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I see so many posts of artists telling people to not repost other artist's art & of course I agree, but the thing with these posts is that only other artists (or I guess anyone in the creative field?) understand exactly what that means. It's always the people who don't draw +
...at all that tend to repost art, right? Therefore they have no idea how long it takes to create art. The mindset, the struggles, everything about it cuz they've never experienced it. Before I became an artist/content creator I also (briefly) thought that reposting art was +
...okay because I thought that helped the artist as long as people gave credit or searched for the watermark within the piece. Yeah I can't believe I actually thought people would see the watermark & search up the artist either. 
How naive of me. +
How naive of me. +
Now that I taught myself how to draw, I now completely understand why reposting is harmful to artists. This thread isn't me trying to excuse why reposters do what they do, I'm just trying to give a reason why they may think reposting someone else's art isn't bad in their eyes.
