Facing Challenges Head-On as a Young Artist: BEN ABASCIANO
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2024
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Guys I promise im not bored on this call even though i look it. You can tell because I sound funny but im on the tail end of covid and just dealing with it. Super happy Ben came on to chat though.
this is giving me a kick in the pants to make a better plan around social media. I have been confused and overwhelmed by the marketing and ideas to build an audience, but I think it's time to really invest and create some kind of shareable series that will help me grow
nice to hear the perspective of a fellow student, impressive quality of artwork for someone your age Ben!
Thank you!
Hey friends, so nice to see a candid convo about the art world between the two of you. As a late bloomer I think there were plenty of good tidbits even for older folks like myself who are approaching being a creative. It’s not an easy task but gosh it’s rewarding to carve your own path. Keep fighting the good fight!
Thanks for that confirmation to go to business school. I'm in my last year and I'm balancing my first video-game job and my personal drawing studies at the same time. I do feel that increasing bar to get an entry level job, I feel I was very fortunate to get the job I have now.
Once I'm finished with college, I'll be going hard-core in studying art as much as I can! I'm really excited for that day to come.
Art is cool! Artists are very cool! I love that kind of interview videos with different artists talking about their experience in (and out of) the industry. This is gold content and very informative.
I'm glad you made this video. I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately, as somebody who's now 30 and has been working to get into Concept Art their entire adulthood. It's both insightful and reassuring to hear both of your perspectives on the matter, especially with the current employment climate. I just hope I'm making the right steps along my art journey.
Really insightful to hear you both on this topic. I loved how candid Ben was about issues getting into the industry and your own mindset towards it.
Wow this video was insightful and helpful; I appreciated the reality check from Ben when it came to making a living and understanding the nature of freelance work. Excellent
As someone who is about go into uni the beginning of the video is really comforting that people like you can still succeed even if your not entirely sure of what to do and it’s just a matter of what you are willing to do to succeed like taking extra classes or building a routine to improve your skills
Thank this video is really good and makes me more confident about myself and what I need to do to be better
This was such a fantastic conversation. As a software engineer who is practicing a lot of art right now but uncertain exactly what path I want to end up one, a lot of things clicked with me. I've been trying the instagram thing, but I might suck too much right now to make a following haha
As an artist who depends entirely on social media, the aggravating thing about being told to 'build a brand' and all that other stuff is trying to circumvent the esoteric and unclear quirks of these websites. Everyone bitches about these algorithms, and I feel like nobody understands how any of them actually work. You can get a general idea of what kind of stuff does well and gets attention, and do your best to try to make that mingle with your own work. But even if you play to your audience and try to do what you THINK is your best work, it so often feels like you're just stabbing in the dark. The lack of clear feedback on what is and isn't working is maddening.
And then there's stuff like how certain website will deboost your content aggressively if you do something they don't like, and what those things are isn't actually said anywhere. On twitter, I went from being able to advertise my Patreon in tweets to having to put it in a reply to now not being able to include it at all. If you put a link to a patreon in your tweet or a reply, the algorithm nukes it, so how do you even advertise your stuff properly? You have to jump through a ton of hoops and make guesses around vague assumptions. Its maddening and exhausting, esp if all you ever wanted to do with your life was just have a steady job where you draw for a living.
The one thing I can say is that for as much as you can't control, you can control how often you show up and perform. You can control how much you study, how much you post, how much effort you put in. And while nothing may consistently work, the people who show up the most will inevitably end up being the ones who do the best in the longterm. The trick is finding the motivation to keep showing up.