BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Art Comments 07232026 DTSTAMP:20260723T110739Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:784-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:PRIOR ENTRYhttps://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/752-art-comment s-06152026/NEXT ENTRY?COMMENT URLhttps://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/134 8491319/5298292166COMMENT CONTENT@leothefox never forget the variance betw een the commercial side the creative. Commerciality is not based on how an artist views their work. Commerciality is based on how the audience views an artists work. The author of sherlock holmes\, made a bok called the wh ite company. From his own perspective the white company was a better book than sherlock holmes\, but the audience wanted and loved holmes. So rememb er that\, the creative value of your work is based on your relationship to your work. but the commercial value is based on how others view your work . You suggest the creative should determine the commercial but I don't thi nk so. I think all artists need to comprehend what they value creatively\, but also learn what is commercially liked.Stepehen king wanted to be a fa ntasy writer but it didn't work out commercially. His first book carrie he put in the trahs but it was a huge commercial success. I arrest my case.@ I024 nice\, people without brains looks like a spooky video game character \, i can sense pyramid head around@CiroAliro no color needed \, nice septp tych\, beautiful@darkroots77 mustard is that strong? knocks the eyes out@M ozaGrin so cute and safe\, can't mess around with tides\, so many people d on't wear floaties in the water@Saraeustace91 what are the dimensions of t he butterfly? how long did it take to create?@DomesticVamp double saber wi elding sith\, so cool and her head tentacle is sexyCOMMENT URLhttps://www. deviantart.com/comments/1/1350115732/5298298703COMMENT CONTENTBeautiful ed ition as always @leothefox and all fellow DreadfullersLEo \, For carried a long\, who are the carriers and are those dead folk?@Chaosfive-55 your alw ays so much fun\, what kind of stone is that?@CapnDeek373 nice work develo ping \"watching\"COMMENT URLhttps://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/13483971 85/5298303857COMMENT CONTENTCongratulations to all you new senior folk@Ste phanePellennec how many dribbles did iya raore do for the take?@MSGoesDevi ant when 2 states of matter collide is lovely\, how high are the shore sid e cliffs?What are those stakes for in the photo with adrienne?@K-Zlovetch you already know how i feel about your artwork\, victor side bianca is one of the greatest couples of deviantart@skfuu have your commissions gotten better since 2020@nawkaman hey fellow poet\, the opening line is brilliant imagerycLiteraturecold mirror\nCOMMENT URLhttps://www.deviantart.com/comm ents/1/1350820101/5298306162COMMENT CONTENT@LadyLincoln thanks for the hig hlights\, nice featuring of challenges.@SRSmith serenity had a very nice b alanceSLiteratureSerenity\nCOMMENT URLhttps://www.deviantart.com/comments/ 1/1353964020/5298309973COMMENT CONTENT@leothefox glad you are free from th e guy.@Chaosfive-55 a stalemate? who was the black or white?@zeroequalsq n ice composition\, jumping out the window@ArtofMikolajOstapiuk another work with great composition\, the color the pose\, the items\, i know it is a sketch so you haven't put as much time as you can\, but i think its lovely @FlyingFryingPans what building inspired your design in the sketch? or was it pure imagination?COMMENT URLhttps://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1349 878628/5298336180COMMENT CONTENT@KABANOMORI lovely feature\, enjoyed all the worksWhen any artist creates with no financial agenda\, the art has on ly one purpose and that is the desires of the artist. That is historically ninety nine percent of art created. When an artists creates with a financ ial agenda that they are paying for\, the artist is gambling what they lik e will be adored by others so to turn a profit. You see this in various in dependent films or independent video games. When an artist creates with a financial agenda others are paying for\, others are the primary determinan t of its success. The Medici's patronage to an artist\, or big hollywood studio films paying a director who is an artist\, comic book companies pa ying artists to draw and right a graphic novel.The problem in the art worl d isn't the absence of voices . Art has always been and will always be cre ated throughout humanity\, and usually with no financial agenda. The probl em in the art world is the absence of voices in the paid artistic space.Os car Michaeux proves black people in all aspects of the film industry in th e usa was present from the early 1900s. But big hollywood studioes who fin anced better than anyone else\, didn't utlizie black artists in all ways. so today it is still seen as a rarity.Black independent comic book makers have existed since at least the late nineteen forties\, with Lion Man\, a nd yet\, the number of black characters between marvel + dc with their own comic was so small\, milestone was and still is deemed a rare gem of blac k title characters.The easiest proof is in jean michel basquiat's life. Wh en he died \, people threw his art away. Now\, with the promotion by many black people with money\, his art work goes for millions.When a firm is lo oking to make money in the arts it is looking to cater to the paying audie nces tastes. In the usa what few seem to realize is the 1970s was the firs t decade in the history of the usa or the european colonies that preceded it where the black paying auidence could support white financed film/thea ter and thus the commonly called blaxploitation era which was mostly finan ced by whites\, mostly had white directors\, but had many black actors to cater to the black ticket buyers who wanted to see themselves.Have you ev er been told your vision wasn't \"authentic\" enough? Did a curator or a m anager diminished your experience based on their own? Or perhaps you were commissioned by a client only to learn they needed a \"diverse\" take on t he subject?No but I havent worked for a disney or similar. I know artists who have worked in the private sector and they have stated similar.@RoyalA rtist91 nice work fellow graphiter\, I couldn't find the photo you referen ced. but the chiaroscuro is lovely and from what i saw it looks like her@M agentaRoseOrchid what photo of yours do you want to be illustrated from mo st?@6re9 draperie is elegant\, nice version@Apelure is the pearl going to be eaten?@AleksiAh I never played baldur's gate\, but i like karlach's phy sicality@RolfDBruehwiler lovely detail in the ink\, what inspired the desi gn?@mrmission have you ever seen the film krull? this reminds me a little of the design for the beast?@hellboyashish is that harriet tubman? looks l ike a photo of her i saw.@Kietz your wife is very pretty\, will you place the work of her in frames?@SCII1 moth gideon the texture of skin you achie ved is very nice@lorelielye a fairy ballerina\, cute@rohelinebear reminds me of the lady in gold@Wininiii a deer looking at the leaves nice@K-Zlove tch Ancient and powerful@WisniewskiStan love the decay of the demon cat@ WisniewskiStan have you drawn sheharazade telling a tale?COMMENT URLCOMMEN T CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCO MMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT U RLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMME NT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTC OMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENTCOMMENT URLCOMMENT CONTENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260723 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR