Chit-Chat "L'art pour l'art" - DCC Page 27

Started by Fairy May 7th, 2013 4:47 PM
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Fairy

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in the flowers
Seen January 27th, 2023
Posted January 6th, 2023
Thanks!

Critiques have been weird for me. I'm the only GFX artist in my more familiar community for two years, so I couldn't and can't get any critique. I'm kinda forced to play the compare game so I could improve myself. ^ ^;
No problem!

Well I took a look at your dA and you're clearly a very talented and accomplished artist! I do hope you decide to post a gallery here too. :3 We need more GFX artists! But you're right, it can be tough when people are either unfamiliar or uninterested in critiquing, and you're kinda left to your own devices to figure things out in the meantime.

Sometimes it can get pretty dry here in A&D, but I've found the best way to receive c+c is to post in other artist's threads. 9 times out of 10 people return the favor and it's always nice to spread the support around. n_n;
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Well I took a look at your dA and you're clearly a very talented and accomplished artist! I do hope you decide to post a gallery here too. :3 We need more GFX artists! But you're right, it can be tough when people are either unfamiliar or uninterested in critiquing, and you're kinda left to your own devices to figure things out in the meantime.

Sometimes it can get pretty dry here in A&D, but I've found the best way to receive c+c is to post in other artist's threads. 9 times out of 10 people return the favor and it's always nice to spread the support around. n_n;
I might post my own gallery. My idea of CnC seems to be a little different from the posts I see around here. Not hugely so, but it's different. Idk, but maybe I'll try it out.
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JustJeff

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I might post my own gallery. My idea of CnC seems to be a little different from the posts I see around here. Not hugely so, but it's different. Idk, but maybe I'll try it out.
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killer-curry

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thanks kirby!!!!! Well because I copy the image URL from my Google photos so I guess it was shared. I cannot put my drawing pics into my pc album due to storage limit. so any recommend tips?

Guess i fix that already and also edited my art thread so feel free to check it out.

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I'm going to calmly remember what I just said last page and not get angry that 2 job opportunities have not responded back (please just reject me and tell me) and my listing for a commission site has been pending for a week and a half.
Not. Going to get angry about it.

Critique can seem pretty scary at first, but when you're trying earnestly to get better or try something new, a bad response is better than no response. By the last year of college, if there wasn't a negative comment to my work that felt really BAD. Because if it was really good, I would have gotten really good comments that highlighted why it was good, and if it was bad I would get comments to show it was better. A half hearted "...the colors are nice. it's got a good flow" just means it's "ok" and I don't want that. It does take some toughing of skin to get to that point though.




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Getting critique was definitely the scariest part when I started being an artist on forums, but after being c+c'd so many times, I started to get use to the harshness and ended up knowing how to improve myself from the critiques I was given. Honestly if it hadn't been for PC, I wouldn't have been able to take critique at high school and university as well as I do now. That being said, C+C hasn't been as strong now as it has been in the past, and I guess we're still building it back.

thanks kirby!!!!! Well because I copy the image URL from my Google photos so I guess it was shared. I cannot put my drawing pics into my pc album due to storage limit. so any recommend tips?

Guess i fix that already and also edited my art thread so feel free to check it out.
Yeah still can't see your signature, nor the first 5 images in your art thread. Would suggest uploading to an image hosting site (I prefer imgur, but you can also use others like TinyPic and Photobucket).


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killer-curry

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Yeah still can't see your signature, nor the first 5 images in your art thread. Would suggest uploading to an image hosting site (I prefer imgur, but you can also use others like TinyPic and Photobucket).
Well finally I move all my drawing pictures to photobucket. Hope the link is available.

Fairy

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Seen January 27th, 2023
Posted January 6th, 2023
@killer; I can see your signature and gallery just fine. Whatever you did is working now. :)

@nina; let the hate flow through you~

When I was new to posting art on forums, I couldn't help but take critiques personally (an embarrassingly short time ago, might I add). Not in a severely negative way, but in an internal "than how can I improve / be perfect" way. I mean, outwardly I was nice and responsive but inside I would be seething haha. I'd post a link to my first gallery if I cared to look it up, but it's down there somewhere. And I'd always look at the artwork of the commenter and judge how seriously I could take their critique by how good they were; which is a really stupid way of rationalizing my own crappy attitude about being criticized. I've since calmed tf down lol.

