Thread 7773852

I'm not going to lie, even though I keep art as a hobby while working full time, I still have this feeling in the back of my head that I'm just coping. I still kinda feel like less of an artist. Like I've conceded that I will never truly make it. Doesn't make me upset but the feeling is there.
Anyone else?

>>7773852 (OP)
Of course you're coping
99 percent of hobbyfags are doing it because they have no other choice. Hence why there's such pushback on this board against anyone wanting to make money from art

>>7773852 (OP)
Yeah, I still seethe when I see successful artists. Especially pinupfags
I can't pretend to be stoic anymore

>>7773852 (OP)
I mean you didn't even pyw for op.

>>7773864
Maybe this is his work and he's a disgraced inbetween animator

>>7773852 (OP)
>I'm just coping
you are
>less of an artist
you literally are less of an artist than you would be if you were putting 40 more hours into it per week
>I will never truly make it
you won't
>Anyone else?
yes, it's quite common

lets see your art

>>7773852 (OP)
The reality of the situation is that being a professional artist is not for everyone that pursues it. The issue here lies in you and everyone else considering art as a hobby to be 'lesser' when in reality neither is more valuable than the other. They're just two sides of the same coin and trying to ascribe a 1/0 value to your time when you're literally wasting it making something that's inherently worthless until someone outside of you decides it's not.

Being a professional artists is more than just drawing and gitting gude, you have to be an entrepreneur and an entertainer. Everything you make is going to be influenced by your superiors or your audience, and anything you draw for fun over profit just goes back round to it being a hobby. So just enjoy drawing for the sake of it and think about how much effort your really want to put in to market yourself.

become the ultimate hobby artist. be so good that it bothers people that you don't do it professionally.