I like an artist who-

[DokiDokiTsuna]

-Is skilled (at the very least, they should have one thing going for them that I can't/won't do)

-Is confident (It's easier to fight for someone who wants to fight for themselves! And on the flipside, someone who's always denigrating themselves has the appearance of an artist in search of constant validation, and I cannot give that)

-Is enthusiastic (You don't have to be ultra-peppy or anything...but watching someone act as if they don't like their work or if they don't even care about their work really kills the mood. Like...why should I care if you don't? Why even post it online??)

-Is nice (niceness is nice~)

-Is respectful of other artists (You're entitled to your 'anime is trash' and 'romance novels are too easy' opinions. I'm entitled to my opinion of your character based on those opinions.)

-Is "real" (If you act like a smiling Barbie doll all the time online, I stop feeling like I'm interacting with a person and start feeling like I'm interacting with one of those corporate accounts. Like...you don't have to be happy about everything; no one will think ill of you if you spend one second not being cute. Especially when it comes to talking about other people's work: if my more serious stories/scenes make you uncomfortable, you don't have to say anything. Leaving a comment that blatantly dances around what's actually happening in the plot just so you can keep up your 'cute' persona is, frankly, insulting.)

[DasIstWunderblyat]

• Who are my friend or having personal connection with me.
• Can accept or ignore criticism, and don't act like people are attacking and harassing them over it.
• Don't think their art is above all, or give a vibe that they're superior because they draw (insert word here). It always amuse me when I see those kind of people flop.
• Aren't using their fans as a kind of white knight, mindless praise generator, or ATM machine.
  Artist (especially popular ones) who engages, support, and reprimand their fans if they do something wrong (like harassing people), are something to be looked up to.
• Aren't all about drama shit. Nobody wants to follow an art account with 2/3 of it being drama, or follow a drama-mongering people (except for the lulz).
• Aren't too obsessed with something or someone.
  I have seen enough decently skilled and uniquely styled artist devolving into a botched copy into a popular artist's or a franchise's art style. Sure, it's their choice and I don't hate them for it, but it's simply not what I like.
• Draw their original creations instead of fanart all the time, this is just my preference.
• Aren't drawing gross or illegal shit like lolicon gang-bang incest tentacle gore scat hentai.
• Who aren't using other struggling (truer word of 'aspiring') artist as leverage.
  You comment on a gullible young budding artist fake praises and such to give a false hope so they follow you, then yeet away when they already followed you and unfollow them? You host a contest of drawing your shitty character just to milk off free art then yeet away when they ask you for prize? You commented on other people's work to promote yours? Good, I hope you become starving artist.

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[IdiotWithPencil]

Who has the type of art that make my own art look like total shit, like my brain can't comprehend how such art is posible.

Ditto I love comparing myself and then chastising myself for not doing better, gives me drive XD

• Who are normal people and have content outside the internet (like actually have a profession)

• who only care about the art and are actually good at the craft

• good personalities and are at least a bit funny

• don't chastise people who criticize or disagree with them

• Humble

[QueenofBabyLoon]

• Who does his sh*t.

I love the art, I don't love the people. You can be a monster at heart (well, there are limits to how monstrous you should be), if you do quality work, it is quality work. I will enjoy it. I might even worship it. If that makes your ego grow, I hope you choke on it. But not before having completed your work.

[Klaustasya]

• draws otp

• always reply to your questions and compliments, even if 20 people already asked/told that.

• it's honest with theirselves and don't start acting fake (but they still look nice)

• share tutorials and process of their art!! (Like Lord, i hate it so much when i ask a good artist "how did you get so good with anatomy?" and all i get in response is a "practice "...like, okay, i know that, but you must have a method or something. Sometimes it feels like they wanna keep their secrets to themselves and i hate that.

• Who's not egocentric. I know too many artists on instagram that keep posting about them and their life (pets, fancy food, beutiful places and so on...) and when they finally draw something is themselves. Don't get me wron, ootd are cute but i thought you used to draw, now that you have 1mln followers you just post selfie of you xD

• drawing almost everyday and gives the nice example to the amateurs

• someone who's not obviously looking for growing their fanbase with forced fanarts or other over-exagerated promotions method (promotion is good but i always thought that you need to be moderated and not look desperate while you do that)

• who don't criticize me for something outside my art. I'm good if you give me some feedback (though i'll trash every critic that is purely an insult), but you can go on saying "you don't like art, you're only using it for more followers"....excuse me? You might say my art is not good at all, but you don't know anything about me as a person.

• who's not toxic and that don't always and only talking bad about themselves or people who surround them (i used to be like that, but after meeting someone like me i quickly changed my attitude and realized i was doing it wrong)

• who draw with different art styles and techniques! I love elastic artists, some of them like to stick to one theme for the rest of their art life (you can spot them because they only post THAT thing and nothing else) but it's nice to see a watercolor piece of pin-ups next to a charcoal dogs family portrait (as an instance)

I think this is all for me

[MangoTango]

