it sounds like you should try to find some better friends, to be honest - you want to try to surround yourself with people who have similar goals and ideals… it’s okay to have him as a normal friend, but you really need to find some artist friends if that’s an important thing to you. If you think that talking to him about your feelings is going to make you lose him as a friend, you need to ask yourself: is holding back on talking about this what I want to do? is this important to me? is it more important that I let him keep doing this, or that I’m able to speak my mind?
I hope this helps - I have been in a similar situation, though there were differences, and I just ended up moving away from caring about having IRL friends because I couldn’t see eye to eye with any of them.