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Why people look down on you if you pursue art as a profession? I dont like art that much but I have no skills outside of it and if I tell people this they think I'm a grifter.
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>I dont like art that much but
Get a real job while you still can.
Being a turbo autist who draws 20+ hours per day is the bare minimum to have a chance of making it in the current year.
Where do you even want to work? You are on your own.
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>>7908943
Anon, for all of history people take for granted that which they don't try to master. Everyone thinks x is easy until they try, then they are humbled and realize just how much mastery goes into learning a skill. Most people don't ever try to master anything and are perfectly okay with consumption and mediocrity. Not to be a pretentious and abrasive fuck, but that's just the reality. Is there anything inherently wrong with that life? One could argue they're living their best lives. That's a philosophical question for another thread though. Point is anon, mastering your craft is often thankless, under appreciated and taken for granted.
Nowadays you tell someone you want to be an artist, and they just see someone choosing a deadend route in life because of the ever slimming chances of actually finding financial success. Money is the easiest metric to point to for whether someone is successful. People don't care if you're far more skilled then them, that's not a metric of success for normies, it's just a party trick they'll all gawk at before going next simply because to actually appreciate mastery fully you need to have some skill yourself. They literally don't give a fuck.
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>>7908943
Art...
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>>7908943
Because you don't actually have art skills.
You don't get to be an electrician because you figured out how to flip a light switch. You actually have to have expert-level skills to do a profession. People look down on you because you've deluded yourself into believing you're something everyone else can clearly see you are not.
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>>7908943
A few different reasons;
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Artists are often poor, with many not really earning their living through art. Since a occupation's worth is often judged through it's financial worth, it's easy to see why artists would be seen in a less favourable light
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While everyone enjoys some art, a lot of modern contemporary art these days does not match the majority of the public's taste, or come close to what they would consider good. There's a reason the wall banana is now a meme; it perfectly encapsulates the level of effort "artists" seem to put into their work these days... or at least, the art that gets any attention anyway.
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Artists are preachy. Their art will more often be about the annoying hot button topic of the day, rather than anything particularly deep or philosophical. Essentially they're art is visual representations of a political twitter post.
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Add to the third problem, on top of being preachy and finger waggingly moralising, the artists themselves are often degenerate sleaze bags living a rock and roll life style. There's a reason art girls have a reputation for being sluts, and it's not because of all the artwork they make based around their vaginas and their periods.
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Similarly to 2, a lot of artists just aren't talented. If I heard someone was an artists, I'd still be unsure if they're actually good at any craft. With the state of the artworld, many artists can't draw, paint, sculpt, or do anything particularly technically proficient. How can you respect an artist with no talent in any of the artistic crafts?
A lot of prejudice towards you would immediately be cleared up of you just showed a piece of your work, and that piece of work was good.
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>>7908943
>Why people look down on you if you pursue art as a profession?
Either envious or just concerned since its a difficult industry to keep afloat in.
>I dont like art that much but I have no skills outside of it and if I tell people this they think I'm a grifter.
Actually I think you just answered your first question. People assume artists are all retarded pretentious hippies because of people like you who have no other skills and think drawing pictures will save them from a life of loserdom. Get an actual job, for your own sake.
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Then try making a living as an artist in North Korea or Cuba, oh right...
And if you go with China, the government doesn't allow free expression, only commercial garbage for the capitalist market that you supposedly hate.
Asshole.
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>>7912714
You're free to go live in any communist country, oh right...you don't want to.
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I mean it depends a lot on where you are and what kind of girls you interact with, for instance NYC is known for tons of people having herpes iirc. Fact is though with treatments for STDs being better way than they were a generation ago and every bitch being on birth control, they will let just about anyone hit it raw. If she doesn't insist you use a condom, all the more reason to
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Guys, this is your sign. Unless you’re already good at art, don’t waste your money on art school.
Art school teaches, but it also filters for people who are already skilled. And with AI taking over parts of the industry it’s even harder now.
My sis is a good example. She’s been drawing nonstop since she was a kid. By the time she applied to a top animation uni, she was already insanely skilled. She didn’t become good there, she already was. Her classmates were talented too, but most of them quit or struggled to make ends meet. Meanwhile, my sis makes six figures doing huge projects that you all watched on Netflix.
If you're a beg/int and goes to art school, your career will be putting the fries in the bag.
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I also wanted to go to art school like my sis, but I knew it would’ve been a waste of money for me. My skill level just wasn’t there like hers, and I didn’t want to turn art into my main career anyway. So I chose trade school instead and kept art on the side.
Now I draw pin-up/porn on Twitter and Patreon, and it makes me good side income.
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>>7908943
Most artists are talentless rich kids, I live in Poland which most people consider conservative for some reason and even here aids like picrel wins thousands of dollars worth of national art prizes
You'd think online with digital art the situation would be better but despite having better technical skills most digital artists like the ones congregating here are degenerate gooner faggots who only draw lewd fanarts in colored voids
You want to stand out from the two extremes? Try to actually realize your most grandiose ideas buried within your imagination, unhired by these vices, if you're too shit to do that atm, get to work
And if you don't have strong imagination then stop trying to be an artist period
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>>7912774
There's literally nothing wrong with only being good at drawing pretty pictures lol sounds to me like you're an insecure faggot who thinks the "realest" jobs are the ones with most risk i.e. most likely to get you killed like airplane pilot