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What are your honest opinions about my art?
11 years ago
And subsequently my ability to be a freelance artist?
For anyone who knows me ore just reads any of my journals in passing, it's really no surprise that I'm the absolute worst judge of my own abilities. I generally think I'm god awful at art as I use the views, comments, and favorites (or reblogs, likes, etc.) as a general gauge of how "good" I am. Now I'm highly aware that this isn't a good "judge" of skill, but I still do think that in an online arena, they do help and it'd be hard for someone to convince me otherwise that they don't given the strong correlation between successful online artists and the amount of views they get. Basically I'm content with most of my art up until the moment I post it. Lately less and less people have been commenting and what not. Is it because I'm not uploading as frequently? Or is it because the art really isn't as good as I think it is? Or are people not seeing it...what?
Like...why did you watch me in the first place? What is it about my art that's appealing or not? What could make it better...? Stuff like that...
I dunno...it could be 'cause I've been up since 4:30 in the morning, but regardless I think about this stuff a lot anyways. I do consider freelance art my "real job" and whatever seasonal or part-time work I get to be temporary and completely disposable because I do really want the freelance work to be my job and I put a lot of effort into what I do. I wonder though should it be the other way around...like nothing's working so far and I can't earn much off of art unless I severely undercharge myself...is it even worth it to keep going...?
For anyone who knows me ore just reads any of my journals in passing, it's really no surprise that I'm the absolute worst judge of my own abilities. I generally think I'm god awful at art as I use the views, comments, and favorites (or reblogs, likes, etc.) as a general gauge of how "good" I am. Now I'm highly aware that this isn't a good "judge" of skill, but I still do think that in an online arena, they do help and it'd be hard for someone to convince me otherwise that they don't given the strong correlation between successful online artists and the amount of views they get. Basically I'm content with most of my art up until the moment I post it. Lately less and less people have been commenting and what not. Is it because I'm not uploading as frequently? Or is it because the art really isn't as good as I think it is? Or are people not seeing it...what?
Like...why did you watch me in the first place? What is it about my art that's appealing or not? What could make it better...? Stuff like that...
I dunno...it could be 'cause I've been up since 4:30 in the morning, but regardless I think about this stuff a lot anyways. I do consider freelance art my "real job" and whatever seasonal or part-time work I get to be temporary and completely disposable because I do really want the freelance work to be my job and I put a lot of effort into what I do. I wonder though should it be the other way around...like nothing's working so far and I can't earn much off of art unless I severely undercharge myself...is it even worth it to keep going...?
Eh, I try to follow trends...I dunno if it does any good. It usually seems like a way to get noticed. Though I usually only catch on to a trend at the tail end of it right when people stop caring. That or I know about something, but don't know enough about it to really contribute art to it...
I think expressions are probably my forte. Everything else seems to need way more work to be better. Which I mean, improvement will happen with more practice anyways, but expressions are probably what I'm best at. ^^;
I think my lighting tends to be something I'm weaker at honestly. I'm glad you like it!
I absolutely adore your art and think you deserve more watchers and views than you have <3
I do love it, but god if pursuing art as a career isn't the most infuriating thing. XD
And thanks! <3
If we were comparing comment watches etc, I'd say yours are pretty impressive. You have just bout as much watches as me and you have less pageviews and you've spent less time here. So quit downing yourself ok?
But I know I shouldn't down myself. It's just really tough not to sometimes...
Besides I have a new part-time job to help out with money. ^^;