I admire artists, they are really living tough times. From depression and the exposure to the toxicity in social media, to the ever evolving AI-art generators, this is truly a dark time for them.

Context: Pewdiepie managed to end up drawing fairly damn good anime-style pieces after 100 days of training

Consequently, artists who are struggling to meet that pace aren't taking it very well.

Painter: I hate AI!!
Architect: AI my best fr T.T
If you study in an architecture university, you will understand it. Not only artists nowadays, even before have tough time making living out of their work. The title 'artist' can be claimed just by posting your work on social media, you can easily find an Artist group on facebook with more than 100k members, observe some dramas like imitating line, style, color pattern, even building in the background which are so stupid. Renaissance artists's works look the same from head to toe, who can copy strike human anatomy?:D.
In my opinion painter is no different than other jobs, workers've feared of being replaced by machine from the industrial revolution. Now I have an example, you have 2 choices:

1. Hiring Akira Toriyama to design characters for your new game.
2. Hiring someone or using to imitate Akira Toriyama's style.

Most will choose the 1st option, that is why many gacha game companies hire a lot of famous artists to boost their popularity. Human is not immortal, and can get fed up with everything so they definitely need more artist.

Now, about the 2nd choice someone will need it. For example, you're a content creator, you want to write an article about Buddha or Jesus, and you want an illustrator of them drawn in style of naruto, one piece, jojo, gibbli... you can draw it yourself or use AI to generate one. Will anyone copy strike you? Nah, they can't or do not care.

There is one thing that make me feel hilarious, artist, novelist, social media ask "Does robot have a soul?" but also them "There are no soul in your product".

BlastingNaba said:

Context: Pewdiepie managed to end up drawing fairly damn good anime-style pieces after 100 days of training

Consequently, artists who are struggling to meet that pace aren't taking it very well.

People really shouldn't beat themselves up because someone learned the same hobby/job faster than them. Pewdiepie is Pewdiepie, you are you. How he learns is how he learns and how you learn is how you learn. But I really can't blame them; most societies basically scream from every billboard, magazine, newspaper, website, radio and TV station that your time is running out and you need to do everything you ever wanted right now or be left behind.

Hthy said:

People really shouldn't beat themselves up because someone learned the same hobby/job faster than them. Pewdiepie is Pewdiepie, you are you. How he learns is how he learns and how you learn is how you learn. But I really can't blame them; most societies basically scream from every billboard, magazine, newspaper, website, radio and TV station that your time is running out and you need to do everything you ever wanted right now or be left behind.

Only thing I want to know can you really learn to draw at any age? Or should you start at a young age?

Simply survival of the fittest, that's all
If there's something better than you, you perish

DimensionalBlade said:

Only thing I want to know can you really learn to draw at any age? Or should you start at a young age?

The earlier the better. If not because you retain knowledge better in your younger years, then because you'll have more free time as a teen than as an adult.

BlastingNaba said:

Context: Pewdiepie managed to end up drawing fairly damn good anime-style pieces after 100 days of training

Consequently, artists who are struggling to meet that pace aren't taking it very well.

in all fairness, pretty sure Pewdiepie has enough money nowadays that he doesn't need to work for the rest of his life, so he has extra hours every day

versus people who still need to do things to pay the bills

DimensionalBlade said:

Only thing I want to know can you really learn to draw at any age? Or should you start at a young age?

Sorry for a late reply. Here are a few examples:

Judith Scott (not the actress) learned fabric sculpting at around 43. She is also deaf and has downs syndrome.

Madge Gill started when she was 38, after giving birth to a stillborn which caused her to lose sight in her left eye.

George Widener is known for his art-like sketches he does to sort out mathematical computations. He was born 1962 and only really started getting recognition around the late 2000s.

Joseph E. Yoakum started learning art late into his life, around his 70s.

These are just anecdotes an not really any sort of concrete scientific evidence you can learn art at any age, so take it as you will.

DimensionalBlade said:

Only thing I want to know can you really learn to draw at any age? Or should you start at a young age?

It's definitely easier if you start young. That means you had more time to make it a habit, more time to accumulate experience.
That hardly means it's necessary. Drawing is ultimately just another skill, and any skill can be learned and mastered, if one has the will to try.

Pimini said:

in all fairness, pretty sure Pewdiepie has enough money nowadays that he doesn't need to work for the rest of his life, so he has extra hours every day

versus people who still need to do things to pay the bills

Didn't he said he only drew around 10 minutes a day? Even if he drew for more, what he shows is still like, 3 pages per day.

DimensionalBlade said:

Only thing I want to know can you really learn to draw at any age? Or should you start at a young age?

I think Mattias Pilhede (youtuber) said that the advantage an adult has over kids when it comes to learning how to draw is an adult can see things more objectively.

A kid might see anatomy, proportion, and perspective just as something annoying, but an adult can see them as something they need in order to grow as an artist.

An adult is also more experienced in learning, and know better how to "eat an elephant", splitting those subjects up into smaller chunks, and do it one at a time.