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Dear /ic/,
This isn't /r9k/, sweetheart.
Anonymous
I've had a situation kind of like that happen, my boyfriend didn't really care about art at all. We had plenty in common, just not art. It didn't really make a difference. Whenever we'd sit around at the coffee shop with his friends and they would play their roleplay games, I'd doodle then. Or whenever we were just chilling at home, I'd have my sketchbook out. I didn't really look to him for advice on it or anything because he wasn't interested AT ALL and had no idea about it, but it didn't inhibit our relationship at all.
>And sorry, no I won't post art I drew, because I'd like to remain anonymous.
Kraut-chan
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It´s not THAT Important.
Anonymous
My last boyfriend loved drawing, but he absolutely sucked. He would give things he drew especially for me, and I'd be all like, "aww, that's sweet", while I actually was holding back to tell him to lern2anatomy.
Anonymous
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>>295175 OP here. Thanks for your answer! Thanks for sharing!
I'm sure it's more than "just" a hobby for me, but I'm not like you described your friend. I mean, I don't talk about art all the time, i've got other hobbies as well.
>>295174 >>295178 >>295179 You're lame. I expected more from you.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>295198 I smell faggot here!
I don't think relationships have to be based on strong common interests....
Anonymous
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I think that your potential boyfriend doesn't need to love art as much as you do, but the most important thing is that he embraces your love for it and supports you
Anonymous
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>>295205 anyways, in your scenario the couple is *interested* in what the other does, and has the knowledge to follow explanations.
However if two people have different interests to the point of apathy, then things will eventually fall apart.
Anonymous
I know all relations in the world are forced. Just because it has been done that way and you observe it happening awfully often around you, you feel that you "should" have a relationship. I find people who fall for this trick pretty pathetic. Man should be an isolated creature to bring out a worthy potential, in case of an artist even more so. I think you were doing fine without having any relation. You do not have to follow everything you have been instructed to, you don't have to believe anything other than you want to. You are the one and only supreme being and if you disappear so will everything. This applies for every individual. If you are curious about sex, leave it that way. That will be more encouraging for your imagination. Well, don't take my word for it though. You should know yourself better.
Anonymous
>>295209 theoretically this is true.
but your genetics disagree absolutely.
be prepared for your body to wage chemical warfare on your mind.
Anonymous
>>295210 Since i am a chemist, i will be struggling to alter that drawback too. That is one of my goals in life. Finding chemical sources of emotions and manipulate them. But what is more challenging is to discover thoughts are actually forming because of chemical reactions and we are not conscious at all. There is this strange phenomenon of observation though, i will try.
Anonymous
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>>295212 well a good place to start would be castration to remove key chemicals.
also practice substitution. Fool your mind into thinking you're being social by getting a smart dog.
finally isolation. become hermit like for a good while and the need for social norms should fade quite a bit.
Anonymous
>>295212 >That is one of my goals in life. Finding chemical sources of emotions and manipulate them. You're a madman! Such things are impossible!
Anonymous
Here's what's going to happen if you have a lover who shares art:
Anonymous
>>295239 Are you sure? I get lots of crits from my partner. But they are not the usual crits. It's like towards general trends in my stuff and such. Themes, boring poses etc. I don't feel he holds back, basically.
Anonymous
>>295240 Two questions:
1: Are you the man or the woman in the relationship
2: Is your partner better than you or equal to you
Anonymous
>>295240 Well I suppose it could work. I guess it depends a lot on the attitudes of the people and their maturity. Two good mature artists might be really good together.
Anonymous
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>>295173 you are afraid of people not accepting you as you are, so you think if someone do the same as you he may be equal to you as well, thus understanding and accepting you. that's all.
also, most probably the sun will rise tomorrow, just a suggestion.
>>295236 impossible or not, sounds like the perfect thing to waste the life on.
Anonymous
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>>295241 1) Woman.
2) I'd say he was worse. He gives up very easily and never draws much more than sketches. Consequently he's a while behind me. He's had more art in school though. It's just that he still has that innovation, and visual sense of an artist and can tell if something I've done looks good/interesting, and that helps a lot.
>>295244 He's very mature about it.. more than me.
Anonymous
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I'm actually really tentative about having relationships with other artists. To me there are SO MANY complications of being with another artistic person I worry about it lasting. Because while I see myself having a career in art I'm practical enough to understand that: No, I will not just be able to paint like the old masters for the rest of my life. I need a job or I will starve to death. So i work in games right now and probably will until I get tired of it (I hear most people burn out quickly and move to other things). I'm always worried that this girl will think that just painting for her whole life is ok.
