/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

They say to keep going no matter what and never give up, but I've been doing this for almost a decade now and I don't have one ounce of dream left in me.
I have attempted other things in life I wasn't nearly this passionate about and I have always seen a positive cycle of reward: you get ok enough to do a thing, you are requested to do the thing, you get rewarded, you do it better, get more rewards. This is why successful people managed to go on for years, they still had one little success at a time to keep them going. I haven't seen this with art at all. It's just posting work for nobody to see, and all you get is a random number that doesn't even match how good your drawing is, maybe a sketch gets more numbers than a portfolio worthy illustration. This is not something that human beings should endure. If you keep going for 7, 8 years in this context your mentality is not that of a winner who never gives up, it's the mentality of a pathological gambler: wasting resources endlessly in hope of a reward that will never come.
The second worst thing is that I can't possibly quit even if. I absolutely should. My art isn't that good, hell there are teenagers better than me, what I have to say isn't interesting, I as a person am not interesting enough to use art as just an accessory. No part of me is required at all. The first worst thing is that when I feel this miserable I can't work. I would be ok feeling like this if I could still manage to be productive but I just can't. So I just feel like shit, unable to work, and I lose 1 day, and if the next day I don't wake up on the right foot I lose another day.
Everything is wrong, nothing works. I'm a faulty machine.

>>3912781
I think SFW artists are all completely fucked, even more fucked that they were before. The only new art platforms that will become popular will be centered on porn with a "no rules" policy because that's the only thing people find limiting about the current platforms.
So if you are a SFW artist you won't make an account on these platforms because you'd just be a drop of water in an ocean of piss. Tumblr was the last "blogging" platform left (excluding Wordpress, but Wordpress is not connected lika a social media) and by dying it dragged the idea of an art blog where you'd just land on a page and look at the art more carefully, interact on a deeper level, have a long lasting timeline that doesn't become useless in a couple hours, all six feet under.
No platform will be able to surpass Instagram or Twitter in terms of userbase or reach, so SFW will stay there and there will never be a real need for a blogging platform because blogging is dead. ArtStation will stay the only "pro" art website, a platform for comics or smaller artists will never happen because there's too little demand.
Art is going to get fucking ugly in a very short time, it will be even more uniform and soulless than it is right now.

>>3879754
>you'd be surprised by how much money you can make if you're willing to draw characters from other artists without their consent doing things they would not consent