Blake53

I remember my youth.  I see so much promise for the future here at deviant art.  The talent by far outweighs the opportunities for commercial success.  There is no recipe for it.  Being good is necessary but being great is not.  Commercial success is not an arbiter for aesthetic rank.  Within these pages I have seen some great work.  The test is not whether you are commercially successful.  You are your own judge and jury.  Patronage is accidental because there is so much to see here that one could actually miss something that one would love to support or help move to a larger and more focused venue.  Even there, commercial success is not ...