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This is sort of a dig at art youtube and a dump about my thoughts on art in general/ being an artist over the years.

I have this hate for artist content on youtube because of how disingenuous and exploitative it is. Videos with thumbnails saying "you're doing this wrong" or "top 5 mistakes you're making" and a lot of shit is just contradicting each other, like "you should draw every day to improve" or "drawing every day is why you're not improving!", dumb hyperbolic shit like that. My view on art or I guess drawing in this context is that there ARE fundamentals you should know but that doesn't mean you will make great art, being good on a technical front only gets you so far. So much of the art process is about personal expression and how you represent an idea that trying to boil it down to a surface level understanding goes against what art is about.

I came to this conclusion not from drawing itself but from making custom figures because on that front there are no essential rules to know, you simply do what works for you. Side note: the only universal tip I can provide is always sand the parts that meet and move like joints and sockets.

I guess what really brought this out in me is just over the years of consuming art from so many people and realizing that things aren't so black and white, being the best on a technical level doesn't equal success in a broader sense, I've seen tons of great artists with small followings that are better than accounts with huge followings and in that sense it reminds me of the big names in comics like Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld who aren't the greatest artists by any means but they're millionaires non the less because while people were wasting their time roasting Liefeld on feet he was too busy creating shit to put his name on.

It's a strange time for art as whole right now, it's so splintered that it's easy to forget we all do the same thing. There's the modern crowd making pretentious bullshit that sells for millions, the digital crowd having a meltdown over AI, the traditionalists that stay in their lane doing their thing.

In conclusion, I suppose, do what works for you, at the end of the day your art is for you first because if it isn't then what's the point?

Description
This is sort of a dig at art youtube and a dump about my thoughts on art in general/ being an artist over the years.

I have this hate for artist content on youtube because of how disingenuous and exploitative it is. Videos with thumbnails saying "you're doing this wrong" or "top 5 mistakes you're making" and a lot of shit is just contradicting each other, like "you should draw every day to improve" or "drawing every day is why you're not improving!", dumb hyperbolic shit like that. My view on art or I guess drawing in this context is that there ARE fundamentals you should know but that doesn't mean you will make great art, being good on a technical front only gets you so far. So much of the art process is about personal expression and how you represent an idea that trying to boil it down to a surface level understanding goes against what art is about.

I came to this conclusion not from drawing itself but from making custom figures because on that front there are no essential rules to know, you simply do what works for you. Side note: the only universal tip I can provide is always sand the parts that meet and move like joints and sockets.

I guess what really brought this out in me is just over the years of consuming art from so many people and realizing that things aren't so black and white, being the best on a technical level doesn't equal success in a broader sense, I've seen tons of great artists with small followings that are better than accounts with huge followings and in that sense it reminds me of the big names in comics like Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld who aren't the greatest artists by any means but they're millionaires non the less because while people were wasting their time roasting Liefeld on feet he was too busy creating shit to put his name on.

It's a strange time for art as whole right now, it's so splintered that it's easy to forget we all do the same thing. There's the modern crowd making pretentious bullshit that sells for millions, the digital crowd having a meltdown over AI, the traditionalists that stay in their lane doing their thing.

In conclusion, I suppose, do what works for you, at the end of the day your art is for you first because if it isn't then what's the point?