>>158825
The fact that you think that artists care as much about money as you do is in itself proof of your own materialist mindset

Noone is saying that drawing has to be this incredibly profitable market, but if artists don't eat, and they don't drink, they're not gonna be able to draw. Can't draw if you're dead, I'd rather an artist than a zombie.

Ironically, communists were convinced themselves that artists & intellectuals deserved material wealth with the arrival of the Socialist Realism movement - in itself an idea that was first popularized by the Pharaoh dynasties of Egypt.

there's no point in loli being liked if loli isn't made by humans, if you don't treat the entire medium as an arts movement and draw with all your might as to one day be mentioned in the arts history books, or .PDFs, in the following years... then it's no less trash than any other form of mass-produced DeviantArt-tier erotica. ("Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing" - Sylvia Plath)