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About Quitters... (Rant Journal, nothing important)
13 years ago
(Rant journal)
This is directed towards those artists who just drop off the face of the earth any time they run into someone who doesn't worship them or even their work. I'm not gonna mention anyone specific, there's already been a few big ones that have left within the past two weeks.
In the solid year or so I've had a profile here, I must've seen a good 20 or so from the site alone just vanish, unable to find them, I keep a pretty long list of art boards that I look through, so I do mean it when I say they vanish.
I have just two words: fuck you.
I would kill others if it meant to just be even a tenth as good, but you pack up and leave the moment someone criticizes you, OH NOES someone trolls you! Quick! Delete absolutely everything off your profile, offering no explanation in the process quick! Abandon ship!!!
"But but! It's their choice!"
Yeah, but the sad reality is, you'll never make it in the industry like that, when you get slammed by people who actually know their stuff, some of which whom weren't geniuses at birth mind you. You try submitting your work to an employer, art director whoever, all of the sudden, it's not your choice if you're gonna be working for them. I admire the artists for their work, not for being a pansy.
Please don't try bringing up freelancing as a viable option, I'm flooded by journals every fucking day of people asking for donations because they didn't have a fall-back plan and risk getting evicted or something crazy thinking they could crank out batch after batch of $10 commissions.
Oh, and to the 'pro's' who repost all of their work ten times a week for extra views and watchers, you're not doing yourself any favors, you're certainly not improving clearly enough, and sorry to say, but you're not THAT good.
No matter, I'll be trucking along and noodling slowly but surely, I might slow down, but I don't quit, as much as I think about it.
Have a nice day.
This is directed towards those artists who just drop off the face of the earth any time they run into someone who doesn't worship them or even their work. I'm not gonna mention anyone specific, there's already been a few big ones that have left within the past two weeks.
In the solid year or so I've had a profile here, I must've seen a good 20 or so from the site alone just vanish, unable to find them, I keep a pretty long list of art boards that I look through, so I do mean it when I say they vanish.
I have just two words: fuck you.
I would kill others if it meant to just be even a tenth as good, but you pack up and leave the moment someone criticizes you, OH NOES someone trolls you! Quick! Delete absolutely everything off your profile, offering no explanation in the process quick! Abandon ship!!!
"But but! It's their choice!"
Yeah, but the sad reality is, you'll never make it in the industry like that, when you get slammed by people who actually know their stuff, some of which whom weren't geniuses at birth mind you. You try submitting your work to an employer, art director whoever, all of the sudden, it's not your choice if you're gonna be working for them. I admire the artists for their work, not for being a pansy.
Please don't try bringing up freelancing as a viable option, I'm flooded by journals every fucking day of people asking for donations because they didn't have a fall-back plan and risk getting evicted or something crazy thinking they could crank out batch after batch of $10 commissions.
Oh, and to the 'pro's' who repost all of their work ten times a week for extra views and watchers, you're not doing yourself any favors, you're certainly not improving clearly enough, and sorry to say, but you're not THAT good.
No matter, I'll be trucking along and noodling slowly but surely, I might slow down, but I don't quit, as much as I think about it.
Have a nice day.
One really big reason artists take down everything and then "disappear" is because they are getting in to jobs and they don't want companies to be discouraged by old work they deem "questionable". Some companies look past it, others think it will make them look bad.
I also understand artists want to disassociate themselves from art that might be deemed 'bad' or 'controversial', which naturally leads to many of them using pseudonyms.
The same story seems to be played out over and over though; artist posts stuff, lot's of people like it, repeat for a few months, rolling along nicely, one mean little comment gets plastered somewhere on a journal or a piece, next morning, bam! Blank profile, nothing to see here move along.
And... start saving artwork into a folder :]