you know I see a lot of online artists kidding about how much they hate drawing and i know it's a joke but also,, if u say it that much you're either conditioning yourself or there is actually a part of you that does hate drawing and maybe that's smth you should look into

I have seen this coming from a lot of artists who want to go the professional route and i'm not trying to police any1 and y'all are free to do whatever you want I just feel like,, if you truly hate drawing so much then maybe a job in drawing is not for you?

I say this because tbh, most artists dont get paid a great salary, dont get great benefits, the industry's hard to get into in some ways, it's horribly taxing work in many ways, I think the greatest perk of working as an artist really comes down to enjoying the work you do

in this case it's drawing, so if you don't enjoy drawing, there's very little in it for you (and I'm applying this to positions where u need drawing because that's where i've seen this kind of comments being made and because that's what my work entails mostly)

also I think there is a difference between "loving drawing" and "loving drawing x" and I think it's important for artists to realize which one is true to themselves to know what direction to steer their career into

not that if you love drawing a specific subject you can't get/do work unrelated to that, but because you either have to prepare yourself mentally for when u inevitably have to draw stuff you dont particularly like or because then you should really ham in on that subject

getting hired for just one thing seems like a shot of luck to me but hey, you might hit jackpot? but if that's ur aim then maybe you should make that decision and really train yourself in that subject

contrary to that, if you just "love drawing" you get a slightly easier time working, sure there'd be subjects that are more difficult to interpret but you might not be as miserable haha

idk where this thread was going, it's just stuff i've been thinking about since i started working (gladly I have discovered that I do, in fact, love drawing in general, so i've had some of the happiest times in my life lately haha)