Do women find men who are artists attractive?

[BraveHeart97]

I'm only asking because I've been told that women only like men who are musicians, athletes, rappers, popstars, etc. and they don't find male artists attractive because they find drawing to be "unmanly" and it doesn't really pay that well. If that's true, that'll suck because I really love drawing and I'm planning to make a career out of it one day. Probably will make my own animated series or publish a comic series. So I'm just wondering if it's true or the guys who told me this was full of bs.

[Artistguy]

Hi, I'm a visual artist myself, I just turned 32. I'm also very skilled, that does attract attention of women a lot in art classes. It's not unmanly and being skilled requires a lot of attractive values. Also there is mostly women in arts classes.
Unfortunately I'm a shy guy. I did ask a women out about every semester, but the very large majority already had a boyfriend or I learned that they had one beforehand.
Dating is quite hard for most men under 30. 63% of men are single vs 34% of women according to Pew research (they date older man and some date other women). Your revenue will also play a role in this, women mostly tend to value status and money about their partner unlike men. Although most women claim that they would date someone making less than them. Only a third does (Pew research).
On dating apps, it's quite bleak, my look is slightly above average and I'm 6 feet tall. After a month or two I average about 1 like per week, than less and less. So I'm receiving slightly less attention or about the same as other average guys I know. That is even if I show how skilled I am in the pictures. I also paid photographers to have good pictures and I had a lot of feedback for my bio.
I do believe this has a lot to do my social status and revenue, even if I have a well paid part time job. Unless you are 1-successful and make a lot of money with your art, 2-very good looking guy, 3- charismatic, confident and outgoing, 4- have very rich parents so you don't have a job to be able to focus more on your art career and socializing, 5- you are able to find a well paid job in the industry, or 6- you are able to be sexually aroused by unattractive women.
If not then you are very likely to have difficult dating life like most young men (about a third are now virgins under 30 on average -18 to 29-), it's highly competitive with a few men getting most of the attention, but it might even worse because your art career will start to flourish later in your life (it might even not). Artistic women I know don't have this issue around dating and often have financial support from their boyfriend. Men and women don't have equal dignity as potential mates.

My current strategy is to find a girlfriend in art classes often taken as a hobby for women, but it's the same scenario as in university (only 17% are single between 30 and 45). I'm also starting to draw in public areas rather than in my studio.
I might be able to find love later in my life, and I will highly likely have some form of success or become a university teacher. Being a successful artist requires much more self discipline than you can imagine, and it's extraordinary difficult, there are much less successful artists then there are people with phd's.

Short answer is that while they might find the aura around "artists" attractive, women will probably, in effect, chose the guy with more revenue, with a stable and secure life, with a job that has some form of valued status. That is until you are successful, if you can.
As you can expect, it's very difficult not to have a love relationship, I feel sad almost everyday, but I'm still fighting and working very hard. I hope this does not happen to you, it's a very tough decision.
(In the factory where I work part time, some colleagues are telling me that they regret not doing a work that they loved and find my adventure inspiring and are amazed by what I can do. But I still ended up there with them with no girlfriend working night shifts.)

[Juxtapose]

If a woman cares about your income she'll probably find it unattractive.

Failing that, creativity is nice so long as it's not overly abstract and full of nonsense.

[Juxtapose]

Thanks for mho.

[Leibesgeister]

I definitely think artistic men are attractive. It shows that they refuse to conform to society's image of men: musicians, athletes, etc, which I find manlier than those professions. It's also attractive when men are creative and passionate about something. I guess it gives us the notion that you can commit to things (aka relationships) and deviate from the boring, stereotypical manly man.

[RuthAnn1781]

Being artistic is an attractive quality. That kinda stuff isn't easy, it takes patience and dedication. So it's nice when someone wants to do that kinda thing and even more awesome when they're good at that stuff

[IvoirianGirl20]

OMG male artists are so fucking sweet! People who told you they are unmanly are lyyying!!

[Prima_Dana]

I love an artsy guy if he's hot. I dated an aspiring rapper/musician before.

[LaFemmeFatale]

I find them very attractive.

[PrincessPie]

Yes :) very attractive if they can paint or draw.

[Jaye234]

Your friend is full of shit.