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I miss getting feedback on WIPs
Jul. 14th, 2024 02:51 pmI really wish there was more opertunities for feedback on work that I'm still in the progress of.
It seems like the options are a discord community or real life sketch parties and paid classes/mentorships. Sketch parties give me performance anxiety, and I opt for more normie subjects to draw in public rather than what I want to draw. Plus, you're there to socialize more than to receive feedback. Paid classes can be fun, but often focus on new skills rather than improving. Mentorships sound like they would have a negative effect on me since I already have issues with my self-worth being dictated by someone who doesn't care for the type of content I want to draw and tries to get me to make art for them.
The post-Facebook internet is so rejecting about feedback that's not positive. It feels like it's only the extremes of praise and hate comments. Even then, much of that gets filtered down to likes and dislikes.
Discord is difficult because you have to build a community you can trust. And I don't want to be put in a position where my day is ruined because someone started behaving inappropriately while I was offline and now I have to manage to the situation. Plus, it's demoralizing to be ignored when you do actually try to ask for help in appropriate channels. Maybe I need to join a wider net of Discords because maybe the issue is that I'm not in the right ones.
Amino was nice because the polls feature was actually super useful in getting feedback from strangers. Polls were pushed to everyone in a server, and so plenty of people would interact for that dopamine hit of influencing the poll's results. But that app's reputation is in the gutter now because despite being strictly 13+ from the start, so many users used it to be creeps towards minors.
The online art community feels like it's tailored for AI bros. People just want to consume art that looks nice. Anti-AI activists can shout "pick up a pencil" all they want, but until we create communities that uplift fellow artists rather than compete for views, I think AI will continue to perform well.
It seems like the options are a discord community or real life sketch parties and paid classes/mentorships. Sketch parties give me performance anxiety, and I opt for more normie subjects to draw in public rather than what I want to draw. Plus, you're there to socialize more than to receive feedback. Paid classes can be fun, but often focus on new skills rather than improving. Mentorships sound like they would have a negative effect on me since I already have issues with my self-worth being dictated by someone who doesn't care for the type of content I want to draw and tries to get me to make art for them.
The post-Facebook internet is so rejecting about feedback that's not positive. It feels like it's only the extremes of praise and hate comments. Even then, much of that gets filtered down to likes and dislikes.
Discord is difficult because you have to build a community you can trust. And I don't want to be put in a position where my day is ruined because someone started behaving inappropriately while I was offline and now I have to manage to the situation. Plus, it's demoralizing to be ignored when you do actually try to ask for help in appropriate channels. Maybe I need to join a wider net of Discords because maybe the issue is that I'm not in the right ones.
Amino was nice because the polls feature was actually super useful in getting feedback from strangers. Polls were pushed to everyone in a server, and so plenty of people would interact for that dopamine hit of influencing the poll's results. But that app's reputation is in the gutter now because despite being strictly 13+ from the start, so many users used it to be creeps towards minors.
The online art community feels like it's tailored for AI bros. People just want to consume art that looks nice. Anti-AI activists can shout "pick up a pencil" all they want, but until we create communities that uplift fellow artists rather than compete for views, I think AI will continue to perform well.
