Hello everyone!

A nice artist I watch here on DA wrote something in her journal that reminded me about something I've been wanting to write here for a long time (but never did because I procrastinate too much. So there.)

How do you feel about showing to others the way you work, sharing your own little tricks and your usual working methods?
I get asked quite often questions like "how did you do this?" or "would you make a tutorial about your technique for that?", and these are always hard to answer.
I like explaining how I work, and I think it's important to share tips and to explain techniques to other artists, because while learning through trial and error is great, sometimes you could just have saved yourself a lot of time if somebody had told you right away that what you're doing is never going to work. Plus, it's important for the emulation, and I personnally appreciate it when I ask a question and receive an answer, so I feel it's only right to do the same. But on the other hand... well, like everyone else, I have my special little secrets that I don't necessarily want to share, because I worked hard to develop them and they're what makes my work distinctive. So sometimes I'm nagged between wanting to help and wanting to say "Hmmm, why don't you try and work it out by yourself? "...!
I've also noticed that self-taught artists are usually more protective of their techniques than artists who have a solid art classes background - and also that artists become more protective when their notoriety grows.

So, what's your stand on this matter? Are you the type of artist who will gladly explain how they do something from A to Z, or rather the type who prefer to keep their little tricks to themselves?


[EDIT] Completely unrelated to this journal but, I did something silly while using the drag-and-drop feature to organize the folders in my gallery and added by mistake one of my artworks to my own favourites... xD;; I don't like my own work THAT much, thank you, so I'd like to remove it from my favourites, but the problem is that you don't have the "Remove favourite" button on your own artwork. Does anybody have any idea on how I can do this? Thank you!