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How can you know your art it's good enough? Anonymous 02/28/26(Sat)17:59:49 No.7890242 [Reply]▶
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I've been practicing digital art for about 3 years now and this question has always been on my mind.
How can an artist know, objectively, if their art is good or not? Is social media attention a valid metric? How do you judge your own art?
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>>7890242
you'll know you've "made it" as an artist when people on twitter accuse you of using AI and demand speedpaint videos that they will dissect with atomic precision, because AIbros cannot be trusted but the average pleb cannot easily identify fake art.
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>>7890242
Just compare your work to better artists. Does it stand a chance or do you still lack something? A lot of the difficulty art later is really just how fast you can create works with substance.
This does't mean you have to be suprr good, it just means that you polish enough until everything looks acceptable and nothing looks off
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>>7890242
You can always logically tell which art is "good" or "bad" depending on whether or not the artist is well versed in drawing/draftsmanship. From what I have observed, many digital artists don't do enough required structural/technical work and life drawing. They cover up their mistakes with stylization and rendering.
You can learn to paint in a year, but it takes years to master drawing. Like learning any skill or trade, you must commit to the fundamentals and the basics. That doesn't mean being perpetually stuck doing ONLY exercises, but it does mean being consistent, doing targeted practice, and confronting what you suck at.
Now for specific advice...
>Draw from life
>Study the skeleton, proportions, and line of action before cracking down on anatomy
>do Cognitive Drawing and Iterative Drawing
>Use references properly (trace, break them down, capture the outermost shape, etc)
>do contours
>draw from memory, then use references while drawing, then draw without references
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>>7890242
>How can an artist know, objectively, if their art is good or not?
No such thing. Art isn't an object thus can't be 'objectively' anything. You can always invent an arbitrary rule to what good is to you and rate it accordingly, thus you can say, good art is accurate art, art that is very close to real proportions, perspective, etc. By that metric photorealistic 'art' would be the highest and best 'art' . But but inventing these standards you are just mathematising your own subjective opinions
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>>7890242
I'd say social media is good, if your art is popular then it's likely at least appealing, and if that's the case then you can perhaps live off of it, and if you can live off of it... it's good enough.
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>>7890316
>trace
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>>7890352
i want my art to be seen, but only by the niche close-knit communities that will appreciate my work. the last thing you want is a twitter or bluesky horde finding your art, then trying to dig into your social media history trying to find personal information. or perhaps a redbubble chink selling unlicensed copies of your art.
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Hopefully your never satisfied with your art, friend
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