I knew an artist who worked exclusively in chicken strokes and his work was amazing!!!! Wanna really make it as an artist? It is all about who you know. If you know people rich enough to pay high prices for your art, they will do it, regardless of how good or bad your art may be.
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If you are talking about traditional painting and exhibitions than I totally agree, its all about marketing, but as digital artists or concept artists you wont make it without solid body of work. The gaming/movies industry dont really care about connections, I mean they do but eventually its the quality and the ideas behind your art that make the difference
The Tattoo culture isn't about connections, either. Though, muh dude and I often wonder why it is people are willing to fork out hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for Tattoos of simple things like a skull or cartoon character yet, lowball artists who draw on paper. A drawing that takes my dude 2-4 days to create get offers of $20-$40. This is in spite that those who adore his work describe it as "expertly crafted", "beautiful" and such. We only pray that the Tattoo culture doesn't try to rip off his designs and make more money off of these ideas than we do, considering that nearly all Tattoo art is ripped right out of pop-culture and is almost never original. I blame Walmart and Target for selling those mass produced canvas prints at $40 for setting an unfair precedent for actual artists. It's okay, muh dude and I are prepared to starve to death. We are prepared to get jipped by Corporations who are now making it more expensive and convoluted to create the prints that we sell. Oh well. Thanks for the chat.