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[freyja]

In the art world, there is no good or bad. Let me just get that out there right up front. There are people out there who, it's pretty much universally agreed upon, make some amazing things. There are people out there who make some (universally agreed upon) truly awful things, as we have seen on wonderful sites like regretsy

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[catlips]

i don't think feedback = any indication of how "good" an artist you are - with the understanding that even the shittiest artist can produce "good" artwork and the best can produce things that aren't so great. i don't know a lot about art as a whole, but i would think that plenty of great artists got very little to no feedback at first. much less good feedback. it would be sad to see you give up for that reason. i think you're very talented and being artistic/creative also seems to be cathartic for you, the way writing is for me. personally even if i just write lj entries and nothing else for the rest of my life - well i'd like some recognition and validation too, but i'd be at least somewhat ok with that. i think! haha.

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[freyja]

Thanks for all that. I won't stop creating, because you just CAN'T do that, I'd go crazy. Crazier. I just wonder sometimes if my dream is a joke. Selling art requires people buying it, which in turn requires people liking it enough to buy it, which in turn requires people knowing it exists, and I'm notorious for being unknown.

But yeah, maybe this is normal. It's just every time I see a piece of crap get praised up and down I sort of want to kill myself. My crap doesn't get that sort of attention, not ever, not by anyone who doesn't personally know me, and it hurts, undeniably.