"like it alwayyyyyys feels like there's a passive pressure to do originuhhhhl stuff (barf) when you're past a certian technical/quality level"
This perception is SO fascinating to me because...I feel the opposite! In my experience, always, to note, but--it feels like unless you DON'T do fanart, regardless of your technical level, you just won't be paid attention or taken seriously? I think we've talked about it before or maybe we haven't, but it feels like unless you don't do fanart or are exceptionally lucky, your original work just will not get any attention. Which tracks, right? Fanart of an existing thing, of course people would gravitate to that quicker because it's *known.* But also, like, that was still ORIGINAL work. But ah, it's published very fancily or has a company behind it marketing or has idk the tiktok numbers, so clearly it's to be taken much more seriously than this or that other original work.
(Who me, bitter? LOL)
Like, I got told to make art of existing things to get an audience quicker and it's like but??? what if I don't like the thing though????
That said...I am one of those suckers who sees someone do fanart at a certain skill and think to myself "oh god, but what if you did an original work!" To me (again, must emphasize, personally), it's not really a "why are you wasting your time with fanart" and more "oh man, I want to see MORE from you/I know exactly the genre of story your art would be GREAT for."
I guess sorta a publisher's mindset? :'D Because yeah, it is weird to tell someone that fanart is useless, and to not waste a skill on, when you're presumably following the creative in the first place BECAUSE of their style "performed" for the fanarts in question. I mean, yeah, there's people who unfollow when the fanart of a thing stops coming in and the artist switches to their next hyperfixation--I've done it, I think most of us have done it. But if I really like a style, I stay! And sometimes I really go "man, if I had a company, I know where your skills can be used too." I suppose it's adjacent to how a lot of people working in comics nowadays got their job: by basically doing fanart on their own time XD (And now, we've come full circle!)
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Date: 2023-12-24 10:54 am (UTC)This perception is SO fascinating to me because...I feel the opposite! In my experience, always, to note, but--it feels like unless you DON'T do fanart, regardless of your technical level, you just won't be paid attention or taken seriously? I think we've talked about it before or maybe we haven't, but it feels like unless you don't do fanart or are exceptionally lucky, your original work just will not get any attention. Which tracks, right? Fanart of an existing thing, of course people would gravitate to that quicker because it's *known.* But also, like, that was still ORIGINAL work. But ah, it's published very fancily or has a company behind it marketing or has idk the tiktok numbers, so clearly it's to be taken much more seriously than this or that other original work.
(Who me, bitter? LOL)
Like, I got told to make art of existing things to get an audience quicker and it's like but??? what if I don't like the thing though????
That said...I am one of those suckers who sees someone do fanart at a certain skill and think to myself "oh god, but what if you did an original work!" To me (again, must emphasize, personally), it's not really a "why are you wasting your time with fanart" and more "oh man, I want to see MORE from you/I know exactly the genre of story your art would be GREAT for."
I guess sorta a publisher's mindset? :'D Because yeah, it is weird to tell someone that fanart is useless, and to not waste a skill on, when you're presumably following the creative in the first place BECAUSE of their style "performed" for the fanarts in question. I mean, yeah, there's people who unfollow when the fanart of a thing stops coming in and the artist switches to their next hyperfixation--I've done it, I think most of us have done it. But if I really like a style, I stay! And sometimes I really go "man, if I had a company, I know where your skills can be used too." I suppose it's adjacent to how a lot of people working in comics nowadays got their job: by basically doing fanart on their own time XD (And now, we've come full circle!)