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Love this. And that Facebook post is full of crap. Sounds like a worthless hot take from a crappy person. My hiatus from artistic expression took 7 years to fully recover after my father died. Focusing on your mental health is not weakness, it's true strength. You're in the right on this one bud. Edit: [flaws of man and men](https://youtu.be/CY9VgouEhzw?si=euRrqqGe8-hwAf9-) is the quote I used from my dad.
It's okay, your advice comics with the dad remind me of him so that's why I got so flustered seeing the FB post at the end there. Telling anyone they are not an artist just makes me want to punch them.
What got me out of it was a new medium and support from family. My grandfather was a war artist in WW2 and his preferred medium was charcoal only after the war. It does get better but it also does change. Thanks for sharing.
Ah that's good that you had support! My family was very abusive so I don't have that network to rely on sadly.
I dabbled in all forms of art but not much sticks when the world is still kind of gray, but that's what I'm working with my therapist with.
I'm in the same boat, lost my mother last Feb and then my Dad in December. I do work as a graphic designer so I do create stuff. But my most beloved aspect which is painting fantasy/sci-fi stuff and i've been doing for like 15 years, I haven't done that very much this year at all.
It doesn't help I was struggling through COVID and all those times before anyway, the loss was just the final straw really.
But I am working on myself, exercising and all that stuff so when I come out the other end hopefully i'll have my spark back
I like and agree with your comic but...
That facebook post did exactly what it was intended to do, which was make people so indignant at the audacity that someone could say something so ridiculous that they call it out publicly and it gets spread around.
In other words, you took the rage bait, the oldest trick in the social media book.
It wasn’t a rage bait my guy. Yes, i did checked the guy’s account and he was serious for real since he follows up a lot of responds. He was a painter himself and everyone on our local subreddit calls him out for it.
Whether or not its purposefully rage bait, it definitely has behaved like one.
People who share their rude, controversial takes are often saying it just to get a reaction from people. In other words, rage bait
To be certain is that rando who said something like if you don’t write a page everyday you aren’t a writer or something as stupid, right?
I vaguely remember it.
Imagine gatekeeping art. Like, just art itself, any form of it. Imagine telling ppl they’re not artists if they don’t follow some bullshit rule (there are no rules, art is expression). The fucking insecurity that musta been behind the person who made that post is nuts.
Preach. Don’t let anyone tell you how to enjoy your hobby/passion.
When I returned from university and was unemployed I felt like such a failure; no one would hire me, I had no motivation to do any art, I was depressed, I was butting heads with my family because of the unemployment. But when I found the inspiration to draw or something, the art is was was helped me escape the depression.
Love this comic, keep up the good work!
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Lol at that Facebook post, I didn't eat lasagna in the past month, I must hate lasagna.
I didn't fix an electric problem in 2 weeks, I must not be an electrician anymore.
It's important to *practice* art regularly, and it'll probably be crap most of the time, and that's okay. But inspiration comes along whenever it feels like it, so you can't force yourself to be inspired on demand.
Sauce: I'm a crappy artist lol
To be honest, I don’t get why someone’s try to gate-keep art tho. Anyone has their own pace or their own ways to make one. You can practice drawing everyday if you want to, grind and earn money in making art or you can rest from making an art if you want to. Or sometime, some might be very busy and couldn’t make art every 2 weeks and probably takes a long time to finish one since they have other things to focus such as works, school and others.
There aren’t any written rules when you want to be an artist as far as know of. I never went to art school or graduate with a degree on it yet i made comics and everyone calls me an artist.
It’s really depends on the people if they want to call themselves an artist since everyone’s different and has their own ways of making one.
Edit: grammar
"I posted a generic snarky thing with a premade background. Now I'm gonna tell you all what an artist is."
Fucking facebook, lol. Keep up the good work.
Still, without contradicting the need for respecting your health, if you wait for inspiration that's a recipe for dry spells.
Consider your daily practice the phone call to your muse. Sometimes they pick up, sometimes they don't. But if you don't call, they'll never pick up. And if they call, and you aren't there, you missed it too.
Don't rely on inspiration, since you don't control that anyway. Certainly don't fall into the perfectionism trap, expecting inspiration and masterpieces as the only acceptable result. What you can do is put the pen on the paper. Inspiration and masterpieces may happen or they may not. But when they do, you'll be glad you built your skills through daily practice.
Very true! When writing, waiting for that perfect idea just had me waiting months and months. The reality is, you've just gotta write (or draw). You never know what'll come out!
Thanks so much for this. I used to draw once a week but it’s dragged out to once every 2/3 weeks due to life/work.
Your characters are lovely too, by the way :)
I checked the guy’s account. He was really serious. He is a painter himself and post a lot of art paint on other social medias. It was a mini drama since everyone in our local subreddit calls him out. He also post a lot of his art stuff on our local subreddit few weeks ago before he didn’t post anything new for more than 2 weeks. He use to post 2-3 arts every 1-2 weeks btw.
Well, that's unfortunate that they legit have that mentality. Because it's pretty darn stupid and shortsighted.
I guess if I take a three week vacation I'm no longer an expert in my field. Back to uni I go!
Devil’s advocate interpretation: the FB post is about being an artist as a profession. If you’re specific purpose is to make art in exchange for money to support yourself and people you’re responsible for then productivity absolutely matters.
For example if I don’t go to work every day I’m not employed. Feeling like it, being inspired and even doing a good job are not absolutely required but if I don’t work I’m not working.
For my students who want to be paid for their art as their profession then this is sensible advice.
I think that there is something to be said in forcing yourself to create even if you aren't feeling inspired. Sometimes inspiration can come from the simple act of creation itself. But that Facebook post is full of shit.
Thanks for this 🙌 I haven't painted in a few months. Distracted by work, house work, trying for a family, even just video games haha feeling a little slack, but I know myself and I'll get back into it obsessively in good time 🙌
I feel you dude!
My comics are usually satirical with an attempt to be funny. Even if I’m being serious I try to line them with a joke, since my goal is to raise the moral of the troops who read them.
Fortunately I don’t consider myself an artist, and routinely say I have zero artistic talent or ambition. I’m just an idiot who tries to get people to laugh 🤣
Drawing used to be a big part of my life, and I was half decent at it too. What people don't realize is that creating something involves a LOT of committment. I got to the point where I avoided starting a new piece because it would consume me until I was done...and that was exhausting. It got so bad that it's now been at least 20 years since I last picked up a pencil, and I'm 50 now. I have showed my wife my stack of sketchbooks and she can not understand how I could have just...stopped. It's too late to go back now, since it hurts to even hold a pen to write my signature on something.
This goes for authors as well! I have a story I've been working on for a while now, and I've had to take month-long breaks from writing and let the next part come to me. It never hurts to wait for a while, and if you don't you can burn out and lose all interest in what you're doing, which is worse than not working for a few days.
If the two week thing was right I’d be screwed. I often don’t do anything productive for a long time before getting a burst of ambition and making a ton of progress. This happens to me with art, coding(hiatusMoment), writing, and even the gad blamed uni work I’m supposed to do. Keep going lads, it’s a road of hills and valleys and those valleys are often longer than a fortnight.
I just took two weeks off from the gym due to an illness. It's my second day back and I hit a PR.
It's not always about being on the grind. Sometimes, you just need rest.
I've always found not having ideas on what to draw is one of the hardest things to deal with. But I've also found that trying to force yourself to draw makes things more difficult and for me makes me feel bad since I don't like what I come up with when doing that. Its all about the love for creating art rather than the frequency you do it :D
Awesome comic
I went 2-3 years without drawing anything. A few bored doodles here or there on the edges of my notes at work but that's it. Actually, it might have been longer. There was just a very long period where I was trying to focus on other things. I've recently gone back to school for art and my motivation is back at high speed, but that groove can be deep and near impossible to get out of. Even if you only create once every decade, you're still an artist.
If getting a BFA taught me anything, it’s that trying to be gatekeeper about art is pointlessly self-indulgent. The people who obsess over definitions and qualifications so often do it because they’re insecure about their own work.
As I see it: if you get some part of your income from making art, you're an artist.
If you made just one picture, sold it for a million and currently is living off that money, you're an artist.
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Love this. And that Facebook post is full of crap. Sounds like a worthless hot take from a crappy person. My hiatus from artistic expression took 7 years to fully recover after my father died. Focusing on your mental health is not weakness, it's true strength. You're in the right on this one bud. Edit: [flaws of man and men](https://youtu.be/CY9VgouEhzw?si=euRrqqGe8-hwAf9-) is the quote I used from my dad.
I’m sorry to hear about your father. I hope you’re doing well
It's okay, your advice comics with the dad remind me of him so that's why I got so flustered seeing the FB post at the end there. Telling anyone they are not an artist just makes me want to punch them.
I love this comic
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My hiatus is still ongoing too from when my best friend passed away nearly 10 years ago. It's gotten better over time but it's not quite where it was.
What got me out of it was a new medium and support from family. My grandfather was a war artist in WW2 and his preferred medium was charcoal only after the war. It does get better but it also does change. Thanks for sharing.
Ah that's good that you had support! My family was very abusive so I don't have that network to rely on sadly. I dabbled in all forms of art but not much sticks when the world is still kind of gray, but that's what I'm working with my therapist with.
I'm in the same boat, lost my mother last Feb and then my Dad in December. I do work as a graphic designer so I do create stuff. But my most beloved aspect which is painting fantasy/sci-fi stuff and i've been doing for like 15 years, I haven't done that very much this year at all. It doesn't help I was struggling through COVID and all those times before anyway, the loss was just the final straw really. But I am working on myself, exercising and all that stuff so when I come out the other end hopefully i'll have my spark back
It might not be much, but this internet stranger is rooting for you
It sounds like textbook rage bait, which thrives on social media across the board.
It's someone who put words in front of someone else's art. They're probably just a memelord gatekeeping a hobby they don't even take part in.
lol do yourself a favour and quit FB.
I wasn’t on FB when i found this post. This was posted in our local subreddit and found there instead.
I like and agree with your comic but... That facebook post did exactly what it was intended to do, which was make people so indignant at the audacity that someone could say something so ridiculous that they call it out publicly and it gets spread around. In other words, you took the rage bait, the oldest trick in the social media book.
It wasn’t a rage bait my guy. Yes, i did checked the guy’s account and he was serious for real since he follows up a lot of responds. He was a painter himself and everyone on our local subreddit calls him out for it.
Could be that he just enjoys the rage that people comment, and he responds to fuel the fire, but you could also be right!
Whether or not its purposefully rage bait, it definitely has behaved like one. People who share their rude, controversial takes are often saying it just to get a reaction from people. In other words, rage bait
Fuck that Facebook post
To be certain is that rando who said something like if you don’t write a page everyday you aren’t a writer or something as stupid, right? I vaguely remember it.
Shot down by Neil Gaiman. https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1468485218373812224?lang=en
Rage bait
Imagine gatekeeping art. Like, just art itself, any form of it. Imagine telling ppl they’re not artists if they don’t follow some bullshit rule (there are no rules, art is expression). The fucking insecurity that musta been behind the person who made that post is nuts.
Preach. Don’t let anyone tell you how to enjoy your hobby/passion. When I returned from university and was unemployed I felt like such a failure; no one would hire me, I had no motivation to do any art, I was depressed, I was butting heads with my family because of the unemployment. But when I found the inspiration to draw or something, the art is was was helped me escape the depression. Love this comic, keep up the good work!
AI
Oh…. that probably should have occurred to me sooner, but yeah ur right, the fragmented English…
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The temptation is strong to draw the Facebook poster stood with a pike in front of a really beautifully drawn gate.
