Art Style Hatred is so weird.

So I actually did something artsy today and bit my fear of drawing in sketchbooks again.

 It definitely doesn't make me nervous to do this again no not at all. But, when I'm posting these to my social medias I see some of my mutuals. Now, my mutuals? I love them all, they're brilliant, I love all their art. I also don't understand how they get caught up in some things. Literally, I never do I get astonished each time. But one such case is of one of my mutuals who I'm not naming in case they don't wanna randomly be featured on some blog. She's got some very pretty art, and uses mainly either watercolour or highlighter and fineliners. Another feature of her art is the fact that she has 2 really big artistic choices in her art. Long necks, and long faces. Please, mind you, I also have these features in my own art style and I pride myself on it. However whenever I see my mutual post, I am very likely to see comments expressing actual disgust at this art style. Some compare it to amateur anime art, others say it just looks like ass, and some people just say she has an ugly way of drawing faces. 

Never mind me reading these comments, my mutual constantly reads these comments. I'm lucky that so far no one has been overly harsh to my artwork online (Who knows? I might be hated for my artwork tomorrow!) but, it did get me thinking hard. What even are we criticising in art?

 What is art? 

Well, according to my A-level Art course I basically failed in, art is anything. But if you ask me, personally, it's something that tests the level of your creativity. I don't like to hate on artists or their art, but that being said, that doesn't mean I don't have my preferences on art. For example, I don't particularly like realism or those artworks that are just blocks of colours of other people. It's not creative to me. That being said, I think one of the hardest things to do in art is breaking the rules by creating your own art style. Even my style above was a bunch of trial and error, and I have a lot of room for improvement. Obviously, learning the rules of realism is hard by itself, but if you're not prepared to divert from the realism I personally don't see the point. Even with all this being said, as a girl who is constantly online, I don't find the urge to post hate comments on art pages at all. Even interacting with ai art to say my opinion of it's wrong is exhausting and wastes my time. So, I do wonder why anyone online, regardless of art skill feels the need to publicly comment on artworks.

 Everyone always says that people are just more confident behind a screen, I think it's both that and how easily art is accessible. 

We have many things these days that raises the standards for everyone. Fast-fashion, Short form content on social media, the access to information. I think as people we look at this life we live these days and expect the best of the best when it comes to skills. I find myself doing it to myself. I can't make a dish? I'm hopeless at cooking. I'm the only one that knows how to do a specific thing? Well, that means no one else needs to learn it. I find it applies to online too. Art is meant to be beautiful, thought provoking, detailed, realistic to life. If it doesn't fit a certain viewpoint? Well, now you've made something truly awful and you should stop drawing at all. It's horrible to hear if you just started out doing art, or maybe if you're not confident in your art. Even if you are confident it's awful to hear, it truly does knock the confidence out of you. So I'm thinking, this way we are these days won't change, hell artists are scared of ai taking over their jobs these days, so what even is there to do?

 I think we have to re-define what art even is.

Not in the way of we need solid definitions regarding art, we just have to accept that art is sometimes not centered to us. I think a good example is modern art (not contemporary art.) Anyone recall that banana taped to the wall? I don't get it but someone will, and that's ok. Every person is so individualistic, so unique, that we need to maybe re-adjust the fact that the social media we consume sometimes has a person behind it that isn't thinking about the catering to everyone. Maybe they want people like them.

 In light of this, I'm gonna actually try one thing in my artwork. I'm going to try out just being loose with my artwork again, dipping into the imperfect stages of my art again whilst I learn. Someone is gonna hate my artwork someday, and there will be nothing I can do about it. That's ok, I can't cater to everyone afterall. I just hope it won't be too mean.

 Anyway, this was Mubinna, and I'm signing off! I've got my uncle visiting tomorrow and a wedding to prepare for (not my own.)