Even under capitalism, there is PLENTY of demand for artists: Graphic designers, interior design, manufacturing beautiful items, architecture, civil engineering, sound engineers. Almost EVERYTHING requires art to some degree yet you have to be like the best of the best to get paid for an artistic career and even then your work is seen as frivolous. As if simply being an artist for a living is compensation enough.
Meanwhile, some dipshit on Wall Street does fuck all to improve the world and is showered with both money and praise just for waking up and doing over-glorified gambling.
I'm not an artist, but props to those who are, they are unironically incredibly important to making life somewhat bearable yet are criminally taken for granted.
Pardon the rant.
Agreed.
That recent Hexbear thread that started with a "dae le artists are like le spoiled aristocrats" take and then continued into "most of the le art produced is le furry anyway" take was so :reddit-logo: I almost had to check which site I was on. :disgost:
that also ignores that the furry community is responsible for a LOT of artists being able to make rent
furries are so much nicer to work with than regular commissioners like 90% of the time too. i can't understand the hate they get when all the ones ive talked to have been so nice
Now you've got me curious, what kind of shit do regular commissioners do?
just sfw character art. not explicitly furry but i do it sometimes if someone wants it
I mean how do they behave that makes them worse than furry commissioners
oh sorry. this is anecdotally my experience so take with a grain of salt:
some people r just really demanding with how long you take and also like how you draw certain things. i've just never experienced that with furry requests. also seems more likely furry requests will pay the whole thing in advance instead of just the min deposit :shrug-outta-hecks:
That take was a combination of dusty old "dae le furries bad" and blaming artists for the work they produce for people paying them for it. That's as :grillman: as blaming restaurant staff for bringing meals to the table that the customers asked for.