"ive waited 2 days for this commission and havent asked for any updates but im going to assume theyre ignoring me, am i being scammed?" you know you can talk to artists and that theyre not vending machines where you put a dollar in and a piece of art falls out, right? and also long wait times are shitty and warn about them at your own discretion but not a /scam/ if they dont intend to run off or made any specific deadline promises
Hello friends!
I thought it'd be fun to create a thread so people can share stories of their artist pet peeves. What do you hate about the community? what do you hate about some people in the community? Is there something you absolutely hate but was never really able to say it out loud? Your chance is now!
Personally i really dislike it when people gatekeep stuff. Art is for everyone and should be for everyone. If you want to draw something then go for it unless it's outright hateful. You don't have to have amazing skills to do art. You don't have to be a certain way. You're an artist alright? alright.
2021 edit: Thank you all for being respectful of each other! Its great seeing the differentiation of opinions and have an open minded discussion about it. Thats what i wanted. So thank you!
Oh my gosh I have so many
People crosstagging. Like come on I just wanted to see some cool furry characters not some uncensored fetish art 😭 Tags like #furryart on Instagram are not an invitation to post your NSFW art. If you have a warning however that’s fine, do what you want as long as it isn’t illegal.
People begging you to draw their pets. Instagram pet accounts, I’m sorry I love your doggos and cattos but I will not draw everyone’s pet until I’m 60. I have a life.
17 y/os thinking they get a pass to draw and upload NSFW art because they’ll be 18 in 2 months. Like no, be a kid and wait for your 18th bday to pass along. You are still a minor according to the law.
ik a lot of people have complained about "Do this! Not this!" type of 'art tips' here, but here's a specific version of that advice that bothers me the most: Color usage
A Lot of them boil down to "don't use bright & saturated colors, use more muted colors!" without going over how to do it beyond just using more muted tones. Which isn't helpful because:
- Color balancing is often ignored. Like tweaking a character to fit into an environment, or using certain colors next to eachother to give the illusion of being more vibrant. In both these cases, it's not about keeping colors muted, it's about using muted colors to bring everything together. like using greyer-tones next to a brighter color to make it look saturated for example (i'm pretty bad at explaining this stuff bear with me here-)
- Related to above, but it ignores value? Like making sure a character has distinct values/can be easily read in greyscale. Keeping things readable w/o colors can reduce issues like patterns being hard to read & visual clutter
- It doesn't go over specific ways you'd need to do it. Big example is making prints, where you can't use fully-saturated colors because current printers can only print in CMYK which has more limited colors than RGB (what most digital pieces are formatted as). By just de-saturating it you can still have colors that printers can't print.
tl:dr: "dont use bright colors, use muted tones!" is too vauge . Color theory/usage should be taught instead
generic comments. I love it when I get feedback that´s more than "looks great, beautiful etc.".
what looks great? do you like the background, the textures, the coloring? anything?
While I appreciate general comments too I wish there was some depth to them.
I personally prefer to comment specifically at least about one thing I especially love about an art piece or a character.
Because I love detailed feedback and I often give others what I´d love to receive as well.
Getting very generic feedback 24/7 is also slightly demotivating over time. Because no matter what you make,
you know you get the same feedback anyway. Often I make jokes like "I could draw a stickman and would get the same feedback"
which is actually not that unrealistic tbh :')
It´s also frustrating when you do comment exchange, art forum games,
and all that and also get this stuff all the time,
while I often write like 8 sentences +.
makes me feel like, maybe my art is just uninteresting and boring.
I mean.. why should I think otherwise in this sittuation.
Hard agree with the generic comments point, like yeah, they're nice, warm, fuzzy to receive at first but at the end of the day, to me, they offer no real value or substance aside from a short "feel-good" moment. And even when I ASK for constructive criticism, sometimes all I'll receive is just "Oh this looks so good!" esque comments and it's like :\ for real?
Something I noticed in correlation to these comments is that my art starts becoming stale, flat-lining, plateauing whatever you want to call it, and not just because "Oh, progression and improvement isn't on a linear course, there's bound to be plateaus sort of way" but because I'm not receiving feedback and critique, I need to start relying on myself to spot what's wrong with my work and...I am not very good at that, to be frank [I am full of hubris]
It's just something...that's always bugged me, ESPECIALLY when someone immediately posts after with their own work after giving something that sounds like a canned/automatic response, makes it hurt even more.
Also people liking your old-ass shit from 5 years ago without realizing you have new art they could try to appreciate. Seriously sometimes I think of archiving my old art on Instagram for only me to see because I am tired of people liking things from 2016-2017. :’)
Also adding fluff to everything. A bully breed or Doberman that simply looks like a husky with different markings is always a disappointment to see. Not all dog breeds are as fluffy as arctic foxes. 😭
Also people saying that canines are generic. They really aren’t? When is the last time you’ve seen a Staffordshire bull terrier, Tamaskan Dog, or Basset Hound as a fursona hmmm?
TheEliBlog You can edit your posts to add more to your original comment instead of triple posting. That's usually the norm on forums if there are no comments between your other ones. : )
As for a peeve... When you're trying to line your sketch and a demonic force possesses your hand and you completely miss the mark. Love that.