spooktoon, or if it’s F2U just give credit…
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!
About the base topic. While I'm no big fan of bases , using them to make adopts/ Money is absolutely fine IF the artist allows it. Most artists who offer bases have a TOS/rules on how you can use them. Follow them and you're good.
If you do it even though it's against what the artist allows and don't even credit them, you're garbage :)
Also no, I'm not saying giving credit will fix the issue. It doesn't. But it's even more shitty if there's none.
I remember back in like 2016 when my art was traced a lot and people justified it with "but I gave credit". Still hurts. 🙃
i'm so tired of this weird gatekeeping in traditional art circles where oil is seen as the holy grail of art and everything else "for the beginners"
shut the fuck up. oil is expensive af, the smell makes me sick, shove slow drying medium into any other paint and you get the same effect. people barely like trad art to begin with, just stop
you can make good art with anything really
Oh +1 on "Holy Grail" mediums. On oil most painters i've seen or met prefer anything but oil lmfao
tbh I think people in traditional art get way too snobby when it comes to art supplies in general. Like there's some cases where a brand/material's objectively bad but people will act like if you're not using expensive ultra-pro-level materials in a specific way you're committing a sin against humanity.
eg: some inkers will get snobby over people using the speedball starter kit... then recommend premium nibs that are out of range for the average joe...
(Did this intentionally die? Or just get buried under all of the artfight threads and whatnot? Apologies if I'm not supposed to post.)
I don't understand why artists put a color palette for a character on their reference but don't include the eye color? Sometimes there's a separate eye ref but that's not always able to easily be color picked either. Can someone explain if there's any reasoning behind this?
shading with dark or light on a reference from different areas. its either the darker part you need or lighter and I don't know which cause of no pallete I can get from
people who remove their own credits from art. if i want to use that for something later, i have no way of determining who made it, + my memory is shit so i can't add the credits back on my own. this seems to be a trend even more so lately. i don't want my characters getting reported because the artists who i got art from deleted the credit link!
Underestimating how difficult something is to draw or how burnt-out you actually are
Source: I spent 6+ hours on a pic the other day & I thought it'd be a quick and easy pic, but instead I fought with the design, composition, pose... everything 🥲
People who credit just the base for art... who colored it? You/they still did work and you deserve some form of credit (in my opinion at least)
Idk if this counts but people hating animation memes. Like, the people complained about the animation meme community overusing the same poses, positions, and "aesthetic shapes" over and over again, and it gets repetitive. I mean, that's the point? And besides, the ones that animate those kinds of animation memes are minors, people who are beginners in animation, or people who stays in their comfort zone.
I get their point that the current animation meme style is getting stale and boring but they must remember that animation memes can be the way to practice animating and having fun. The professional animators or animators we look up to used to animate something basic and simple, and now that they can do something story-like or complex animations. Not everyone suddenly become an expert at animating stuff, they start off simple.
I don't wanna go back to 2016-2017 animation meme discourse again hhh. If you know what I'm talking about, you know.
I also dislike unwanted criticism. But especially the unhelpful kind. But yea If I didn't ask, both is kinda bothering. Especially because I often know my flaws and what I wanna work on. If I don't I will specifically ask for help.
That classic I got was X and Y looks weird. Or X and Y could have drawn better. And that kind of thing is the most unnecessary and unhelpful you can give... It's just negative and that is it. If you really wanna do that at least leave a helpful comment.