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Are you an artist for the right reasons ?

Posted by JaviJavi - April 19th, 2013


Can a brotha vent right now ? It's about these new generation of artist out there, who do art for all the wrong reasons. Pseudo popularity has run rampant in the art communities everywhere, and i mean everywhere ! This is not to say that getting followers on twitter, and getting likes on deviantart, facebook, instagram, and newgrounds is bad. Because it always feels good as an artist when people admire you work, It's absolutely gratifying because someone acknowledges your talent. But here's the question to you artist out there, would you still be doing art if no one noticed your work ? Would you still do your so called "passion" if it were covered and swallowed by the shadows ? Would you still draw if you had 10 people on your fanpage instead of 100 ? 20 followers on twitter instead of 1,000 ? 50 views on youtube as opposed to 1,000,000 ? Because if not your intentions with art aren't genuine, and you're doing art just to attain some sort of notoriety, You choose popularity over passion, rather than doing to because you love it. Im saying this because i was a victim of this a while ago. I started a webcomic on tumblr like a year ago and i had 12 followers for the longest time. I got depressed and stopped doing my webcomic, i stopped doing art in general. Then one day it hit me, isn't passion and hard work to produce the end result enough to keep you moving on ? Yes it is, because if you do art because you love it, if you do art because its what gets you up in the morning, if you strive to be a better artist than you were yesterday, you will reap the rewards. Because i didn't stop my webcomic after that i have like 46 followers now and i couldn't be happier. I dunno man it's just do frustrating to see people like that, it's almost an insult to all those artist out there that don't care about the money and fame, but do art because it's soothing, keeps them at ease, and is a big part of their life. I have like 15 people on my fan page but i still draw every single day, i have a list of things that i work on to become better at my craft per say. Im not bragging because im as humble a artist as can be, but also im saying that im not going to let lack of numbers determine future as an artist.


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I can totally relate to you. I draw, all the time. I don't even post my shit online, anywhere. Sometimes people catch a glance at my shit at school, and that's the only admiration I get. I draw for myself, (of course sometimes for other people, *rawr rawr bitch*) so I totally understand you. From a fellow artist to another, keep it real.

Agreed. I feel happy when at least one guy appreciates my art. I think people who have a high fan count dont realize that most of those numbers dont even check if their favorite artist released something new.

That's just how i see things though.