I think it's because I'm from a programming background, but now that I've been paying more attention to online art communities I find a lot of the attitudes within online artist circles to be obnoxious.
Like I just want to share my art with people. But a lot of other artists are, like, psychotically controlling over even really low-effort stuff. People will absolutely ruin their art going over-the-board with watermarks trying to make sure that no one can steal an image no one ever would want to steal in the first place.
Meanwhile in the programming community, releasing your work so that other people can use it is just, like, a common practice. There's a mentality of "Sure, take my work and build on to it! That's what it's there for brother!" Meanwhile in artist spaces people will be like "You clearly copied this character's pose from my work, you've STOLEN from me!"
Just completely different mindsets between the two.
Like I just want to share my art with people. But a lot of other artists are, like, psychotically controlling over even really low-effort stuff. People will absolutely ruin their art going over-the-board with watermarks trying to make sure that no one can steal an image no one ever would want to steal in the first place.
Meanwhile in the programming community, releasing your work so that other people can use it is just, like, a common practice. There's a mentality of "Sure, take my work and build on to it! That's what it's there for brother!" Meanwhile in artist spaces people will be like "You clearly copied this character's pose from my work, you've STOLEN from me!"
Just completely different mindsets between the two.