/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4915014
it's not about good art, it's about stroking their ego and making them ego cum

>>4915014
Because they have drawn something that resonates and appeals with people. While you draw "high effort" anime girls floating on a white background.

>>4915014
This is the Garfield strategy. Make something with an EXTREMELY simple, broad appeal. Something that can easily be turned into a toy, and is even easier to draw / reuse art.

Make the punchlines basic statements and mild jokes that allow the broadest possible readership to half chuckle and go "Ain't that the truth" long enough to click the share button.

Contrast with Strange Planet which has the same basic bitch humor and broad appeal but is at least a clever, somewhat subversive premise (which is extra genius when you consider it can basically recycle every decent Sunday comic joke from the past by just writing it into matter of fact, extremely literal language).

>>4915014

if you weren't born with talent you'll never make it no matter how hard you work

>>4915073
Man all of 4chan to gripe in, do we have to have the annoying "blackpilled" incel defeatism in the art board too?

>>4915081
Mix in some retarded /a/ unferiority shit too

>>4915073
So you're saying that hacks don't exist? That literally every person who makes a living with their art is a talented savant?

It's so tempting to do easy joke memes, coom, fanart, etc. but I still have some energy to do it my way for now. It's running out soon, but at least I tried my way.

>>4915031
This, people are low effort losers with boring ass mentalities and jelly of better people. You'll never get them with anything worth making, gotta aim for the gutter to get the gutter trash cash.

>>4915107
>unferiority

>>4915014
It goes "work smart not hard", dummy

>>4915113
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzdAsjWGPg

>>4915029
It always comes back to coom doesnt it.

No matter what gets drawn, at its heart, it is always about coomin.

>>4915056
This is good advice. Especially regarding fantasy cliches divorced from reality.

But continuing the logic of your screencap, OP also isn't wrong that what people want to "get" out of art is validation of simple dogmatic mantras and social media is primed to encourage this. What the lowest common denominator understand also isn't always the best target. Most people don't go outside and would be unmoved by a masterfully composed depiction of natural beauty, and that doesn't make it any less meaningful.

>>4915151
utter inferiority

good thread. this is the first time i browse this board and actually get something out of it.

>>4915031
who does this resonate with?

>>4916911
i can see this easily get 50k upvotes on reddit

>>4916911
poor people working their ass off for nothing, it puts a fire in their asses for a night or two until they become a npc again

>>4916911
Dinosaurs, gettit

>>4915014
Honestly I was coming into this expecting you to just be seething, but damn, like fuck me, that really is the lowest effort imaginable.

>>4915014
>>4916911
I'm sick and tired of "muh relatable" and pity party art on social media. It's everywhere.

>>4915031
but these dinos are floating on a white background too

>>4915014
dinosaur comics had expressive art, even though it was the same clip art every time. It's a funny format to work with, back in the good old days of webcomics.

Meanwhile comics like this seem like they're crafted on an assembly line to get Social Media likes and shares, a product that just points in the direction of getting a real job instead of what is basically following a get-rich-quick scheme.
>>4915031
>>4915052
There's no individual character to the dialogue or "idea". It's just opinions off of Reddit.

>>4915014
Why the fuck do you care? Go draw!

>>4916911
People who utterly refuse any agency in their own fortune.

>>4915014
Sensory overload
People like simple stuff now, just look at logos

>>4916911
>not knowing who is the real enemy
no, they got rich because they got in bed with the government limiting competition and therefore be able to pay less.
In a free market yellow dinosaurs have to compete to offer the best conditions(salary one of them) to be able to hire anyone.

>>4915014
>why do normalfags like garbage
The answer is contained within the question

>>4915052
>Contrast with Strange Planet
Strange planet is the same shitty joke over and over again and it's garbage

>>4916911
The art is garbage but the idea is true
Fuck capitalist pigs

>>4918023
This.

The worst part about economic leftism is the godawful marketing that and the years of tainting from the American propaganda machine.

ITT people who forgot about XKCD

>>4918023
The idea isnt to work hard on your shitty burger flipping job, its to work hard on improving yourself so that you can learn new skills.

The true problem with capitalism is that it causes business and greater society to operate with such a level of efficiency and complexity that people with an IQ of under 100, which is half the entire population, wont be able to offer or change anything or just generally compete

>>4918062
So would you prefer communism or socialism over capitalism? Because no matter what you choose, the majority of people will still have an IQ of under 100, and capitalism at least offers you a way to compete if you try hard enough.

don't blame capitalism you pathetic twitter libtard, just get smarter.

the art is irrelevant in this case, what is really appealing to people is the message. Now why the message appeal to people? because we love simple answers to complex problems. and what can be even better than that? a simple come back to a simple answer that you don't like.

I can even see people rubbing their hand and thinking "I will show dave next time hehe".

>>4917955
or yellow dinosaurs get together and combine what the"best conditions" are.

>>4918467
If you think they want all the benefits and money. what makes you think they will share it with others dinos?

>>4918184

not him, but for me capitalism with social programs is the best solution yet. ideally all your basic needs (like basic food) would be free, but for anything else you would have to work for.

>>4915031
Good post. Unfortunate allusion to white BGs.
I was scrolling through a famous artist's profile today (almost 100k followers) and he used to only draw floating anime.

Then he started focusing on making full illustrations with storytelling and it's been a snowball of growth ever since.
I still think he got lucky, but he could only ride that luck because he was equipped with appealing content.

>>4918184
Congratulations, you are on the lower half. Anon was explaining why the other anon was wrong.

>>4917955
>free market
Good luck enforcing that without a government.

>>4918492
what? because they are from the same group!? are you saying that people don't cooperate in the real world?

>>4918518
Based and wellfarepilled

>>4918533
>>4918520
never understood why artist are anything other than anarcocapitalists

>>4918562
>anarcocapitalists

>>4918580
>>anarcocapitalists

>>4918562
Cause an artist needs a functioning society in order to LARP as an anarcomemememist

>>4918628
>>>anarcocapitalists

I think we should abolish mass production and instead educate the populace in the treatment and utilization of their own natural resources

>>4918694
it doesn't matter what you think

>>4915014
>>4916911
They're right, take the talentpill.

>>4918691
>>4918628
>>4918580
tf is going on here?

>>4918685
>functioning society

>>4915014
>>4916911
do lefties really...?

the likes have nothing to do with the art. get that through your thick skull. could have just been text in an empty white square

>>4918518
It's 2020, internet is a basic need. Also we should all get 60 NEETbux a month so we can numb ourselves with vidya and be a more docile population.

>>4919590
I am pretty sure your body is not gonna stop working because of lack of internet tho.

>>4918763
he doesn't know

>>4915014
Why are you so retarded? It's a cute dinosaur, people like cute dinosaurs. Chefs say that fast food restaurants are garbage, so why do normalfags still like Wendy's? As an artist your standards are way above what anyone actually cares about.

These aren't so much art pages so much as they are memes, or regular tweets formatted as memes. Cute looking characters saying laft talking points seem to be a trend

>>4918184
Im in Europe, so my perspective will be very different to that of an American. We dont have to choose between extremes. Germanys Rhine Capitalism for instance, combined with a healthy national identity is the best way to go imo.