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16 years ago
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Lets get right down to it: A little over a month ago, I tried being a "mature" artist for about a week. 
dweet-tea. If you're not gonna read the rest of THIS journal, at least read this journal on THAT account: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/980628/
Now the full story:
It all started a few months before my 18th b-day I was thinking "Hey, along with 'legally' looking at 'stuff' I can also draw 'it' without any negative repercussions!" At the same time, I was too much of a whimp to give it a try when my birthday rolled around.
*fast forward by about 10 months!*
Occasionally one of my IRL friends asked why him an I never received enough pageviews and attention on the art we so painstakingly spent Hours/Days/weeks working on. I always told him that unless one draws pronz, fan-art (or anything with familiar characters), or a combination of the two, it'll be a hard run for most to all clean/original artists to be fairly recognized. Now that was just me assuming, while at the same time have seen it to be true a couple of times.
Out of nowhere, one day, I just thought, I can't keep spouting that assumption without any proven facts. So I created an account by the name Dweet-Tea (clever, right?) and secretly tried my hand at being a "mature" artist. *Gasp!!!* [Disclaimer: that gallery does have poorly drawn mature pics so, you know how that goes]
By now you may be thinking "DT??? He's last person I'd ever think to submit to the 'dark side'!" D: Given that drawing and posting that stuff would be "submitting", but I did it to 1) see if what I assumed was true: will an artist of my "skills" gain more attention for drawing nothing but 'teh smut' (totally all the wrong reasons to draw that stuff in the first place...), and 2) Why the heck not try it?.
The results: Its not as easy as it looks, there feels like there's a lot of pressure to make the next one better than the last (if you're trying to impress), and I think I died a little on the inside at the beginning... Though it was a wee bit interesting in the end.
I was going to keep the game going for a good month or so, but I suck at trying to hide my style and was figured out by another member here on FA. I promised myself that the very moment I was found out, I'd draw the "experience" to a close. I lasted a good week...
What's funny was that at he beginning of the whole thing, I didn't think about how I'd tell a few people I knew, much less mywatchers anyone who bothers to read this journal, that I tried drawing mature art for a little while. I showed my best friend; he was ok with it. I told my big brother; he said he was a little "shocked" (not in a bad way I think), but what's pretty insulting is that I shared something big with him, and he still didn't have the guts to tell me that he, himself, has an account on this friggin' site, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING you have to have an account AND the mature filter turned off to see that stuff... There is just one other long time net friend who I'm concerned about what she'll think of all this, but I'll just burn that bridge when I get to it.
Lets just wrap this up. I tried drawing 'it'. I didn't [completely] mind drawing 'it'. I wont say I'm never drawing 'it' again, but I'm not too keen on being known for 'it'. So I'm gonna keep off of 'it' for a good, LONG time. I'd rather be known for my more clean art. The account, again, is dweet-tea and here's the concluding journal on that account: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/980628/. I hope you don't think any less of me.
Also the pics on that account will either be scrapped or deleted by the middle of next week, so... yeah.
Now the big question is how to put that account to use...
dweet-tea. If you're not gonna read the rest of THIS journal, at least read this journal on THAT account: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/980628/Now the full story:
It all started a few months before my 18th b-day I was thinking "Hey, along with 'legally' looking at 'stuff' I can also draw 'it' without any negative repercussions!" At the same time, I was too much of a whimp to give it a try when my birthday rolled around.
*fast forward by about 10 months!*
Occasionally one of my IRL friends asked why him an I never received enough pageviews and attention on the art we so painstakingly spent Hours/Days/weeks working on. I always told him that unless one draws pronz, fan-art (or anything with familiar characters), or a combination of the two, it'll be a hard run for most to all clean/original artists to be fairly recognized. Now that was just me assuming, while at the same time have seen it to be true a couple of times.
Out of nowhere, one day, I just thought, I can't keep spouting that assumption without any proven facts. So I created an account by the name
Dweet-Tea (clever, right?) and secretly tried my hand at being a "mature" artist. *Gasp!!!* [Disclaimer: that gallery does have poorly drawn mature pics so, you know how that goes] By now you may be thinking "DT??? He's last person I'd ever think to submit to the 'dark side'!" D: Given that drawing and posting that stuff would be "submitting", but I did it to 1) see if what I assumed was true: will an artist of my "skills" gain more attention for drawing nothing but 'teh smut' (totally all the wrong reasons to draw that stuff in the first place...), and 2) Why the heck not try it?.
The results: Its not as easy as it looks, there feels like there's a lot of pressure to make the next one better than the last (if you're trying to impress), and I think I died a little on the inside at the beginning... Though it was a wee bit interesting in the end.
I was going to keep the game going for a good month or so, but I suck at trying to hide my style and was figured out by another member here on FA. I promised myself that the very moment I was found out, I'd draw the "experience" to a close. I lasted a good week...
What's funny was that at he beginning of the whole thing, I didn't think about how I'd tell a few people I knew, much less my
Lets just wrap this up. I tried drawing 'it'. I didn't [completely] mind drawing 'it'. I wont say I'm never drawing 'it' again, but I'm not too keen on being known for 'it'. So I'm gonna keep off of 'it' for a good, LONG time. I'd rather be known for my more clean art. The account, again, is
dweet-tea and here's the concluding journal on that account: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/980628/. I hope you don't think any less of me.Also the pics on that account will either be scrapped or deleted by the middle of next week, so... yeah.
Now the big question is how to put that account to use...
Like my "secret" gallery, which only you know about, I upload my "questionable" material there, but everything is scrapped and thus doesn't show up when searched or browsed. It's almost like my own "personal" gallery that only I (and now you) can see regularly. You should consider doing something like that for yourself. It's very theraputic.
As good of an idea as it sounds, I can't get myself to make a secret gallery. I think I said before that I'm more of a exhibition artist. So most of the time if I'm not gonna show it, I'm probably not going to draw it in the first place (not counting practice sketches and pics). It feels good to take whatever I have in my mind and putting onto a medium, but I think I like hearing what people think about what I put out, more. And clean art just has a bigger viewing audience.
I was thinking about your other gallery just the other night. I came up with a strange, yet revolutionary, idea. How's about you make Fur Affinity's first "Communal Account". I know it sounds crazy, but think about it. You give certain people the password to that account and they can post stuff on it, as well as you. Of course you would have to trust those people to abide by the TOS, but I thought it would be an interesting idea. Especially with your upcoming Secret Santa project. Everyone could just upload their gifts there...along with anything else they wanted to post, usually DT-Fox related, or otherwise if they so choose. I thought it was an awesome idea. Purely Algebraic.
On a separate note, I was planning to do something like that for a new project for the beginning of next year (you're gonna have to wait a bit to find out what).
And as far as DT-Fox related stuff goes,
A Francine Fanclub, now that's devotion. All this time I thought I was your biggest fan. Naturally I plan on joining that club. After I look it over.
I guess we both just learned something new about each other.
I can understand wanting to see if what you thought was true. It's a scientific method, and we're all curious. There's no reason to think any less of you for wanting to perform as interesting an experiment as you did. At least, I don't think there is.
Glad you understand. Or, at least, are ok with it. :)
Either way, you ran your experiment long enough to decide that kind of work wasn't really what you wanted to do, and I don't think anyone would think less of you for wanting to find that out.
So far people seem to be taking this whole thing pretty well. Either that or I was worrying myself a little too much.
People seem to be taking this pretty well. :)