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Anonymous04/21/26, 23:05No.7922294
Why do so many anons hate the idea of doing art as a career these days? Didn't this board start out as primarily for aspiring concept artists?
I have never seen good work come for a "hobbyists" they almost never commit to it.
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Anon04/21/26, 23:20No.7922302
Working as an artist in the industry isn’t very realistic right now. The few jobs that are left probably won’t go to someone who needs a steady income.
Creating your own content and connecting directly with fans through crowdfunding and donations is your only option. Nobody is hiring artists.
Open a Patreon and draw dickgirls.
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Anon04/21/26, 23:57No.7922324
I'm not good enough to get a job or chase patreonbux but when I see all those dudes making several thousand a month drawing one thing a week it definitely seems a lot more chill than what an industry artist would need to do for the same pay.
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Anon04/22/26, 00:06No.7922334
I think you're delusional, catfag.
I see tons of "hobbyists" with incredible work on social media, but only a small percentage are making it a career, and an even smaller percentage of that are managing to balance professional life with having a soul. The fact of the matter is, being pro seems to have little to do with the quality of one's art, and can even hinder creativity and enthusiasm.
If anything I would advise learning artists to worry more about making a single piece of art worth a damn before worrying about making money off it. We could use a little less trash-slop in these times we find ourselves in.
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Anon04/22/26, 00:13No.7922339
How many good artists are out there? Tens of thousands, at least. How many of them are making liveable amounts of money from their art? Very few. Even if your art is good, that's no guarantee you'll get hired, and if you don't you'll have to rely on commissions and donations, which requires a reputation, which without marketing is borderline impossible to build except by luck. If a few of your posts get popular you can easily snowball from there, but that requires a few of your posts to get popular in the first place, and no amount of quality can manipulate the algorithm.
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Anon04/22/26, 00:33No.7922347
art was never good as career
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Anon04/22/26, 00:40No.7922350
>Why do so many anons hate the idea of doing art as a career these days
You're trying to understand how losers think.
Zoomers are a failed generation and have complete loser mentalities, don't look deeper because because there isn't anything deep, they're losers through and through.
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Anon04/22/26, 02:19No.7922403
Because you can't really sell the rockstar artist image anymore. Your idols get paid about as much as an Arby's shift manager and everyone you're going to be working with sucks. The citadel is high and there are no keys. CConsider 5his more ominous possibility, chances are anything you like is a gay nigger reboot. Chances are you'll be fired for following the wrong people on twitter. AAA is not worth the squeeze anymore, and I would rather my own IP or merely be a hobbyist.
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Anon04/22/26, 04:29No.7922494
hobbyist
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Anon04/22/26, 04:31No.7922496
>incredible work
>coomslop on white background
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHHAHAHA
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Anon04/22/26, 05:36No.7922538
If anyone's interested read this book it's about why most creative children rarely grow up to be creative professionals, it requires discipline and grit and grinding your weak points, nothing else.https://ia801606.us.archive.org/1/items/FRENCHPDF.COMTalentIsOverrated/FRENCHPDF.COM%20Talent%20is%20Overrated.pdf
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Anon04/22/26, 08:26No.7922593
>Why do so many anons hate the idea of doing art as a career these days?
This goes for every single job. You like it until it becomes a souless job (in the case of art, maybe you are forced to use AI, which to me would be like a Circle of Hell).They would like to freelance, but this is not always possible as you are going to be poor and miss a lot of work benefits...
Unless you are in a third world. In that case, you are going to shit on the people in middle class, and have a rich life.>Didn't this board start out as primarily for aspiring concept artists?
There are a lot of people with different goals, and every year there are new people.
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Anon04/22/26, 14:23No.7922688
It seems like a lot of butt hurt crabs. They became hobbyists because they became demotivated from recent happenings, and now they expect everyone else to give up on their dream too.
It also seems like a lot of anons on this site simply don't have a clue how to go about pursuing art as a career on this site, outside of drawing porn and opening a patreon... and sure that's one way to go about it, but it's a niche way that's not for everyone. Types of work that require even a little interpersonal communication skills seems completely ignored (or more like avoided).I'm just surprised that even suggesting treating this as a hobby until you make it seems frowned upon now... well, less competition for us, I guess.
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Anon04/22/26, 17:10No.7922783
>get a job as an artist
>have to draw whatever ugly boring shit your soulless faggot bosses ask you to draw, get your life drained out of you
>do art as a hobby
>can draw and paint literally anything you want.
Seems simple to me.
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Anon04/22/26, 23:30No.7922961
>only animetards posting
of course.
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Anon04/22/26, 23:45No.7922969
>doing art as a career
What does that even look like in 2026? Everyone says they want to make it big but no one really knows what that means.
