The art culture is so weird on FR. I see a lot of inexperienced artist in flight discords and on forums asking for help with pricing and so many people give them such disingenuous comments. It isn't helping to tell someone that they should overwork themselves charging pennies for art because their foundational skills are underdeveloped.
Telling someone they can totally make bank off of their art when they're clearly putting the cart before the horse is much more cruel imo than telling someone they should work on their art more first. So many people rush to monetize their creations which really doesn't help someone who is clearly a beginner. Not to mention that these artists are unlikely to get a lot of commissions in the first place.. idk, it just seems worse to have someone bumping a thread constantly and slowly getting downtrodden than to be kindly told "at your point in progression you should focus on improvement and not sales".
This idea that all art is monetizable and SHOULD be monetizable is so terrible for new artists. It's okay to have art that's not good. It's okay to need to improve. It's okay to not be ready to make sales.
I mostly agree but I also think the silence of not getting any commissions over a long period of time is honestly enough for most people to figure this out for themselves. It's also just awkward to tell someone you think they're at too amateur a level to sell their art. If communicated poorly, telling someone they don't have their drawing foundations down properly can accidentally be discouraging or downright cruel. And if you aren't known for having experience with making and selling art yourself but still make these kinds of comments at artists on a public forum then you're likely to get a reputation for being judgmental and patronizing.
There's also the fact that the FR art market is oversaturated, so an amateur still working on their foundational skills will often have better luck advertising elsewhere. I saw on kid make an easy 30 dollars via twitter with ms paint emote commissions last year while meanwhile their FR shop was nothing but silence and bumps.
But yeah, watching someone tell an artist on discord to price their art at 10 cents so they can take tons of commissions and meanwhile the artist can't draw a box... :/ (well maybe it'll be a learning experience for them to learn not to listen to the advice you get when asking random people on discord or on forums lmao)
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Re: OT Thread
(Anonymous) 2023-04-06 12:48 am (UTC)(link)Telling someone they can totally make bank off of their art when they're clearly putting the cart before the horse is much more cruel imo than telling someone they should work on their art more first. So many people rush to monetize their creations which really doesn't help someone who is clearly a beginner. Not to mention that these artists are unlikely to get a lot of commissions in the first place.. idk, it just seems worse to have someone bumping a thread constantly and slowly getting downtrodden than to be kindly told "at your point in progression you should focus on improvement and not sales".
This idea that all art is monetizable and SHOULD be monetizable is so terrible for new artists. It's okay to have art that's not good. It's okay to need to improve. It's okay to not be ready to make sales.
Re: OT Thread
(Anonymous) 2023-04-06 01:57 am (UTC)(link)There's also the fact that the FR art market is oversaturated, so an amateur still working on their foundational skills will often have better luck advertising elsewhere. I saw on kid make an easy 30 dollars via twitter with ms paint emote commissions last year while meanwhile their FR shop was nothing but silence and bumps.
But yeah, watching someone tell an artist on discord to price their art at 10 cents so they can take tons of commissions and meanwhile the artist can't draw a box... :/ (well maybe it'll be a learning experience for them to learn not to listen to the advice you get when asking random people on discord or on forums lmao)