Does anybody else feel like it’s strange what arts we romanticize and what arts we don’t?
You will always hear about the tragedy/hope/soul/life of the painter, the musician, the actor, the poet, but suddenly things like ‘digital illustrator’ sounds much more mundane and uninteresting. Who cares if you’re a cartoonist or make anime girls or make drawings move, or god forbid any kind of designer, good luck trying to make interior designer sound dramatic. But if you’re a painter or a writer? Yea you can absolutely make it dramatic, you can make it tragic, you can make it respectable, you can make it magical.
I’m not trying to be all “BOO HOO people don’t romanticize all forms of art and it’s not fair!!” But I do find it interesting why and how such a thing would happen.