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Anon04/29/26, 03:15No.7927645
>Why do so many anons hate the idea of doing art as a career these days?
It's not the 90's anymore. Working "in the industry" has gone from a difficult, but achievable dream, to an outright impossibility unless you're lucky AND well-connected. And why would you even want to work in the industry these days, anyways? Big companies have absolutely zero respect for artistic integrity and will work your ass to the bone on an assembly line job.And you're a bit wrong when you say "hate doing art as a career." I would say the general mood here is anti-industry, but that in no way equates to being "anti-career." A 'career in art' is still possible, with the caveat that you have to be your own boss, and that means also doing your own marketing, web design, social media management, expense management, community management, etc.
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Anon05/03/26, 07:51No.7930989
>Didn't this board start out as primarily for aspiring concept artists?
Isn't it the art branch that got butchered the most by AI?
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Anon05/03/26, 08:49No.7931016
I don't even know how to get followers. I get maybe like 5 likes on a drawing, that's it. Plus I simply don't have the discipline to draw 10 hours everyday. That sounds like hell to me. Shit only some chinese Zen mon could do.
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Anon05/03/26, 12:39No.7931103
If I make it in art, I want to be self-employed or at least have a workable eniugh schedule to invest in my own business. Due to the time-consuming nature of most art jobs, I would be getting paid to make somebody else's vision with little to no time to work on my own. I chose my current career specifically so I could have a workable schedule while making ends meet.
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Anon05/03/26, 14:01No.7931128
Until around a decade ago you could grind the fundamentals for a few years and land a job as a concept artist or illustrator. That’s as good as ancient history now.
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Anon05/03/26, 17:36No.7931254
the absolute fucking state of excusecucks
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Anon05/06/26, 19:16No.7934381
>Why do so many anons hate the idea of doing art as a career these days?
AI, obviously. Also, art for commercial settings is some of the most soulless and uninspired crap imaginable so it's another reason why
>these days
Part of growing up is the whole starving artist meme is real, in a society as hypercapitalistic as ours its value isn't perceived culturally, and therefore there's no one to foster that talent unless it's to use their artistic skills for propaganda purposes.
There's a silver lining here, and that is that true artists armed with only passion for the craft will shine through, weeding out all the pretenders and frauds who are in it only for the money
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Anon05/06/26, 19:20No.7934384
Look, just do what you love, dude. We're all going to die, and it's better to do it doing whatever we damn well please, especially in this already twisted world that's going to shit anyway.
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Anon05/07/26, 00:03No.7934652
>Why do so many anons hate the idea of doing art as a career these days?They don't. They just hate having to try for it. Anons think being an artist means a cushy job where you sit around and stare pensively out a window and maybe once in awhile draw something and get cash thrown at you for your utmost contributions to the medium of Hentai.And not a job, where you get a wage for doing grueling work for 40 hours a week. Self-employment included.That goes for attitudes toward both employment and training.
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Anon05/07/26, 00:24No.7934662
I've been following this guy for years and admire his business model. Write your own story, have a legion of fans eager to dissect every nuance of your last comic strip, and peddle merchandise to them.
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Anon05/09/26, 16:00No.7937293
From my experience you can still make an alright living from graphic design/illustration/concept art w/e but making it into a career where you can make REALLY good money is becoming less possible every year, the recent Marvel lay offs being another example of that
Obviously the best route you can take is just be really good like Craig Mullins and just freelance but that's too difficult for most people
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Anon05/09/26, 16:24No.7937314
It takes time to get good and you pretty much have to be really good to make some money, the competitive market mediocre and beginner artists had to compete for has been swallowed by AI.It's just over, so we work at boring jobs to pay the bills and draw for fun.
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Anon05/09/26, 23:50No.7937719
for me i hate it because i'm not good enough to compete. but even if i were god tier, the simple fact is that there are millions of god tier artists out there and not enough art jobs. there aren't enough jobs period (i am very blessed to have my boring, low legacy tech job, i hate every minute of it but it pays me decently for my area) but art feels especially dire to me because a.) visual art doesn't really matter in the west b.) what makes livable money are dc/marvel comic books, visdev for games and film, and abstract art, and c.) all of that is really reliant on connections and again, intense skillif i were east asian or something where art mattered then yeah, hell yeah, i'd definitely happily go full retard and spec into art. i sort of envy mangaka biographies where they write about drawing for 10 hours straight. that does sound like a dream to mebut i'm an americuck, i don't know shit and i don't know nobody, and i live in nowhere town, so. we deal with the cards we were dealt
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Anon05/10/26, 13:39No.7938178
It's resentment. People who have those aspirations tend to work alone; but the bare-minimum for success is being comparable to the professionals who have vastly more time and resources than them. Being short of exceptional is just getting you cucked as every other artist/pro/scammer will be using your art to get ahead.