<edit> When I said that everyone in the comics was supporting them I meant 'comments'. I have a very one track mind sometimes </edit>

...to study art absolutely does not make you better than everyone else here on DA. I have just read one of the most ludicrous journals from someone like that and everyone in the comics was supporting that. Sure, you've either paid a lot or been paid (stupid scholarship scammers) to take art courses from people who have put in the time and effort to get to their professional teaching position. Does that make you the end all be all of the art world? Fuck no. If that were the case there wouldn't be so many struggling artists out there.

You want to sit there behind your computer and talk about how other people just aren't putting in the necessary effort to get to that special position they've probably been dreaming of their whole life? That is such a bitch move. You have no idea what that person goes through just to get that little bit of improvement. It's not fair for them to dream? No, it's not fucking fair for you to sit in your dorm and ridicule people who you know nothing about beyond that one dream that they put below their deviant ID. For all you know it is that one dream that is getting them through their shitty lives. People are constantly complaining about how people complain here, but please just think about this for a little bit. You are on an art site. Now let us think about some of the most famous artists out there- Van Gough, Pablo Picasso. Were their lives without drama, despair, and depression? No. Picasso suffered from severe depression. Van Gough had things so bad he cut off his own ear. I read somewhere that as scientists are beginning to get clearer ideas on what genes do what they've hypothesized that artistic gene is closely linked to mental illnesses. Many people here that I know use art as an escape. I've been through hell from time to time, but rather than going off with all the other rock-bottom teens and getting high, drunk, and promiscuous I taught myself to use Photoshop, taught myself CSS, taught myself to draw. Then I joined DA and found all these amazing people. These people talked me through the worst of times, helped me get amazingly better with my artwork, these people saved my life. You guys mean the world to me and it just pisses me off to see people trash the other members here. They just expect the utmost proffesionalism and expect that everyone know basics on the law, how the actual art world runs, etc. Newsflash. The minimum joining age for this site is 13 and I know of plenty of people that had accounts here before they were of age. This is a site meant for all levels of artist, from the angsty teen trying to escape in a world that doesn't have a drunk father to the kind elderly lady that paints in her spare time.

You think you're better?
Then fucking leave, we don't want your sorry self-righteous asses here.

Avec amour,
Cat, the girl who is taking college art classes and still love each and every person that helped me get this far in life and will never forget how great the people of this site are.