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Squeaky Wheel
14 years ago
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Is it just me or do quite a few popular artists really, really like to fish for compliments? Is the reason why they have such a vocal following is that they frequently ask for it, or vice-versa? I generally don't like being vocal about my self-loathing (or anything much, really), but I keep rolling my eyes every time I see an artist with a very profound following shunning their own work or being surprised that their commissions get taken up in, like, five seconds in a journal.
It seems pretty insulting that some (keyword) artists on FA with thousands of fans keep perpetuating the whole "Oh I'm not really that good" attitude, even when the fans are always in public disagreement. I mean, it's one thing to be modest, but there's a point in time when denouncing one's own work is merely spouting nonsense for the sake of a compliment.
I'm not going to give names because I forgot to pack my shitstorm gear, but it seems that artists with fans in the quadruple digits should be careful about what they're saying. It makes some of those who haven't even broken the triple-digit barrier to feel like garbage (cough) when people who have thousands of fans consider their artwork "bad". This isn't a journal about why artists should never ever ever ever ever EVER feel bad. I'm just tired of seeing it in public displays obviously meant to bait some validation.
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It seems pretty insulting that some (keyword) artists on FA with thousands of fans keep perpetuating the whole "Oh I'm not really that good" attitude, even when the fans are always in public disagreement. I mean, it's one thing to be modest, but there's a point in time when denouncing one's own work is merely spouting nonsense for the sake of a compliment.
I'm not going to give names because I forgot to pack my shitstorm gear, but it seems that artists with fans in the quadruple digits should be careful about what they're saying. It makes some of those who haven't even broken the triple-digit barrier to feel like garbage (cough) when people who have thousands of fans consider their artwork "bad". This isn't a journal about why artists should never ever ever ever ever EVER feel bad. I'm just tired of seeing it in public displays obviously meant to bait some validation.
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
If an artist makes a journal about whether they are good or not, instead of saying "yeah your art is great, don't worry about it" say something like "you should try ___ it really helps to improve" or start to critique their work, if they get mad, they were obviously just making that journal for attention.
I haven't tried that method out of suspicion that the artist would get angry, as you said. I'm also kind of worried about the ire that I would get from that person's fanbase, but I'm not entirely sure why now that I think about it.
I've certainly seen some artists whose stuff ends up becoming nothing but fanservice and/or a love-in for other people's characters. Like they stop drawing for themselves and its own sake and instead just go out to please others, and their art ends up all the worse for it as they crank out endless pictures in the same style of the same kink or people's oh-so-zany fursonas. In one case a chap even seemed to stop drawing characters and a good chunk of their work just consisted of disembodied feet.
I don't think I've seen anybody going to disembodied feet before. However, I'm not too surprised considering what I've seen on this website.
It does perturb me a tad when fifteen year olds can get cult-like followings just for drawing neopets kind of nice, who before the internet would never have been known outside their own highschools, and had time to assess what potential art might hold for them without so much attention that they become maniacs, but I also imagine they can grow out of it. When somebody's my age, or more, and still acting like a princess, then I start to get judgmental, and then I worry about myself for having cared.
I'd like to say more in regards to the subject, but I can't seem to muster up anything else that would be fitting.