I came across a deviant art site today. Very little on it some basic pen sketches, kind like how i started out. The artists had only been on here for a few months and had probably only posted 10 or so deviations.
Yet they had 100's more page views than me, loads of watchers already and more comments than they knew what to do with.
The only difference between their early work and mine is that theirs seemed to be pronographic in nature. Mine i feel has come on a long way in terms of skill and maturity and their fledgling work is still more popular because of its nature.
Maybe i'm coming across as slightly bitter over this. Its probably very childish but i really resent the fact sticking sex into your work immediately makes it popular because aparently thats what half the people here are for. I checked these guys watchers and many of them didn't even have art of their own, just a collection of pornographic art in their favourites.
Its not that i don't think art should be sexy, or that porn isnt art, but i needed to have this rant because my head was about to explode with how little this world balances out.