r/ArtRanting

seen too many posts lately along the lines of "i want to be a skilled artist, but i dont want to practice drawing or dedicate time to it. i want to sell commissions but i only want to draw what i want to draw and i dont want to learn any new skills. i want to be famous on social media but i hate every website and posting. "

in the past few years, there has been a huge influx of people who dont like to draw, who want a social media art presence- either for fame or because they think it is a quick and easy way to make money.

when it is not easy, this type of person frequently complains of their woes (be it in skill or finding clients) and requests advice in artist spaces and then does not want to listen to people who have worked for their skill and reputation.

(also they act like there is no information published on learning to draw from fundamentals)

tbh at the end of the day it's insulting to watch them so clearly think they should have the rewards without any of the efforts. and that all successful artists are somehow innately talented and given thousands of followers at birth.

success in art costs innumerable hours of your life.

if you dont love pursuing it, nobody is making you.

i love and support beginner artists, i want them all to succeed and become capable of expressing their soul and finding their audience if thats what they want. but i cant stand this attitude of disrespect towards skilled and established artists and the efforts it took for them to become such.

also tbh you need intrinsic motivation, if you are entirely reliant on extrinsic motivation you will struggle greatly to grow at all.

Okay so i went to artschool/college for years and I was making good money and all everything was good i saw a bright future for me in this field..

anyways then ai dropped and after it progressed I lost most of my clients who would get professional illustration/concept art done from me, so i switched to marketing after college and stopped illustrating as there was no more work for me… i have been working as an art director now for a small company.

Recently I got a job offer to work for a company as an illustrator and the pay was surprisingly good…
When inquired about this job i found out they want to know about my design process A to Z how i develop my illustrations from concept to choosing this and that blah blah yk everything… i got so excited that maybe finally someone wants to appreciate organic work and i will get a chance to do what i love again. They asked if i can draw in different styles i said yes and as i was going through the test tasks i found out that its a job to train ai… THIS IS WHY THEY WERE PAYING SO MUCH😣 to feed my work to ai and to teach it to draw like a human.

I was SO PISSED OFF like this is my work’s value now?

There's an animated cartoon series currently running that I've been immensely jealous and envious of for the past few years, and I want to know how to stop feeling this way.

I don't feel comfortable saying exactly which cartoon or animator I'm talking about (idk why), but if it's ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to help me, I'll bite the bullet and tell you.

I think what makes me so jealous of this cartoon is its art style, art direction, and especially its character designs. Personally, I think they're about as close to "perfection" as I can imagine. I admire them that much.

But my feelings have gone WAY beyond simple admiration and into toxic envy. If I come across any image related to this cartoon — fan content, promotional artwork, merchandise, cosplay, or even screenshots from the show — I can become extremely stressed out and even panic. This is especially difficult because the show is quite popular right now, so I encounter it and its fan content pretty often.

I think what makes this hurt so much is that I also dream of creating my own animated cartoon TV show someday — hopefully something that develops a MASSIVE dedicated fandom with lots of fan art, cosplay, etc. just like this show

However, I'm currently very far from that. I'm a beginner-to-intermediate artist and haven't even attempted animation yet, while the creator of this show has much more experience and is at a skill level that feels so far above mine. I know comparing myself to them is unfair, but knowing that doesn't seem to stop the jealousy.

When I see their work, I'll think things like, "How am I ever supposed to make something that good?" or "How could I possibly create characters that people love that much?" Seeing people obsess over the characters, constantly draw them, cosplay them, make merchandise, etc. makes it even worse because that's exactly the kind of reaction I dream of getting from people toward something I create someday.

I want to be able to see incredible artwork, character designs, and fan art and feel inspired rather than immediately feeling inadequate, threatened, stressed, or jealous. More importantly, I don't want this jealousy interfering with my own desire to create.

How do I actually overcome something like this?

Has anyone else experienced intense jealousy toward another artist, creator, fictional character, or piece of media — especially when the thing you're jealous of is directly related to something you desperately want to achieve yourself? What helped you get past it?

I feel like I lost the desire to create the art I like and only to draw to learn, which feels like a huge chore to do. I’m learning anatomy right now and I feel myself gradually losing any desire to draw what I want to draw. I had art books of artist I love and always looked at them daily, now I barely look at them and if I do it doesn’t feel the same anymore. I feel like I lost the passion to create and everyday is more practice to nothing. Art just isn’t fun anymore even though it’s my main hobby. Even my father says passion can’t pay bills, which is true but I wish I could’ve been better to make art a career while enjoying it. Anything would help.

