How many friends do you have who do art?

[FlameDragon]

In my life I've known very few people personally who do art, I currently only have one such friend but she's not really talking to me at the moment :( What about you guys? I definitely feel that having artist friends is truly encouraging, I felt very encouraged and inspired!

[Justin.]

88,833 of them, at least.

[FlameDragon]

88,833 of them, at least.

You mean all the members of this website I'm guessing? I'm talking about real life friends, or if it's online then at least specific people that you actually talk to regularly.

[Arish]

When I was in college, I had about 5 or 6 friends who did art. Unfortunately, most of them stopped since then, and/or I lost touch with them. It's so much more fun and easier to create when you're surrounded by people doing the same thing... I miss those days.

[Jacob Kobryn]

Well I have some very close long distance, only met once IRL type relationships with some artists but other than that none...

[Ellingsworth]

Zip. Zero. None. By the way, you sure do like to make lots of threads, Flamedragon... :)

[Jason Rainville]

None of my friends draw (regularly) that I know of. Though if we count design work then my whole class does.

[FlameDragon]

Zip. Zero. None. By the way, you sure do like to make lots of threads, Flamedragon... :)

Sorry. I just have tons of free time and nothing to do, so I feel I might as well spend time talking about the thing I love most. Plus I have tons of questions that I wanted to ask/discuss with artists for years, and also I'm going through rough emotional times so it takes my mind off it

[Jason Rainville]

Sorry. I just have tons of free time and nothing to do

Riiiiiiight..... do you have pencils in your house?

[FlameDragon]

Riiiiiiight..... do you have pencils in your house?

Yes and I do draw but I find myself going online often. Hmm, maybe if I spent like 4 hours a day studying and drawing anatomy, I'd become alot better in a few months!

[Jason Rainville]

Yes and I do draw but I find myself going online often. Hmm, maybe if I spent like 4 hours a day studying and drawing anatomy, I'd become alot better in a few months!

Don't slap yourself for cruising CA, but when you find yourself with a lot of time to yourself that's probably the best time for doing some studies n such. I don't think this is an irrelevant topic though, I'd like to see how many people have artist friends, and if that makes interacting with them easier/harder.

[FlameDragon]

Don't slap yourself for cruising CA, but when you find yourself with a lot of time to yourself that's probably the best time for doing some studies n such. I don't think this is an irrelevant topic though, I'd like to see how many people have artist friends, and if that makes interacting with them easier/harder.


Yeah. Maybe that's why I feel sad, it seems like my friends (the few that I have) are always too busy to talk or anything but I go to college too and I always have hours of free time. I still get great grades too (well, this semester they are down a bit)

[Justin.]

4 hours?


you are at least halfway there!

[Andy P]

Most of my friends draw I think, at least 50 percent. The most inspiring thing in the world is feeling like you're part of a community of something, whether it be an online forum or a bunch of people who go to the same drawing class.
I know I'm at my most productive when I hang around with people that draw way better than I do!

[Shadowwing]

Sounds a lot like me. Got no friends, and I waste all my time cruising CA and making silly posts instead of doing art. Well, I'm taking a break from CA and hitting the drawing pad.

Later all...and thanks for all the wonderful help.

[Boolean]

Friends who do art - 0
Friends who want me to draw them 'wolverine riding a rocket while shooting at superman on the moon' - 'while X > 0, X=X+1'

[FlameDragon]

Friends who do art - 0
Friends who want me to draw them 'wolverine riding a rocket while shooting at superman on the moon' - 'while X > 0, X=X+1'

You know, if I was a talented artist that might be fun. It would be interesting to see how I could bring their idea onto paper

[Jason Rainville]

Friends who do art - 0
Friends who want me to draw them 'wolverine riding a rocket while shooting at superman on the moon' - 'while X > 0, X=X+1'

Or shredder killing a ninja turtle, or zombie spiderman.. :nohope:

[Nam]

I've never had any art friends. I'm hoping to change that though... I'd love to talk about my thoughts on the matter with someone.

[DanielC]

what's a friend ?

[yinteck]

For art none .

[Stark]

None...Unless I count the people in IRC....about 34, with 10 regulars maybe. Include architecture and graphic design and interior design? It jumps to somewhere around 50...but I don't talk to many people, so 0...including myself.

[s.ketch]

2 hard core and 4 to 6 amateurs.

[JonZ_]

one, and my only friend.

[Ampersand]

None outside of the internet, which is a bit lame. :nohope:

[S!R]

Sounds a lot like me. Got no friends, and I waste all my time cruising CA and making silly posts instead of doing art. Well, I'm taking a break from CA and hitting the drawing pad.

Later all...and thanks for all the wonderful help.

Sounds like me a bit. I have plenty of non-artist friends, which is great but they glaze over as soon as I start rambling about CA friends, topics, the upcoming workshop, etc...

Although recently I have connected with a handful of, it seems, pretty dedicated and extremely talented individuals here in Seattle via a local CA chapter, which is most exciting for me!!We meet for drinks & drawing every other week and I couldnt be more psyched for each of those meetups.

