Why does nobody just draw for fun anymore it seems?

I understand that everyone is looking for a side gig these days but I feel like every other art post I see is about money in some way.
“Is my art good enough for commissions”
“How do I price my art”
“Nobody is buying my coms??”

But 90% of the artists I see doing this are young and have barely spread their wings in the art world before asking “would you buy this?”
The most crazy ones to me are
“Started drawing a month ago, when can I start commissions?”

Some of these people are so young too! I understand the hustle but what happened to doing art just because you like doing it?

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u/Okifyouwanna — 23 hours ago

Learning how to render, experimenting with heavy lighting. Any advice/ critique?

I am not familiar with digital art, especially digital rendering and painting. I have been experimenting with it. This is my second portrait done this way (my comfort zone is grayscale traditional). I really struggle with coloring the planes of the face, I kinda feel like I’m just aimlessly putting hues on the face and doing trial and error until it looks right lol. I especially struggled with her nose. Any advice and critique is welcome! Thanks

u/Okifyouwanna — 11 days ago

First digital painting, how can I improve?

How can I improve my digital painting? I have never done digital art this way and I haven’t
done that in a long time. How can I improve?

Something I have found is that my m not very good with colors lol!

u/Okifyouwanna — 13 days ago

My first attempt at digital painting

I love drawing portraits but I typically do them in graphite and grayscale. This is my first attempt at digital painting really ever and my first time doing digital art since November.

u/Okifyouwanna — 13 days ago

My best friend has turned to a life of perpetual sin and it’s breaking my heart.

My best friend. My accountability partner. My closest person behind my husband. She started living with her boyfriend, unmarried, and has been having sex with him.

I know that she knows what the scripture says. And I’m watching her become a different person. Idk if this is controversial in this Reddit community. She barely talks to me anymore because she’s “busy” but I know that she just knows what I think about this and I think our friendship convicts her.

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u/Okifyouwanna — 14 days ago

How to make turkey bacon good

My husband and I are pretty low income right now and a very sweet friend of ours gave us a lot of various foods to help us out with groceries. One of these foods is turkey bacon. And lots of it.

Are there ways I can use turkey bacon other than just frying it and eating it straight? This morning I ate it in a tortilla with eggs and that was good. Other ideas?

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u/Okifyouwanna — 15 days ago
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Took like a 4ish year break from drawing, and now I struggle with comparison to my older stuff.

I’ve been really inspired to get back into drawing for the first time since my junior year of high school. I quit drawing because I put too much pressure on myself before and stopped enjoying it. Now I feel like my skill is gone unless I’m straight up copying a reference like in my realism pieces. Thoughts?

Rough estimated timeline on all

u/Okifyouwanna — 19 days ago