/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'm op pic

I'm not sure I have any legitimate 'life goals' to be honest.

Boo hoo

I'll become ambassador and represent my country in Japan, just you wait!

I wish I could draw... If I could make erotic drawings of my favorite characters I wouldn't feel so useless ;_;

I'm going to be a paleontologist

>>1593173
>dreams aspirations
No, none. That's my fucking problem. If I had or ever had any I probably wouldn't be here. Ah well, I would be here anyway.

>>1593196
start drawing right now

What else are you going to do with your time? You'll be fapping over your own drawings in a year.

>>1593187

Fuck yeah! someone else who liked patlabor?

I dream of adventure. I want to climb mountains, explore ancient cities, fight poachers, and all that good stuff. Since I'm an East Asian Studies major, I'm hoping that once I graduate, I'll be able to travel all over the place with whatever job I get.

wanted to become a professional artist
OH SHI- it happened

Become a computer programmer, move to Japan, marry Japanese girl and live there forever.

>>1593211
Enjoy getting shot for trespassing on druglord territory.

>>1593189

nothing wrong with that really, the problem is when you have a dream and cant accomplish it, no matter how many years pass.

I wish I could draw bikko ;_;

>>1593207
Pic related~

>>1593216
Congratulations.

>>1593173
you know, as some mini-project in health class back in 9th grade, I had to write a letter to my future self about my dreams and goals in life, along with a picture of something I cherish. The teacher was going to save the letters and then hand them back out once we graduated.

Needless to say, I'm quite dissapointed with a younger self. The letter was all about becoming a "1337 h4x0r" game programmer, moving to japan, and working for Nintendo.

And the picture was of some furries.

Jesus.

>>1593216
wtf?

Pic related.

Get some shitty job and be financially secure enough to support myself. Beyond that, I would like to some day travel the world.

Neither of these things seem like they will ever happen.

>>1593173
No wei.

To be REALLY FUCKING RICH so I never have to work, go outside or talk to people ever again.

To have any goal in life. That, and to be able to take it easy.

>>1593228

I look at that tank and the first thing I think of is the Leclerc.

And then the Leopard 2A5.

Become strong like Tidus

Marry my Yuna-esque dreamgirl and protect her forever

Become a great pianist

Not get panicy and screw up during Navy ROTC

Kill my alcoholic father and not get caught

>>1593173
Bakuman Bad End

My dream is to rape and violate modern cryptography, find some new unheard-of way to easily break most cyphers or something, making all the banks in the world suffer tremendous losses.
This would be so cool.

I want to be a rock star, a doctor or a cop/detective.
Maybe all 3.

I wanted to graduate college, get a job, find a wife, have kids in my 30s and live comfortably.
Spent 6 years in college, earned two degrees, then graduated just as the American financials market crashed. My job offer was retracted, and I've spent 4 months looking for a job while unemployment has skyrocketed. Shit sux.

I've never had long term plans in my life.
I wanted to become a researcher in molecular biology, but that kinda fell out since I realized everyone around me was studying for pre-med, or were uptight and cliquey and I couldn't relate to anyone. Just a miserable experience. Now I'm switching my major to CS just cause I'm lazy. That plan will probably fail too.

My dream was to drop out of high school, I accomplished it a long time ago and now I merely rest comfortable.

/r/ what the fuck am i doing with my life picture.

in b4 "Aspirations. we all have them" motivator

>>1593374
I don't

I'm living mine.

>>1593173
It just isn't the same without your avatar, Chardo.

And I wanna work, get my own place, and get a weeaboo girlfriend when I grow up.

My dream is to obtain an easy job which leaves me with enough time and money to spend on my weeabooism.

I'd also want to be good at meltan, but that's not happening.

No dreams nor aspirations.
Short term goal is to secure a part time job for now.

I forgot this one.
When I was really young I wanted to be an astronaut.
Then I broke NASA's height limit on astronauts in middle school. I'm now 6'6" (~2m.)
Fucking tiny astronauts.

>>1593401
>My dream is to obtain an easy job which leaves me with enough time and money to spend on my weeabooism.
Behold, my dream.

>>1593173
My dream is to become a billionaire, marry a model, and be a professional musician on the side, while mastering Japanese and Korean which are my favorite Asian languages besides Arabic and Hebrew of course.

I'll say I'm about two decades from fulfilling my latter dreams, the billionaire one I'm not so sure about yet, but I have the potential.

