r/AskArtists

Hey I have been drawing since last few years. I have seen people making money with their art and that thought has crossed my mind as well. But Iam in a dilemma where my art is my personal does making it commercial make me loose that feeling. If some one had the similar thoughts would love to hear how you have managed it...

Hello!! I’m building up my portfolio to start applying to art colleges this fall. A lot of art colleges recommend including a project within your portfolio and I was wondering what people were doing for theirs? I have a couple ideas, but I’m worried they aren’t exactly what colleges are looking for. For context, I’m hoping to major in illustration to pursue a career in concept art or game illustration. Or illustration for fashion dolls(such as monster high, Barbie etc)

I'm starting a comic soon and it would suck quite a bit if I lost my work at some point during the creation. So I wanted to ask you what you do to backup your digital work and what you recommend I should do so I don't end up in a situation where my work is destroyed?

Edit: I use Clip Studio paint to draw and I'm on windows Incase that's important information

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask but I’m wondering how to get a following with art and one day create amazing animations. What sites i should post on

I’ve always wanted to learn how to draw. How to learn from absolute zero?

I want to make art as a career, however I know twitter have its algorithm changed several times and now it's grok-based. I just want to know as an artist, do I have to post art every single day? Or can I fill the gaps/days with regular posts? Also does reposts or quotes work/don't work? I'm specifically asking those who have a consistent and decent amount of interaction in their posts.

I've been learning how to draw 2D shapes and I'm a bit lost. How many weeks should I spend learning to draw 2D shapes? Should I focus on just drawing circles, squares, and triangles before moving on to more complex shapes like octagons, hexagons, ect? If so, how long should I focus on the basic 3 shapes before moving on to the complex ones?

Hi. Im a begginer self taught artist and I have a question that has been bothering me for a while now, but i think i cannot really answer it myself.

Do you believe that a self taught(implying without a formal education) arist can achieve same level of skill as professional formal educated artists?

Sure, i know about great self taught artist like Van Gogh or Ekaterina Medvedeva
But when i take a look at artworks of some modern artists i have a feeling that i may not be able to draw on the same level eventually and that they have something that i wont be able to have.

I`d like to know your opinion!

So as a lot of you may know, it’s artfight season. So, I have been doing a lot of attacks to keep up. But for most of my drawings, I’ve been using bases as references to help me. Basically I grab my character refrence, find a good base/pose I want, and import the base, lower opacity, and start drawing. Yo clarify, I don’t trace the base line for line, I use it as guidelines basically. But I’m still unsure if this counts as tracing or not.

I wanted to commission an artist I love, but their commissions are closed atm and they don't have any info about it on their page, despite being a pretty big artist especially on instagram and x (about 50k followers).

Just out of curiosity, is it okay to dm them and ask about their prices? I just want to know if I can afford it in the future when they open them again😭