/art/ - Drawing, Photography, Painting

how much will my art worth? how much amount of people will buy and enjoy it? how much sales?
how do i appraise my own work?

like caustics, refraction,reflections, halo, shadows or lightfogs…
how is this planned out so to prpduce realism, mathemathically?

i recall syd mead(or someone) plots shadow by pulling a linefrom light source to object… i imagine there are similar things for like reflections and refractions?

havent found one, pls suggest

how to draw out/project the right angles and lengths of an object (gvien size of x amount of cm in their length, width, or depth) so to present the subject as correct to its actual sizes especially since perspective does not show the same length in view?

help me improv my art to be something of worth like fifty thousand dollar

like sure, anatomy, rendering, color scheme…. how to target the quality that is worth X amount of dollar/traffic?

how do you exactly target something but not steal or trace exact but somewhat similar quality but not just copy

also maybe get that traffic straight ahead

like, what do i look for in maybe that million possible buyer

trying to get maximum exposure for your art, channel, post, vids…that particular "link". not spamming or shilling illegally and nuissancely,
just putting yourself on top of everyone's search log and demand…
maybe try and hit hundred thousands of traffics in view, comments, likes share so on… how is this effectively done, against google search algorythm, perhaps a site's recommendation, or maybe something even more universal like IRL word of mouth.
focusing the "hundred thousand" people, what exactly is the key for each material/products to acquire this exposure independently? especially on current trend? how to know the current trend's demand too AKA trend forecasting, and their exact value (since, hundred thousand)

thank you

heya, doing graphic/animation/product design biz here. but i have never made a portofolio ever yet, properly… whats the specification to a good portofolio? hoping to get hundreds to thousand jobs/user monthly… how good should my portofolio be AT LEAST? how many stuff, what to show, the trend to follow and why, please go into details.

how do you draw caustics, reflections and refractions thru bubbles realistically? i dont get how it works

i recall there's how shadows are planned but i cant seem to find anything on reflection orrefraction or caustics… especially underwater ones or even raindrops

any tutorials? thanks

what can i do THIS MONTH(in a month) to net me fifty thousand dollar(in subs, traffic, etc) portofolio with art? note the NET as in PROFIT

You like icons? I don't get this one: The Holy Martyr Christopher, seems like sometimes they give him a dog head.

Just finished batch 1 through the various steps of grit and polish.
Turned out to be quite a disaster.
I intentionally set out to tumble shitty rocks to see what would happen, and they ended up shitting up some nicer ones that I lumped in through the grit transfers.

My unit is a dual container tumbler which means there are I can run two batches at once. However, due to some rocks becoming too small and hence discarded, merging the batches allows the opportunity to begin another one. So some of the dark black creek rocks mixed with what I assume is some kind of quartz. Some of the quartz has black specs on it because the black rocks rubbed off onto them.
Guides suggest to match up hardness, but I'm not a geologist. It's basically a lesson similar to laundry or society.

Anyway, I've got a load of jaspers going which came with the tumbler, so those should turn out nice and shiny. I also broke up a rock stolen off a state park beach and tossed it in a batch.

Also have a hobby drill press now and poked some holes into some. We'll see what happens.
One thing you won't notice from the photos is the touch. They're remarkably smooth, almost smoother than the granite slab countertop I photoed them on, also probably a bad idea for photographing the rocks. Oh well.
It's a pretty fun passive hobby. Once a week you play in some water and see rocks develop.

I thought it was kind of funny. There's one rock in there that looks basically like any old creek rock like nothing happened to it. However it's incredibly smooth.
Anyway… there's my post.