Came back from out of town to a very, uh... interesting comment directed to me -- but I want to gently make a statement that if you have criticism that I'm negatively representing myself by adding my art to my catch-all logs... I got nothin' for ya. It's not valid crit.
If you want to view it as me seeking attention and hoping more people will tag me for art of our CR or what have you, then I can't change your mind on that! But I'm still going to do art where I want for my posts.
I apologize if it's annoying or comes across as attention-seeking, but I really enjoy doing it, and I love sharing it with people. I'm an artist as much as I am an RPer, and I'll always make art of my characters.
And of my CR, and if that comes across as a method of me to get CR more easily because people are holding out for free art or what have you, it's not intentional, but I'm not gonna stop doing it.
Usually I get really anxious about these sorts of "so and so said such and such" or weird anonymous comments to me, but I genuinely don't agree with the criticism, so I won't be taking it to heart like I usually do crit.
And I know this post probably comes across as 'pat my butt and tell me I'm not doing anything wrong!!!" but tbh I don't feel that I'm doing anything wrong regardless of what you guys say.
At the end of the day, art tells a story like writing, and I would never begrudge anyone for wanting to tell the story of their characters by combining them. And so I won't do so with myself!
nah it doesn't come off that way, it's honestly a pretty weird "no fun that I don't specifically approve of" hill to die on so I'm glad you're not taking it to heart
I do genuinely apologize though if anyone feels like I'm using art to cast a wider net and rake in CR/tags/whatever. But I'm not. I just... really love drawing RP things.
man though who cares if you are though?? like yes the art makes your posts pop and maybe that does mean more people tag you but like... good for you???
I think that by time you get to the point of seeing someone enjoying a hobby as malicious you got bigger problems. and I know that sounds sarcastic but like... that's really unhealthy
Yeah no that seems like a super weird and petty thing to be annoyed about and I'm glad you'll continue to keep drawing game fanart, I mean it made me want to draw game fanart again and I'm super happy about that
to me I’ve never found it anything other than someone creating things for their rp which people do in different ways! icons, aesthetic boards, manips, you name it
I have no clue what their intentions were tbh, but I am apologetic if they feel I'm leeching away CR, if that's a thing they're thinking. But I feel like people in Deerington are really great at tagging out!
And I only put art in my monthly catch-alls, for the most part! I try not to flood event top levels with image heavy anything. But I do admit I go a bit overboard with the aesthetic.
one of my fave things is seeing your art for your peeps every month just cause i love your work and i am still in love with the piece i got a commission for
the person was also complaining that like... you were "showing off" that you got commissions for your characters. it was. odd. especially considering it's your own art
Unfortunately so! Which - for the record, if you ever see anonymous comments about me, you can genuinely just... skip over them. Let 'em vent. Adding to it I think just fuels fires.
TBH the old folks I deal with as a receptionist are meaner than anons. They've given me a few frustrated tears over the years... hardened my heart and skin and etc.
Uhhh, what. It's not as if people can't tag anyone they want anyway. It's not taking anything away from anyone else. Personally, I love seeing your art inspired by the events, etc.
Knowing as fellow artist that you don't just magically spit out your drawings like a printer and creating even out of love isn't fun 100% of the time... That's such an odd take. Does spending extra care and time on tags or coding or CR charts also mean a person is looking for attention? It's not that different.
oh man same!! I'm not an artist myself but I love seeing rp art... it's so cool & it warms my heart to see people so passionate about their hobbies?? also yes more pics pls
honestly if i saw a rp post with related art, i would be more likely to tag it but simple because i think OH THIS PERSON IS CREATIVE! LOOK HOW THEY COMBINED THINGS TO SHAKE UP POSTING A THREAD
I would think people would be more concerned about you possibly getting taken advantage of for "ooh free art" by others and like fighting for your attention than jumping to "oh she's an attention hog"?
LMFAO hey man, I'll be the first to say that RP has gotten me a LOT of publicity for my commissions!! IDK where I'd be financially sometimes without you guys.
It forever lives on my secondary profile b/c I had to straight up lift some of those shots from other amvs, so I didn't want it to be popular on youtube. so on my test dumping ground it is.
I know we've barely gotten to play, but I gotta say that complaining about someone making art of things that they're having fun with in rp might deserve an award for just how pathetically petty it is jfc
it's not a competition ?
but i mean
everyone here is on your side for this one
YOURE AN INSTITUTION
and an oc that i scrapped a long while back
sure doesn't feel like it sometimes, zoinks