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This is sort of a dig at art youtube and a dump about my thoughts on art in general/ being an artist over the years.
I have this hate for artist content on youtube because of how disingenuous and exploitative it is. Videos with thumbnails saying "you're doing this wrong" or "top 5 mistakes you're making" and a lot of shit is just contradicting each other, like "you should draw every day to improve" or "drawing every day is why you're not improving!", dumb hyperbolic shit like that. My view on art or I guess drawing in this context is that there ARE fundamentals you should know but that doesn't mean you will make great art, being good on a technical front only gets you so far. So much of the art process is about personal expression and how you represent an idea that trying to boil it down to a surface level understanding goes against what art is about.
I came to this conclusion not from drawing itself but from making custom figures because on that front there are no essential rules to know, you simply do what works for you. Side note: the only universal tip I can provide is always sand the parts that meet and move like joints and sockets.
I guess what really brought this out in me is just over the years of consuming art from so many people and realizing that things aren't so black and white, being the best on a technical level doesn't equal success in a broader sense, I've seen tons of great artists with small followings that are better than accounts with huge followings and in that sense it reminds me of the big names in comics like Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld who aren't the greatest artists by any means but they're millionaires non the less because while people were wasting their time roasting Liefeld on feet he was too busy creating shit to put his name on.
It's a strange time for art as whole right now, it's so splintered that it's easy to forget we all do the same thing. There's the modern crowd making pretentious bullshit that sells for millions, the digital crowd having a meltdown over AI, the traditionalists that stay in their lane doing their thing.
In conclusion, I suppose, do what works for you, at the end of the day your art is for you first because if it isn't then what's the point?
I have this hate for artist content on youtube because of how disingenuous and exploitative it is. Videos with thumbnails saying "you're doing this wrong" or "top 5 mistakes you're making" and a lot of shit is just contradicting each other, like "you should draw every day to improve" or "drawing every day is why you're not improving!", dumb hyperbolic shit like that. My view on art or I guess drawing in this context is that there ARE fundamentals you should know but that doesn't mean you will make great art, being good on a technical front only gets you so far. So much of the art process is about personal expression and how you represent an idea that trying to boil it down to a surface level understanding goes against what art is about.
I came to this conclusion not from drawing itself but from making custom figures because on that front there are no essential rules to know, you simply do what works for you. Side note: the only universal tip I can provide is always sand the parts that meet and move like joints and sockets.
I guess what really brought this out in me is just over the years of consuming art from so many people and realizing that things aren't so black and white, being the best on a technical level doesn't equal success in a broader sense, I've seen tons of great artists with small followings that are better than accounts with huge followings and in that sense it reminds me of the big names in comics like Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld who aren't the greatest artists by any means but they're millionaires non the less because while people were wasting their time roasting Liefeld on feet he was too busy creating shit to put his name on.
It's a strange time for art as whole right now, it's so splintered that it's easy to forget we all do the same thing. There's the modern crowd making pretentious bullshit that sells for millions, the digital crowd having a meltdown over AI, the traditionalists that stay in their lane doing their thing.
In conclusion, I suppose, do what works for you, at the end of the day your art is for you first because if it isn't then what's the point?
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People don't learn to be artists, they often learn how to become illustraters
and then mid-way in their art carrere have a massive breakdown about their hollow identity as a victim of the furry art market and no one to hold their hand out of it
other than just ... learning it again
To be an artist is to be free (cringe), to be vournable, to explore, to express and your 4 hours speedpaint tutorial with photobashing and 410 different brushes won't teach you that
and then mid-way in their art carrere have a massive breakdown about their hollow identity as a victim of the furry art market and no one to hold their hand out of it
other than just ... learning it again
To be an artist is to be free (cringe), to be vournable, to explore, to express and your 4 hours speedpaint tutorial with photobashing and 410 different brushes won't teach you that
I've met with this conundrum many times in the last few years, and I've come to this resolve:
What's the point in marketing something that makes you, and nobody else, happy and content with life, no matter how absurd or perverse your intellectual property may be?
Like, how would the world take the idea of an angsty, but knowledgeable teenage brown bear who finds absolution and a new life purpose in being the loving partner of a powerful, but promiscuous white rabbit amazonian athlete? It's a vast study of character contrast, but I believe it condones the idea that male and female characters can be compatible in making up for each of their flaws.
Teddy is only 4'2" and short tempered; but he knows a lot about health, nutrition, and willing to accept bold changes in life.
Ally is the perfect 6'7" athlete with a kind heart and good common sense; but she's illiterate and slow to accepting bold challenges in life.
How's that?
What's the point in marketing something that makes you, and nobody else, happy and content with life, no matter how absurd or perverse your intellectual property may be?
Like, how would the world take the idea of an angsty, but knowledgeable teenage brown bear who finds absolution and a new life purpose in being the loving partner of a powerful, but promiscuous white rabbit amazonian athlete? It's a vast study of character contrast, but I believe it condones the idea that male and female characters can be compatible in making up for each of their flaws.
Teddy is only 4'2" and short tempered; but he knows a lot about health, nutrition, and willing to accept bold changes in life.
Ally is the perfect 6'7" athlete with a kind heart and good common sense; but she's illiterate and slow to accepting bold challenges in life.
How's that?
These videos have gone in one ear and out the other for me. Sometimes I've had to manually (ugh) tell youtube I'm disinterested in those types of videos until they finally go away for good (hopefully),
or even go into my history and remove something that gives them a foothold to base their findings off of so I can watch them slip off like Link in a Rainstorm.
I don't find their advice particularly helpful. Webcomic advice was marginally more helpful but the biggest webcomic enterprise (webtoon) also has some very harmful, negligent, and exploitative practices that often don't consider many authors that... Well, don't want to write for fujoshis.
If it's all unfair anyways and technical art skill doesn't actually matter I'd rather keep drawing until I either find something I like or a way to get something else off of my chest.
Though, a handful of things have happened that put my flow on ice. No physical / IRL issues, but moreso social and emotional ones.
or even go into my history and remove something that gives them a foothold to base their findings off of so I can watch them slip off like Link in a Rainstorm.
I don't find their advice particularly helpful. Webcomic advice was marginally more helpful but the biggest webcomic enterprise (webtoon) also has some very harmful, negligent, and exploitative practices that often don't consider many authors that... Well, don't want to write for fujoshis.
If it's all unfair anyways and technical art skill doesn't actually matter I'd rather keep drawing until I either find something I like or a way to get something else off of my chest.
Though, a handful of things have happened that put my flow on ice. No physical / IRL issues, but moreso social and emotional ones.
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