Hey, my friend V recently finished posting a great autobiographical comic online, called Mythical- you can read the whole thing here. You will like it, I promise!!!
I should be packing but I don’t care at all - I do what I want, and what I want to do is reblog this lovely piece of art! *u*
Yay for comics!!
margaritas-and-microwave-pizzas:
The circle of admiring/looking up to artists you like.
There’s a quality we see within each other.
Thats actually really nice, :3 for all the people who wonder why i like their art :3
This this this this thisssssss is why you don’t brush off people who compliment your work. There are all manner of levels people can appreciate things you make on aside from technical skill alone.
Accurate.
I have… no excuses…
I started doodling this as an attempt to begin a decorating idea that we thought up for our new apartment, but after I drew Bulbasaur’s face it pretty much spiraled downhill.
I’m sorry…
I…
I can’t stop laughing.
I just threw together a few year-progression things.
Embarrassingly, I don’t have anything older than 2008, because I just never saved much? I mean, I am sure on paper, somewhere, in a dusty box but… meh…
(They should be viewable at full size if you ctrl+click or open in a new tab.)
I spent the morning un-following a bunch of very talented people on Tumblr.
That feels like a really weird thing to say. And it is.
It was nearly a dozen different artists in all, and they were all extremely talented. Part of what moved me to Follow them in the first place was their skill. In…
I agree with this so much. I watch many different people of varying skill level and focus, but the defining thread is that they produce original work and have original stories in their heads. I like young artists a lot for this reason; sometimes the stories aren’t the best but the feeling and brain power behind them is there.
Fanartists can do incredible work too, but as a consumer of art it’s as significant as the difference between eating a meal and eating someone else’s vomit.
I have a huge problem with this.
How do you know they aren’t doing their own work? Believe it or not, about 40% of what I draw is my own original stuff. And only about 10% of that makes it onto my online accounts. Why? Because I’m constantly changing and improving things. Because maybe I feel like I want it to be the very best it can be before I show it to the world. It’s a lot less nerve-wracking to showcase fanart even if you just did it for the sake of practice. And even then….what’s wrong with using your fanart to improve? You can learn a LOT from drawing fanart, then when you’re ready, you can start doing your own things. This elitist “I draw my own things, therefor I’m a better artist” idea is bullshit.
The fact that you’re doing your own original work and not posting it is fair, but isn’t it also fair that I don’t know that? Am I supposed to assume that every person that I watch who posts nothing but fanart is someone with deep amazing story ideas and I should just wade through the stuff I hate to get to it a few years from now when they get around to showing it off?
Nor did I say that one shouldn’t draw fanart to improve. Lots of people do. I did. I drew a fuckton of AtLA fanart back when the show was going, and I learned most of the basics of dynamic drawing in the process. What I didn’t do after that was continue to draw fanart constantly to the exclusion of developing my own work.
I don’t think I’m being elitist. I’m not saying that fanart is bad. I love drawing fanart for things that inspire me (I just posted one a few days ago in fact). But, as I said pretty clearly, as a consumer of the art of others, constant unceasing fanart doesn’t inspire me to anything but annoyance. All my favorite artists draw fanart from time to time, but they also all have incredible worlds in their heads that I never want to stop hearing about.
Last, if you’re reading some kind of personal insult into it, then that might be your own guilt speaking. If you want people to recognize you for your original work, then perhaps you should stop worrying about what I do and keep pushing to make that happen.
Weh, I’ll regret getting mixed up in this debate but… /takes out umbrella for the oncoming shitstorm/
I agree that it’s really not anyone’s place for shaming someone for drawing a lot of fanart. It’s weird for me to say because I ALSO agree with the thought of the original poster - I don’t really like to see a whole bunch of repetitive works on my dash. I love seeing original works.
However, the solid truth is - fanart is what gets you more notice. Many people have A HUGE vendetta against any OCs. My artwork ALWAYS gets more notes if it’s fanart. I don’t draw that much of it, and I don’t really care about notes - but I can see why someone would be discouraged from drawing original art when it’s kind of… stigmatized and often ignored. :\
Also, the only other thing is - why make a public announcement about it? Unfollow all you want… but don’t shame them for it. It’s really quite… mean. I don’t know. Everyone should be allowed to hang out and have fun here, it’s not an art review board. And no one is going to start drawing original and more creative art just because you unfollowed them, or just because others might unfollow them. Until they feel confident enough to produce creative original art, they will not produce creative original art.
TL;DR: Everyone likes different things. Everyone draws different things. Why are we trying to scold someone for drawing what they want…?
Sketch of deliciousmuchentuchen’s Prince Ivan. (and the grey wolf)
I really love this character, (both the folklore and her design of him). Sorry for any inaccuracies.
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「大遺跡村大字穴底」/「K,Kanehira」のイラスト [pixiv]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zwrkuL5d1qd91ado1_500.jpg)
