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8 years ago
"A man is about as happy as he makes up his own mind to be." - A. Lincoln
I find myself in the happy predicament of being somewhat overwhelmed by the number of faves you folks have aimed at my recent visual “story-telling“.
As an artist it is always a big thrill to “connect” with the audience and receive “applause” for one’s work, character(s), and the “world” that my digital brushes and canvas are suggesting that your faves represent. Wow.
My predicament is that I previously expressed my thanks for each fave I received by typing out a thank you shout to each fave-giver. However, even a thinly worded thank-you shout of eleven words to each of you means that instead of drawing & “painting” I am spending time typing up what adds up to over 360 words for most of my submitted works. How many of you enjoy doing that kind of “homework”?
If you go through my gallery here you will note that the total number of faves you have given my work is somewhere over a hundred -- and I am not even a “popufur”!
So, I am going to trim back on replying to EACH and EVERY fave-gift I receive, but will still enthusiastically continue to reply to your COMMENTS and P-NOTES which are always enjoyable for me to receive and reply to.
Okay?
As an artist it is always a big thrill to “connect” with the audience and receive “applause” for one’s work, character(s), and the “world” that my digital brushes and canvas are suggesting that your faves represent. Wow.
My predicament is that I previously expressed my thanks for each fave I received by typing out a thank you shout to each fave-giver. However, even a thinly worded thank-you shout of eleven words to each of you means that instead of drawing & “painting” I am spending time typing up what adds up to over 360 words for most of my submitted works. How many of you enjoy doing that kind of “homework”?
If you go through my gallery here you will note that the total number of faves you have given my work is somewhere over a hundred -- and I am not even a “popufur”!
So, I am going to trim back on replying to EACH and EVERY fave-gift I receive, but will still enthusiastically continue to reply to your COMMENTS and P-NOTES which are always enjoyable for me to receive and reply to.
Okay?
That was perhaps the true reason behind Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary assertion in the U.S. Declaration of Independence that “All Men are Created Equal“.
The fact all people are created equal in God's eyes is probably one of the reasons that one of my favorite Dr. Seuss stories as a child was "The Sneetches." Here's a 1960s television portrayal of that same story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPhOZzsi_6Q
In the real world however, PHYSICAL differences DO make a difference. A cub or a chick born with different colored fur or feathers WILL be pushed out of the pride or flock because its different coloration not only lessens that animal’s chances of finding a mate, lessens its chances of survival, but will also draw the attention of predators to the entire flock or herd, endangering the group‘s survival. So, for survival purposes, being different is dangerous.
For humans, behaving as though one were better than one’s fellows for NON-PHYSICAL reasons such as family descent, geographical location of birth, wealth, style of dress, skin color, is just a pretense whose “superiority” is often disproved when put to the test. If individual humans are somehow "superior" to their fellows from birth, they are extremely rare.
For the rest of us, the general rule of social behavior IS to be considerate of one's fellows. Call it "nice" if you will, but your path through Life will be much easier.
As for me sending out ‘thank you for your fave’ shouts, imagine how you might feel for applauding a musician’s performance and the musician ignored your applause and simply walked off the stage when he was done playing. I sometimes think that is what quite a few popufurs do when they do not acknowledge the “applause” that watchers give them with their faves.
But Yes, I will continue to put out artworks, because not only is it fun for me to create them, but it is very satisfying to know that watchers really do ENJOY them.
But I've cut back on giving thanks for the few favorites I've received lately as well, admittedly. Mostly due to seeing so many "don't thank me for faves!" type of comments.
I have noticed those “don’t thank me for my faves” advisories on some people’s front pages. Maybe the accumulation of “thank you” shout responses in their shout columns makes their page look “cluttered“, or maybe even the page-owner wants to avoid being seen as discourteous or even anti-social by IGNORING another person’s appreciative “thank you“. It is THEIR page and THEIR personality that is seen after all.
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In my usual shout-back I like to call out the fave-giver’s name and the title of the piece that they have faved. Generally that runs to between eleven or thirteen words. Not a huge acknowledgement to a viewer’s single mouse-click, but done fifteen or twenty times it become a bit of a task, and again, in response to just for a single mouse-click.
There is much more connection between a viewer and myself when I get to respond to their comments which generally deal with their reactions to the posted artwork itself.
Maybe FA software people should come up with a one mouse-click response for artwork posters to one mouse-click faving.
Comments definitely are the best. I do try to reply to them as quickly as I can.
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Ahhh, the 21st Century abbreviated world of the Internet. LOL
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A month or two of seeing “artwork” of this nature from any particular artist and the boredom sets in and soon the artist get’s erased from my Watch List.
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That, and my favorite peeve, the lack of any readable expression on the faces of the "doer" and "doee's" faces. Tongues hanging out with drool flowing resulting I suppose from a lack of Real Life experience on the part of the artists.
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‘Something that LARGE going into something that SMALL?! Oh My!!’ is when art has to cross over into the exaggerated style of cartooning to get the emotional gist of a particular idea or thought across to an inexperienced viewer.