Wakakin

Well, I don't really know what to elaborate about the absence really. After a while in summer classes, I just felt kind of "owned" by a bunch of things and I wanted to pull away. At this point I'm wondering how faint or bold the line between autonomy and keeping up with responsibilities is. Let me drag up a quote:

"The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:

"Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.""

Gee, if life has a price, then it's certainly in inflation.

Heya.

Life's been one obligation after another so far (well, as far as being a student goes). I'm taking time off from DA activity to regroup back some energy to come back in a bomb.

Meanwhile I'm preparing to go out to  a weekend trip to an anime con to exploit the moment let loose, freak out, and ninja myself among the flock of sweating asians.

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Wrote These

1. Favorite Band?

The biggest band in the internet of course: Vocaloids.

2. What program do you use to make your art?

Paint Tool Sai. Nice and simple. I used to use photoshop but now I rarely even use it to modify my artworks.

3. Traditional or Digital Art?

Both. Although I find it hard to concentrate on traditional for long from a little attention deficit.

4. Do you like to dance?

Only from the shadows.

5. Are you a Browncoat?

No, I'm not Sherlock.

6. Have you ever Cosplayed?

Yeah, didn't enjoy it really. I prefer being the camera gal.

7. How old are you?

Young enough to keep -ing and old enough to not keep -ing.
In other words I'm 20

8. Where are you from?

Canada.

9. What is your favorite food?

Pho.

10. What is your most interesting or unique hobby?

I want to study psychology. If I didn't pick up art I'd have study neuroscience to get closer to the human condition.

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My Questions

1. What made you want to be better in whatever artform you do?

2. I noticed that many of you guys are into anime. How and why?

3. Pets?

4.  Do you like video games? What kind and why?

5. Weirdest random event that ever happened so far. Go~

6. Do you enjoy going to cons or similar get togethers with people of similar interest?

7. How old are you?

8. Where are you from?

9. What's your favorite food?

10. Parting hug?



I tag



Forever Alone

Feel free to add to this list or offer suggestions.

People provide me corrections on my anatomy/perspective/etc but I'm not growing

You're probably getting the solutions without understanding the formula that can help you extend and connect the solutions. Go read some books and draw from life. If you can't observe from life, use a mirror or photo while keeping in mind that photography can lie because scientific shenanigans can make the photo distort lines, shapes and colors. It doesn't perceive light as the naked eye does.

Remember, pictures are made from drawing mediums and/or optics but we see them as just shape, line, color, and composition -  things alone that don't have an internal construction like bones and muscles. You need to be able to punch in the understanding of why we perceive the suggested object as it is.

Otherwise, you're probably stuck in a rut instead. Take a break from drawing and ask a friend out for a day or two.

People are not paying my work any real attention even if I ask for critique

Sometimes we just don't have anything to say. It's probably because even though you didn't really do anything particularly wrong, you didn't do anything provocative neither about your specific artwork. Think about what you have been drawing and how you've been doing it, and think about what kind and how intense of a message you're communicating to viewers. If you're stuck, practice analyzing people who are more experienced than you and keep practicing anatomy, because anatomy practice is always good no matter how skilled you are.

Otherwise, make sure you're sending your work to people who CAN nitpick. You need to let people know what you want with your work by either sending your artwork to the right groups or be more assertive with your needs. This can mean getting your butt off DA and exploring other options where you can get feedback. Unless you paid a teacher, feedback is a privilege, not a right.

People are not understanding my work

Are you sure you're providing the facts? If you're drawing a cross to get people to think about Jesus or crucifix or sacrifice, people need to be able to identify that it's a Christian cross in whatever setting you're putting it in, not a mathematical symbol in its place. If people don't know what the cross means, you need to provide background information so they can see your reasoning. You might even need to create a series of work because your concept is part of a general concept, not the general concept itself. This is how artwork done for video games/movies work.

Simulating people's imagination gets you far, not confusing people and alienating them.

People see my style as anatomy mistakes

People from the internet didn't grew up in caves (and even cavemen understood stick figures to represent people and cows); they've seen their share of Disneys, Pixars, Animes, and illustrations. We don't complain about their methods of depicting form because intuitively, it is believable. Curves, lines, and shape function to suggest something but it's really context that stamps your visual articulation as uncomfortable/comfortable to the viewer.  If you're getting these frequently, work on doing good research on what you're drawing about, and practice articulating these forms into visual media.

Style is not superficial.  Put this context in a social situation and we'll have a difference between a lying politician and a real activist. Commercial artists "change" styles to match their client as a compromise, no more different than the way you idiosyncratically come in terms with your peer's differences.

Critiques don't make me feel good

You're probably not drawing to improve; you're just drawing to feel appreciated and to have fun. Just take some time off and enjoy what you're doing; you don't have to torture yourself over things that will come in time. When you feel certain that you can accomplish lots of things, come back for peer to peer feedback.

Or maybe you want to keep drawing for shits and giggles and don't need people to access your work critically for spiritual reasons.

The difference between life and computers is that there's no save button. Everything can be gone in the moment of a blackout, but in computers you can always, always, return in a time back to who you were.

The second difference between life and computers is that even when you're gone, someone will always take after you so there's no such thing as a wasted effort.


I just lost 6 hours of work because my computer auto-restarted from windows update and I forgot to save all this time after I even clicked "New Canvas".



But I paint better now.

OTL

I wanna take over the world too~

Here's my  gallery: wakakin.deviantart.com/gallery…

Please note me with the following:

Payment: Cash, or Points
Email: (If using paypal)    
Commission Description: What you want me to draw. Be as detailed as you like and include references (pictorial, or just text description). I can do a variety of styles within "cute" and semi-realism.

So this is what I can offer you now with USD prices for 8.5 x 11 inch commissions~ Prices are negotiable based on size and/or content.

Character drawings on Digital ~~> $10 or 800 points and an additional $5 or 400 points per character



A background adds an additional cost based on...

Illustrative/representational backgrounds ~~additional $10 or 800 points




Graphic backgrounds ~~ $ 5 or 400 points


Slots
1. n/a
2. (free)
3. (free)
4. (free)
5. (free)

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Notes

-Please offer 50% of the payment up front, and then 50% of the payment after. This is just to protect my work : S
- Feel free to demand thumbnails or sketches. I'll only allow up to 3 minor edits once final work is "completed".
-Please contact me if you plan to use my artwork.
-I may use your work as part of my portfolio and you have the right to refuse this.          
-I will not do drawings beyond an 14A rating. This means no gore, sexually explicit content, and racially or religiously offensive signs. Minor wounds, and nudity is tolerable under the condition that it is not in the sense of "ecchi"/softcore porn or fetishism.

Ok thank you for reading