/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4992477
when you look at your work, do you like it? if you like it, i think that's all that matters. Unless you want to make money for it, of course; then it's necessary for other people to like it as well.

You're definitely not alone in caring about social media too much though, i feel you.

*unlikes you*

>>4992497
I hate my own works, but if I'm being honest, it's largely because I think too much about how others feel about it. I haven't been in the best mental state lately so I guess that's contributing to it. Wish I could stop caring.

>>4992943
>>4992477
I've found the best way to stop caring is to look at other people's art, oddly enough. Especially Instagram, because everyone there falls under the same tired old cliques. Even the pros who post begin looking like a revolving door of sameshit.

It really helps to put things in perspective or to turn your aggravation into a motivator. I've been using DAD and despite how autistic everyone in the thread is there's something motivating about being mentioned in a tierlist or being featured. You could try that.

>>4992477
Don't buy into the
>are you a narcissist? why don't you make art for fun?!
that every faggot here has surely shat out in the posts above, I don't bother reading but I'm sure someone's already parroted that shit
It's always /beg/s and cumbrains who say this because their artwork means nothing, not even to themselves, and at best they make it to get paid or to satisfy a fetish they wouldn't be able to otherwise. I'm sure I'll get called pretentious by people who just finished beating off to anime garbage but you are asking to people who don't even know what it means to make art.
Yours is a natural response, if you make art that means something you will want it to reach other people. You are not an attention whore if this happens.
Art is fundamentally an act of communication, and there is no point talking out loud if you have no desire to touch someone's heart. Even the madman who talks to himself has started doing so to reach somebody, and ended up listening to his own echos. Sadly the current state of things has made it extremely hard to reach other people simply because the more personal your work is and the more uniquely yours it is for its message or its execution, the less chances it has to fit into an algorithm or even look like "art" to people who increasingly enjoy things based on how elegantly they fit a social media feed and how well they conform to one of maybe 5 or 6 art styles.
You only have two options: to live with this or to quit. If you really have a passion for art you will know already that you cannot quit, so the only option you have is to bear this suffering and let yourself be driven by the hope that someone somewhere will find you, and your art will resonate within that person. Sadly this means enduring this pain all your life. Other artists had to endure it as well. There's nothing you can do about it except learning to look at the pain.

>>4993776
Now look at the slew of people who will try to guess what kind of "bad" artist I am, the abstract artist or the fruit basket artist? Maybe I'm the Tumblr "muh style" guy. I'm sure if there's a post above this one it will be about that.
Just look at them try to guess and unwittingly prove to you that people today look at art in stereotypes and still believe a narrative that falls apart as soon as you look at the trending page on any social media platform for art. We live in an era of peak conformity and I would also dare to say that we are transitioning away from individuality into something like a hive mind, because this is the only way the human race can survive without massive internal conflict. It sounds terrible but we're actually lucky to exist right after the best of art has already happened, and before art will be completely snuffed out of people's hearts with no possibility of going back.

>>4993776
unironically i have this same problem and this is some of the best advice ive ever read, thank you anon