Unless someone's an artist they most likely have only a vague idea about what it entails to create an elaborate piece of artwork. The creative spark, the concept development, the sketching, the collection of reference material, the actual painting or drawing procedure, the doing over of certain parts, the finishing touches, the tweaking, the last finishing touches, the very last finishing touches...
And it doesn't really matter what medium is used, the only advantage of digital art is that changes can be made more easily, but there is no magic shift-alt-a key combination to create a masterpiece even in the digital realm. It can even take longer because of all the endless possibilities.
So I'm asking all the freeloaders and plagiarists:
Do you have any f***ing clue what it takes to
make this
Serenade To The Universe
out of this?
I didn't think so. The next question is, if you would know all the hours, days and weeks that are involved when creating art would you actually care? I guess it depends on what kind of person you are. I don't even give a darn about the occasional broke art lover that downloads a piece of art just because they love it so much but can't afford to buy it. As long as they used it for personal enjoyment on their desktop or even hang a small print on the wall, I understand that and don't mind it that much, but I do mind the people that CAN afford to buy the artwork and to support the artist and choose to steal it instead, or worse, to steal the art and then use it to make profit from it.
Serenade To The Universe Detail
This is not cool people, and it makes you parasites of the worst kind. Creating art is work and artists have needs the same as lawyers, bankers, doctors, plumbers, etc, and we should be able to support ourselves same way as people with a 'regular job'. If you think it's cool to rip someone off and find it badass to mooch on others, steal from people who are loaded and don't feel it, or steal from other parasites. But keep your sleazy hands away from our labor because you need us. Most artists have good intentions and sacrifice their time trying to make the world a better place, even for the cockroaches.
Remember
Stay decent people, at some point humanity has to evolve. The reef scenario where the smaller fish get eaten buy the bigger ones and so on, and so on, is barbaric. Life can't go on like this forever and there's no better time to break that vicious cycle than now.
Artists, if your work has been plagiarized or you feel that's gonna happen soon, share this post, because we have the right to make a decent living and same way a huge corporation has the right to have their intellectual property protected, we have the right to defend our creative property. Peace!
make this
Serenade To The Universe
out of this?
I didn't think so. The next question is, if you would know all the hours, days and weeks that are involved when creating art would you actually care? I guess it depends on what kind of person you are. I don't even give a darn about the occasional broke art lover that downloads a piece of art just because they love it so much but can't afford to buy it. As long as they used it for personal enjoyment on their desktop or even hang a small print on the wall, I understand that and don't mind it that much, but I do mind the people that CAN afford to buy the artwork and to support the artist and choose to steal it instead, or worse, to steal the art and then use it to make profit from it.
Serenade To The Universe Detail
This is not cool people, and it makes you parasites of the worst kind. Creating art is work and artists have needs the same as lawyers, bankers, doctors, plumbers, etc, and we should be able to support ourselves same way as people with a 'regular job'. If you think it's cool to rip someone off and find it badass to mooch on others, steal from people who are loaded and don't feel it, or steal from other parasites. But keep your sleazy hands away from our labor because you need us. Most artists have good intentions and sacrifice their time trying to make the world a better place, even for the cockroaches.
Remember
Stay decent people, at some point humanity has to evolve. The reef scenario where the smaller fish get eaten buy the bigger ones and so on, and so on, is barbaric. Life can't go on like this forever and there's no better time to break that vicious cycle than now.
Artists, if your work has been plagiarized or you feel that's gonna happen soon, share this post, because we have the right to make a decent living and same way a huge corporation has the right to have their intellectual property protected, we have the right to defend our creative property. Peace!
Yet another masterpiece!
I understand the predicament you're describing, and as you say it's much the same with music.
I can't say I know what can be done about it in this day and age where where almost everyone is on the take.
At the moment all I can do is hope that somehow this situation can be resolved or at least improved.
Anyway I upvoted and resteemed it in the vague hope that it might help you get the word out.
As you know my friend I love all your work an realize the huge amount of work and talent that goes into it.
Thank you, as always I appreciate your support. I don't know what and if something can be done to change peoples' perspective. I could probably be more successful if I would get over myself and become more of a salesperson, but whenever I try this I feel like puking all over me, it's just not who I wanna be. This is in my cade the real predicament, lol.
What a beautiful work! No, I can't imagine all the trouble involved but I am sure it is a lot.
Keep up with the good work and don't worry about the freeloaders. The Steem Network will always end up with their game, sooner or later.
Thank you much! It's not just about the freeloading, that is just a side effect, the real underlying issue is the lack of respect and not seeing the value of creative work anymore, That goes also for music and the trend is that people see art as something they should get for free. And oh well, if I can't get your art for free I just steal something that's similar... close enough.
I just went to your website and was really impressed to see all the things you're offering there. I think most people who browse here would most likely not be aware of this, and would be inclined to think you were just posting images here more or less in the same way that people post their latest snapshot.
So I was thinking, if you were to add information to each post you make. Say, something to the effect that this picture an all my pictures are available as Canvases, Posters, T-shirts, Cushions, Clothing etc. (whatever way you want to put it) at https://www.mushroomdreams.com/shop/ and/or any other URLs you want to include.
This could possibly draw more potential customers to your site/s.
Wow, thanks for your input and taking the time to browse thru my site. I will definitely give it some thought, I was thinking about 'branding' myself a bit more effectively here anyways. It's either quit or move forward and I'm not willing to quit. Thanks again!!!
Well I'm no marketing expert either, but I do believe that people need and want to be "led by the nose" if you're expecting or wanting them to do something i.e it must be very obvious and explicit as to exactly what you want them to do and exactly how they should go about doing it.
I expect most people would arrive at your posts directly from the feed, in which case they'd be unlikely to even see your channel 'where your website is listed'(unless they deliberately looked for it) and even then they'd probably be more interested in looking at your other posts (since they're the most obvious things there).
They may or may not see your URL (which is very small and gives no indication of what they might find there) probably expecting to find the same thing they're already looking at while having no idea that there's all these goodies available there.
I believe most people are reluctant to go to unknown websites unless they believe there's something there that interests them, and because of time constraints, upvoting pressure etc. would likely move on to the next post that interests them.
This is why I think if you put it in their face on every post. What is there and the link right there in front of them. Even if they don't click it on the first of your posts they see, I feel it's almost inevitable that after seeing a few more of your posts they will eventually click on it, even if just out of curiosity.
Hey my friend, again, thanks for your time to put so much thought into this. I think I've secretly given up on the notion that people visit my website because of social media click throughs. I doesn't happen thru facebook nor instagram, they have stats to prove it. And yes you're right, people are reluctant to visit someones site, I guess mainly because of a lack of time. And since my site is primarily an online portfolio I don't update it often, so once you've seen it you don't feel the need to revisit.
I haven't put much thought into seeing as a marketing opportunity for anything outside of Steemit, because of the nature of the platform. Most people are here hoping to make some coin and therefore only care about promoting themselves. But like I said, I will try to solidify my presence here and put some effort into branding myself and I will take your advice into consideration, for sure. I have nothing to lose so why not?
I shall talk to you soon, and I have not forgotten about checking out those speakers, just haven't had the patience for it yet. Best wishes until next time :-)
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