As the title says. I feel like a second class citizen in the art community as a whole. I always feel like I'm being over shadowed and every time I step out, I get thrown back in. I work my ass off on my art, and I barely get any acknowledgment for them. They don't get many views, faves, or even comments for that matter. I've even been open for commissions for a long time, but I only ever get just one single commission every 7 months an no-one has bought any of my adopts that I worked really hard to make. I feel like people just don't want to buy art from me and would rather do an art trade or ask for a request instead.

Art trades are fine as it's art for art, but I want art as a career and be able to make money with it as well as make art just cause. However, even with my art trades, I still feel like no one even cares. When they post the art I did for them, It makes me happy that they like it, but the community immediately rejects me because even through the person states that I drew it. They get all the praise for it, all the comments and all the views, while I'm forced to sit in the shadows. It even hurts my pride as an artist.

It even feels like people hate me. I love the art that people do for me, whether it be an art trade, commission, or request. it's just that when I see the awesome art, their are a lot of conversations about it, and the moment I comment. All the conversations just stop, and there are very rarely that someone will comment after I do. It makes me feel like some kind of creep that everyone wants to avoid. And honestly, it really really hurts and makes me feel that no-one even cares about me.

I just want to be treated like a person, not like some freak, I want people to enjoy my art and my characters, and I want people to buy my are souly because they enjoy it.

If I offended anyone with this journal, I'm sorry. This has just lingered in me for way too long and I had to let it out...