Any other Aspie artists?

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I'm a textile artist myself, and while I'm very good at learning techniques and producing beautiful things, I'm absolute rubbish when it comes to marketing, shipping, and all the other aspects of being self-employed that don't have anything to do with actually making stuff. I was wondering if there were any other aspie artists out there and what your experiences were.

I'm an aspie artist and there are many artists on this site. In fact, I made a video compiling their art for YouTube:
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Yeah exactly the same with me basically. Because I probably wouldnt be able to deal with the non artistic parts you mention here, Im not able to have my own self employment one man company that in some way would be idealic for me. So I have my own art company in my own way as I dont need money to work with my art...SO far!!
I have been into textile in earlier years, what kind of textile art are you into?

Same problem. Good at coming up with ideas, even executing the presentation, but marketing - not so much.

That's why I like tattooing - the customer comes to you and when you're done, the work and the customer walk out the door and (if you've done good work) do your marketing for you.

A variety of things really (that's the other problem.) Right now I'm doing a lot of shibori and quilting, but I also sew clothes, spin, felt, bind books, all sorts of things.

I used to draw cartoons of a dog based on Clifford the Big Red Dog, and me and my friends. Before that I did detailed drawings. OK they weren't too good, but I once sat down and drew out the last pictre ever taken of Titanic from a small picture in our Robert Ballard book, it was 3 A4 pages long and had almost every detail you could see. I was very proud, as was my art teacher I also used to draw out my perfect house

I'm not an artist. I'm a craftsman.

I was lucky enough to find a "perfect aspie job" by accident... I ended up doing graphics for a large pharma company's R&D group for ten years, until they decided that they could overseas it...

If any of you have any questions about large format printing, etc., feel free...

Took the words right out of my brain...

I'm an artist, too, but I'm usually struggling. I draw pictures, and if they're good enough to me, I ink them and colour them with Prismacolour markers.

But, with AS, it's a game of give and take. Where you excel in one particular area, the rest you think you're unbearably bad at. I still remember how disappointed I was for my art mark in grade nine. I really thought I should have done better, but they were focusing in art area I wasn't used to (like painting and art history). The art summative was the worst. It was an open assignment, and although many people would see that as a benefit, it was a disaster to me. I got so bored with my summative that I just left it partially done and handed it in. Now I'm not sure I want to do art in high school again if that's all it's going to be.

On the other hand, I got an average of seventy seven in science applied in grade nine (above the average mark), so maybe my class haven will be in science. I hated the chatting idiots in my class, but I began to love the subject itself (astronomy and biology really caught my attention; the electricity unit, however, was, as they say, a total flop). I still remember parts of what I learned in science!

I'm an artist and designer with AS and Tourette Syndrome. I have a college degree, a BA, in Digital Design and Visual Art. But I don't have a job because I'm too lazy to get one, and back in school learning Web Design so I can eventually become a full-time web designer with clients some day. Here is my website: http://www.benleedesign.com

(The site is still incomplete, but I'm still working on other projects at the moment).

And I like to draw comic character's and art on my free time.

Oh ya and those projects are keeping me busy from applying for jobs. But what I'm scared s**t about is interviews for jobs. That's what's keeping me from working. But also I understand I have Asperger's Syndrome, and it's hard for us Aspie's to communicate in social settings, and present ourselves professionally in professional interviews.

Sigh... but that's life for an AS type isn't it?

Hi, I think I am an aspie but anyways yea I am exactly the same way. I was always the best at everything in art class in college. I could make anything and make it perfect. I thought yea my skills can get me somewhere. But when it comes to marketing and networking, I am pretty much ret*d. I know people who weren't as good artist's as I was, but now they are going places and getting shows and getting their names out there. While now I am stuck makin' $9.00 an hour doing data entry. It sucks for me because I know I am good I just don't know how to communicate with people to sell my art or whatever you have to do to be successful. I just can't make the connection.

hi, i'm a professional art photographer, and i guess it happens the same with me. i need to create everyday, it's in my blood. the other day an article in a magazine mentioned the amount of creative work i can do, but when it goes to self-marketing, sales, openings... i'm terrible. glad that some mags and blogs talk about me and that brings me the clients, instead of me being on their way. but i have lots of work that i have to travel and spend some days at a client's house to do creative photography for them... and usually they see me as an "artist" ;) which is always a good "excuse". but most of the times now i feel the need of a good and honest art dealer to "take care of me" professionally, for those tasks: marketing, sales, opening of exhibitions, etc. the social part of our work.

I find my arts to be more focused on film--i like to present a story. i also prefer to work on graphics over material, but then again I design clothing too.. you just have to do your best to network and find someone who can't do what you can do, and vice versa. I'd rather work alone, but there's just too much to do!

To actually make money you literally have to be 50% artist and 50% businessperson. I am horrible a marketing and networking, but I still manage to have a net profit that I am proud of.

I'm self taught. I work mostly with dry media and watercolours. Genre-wise I create photo-realistic portraits by eye. I used to get abuse online from twerps convinced my art was actually some poorly manipulated photograph, so went on to develop a system of sharing works-in-progress alongside all finished pieces as a silent way of telling them to go to hell. Realist-artist problems, bleh. I also occasionally dabble in creative writing but am less confident in this realm, but certainly have fun writing them. At heart, I'm a dabbler artist with no real interest in turning my work in for profit, something many people I'm close to don't appear to understand.

I make sculptures, figures, animals, abstracts out of metal and plastic junk and scrap metal. I've tried selling at markets but got very discouraged. I can actually make real money at galleries selling one piece for $300 up. But I'm shithouse at marketing. I'm getting stuff ready for a curated show with other artists, and the curator and her mate had to gang up on me and beg to get me to put some pieces in. So I finished off a few on a weekend. I'm glad to sell them as I get sick of looking at them in my living room, I give them away to friends too. I'm not a real artist, I've no training.

Since I am so childlike kids like my stuff and I get called naive.

I'd post a picture but this website requires that they be online. Oh yes I hate social media too.