Welcome to my world
here you'll find...well let's face it you won't find much of anything, not many people pay attention to these places do they? lol
anyways, what you might find here are various thought from myself on random stuff...and also maybe some notices when I intend to change something, etc.
...yep that's about it, it's you'd still like to lurk look about, feel free.
Yeah...so...a few things have changed since the last post...
I still don't intend to submit fully original works anymore...however, I've become a little more open to fanart than mentioned before just over the past month...thus I've decided that when I do fanart, I'll be submitting that here.
But now in light of my split opinion on the new usage thing they're pushing, I've come to a comfortable, but none the less sizable decision.
while I do not wish to have the original works in my gallery openly available for usage in wallies or ecards, I actually would be happy to make whatever fanart I come up with over time available for said usage.
I cannot have both options, I can't shut the option off for originals and then turn it on for fanart, so I've come to the decision that I will be removing my original work from TheO and refocusing my gallery/account to be my new fanart base on the internet.
For those who might still want to see my original work, as mentioned before, I've moved my original submissions fully to my deviantART account, SkyGateCreations, there all the work that will be removed here and far more will be available to view - often at higher quality levels.
but as for here, I feel the conversion of this account into my fanart base is what I want to do.
I figured it was a big enough change that it needed a proper explanation, otherwise I'm pretty sure the mass deletion would come across as a major rage-quit XD
dang...taking a lot to vent this, I got a bunch of my art Jacked (a.k.a. STOLEN ) on deviantART...so freakin pissed off, it's taking every fiber of my being to not go a verbally rip the offender a new one...but my rational side knows that really that will solve nothing and I believe can actually get ME reported.
they even claimed my Misha (a.k.a. Lance) as their own! D< THATS. MY. BABY. !!! lol
not to mention they took a picture I drew for a friend of HER OC.
I'm really antsy for a response to all the reports I filed (reported the entire gallery because it's ALL my work) but I know with such a huge sight that gets so many similar reports in a day, it could take a while to see any action >( *sits and steams*
Just something I've wanted to rant on for a long time...and not talking about freelance/hobby artists like myself, we have no real obligation to draw anything we're not into really.
I'm talking about the work professional artists who produce the shows and manga we all consume.
(yep, I'm going there)
anyone else ever notice that the horses (and often the animals in general but horses are among the worst) in anime usually look really horrible?
Like, I totally get that they're usually not the focus of the story, and all that, blah blah blah...yeah...we know...
But tell me, is that really an excuse for the frankly shocking lack of animal drawing skills? It's like no one is even trying and expect no one to notice how bad it really looks, like they're deliberate half-a**ing.
I mean it's one thing when an animal is not as detailed so as to not take away from the important characters, it's entirely another when they're done so badly that they actually begin to distract me from what they want me to pay attention to...they want me to pay attention to the dramatic tension going on between the two characters conversing on the screen, But I can't get it out of my head how utterly freakish and ugly the horse in the background looks or how horrid it's movement is.
I know horses are hard to get right, their anatomy is difficult, their movement is complex and very different from dogs and cats, but for normally professional artists to be as bad as I've seen, I really think the effort really has to be lacking on their part.
And come on, if you're going into a project that involves maybe drawing something one's not used to drawing, there's something called researching your subject matter, at the very least so you can do it just well enough to not detract from the important stuff and the stuff you are good at.
I dunno, I guess I'm just tired of the laziness when some of these artist do just about everything else beautifully, but not this one basic aspect that they have workshops for in art school.
...and on a side note...has anyone else noticed that a lot of the horses in anime look like clones? Like, 99% of the time, they're the same ugly dirt brown with a slightly darker brown mane/tail...it's a conspiracy! the brown freakish horses will inherit the unsuspecting anime world!! O_O lol
And I've been writing a lot lately on here...I don't know why...maybe cause I have nothing better to do...or had a lot of petty crap to get off my chest, I dunno...oh well.
Whoot! XD
yep, name change was a success! I didn't have to delete my entire profile and start over from scratch.
so glad they made the name change option...now if only it would allow us one more letter, then I could have gotten the name I really wanted...but oh well, I like my new not-so-fangirly username
also changed my worlds as you can see, my main one here's redecorated and took on the name of my secondary world, and my old profile world is now simply "Files of Importance" - that is, a place for me to host RP and base Character profiles and other text documents relating to my characters...it's also only open to friends, don't worry, you're not missing much, a lot of my base profiles are laboriously long and dull...and probably not that great. lol
in other news, I'll be looking through my gallery and possibly deleting some of my older works if I see fit, so you may notice some old images disappearing from your favs. but I doubt it, I don't think that many people will miss them.
later
I know no one's gonna see this being I'm so little-known here, but...
...have fav-and-runs gotten Worse in the past few months???
seriously, used to be I'd submit a picture of a character and it'd get at least one or two comments before it was buried beneath other submissions.
but lately all I get is favorites - which are nice, don't get me wrong - but ZERO comments, nothing, zip.
I Know it's gonna happen, I do the same thing myself sometimes, I'm guilty too I admit, I think we all do it sometimes. but that doesn't change the fact that it IS annoying when it becomes as extreme as this.
and it's getting just as bad on deviantART as it is here on Otaku too, it seems to be a universal epidemic.
I mean I don't expect everyone to have something to say, but now it's like people aren't even bothering anymore.
seriously, if you like an image, it would be really nice if you at least try to tell the artist WHY you like it. what features stand out to you? how does it appeal to your tastes? etc. etc. I don't expect an essay or anything, just maybe a quick "I love the eyes" or "the outfit is great" now is it really THAT time consuming to write a quick comment like that??
even I comment sometimes, it's not that hard, seriously people, at least think about it and give it a try.
