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Art Scams And How Good Is My Art Really?
7 years ago
How good is my art really? I ask because I get so many mixed messages that I don't know what to think. This is important for the topic of this journal. Trades, "art drives", and competitions, and how they are scams.
Without naming names, I took part in an "art drive" event. At first everything seemed normal. A public art trade or competition of sorts. I drew a pic, did the lineart, made some changes the guy wanted, so far, so good. Then my instincts started saying that something was up. Sure enough, weird stuff started happening. The rules changed, the deadline was moved, and when a list of entries so far was posted, my name wasn't on, and I was being asked when I was going to get around to colouring the pic. By this point I was certain something was up, and decided not to work on it. Sure enough, the contest ended with my pic being considered trash tier.
The winners did deserve their victory. ...kind of. One outclassed everyone, no issue there. Another won by volume of low quality entries, and another won by fanfiction. Those last 2 are somewhat debatable to me, and it's tempting to write them off as playing the Discord politics game. Like I said, I saw this coming a mile away and thus my pic was technically unfinished, so I can't really be mad about losing. What bothers me is that it feels like I was conned. That I entered a pseudo trade/competition, only to realise it was a shell game when they started changing rules and moving dates around.
This isn't the first time this has happened either. I've seen people conned out of art before due to frauds like this, with artists either not knowing or not caring that this damages their reputation and causes drama. Hell, I got runner up in a similar contest years ago, and never recieved my prize. It was always put on the back burner.
It's for this reason that I'm done with gifts, trades, and contests. I still have something I'm doing for LQCTim but after that, I don't think I'll do any more, outside a couple of trustworthy people. It's a shame too, because I like doing collabs and trades, but all to often people welsh on the deal.
Without naming names, I took part in an "art drive" event. At first everything seemed normal. A public art trade or competition of sorts. I drew a pic, did the lineart, made some changes the guy wanted, so far, so good. Then my instincts started saying that something was up. Sure enough, weird stuff started happening. The rules changed, the deadline was moved, and when a list of entries so far was posted, my name wasn't on, and I was being asked when I was going to get around to colouring the pic. By this point I was certain something was up, and decided not to work on it. Sure enough, the contest ended with my pic being considered trash tier.
The winners did deserve their victory. ...kind of. One outclassed everyone, no issue there. Another won by volume of low quality entries, and another won by fanfiction. Those last 2 are somewhat debatable to me, and it's tempting to write them off as playing the Discord politics game. Like I said, I saw this coming a mile away and thus my pic was technically unfinished, so I can't really be mad about losing. What bothers me is that it feels like I was conned. That I entered a pseudo trade/competition, only to realise it was a shell game when they started changing rules and moving dates around.
This isn't the first time this has happened either. I've seen people conned out of art before due to frauds like this, with artists either not knowing or not caring that this damages their reputation and causes drama. Hell, I got runner up in a similar contest years ago, and never recieved my prize. It was always put on the back burner.
It's for this reason that I'm done with gifts, trades, and contests. I still have something I'm doing for LQCTim but after that, I don't think I'll do any more, outside a couple of trustworthy people. It's a shame too, because I like doing collabs and trades, but all to often people welsh on the deal.
TRAIN
~train
It's average, but you can always improve, and one question, why don't you post pictures you commissioned in your gallery?
SabreXT
~sabrext
OP
Various reasons, but the main one is because I didn't draw them.
TRAIN
~train
Alright then.
