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I'm not talking about me, here!
Have you ever been looking at a deviation on this site and really wanted to comment, to the point where you were really feeling it and knew what you wanted to say, and maybe even have started typing, but then, for whatever reason, you decided not to comment after all?
Was it because your Comment was negative, so you kept it to yourself? Was it because you didn't know the artist, so you don't know what makes them mad and what doesn't so you withheld your Comment out of fear? Maybe your Comment was a critique, and you didn't think they'd want one?
Was it because the thing you were thinking was a little thing that may not bother everyone, but personally bothers you, so you tried to put yourself in the artist's shoes- based on the possibility that they could be like you- and didn't give the Comment because you wouldn't want to receive it?
Or did you think your Comment was too short, or unoriginal?
Yeah. I was just reading some stuff on hereyesterday and it got me thinking about this subject, and suddenly want to bump my previous Journal with this question. If there are ever times on this site somewhere where you truly want to comment on someone's work badly enough to actually do it, but you don't, what usually stops you?
For me, it's bad memories.
For most people, it seems to me to be because the artist they're trying to comment to is famous.
What is it for you?
Have you ever been looking at a deviation on this site and really wanted to comment, to the point where you were really feeling it and knew what you wanted to say, and maybe even have started typing, but then, for whatever reason, you decided not to comment after all?
Was it because your Comment was negative, so you kept it to yourself? Was it because you didn't know the artist, so you don't know what makes them mad and what doesn't so you withheld your Comment out of fear? Maybe your Comment was a critique, and you didn't think they'd want one?
Was it because the thing you were thinking was a little thing that may not bother everyone, but personally bothers you, so you tried to put yourself in the artist's shoes- based on the possibility that they could be like you- and didn't give the Comment because you wouldn't want to receive it?
Or did you think your Comment was too short, or unoriginal?
Yeah. I was just reading some stuff on hereyesterday and it got me thinking about this subject, and suddenly want to bump my previous Journal with this question. If there are ever times on this site somewhere where you truly want to comment on someone's work badly enough to actually do it, but you don't, what usually stops you?
For me, it's bad memories.
For most people, it seems to me to be because the artist they're trying to comment to is famous.
What is it for you?
2020 Return
I have returned from what is probably my longest hiatus ever. I've practically been gone a year. I'll keep this short. Starting at the beginning of 2018 and running until now, so so many health scare things have happened. Some to family members and some to me. Some issues persisted and some didn't. Don't really want to list what all the things were, and things could certainly have been worse, so things aren't THAT bad. It's just that things got a lot less fun once 2018 started, and, well, 2020 hasn't been MORE fun, I'll tell you that! :XD: And one of the health scares was that my brother got coronavirus, but he has recovered from that, so, like I said, things aren't that bad, since he could have, well, ya know... died. :shrug: But there were a couple funerals for me to go to during that span, like I told you, so it was bad enough to pass as bad. But because of this stuff,:above: drawing is actually physically harder for me to do for the time being, so that, combined with other
Awesome Thing You Can't Do Again
Tell everyone here about a little awesome thing you did once that was so awesome you couldn't do it again if you tried.
Here's a not-that-great example from my own life:
One night, I came home from work and the lid was off my aquarium and I was holding a glass of water. I came into my room and turned the light on and a tiger barb got scared and jumped out of the aquarium and landed directly in my water. I could never recreate this if I tried because I would at least have to move the cup and spill the water but no water spilled.
Here's a better example from someone else's life:
My mom is a teacher, and one day one of her kids had a basebal
Quesshion 2
Remember Quesshion 1? Of course you don't. :XD: I ask questions like that whenever, but nobody really answers them, so I usually get maybe only one answer. They tend to be tough questions to answer, anyway!
SKIP TO THE second half FOR THE ACTUAL QUESTIONS
But yeah. It's hard to give feedback on a character that's unclear, but it's hard for me to understand a character until I get feedback on them, so I end up in a loop where I have a character that needs clarification in order for me to get feedback on them, but I need feedback on them to provide clarification, so they end up broken forever until I stumble upon something that clears they up
Quesshion
Jush figured I'd ask this question basically again since I didn't really ask it in a super long time.
You guys probably know I'm working on new characters for the future. Obviously been doing that for a long time ( :doh: ) . But what I wanted to ask is this.
Looking at any of the drawings,
are there any of them where, when you look at them you think I wonder what that character's story is?! from just looking at them?
Or if that doesn't happen, (or instead of that) are there ones where you look at them and just get a feeling it would be interesting to know what their deal is?
One day I want to be able to make characters that actually ins
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Oh, for me it's time. I could write essays on everyone's art, but I really can't. So I won't even leave a short comment. dA just has so much stuff and yet, some people say it's dying out. I can only laugh at people saying that.