It does make a world of difference to be surrounded by people who are soo very like minded. I encourage everyone to use CA to find the people you mesh with the best...whether it be in your hometown or not.

Cheers.

[arechiga_tony]

i have about 30+ that meet up every sunday at the Dallas sketchgroup.
Some of the top concept art guys in Dallas show up there.
From companies such as:3d realms, ensemble, ID, Terminal Reality, Nerve, Gearbox, and more.

[Dizon]

The elves, dwarves, and all sorts of fairy folk are my friends. :)

Kidding...

I met new friends through the Local Groups section of CA. We used to meet, but unfortunately most of them are very busy these days. I also miss some of the guys I met while I was still studying art at an art university in the U.S. . While the rest of the people I know are not into art at all. All they do is party, party, party! hehe

[Brendan N]

If I had to exclude everyone on CA, I'd say about 40 to 50 .... not all equally serious, not all equally skilled though. It is really cool and really motivating to have friends that have as much an interest in art/design as you do.

I was at first really surprised to see peeps here saying they have zero friends interested in art, before I figured you guys aren't counting everyone on CA too.

[Farvus]

Apart from internet and having few words with some people at my university it's zero.

[Gloominati]

none..........yay

[WhaleCaller]

I have only one, and we're very different.

I think it's hard to go to a small high school and have everyone who doesn't know you know you as "the artist" or "the chick who lugs around her sketch book everywhere." Also, since my high school is Catholic as well, it's awkward to have people ask to see your book when you know there are anatomy studies and such in it.

I love when teachers take interest in my art, though. That's always great.

[Carnifex]

or zombie spiderman.. :nohope:

marvel's ahead of you there :D

ontopic,one of my friends is tattooist,but we haven't met purely for sketching yet.
all those i've met over ca(local groups that is),are too busy these days,or (like corky) have moved elsewhere.:nohope:
and if you count writing as art,i have one pretty talented friend there.

[DavePalumbo]

almost all of them

[moroi]

Most of them dabble in art in some way or another. I mean, I go to art school, you'd have to try and not have artistic friends...

[Jabo]

None. I have some ex-colleagues from the graphic design world, but the rest is all imaginary IRC buddies, some of which I know rather well and have met in the real world once or twice. They hail from level design, graffiti spraying, art, photography. But none who're actually artistic entities.

[ODISAP]

i have a friend who does graffiti and is very good at it

and he is not a gangster, he is nice (and cool)

[thorshammer]

Let me see... Before we all started college at least 5, after we started college...maybe 2, though we are not in contact.

In fact I don't think I have any real friends at college...most are at other colleges. *shrugs*

Jenn

[Jason Rainville]

marvel's ahead of you there :D

Hah, non artistic, demanding, and unoriginal.... one of my 'friends' is a triple threat :nohope:

[JL.Alfaro]

I met a guy once, he came into one of my classes...research I think it was...came in and saw me drawing a goofy thing...and he said "hey you draw?" I said yes, as a matter of fact, ....*looked around* I do. He said "me too". pulled out a couple of drawings and showed them to me...I had nothing to show him at the time. I said cool. he said yeah.

and that was about as close to another artist I have ever come close to. physically. Ofcourse when I found CA, I pissed myself standing, and vomited on my desk out of excitement. had the runs for two weeks trying to decide to post something. I've never felt worthy of posting here, still dont...that explains the lack of posting in the FF.



oh yeah, I bumped into this guy at Michael's Arts & Crafts store, he was carrying a canvas...I think he might have been an artist.

[Joshua Fountain]

I had some friends who are artists.

They've all but dissapeared from my life though. Without a trace even...

So I guess:

what's a friend ?

is appropriate in my case.

[alesoun]

I'm married to an artist, have 3 immediate neighbours who are professional artists, one who's a soft furnishings designer, four or five friends who are actors. No wonder it took me so long to start drawing and painting again!

[Whyatt Thrash]

Actually "draw or paint" artists, zero. Friends in artistic professions, many.

I'd like to know more, obviously...

[Lee W]

friends that is interested in art: 0

oh wait, I don't even have friends that aren't interested in art :\

[Lohan]

i ONLY associate with artists. good artists.

[Maestro Andres]

Not many I think, almost all of them in science and engineer professions. I truly agreed that being surrounded with friends that share the same passion makes an encouraging environment. That's why I look forward for the workshop and increase my artist friends count :)

[Blaz]

I have just one friend from the class...

...although its secondary art school its hard to find a person who is actually interested in art.
Just bunch of "ooh Im going here because its easy and can skip classes whenever I want" people!

[Nerahla]

Outside of the 'net? Zero. Even my family isn't very interested in what I do.