• is friendly and interacts with people as much as possible
• is willing to teach some of their ways that can help people
• who can multi-task other than just drawing! I like the fact some artists do some voice over, do YouTube videos, write stories, etc~
• prioritizes their original creations or art...
• … butT draws also fanart (not as often or always, every once in a while is good) on the things/whatever they love that way we can see if we could share interests or something. I am sometimes a fangirl so yeahhh lol. my opinion.
• has a bit of unique art style and not a copied exact art style from a popular artist or franchise
• who likes to collab with other artists (sharing is caring every once in a while)
• is self taught (I admire these people sm) who got also most of their talents just from watching YouTube vids, observing , etc. rather than because of only going to art school or taking art courses (tho I love ppl who goes out to develop their skills more if they do this)
• who can also animate!! aaa I admireeee theseee peeepss

[VibrantFox]

• isn't problematic or toxic, in the context of their actions or their content aren't harmful or giving a bad message

that's it...

the only things I'd say are nice but honestly we can only hold other people to so many expectations

• kind/respectful but can still be honest about emotions, thoughts and other things
• true to themselves
• creates for the joy of creating (not saying they can't make money from creating but makes things that makes them happy)
• embraces their style whatever it is; i see so many worry about inconsistency of style but to me that's just a sign of versatility and i really wish there wasn't so much pressure on having a defined style
• does what they love and loves what they do (ties back to the previous)
• happy and I don't mean this always smiling ray of sunshine but the type who can roll with the good or bad and accept moments of negative or positive emotions but when they can still hold a smile even if only a little

[minerrale]

I like an artist who can art.
I like an artist who can follow a script, even if it's a bit messy.
I like an artist who cares about their work.

[375]

-Kind
-Caring
-Supportive
-Actually gives you feedback instead of sitting there smiling and going "IDK MAN YOU DO YOU" like nah that doesnt fly anymore.
-Likes cookies.

[Mari]

-does and acts however they like because that is ultimately their bussiness and where do we get off of imposing this sort of bullshit onto people who just want to draw.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Just to clarify, I wasn't trying to impose anything. Every artist wonders about their image (if they're trying to become popular for any reason) and I thought this topic would create an atmosphere where people could describe which traits appeal to them and which don't. I've learned plenty of interesting things already, in that respect.

Besides, 'acting however you like', whether you're an artist or not, doesn't always come up roses. In general, people like people who act in certain ways (for instance, not like jerks) and to think that you should be respected no matter how you choose to treat people is naive at best.

[Moxxi]

-doesn't take comics super-cereal.
-doesn't think they're God's gift to the medium of art.
-cares enough about their work that they don't compare theirs to the thousands of other comics/novels they think are "better" every chance they get!

[Mari]

@DokiDokiTsuna

You're twisting my words, I didn't mention anything about respect in my post. People who act like jerks are still jerks, but this is still projecting expectations onto a group of people. Swap artist with any gender or race and we're suddenly being bigoted.

I'm just saying that people are different, and putting stress on artists to also be some disney-princess level serene person when creating art is already hard for your mental state seems iffy at best...

[DokiDokiTsuna]

I mean...if that's how you feel, then you're twisting my words, too. All I said was I like an artist who has skill and is nice and doesn't pretend to be a cardboard cutout of a smiley face. Those aren't exactly Disney Princess-level expectations...most of the people here are describing images that are fairly easy to attain for most of the human population. =/

Besides, as I already stated, everyone has expectations for EVERYONE, whether they like it or realize it or not. And having those expectations isn't the same as demanding that other people meet them. You want your boss to be a certain type of person, don't you? Or your spouse, or even your family members. At the very least, you have list of ways you DON'T want them to behave. That's all this topic is supposed to be.

Keep in mind that the prompt is, "I like an artist who-". If you're an artist who's not concerned with being liked, then this topic simply shouldn't matter to you.

[skicoak]

@Mari

I totally get where you're coming from.

Most of these lists are downright wholesome but this could just as easily be twisted into lists about artists that share the reader's politics or belief systems.

[Mari]

@DokiDokiTsuna

As I was reading through the thread earlier I just got the feeling we were describing a 50's housewife ^^; And I'm not saying anything that was said here is inherently bad, I just do not think we should be telling people how to be unless they specifically ask for advice on the matter.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

this could just as easily be twisted into lists about artists that share the reader's politics or belief systems.

Hear me out...I don't think that's a bad thing. ^^

Not that the whole 'I only like Christian artists' idea appeals to me, but the possibility that someone could come in here with an incredibly biased viewpoint doesn't exactly seem like a reason for this topic to be shut down. People like that exist, and artists should be just as aware of them as they are of people with normal expectations.

I mean, say one person like that posts here. Compared to the 10 or so people that clearly don't agree with that line of thinking; that's a sort of statistic in itself, isn't it? If someone sensitive enough to pay heed to a bigot actually looked through this topic, I think they'd realize before long that such things aren't realistic expectations that they should actually concern themselves with.

[skicoak]

@DokiDokiTsuna

Politics and belief systems are just the big ticket items... just skimming the various lists above, there's discord about if the artist should be doing fan art or not, have a unique style or is adaptable and so on.

I'm not saying the topic needs shut down but I don't believe there's anything healthy about these lists of things artist are expected to adhere to be "liked".

Creators don't need to become politicians that drum up subscribers/likes by being agreeable to adopting the traits consumers expect of them.

When I look at the Mona Lisa, it doesn't matter if Da Vinci stole his neighbor's newspaper and yelled at dogs an kids that annoyed him.

[minerrale]

It might however help in finding suitable collaborators for some of us who would be searching, or bring some conversation about what we mean, what we like etc.