/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3564178
>Okay first of all, you don't get to decide when a painting comes out good
Yeah you kind of do. You're in charge of the creative direction and it's your time being expended. Have you ever worked in a production environment with deadlines and budgets and stuff?

Not to mention that I'm my own client. I'm working for my production company.

> second of all, why are you so obsessed with the idea of dying poor and getting famous.
Mostly just obsessed with dying tbphwyf. And when did I say in any of the actual production conversation I was trying to have did I say shit about either of those things?
>It's not "all or nothing bb".
Is for me.
>What if hypothetically people start getting interested in your paintings before you die?
They already are it's been really annoying trying to explain why I won't sell anyone any of my shitty acrylic paintings. Why do you think I'm working on a toxic argument bot?
>If you start making a decent living at this in your life will you consider yourself a failed artist?
Fuck no. Just become reflected as part of the series probably? I don't really care about myself as an "artist" necessarily. This entire thread is about that. Are you an artist or a producer?
>Will you stop painting?
Never make another painting after the race is over.
>What's wrong with having a comfortable normal life?
Nothing. I don't think people are actually living "comfortable normal lives" though. Bunch of self-destructive media junkies circlejerking around a bunch of goofball dogma as they let the future slide into an actual dystopia. This is not a time in history where humanity should be sedate and comfortable, and yet the beautiful disaster is we're already like 30 years too late to stop it. Internet addiction alone is an entire epidemic that we're not ever picking at yet.

You're on a sinking ship and you sold the lifeboats in 2010. How do you choose to spend your time before everything is underwater?

>>3301960
>What are you seeking, exactly?
idk. One must imagine Sisyphus smiling. More practically they're all kind of part of a larger project called How To Paint Trump, where I filmed some of an introduction to a how to video on painting Trump's hair back in January 2017. Everything since the Cabin America painting has been part of a narrative of anxious, avoidant, manic distraction from finishing the project and finishing the original painting. None of the paintings are really supposed to be finished, and the implicit goal has always been made that they're props to potentially comedically destroy as part of larger productions. The idea in the beginning was that I would shoot an episode for each one where I talk about the ideas behind it, then do a mock tutorial on how to finish it, where it would probably end up getting destroyed or made worse.
>Doing things fast is only impressive if you're some kind of genius who is particularly good at doing things fast.
Yeah the point definitely isn't supposed to be that I'm a genius, it's that any fucking idiot can make an okay-looking painting that someone may like, if they just do it. I go out of my way to do things wrong to dig a hole that I have to get out of and hopefully make something that is still aesthetically interesting or appealing.
>If you're not, you should just stick to your limitations and take your time to finish your works.
Yeah probably. I'm a fucking weirdo though. I'm driven towards creativity as an avoidance thing. I just started 30 new canvasses today, even though I only "finished" like 5 of the 26 paintings I started in January.
>Your work will drastically improve if you just take things slowly.
Sure. I just don't know that I really care about demonstrating "drastic improvement" though.
>Quality over quantity.
Creativity, I think there can be quality in quantity. And pragmatically, I kind of prefer the shotgun approach. People seem to respond more to the quick shitty ones anyway.