/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3910503
>top artists follow you
>they somehow miss all your mega popular posts that had a lot of effort put into them
>like your crappy doodles instead
I don’t draw art specifically to impress them but it’d be cool if the artists I admired saw what I was capable of

How do I stop being so cynical and judgmental as an artist? Has this ever happened to anyone else?
>be young amateur artist
>look up to older more popular artist
>watch their art gradually deteriorate over the years
>not even appealing in a stylized abstract way, every aspect is just fucked
>feel bad for thinking that way because their art’s been posted on cringe blogs before
>go back to feeling conflicted after they publicly comment on your post with their weird fetishy fat oc
>look at their older art for comfort
>realize it’s not even that good and they weren’t even that popular either, you just had different standards at the time
I still follow them because of nostalgia and I promised myself I’d never become the type of artist who gets popular and drops their less popular artist friends(though we’ve only properly interacted one time) but fuck, we barely have anything in common anymore.

>>3835954
>tfw couldn't even tell which artist this was until I saw the filename because I've seen like 5 other artists with similar styles/aesthetics
Glad I know of popular artists with unconventional styles or else this would feel pretty depressing.

>>3822783
>a girl named Dude
>who is worried about getting in the way of HIS new girlfriend
Really makes you think