[Micaiah Nelson]

I only have three friends who take drawing seriously.
The majority of my friends are all gangsters and rockers. So every day someones asking me to draw a tattoo "Of the city Chicago across their back and pitbulls on chains, or another cross with ribbons around it" Or their "Bands name and skelectons with a hat and a four leaf clover and more ribbons." And I hate tattoos!
But enough ranting I have a city to draw.

[JL.Alfaro]

I'm married to an artist,...

Is that as good as it sounds? an artist married to another artist...my dream..
Then again Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera didn't work out as well as I would have expected...hmmm

-JL

[Kek]

1! :tihi: I try to find others in my art classes, but its hard when everyone including myself dispise all the assignments. So it's hard to say who likes art or who just wants to like art.

[alesoun]

Is that as good as it sounds? an artist married to another artist...my dream..
-JL

Fights and hugs, like any other marriage. I think I'm probably the more fiery of the two......

But, yes. a shared interest is always a bonus.

[Vhan Juju]

Quite a few of my friends "draw" Just the same amount of them "do poetry", and etc.

None of them really have thier hearts in it, except maybe one.

Its flustrateing,

[JL.Alfaro]

I just noticed there is alot of us in here that have NO friends, Zero friends... would that be a coincidence or maybe something deeper than that.
Perhaps it would be entertaining to dig deeper and bring out the intimate reasons why we dont have a large number of friends. Or any friends for some of us.

Just to clarify:
A friend is: A personal relationship between two individuals.
A relationship in which each shares intimate and personal feelings and insights, involving both the bad and the good experiences in their lives.
a friendship is mostly based on:
* the tendency to desire what is best for the other,
* sympathy and empathy,
* honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart
* mutual understanding.
* Love

An Acquaintance is: Somebody you know but not in a personal manner. A non-intimate relationship between two individuals. A knowledge of who the other person is, what they can do and how you can benefit from each others knowledge. An interpersonal relationship.
*In the contexts of sociology and of popular culture, the concept of interpersonal relationships involves social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people. Such persons may interact overtly, covertly, face-to-face; or may remain effectively unknown to each other (as in a virtual community whose members maintain anonymity and do not socialize outside of a chat-room, like CA).

In my personal experiences, I have close to no friends, and the more I mature-both as an artist and as a head of family- I find that close relationships distract from the real issues at hand. The closer the relationship, the more time consuming and distracting to me. My time is precious, I got time to Paint, time for family, and time to relax(recreational timeouts). Everything else that happens, does so around these three time-slots.
Do I enjoy having friendships? yes I do
Do I wish there were more close friendships in my life? sure, who doesnt
do I have time for these friends? Im afraid not, or not that much time anyhow.
Perhaps I am just introverted, and a bit anti-social. hmm dont know...maybe

discuss

[Vhan Juju]

i have friends, My problem is that they have no clue what a friend is. So, in reality its a one way friendship...

Blarg ;p

[Cthogua]

In college I had a few artist friends (majored in Painting and Drawing at a Liberal Arts college) but they weren't really into the same things I was, and they definatly weren't into trying to push their skills or anything...the teachers never said anything about that anyway, it was always more about who could make the piece with the most scatheing criticism of male dominated family life and the psycho-sexual damage it did to them as kids...Thats not their fault though, the program was really heavily oriented toward fine art, and more specifically gay and lesbien issue oriented art. Little ole me wanted to be an illustrator.

Anyway, most of my friends are not artists though. However I'm gonna be the voice of dissent here and say that its not such a bad thing. Sure its harder to motivate yourself sometimes, but the best test of how commited you are to doing something is doing it alone. Secondly, having friends that are passionate about other things than what you know about makes them sources of information and wisdom. My best friends in college were a physics major, a philosophy major, and an applied science major, and they all exposed me to ideas I may never have come across had I just stuck to my narrow little road. Theres a whole world out there, and guess what? It can all be brought back into your art.

[Darren_1989]

One of my best friends likes art too, and one of my old friends is artistic. Neither take it real seriously, but they like it and we can sketch together on occasion, although with me at college I don't see them much. My grandfather paints and my mom does carvings. My brother is a writer, and some of my friends are musicians. Thats a different type of art, but I think it all falls into the same broad category. However, the majority of my friends aren't into art at all, know nothing about it, or even think its a silly thing. But thats okay. Liking the same things is overrated. You can be great friends with people who are nothing like you.

[Blue]

Zero

Oddly enough. Never thought about it.

[maxetormer]

non as well.

[Steph Laberis]

Wow, I'm surprised there are so many "none' answers, about 80% of my friends do something artistic, be it visual or musical.

If you want numbers, then according to myspace I have 364 friends who do art and they are ALL MY BFFs 4 EVA!!!1!! Especially when they take a break from their projects to offer me free Macy's Gift Cards!

^_~

[m@.]

I don't have much friends, but most of them do art / work in a creative field. I couldn't imagine it otherwise.... I find it strange too to see so much people with none! it's very important I think, for your own growth, to be around other creative people. If you don't find any in your city, move to a bigger city! :p

[Flake]

No visual art monkeys, lots of musical types.