"What a pity. Being exposed to this kind of studio feels like having a piece of dog shit stuck in your throat. Whether you swallow it or spit it out, it is twice as disgusting.
London In her apartment, Lei Louise is holding her little daughter who has just started to learn painting, browsing the fiverr store homepage.
Ever since Lei was crushed by this mysterious online illustrator on the same theme. After defeating him, she remembered the other party's store.
She would occasionally go to Detective Cat's homepage to take a look.
She was the latest one on Detective Cat's homepage today. Attracted by that negative review, she also jumped to the online store called "cheabutnotbad" and took a look.
Lei only looked at the store for a few seconds and shook her head in disdain.
This store is already one of the leading studios on Fiverr, and the volume of orders is very large.
Lei glanced at its store poster and knew it.
This is a low-cost illustration studio with an assembly line factory style.
This kind of studio is also called the sweatshop model. Most of the tasks are subcontracted layer by layer. For some cheap art students, although the fee is not high, the profit margin is very considerable.
A lot of business is based on information.
For example, a simple painting charge is ten dollars. But subcontracting to an art student in Argentina may only cost five dollars, and a poor student from Venezuela may only need one dollar.
The middleman does nothing and makes a net profit of nine dollars.
p>Most of the cheap painting studios on fiverr are of this type.
Of course, it doesn’t matter how good the painting is, but some works do not require any technical content in the first place. People just buy a simple picture.
In fact, the contractors in these studios have made a better life than many middle-level painters in the past few years.
Although they charge a fee. Low, but the business volume is very large. When there are many orders from all over the world, it can be counted in the unit of tens of thousands.
That translates into hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
The main reason why the past few years are not as good as before is because of the impact of AI painting. Many low-end painting businesses have been diverted by free AI.
However, at least today, AI cannot completely replace the work of low-end painters.
For the simplest example, AI may be able to understand what "Detective Conan" is, but when faced with "Detective Conan", it holds a dorayaki in one hand. With complex instructions and task requirements like "Kicking a Ball", today's image training volume is not enough for independent AI painters to complete such work.
There is a reason why this industry can survive, and there is nothing wrong with it. It can be ridiculed.
But this studio is obviously a model of self-destruction.
It seems to be targeting the recently popular Detective Cat.Ready to catch some heat.
The poster on the store’s homepage has been artificially replaced with a female cat peeing into a wine glass.
Next to the picture and text is a famous Austrian critic, Karl Kraus’s famous saying: Some things are hip flasks, and some things are urinals. No matter how beautifully carved a urinal is, it cannot be placed on the table for drinking. .
This sentence was originally a classic quote used by Karl Kraus to criticize the meaningless extravagance of "fin de siècle aesthetics". Sometimes it is also used to evaluate all meaningless beautiful things.
This "cheabutnotbad" studio is paired with extremely insulting posters, and the yin and yang meaning is very obvious.
In the art world, illustrators are most often described as taxi drivers who were once driven by their employers.
The concept of this studio directly treats illustration art as a portable urinal.
It is a satire that no matter how good the detective cat sketch is, it is meaningless because the online illustration itself is not recognized by the art market.
Even if the opponent carved a flower out of the urinal, he could not turn the urinal into a wine pot.
Since everyone is a urinal, instead of looking for a professional illustrator to create beautiful illustrations, it is better to draw them yourself.
Not to mention Gu Weijing, as an illustrator Lei looked at the poster on the shop and felt a little bored.
"Don't you dislike that detective cat?"
The younger daughter heard the indignation in Lei's tone.
"But this does not prevent me from admitting that the other person's realistic drawing of characters is better than mine. Being defeated by such a person is just sad, not embarrassing."
Lei said with a tone of voice. With admiration and a bit of dissatisfaction. "Only online illustrators would spend so long on comic characters. If the subject matter were changed, I believe I would still have a chance to defeat Detective Cat."
"But this kind of stuff is different. I have no respect for art, and all I feel is disgust.”
“That detective cat lady just let the other person say that.” My daughter stuck out her tongue as she looked at the poster.
"What can she do? The art market does not really recognize online illustrations."
Lei looked helplessly into her daughter's eyes and shrugged
"When you show off your painting skills, people will ridicule you for being a fool who uses a urinal as a wine glass. They will care that your painting skills are better than his."
"This kind of guy just shows it. Because of your enthusiasm, the more you fight back, the happier the other party will be."
Lei handed the phone to her daughter and educated her.
“So, sometimes choice is more important than hard work. If this detective cat is an orthodox painter with a contracted gallery, this kind of thing will not happen. He is an online illustrator and can draw well. , you will encounter such doubts. And the lower you are as a painter, the more villains will dare to step on you.”
Lei is right, facing this kind of thing is like using your bare hands. Face a puddle of shit on your shoes.
If you don’t deal with it, it will stick to your feet.
It will be even more disgusting if you deal with it.
Gu Weijing really didn’t have any good solution.
Since this bad review came out, buyers on Fiverr have even proposed to terminate the transaction in the past few days.
The price of Detective Cat is not too low on Fiverr. Many customers came over to make impulse purchases after watching the video.
It is understandable that people now say that they think his paintings are not worth the price and want a refund.
Gu Weijing all readily agreed.
What he is really worried about is the orders that have ended but have not yet been evaluated.
However, things suddenly unfolded today completely beyond his expectation.
Gu Weijing was originally chatting on his mobile phone.
It is already February, and school will start soon. The chat groups in the school are becoming more and more bubbling.
While he was having lunch, he saw the group of classmates in the school discussing his Detective Cat account again.
He is already used to this.
Mr. Hyperion is a super Internet celebrity who is very famous among teenagers.
The other party chose to shoot a short video with an art theme, and the ending was so gimmicky.
No gossip subject can arouse the curiosity of art students more than this.
Now Gu Weijing even sees others talking about him online, and he doesn't even feel the slightest sense of disobedience.
He scrolled up the chat history.
The first thing I saw was a colored pencil drawing modeled after my own work.
“Let’s see if this painting I drew looks like a detective cat. Unfortunately, it would be great if Mr. Hyperion could find me.”
Earliest The speaker was Miss Koko.
You can tell from this name that the other person is a native of Myanmar.
Koko is her full name.
In Myanmar’s traditional culture, there is no concept of surnames. This leads to the daily identity registration and declaration process in Myanmar. In addition to your personal name, you must also fill in your father's name.
This is not because the government is supervising you, but simply because there are too many names with the same name and it is difficult to distinguish them.
Miss Kou Kou’s family background is also very good in the international class. Her father is a local military and political official. .
The swinging jade legs not only carry the risk of having a happy couple, but also make many people's hearts swell.
Although her boyfriend changes frequently, it does not affect Kou Kou's charming charm, which makes her still very popular among boys.
No one would object to what she said, and the boys naturally spoke enthusiastically.
Gu Weijing also posted an emoticon of approval.
"The painting is good, decent."
Although from his point of view, there are many deformations in the other party's works, let alone compared with himself or Sakai Katsuko, even It is far different from Sakai Tsunamasa.
It is at the entry-level level of v2, at most it can barely reach v3
But this is an imitation.
There are also people who draw imitations of themselves
Gu Weijing is often a little excited about the treatment only received by masters.
"Gu Weijing, are you sure? I don't agree with your point of view."
Mona, who had not chatted for a long time, suddenly raised her eyebrows and objected.
"This is your ability to appreciate sketches." The childhood sweetheart's tone was unkind and pointed directly at Gu Weijing. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft