26 Aug 05:52
--Yep, the modern world has the attention span of a fly and you have to keep reminding them that you're there.
Shout Box archive
26 Aug 05:51
--I think part of it is, that you have to start showing up more often, if you do not show up, peoples wouldn't know who you're.
26 Aug 05:50
--Chris Oatley talks about the audience part if you're interested into checking that.
26 Aug 05:50
--Yeah, getting an audience on the internet is way more difficult these days I think. A few years back you could get discovered on DA by just posting your art and interacting with a community a bit, but now...
26 Aug 05:47
--ive seen people take cartoony illustrations for 80$ and i thought i could also do that , but i dont know how to market myself and all that jazz
26 Aug 05:46
--i see, cos ive always got this anxiety of making a quality portfolio. im usually at the middle of a portfolio piece then bam stopped halfway cos i just dont see it as something i liked to see on my folio
26 Aug 05:43
--you don't really need to be great to get work, people just want someone competent who will do what they expect them to consistently.
26 Aug 05:41
--I don't have any experience with art jobs, but it's pretty normal with other freelance work. The trick is getting a few first jobs and measuring up to the clients expectations and there you go, word will get around one way or another, soon job offers will come rolling in more and more frequently and you got a career going.
26 Aug 05:32
--is it normal that i see people getting job even though i think theyre portfolio isn't of greatest quality?
26 Aug 04:44
--Or instead what you can create is an artists statement :D! Stefan Baumann speaks more about what a statement is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-JyP99q2xs or should I say, the cowboy teacher. Hehe.
26 Aug 04:38
--It's good to have a direction and goal, just keep in mind that most of them have a large overlap of the same kind of work at the base, so the more you do, the better off you'll be
26 Aug 04:04
--im also aiming for the Illustration route , just so i could get the fundamentals down and then after that branch away to animation or 3d or something
26 Aug 03:05
--Anyone got experience in doing memorial portraits, like private commissions to portrait the recently dead? Trying to think of an interesting and respectful way to approach it.
26 Aug 01:52
--yeah i'm not still sure as well. but i think i'll go into illustration (mtg or similar things) first because concept art tends to be so competitive in terms of speed and efficiency. first i wanna learn how to make it good, then how to get fast. if i could get jobs where i'd do just lineart concepts for games etc., i'd love to do that but idk if thats still a thing
26 Aug 01:46
--Watching the Level Up guys do portfolio reviews and man I need to start figuring out what I want to focus on...I like illustration, character design, fantasy, comics, stylized stuff, realism, I want to do all of it??? Agh.
26 Aug 01:20
--you can never steal enough from Jaime. I feel like i can study him for a decade and still learn new things
26 Aug 01:08
--That point was made in a podcast I was listening to, on your way up you're hired to copy established artist style, then once your established your style is copied by people working there way up!
26 Aug 01:05
--naw don't sue them, just take it as a compliment! unless they're selling you're work, then start crackin down
26 Aug 00:30
--yep, I'll mark that day in my calendar when it happens the first time fedodika. "milestone achieved" :D
26 Aug 00:21
--well you'll only get haters when you're good, otherwise they'll just ignore you. havent gotten any yet so i guess I still suck even more than I think xD
26 Aug 00:18
--i don't care how good, benevolent, or well intentioned you are at anything, you'll always have haters
25 Aug 22:35
--incredible how people are trying to bash jaime or peleng in that thread, as if that made them any better at painting