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Other Artists’ Business

isaia:

When I was a younger thing on my first internets, at one point I spent some amount of time secretly concern-trolling artists that I, in my mind, I thought were

• “terrible”
• who made “mary-sues”/
• squeamishly fetish fanart
• “too much” fanart in general as if you could make “too much fanart” LOL I SHOULD TALK
• stagnated
• or drew the same thing often without variation/improvement
• all of this was just a blanket thing for genre/art in general that wasn’t my cup of tea
• other such what I thought were “monstrosities”

and then I grew up a little, chilled out emotionally, and recoiled in horror that I AM THE MONSTER FFFFFUUUUU-

By doing this I was not spending any real time on myself, improving and what I wanted to do and it was mostly out of misplaced creative/ emotional frustration with real-life personal issues I was having with myself at the time.

and for that, I am very sorry.

I think what really helped me was that I realized I had a choice whether or not to keep looking at things I didn’t have to distress over.

If I didn’t like some shit a guy drew, then I guess it doesn’t bother me as much now because I realized, it had no effect on my life really.

And that eventually if said artists make mistakes, there will be time for growing up, things and events will work themselves out, and they have their own path that they can figure out.

And that not every artists’ path will be the same one.

Unless, I guess there was artwork made to personally harass or be unkind to someone/or a group of people, I dunno, I wouldn’t have an issue with it.

We all make mistakes, we all have different progressions and things we want to draw.

I guess just go make art!

Research what you want to do and work hard! Whether it’s for yourself to keep yourself smiling, to make someone else smile, or getting that dream/ideal job and/or portfolio!

Stop hating yourself, and don’t be scared!

You making “bad” art is at least better than you not making art at all!