What’s your experience been with making art friends online? Most of the artists I know don’t really have anyone to talk to, and it’s been years since they had a real friend group
>>7770017we don't talk anymore. I'd like to but it's been too long
>>7770017I met some artists irl, but none of them became big friendships or even small friendship.One artist was a bit of a cool drinking buddy while I was abroad, but we barely talked when I returned.A few artists I got along with annoyed me with their incessant political posting (Trump derangement, despite being basically on the other side of the globe) which discouraged me from reaching out again. I'm mostly online on WhatsApp, so I don't really check on those who gave me their instagram or X.Talking with artists feels very cautious on both sides. Speaking to strangers withing my day job field is much more chill.
>>7770017every time I tried to join a discord server everyone was deepthroating the local porn artist who drew with a cancer inducing art style and had the typical obnoxious personality that made you wanna fucking strangle him with razorwire but also had 300 gorillion followers and earned 15 trillion dollars a month on Patreon because he drew the futa dicks really big or something, so of course he's the funniest guy ever XDartists are a bunch of little sluts
>>7770017I like the idea of having art friends, but once I added some anons from here I felt like it became kinda like a chore trying to connect with them and telling them how great their art is and what im currently drawing and yada yadaI dunno, maybe im just too weird and socially retarded even by 4chan standards
>>7770017The only people online I talk about my art with are a bunch of (presumably) dudes I am aquitanced with trough 4chan, most of whom were from back in the day when /tg/ still used to run quests and I participated in a bunch of them usually by drawfagging in them. I even ran a couple of shit tier quests as well.Social media or dedicated art sites have been utterly useless for me to get in touch with people with interest in the type of shit I draw, though on deviantart I have a bunch of people who do comment regularly on the stuff I upload but besides that I don't really interact with them.
some level of narcisism is probably necessary to become an artistI'd rather make friends with people with different interests
i find my art is good enough now that it's kind of easy to reach out to artists that follow me on twitter. I just draw a decent piece of one of their characters and that most of the time opens the door for conversation, but I don't know how to carry a discussion once I'm in. I'm also always afraid I'm going to say something off key that'll scare them off
>>7770050That sounds like every art discord I've been. Seeing the other artists kiss the ass of creepy porn guy with a big following disgusts me.
>>7770107nta but if I've contemplated starting a swf only discord, but I dont think there are enough people
>>7770050>>7770107can also confirm in my limited experience its like that. its very bumfuck nowhere town popular kid in highschool energy
>>7770116my experience with trying to join SFW only discords out of despair to avoid porn is that they only exist for the mods, who are always transgender for some reason, to gather 13 year olds which they then flip onto their actual porn server they've linked everywhere with a warning that it's totally NSFW and you shouldn't look at it if you're underageI do not believe you should link your porn server at all if you want to keep the space SFW especially when you do so because your idea is that it needs to be kid friendlythey literally just exist as a proxy to funnel kids on a porn server. discord culture is fucking vile and adults should never be allowed to mingle with kids in leisure spacesI have never seen a server that was about not having porn on it rather than grooming kids, maybe they only exist in retarded Christian communities
>>7770212you sound like a retarded puritan
>>7770218you sound like you choke on dick
>>7770212Well then a Christian server it might have to be. No trannies allowed, even if you only make SFW.Also no Indians. You must curse vishnu
>>7770050viktor is that you
>>7770017>making friendsWhat are you, gay?
>>7770017joined a server from an old art section of a dead forum, the group fell apart due to gay ass commie larping faggots and then the glue of the group diednext group was a bit better from online drawing games but fell apart due to relationship drama + everyone got busy with irl work so we couldn't hang out and draw together like we used to.Still miss those guysart/reading/writing is fundamentally a very lonely passtime so I cherish those days
>>7770026Send them a message NOW!
>>7770050>>7770107>>7770212>>7770224>you shall not make graven images Enjoy hell!
>>7770017I'm happy to have some both online and irl. Joined a discord few years back and now I have vc drawing buddies. IRL from school and local gallery regulars.
Spent years building a community and filtered all of the shit starters, weirdos, and vibe killers out of. Now I have real friends that do daily art VCs with. The most important thing is to never, ever let these mentally ill and/or fairweather faggots incapable of creating thriving, active communities convince you that they should have say so on anything important, nor let them implant large numbers of people who don't fit the culture into your community. Gatekeeping always works.
>>7770517How are you supposed to enjoy hell? I thought the whole point is that you can't enjoy it
>>7770517>if you don't want the server to be about shitty porn you are le christian XDHaha I can't wait for mandatory ID verification to access the internet. I don't even like censorship but giving people freedom is objectively a mistake.
Does anyone have different experience from what's been shared?
>>7770811Those chuds are lying to you. I'm the admin of a large Discord server and we welcome people of all ages from 12 year olds to 47 year old (like me!) and we all love to draw our fursonas together. Of course someone gets frisky sometimes but we can't allow that on our SFW only server for children so we make sure to those naughty bois to our NSFW server where we have all sorts of rooms for ERP and fetishes ;) of course we can't avoid that sometimes one of our underage members joins the NSFW server and in that case we can only make sure that he discovers his sexuality and his true gender. We have courses to draw animal penises correctly when we do ERP gangbangs with our fursonas all together. We have several kids in our NSFW server who discovered they were born in the wrong body this way. It's such a triumph when we get yet another one to do bottom surgery. It doesn't matter how many commit suicide as long as we get that choppy choppy action going on! I'm trans btw.
>>7770017They mogged me so hard I wanna draw just to beat emThey draw genshin charactersBut I'd rather draw goon
>>7770050Every artist eith a following and a discord server are literally just highschool clique circlejerk all over again
>>7770017a lot of discords are cliquey bullshit that you'll never feel truly apart of, but individual friendships can be a blessing.
