/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6692967
kind of silly from your side to resort to calling everyone the insult you fear the most, beglet

>>6669223
In simpler words, dear anon ~ this is a cope thread and you are a permabeg who wants to have a look inside the industry out of delusion that he may one day be there. Unless you stop posting on 4chan you'll never be good, and I can laugh all I want at you when I have a day off or two.
>>6669233
Okay being serious for a momen, an agent can be anyone, even an Intern will do as long as you tell him to properly manage, document and catalogue your work and deadlines. They should take care of all that AND look out for new opportunities and ways of advertising. Basically a secretary on steroids.
Professional agents usually advertise themselves as "business agents" or info brokers, they are the best sort to buy (but they cost quite the sum) if you need a right hand-extension.

also pyw, you got me curious there for a moment.

>>6647225
A lot actually, I never felt this low status since I changed careers and went full time artist. The strangest behavior I get from friend and family circles. There is only one person who asks me what I do and want to see some art occasionally. Rest doesn't follow me, never ask what I actually do, never even take a curious peak when I am sketching. That one time I was on a trip with a bunch of friends and here and there I took off for a few minutes and sketched the city. At the evening I thought, "Hey, maybe all this time they were just too polite to ask and respected my privacy too much to ask to look into my sketchbook". So I showed them what I sketched/what I discovered on our trip. I got their attention maybe for like 30sec, maybe one page turn until they demonstratively looked away and changed topic.
I get it, I am not that interesting and people talking about their jobs are kinda boring, but I listen to their tech job talk and everything about it everytime. When I am on my own I have strangers curiously looking at what I am drawing, asking stuff. Everything I have ever sold and every single comission were from people I don't know. Every inch of support are from people who don't know me personally. If it weren't for them, I would think I am absolutely terrible, because I have witnessed family members comissioning artists for child portraits (sloppily done that is) instead of at least considering me.
It's very strange, before I worked at a boring tech/social media job and people were occasionally asking what I do, how I do financially, how I handle the job in general. I was treated like an equal. Now I am scum of the earth.