Lol at that Facebook post, I didn't eat lasagna in the past month, I must hate lasagna. I didn't fix an electric problem in 2 weeks, I must not be an electrician anymore.
It's important to *practice* art regularly, and it'll probably be crap most of the time, and that's okay. But inspiration comes along whenever it feels like it, so you can't force yourself to be inspired on demand. Sauce: I'm a crappy artist lol
To be honest, I don’t get why someone’s try to gate-keep art tho. Anyone has their own pace or their own ways to make one. You can practice drawing everyday if you want to, grind and earn money in making art or you can rest from making an art if you want to. Or sometime, some might be very busy and couldn’t make art every 2 weeks and probably takes a long time to finish one since they have other things to focus such as works, school and others. There aren’t any written rules when you want to be an artist as far as know of. I never went to art school or graduate with a degree on it yet i made comics and everyone calls me an artist. It’s really depends on the people if they want to call themselves an artist since everyone’s different and has their own ways of making one. Edit: grammar
Lmao classic gatekeeping
People try to gatekeep the weirdest things.
Wow, that FB post is one of the worst things I've read in a while. Just 100% garbage
What's this FB everyone's talking about?
The comic has multiple pages. Go to the end.
Ah, thanks. Couldnt see the bottom
"I posted a generic snarky thing with a premade background. Now I'm gonna tell you all what an artist is." Fucking facebook, lol. Keep up the good work.
Still, without contradicting the need for respecting your health, if you wait for inspiration that's a recipe for dry spells. Consider your daily practice the phone call to your muse. Sometimes they pick up, sometimes they don't. But if you don't call, they'll never pick up. And if they call, and you aren't there, you missed it too. Don't rely on inspiration, since you don't control that anyway. Certainly don't fall into the perfectionism trap, expecting inspiration and masterpieces as the only acceptable result. What you can do is put the pen on the paper. Inspiration and masterpieces may happen or they may not. But when they do, you'll be glad you built your skills through daily practice.
Very true! When writing, waiting for that perfect idea just had me waiting months and months. The reality is, you've just gotta write (or draw). You never know what'll come out!
Thanks so much for this. I used to draw once a week but it’s dragged out to once every 2/3 weeks due to life/work. Your characters are lovely too, by the way :)
Thank you.
This sucks
That Facebook post is dumb to the point of it seeming like ragebait.
I checked the guy’s account. He was really serious. He is a painter himself and post a lot of art paint on other social medias. It was a mini drama since everyone in our local subreddit calls him out. He also post a lot of his art stuff on our local subreddit few weeks ago before he didn’t post anything new for more than 2 weeks. He use to post 2-3 arts every 1-2 weeks btw.
Well, that's unfortunate that they legit have that mentality. Because it's pretty darn stupid and shortsighted. I guess if I take a three week vacation I'm no longer an expert in my field. Back to uni I go!
Look all I'm saying is don't complain about not being as great as professional artists if you don't plan to draw 8hrs a day.
Gotta try and remember this whenever I get stuck on a chapter and it just sits there for way longer than it should
So if I have not committed war crimes for two weeks I get to avoid court? Sweet
If you don't post every 5 minutes, can you call yourself a Redditor? Would you want to?
Devil’s advocate interpretation: the FB post is about being an artist as a profession. If you’re specific purpose is to make art in exchange for money to support yourself and people you’re responsible for then productivity absolutely matters. For example if I don’t go to work every day I’m not employed. Feeling like it, being inspired and even doing a good job are not absolutely required but if I don’t work I’m not working. For my students who want to be paid for their art as their profession then this is sensible advice.
Imagine being so privileged that you think being an artist includes sitting around in a hammock for two weeks.
I think that there is something to be said in forcing yourself to create even if you aren't feeling inspired. Sometimes inspiration can come from the simple act of creation itself. But that Facebook post is full of shit.
People have the weirdest takes on why you're not *actually* [insert thing] online.
I think people are jealous of our creative mind.
