/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I did my best to spam it every day in the hopes that no one'd get burned again

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>>2974180
I don't doubt that there is a lot of truth in that statement, however in my opinion it's far less about the fact that many people go to school and don't make it and more about the fact that such a substantial portion of people who had never gone to school did.

>>2912768
>my personal anecdote will surely disprove this data and the anecdotes of tens of thousands of others

I'm afraid that's not how it works

>>2912779
Make a portfolio, friend artists on facebook, talk to people, draw constantly.

>>2898267
>You can't really criticize if all your examples are shit artists.

You can criticize the examples given (because you're a contrarian teenager who likes to-figuratively in this case-hear himself talk), but the fact that a large proportion of people consistently paid to produce art by others do not have art degrees is indisputable.

>What you posted is definitely true and master degree art examples are mostly utter crap, but so is 99% of things posted on ./ic/

The great plurality of people on /ic/ are beginners, and among them who aren't very few of them have paid a small fortune to pursue a degree in art. If they had that wouldn't exactly be a ringing endorsement for art school either, would it?

>>2898274
>Being against shit contemporary and modern art doesn't make your art any better.

No one suggested otherwise, please also note that conversely being against art you see on /ic/ created by amateurs or flippantly calling the art of salaried professionals that have worked for many distinguished clients 'shit' doesn't make your art (assuming it even exists) any better either, dumbass.

>it is a vile scumhole full of opinionated people who draw anime girls and think that realistic representation is the only criteria needed for artistic merit.

We live in a time where most everything has been done and has been done well enough, so no matter how avant garde and "artistic" you think your politically-charged and sexual Duchamp-style 'installation' piece or Pollock derivative is, in reality it's no more original or artistically meritorious than the space marines, dragons or anime booby girls you think so little of.

You can whine about non-representational art being disrespected on /ic/ if you want to, but to ignore the fact that /ic/ has little regard for all but a handful of modern representational artists is transparently disingenuous, especially when you've casually dismissed several in this thread yourself.

hup

>>2843993
You're making the right decision, paisan. Don't give up on your dreams, just realize that you don't' have to play by the same kinds of rules people did 20 years ago. Give yourself a few years with inexpensive self-teaching materials before you even think of uprooting yourself just to go tens of thousands of dollars in debt.You're gonna make it brown bro.