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[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Things that are made are meant to be shared -- we're such social creatures and we want to help each other. It's hard to remove yourself from the equation but I think more and more the artist is more akin to someone reading a letter more than a creator. Share the things they are supposed to be.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's tough because posting art online and getting a lot of unsolicited (and often unconstructive) criticism can be very demoralizing to less seasoned artists. I often see "well you shouldn't have posted it online if you didn't want comments" and an idea that only "good" art deserves to be seen.

When I was a young teen, I saw a thread on Reddit asking people to post their poems, so I posted one I was reasonably proud of. Only response was someone telling me it sucked. Kinda broke something in me that day, I don't think I've written a poem since.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd love an art community more focused on growing artists. I don't have much constructive criticism to offer, but I love watching people grow as artists.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're out there. Just off the top of my head, there's https://lemmy.world/c/drawing.

I think that's the one I've posted some of my nice doodles to.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !drawing@lemmy.world

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I was a young teen, I saw a thread on Reddit

I'd never thought i would be reading a sentence like this. Now, this makes me feel really, really old.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Reddit is almost 20 years old. People can be born and become adults in that time.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

We know. It just doesn't feel that long ago.

Don't even get me started on digg

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Sure, but I'm getting older and experienced that "oh, the 80s were 20 years ago" feeling, when i read that. Just like grrgyle wrote, it doesn't feel like so much time passed.

[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry that sucks -- My first internet community was DeviantArt back 20 years ago where it was really positive. I think that kind of did the opposite to me.

Now a days though -- almost everything I post on Reddit gets removed as spam -- it's like an impossible system controlled by that gallowboob CCP robot

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

While commonly true, it isn't universlly true. I like making things with no intent to ever share them because they are for me. Not practice things, but things that make me happy from going through the process and having a result.

I also make somethings that other people see.