If you are an artist, you need to make OCs.
Not technically, but I’ve noticed over the years that people are somehow scared to make ocs or feel unoriginal. They take time, they take effort, but it is SO WORTH IT!!!
Imagine. You can make people, creatures, animals, anything. Criticism is always a possibility. But it is worth it to show people and say confidently “I made this” and create anyone in your head.
This is especially true if you want to be an ARTIST as a career.
AI is fucking everything over, but there was a time where it didn’t exist in any fashion. There was a time where things like gacha life didn’t exist. Anyone could make anything.
Platforms like Tiktok have ruined creativity.
Even YouTube, too. People do not make things to make things nearly as much anymore. There is such a strong focus on making it big that we’ve lost the plot. The only way to make things and actually get SEEN for them now is to get lucky with an algorithm. It used to be that you posted your art to deviantart (which had its own share of problems, mainly NSFW and fetish art being RAMPANT.) and people would simply find you by looking at the recent posts. Now? Thousands of posts across all platforms
Fandom culture is killing original ideas
Fandoms spark creativity and always have. Anime had a major grasp on art in the early internet. Warrior cats, Pokémon, and creepypastas were major things in artist spaces. However, now people have a need to be apart of a fandom to find a sort of “bond” between each other instead of connecting with one another as people. I feel this ties in to the increase in technology and the decline of literacy in the US.
Teens and kids see nothing but content for games which is essentially free advertising and forget they can make anything they want. AUs galore, to the point it is so different it can be made into OCs, yet no one does it.
Make stuff to make stuff. Please. No one bonds with each other anymore. No one thinks for themselves anymore. People discuss media and analyze it and I think that is a good thing but there are a lot of people that don’t and make simply being a part of a fandom their personality. Some people cannot even articulate why they like or dislike a piece of media. I’ve asked people why they like things and they just go “IT’S SO PEAK!!” and spam gifs and other bs (this is targeted but the person will most likely never see it) instead of giving actual reasons. Idk this is now sorta irrelevant to the original point of the post but I wanted to rant about it.
Wasn’t don’t yet. I am not an exception for fandom stuff. I’ve found interest in fandoms because I love art. I’ve simply found that actually making OCs is more fulfilling and has made me a much better artist in the short term than drawing fanart has ever done.
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