I'd seriously wish to live in some secluded old European castle with an uncountable amount of books and a collection of piano records that is unmatched.

>>1593416
That would be kinda cool. Especially if you got a butler named Sebastian as a kicker. Or, ideally, a meido.

>>1593420
>>Korean

Ewwww.

>>1593420
Dog eating korean slime.

To find a kindred soul with whom I can remove my public facade and be at ease. Other matters are secondary, really.

Like >>1593238 here, idol waifu... but this is my one and only dream. And if that should fall through I'll just be a another nobody with a regular job leading an uneventfully dull life.

I guess it would be cool to be good at drawing and playing piano. Other than that, I don't really have any dreams.

I wanted to have a daughter. Since that's not happening I'm just spending time here until I die from some heart related disease.

>>1593422
A butler or something would be okay as well. A maid even.

My dream is to become an assassin for the government and go around killing druglords.
That'd be fun.

Current Major Goals:

Finish Masters
Build up investments
Retire and Travel

Current Minor Goals:

Completion of motorrad and self-defense training.

Currently on track to completion by the time I'm 45.

No. I'm just going through life one step at a time, following the path of least resistance.

I wished I could become a real hero. The most I do now is volunteer and one time I stopped a robbery with sheer dumb luck.

inb4shirou

I used to want to be able to draw really well, or be a singer. I wanted to be anything that required talent, really. Which I don't have.

Now I'm studying to be an engineer, which I'm really only doing for money and job security. If I had to do math and science every day for the rest of my life I'd kill myself.

>>1593538
Moron, the government profits from druglords.

The last time I had a dream I was about 12 years old and wanted to be a paleontologist. Then life ground me down, and now I just exist from day to day. One day I'll change though.

One day...

;_;

Programmer that earns at least 2-3 times average pay.

>>1593633

Retard.

>>1593453
I do both.
Bahahaha!

I hope to get into an art school.
I'm just going to keep drawing everything, all the time.

I'll keep up with piano as a hobby.
I wish I could make music, though.

I want to recreate Tesla's earthquake machine and hold at least one city for ransom to fund my other possibly evil plans.

>>1593723
I've been practicing and I think my drawing is getting better, but I'm still pretty shitty at both ;_;

Fuck, OP is me, only with writing instead of drawing. Well, I'm actually GOOD at writing though.. I'm just.. fucking unmotivated. I'm supposed to be in uni, but I'm failing the shit out of it because I didn't want to be there in the first place..

..I'm just, on the whole, unmotivated to do anything with my life. I like to think that if I were actually able to live my life without being guilt-tripped for my decisions, I'd be able to achieve something. But I realize that, at the same time, I'd still probably postpone everything like a lazy fucktard.

>>1593744
Dohohohoh

>>1593774
ANTI-AMMERRRIKKKA.jpg.

I want to continue going to school to get my degree, although I found out today that it'll take me an extra year to pick up enough credits than I thought it would, which sucks. I've already racked up a ton of loans, and it feels like I'm going to be paying them off until the day I die. I guess what scares me most is flunking out and being a burden on my wife.

>>1593760
Do your best! I don't know that I'll make it anywhere in the art world, but my art keeps me going, and that's all that I need.
Keep up with it.

>>1593963
what wife?

This is fucking awful.

>>1593971
CurryButt's.

>>1593963

Keep up the fight, an extra year or two is nothing in the long run. I'm not familiar with your loan situation, obviously, but be sure to look into what tax credits you're eligible for when you start paying them back. Dependent upon the type of loan, you should be able to claim as a tax credit at least part of the interest paid (I'm wanting to say up to $5,000.)

My only dream is to find my great love.
I wonder if that dream will ever come true ;_;

>>1594065

That's pretty cool, thanks. I'll definitely look into that. Taxes are such a headache, and next year we'll be doing a joint return so that should be fun. I wonder if she can claim me as a dependent because I don't have a job, lol

>>1594125
>I wonder if that dream will ever come true ;_;

I wanna become a good musician. Problem is that the goal is really far away, and I tell myself I don't work towards it because I have too much else to do, when I have a lot of spare time I waste here.

I wanna be the guy.

I've never had any particular dreams or aspirations. I just did well in school because there wasn't anything else to do. Now I have a nice fellowship as a doctoral student and a gig as a freelance journalist, and all I do is buy hug pillows and gripe about how I'm too busy to spend time writing short stories or playing video games.

>>1594156
I love that game.

