So what the hell happened with me?
8 years ago
General
I'll start posting stuff back on soon. I kept practicing I simply didn't post anything anymore.
If you are thinking "who was it that pissed you off?", it wasn't just a single person, it was a flurry of them, not only with watchers and clients but also with other artists.
I was originally planning to go for low-price and low-quality models when I joined FA at first: Stuff that I can make in less than 3 hours and that can be priced accordingly. It worked for a few but then by talking to other artists and to people on FA it turned out that everyone was being an over entitled idiot.
My models are priced 20$ and I make them in about 3 hours adding total time up, and they were being very unfairly compared with models made by a certain someone else, his models are priced 200-400$ and take weeks and months to make... This was giving me a very unwanted "unexperienced artist that makes shitty art" fame. At one point I even considered deleting the whole gallery to get rid of the problem. You have no idea how much condescending some people acted with me between famous commissioners and famous artists, it made me want to quit art for good.
So in the end it turned out that instead of becoming famous for someone that makes affordable models I became known for someone that makes shitty models. My whole tactic backfired. It turned out people are so stupid they would rather pay hundreds of dollars to a famous artist and risk not being able to pay their rent than reach compromise and pay a lot less for a piece of art that is not as good. Not only that, when someone creates art they can afford easily, they shit on it!
This has little to do with actual quality of art, it has more to do with commissioners feeling superior if they have art made by famous people, and at this point it's very obvious that these dumbasses are being exploited by needy artists (that try to live off art and therefore are forced to exploit moronic commissioners to make a buck), but also by lazy artists that overprice out of the blue (your "pay 20$ more to get a google pic photoshopped in the background" kinda situation).
So. I am seeing desperate artists that can't do anything with their life being forced to exploit dumb commissioners that think paying more and paying someone famous automatically makes them cool. And if they wanted to play it fair and price accordingly to their efford and quality produced, they would quickly discover they can't make a living out of art (duh?). There is only one cathegory I appreciate in all this, artists that are being smart about it and are just openly exploiting this freak show to gain an extra buck. Can't complain when people find a busyness model that works.
The good news is in all this I also met a number of artists and commissioners that aren't nearly as bad as the riffraff I described, it came as a surprise. I met a lot of people that encouraged me, offered me practical tips about art, and yes, I even met some artists that make art cuz they like making art! Incredible! I also met commissioners that are actually critique at art they receive and hammered out heavily on artists that are lazy and overprice. So, yeah. There are more good people on FA than there is riffraff, and this is important to remember when one has trouble with the community here.
Anyways, I am coming up with a better working commission system to allow people from all walks of life to afford different tiers of models, animations, renders, poses etc. And refining and researching new modeling and animation tecniques to make such a thing happen smoothly.
I do not want to cut out the few friends I have that commission me regularly and that can't afford a 400$ model but I also want to avoid filling my gallery with low tier stuff.
This all, of course, if handling commissions on FA turns out to be a viable way to a quick buck, as I am already working with several things in real life, and i'm very very busy.
If you are thinking "who was it that pissed you off?", it wasn't just a single person, it was a flurry of them, not only with watchers and clients but also with other artists.
I was originally planning to go for low-price and low-quality models when I joined FA at first: Stuff that I can make in less than 3 hours and that can be priced accordingly. It worked for a few but then by talking to other artists and to people on FA it turned out that everyone was being an over entitled idiot.
My models are priced 20$ and I make them in about 3 hours adding total time up, and they were being very unfairly compared with models made by a certain someone else, his models are priced 200-400$ and take weeks and months to make... This was giving me a very unwanted "unexperienced artist that makes shitty art" fame. At one point I even considered deleting the whole gallery to get rid of the problem. You have no idea how much condescending some people acted with me between famous commissioners and famous artists, it made me want to quit art for good.
So in the end it turned out that instead of becoming famous for someone that makes affordable models I became known for someone that makes shitty models. My whole tactic backfired. It turned out people are so stupid they would rather pay hundreds of dollars to a famous artist and risk not being able to pay their rent than reach compromise and pay a lot less for a piece of art that is not as good. Not only that, when someone creates art they can afford easily, they shit on it!
This has little to do with actual quality of art, it has more to do with commissioners feeling superior if they have art made by famous people, and at this point it's very obvious that these dumbasses are being exploited by needy artists (that try to live off art and therefore are forced to exploit moronic commissioners to make a buck), but also by lazy artists that overprice out of the blue (your "pay 20$ more to get a google pic photoshopped in the background" kinda situation).
So. I am seeing desperate artists that can't do anything with their life being forced to exploit dumb commissioners that think paying more and paying someone famous automatically makes them cool. And if they wanted to play it fair and price accordingly to their efford and quality produced, they would quickly discover they can't make a living out of art (duh?). There is only one cathegory I appreciate in all this, artists that are being smart about it and are just openly exploiting this freak show to gain an extra buck. Can't complain when people find a busyness model that works.
The good news is in all this I also met a number of artists and commissioners that aren't nearly as bad as the riffraff I described, it came as a surprise. I met a lot of people that encouraged me, offered me practical tips about art, and yes, I even met some artists that make art cuz they like making art! Incredible! I also met commissioners that are actually critique at art they receive and hammered out heavily on artists that are lazy and overprice. So, yeah. There are more good people on FA than there is riffraff, and this is important to remember when one has trouble with the community here.
Anyways, I am coming up with a better working commission system to allow people from all walks of life to afford different tiers of models, animations, renders, poses etc. And refining and researching new modeling and animation tecniques to make such a thing happen smoothly.
I do not want to cut out the few friends I have that commission me regularly and that can't afford a 400$ model but I also want to avoid filling my gallery with low tier stuff.
This all, of course, if handling commissions on FA turns out to be a viable way to a quick buck, as I am already working with several things in real life, and i'm very very busy.
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Life as Ronny eh? One day for sure Ronny will be the Ronny everyone known to.