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5 years ago
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I've been on FA for longer than 14 years. I still remember the acquisition imvu made. I can still remember the toxic members in the forums who every day had nothing else better to do but shame you for being a furry.
I actually still hold an account on eka's portal. But never go there anymore. I had a profile and uploaded like 4 drawings.
I used to have a toxic mindset when creating music in flstudio. I, being completely broke because I couldn't save any money for anything, had a cracked version with a bunch of samples from limewire. That was my past. When I was an up and coming artist in the drum and bass world I loved listening to all kinds of stuff. At first it would be american artists but soon enough I started liking hospital records. And eventually before trying harder I bought my sample packs and bought flstudio and bought an expensive computer to make music.
Through those years I kept hungering for attention.
I wanted to know how my music was being used in a project. I wanted to see people using my work. Above all I wanted feedback.
We have all of these apps we can use to leave a review of a place we visited and we can be nasty nasty individuals and super hyper critical of each other.
Have you read reviews of places you have been to? Are you the type of person who uses that same website or app to look at reviews before you buy?
Do you use reviews before buying a product?
The average person says they do more than 70% of the time but when it comes to art? It drops down to less than 15%.
When I commission someone it is because I believe they can capture the essence I am looking for.
So when I was asking for feedback as a drum and bass artist I had no idea people don't care they just want to hear something new.
I got one high when someone straight up asked me to allow them to play my music on their stream. But it was at the worst possible moment in time. I had just given myself to a record label. And for what ever reason I will not name them but I will tell you this: avoid record labels and online record labels. Don't sign with them. Leave them to rot. They won't do what you expect them to do and if you put in any effort they fucking steal from you.
If you are a music artist DO EVERYTHING YOURSELF! And don't trust anyone.
After a few years go by I realised something... All of the artists I had been following that suddenly vanished in the world of mechaphilia did so because no one talked?
I'm finally severing myself away from that and instead I am going to be inclusive.
As in I am no longer going to be exclusive. Fuck it. I am going to become the opposite of what the music industry did to me as an artist and instead pursue visual art over sound.
I've seen artists on several different platforms try to cultivate and focus on what the audience wants...
You just need to ask yourself what you like in visual art. Everyone will have a different opinion on your art style but remember why you got into art instead of trying to grab someone by the collar and ask for more than a glance. I used to be that way and it drove people off.
Instead of looking at your comment count look at your view count to favorite ratio.
There are over 600 pictures of my past I have as my "collection" and not a single one of them has more than 30 comments. But their favorite to view count ratio is 1:12,000
That means they got one person to favorite their image per 12,000 views. That is fucking small. That is just sad to think about at first. Until you realise people come back to look at that picture later on. Some of us look at it and just hit download to save it and never return. Adding in a little lug nut button would probably be more helpful but people use the favorite button that way. If it made them do the naughty to a picture they hit that button.
And it is usually a time relic. I used to have around 75 images that I were my go to images in my time of need. But now they have faded out of existence save for 4 now. Those 4 images... All different artists. The 75 they came from before, all 75 from a different artist. The 600 those came from? Maybe around 300 artists. And this website? The trillions of images? How many artists?
When it comes to ranking yourself use the view count to favorite ratio. And only give it the first few days to make that judgement. Don't give it any more than 5. Those first few hours are where you should get a high from for attention and that's it.
But above all enjoy your own art for what you made it for. Because if you are not enjoying what you are creating, then I consider you psychopathic.
That's just my opinion. And if it hurts you well then stop asking people to comment.
Every time I hear an artist out and I find out it's because their art isn't talked about as much? They don't understand that they need to enjoy the art themselves. That is where you are failing. If you don't enjoy it yourself while making it then no one else will enjoy it.
If you aren't taking a few steps back, or zooming out of your project and it's not making you feel the way it should? And it doesn't make you yourself talk or think about it or do what ever ritual you do with art? Then you need to make a change. If you aren't enjoying it for its purpose then scrap it and start over, or redo the image. Don't be lazy.
Never base your success as an artist solely based upon criticism. That is the fastest way to fade out. That is what happened to me as a drum and bass artist. And that is how I ended up getting a small time online radio station sued.
Enjoy the painting while you paint it otherwise it's just another page.
