/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6752619
I think the big key (and question) is that as artist's, we're kind of obliged to use our art for productive and helpful reasons to assist people even if they may not like the messaging.

I'm sure a majority of the artistically inclined people who hang around this site have really good insights and skills at hand to make amazing pieces of work, but the main issue is the price-tag of acquiring the means to getting such stuff out there, not to mention the security to prevent the bad actors from taking advantage of it and weaponising it for some dumb debatable culture war, is just making more and more artists fearful of doing the work they feel is important to 'them'. We don't even have real artistic platforms anymore and even when we did, we still had people stealing artwork and using it for already big-projects against their permission, so even then, that's still an uphill battle, not to mention the debate of 'creative licensing' being a thing. Where does that stuff even end and begin?

As it is, Artists 'are' creatives at the end of the day, whether they like it or not, and its not like we don't have to talk about all kinds of social issues or go out of our way to talk about what we believe in, because even with this new 'revolution' for the last 10 years you still have had good work made in isolation from outcasts and extroverted artists who still believe in these things, no matter where in the world they are.

I think the real main problem is that there has become too much baggage and expectations attached to even putting the pen to paper, and the expectation that we're all obligated to rag-tagging along with the limitations of expression forced on us.
That might suit people who can afford it, sure, but it means nothing to random artists that are trying to make their start and maybe even want to join these places and improve them. You're assumed a bad person before you can even prove yourself.