I can understand how you feel. About the attitude of lack of artistic efforts by many, well I have posted on that before. Just as I have posted my history including the time that I lost inspirations. Even as I felt my abilities fading, I fought to stay with the art; but I lost the battle. While away from art, I felt like a lost outcast. I tired directing my attentin and efforts elsewhere, but it was not the same. If you ever leave the world of art, you will regret it. This is not a threat, just a warning based on how I felt.
Here is how I feel about the situation with in the "
Poser community": I am an outsider of that community and I plan to stay that way. Yes, I am using
Poser in a big way in my recent works, and I plan to contiune to do so. However, I don't see myself as a
Poser Artist, I see myself as an artist and I see
Poser as just one of the tools in my artistic toolkit.
I don't know what each of you think of yourselves as, but to all of you I will say that none of you are
Poser Artist. None of you qualifiy as being called
Poser Artists. What are some of the qualificaton to being a
Poser Artist?
1. Render pictures with
Poser and
Poser only.
2. Limit your "art" to what
Poser can do.
3. Limit you vision to the limits of
Poser.
You are all artist. Plain and simple you are artists who use happen to use
Poser as well as many other tools. None of you are qualified as being
Poser Artists because you don't limit your art and vision thw way that they do.
For those people on other sites who are qualified as
Poser Artist, I feel sorry and I hope they can someday grow out of their condition.
So who do I create my artwork for if not for the
Poser community. I create is for my enjoyment and for my family and for you my friends in the artist community. I also post it in other sites including in the sites that are exclusivly
Poser based, for those there who may enjoy it. and with the slight hope that it may inspire some of the "
Poser artists" to look beyond their limited ideas and see what else is possible and perhaps even try something that is new and create their own personal style.
Since I sarted buildig my
Renderosity homepage, I have added many of you to my list of favorite artist. Not because I felt that I had to because of our association here, but rather because I like your art and each of you are among my favorite artists. If I didn't didn't feel that way about your work, even though I like you, you would not have been added to the list. As it is there are more of you who have not been added to the list only because, you either don't have any work posted on that site, or I have not discovered your username on that site. Also, there is one person on my favorite artist list who I am seriously considering removing from the list (this person is none of you), at first I liked some of the art work of that person, but now although beautifuly done, I am finding it boring. That person is a
Poser artist and uses most of the works to promote the newest additions to that person's line of merchandise on that site. Yet, I hesitate removing that person from the list, for the sake of the early works made when that person was still an artist using
Poser, rather than being a
Poser artist.
DV and everyone else, don't cast away art because of the habits of others who don't share our thinking. Continue to create art, for youself and for the enjoyment of all those who do appreciate and enjoy your artwork. As I said, if you give up on art, you will regret it, I speak from experience on this matter. I didn't give up on art but it did disappear for a long time and until it returned, I felt an empty.
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You are somebody no matter if you do art, play games or just sit around and twiddle your thumbs! You are a good friend from what I have seen, you are someone that I find to be a very sensitive caring soul and to me that's worth more than anything else. Don't put yourself down or I shall be forced to create a band of monster gnomes to come and drag you across land and sea to Oregon where I shall kick your butt till you admit you are forced to admit I'm right! lol
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