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One of the things i realized the other day is why FA has done so much to kill my spark for art. FA feels like a community composed of Artists, and Fans of those artists. You're either one or the other. Unlike Y!Gallery or SheezyArt, where most of the people there were artists, it was a community of fellow artists. Here, you have to graduate from being a fan to oin the community of artists.
Here we aren't artists supporting each other, unless you've already reached a certain level of skill and fame. It's the iron gauntlet. That realization has also helped me rekindle my love for doing art. I think I may have to return to Y! or Sheezy, or maybe figure how to start a FA community of actual artists who don't separate themselves so much.
Here we aren't artists supporting each other, unless you've already reached a certain level of skill and fame. It's the iron gauntlet. That realization has also helped me rekindle my love for doing art. I think I may have to return to Y! or Sheezy, or maybe figure how to start a FA community of actual artists who don't separate themselves so much.
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Of course, I'm not a skilled illustrator, just a lurker with a flair for Victorian verbiage. Not a fan of the artists per-se, but a fan of the *art*.
Are you saying that the artists here are elitists, or what exactly?
And, PROTIP: if you're doing art, or if you love art, for the sake of the approval or support of others, you're doing it wrong.
The community around Guppy's board, and the support of people like you is probably a main reason why Xander still draws anything furry.
To wit: If you're doing art, or if you love art, solely for the sake of the approval or support of others, you're doing it wrong.
Perhaps there's a bit of a personality conflict in this discussion: I am a rather defiant and selfish person. I post vids on my journal that I like and I want to share. To date, the record of responses to any of those posts is...four. This near-zero response to things I like fails to impede me. I'll go on posting those vids even if they're just playing to the crickets.
I've seen plenty of art on this site that is hardly passable for gradeschool kids, and yet those artists go right ahead and post them and to hell with the haters or dissers. And certainly you've got more talent than they.
Don't let this get you down: this is the Internets. Letting this virtual community of invisible non-sharers get under your fur is to succumb to illusory power. And again, I'm confident that you're better than that.
"Exclusivity is the fancy way of saying low market response."