Anonymous
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art chicks get my dick hard, but then again, i have a fetish for drawing/painting on women.
Anonymous
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>>295186 I couldn't do that. I would have to tell them.
Never date another artist. Especially if you are both serious about it.
Anonymous
>>295378 Sketchychan, you sound like you're speaking from experience. Please don't be jaded. Artists as lovers CAN work. Let me prove it to you.
Anonymous
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Hmm... I'd have to say it only matters that he appreciates your passion for art. I'm an artist and I'm married to a programmer who couldn't draw a stick figure or point out a Van Gogh if his life depended on it, but he gives me support and is my biggest fan. On the other hand, I can't program a DVD player let alone write code, but I'm fascinated by what he does. The key thing is having respect for the other person's interests and being happy in knowing that they're happy with what they do.
OP
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Thanks /ic/. I wasn't sure at first if this was the right place to discuss this, but I see you didn't fail me.
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>>295379 Yes I do. Remember I went to art school?
Let me disprove it to you then :P
Anonymous
I dated a girl who pursued me just because she found out I was an artist, also I was in the same "scene" and had been about this "scene" a lot longer than her. Stupid I know but girls in subcultures do that shit. Anyway she quickly started to get upset when she found out I was more skilled and knowledgeable. She got extremely butthurt when I met her art school friends and could learn them and they were all impressed. Also, she got butthurt when I pwned her at music and comics which was something she also thought she was big on. TL:DR. Who cares, OP you never had a boyfriend because you're one of them fat purple haired weeaboo bitches i see hanging about conventions in naruto headbands. Fuck off.
Anonymous
>>295440 Think whatever you want, faggot.
Anonymous
>>295460 That's basically "Why don't you breathe some fucking air?"
I don't need your permission to do exactly what I'm doing. You chubby, pasty, cat ear headband and crushed velvet cape wearing weeaboo.
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Relationship threads in my /ic/? Move this shit to /r9k/, guis.
Anonymous
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>>295469 yeah of course. just last week I went to nekokawaiiconvention and cosplayed Sakuracatgirl =^_^=
Anonymous
Hay OP, I'm a 25 year old virgin who has never had a boyfriend and never will, and geez, it's just fucking awful really. It's just so sad that I'll never get to have EPIC RELATIONSHIP DRAMAZ, or get to share my awesome monies, or have rotten little offspring wreck my house... but hey, these are the sacrifices we make when we defy societal pressure to conform and pair up, and thus become bachelor "failures at life".
Looks like you two found each other at last =/
Anonymous
>>295490 Hoho, but the darkness in my soul so enjoys bumping down all those other golden, handsome threads, with all their excellent, contributive content! For surely in all its riches, this is the board of kings and pharaohs!
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>>295494 I laughed heartily.
sage all the same.
Anonymous
>>295488 Most successful artists fail at relationships so they became depress and kill themselves.
I mean like Van Gogh is a depressed lonely lunatic who cut his ear yet his paintings are sold for millions of dollars.
Leonardo and Michelangelo were never married (maybe they are gay?). Someone told me, Rafaello died after some orgy (not sure of that)... I've heard Caravaggio is a pedophile lol. the list goes on and on.
It's like the price you have to pay to be a great artist LOL!
Anonymous
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Ergo, clearly all artists are insane.
Anonymous
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hmm... often virgins are very insecure about life. This makes it very difficult on you and your partner that you obviously care about or this thread would not have been created in the first Place!!
Anonymous
>>295499 Da Vinci and Michelangelo were gay.
Together.
Anonymous
You live in germany?
Anonymous
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>>295518 Is that you, Kraut-chan?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>295524 Now if you're good looking and live in Berlin, we could meet up. I'm a serious artist myself (planing to live off of it in a year or two).
Anonymous
>>295529 Sorry, no. Living in Munich.
Anonymous
Threads like this make me hate every single fucking one of you faggots. If this attention whore hadn't mentioned her being female, you wouldn't even care.
Anonymous
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>>295537 No, if she hadn't mentioned being female, we would have mocked the guy for being a virgin. We would have cared less, but we still would have cared.
Anonymous
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Stop fucking drawing. Srsly.
Anonymous
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I only date girls who draw well.
Anonymous
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its nice to have someone who can view the world in a deep artistic way.
Anonymous
