What's the longest you've gone without purchasing artwork?

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:32 am

Its been about ten months since I bought anything. Tough keeping everything else going in this recession.

ginga123 · Post by **ginga123** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:09 am

my definition of 'artwork' is any cels or sketches. thank you very much. and no, i do not collect anything else anime related besides that. i also haven't purchased any photography, etc. in 2 years based on your definition as well.

in my opinion, it's still art, just different genres.

Mappi · Post by **Mappi** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:38 am

The longest I've gone without purchasing artwork would be about ten months.

Sky Rat · Post by **Sky Rat** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:43 am

I hope you didnâ€™t take offense at my response ginga123?

My comment â€˜that depends on your definition of artworkâ€™ didnâ€™t mean to imply that anime cels and sketches arenâ€™t artwork. I very much consider them so (otherwise I wouldnâ€™t be so interested in collecting.) I only said that because I suspected the question was only asking about anime (cels and sketches, etc,) art, but the term â€˜artworkâ€™ is vague and my answer went outside the genre I suspected was being asked about. Iâ€™ve gone very long stretches without buying anime art, but not very long at all without buying art in general. They are just different genres, which is why I answered that way.

ginga123 · Post by **ginga123** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:54 pm

no worries, none taken

the Smithsonian recognizes our cels and sketches as a form of 'pop culture' art.

maybe the word itself is too broad?

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:23 pm

Hi Ralph, I haven't seen you around for a while- or perhaps I don't check the right forum threads

I was reminded of you when I checked my MySpace page the other day... anyway!

For me I may have gone 8 weeks without buying any anime artwork, although I check the auction pages on YJ and Mandarake every day. Well, with Mandarake I usually scan through a whole week's worth in one shot and take note of anything that catches my eye.
My typical buying habits are weekly or fortnightly depending on what's available.

otakusin · Post by **otakusin** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:38 pm

3 months and it was so long ago I cannot recall what year, thinking 04 but again not sure.

choka162 · Post by **choka162** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:09 pm

I went on a 4 year hiatus that ended late 2007. Completely cold turkey-no buying and no looking either. Mostly because of too much school and too little money

I didn't even mean to start back up but I took one little peek and BAM that one little peek ended up with me buying a new cel. It's interesting to see some of the changes in the marketplace over that period of time though so I feel like it gave me some perspective. Of course I happened to miss the closing of Anime Taro and Anime Chaos ;_; and probably so many wonderful cels.

klet · Post by **klet** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:15 pm

I don't keep track enough to give you an exact amount of time, but I'm betting it's anywhere from 3-6 months. Things have been rather slow for me for almost 2 years now. The economy sucks.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:33 am

I would guess about 6 months. Now ask me how long I've gone without looking at auctions sites. That would be over a year.

HotIce · Post by **HotIce** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:43 pm

It has been about 1 year I'd guess. I can't judge by my last update on RS either since I waited months before I posted those, even the fan arts I bought I don't think I put up right away. I haven't even looked on auction or dealer sites, I barely glanced at personal sales in that long either. I did buy one cel to celebrate moving into my first home, but it hasn't been updated yet.

graymouser · Post by **graymouser** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:36 pm

Hard to say exactly. The longest in recent years has been only about 3 months.

There was a rather huge gap when I first started that I am not sure would qualify. I got my first cel as a freebie around 1994. I spent a lot of time looking but avoiding spending any money. This was due to a combination of reasons. I had just graduated 2 years previously, and then I bought my home and started a new business in the same year, 1994. There was about a 5-6 year gap from that first cel to when I felt I had enough disposable income to afford spending money on artwork. It actually would have been longer, but I got lucky and won quite a bit of money in a charity raffle. I was able to pay off my bills and still have a chunk left over for getting started on my collection.

CaptainChar · Post by **CaptainChar** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:21 pm

I took a 2 year break for school, but i sold 90% of my cels by the time I started up again. It was like starting over, its my only regret in collecting.