/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6969166]

how can there be so many artists? If you think about all the games and movies and paintings and posters and commercials that were ever made - it's insane how many artists there are.

I just can't wrap my brain around it

[Anonymous No.6969170]

>>6969166
There will always be a lot of professions that does not require any qualifications

[Anonymous No.6969171]

>>6969170
>giggity giggity

[Anonymous No.6969172]

>>6969166
And there are also so many engineers....my fridge and lava lamp and laptop and all that stuff were designed by someone. There are so many things in our world that you just plug in and they do cool stuff... there are so many smart people out there that can do some cool stuff

[Anonymous No.6969176]

>>6969166
8 billion is a big number.
1% of 8 billion is still 80,000,000

[Anonymous No.6969206]

So many obsolete workers it's sad but can't stop progress

[Anonymous No.6969574]

>>6969176
>there's only 4 million people legitimately diagnosed with gender dysphoria and yet tranny shit is being shoved everywhere
Society makes no sense.

[Anonymous No.6969578]

>>6969206
Yeah, it'd be a shame to just pull the rug on these """"prompt engineers"""" after all their hard work but it is what it is.

[Anonymous No.6969599]

>>6969166
You can reiterate the same logic on everything. Wanna know how many chickens, or smartphones exist? The world is big

[Anonymous No.6969659]

>>6969574
Only american and western euro society anon, if you lived outside of these you'd only hear whispers about that stuff in big cities

[Anonymous No.6969679]

>>6969172
genuinely this unironically, smart people are so cool

[Anonymous No.6969699]

So many markets,so many programs to make art with, so many ways to distribute and share their work. It's why I advocate exploring other mediums if they get frustrated with traditional ones.

After grinding out a 16 page story and two 20 page chapters of the graphic novel, I was burnt out by the toil of drawing-scanning-Photoshopping-assembling comics I was doing. I work 6 nights a week and I wanted a virtual social life to make the necessary isolation bearable. So I found Second Life, and channeled those artistic impulses into this interesting new medium. You conjure blocks from thin air, and construct things with them, and program them through scripts. I tuned my rudimentary understanding of Photoshop into an animated painting store,hunting GIFs to make into textures that are framesset in a grid,which a script shows on the block face sequentially, making a looping animation. I sold cheap,wanting people to enjoy my labors instead of making money.

And I made ballrooms. This was the poster for my last one. There were Mandelbulb flowers and crystal grass and a dance floor that billowed fog as your avatars waltzed to New Age music. I enabled Romance,and sweet pondering, and I am proud of that. You make stuff,sell copies of it forever, and sell the ingame currency you make back to the game for real money. And the stuff people came up with is mind blowing.

That is but one example of what can be done with those nasty artistic urges.

[Anonymous No.6969750]

>>6969574
probably because they're living in your head rent free to the degree retards like you constantly bring them up in every discussion even when it has nothing to do with anything

[Anonymous No.6969854]

>>6969166
everyone thought drawing was easier than learning an instrument or writing, but they were wrong as usual

[Anonymous No.6969917]

>>6969750
exactly

[Anonymous No.6969936]

>>6969750
>>6969917
People hate on you for the same reason they hated on furries back in the day. Except furries can't show up at their job and get people fired so they're arguably not as bad as trannies (the few that aren't trannies anyway).

[Anonymous No.6969963]

>>6969936
this was actually embarrassing to read. i guess it's easy to win a discussion against an opponent made of straw.

[Anonymous No.6969964]

>>6969699
I read your blogs posts yesterday. Second Life seemed cool in that it actually allowed you to freely create. Must have been some good autistic fun. Were you part of that NPR story on second life nerds from a few years ago?

[Anonymous No.6969981]

Agriculture mean now not everyone in grug tribe must be hunter

[Anonymous No.6970025]

>>6969936
>It's not a higher force like a religion
lmao

[Anonymous No.6970039]

>>6969964
I haven't been active in years.

But I am part of their history in a small way. The archway retextured here was a feature of Burning Life 2007.

https://youtu.be/Yiy_FS7AoJ8?si=-k4TzPjtZs6FMPB1

[Anonymous No.6970107]

>>6969172
I am grateful beyond belief.

[Anonymous No.6970163]

>>6969964
>Second Life seemed cool in that it actually allowed you to freely create. Must have been some good autistic fun.
second life still exists, it's still there anon

[Anonymous No.6970168]

>>6969964
This thread has many more pictures, and a side order of crab.

http://boards.4chan.org/ic/thread/6959988/how-do-you-become-popular-online-via-your-own#bottom

[Anonymous No.6973151]

>>6969166
Humans social circles don't usually go beyond 100-200 people and that's what our brains are wired for

There are 8 billion people on this planet, and probably millions of people just in your country

Your brain can barely comprehend the sheer scale of numbers even as low as tens of thousands

Only a small percentage of people become artists or scientists or whatever, but in absolute numbers that's still huge

[Anonymous No.6973519]

>>6973151
We'd all live so much nicer lives if we lived in 2K people micro cities with 20 big residential blocks separated by common spaces like parks, church, schools, markets, etc.

Having to dredge though millions of stranger every day on your way from home to work and back is the primary reason we're becoming more anti-social every year. It's literally training you to see others are obstacles in your way, sources of discomfort, faceless masses of fleshhy sludge.

[Anonymous No.6973524]

>>6969936
>sub /b
I want to go back.