artists_beware: the art or the artist

teh aplacolups beastie colleen (

kuwaizair) wrote in

artists_beware,
@ 2007-04-30 09:59:00

the art or the artist
so I don't mess up anyone else's posts I will come with an inquandry.

I am asking you, the artists beware community this.

even if someone is a good business person, good artist, is it good/ok/right/best to aviod someone or tell others to hate them and their work over their persnality.

take an instance of me and fighting. people don't like my work and myself because I fight, or I tell disney-knock off artists they ""aren't artists"" (aka like a good art school is going to look at your portfolio with awe and amazement when its full of your purple lioness fursona hugging your favorite pokemon)

thus those who've I've "hurt so much" now say I am a sucky artist, with that now I wonder if its the person many like, or buy.

You never like the work without the person and you never hate the work if you love the person. You'd never tell your "soul sibling" that their stuff is bad, if an anime artist and their work looks like the stuff in "Shin Chan", as opposed to wonderfully shaded and thought out mega anime works. You don't do that.

so here I am wondering how you'd take it, if someone were to want to deal with, on a busness sence or when it comes to a theme of "so and so is an art theif you'd be stupid to praise them, all they do is filter copyrighted photos", would you all support "don't like/comission so and so, they are icky poopoo meanie heads lets run them off the intertnets!"

this is artists beware, should you tell others to be warey over somthing like this and support the ideas of "so and so is mean hate them and tell everyone their art sucks lulzz"

ah well, we'll see.

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thornwolf
2007-05-01 05:00 pm UTC (link)

well..ive never heard of you so your rep is clean as far as I'm concerned, but I know that personally i've been put off by artists because of their personality, but i dont tell people to not commission them because of it, I mean its just one persons opinion and all.

But I do have a list of people I would never do a trade with/commission because theyre such jackasses I'd rather just not deal with them. But do I chide people for sending them money? No. Not at all.

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grrrowly
2007-05-01 05:02 pm UTC (link)

I am of the firm opinion that bad artwork speaks for itself, and that to say anything bad about a competitor is shameful (this is why I hate commercials!)

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Critique is one thing, but even that should only be given when it is asked for in this fandom (trust me, I've learned this the hard way many times), and even then, you might want to ask "do you want to know what I REALLY think?" before dishing a crit out.
But never say "you are not an artist". That isn't helpful or polite and will make others think you're a total bitch and avoid you.

So no, there is no need to try and badmouth someone if they haven't done anything wrong and just have piss poor art.

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	joecifur 2007-05-01 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	I hate to break it to you, but if you act like a jackass, whether it's right or wrong for people to dislike you and spread their opinions about you, you're going to hurt your business. The solution is pretty easy. Either don't care, or quit acting like a jackass. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kassichu 2007-05-01 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	I don't care if you kick puppies while wearing steel-toe boots in your spare time. If I like your art and your business sense is fine-tuned, I'll buy from you. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bluedrake 2007-05-01 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	People hate me, im'a jackass, they spread rumors and gossip, and I still get money and commissions. Fuckers. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	dinogrrl 2007-05-01 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	...okay I really have no idea what you just said in your post. Can anyone clarify/translate for me? (Reply to this)(Thread)