But it's something you need to adjust to and balance. Take comments seriously enough that you improve but not too seriously that you find yourself offended. Or just make Aiden deal with it! ;)
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killer-curry

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Thanks Kirby everything is fine now :).

I would agree with Kirby. We should be take critiques for improving our skills but ignore the comments that offend you personally. After all sometimes we have be optimism about these comments!

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I got Manga Studio 5 and am training to use it currently. I wish I'd taken to drawing when I was younger. I'm sad it's taken me 19 years to get into it.

As for critique, I love extensive and thorough critique which clearly shows me what is bad and how I can improve it. Anything that doesn't give me ways to improve I generally disregard, but it always stings. Eventually though, you build some tough skin. You just gotta bear with it

Fairy

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I got a whole new drawing tablet. B)
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Fairy

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It does if you make it count. <3
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An extra $100 voucher to the art shop I go to for supplies. Literally I got that from people last year and I didn't have to spend any money on notebooks or art tools all year which was really good.


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i like to use pencil because it is easy to use. But the drawings would be messy so i need to clean it often. After drawing I will scan and edit the drawing by computer.

Digital arts are great too. They just enhance the effect so the drawing looks even appeal.

Fairy

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Seen January 27th, 2023
Posted January 6th, 2023
Hey guys! Just so you know A&D now has its own Skype chat! So make sure to come get involved so we can all chat together about art! :)

Feel free to add me or ask any of the A&D regulars already in the chat for an invite. Just let me know who you are first. :3
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Also feel free to add me (username: zappyspiker) too and I can add you if Fairy or any of the others aren't there to add you! - Let me know you're from A&D so I know it's you. (Fairy, Nina, Aiden - don't know if you want us to post the direct link to the chat yet.)

We'd really love to get to know you guys outside of your art and galleries and talk you all more often c:


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*** skype didnt recognize my sig in.... well skype web version is available to access which is kinds weird...

anyways my ID is Chan wei Han with a kinda weird red shirt guy over there.

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https://join.skype.com/uFtgHp09oZp9

Link to the skype group so any of you guys can join directly without having to add us.
If you do join, make sure you let us know that you are from PC! Thread will be up about this soon!


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Fairy

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Seen January 27th, 2023
Posted January 6th, 2023
Poor DCC, this baby needs a little love! I know we're all so very excited about the A&D skype chat, but we gotta manage to squeeze a little forum chatting in here too! ;)

So what has everyone been up to?
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killer-curry

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Working Dying and Sleeping come on I wanna draw something.....

Maybe back to school arts! Draw a beautiful flower with colour maybe.... If I have colour pencil : A :)

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Mentally crying over the Weekly Pixel Challenge xD How you people even pixel on a regular basis blows my mind.
This and exciting skype chat distracted me from finishing my artists interview haha, so I'll post that when I get up tomorrow.


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I've working on a large project-- a mock Fighting Game character select screen and I've got 25/40 busts done...! o)-< The lineart, anyway...

Also eyeing that pixel challenge and just wondering whether or not I'm too rusty to attempt using only four colors. Sounds rough. LOL

killer-curry

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Well I will held an art challenge which is quite general. Anyone can join and you can use any kind of art as long it follows the theme. It will last for two weeks.

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I am banging myself over the head as I try to make myself do art in spite of intense lack of confidence or motivation. The problem is that I feel like I've hit this... weird block spot. Particularly whenever I try to create a design for my own original series. Picking out the colors, making sure the anatomy is good and that I don't hate the characters, dynamic poses, and... trying to make something out of nothing when you literally have no ability to see things in your head before you draw them (yes, I don't have a visual imagination)... almost makes me feel like I'm not cut out for visual expression.

So I'm just sketching some fanart of some humans with heavily referenced poses for practice, inspiration, and to try to show myself that I can do things. It's been kind of working so far. Also helps that I decided to go back to pencil and paper for the sketching stage. Digital sketching... well, it's been feeling more and more clunky, and I think I need the limitation of not being able to fix my mistakes so much to force myself to move on and get a good basis. (Which I will then fix the errors on the computer and color.)

Also, I am contemplating posting another thread here... but eh. The thing I find with posting art threads in any forums these days is that you barely get any responses. And I am not too much a fan of criticism from others what with how harsh I already am on myself. Maybe I will, maybe I won't.