~What do you call yourself?~

[BunnyCupCakes]

I suck too much to be called an artist :'D

But I find it the quickest way to claim myself to be one, plus it makes the other person understand easier instead of getting all complicated with terms.

Though I never really gave thought of calling myself by something else.
Maybe I should look into it...

[ErinneX]

I'm going to say I consider myself an artist. I have won awards for my art and sold paintings as well.
I am attending an art school after I graduate. I've already been accepted. I'm going to have a career in art. So I'd have to say I consider myself an artist in every way.
It really shouldn't matter how good you are or how serious you are. If you create things you are an artist. Sculpturing is art. Drawing is art. Painting. Hell, decorating a house is art lol. But that's my opinion.
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[Hiija]

I consider myself a Spray Artist! I work with only spray paint cans. Its difficult but it is fun and i love doing it check out some of my art: http://newartist16.deviantart.com/

[So Indie]

Sweet shameless plug ^

I'd call myself a student.
Nowhere near the full-fledged "artist" status.

[Corrupter of Words]

Calling myself an artist would sound too pretentious. I never call myself that.

[xX4_evr_ursXx]

um i geuse i just call my self a anime artist not realy just artist cuz i dont realy do accule "ART" so no i wouldnt call my self an "ARTIST"

[Radioactive Injection]

Someone once said they didn't like the word artist because they felt it was thrown around too much and lost it's meaning.

I tend to agree but at times I'm at a loss for something else to describe what I do. I wish I could just say painter but I do so much more than that so eh... And drawer sounds awful. I agree that there needs to be a different term for intermediate level people who aren't quite professional grade but experienced enough that they aren't beginners.

[Corrupter of Words]

Radioactive Injection

Someone once said they didn't like the word artist because they felt it was thrown around too much and lost it's meaning.

I tend to agree but at times I'm at a loss for something else to describe what I do. I wish I could just say painter but I do so much more than that so eh... And drawer sounds awful. I agree that there needs to be a different term for intermediate level people who aren't quite professional grade but experienced enough that they aren't beginners.

I just tell people I draw/paint/make art.

Someone once told my Literature teacher, "Knabe, I want to be a poet."
He responded, "you'll never be one. Either you are, or you are not."

[MSRT]

I am definitely an artist. :)

But I agree with Radioactive that it kind of has lost it's meaning.
There are more specific terms, like painter, sculptor, illustrator, etc, but very few artists I know do only one thing. D:
Like, I love painting, but I don't do it often. I draw more. But at the same time I aspire to making plushies and I have even started my own porcelain BJD.

But, because the term is so broad, it is kind of like we belong to a separate group. :)
You don't see a large variety of bankers or business managers.
Artist seems more like a lifestyle label than a profession sometimes. :D

[Kendaroo]

WhatsThatBehindYou

Ha! I looked at that and thought you called yourself furniture. XD

I'm the best damn coat hanger around baby!

But on a serious note:

I am an art student. I am an animation student. At best I am an apprentice artist. I am studying to become a proffessional. I am not one yet and this does not bother me. I do not need a title to feel accomplished at what I have achieved to far. I am content with bragging to about how I am so much better than them and they will never be as great as me. I don't need to call myself an artists to know that I'm better than all of you punks.

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I am content with learning and paying my dues to those who have committed themselves to the craft for much, much longer than I have. I don't think I'd have the guts to walk up to any of Disney's Nine Old Men and tell them I'm an animator. They'd rip me to shreds. It's not that I'm unconfident in my abilities, it's that they have only just begun to develop. You don't put stuff in your professional portfolio that you did when you just started learning something: it's going to suck. That's part of the learning process.

I don't mind other people, especially younger people, (I say this while acknowledging that it still hasn't sunk in that I'm not a teenager anymore, but am still [s]very[/s] young myself at only 20 years *puts on toddler voice* and a half! biggrin ) calling themselves artists. I think this is mostly a personal conclusion that I've made for myself that I am naught but a humble grasshopper, and not (yet?) a master. (... you know... I wish I could jump like a grasshopper, that would be pretty awesome. BOING!)

[Kaxen]

I dunno. The word "artist" never had any special connotations for me... It was the idea of going pro that was the shiny thing. Professional artist, now that was shiny and awesome to me.

I'm just an amateur artist. :-/

[Morioka Ruriko]

I think I should name myself a hobbyst despite that all my hobbies are kind of art (drawing, writing, beadweaving, literary translation). Artist is a more professional.

[K1ND]

im just someone that has a passion to do artsy things smile doesn't make me an artist

and the best tip i've heard was to (if ur drawing) feel like you're the character you're drawing. it help me figure out how the face and pose would look like in my head then i just doodle it on paper :3

[Alpine]

I call myself an artist, just not one by profession as I don't make a living off creating it. I have sold art before though, but most of my art is to entertain me and people I know (other artists).

[CF Ofdensen]

im not an artist i just like to pretend im god. xd