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Dungeater posted...

this is really disappointing

i understand if the professional artist circles arent on your personal radar, but that doesnt mean they arent there

which is to say nothing of the fact that youre talking down to your fellow small scale artists

this is really ugly talk

i'm not a small scale artist lol wym
the project i'm currently working is over $50k and i quoted another this morning looking at an upwards of $200k (revenue). i knocked out a $2k "small scale" project since i got to work and before taking lunch. the studio i work for has been around since the early 1800s and i'm just one of the artists that works here. why? because we embraced change and emergent techniques and technologies. we were early adopters of advancements in glazing techniques, plating, and in more modern times, laser cutting of pieces that were unable to be cut by hand (you had to spend a considerable amount of time and effort cutting them on a wet saw before).

is business good? fuck no. i genuinely don't see artisan stained glass studios surviving the century. it's already considered a lost/dead art and the biggest driver of commission has been religious institutions, which are circling the drain themselves. most art glass manufacturers have either gone out of business or eaten each other. self-adhesive stained glass overlay/lead tape exists now. and home installations are largely dominated by chinese/mexican mass produced studios anymore. am i mad about it? no. am i gonna sit here and beg people to donate to churches or stop buying pella windows? no. am i gonna call the chinese/mexican/lead tape windows "fake" stained glass? no. do i farm my shitty jobs out to mexican studios if it makes financial sense? fuck yea i do. ordered over 200 windows from one for a single (gigantic) house last year.

every industry deals with this, idk why we need to use kid gloves for artists. adapt to new techniques and technologies, better your craft to the point that cheap imitation isn't competition, or just fuck off. if you willingly entered the art field professionally without a mindset of continual self improvement, especially as the general age demographic of CE which has seen literally every art medium drastically change since they've been born, idk what to tell you other than you shouldn't be here.

you're mad at a tool. either figure out how to use it to your benefit, be better than the tool without using it, or be replaced. it's not going away, it's only going to get better (or worse for you, i guess).

and tbqh, i'm nothing but elated that the general public, like TC, has easier and cheaper access to the aesthetic creations they want to see. and i genuinely cannot wait until AI replaces all of us.