Unpopular Opinions Society

[Alice-Bee]

People with small businesses like mine (ie artists, crafty, jewelry makers) who are setting up donations pages are pissing me off.
The money you make from hard work should be your investment, you may as well go begging on the street.
I cant even get people to pay £5 for a damn piece of artwork I spent my LIFE working towards, and yet people chuck £10 a time at these donations sites for NOTHING in return...******* shameful.
I may aswell just bloody well give up and apply to stack shelves in Tesco!

 

[yally]

People with small businesses like mine (ie artists, crafty, jewelry makers) who are setting up donations pages are pissing me off.
The money you make from hard work should be your investment, you may as well go begging on the street.
I cant even get people to pay £5 for a damn piece of artwork I spent my LIFE working towards, and yet people chuck £10 a time at these donations sites for NOTHING in return...****ing shameful.
I may aswell just bloody well give up and apply to stack shelves in Tesco!

It's so difficult to get paid a decent wage for skilled crafting

Hope it gets easier for you! You're really talented, I'm sure you'll catch a break somewhere!

Do you have an agent for your illustration work?

 

[Alice-Bee]

Thankyou Yally.
Im hoping to with my new venture. Im just tired of being beaten at what is now a popularity contest. For those that were around at the time loosing that design contest to a doodle and a photo of a cat was a big kick in the face...
I had signed up to a lot of agent style websites and got little work from it. The problem is people want work for free. I cant afford that.
It feels bad to moan about it because it is my choice to be an artist but when youve spent the past 7 years working towards building a business and worked up a debt at Uni aiming for that aswell, you get a little blue.

 

[yally]

Aw I can imagine love

Sorry I know you weren't soliciting for advice and I'm sure you've done this already, but it's definitely worth building up a presence on Pinterest and Tumblr. There's real work to be found on there.

Edit: arg im really sorry, unwanted advice is so annoying. I just really love your stuff and I want you to do well cos you really deserve it!

 

[Alice-Bee]

Youre a sweetheart.
I did start a Tumblr but only got a handful of reblogs. I suppose I should be more present. I whored myself on deviantart for years too, not much help lol.
I have a pinterest too.

 

[kibbleforlola]

I've repinned all the stuff you've put on pinterest, and a few people I don't know have repinned them from my page. Perhaps one of those people is a potential customer!

 

[Lord Snot]

I think your stuff is amazing and one day that talent will get the recognition it deserves.

 

[Marie]

Veg*n or not, Oreos are gross.

I can take 'em or leave 'em.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Kombucha is one of the grossest things I've ever tasted.

 

[Alice-Bee]

I've repinned all the stuff you've put on pinterest, and a few people I don't know have repinned them from my page. Perhaps one of those people is a potential customer!

I think your stuff is amazing and one day that talent will get the recognition it deserves.

Aw you guys are the best.
You makea me believe!

 

[thefadedone]

People with small businesses like mine (ie artists, crafty, jewelry makers) who are setting up donations pages are pissing me off.
The money you make from hard work should be your investment, you may as well go begging on the street.
I cant even get people to pay £5 for a damn piece of artwork I spent my LIFE working towards, and yet people chuck £10 a time at these donations sites for NOTHING in return...****ing shameful.
I may aswell just bloody well give up and apply to stack shelves in Tesco!

WTF is up with this trend? It's beyond ridiculous now. People are setting up these donation pages for everything and anything. Some incidents are understandable , but the majority of them now are just absurd.

 

[Alice-Bee]

WTF is up with this trend? It's beyond ridiculous now. People are setting up these donation pages for everything and anything. Some incidents are understandable , but the majority of them now are just absurd.

I know!
Two pages I like on FB have posted this. One wants £3,500 for 'supplies' and the other wanted £1000 to fund a new range...you can see what people donated and one person donated £200! in one go. WTF.

If I want to make something, I buy it with my own money, needless to say things that didnt pan out left me in debt.

 

[FortyTwo]

Donation pages can be really weird. But, whatever, if people want to beg for money and other people want to fling money at potentially shady and not very worthwhile causes, then more power to them...

 

[kibbleforlola]

Hmmm, maybe I should set up a "Karen Can't Manage Her Life" fund. All donations welcome.

 

[FortyTwo]

Hmmm, maybe I should set up a "Karen Can't Manage Her Life" fund. All donations welcome.

I'll cancel my Farm Sanctuary membership and divert every cent there instead.

But don't worry! I'll set up my own donation page so I can keep up donating to Farm Sanctuary.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Awesome.

 

[Envy]

People with small businesses like mine (ie artists, crafty, jewelry makers) who are setting up donations pages are pissing me off.
The money you make from hard work should be your investment, you may as well go begging on the street.
I cant even get people to pay £5 for a damn piece of artwork I spent my LIFE working towards, and yet people chuck £10 a time at these donations sites for NOTHING in return...****ing shameful.
I may aswell just bloody well give up and apply to stack shelves in Tesco!

my unpopular opinion is that ur jelly

well, my thought besides that is that you need to find your "niche" of customers. not everyone appreciates your work, because it's impossible. obviously you need to find a place where people think that your style of art is something nice and likable, and maybe even pay money for.

 

[Blobbenstein]

do you do stuff directly on paper too, Alice?

I think some people want something original that they can buy, and hang on their wall...rather than a print out of digital art.

 

[yakherder]

I have one I know is actually gonna be unpopular, which I will probably regret posting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21421841

Out of all the various potential hotspots in the world, I actually want this one to materialize. I've done my research, and I've seen the youtube videos of his wannabe soldiers showing how good they are at breaking bricks and other inanimate objects, and I'm not impressed.

Be thankful people more sane than myself are the ones making the decisions, cause I'm chomping at the bit here. I want a piece of this guy. I don't want to tolerate another 20 or so years of listening to his ridiculousness. I actually want him to keep pushing his luck, because that increases the chance that this situation will materialize while I'm still in my prime, rather than when I'm an old man who can do little more than sit and watch it on CNN.

 

[Blobbenstein]

It would be nice to see the currant regime in North Korea brought down.