ArrJaySketch 
@Mad Black
I think it’s a combination of artists hating their old artwork (it’s a bit of a given with time), and people falling out with/feeling disgusted with a fandom. Back when I was involved with furry fandom, I deleted my old gallery because of hating my artwork and (back then) being disgusted with furry fandom.
More to a point, I think it’s that artists don’t want to curate a gallery of stuff they hate, because people still sometimes make incredibly dumb/creepy/annoying comments in their old galleries. It sort of only ends up deepening the well of disgust. I think artists don’t address this, because they don’t trust that fans will approach the artist with good intentions. It actually doesn’t help at all when fans complain about artists deleting art, because it comes off as fans only caring about the artist as an art-producing-machine, than them as a person. (Again, feeding that feeling of disgust about a given fandom.)
It could also be because of other reasons, like other classmates harassing someone over their gallery if they’re still in school, job reasons, etc. Deleting their gallery probably feels like it means less bullshit to deal with in the long run vs. keeping it around.
It would be nice to know how we fans could help artists regardless of their situation ahead of time.
I think it’s a combination of artists hating their old artwork (it’s a bit of a given with time), and people falling out with/feeling disgusted with a fandom. Back when I was involved with furry fandom, I deleted my old gallery because of hating my artwork and (back then) being disgusted with furry fandom.
More to a point, I think it’s that artists don’t want to curate a gallery of stuff they hate, because people still sometimes make incredibly dumb/creepy/annoying comments in their old galleries. It sort of only ends up deepening the well of disgust. I think artists don’t address this, because they don’t trust that fans will approach the artist with good intentions. It actually doesn’t help at all when fans complain about artists deleting art, because it comes off as fans only caring about the artist as an art-producing-machine, than them as a person. (Again, feeding that feeling of disgust about a given fandom.)
It could also be because of other reasons, like other classmates harassing someone over their gallery if they’re still in school, job reasons, etc. Deleting their gallery probably feels like it means less bullshit to deal with in the long run vs. keeping it around.
It would be nice to know how we fans could help artists regardless of their situation ahead of time.
