Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-27603392-20150130112319/@comment-5426254-20150412031912

You know, on the art thing, Tsu and #495-496 are correct in a way. Recently, I entered a DeviantART alt outfit contest entry, called "Lupus", for hearts-and-pins's OC, Auburn Perrault. I can tell you right now, that I mostly use a blend of traditional (for the design and scanning process) and digital (for the editing and coloring), which takes a long time, especially when I wanted to get it right on my level of attention to detail. Another cost was time; the time spent between "uni" stuff and making this thing was long. Didn't help that I joined a few weeks later. And despite all this effort, somebody else won. Even if I had switched to a tablet earlier, it would still take a shitload of time to learn and master.

The point of all this simply isn't to bitch about my problems, but rather to provide an example that everything you do has costs, and requires a great amount of effort. Even the great artists spend hours upon hours, days and weeks of time working on a single piece of art. Not to mention that everyone else's view of your art may be different; your magnum opus at your current level is a fridge drawing to them. So, every now and then, we should all take a step back and imagine exactly how much effort artists commit into producing artwork.