/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.4406718]

>popular account reposts my drawing
>100 messages requesting free portrait

[Anonymous No.4406721]

>>4406718
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

[Anonymous No.4406730]

>>4406721
good vid

[Anonymous No.4406785]

That's 100 people who probably wouldn't have even looked in your direction. Maybe next time some of them will turn into customers.

[Anonymous No.4406833]

no one even repost my shit just be thankful catbro

[Anonymous No.4406902]

answer to every single one with this; Hey! Thats great! Whats your budget?

than post the results. I am sure some of them are gonna pay you

[Anonymous No.4406933]

>guy asks for a free drawing
>tell them you don't work for free
>they delete every like/retweet, unfollow and block you

[Anonymous No.4406936]

>>4406902
dont know about OP but they always answer me with.

>Pleeeease is my birthday or some shit
>Your are cruel person, can't help me out?

and usually i'll stop replying. they don't even care if the style doesn't match up. they always want a portrait or some shit. i do fucking anime weeb cartoon shit for fuck sake.

My trick is this:
>I help with this charity, I can make you a drawing if can donate x amount to this.
And they usually shut the fuck up, fucking hypocrites.

[Anonymous No.4406944]

>>4406936
>he doesn’t disable his inbox

[Anonymous No.4406954]

>>4406944
I do comercial works and also need to keep up and answer to my actual followers. disabling the inbox is the most retard thing you can do as an artist.

[Anonymous No.4406966]

I just dont answer the pms and block them.

[Anonymous No.4406979]

>>4406718
Way to be ungrateful. Give a few quick sketches for the ones with most followers, tell the girls you need nude reference.

[Anonymous No.4406991]

In my whole history on the Internet, I've only ever been asked to draw something for free once, on deviantart, after posting some /co/ fanart.

Where do you find these wackos?

[Anonymous No.4407015]

>>4406936
>My trick is this:
>>I help with this charity, I can make you a drawing if can donate x amount to this.
>And they usually shut the fuck up, fucking hypocrites.
that's a good strategy, I'll try using it too

[Anonymous No.4407040]

>>4406718
Tell them you have a family and shit and chores and gaming hobbies that take up time.

[Anonymous No.4407052]

>>4406936
>>4407015
>My trick is this:
>>I help with this charity, I can make you a drawing if can donate x amount to this.
>And they usually shut the fuck up, fucking hypocrites.
that's a good strategy, I'll try using it too

just ask them whats their job.

>if they are working at mcdonalds, ask them for free meal
>if they are making websides, ask them for free websie
>etc

[Anonymous No.4407060]

>>4406979
yeah, course, we are the ungrateful. Is already tough to answer to every followers, a lot of them needs help, or have actual admiration for your craft and i try my best to answer everyone, even tho' i have only 5k followers I wake up with several messages. they are the true MVP who actually come to the convention and supports you. people asking for free shit they usually don't even follows you and have 0 respect to you and your work.

>>4407015
Yeah, you can officially be an ambassador for a charity. that give you more legitimacy (But you need some following). you know what's funny? I've been ambasador for 1 year and 0 of this fuckos paid.

[Anonymous No.4407069]

social media was a mistake
silicon valley was a mistake
america was a mistake
Columbus made a mistake

[Anonymous No.4407071]

>>4406785
zing! that's gotta hurt

[Anonymous No.4407073]

>>4406991
>Where do you find these wackos?

drawthreads on /v/, /h/ and /a/, if the idea of both having endless people begging for you to draw what they want and working absolutely for free appeals to you those are the places to go.

[Anonymous No.4407075]

>>4407052
>just ask them whats their job.
try that, you cant reason with retards. they all think it easy, even explaining that you practice and studied for 5 years.

[Anonymous No.4407076]

>>4407073
fuck wrong post.
This >>4407052

[Anonymous No.4407085]

>>4406902
Is that Bogart?

[Anonymous No.4407086]

>>4406902
this. even better reply would be:
>Thats great! That will be 600USD for portrait. Give me your paypal email so I can send you an invoice.

[Anonymous No.4407094]

>>4407085
Epstein's brother

[Anonymous No.4407111]

>>4406902
>>4407085
>>4407094
very depresing movie. why did the goons killed him? they were working for him

[Anonymous No.4407115]

>>4407111
>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.4407126]

>>4407115
>Nooo, you cant discuss films on my artsy crayon painting board. that's against the rules!!

[Anonymous No.4407184]

>>4406718

Portrait fags are always more trouble than worth. I cannot trust a client who doesn't cringe at their own image at least a little bit.

[Anonymous No.4407385]

>>4406718
Any hot girls? Ask free blowjobs for the free portraits.

