Artist attitude - pet peeves?

[tayo_rafferty]

The quality of the art and the narrative are definitely more important that the art-style but the style determines your identity as an artist and there are a tremendous amount of artists who are not really attempting to carve out their own identity. They are trying to draw things exactly like Disney or exactly like an anime that they're a fan of. Then they get comfortable doing that and never progress beyond it.

I enjoy drawing in a Disney style too but I'm trying to make it fulfil all those Disney-isms while still being distinct. That's the difference between taking inspiration from something versus flatly imitating it.

[Rhombik]

It probably isn't fair, but is there any practical way to stop it?

Well way back when, the post said that Tapas should have a thumbs down option. So I think we've come full circle now: We can make it harder for people to do by not giving them this option.

Speaking for all empty vessels out there, sometimes we have a point. XD

Daww! You're not an empty vessel. Maybe loud...

As for people just shouting off their mouth, sure, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

What do you mean, "properly"?

No meat from an animal or a fish if I can help it. Just because I want to eat fishes, doesn't mean I should maybe.

PS. I drank a lot of a strong Slovak brandy last night so I might not be able to keep this discussion going. My brain is about to fall out.

[Navi.Hog]

In Vino Veritas, brother. XD

[ISNEKO]

Recently switched from "fuckers" to "lovelies" and no one appreciated my sacrifice.

My struggle.

[Rhombik]

Haha. Ironically the pub's actual motto is "in pivo veritas".

[Testaccount]

Whew! Got that off my chest. Hey, thanks for lending an ear. I'm not calling any names, don't want to hurt feelings, BUT this did happen.

If you ever feel stressed or need to talk, I'm always here^^

Some strangers online can be mean, and I've had my own run-ins with people in the past, but you'll be a stronger person for it^^

I'm not the best with this, but I can offer the advice lol - have confidence in yourself and your work, and people will be confident in you. =)

[joe_galindez]

Just because I want to eat fishes, doesn't mean I should maybe.

So it's an ethical position? That's cool.

[Rhombik]

I think more that to me I can't get away from the fact that I'm eating flesh. I can't think how to explain it well but it's the same kind of disgust people have about eating dogs and cats.

Fish is quite unflesh-like and I like the taste but I'm not still convinced I should eat it.

[J.Lovelace]

Here gives you a medal

[ISNEKO]

Thank you. I'm noting this day.

[catluckey]

You are sooo sweet! Thank you for your offer and I may take you up on it. I totally agree with you in having confidence in your work. I'm working on that too. In my youth, I used to be incredibly shy, but now I'm more outgoing.

Luv n hugs to ya, @akaluv89

[J.Lovelace]

When the artists change their username multiple times to something more and more ridiculous...

[LordVincent]

Wow uhm... It's not very kind to put a thing in this thread with a timing that makes it very clear who you're talking about, just saying... Especially since there's pretty much only one well known creator on this platform who does the very thing you describe.

This thread at its very essence runs the risk of making people feel attacked, so anything we can do to avoid that happening is probably for the better?

[Wumbl]

The only creators I have a genuine problem with are manipulative ones that try to deflect meaningful criticism. I've had honest art review content threatened with legal action because the artist didn't like that I pointed out the problems and suggested improvements. It's ridiculous.
It comes from having an inflated ego I guess. People feel like they don't have room to improve at all, when really you'll be improving for as long as you are drawing.

[Momomori]

guilty ;;
at least i stopped doing that

[erma]

One pet peeve I have is when a creator uses someone else's accomplishments to turn their lives into a pity party. I mainly saw this when I started college and we were all building portfolios.

What I mean by this is: an artist does a project that they're happy with, so they post it online or show their friends at school as they normally would. I've seen and experienced instances where someone will turn the whole situation around to be about them. They'll say stuff like "too bad ill never be able to do that" or "hahaha, you're so lucky to have enough talent to do that, and then there's just me." So then the artist feels guilty even though it was never their intention to make someone feel bad about their own skills.

I personally believe everyone is capable of improving their work and it's frustrating when, instead of trying to improve, they make other artists feel bad with self-pitying attitudes.

[Luminosophy]

This happened to me too!! I used to be part of a community of an art blog on tumblr that was like a help desk for artists. People would often submit for critiques and we gave actual technical feedback, not pats on the back. That was the draw for a lot of people coming to us. But you get some people that just go absolutely insane when you point out any flaws, it's like they submitted expecting to get people completely enamored with their work. One threatened me with legal action for daring to do a redline (their uncle is totes a copyright lawyer), and then went and stole an artwork of mine and posted it to their tumblr account as "character adopts" and actually tried selling them.

[Mocha]

I'm not religious by any means but...

I'm pretty sure there's a special place in hell for people like that.

[joe_galindez]

You mean the special hell?

[TheThoughtfulBoxful]

Artists who can't take their own advice!
Which unfortunately is a lot of us