lizbot
Just because a person doesn't have a great deal of artistic talent, doesn't mean that their time is worth less than someone who does.
This is definitely true, but to a point. Picasso prices aren't paid for refrigerator galleries, although the drive and passion may be the same. The skill, the knowing, simply isn't quite there yet with the latter, and skill costs more with good reason, yes? You don't go to an intern for major surgery, and you don't go to a little one banging pots and pans for Mozart.
The comparison is not to trivialize the learning process all of us go through, far from it. It just takes practice and time to make the sort of works the sought-after artists here on the forum sell. I'm still practicing. Simple truth is you can't start out at the "top", IRL or in Gaia. You have to climb there, like everyone else....and no one knows that better than those "elite" artists do. Practice eventually makes what you find, and others find, perfect. That old saying rings even more true for artists, for they rely solely on their own inner fire, not wealth or circumstance. The shops derided here as "elitist" in Breedables have artists who have invested the time to drive themselves further. Nothing is stopping ANY artist from investing the same toward mastering their style except themselves. Some are just closer to their goals than others. My first artwork IRL sold for $16 dollars a page, to a small-press comic. Now, I've had rare instances my art has sold for over a thousand. How? I wish I knew. eek All I know is I scream at myself to learn from every doodle, every glaring error. No pain, no gain.
I've bought pets for as little as 250 gold, as much as over a million....an auction I did art for but took no profit from, for a friend who wanted a GMFC appointment. I love donating, fulfilling wishlists where I can. Johnny K. got six digits from me. xd Damn that hidden donation bar and his worn, winning smile. heart
But just like IRL, you need to make a living on Gaia way. Art seemed the most fun to me, because I'm a crappy poster, and deviantART sucks for feedback, in my experience. sweatdrop That I have managed to succeed at it doesn't make me instantly elitist, instantly selfish. For example, I actually co-owned a pet with NovaStrike before all this. Why? Because I won an auction she also wanted, and I offered afterward to make both of us happy....just because.
That brings the question of why the venom against these who HAVE worked to achieve the skills they possess for success. Impatience to succeed without paying the same dues? The envy implied against the so-called "haves"? The first post certainly brings to mind images of the "elitists" being dragged out to be guillotined. eek Or, it may be just another bizarre vendetta against we in this blacklist Nova posted before moderator intervention, or several other related blacklists between Nova and her friend _Shouko_. After all, this thread comes on the heels of my luck in being accepted by both the GMFC and Feien Fairies, two "elitist" shops.....and her own auction this past week had autobuys of....gasp! Angelic Minis and a Nitemare Scarf, not a "friendly" 50K. Actions speak louder than words, and the words you speak say a thousand times more about yourself than who you are speaking of.
Either way, NovaStrike's latest journal entry is an interesting study in contrasts:
"Equality. Kindness. We want a smile. And STOP BEING SO ******** SELFISH!"
neutral What's wrong with that picture?
