People Keep Asking This Artist To Do Their Portraits For Free, So He Teaches Them A Lesson
No matter what kind of artist you are – a photographer, painter, illustrator or any other – there will always be people who think they are entitled to free art. “Do it for exposure”, “You’re good, it won’t take long” – you’ve probably heard them all. In fact, one artist heard it so many times, he decided to start trolling the ones asking for free stuff in a hilarious way.
Jon Arton is an English artist who has been drawing since he was a kid. “I’d spend my time in class doodling insulting images of the teachers. It got me in trouble a few times but was worth it for making people laugh,” said the artist in an interview with Bored Panda.
Jon usually gets requests for free drawings at least a couple of times a week and says it can be a bit irritating: “I take it as a compliment and most people are a bit unaware of how much time can go into a piece of art.” Even though he finds it a bit irritating, the artist decided to have a little fun with these people and started sending them silly doodles as a joke.
The artist says people don’t really see art as a career and often assume the artists are happy to do works for ‘exposure’. “I wish I could do drawings for free,” says John. “It is something I have done for giveaways to my followers online or for charity. Sadly, I have to fund my expensive pencil habit.”
Check out Jon’s hilarious responses to fans asking for free art in the gallery below!
Jon Arton is an English artist who has worked long and hard to become the amazing artist he is today
Image credits: jonarton
Sadly, not everyone respects that, and people are constantly asking him for free art
Image credits: jonarton
One day he decided he had enough and started trolling them in a hilarious way
Got wisdom to pour?
Bawx lol the amount of time that goes into working on a computer is the sum total of years the person had to use to acquire the knowledge to do the task. So just because the individual action may not take as long, does not mean the school and experience that allows it to be done in the time it is, shouldnt be compensated. Youre kind of a tool.
I hope he, and the author of this article, are as forthcoming with cash when they seek computer assistance from their friends and associates. Computer people worked long and hard to become the amazing technomages they are today.
Some of the worst offenders for wanting free tech help are artists and photographers. There is much hypocrisy in wanting free computer help but getting cranky about free art requests.
what a fucking idiot you are
You’re really dense if you think art and computer help are anywhere near each other on an effort/time required basis
Danger: what makes you think computer people are not freelance and don’t have to get every client for themselves.
Danger: what makes you think computer people are not freelance and don’t have to get every client for themselves? Most IT people I know (including me) are consultants. We run businesses, and we have to get clients for ourselves. When some dude comes by begging free computer help, he’s literally drawing on the decades of experience that proper customers will pay very well for. In fact, on average, they pay more than what an artist gets for professional work. That it takes me 15 minutes to diagnose someone’s problem doesn’t change the fact it took me 20 years to be good enough to diagnose it in no time. The truth is, there’s no moral high ground for creatives. They’re as often beggars as the people who ask them for free art. This whole article smacks of massive hypocrisy.
Where do you see any hint of evidence that the author of the article or the artist ask for free tech help?
Where do you see any hint of evidence that the author of the article or the artist ask for free tech help? Since there is no such evidence why even bring it up. There is no reason at all to assume that the artist or writer ask for free tech help. Jeez…
What if you’re an artist AND a tech guy? For the record, I don’t charge friends for tech help if it takes me less than 15 minutes. If it’s going to take longer than that, I usually just refer them to a shop that will do it for them, because I am not made of time. That’s leagues different than expecting free art to the degree that this guy’s work is — that is probably a minimum of 40 hours of work, probably closer to 80. There’s also a big fat difference between asking someone whose job is making art commissions to make you free art, versus someone whose job is in tech to help you with a problem (which is almost always very easy to solve, and if not, it’s very easy to tell that it will take more effort). Tech people tend to have jobs with companies that pay them a salary. Artists are freelance and have to get every client themselves. Asking an artist to draw you something for free is taking away time and effort that should be used toward paying for rent. Asking a tech person for help diagnosing a problem that will take them less time than the snooze cycle of their alarm is not demanding anything from them that is a burden for them to give.
Well, I guess now we know two people who beg free computer help a lot.
Tech people can say no to freebie requests just like anyone else.
Also, there’s still a difference between asking a random stranger for a freebie, and asking a friend for a favor. Usually, as friends, you do each other favors occasionally, so they should even themselves out in total – unless you have shitty friendships where one always takes and the other one always gives.
Serves them right! The nerve of the people thinking that artists and farmers love to be low-balled, while having no problem pouring hundreds on latest iPhones and overpriced designer stuff! 🙄🤢