[Anonymous No.4407427]

>>4407015
What happens when they lie and say they donated when they didn't.

[Anonymous No.4407479]

>>4407427
>what happens if the world somehow goes back in time to the 1950's
All charities nowadays have all sorts of confirmation shit that they give to donors. They basically understood that 90% of people who donate nowadays, do it to boast, and accommodated them. They either have proof or are lying.

[Anonymous No.4407485]

>>4406718
>nonartist tells you to lower your prices

[Anonymous No.4407491]

>>4407485
>/beg/ artist tells you to raise your prices

[Anonymous No.4407519]

>>4406991
I find them more IRL than I ever have online. The second someone sees my sketchbook they always start asking me to draw them a tattoo or some shit, and when the subject of payment comes up they suddenly don't want one. There's also drawthreads on other boards but that's par for the course.

[Anonymous No.4407532]

>>4407519
Yeah, my experience is the same. IRL is full of portrait beggars, but these people don't use the Internet.

OP must have been reblogged by some popular auntie that makes Twitter recipes or something like that.

[Anonymous No.4407538]

>>4407485
>>4407491
How are prices even an issue artists agonize about? Price as high or as low to have exactly enough commissions multiplied by enough money to meet your monthly income goal. Do as little work as possible for as much money as possible. WTF is there to think about? Producing art is like producing whatever fucking else, like socks, why should it be different?

[Anonymous No.4407685]

>be shitter /beg/ who doesn't even take comms
>got my first example of someone asking for extremely specific free art on twitter DMs the other day
feels good man

[Anonymous No.4407705]

>>4407685
Don't feel so good, they usually just spam it via copy/paste on all inbox of any artist they can find, I saw a video once talking about that procedure, they are usually people who get commissioned bye others on fiver and then just don't draw and deliver art Made by some nobody artist stupid enough to reply, thats why is so specific and why most artist on fiver deliver shit with different style from drawing to drawing.

[Anonymous No.4407733]

>>4407705
that's pretty sad
I think this guy was at least asking for himself though, what he described was similar to what his own twitter was already full of

[Anonymous No.4407742]

>>4407538
People think that the market is being crashed when artists charge low, and that we can all charge more if we do it together, or something dumb like that

[Anonymous No.4407770]

>>4407705
It's either that or people obsessed with their OCs or fetishes just carpet bombing artists to see if they can get anyone to give them a free drawing. Shit's wild.

[Anonymous No.4407798]

>>4407705
>messaged on pixiv by yet another google translated art beggar
>"I like your work etc etc do you mind drawing x please and thank you!"
>ignore it as usual, but still get a laugh because of the broken english
>show it to my friend
>they got the same copy pasted message by the same person
It's a little creepy that this is done by art beggars

[Anonymous No.4408337]

>>4407770
>>4407798
There was a stretch of time on pixiv where I kept coming across art of tanned Fubuki x Kisaragi yuri by mediocre artists. When I looked at their commentary every single one of them said it was a request. So apparently someone went and spammed every artist he could find with his request, of course the good artists just ignored it but some of the lower tier artists went ahead and did it.

[Anonymous No.4408385]

>>4407798
They know 99/100 people will just ignore them, but they're aiming for that one in a hundred who will do it. It's sad but it definitely works if you're dedicated and autistic enough.

[Anonymous No.4408387]

I get lots of PMS for free art, but no commission offers...I guess my art is still not good enough

[Anonymous No.4408426]

>>4406718
>Coworker asks me to draw a traditional medium, photo realistic very important and sentimental portrait of their dead mother.
>Would take maybe 5-7 hours to complete.
>Offers $20

[Anonymous No.4408453]

>>4407742
thats not dumb at all
half if not the majority of retards that use the internet think all art is free by default because autists freely shared their drawings on deviantart and forums for years until google images filled up with the shit
people get offended at the suggestion of people making money off of their own fucking OCs
its insane

[Anonymous No.4408487]

>>4406718
Just point them in the direction of a better artist that actually does commissions. They'll shut up when they don't want to pay.

[Anonymous No.4408509]

>>4408426
Your garbo art's probably not worth it to pay by the hour.

[Anonymous No.4408526]

>reply with "I'll get right on it" and never reply to them again or tell them their drawing is in the queue(forever)

[Anonymous No.4408600]

>>4408453
>people don't pay me because there's free shit out there
>people think I shouldn't make money from working
It sounds like you and everything around you is an idiot.

[Anonymous No.4408660]

>>4407073
>drawthreads on /v/, /h/ and /a/
This why I don't advertise my blog on any drawthreads.
There's 1/100 that will actually pay lmao
Highest I got was 80$ from /a/.