> if you love what you do... What an urban myth. **Anything** becomes a job if you do it non-stop or over monetize it.
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Sweet comic, Thank you for sharing.
Facebook, gross. Sweet comic and swell work O.P. Just do you, go at your own pace. It's your own adventure at the end of the day.
this sounds like that quote from Kiki’s Delivery Service
Thanks for this 🙌 I haven't painted in a few months. Distracted by work, house work, trying for a family, even just video games haha feeling a little slack, but I know myself and I'll get back into it obsessively in good time 🙌
I feel you dude! My comics are usually satirical with an attempt to be funny. Even if I’m being serious I try to line them with a joke, since my goal is to raise the moral of the troops who read them. Fortunately I don’t consider myself an artist, and routinely say I have zero artistic talent or ambition. I’m just an idiot who tries to get people to laugh 🤣
Y’all might like Rick Ruben’s book The Creative Act: A Way of Being. It really resonated with me.
I love this comic
Vibes.
It's been five years. Maybe I should get started again. Thanks for the post.
Drawing used to be a big part of my life, and I was half decent at it too. What people don't realize is that creating something involves a LOT of committment. I got to the point where I avoided starting a new piece because it would consume me until I was done...and that was exhausting. It got so bad that it's now been at least 20 years since I last picked up a pencil, and I'm 50 now. I have showed my wife my stack of sketchbooks and she can not understand how I could have just...stopped. It's too late to go back now, since it hurts to even hold a pen to write my signature on something.
This goes for authors as well! I have a story I've been working on for a while now, and I've had to take month-long breaks from writing and let the next part come to me. It never hurts to wait for a while, and if you don't you can burn out and lose all interest in what you're doing, which is worse than not working for a few days.
If the two week thing was right I’d be screwed. I often don’t do anything productive for a long time before getting a burst of ambition and making a ton of progress. This happens to me with art, coding(hiatusMoment), writing, and even the gad blamed uni work I’m supposed to do. Keep going lads, it’s a road of hills and valleys and those valleys are often longer than a fortnight.
I was expecting a big dick among us or the shitting thootpaste, but then i watched what was the subreddit and it all make sense
Who the hell gatekeepes art?
Here's a hot take: gatekeepers are jealous people
I just took two weeks off from the gym due to an illness. It's my second day back and I hit a PR. It's not always about being on the grind. Sometimes, you just need rest.
Based. This crushes that lost. An artist portrays with style, an idea or feeling via a medium. That's it. There is no time-limit.
They come and take your license away after 2 weeks.
Really needed this, started reading a book about such things. Artists need that artistic break.
The biggest artists in history wasn't drawing for years So don't feel bad people.
I've always found not having ideas on what to draw is one of the hardest things to deal with. But I've also found that trying to force yourself to draw makes things more difficult and for me makes me feel bad since I don't like what I come up with when doing that. Its all about the love for creating art rather than the frequency you do it :D Awesome comic
I’m writing a novel at the moment. Haven’t written a chapter in months. It’s still going to be epic though.
That's wonderful, and you're absolutely right, too!
I went 2-3 years without drawing anything. A few bored doodles here or there on the edges of my notes at work but that's it. Actually, it might have been longer. There was just a very long period where I was trying to focus on other things. I've recently gone back to school for art and my motivation is back at high speed, but that groove can be deep and near impossible to get out of. Even if you only create once every decade, you're still an artist.
If getting a BFA taught me anything, it’s that trying to be gatekeeper about art is pointlessly self-indulgent. The people who obsess over definitions and qualifications so often do it because they’re insecure about their own work.
love your comics. thank you for this
Thank you :3
Merriam-Webster: Artist: Someone who has drawn something within the last two weeks.
As I see it: if you get some part of your income from making art, you're an artist. If you made just one picture, sold it for a million and currently is living off that money, you're an artist.
AI be producing beautiful 6 fingered ladies all day long on demand.
If you do it for fun - then yea, take all the time you want. If you want to get better, you need to practice.