Daily DeviationFirst, let's get the good stuff out of the way (wow, I make that sound like a chore
) But thanks to the many people (and I know there's a lot of you!) who suggested my
Spectrum of Emotions for a Daily Deviation, and to `
Synfull for featuring on there a couple of days ago
It was pretty successful for my first emoticon as is, so getting the DD for that, which is very different to the rest of my work and was highly experimental was a really appreciated surprise
Pissed priteeboyNow lets spoil the moment with some ranting shall we
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First is one I've been noticing a lot in the past few weeks is often new and attention-starved artists trying to promote their work to others by sending notes with their thumbnails to deviants they never even bothered to comment/fave/watch etc beforehand, asking for comments or even not saying anything! I think I must have gotten 3 or 4 of those from various people in the past week, one was OK since the person was actually asking me for help in something I knew about (Vue problems) but others come out of nowhere showing me art that's far from my style, medium or subject and what can they really expect me to say about something I have no knowledge of? I guess I've been too nice, since I saw the other names they send it to, and all I can say is good luck getting
those artists to respond
Now I'll just forget e'm. Plus I've had people copy-paste comments on my work and others trying to get me/them to join this or that site and sell my work as stock...let me tell you, the usage of my work I think is worth MUCH more than a few measly dollars!
Oh, but why pay to use my work, or any artist's for that matter when now - art-theivery has been made 4 times more convenient for all outside parties who are wanting to use your hard work to beautify their facebook accounts...Yes, I'm complaining about the new "share" features and from what I've seen in the forums and news recently, I'm not the only one who thinks dA just threw out a major portion of it's regards to the copyrights of the artist's works. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done it, but we should have the option to turn it off, all that time I spent mentioning that I don't want my art displayed on other sites without permission has practically been thrown out the door. I waste enough time chasing down retards using my art for God knows what, I don't need the problem magnified further
Oh, and the small portion of you who use Vue and kept a keen eye on this years environment competition on e-on software would know just how disappointingly biased that contest was, I complained enough about some of the finalists when I submitted my entry
Tenta-pools but it was made worse when one of the 3 images I complained about in particular came FIRST! there were so many great entries that showed how original and creative a Vue-user could be, but did you pick them? no - you chose a silhouetted island at sunset! wow, I never could have thought of that
I'm not blaming the artist, just the judges - I could make that same winning entry using nothing more than the presets Vue provides and I could do it in an hour...I've entered a lot of contests in the past few years but have never felt as if one was rigged before as much as I do now...Mine didn't deserve to win, but those other entries I saw were grossly underrated and I have never seen hundreds of dollars worth of prizes given away so easily...next year I'm going to make such a quick simple scene and all hell will break loose if I don't come first for it!
CalendarI'm still thinking on whether I should make a calendar to sell here for 2010, I still have enough time to make the 12 necessary artworks (though I would have to make them one after the other and try to get one done each week) It was going to have the Solar System as the theme, but not plain-looking images of planets that we see in the rooms of high school science classes. But rather my own impression of the surfaces of the planets, still recognisable and at least 50% accurate/real - but also a bit stylised to make them look cool...Anyone reckon I should do it? I guess I need to find how to make them here too, if it's too technical I might forget about it
And there goes another trademark text-wall, I took the liberty of making each area seperate since I don't expect many to read it all
*Note to Self* don't forget these contests:
Ultimate Fandom#4:
[link] Ends 25th September
Fantasy world contest:
[link] Ends 15th October
Clubs/Groups:
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wow, amazing, congratulations
and on a totally random note, your webcam makes laugh. LOL, it IS all about the hair
I'm not a boy but I think the rule applies to girls too -__^
And the webcam - true for girls too, but were are all used to seeing girls beautify themselves. Seeing men do it is a rare treat
I knew about the site but I just used to browse without a username until I was bullied into getting one. I'm not a huge fan of all these huge community sites like livejournal, facebook, myspace etc so yes, I was actually bullied into joining DA.
I can't keep up with them
well, I joined and posted two pictures that I had... one of them got a DD shortly after. I didn't even know what a DD was and it really overwhelmed me but it was a really nice feeling too.
and then my health got pretty bad... this was around when I left DA for a long time and took down my online manga Redemption.
When my health was getting a bit better, I ended up with some time to just draw and paint during the recovery and so I started really working in Photoshop and learned Painter. I guess that's also around when I became more a digital artist.
So yeah, if I had known how things work on here from early on, I would have done a better job of maintaining it and not loose such a great opportunity.
But I'm happy now too XD
I've got another DD and my picture of Zack is crazy popular [not nearly as popular as your work but still me is happy ^^]. I think DA is the only community I'm happy to take part in because there are some really nice people here and its not totally random, at art [for the most part] is the main reason why people are here ^^
speaking of hair, I once shared a flat with a guy who had more hair products than me and used to spend two hours a day just styling it o___O;;;
LOL, I think it's funny when I see guys with more beauty stuff on than a girl but in England that's not really rare
I don't wear make up and stuff... I just like being clean and tidy and just don't have the patience for other stuff. I'd rather spend the time doing a painting rather than to paint myself. Well, at least while I'm still young anyway
Recently I was about to suggest a great deviation I saw as a DD, but seeing that the artist was less than a week old here, I figured they need more time to get used to the site and what a DD is really worth - giving someone a DD too soon after arriving I think de-values that honour, if the deviation still dosn't have one in a couple of months - I'll suggest it then
Lol, I don't wear makeup - unless I want to get my head bashed in
Are you gonna pay homage to Pluto in any way?
...Pluto's still a planet to me, dang it.
Yep, Pluto will be in there
Well, if you're gonna keep people from seeing the works, then make sure it's your best work.
I look forward to it.
Copyright violations are rampant. I see not only pictures and prints being sold online, but I ran across some laptop sleeves on Amazon. I had thought I'd recognized some of the art, so I scoured some wallpapers I use (privately), and found one there. Then I searched online. The only one I found was a screenshot of someone's desktop with that pic on it. If I could've tracked down the artist, I would've told them. Regardless of whether or not the artist had licensed it, they'd at least know someone noticed. I wish I could find the artist.
The pic was blue with a wolf on the right side howling at a planet. I'll see if I can find it again, maybe someone else can help me track down the artist. The artist deserves royalties and, if a violation, compensation for the violation(s).
Copyright violations are why I pulled all of my lyrics out of here. I only post those that I most likely won't use in recordings.
Another dA user, a friend of mine who writes good lyrics, only posts the lyrics in the journal and not as a work of art. This helps the person bypass those that would violate the (c). The person has very few watchers, so isn't widely known.