>>4470761>>4470871>Imagine being this much of a newfagIf you think those are the best we had to offer over the 8 years of /ic/ you probably just got here. Sarunas actually made it, Gabe too, Olly, Mathias, Gordon, they are all miles ahead of the porn trope, but I guess they did the sensible thing and distanced themselves from this shithole. Algenpfleger was also a drawfag on 4chan, btw, but he left before ic became a thing.
There, have a (you).
>>4470746This thread is funny, I was just going through the archives today and wondering where it all went to shit. The first few posts to /ic/ were all basically living off of cgtalk, cghub,
ca.org, feng zhu, etc. People were d/ic/ks, ofc, but they were focused on getting good. Nowadays niggers just complain and crab, whenever a thread about trying to make it pops up they shitpost it to hell and back.
Honestly tho, the lads saying that the industry is shit are right, albeit I honestly would love to draw with people with the improvement mindset they got. Those are few and far between, and the fact that they are working on soulless drone shit is pretty sad, but to each their own.
Those saying that patreon and art aimed towards the masses is shit are also correct. Most of those artists don't strive for getting better, they just streamline flavour of the weeks with their styles, it's as soulless as the industry in a sense.
Art nowadays is worthless. If you think of it thoroughly, the value of art lies in its cultural weight, but what is the culture of porn and games if not of a dying society? When was the last time art had a meaning? When was the last time narrative was more important than a pretty picture? What is the importance of art nowadays if not to profit from a futile society?
I've started working with a very niche type of art since 2013, and even though I don't make bank I can reliably say I'm happy with what I do. People are hugboxy tho, and I wish I had someone gitting gut beside me, but no can do I guess.