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@grafician -
Thanks for the mention! I absolutely agree that an artist like DP and a few other folks here could totally rock the space. And thanks for posting Justin’s guide - I’ve sent that to a few folks as well - it's a great overview.
Throwing my cards on the table here - truth be told, it's been a challenge to sell, but I am pushing hard and have made some real progress... Slowly but surely.
A point I'd like to add to this discussion as to WHY I am being so "bullish" to use a crypto/trading term is that for years it's been nothing but rejection in the form of auto-reply or crickets when I sent work to illustration houses and agencies. I lost count of how many emails I’ve sent - I wouldn’t be lying if I said it was in the thousands. This is a long period of time of course, through economic highs and lows. But rejection nonetheless was and is a constant.
Rejection aside, I’ve never been one to back down or get depressed. Disappointed sometimes of course because we’ve all tried to be a part of something that we were absolutely sure we would fit, but it wasn’t written in the stars that time...
Originally, I got into graphic design because I loved Rave Flyer art, collecting them in the early to late 90s going to parties on the east coast. I felt like some of the pieces were literally like holding another dimension in the palm of my hands. I had never seen work like that - odd illustrations that weren’t exactly sci-fi or fantasy, but something else. It was an underground form of art that can be compared to any other movement - impressionism, surrealism, etc. But I don’t think it had a name to the best of my knowledge... That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t “something.” It affected me and literally changed my trajectory career-wise. Graphic design allowed me to create art where I could inject my love of that electronic energy, technical prowess, illustrative nature, and story - abstract or otherwise. I have that same feeling now...
This NEW movement is moving fast - no pun intended... The SITUATION is a trend, but the ART is not. The art is real and is as real as it’s ever been - the technology to bring it to the masses is simply another production step much like adding gloss finish to a collage or running a screen-printed tee shirt through a dryer.
What the technology brings to some of the artists that have been producing digital works is justification and specificity to some of the pieces... Yes, there are some who will take advantage of an easy route - copy and paste, but as horrible as that feels, they themselves are making a statement. Warhol comes to mind with his mass-produced art - a picture of a can of soup that he himself didn’t design, yet, he made it substantial because he looked at that can from a different point of view - an artist’s point of view.
I of course can’t speak for other artists, but for me, this has been nothing short of an open door - and unlike some of the aforementioned agencies that wouldn’t even allow for a small peek inside, the crypto art community has been nothing less than open arms.
- Idk, I think you do great stuff, but you need a bigger following to capitalise, as with anythinggrafician
- because with art, any art, you don't buy the work, you buy the name, you buy the prestigegrafician
- and coming back to you, have you considered developing some IP for a anime series or something related? instead of pitching agencies and the like?grafician
- Thanks again G for good points - yes, have thought about IP and may have some balls in the air, but I actually pay the bills via design for clients.antimotion
- I'm pushing hard to flip that and grow the base as you mentioned.antimotion
- One thing re. follows however - beeple for instance sold a ton, but it took 15 years to get there... and of course Paula Scher's famous note about citi logo:antimotion
- "It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds"antimotion
- I feel positive about this movement and urge creators to try in a more "why not" mode rather than "why bother" - this is of course an opinion of one ; )antimotion
- Consistency is key here, actually from what I've read, instagram and the social media algorithms love consistencygrafician
- My first job in the mid 90s was at a print shop that did a lot of nightclub passes and rave fliers. The rave guys would come in stoned and stay hours.CyBrainX