sit next to me in class) think I'm a paedophile. Also, once I accidentally left a drawing behind in class which was found by my teacher.

And since you'll only be drawing loli all the time, you will be suspiciously horrible at drawing anything else upon request, further confirming people's suspicions.

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> I feel like I'm too math-oriented to become an expert artist. I heard that math skills and artistic skills are naturally exclusive. All my friends that were great at drawing sucked at math, and I was great at math but had to struggle to create drawings that I thought were semi-decent.

Believe it or not, but art can be very, very math orientated. but more so with shapes and angles rather than trigonometry and addition. A person who is math orientated can just as easily become a artist as someone whose art orientated, just chances are the math artist is going to look more technical than the art artist.

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Yeah, I know a girl who is an art major, but is really interested in astrophysics and the like. She makes some really crazy shit.

Art is quite interesting, though, because you really can see what sort of thought process someone used to create something. There aren't really clear cut right or wrong answers, either, so you can think totally differently from someone else, and both of you could create something good. This also means you can change your basis for decision making for a drawing, and it will look totally different from your other stuff. It's really fun to experiment with this. I like to watch people in my classes draw, or look at their work, and try to understand their thought process. Then, I'll try drawing with their style by replicating how they think and basing my decisions on that. My goal as an artist is mainly to be able to replicate as many styles as possible and execute them at the appropriate times within a piece to create something interesting and aesthetically pleasing. So basically, from my perspective, how you naturally think is irrelevant—it's all about having balls to let go of the thinking style you're familiar with.

Just my two cents.

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