/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6757483
>Then comes the question: if I write or draw and no one sees it, what is its purpose?
That's the big question, but the answer is very simple and been repeated more times than needed; You draw, draw and draw some more.
Not everything you create has to be for the sake of being made public. The purpose is to create, first and foremost.
Money and all the other stuff should be treated as a consequence to your work, not the main reason for doing it.
Most of the art people see on the internet is not made to appeal to an audience to farm likes or get money, but those are rather consequences because it happens to appeal to an audience.
You would be right if we were talking regular jobs; "Why work if i'm not getting paid for this?"
But this is art; a useless and objectively unnatural activity you chose to do yourself.

The only ones who "need other people to succeed", will not make it when those other people leave them behind or in the worst case, they're they ones just using other people as stepping stones and want to hold everyone hostage until they can step up and leave everyone behind.
Grifters are a common occurrence nowadays because social media and the internet offers a chance of "making it big".
This circles back to the crab-in-a-bucket mentality; everyone keeps dragging everyone else down because they are only thinking of escaping themselves, but in return they get dragged down by the others, because of the same egotistical mentality.
>but "our" kind doesn't tend to socialize a lot
Because there is mostly demerit in socializing as an artist with other artist, giving how genuinely toxic and unnecessarily competitive the art community is, especially over the internet.

If you need consumers to make money, follow the demand.
Be professional about it and results will show.
All the tools and examples are freely available on the web. You just need use your brain and invest your time.
A mentor or networking aren't magical beings that will make it happen for you.