Your exact same thoughts of your own work is typically what the average person thinks anyway.
Just remember that questions come from answers that you already have in your head.
I actually still hold an account on eka's portal. But never go there anymore. I had a profile and uploaded like 4 drawings.
I used to have a toxic mindset when creating music in flstudio. I, being completely broke because I couldn't save any money for anything, had a cracked version with a bunch of samples from limewire. That was my past. When I was an up and coming artist in the drum and bass world I loved listening to all kinds of stuff. At first it would be american artists but soon enough I started liking hospital records. And eventually before trying harder I bought my sample packs and bought flstudio and bought an expensive computer to make music.
Through those years I kept hungering for attention.
I wanted to know how my music was being used in a project. I wanted to see people using my work. Above all I wanted feedback.
We have all of these apps we can use to leave a review of a place we visited and we can be nasty nasty individuals and super hyper critical of each other.
Have you read reviews of places you have been to? Are you the type of person who uses that same website or app to look at reviews before you buy?
Do you use reviews before buying a product?
The average person says they do more than 70% of the time but when it comes to art? It drops down to less than 15%.
When I commission someone it is because I believe they can capture the essence I am looking for.
So when I was asking for feedback as a drum and bass artist I had no idea people don't care they just want to hear something new.
I got one high when someone straight up asked me to allow them to play my music on their stream. But it was at the worst possible moment in time. I had just given myself to a record label. And for what ever reason I will not name them but I will tell you this: avoid record labels and online record labels. Don't sign with them. Leave them to rot. They won't do what you expect them to do and if you put in any effort they fucking steal from you.
If you are a music artist DO EVERYTHING YOURSELF! And don't trust anyone.
After a few years go by I realised something... All of the artists I had been following that suddenly vanished in the world of mechaphilia did so because no one talked?
I'm finally severing myself away from that and instead I am going to be inclusive.
As in I am no longer going to be exclusive. Fuck it. I am going to become the opposite of what the music industry did to me as an artist and instead pursue visual art over sound.
I've seen artists on several different platforms try to cultivate and focus on what the audience wants...
You just need to ask yourself what you like in visual art. Everyone will have a different opinion on your art style but remember why you got into art instead of trying to grab someone by the collar and ask for more than a glance. I used to be that way and it drove people off.
Instead of looking at your comment count look at your view count to favorite ratio.
There are over 600 pictures of my past I have as my "collection" and not a single one of them has more than 30 comments. But their favorite to view count ratio is 1:12,000
That means they got one person to favorite their image per 12,000 views. That is fucking small. That is just sad to think about at first. Until you realise people come back to look at that picture later on. Some of us look at it and just hit download to save it and never return. Adding in a little lug nut button would probably be more helpful but people use the favorite button that way. If it made them do the naughty to a picture they hit that button.
And it is usually a time relic. I used to have around 75 images that I were my go to images in my time of need. But now they have faded out of existence save for 4 now. Those 4 images... All different artists. The 75 they came from before, all 75 from a different artist. The 600 those came from? Maybe around 300 artists. And this website? The trillions of images? How many artists?
When it comes to ranking yourself use the view count to favorite ratio. And only give it the first few days to make that judgement. Don't give it any more than 5. Those first few hours are where you should get a high from for attention and that's it.
But above all enjoy your own art for what you made it for. Because if you are not enjoying what you are creating, then I consider you psychopathic.
That's just my opinion. And if it hurts you well then stop asking people to comment.
Every time I hear an artist out and I find out it's because their art isn't talked about as much? They don't understand that they need to enjoy the art themselves. That is where you are failing. If you don't enjoy it yourself while making it then no one else will enjoy it.
If you aren't taking a few steps back, or zooming out of your project and it's not making you feel the way it should? And it doesn't make you yourself talk or think about it or do what ever ritual you do with art? Then you need to make a change. If you aren't enjoying it for its purpose then scrap it and start over, or redo the image. Don't be lazy.
Never base your success as an artist solely based upon criticism. That is the fastest way to fade out. That is what happened to me as a drum and bass artist. And that is how I ended up getting a small time online radio station sued.
Enjoy the painting while you paint it otherwise it's just another page.
Your exact same thoughts of your own work is typically what the average person thinks anyway.
Just remember that questions come from answers that you already have in your head.