>>1594143
Dork!! You'll regret the procrastination. Just train for 15 minutes a day-

I wish to be the little girl

The OP pic is pretty similar to me, except I wanted to use my art for architecture, and I'm 23 now.

Right now I just want some kind of steady job with decent pay and then I'd like to find a nice girl to spend the rest of my life with.

Of course we all know none of that will happen. Even though I have a BA I can't even get a shitty retail job because I didn't work during school, and I've never even kissed a girl so I probably never will.

>>1594178
15 minutes a day is enough for a hobby musician, but I can't settle for something like that. Especially since I've just begun and all good musicians start when they're like 3 years old.

>>1594218

What's your BA in? Have you tried expanding the geographic range of your job search?

>>1593420

Nukes will stop that, arab.

>>1594238

15 minutes is enough for a start. You'll get hooked on practicing gradually and those 15 minutes will turn into 2 hours daily and so on.

>>1594188
no. moot does not go on 4ch

I want to live in a forest with my rich boyfriend, reading science texts all day

>>1594249
Asian studies. I'd like to get a job with the State Department or the CIA or something, but that's never going to happen without some kind of employment history. I can't even get hired to work at Best Buy or Borders because I have to write that I've only had one job on everything.

I'm more or less living the dream. Besides this, I dream of stuff like winning the lottery or something to sustain and improve this lifestyle, becoming a professional-level StarCraft and/or Street Fighter player, turning my body into a living weapon, shit like that. I guess I would like to be able to draw and while I'm at it write too. When I think about it there are so very many things to dream about, but at the core I just want to keep living like this.

And if we count dreams completely out of the realm of possibility, which are the ones I feel most strongly about, I want to become a Gundam, a ninja, and 2D. And marry quite a few waifus.

1) Live in a foreign country (that doesn't have English as their primary language) for a while and become fluent in the language.

2) Play in an Orchestra, currently learning the Cello.

3) Make a game similar to Cave Story. Or, at least maybe the engine and a barebones test level.

4) Draw porn, pic related.

As bizarre as this may sound, I aspire to be a butler. Aside from that, I want to improve my drawing skill.

>>1594354

Learn to lucide dream, which I should probably add to my to-do list.

>>1593660
Engineers do math and science everyday for the rest of their lives

I aspire to have a chess rating of at least 2500 grand master, sadly I can't even break 2200 master....

>>1594436

That's been on my to-do list since a those threads here a couple months back, but I've been failing miserably at it. I have had some really cool non-lucid dreams recently, though. Like I got to be a hero and fight robots and shit. But then the girl I loved kissed another dude and then got mind controlled so I had to fight her and I woke up all pissed off. If I ever learn to lucid dream I am totally rematerializing that fucker who I found kissing my girl and kicking the shit out of him. Don't fuck with me dream-people, I hold grudges for fucking ever.

>>1593660

>If I had to do math and science every day for the rest of my life I'd kill myself.

>Now I'm studying to be an engineer

ಠ_ಠ

I started reading comics since I was 8(learned reading at 6), 1st favorite is 'Calvin and Hobbes' by Bill Watterson. Then growing up, watched anime(1st is voltes V, then yuyu hakusho,etc) and wanted to become a great comic/mangga artist and started practicing since 9.

Jesus, life is a drag and I am still practicing just to be at par with the oldfags in the industry. My only advice is read, draw, read, draw, then read some more and draw some more.

Pic is one of mine and I still feel it is not enough. Need to practice more. >.<

>>1594160
>too busy to spend time writing short stories

I know how that feels. But I find that if I can budget even ten minutes or so to write, it can be a nice stress reliever. Although some of my more /d/ stories that I've written are one of the few things I don't want my wife to ever discover, I know she already knows I'm weird but some of those scare even me.

I am a successful mango-ka.

I wanted to be an astronaut once. My only real goal now is to do 100 good form pushups at once, partly because I was inspired by Shirou's training in FSN. Also I continue very slowly working through Remembering the Kanji Book 3 and doing my spaced repetition training, more out of force of habit than any desire to actually learn.

>>1593277

/k/ here:

Thats A4 variation.

When I was younger, I basically just copied my best friend's dreams; we both wanted to be writers who illustrated our own novels. I gave up on that a long time ago though. I haven't written anything in years, and the majority of 'art' I do is in mspaint.

>>1594605
I like it.

I would like to have a private library ideally.

