tbh, im fucking tired of seeing those ‘motivational artists’ posts.
“its okay if you dont get noticed” – no, no it is very much not okay. an artists can see a really crappy 2-seconds sketches of a character (from anywhere) that someone ‘’famous’‘ has drawn and that suddenly has over 500 notes. They spent an entire day on something they sketched and get, what, like 4 stupid hearts and no reblogs? That feeling fucking sucks, don’t tell a new artist it is okay if they don’t get noticed, whether or not they are new to the art community or have been drawing for years/decades! THE SAME WITH WRITING. I have seen and been told about ‘’famous’‘ artists all together ignoring up and coming artists – and what i mean by that is just giving a little heart that means nothing while reblogging the exact same couple/person(s) by someone more ‘’famous‘’ and writing encouraging tags.
Me, as an artist, strive for recognition. Especially during the kind of semester I’m having where all i’m getting is critism, not even constructive criticism, just ‘ur not an artist’, ‘you need to fix this and this’ and other bullshit that someone who can barely even get up in the morning or stomach her own drawing and stories anymore can hear.
“its okay not to be noticed” transfers into “you will never be noticed” (to me)
there are people who have drawn and write short stories for as long as they can remember and all they ever get are a few words of encouragement, a few smiles, and then their work is forgotten for something ‘’better‘’.
I use to reblog those “its okay…” posts because i thought, one day, i’d believe it. But i just… I don’t. Because it’s not okay. It’s not okay when you spend years in a community and don’t get noticed at all. It’s not okay when you spend hours on renders or sketches, drawings, stories, short-movies, amv, whatever your talent is, and being told ‘its okay’ or being told ‘please stop reblogging ur own shit’.
There goes another shred of confidence in myself… and that’s not okay.
And don’t even bring up networking with me. I’ve networked, am still networking because of the career I want to be in, and networking doesn’t do much if the person doesn’t deem said work piece as anything more than a little heart and a ‘good job kid’. You can have a plethora of people you speak to, daily or not, that art artist themselves and not reblog your work, but at the same time saying ‘you’ll get noticed one day’.
That little ‘you’ll get noticed one day’ thing? Yeah, that day could have been today. Do you even know who all your followers are? Who they are in contact with? Who they are related to?
And I get it. It’s your blog, you want to post things you like. But don’t give other artists that condescending ‘you’ll be noticed one day’ or ‘you really are a good artist’ when you aren’t even willing to just reblog (or even recommend) something of theirs to someone you know, who you may think enjoy this kind of art and reblog it on their page?
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