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and yet nobody gives a crap. I'm currently trying to do some art just for myself, but there's still that annoying urge to show it to someone, hoping for a shred of validation.
Show meeee :3
I can only draw stick people, you can't do worse than me!
show me :3
Things that are made are meant to be shared -- we're such social creatures and we want to help each other. It's hard to remove yourself from the equation but I think more and more the artist is more akin to someone reading a letter more than a creator. Share the things they are supposed to be.
It's tough because posting art online and getting a lot of unsolicited (and often unconstructive) criticism can be very demoralizing to less seasoned artists. I often see "well you shouldn't have posted it online if you didn't want comments" and an idea that only "good" art deserves to be seen.
When I was a young teen, I saw a thread on Reddit asking people to post their poems, so I posted one I was reasonably proud of. Only response was someone telling me it sucked. Kinda broke something in me that day, I don't think I've written a poem since.
Honestly I'd love an art community more focused on growing artists. I don't have much constructive criticism to offer, but I love watching people grow as artists.
They're out there. Just off the top of my head, there's https://lemmy.world/c/drawing.
I think that's the one I've posted some of my nice doodles to.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !drawing@lemmy.world
I'm sorry that sucks -- My first internet community was DeviantArt back 20 years ago where it was really positive. I think that kind of did the opposite to me.
Now a days though -- almost everything I post on Reddit gets removed as spam -- it's like an impossible system controlled by that gallowboob CCP robot
When I was a young teen, I saw a thread on Reddit
I'd never thought i would be reading a sentence like this. Now, this makes me feel really, really old.
Reddit is almost 20 years old. People can be born and become adults in that time.
We know. It just doesn't feel that long ago.
Don't even get me started on digg
Sure, but I'm getting older and experienced that "oh, the 80s were 20 years ago" feeling, when i read that. Just like grrgyle wrote, it doesn't feel like so much time passed.
While commonly true, it isn't universlly true. I like making things with no intent to ever share them because they are for me. Not practice things, but things that make me happy from going through the process and having a result.
I also make somethings that other people see.
That's why it's good to find someone else who also wants to share their stuff.
Yeah, it may feel like work at first, but after a while you gain a kind of appreciation for each other's stuff, and then genuine interest takes hold and you start to look forward to what your friend(s) are going to share.
This is precisely what my book club has turned into. We haven't read a book in over a year lol
I kinda had someone like that for a little bit, it's why I started doing some art stuff. too bad they just kinda vanished without a word after weeks of telling me how great of a friend I am.
Yeah that can happen. It's real work on both sides to maintain a relationship like that, and in my experience it usually doesn't work out forever. It's still worth it for the while that it does work, though.
Probably best to move on and find a new such person.
What kind of stuff do you make?
it's sucked because noone ever seem to be this interested in me, but whatever.
Tbh I'm a total newbie at art. I've been trying to draw and play the piano for many years but I usually just give up after a couple of weeks of trying, so I'm not good at neither.
I kinda got into Vrchat last year and ended up spending two and a half months making an avatar from scratch.
I've recently started a character drawing course on Udemy so I can make my own reference art for 3D modeling. It's gonna take a while but I'm just trying to enjoy the process.
Oh nice! So you made like a 3D avatar? Closest I've come to that is getting really detailed with character creation in games, but I get how it's fun to design a character.
I'm a lifelong doodler, but never seem to be able to stick to courses. I just kind of take little pieces from each as a bumble along.
RE interest yeah I'll admit to not being very interested in anyone else's progress other than my own, but it's nice to get some "check ins" from time to time, like how a course is going or whatever.