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🔔 Backfold Crash Course
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😎 Old Style Wolfy
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😁 Helmut Hanging Out
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By the way, if I haven't said a hundred times already, Helmut's folded ribcage here is truly to die for haha
🐈 Chat Noir
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Yeah I made his outfit from scratch, glad you liked it! 😁
😈 Arioch by Shifty
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ps: awkward to mention it here but I've been trying everywhere to reach you! Got something small for you... Would love to see you on discord some time!
🧞 3 Wishes
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Shokuji for IchiNOGO
If I understand you correctly, you feel like you've gotten too "big" and too famous so that now everyone is intimidated by you. That's certainly true but surely it doesn't need to stay like that, it's something that can be changed. Everyone warms up to someone once they get to know them. Also, surely it's not true that people reply to you once and then instantly forget you, why would you get that idea? In my experience, when people get fanart of their characters or anything like that, they cherish it for years. My workspace walls are full of pictures I got from friends.
Idk to me it just sounds like you hate being sucessful..? To my ears that feels so counterintuitive.
On a side note, it's a complete coincidence since I commented here because of the above comment, but this picture has had a place in my heart for many years. It was one of my favorites when I was still a kid hahaha and has been ever since. I remember there was a second part to this series... Good times.
I'm worried I'll miss your reply to this comment since I don't get notified of it which would be a real shame. It's another one of those situations where I wish we had a more convenient way to communicate!
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But starting from the early 2010s and on, many things changed, all those "facebooks" and their greedy, optimized mentality took over, eventually DA turned into one as well, now people don't move a finger if it doesn't increase their personal views, nothing else matters...
Sometimes I write a long comment on someone's art and the artist doesn't even reply or says some "Thank you" obviously not interested in any further communication. I also had many cases when I tried to make gifts/fanarts and they just say kk thanks and then forget all about it. Not that they're supposed to keep going about it for many days, but the way it feels still sucks compared to what it was before 2010s, how everyone was a big family and how literally any shown interest would spawn a long thread...
In the mid 2010s I was still able to share ideas and fun talks with others, but in the late 2010s I barely had anybody to talk with, the friendly atmosphere was completely gone, now everyone sounds "busy", it's all about posts, content, profiles... It's like people behind them are gone, no longer reachable.
I don't care about success or even being an artist, but it all started thanks to the internet in the early 2000s, seeing how people are posting their art and talking about it, it motivated me to learn drawing because it was a great way to find friends who also liked something I like e.g. sexy boys or contortion... It was like a village I guess where everybody says guten morgen to each other, but in the 2010s grew into a city where everyone is living in separate locked appartments and if you knock on the door they're only thinking how to get rid of you as quickly as possible... not of the fact that you may have cool stuff to talk about, projects to think about, common interests and things like that.
If you draw a picture for someone, you feel like a delivery boy who delivers a pizza and never gets a piece of it, just a shut door in the face. Not saying that delivery boys are supposed to get pizza, just that it feels similar when all those artists nowadays on DA just try to get rid of you as quickly as possible.
And if I'm so "successful", it's really strange that literally everyone is acting like I'm cancelled. I've never seen any posts saying that "Yuni must be cancelled", yet it's like everyone is acting like that. But then I find it's the same for everyone. Everyone just cancelled each other...
I'm not talking about you btw, you're actually ONE person on DA who reminds me of the way it was in the old days.
Oh, I didn't know the second part of this picture was offline, so I fixed it...
Don't worry, I'll send you a message on twitter so you can add me on discord and also let you know that I replied to this comment...
Two Folds
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🍽️ Try Not to Break
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💦 Waterbender
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⛅ Magic in the Air
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⭕ Boy on a Swimming Buoy
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♟️ Checkmate
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⌚ Waist Watch
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I'm very glad it was still fun to look at :D
🎸 Bendy Rocker
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🌗 Fifty Fifty
Given all that, it really made me reconsider when I heard you prefer the 2D way. And of course, your praise of my work really made me blush hahaha I can't believe you when you say you come to my gallery deliberately when you're looking for cute bendy boys xD
Overall, you've given me a very thought-provoking reply that I'm really grateful for. I cherish these occasional correspondences we have via the comment sections xD
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Daz Studio is not bad for making poses but like every other software or tool, it takes 100 pictures before you become fluent with it... The main problem almost every artist has is they don't want to practice the basics, they way to install something and immediately make a great artwork, and if they can't, they give up and stop trying... Just an example, if you play the same video game every day, at first you suck but at some point you realize it got too easy... It's the same point you have to reach in a new software, when it finally feels too easy that means you can finally use it as a tool for making the art you want :D I dunno, I'm just trying to spawn some philosophies on the fly... My point is, you just practice something every day until it gets too easy and that's when you can call it a proper tool.
But the above is hardly about your art by the way, you have a style that is great the way it is! IF you just made A LOT more pictures in the exact same style I think I'd be the happiest person to see them all! I'm always looking forward to new drawings! And I'm definitely not one of those people who talk people into trying "new things" and I'm wholeheartedly against the idea that you have to "leave your comfort zone". I think it's very important to build a comfort zone because then you can start creating really good art...
And thanks for your time replying to my comments, I'm always happy to talk about this kind of stuff :3
--Alldenspa
I wish I could get back to my old drawn art but that workflow was just too stressful for me and also my hand was beginning to hurt when holding a pen, probably from drawing too much every day... So I'm happy I found 3D at that point, it was like a "lifebuoy" for my drowning art XD Of course in 3D I can't brag about doing any shading by myself, but I'm trying to invest into other things like rescuing the boys from the uncanny valley... XD