These are all fantastic! I was going to comment on loving the Dean Winchester one and then I scrolled down and... those animals are freaking adorable! So cute!
I'm constantly getting advice from friends and family who are not artists that "You should sell your art!" as if it just hadn't occurred to me to try to make money. They'll say it almost like they imagine people are lining up to hand me money and I'm the one not bothering to collect it. (I have also tried pointing out that I'm at the amateur-hobbyist skill level and there's a whole world of professional level artists already struggling to make a living, but that just convinces them further that I'm not trying hard enough.)
I finally figured out the way to get people off my back was to offer a cut if they could sell any of my paintings. Anytime someone tells me that I should sell my artwork, I offer them a 50% cut if they sell anything. I've never had to pay out and they stop pestering me after that.
In the movies, the artist always has a manager/agent who stops by their (spacious loft) studio to nag them about deadlines and gallery openings and the artist makes hand-wavy gestures when money is discussed because, "I don't care about money; it's all about the art!" I wish every artist had one of those people in real life (also those spacious loft studios always look pretty awesome).
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Date: 2022-01-11 02:38 am (UTC)These are all fantastic! I was going to comment on loving the Dean Winchester one and then I scrolled down and... those animals are freaking adorable! So cute!
I'm constantly getting advice from friends and family who are not artists that "You should sell your art!" as if it just hadn't occurred to me to try to make money. They'll say it almost like they imagine people are lining up to hand me money and I'm the one not bothering to collect it. (I have also tried pointing out that I'm at the amateur-hobbyist skill level and there's a whole world of professional level artists already struggling to make a living, but that just convinces them further that I'm not trying hard enough.)
I finally figured out the way to get people off my back was to offer a cut if they could sell any of my paintings. Anytime someone tells me that I should sell my artwork, I offer them a 50% cut if they sell anything. I've never had to pay out and they stop pestering me after that.
In the movies, the artist always has a manager/agent who stops by their (spacious loft) studio to nag them about deadlines and gallery openings and the artist makes hand-wavy gestures when money is discussed because, "I don't care about money; it's all about the art!" I wish every artist had one of those people in real life (also those spacious loft studios always look pretty awesome).