Any artists out there?

[StinkyAcres]

Thank you! I do sell my art (my watermark is my business name if you want to Google it). For the very reasons @SarahLadd mentioned above, I keep it a hobby business on the side.

 

[Amer]

Art as income is a hard life.
Art as a hustle tends to kill the muse.

I wonder when we all stopped having hobbies and things we enjoyed, and started having side hustles instead. What happened to doing things because we like to?

I agree
I admire all the artists that make money off of their art but when people tell me I should do that I get annoyed.
Personally, I want to draw what I want to draw, not what other people want to draw.
Not everything I’m good at needs to be monetized.
I know a lot about genetics and I give out that information for free!

 

[High-Hopes333]

I'm not exceptionally good but I'm trying to improve all the time.
Show me yall's art! Traditional, digital, whatever!
I do a lot of sketchy digital drawings, I've got low patience for super clean lineart and it never looks right lol
Here's some of my stuff!

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Cute

I am an artist. I use to paint pet portraits for a living. They are a bit on the photo realistic side. I haven't painted for awhile. I've been meaning to start again. Art is my happy place.
Here are a few samples.

 

[Amer]

Cute

I am an artist. I use to paint pet portraits for a living. They are a bit on the photo realistic side. I haven't painted for awhile. I've been meaning to start again. Art is my happy place.
Here are a few samples.

These are gorgeous, love the realism, the textures, the colors
And the mood on the sad pomeranian one is impressive!

 

[High-Hopes333]

These are gorgeous, love the realism, the textures, the colors
And the mood on the sad pomeranian one is impressive!

Thank you. I love animals. Painting them made me happy.

 

[High-Hopes333]

I agree
I admire all the artists that make money off of their art but when people tell me I should do that I get annoyed.
Personally, I want to draw what I want to draw, not what other people want to draw.
Not everything I’m good at needs to be monetized.
I know a lot about genetics and I give out that information for free!

Art should only be done for pleasure whether you make money from it or not. Paint, draw, digitize, etc. what makes you happy. Life is too short to waste time on anything else...

 

[High-Hopes333]

Wow, that's really beautiful!

 

[Nero70002]

I can do pretty realistic birds, and like nothing else lol. Here’s a quick drawing of one of my friends birds, the body is a bit too large in comparison to the head, but it still looks pretty good

 

[Amer]

I can do pretty realistic birds, and like nothing else lol. Here’s a quick drawing of one of my friends birds, the body is a bit too large in comparison to the head, but it still looks pretty good
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I used to draw only realistic birds but over time my arsenal expanded
Still best at birds, though

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]