My dream is to be a drawfag. I guess making money off the skill would be useful, and having a job at it would force the skill to be practiced everyday, maybe one day come up with something that people across the net will love/hate.
pic related even though im loathe to post it

>>1594635

See >>1593416

I have a pretty nice book collection now, but yeah. That has more to do with me liking reading rather than being able to sit around and do nothing but read all day.

>>1594635
Another decade or so and every book ever written will fit on a single hard disk. Somebody will leak Google's book collection. Copyright law can't stop progress.

Some may find this article interesting:
http://pingmag.jp/2006/06/02/how-japanese-style-illustration-works/

>>1594605

MS paint ftw.

>>1594628
Thank you.

>>1594659
At least you appear to still be putting effort into your art. Don't become lazy like me!

>>1594696
Indeed.


+polite sage

>>1594672
>I have a pretty nice book collection now

Same, I have a huge number of books. I'd love to have them all in those beautiful hardbound editions though and printed on that special kind of paper. But things like that cost money, a lot of money.

What kind of books do you like to read?

>>1594693
Most people just don't take time to develop the actual skill/talent of drawing.

>>1594716
Pretty much a lot of older things. Huge classics, short stories, magical realism.

>>1594728
>>1594514
>>1594711

eerrr... is mine okey or still needs a lot to develop?

>>1594741
A LOT.

>>1594736
You have great taste it seems. Have you read the Divine Comedy? It's probably the most 'readable' epic poem in my opinion.

>>1594750
Sadly no. I don't have much time to read recreationally at the moment, but when I do it's currently older Russian fiction.

We're reading Paradise Lost for a class soon, though.

>>1594736
Magical realism is the worst genre. It's generic fantasy by authors too lazy to do consistent world-building.

>>1594756
Also, this is why all Key VNs except Planetarian fail.

>>1594746
I need pointer, is it the angle, etc, or something else. Some help would not be bad.

>>1594756
Depending on who you read, this isn't true. The worlds can be entirely consistent and believable, save one a single element of fantasy, or even inexplicable coincidences. I really enjoy realistic settings with one symbolic hint of something else.

>>1594765
Any element of fantasy important enough to base a story around will change the world to something very different, and basing a story around coincidences is the biggest failure possible. You're allowed a maximum of 1 major coincidence before you officially fail at plotting.

>>1594757
I never enjoyed Milton as much as Dante. Perhaps it's just the overrall themes of Divine Comedy compared to Paradise Lost, but the latter for me was a little depressing while the former was, just well, a lot nicer. His relationship with Ms. Portinari is also quite romantic and appealing to me I guess.

I'm mostly reading non-fiction these days anyway, I've got to get back to reading some fiction.

>>1594741
don't ask me, I just scribble.

>>1594728
True, if I devoted that much time to drawing I'd explode.

Also, have you read Brothers Karamazov?

>>1594786
Eh, I hope you're not the person who just mentioned VNs as an example of magic realism. Anyway, I still disagree. It's not that the story should be based around that one element or coincidence, but it's used as a metaphor to some aspect or theme of the work. Just preference, perhaps.

>>1594787
Yes, you should. Also spoilers, geez.

>>1594792
I was about to before school started. I finished house of the dead about a month before that, though.

Draw some 3D for a while even if you hate it before trying 2D again. I've improved quite a bit by doing studies etc. rather than drawing animu. Learning the shape of different muscle groups will also help considerably.

There seem to be a lot of drawfags in this thread, as a beginning one, have any tips?

>>1593400

Oh u, Im not usually grinning all the day huh.

well, my dream, just like I said, was to be good at drawing, so I could make my own awesome comic.

I guess it STILL is my dream, Im just generally more boring and pathetic than what I used to be 5 years ago.

I wonder how my comic will look when Im 25, probably not much will change.

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Holy shit

My wife likes vampire novels, which is how I got her to play Tsukihime. Although I was able to get her into zombie books, and I'm planning on buying her Day by Day Armageddon for christmas, I heard it was good. I don't get why women like vampires so much, my mom gave my wife a shitload of her old Anne Rice novels. My mom used to be obsessed with Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and even back then I realized those shows were shit.

>>1594815
>>1594817
o shi TIME PARADOX

>>1594763
Just look at it. If it looks wrong, that's what erase is for. I was loathe to post my Miku for the same reason, she still looks very wrong to me, but after so much time on a single piece I just want to 'finish' it and start something else. In really I can open it up right now and edit it, but, I won't because it's finished in my mind, and I'm leaving the mistakes there to remind me the results of letting my standards drop because of getting lazy at any point of the process.

