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16 years ago
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I'll try to stop doing that.
Who was it that posted that Yerf site rip?
sulacoyote? Yeeaaahh. Like, a month ago. I just now got around to unrar'ing it and checking it out. I was never a part of Yerf, but it still feels like it was a part of me. Ok, that was corny, but. I dunno. The art, the technical aspect of art, wasn't as good as a lot of stuff I see today, but it always seemed to have more personality. You see very little in the way of digital work circa 2002. The vast majority of colored pictures seems to be made of markers and colored pencils. You'd get pictures that were based off real events, or conversations, or stories the artist had made up. Stuff from art lessons, stuff doodled in class ... and it's not like you don't get that kind of aesthetic anymore, it's just ... it gets drowned out, especially here. I'm especially guilty of it myself. Yerf was a big part of my inspiration and motivation as a young artist. I wanted to be like the artists showcased there. I'd come up with stupid characters and have them act out any random thought that passed through my head, and I'd strive to improve.
And ... I kind of lost that. You can still see elements of that mindset in my early uploads here. Drawing stuff just for the sake of drawing it. And then I discover that I have an audience for my weird stuff, and ... and ... I devolve into rhetoric. How many times have I had this rant? How many times have I decried my lack of progress, my lack of uploads? There was a time when I could honestly say that I uploaded less than 5% of the stuff I draw. Now, it's more like 85%. I just don't draw for fun anymore. I want to, I DESPERATELY want to, but it just doesn't come naturally.
I felt that spark, that DRIVE, when looking through the Yerf archives, if only for a moment. I just wish I could harness it.
TL;DR - whine whine whine.
Who was it that posted that Yerf site rip?
sulacoyote? Yeeaaahh. Like, a month ago. I just now got around to unrar'ing it and checking it out. I was never a part of Yerf, but it still feels like it was a part of me. Ok, that was corny, but. I dunno. The art, the technical aspect of art, wasn't as good as a lot of stuff I see today, but it always seemed to have more personality. You see very little in the way of digital work circa 2002. The vast majority of colored pictures seems to be made of markers and colored pencils. You'd get pictures that were based off real events, or conversations, or stories the artist had made up. Stuff from art lessons, stuff doodled in class ... and it's not like you don't get that kind of aesthetic anymore, it's just ... it gets drowned out, especially here. I'm especially guilty of it myself. Yerf was a big part of my inspiration and motivation as a young artist. I wanted to be like the artists showcased there. I'd come up with stupid characters and have them act out any random thought that passed through my head, and I'd strive to improve.And ... I kind of lost that. You can still see elements of that mindset in my early uploads here. Drawing stuff just for the sake of drawing it. And then I discover that I have an audience for my weird stuff, and ... and ... I devolve into rhetoric. How many times have I had this rant? How many times have I decried my lack of progress, my lack of uploads? There was a time when I could honestly say that I uploaded less than 5% of the stuff I draw. Now, it's more like 85%. I just don't draw for fun anymore. I want to, I DESPERATELY want to, but it just doesn't come naturally.
I felt that spark, that DRIVE, when looking through the Yerf archives, if only for a moment. I just wish I could harness it.
TL;DR - whine whine whine.
You'll get the spark back Zombro :D I don't draw much when I'm depressed but I get over it after a while.
Nostalgia's a powerful thing, but don't let it make you think you can't recapture the past either. Chin up, and all that.
Or I've missed the point entirely. I'm prone to doing that. :)
Don't let change, the most natural thing in the world, affect you negatively. Learn to embrace it, whether it's external or internal.
Look both ways before crossing the road. Chew your food. I before E except after C and all the other exceptions that make that rule kinda pointless.
Of course, you will have to let me pay you for it. Even if it's in some sort of round-about way like letting me buy you a game or some random christmas present of approximate value to what I'd simply pay you if you were taking commissions.