So long story short, I recently quit a franchise thats called cookie run because I got frustrated how a favorite character of mine is no longer getting the attention from that community and drawing the same art of him and being the only fan killed my motivation for that franchise a lot, I used to do a lot of shipping art too and stuff but well, I ultimately gave up, I felt hopeless that day and the days after before

Well I got into limbus company and that game was amazing and the community cared for my favorite character and so on! It didn't have as much characters as cookie run but thats fine as well, but the thing is the community is so closed off, as in if you wanna get in on th things the community is doing, you have to play the game, you just can't be a fan of it without playing it

And oh my god the game, while the story and music is amazing, the gameplay is really tiring and honestly the fans of this gamed ridicule you if you didn't pay for a pass tell you that you are forced to grind, it killed my motivation entirely to draw for it and make stuff after like doing 5-6 fanarts

I can't find any other franchise that has no protagonist and has a high cast of characters I can draw fanart of and ship, I occasionally do one fanart of a game I like but thats it.

I wanna do tons of fanart for games with a high cast of characters, and maybe I'll still stick to limbus company but again that game is specifically more of something you just have to get into to be in the community and be far off in the game

Its demotivating, I feel like I lost my passion, I don't wanna do ocs because those are super tiring and give me zero motivation for anything, I want something like cookie run, I want something that has high amounts of characters with no "Main character self insert guy" And designs that are unique and not just bland fantasy slop

I don't know anymore, what do I do exactly do? All I Do now is draw dumb minecraft stuff that no one will probably care about.

I tried deadlock and that game's community is insufferable as fuck and nobody gaf about doorman anyways

Gosh its like everything is soooo boring nowadays, people aren't that creative anymore and nobody has a good franchise to make fanart for that has shitton of characters, I hate gacha games and I don't wanna do ocs because that will be painfully long and I don't have industry tier connections, and nowadays all types of my artist friends are just plain lazy or busy to help me brainstorm, Its genuine hell I hate this world and how boring it is

So I want to be a multidisciplinary artist. And I already do my personal art and stuff but I don't post stuff anywhere. I got no social media's except reddit. (got LinkedIn but that's for career developments only so, ) . And I had a tiktok account where I posted stuff but I don't anymore.

And I just want to put my works, designs , videos, drawings and everything out there. But I don't like using these platforms. I feel like it juts gets in the way. Like it's another thing to be worried about. I was on social media's back in like 2019 but then I just quit.

That's the story and I feel like I'm lost in terms of what I need to do. I recently decided to go all in making my own thoughts Into creations and this is the one thing that bothers me now.

Please guide me fellow artists.. <3 ( sorry about my English )

Back when I had like 20k or under people were always so nice. They would say things like I’m underrated and really talented and overall it was genuinely very positive vibes. I’ve noticed now that I have 65k followers there’s just a ton of constant negativity regardless of what I post. Part of it must be that I’m just reaching more people and some of them are just going to be mean but I also think a lot of people think larger artists will either A) not read their comment or B) it’s fine to be rude because it’s “punching up”. I’m just a little discouraged because I feel like no matter what I do from here on out it’s something I will have to put up with. I need to work on being less sensitive about it but it’s hard to get used to at first. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Just went on Pinterest, usually I don't do it but I got an email and was curious to see some pictures. Ended up seeing a lot of art much better than mine not only skill wise but also idea wise and style wise. Also stumbled upon a talented artist who is also younger than me and has a very defined style and huge audience. Is there even a point in drawing if I'm not there yet and even I will draw something "good" it is still something someone already done? As I said I saw a lot of drawings on pin and it made me feel like there's nothing to art anymore because I can't self express if my ideas will get lost among millions of pictures. Last 7 years I dedicated my life to become a good artist but at this point I feel like I should just give up. 

I don't know, I feel like I have to force myself to draw and I don't want to feel like that. I want to want it but I don't know if I do. I don't really practice or draw all that much and as such, I never improve. Should I just give up at this point? I want to get the ideas in my head out in drawing but I don't know if I'm willing to put in the work to do so.

Ugh, idk... I'm just depressed that I don't want it and that I'm not improving. Even this post is just procrastinating.