>>1594798
Oh it's not a spoiler. It's just a woman he knew in real life who he features as his guide in Paradiso. It's quite touching if you know about the relationship between both of them in their lives.

In order of priority

1) Find a way into Gensokyo. Live the rest of eternity in a fantasy world.

2) Land on the moon then proceed to build a base from which to launch another rocket to land on Mars before NASA does. Gloat.

3) Program world's first sentient AI. Use it to dominate the world then steer humanity in the proper direction.

4) Make titanic ideal shattering advancements in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Philosophy etc. Become immortalized in history as the most intellectually superior Scientific and Technological Genius in the universe.

5) 1, 2, 3, and 4

6) Some cubical salary job making just enough to live comfortably. Marry average woman, have average kids. Give up anime, Gensokyo, and all interest in fantasy and the supernatural altogether. TRUE END
;_;

>>1594833

Well, I think it is finished, but I know it is wrong somewhere though I am not that great so I am having a hard time pinpointing it. Though I can admit to myself I am improving since when I look at my past works, I can pinpoint my wrong doings and improve it in the future.

I can also feel that part in where you feel that your standard of art is dropping because of lack of practice, thats why after school, I almost go back to the drawing board to just draw and draw continuously.

>>1594833
>but after so much time on a single piece I just want to 'finish' it and start something else
I really hate that feeling. I'm usually not satisfied with the picture, but I've pretty much given up on making it perfect. It feels like defeat to me. I don't generally make it that far.

>>1594883

Don't do it.

>>1594910
thanks for the motivation, man

>>1594514
why don't you just draw with an american style rather than a shitty mixture of both..

>>1594817

draw ATLEAST one thing every day. It seems daunting, but eventually it becomes habit. Even if its just on your notes (that what I like to do) or in a planer or even on a napkin, practice practice practice. It takes time to build up skills, several several years.

The traditional advice is to not focus on one topic of study (its easy to get wrapped up in just characters or mecha designs) and draw from real life.
Personally I dont really agree with that, I'd say just draw what you enjoy, but I prefer to draw simply to express my ideas (since I cant really write too well). Though I dont think thats advisable if you're looking for something in an art career (for that you need to be very well balanced and knowledgeable in all areas).

>>1594940
lolwhat.

>>1594953
why don't you just draw with an american style rather than a shitty mixture of both?

>>1594883
>Marry average woman, have average kids. Give up anime, Gensokyo, and all interest in fantasy and the supernatural altogether. TRUE END

You can find a way to Gensokyo, so don't give up! Don't settle for an average life!

I started taking art classes at a community college last quarter. If I don't improve by the end of the year, I'm just going to give up, because that means I lack either talent or true drive. But then again, I really want the skill itself.

>>1594965
lolwhat.

>>1594965

What is "American style"? Drawing characters very fat and angry?

>>1594942
Yeah, I'm not really looking to make a career out of it, I just enjoy drawing the characters I like. I guess I just practice more. Do you recommend using pictures as reference when starting out or will this just handicap me later?

>>1595003
Use references everywhere.

I started taking art classes at a community college last quarter. If I don't improve by the end of the year, I'm just going to give up, because that means I lack either talent or true drive. But then again, I really want the skill itself. Pic = LOLZUN hat and QUALITY parasol.

>>1595016
>because that means I lack drive
Fixed that for you. Don't use the word talent as an excuse, just be fucking honest.

>>1595038
That's why I said "drive OR talent." Most people don't have the talent of drawing...it just takes them way longer to improve. If I don't improve, it's either a lack of talent (assuming I worked my ass off) or drive (was a lazy bastard and didn't try).

>>1594940

I draw Western because I like to capture both styles. Also both western and eastern copy from each other since... back a long time so I dont see why it would be bad or shitty.

>>1595016

It's not so bad. People like me who are far more inept than you would kill to be able to do something like that, so why give up? If you're never satisfied with your work, harness that to fuel constant improvement rather than as an excuse to give up.

>>1594833
>I just want to 'finish' it and start something else
This is good. Working on one piece forever will get you nowhere. Draw and move on.

>>1595056
I don't think you know what talent means.

>>1595016

http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis/

>>1595179
Thanks, but I already have those Loomis PDFs on my PC. You should have seen my sketches a couple of months ago...oh gods...don't even want to think about it.