If you know someone around you at school or at work that is an artist, please do NOT insiste to see their sketchbook or worst, trying to steal it so you can see their piece of work. Some artists just don’t want to show their sketchbooks or parts of it because there are personal stuff drawn too or because they have it as a diary. This is really disrespectful when you do this to an artist that just asked nothing.
Just ask them before and if they don’t want to show all of their art, then ask for some they really are proud instead!
Same people who wanna be friends with the artist just because they draw and nothing else. When you want to become friend with somebody, it is because of them and not just for a freaking drawing.
I get this a lot of time at school when someone will just come to me and act like we were BFFs just because of art and not you.
Of course some people wants to be your friend because of your art but that usually means they want you to teach them how to draw better and there aren’t any problems with this!
But PLEASE make an effort and first get to know the artist if you want to start a friendship with them without just looking at their art.
It’s just like if I was impressed by a dancer and I immediately ask them to be friends and to see videos of them dancing that may sometimes be personal. I would just be really disrespectful with them and not treating them normally.
Last thing I didn’t talk but is as important as the others,
DON’T ask free art from the artist. Excepted if the artist asked for free requests, this really is annoying to be asked for free art.
A lot of people at my school know I’m usually exhausted because I don’t sleep really well (you can tell by my dark rings under my eyes) but even with knowing this, they ask for free art. You don’t know how tiring this is.
If the artist is good and, this happens rarely around me for strangers but it exists, INSIST to draw something free for you because they WANT to, then it is fine!
My mom has been trough this since she is an artist and I know it IS annoying to have people like that because I draw too.
So PLEASE, treat artists like normal humans and not some kind of machine that will do everything for you and will show you everything they’ve done.
Thank you for reading this and have a good day!